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Tachikawa Ki-55
Military advanced training aircraft
Tachikawa Aircraft Company
1945 (Japan)
1953 (China)
Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
Royal Thai Air Force
Developed from
The Tachikawa Ki-55 was a Japanese advanced trainer.
4 Specifications (Ki-55)
Design and development[edit]
The excellent characteristics of the Tachikawa Ki-36 made it potentially ideal as a trainer. This led to the development of the Ki-55 with a single machine gun. After successful testing of a prototype in September 1939, the type was put into production as the Tachikawa Army Type 99 Advanced Trainer.
In all 1,389 Ki-55 were constructed before production ended in December 1943 with Tachikawa having built 1078 and Kawasaki 311.[1]
Both the Ki-55 and the Ki-36 were given the Allied nickname 'Ida.'
Variants[edit]
Army co-operation aircraft.
An evolved version with a 447 kW (599 hp) Hitachi Ha38 engine and retractable undercarriage. Not built.
Operators[edit]
Tachikawa Ki-36 trainer at the Royal Thai Air Force Museum.
Kumagaya Army Flying School
Mito Army Flying School
Tachiarai Army Flying School
Utsonomiya Army Flying School
Manchukuo Air Force
Reorganized National Government of China
National Government of China Air Force received several from the Japanese.
Republic of China Air Force operated captured aircraft.
People's Liberation Army Air Force operated more than 30 captured aircraft at the end of 1945. These Ki-55s were used until the last 14 retired in 1953.
Francillon also mentions delivery to the Japanese satellite air force of Cochinchina, the southernmost third part of present Vietnam[2]
Specifications (Ki-55)[edit]
Data from Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War[3]
Length: 8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 11.8 m (38 ft 9 in)
Height: 3.64 m (11 ft 11 in)
Wing area: 20 m2 (220 sq ft)
Airfoil: root: NACA 23014; tip: NACA 23006[4]
Empty weight: 1,292 kg (2,848 lb)
Gross weight: 1,721 kg (3,794 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Hitachi Ha13a (Army Type 98 450hp Air Cooled Radial) 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 380 kW (510 hp) for take-off
350 kW (470 hp) at 1,700 m (5,577 ft)
Propellers: 2-bladed wooden propeller
Maximum speed: 349 km/h (217 mph; 188 kn) at 2,200 m (7,218 ft)
Cruise speed: 235 km/h (146 mph; 127 kn)
Range: 1,060 km (659 mi; 572 nmi)
Service ceiling: 8,200 m (26,900 ft)
Time to altitude: 3,000 m (9,843 ft) in 6 minutes 55 seconds
Wing loading: 86.1 kg/m2 (17.6 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass: 0.222 kW/kg (0.135 hp/lb)
Guns: one fixed, forward-firing 7.7mm (0.303in) Type 89 machine gun
List of military aircraft of Japan
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tachikawa Ki-55.
^ Francillon 1979, p. 254.
^ Lednicer, David. "The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage". m-selig.ae.illinois.edu. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
Francillon, Ph.D., René J. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1970 (2nd edition, 1979. ISBN 0-370-30251-6.; 3rd edition 1987, Putnam Aeronautical Books. ISBN 0-85177-801-1.)
Aircraft produced by Tachikawa Aircraft Company
Imperial Japanese Army types
Ki-9
Ki-104
SS-1
T.S. 1
World War II Allied reporting names
Ida (Ki-36)
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service aircraft designations
World War II Allied reporting names for Japanese aircraft
Aircraft in Japanese service
Ida (Tachikawa Ki-36)
Kate 61
Sally III
Topsy
Zeke 32
Foreign aircraft erroneously thought to be in Japanese service
Bess (Heinkel He 111)
Doc (Messerschmitt Bf 110)
Fred (Focke Wulf Fw 190A-5)
Irene (Junkers Ju 87A)
Janice (Junkers Ju 88A-5)
Mike (Messerschmitt Bf 109E)
Millie (Vultee V-11GB)
Trixie (Junkers Ju 52/3m)
Trudy (Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tachikawa_Ki-55&oldid=902632527"
Tachikawa aircraft
1930s Japanese military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
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Billy Loes
Loes in about 1953.
Born: (1929-12-13)December 13, 1929
Long Island City, New York City, New York
Died: July 15, 2010(2010-07-15) (aged 80)
Batted: Right Threw: Right
May 18, 1950, for the Brooklyn Dodgers
September 14, 1961, for the San Francisco Giants
Brooklyn Dodgers (1950, 1952–1956)
San Francisco Giants (1960–1961)
William Loes (December 13, 1929 – July 15, 2010) was an American right-handed pitcher who spent eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1950, 1952–56), Baltimore Orioles (1956–59) and San Francisco Giants (1960–61). He appeared in three World Series with the Dodgers, including the only one won by the franchise when it was based in Brooklyn in 1955.
In an 11-season career, Loes posted an 80–63 record with 645 strikeouts and a 3.89 ERA in 1190.1 innings pitched. He made the American League All-Star team in 1957.
Among Major League Baseball's video archives is a television broadcast of the sixth game of the 1952 World Series, of which Loes was one of the starting pitchers. During the game, announcer Red Barber states that Loes was the son of Greek immigrants who had changed his last name. Further, says Barber, Loes would not tell Barber what his original last name was because, according to Loes, Barber would be unable to pronounce, spell or remember that name.
Loes distinguished himself in several ways in the 1952 World Series. When asked how the Dodgers would fare, he predicted the Yankees would win in seven, but was misquoted as saying the Yankees would win in six.[1] During the sixth game, he became the first pitcher in World Series history to commit a balk. In the seventh inning, he was starting his windup when the ball dropped from his hand. "Too much spit on it", he said later.[2] Then a grounder hit by Yankee pitcher Vic Raschi bounced off his leg for a single, allowing a run to score. Afterward, he said he lost the ground ball in the sun.
Loes said that he did not want to be a 20-game winner, "because then I'd be expected to do it every year."[3] His career high in wins came in 1953, when he went 14–8 for the pennant-winning Dodgers.
^ "Billy Loes, 80, offbeat pitcher for Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950s". Boston.com. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
^ Breslin, Jimmy, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? (The Viking Press, 1963), p. 43
^ "BASEBALL - NOTEBOOK - Orioles Try to Rally From a Down Season - NYTimes.com". March 28, 1999. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Baseball Almanac – Player page
Goldstein, Richard. "Billy Loes, Quirky Pitcher for Dodgers, Dies at 80", The New York Times, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Madden, Bill. "Anecdotes abound of late, eccentric Brooklyn Dodgers righty Billy Loes, who passed away in July", Daily News (New York), Sunday, August 1, 2010
Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 World Series champions
1 Pee Wee Reese
4 Duke Snider
6 Carl Furillo
8 George Shuba
10 Rube Walker
12 Frank Kellert
14 Gil Hodges
15 Sandy Amorós
17 Carl Erskine
18 Jim Hughes
19 Jim Gilliam
23 Don Zimmer
30 Billy Loes
32 Sandy Koufax
34 Russ Meyer
36 Don Newcombe
37 Ed Roebuck
39 Roy Campanella (NL MVP)
40 Roger Craig
41 Clem Labine
42 Jackie Robinson
43 Don Hoak
45 Johnny Podres (World Series MVP)
46 Don Bessent
48 Karl Spooner
54 Dixie Howell
24 Walter Alston
22 Billy Herman
31 Jake Pitler
33 Joe Becker
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers season
Dodgers–Yankees rivalry
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Billy_Loes&oldid=900095073"
American League All-Stars
Baltimore Orioles players
Baseball players from New York (state)
Brooklyn Dodgers players
Fort Worth Cats players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Nashua Dodgers players
San Francisco Giants players
Sportspeople from Queens, New York
People from Long Island City, Queens
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Bobby Baldwin
American poker player and casino executive
Baldwin at the 1979 World Series of Poker
Nickname(s)
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
1950/1951 (age 68–69)[1]
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Bracelet(s)
Money finish(es)
Highest ITM
Main Event finish
Winner, 1978
Information accurate as of 12 September 2010.
Bobby Baldwin (born c. 1950)[1] is a professional poker player, and casino executive. As a poker player, Baldwin is best known as the winner of the 1978 World Series of Poker Main Event, becoming the youngest Main Event champion at that time.
Baldwin was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma,[2] and attended Oklahoma State University in 1970. He currently resides in Las Vegas.[2]
He married Audra Hendley on August 2, 2012 at their Southern Highlands home.
1 Poker career
2 Career as casino executive
3 Other interests
4 World Series of Poker bracelets
Poker career[edit]
Baldwin won his first two bracelets at the 1977 World Series of Poker, first winning the $10,000 Deuce to Seven Draw event, then winning the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event.
Baldwin won his largest tournament prize in 1978 when he won the WSOP Main Event, earning the title and the $210,000 first prize. He defeated a final table that included professional poker players Ken Smith, Jesse Alto, Buck Buchanan, WSOP bracelet winner Louis Hunsucker, and businessman Crandall Addington, whom Baldwin defeated in heads-up play.
When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker Main Event at age 28, he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980, Phil Hellmuth in 1989, Peter Eastgate in 2008, and Joe Cada in 2009.
In 1979, he won the $10,000 Deuce to Seven Draw event again, earning his fourth and most recent bracelet at the WSOP. Baldwin also competed in the Super Bowl of Poker tournaments, organized by 1972 world champion Amarillo Slim. Baldwin cashed in several SBOP events and won the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event in 1979.
His major wins include four WSOP bracelets, all won from 1977 to 1979. He won WSOP bracelets in three consecutive years (1977, 1978, and 1979) which only a small number of players have done in the history of the WSOP. In addition to his 1978 victory, Baldwin's other WSOP Main Event cashes are: 1981 (7th), 1986 (16th), 1987 (21st), 1991 (29th), 1992 (15th), 1994 (24th), and 2009 (352nd).
In 2003, Baldwin was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
His last live cash came in the 2012 World Series of Poker in the Big One for One Drop.
Career as casino executive[edit]
In 1982, he became a consultant for the Golden Nugget casino, and in 1984 was named the president. He was selected to head The Mirage in 1987, and was named as the president of the Bellagio hotel and casino in 1998.
In 1999-2000, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Mirage Resorts under Steve Wynn; in 2000, upon the merger of Mirage Resorts and MGM Grand, he became the Chief Executive Officer of the Mirage Resorts subsidiary of MGM Mirage.
In 2005, after the acquisition of Mandalay Resort Group by MGM Mirage, Baldwin became CEO and President of the announced Project City Center, while continuing his responsibilities as CEO of the Mirage Resorts subsidiary. Baldwin now oversees additional resorts added through the Mandalay Resort Group buyout as well as the previous Wynn properties.
In 2018, following a lengthy tenure as Chief Customer Development Officer of MGM Resorts and CEO and President of CityCenter, MGM announced that Baldwin would leave both positions by the end of 2018.[3]
Other interests[edit]
In addition to poker, Baldwin is also known as a world class billiards player. Baldwin and his playing style are the subject of a book entitled Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets, which was written by Mike Caro. Baldwin has written many columns on poker and he authored a section for Doyle Brunson's Super/System. His own book Tales Out of Tulsa, a poker guide for novices, was published in 1985.
The high-stakes signature poker room in the Bellagio is named "Bobby's Room" after Baldwin.
As of 2012, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,300,000.[4] His 20 cashes at the WSOP account for $2,100,311 of those winnings.[5]
World Series of Poker bracelets[edit]
1977 $10,000 Deuce to Seven Draw $80,000
1977 $5,000 Seven-Card Stud $44,000
1978 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship $210,000
^ a b MGM Mirage's 2006 proxy statement, filed on April 30, 2006, recorded Baldwin's age as 55
^ a b Where Are They Now - Bobby Baldwin, March 24, 2008, Contributed by: Billy Monroe, pokerworks.com
^ "Does Bobby Baldwin's Departure Mean MGM Is Leaving Poker Behind?". October 5, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
^ Robert Baldwin tournament results, Hendon Mob Poker Database
^ World Series of Poker Earnings Archived July 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, worldseriesofpoker.com
World Series of Poker – Main Event champions
1970: Moss
1972: Preston
1973: Pearson
1975: Roberts
1976: Brunson
1978: Baldwin
1979: Fowler
1980: Ungar
1982: Straus
1983: McEvoy
1984: Keller
1985: Smith
1986: Johnston
1987: Chan
1989: Hellmuth
1990: Matloubi
1991: Daugherty
1992: Dastmalchi
1993: Bechtel
1994: Hamilton
1995: Harrington
1996: Seed
1998: S. Nguyen
1999: Furlong
2000: Ferguson
2001: Mortensen
2002: Varkonyi
2003: Moneymaker
2004: Raymer
2005: Hachem
2006: Gold
2007: Yang
2008: Eastgate
2009: Cada
2010: Duhamel
2011: Heinz
2012: Merson
2013: Riess
2014: Jacobson
2015: McKeehen
2016: Q. Nguyen
2017: Blumstein
2018: Cynn
2019: Ensan
1970s WSOP bracelet winners
number in brackets represents the number of bracelets earned in that year
Johnny Moss
Bill Boyd
Jimmy Casella
Johnny Moss (2)
Puggy Pearson
Amarillo Slim
Sam Angel
Joe Bernstein
Aubrey Day
Puggy Pearson (3)
Jack Straus
Jimmy Casella (2)
Sailor Roberts
Billy Baxter
Jay Heimowitz
Howard Andrew (2)
Doyle Brunson (2)
Doc Green
Perry Green
Walter Smiley
Billy Allen
Bobby Baldwin (2)
Gary Berland
George Huber
Louis Hunsucker
Jackie McDaniels
Fats Morgan
Jeff Sandow
Richard Schwartz
Gary Berland (2)
Doyle Brunson
Terry King
Lakewood Louie
Hans Lund
Chip Reese
Henry Young
Starla Brodie
Hal Fowler
Barbara Freer
Lakewood Louie (2)
Sam Mastrogiannis
Dewey Tomko
Poker Hall of Fame
Nick Dandolos
Corky McCorquodale
Red Winn
Sid Wyman
Edmond Hoyle
Blondie Forbes
Tom Abdo
Murph Harrold
Red Hodges
Sarge Ferris
Jack Keller
Little Man Popwell
Stu Ungar
Lyle Berman
Johnny Chan
Berry Johnston
Jack Binion
Crandell Addington
T. J. Cloutier
Barbara Enright
Erik Seidel
Barry Greenstein
Eric Drache
Tom McEvoy
Scotty Nguyen
Jack McClelland
Jennifer Harman
John Juanda
Todd Brunson
Carlos Mortensen
Dave Ulliott
Phil Ivey
Mori Eskandani
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby_Baldwin&oldid=892438280"
American poker players
American casino industry businesspeople
People from the Las Vegas Valley
Businesspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Super Bowl of Poker event winners
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
World Series of Poker Main Event winners
Use mdy dates from December 2018
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Gandhi Heritage Portal
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Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust
www.gandhiheritageportal.org
The online Gandhi Heritage Portal preserves, protects, and disseminates original writings of Mohandas K. Gandhi and makes available to the world the large corpus of “Fundamental Works” which are useful for any comprehensive study of the life and thought of Gandhiji. Gandhiji was 24 years old in South Africa "Natal Indian Congress " made in 1894.
The Government of India and its Ministry of Culture, acting on the recommendation of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Committee headed by Shri Gopal Krishna Gandhi, gave the responsibility of conceptualising, designing, developing and maintaining the Gandhi Heritage Portal to the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust.
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (100 volumes), Gandhiji No Akshar Deha (82 volumes) and Sampoorna Gandhi Vangmaya (97 volumes) form the basic structure around which the Portal has been developed. The key texts provide first editions of the Key Texts of Gandhi. These are: Hind Swaraj, Satyagraha in South Africa, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, From Yervada Mandir, Ashram Observances in Action, Constructive Programmes: Their Meaning and Place, Key To Health, and Gandhi's translation of the Gita as Anasakti Yoga.
The Fundamental Works are those through which The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG) was created, for instance the Mahadevbhai Ni Diary. Over time the Portal plans to provide all the collected works.
The Journals provide electronic versions of Indian Opinion, Navajivan, Young India, Harijan, Harijan Bandhu, and Harijan Sevak. A sub-section provides some of the journals which make for a fuller archive of the Gandhian imagination and scholarship. At present the Portal has placed as representation Gandhi Marg (Hindi & English), Bhoomi Putra, Pyara Bapu and the unique handwritten journal of the Satyagraha Ashram Madhpudo, which among other things carried Prabhudas Gandhi's Jivan Nu Parodh and Kakasaheb Kalelkar's Smaran Yatra. The Portal hopes to include many more journals as it acquires these overtime.
Other Works is a section that takes into account the commentarial and memoire literature.
The Life and Times section is under development, and will provide information that could lead the reader to explore the data. The Gallery will provide audio, visual, and film material as well as images of caricatures, paintings and postage stamps. The Portal provides a sample of each of these.
The Gandhi Heritage Sites, under development and verification, will provide multiple layers of information regarding places that Gandhiji visited. The information will contain references to primary sources about these visits as well.
1 The Collected Works Of Mahatma Gandhi
2 The Key Texts
3 Fundamental Works
5 Other works
6 Life And Times
7 Gandhi Heritage Sites
8 The GHP at present
The Collected Works Of Mahatma Gandhi[edit]
In 1956 Government of India initiated a project unmatched in its aspiration. This was to provide an authentic documentation of all available writings of Gandhiji. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi is a result of this meticulous and conscientious effort, which concluded in 1994. It was decided that Gandhiji writings should be made available in three languages: Gujarati, English and Hindi. Consequently, Gandhiji No Akshardeha (Gujarati) and Sampoorna Gandhi Vangmaya (Hindi) were created based upon the editorial architecture determined for the CWMG. At present there are 100 volumes of the CWMG, 82 volumes of Gandhiji No Akshardeha and 97 volumes of Sampoorna Gandhi Vangmaya.
These volumes provide information about the source of these writings as also the language in which they were originally written. Volumes 1 to 90 of the CWMG follow chronological order, while volumes 91-97 are supplementary volumes created to accommodate new material that came to be acquired subsequent to the publication of the series. Volumes 98 and 99 are Index of Subjects and Index of Persons respectively. Volume 100 is the compilation of Prefaces to the preceding volumes.
The Gandhi Heritage Portal provides unabridged, complete sets of these. These are available in two options: archival version and enhanced version, which is a black and white version. These volumes are interlinked through a database that the Portal team has developed. It allows one to move between the three languages and search the same item. This would enable the user to compare and study their texts and explore questions of translation. The search criteria for these are as defined in volumes 98 and 99 of CWMG. The Portal is committed to provide a searchable ebook of the CWMG, based on the first edition.
The Key Texts[edit]
Gandhiji wrote seven books and did a Gujarati translation of the Bhagvad Gita. These eight texts form the section Key Texts. These are Hind Swaraj, Satyagraha in South Africa, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, From Yervada Mandir, Ashram Observances in Action, Constructive Programmes: Their Meaning and Place, Key To Health, and Gandhi's translation of the Gita as Anasakti Yoga.
These are arranged in a chronological order. The section also provides a history of their printing and translations. Hind Swaraj, which Gandhiji considered as a “seed text”, illustrates this. The Portal provides a facsimile edition of his manuscript, which was written on board the steamer Kildonan Castle between 13 and 22 November 1909. This is followed by the first Gujarati edition printed in the two issues of Indian Opinion (11 December 1909 and 18 December 1909). Gandhiji translated this into English as Indian Home Rule in 1910, subsequent to the proscription imposed upon the Gujarati edition by the Government of Bombay in March 1910. The English translation is followed by a Hindi translation. Similar order is followed in case of all other texts, albeit facsimile editions of other key texts are not available.
An attempt has been made to provide first editions of all the works, including translations. Gandhi was acutely sensitive to the question of translation. The translations of his Key Texts were done by his closest associates including Mahadev Desai and Valji Govindji Desai. Gandhi read, revised and authenticated these translations.
The Portal also provides rare copies of some of these key texts. The Navajivan of 29 November 1925 carried the first instalment of Gandhiji's autobiography; Satya Na Prayogo, and the last chapter 'Farewell" were published in the issue of 3 February 1929 of the same magazine. Mahadev Desai's English translation of it commenced with the 3 December 1925 issue of Young India and continued till that of 3 February 1929. The first edition of the English translation The Story of My Experiments with Truth was published in two volumes: the first containing three parts was issued in 1927, and the second, containing parts IV and V, in 1929. The second revised edition of the autobiography was issued in 1940 with a new title: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. The edition of the autobiography placed on the Portal is not only the first English edition, it is that copy on which careful revisions from the point of view of language were suggested by Rt. Hon. Sir V. S. Srinivasa Sastri.
The Portal also provides translations of these texts in other languages. At present we have An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth available in thirteen languages. The aspiration is to make available as many translations of the key texts as possible, either in full or with complete bibliographic information.
Fundamental Works[edit]
Fundamental Works are those works, which form the source of the CWMG. These include diaries, memoires, selections from compilations of letters and biographies. It is not possible to imagine the CWMG without the extraordinary diaries of Mahadev Desai, Gandhiji's closest companion from 1917 to 1942. The Fundamental Works provide three language editions of Mahadev Bhai Ni Diary. Similarly, the published works of Manubehn Gandhi also form part of the Fundamental Works.
There is a rich and long biographical tradition of recounting Gandhiji's life, which commenced with Rev. Joseph Doke's M K Gandhi: An Indian Patriot in South Africa and include such magnificent works as Pyarelal's The Early Phase and The Last Phase, D G Tendulkar's eight-volume biography Mahatma and Narayan Desai's Maru Jivan Ej Mari Vani. These form part of the Fundamental Works. Also included are works of Gandhi's associates like C F Andrews and Mirabehn.
This section also includes various translations of the Key Texts. The aspiration is to provide authoritative selections of Gandhiji's writings in various languages in this section. The Fundamental Works would also include all available volumes of translations of the CWMG in other Indian languages, for example Marathi.
Journals[edit]
Gandhi's endeavour was to reach out and communicate with as many people and opinions as possible. Publication of periodic journals published in multiple languages was one such mode of communication. The Portal provides complete sets of the journals that he owned, edited or published. These include: Indian Opinion, Navajivan, Young India, Harijan, Harijan Bandhu and Harijan Sevak.
Gandhi's ideas and practices have inspired many movements and academic inquires. “Journals by Others” presents a selection of journals published by institutions and movements, which seek to interrogate Gandhi's ideas and practices or record, documents and chronicle movements. These include Gandhi Marg (Hindi & English), Bhoomi Putra, Pyara Bapu, Kasturba Darshan and that unique handwritten journal of the Sataygraha Ashram Madhpudo. Full, unabridged texts of these journals are made available. This section would become an archive of the Gandhian imagination and scholarship. The Portal plans to provide an ever expanding list of such journals.
Other works[edit]
Other works is a broad category, which seeks to provide either full, unabridged texts or complete bibliographic information on the vast and ever expanding scholarship on Gandhiji and allied movements and institutions. This section also includes works of those who are crucial interlocutors of Gandhiji; C F Andrews is one example. It is difficult to understand and fully appreciate the striving of Gandhiji in absence of the works of his interlocutors.
This section would eventually include either full texts or bibliographic information on writings on Gandhi and his endeavours in academic journals. This will facilitate a more comprehensive access to the contemporary scholarship around these issues.
Life And Times[edit]
This section provides selections, slivers of information arranged for easy reference. All the selections are made from the “Chronologies” that are given as a separate section and other Fundamental Works. Information about tours, marches, Satyagrahas, imprisonments, fasts and assaults are arranged in tabular form. For instance the Dandi March is presented through four subsections: “Background to the Salt Satyagraha”, “The Marchers”, “The March” and “Events post March”. A virtual tour mapping the walk to Dandi is also provided. The information is also linked to the sources in the CWMG to enable further study.
Gandhi Heritage Sites[edit]
Gandhi moved across the Indian subcontinent and other parts of the world to carry his message of freedom, truth, nonviolence, Satyagraha, Swadeshi and equality for all. This was his way of inhabiting the land and being one with her people.
The Gandhi Heritage Sites Committee has designated thirty-nine locations as core sites. At present a detailed site specific chronology is being prepared at the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust. The classification framework includes place, persons, principles and events which will be linked to the source and presented on the Portal.
The GHP at present[edit]
The Portal at present provides approximately 500,000 pages of material in electronic format. In case of CWMG and the Key Texts both archival and enhanced black and white images are provided. In addition to the textual material it has over 1000 photographs, 21 films and 78 audio recordings. While most of the data is interlinked and searchable, at present the search criteria are those which have been determined by Volumes 98 and 99 of CWMG, that is the Index of Subjects and Index of Persons.
Goals[edit]
The Portal plans to make available a searchable electronic edition of The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi based on the first editions. The Trust is also working on a comprehensive compendium on the Gandhi Heritage Sites, which would be made available on the Portal.
The Portal plans to place about a million pages of information in multiple languages. These will include Journals, Fundamental Works, and Other Works.
The Trust is also in the process of developing an on-line variorum of Gandhiji's manuscripts, and will make available about 150,000 pages of original manuscripts. The variorum will be searchable through the catalogues of the Sabarmati Ashram archives. The Portal will collaborate with other national institutions such as the National Archives of India and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library to make the variorum as comprehensive as possible.
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Henry Stephens Salt
Tirukkuṛaḷ
Gandhi's translation
"Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram"
"Ekla Chalo Re"
"Hari Tuma Haro"
"Vaishnava Jana To"
Swami Anand
C. F. Andrews
Jamnalal Bajaj
Shankarlal Banker
Sarla Behn
Vinoba Bhave
Brij Krishna Chandiwala
Sudhakar Chaturvedi
Jugatram Dave
Mahadev Desai
Dada Dharmadhikari
Kanu Gandhi
Shiv Prasad Gupta
Umar Hajee Ahmed Jhaveri
J. C. Kumarappa
Hermann Kallenbach
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Acharya Kripalani
Mirabehn
Mohanlal Pandya
Vallabhbhai Patel
Narhari Parikh
Mithuben Petit
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Bibi Amtus Salam
Sonja Schlesin
Anugrah Narayan Sinha
Shri Krishna Singh
Rettamalai Srinivasan
V. A. Sundaram
Abbas Tyabji
Ravishankar Vyas
Gandhigiri
Gandhi Peace Award
Gandhi Peace Prize
Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith
Karamchand Gandhi (father)
Kasturba (wife)
Harilal (son)
Manilal (son)
Ramdas (son)
Devdas (son)
Maganlal (cousin)
Samaldas (nephew)
Arun (grandson)
Ela (granddaughter)
Rajmohan (grandson)
Gopalkrishna (grandson)
Ramchandra (grandson)
Kanu (grandson)
Kanu (grandnephew)
Tushar (great-grandson)
Leela (great-granddaughter)
James Bevel
Steve Biko
14th Dalai Lama
Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai
Morarji Desai
Eknath Easwaran
Maria Lacerda de Moura
Brajkishore Prasad
Ramjee Singh
Abhay Bang
Sane Guruji
International Day of Non-Violence
Martyrs' Day
Season for Nonviolence
Aga Khan Palace
Gandhi Bhawan
Gandhi Mandapam
Gandhi Market
Gandhi Promenade
Gandhi Smriti
Gandhi Memorial
Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai
Kaba Gandhi No Delo
Kirti Mandir
Mahatma Gandhi College
Mohandas Gandhi High School
National Gandhi Museum
Raj Ghat
Satyagraha House
Gandhi Teerth
Roads named after Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Centre, Matale
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Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi
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For the Tuscan wine grape also known as Lambrusco, see Colorino. For another Tuscan wine grape that is also known as Lambrusco, see Abrusco.
A glass of Lambrusco (Grasparossa version).
Lambrusco (/læmˈbrʊskoʊ/; Italian: [lamˈbrusko]) is the name of both an Italian red wine grape and a wine made principally from the grape. The grapes and the wine originate from four zones in Emilia-Romagna and one in Lombardy, principally around the central provinces of Modena, Parma, Reggio-Emilia, and Mantua. The grape has a long winemaking history with archaeological evidence indicating that the Etruscans cultivated the vine.[1] In Roman times, the Lambrusco was highly valued for its productivity and high yields with Cato the Elder stating that produce of two thirds of an acre could make enough wine to fill 300 amphoras.[2]
The most highly rated of its wines are the frothy, frizzante (slightly sparkling) red wines that are designed to be drunk young from one of the eight Lambrusco denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) regions: Colli di Parma Lambrusco, Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro, Lambrusco di Sorbara, Lambrusco Salamino di Santa Croce, Reggiano Lambrusco, Colli di Scandiano e Canossa Lambrusco, Modena Lambrusco, and Lambrusco Mantovano. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, sweet Lambrusco was the biggest selling import wine in the United States.[3] During that time the wine was also produced in a white and rosé style made by limiting the skin contact with the must.[1]
2 Italian wine
2.1 Wine regions
3 Other regions
4 Market
Grape[edit]
Grape of Lambrusco
Effervescence in a glass of "Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro"
The most commonly found six Lambrusco varieties are Lambrusco Grasparossa, Lambrusco Maestri, Lambrusco Marani, Lambrusco Montericco, Lambrusco Salamino, and Lambrusco Sorbara. All of these various Lambrusco grapes are indigenous to Emilia and neither clones nor sub-clones. Most Lambruscos are made from more than one Lambrusco variety and additionally often blended with a number of specific blending grapes (max. 15%), such as Ancellotta (for color), Marzemino, Malbo Gentile, Cabernet Sauvignon (for body and structure), and others. The grape vines are often trained high above the ground to prevent the development of mildew. Historically the vines were trained to climb up poplar trees. The grape itself is not particularly sweet but many of the commercial Lambrusco versions are sweetened by either partial fermentation or with the addition of rectified concentrated grape must. When not fermented sweet, the Lambrusco grape is capable of producing an excellent dry wine with strawberry notes and a slight bitter finish.[4]
By the end of the 20th century, ampelographers had identified over 60 varieties of Lambrusco scattered throughout Italy including-Piedmont, Sicily and the Veneto.[1] The most widely planted variety is Lambrusco Salamino.[2]
Italian wine[edit]
A glass of Lambrusco
Today, there are various levels of dryness / sweetness, including secco (bone dry / dry), amabile (off-dry / sweet) and dolce (very sweet). Sweet Lambrusco became hugely popular in the United States in the late 1970s-1980s, reaching a high of over 13 million cases exported to the country in 1985. The wine is noted for high acidity and berry flavors. Many of the wines now exported to the United States include a blend of Lambruscos from the different DOCs and are sold under the Indicazione Geografica Tipica (IGT) designation Emilia.[3]
The wine is rarely made in a "champagne" (metodo classico) style. It is typically made using the Charmat process where a second fermentation is conducted in a pressurized tank.[5]
Wine regions[edit]
Typical Emilian food: gnocco fritto, salame, and lambrusco
Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro- The smallest wine-producing region located south of the town of Modena. The region is home to Grasparossa of which the DOC requires 85% of the wine to be composed of lambrusco. The wine of this region is typically dry and full bodied with a deep purplish-red coloring.[3] Grasparossa produces the most tannic Lambrusco.[1]
Lambrusco Mantovano- The only Lambrusco region outside of Emilia Romagna, in the Lombardy region. This style is typically dry but some semi-dry styles are also made.[6]
Lambrusco Reggiano- The largest producing region of Lambrusco and the source of most of the exported DOC designated wines. The 4 Lambrusco grapes that can be used are Maestri, Marani, Montericco, and Salamino. Up to 15% of added Ancellotta grapes are permitted in the DOC as well. The sweet versions of the wine are typically in the light bodied frizzante style while the drier wines are more full bodied and darker in color.[3]
Lambrusco Salamino di Santa Croce- Located 7 miles (11 km) west of the village Sorbara, the wines of this region must be composed of at least 90% of the local Salamino. The wines are typically light in color and body with a frizzante style being both made in both semi-sweet and dry styles.[3] The variety gets its name from the resemblance of the grape clusters to a sausage of salami.[4]
Lambrusco di Sorbara- Located north of Modena near the village of Sorbara, Sorbara is generally regarded as the highest quality variety producing the most fragrant wines. It has some similarities to Lambrusco Salamino but produces a darker and more full-bodied wine. The color can range from a deep ruby to a purplish hue. In this wine region only Sorbara and Salamino are permitted in the DOC designated wine with at least 60% needing to be Sorbara.[3] The Salamino and Sorbara varieties tend to produce the most acidic wines. One of the reasons why Sorbara tends to produce the highest quality Lambrusco is the tendency of the vine to drop its flowers, which reduces fruit yields and concentrates flavors.[1]
Other regions[edit]
In Australia a number of cheaper bottled and box wines are produced by Australian vineyards and sold as "Lambrusco". They are typically medium-sweet, around 10% ABV and styled as an "easy drinking" product.
In Argentina, Lambrusco Maestri accounts for several hundred planted hectares.[2]
Market[edit]
In 2017 the UK market for Italian Lambrusco enjoyed a slight renaissance.[7]
^ a b c d e J. Robinson Vines, Grapes & Wines pg 212 Mitchell Beazley 1986 ISBN 1-85732-999-6
^ a b c J. Robinson (ed) "The Oxford Companion to Wine" Third Edition pg 388-389 Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0-19-860990-6
^ a b c d e f M. Ewing-Mulligan & E. McCarthy Italian Wines for Dummies pg 101-103 Hungry Minds 2001 ISBN 0-7645-5355-0
^ a b Oz Clarke Encyclopedia of Grapes pg 116 Harcourt Books 2001 ISBN 0-15-100714-4
^ K. MacNeil The Wine Bible pg 399-400 Workman Publishing 2001 ISBN 1-56305-434-5
^ M. Ewing-Mulligan & E. McCarthy Italian Wines for Dummies pg 99 Hungry Minds 2001 ISBN 0-7645-5355-0
^ "14 best lambruscos". 13 February 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
Consortium for the Historic Mark of Modenese Lambrusco
Eric Asimov "Lambrusco, No Joke" New York Times July 26, 2006
Emilia-Romagna map with details on Lambrusco wine
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Red wine grape varieties
Wine grapes of Italy
Cuisine of Emilia-Romagna
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The E. Jean Accusation | Lefsetz Letter
What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? Why in hell does the left think that pointing out Trump’s peccadilloes will cause his base to do a 180 and suddenly decry the President?
This is what’s wrong with the Democrats. They don’t know how to fight. Hell, the press doesn’t even know what the issues are! That’s why Sanders and Warren are making such inroads. Biden is lost in the past, with no direction home, and all he does is attack Trump and tell us it won’t be long until our national nightmare is over. But will it?
Furthermore, Trump’s base is loving it! Hell, he eats at McDonald’s!
While the left keeps going on about transgender rights, the white right are wondering when they’re going to get their fair share. I know this is unpopular in the rainbow coalition of the left, but times have changed, we don’t have a homogeneous middle class population keeping the minorities down…we’ve got rich and poor and the poor are complaining. It’s about jobs, about safety, immigrants and minorities are just scapegoats. Meanwhile, the left keeps focusing on these faux pas, as if they point out flaws long enough those on the right will agree to the ethos of the college campus, where you’ve got to give trigger warnings, ask explicitly for sex and you can’t defend anybody on the right, hell, what was up with clipping the wings of that Harvard professor defending Harvey Weinstein. Isn’t that a basic tenet of the United States, that everybody’s entitled to a defense? As for the court of public opinion, turns out Richard Jewell was not the Olympic bomber and you’ve got to have pushback against government abuse. Isn’t that what impeachment is all about? Trump runs rampant over the Constitution and the Democrats sit on their hands saying it’s not prudent. Prudence went out the window back in 2016. And you can’t go viral unless everybody’s eyeballs are affected/tuned-in. As it is now, the right gets totally different news, if there were impeachment hearings the right would be forced to see Trump’s obstruction of justice, their news outlets would be forced to air it, with whatever spin. But right now the right sees Trump as innocent!
It’s not about getting Trump out of office, it’s about making sure he’s not elected in 2020, that Congress retains power, that we don’t end up with a strongman running ragged over our nation.
Meanwhile, things are turning left. Look at the vote in Turkey last weekend, or the Czech protest. And Hong Kong, where demonstrators changed the course of law. But no, in America you’ve got to sit on your hands. There are no leaders, and the parking meters are owned by hedge funds.
Speak to the underlying issues, not the penumbra. That’s why Warren is getting such traction, the same way Sanders got traction in 2016, by pointing out the inequities in society, with plans to solve them. Sanders was on to something, but it turns out the DNC and the media are still living in the past. Just because you’ve figured out how to make it work, with your professional job and your BMW, what about those who’ve lost their jobs and have no opportunities? And plenty of these people are not racist. Hell, try getting a new corporate job if you’re over fifty, good luck. And the safety net is not strong enough for these people to retire. Hell, they spent their safety net so their kids could go to college. Do you think they care about transgender rights and E. Jean? Of course not!
The left is kind of like rock. Believing it will never die. But rock has died. By refusing to reinvent itself and enter the future. And rock fans cannot stop bitching about hip-hop and pop. But at least those two genres are alive.
And the right wing media advocates.
And the left wing just reports.
Facts are not enough anymore, spin is everything. There are no left wing opinion pieces in the WSJ, at least most days, meanwhile the NYT keeps arguing over Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss…
We’re fighting a war here folks. And it isn’t about Donald Trump. It’s about the fact that America no longer works, the American Dream is in the dumper.
Oh sure, some on the right are racist and Trump encourages them, but pointing out their bogus beliefs is not going to change the course of history. This is like the Jews in Germany believing if they just put their heads down and obeyed the law, things would turn out all right. No, you’ve got to fight back, especially when there’s no place to go.
Of course facts matter. Of course they should be published. But that’s like saying Madonna entering the chart at #1 means something. Other than to her, it does not. Her new album, which you don’t know the name of, only garnered 4.5 million streams. That’s like a tree in a forest that fell and you didn’t hear it. That’s the land of unknowns. Maybe bubbling under, but still. As for redemptions of albums with tickets… Believe me, people aren’t going to the show for the new material…that’s when you take a bathroom break. And, the reason she’s playing small buildings is because she can’t sell out stadiums, at any price. She’s playing to the hard core. So, this isn’t even a blip on the radar screen. But it makes news in the NYT.
If the left was really about helping their brother, they would reach down and aid those on the right, or the middle, those who used to vote Democratic. Instead, they’re fighting with each other over what they can say.
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The Little Match-Girl
By H.C. Andersen & Blago Kirof
Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) was a Danish fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have been translated into more than 150 languages. Andersen’s fairy tales of fantasy with moral lessons are popular with children and adults all over the world, and they also contain autobiographical details of the man himself. The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's dreams and hope, and was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media including animated film, and a television musical.
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Contact Alandis
Alandis K. Brassel
Alandis Brassel is an Associate at Meridian Law where he advises and represents organizations and individuals in their litigation and transactional needs. Alandis’ practice includes entertainment, intellectual property (copyright and trademark), breach of contract and estate matters. He also practices in commercial transactions. Alandis has helped entrepreneurs, artists, songwriters, nonprofit organizations, small companies, and individuals negotiate and enforce agreements and protect their assets and intellectual property rights.
Before entering private practice, Alandis worked as Counsel for U.S. Representative Jim Cooper (TN-05), where he advised the Congressman on policy, handled complex casework, and represented Cooper in the Community. Alandis also served as the Program Director for the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, where he supervised the legal and education programs.
Alandis is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and served as Executive Development Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Prior to law school, Alandis worked as a professional audio engineer and served a client list that included major record labels, a national television network, and a Grammy-winning record producer. He received a M.A. in Music Business from New York University and a B.S. in Music Engineering Technology (magna cum laude) from Hampton University where he was a member of the Honors College.
When he isn’t assisting clients, Alandis enjoys collecting vinyl records, officiating football games, and spending time with his wife, Thallen, and their two sons, Alandis, Jr. and Theodore.
Activities & Affiliations
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Entertainment and Sports: Getting a Piece of the Pie – Tennessee Bar Association Entertainment and Sports Law Forum– May 18, 2018
“Should Artists Be Worried About Online Sales Tax?” https://nashvillearts.com/2018/08/should-artists-be-worried-about-online-sales-tax/
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MCURC
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How can I become a member of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative?
The MCURC Executive Committee reviews applications for new college or university members on a yearly basis. The MCURC is currently accepting applications for November 2019 admittance.
The committee will evaluate prospective new member institutions based on those whose roles and responsibilities best fit the MCURC’s goals and objectives. These would include considerations such as public support for Menus of Change and MCURC initiatives, recognized leadership in culinary arts, collaborative efforts between academic and dining departments, engagement with MCURC case study programs, and overall recognition for leadership in pursuing projects at the intersection of culinary arts, health, wellness, and sustainability that support the MOC principles and mission.
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The MCURC also encourages college and university representatives to learn from and apply findings published by the MCURC. The Collaborative is currently producing toolkits, resources, and other educational materials related to the MCURC mission, and we encourage you to take advantage of those through this website. In fact, we invite you to join us as an MCURC Affiliate. Read here to learn more about this opportunity.
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Residential & Dining Enterprises, the largest auxiliary organization at Stanford University, supports the academic mission of the University by providing the highest quality services to students and other members of the university community. The Department has an annual operating budget of over $206 million, oversees a 5 million sq. ft. physical plant across the campus, and provides housing for over 12,000 students, serves over 18,000 daily meals at 30 dining and retail locations and over 500,000 meals at Athletic Concessions events, and hosts 20,000 conference guests annually. Additionally, R&DE comprises 660 FTE staff in the following divisions: the Office of the Senior Associate Vice Provost, Student Housing, Stanford Dining, Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliaries, Stanford Conferences, and a team of R&DE strategic business partners: Finance & Administration, Human Resources, and Information Technology.
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Christina Aguilera Lends Some Disco To The Get Down Soundtrack With ‘Telepathy’
Featuring guitar hero Nile Rodgers
Sasha Geffen sashageffen 08/11/2016
Christina Aguilera and Baz Luhrmann are back together on her new single for the upcoming Netflix series The Get Down.
Back in 2001, Xtina appeared on “Lady Marmalade,” the smash hit from the soundtrack to Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge! Now that Luhrmann is directing a TV show about the birth of hip-hop in New York City, Aguilera is back for another round.
Her disco-tinged track “Telepathy” features the guitar talents of Nile Rodgers, who also played riffs on Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” “Telepathy” also features another big name collaborator: It was written by Sia, who seems to be behind every third song these days.
The Get Down’s soundtrack, which features new music from Zayn, Jaden Smith, and more, will be released in full on Friday, August 12.
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MWC – Men Want Connections
March 8th, 2015 | Published in Wireless Connectivity
Don’t worry – it’s not a blog about Tindr or Grindr. The connections we’re talking about here are mobile subscriptions and the men are those at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It is still mostly men. Despite the best efforts of the GSMA with sub-events like the Connected Women’s Summit and France’s promotion of its exhibiting companies as “La France Tech” (which must have had the members of the Académie Française heading to their graves for some early turning), MWC remained defiantly male. In the opening keynotes around 85% of the audience were men. Telecoms, for all of its populist marketing, is still largely a suited profession.
What was exercising the males of the species this year was numbers. Back in 2009, Ericsson predicted that there would be 50 billion mobile connections by 2020. At the time it seemed possible; phone usage was growing and everyone expected that the things around us would follow suit by getting their own mobile connections, leading us to that kind of number. It’s now beginning to strike the CEOs within the industry that five and a half years have passed and we’re half-way there. Yet we’ve still only connected a few tens of millions of machines. That’s why they’re getting so excited about wearables and the Internet of Things as the only way to make those predictions come true.
The Mobile World Congress is a massive show, attracting over 90,000 visitors from every corner of the connected world, featuring top names in the industry and showcasing the latest in technology. Yet it remains a very focused show which is predominantly about selling things to telecoms operators. Some of the exhibition halls have multi-million dollar stands which are effectively exclusive meeting rooms where the heads of the industry meet in private to do deals and map out their future plans. Nestling up to them are hundreds of smaller, secretive cubicles where the future is discussed and planned away from prying eyes. Outside them, open to public gaze, other exhibitors are displaying anything and everything related to mobile. Thousands of delegates pack five large auditoria each day to hear the thoughts of those who have the power to chart the direction of the industry’s evolution, from Mark Zuckerberg to Hans Vestberg (the original source of the 50 billion quote), and Brian Kraznic (Intel’s CEO) to Will.i.am. This year much of the discussion was framed by that concern of how to reach 50 billion connections in just five short years.
For most of its life the telecoms industry has relied on one metric above any other – ARPU. ARPU stands for Average Revenue Per User, or how much money an operator can make from each customer. Over the years they’ve maintained it by innovating with different plans and subsidies, but for established markets ARPU has been falling, not least because of data and OTT services which take revenue away from voice and SMS. Operators have managed to mitigate that somewhat by persuading people to purchase secondary contracts for additional devices such as laptops and tablets, but that will only go so far. They’ve finally realised that the only route to the 50 billion is for all of us to start buying and connecting lots more devices. Not just an extra tablet or two, but watches, coffee makers, fridges, cars, TVs, washing machines, door locks, thermostats, children, pool pumps, fitness trackers, pets, health devices, toys, and anything else that might warrant a SIM card. They would like a mobile subscription for everything we own and everything we do.
The first keynote speaker to claim we’re still on track for 50 billion connections was Ralph de la Vega – AT&T’s president and CEO. He showed their “Connected Life” video which painted a Jetson’s-like view of connected things controlling our lives in just a few short years’ time. It’s remarkably similar to Orange’s “The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Orange” video, which was made in 1999, which shows how easily a network operator can be sixteen years ahead of their time or sixteen years behind it. And how glibly their marketing agencies can rehash the same content almost two decades after it first appeared despite pitifully little progress towards achieving any of it.
The videos and strands and MWC were full of connected cars. Whilst they look good and are an important part of that story, they won’t grow the numbers quickly. Renault-Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn pointed out that whilst connected cars are appearing, it takes time to get new features approved and they will trickle down slowly from high end models. To get significant levels of connectivity will take a decade. It will happen, but it will happen gradually. That leave the networks with two great white hopes to grow their numbers – wearables and the IoT.
I’ve been following the wearables market and recently released a report which estimates that the market revenue could exceed $30 billion in 2020. The question is whether these products will result in any new connections or revenue for mobile operators. There were plenty of smart watches and slick activity bands in evidence on the phone manufacturers’ stands, but no real sign of traction. For that you needed to be in the wearables conference session. About a thousand people packed the auditorium to hear Eric Migicovsky describe Pebble’s journey and then announce the Pebble Steel. When he told the audience that those who had already signed up for a Pebble Time could easily upgrade, the cheer could be heard through most of Hall 4, implying that the audience contained a significant number of the early supporters for what is now the most funded project on Kickstarter. Within 24 hours of Eric’s announcement of the Steel another $3 million had been pledged. There is little doubt that the Pebble is the most popular smart watch currently shipping. It’s interesting that it’s one of the few smart watches that’s not designed by a phone company. That may be significant.
Why it may be significant was reinforced by Joan Ng of Swarovski, who talked about their cooperation with Misfit to develop the Swarovski Shine. I’ve been impressed by this since it was first announced and would urge anyone interested in wearables to watch their promotional video. Joan opened with a simple but telling slide comparing the number of shoes owned by an average man and woman. I don’t have her slide, but it looked very much like this:
It’s a telling statement of where the industry is going wrong by concentrating on tech over fashion and hence missing at least half of their potential customers, as well as multiple purchases by that half. Swarovski have worked with Misfit to provide a range of fashionable holders that largely conceals the fitness tracker, despite the fact that the Shine is already one of the best looking ones. The end result – a beautiful wearable with a four month battery life. That’s where the second important piece of learning came in. When Swarovski asked their customers if they liked the four month battery life they were told by their target market that they already had drawers full of watches with dead batteries. Their users never charged or replaced them. So Swarovski recut their crystal to focus light on an embedded photoelectric cell, providing enough power to keep the Shine working for its entire life. Swarovski is a company which understands wearables in the way that most others don’t; largely because they understand their customers.
Other than these two I only saw one other notable innovation in wearable tech, which was a miniature projector built into a ceramic pendant from a Beijing start-up called Miragii. It lets a user project a text or message onto their hand and use a gesture to control their response. Like Swarovski, they’re aiming it at women, describing it as “satisfying a desire for both beauty and fashion”. I don’t think they’ve quite got it right – they’re trying to squeeze too much tech into it. As a result it looks too much like a camera and is made bulky by incorporating a slide-out Bluetooth headset, but it was head and shoulders above the multiplicity of watches and wristbands being shown off by the phone vendors. Given the Swarovski treatment it could be a winner. In real life, the display is impressive, as is the gesture recognition. It means you start to use the wearable instead of using your phone, which I think’s an important feature. If you want one, their first batch is only 600 units, so order now.
Outside these, there were lots of sleek wrist tech, mostly from phone companies, typically named something like the SmartBand 3, 4 or 5, signifying how many attempts they’ve already made at missing the point of wearables. They will sell to some degree, but the missing elephant at MWC which will probably trample all of them was the Apple Watch. I don’t think the forthcoming Apple announcement will affect Pebble or Swarovski, but I doubt it will be good news for any of the others or the network operators. I can see both Pebble and Swarovski selling millions because they’re both listening to their users. However I don’t see either providing any new revenue or connections for network operators. That’s not a problem for them – it’s a problem for the network operators. Others might, but wearables are more likely to move service revenues elsewhere. They may even diminish our love affair with smartphones if they become a more compelling way of interacting with our communications. I’ll be revisiting that idea after the Apple announcement.
Which leaves us with the Internet of Things, which has always been the most likely means of getting those extra connections, as it’s about connecting things directly to the Internet, rather than making what are essentially just upmarket Appcessories. Every telecoms speaker had an IoT story and plenty of exhibitors had a potential solution. Enough at least to prompt ABI’s analyst Aapo Markkanen to tweet that if he heard someone say “IoT platform” one more time he’d scream.
It was difficult to work out what most companies claiming to be part of the IoT were doing, other than jumping on a bandwagon. Essentially the offerings fell into two categories – better and cheaper ways of providing the connection infrastructure and methods to manage the devices and get value from the data they supply. To achieve any volumes of connections, we need both.
The first is an important one, as despite the hopes of the mobile operators it will remain too expensive to embed cellular modems in many products. Not only does the hardware cost too much, but it also takes too much power. What the industry needs is a new Infrastructure of Things – some form of low power, long range radio which can cost-effectively connect the machines around us to the cloud. The most well known contender today is SigFox, who were there promoting their system and partners. They’re deploying infrastructure and products in a number of European countries and claim they are leading the market. How much of that is marketing is difficult to unravel. Their closest competitor is LoRa, championed by the chip vendor Semtech, but now also available from Microchip, although it’s unclear whether they’re making their own chips or using Semtech’s. LoRa took advantage of MWC to launch their first user LoRa Alliance forum, clearly staking their place as a contender. A third interesting approach was the joint Huawei / Vodafone initiative, based around the technology Huawei acquired from Neul, which was being demonstrated on the Vodafone stand. This is currently being pushed through the ETSI standards process and has the advantage of operating in an existing part of the cellular spectrum. That means that an operator should be able to switch it on as a software upgrade to their base station network. That’s a very major market advantage which should not be underestimated. However, I suspect that none of these will be the final long range, low power wireless standard that is needed to make the Internet of Things explode into the tens of billions. For that we will probably need to wait at least another ten years. In the meantime there is a lot the industry still has to learn about connected devices.
Which is where the second group of the IoT companies come in. You don’t get an Internet of Things just by putting a cellular modem or some other form of connection into a product. You need to be able to deploy it, provision it so that it connects, manage it, get it to send its data, store it and aggregate that with other relevant data inputs, and apply analytics to extract value from it, all the while ensuring that every part of the chain is secure. A lot of companies claim to do one, or at least part of one of those things, but if we’re going to make progress at any scale we need companies who can stitch much more of it together. Whilst I hear a lot of fine sounding words (such as the AT&T video) there was a dearth of solid experience. But there were a few. I was impressed by Stream Communications’ iot-x, which provides an apparently seamless set of connectivity options ranging from Wi-Fi to satellite, and a security model running through an mbed module on the device to an mbed device server and thence to their data aggregator partners wot.io and Thingworx. It cleans up a lot of pieces of the puzzle and should appeal to commercial and industrial users. ARM, who created the mbed platform was also showing their parts of that solution on their stand. Their device server, coming out of their Sensinode acquisition looks as if it may enable a number of IoT platforms. In a nice example of practising what they preach they’d instrumented their stand with a range of 6LoWPAN sensors, measuring everything from temperature to volume of conversation to the height of their visitors. At a point where the industry is promoting the need for more connected devices, they were one of the few actively demonstrating the reality. The other of note was Nordic Semiconductor – a supplier of Bluetooth chips, who had integrated their 6LoWPAN Bluetooth stack in a coffee machine and were serving a very welcome cup of digital coffee.
It showed that progress is being made. However, many of these devices, which will start to appear over the next few years will use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to connect to hubs, and probably use wired broadband to reach the internet. Mass volume mobile connections will need to wait for the lower powered, long range radio standards which are a decade away. So where does that leave the vision of 50 billion connected devices?
I think it may be possible to get to that many connected devices in the next five years, but many will only connect to a smartphone. The app on the phone might send data to somewhere on the internet, but it will use the subscriber’s existing data plan. We will get a few tens of millions of connected cars; possibly another fifty million of connected commercial vehicles, which will use cellular to connect. We might add a similar number of people trackers with inbuilt cellular, but it’s difficult to see where the billions come from. As I write this, the GSMA reckon that there are around 7.4 billion connections, including M2M. It’s taken around 25 years to reach that. If we’re going to reach 50 billion by the end of 2020, we need to add a further 7.1 billion new subscriptions in every one of the next six years. Plenty of speakers at MWC still seemed to believe that’s possible. I don’t. Instead of talking up the impossible, it seems that time and money would be better spent on looking at the network infrastructure that would be needed to make the products and services viable.
That’s bad news for the telecoms industry and operators, but it could be good news for device manufacturers and companies offering new services. It’s unclear at the moment where the winners will emerge from? At MWC this year telcos implied it was their God given right to claim the IoT market for themselves. If they want to do that, they will need to do more than wheel out the same old videos. The IoT needs a lot more effort than slick marketing. By the end of this year we should have an indication of whether the IoT is moving past the hype peak into any form of reality. My guess is that by MWC next February, the industry should be stepping back from reiterating the 50 billion vision for 2020 and starting to concentrate on what really comes next.
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Pope Francis meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Vatican City on Jan. 26. (L'Osservatore Romano)
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Pope Francis Confronts ‘Piecemeal’ World War III in the Middle East
NEWS ANALYSIS: Vatican Sees Iran Deal as the model and fears Syrian people have been forgotten.
VICTOR GAETAN
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis stands on the shoulders of giants — his two predecessors — when it comes to confronting carnage in the Middle East, relying on public dialogue and quiet diplomacy to advance the main goal: peace.
What St. John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI did not have to face head-on is what the Holy Father often refers to as a “piecemeal” version of World War III.
Although the new year is just a babe, we already have dramatically good — and bad — news from the “piecemeal” front lines.
At the heart of the Middle-East conundrum is Syria, a conflict that has evolved into a proxy war: a clash of international interests, mainly Saudi Arabia and Iran.
United Nations-sponsored diplomatic talks regarding Syria were supposed to reopen in Geneva on Monday, but they have been postponed, although Secretary of State John Kerry still thinks negotiations will resume by the end of the month.
Pope Francis told ambassadors to the Holy See in an annual new-year greeting he is hopeful about “important steps” made by the international community for a political solution in Syria, as well as progress made in Libya.
By listening to trusted Vatican representatives and allies in the field, we learn more about what the Holy See believes — and fears.
Success in Iran
The nuclear agreement in Iran is an important victory for dialogue, according to the Vatican.
In Iran, in recent weeks, we’ve seen the fruit of negotiation — the Church’s favored approach involving encounter, over time, which serves to humanize antagonists in each other’s eyes.
As the result of more positive relations between the U.S. and Iran, the two were able to quickly defuse a potential naval catastrophe (think of the Russian jet blown out of the sky by Turkey for possibly nudging into Turkish airspace last month) and proceed with a long-awaited prisoner exchange.
Despite some American political rhetoric to the contrary, this is what success looks like, if your goal is, indeed, regional peace.
And with regard to Iran’s agreement with the West to disarm nuclear production, it is an outcome the Catholic Church has been urging along, a deal the Pope hopes “will contribute to creating a climate of détente in the region.”
By honoring its commitments, Iran triggered “Implementation Day” on Jan. 16, including an end to international sanctions and the release of some frozen national assets, enabling the country to sell oil on the international market once again and to rejoin the global banking system.
Interestingly, Iran Foreign Minister Jarvad Zarif linked the achievement with larger issues of war and peace.
He tweeted, “#ImplementationDay, it’s now time for all — especially Muslim nations — to join hands and rid the world of violent extremism. Iran is ready.”
Conflict’s Complexity
The Middle East’s epicenter of violent extremism is in the huge swath of Syria and northern Iraq, controlled by the Islamic State (IS) and other terrorist groups — an area the size of Great Britain.
Pope Francis and his diplomatic team have urged greater engagement by the United Nations, so the Vatican has been very supportive of the U.N.-sponsored talks that opened last fall.
To preserve Christianity in the region, it’s also a positive sign that the amount of territory controlled by IS shrank in 2015 by 14%, according to a military analysis reported by The New York Times, using fascinating maps.
Yet the conflict’s complexity increases as the number of military interests expands.
For example, Turkish forces have been bombing Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria — despite the Kurds being among the most successful fighters against IS — following a car-bomb blast against a police headquarters in a Kurdish-majority Turkish province.
The Kurds are a large ethnic minority in Turkey, as they are in Iraq and Syria. Turkey fears the consolidation of a Kurdish state as a result of general upheaval.
These recent air strikes destroyed a village where Christian families have taken refuge, people from the Nineveh Plain who fled IS last year, according to Chaldean-Catholic Bishop Rabban al-Qas, speaking to AsiaNews, a press agency and news site sponsored by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
“It is high time to denounce these Turkish acts of terrorism,” the bishop declared. “We must have the courage to call this for what it is: real terrorism! These poor people are now terrified and scared. As if the threat from Daesh [Arabic term for the Islamic State] was not bad enough.”
Many Church leaders in the Arab-Christian community, such as Jesuit Father Samir Kahlil Samir, an authority on Islam, see recent violence in the Middle East as manifestations of a growing sectarian war within Islam, between Sunni and Shiite interests. Turkey is on the Sunni side, with Saudi Arabia against Iran and its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Voices for the People
Local Catholic leaders living amid the Syrian conflict are among the loudest voices denouncing its immorality.
In an 18-minute live interview on CNN, Aleppo Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart movingly declared, “Syria is a holy land” drenched in the blood of martyrs and asked the United States not to fund opposition forces as long as President al-Assad is the only leader who respects and protects Christians.
Explaining that many Syrians have faced starvation over the last year, despite the availability of food within driving distance, Archbishop Mario Zenari, the Holy See’s nuncio to Syria, declared last week, “Using hunger and thirst as a weapon of war is a crime, a shameful thing.”
He said he is surprised the international media only recently started covering civilian starvation in the town of Masaya, a town under siege, when similar deprivation threatens approximately 400,000 Syrians, according to the United Nations.
Archbishop Zenari lauded the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, which have negotiated to get aid across combat lines, even risking their own safety, as well as priests, nuns and religious devoted to humanitarian service.
Caritas Internationalis
Some of the most extensive humanitarian assistance in the region is delivered daily by Caritas affiliates in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey.
In some places in Syria, Caritas is the only functioning local aid group.
On behalf of the Caritas network in the Middle East, Caritas Internationalis launched an “Appeal to End the Suffering in Syria” on Jan. 21, designed to pressure the international community to act decisively to end the war.
Michel Roy, Caritas Internationalis’ secretary general, explained to Vatican Radio, “Syria is at the heart of a geopolitical struggle in which the Syrian people do not count for anything.”
He said Caritas affiliates believe a settlement depends on allowing all of the conflict’s domestic parties to negotiate because “peace will come from inside, not imposed from outside.”
Roy considers “vested interests” from outside, including the arms industry, the oil industry, Russia and the European Union, to be “on the backs of the Syrians [who] are the victims, not the actors, in the end.”
Peace in Syria would also solve the refugee crisis.
As Father Paul Karam, director of Caritas Lebanon, told Asia News last fall, “When it comes to refugees … there is only one way to stop their flow: End the war in Syria. If we stop the war, the supply of weapons, the financing of terrorism — everything — can be controlled. This task falls on the international community.”
Positive Witness
Thankfully, this month, we also witnessed a few courageous gestures by Muslim leaders renouncing the intoxication of religious hatred.
In Cairo on Jan. 6, Orthodox Christmas Eve, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi attended Divine Liturgy at St. Mark’s Coptic Christian Cathedral, together with Coptic Pope Tawadros II, declaring, “Let no one come between us.”
As parishioners cheered, he said, “God has created us different … in religion, manner, color, language, habit, tradition … and no one can make us all the same.”
El-Sissi apologized for not fixing some 50 churches vandalized, bombed and burned in 2013 by the Muslim Brotherhood followers. He promised the repairs will be made in the next year.
And on Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani landed in Rome, the first stop on a four-day European trip dedicated to trade and bridge-building with the West.
Even before he met Pope Francis at the Vatican that afternoon, President Rouhani included a message of respect, even deference, to Christianity, in a speech to the Italian business community. According to the Quran, he said, “[T]he church, the synagogue and the mosque must live side by side. It lists them in that order, with the church first and the mosque last. This is no coincidence.”
One reason the Vatican is slightly more hopeful about the chances in 2016 for a Syrian peace settlement providing greater protection for Christian communities is its long-standing relationship with Iran, which is now back at the negotiating table as a result of the landmark nuclear agreement.
Senior Register correspondent Victor Gaetan is an award-winning
international correspondent and a contributor to Foreign Affairs magazine.
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The Doe Regime: 1980-1989
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The first phase of the civil war began on Christmas Eve 1989 with a rebellion against Doe’s government led by Charles Taylor, leading to Doe’s execution, and ended with Taylor’s victory in the 1997 elections. In between these events, Taylor waged a long and brutal campaign for power, and the country split into numerous military groups and factions, mostly along ethnic lines.
Charles Taylor was the son of an Americo-Liberian and a Gola tribe member from Arthington, close to Monrovia. Educated in the U.S., he returned to Liberia in 1980 and served as the head of procurement in Doe’s government until he was charged with embezzlement. He fled to the U.S., where he was arrested and jailed pending extradition to Liberia. Taylor escaped from his Massachusetts jail and made his way to Libya where he received guerilla training and in 1989 returned to Liberia as the head of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), a hitherto unknown group comprising former members of Doe’s regime. On December 24, 1989, the NPFL attacked government army positions in Nimba County.[1] On New Year’s Day 1990, Taylor announced the attack on the BBC and, without detailing either his own or the NPFL’s ambitions, he urged Liberians to take up arms against the government.[2]
In the first months of the conflict the NPFL was disorganized and poorly armed, and its ranks used it as an opportunity to seek revenge on ethnic groups that the Doe regime had favored. However, the Government’s attacks against civilians drove youth to the NPFL’s ranks and it grew in strength. Taylor soon split from his former ally Prince Johnson, and also killed many of the educated and experienced political figures who joined his camp, leaving no moderate alternatives to his rule.[3] Among those killed was Jackson F. Doe, whom many believed had won the presidential election against President Doe five years earlier. In July 1990, both Taylor and Johnson independently laid siege to Monrovia, causing some of the most violent battles of the war, and ending in Doe’s execution.
For the next seven years, Liberia was besieged by rebellions and counter-rebellions. The interim government, led by Does’s replacement, Amos Sawyer, and others, for the most part did not extend beyond the Monrovia area, and completely depended on West African peacekeeping forces fro the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) for its protection. Taylor controlled the rest of Liberia and set up a parallel government structure with its capital in the second biggest town of Gbarnga, Bong County. This enabled him to control and extract Liberian natural resources, including timber, metals, and diamonds. The proceeds, estimated at about 100 million USD per year, were needed not only to continue the war, but also to ensure loyalty of his commanders and inner circle.[4] At the same time, Taylor got involved in the Sierra Leone civil war by explicitly supporting a proxy force to take control of the diamond mines in that country.[5] Counter-rebellions also challenged Taylor’s control of territory, such as the Krahn and Mandingos’ (who had been favored by Doe) formation of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) in 1991 which later split into two ethnic factions. In 1993, another counter-rebellion erupted in the southeast led by the Liberia Peace Council (LPC), representing the Sapo people.
Following years of battle and attempts to exclude Charles Taylor from any political solution, nationwide elections were finally held, including Taylor as a candidate. Many hoped Taylor’s strong hand would bring stability to the country, and Taylor became the twenty-second Liberian President in 1997 with a full 75% of the vote.
[1] National Patriotic Front of Liberia.
[2] Schuster, Lynda (1994). The Final Days of Dr Doe. Granta, 48, 41-95.
[3] Ellis, 2007, pp. 83-5.
[4] Ibid. pp. 89-91.
[5] Taylor was indicted for his role in the Sierra Leone conflict, and currently (March 2011) awaits the verdict in The Hague in the case against him.
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13th Anniversary Special: Reminiscing Classic Anime
Eight years ago, my cousin Firesenshi came up with a Spotlight article named "Anime Backtrack: March 2002 Special: Reminiscing Classic Anime". It covered a lot of the anime we Senshi grew up with. Alas, it shared the fate of many other Spotlight write-ups...it got lost in the course of our numerous transitions.
Since we're on the subject of revivals, let me just speak of -- and add to -- the very same anime titles Firesenshi wrote about eight years ago. We began with these. No, we didn't get to watch them during the first wave of their arrival into our country in the 70s (our parents were still in college back then), but we did get to catch their reruns in the 80s.
First there was Voltes V. The horned antagonists fascinated us more than the human protagonists, keeping us glued to the screen till the time that the gigantic robot would have to wield his laser sword. Although...back then, I never really understood the word play. I was just simply enthralled by the enemies' bright colors. Later, we noticed that after each exciting battle, the brothers Kenichi, Daijiro and Hiyoshi would contemplate the loss of their father. This was evident in the ending song Chi Chi wo Motomete (Searching for Father). And we little girls were left to wonder how come the resident girlette operates Voltes V's feet...
A couple of years later, we were introduced to the concept of a love angle in Tosho Daimos. The premise was nearly the same: Earth was to be invaded by aliens that look like humans with something extra. This time, the aliens had wings! Like the Voltes team, the Earthlings here fought back with a giant machine. The little twist: the enemy's Princess Erika and the protagonist Kazuya became lovers. In the Philippines, however, Kazuya's name was Richard. And everyone, who would grow up to be silly adults, would much much much later joke about how Erika and Kazuya would go..."Erikaaaaaa!!!!" "Richaaaaaaaard!!!!" We can laugh about how ridiculously romantic we were as little kids, but one can't deny that Daimos made a thorough impact on our lives while we were growing up.
Then we were to discover tragedy and triumph in Candy Candy. I can still sing it: "She's a girl, pretty girl, with ribbons on her hair..." I'm glad I didn't get to finish this anime when I was a kid, though. At that time, I was pretty pissed that they took Candy Candy off the air before we could get to the middle of it. Watching it again as an adult, I realized that Candy's complete story would've been traumatic for a child. She had a roller-coaster ride of a life and had very little reprieve between tragedies. Even the manga was exhausting!
We had a lighter alternative, of course. Astro Boy introduced moral lessons that were a lot more obvious than the previous anime we've been exposed to. The innocent android boy would meet people and inadvertently change their lives through realizations. There were times when it made me cry, like that particular episode where someone was killing off the world's powerful robots (some of them were so adorable, I was sad to see them die!) and there was another episode where Astro's sister would be mean to one admirer who turns out to be the operator of the robot she idolized.
It would be years and years and years and years later that we would rediscover anime. You guessed it, it was Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon. It was through this show that I would be inspired enough to build my very first website...on May 18, 1997. It was the beginnings of the Otaku Fridge (Firesenshi, Sugarsenshi and I were in college by then)...except the site had a horrendously long name, as I've already recounted in this section. By this time, my cousins, sister and I would be led to so many other animated titles and video games that we'd spend weekends on anime marathons or game challenges at Icesenshi's house...while raiding her fridge during breaks.
Hence, the site's name.
By the year 2001, the Fridge had nurtured a community with active membership. At its peak, it had over a hundred active members and over 7,000 inactive lurkers. The membership declined as the site administrators (mainly me, my sister Thundersenshi and my cousin Firesenshi) grew into adulthood and got swamped with real-life responsibilities.
So where are the old members now? Some of them are still into anime. Tsumenki and Kaoko maintain the Bishounen Project. Furthermore, Kaoko, with her Kitchen Cow, went on to become one of the Philippines' most popular food blogger. Rowena Lim Lei, formerly of Animetric.com, went on to become one of Manila's most prolific magazine contributor and blogger. Voldemort is now into magic shows, DJing, and also hosts major events from time to time, while MarkPoa is among the people of Cosplay.ph.
So many events have transpired in the past 13 years and I think it's safe to say that much of our careers and current activities all started from anime. Once in a while, we can look back on that.
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Janet Murguía: Latino/LGBT Collaboration
Janet Murguía is President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, the largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. Using the 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), Janet highlights what can happen when disenfranchised people work together and why it's important for the Latino and LGBT communities to continue collaborating.
Tony Tapia: Numbers Behind the Immigration & LGBT Movement
Tony Tapia is the Board Co-Chair for Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees. Tony discusses the history of immigration reform, what immigrant demographics look like today, and the importance of immigrant-rights funding.
Sarah Jones: Sarah Jones as Mrs. Ling
Sarah Jones is a hilariously poignant Tony Award winning playwright and performer. This year she brought six guests to share their insights on what it means to be LGBT in today’s world. One guest is Mrs. Ling, a Chinese American who discusses her children’s embrace of American culture. “Don’t worry about me, mom, I don’t like guys - I’m in love with a Chinese girl,” recalls Mrs. Ling, “Those are the words I always wanted to hear — from my son!”
Andrew Park: Two Sides of the Same Wedge
Andrew Park is Program Director for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender International Human Rights at Wellspring Advisors. Andrew reminds us that LGBT people and immigrants are often targeted as two sides of the wedge used to divide the country. And he reminds us that in our common struggle, we also share opportunity to make progress and improve our lives.
Rea Carey: We Just Want to be Visible
Rea Carey is Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Rea shares stories of LGBT immigrants who face unique challenges with a broken immigration system and the federal government's failure to recognize lesbian and gay relationships.
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Portland United Methodist Church: The History of Our Church
Our congregation is one among 39,000 United Methodist Churches located in the USA, with 10 million members nationwide. Through the World Methodist Council located in Lake Junaluska, NC, the United Methodist Church is linked into a world-wide communion of nearly 40 million Christians. Methodism first arrived in the Portland area when itinerant Methodist preachers evangelized among the Indians. In 1838, two "Circuit Riders" came to the mouth of the Looking Glass River where it empties into the Grand River. Then in 1834 the first white settler came. Philo Bogue, one of Portland's earliest settlers, hosted early gatherings at his home. He was a Methodist and Methodism has continued here ever since. In 1838 there were enough members to organize a class. The first "Class Meeting" of five members attended. The members met at the log school house on the west side of the Grand River. Eventually the first pastor, Rev. Larmon Chatfield, was appointed here in 1838. He later made Portland his home and is buried in the Portland Cemetery. In 1851 the Methodists built a parsonage and meetings were held there. We would then purchase the "Red School" which was located on James Street for $20 and moved it to the corner of Bridge and Elm Streets. This would be used as a chapel at a cost of $250 and was used for the next five years. It was then sold and moved to Elm Street.
The white frame church built in 1877, and was 40 ft. by 70 ft. It was built in 1866 at a cost of $7,500. This building was dedicated on Oct. 20 and 21 of 1868. The bell was installed in 1872, and weighed 1,200 pounds. This bell still rings every Sunday to this day. in 1879 a new parsonage was built, and the church had about 300 members. The Sunday School had 115 students with 15 teachers, and the Sunday School Library had 500 volumes. On August 18, 1912, the white-framed church was hit by lightning and burned to the ground. While waiting for a new building, the church met at the then-unused Universalist Church, which was located at the corner of James and Warren Streets.
The present church was built in 1914 at a cost of $25,000. The cornerstone was laid on July 17, 1913, and the building was dedicated on March 29, 1914 by the district superintendent. Rev. W. W, Slee was pastor at the time. In 1916, the church had a membership of 225. There was an active Sunday School, Epworth League for Young People, Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Women's Home Missionary Society, and a Ladies Aid Society. In 1937 a pipe organ was installed at a cost of $2,150. This was during the Ministry of Rev. Warren Brown. The year 1963 was the 125th Anniversary of the first class meeting. This year saw the start of a new building campaign with the addition of the educational wing in 1964. The Sanctuary was also remodeled. Rev. Harold Homer was the pastor during this time. Sunday, May 23, 1976 was "Heritage Sunday", and the Church honored all members who had belonged to the church for 50 years or more.
In 1986, Rev. Dale Crawford joined the church as Pastor in February. But in October in that same year, Rev. Crawford passed away in a car accident while serving on a mission trip in Ghana. The church would then invite Rev. Stan Finkbeiner to lead the church. Pastor Stan led the church through another difficult time. In 1986, a fire broke out in the church bell tower. This would cause damage to the Sanctuary and to the organ. Services would be held in the basement until the Sanctuary was redesigned.
As we came closer and closer to the 21st century, new traditions would be made. Pastor Elaine Bunker would start the Annual Memorial Day BBQ, and the Annual Turkey Dinner was created as well. Pastor Scott Otis brought us our contemporary service, to go along with our traditional service. 2007 would see a new building project with Rev. Greg Wolfe. The church would receive a new Welcome Center, floor tiles, and a new elevator. Now anyone can access all areas of the church. Rev. Keith Treman celebrated the 175th anniversary in the church with the congregation in 2013. In 2015 the church was one of many buildings damaged by a EF1 Tornado that hit Portland. During the eight month recover, the church met at the Portland Playhouse on Maple Street. The building was able to be restored.
Today this congregation is continuing to transform lives, families, and our world through Jesus Christ by having weekly services, Bible study, Sunday School, youth group, and more. Join us to become a part of our history! To learn more about our history, check out the church library. There are several photo albums filled with information, and we are excited to share them with you. We ask that the books stay in the library to protect the photos. They are not optional to check out.
Timeline of PUMC History
1884 - Square windows were replaced with Stained Glass in the original building
1905-1908 - Rev. Robinson was influential in ridding Portland of saloons
1912 - Lightning strikes steeple of the original building and it was completely destroyed
1912-1914 - Our current building is built, dedicated, and opened
1919 - Centennial year for Michigan Methodists
1934 - Go-Getters Adult Sunday School is formed, hearing aids are installed, and Cathedral Chimes are installed fore $200
1937 - A new pipe organ is installed for $2,150
1939 - In May, unification of the Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, and Methodist Protestant
1954 - Church kitchen is remodeled, and the outdoor sign is built
1959 - Under the mission of Rev. Treat, educational and fellowship addition was built, and the sanctuary was renovated
1968 - Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren join to form the United Methodist Church
1973 - Under Rev. Harold Homer's leadership, we were hosts to Lay Witness Mission
1977 - New parsonage was purchased for $44,500
1978 - Pastor Dow Chamberlain held morning prayer, at 8:30, Mondays-Fridays
1979 - Trustees authorized the spending of endowment funds to redecorate chancel and nave, organ is improved, and parsonage payments are complete
1986 - Rev. Evans serves after the resignation of Rev. Chamberlain. In February, Rev. Dale Crawford became pastor. While on a trip to Ghana, Africa, he passed away in a automobile accident. Rev. Evans returns to serve as interim pastor.
1988 - 150 years of Methodism in Portland is celebrated, with special services throughout the month of October.
1988 - A fire causes damage to the church and the 75 year old organ. Services are held in the basement until March of 1989
2000 - Rev. Scott Ottis creates two services: A traditional service at 9 and a contemporary service at 11:15
2007 - Rev. Greg Wolfe renovates the church, adding an elevator and making the church handicap-accessible in all areas of church property
2013 - PUMC celebrates 175th years of Methodism in Portland. To celebrate, old church documents were read once a month, and at each service throughout the year every pastor was recognized
2015 - A EF-1 Tornado comes through the city of Portland on June 22 and damages 4 local churches, including the Methodist church. Rev. Keith Treman, Rev. Tish Bowman, and the PAMA work together to keep the church and community safe. Rev. Bowman helped renovate the church, and the United Methodists would worship at the Portland Civic Players building along with the Baptist church. The church would open on February 21
2018 - New sound system is installed
Present Day - “Transforming Lives, Families, and Our World through Jesus Christ”
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Meet the funeral man of Makkah
Abdul Mujeeb helped bury over 2,000 dead pilgrims in three decades
Abdul Mujeeb during one of his missions to help the families of the dead in Makkah.
K. Abdul Mujeeb
Abdul Mujeeb is often spotted in the mortuary of Al-Noor Hospital in Makkah assisting relatives of the dead.
Irfan Mohammed
JEDDAH — Millions of faithful from around the globe visit the holy city of Makkah every year. A significant number of these people are elderly and sick people who come to fulfill their lifetime dream of visiting the birthplace of Islam.
Some of them die in the holy city unable to bear the travails of the harrowing trip at an advanced age or due to natural causes.
In most cases when a pilgrim dies in the holy city, family members accompanying them wish their relative to be buried in the holy land. However, most of them are not aware of the procedures and services that are available for burying a dead pilgrim.
Grief-stricken family members run from pillar to post to complete the last rites of their loved ones and this is where K. Abdul Mujeeb, a humanitarian worker from the Indian state of Kerala, plays a crucial role.
Mujeeb, hailing from the Muslim-majority Malappuram district of Kerala, has been living in Makkah for about three decades. He is busy most of his free time visiting the sick and burying the dead. The 49-year-old can be spotted quite often at Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, the largest medical facility in the holy city with a large number of beds and a spacious mortuary.
Mujeeb claims that he helped bury at least 2,000 dead pilgrims during the three decades he had spent in Makkah. Visiting mortuaries and graveyards has become part of his routine. He also pays regular visits to the sick admitted to various hospitals in the holy city.
Starting from hospital, Mujeeb helps complete all formalities with the police, other local authorities and foreign missions. He also helps wash the body and take it to the funeral prayer and then to the graveyard for burial. He does all these services free of charge and only seeking his reward from Allah Almighty.
Speaking to Saudi Gazette, Mujeeb said he never heard any family members asking to repatriate the bodies of their dead relatives back home to be buried in their countries. Instead, they all want their died ones to be buried in holy land.
Recalling his first experience that prompted him to plunge in this social service, Mujeeb said, “It was in 1990s when I saw the pain of an elderly pilgrim who fell down in the street in Misfalah district. I took him to hospital for treatment. While in the hospital, I saw a woman desperately seeking help to bury her dead husband. I helped the woman and buried her husband with the help of the concerned authorities.”
When asked about the most tragic case that he had encountered in his three decades of serving the dead, Mujeeb said he could not forget the fatal accident involving an Indian school bus on its way from Makkah to Jeddah in 2004 in which seven students and a teacher were killed.
Tears rolled down his cheek when he recalled the scene where all eight bodies were kept in an auditorium in Makkah for their friends and relatives to see them for the last time.
Praising the Saudi authorities for their prompt action and humanitarian support to people in distress, Mujeeb revealed the Civil Defense forces deployed a helicopter to airlift the dead body of a pilgrim sho died on Jabal Noor in 2004. The pilgrim, who came from Dubai, died on the spot due to a lightning strike during a thunderstorm.
“The helicopter was not able to land or pick the body using equipment due to heavy storm. With the help of some others, I carried the body down from top of the steep mountain on our shoulders,” Mujeeb said.
Mujeeb also recollected the tragic incident of a 23-year-old Indian house driver named Anas, who was brutally murdered by the son of his employer for not allowing him to drive in Makkah. The boy pumped three bullets straight into the chest of Anas, who was only obeying the instructions of his employer.
Morocco King praises King Salman’s efforts to serve pilgrims
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Home / Ash Mukherjee
Choreographer, Lead Dancer
Ash brings temple dance to the 21st century. Voted Best Indian Dancer, UK by Dance Europe, Ash is a choreographer who has been noted for his uniqueness, speed, precision and attack by Mother Teresa, The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards UK, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jermaine Jackson among others. Born in Calcutta, Ash trained in Indian Classical Dance under Guru Smt. Thankamani Kutti. A young principal dancer of Kalamandalam Kolkata, he subsequently trained in classical ballet, Latin and Jazz Theatre Dance.
Ash is the first Indian National to have been nominated for a Critics’ Circle National Dance Award UK 2007 and, in 2008, they invited him to make his choreographic dance theatre debut with his piece entitled “The Meeting Place” at The Place Theatre for Resolution! 2009 for which we was awarded the Critics’ Choice Dance Europe for Outstanding Male Dancer and Best Contemporary Dance Premiere.
He has recently appeared in Move like Michael Jackson on BBC Three, mentored by Michael’s choreographer and close friend, the MTV Award winning LaVelle Smith Jnr to perform in front of judges Jermaine Jackson, Mark Summers and Jamelia, representing Indian Classical Dance and being the only soloist to dance in the Finals.
Ash launched his company Divya Ash Dance Theatre (Temple Dance For The 21st Century) in 2010 with the premiere of his piece Affluenza,for Resolution! at the Place Theatre in collaboration with Ni Madé Pujawati
He is currently choreographer in residence at Amanda Redman’s Artist Theatre School and conducts lecture demonstrations for schools and colleges in London and for Surrey and Folkestone Universities.
www.ashmukherjee.com
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The Choice: Exclusive Interview with RealityWanted Member Christopher Scali
Posted on 08/20/2012 by Gina in The Choice and Cast Interviews, Members On TV
by Gina Scarpa
RealityWanted member Chris Scali recently found himself as the object of Carmen Electra's affection, something thousands of guys can only dream of. The good looking and charismatic bartender from New York was cast on FOX's The Choice and beat out many others to win a date with the sexy star. Since then, he's been cast on a second reality show and while filming in Chicago, we spent some time talking to him about the success he's found thus far, got some casting advice based on his experiences, and looked at his big goal when it comes to reality television.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: What made you decide to sign up for RealityWanted?
A. Chris: A friend told me about it and I didn't know if it would work or not. I would go through the emails every day. It got me on Fox and right now I'm in Chicago and I got that one, too. I'm in the Hilton in Chicago as we speak.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Were you applying for everything or were you picky about what you went for?
A. Chris: I absolutely was picky. I wasn't seeking fame. A lot of people who get into reality are desperate for fame. It's all about how you present yourself and about waiting for the right casting call to pop up. I'll look through 50 casting and not see one I want to do.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: How did you end up on The Choice?
A. Chris: I applied on RealityWanted. It said "Star Date" at the top. They called me back a week later and they wanted to bring me to Los Angeles and once I got there, I was there for a week. I auditioned, came home for a few days, and then I came back. Honestly, this may sound silly, having no confidence in myself... they pick guys from all over the world. There were lawyers, doctors, engineers, Yale grads, members of the Coast Guard, and I'm just some bartender from Brooklyn. It was intimidating but I was just myself and I happened to win. I had a date with Carmen Electra and she fell in lust with me on national television. It was great exposure.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Why did you choose The Choice?
A. Chris: I take pride in a special knowledge and wisdom of women that I have. I wanted a chance to prove to the world that I have what it takes to make a celebrity possibly show interest in me. I don't have a lot of money, I don't have a fancy job, I'm just a regular Joe Shmoe but you can still be attractive and sexy... I'll put it to you this way. It's a lot harder for a man to attract a female celebrity than it is for an attractive woman to attract a male celebrity. Men are dogs, you know what I'm saying?
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Was being on The Choice what you expected?
A. Chris: Not at all! I had to basically go on a stage that I've never seen before in my life. There's no practice, there's no cut or retake, nothing like that. You walk on the stage, you get one chance and one shot, no script, and I had thirty seconds to spit game at celebrities who didn't know what I looked like. If I mess up or stutter, there is no try again. The first thing that came out of my mouth is what happened. You're talking about reality television? That's the prime definition.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: What advice do you have when people are applying for shows through RealityWanted?
A. Chris: I feel like whatever you decide to apply for, go full force. Put all of your focus and energy into the application. Don't rush it, take your time, and take it seriously. You can't be afraid to be yourself and say stupid things on an application or joke around. It's not a job. People wanna see goofiness and personality. They wanna see spark. You can't go into an application or casting process or trying to be respectful. You gotta be raw. You gotta be a raw person and just wow them any way you can. People go into that casting room doing backflips. Like, that's not gonna get you on tv, I'm sorry. You have to truly talk and be yourself. It's something you have to take your time with.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: How did you get on the second show that you're currently filming?
A. Chris: I applied through RealityWanted! I sent an email and they sent one back, saying they liked my picture. Here's a little more advice I can give. With RealityWanted, when you apply,, there's a paragraph to type in. Words only go so far. Make a reel and copy and paste the link into the box and let these casting directors hear from you and see you because it makes the process that much quicker. I sent a reel and they were like, "Oh wow, you're perfect!" Making a video is like the second step of the process so if you give it to them first, that makes it easier.
Q. Gina, RealityWanted: What is the big goal?
A. Chris: Okay... I just feel like as a person, I would be most successful being myself as opposed to becoming an actor and trying to act like something I'm not. I feel like my personality and persona, I can become successful being myself. If that means landing a hit series reality show that I get crazy exposure and that turns into something else, maybe a spinoff, and then it gets me an agent who gets me in a movie, that's what I'm hoping for. I wanna be the next big tv personality. Even a hosting job. If I can become a host, that's a way I can really be myself. I have an ability to make someone like me. I just have that vibe about me and I wanna use that to be successful. If reality tv is the best way to do that, then that's what I'll do!
Visit Christopher's website and follow him @ChrisScali
(Image courtesy of Christopher Scali)
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Victor Clube at the 2010 Conference on Quantavolution
The talk is available for download from http://www.2010-q-conference.com/globalwarmingand/index.html ... the talk has the title, 'Global Warming and the Disallowed Protestant Calendar' but has nothing to do with the global warming debate at all except to point out that the warming trend out of the Little Ice Age is one thing and pollution as a result of industrialisation is a different issue. You cannot assume the former is in any way adverse if you don't understand what caused the Little Ice Age - and why those conditions do not exist today.
If we look at the ups and downs in temperature over the Holocene as a whole, even over the last 5000 years when civilisations existed in some location or other, we find there was a series of cooling periods, and this is the point that Isaac Newton was making - in the last pulse of the Little Ice Age. Newtons actually predicted, he says, the end of the cooling period - towards the end of the 19th century. Some people got hold of the erroneous idea he was talking about the end of the world, but no, he was roughly predicting the end of a cycle. Clube then switched attention to the calendar - and the calendar of Newton as opposed to the calendar we use today. The Gregorian calendar reform was all part of the Counter Reformation and seen as opposing the old-fashioned calendar of the Protestant churches in Europe - which had become out of date as the skies at night had quietened after a lot of activity - especially during the 17th century. The Protestants themselves were worried, he said, not by the actual act of reform but by the abandonment of what the old calendar represented in the minds of ordinary people. The old 365 day calendar was dominated by saints days - and these mattered more to people than if the calendar was exact - the extra quarter day could simply be dealt with by ad hoc adjustment. It had been for centuries. No big deal. The 365 day calendar was also inherited from Egypt - and probably from Babylonia too. It had pre-Greek and Roman origins and was in use during ancient Egyptian history going back as far as 3000BC. In a couple of sentences he dismissed Sothic Dating as nonsense as it presumed people can read a calendar backwards. The Egyptian calendar was regularly adjusted in order to keep it in line with the seasons - which is what happened in Europe before the Gregorian reform. However, he then said something quite surprising. The 365 day calendar differs from the new calendar where the emphasis was on dividing the year into four at the solstices and the equinoxes. The old calendar was divided into three, he said - March, July, and November, a pattern that is still preserved in the saints days. This pattern is bound up with the annual fluxes of meteor streams - in particular the Taurid complex of Midsummer and November. A meteor stream is derived from the dust and debris left behind by the passage of comets - which is interesting in the context of ancient Egypt (or any other ancient society previous to the modern world). Comets were also associated with the gods and such ideas were pushed aside by the Enlightenment. Isaac Newton occupied that in between world, betwixt the old ideas and the new. During the 17th century the Protestants sought to uphold and maintain their view of God against the one adopted by the Catholic Church - which distanced God from regular visitations to Earth (the consequences of meteoric activity). This led to an attachment to the 365 day calendar even though the science of the new calendar was accepted, as the old calendar meant recognising Midsummer and November as a critical time dictated by God. If you did things in life corresponding with those times, such as celebrations involving lights and fires, they were being done within the godly regime. He then says an interesting thing as how can you prove the sort of thing just said. The so called Glorious Revolution, so beloved of academics and historians, began with an announcement in 1688 that the Dutch invading navy would set sail in July from The Hague. They did not actually make the crossing to England until November. This was, he said, in order to impress on the British people they were acting in God's name. The revolution was incredibly smooth as a result of this bit of conformity to the 365 day year - which was actually the intention of the new management team that took over the running of the country. The backers of William III were the equivalent of the City of London, and by cowtowing to the power of the Protestant God, one political party was able to outmanoevre the other political parties. In addition, 1688 was the year after the publication of Newton's Principia - and Clube spent some time on explaining why it said what it did and why it left out what he really had in mind. Evidence for the Protestant God weakened - as the Little Ice receded. The Glorious Revolution actually ushered in the very thing apposite to Newton - and the Protestant God, in the process of time.
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Do you know why the Church is Catholic, Apostolic and Roman? Pope Francis explains it to you – Part 1
May 6, 2019 March 27, 2019 Gwendolyn Jackson
Did you know that the Catholic Church is constituted by 24 different rites? The Roman Catholic Church is the best known, because it depends legally on the Pope and is distributed throughout the world. But there are 23 oriental rites , which depend on their patriarchs (or eparchs, or metropolitans, or archbishops) for their liturgical and territorial order, but who dogmatically obey Pope Francis, who guides them all in charity.
Do you find it confusing? I tell you how I found out: in Argentina there is a strong Syrian-Lebanese immigration. The Syrians and Lebanese joined our country and are currently as Argentine as mate and Pope Francisco. But when they first started arriving, at the beginning of the 20th century, that integration was not so fast. So much was the migration that the Maronite Church decided to found an eparchy (a territorial division similar to a diocese) for the Syrians and Lebanese living in Argentina. One day, going to mass in Mendoza, where a sister of mine lives, she took me to the parish of San Juan Marón, of the Maronita rite, I was fascinated with the liturgy!
And then the doubt arose, why Catholic and apostolic? What do you mean each of these notes? The video that Rome Reports brings us today helps us to refresh it in a simple way, from the mouth of the Pope himself, who explains it in a simple and concrete way. I would like to add some details to what Pope Francis expressed.
Because it is universal. In Greek καθολικός (katólikos) it means “universal”, that is, it is in the whole world. Before the Ascension, Our Lord told the disciples: ” Go, then, and make all the peoples my disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to fulfill all that I I sent them. And I am with you until the end of the world » (Mt, 28, 19-20). The mandate of the Lord was understood from the rejection of the Jews and the dispersion of the apostles and disciples by the world known at that time: the entire Roman Empire. Thus, Peter and Paul take the faith to Rome, St. James the Greater to Spain, St. Bartholomew to the East; and so, each one was fulfilling the mandate of Our Lord. When Saint John died, near the end of the first century, it can be said that the Church was already Catholic, that is, “universal” for the world known at that time. Saint Ignatius of Antioch says so in his letter to the Smyrnaeans, where he says, about the year 110: ” Where the bishop is the community, as well as where Jesus Christ is the Catholic Church.” This also tells us that the Church is united as the mystical body of Christ at its head.
Apostolic and Roman
This note has two characteristics: as Pope Francis indicates it is missionary, because from the apostles it received the mandate of Our Lord to teach the whole world. But it is also apostolic because it is founded on the succession of the apostles, that is, on those whom the Lord sent (that is to say, apostle: “envoy”) who are the bishops, who teach, sanctify and direct the Church that has been confident The “private”, that is to say territorial, churches are fully Catholic because of their communion with the Church of Rome, which, as Saint Ignatius of Antioch says, presides over “others” in charity.
From the ministry of Peter the bishop of Rome took the primacy over the other bishops. What does the primacy mean? That the other bishops have to be in communion with the Bishop of Rome, whom he eventually began to call “Pope.” Jesus, after the triple denial of Peter, confirmed his ministry by saying three times “feed my flock,” to affirm him in his mission.
What is this “primacy” of Peter and his successors? The Catechism of the Church tells us: « The Roman Pontiff, head of the episcopal college, enjoys this infallibility by virtue of his ministry when, as Pastor and Supreme Teacher of all the faithful who confirm in the faith his brothers, he proclaims for a final act doctrine in matters of faith and morals » (CCC 891). There is so much confusion regarding the papal infallibility that it is good to pause a little to examine what it consists of, and refer to the constitution “Pastor Aeternus” that defines it:
«The Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in the exercise of his office as pastor and teacher of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith or customs as to be held by all the Church, owns, by the divine assistance that was promised in the blessed Peter, that infallibility of which the divine Redeemer wanted to enjoy his Church in the definition of the doctrine of faith and customs. Therefore, these definitions of the Roman Pontiff are in themselves, and not by the consent of the Church, irreformable ».
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StowTown Records and Lifeway Christian Stores Host The Perrys “Into His Presence” CD Release Party
Written by SGN Scoops on April 10, 2014 – 3:09 pm -
NASHVILLE, TN (April 10, 2014) – The Perrys kicked off their debut StowTown Records project, “Into His Presence,” with a memorable CD release party at the LifeWay Christian store in Hendersonville, TN.
The hometown crowd was treated to a live performance of new songs, including their first single, “I Can Trust Him,” now gaining attention at radio. Libbi Perry Stuffle updated the audience on the miracle of Tracy Stuffle’s recovery from a stroke, and then invited her husband to sing his new duet, “Three Men on a Mountain,” with their son, Jared. Those attending were moved by the clear testimony of God’s grace over the past fourteen months, but they were also blessed with an unexpected bonus — many well-placed humorous comments from Tracy during the festivities, resulting in laughter and applause from the crowd. The Perrys topped off the celebration by sharing cake and conversation with the fans, as well as autographing the new CD.
“Into His Presence” is now available at Christian retail stores everywhere through Provident Distribution, in addition to online outlets, including the “New and Noteworthy” section on iTunes. This recording represents a fresh chapter for The Perrys, the legendary family group which formed around the piano on Christmas Day in 1970. The 11-song CD reflects their new partnership with StowTown Records.
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JASON CRABB KICKS OFF 2013 WITH NEW SINGLE “WHAT THE BLOOD IS FOR” AND PREPARES FOR NEW RELEASE, LOVE IS STRONGER, TO HIT STREETS MARCH 12
Written by SGN Scoops on January 16, 2013 – 11:57 am -
Nashville, TN – Grammy® Award winner and reigning GMA Dove Awards’ Male Vocalist and Artist of the Year JASON CRABB, is set to release his brand new single, “What the Blood Is For,” to radio on January 21st. The song, written by Ronnie Freeman and Tony Wood, serves as the first single to southern gospel radio from the forthcoming project LOVE IS STRONGER, releasing on March 12th.
“This song applies to everyone,” describes Jason as he talks about the new single. “No matter how hard we try, we will never be ‘good enough’ to save ourselves. We all fall…we all make mistakes and that’s what the blood is for – our sin. Thank God that He sent His Son to the cross so that we could have eternal life!”
Crabb is preparing to release Love Is Stronger produced by award-winning producers Jay DeMarcus, Ed Cash and Wayne Haun. “I’m so excited to release new music and I’m really proud of this project. I can’t wait for everyone to hear it!” The release is currently available for “Pre-Buy” at all LifeWay Christian Stores.
Connect with Jason:
www.JasonCrabb.com
Facebook.com/JasonCrabbMusic
Twitter: @JasonCrabbMusic
About Jason Crabb:
Grammy® Award winner and 17-time GMA DOVE Award winner Jason Crabb has become known as one of the most respected and diverse vocalists in Christian music. His soulful, heartfelt vocals have made him a critics’ pick and a fan favorite on stages ranging from “The Grand Ole Opry” and the Brooklyn Tabernacle to the Gaither Homecoming arena platforms. In 2012, Crabb was honored to be awarded with not only the Male Artist of the Year award at the GMA DOVE Awards but also the Artist of the Year Award in addition to the Soloist of the Year Award at the NQC Music Awards. With a string of number one hits and chart-topping singles, a tour schedule of over 170 dates annually, ongoing tv appearances and an all-new recording, this vocal powerhouse’s talent is topped only by his genuine personality and concern for others.
Tags: Brookly Tabernacle, Ed Cash, Gaither Homecoming Videos, GMA Dove Awards, Jason Crabb, Jay DeMarcus, LifeWay, Ronnie Freeman, Southern Gospel News, Tony Wood, Wayne Haun
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SALTY EARTH PICTURES ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NEXT MOVIE
Written by SGN Scoops Staff on November 26, 2011 – 6:21 pm -
Salty Earth Pictures, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin is counting it’s many blessing this Thanksgiving. The studio’s independent feature “Journey to Paradise” is in distribution this Christmas season. The 120 minute feature film can be found at many retailers include Family Christian Stores, Lifeway, and more. The original music from the motion pictures is also available on a Christmas CD produced by Michael Schroeder. “Journey to Paradise” is based on the novel “The Christmas Edition” written by Robin Shope. To learn more, please visit Salty Earth Pictures’ Studio Store at: http://saltyearthpictures.myshopify.com/.
You can view a portion of the movie that incorporates Michael Schroeder’s song “The Reason for the Season” at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrystK4m30.
Salty Earth Pictures is also very thankful to be able to announce plans to begin work on the next feature motion picture. The movie will be based on the novel “The Chase” written by Susan Wales and Robin Shope. Steve Zambo, president of Salty Earth Pictures, says “We have been wanting to produce “The Chase” for many years. Susan Wales and I first discussed it several years ago. We feel the time is right, with God’s help, to produce this exciting novel into a motion picture.” Author Susan Wales sates, “I really think this is a match made in Heaven for Salty Earth Pictures to do this film. It will be a big undertaking, because it is a big story.” Author Robin Shope says “It is a thrill when you hear one of your books is to become a movie. I couldn’t be more honored.” When asked about the storyline Shope, who lives in Dallas, added, “You will find suspense and a love story that races between Washington, D.C. and America’s Heartland. The issues it presents are timely and the emotions are timeless.” Susan Wales, who makes Los Angeles home, produces the “Movieguide Awards” annually. When asked about working with Wisconsin based Salty Earth Pictures she said, “What I love about Salty Earth Pictures, especially after being in Hollywood where it often takes 10 to 20 years to get a project done, is they get it done. People in Hollywood talk about it a lot, but Salty Earth Pictures gets it done. And that impressed me a lot.”
There is much work to do over the months ahead. Plans for financing, casting, developing the shooting schedule and more will need to be met before the cameras roll. Zambo says, “Salty Earth Pictures is dedicated to producing entertaining stories that have a message of hope based on the truths that can be found in the Bible. I believe ‘The Chase’ will reach many around the world.” If plans go as scheduled “The Chase” will be released in early 2013.
Salty Earth Pictures is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging, creating, and distributing, entertainment that challenges minds, lightens hearts, and strengthens souls. It has a 30,000 square foot studio located in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Salty Earth Pictures provides groups tours and a “Secrets of Movie Making Show” to audiences of all ages by appointment. More information is available through this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xbbNOO-GdY. The studio has also recently entered into a partnership with Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, in order to offer a major in digital cinema production. You can learn more at: http://www.wlc.edu/academics/dcp
For more information about Salty Earth Pictures please visit our Website at www.saltyearthpictures.org
Tags: Christian movies, Christian News, Family Christian Stores, LifeWay, Robin Shope, Salty Earth Pictures, Susan Wales, The Reason for the Season
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Number of Participating Churches Doubles for National Back To Church Sunday
Written by SGN Scoops on September 22, 2011 – 12:42 pm -
VISTA, Calif., Sept. 22, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ — More than 7,600 churches from 34 denominations opened their doors to an estimated 250,000 visitors during National Back to Church Sunday ( www.Backtochurch.com ), held Sept. 18.
Twice as many churches as last year participated in what has become the single, largest cross-denominational outreach initiative in America. Churches responding to a post-event survey welcomed an average of 34 new visitors, an increase of 25.4 percent in weekly attendance.
Almost 95 percent of pastors surveyed said they would participate again in National Back To Church Sunday, which will be held next on Sept. 16, 2012.
“The enthusiasm for National Back To Church Sunday has grown along with the number of churches participating,” said spokesman Philip Nation of LifeWay Research, whose organization’s research helped birth the nationwide event three years ago. “We’re excited about the response to this initiative, not only from the churches, but from those friends and neighbors who have told our participants how much they appreciated the welcome — and, in many cases, the welcome back.”
Pastor Scott Polley of Life in Christ Fellowship in West Jefferson, Ohio, said on Facebook his church nearly doubled its average weekly attendance on National Back To Church Sunday. “Best of all 3 people (known of) made a decision to follow Christ!” he said. “We are not waiting till next year to do it again; we are making plans for a quarterly outreach with the style of Back To Church.”
Several churches surveyed indicated many visitors said they hadn’t been to church in years and appreciated the invitation to return. “They enjoyed the fact that the church cared about them,” one respondent said. “They realized the importance of attending church.”
Said another respondent: “Many people are waiting for an invitation to be healed from the hurt previously experienced in church. They want to know they are welcome and encouraged to come back to church.”
In the survey conducted by Outreach Inc., one of the movement’s supporting organizations, many churches said they planned to follow up with visitors through activities such as Bible studies, movie nights and cookouts.
Church participants also appreciated how much National Back To Church Sunday energized their congregations. Polley of Life in Christ Fellowship noted on Facebook: “It was a great joy to see the congregation I pastor draw together with a common goal and purpose to impact so many people with the passion of Christ!”
Another survey respondent agreed: “This campaign is extremely helpful in assisting us with getting back to our mission of evangelism, mobilizing and empowering membership, and helping ensure that your church is on the right track. It’s simply energizing!!”
One church participant also noted that Back to Church Sunday was an “Outstanding event for members — especially the orientation and training with the materials provided. The key is preparation, preparation — relentless enthusiastic preparation.”
Since the initiative began in 2009, National Back To Church Sunday has seen increased success. Some 3,800 churches participated in 2010.
Although 83 percent of American adults identify themselves as Christians, only about 20 percent attend church on any given Sunday. Only 2 percent of church members invite others on a regular basis.
Yet, a study by LifeWay Research and the North American Mission Board of more than 15,000 Americans found 67 percent say a personal invitation from a family member would be effective in getting them to visit a church. Sixty-three percent say an invitation from a friend or neighbor would likely move them to respond.
Outreach (www.outreach.com ), founded in 1996, has quickly grown to become the largest provider of church outreach products and services in the world. With a mission to share God’s love and empower the church to share the message of Jesus Christ, Outreach provides cost-effective, proven methods and resources in a variety of forms, including books, media and film, postcard invitations, banners, bulletin covers, curriculum, church campaign materials and more.
LifeWay Christian Resources (www.lifeway.com ), in operation since 1891, is one of the largest Christian resource organizations in the world. LifeWay Research exists for the purpose of equipping church leaders with insight that will lead to greater levels of ministry effectiveness through research-based books and reports based on statistically validated surveys. LifeWay Research is one of the most trusted sources of information about the church, culture, and faith.
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Three Bridges Makes Appearance at LifeWay’s Music City Gospel Singing
Written by SGN Scoops Staff on April 18, 2011 – 4:19 pm -
Franklin, TN (Mansion Entertainment) April 18th, 2011 – Mansion Entertainment recording artist, Three Bridges, was recently honored to be a part of LifeWay’s Music City Gospel Singing held in Nashville on April 6-7, 2011. Also appearing at the event were Guy Penrod, Aaron Wilburn, Paid In Full, Squire Parsons and others who performed for a crowd of 800 – 1000 senior adults. “We had a fantastic time singing, laughing, and worshiping with this wonderful audience”, said Elliott McCoy. “It is always great to work with LifeWay, what a great organization and what a wonderful annual event!”
LifeWay Christian Resources is one of the world’s largest providers of Christian products and services: including Bibles, church literature, books, music, audio and video recordings, church supplies, and Internet services through LifeWay.com. The company also owns and operates 162 LifeWay Christian Stores across the nation, as well as two of the largest Christian conference centers in the country.
The recent LifeWay performance compliments an already great year for Three Bridges who recently completed taping for a live DVD at Trinity Music City in Hendersonville, TN which is now in the post-production phase and is scheduled for a summer 2011 release. The group will also be a regular featured artist on the upcoming international television program “A Country Campmeeting” which will air on the Trinity Broadcasting Network this fall. Three Bridges is in the final stages of song selection and preparation for a new studio recording to be released later this year while their current radio single, “David”, is making a climb in the Top 40 on the Singing News Top 80 Chart.
For more information on Three Bridges, visit them on the web at http://www.threebridges.net or http://www.themansionentertainment.com. To find out if Three Bridges is scheduled for a concert in your area or to schedule them for a concert, visit The Beckie Simmons Agency at www.bsaworld.com.
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Shigeru Miyamoto Biography: His early life & career to modern day
Written by Luke Hackett
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Name: Shigeru Miyamoto
Date of birth: November 16th, 1952
Place of birth: Sonobe Cho nr. Kyoto, Japan
Occupation: Game design and cartoonist
Marital status: Married
Spouse: Yasuko Miyamoto
Favourite videogame character: Pac-man
Favourite Mario game: Super Mario World, as revealed in an interview with USAToday
The man behind the Mario Franchise is none other than Shigeru Miyamoto! A Japanese videogame designer and producer who became famous mostly for his work with Nintendo, his Mario franchise is perhaps the most successful videogames franchise of all time.
Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Animal Crossing and F-Zero are the other popular Nintendo franchises Miyamoto is in some way responsible for. No doubt that on every Nintendo console you will see the work of Miyamoto, from the earliest arcade machines up to the modern day consoles like Wii U and 3DS.
Acknowledgement and tributes to Shigeru Miyamoto's work
In a PC game called Daikatana the main character is called Hiro Miyamoto as homage to Shigeru Miyamoto.
Gary Oak the rival of Ash Ketchum in the Pokemon series is known as SHIGERU in Japan. (Ash was known as Satoshi in Japan - the namesake of Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri)
Shigeru Miyamoto was mentor to the Pokemon creator Satoyshi Tajiri.
Miyamoto was the first person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
The French minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres made Miyamoto a Chevalier (Knight) of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 2006 Miyamoto was named in TIME ASIA's "60 years of Asian heroes" list alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Hayao Miyazaki, Mother Teresa, Bruce Lee and the Dalai Lama.
Time Magazine had Miyamoto featured in their top 100 most influential people list in both 2007 and 2008.
Miyamoto was given a lifetime achievement award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2007.
There was an article about Shigeru Miyamoto's work on Super Mario Bros. 3 in the tenth edition of Nintendo Power magazine
In 2009 the Escapist Magazine reported that in a survey taken by videogame developers that Shigeru Miyamoto topped the Ultimate Game Development Hero vote with 30% (the largest majority by far) of the total votes.
On March 19th, 2010 at the British videogame awards Shigeru Miyamoto was made a fellow of BAFTA
Regarded by many gamers and industry professional as the Grandfather of Videogames
Has been referred to as the Steven Spielberg or videogames
Born in the town of Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan on November 16th, 1952, Miyamoto's surroundings and upbringing influenced his work greatly. Sonobe was a rural town surrounded by forest. His sense of adventure and willingness to explore these surrounding forests and caves as a child was a key element to his success.
Other hobbies of the Miyamoto as a child included painting and reading. He also enjoyed softball and swimming as well as the guitar and piano. Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial arts. He had no job waiting for him after graduation and was at first a freelancer.
Early Career (1979-1984)
As Nintendo tried its hands at various different projects, Miyamoto was part of the design team who worked on the first coin operated arcade game called Sheriff. At this same time, Nintendo was having good success in the Japanese market and was trying to break into the North American market for video games. Unfortunately Nintendo's initial attempt to break the North American market with their Radar Scope had flopped terribly. There were such high volumes of unsold units that the company was at risk of total financial collapse.
The president of Nintendo at that time, Mr. Hiroshi Yamauchi, entrusted Miyamoto under the supervision of Gunpei Yokoi (head engineer) with the task of converting these unsold Radar Scope units into an all new arcade game. Miyamoto trawled his rich imagination for a tapestry of ideas as to what the plot of this game could be about, coming up with a love triangle between an Ape, a carpenter and a girl. Had he worded it like this in the modern day, I'm sure he'd have been arrested.
After much going back and forth with the small team of design engineers he had to work with, they had finally come up with the idea of a game which was not too complex to program - a game featuring ladders and levels to move about on with barrels as obstacles. This game if you didn't guess already was the original Donkey Kong.
After the success of Donkey Kong, helping Nintendo break the North American market at last, Miyamoto soon set to work on sequels, Donkey Kong Jr. (The first game to feature "Mario" as opposed to Jump Man) and Donkey Kong 3. Nintendo recognised and rewarded Miyamoto's talent and allowed him to work on other titles such as Excitebike and Devil World.
Keen to return to the characters that gave Nintendo such great success in Donkey Kong, Miyamoto then looked back at Jumpman, who was now known as Mario. He gave Mario a brother, Luigi who would also get a starring role in his next game--Mario Bros. Due to the graphical restrictions of Donkey Kong, Jumpman was seen to have overalls and a cap, and looked more like a plumber than a carpenter. So that was it - Mario was from then on a plumber. To this date Miyamoto's "Mario Bros" has been seen on over a dozen consoles.
Classic gaming in the making (1985-1989)
Still working alongside Gunpei Yokoi his friend and mentor, Miyamoto set out to work on several different projects including Ice Climber and Kid Icarus. There was to be another game based on his obvious favourite character too; Super Mario Bros would soon be released. Not only that but this was around the time the original Legend of Zelda began production.
A photo of Shigeru Miyamoto at a seminar with a Super Mario Bros backdrop
Miyamoto's continued focus on games which were played for the enjoyment and fun of playing them as opposed to being played in an attempt to gain high scores was what made his titles memorable and unique.
A lot of the inspiration for the Legend of Zelda was taken from exploring the forests and lands around his home as a child. Miyamoto set out to provide a sense of adventure and exploration as he created magical lands that gamers would enjoy for years to come. Later Miyamoto worked on sequels to the Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. - the sequel to Super Mario Bros. known in Japan as Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, which was perceived as being too difficult to release in North America.
It is for this reason that a little known title called Doki Doki Panic would be revamped with Mario characters & released as Super Mario Bros. 2 in the rest of the world. The Zelda sequel the Adventure of Link featured more rpg elements such as magic spells and experience points as well as much more contact and communication with NPC's (non player characters) adding more of a story element to games. The sequel to Super Mario Bros. 2 (Or the Lost Levels as it was known in Japan) was developed by a core group of Nintendo R&D Team 4 and was two years+ in the making. The development team thrashed out various ideas during this time such as the idea of Mario becoming a centaur - this idea was dropped and replaced by a racoon tail and limited flying ability.
For Super Mario Bros. 3, Miyamoto's aim was to spice up the series with the addition of new enemies while holding onto the classic Mario enemies we'd come to know such as Goombas, Koopa Troopas, etc. This title also featured seven Koopa kids; Miyamoto based each Koopa Kid on a member of the programming team as tribute and acknowledgement to their work and efforts. In the English localization versions of the games, however, the Koopa kids names were changed to resemble names of Western Musicians. ie. Iggy Koopa as Iggy Pop etc..
Nintendo EAD (1990-2000)
The separate departments for research and development merged, creating the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development department which was overseen by Miyamoto. This team would test its true potential by making early SNES titles starting with Super Mario World and F-Zero, which was fifteen months in the making. Miyamoto also had a hand in the development and design of Star Fox. Next, Miyamoto and the merged Nintendo EAD department that he oversaw teamed up with Square Co to work on a SNES Mario title called Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.
Together, Square and Nintendo took a year to develop the graphics engine - the story for this game was set in The Mushroom Kingdom which they tried to portray as best they could to be exactly how players of the Super Mario Bros. series would have expected to see it. In October 1995 Square announced that the game was 70% complete. The technique used for the graphics in Super Mario RPG was called ACM or Advanced Computer Modelling this was particularly vital in the internal design of the buildings and the objects within them throughout the game.
A photo from Edge Magazine issue 21 in June, 1995.
With the pace of videogame technologies advancement increasing by the day the Nintendo 64 was soon released, and there was no better a man to harness the power of this new platform than Miyamoto, he continued his ever popular Mario franchise with the release of Super Mario 64 as his debut for this console. Top priorities for Miyamoto on the development of Super Mario 64 would be character design and a revolutionary camera view system.
It took many long months for Shigeru Miyamoto and his team of designers to agree on the appropriate camera view and layout for the game before they all settled on the free-roaming 3D design which was eventually implemented. There were still however some underlying linear elements to the game pushing players to eventually end up at Bowser's Lair rather than simply explore the 3D world the game was based in. After this, Miyamoto then worked on the production of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with the original intention of the game being played from a first person perspective to enable players to better observe the vast lands of Hyrule better.
The Nintendo 64 would also see another couple of titles of note from Miyamoto's two most successful franchises including Mario Kart 64, Mario Party and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Miyamoto also acted as the producer of Star Fox 64.
Gamecube and beyond (2000-2008)
Miyamoto was responsible for many games on the Gamecube including its launch title Luigi's Mansion - the first title-role for Mario's brother Luigi, this game was first revealed at Nintendo Space World in 2000 as a tech demo which was designed to demonstrate the gamecubes graphical capabilities.
Shigeru Miyamoto proudly presents, the Gamecube console.
Miyamoto while still aiding the development of Mario spinoff titles also produced a 3d game series called Metroid Prime. Sadly it was in this same time period that Gunpei Yokoi, Miyamoto's friend and mentor passed away.
Other titles on this system that Miyamoto had a hand in included Pikmin and its sequel - Pikmin 2, Star Fox, Donkey Kong, F-Zero. Miyamoto was also an influence in the development of the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS consoles. On the Nintendo DS he helped with Super Mario 64 DS (a remake of his hit Nintendo 64 title) as well as Nintendogs.
The newest Nintendo console at the time, the Nintendo Wii was still in its development stages and known as the "Revolution" when it was announced that there would be continuation of Miyamoto's Zelda and Mario franchises in the form of new games such as Super Mario Galaxy. Miyamoto's Shetland Sheepdog named Pikku was one of his inspirations for the Nintendogs title. Another note of interest is that Miyamoto was also a semi professional dog breeder at this point.
It was around this time that Shigeru Miyamoto was noted to say "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about Rock N Roll" in one of his press conferences - as well as confessing that it was a hobby of his to guess measurements of objects then check whether or not he was correct and that's the reason he always carries around a tape measure with him!
2011 onward - the 3DS and Wii U era
Since the Wii U and 3DS era began in 2011 Miyamoto is still very much playing an active role; he acted as the producer for both Super Mario 3D Land and Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon for the 3DS and for Pikmin 3 on the Wii U.
After producing the above mentioned titles directly, Miyamoto has taken on more of the role of an overseer and guide, presumably to help instil a little of his unique creativity into the Nintendo producers of tomorrow in order to try and leave Nintendo in a good position when he eventually retires.
In June 2014 it was rumoured that Miyamoto, an admirer of the Minecraft series was interested in bringing the title to the Wii U though this has not yet come into fruition.
Shigeru Miyamoto holding the Basic Wii U gamepad (left) and Premium Wii U gamepad (right)
Shigeru Miyamoto Gameography
Shigeru had a role in the production of all the following titles be that on the games concepts, as a general producer, senior producer or in later years even as a supervisor. As you'd expect from the guy responsible for both the Super Mario and Legend of Zelda series' it's one hell of a list!
1990 - Super Mario World (Nintendo)
1990 - F-Zero (Nintendo)
1991 - The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the past (Nintendo)
1993 - Starfox (Nintendo)
1993 - The Legend of Zelda - Links awakening (Nintendo)
1994 - DonkeyKong on the Gameboy (Nintendo)
1994 - DonkeyKong Country (Nintendo)
1995 - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Nintendo)
1995 - Kirbys Dreamland 2 (Nintendo)
1995 - DonkeyKong land (Nintendo)
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State College, PA :: News :: Columns :: Joe Bastardi Column
Continuing the Climate Change Debate, and Asking for a Chance to See Who's Right
on July 12, 2011 6:00 AM
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Graph courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
I see there was a lot of comment on my most recent column. It's interesting to me that, because I happen to be on television quite a bit, people like to use that against me, as if I am just a TV weatherman.
Part of that is the fault of the field of meteorology itself, allowing non-degreed people to call themselves meteorologists. I may know a heck of a lot about nutrition but I am not a nutritionist. But the American Meteorological Society shares responsibility in this in that it has somehow decided that seals can be given to non-meteorologists.
For the record, I am not a member of the AMS or any organization (I don't play well with others). But I am very much a degreed meteorologist who happens to be on TV quite a bit.
In fact, on Oct. 26, one of the best things that ever will have happened to me in this field may occur when I speak to the students of my former adviser at Penn State, Dr. John Olivero, who is now at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. It was Dr. Olivero who looked me in the eye my sophomore year at Penn State, when I was in big trouble in the math part of the program requirements, and told me: "There are many people who love the weather, but not all of them can be a Penn State meteorologist."
It wasn't politically correct; he just told me the truth, and I got back to what my parents had taught me, with the help of wrestling.
But if I do talk down there, it will be as a meteorologist, not someone who plays one on TV or calls himself one without going through the rigorous requirements.
By the way, for the record, in our area we have some outstanding meteorologists on air. The obvious is WPSU and its legendary "WeatherWorld" program, which, by the way, I was fired from back in May 1997. (I guess someone woke up to the fact that I wasn't the typical meteorologist, eh?) "WeatherWorld" obviously never missed a beat with me no longer being there. But Joe Murgo, on WTAJ Channel 10, someone who I worked with for quite a while, knows his stuff. I am sure the others are good if they are degreed, but I do know Joe.
In any case, comments about me just being a weatherman, made in an effort to discredit my ideas, were the only ones that invited a response, because, as is the habit in this debate, in the effort to destroy the message, the idea is to discredit the messenger. But I want it to be clear that I am a degreed meteorologist, as my father before me, and both of us had to fight to get that degree: Dad with a family and more than 2,000 miles from home, and me with some self-inflicted wounds of laziness my first two years. Hence my reaction.
But I am going to keep this short. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Well the picture is the graph that accompanies this column: CO2 continuing its rise while the global temperatures have leveled off, according to what is most certainly not a right-wing think tank, the Hadley Climate Research Unit. It's right there.
The blue line shows the mean temp since 1995; the red line shows the jagged ups and downs, mostly in response to the warm and cold events in the Pacific Ocean (hint hint as to what really controls this); the dotted line is CO2.
So here is the crux of my whole argument. I believe temps, because of the changes in the oceanic, solar and volcanic cycles, are starting a trend downward. The other side – and these temps are below the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change values – has some explaining to do inasmuch as, according to them, these temps were not supposed to stall like this, due to the rise in CO2. In fact, there was worry back at the turn of the century that we were fast approaching a "tipping point" of no return. At the very least, this has been delayed (and I think I will be proven correct -- that it will be denied and temps will go the other way).
But before the other side blows a gasket screaming "selective verification," let me say, they were the ones who said we were at the tipping point 10 years ago, not me.
It's that simple. Now their forecast is busting. Perhaps it will resume upward in the next 10 years, and then I will be busting. But therein lies what I am asking for: the chance to see who is right and who is wrong. This data comes from the Hadley Center in the United Kingdom, not The University of J. R. Ewing.
Given the past 15 years, any objective person of goodwill should at least allow the chance to see who is right and who is wrong. After all, we seem to have bought another 15 years we weren't supposed to have, and the warming since the last little ice age can be explained by the fact it was so cold before, and the solar cycles have ramped up till recently, even better correlated than CO2.
Besides, as I said on "Fox and Friends" on the morning of July 4 when debunking the idea that grilling contributes to global warming (it was warming rather than climate change in this case), another term for CO2 is plant food.
So help a tree – grill a steak.
State College Council Says No to Salaries for its Members and Warning Signs About Guns in Parks
by Rich Kerstetter
State College Borough Council will not pursue measures that would have paid its members an annual salary and would have placed signs in public parks, warning that some people there might be carrying firearms.
Neither proposal gained support beyond the council member who suggested it – Silvi Lawrence for the salary and Peter Morris on the park signs – at Monday's work session.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions of the authors expressed therein do not necessarily state or reflect those of StateCollege.com.
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Posted by Terry Canales 124.60pc on March 22, 2017
The best example of this, Canales says, is his own sister’s name.
“Her name is Shamé, with an accent,” Canales says. “Without [the accent], she’s ‘shame.’”
The result of the exclusion of accents on state documents is disrespectful to the constituents the state is supposed to be serving, Canales says.
“To not be able to pronounce your name correctly, I think, is a huge problem,” Canales says. “Your name is what identifies you and if somebody’s not identifying you correctly, it’s almost a lack of respect.”
The effort to enact this legislation is personal for him, but the sentiment to change it appeals to many Hispanic legislators who also have these elements to their names, Canales says.
His predecessor, Aaron Peña, was also affected by the exclusion of accents. Canales says he once got up and put the tilde on his name on the voting board in the House of Representatives. Since then, Canales said other representatives have followed suit.
“If it’s good enough for the legislators, it sure as heck is good enough for the citizens of Texas,” Canales says.
Although this practice is common in the House, Canales says not everyone is on board to turn this bill into law.
Canales says the criticism he’s received about the bill mostly concerns some people’s belief that English is the state’s official language.
“But at the end of the day, we were Spanish long before we spoke English,” Canales says.
Even if he doesn’t make ground in this fight during this legislative session, Canales says this issue is one he feels passionate enough about to continue pushing it in the future.
“Anybody knows that the Texas legislature is made to kill bills,” Canales says. “Everyday that passes, bills are dying on the vine. But if it doesn’t pass this session, it will definitely be a bill that I re-file.”
Written by Morgan O’Hanlon.
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SAMMY WETS-A-LOT
April 2nd, 2010 | by Tom
So I guess you can consider this comic the companion piece to Wednesday’s comic where I suggested Sam Worthington was some kind of synthespian or artificial actor. I guess I don’t know what to say about it except that I can’t turn down a joke where someone is peeing their pants. I’m talking to my therapist about it.
I thought that I would see Clash of the Titans late Saturday evening. But it looks like I might be going this afternoon, instead. My father-in-law offered to watch Pearl for the afternoon while I go get an oil change for my car. I was kind of taken aback. I’m thankful for a little break, but I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to do after the oil change. But when I saw a commercial last night advertising the Thursday midnight screenings of Clash of the Titans, I knew where to go.
This has been my first week home with Pearl since my contract job ended and it has been very rewarding. We have an opportunity to bond a little more now and I’m grateful for the opportunity. Having steady employment is great, but they’re not kidding when they say you don’t get this time back.
That said, taking care of a four-month-old can be time-consuming. Even when she’s napping, I’m taking care of the house so Cami doesn’t have to worry about it when she gets home. Laundry, dishes, dusting – all that. It’s only fair. As such, I feel like I’m not connected to things like I used to.
It was no big deal to take a 5 minute break at work every couple of hours and check things out online. Now I don’t have time to do that, so I feel like I’m floating a little bit.
But, like anything else, it’s about settling into a new routine. I guess I just wanted to share that this first week at home with Pearl has been a success.
Changing gears, I wanted to share something with you guys that kind of threw me for a loop.
First, I need you to take a look at this image. It’s a mockup for a new convention banner that I’m going to take as part of my booth setup to C2E2. I’ve been making the rounds, trying to gather feedback on it and figure out ways to make it more eye-catching. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen a few posts related to this.
The second thing you need to know is that I am a paying member at Webcomics.com – Brad Guigar’s site that provides support and feedback to webcomic artists trying to improve their work.
The last thing you need to know is that the general reaction to the banner is that it’s nice, but that the tag line does not reflect the characters. In other words, I’m setting up the expectations that my lead characters are “difficult,” but I show them being pleasant and non confrontational.
My reaction to this criticism can basically be summed up by the statement that I really like the tag line, but I don’t want people to think my characters are jerks.
Brad leveled me with some feedback over at Webcomics.com that must be pretty close to the truth, because I’m sharing it with you here right now.
“What you’ve got there is a derivation of the Mary Sue complex,” writes Brad. “You realize at a basic level that all of these characters are really you on a psychological level. The sooner you allow ‘yourself’ to be disliked for the sake of your humor, the sooner you can write better stuff.”
I’m under no impression that Brad follows what I do with any regularity. But his powers of observation uncovered a truth about me as an artist that I hear over and over again – My Need To Be Liked.
I think anyone that has read this blog for a while knows that I will sometimes apologize for a joke the minute after telling it. A lot of people scratch their heads and ask me “Why do you do that?” In the past, I’ve always said it was because I don’t want to accidentally offend people. But fundamentally, I think it’s because I have a need to be liked.
I don’t know that this was as much of a problem when I first started out. Probably because there weren’t any expectations. Less people were looking at the comic, so there was less of a chance that I was offending anyone.
But in the last few years I feel like I’ve suffered accusations that don’t represent me as a person that have probably changed the tone of my work. I don’t have a problem saying what’s on my mind, but I’m not the kind of person who seeks to offend. So, as a result, I’m starting to wonder I’ve been concentrating less on my work and concentrating more on trying to prove I’m not a bad guy.
I don’t know. I’m still working some of this out in my own head. But one of the advantages to the internet is that I can pose these scenarios to you guys and get an outsider’s perspective.
One of my failings as an individual is that I have absolutely no idea about how others perceive me. I try to lead a good life, I try to avoid hurting people and somehow this combination has lead me into a corner where I am not really letting me be myself through my work.
Maybe that’s the reason I’ve been toying around with the idea of doing a journal comic for so long.
Anyway, now that I’ve dumped that in your lap, I’m curious as to what you think. Is Brad onto something? If you’ve been reading the comic for more than a few years, have you detected a shift that has been otherwise invisible to me?
I appreciate your feedback!
└ Tags: CGI, Clash of the Titans, code, crying, Sam Worthington, synthespian, wetting pants
April 5th, 2010 | by Tom
I think when we first saw images of Liam Neeson as Zeus from the set of the movie, very few of us were impressed…
…but I think we can agree that Neeson’s delivery of “RELEASE THE KRAKEN” is a classic.
That said, the REAL joke in today’s comic is the Craklin Oat Bran in the third panel. Man, what a great cereal. So much fiber. I’m pooping myself just thinking about it!
I didn’t get a chance to see Clash of the Titans like I thought I would this weekend and that doesn’t bother me as much as I thought it would. I was looking forward to a bit of dumb cinema until I realized that lining up for that kind of abuse was, well, also dumb.
That didn’t seem to stop most people, though. Clash of the Titans made over $60 million at the box office this weekend.
Usually when a film makes that much in it’s first weekend, people start talking about filming a sequel. But I was momentarily emboldened when I thought to myself “Mythology doesn’t have a sequel does it?”
Not so fast. Director Louis Leterrier recently said that he envisioned a TRILOGY of films and Clash of the Titans writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi confirmed it. So be on the lookout for that one, I suppose.
I don’t have much more to say about the film, but I’m curious if anyone here saw it. If so, what did you think? Did anyone see it in 3D? Reportedly, the 3D effects are horrendous. I’d like to know if it’s as bad as the critics say it is. Leave your comments below.
In the meantime, I’m getting ready for C2E2 next week in Chicago. I’ve been working on a new booth banner and some exclusive merchandise. If you follow Theater Hopper on Facebook, I’ll be posting some images soon. Including a series of 1″ badges I’ll be selling as well as artwork from an exclusive print I hope to sell at the show as well.
That’s all for me. Thanks for swinging by and have a great day!
└ Tags: catchphrase, Clash of the Titans, Cracklin Oat Bran, Liam Neeson, movie review, Release the Kraken, Truman, urinal
UNICORN VISION, POINT BLANK RANGE
Believe it or not, this is the third time that Hillstryder – Tom’s magical, flying unicorn – has appeared in the comic. I like drawing Hillstryder (which I am not sure what that says about me) but I am more entertained by the idea that a beautiful unicorn behaves like a violent, petty jerk.
I wouldn’t bother digging up How To Train Your Dragon and Clash of the Titans again if there was something better to talk about this week. But there really isn’t much going on in theaters this weekend except for Tina Fey and Steve Carell in Date Night. The movie looks good to me, but I don’t think I could write two comics about it. I mean, let’s be honest. Nope, better to relegate it to one-comic status and then hold my breath until next week when Kick-Ass comes out.
So, yeah. Not much else to talk about today. But if you like unicorns and rainbow beams, then hopefully this comic finds you well.
Thanks for swinging by. I’ll see you guys here again on Friday!
└ Tags: blast, Clash of the Titans, Hillstryder, How To Train Your Dragon, Pegasus, rainbow, unicorn
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ISN’T EVERYTHING
Incidentally, the quote Cami is talking about came from an interview Tina Fey did with Esquire Magazine. But I guess she was on Oprah earlier this week with Steve Carell, too, and repeated it there.
I guess I just like the idea of Cami sitting around reading Esquire, for some reason.
For those of you that think I’m making up that story about a Korean man marrying a body pillow, that actually happened and it seems to be somewhat of an emerging trend in Eastern cultures. 2D Love, is what they’re starting to call it. Men falling in love with anime characters beyond what’s appropriate or… normal.
Interestingly enough, the phenomenon was referenced recently on an episode of 30 Rock where James Franco tried to arrange a shame marriage with Jane Krakowski’s character Jenna to keep the press from learning about his infatuation with a Japanese body pillow.
I mention that, I guess, because it also involves Tina Fey. I feel like I’m playing Six Degrees of Separation with body pillows, or something.
Back to the matter at hand, let’s talk about Date Night for a little bit. Certainly the film looks great on paper. Tina Fey and Steve Carell in the same movie? It would seem like they would have a very compatible sense of humor and a natural chemistry and I think that’s what Fox is counting on when (or if) you buy a ticket this weekend.
But if you scratch the surface, there is cause for concern. The first red flag is that it was directed by Shawn Levy who is one of the worst paycheck directors currently in Hollywood. He is to comedy what Chris Columbus is to children’s movies. Everything about Levy’s approach takes things that are otherwise funny and squeezes the life out of them. His work is safe and predictable and you only have to look at his directing credits for the proof. Just Married, Cheaper By The Dozen, the remake of The Pink Panther and BOTH Night at the Museum movies.
The second red flag is the script written by Josh Klausner – whose IMDB profile does not inspire confidence. Klausner only has 4 writing credits to his name and TWO of them are Shrek movies.
In other words, proceed with caution.
Fey and Carell have been all over the place doing press for Date Night. It seems either one or both of them have been on television every night this week. While that’s good for television – since they’re both always fun to watch in an interview context – it doesn’t exactly communicate quality in Date Night. They’re basically promoting the heck out of it now to drum up interest because (I’m willing to be) word of mouth won’t be very good afterwords. I hate to be a pessimist, but I’ve seen these kind of maneuvers before.
What do you guys think? Have I unfairly passed judgment on Date Night? Do you still want to see it? Leave your comments along with your thoughts and reflections about Japanese body pillows below!
└ Tags: body pillow, Date Night, Korea, Megan Fox, sex symbol, Steve Carell, thinking man, Tina Fey
PRIVATE TALK
Not to sound like a complete prude, but it does kind of amaze me that Hollywood has released a movie called Kick-Ass. I ran a search for “ass” on the Internet Movie Database and while there are certainly films that have used that word as part of their title, I can’t think of a single movie as high profile as Kick-Ass to promote the colloquialism so prominently.
Even though I never read the original graphic novel on which the movie is based, I’m looking forward to the movie a great deal. The trailers make it look like colorful, sadistic fun. How ironic that the use of Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation” for the marketing campaign is so much more effective than “Cherry Bomb” was for The Runaways.
Aaron Johnson plays the film’s hero. I have no idea who he is. He has a fairly extensive resume, so I assume his performance will be pretty good. Although, honestly, I’m surprised the role didn’t go to Jesse Eisenberg. I guess there wasn’t enough sensitive longing in the character.
I’ll be doing comics about Kick-Ass all week, so I don’t want to say everything I have to say about the movie right now. Right now I’m getting ready to leave for C2E2 on Thursday, so I’m also trying to work ahead on the comics a little bit.
Usually I run guest comics when I go to a convention. But I thought, for once, maybe it would be a good idea to have some of my OWN work on display for people who see me at the convention and later check out the site. First impressions and all that. I’m sure you understand.
So, needless to say, it’s going to be a busy week.
If you’re going to be in Chicago this weekend and would like to say “Hi” you can find me here using C2E2’s interactive floor map. I will be at table WC-N in Webcomics Pavilion. I’m sharing the same area as Brat-halla, Shortpacked!, Erika Moen and Lucy Knisley. So if you see any of those artists, you’re in the right neighborhood!
My friends Joe Dunn from Joe Loves Crappy Movies and Gordon McAlpin from Multiplex will be there as well and I’m really looking forward to seeing them. You should be sure to stop by their booths and say “Hi” as well.
That’s it for now. If you’re going to be at C2E2 this weekend, let me know! If you plan on seeing Kick-Ass this weekend, leave some comments and let’s talk about it!
└ Tags: Kick-Ass, language, The Brady Bunch, title, toilet
WHAT MUST POKEY LOOK LIKE?
The costume from Kick-Ass would be a lot more disturbing in real life.
Howdy, everyone. Another Kick-Ass comic for your enjoyment. Still trying to stay ahead of the curve this week and producing comics ahead of C2E2. I think I’ll be able to get a comic for Friday done before I leave, but Monday’s comic might be a little late because I probably won’t get back from Chicago until late in the evening.
I was hoping to stay ahead of things a little better, but I’ve been busy putting together all of the stuff I hope to sell at the show. If you’ve been following the Theater Hopper Facebook page, you’ve already seen the artwork, packaging and display of the 1″ badges I’ll be selling. I’m really proud of these. Hopefully, once I get back, I can sell them through the site as well. We’ll see what the demand is like in Chicago.
I don’t know how many of you will be in Chicago this weekend for C2E2, but if you are, there’s an opportunity for you to see Kick-Ass before everyone else.
Lionsgate, IGN and C2E2 are hosting a special premiere right before its nation-wide release on April 16th and are giving away tickets. Check out the full event and contest details on IGN and learn about how you can make yourself eligible for tickets. See link below:
C2E2 Contest on IGN: http://movies.ign.com/articles/108/1081846p1.html
In other non-Kick-Ass, non-C2E2 related news, I had a really interesting exchange on Twitter the other day that I wanted to share with you.
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the work of Tom Tomorrow, but he’s the writer and illustrator of a political comic called This Modern World. I’ve been reading his stuff in alternative weeklies for years and it’s no stretch to say that his work helped shape my personal politics.
I follow Tom Tommorow on Twitter and read a couple of posts he made in reference to reader reaction to his comic “If Real Life Were Like The Internet.”
“A reader argues that I *should* be grateful for increased attention via internet,” he tweeted. “Even when it means declining $, eventual end of strip?”
He continued “Not that I intend to go away any time soon. But if I’m eventually working for free, I’m not sure I’ll continue in the current format.”
Being an online guy, I replied “You don’t want to put advertising on your site? Sell merchandise. You can still monitize your work even if it isn’t syndicated.”
To my surprise, Tom replied, “no disrespect , but these are not new ideas. Not too many ad $ these days, and not a huge demand for political cartoon merch.”
After that, we went back and forth a little bit and I told him basically that I sympathized. I told him about Theater Hopper and how my own ad revenue is suffering and suggested (tongue-in-cheek) that he wouldn’t have to work for free. Just this side of free!
Afterwords, I guess Tom checked out Theater Hopper and sent me this message:
“@tombrazelton and it looks like a funny cartoon. damn you, now I have something else I have to read. http://www.theaterhopper.com/”
And now, against all odds, Tom Tomorrow is following ME on Twitter! This has put me over the moon.
Now, I understand there’s nothing really at stake for Tom Tomorrow to say “Hey, I think you’re comic’s funny” and then following me on Twitter. But it for someone like myself, who has been a fan of his for so long, it feels like validation.
When I was 8 years old, I sent a letter to Garfield creator Jim Davis. In return, I received a letter on custom stationary with a bite mark taken out of it and an illustration of Garfield on top chewing on a piece of paper. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. It wasn’t until years later that I learned what I received was essentially a form letter that Davis’s company, Paws, Inc., sends out to everyone. But it didn’t take away from the feeling of validation I received from an artist I admire.
Talking with Tom Tomorrow in this way is infinitely better because it’s so much more personal and instantaneous. I tweeted about putting Pearl in her bouncy seat while I finished up today’s comic and he replied to that! He doesn’t know me from Adam but how cool is that?
And they say the internet is bad. Baloney. Under no other circumstances would I have a conversation with Tom Tomorrow, let alone be the recipient of his validation.
Anyway, that was something cool that happened to me this week. I just wanted to share.
If you want to follow ME on Twitter, you can find my account here. You might enjoy following me over the next couple of days as I plan on posting a lot of updates from C2E2 on Twitter and the Theater Hopper Facebook page as well. Start following me now so you don’t miss a thing!
Thanks again for stopping by and there will be a new comic for you on Friday!
└ Tags: costume, dominatrix, Gumby, Kick-Ass, love child
A SOFTER SOUND
Not much movie related to talk about today as I have actually written this blog entry a few days ago in preparation for my attendance at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo – or C2E2 this weekend.
Typically, it’s been a tradition for several of us web comic guys to go see a movie together while we’re in town. I don’t know if we’ll get the opportunity to see Kick-Ass this weekend but I hope we do.
If you’re in The Windy City, be sure to stop by my booth in Webcomics Pavilion. I’m at table WC-N in the same area as Brat-halla, Shortpacked!, Erika Moen and Lucy Knisley.
I will be selling shirts, books (Including Theater Hopper: Year Three), buttons and original sketches.
If you aren’t able to join us in Chicago this weekend, be sure to follow my Twitter and Facebook accounts. I plan on posting several updates throughout the weekend to let you know how things are going.
That’s all for now. Like I said, I wrote this two days ago. So, right now, I need to go to bed so I don’t nod off on the road between Des Moines and Chicago. I have a 6 hour trip ahead of me. Or, had a 6 hour trip ahead of me.
…because I’m in Chicago now.
But I wrote this… two…
└ Tags: censorship, costume, Kick-Ass, rename
ACTION MOVIES FOR GEOLOGISTS
You guys know that I’m referencing Eyjafjallajokull Volcano in Iceland with today’s comic, right? The one with the billowing ash cloud that has grounded millions of airline travelers in Europe? Just checking.
Apologies for the delay getting the new comic up for you guys today. I tried working ahead so potential new readers from the C2E2 comic book convention would have something timely to look at while I was away. I was able to get Friday’s comic on the site before I left town, but not Monday’s comic. I had to sit down to work on it this evening after I put the kids to bed.
I would have worked on the comic last night except the show organizers wouldn’t let me load-out from the venue until after 5:00 PM. I didn’t get on the road until an hour later and I didn’t make it home until 11:30.
That’s not bad time, all things considered. But since I was out all night with my webcomic buddies the night before, spent the day on my feet behind my table and then another 5 and a half hours behind the wheel of a car, I was wrecked.
That said, I don’t have my convention recap written up yet, but that’s something I want to get on the site by tomorrow. So be sure to check back throughout the day for my thoughts and opinions about C2E2.
I will say that I was very encouraged by the number of people I met who said that C2E2 was their first con ever. I was also thrilled to meet the fans that sought me out and who thanked me for the work on the site. More than a couple of you said you thought my work was getting better – which was amazing. I want to thank everyone who took the time to come talk to me, buy a book or a shirt or just shoot the breeze. I had a great time talking to everyone and I have lots of fun personal stories to tell you about later!
I also had an opportunity to hang out with a bunch of different webcomic people that I have never had the pleasure to meet before and I was amazed how many of them either already knew what I looked like or were familiar with Theater Hopper after we made introductions. I have this vision in my head of being on the Webcomics B-Squad… a wannabe. But I’ve done my time in the trenches, you know? So maybe how I view my place in webcomics isn’t as low on the totem pole as I imagined!
Anyway, more tomorrow. Thanks for your patience and I hope you enjoyed today’s comic!
└ Tags: Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland, Kick-Ass, puffin, pun, volcano
WHAT ABOUT LICK-ASS?
April 21st, 2010 | by Tom
Most likely because I am an immature jerk (or possibly because I’m still riding high on puns after Monday’s comic), I kind of feel like I could have stopped after the first panel in this comic. I’ll leave it at that. I don’t want to spoil the joke for you.
Long-time readers of the comic know that this isn’t the first time I’ve explored the concept of porn parody titles. I don’t know why the idea entertains me so. I guess because it’s kind of adorably naive on the part of the pornography companies, isn’t it? Their idea is to make a movie that sounds KIND OF like the popular movie you ACTUALLY want to rent… in hopes of what? That you’re not looking closely enough? That you’re illiterate?
Or is the idea that this is as clever and self-referential as pornography gets? I don’t know. I just think it’s weird.
What’s even more weird is that this is the fifth (the FIFTH!) comic I’ve done about Kick-Ass without actually having seen the movie yet. I didn’t get a chance to check it out while I was in Chicago for C2E2 this weekend. So, hopefully, I’ll have the opportunity to see it Friday after everyone has gone to bed. Cami has no interest in seeing the film, so she won’t mind if I sneak out to watch a late showing.
Speaking of C2E2, I know I promised you my recap yesterday. It’s coming! I’m still working on it! I was working on it in between Pearl’s naps yesterday and just kept going and going and going. It’s over 2,000 words at this point, which is kind of crazy. But when you have a good experience like I had, you want to share all the details.
Stay tuned for that recap. It’s coming soon. Hopefully today.
That’s all for now! Ta-ta!
└ Tags: cocaine, Kick-Ass, parody, pornography, title
C2E2 RECAP
I promised you guys a recap of my time at C2E2 – The Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo. It’s really long, so bring a sandwich.
After scrambling to get out of town Thursday morning, I pulled into Chicago around 3:30 in the afternoon. I was a little bit stressed because load-in time at the convention center closed at 4:30 and my Google Map instructions were crap!
The driving directions the show promoters gave me didn’t help much, either. I literally spent 45 minutes driving around and around the convention center, unable to find the loading dock. It turns out, I had to go UP some crazy ramp. The docks weren’t at street level! That was a first for me!
But I made it into the convention center on time and dropped off my stuff in Webcomics Pavilion. I was too tired after driving all day to bother setting up, so I walked over to the next aisle and introduced myself to Joel Watson from HiJinks Ensue. Joel was nice enough to split a hotel room with me to help save on costs, so it seemed appropriate to at least say “hello.”
Joel was a really cool guy and we had great conversations throughout the weekend. He is very serious about his career as a cartoonist and on top of his game. I learned a lot from him over the course of the next few days.
After meeting up and making introductions with a few people from Topatoco, including David Malki from Wondermark, we decided to check in to the hotel. Later, we had dinner before I dragged Joel to Millennium Park to visit the sculpture “Cloud Gate”.
We had a hilarious interaction with some high school kid that was trying to give us grief. As we approached the sculpture, this kid – part of some kind of tour group – yells to us, “Hey, guyyys! How do you like Seattle?” We both looked at him like an idiot and just kept walking.
We inspected the sculpture for a little while and as we were leaving, Joel tried to snap a picture. Again, the same kid yelled at us “What do you think of Seattle, man?” Meanwhile, his chubby friend behind him yelled “You’re gonna get mugged, tourist!”
At that point. Joel stepped up on the kid and said “What the hell do you think you’re doing? I’m taking a picture of a sculpture – just like 4 dozen other people standing around here? Are you trying to be funny, or something?”
The kid immediately folded up, shuffled his feet like a 5 year-old and with his head down muttered “I don’t know. I was just kiddin’ around…” It was awesome.
Later in the evening, we met up with the crew from Topatoco and this time Jeffery Rowland from Wigu, Jeph Jacques from Questionable Content and Matt, Rob and Chris from Cyanide and Happiness came along for the ride. We spent the rest of Thursday evening bar-hopping through downtown Chicago. We’d go to one bar that closed at 11:00 before being directed to another bar that closed at 1:00, before being directed to ANOTHER bar that closed at 2:00. I had a blast.
“But Tom,” you whine. “Stop name-dropping. Tell us about the convention!”
Okay, okay. I get you. Well, let me say this: The first sale I made was just after the doors opened. I sold a copy of Theater Hopper: Year Three to Steve Sansweet.
Now if you don’t know who Steve Sansweet is, that’s alright. But as it turns out, he is the Director of Content Management and Head of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm!
I totally didn’t recognize him because he was wearing a beard and, frankly, because I wasn’t on the lookout for anyone from Lucasfilm while I was there. But I talked to him for a little while and he said he decided to pick up my book after seeing one of my comics with George Lucas in my sampler booklet. I just hope it wasn’t this one.
I pointed out that I made 9 comics about Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith by pointing to the index in the back of the book – which he labeled “brilliant” – and said that I hoped that they wouldn’t get me in trouble. “No, no,” he said. “This is clearly parody.”
So there you have it! Theater Hopper: Year Three is approved by Lucasfilm!
I wish I had been smart enough to ask Mr. Sansweet for his picture while he was at my booth, but I was so gobsmacked by the exchange, I didn’t think of it until 2 hours later. If someone knows how I can get in touch with the guy, please let me know! I’d love to get a shot of him holding up the book for the site!
Needless to say, it was a GREAT way to start the convention.
I don’t know if my contemporaries felt quite as optimistic after Friday, though. A lot of people commented that they thought traffic was a little too light for a Friday and worried what kind of impact that would have for their show.
Personally, I talked to a bunch of people. Although, I will admit, I didn’t make a lot of sales. I chalked it up to the convention simply being so VAST that attendees were just trying to get the lay of the land and figure out what the show had to offer. Everyone I made a sale to that day was wearing a “Friday Only” badge. So I was still holding on to hope.
Friday evening, I attended the Webcomics Town Hall Panel. Since Joel was sitting on stage with David Malki from Wondermark Ryan Sohmer and Lar deSouza from Least I Could Do, Erika Moen from DAR, Lucy Knisley from Stop Paying Attention and Danielle Corsetto from Girls With Slingshots. There were also two guys with Zuda comics, but for the life of me I can’t remember them. Sorry.
Actually, I was kind of tuned-out for most of panel. Largely because the moderator (who I also don’t recall) was as boring as a bowl of oatmeal. He talked at length about his own webcomic credentials and then introduced each individual artist by reading lengthy bio information from a Powerpoint presentation that was being displayed on a screen behind him. He would have been better off just asking the panelists to introduce themselves and gotten on with the Q&A.
David Malki basically took the whole thing over, even calling on members of the audience who had questions. He practically muscled the moderator out completely. Kind of rude. But at the same time, completely necessary to keep the panel from becoming a total snore-fest.
There was also some minor controversy when apparently Malki called out Ryan Sohmer on some practice or another. Again, I wasn’t paying close attention. Someone from the audience also asked a question that took a shot at the Zuda guys, which most people on the panel thought was off sides. Truthfully, there wasn’t much for me to learn from listening the panel. I was just there to support the scene.
I attended the panel with my good buddy Gordon McAlpin from Multiplex. After it was over, we kind of tried to sneak in next to the group of webcomic artists also in attendance to see what their plans were for dinner. I was overjoyed when, after saying “hello” to Danielle Corsetto, she immediately recognized me and gave me a hug! I wasn’t sure she’d remember me, but we were on the Business of Webcomics panel together at Emerald City Comic Con last year. She is OFFICIALLY the sweetest person in webcomics!
Eventually, 15 of decided to get dinner together at Giordanos for pizza, but didn’t know that it is a world-renown restaurant. The wait was something like 2 hours. So we ended up going across the street to Jake Melnick’s Corner Tap for some hot wings.
There were more webcomic people there than you could shake a stick at! I met Phil Khan, Erica Henderson and T. Campbell from Guilded Age David Willis from Shortpacked! and Randy Milholland from Something Positive.
A bunch of other webcomics guys also wandered in off the street just by accident. I think Zach Weiner from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Alina Pete from Weregeek were there, too (among many others – the Cyanide and Happiness guys showed up, too), but I didn’t get to say “hi.” There were so many of us, they had to split us up into different tables! We were half the restaurant at one point!
What was craziest about all of this interaction with different webcomic people was how many of them were already familiar with Theater Hopper. My social circle among webcomic artists is pretty small and, like most artists with social anxiety, it’s sometimes difficult for me to go up to a stranger and strike up a conversation.
But this time, I made an effort to change things and I made sure to be friendly and up front. When I walked up to Randy Milholland and said, “Hi, my name’s Tom Brazelton,” he responded “Oh, yeah! From Theater Hopper!” and that was crazy validating.
By the way, if you ever end up at Jake Melnick’s Corner Tap, get their Poncho Wings. A local recommended me to them and they were excellent. Garlic and cayenne pepper! Oh, yeah!
After dinner, pretty much everyone agreed to call it a night. Which was probably for the best.
The next day at the convention was noticeably busier and again I talked to a bunch of really cool fans. One guy came up to the booth wearing my “Junkie” t-shirt. A little later, a different guy came up wearing my Sean Bean shirt. Seeing fans wearing my shirts always brings a smile to my face.
Later in the day, a girl that I had given a sampler book to came back to let me know that she was laughing out loud while reading it. She brought her friend to my booth to show her what the fuss was about. That’s pretty awesome.
On Saturday, I was asked to pinch hit at the Reading With Pictures Iron Artist Tournament. Basically, they put me on stage with a couple of other artists and we were given a bizarre theme and asked to draw the first thing that came to our minds.
The first theme was “Superheros When They Were Young.” So, of course, I drew Iron Man as a baby. The second theme was Escape from New York meets The Princess Bride. So I drew Snake Plissken as Inigo Montoya. I got lucky on that second drawing because someone asked me to draw them as Inigo Montoya earlier in the day!
Gordon McAlpin was also part of the tournament and I have to say that his Baby Blue Beetle was adorable. I don’t know how much it was auctioned off for, but I bet it fetched a pretty penny.
I had a great time on stage drawing and helping contribute to a worthwhile cause. If you want to see pictures of the event, a bunch of them have been uploaded to Flickr here.
After we wrapped things up at the tournament, Joe Dunn and Phil Chan from Another Videogame Comic came with us to met up with the guys from Guilded Age and Cyanide and Happiness at the World’s Worst Pizza restaurant. It was so bad, I don’t even remember the name. All I remember is that someone ordered a deep dish BBQ pizza and was repulsed by it. That pizza was only mentioned in hushed tones after that.
From there, the 10 of us met up with yet ANOTHER group of webcomic artists across town at a karaoke bar called Brando’s at an event organized by Abby L, who draws The Green Avenger and The Rose Deli Project. It almost didn’t happen. The bar was very small and there was already a large, obnoxious bachelorette party taking up most of the seats.
The club owner saw we were about to leave and offered us one free round of drinks just as soon as the bachelorette party left – which turned out to be about 10 minutes after we arrived. Unable to refuse free drinks, we all spilled in to the club.
I’ve only done karaoke once in my life. Drunkenly, I tried to sing AC/DC’s “You Shook Me.” I tried to do the Brian Johnson voice and everything. It was terrible.
However, I like to sing in the car and I think I have a pretty good voice. The only problem is, I don’t know the lyrics to a lot of songs that aren’t 90’s hip-hop.
After a few rounds, I started to entertain the idea that I would sing “The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground. Those of you familiar with Mitch Clem’s work might recognize my affinity for the song and how thoroughly it annoys others.
Joe Dunn tried to talk me out of performing the song, but when I mentioned it to Spike from Templar, AZ, she insisted I do it and promised to back me up. When my time came to grab the mic, not only did Spike join me on stage, but her husband Mike Sheridan and Joel from HiJinks Ensue joined me on stage as well. I’m proud to report that we killed it.
Or, at least I think we did. In my estimation, everyone who steps on stage to perform karaoke has to convince themselves they’re killing it or they would fold under the weight of their own embarrassment.
Two LEGITIMATELY awesome performances can be attributed to Joel’s rendition of Styx’s “Mr. Roboto.” Also, Dave Reiley from Dead Winter did a thundering version of Metallica’s “Fuel.” Needless to say, a fun time was had by all.
After karaoke, Spike was nice enough to invite everyone back to her apartment for an after party. I’m always amazed how quickly webcomic people – who are otherwise strangers – can fall into passionate, well-informed conversations so easily. Before I knew it, we were there for two hours. I could have kept talking with these people for another six.
The last day of the convention was mild compared to the previous two. I did better with sales than I did on Friday, but not as well as I did on Saturday.
One exchange I had, however, was “100% WIN” (as the L33T kids say). Near the end of the show, one of the event volunteers approached me and asked for a custom sketch. What was sweet about it was that he didn’t want a sketch of himself, but one of his wife. He identified himself as a fan of Theater Hopper, but it was his wife that introduced him to the comic. She had been on board since the early days and “shared my hatred for Ben Affleck,” he said.
He asked that I reproduce the last panel of this comic where Ben Affleck opens a package from Jared filled with bees featuring her instead of Affleck. According to this guy, his wife has been using that image as her desktop background for the last 4 years.
I happily drew the picture and turned it over to him. “Tell your wife to send me an e-mail after she receives it,” I told him. “I’d love to hear her reaction.”
I didn’t have to wait that long. Five minutes before the show was over, the man’s wife approached my table. I misunderstood the situation thinking that the husband was volunteering and the wife was somewhere else. But it turns out she was volunteering as well, just in a different area of the show! She wasn’t able to leave her post.
She was so effusive and thankful for the sketch, it was utterly heart warming. Both her and her husband were so friendly and appreciative, it was really the best way to end the convention. I left on such a high note.
For her, I decided to produce a 1280 x 1024 desktop wallpaper from the last panel of that comic. I just couldn’t let her continue about her work without something that was a little better in quality.
Right click to download.
I talked to a lot of people about the success (or lack thereof) of C2E2. A lot of my contemporaries didn’t do as well with sales as they had hoped. Some people I talked to said they didn’t think they were coming back next year.
While I would have liked to have sold a little more than I did, I can’t look at the weekend as anything less than a complete success for me.
I got to talk to talk to a myriad of different webcomic creators for the first time. I shook hands with fans who were so supportive and thankful. Fans who told me they think my comics are getting better and how much they enjoy reading the movie reviews. One guy told me mine were the one reviews he trusted. I mean, how can you NOT feel great after a weekend like that?
I had a blast and I hope I can go back next year.
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The Bell Inn Hotel Stilton Peterborough » History
It was Samuel Johnson who said “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or Inn.” Mine host of the Bell Inn at Stilton near Peterborough, would dearly like his establishment to justify the sentiment.
To explore the Bell’s charm and mystery, we need to delve into the past. The Inn, and the village itself, thrived in an age when the High Street and North Street were part of the Great North Road, formerly the famous Roman road called Ermine Street. The Coaching Era, from the 1630’s to the 1840’s, was the period of the Inn’s prosperity. Coaches brought people and, significantly, mail. Stilton was so lucrative a posting-station its innkeepers were willing to accept without pay the position of postmaster, and even to offer £40 cash down to obtain it. When Stilton was a major posting stage, it supported as many as 14 public houses and inns.
The Bell Inn dates back to 1500 (though its origins could be even earlier, as there is a record of a local innkeeper in 1437). From 1500 to 1515 Edward Tebald and his wife Alice owned the Bell. We know that their daughter Margaret and her husband William Redehede sued her parent’s tenant for possession, but little else from those early days.
Today’s building dates from 1642, the date marked on the southern gable, and the year in which the Civil War began. It was originally built of oolitic limestone and slates of Colleyweston stone.
The architect’s plans for the 1990 restoration are, astonishingly, almost identical to the plans now lodged in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, for the work carried out in 1736. They show a similar courtyard enclosed by the projecting wings of the inn, and a mullion-windowed house, with a central carriageway in the middle of the front block.
The Bell’s main fascination, however, centres on the characters associated with it. Innkeepers, statesmen, outlaws and literary figures have contributed to the Inn’s fame. One popular tale, handed down over the centuries, has the highwayman Dick Turpin visiting the hostelry. He is supposed to have hidden there for nine weeks while hunted by the law. Surprised by a raid, he threw open the window and jumped onto Black Bess to gallop off up the Great North Road. There were also rumours of escape tunnels connecting The Bell Inn to The Angel.
Equally fascinating are the tales of more recent guests. In the early days the Great Duke of Marlborough was a notable guest. Earlier still, Cromwell’s troops were here. Cromwell himself was based at Huntingdon only 12 miles south of Stilton. In 1725 Lord Harley tasted and disliked the cheese sold at the Bell. On October 3rd 1813 Lord Byron slept there. These figures, however, did not popularise The Bell as much as the 18th Century Innkeeper, Cooper Thornhill.
Thornhill was landlord from 1730 to his death in 1759, aged 54. He is invariably referred to as the man who popularised Stilton Cheese, which was served, mites and all, at The Bell.
There has always been a degree of uncertainty about the evolution of Stilton Cheese. Thanks to extensive research done by a number of people we now have a clearer knowledge of the origins of Stilton Cheese and how the cheese evolved.
19th and 20th century texts had suggested that Stilton cheese was never made in the village and that it simply got its name because it was from there that the cheese was first sold. We are now happy to correct that version of history by stating that the village gave its name to the cheese made there, and to the Stilton Cheese we know today.
There is no doubt that this cheese and similar cheeses were being made and sold in and around the town of Stilton (now in Cambridgeshire but originally in Huntingdonshire) possibly in the late 17th Century and certainly in the early 18th Century and was known as Stilton Cheese. The cheese generally seems to have been matured for a period of time before being sold.
A recipe for Stilton cheese was published in a newsletter by Richard Bradley in 1723, no details were given either on its size or shape or for how long it was matured. We are not sure if it was a blue veined cheese but from the recipe it appears that this would have been a hard cream cheese (it was pressed and boiled in its whey). In 1724 Daniel Defoe commented in his “Tour through the villages of England & Wales” of Stilton being famous for cheese and referred to it as being the “English Parmesan”. It is clear that prior to Defoe’s visit to Stilton the cheese being produced in the area already had an enviable reputation for quality. A later article by John Lawrence in 1726 suggested that the perfect Stilton should be “about 7 inches in diameter, 8 inches in height and 18 lbs in weight.” He also refers to the cheese as the “recently famous Stilton”.
Thus, it seems that some of the cheese being produced in the area was cylindrical and of a comparable size to that being made today. The cheese gained some reputation because it was a cream cheese made with whole milk to which additional cream was added. This set it apart from most other cheeses made at that time which were made from partially skimmed milk and were considerably cheaper.
No one person invented Stilton – it evolved over time from this pressed cream cheese, which may have been blue veined, to the cheese we have today – an un-pressed semi hard blue veined cheese.
With the development of the coaching trade, the town soon became a trading post between London and Edinburgh for many commodities and it is known that one of the innkeepers in the town – Cooper Thornhill, landlord and then subsequently the owner of The Bell Inn – turned this to his advantage by first selling the local cheese not only from the Bell Inn, but to passing travellers and also into London (Historian Trevor Hickman quotes the Bell Inn was “the birthplace of Stilton cheese”). As demand for the cheese grew so Thornhill sought out new sources and, in or around 1743, struck up a commercial arrangement with a renowned cheese maker from Wymondham in Leicestershire by the name of Frances Pawlett.
It is said that she supplied cheese to Thornhill and through a co-operative arrangement got other cheese makers in Leicestershire to make Stilton cheese to the Stilton recipe. This we believe was a blue veined cream cheese. We have no firm details of its method of manufacture or appearance, but we believe that she pioneered the development of the cheese in Leicestershire. It is not clear whether the blue veining was then achieved through frequent brushing of the coat of the maturing cheese or whether the ageing cheeses simply cracked allowing some to go blue and others not. It must have been a hit or miss affair!
As demand for Stilton Cheese grew, so the production switched almost exclusively to Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire and the area around the town of Stilton began to concentrate on trading cheese rather than producing it. (Although it is likely it would still have been made privately in the area but for personal consumption) Because of its reputation as perhaps the finest cheese of its time and owing to its limited production it commanded a significant price and as a result sometimes inferior imitations were produced in other Counties – Cambridge, Rutland, Lincoln and Northampton. Nor was all of this cheese made to the established methods, being sometimes produced in nets or different sized moulds.
Cooper Thornhill and Frances Pawlett were responsible for the successful commercialisation of Stilton Cheese and the further development of a recipe that is the forerunner of today’s Stilton.
Others have a claim to playing an important role – including Lady Beaumont from the nearby Elton Hall estate who it is claimed made Stilton Cheese for her own family use in the 17th century; Mrs Orton, (a farmer’s wife from Little Dalby) is claimed to have made the first Stilton cheeses in Leicestershire in 1730; and it wasn’t till after Stilton’s fame that Shuckburgh Ashby, owner of Quenby Hall, set up a commercial arrangement to produce Stilton Cheese for sale by the owner of the Bell Inn in 1759.
However all have played their part some way or other in the development of our cheese, as too did the villagers of Stilton who were pivotal in recognising the potential market for a locally made, high quality cheese. Whether or not this cheese bore any resemblance to today’s Stilton is debatable, as at the time it would have been named as cheese from Stilton or more simply Stilton cheese. Their skills built the reputation of Stilton cheese which others subsequently built on.
The rest as they say is history. The cheese has evolved and today the cheeses are now guaranteed to be blue and produced to a legally binding recipe. There will always be grey areas and gaps in our knowledge as to how Stilton Cheese evolved from a pressed cream cheese to an un-pressed blue veined cheese and we are always eager to hear from anyone who can provide any further information on this subject in order to give us an even clearer picture.
The village of Stilton now has a four-lane dual carriageway by-pass and so it is quieter than in the days of Cooper Thornhill; but The Bell Inn is still there serving wonderful food – including Stilton Cheese – to passing travellers, and is well worth a visit for anyone interested in good food or the history of Britain’s most famous cheese “The King of Cheeses”.
Celebratory Thornhill was also renowned for his riding exploits, of which many tales abound. On April 29th 1745 he rode 213 miles from the Bell to Shoreditch Church in London, and back, and back again to London. His aim was to complete the journey in less than 15 hours and so win a wager of 500 guineas. He set out at 4 o’clock in the morning, used 19 horses, and cheered on by thousands of spectators along the way, completed the distance by 4.15pm the same afternoon. Such a feat was unequalled in his day and for many years after. Thornhill was also a man of notable business enterprise. In 1743 he purchased the Angel Inn, directly opposite The Bell and probably its major rival, with considerable property and buildings extending to Church Street for £850.00
A D Clark, who made large-scale additions to the building, succeeded Thornhill in 1759, but it was Clark’s son-in-law Henry Thornton, who followed as the Inn’s next colourful character. A strolling player before his marriage, Thornton was a “tall, portly, theatrical, convivial fellow of great effrontery”. His match with Clark’s daughter established him in The Bell Inn, but he was publicly disgraced for striking Samuel M Lawrence, Lieutenant of the Cambridgeshire Militia, who proclaimed him “to be a Bully, Scoundrel, Poltroon and Coward”.
In 1814, Mrs. Scarborough of the George Inn at Buckden, purchased The Bell. She repaired and refurbished the house and made her son landlord. The Bell continued to prosper until the middle of the 19th Century and the close of the coaching era, when it declined to the position of a minor Inn. The railways had taken hold and many North-South travellers would now by-pass Stilton altogether. The Bell tolled the death knell of a prosperous era – it’s premises being divided into several tenements.
Some villagers can recall happier days during the Second World War, when the likes of Clark Gable and Joe Louis came to the inn. They were with American Air Force units stationed at nearby Glatton (Connington) and Polebrook.
In the late 1980’s major restoration works on the impressive old Inn were commenced. Built around the old courtyard, twenty two luxury bedrooms and a conference centre were skilfully blended into the ageless stonework of this ancient Inn, combining old world charm, relaxing comfort with the most modern of facilities. The restoration work faithful to the architectural heritage was completed in 1990. Once again The Bell was established as one of the finest examples of English traditional Inns, welcoming many colourful characters of this era including politicians, actors (if you can tell the difference!) and pop groups.
Today’s owner bids you the warmest of welcomes whether to enjoy a stay, attend a conference or function or just for a drink in the Bar and hope you enjoy your visit whilst absorbing some of the atmosphere of this historic Inn.
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Bell Inn Stilton in Peterborough
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France issues most short-stay Schengen visas in 2017
For yet another year, France tops the table for having received more applications for short-term visas than any other Schengen country, according to the Schengen Visa statistics for consulates in 2017, published by the Migration and Home Affairs
Etihad honours executive for record-breaking travel feat
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has honoured its high flying executive Andrew Fisher following his record-breaking feat of travelling around the globe in the fastest time and in the fewest number of flights. Clock
Etihad executive attempts fastest round-the-world record
Senior Etihad Airways executive, Andrew Fisher, has embarked on a journey of a lifetime, attempting to break the world record by flying around the globe in the shortest time frame on scheduled flights, and with the fewest number of sectors.
Indian millennial tourists opting for more 'short breaks'
Short, frequent travel is becoming increasingly popular among Indian travellers, especially millennials, who, according to a recent survey, said they would travel for just seven days or less, at a time, but they would however, travel more often.
Emirates lands in Doha after world’s shortest A380 flight
Emirates today launched the world’s shortest scheduled A380 service, flying a distance of 379 kilometres with a total travel time of 1 hour and 20 minutes from Dubai to Doha, and 1 hour 10 minutes on the return journey. The
Innovation challenges in oil and gas in focus
While the current environment is creating oppotunities for innovation, almost half of oil and gas executives have admitted that they have fallen short of their innovation goals, according to a new report. The T
Lexus invites filmmakers for short films series
Luxury automaker Lexus has invited filmmakers to take part in its third annual Lexus Short Films Series, to be hosted in collaboration with the Weinstein Company. For the first time ever, the series is open to
Bahrain film festival aims to promote unity
Short films and documentaries from more than 20 countries will be screened in Bahrain as part of a festival that aims to overcome sectarian tensions. The Bahrain International Unity Film Festival aims to provide a platform for loc
Spotlight on young Bahraini filmmakers
Short films made by Bahrainis are at the forefront of a new film festival that opened in the kingdom yesterday (November 26). The inaugural Bahrain Cinema Days festival was launched by the Culture Ministry's Culture and Nation
Fires spark new safety warning in Bahrain
An alert has been issued over the potentially lethal consequences of overloading power supplies, following a spate of fires caused by short-circuits in Bahrain. So far this
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The Lancia Appia was introduced in 1953. From that first appearance everyone seemed to be impressed with this little car. Although the concept of a front-mounted V4 engine driving the rear wheels via a live axle was as before, the Appia differed completely from the Ardea. Of most significance was the new engine, which had lost the traditional Lancia overhead-camshaft design for the V4. Instead, two low-mounted camshafts operated the inclined valves through long pushrods, one camshaft being reserved for the intake side and the other for exhaust valve operation. As a result of the very narrow V-shaped block, and the short crankshaft with only two main bearing, this was one of the shortest V4’s ever built, though it was rather all. A bore and stroke measuring 68 x 75mm produced 1090cc. A simple four-speed gearbox had synchromesh on 2nd, 3rd and 4th gears and transmitted power to the rear wheels via a single-piece pro-shaft and hypoid-gear differential.
The introduction of the Lancia Appia brought Lancia even more publicity than the debut of the Aurelia. All the comments were much the same and positive. Press en public judged it to be a fine combination of comfort and sporting appeal in a little car.
The Appia had such an impact on the Italian market that several hundred orders were placed before the car’s introduction. During the thee-year lifespan the 1st series was changed in many respects. Approximately 20.000 of the Appia 1st series were made before the introduction of a 2nd series. Although in layout the 2nd series was similar to its forerunner, Lancia had made so many changes that it requires describing all over again. The story begins with the engine, which was given a new cylinder-head casting and a new layout for the rocker-arms and valve gear. Different engine timing complemented a new carburetor and allowed an extra 5.5bhp.
The 2nd series Appia was a big improvement, combining the original concept of the 1st series with the refinement of a later 3rd series. The 2nd series brought Lancia further fame.
Introduced at the Geneva motor show in 1959, the 3rd series had a lot in common with its immediate predecessor. With power increased to 48bhp, the 3rd series Appia was one of the fastest in its class at nearly 135km/h. It met with tremendous sales succes in Italy, and the export figures were better, too.
More the 99.000 Appia berlinas were sold between 1953 and 1963, of which some 55.000 were 3rd series. It did nog stop at nearly 100.000 Appia saloons, though. The Appia berlina may be the best known model, but Lancia made nearly 8.000 special Appias in 12 models. Definitive production of these specialized coachbuilders’ Appias included a Pinin Farina coupe 2+2, a Vignale convertible and a Zagato-bodied Appia GT.
The Lancia Appia Convertibile Vignale was introduced at the 1957 Turin Motor Show. Initially a two-seater, it was later revised to accept two rear occasional seats. At first the Lancia Appia Convertible was based on the 2nd series Appia. In 1959 it was upgraded to the 3rd series platform with 54bhp engine and finally in 1960 to the more powerful 60bhp engine. According to Registro Vignale, 1584 convertibles were built from 1957 to 1962.
The Appia cabriolet looked as elegant as an Italian Sportscar of the Fifties could be. The rear end of the Appia cabriolet gave the impression of a rather long car, but in reality it as almost as compact as the saloon.
The Lancia Appia became a very desirable little car. Simple but with a high degree of engineering refinement and with an interesting choice of special coachwork.
This particular example is one of the more interesting Lancia Appias, featuring a special Vignale Cabriolet coachwork. The car was delivered new in Italy in 1962, It was imported in Germany lateron and the current long term owner bought it in Munich. He then imported this car to the Netherlands in 1991. The owner lives in Switzerland and took the car back and forth to Holland. Maintenance was done by classic car specialist Edy Schorno in Switzerland.
The bodywork has seen a conservative restoration and repaint by the current owner. The interior is still fitted with the original vinyl which is nice although it needs new filling to the seats.
The mechanics are in good shape and the car was driven to us from Switzerland recently. It also has the rare original hardtop with the car.
Dutch registered and APK (MOT/TUV/CT).
With another beautiful summer in prospect, this rare and lovely Appia Vignale Cabriolet is ready to be enjoyed by a new owner!
Price is euro 37.500,-.
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Ferrari 612 Scaglietti One to One 2009
The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti was Ferrari’s replacement for the smaller Ferrari 456, its larger size results in the 612 having adequate space in the rear seats for adults. The design, especially the large side scallops and the headlights, pays homage to the coach built 1954 Ferrari 375 MM that director Roberto Rossellini had commissioned for his wife, Ingrid Bergman.
The 612 was Ferrari's second all-aluminium vehicle, the first being the 360 Modena. Its space frame, manufactured in collaboration with Alcoa, is made from extrusions and castings of the material, and the aluminium body is then welded on. Its engine is shared with the Ferrari 575 Superamerica, with a compression ratio of 11:1 the car was able to attain a top speed of 323 km/h and accelerate from 0–100 km/h in 4.2 seconds.
Two choices of transmissions were available on the 612, a 6-speed manual or the 6-speed semi-automatic paddle shift transmission designated the F1A, a much refined version of the F1 transmission used in the 360.
The body of the 612 was produced at Ferrari's Carrozzeria Scaglietti plant, the former home of the car's namesake coachbuilder in Modena, Italy. It was then taken to the Ferrari factory located at Maranello were the V12 engine along with the interior were installed. A total of 3,025 cars were ultimately produced.
This particular Ferrari 612 Scaglietti is a One-To-One (OTO) and is optioned with an electrochroamatic glass roof that can tint and lighten, it is an original Italian car. It has a 6-speed automatic F1 transmission and only 64.401 km from new. it was delivered new by Leone S.R.L. in Prato on the 9th of January 2009. The car has been wel maintained ever since and comes with records of service history. This car is now ready to be enjoyed by a new owner.
An example of some of the service records of this car:
Serviced on 07-09-2009 at 8.668 km
Serviced on 18-02-2010 at 19.079 km
Price is €110.000,-.
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Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Charter
This version:
http://www.w3.org/2004/10/27-tag-charter
Previous version:
See acknowledgments
Ian Jacobs, W3C
Copyright © 2001-2004 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, and document use rules apply.
This is the charter for the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). W3C created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary. The TAG will also resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
The W3C Process Document [PROCESS] also includes provisions relevant to the TAG. All references to the Process Document in this charter are to the version identified by [PROCESS].
Status of this Document
This is the 11 October 2004 version of a proposed TAG charter. It was reviewed by the W3C Membership and became the operative TAG charter on 14 December 2004. This version of the charter incorporates changes for the W3C Patent Policy and other updates since the original July 2001 version.
There are a number of architectural principles that underlie the development of the World Wide Web. Some of these are well-known; others are less well-known or accepted. It is important for the growth and interoperability of the Web that these principles be documented and generally agreed to.
Web architectural principles are debated, developed, and documented both inside and outside of W3C. For instance, W3C Working Groups use the Recommendation track to build consensus around principles that fall within the scope of the Working Group's charter and expertise. The W3C Team has published architecture documents as informal Web pages on the W3C site or as W3C Notes (e.g., "Design Issues," "What is a Good Standard?," and "Common User Agent Problems,").
As W3C has grown, there have been more frequent requests (from W3C Members and other parties) for documentation of architectural principles that cross multiple technologies. People ask, "How do W3C technologies fit together? What basics must people know before they start developing a new technology?"
Some discussions and debates within W3C have highlighted the need for documented architectural principles as well as a process for resolving disagreements about architecture:
In some cases, two Working Groups have diverged on their interpretation of a specification (e.g., the role of relative URIs within XML namespace names).
In other cases, a Working Group has stumbled over an issue that, while important to Web architecture, was not of primary focus to the Working Group. Documented principles should limit such stumbling.
To improve the effectiveness of Working Groups, to reduce misunderstandings and overlapping work, and to improve the consistency of Web technologies developed inside and outside W3C, the Consortium established the Technical Architecture Group (TAG) in 2001.
What is Web architecture?
For the purposes of this charter, Web architecture refers to the underlying principles that should be adhered to by all Web components, whether developed inside or outside W3C. The architecture captures principles that affect such things as understandability, interoperability, scalability, accessibility, and internationalization.
For understandability, it is important that specifications be built on a common framework. This framework will provide a clearer picture of how specifications for Web technology work together.
For interoperability, there are some principles that cross Working Group boundaries to allow technical specifications to work together. For example, W3C has adopted an architectural principle that XML should be used for the syntax of Web formats unless there is a truly compelling reason not to (refer to "Assumed Syntax", by Tim Berners-Lee). This principle allows broad applicability of generic XML tools and is more likely to lead to general protocol elements that are useful for multiple purposes.
For scalability, it is important to base current work on wide applicability and future extensibility. For example, it is a common principle in designing specifications to avoid single points of control (e.g., a single registry that all specification writers or developers must use).
W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative and Internationalization Activity are already producing Architectural Recommendations in the areas of accessibility and internationalization, respectively.
The mission of the TAG is stewardship of the Web architecture. There are three aspects to this mission:
to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;
to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG;
to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
No set of documents will ever answer all the hard questions, so interpretation and subsequent refinement of the W3C architecture will certainly be necessary. As issues are resolved, the decisions will be documented so that principles can be observed consistently, to ensure stability and coherence in W3C Recommendations.
The TAG will not just document what is widely accepted; it will also anticipate growth and fundamental interoperability problems. Elaborating the intended direction of the Web architecture will help resolve issues when setting future directions, help establish criteria for starting new work at W3C, and help W3C coordinate its work with that of other organizations.
Scope of activity
The TAG's scope is limited to technical issues about Web architecture. The TAG should not consider administrative, process, or organizational policy issues of W3C, which are generally addressed by the W3C Advisory Committee, Advisory Board, and Team.
Architectural Recommendations
The primary activity of the TAG is to develop Architectural Recommendations. An Architectural Recommendation is one whose primary purpose is to set forth fundamental principles that should be adhered to by all Web components. Other groups within W3C may include cross-technology building blocks as part of their deliverables, but the TAG's primary role is to document cross-technology principles. Like other groups within W3C, the TAG will follow the W3C Recommendation track process for its Recommendations (including public draft requirements and Proposed Recommendations to the Advisory Committee); refer to section 7 of the Process Document.
In addition to the production of Recommendations, the TAG will help resolve technical issues having architectural impact. The process for issue resolution is likely to evolve over time. The initial process is:
Issues may be brought to the TAG by a variety of parties: Working Groups, the public, the W3C Team, as part of an appeal to the W3C Director, the TAG itself, etc. Issues may arise in the interpretation of already published Architectural Recommendations, or with new issues not (yet) within the scope of such Recommendations.
If the TAG agrees by majority vote, it will consider an issue as having sufficient breadth and technical impact to warrant its consideration. The TAG will work to prioritize the issues before it, and to address those of most immediate impact in a timely manner. There will be a Member-visible database of issues maintained at the TAG Web site.
The TAG will act to ensure that issues are resolved quickly, consistently, and with as much consensus and agreement of the community as possible. In some cases, a short-term resolution will be proposed while longer-term architectural directions are developed. Short-term resolutions must be public. Short-term issue resolutions are subject to appeal by Advisory Committee representatives; refer to the appeal process described in section 8.2 of the Process Document. Note: TAG Architectural Recommendations are subject to Advisory Committee review by virtue of the fact that they involve the Recommendation track process.
Resolved issues may result in brief statements of architectural principle, which should later be incorporated in Architectural Recommendations.
Appeals of rejected Member Submission requests
The TAG will hear appeals by Advisory Committee representatives of Member Submission requests rejected for reasons related to Web architecture. The Team will establish a process for such appeals that ensures the appropriate level of confidentiality.
Coordination of cross-technology architecture work
As a persistent body within W3C, the TAG will be able to help coordinate cross-technology Web architecture discussions and reviews, both within W3C and between W3C and other organizations. In this capacity, some TAG roles will include:
very early review (prior to Last Call) of the deliverables of Working Groups chartered to produce Architectural Recommendations;
coordination with Working Groups that realize only after chartering that they are producing Architectural Recommendations.
establishing liaisons (formal or informal) with groups outside of W3C involved in the development of Web architecture; see section 10 of the Process Document for more information.
The TAG is not expected to review every document on the W3C Recommendation track, only those that include Architectural Recommendations or that are brought to the attention of the TAG.
Relationship between the Director and the TAG
Except for hearing appeals of Member Submission requests rejected for reasons related to Web architecture, the TAG does not replace the Director in the W3C Process. However, it is likely that the Director will consult the TAG when issues of Web architecture arise. For instance, the Director may consult the TAG in cases where architectural issues are raised during the process of deciding whether to advance a document on the Recommendation track. The TAG is not expected to have a special role in advising the Director about whether Web technologies that are part of an Activity proposal are "horizontal" or "vertical".
The TAG is chartered as a permanent part of W3C. Unlike other W3C groups whose work ceases when completed or discontinued, the work of the TAG -- documenting fundamental principles of Web architecture -- is expected to require ongoing stewardship and continuity.
The TAG is expected to evolve with experience, and its charter may be revised as its role and W3C change. The Director must propose any non-editorial changes to the charter to the W3C Advisory Committee for a four-week review. After the end of the review, the Director must announce the disposition of the review to the Advisory Committee.
W3C may publish a revised version of the TAG charter to make minor clarifications, error corrections, or editorial repairs, without following the Advisory Committee review process. The Team must notify the Advisory Committee when an editorial revision of the TAG charter has been published.
Advisory Committee representatives may appeal any revised charter; refer to the appeal process described in section 8.2 of the Process Document.
The deliverables of the TAG are its Architectural Recommendations, review reports, and issue resolutions. The TAG may publish a variety of materials (e.g., short-term resolutions to issues that arise), but its Architectural Recommendations must be produced according to the formal Recommendation track process. As of the date of this charter, the TAG has produced one Recommendation track deliverable: Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition .
The schedule for these deliverables should be maintained on the TAG Web site.
The TAG should send a summary of each of its meetings to the Advisory Committee.
The TAG will present a report of its activities to the Membership at each Advisory Committee meeting. The TAG may report at other W3C-wide meetings (e.g., technical plenary meetings).
The TAG will coordinate its work with other groups within and outside of W3C whose technologies have an impact on Web architecture. Like other Working Groups within W3C:
TAG deliverables on the Recommendation track will be subject to wide review;
the TAG may request the expertise of other groups within or outside of W3C to resolve issues;
the TAG will make best efforts to accommodate the needs of Working Groups that have begun work and need to complete it in a timely manner.
As part of coordination with other groups producing Architectural Recommendations, TAG deliverables will acknowledge the timing and historical perspective of existing Web technologies.
All W3C Working Groups are expected to follow the Architectural Recommendations. If a Working Group intends to contradict an established Architectural Recommendation in a technical report, the group is expected to identify which principles are being contradicted and to provide technical rationale for the decision (e.g., the principle is wrong or conformance is impossible).
The following information will be public:
the TAG charter;
deliverables on the Recommendation Track will be public according to the requirements of section 7.2 of the Process Document.
the archive of public discussion of Web architecture issues;
status reports at least once every three months, per the Working Group Heartbeat Requirement described in section 6.2.7 of the Process Document.
TAG participant contact information.
Other TAG information, including archives of the TAG's Member-only mailing list, will be confidential within W3C. In rare cases (e.g., when the TAG hears an appeal of a rejected Submission request), TAG deliberations may be confidential to the TAG and Team.
The TAG will use several mailing lists for its communications:
www-tag@w3.org, a public discussion (not just input) list for issues of Web architecture. The TAG will conduct its public business on this list.
a Member-visible list for discussions within the TAG and for requests to the TAG from Members that, for whatever reason, cannot be made on the public list. For instance, if the TAG is helping two Member-only Working Groups resolve an issue, it may be necessary to conduct business initially on this list.
The TAG may create additional topic-specific, public mailing lists. In rare cases, (e.g., about a rejected Submission appeal), the TAG may require the use of TAG-only lists that will be visible to the TAG and Team. Additional information about communications mechanisms will be provided on the TAG Web site.
The TAG meeting plan is as follows:
The TAG will hold a regularly scheduled distributed meeting (at least every other week).
The TAG will organize occasional face-to-face meetings.
The TAG may organize workshops to explore particular architectural issues.
The TAG consists of eight elected or appointed participants, and the Director, who is the Chair of the TAG.
Three TAG participants are appointed by the W3C Team under the leadership of the Director. Appointees need not be on the W3C Team.
The remaining five TAG participants are elected by the W3C Advisory Committee following the AB/TAG nomination and election process. TAG elections should be offset from Advisory Board elections by approximately six months. Nominees need not be employees of a Member organization. A nominee from a Member organization should have employer approval in order to participate. W3C Fellows (employees of W3C Members who are part of the Team) may be appointed or elected to the TAG.
Additional details about elections and appointments may be found in section 2.4 and section 2.5 of the Process Document.
Participant Qualifications
W3C Members are encouraged to nominate individuals who:
Demonstrate depth of experience in broad areas of Web development; deep understanding of the architectural issues surrounding the Web and related technologies.
Are available to spend approximately 25% percent of their time writing and resolving issues.
Demonstrate the ability to resolve disputed technical issues and to build consensus.
Demonstrate the ability to put the common good above proprietary considerations. TAG participants must be willing, when circumstances require, to recuse themselves from decisions where proprietary interests might interfere with their judgment.
Other key qualifications include experience with W3C process and Working Groups, experience in other related organizations, experience implementing Web technologies, and good writing skills.
The TAG will observe the standard W3C consensus practices described in section 3.3 of the Process Document in developing its Architectural Recommendations.
However, there may be times when a timely decision is required even if consensus cannot be obtained. To ensure that a resolution can be reached in such situations, after a good-faith attempt at consensus has failed, the TAG may vote. Resolutions approved by vote must have support from the majority of the TAG, defined as more than half of the non-vacant seats on the TAG (e.g., five votes if there are no vacant seats).
When the TAG must vote to resolve an issue, each TAG participant has one vote (whether appointed, elected, or the Chair). The name and vote of each TAG participant will be recorded in the minutes that are made available to the W3C Membership.
Patent Policy
The TAG operates under the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis. All individuals participating in the TAG have the licensing obligations described for invited experts in section 3.4 of the Patent Policy and the disclosure obligations described for invited experts in section 6.10. See the W3C Patent Policy FAQ for additional information about disclosure obligations.
Team involvement
It is likely that some of the appointed TAG participants will be from the W3C Team (though this is not a requirement). In addition, the Team as a whole will provide the working environment for the TAG, as well as administrative support for the Director, who is Chair of the TAG. This Team support includes:
Maintenance of the TAG home page, mailing list, and archives.
Organization of meetings (both distributed and face-to-face) and publication of meeting minutes.
Summary of special TAG characteristics
In most ways, the TAG shares the same rights and responsibilities as other groups within W3C: it is important for the TAG to respond to architectural issues in a timely manner, to keep the community informed of its progress, to announce its resolutions, to provide substantive replies to reviewers' issues, etc. The TAG will therefore follow the applicable general provisions for W3C Groups described in section 3 of the Process Document except in the following cases:
Voting. See previous section on voting.
Last Call. Because the primary consumers of Architectural Recommendations will be other technical groups (both inside and outside of W3C), the last call review period for an Architectural Working Draft is expected to be longer than the Last Call review period of a typical W3C Working Draft, to allow for sufficient review.
[PROCESS]
World Wide Web Consortium Process Document, 5 February 2004.
The Advisory Board participants and Team that produces the July 2001 (first) version of the TAG charter were: Jean-François Abramatic (Chair, W3C), Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Tim Berners-Lee (W3C), Carl Cargill (Sun Microsystems), Paul Cotton (Microsoft Corporation), Janet Daly (W3C), David Fallside (IBM), Renato Iannella (IPR Systems), Alan Kotok (W3C), Ken Laskey (SAIC), Ora Lassila (Nokia), Håkon Wium Lie (Opera Software), Larry Masinter (Adobe Systems), David Singer (IBM), Steve Zilles (Adobe Systems).
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Why Do We Still Watch Vintage Television shows
Who is Captain Zeppos?
Who is the Actor behind Captain Zeppos?
Visiting the Museum at the Mill
What is Captain Zeppos ?
It is a Belgian television series that was originally shown in the country. It was originally made for children but the series also captured the imagination of the adults who watched the show. The show was produced by BRT, a local production studio. The show was directed by Senne Rouffaer. Its producer was Rik Van den Abbeele. Our website visitors, both young and old would really enjoy this television series.
Who was the main character of the television show ?
The main character of the show is also the main title of the show. In the first series of the show, he arrived on horseback as a mysterious man whom the people only knew as a traveler who had gone to Arabia, Turkey, Crete, and Greece. It was in Greece that he was known as Captain Zeppos. He was called captain because he owned a boat. His name as pronounced as Zeppos because the locals cannot say his true name Stephorst.
Why was the show so popular before ?
It was originally created with the children as the audience of the television series. But because of the very definitive character of Zeppos, he was able to also engage the older audiences. The camera work was great. And the location was mesmerizing even to non-Belgian viewers. If tech blogs existed at that time, they would be asking the cameras used at that time.
How many series did the producers make ?
Captain Zeppos had 3 series which spans six years. The titles of the series are Belderbos, De Eglantier, and Tweng. The first of the series itself had separate titles for each of the episodes which can serve as a guide for you when you watch them during your Amsterdam holiday.
Where can I get to watch the series ?
We have created a special page for you to make orders on the copies of the television series. You can expect them to be quite expensive because of the amount of restoration that the studio had to make. But you can still get them at lower prices if you use voucher codes or coupon codes on products.
Do you have updates on current remakes of the series ?
We will keep you updated on the possible remake of the television series. You can register on our page to be notified every time we publish new content.
Arthur Maes
Arthur Maes is a writer of tech blogs, movie and television series reviews, Amsterdam canal tours, product reviews, and the like. His love and adoration for the Captain Zeppos show have made him our resident website writer. He knows the show inside and out. He knows all the episodes of the show by heart.
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Rape trial begins for man accused of leading intoxicated high school girl away from Lawrence college bar
Jan 7, 2019 - 1:51pm
sshepherd@ljworld.com
Story updated: 5:28 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7, 2019.
A jury was selected Monday to hear the trial of a Lawrence man accused of leading an intoxicated teen away from a college bar and raping her at his home a few blocks away.
Opening arguments are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning, with the trial expected to last all week.
Albert N. Wilson, 23, is charged with two counts of rape in connection with the September 2016 incident, which began at the Jayhawk Cafe, known as the Hawk, at 1340 Ohio St.
Following Wilson’s preliminary hearing in November 2017, Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny ordered him bound over for trial on two counts of rape — one from an allegation that he lifted the teen’s skirt and assaulted her inside the bar without consent, and one from the allegation that he then raped the teen at his home in the 1300 block of Kentucky Street.
Evidence showed the teen was intoxicated enough that she was unable to consent, and that would have been apparent to Wilson, Pokorny said after hearing the victim testify at the preliminary hearing. The victim also testified that she repeatedly said “no” to Wilson, Pokorny said.
At Wilson’s preliminary hearing, the alleged victim tearfully described the night as a “blur.”
She was 17 at the time, and in high school in the Kansas City area. She’d come to Lawrence that night to visit her cousin, a University of Kansas student.
They were drinking with some other women before going to the Hawk, where the teen said she wasn’t carded. She said she was stumbling and didn’t have “control” of herself, and hadn’t been drunk like that before.
Wilson approached her inside the bar, and they started talking and moved to another area, away from her cousin, she said. He kissed her and then assaulted her, she said.
Wilson then asked her if she wanted to come to his place and spend the night. She said no, that she needed to find her cousin, but that Wilson persisted and convinced her to come with him outside to call the cousin, and then to come to his home.
“I think I realized that the intentions weren’t to get me help,” she said at the preliminary hearing. “I just started saying, ‘No, I’m too drunk, I can’t do this, I’m too drunk, I can’t do this.'”
The incident happened between the night of Sept. 10 and early morning hours of Sept. 11, 2016.
The victim previously testified that the next day she told her mother what happened and went to a hospital for a sexual assault exam, which included photos of bruising to her thighs.
She reported the incident to Lawrence police on Oct. 5, 2016. Wilson was charged on Oct. 11, 2017.
The victim didn’t know Wilson, but told police she thought her assailant’s first name was Albert and gave them a physical description, according to an affidavit prepared by detectives.
Police used bar surveillance footage, driver’s license and cell phone information of a man Wilson went to the bar with, and eventually Wilson’s address and driver’s license photo to identify him as the suspect. They also collected evidence for forensic testing.
Wilson is free on $75,000 bond, posted after his preliminary hearing in 2017, according to court records.
Wilson’s appointed attorney is Forrest Lowry.
Amy McGowan is prosecuting the case for the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office.
Jury selection lasted all day Monday, with a jury of nine women and three men plus one female alternate chosen at the end of the day.
• Jan. 9, 2019 — Defendant at trial: ‘She didn’t seem intoxicated at all … I didn’t rape her’
• Jan. 8, 2019 — At trial of Lawrence man, woman describes being raped as teen, devastation that followed
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• Nov. 22, 2017 — Judge orders man accused of raping teen he met at college bar to stand trial
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Avant-garde performer and champion of new music, Yael Manor regularly collaborates with composers both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
A frequent performer of national and world premieres, Yael has been praised for her “breathtaking and powerful performances.”
As the founder and director of 20>>21 Music, Yael collaborates with today’s emerging composers to curate programs ensuring new music becomes accessible to all audiences. Repertoire for each concert is carefully selected and presents the composers’ music alongside related works. Each piece reflects the composer’s influences and draws connections between music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Yael embraces a relaxed concert atmosphere, inviting audience members to learn and interact.
“A rare accompanist in her sensitivity, as well as a wonderful soloist.”
Yael has performed on some of the most prestigious stages in the United States including: the Kimmel Center, the Miller Theatre, the Dekelboum Concert Hall, Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and has also been featured in a WQXR broadcast of the McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase. She holds a Master’s degree from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. She currently lives and teaches in New York City.
Yael’s debut CD, Elixir, is the first album produced by the American Composers Alliance (ACA). In Collaborating with ACA, Yael meticulously selected pieces that would represent a wide variety of styles and composers from different generations. Elixir is a true collaboration between a performer, group of composers, a recording studio, and a supporting organization. The album brings a myriad of colors and emotions to a collection of solo works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Copyright 2015 Yael Manor | All Rights Reserved | Photography: Adi Ashkenazi | Photo Venue Courtesy of Cantabile Piano Arts
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Home / National News / Pastor who praised Pulse nightclub shooting resigns after admitting he paid for sex
Pastor who praised Pulse nightclub shooting resigns after admitting he paid for sex
(FORT WORTH, Texas) — A Texas pastor who praised a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub has resigned after admitting to using drugs, gambling and paying for sex.
Donnie Romero, former pastor of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, apologized in a YouTube video posted Wednesday.
“I want to tell you guys I’m sorry. I’ve lied to many of the people at our church. Last Wednesday, I resigned, but I didn’t tell anybody all the details,” he said. “I went to Jacksonville and I went to a casino and I was drinking. And there were girls there that were prostitutes and I committed adultery on my wife multiple times. I drank and gambled multiple times. … I even smoked weed.”
Romero gained national notoriety in 2016 when he voiced support for the gunman behind the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida in which 49 people were slaughtered.
“These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, they’re the scum of the Earth and the Earth is a better place now and I’ll take it a step further,” Romero said in a sermon published online by the Dallas Morning News. “I’ll pray to God like I did this morning, and I will again tonight, that God will finish the job that that man started.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center classified the Stedfast Baptist Church as an anti-LGBT hate group after the incident.
The church posted a separate video on its YouTube page, showing Romero as he broke the news of his departure last week.
“I have been a terrible husband and father,” Romero said in a video posted to the church’s official YouTube page. “This is the best decision, for my family and this church, to make.”
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Thomas Holmden Memories of Maria Cairns-Yuras
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John G. Jennings was born in 1825 and died on December 16, 1896 at his residence at 194 Jennings Avenue. He was buried at Riverside Cemetery. He created the University Heights allotment in 1851. Mr. Jennings taught Sunday school in 1859-1860. The people of the area wanted their own church rather than traveling east of downtown and meetings were held at the home of John Jennings on Scranton Avenue. On November 13, 1859, University Heights Congregational Church was founded. When a new church building was added in 1869, this church was named Jennings Avenue Congregational Church after the street which was named after Mr. Jennings. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings were generous to the church and he was a deacon of the church for more than 25 years.
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The County Account
Michael Kelsey
Budgeting resembles meteorology. It requires sifting through known and measurable data to predict future trends and patterns for outcomes that may never be realized. But what happens when the forecast is wrong? A bride and groom who plan an outside wedding on a weatherman’s forecast of a sun-filled sky have every right to be outraged when it downpours.
The same is true for taxpayers in the severely frigid winter who found themselves pinned beneath the heavy weight of an energy tax that didn’t have to be. Instead of a $7.5 million budget shortfall that the Dutchess Energy Tax was meant to cure, the 2013 year-end review revealed that county government closed out the year with a $5.3 million surplus.
How could this be? I wondered the same thing.
As is custom, the county budget is prepared several months in advance of its December adoption. Budget staff makes projections and suggestions to the county executive who then crafts the budget decisions. In September it was predicted that the county would face $7.5 million in revenue shortfalls. (As it turned out sales tax revenue was in fact $3.4 million short, and mortgage tax was $4.8 million short.)
In late October, when Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro submitted his budget to the Legislature he proposed closing the revenue gap with a tax on residential home energy use. Faced between making severe cuts to services it deemed essential, a majority of legislators (the author excluded) ratified the executive’s proposal on the energy tax.
Despite a growing chorus of complaints from the public, the tax went into effect on March 1. Legislative leaders and the executive then pointed fingers at the county’s delegation of state leaders, first claiming that the state leaders caused the deficit by not increasing the mortgage tax, and then shifting the blame to unfunded mandates. The pledge was made that if state legislators produced mandate relief that the energy tax would be repealed.
In mid-March, state legislators acquiesced; offering a one-time bailout of $5.25 million. The acceptance of the bailout led to the April repeal of the energy tax. Not once during this four month ordeal of implementing the tax, lobbying Albany for relief, accepting the bailout or discussing its repeal was it disclosed that the county finished 2013 with a multi-million surplus.
Where did the surplus originate? There were some cost-savings from sold–off properties (the county’s obsolete recycling center among them), but the bulk of the savings appears to have come from the pockets of taxpayers struggling to pay property taxes. The county brought in $1.3 million from the sale of foreclosed properties and $5.8 million from interest payments from people who couldn’t pay their property taxes on time.
It’s shocking — perhaps even scandalous — to consider that the 2013 county budget was balanced on penalty payments assessed on economically-challenged property-owners. Of equal dismay, however, is the realization that lawmakers endorsed — and maintained — an unnecessary economic energy hardship on all county residents because knowledge of the county’s true finances were withheld.
Considering the now known data of the 2014 budget fiasco, my forecast is: the transparency of sunlight will be limited to this column; a storm-cloud of public opinion may form, but that cloud will soon pass as initial outrage is replaced by complacency and ambivalence; a few clouds of renewed mistrust and cynicism may linger.
As we age, dementia is a health risk for us all. While there are 47 diseases or disorders related to dementia (most notably Alzheimer’s disease), it is in itself not a disease. More accurately it is a term used to describe a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with the activities of daily life. As technology and medicine have increased life expectancy, so also has the prevalence of dementia increased.
In 1986, the New York state Legislature began monitoring Alzheimer’s disease through the creation of a statewide central registry. The same legislation mandated as part of the Public Health Law that New York’s 400 hospitals and 700 nursing homes begin reporting on the “occurrence, frequency, incidence, cause, effect and prognosis of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Through this reporting we know now that dementia accounts for nearly 58,000 hospitalizations in New York state each year.
In the late 1980s the Legislature declined to commit state resources to research or care for dementia-related illnesses. This has changed in part due to the registry’s findings. The 2014 state budget, for instance, includes $1.1 billion for Alzheimer’s research, which is $6.3 million more than last year.
New York state also provides funding for nine Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Centers (Albany and White Plains being the closest to our region). These centers provide assistance to families with diagnosis, treatment, education and caregiver services.
Additionally, community service programs exist to provide respite and training to caregivers including support groups and information counseling. In 2012 there were reported over 1 million caregivers in New York state.
Dutchess County also provides activities, programs and services geared toward seniors and caregivers alike including funding for Alzheimer’s Association support groups. The Dutchess County Office for the Aging provides case assistance, counseling, home-delivered meals, caregiver respite, senior centers and volunteer opportunities to keep seniors engaged in the community. Additionally the county organizes an annual full-day caregiver conference.
Proceedings are also available in our courts for the assignment of guardians in the least restrictive means for those whose functionality has become impaired who may not have caregivers available to them.
Attention to dementia has grown at both the national and state levels. Not only have pharmacological interventions to help improve cognitive functions been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), but a 2011 federal law now requires the Health and Human Services Department to have a national plan for dementia.
In New York, a Coordinating Council for Services Related to Alzheimer’s Disease has been meeting since 2007, providing periodic reports to the Legislature and the governor. The 2013 report cites early detection, shortage of geriatric human service workers and the need for more home health care and day services as among top needs.
Also cited was the heavy toll — both economically and health wise — that caregivers endure and suggested among other ideas that the state Legislature consider tax incentives for those who provide care to the elderly.
It is comforting to know that policy makers are paying attention to the present and future needs of the aging community.
Michael N. Kelsey represents the people of Amenia, Washington, Pleasant Valley and Millbrook in the Dutchess County Legislature. He also serves as a court-appointed guardian and a regular speaker at Office of the Aging law clinics. Write him at KelseyESQ@yahoo.com.
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Ota Memorial Museum of Art
Grant for Ukiyo-e Research
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi “One Hundred Views of the Moon”
Special Exhibition
2017, September 1st-24th
Will be closed on September 4, 11, 19th
Exhibition of the complete 100 works of “One Hundred Views of the Moon”: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s most well-known works from his last year
Following our previous exhibition “Specters by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi” (July 29 ~ August 27, 2017), we would like to further explore in depth the fascinating world of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, an ukiyo-e artist who lived from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. In this exhibition, we will present “One Hundred Views of the Moon” series, which are Yoshioshi’s masterpieces from his last year. As the title describes, “One Hundred Views of the Moon” consists of a total of 100 pictures. This exhibition provides a very rare opportunity to see all the pictures in one place. It is also an unmissable opportunity to see the ultimate achievement of Yoshitoshi, who is renowned as the last ukiyo-e master.
“Moon of Pure Snow at the Asano River : Chikako, the Filial Daughter
‘”How hopeless it is, it would be better for me to sink beneath the waves perhaps then I could see my man from moon capital” -Poem by Ariko
Appreciating “One Hundred Views of the Moon” from four different aspects
The themes of “One Hundred Views of the Moon” are based on stories related to the moon. They vary widely, from warriors and beautiful women in the Heian period and the Age of Civil Wars, to mystic creatures such as ghosts and monsters. In this exhibition, we will aim to present a clearer view of the world of “One Hundred Views of the Moon” by categorizing them based on four different aspects: 1) beautiful women; 2) specters, ghosts, deities and Buddha; 3) brave men; and 4) refinement, nostalgia and sorrow. We hope you will enjoy a variety of stories surrounding the moon, which are appropriate for the autumn, the season of beautiful moon.
“Moon over Cape Inamura at Daybreak”
“Moon through Conflagration”
Innovative compositions and vivid colors are still fresh even after more than 100 years
Even though the “One Hundred Views of the Moon” series were created between 1885 and 1892, more than 130 years ago, they are still full of freshness and charm. The powerful compositions cropped out from a dynamic viewpoint, the sense of serenity that fills the air with silence on a moonlight night, and
the sophisticated carving skills and the beauty of prints presented in these works make the viewers say “Cool!” or “Beautiful!” even in modern days. The “newness” of “One Hundred Views of the Moon” is highlighted in this exhibition.
“Cry of the Fox”
“Jade Rabbit and Sun Wukong”
“Moon at Shinobugaoka : Gyokuensai”
“Moon above the Bon Festival”
＜Highlight work of Exhibition＞
“Moon Above the Daimotsu Bay : Benkei”
When Minamoto no Yoshitsune and his retainers embarked from Daimotsu Bay, suddenly a storm came and vengeful ghosts of Heike warriors, who were defeated and sank into Dan-no-ura Bay, tried to prevent Yoshitsune’s voyage. One of his retainers Benkei, however, impressively warded off the ghosts by chanting Buddhist prayers. Although the vengeful ghosts of Heike warriors are not clearly depicted in this work, the pitch-dark ocean that occupies a large part of the picture and the ominous movements of the waves that are crashing over Benkei give uneasy feelings to the viewers. This meticulously calculated, powerful picture represents typical characteristics of Yoshitoshi’s works.
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After a Year in Trinity, I’ve Finally Found My Feet
Adjusting to life in Dublin and Trinity took some getting used to, but now I've found my place here, writes Faye Curran.
Faye CurranStaff Writer
Eavan McLoughlin for The University Times
When you move to a new city, no matter how well connected you may be, there are always the small intricacies of this new way of life that take some getting used to. Being a woman from the West of Ireland, adjusting to life in this big city has definitely been a long-winded process, and it has taken almost the entirety of this College year for me to feel comfortably adapted to Dublin life.
It began by trying to understand the public transport of Dublin. My lovely county Clare, despite all its positive attributes, is not exactly renowned for its public-transport services. Our meek train station and spartan bus routes didn’t prepare me for the complexities of the Dublin Bus, Luas and Dart systems. There was no guidebook to explain how to correctly anticipate an incoming bus, (although frankly, I have grown to learn that in the case of Dublin Bus, that is impossible to do) and the tap-on/tap-off system is something I had to meticulously engrain into my memory to avoid chilling encounters with the Luas security men.
Google Maps can only get you so far, and on many occasions, I have paced up and down a street ridden with bus stops to try and establish which one I should, in fact, be waiting at. All these many months later, however, I have grown in confidence when it comes to making my way around the city, and I often catch myself rolling my eyes at panicked tourists desperately trying to manoeuvre their way through a rush-hour Luas crowd to get to their destination. Yet one must never forget one’s roots, and the memories of taking the Luas in the entirely wrong direction or attempting to tap off the bus are a constant reminder that being from the countryside will forever be a part of my identity.
Although becoming an expert on city transport was indeed an endeavour, it is perhaps the feeling of being a small fish in a big pond that was a slightly larger hill to climb. Although Dublin may give you a sense of autonomy not available in the country, it does come with a need to find your place and your people. For me, the first few months here were marked by a feeling of uncertainty in myself, as the degree to which people felt they could openly express themselves was starkly different to what I was so used to. In Trinity especially, it took many months of experimenting with new styles and patterns to feel as though I had established my own sense of belonging in the infamous fashion show-like hallways of the Arts Block.
I have grown in confidence when it comes to making my way around the city, and I often catch myself rolling my eyes at panicked tourists desperately trying to manoeuvre their way through a rush-hour Luas crowd
It seemed that one often stuck out more for a typical outfit of sorts, and vintage fleeces and loose fitting jeans, paired with a dad-inspired shoe seemed more widely accepted. Although this style diversity was undoubtedly a breath of fresh air, for a while, I was almost obsessing every morning over whether or not my outfit of choice would be deemed unique enough for me to somehow blend in and stick out at the same time. Eventually, however, I realised that even the chicest of us sometimes have to just resort to a jeans-and-hoodie combination for days when our more unusual choices are in the wash, and as long as you feel comfortable in what you are wearing, not much else matters.
No one really likes to talk about money, but the price of living in Dublin is still a sore spot for me so many months later. Needless to say, there is the problem of rent for young students. However, the cost of transport, socialising and even just grocery shopping leaves many students having to choose between eating and actually being able to afford to journey into College. While spending an average of €30 on travel a week, one must, of course, remember to budget for groceries, while keeping a small stash to fund caffeine hits throughout the week, and some leftover money for any socialising they may like to do. Drinks in Dublin are painfully expensive, and it is often hard to justify spending more than €5 on a pint when out with friends, with most bars charging upwards of €5.50 for any popular drink.
Let us not forget that one can always turn to the old reliable, the sweet nectar of a 60c can of Tesco lager for when the going gets rough
There’s no delight like discovering a nightclub is free entry, but this usually requires these eager, broke students to arrive at the nightclub so early that it is still bright outside, making you wonder if it’s actually worth it in the first place. Yet again, this seems to be the reality of student life and the cost of city living, and let us not forget that one can always turn to the old reliable, the sweet nectar of a 60c can of Tesco lager for when the going gets rough.
As with every change in life, there are some things we can quickly get used to, and there are things that take more time. I hardly notice obscure outfits anymore, and I think I blend in with my fellow commuters quite expertly, but I’ll probably never get used to overpaying €6 for a pint of cider that I don’t even particularly like. This year has been all about learning for me, and while some lessons have been more painful than others, I think I have come out of it as a more confident and well-rounded individual. I am still the same person I was a year ago, it’s just now there’s a part of me that has its place in the West, and a part of me that fits in here too.
And when it all gets a bit too much, and the city starts to feel too big, I am comforted by the reminder that I can always go home to vast, expansive fields, people who have no idea what Urban Outfitters is, and a €4.50 pint.
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A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' - Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
Author: Mrs. Brassey
ISBN #: B00KAD4300
Publisher: Longmans Green & Co.
Publisher Location: London
The "New Edition" of 1881. Blue and gilt decorated cloth. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; a few pages proud with gutter repairs. According to the OCLC the book was "Deemed by the "Wall Street Journal" as one of the five best books about female adventurers, "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" is a collection of Annie Brassey's journal entries of her voyage around the world with her family (husband and four children), crew (38 members), two dogs, three birds, and a "charming Persian kitten" (who disappeared early into the voyage) aboard a 157-foot steam-powered yacht. Starting at noon on July 1, 1876, they sailed from England and visited South America, the South Pacific, Asia, and the Middle East, returning back home on May 26, 1877. A best-seller in its day, with its descriptions of exotic locales and ship life, this book was even used as a textbook in the United States." From the preface Thomas Brassey writes of his wife Anne: "Still less would any sufficient record of the scenes and experiences of the long voyage have been preserved if not for her painstaking desire not only to see everything thoroughly, but to record her impressions faithfully and accurately." From Wikipedia: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam, describing their journey round the world in 1876–77 with a complement of 43, including family, friends and crew, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages. Her accounts of later voyages include Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880); In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties (1885); and The Last Voyage (1889, published posthumously). She had published privately earlier works including A Flight of the Meteor, detailing two cruises in the Mediterranean on their earlier yacht Meteor and A Voyage in the Eothen a description of their travels to Canada and the United States in 1872. She was also involved with the publication of Colonel Henry Stuart-Wortley's 1882 Tahiti, a Series of Photographs. In July 1881 King Kal kaua of Hawaii, who had been greatly pleased with her description of his kingdom, was entertained at Normanhurst Castle, and invested Lady Brassey with the Royal Order of Kapiolani." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!
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In Brief with… Fenchurch 3io
Posted on January 29, 2013 Posted in Featured, Friends & Features
For a band reportedly named after a character conceived in the ticket queue of Fenchurch Street railway station in the cult classic ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’, the swift arrival of Fenchurch 3io on the London jazz scene has been no less startling. The groundwork was initially laid back in February 2012 when pianist Clem Rooney asked drummer Chris Draper if he could recommend a bass player for a track Clem was working on. Chris put forward Moyses Dos Santos and the rest, as they say, is history. During the recording of that first composition in Chris’ studio, the trio ended up laying down a number of other grooves and as chance would have it (and after three months of intensive writing!), they were soon invited to bless the stage of West London’s finest Jazz re:freshed. Not ones for an understated approach, that gig featured an all-star cast of talent including Heidi Vogel, Cecilia Stalin, Chima Anya, Tom Hill and Sam Healey. Fenchurch had arrived, and having spent time at Wax Recording Studio perfecting their sound, the upcoming début album is set to be released sometime later this year. Before their appearance at The Jazz Meet this Sunday evening, we caught up with Chris to get a bit of background on the band and to find out what we can expect as they take to the Floripa stage for the first time.
First off, could you let us know how and when you decided to seriously pursue a career in music?
Music was around me from the day I was born; I was lucky enough to have parents who always exposed me to a very diverse array of music. When I was young, we used to go to The Barbican to watch the LSO, or to The Opera House to see a ballet regularly. Originally, I guess I decided to pursue music out of sibling rivalry as my sister played piano and violin and I wanted to be able to do what she was doing. I started piano when I was four and violin when I was five but always had a passion for both drums and trumpet, so when I was a little older I started playing them as well. I knew from a very early age that this was what I wanted to do so when the opportunity came to study at a specialist classical music school when I was 13 I didn’t think twice! From there everything came together! I wish I could still play the other instruments I used to learn, I think about it quite a lot but there are only so many hours in the day to practice and I struggle enough now just with drums!
We’ve heard you’ve been working extensively in the studio on new material for the gig at Floripa, can you let us know a little of what we can expect musically from you on the 3rd?
You hear correctly. In the past we geared the band towards playing with guest artists and writing material for the purpose of other people playing with us. It was a really great way to start, but we wanted to do something more personal to us so we have stripped it down to the essence of Fenchurch I guess. We have written a lot of new material, as well as having distilled some of our older stuff (I say older, we only started writing for this band 9 months ago…). It’s a bit of a different vibe now.
So, when it comes to writing new material, how do you all go about it? Is it a collaborative process or does one of you take the lead in terms of sketching out the ideas first?
The writing process for this band is one that I share a love/hate relationship with. We seem to have a habit of having large amounts of work to do in small amounts of time which has its advantages and disadvantages. It’s always very intense. For us, it is quite hard to keep things ticking over as we are all so busy with other things, so when a gig for the band comes up we take advantage of having the deadline to get what we have wanted to do actually done.
In terms of the actual writing process, it can vary. We don’t write anything down at all. That can be a little complicated sometimes when you start to get involved with long groove structures and hits in weird places, but it just means we have to know the music better (… and it’s nice to not have to write anything down!). I think there is one tune ‘Pictures of a Nu:Tradition’ that has a chart but even that changed a lot when we started rehearsing it together. Clem is normally the one to say ‘guys check this thing out’, which gives us a starting point for tunes and we develop it from there as a group. Other than that we just experiment with grooves until we find something that feels nice. Sometimes Clem and Moyses will work together and I join them later, but as we start to carve out a personality for the tune one of us normally starts to take over and direct a little bit; the collaborative approach can sometimes become a little less time efficient just because of the endless ideas that get thrown at the tracks. You end up never having a finished tune, just a bunch of ideas. I sometimes think we come by tunes just by chance as the writing process is so erratic, but it seems to work.
Fenchurch 3iO – Pictures of a Nu:tradition
There’s mention of your début album appearing on the Jazz re:freshed imprint. Can you tell us how that came about and have you got an expected release date yet?
Adam at Jazz re:freshed has been amazing with this project. He is actually the reason Fenchurch is Fenchurch. He has been very supportive and we had a great time with him at our first gig at Mau Mau back in July last year. He asked us after the gig to send him the album when it was done and that was that! As yet, we don’t have an expected release date – we were set to record it in August but Moyses ended up working back in Brazil for a few months and when he came back I was on tour, so we had to leave it for a while. We all think it was for the best because what we have now is a lot stronger having left it to mature for six months or so. I think we are aiming to record in April when we are all next free, so hopefully you can expect to see the album sometime soon after that. We don’t want to rush the process, when it is what we think Fenchurch represents we will know. We are very excited and also very lucky to have Jazz re:freshed working with us, they are wicked and do an amazing thing for the music.
Fenchurch 3io live at Jazz re:freshed
Finally, can you talk us through some of the influences that have inspired the band thus far?
One of the great things about this trio is the vast spectrum of influences we all bring. Clem used to be a contemporary classical composer and pianist and I used to be a classical percussionist; we were actually at school together since the age of 13 and now we live together! We both bring that side of our classical training to the band, though Clem does it in a more active way than me, I just listen to a lot. For example, ‘Pictures of a Nu:Tradition’ is written by Clem and based on one of the movements from Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’. His influences also come from much of the music he listened to as a teen, such as acid jazz, hip hop, broken beat, garage and drum n bass.
I bring a lot of influence from jazz music as I am first and foremost a jazz musician. I listen to a lot of piano trios, mainly really hard swinging bands from the 60’s like Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson and those kind of guys, although I have always had a love for groove music. I used to listen and play to Dennis Chambers on that Brecker Brothers concert from Barcelona ’91 everyday for two years while I was in sixth form. That hasn’t rubbed off and I still find myself falling back onto some of the things I learned from that now! Moyses grew up in Brazil playing in church and then got really deep into funk music. This really adds another side to the band. He loves all those really hard groove bands like Tower of Power. Sometimes Clem and I can think too much about things and he just breaks it up with his crazy vibe. Myself and Moyses also play a lot of pop music so I guess it’s a weird, hopefully not too confused, mix of many, many things bubbling away in the background.
As I am writing this I am listening to a band from NYC that is the brainchild of UK born keys player and singer Oli Rockberger, called ‘Mister Barrington‘. They are a heavy bunch of musicians and their albums are quirky and have a lot of personality as well as being musically and technically incredible. Grant Windsor and Richard Spaven are also a big influence on us as a group. The Sure Co.’s new release on Jazz re:freshed is really deep; that record has definitely been played in.
Come bare witness to the trio live THIS COMING SUNDAY at Floripa as we present our first guest band session of 2013. DJ support comes from Jazz Meet resident Sid Ford and very special guest Jake Holloway (BBE). Doors 5pm-12am. First band set from 7.30pm. FREE ENTRY.
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Laser Surgery Prevents Young Man’s Epileptic Seizures
By James Sherlock / January 20, 2016
Collin May, 18, loves riding bikes, going fishing and playing video games. He has dreams of joining the United States Marine Corps, but a serious medical condition— epilepsy— has kept him from all that.
“At night I would have the seizures and wouldn’t get a lot of sleep at all,” May told FoxNews.com. When he woke up, he’d be tired, which would lead to more seizures, including when he was class.
Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes seizures, which can affect people in very different ways. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), about 4.3 million adults in the U.S. have the diagnosis.
May’s seizures began when he was about 10 years old, and he went on to have more than 50 seizures a day. The central nervous system disorder left him unable to drive, and his sleep was disrupted.
Doctors tried electronic implants and several medications, but they did more harm than good, his dad said.
“There were time periods where he was pretty much a zombie,” Collin’s dad, Todd May, told FoxNews.com. “I had to come to the realization that my son, as I knew him, was literally gone.”
This continued until they took a trip to the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where doctors perform laser ablation therapy to eliminate seizures. Doctors pinpoint where in the brain the seizure originates by using a mapping technique, stereoelectroencephalography (SEG). Then they target the area with a laser during a two-hour procedure.
“We implant the laser probe exactly in the location from where we record the seizures using the SEG,” Dr. Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, a staff neurosurgeon at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center, told FoxNews.com.
One of the standard treatments for epilepsy is a craniotomy, a four-hour surgery that involves removing the affected part of the brain with a large incision, and requires a week for recovery.
In January, May underwent laser therapy— he only needed one switch and went home after 24 hours.
May hasn’t experienced any seizures since and said it was a “big relief.” Doctors say about 50 percent of laser patients remain seizure free in the years following surgery. The technology was created seven years ago and while doctors don’t know long-term outcomes beyond that time period, Gonzalez-Martinez said the outlook is promising.
“The whole world is open to him,” his dad said. “We just hope he seizes every opportunity that comes along and no more epilepsy.”
May has his sights on earning his driver’s license and pursuing his dreams to enter the Marines.
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Nineteen dead, dozens injured as teenager opens fire at college in Crimea
A woman places a candle to commemorate the victims of a fatal attack on a college in the Crimean port city of Kerch, at a memorial by the Kremlin walls in Moscow, Russia.
At least 19 people were killed and dozens injured at a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea on Wednesday when a student went through the building shooting at fellow pupils before killing himself, Russian law enforcement officials said.
Eighteen-year-old Vladislav Roslyakov turned up at the college in the city of Kerch on Wednesday afternoon carrying a firearm and then began shooting, investigators said. His body was later found in the college with what they said were self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
There were no immediate clues as to his motive in mounting such an attack, which recalled similar shooting sprees carried out by students in U.S. schools.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 , prompting international condemnation and Western sanctions, but since then there have been no major outbreaks of violence on the peninsula.
Many of the victims from Wednesday’s attacks were teenage students who suffered shrapnel and bullet wounds.
Pupils and staff described scenes of mayhem as panicked pupils tried to flee the building. They said the attack had started with an explosion, followed by more blasts, and a hail of gunfire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in the southern Russian resort of Sochi with his Egyptian counterpart, declared a moment’s silence for the victims. “This is a clearly a crime,” he said. “The motives will be carefully investigated.”
The director of the school, Olga Grebennikova, described the scene that she encountered when she entered the college building after the attack.
“There are bodies everywhere, children’s bodies everywhere. It was a real act of terrorism. They burst in five or 10 minutes after I’d left. They blew up everything in the hall, glass was flying,” Grebennikova told Crimean media outlets.
“They then ran about throwing some kind of explosives around, and then ran around the second floor with guns, opened the office doors, and killed anyone they could find.”
Soon after the attack, Russian officials said they were investigating the possibility that it was terrorism. Troops with armored personnel carriers were sent to the scene. Local parents were told to collect their children from the city’s schools and kindergartens for their safety.
However, the Investigative Committee, the state body that investigates major crimes, said later that it was re-classifying the case from terrorism to mass murder.
An employee at Kerch’s hospital said dozens of people were being treated for their injuries in the emergency room and in the operating theater.
Anastasia Yenshina, a 15-year-old student at the college, said she was in a toilet on the ground floor of the building with some friends when she heard the sound of an explosion.
Officials said an explosive device had gone off in the school’s cafeteria during the attack and that a second device had been found among Roslyakov’s belongings and defused.
“I came out and there was dust and smoke, I couldn’t understand, I’d been deafened,” Yenshina said. “Everyone started running. I did not know what to do. Then they told us to leave the building through the gymnasium.”
“Everyone ran there… I saw a girl lying there. There was a child who was being helped to walk because he could not move on his own. The wall was covered in blood. Then everyone started to climb over the fence, and we could still hear explosions. Everyone was scared. People were crying.”
Photographs from the scene of the blast showed that the ground floor windows of the two-story building had been blown out, and that debris was lying on the floor outside.
Emergency services teams could be seen in the photographs carrying wounded people from the building on makeshift stretchers and loading them on to buses and ambulances.
A second pupil at the college, who gave his name as Sergei, said he had taken a few steps out of the building into the street when the first blast went off. He was hit by debris from the blast and injured in the leg.
15-year-old Sergei said he ran to another building, but said he could hear more explosions going off every few seconds. He took cover and after the attack was over, he was taken to hospital in an ambulance.
“I arrived at the hospital, the scene there was awful. They’re bringing in people all covered in blood, some with arms missing, some with legs missing.”
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Gruner, Elioth Lauritz Leganyer (1882–1939)
by Barry Pearce
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983
Elioth Lauritz Leganyer Gruner (1882-1939), landscape artist, was born on 16 December 1882 at Gisborne, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, younger son of Elliott Grüner, bailiff, and his Irish wife Mary Ann (d.1922), née Brennan. His father was born of German parentage in Christiania (Oslo) and later migrated to New Zealand. In 1883 the family settled in Sydney, where Gruner from 1894 had drawing lessons from Julian Ashton. At 14 he became a draper's assistant, and attended classes at Ashton's art school, where he met George Lambert, who remained a lifelong inspiration.
From October 1901 Gruner exhibited regularly with the Society of Artists, Sydney, and from 1907 attracted serious attention. An important admirer was Norman Lindsay; from about 1913 he frequently visited Lindsay at Springwood, where he painted with Harley Griffiths.
Despite the responsibility of supporting his mother, Gruner left his job in 1912 to manage the Fine Arts Society's Bligh Street gallery and shop, dealing solely with Australian art. In 1914 he became an assistant at Ashton's Sydney Art School, but did not like teaching. In 1915 he visited Melbourne and painted with Griffiths and with Max Meldrum, whose tonal theories strongly affected his vision and technique; he also visited the National Gallery of Victoria to see Corot's 'The Bent Tree'. He assisted with the organization in 1916 of an exhibition of the work of J. J. Hilder, whose influence was also important. Until the end of the decade Gruner produced his finest work, arising out of an intense lyrical preoccupation with the effects of, and even the very substance and nature of, light. His almost pantheistic obsession, which manifested itself mainly around Emu Plains and Windsor in the plein air style he had learned from Ashton, inspired Lindsay to the most extravagant praise in print. Gruner was awarded the Wynne prize for 1916 for the painting 'Morning Light' (and was to win six more times—1919, 1921, 1929, 1934, 1936 and 1937).
Deeply disturbed by Australia's involvement in World War I, he fretted about being safely home when others were suffering; and in October 1917 told Hans Heysen that 'I cannot hope for any peace of mind until I am trying to do something to repair the damage done the unfortunate victims of the ghastly tragedy'. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 4 June 1918, went into Liverpool camp and was discharged on 31 December.
In 1919 Gruner's acceptance by the official art world was further confirmed when the trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales commissioned a painting, 'Valley of the Tweed'. In 1923 his friend Howard Hinton paid his passage overseas. In London Gruner reluctantly agreed to manage the Society of Artists' exhibition of Australian art at Burlington House. Sir William Orpen, unaware that he was being escorted around the exhibition by the artist, pungently criticized Gruner's paintings; embarrassed, Orpen later made more constructive comments that were to change Gruner's style dramatically. He spent two years in Europe and was impressed by the paintings of Cézanne and Gauguin. When he returned to Sydney early in 1925, he accepted Orpen's advice to make smaller pictures, thin down his paint and achieve a drier, pastel-like surface; he steered towards an English style of modernism, interpreting the rhythmic anatomy of the earth as seen from a higher vantage-point, which tended to flatten forms. His tonality grew even more sombre in the 1930s. In the late 1920s his paintings sold extremely well and a large loan exhibition of his work was mounted by the Art Gallery in Sydney in 1932.
Of medium height and weight, Gruner 'was fair, with a slight squareness of face from his Nordic father, and a faintly humorous twitch up at the corners of lips … He was slow-moving and slow-spoken, with a well modulated voice'. Beneath the surface of his success and recognition he was desperately unhappy and in later years drank more and more. According to Jack Lindsay, 'He could not achieve a settled love-relationship and remained at an uneasy bisexuality'. Shy and reticent, he was painfully sensitive to the smallest criticism of his work, destroying many pictures which caused him dissatisfaction. Gruner was fearful of persecution and occasionally prone to frustrated outbursts of anger. He also felt uncomfortable when overpraised. His double existence—long periods of painting in the field while living in primitive conditions contrasted with the fastidious and stylish social life he led in the city—underscored his final despair of identity and purpose.
Suffering from chronic nephritis, Gruner died at his home at Waverley on 17 October 1939 and was cremated with Anglican rites. Next year the Art Gallery mounted a memorial exhibition of his work. A self-portrait is privately owned.
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Barry Pearce, 'Gruner, Elioth Lauritz Leganyer (1882–1939)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gruner-elioth-lauritz-leganyer-6501/text11149, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 19 July 2019.
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Azerbaijan's Image Cracks with Arrest of Watchdog Journalist
Posted 10 December 2014 22:13 GMT
Section of an infographic detailing Khadija Ismayil's investigative journalism work and the charges she has faced for it. Originally published on Meydan TV. Republished with permission.
There is no such thing as failure in Azerbaijan. The country's upward trajectory is eternal and unstoppable.
Never mind that the country's president wins a Corruption Watchdog's ironic “Person of the Year” award. Or that the number of internationally-recognized political prisoners in the country's badly-kept jails is approaching one hundred.
Azerbaijan, an energy-rich Caspian state dominated by the ruling Aliev family since before the collapse of the Soviet Union, likes to burnish its international image. Puff articles selling the government's successes routinely appear in some of the world's biggest news outlets. It reveled in hosting the Eurovision song contest in 2012. It is set to host Formula One and the first edition of the European games next year.
The Dec. 5 arrest of 38-year-old investigative journalist Khadija Ismayil, on trumped up charges, will test the limits of this bright facade.
Azerbaijan's best-known political prisoner?
Ismayil, whose family name can also be rendered Ismayilova, is a smart and talented woman from Azerbaijan. Among her friends and colleagues she is known for her outspokenness, honesty and fearlessness. Outside Azerbaijan she is known for her outstanding work in exposing things the Azerbaijani government would prefer to stay a secret. Her expertise? The ruling family’s illicit — and very international — business empire.
News of her arrest, ordered by the Sabail District Court, was reported by outlets around the world on December 5. The #FreeKhadija hashtag soon trended on Twitter.
If Ismayil is incarcerated, she will be Azerbaijan's most globally famous political prisoner. She has received numerous international journalism awards and recognition for her investigations into corruption in the country. This is not the government's first attempt to silence Ismayil.
A thorn in Baku's side
When she first began exposing the Alievs’ financial dealings in 2010, she knew what her work would cost her. During a trip abroad in July 2011, someone — the case is still supposedly under investigation in Azerbaijan — entered her apartment and installed a number of security cameras. The installation occurred shortly after the publication of one of Ismayil's stories about the Aliyev family's business interests.
On March 7, 2012, Ismayil received an anonymous piece of mail by post containing intimate pictures of her and a letter warning that video footage of her having sex would be released on the Internet if she did not stop reporting. The note read: “Whore, behave. Or you will be defamed.” Ismayil did not stop. The video went online and was widely disseminated.
Her subsequent stories exposed more murky deals about the Alievs, shedding light on offshore and local companies owned by President Ilham Aliev's two daughters, as well as shady construction agreements.
By June 2012, due in no small part to Ismayil's reporting it became illegal to obtain company and ownership information in Azerbaijan. The parliamentary bill referred to “commercial secrets” but for the government’s critics this was a worrying sign: if obtaining information was difficult before, it was now a crime against the state, a fact that almost guarantees impunity for officials engaged in illicit business ventures.
Both Ismayil's lawyer and her accuser have been forced to sign gag orders pledging not to speak publicly on the case. Thus the current charges against her are not fully clear.
This past October, the journalist was accused of libel and slander by Elman Hasanov, a former member of the opposition Popular Front Party. An ex-security official informed Ismayil that Hasanov had been compromised by the government and used to infiltrate opposition circles.
Ismayil wrote on her Facebook page (currently deactivated as per her own request) that she had not revealed Hasanov's identity in the information she published:
This is a private prosecution complaint by Elman Hasanov […] He claims I published in Facebook page two documents which is libelous and slander against Elman Hasanov […] I didn’t publish any document which named Elman Hasanov. In October 2011 (five months before the sex tape blackmail against me) former investigator of the Ministry of National Security Ramin Nagiyev sent me a file [allegedly claiming] recruitment of Elman Hasanov [by the Ministry of National Security] as an agent inside the opposition […] I was unable to check the authenticity of the document […] In February 2014 following a TV show where I was accused of being a spy and when the former MNS official said they knew everything about me, I decided to publish the alleged document. But I erased name and any information which would help identify Elman Hasanov […] Later [I learned that] someone whose Facebook nickname was Mustafa Kozlu already published the full document without erasing the name. I urged people to respect people’s dignity and privacy and not share the name of the person.
Ismayil was summoned to the Prosecutor's Office the following day and accused of “revealing a state secret.”
Also in October 2014, Ismayil was detained for several hours by government officials at Baku airport after she discussed Azerbaijan's human rights record with officials from the Council of Europe.
The most recent charge against Ismayil — incitement to suicide (Article 125 of Azerbaijan's Criminal Code) — was brought by Tural Mustafayev, a journalist who briefly collaborated with the Azerbaijan service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where Ismayil worked previously. He was later hired by a different media outlet, Meydan TV and fired 3 months later for unprofessional behaviour.
Full disclosure: The author of this article is currently a journalism fellow at RFE/RL and English language editor at Meydan TV.
Mustafayev has stated that he attempted suicide on October 20 (by drinking rat poison) after Ismayil interfered with his professional development and threatened him on Facebook. According to sources close to the case, he has not provided evidence of these allegations.
What next for Azerbaijan?
The ongoing crackdown on free speech and human rights in Azerbaijan negates the millions the country's leadership has paid western PR firms to improve its international reputation.
The first set of charges against Ismayil were initiated in October 2014 while Azerbaijan was still holding its controversial chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe. Despite a few presidential pardons for political activists, its chairmanship, which began on May 13 and concluded November 13, proceeded amid flagrant violations of its international commitments.
While the Council of Europe reprimanded Azerbaijan for its rights record at the end of the chairmanship, tougher action must be taken as the country's governance and rule-of-law record reaches new lows.
The lavish caviar-laced dinners and impromptu galas and exhibitions Baku holds for western delegates should not obscure the fact that Azerbaijan's repression of domestic dissent is reaching new heights. Oil and gas should not be reasons to coddle an odious regime.
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Climate Change: Coming to Your Hospital Soon
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Climate change is reawakening germs that have been dormant for years. As nurses, we may not need to take Microbiology again, but we should be cognizant of how the environment affects us and impacts the patient population we see daily. According to the BBC, soil is melting allowing bacteria and viruses to reemerge, such as anthrax. This is happening due to frozen permafrost soil thawing and then being melted due to climate change. In the Arctic Circle, in a far-off area called the Yamal Peninsula, death has already occurred due to anthrax. A 12-year-old boy perished, and 20 individuals were hospitalized due to this devastating illness. "Heat Death" Another area of concern is "heat death". In the jungle, the humidity is over 90 percent. Once humans start walking around, the temperature rises to 105 degrees. This can cause death to the individual. These temperatures may not be compatible with life. Food cannot exist in this extreme heat. Less food is produced in extreme temperatures. The United Nations put out a recent warning about current famine in parts of the world like Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen. Global warming will be responsible for a 50 percent drop in crop availability by the end of this century. A solution that has been proposed, to move the products to other parts of the world doesn't work because of poor soil quality. The Brain and Autism Currently, the amount of carbon dioxide is 400 parts per million. By the year 2100, it will be at 1000 parts per million. Sure, we may not be around to witness this, but surely, the residents of Planet Earth will be here. Impaired brain function will result, up to 21 percent. In addition, our projected time on earth will decline. This is due to ozone which impacts our lifespan. Even before the end of the century, by 2090, the air will be dangerous to breathe. Autism is now on the rise and guess what? Increased ozone in the atmosphere has been implicated in autism. Air pollution due to smog is another problem due to climate change. In China in 2013, there was an "air-pocalypse". 33 percent of the deaths in China were attributed to this problem that year. The Grapes of Wrath Part 2? Most of us read The Grapes of Wrath in high school or college. Do we want to go through this scenario again? In a few short years, by 2080, Europe will be in the middle of a drought. This will happen due to an increase in greenhouse gas which is taking over the atmosphere in this part of the world. Not just Europe will be affected. NASA also projected in 2015 that a significant drought will hit the American plains and will rival any drought that has occurred in a thousand years. The Middle East, which for this projection includes Iraq and Syria, as well as sections of South America, Australia and Africa will also suffer from horrific drought conditions. Flooding and Business In Miami Beach, there has already been flooding which has affected retail business sales. Well, this city is not alone. Global warming will have an impact on the sea level. It will cause it to rise. This will directly cause flooding. This is significant since one-third of this country's cities are coastal. The devastation will continue and have a direct effect on related businesses. This will include energy plants, such as your local electric company. In addition, food sources such as fisheries, and farms that produce rice will be impacted. Seaports that bring consumer products, which could also be electronics, will be affected. Navy shipyards and bases where our military lives and works will also feel this flooding. By the end of the current century, there will be a 4-foot to 10-foot rise in sea level. This statement alone is enough to cause anxiety since currently upwards of 600 million people reside within 10 feet of sea level. The End of Planet Earth? The worst-case scenario from climate change concerns "ocean acidification". This is related to the ocean picking up the carbon dioxide from the sky. Coral reefs are dying already due to this process. This is cause for alarm since coral reefs are the source of food for 500 billion individuals worldwide. Toxic gases are expelled into the atmosphere. The result is destruction of the earth as we know it today. Next Patient: Planet Earth The acuity of patients we see every day in the ER, the ICUs and the floors can all be traced back to how the planet is decomposing due to climate change. There is a cause and effect to all these scenarios and we are starting to experience all the fallout now. REFERENCES From website: Todays Weather Now | Daily weather updates and breaking weather alerts pushed straight to your device? Published August 2018. Accessed August 15, 2018.
Fashion Therapy
As a baby boomer RN, do you sometimes feel like changing your look? We do spend almost 40 hours a week in scrubs or a facility prescribed uniform. What about the rest of the week? Do you feel like dressing younger than your age? There are two schools of thought, either dress to reflect the number on your driver's license or dress younger than your stated age. Baby boomer nurses especially may need a push when it comes to their fashion choices, since they may be also experiencing life transitions as well. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION There is a psychologist in New York known as The Fashion Mentor who deals with just that question. With your disposable RN income, this psychologist will take 250 an hour to teach you how to dress age appropriate. For almost two decades Ania Schwartzman has been a clinical psychologist based out of New York. Four months ago, she started working as a consultant with women who wanted to change their look. LIFE TRANSITIONS There is an old joke about retail therapy, which basically entails going shopping when you are depressed and spending money. Schwartzman doesn't do that. True, you are going shopping with her but as she explains she doesn't do therapy doing the shopping trip. Instead she will help women who may be experiencing life changes which most women experience. Life which often spills over into their fashion choices. This could be a midlife crisis, such as facing a divorce or relationship breakup or someone facing a birthday such as the big 5-0 or even 60. This is where Schwartzman applies her therapeutic background. She also has her private practice in New York where she has children and adults as clients. Ania explains that clothes are designed to help you feel empowered through their fashion choices. From her website, "Ania believes clothes are like armor. With the right outfit...you can begin to find your confidence again." Her website also states that she offers a personal shopping stylist service. DO THE WORK You just don't show up and go shopping with this psychologist. No, as they say in therapy, you must do the work. That entails the following. Schwartzman meets with them before they step into the department store for a cup of coffee or they answer some key questions before preparing for this shopping trip. She looks at coping strategies as well as what bothers them on a day to day basis and what are their stumbling blocks to achieving success. The total package for the sessions usually is $750, which covers three outings with this therapist. During that time, they can put together a new look and face whatever life's curveballs have recently thrown at them. FASHION PSYCHOLOGY Like mindful eating, where you think about what you are putting into your stomach instead of wolfing your food down, there is you guessed is, mindful dressing. Our fashion choices also have meaning. The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York may be offering a course called fashion psychology. Dawnn Karen, FIT instructor is the impetus behind this course. She already has been the instructor for this school's Center for Continuing and Professional Studies in fashion psychology. At FIT, she teaches how clothing and the colors we select can affect us on a behavioral level. Karen, by the way, has her master's in counseling psychology from Columbia University. Karen also is a therapist. At the present time she charges clients $1000 to $5000 per month for brand consulting and counseling. She calls herself a fashion psychologist and she defines this as the "study and treatment of how color, image, style and beauty affects human behavior, while addressing cultural norms and cultural sensitivities." She is an innovator and has started an online Fashion Psychology Institute. Some of the course offerings are the hoodie phenomenon as related to Trayvon Martin and First Lady Fashion, which of course dissects current first lady and former model Melania Trump's fashion choices among others. These online courses go for $379. YOUR FASHION SENSE In general, since nurses tend to wear uniforms, at times their personal style does not exist, at least during working hours. Do they need a boost as Schwartzman says or more analysis of their choices as Karen advocates? The jury is out on this. Nurses, is your fashion sense lagging? Do you need fashion therapy, or can you do it on your own? REFERENCES Women are hiring shrinks to help them shop-New York Post By Doree Lewak Published April 27, 2018. Accessed August 19, 2018 The Dress Doctor Is In-New York Times By Jennifer Miller Published April 12, 2018. Accessed August 19, 2018. thefashionmentor Fashion Psychologist - Dawnn Karen
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First published in the Anderson Valley (CA) Advertiser’s January 23, 2002, edition.
To say that I hadn’t thought of Bernard Rostker in years would be imprecise: How do you ever truly forget someone who threatened you a month before your car was firebombed? You don’t. The memory of someone like Bernie—then United States Selective Service System Director, no less—can remain embedded in your mind forever. Or twenty years of forever, in my case. But a large part of me was willing—if not to forgive and forget—to move on: that part of me was willing to give into The Man.
But here was Bernie again, mug shot adorning a February 26, 1997 New York Times news story. The article was about a news conference Bernie had conducted on behalf of the United States Department of Defense the day before. The Pentagon, in the form of “senior investigator” Rostker, had acknowledged “for the first time that when the Army blew up a sprawling ammunition depot in southern Iraq in March 1991, it already had information suggesting that the depot might contain chemical weapons . . . The information from the CIA, the Pentagon said, was never passed on to the battalion of US soldiers who carried out the demolition several days after the Persian Gulf War ended, and who may have been exposed to a cloud of nerve gas and other chemical weapons as a result.”
Bernie was looking a little older for the fifteen-plus years which had passed since my salad days in Washington, DC. But if you know what he looks like—a dark-complexioned Caucasian of average height, solidly built, bald with a strip of dark hair—Bernie is instantly recognizable. I doubt he would remember me, though. When Bernie stepped down as Selective Service System Director in 1981, I was no longer his problem.
And I am sure he would not recognize me now. I had much longer hair in the early 1980s than I do now, and, like Bernie, I’ve put on a few pounds.
At the February 25, 1997, news conference, Rostker, whose formal title at the time was Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses, said that the Pentagon had no explanation for why the American military command bureaucracy did not pass the CIA information about the Kamisiyah ammunition depot to the 37th Engineer Battalion before ordering the unit to destroy it. “That’s one of the unfortunate miscommunications here,” the Times quoted Bernie as saying.
Gee, we don’t know. We don’t know why we sent Americans into a bombed-out arsenal of chemical weapons: What a brilliant defense. For The Man and his minions, anyway, and for the inhumane and irrational within almost all of us.
“Gee, we don’t know” was the decal on the ball Pentagon Bernie ran with for four years. He did a great job—according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Bill Clinton administration, anyway. On May 23, 2000, Bernard Rostker was sworn in as the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. Bernie became, according to his Pentagon bio, “the Defense Secretary’s senior policy adviser on recruitment, career development, pay and benefits for 1.4 million active duty military personnel, 1.3 million Guard and reserve personnel and 725,000 DoD civilians.” A natural career move for a former director of Selective Service.
But there seems to be a partisan dynamic at play with Bernie and high-profile military positions: he left Selective Service in 1981, shortly after the arrival of Ronald Reagan in Washington, and was either relieved of or removed himself from duty as Department of Defense Under Secretary by the time George W. Bush was installed as President January 2001. There’s no telling to which plum position President Al Gore might have appointed Bernie to next if the hijacking of democracy in Florida in November 2000 had not been allowed to stand.
The Pentagon is a big, big place, though, and the Military-Industrial Complex is even bigger: Bernie’s been known to habituate such high-command headquarters as the RAND Corporation when he’s marching to the beat of the business world. But from the look of Bernie’s bio, he must be busting 60 now. Is he vigorous enough to appear once again in a starring role come the Democratic Party’s next administration of the United States Government in the Christian world’s twenty-first millennium?
Back to the car firebombing thing for a moment.
A DC squad car was parked in the street behind the burning Renault by the time my lover Anne and I made it to her car. A lone police officer sat in the driver’s seat as he talked to a woman who leaned into his open window. She departed from the scene as soon as the policeman stepped out of his car and walked toward us. Anne confirmed that the destroyed vehicle was hers. The policeman told us that the woman had seen two men get out of Anne’s car and walk to Connecticut Avenue, in the direction of Dupont Circle and the White House, as the fire erupted.
Do either of you know of anyone who might have had a reason to do this to your car, the police officer asked?
Had anybody other than the director of the Selective Service System threatened me before the interior of the Renault was gutted? No. The August 1980 threat Bernie lobbed in my direction was the first threat of physical violence I’d heard since high school.
Anne had forgotten what I’d told her the previous month about Bernie’s braggadocio. The bone of contention SSS Director Rostker had to pick with me concerned my appearing on national radio and television newscasts advocating noncompliance with military draft registration. I was a director of the National Resistance Committee (NRC), an organization created by northern California libertarians and pacifists in response to President Jimmy Carter’s call for military draft registration in his January 1980 State of the Union address.
I was a student at the University of California at Santa Barbara at the time of Carter’s request. I’d started a campus chapter of Students for a Libertarian Society (SLS) in the fall of 1979; SLS was the Libertarian Party’s short-lived college adjunct. My brief time with SLS before working for the nonpartisan National Resistance Committee, and a year of carrying a Libertarian Party membership card in 1980 (though, in fine libertarian spirit, I did not cast a vote for the LP’s presidential candidate, or for any of the other presidential candidates in November of that brutal Cold War year) are the only political affiliations I’ve ever made. I dropped the torch for “Big L” libertarianism when I realized that its American political strain holds a fervent faith in unrestrained capitalism’s liberation of humanity but maintains an equally fervent blindness to the more muddled history of world capitalist expansion and human rights. I’ve been an advocate of democracy—economic, social and political—since.
Jimmy Carter made his call for military remobilization in the 1980 State of the Union Address in reaction to the hostage taking of United States officials and military personnel stationed in Teheran, Iran, in November 1979, and to the Soviet Union military invasion of Afghanistan the following month. Although the Carter Administration did not move as forcefully as prior American presidents may have done to bolster the despotic rule of the Shah of Iran in the final months of the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1978, The Most Powerful Man In The World could not release The Man’s chokehold on US Middle East policy. After being browbeaten by such American emissaries as David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger into allowing the deposed Shah into the United States for specious medical reasons—a decision which US foreign policymakers knew would precipitate an attack upon the US’s presence in Iran—Carter acquiesced. When the inevitable occurred in Teheran, the hapless Preacher from Plains chose the road most traveled by American politicians in appealing to the American people’s overdeveloped sense of brute patriotism.
But many of us in the anti-draft registration movement sensed that The Man’s inglorious defeat in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the mid-1970s had opened a hole in his US armor. Even Americans as militarily bellicose as Ronald Reagan opposed the reintroduction of military registration and conscription. (Indeed, as President, Reagan allowed federal legal prosecution of draft non-registrants to languish.) We suspected there was an excellent chance that the American people might not be so willing to deliver their own unto Caesar and his kaleidoscopic US business concerns.
And we were right. The revived draft registration program was to begin July 1980. But, on the Friday before the first of two mass registration weeks, a three-judge federal court in Philadelphia struck down the registration law due to lingering Vietnam-era court challenges to the male-only nature of US military conscription. The National Resistance Committee and other local, regional and national organizations had held news conferences throughout the country earlier in the week featuring soon-to-be draft non-registrants and their supporters, myself included. I remember watching Walter Cronkite on television that night, opening the broadcast of “The CBS Evening News” with the story on draft registration’s setback. Sure enough, we appeared. The US Supreme Court reversed the lower court’s ruling that weekend. But until then, for a brief moment, the first post-Vietnam move by The Man to militarily remobilize American society had been thwarted.
Bernie and friends were surely watching the same broadcasts. They must have been very peeved.
A month later, while in his office at Selective Service headquarters, Bernie asked an anti-registration compatriot of mine to let me know that he and his friends were going to get me. “We are going to get him,” is what he said. Bernie used the royal “we.” At the time, I thought that Bernie was merely blowing off some Cold War steam. That changed as Anne and I watched the fire burn itself out in her car.
I chose not to tell the police officer anything about Bernie’s message. I sensed instantly that if I began to make a federal case of the firebombing, it might allow The Man’s almighty public relations machinery to demonize the movement as a whole by setting their character assassination sights on moi. I didn’t want to give The Man that opportunity: I felt I should stay “on message” instead. So I said nothing about Bernie to the police officer, nor to the DC detective who paid us a perfunctory visit the next afternoon.
Now I wish I’d done otherwise. If such a terrorist act upon me was a result of my anti-registration efforts to that point, I was obviously doing something right. The NRC’s strategy was based on a highly public confrontation with the Selective Service System so that a violation of its laws would appear to be as socially acceptable as compliance. If I could turn back time, I would schedule a news conference on the steps of the Selective Service System headquarters in Washington, inform the journalists in attendance about Bernie’s threat to me and the firebombing of my lover’s car, and then lead the pack of reporters into Selective Service headquarters to demand a meeting with the public servant then residing in the Director’s office: Tis better to look The Man and his Bernies square in the eyes, and declare them to be what they are. Who knows how the history of draft registration, and The Man’s post-Vietnam machinations within the United States and throughout the world, under cover of the democratic flag, might have changed in the last two decades of the twentieth century?
For the rest of the time I lived with my lover and her three daughters, I worried about a second such device harming them. Yet I continued to play a key role in the anti-draft registration movement. On a Friday early in December 1981, after learning that a United States Attorney in Minneapolis planned to indict a religious college student at the end of the following week for refusing to register with Selective Service, I telephoned a contact who was with the Reagan Administration’s domestic policy staff. Surprisingly, he indicated that the staff was unaware of the US Attorney’s planned action. I informed my contact that over 100 public demonstrations would occur by the weekend after any first indictment.
My call seemed to have its intended effect. Key Reagan Administration figures met with the President in the White House the following week. Roughly 36 hours before the indictment was to be announced, Reagan officials directed the Justice Department to send a telex to all US Attorney offices announcing a suspension of all planned draft non-registration indictments pending an Administration review of the program! News of the Reagan White House’s action did not become public until the Friday the indictment was to occur.
Once again, I believed that draft registration might end. I knew that the anti-draft registration movement had done as good a job as was possible in attempting to end the program. But my hopes, once again, were quickly dashed. That weekend, while Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger toured Europe, the Communist government of Poland cracked down on the Solidarity trade union movement. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity trade union activists were arrested as martial law was declared. Upon hearing the news from Poland, I knew the Communist suppression would allow Ronald Reagan a way to distance himself from his presidential campaign criticism of mandatory draft registration. Sure enough, in Spring 1982, the Reagan Administration announced that it had decided to keep the program going. The chance to end draft registration quickly had passed.
The anti-draft registration movement imploded due to political fractiousness at the end of 1982. By then, I’d had my fill of both American peace movement politics and the abomination to democracy that was the Reagan Administration. I returned to my native northern California shortly after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President for a second time, not really knowing what to do next.
I’d gone to Washington to try to undermine the workings of The Man in my country, but, in the end, I lacked his staying power—a story not uncommon among Americans who internalize the confounding reality of a democratic government and society too inclined to anti-democracy. I retreated to the workaday world, into marriage and into the myriad other responsibilities of adulthood. I became a silent reader of all the news that’s fit to print.
But the inner horror I felt in my early twenties as I observed my nation’s brutal ways has never waned—and continues to shame me, as it should all Americans. For we, the American people, free citizens all, are ultimately responsible for how our businesses and government conduct themselves in the world.
As the twentieth century has blurred into the twenty-first, we continue to be beholden more to the hollow consumerist ethos at the center of our popular culture than to the democratic promise the founders of our nation made to humankind in 1776. Indeed, the hallmark of the modern United States is not our form of democracy—marred as it is by pathetic voting levels, rampant civic cynicism and a government dominated by Big Money—but a roiling, violent society which features the largest gap in wealth between haves and have nots in recorded human history. Virtually every social ill, and every foreign policy embarrassment experienced by our nation, is caused not by a fealty to democratic social principles, but by a manufactured loyalty to an economic system too inclined to human exploitation and social inequality.
How can we remain silent about our nation’s behavior without compromising our humanity? Human psychology declares it impossible. And I am Exhibit A. My marriage is long dead, and a bad back (borne of a bad conscience?) has now forced me to seek a third, fourth or fifth career. Two decades may have passed since I abstained from attempting to exorcise Bernie from our nation’s affairs, but I am still unwilling to accept them as they exist. I may have refrained from further action partly to protect my personal well being, but my personal well-being has suffered some heavy blows nevertheless.
So to say that I haven’t thought of Bernard Rostker in years would be imprecise. His presence has weighed on my psyche as The Man weighs on our collective affairs. Surely you must be as tired as I am of the offensive weight. Surely, in this post-September 11, 2001 age, you, too, can say, Be gone!
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Martin Benjamin Bushman (b. 1841) Autobiography
Posted on February 5, 2016 by Ann Laemmlen Lewis
Life Sketch of Martin Benjamin Bushman
Written by Him 5 February 1925
When he was Eighty-Four Years Old
Martin Benjamin Bushman Family BACK: Emma, Eugene W., Flora E., James A., Annie L. FRONT: Martha Worlton, Vera, Martin Benjamin
Martin Benjamin Bushman was born 5 February 1841, in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, son of Martin and Elizabeth Degen, who was the son of Abraham Bushman, who was the son on Henry Bushman. At the age of one year he was taken from Lancaster to Nauvoo, Illinois by horse team, which was about one thousand miles.
At Nauvoo his parents labored hard to make their children comfortable. He saw the Prophet Joseph and Hyrum Smith and remembered, though very young, of sitting on their laps. He remembered how his parents mourned because of their deaths.
His parents were driven from their homes. They had to leave their crops in the fields and take a few of their things in their wagon and bid good-bye to the city they loved. He remembered going into the Temple with his mother to take their last look at this beautiful house. Then they started on their journey through Iowa. They suffered much with cold and hunger. On that journey he remembered seeing two of his sisters laid in the silent grave who had died from exposure and for want of proper food. One of them was buried without a coffin.
When they got to Winter Quarters in the western part of Iowa the family built a log house and a place for their team. His father and older brother went to Missouri to get work so they could obtain some food for the family. In their absence it was his job to take care of the team and get wood and chop it up. They often had to grind corn on a coffee mill before they had their meals. He used to set traps and catch quail and pheasant to help out with their meals.
They lived there for four years to obtain an outfit to go on to Utah. While living there he was baptized a member of the church and also received a patriarchal blessing by William Draper.
There were no schools in the little village he lived in, but his sister taught him to read. Though he never went to school but very little, he tried to educate himself by studying hard. He was ten years old when he came to Utah. The one thousand mile journey was long and tiresome. They were about four months on the way.
The family spent one week in Salt Lake City, Utah, then moved on to Lehi. For the next ten years he stayed with his father and helped on the farm. Other jobs he did were to help build houses, make fences, reap and sow crops, herd cows and haul wood and timber from the canyons.
At the age of twenty he started out to make a start for himself and just as he was planning on what he was going to do, he had a call from the Bishop for a short mission to drive an ox team to the Missouri River and back without any pay. He and five other boys from Lehi went. They had five wagons and four yoke of oxen to the wagon, two oxen to the yoke. That was forty oxen Lehi furnished. They were nearly five months on the journey and the trip was about two thousand miles there and back. When the Lehi teams got with their company there were sixty wagons, eight oxen to the wagon, making 480 oxen in the train. They made a caravan with the wagons.
On the return trip they had from eight to twelve persons in each wagon. The wagons were so heavily loaded that the teamster had to walk the thousand miles and drive the teams. It was a hard journey, but the boys felt that they were doing a good work, and said they were glad they went and when they arrived home they returned the teams to the owners and had not lost a one.
He now started out to make some means for himself, he thought he ought to get him a home for himself for he felt that he should get married and have a family of his own, so he obtained a small house and lot, some furniture–such as a stove, table and chairs and other necessary things. He had a cow and a yoke of oxen and a wagon. All this he obtained in three years. Then he obtained the consent of Lucinda Ladelia Goodwin to marry him. They were married 22 March 1863 by President Brigham Young. They stayed one week with her parents, then moved into their own home. One year later they had a baby girl born to them but she only lived sixteen days. One year later twins were born, a boy they named Martin Isaac and the girl Laura Ellen. They were born 9 October 1865. Both children were strong and healthy so they had to get a girl to help take care of them. They obtained the services of a young lady by the name of Martha Worlton. She lived with them for two years. He became so attached to her that he asked her to marry him as a plural wife. She said she would if her parents would give their consent. It was then that he realized the responsibility that he was taking upon himself being a young man of only 27 years and in poor circumstances to take care of two families, so he went to the Lord in secret prayer and asked that if it was his will that he should marry her that it would be so, if not, that something may turn up to stop the marriage. Her parents and his first wife gave their consent and they were married on the 2nd of March 1867 by Wilford Woodruff.
Martin and Martha on their wedding day, 2 March 1867
Both wives and their children lived in peace in the same house for ten years, then he provided each family with a home and he was always able to pay his debts and his tithing.
After living with these two wives for thirty-two years he was arrested by a United States Official, taken to court and there he was given the privilege of turning one family away or go to prison and pay a fine. He chose to go to prison rather than turn away a wife that had been true and faithful to him. He was sent to prison for three months and paid a fine.
He made it a practice to live with each family the dame, that he might help them take care of their children and have prayers with them. He tried to set a good example before them by having prayers night and morning as well as going to Sunday School and to meetings, also by paying his tithing and all other requirements. He wishes to say that his wives and their children have tried to obey his counsel and have shown him all the respect he could ask of them.
As a member of the church he has tried to live a consistent life. In the priesthood he has acted as a deacon in caring for the house of worship, he has acted as a block teacher for many years and as a priest in visiting the saints in their homes and teaching them the gospel. He was in the Elder’s Quorum for five years and a member of the 68th Quorum of Seventies for 39 years and was one of the Presidents. He served as a member of the High Priests Quorum for 18 years. He was a Sunday School teacher for thirty years.
At the age of sixty he went back to his native state of Pennsylvania to visit his relatives. He also visited New York, Philadelphia and many of the large cities and places of interest.
Twenty children were born to him and he was present when each one of them was born. Out of the twenty, he lived to see thirteen of them and one wife that was very dear to him laid away. Of the 7 children still living at the time he wrote this history, two lived in Canada, one in Washington State, one in Salt Lake City, one in Provo (Martin Isaac Bushman) and two in Lehi. In writing the closing of this history he wishes to say to his children–Be faithful to God and his church and he will bless you. He has written this sketch of his life that his children might know of his life’s labors.
[Handwritten on to the copy of this account:]
He died 31 Oct 1927 in Lehi, Utah at age 86.
2nd wife Martha Worlton died 20 Jan 1938 at age 89.
Martha Worlton’s father was James Worlton born at Bath, Sommersetshire,
Mother Elizabeth Borne [?] 1848, Sommersetshire, Eng.
The following is a list of the children born to Martin Benjamin Bushman and Lucinda Ladelia Goodwin Bushman. Their birth dates and death dates.
Mary Elizabeth 29 Sept. 1864 Lehi, Utah 15 Oct. 1864
Martin Isaac 9 Oct. 1865 “ ” 24 Sept. 1933
Laura Ellen 9 Oct. 1865 “ ” 4 May 1899
Nancy Lucinda 3 Oct. 1868 “ ” 22 Ma.r. 1872
Sarah 17 June 1870 “ ” 30 Sept. 1871
Lewis Jacob 16 July 1872 “ ” 31 Oct. 1897
Edith 3 Mar. 1875 “ ” 30 Oct. 1875
Ester 5 Sept. 1877 “ ” 8 Oct. 1878
Rhoda 5 Sept. 1877 “ ” 30 Aug. 1922
Emerette Ruth 20 June 1884 “ ” 27 Nov. 1939
10 by Lucinda
10 by Martha
James Albert 4 June 1868 “ ” 12 Oct. 1917
John Benjamin 16 Nov. 1870 “ ” 10 Aug. 1871
Alvin Alonzo 28 Dec. 1872 “ ” 28 Sept. 1873
Flora Elizabeth 15 Aug. 1874 “ ” —
Eugene Worlton 14 Dec. 1876 “ ” 28 Feb 1931
Annie Lois 27 Apr. 1880 “ ” 22 Jan. 1950
Martha Emma 3 Sept. 1882 “ ” 13 Sept. 1936
Cyrus William 23 Sept. 1884 “ ” 22 Apr. 1909
Drucella Jane 24 Nov 1886 “ ” 15 Dec. 1887
Vera 22 Jun. 1891 “ ” —
4 Responses to Martin Benjamin Bushman (b. 1841) Autobiography
Frances Gray says:
A what an amazing man. Never heard about him before. A great testimony of polygamy righteously lived. imagine providing for two families that big. You do a good work. I notice that the time of some of these postings are in the wee hours of the morning. May God bless you and yours. Love Frances.
Hi Frances! I’m so happy you are enjoying the stories. Here’s my secret about burning the midnight oil: I can write a post ahead of time and then schedule it to be posted on a particular day (like someone’s birth or death day). When I do that, I usually schedule to be posted sometime after midnight on the right day so it’s there first thing in the morning. (I’m trying hard to get to bed before midnight which is really hard for me. I’m a night owl).
I love you. Greetings to all your family. Ann
I came across your message tonight. I am a. Night owl too since my father died when l was ten just before WWII. We took in roomers and Gordon slept in a trundle in Mother’s room and I slept on the couch. With many responsibilities my only private time was after all was quiet. We had a branch library two blocks away and l gradually devoured it.My mother was prone to long periods of depression. My Father’s halfsister came once a week on her day off and brought balance and courage into my life. Also fun and homemade goodies. She was a Methodist Deaconist all her life. A great woman leader in her Church in her time. Reva was her name. Well I have rambled. I am getting over another backset . So grateful that l can still live alone and handle my handicaps and odd digestive system that is left now. The Lord is always near and keeps me on the right track and never lets it go beyond my strength.. l only get out to doctors etc. Larry is a Bishop again and so is his son Matt in the same building. Leads to some funny mixups sometimes. They are very good to me. MN is a good place for elderly handicapped, many good programs.l follow your great experiences and am so proud of you both. Did you notice many of Martin’s children died very young. What a hard life. Larry lost a nine month son to brain cancer. I was here for the months during that time. And that was only one lost child. His wife Marie recently had two valves replaced in her heart. She just turned seventy. He has his hands full. Third time as a Bishop in an unusual ward with only 8 high priests mostly cash strapped couples getting second or third degrees and starting families. He will retire in June. I have 35 greatgrand children. I have no feeling in my feet and hands after thirty years of neuropathy. Getting my small five meals a day is a challenge, but l often feel God and His love at my side. I feel gratefulness should be the first commandment.. it opens all doors for me in dealing with my present experiences.. and l get to know real joy to feel in my heart and soul. So glad your family can all be be together again. Your father calls every few months a we talk old times. Such a good man and he has now a gentle greatness. Very few of our old group left. Continue to be joyful in your great work.. love you all, Frances.
PS sometime l will tell you about my visit to the polygamy colonies in Mexico with a friend who is a Romney. She introduced me to an elderly Turley had written an ..history of the colonies there.I obtained a copy. Well written with good pictures. It seems you should have it if you don’t have one. Let me know . My energy is limited l have planned segments of a project, even a meal to get it done.. l think we have similar minds. Mine used as much as l could under different circumstances. Blessing to you and your Missionaries, love Frances.
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AKB48’s single sales surpass 50 million, announce new single “NO WAY MAN”
AKB48‘s latest single “Sentimental Train” easily topped the Oricon charts this week, but this release marks another milestone achieved for the girl group.
First week sales for the single reached 1.45 million copies, according to Oricon. These sales have allowed AKB48 to surpass over 50 million units sold for singles, a first for Japan. In 2016 AKB48 became the first female artist in Japan to surpass 30 million units sold.
The same year they would surpass the record for total single CD sales, which was held by the legendary rock group B’z. Last year, the girls also surpassed Ayumi Hamasaki to become the highest selling Japanese female artist in history.
AKB48’s total sales (not including DVDs/Blu-rays) are at about 58 million units, “Sentimental Train” is the groups 40th #1 single.
Meanwhile, the girls have announced the release of their 54th single “NO WAY MAN“. This single will be quite special, in the sense that it will be the last single for Sakura Miyawaki, Nako Yabuki, and Hitomi Honda before heading to start activities with the Produce48 group IZ*ONE.
The girls will return to 48 activities in 2021.
“NO WAY MAN” will be released on November 28th, 2018.
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June 9, 2016 Research No comments
Coronary ostoplasty for congenital atresia of the left main coronary artery ostium in a teenage boy
Coronary artery abnormalities are reported as the third largest cause of sudden death in young athletes. Because patients usually do not have any apparent abnormality on medical examination, it is difficult to detect this before some events. We report a rare case of congenital atresia of the left coronary artery ostium in a teenage boy.
Externally, the left main trunk seems to be connected to the ascending aorta, but there is no communication inside the ascending aorta. The left coronary artery is opened longitudinally. The posterior wall of the left coronary artery was directly connected to the aorta. The anterior wall is covered using a patch of 0.6% glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium.
The patient was 13 years old, and he played volleyball for his school. There was no relevant family history. He had been healthy, except for two episodes of partial loss of consciousness during running and swimming when he was 11 years old. He collapsed with severe chest pain and palpitations during volleyball practice. His symptoms disappeared once after resting. Medical checkup including 12-lead electrocardiogram could not find any life-threatening signs. Two weeks later, he visited hospital with the same symptoms and referred to us for further investigation.
Computed tomogramphy (CT) showed that his left coronary artery ostium ended blindly, and there was no connection between ascending aorta and the left coronary artery trunk. Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy detected a sign of ischemia in the area perfused by the left coronary artery. A diagnosis of congenital atresia of the left coronary artery ostium was made; thus, left coronary artery ostioplasty was planned.
Surgical findings are shown in the Figure. We found no communication between the left coronary artery and the aorta from inside the aorta. We opened the left coronary artery longitudinally from the proximal end until we reached the intact lumen. We directly connected the posterior wall of the coronary artery with the aortic wall. And we reconstruct the anterior wall using a pericardial patch treated by 0.6% gultaraldehyde solution. He has been leading a normal life, without chest pain or other symptoms eight months after the operation.
Physicians should be aware of the patient’s history, and proceed to prompt imaging studies in patients who present with chest symptoms during exercise which are suggestive of myocardial ischemia.
Ai Sugimoto, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
Coronary Ostioplasty for Congenital Atresia of the Left Main Coronary Artery Ostium in a Teenage Boy.
Sugimoto A, Shiraishi S, Moon J, Takahashi M, Tsuchida M
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Nigerian Investor Sets Up $135 Million Commodities Exchange
A Nigerian startup is developing a new agricultural commodities exchange in Africa’s most populous country to take advantage of the government’s efforts to boost farming output to reduce reliance on oil.
The exchange, Integrated Produce City Ltd., will be located near the southern city of Benin, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, a site accessible to nearby growers of cocoa, palm oil, rubber and cassava, Chief Executive Officer Pat Utomi said in an interview.
“The concept of a wholesale-produce market is to enable the farmer to fully dispose of his produce, instead of today where he loses 80 percent of his output” that rots before it can reach the market, Utomi said on Aug. 18 in the capital, Abuja.
Nigeria is boosting investment in agriculture to increase exports and cut food imports that cost it $3.2 billion in 2015, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The economy of Africa’s biggest oil producer has been hit hard by lower output and prices of crude, which accounts for more than 90 percent of foreign income and two thirds of government revenue.
Integrated Produce City will have storage facilities, including refrigerated warehouses, and host processing plants on its 100-hectare (247-acre) site in Edo state’s Ugbokun village when it starts operating by the end of 2018, Utomi said. “It will be an export hub for produce,” where exporters will have access to large quantities stored in one place rather than sending agents to individual farmers to collect small amounts, he said.
The company has put up 20 percent of the required $135 million and is in talks with lenders and investors from South Africa, China and Australia for additional capital, Utomi said, declining to name them. Integrated Produce City signed an agreement with KPMG LLP’s Nigerian unit on Monday to help it raise more capital, Vitus Akudinobi, a spokesman for the new exchange, said.
Cocoa, palm produce, cashew nuts and rubber are among the products to be traded on the exchange. Others are fresh fruit and vegetables, grains and tubers such as cassava and yams. Local manufacturing companies will be able to buy agricultural goods at the exchange, he said.
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November 19, 2012 May 23, 2013 Jana J. Monji
A hovering accusation of racism shadows ‘Cloud Atlas’
As an Asian American, you can’t avoid touching on the subject of racism in the movie “Cloud Atlas,” particularly if you’re viewing it in Hawaii. Hawaii is the only state where the cultural atmosphere suddenly changes and I am part of the majority, or at least look the part despite my mainland ways. I get the same feeling when I’m in any one of Los Angeles County’s Chinatowns despite not being Chinese, yet for my Hawaiian-born husband and cousins, being part of the majority is what being at home means.
“Cloud Atlas” is confusing enough with its intertwining fragmented stories, but what is clear is the theme of hubris or karma. Hubris is a Greek term that is about a person acting in arrogance and the shaming a less powerful person for mere pleasure, yet in modern usage is also comes with a caveat: there will be punishment. If not from the gods because in Christian thought humility is preferable, from a God, and thus one says “pride goes before the fall.” (Book of Proverbs, 16:18).
Karma means deed and is an Asian term from India and part of the tradition of Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikh. The deed is part of a cycle of cause and effect and the cycle itself is called samsara (now the name of a different type of movie). In the movie, more than once characters comment, “Our lives are not our own. By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” You see this concept in all monotheistic religions; it’s the Golden Rule or the ethic of reciprocity.
You might be wondering why Hawaii is important at all in “Cloud Atlas.” Perhaps this is where some of the confusion springs from–we aren’t immediately aware of where we are when we’re in the post-apocalyptic world, the world where we see Tom Hanks as Zachry. He’s an old man, battle scarred and telling a tale of the past, before a fire. When he was younger and inhabiting the tale of “Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Ev’rythin’ After,” he is in Hawaii, but not a Hawaii that we would ever know or shall ever be and herein lies some of the racially-charged content.
The movie “Cloud Atlas” is like one of those Russian dolls, in which one nests inside another and the real charm of the dolls themselves is in their relationship to each other. There are six stories. The oldest one is “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing” which follows Adam (Jim Sturgess) during his journey to the Chatham Islands in 1849. The American lawyer befriends a Moriori slave who has stowed away on his ship. The slave, Autua (David Gyasi), comes under his protection, but Adam’s friend, Dr. Henry Goose (Hanks) is treating the American for a Pacific parasitic worm while actually poisoning him.
In story two, the journal is being read in 1936 Edinburgh, Scotland by Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw) who had left his male lover in Cambridge, England in order to work with a famous composer, Vyvyan Ayrs (Jim Broadbent) in Edinburgh, Scotland. Frobisher is a man of questionable morals, but finds real inspiration while working with Ayrs and composes his masterpiece, “The Cloud Atlas Sextet.” He writes letters back to his real love, Cambridge science student Rufus Sixsmith (James D’Arcy), describing the situation but not necessarily including a particular detail: he’s having an affair with Ayrs much younger wife (Halle Berry). Frobisher provides the shocking hook at the beginning of the movie–he’s committing suicide in a particularly messy way. As the movie progresses, we learn why his suicide is necessary. In the 2004 novel “Cloud Atlas,” Frobisher is in Zedelghem, Belgium and not Edinburgh.
In San Francisco (the third story), the daughter of a journalist, Luisa Rey (Halle Berry) has followed her father’s footsteps as a journalist, but now finds herself investigating a conspiracy to cover up information about the safety of a new nuclear reactor as the result of a chance meeting with Frobisher’s now middle-aged lover, Rufus (D’Arcy). Rufus will be killed and Rey will find the possibility of romance with Rufus’ co-worker Isaac (Hanks) but end up working with a former friend of her father’s, Joe Napier (Keith David). At the end, Rey will be reading Frobisher’s letters to Rufus Sixsmith and even find a rare copy of “The Cloud Atlas Sextet” as a record.
In the novel, an editor named Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent) is reading a manuscript called “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery.” The Cavendish segment is comical and also starts the movie out with a bang, or splat that acts as an ominous warning to critics. The year is 2012 and Cavendish tells his violent author Dermott Hoggins (Hanks) not to mind the critic who panned his book because, “What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely.” Hoggins ignores his publisher’s advice and kills the critic by throwing him off a balcony. That makes his book an instant success but Cavendish keeps all the money for himself until Hoggins’ brothers come and demand an enormous sum. Cavendish turns to his brother, but his brother (Hugh Grant) recalls the affair between his brother and his wife and has Cavendish go to a hotel which turns out to be a rest home where residents are held prisoner under the authority of Nurse Noakes (Hugo Weaving).
Cavendish’s tale about his incarceration and escape are made into a movie which the genetically engineered Sonmi-451 (Doona Bae) has been watching in Neo-Seoul in the year 2144. Sonmi is a clone that is used to serve in a fast food restaurant. In the movie, the clones are all young women in short dresses and the audience sees young Asian women in short shorts bending over, being harassed by Asian men, young naked Asian women in a shower scene and a simulated sex scene between Bae and Broadbent. This is the only time during the movie we see bared breasts.
The clones are treated as drone slaves and then slaughtered to become meat products, but Sonmi-451 is rescued by Hae-Joo Chang (Jim Sturgess,) who feels she is the one to tell her story and bring awareness to the greater human society. Her story is being recorded for the archives by an interviewer and shown in flashbacks.
The last story is 2321, 106 winters after “The Fall,” in the Hawaiian Islands. Zachry (Hanks) tells about his shameful cowardice when his family member, Adam (Sturgess), was killed by the horse-riding cannibals, the Kona, and his meeting Meronym (Berry), a member of the Prescients, the last members of a tribe who have advanced technology. Zachry guides Meronym to the Cloud Atlas so she can send a message to people who have left the earth and now live on other planets, hoping these people will be able to save them from this dying planet. The Cloud Atlas is the Mauna Kea Observatories on top of the Mauna Kea Observatories, but in the movie, it almost seems as if this place is Neo Seoul, the place where the rebels take a last stand so that Sonmi-451 can made her broadcast as the government breaks in and kills the rebels, including her lover Hae-Joo Chang.
What has actually happened is that the rebels transport Sonmi-451 to the Big Island of Hawaii and this is where she makes her broadcast. Or at least, that’s my interpretation. Zachry is clearly on the Big Island and makes references to Hawaiian geographical points.
Are the cannibals, the Kona, cultural descendants of the corporations and governments who decided clones were acceptable fodder for other clones? This isn’t clear from the movie. What is clear is that, although there are references to Hawaii by Zachry, this isn’t the Hawaii or the Hawaiian culture of today and hopefully not the future.
The racial controversy that swirls around “Cloud Atlas,” mainly focuses on the decision not to cast any Asian men but to cast South Korean actress Bae Doona and Chinese actress Zhou Xun. Bae Doona plays Tilda Ewing, wife of Adam (Sturgess) and a Mexican woman whose dog gets killed in the Luisa Rey segment, Zachry’s’ wife,
Sonmi-451, Sonmi-351 and a Sonmi prostitute. Zhou Xun plays Talbot, a hotel manager who doesn’t seem to realize that there’s a phone in the room where a guest commits suicide and leaves to call the police, and Yoona-939 and Rose. However, Broadbent dons yellowface to portray a Korean musician, James D’Arcy as a Korean archivist, Keith David as An-Kor Apis and, most infamously, Sturgess as
Hae-Joo Chang. The yellowface tends to look unnatural, drawing the viewer out of the story and reminding one of a Star Trek Vulcan (Screen Crush’s Matt Singer suggests Star Trek Romulans, but the conclusion is the same–yellowface makes them look more alien than human. In both cases, the references are to Star Trek: The Original Series). I’m not sure that this is what the Wachoskis had in mind.
Star Trek TOS Romulan commander.
Similarly, Bae Doona as Tilda Ewing doesn’t look quite right, but not as audaciously and comically silly as Hugo Weaving as Nurse Noakes. This Agent Smith isn’t in disguise; he’s a man in drag meant to look like a man in drag. If makeup artists can make Robin Williams (for the 1993 “Mrs. Doubtfire”) and Dustin Hoffman (for the 1982 “Tootsie”) convincing women, surely in 2012 they could have done the same for Weaving.
Berry as Jocasta Ayrs also isn’t quite convincing: See her, you know something isn’t quite right in a way that’s similar with seeing many former brunettes gone blonde. Sure it makes her more shocking or striking but is that really the purpose? She already has the weight of the ominous name, Jocasta. In Greek mythology, Jocasta was the wife of Laius and then wife and mother of Oedipus.
Yet there are more subtle and unsettling themes that could be viewed as racist. The people of Zachry’s tribe are primarily white, unlike the current and projected population of Hawaii. The current population of Hawaii is 38.6 percent Asian, 24.7 percent white (with only 22.7 percent non-Hispanic white alone), 23.6 percent of two or more races, 10 percent Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders, 8.9 Hispanic and Latinos of any race and 1.6 black or African American. Hawaii has the lowest percentage of white Americans than any other state. One wonders why the directors decided that Chinese actor Zhou Xun needed to look more Caucasian in order to be a member of Zachry’s tribe (The later usage of the whiteface on Bae Doona as the wife of Adam Ewing is understandable although not entirely convincing). According to hair.color.wikia.com, black is the most common hair color with brown coming in second. If you look around Hawaii, the majority of people have dark hair and that’s true for most of the Pacific Islanders. Yet Zachry’s tribe all have medium brown to blonde hair.
Look at Zachry’s tribe. Is this Hawaiians of the future without a single brunette or black-haired person?
In Hawaii, the movie makers missed an opportunity to contrast the casual and culturally accepted nakedness that was characteristic of Pacific Islanders prior to Victorian Christianity with the sleazy sexualized nakedness of the Asian clone-slaves of Neo Seoul. It was not only the hot weather that encouraged the native dress but the lack of cotton plantations and fields. The Pacific islands did not have the culture, land or climate for the production of the raw materials for cotton, linen, silks and satins. This makes the cotton rags of Zachry’s tribe puzzling, as if they are natives of a Mediterranean climate and dressed as serfs from a different era.
Zhou Xun needed to look more Caucasian in order to be a member of Zachry’s tribe even though we are in Hawaii?
Zachry’s tribe fears the Kona who have their faces painted and ride horses that seem very European. Kona is not just the name of a coffee in Hawaii, it means leeward or downwind in Hawaiian. In ancient times, each island had a leeward district. In modern Hawaii, Kona is a district on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii.
This is a different district than the one inhabited by the paniolos, or Hawaiian cowboys, who were generally in the North Kohala and Waimea districts. Waimea is where the two astronomical observatories are located (on Mauna Kea). Horses were introduced to the Big Island of Hawaii in 1803 after five black longhorn cattle were released (1798) and allowed to free range. By 1816, there were thousands of maverick cows and John Palmer Parker, husband of King Kamehameha I’s granddaughter Kipikane, was given permission to wrangle the cows and ranch. Parker brought over Mexican vaqueros in 1832 and began the paniolo tradition. There are dude ranches and even some working ranches currently on the Big Island, most of them seem to use stock horses, a type of horse based on or derived from the American Quarter Horse.
The suggestion of the movie “Cloud Atlas” is that the paniolos no longer herd cattle, but, as the Kona, prefer to eat the meat of small pockets of survivors like Zachry’s tribe. Like the Asian civilization of Neo Seoul, cannibalism is a viable solution and we see a parallelism between the corporate society of Neo Seoul and the savagery of the Kona.
The film comes two years after former Talk Radio Network host Michael Savage made a comment on his syndicated show about Hawaii and cannibalism, “I loved Hawaii I lived there many many years, it’s an interesting all syllables. But you don’t know about that are they going to be independent very soon. I don’t know how they’re going to make a living, they’re going to kick the white man out then what they going to have cannibalism again. Oops sorry.” No one really believes that Michael Savage is sorry, but the accusations of cannibalism, true or not, persist in relation to African and Pacific Islanders.
Captain Cook was killed on Kealakekua Bay which is on the Kona coast, but that was in 1779 (February 14). There have been accusations of cannibalism in the death of Captain Cook, however, according to the 2003 book “Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History’s Greatest Explorer,” this was not the case. Yet the movie “Cloud Atlas” seems to use cannibalism as a sign of reverting to a base and immoral savagery–the lowest form of civilization with or without technology. The audience might think that even the Nazis didn’t go as far as eating their victims.
Hugh Grant might be unrecognizable as the Kona leader, but he looks clearly Caucasian to me although that might not be the concept of the directors. He has clearly “gone native.” The tattoos seem to be of a snake although there is only one native Hawaiian snake that looks more like a worm.
I haven’t been to the Big Island, but I have been to Seoul and Neo Seoul of the movie could be any East Asian city and yet is like no Asian city. It has no character. Coming from Tokyo’s Narita airport and landing in Seoul, the very smells of the city tell you where you are. Then the colors and the aesthetics. Americans are often offended by the Koreans taste for dog meat and I have seen sad dogs waiting to be butchered.
The segments if Neo Seoul seem uninfluenced by the manufactured boy and girl band trends and the modernization of furniture that has Koreans sleeping on beds just as Americans, Europeans and Chinese. The most telling aspect of this non-specific East Asian depiction of the Neo Seoul
Photo of a traditional Japanese house (minka).
apartment that Hae-Joo Chang and Sonmi-451 take refuge in. The cherry blossoms become the moving wallpaper. While cherry blossoms bloom and are celebrated in Korea, their national flower is the hibiscus syriacus or Rose of Sharon which symbolizes immortality. The cherry blossom in Japan symbolizes impermanence.
A tourist reads a book at a traditional Korean house Hanok at Tea Guest House in Seoul, South Korea. AP PHOTO/AHN YOUNG-JOON
Seoul, unlike Japan, has a large Christian population. In 2005, with 46 percent of South Koreans expressing no particular religious faith, 29.2 percent identified themselves as Christians (with 10.9 percent as Catholic). Compare this to the 22.8 percent who identified themselves as Buddhist. In Japan, Christians make up only one percent or less of the population. In Thailand, less than one percent. In Taiwan, the figure is 4.5 percent and includes Mormons. The influence of Christianity is erased in Neo Seoul. Yet what we know about the Holocaust is that some people were moved by their faith in God to resist the Nazis. Christian abolitionists were also instrumental in the fall of slavery in the United States. Yet in the movie, religion only seems significant in a shamanistic way for Zachry and his tribe.
The casting of black British actor David Gyasi has also gone under some scrutiny. He plays Autua, a Moriori man. The Moriori have been described as peaceful and of small stature and dark-skinned. Gyasi isn’t easily identified as a Moriori, or Pacific Islander, and Screen Crush critic Singer saw him as an African slave. An easy mistake and more than likely something that added to the confusion.
Moriori in 1877.
This isn’t to say that Pacific Islanders haven’t been played by people of African descent before or haven’t been considered black. People of African descent have played Pacific Islanders before, most notably in “South Pacific.” Juanita Long played the Tonkinese “Bloody Mary” on Broadway and became the first African American to win a Tony in 1950. She also played a Chinese American in “Flower Drum Song.” France Nuyen, a French-Vietnamese actor, played Bloody Mary’s daughter Liat. Nellie Forbush’s problem with the handsome Emile is his prior relationship with a native woman resulting in mixed race children. Forbush is from the South (Little Rock, Arkansas). Emile had lived with a woman who wasn’t white and wasn’t yellow. She wasn’t Javanese or Tonkinese. She was Polynesian and “To Nellie’s tutored mind any person living or dead who was not white or yellow was a nigger.” (In the book, Emile had eight daughters to four women and only one was Polynesian. The musical changes Emile’s background to two children from one Polynesian woman.)
The Moriori are Polynesians and dark skinned as are the more war-like Maoris who defeated them. Captain James Cook also met with the Maori and there are credible accounts of Maori cannibalism. What besides the mention of the Chatham Islands and the Pacific parasitic worm could the movie directors have done to make the place clearer to movie viewers? Would the casting of a different actor, someone who perhaps looked more Polynesian or Pacific Islander have helped? Or did the Wachoskis mean for us to have the uncertainty of place? If so, why only in the non-European segments?
“Cloud Atlas” was actually filmed in Duselldorf, German, Port de Sóller, Mallorca, Baleraric Islands, Spain, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK), Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland (UK), and at Studio Babelsberg in Germany. Mallorca and the Baleraric Islands stood in for Hawaii. Yet not all islands can sub for the tropical paradise known as the Big Island.
There are other problems of logic tied into conventions of TV and movies. Why don’t the Prescients have a better way of scaling the cliffs if they have crafts that can hover of the ocean? Maybe I’ve been conditioned by watching too many Batman movies.
When the gang of bad guys, supposedly government agents break into the love nest of Somni-451 and Hae-Joo Chang, they cannot hit the two lovers as the two slowly attempt to escape via a self-generating bridge from their window to the next building. My husband blames George Lucas because the Storm Troopers of Star Wars are only good shots during the first part of the movie and then reduced to can’t shoot the side of a barn buffoons.
Pursuing bad guys have a similar problem in the segment “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery,” but this is something often seen in police and similar TV dramas. We’re used to that illogic, but both cases of faulty marksmanship detract from the serious intent of the movie. In a way, both the author and the directors have it all ways: The six stories cover so many genres there is almost something to please everyone despite the troubling portrayal of Asian and Pacific Islanders. That’s odd because Hawaii seems to be a place where clouds of many types are seen and offer the opportunity for rainbows. We saw several including the rare triple rainbow during our latest brief visit there.
A cloud atlas is much like an atlas for countries except it serves as a key for identifying clouds. Jean-Baptieste Lamarck published an atlas classifying and naming clouds in French in 1801. Luke Howard published the first English language cloud atlas in 1802. In 1890, an expensive book called “Cloud Atlas” was published by Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson, Wladimir Koppen and Georg von Neumayer. The book’s success led to the “International Cloud Atlas” in 1896.
The importance of understanding clouds and their meaning increased not because of the human interest in small talk but it could be used to predict weather. With the beginning of human flight, weather became more important as anyone whose flight has been weather-delayed knows. The atlas was meant to serve as an aid to training meteorologists toward a more consistent descriptive vocabulary for clouds. Unlike an geographic atlas that defined nations, boundaries and borders, a cloud atlas was about a natural phenomena that was not bound by artificial man-made borders. Clouds are part of the universal experience of weather.
The movie “Cloud Atlas” ambitiously attempts to show a karmic cycle, the application of the Golden Rule in seven different stories, yet the movie does seem to reflect a troubling racist bias. That is to say, I don’t feel that the directors overcame the problem which they attempt to expose–the artificial boundaries of racial prejudice and sexism.
Dermott Hoggins
Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
Luisa Rey
Moriori
Nurse Noakes
Robert Frobisher
Rufus Sixsmith
Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After
The Cloud Atlas Sextet
Timothy Cavendish
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J.T. says:
The point of the tribe being all-white in the final story is because the “superior” alien-like race in the final story is all-black. As a result, it contrasts the earlier story in the 19th century where the “superior race” is white who are bringing slaves over to there land. The final story has the alien race opening up to the island natives and finally showing them respect as a people, just like in the earlier story where the lawyer played by Jim Sturgess show respect to David Gyasi’s black slave, and joins the abolitionist movement.
I get your issue, but I think your focusing too much on the logistics of demographics and races as opposed to the themes. Your analysis doesn’t completely hold up, IMO.
Jana J. Monji says:
You’ll find that the majority of native cultures in the Pacific Islands and in Africa have dark or darker skin whether they are considered yellow or black. There is nothing that immediately said “Hawaii” when we were supposed to be on the Big Island and this comes from three people who were born and raised in Hawaii.
There are many mixed race people in Hawaii and it would seem logical if a minority of them should survive, it would not be totally drawn from the minority of what is Hawaii today.
If there needed to be a hard contrast as you suggest, perhaps New Zealand would have been a better choice given that before the arrival of Europeans it was Maori. Today it is 67.6 percent European and 14.6 percent Maori. Asian are only 9.2 percent and other Pacific Islander is 6.9 percent.
This would tie in better with the Moriori as it is thought that a group of Maori who immigrated to the Chatham Islands became the Moriori.
You’d still have that problem with the lack of native plants to create clothing. New Zealand like the Big Island of Hawaii has no poisonous snakes.
Like I said, themes are more important than the tiny details like being set in New Zealand and the indigenous plant life. Ideas are much more important than the specifics of the location or demographics when the symbolic connection is made. Interesting analysis in any case though.
The disregard for details comes in the Pacific and Asia, but not Scotland or England or even San Francisco.
Asian and Pacific Islanders and their ethnic groups have historically been lumped together, with the details of race, culture, religion and appearance ignored. This was called Orientalism and is a type of prejudice.
Hawaii is just as distinctive a place as Scotland and to consider otherwise seems ethnocentric. The directors and the production staff could have made the location clearer, even if another country was standing in for Hawaii, by paying attention to the details, but it doesn’t seem to have been important enough.
Island paradises don’t all look alike and neither do Asians and Pacific Islanders.
I understand what Orientalism is, and I appreciate your sentiment. My problem with your analysis (and subsequent responses) isn’t your beliefs, it’s that you are ultimately focusing on the tiny details of how “the production staff could have made the location clearer” where they were located, when you should be more concerned with characters and the themes of the movie. Your complaints are ultimately nitpicks that are put under the microscope so much that you are pulling out a meaning in the film that doesn’t exist. It’s like if you complained that “The Cabin in The Woods” is a bad movie just because it doesn’t work in a real-world scenario. Both cases are missing the core point of the film.
What’s the point of deciding a place must take place in a specific location if you don’t get the location right, if you make it so non-specific that it could be anywhere and by doing so make it nowhere?
Hawaii is a specific place just as much as Scotland and Seoul, Korea.
Being sloppy just because it isn’t Europe or America shows a definite bias.
I understand the sentiment of the movie, but being well-meaning isn’t an excuse. Would you imagine an African nation or island as totally white in the future and expect for people from that nation or people of that ethnicity to find it acceptable? Probably not. You’d know better and expect some sort of backlash, but not with Pacific Asian Islanders?
The movie failed to find authenticity in so many little ways. It’s not one small mistake, but many small mistakes that makes it one large mistake. And not all the mistakes were minor.
You act as if Korea or Hawaii doesn’t have people there who haven’t projected or imagined the future for themselves.
Further blackface is uncommon in Hollywood films, but yellowface is all too common. More than yellowface, there’s a whitewashing of history that denies Asians Pacific Islanders a place in history. Apparently, they don’t exist in the future of Hawaii according to “Cloud Atlas.” Denying their existence in Hawaii isn’t a minor detail.
Hae-Joo Chang is played by Jim Sturgess, not Broadbent.
Thanks for the catch. Got it right in one place and wrong in another. Wish I had an editor, but for now, sharp readers will have to do.
Welcome to the club. Ever notice that much of violent crime in America is committed by blacks, but most street criminals in Hollywood movies are… white?
I’m not sure how this relates to anything in the essay.
Moors have often been played by blacks of sub-saharan origin, though Moors looked very different from black-blacks.
Also, plastic surgery is very big in Asia because asians wanna look white. And Japanese anime features asians as blonde long-legged, and pointy nosed people. So, maybe asians in the future will use dna technology to look more white.
btw, asian men aren’t used in movies because they lack popularity as ‘geeks’ and ‘small-penised’ wussies. Don’t blame conservatives. It’s liberal Jews who use Hollywood to spread certain racial impressions, true or not.
Andrea, I somehow think you don’t really know the definition of “black” per Merriam-Webster and are probably not qualified to decide what might be racist in any film at all.
Plastic surgery is very big in the U.S. One could blame Playboy and Hustler for that, but that would just be supposition.
pbk122 says:
Well thought article. They def need to include more asian american male leads. Times are changing and hopefully hollywood will better portray people of all color/ethnicities more fairly.
Moriori are polynesians (like these samoan fellas http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cS55rbarR24R/610x.jpg), they look nothing like africans..it’s like comparing manti te’o and ray lewis..europeans are much educated and conscious of the world than dumb stupid americans who only see white/black/yellow..
Not being Polynesian, I didn’t want to say anything, however, this would explain why some people who are sensitive to the issue might have thought the slave in “Cloud Atlas” was African and not Moriori.
I did ask a friend who is half-white and half-black and she believes that Polynesians are originally (West) African. Of course, Africa is a continent and not a cultural or nationality.
This unclear point of race in the case of Polynesians is why I mentioned “South Pacific.”
LCD says:
I think Hoggins needs to talk to you out on the balcony…
I think the film captured the pluralism depicted in the book well, despite your observations, the cast is diverse and it is my hope that while ethnicity is often a factor in casting, that these actors were all given there roles based on talent. I think that is clear from the performances (personally I think it is one of Halle Berry and Hugo Weaving’s best).
I don’t think your argument holds up at all. The themes of the film are so clear and the acting so superb, and the story telling well constructed (from a book that was considered unfilmable). I think that Cloud Atlas has unwittingly put the nail in the coffin of using political correctness as a means for understanding racial, cultural and ethnic diversity. PC theory certainly does not work in art and to quote our president “Our differences do not divide us, they define us.”
It is a work of art, and an experimental one at that. I don’t think treating it as though it should be a strict interpretation of historical genealogy through the many geographic regions visited in the narrative is warranted or fair. This is especially so given the importance and timeliness of it’s message.
Great film and a stunning book. I recommend both to everyone. And since you mentioned it… Samsara is an even more important must see!
By definition pluralism is “a state of society in which members of diverse ethnic racial, religious, or social groups maintain and develop their traditional culture and special interest within the confines of a common civilization.” I do not see how by misrepresenting non-European or white cultures in the movie “Cloud Atlas” provides such an example.
If instead of the Big Island of Hawaii, Zachry’s tribe and the Konas had been in Georgia and the only survivors were black, what would your assumptions then be? As the current population of Georgia is 59.7 percent white and only 30.5 percent black this would be much the same as what we see in “Cloud Atlas.” Hawaii is 24.7 percent white.
The job of the directors is to quickly establish a place/location. If Hawaiians can’t identify the Big Island as Hawaii, then the directors have failed and just lazily attempted to fill in any island with a warm climate as another. In other words, all warm climate islands look alike.
Besides the population, the flora and fauna would have hinted at the location as well as aspects of language.
In addition, Neo-Seoul tells us by a subtitle where we are but what we see could easily be anywhere in East Asia so likewise do all East Asian cities look alike?
Further, there’s a comment from a Polynesian who feels that Polynesian is not African. Some people misidentified the character as African because the actor was African and could not pass as Polynesian. Do the directors feel that all blacks look alike?
As a person whose family includes mixed race individuals, I can tell you what they look like; they don’t look like Vulcans or Romulans. Again the directors have failed to provide us with a believable context unless the movie means to launch us into another chapter of Star Trek (TOS).
jay mckim says:
Yellowface is a tradition of white racism against Asian male while Asian female were allowed to play their race and gender in order to serve white male. Yellowface
is not new this film used old format of Hollywood anti-Asian male practice and Asian female were all easily available to White males. In this film, the relationship
between Korean actor Donna Bae and White guy in Yellowface is old format of social enginnerring play Asian female and White male match-up while Asian male
are depiction as ugly horrible looke like those 3 white actor in Yellowface look like
alien creature than Asian male. This is what makes this film anti-asian male racism.
Heaven says:
I didn´t noticed any of those details, I´m a latina, I thought Hae-Joo Chang and the others were part of a new race, I was so confused by the movie I couldn´t focus in anything else. Didnt read the book either 🙂
BooBooG says:
Boy oh boy, Jana J. Monji, you have no idea what art is and you clearly missed the point of the movie, but comp-uh-letely.
I have to wonder what gives you such authority to state that I “have no idea what art is.” It would seem your ego exceeds your grasp of reality.
Well, your unimaginative dissection of a piece of cinematic art as if it were an object of scientific analysis gives me authority to state that you’ve no idea what art is. You cannot understand a film by applying rational truths, facts or whatever it is you are trying to perform here. It engages faculties it would seem are exceeded by your own ignorance about philosophy of art.
Anyone who focuses on the genetics of Hawaiians while sitting in a cinema has no business employing themself to film criticism (which is an a priori modern case of sophistication if there ever was one). The world would be a much better place if only there were no people ”who read too quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely.”
Eloquence and knowledgeability, my dear, does not entail understanding.
So someone who uses a pseudonym which is analogous for a colloquial term for mistake has decided that a certain movie is “a piece of cinematic art” and the usage of a logical argument to criticize that piece of art and perhaps challenge BooBoo’s subjective decision cannot possibly understand art?
And then BooBoo decides to be paternalistic by calling me “my dear.”
Next time I view a movie with my friends, many of whom are scientists, I’ll remind them that according to BooBoo, you cannot understand a film by applying rational truths. For future reference, we might consider noting such by saying, “That’s a BooBoo.”
*do
Wow, you do surprise me with your imaginative limitations. There is more meaning to Boo Boo than it being a colloquial term for mistake, you know? Does literature ring a bell, maybe? Probably not. You should look it up.
And that’s wonderful, I’ll be very happy if you ever note a Boo Boo!
To the question: Does literature ring a bell? Of course, literature cannot ring a bell. I’m not sure you’re in a position to tell me what I should or should not do, but that might be your ego talking, again.
Are you seriously saying that literature cannot literally ‘ring a bell’? What a remarkably well spotted piece of superfluous information. Good for you.
And you’re right, I do have quite an ego, if by ‘ego’ you mean ‘the self.’ And if by any chance you mean an inflated sense of self-importance, don’t you think it would be a tad counter-productive inventing ‘BooBoos’? Just kidding.
Anyhow, thanks for the lectures in history, genetics and scientific anthropology, I guess. I’m sure I’ll find the information useful somehow, somewhere, someday. Most likely not in cinemas.
Onwards and upwards,
A Colloquial Term for Mistake, apparently
I’m sure there are people who prefer not to think while attending movies but I’m not writing for such people.
I am quite sure I don’t write for people who would address me with paternalism. The lessons of paternalism should be unlearned and those who still adhere to such ignored.
I don’t post outside links.
Thyt says:
Than e.g. “ONce upon a time” is racist, because Sir Lancelot is played by a black actor? I’m sick of over-pc attitude…
Did I say that? You’d have to define black. I use the MW 2a: “having dark skin, hair, and eyes.” If you believe that Lancelot was French, then perhaps he was as French (by birth) as Alexandre Dumas.
I didn’t say, Lancelot was French… my point, which it seems I failed to express clearly, was that I wouldn’t call racism that in a tv series a character who belongs to one “race” is played by someone who belongs to an other “race”. (I wouldn’t wish to define “black”, take a look at the actor in question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinqua_Walls)
Although it was embarrassing for a short moment, it never occured to me, that it would be racism (maybe over-pc, but why care? it’s mainly and most importantly : fantasy). And it is true vice-versa.
And I would suggest you to be careful with the word: “racism”. True, feelings could be hurt by unrealistic depiction (although I’m not from Hawaii neither from the US, so I didn’t sense that the post-apocalyptic place would be Hawaii, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT’S A FANTASY, and they gave us no linear history with details on demographic changes, so who knows what happens in the next 100 or so years? Would I be offended, if in a fantasy film Europe would be inhabited by Arabians and Africans in the next century? I doubt…) So, apart from hurting emotions (which I understand, but consider to be meaningless from the point of view of the critical discussion of the film) do you think that this phenomenon is truly racism? In my country pc has reached a point, where being proud of my nation and origin is almost racism… (Neither I’m French 🙂 )
So the whole point of this: don’t overuse this term please…
My point is that how can you be sure if that person is of a certain race since there were so many different Lancelots? So if we take the version that says he is French, then could it not be possible that like Alexandre Dumas he was also black? If you read carefully, I did not state that you thought Lancelot is French. I could re-state it as should you consider Lancelot French, which is one version, then we have another French person who is black, Alexandre Dumas. Lancelot du Lac was from France in the musical “Camelot.” If you consider that he was from Benwick, then that’s a different story. But you seem to be saying that you are quite sure there were no people who would be considered black in England or Europe at that time of King Arthur who may or may not be a real person. Mixed casting is not how I defined racism in “Cloud Atlas” and has not been the issue with other Asian Americans. I think you need to re-read my essay, but I’m also writing three more essays on this topic.
Oh my God… Is it intentional, that you argue about the most irrelevant parts of my reasoning? Lancelot and Once Upon a Time was just an example, an example, I repeat, although it seems a bad one… Anyway, Dumas was not black, but at best mixed-race (according to wikipedia and some other internet sources – I admit, it was a new information for me, so thank you for calling my attention to it). (Is it not racism to call him black, when he had a white parent, too…? this leads nowhere) And who said anything about my vision of England/Europe at the time of King Arthur? But let’s drop this, because again it leads us nowhere, I see.
I agree, that Americans are ignorant in some aspects (“Europe is a country”, or marking Australia as Iraq if you write it on the continent), especially when making films. E.g. in the movie “I Spy” when we first get a glimpse of Hungary a Turkish-like (or not, sry I don’t know, but definitely not typically Hungarian) music can be heard in the background, with the purpose of giving back the “Hungarian feeling”. Well, that was eyebrow-raising (literally I was shocked for a short second, as now I tell you, I’m Hungarian) and was completely inappropriate, as our musical culture is something totally different. – Superficial and false introduction of my country. Am I offended by it? No! I was (let me say please) fuckin’ proud, that the scene of a funny and cool movie was admittedly in my country (as Budapest often “plays” Moscow etc. 🙂 ). Turkish people back in history occupied a part of and stayed in my country for a long time – do I care, that a Turkish-like music plays in the background? Again, no.
I think you’re too sensitive. And I think the debate is easily resolvable by giving a definition of racism: “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race ” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism). Judging based on this definition, do you still think, that what we see in CA is racism?
Anyway, white actors (actresses) masked as Asians and vice versa were disturbing. I wondered for a long time during the movie, what’s the problem with the eyes of Hae-joo Chang (or whats-he-called), but I understood, that the point was something different, and think to understand the reason why they did not employing an Asian actor in that role.
Hm, but if I get it right, you’re of at least American origin and so our views on racism differ almost completely, thus further discussion of it is totally a waste of time. I think Americans are handling this question in a very wrong way, and tend to “make a mountain out of a molehill”. That is my personal, subjective view and do not claim it is the right and only one. But I think this oversensitive and overreactional attitude hinders true honesty and confidence and in fact does a great harm for example in self-evaluation as an individual and as a nation. Why is it so hard to simply just accept the things they are, instead of seeing a monster in every shadow (speaking generally)?
And again, Hawaii was never mentioned. Hanks and Berry went obviously to the place where Somni and co. were – based on the film: Nova Seoul. How do you know, what climate changes took place in the following who knows how much years? This debate is absolutely in vain, as again, I mentioned before and you failed to react to that, that it is a fantasy or a fantastical place, i.e. imagined, nonexistent. How can you argue about something that does not exist?
I said what I wanted, if I gave you anything to think about than I’m happy. And please do not intentionally misinterpret what I say, so you could further argue, but rather try to grab the concept behind the mere words.
You might be under the mistaken notion that you are the most important contact of the day. You, of course, are not.
Since you wrote so little at first just what was relevant? Of course, everything should be relevant. That’s the basics of writing.
Alexandre Dumas was black depending upon your definition. Black and African are not necessarily synonymous. If that’s new information to you, then you might have some problems understanding the issues I’m addressing. Hawaii was mentioned in the movie and the essay, but an island with sand and greenery do not make Hawaii Hawaii. If you missed this while reading the essay or watching the movie, then again, it is easy to see why you have problems understanding either (and thus prove that the filmmakers failed to give sufficient visual/oral cues and increased the confusion).
So I think you should re-read the essay and gather your thoughts better.
I was having other conversations and there’s already another article posted about “Cloud Atlas” on this blog.
“You might be under the mistaken notion that you are the most important contact of the day. You, of course, are not.” Thank you for the information 🙂 Although I have to admit, it surprised me, that I’m not the center of the universe? I thought the Sun goes round me… (that was irony)
Our way of thinking is different, although you like to label what I think about this and that, make hasty judgements about what I think about this and that kind of people, and twist my words in an annoying way. It’s obvious to me I won’t be able to change even a bit your thoughts, and most sadly you don’t seem to try to truly grasp the intention of my comments, so I stop trying. You might be under the mistaken notion that you possess the philosophers stone, thus the ultimate truth. You, of course, don’t 🙂
You might have taken the time to re-read my essay instead of spouting off about Americans (also known as the fallacy of generalizations).
You’d have to be better organized and more eloquent to change my mind.
A defense i’ve seen here and elsewhere is that an important theme of Cloud Atlas is transcendence of race and sex in the chain of existence, and in the movie several of the lead actors/actresses play characters of different race (and even different sex) from their own in the six storylines, so it’s unnecessary to single out the white-actor/korean-character permutation for criticism. Fair enough. But one may then ask: why not cast an asian-american actor who might play one of the caucasian incarnations in some storyline? (and not only to play one of the korean characters). That would certainly strengthen the transcendence message? A plausible response is that “this movie is a 100 million dollar investment and actors/actresses that have box-office draw are needed…” Again fair enough (although sad for asian-american actors). But Doona Bae or Zhou Xun are not asian-american nor famous in the west, and if one argues that they can attract the asian audience (esp. in China, where it seems a lot of financial hopes for this movie are pinned), then surely there are many asian male candidates too (witness the huge popularity of many asian pop-artists/actors in asia, e.g. Rain). So it seems Cloud Atlas still leads back to a basic racial/gender bias…not in the overt message of the movie, but as an unintended reflection of societal attitudes (and those of the film makers). What is disappointing is that a project of such moral ambition as Cloud Atlas did not do more to see and address these biases.
Your article is good film criticism IMO. I especially like the analysis of the significance of Polynesia and Hawaii in the movie…I learned something there.
Dear Eric:
Thank you for taking the time to comment. It was nice to have someone see the logic of my argument. I discussed the movie with three Hawaiian-born Asian Americans. None of us had read the book but that shouldn’t be necessary to understand a movie.
I just finished reading the novel about ten minutes ago, after falling in complete love with the film. I’ve watched the film three times and while the Futuristic Hawaii segments were troublesome to me (as a Pacific Islander – Native Hawaiian and Chamorro) I “let it go” for the sake of the story. However, seeing what was changed from the novel to the movie has me angry. And really appreciating your essay.
The movie is ambitious, the story line connected rather than continuous, so I understand the challenges of trying to get a mainstream audience to follow along. The filmmakers decided to cast the same actors in the different roles to give the audience that sense of continuity, but as a part of the audience, I get to voice my dissatisfaction with their laziness. I think that audiences are perfectly capable of picking out threads of connectivity, and certainly other methods could have been used. The comet birthmark was utilized effectively in the novel, tying characters together despite sex or age or place. In fact, Luisa Rey’s character was directly mentioned as an reincarnation of Robert Frobingsher. In the film, Rey is relegated to the reincarnation of Jocasta. This is troublesome because Luisa Rey is so certain in the record shop that she “knows” the Cloud Atlas sextet. The novel asserts without saying outright that she knows the piece because she wrote it in a past life. In the film, she knows it because she was sleeping with its composer. A very different kind of connection.
But the most important bit of lazy adaptation comes in the treatment of the Pacific Island narrative as a whole. The Pacific Journals of Adam Ewing display the most blatant racism in the entire novel (as observations Ewing has about other people on the ship he is on, as well as missionaries / white people living on the islands). There is a discussion about the “ladder of civilzation” which is mentioned in the movie, but dicussed more thoroughly in the novel. Ewing begins the novel as someone entrenched in the belief that Anglos are the pinnacle of human civilazation, yet this belief system is eroded by his travels in the Pacific Islands. He meets many different islanders and witnesses white missionaries attempting to get islanders addicted to tobacco to fill them with a need for more than they have available to them in their surroundings. He sees the benevolent racism of the missionaries and can’t quite put his finger on what troubles him about it. After all, he is a pretty well off white guy. But then Dr. Goose, who is poisoning him, makes a remark that Anglos are only at the top of the ladder because of weaponry, which is not an inalienable, God-given miracle. He later tells Ewing in private “Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land and riches? True ‘intellectual courage’ is to…admit all peoples are predatory but White predators, with our deadly duet of disease dust and firearms” are the examples of predatory excellence.” As he poisons Ewing’s brain wth narcotics to get to his treasure chest, he poisons Ewing’s beliefs, which leads to a crescendo of realizations that left me, as a descendant of those same Pacific Islanders, hopeful. That was not captured in the film. How unfortunate.
This misfortune is only exacerbated by using the same big name actors in all of the roles, rather than attempting to cast each role with respect to the individuals they represent. It’s not just that there were black people cast as Pacific Islanders, which I will admit did offend me. It is important, for example, that we observe what cinematic tradition shows us – all dark skinned people are African or all Asian people interchangeable, or even “just” altered white people. In a film about racism, slavery, and the realization that all individuals do have dignity, it is a shame that the filmmakers revert to more of the same, literally, by using the same few actors. It was a cinematic choice which seems to contradict the central theme of the novel it pretends to revere. I see this contradiction, and I am calling it out. The fact that so many people are willing to let it go just because it’s a pretty movie (which it is) must mean something. The fact that “we” expect studios to compromise on a novel whose central theme is equality simply because “hey they need to make money too” means even more.
Thank you so much for your essay.
I have to admit that when I first was notified of your comment, I didn’t want to open the email because most of the comments I’ve received for my essay were negative (and I was on vacation). I was often told that I had missed the point of the movie.
I wrote the essay with some hesitation because I am not a Pacific Islander and I am not someone who might be considered black (as in the South Pacific way).
I think it is a mistake for Asian Pacific Islanders (nationals or of that ethnic group) to just let something pass that offends us for the sake of the story. The choices that are found offensive are just as much a part of the story. At this time in human history, we should be beyond that.
We need to, as you say, “call it out.” People want to make money, but they could certainly save money if they didn’t have to pay those well known actors and have so much makeup. We have “Life of Pi” to show us that an all Asian cast of relative unknowns can succeed in capturing the world’s imagination.
At this point in time, movie makers should not be lazy. Asians and their ethnic groups represent about 60 percent of the world population.
So thank you for taking time to write in your comment. It encouraged me to continue on my dragon lady like journey.
Kaiser says:
I have to agree with several other commentators that you are over-analyzing the racial elements of the film. The inconsistencies and not entirely successful attempts to make the white characters appear Asian in ‘Neo-Seoul’ didn’t bother me because that society is much different from our own in terms of ethnic diversity and genetic experimentation, and I appreciated the effort made to communicate the theme of interconnectedness. Also, the woman who broadcasts the message that apparently keeps humanity civilized after the apocalypse is Asian. In fact, the most awkward part of the film in terms of race was the poor attempt to pass off an Asian woman as white in the 19th Century.
In the same vein, a post-apocalyptic Hawaii three hundred years from now where even the language has altered would have been subject to so much upheaval that the fact that the tribal people are all white was of little import to me. The cannibals didn’t appear to be any specific race at all. And the most advanced people we see in the whole film, the end product of civilization, are all black. The film is too broad and sweeping in terms of the vast timescales and projected social changes to accuse it of racism.
Because you weren’t bothered by the “inconsistencies and not entirely successful attempts to make the white characters appear Asian” in Neo-Seoul, I think you need to examine your ability to accept yellowface.
Yellowface is more acceptable than blackface in movies out of Europe and the United States. It is clearly more acceptable to you. That in itself is a sign of racism and one could venture to say that movie goers have been indoctrinated into accepting yellowface as well as Eurasian actors playing Asian characters.
That the film has “broad and sweeping” timescales and “projected social changes” doesn’t mean it cannot be accused of racism. The projected social change for Hawaii is that a minority white population survives and becomes the dominant force in the peaceful population. That the “tribal people are all white was of little import” to you can also be considered a sign of racist attitudes that you hold and that is found generally acceptable.
The survival of predominately white people in an area that is not predominately white is a white person’s fantasy just as one where the white race dominates the future of space exploration and colonization as is commonly seen in science fiction of the past. One could suggest the survival of predominately white people in Hawaii is Social Darwinism.
Further, having a black race as the saviors and more advanced people doesn’t necessarily ameliorate the racism toward Pacific Islanders or Asians and actually aligns well with the acceptance of yellowface and the non-acceptance of blackface in contemporary society.
It’s so sad that the most important ideas (imo) got lost in all this psychobabble, and those would be the ones of JT in the beginning. Hang in there guys.
Alas, but the world isn’t all-white or all-black and has never been. JT is incorrect. The original issue is that of Pacific Asian versus white American.
The segment takes place in Chatham and the slave isn’t black African, but Moriori, a Pacific Islander ethnic group. Black Africans and black Islanders weren’t the only people enslaved.
I’m not sure what you consider psychobabble so I won’t go in to that.
justice4moriori says:
What was particularly ‘sad’ about the portrayal of the Moriori (playing the real-life role of Koche; King of Pitt Island) is that they didnt even have the decency to consult with Moriori. They didnt film any of what happened on Rekohu (Moriori homelands) and they comopletely misrepresented who Moriori are and what they look like. Moriori DID NOT have tattoos. Shaving ones head would have been most foolhardy as they lived in the Roaring Forties with nothing between them and the Antarctic apart from a line fo clouds.
None of the story of real story of Koche was told – which would have made a better chapter than the other 5 stories within Cloud Atlas.
Moriori have clawed their way back from the brink of extinction and despite many people just wanting them to ‘go away’ they are today desperately engaged in negotiations with the New Zealand Government for redress and reparation for all the wrongs perpetrated upon them since the fateful invasion in 1835. In New Zealand we have a founding document that guarantees rights to all Natives of our country. As the smallest native ‘tribe’ in New Zealand Moriori continue to be maligned, sidelined, overlooked, ignored and oppressed.
They were a pacifist people. They didnt get defeated. They were were invaded and chose to adhere to their religious beliefs.
The invaders saw that as a sign of weakness and killed, ate, enslaved and ‘conquered’ (how do you conquer someone that doesnt fiight?
When they first cried out for help-in writing- in an 1862 appeal to the Governor for the support of the law, they were ignored. No-one cared.
In 1870 and 1872 in land court sittings, they were overruled and overlooked and 97% of THEIR lands were given in law to the oppressors. No-one cared.
In 2016 as they enter into negotiation with the government…. who will care? Who will stand up for Moriori. Will you?
They just need the vocal support of… anyone.
Help them. Help Moriori. Help put right the wrongs that were done to them in 1835 and onwards.
Join the facebook page facebook.com/Justice4Moriori or leave a comment at justice4moriori.wordpress.com
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SPC - Secretariat of the Pacific Community
To help Pacific Island people position themselves to respond effectively to the challenges they face and make informed decisions about their future and the future they wish to leave for the generations that follow.
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“The SPC’s mission is to help Pacific Island people position themselves to respond effectively to the challenges they face and make informed decisions about their future and the future they wish to leave for the generations that follow.
The SPC’s vision for the region is a secure and prosperous Pacific Community, whose people are educated and healthy and manage their resources in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable way.” (SPC Corporate Plan)
One of the oldest regional organisations in the world, SPC celebrated its 60th anniversary on 6 February 2007. It is a non-political, technical assistance and research body and performs a consultative and advisory role. SPC has constantly evolved, both reflecting and shaping the island regionalism that has built today's Pacific. Its capacity to adapt to the changing needs of both dependent territories and independent island countries has enabled SPC to survive for more than half a century and will ensure its continuing role in the social and economic development of the Pacific Island region.
The South Pacific Commission, as it was formerly known, was founded in 1947 under the Canberra Agreement by the six ‘Participating Governments’ that administered territories in the Pacific before World War II. It was established as part of the new thinking about the future of the region’s island communities that had emerged from the wartime experience. Now (since 1983), all 22 island countries and territories, with varying political status from colony to sovereign republic, are full members, along with the four remaining founder members: Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States of America. (The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are no longer members). Each member has equal status and one vote at the Conference of the Pacific Community, which meets every two years, although debates are usually resolved by the Pacific way of consensus rather than voting.
The Secretariat is headed by a Director-General assisted by two deputies. Its activities are conducted by a range of programmes grouped into 6 divisions (Health, Social Resources, Marine Resources, Land Resources, Science and Technology and Economic Development).
With its 1000 languages, a third of the world’s tongues, the Pacific region features rich cultural diversity. SPC meetings, however, bring together representatives from the whole region using just two: English and French. The bilingual status of SPC is therefore a great asset.
Structure of Translation and Interpretation Section
The Translation and Interpretation Section is part of the Directorate of Operations and Management, providing language services to SPC programmes and member countries as well as other partners on request.
The Section is run by a Manager who is answerable to the Deputy Director-General (Nouméa). The Manager is both an interpreter and an AIIC member.
There are 4 interpreter/translators, 3 with French as their first language and 1 with English as his ‘A’ language (now the Manager). A French reviser, two French translators and an English translator occupy the other 3 positions in Noumea. In early 2011, one of our interpreter/translators was assigned full-time to our office in Suva and a second interpreter/translator (French A), initially recruited for Suva in April 2012 was subsequently transferred to Noumea in March 2013. The promotion of an interpreter (English A) left a position vacant, and recruitment options are being considered.
The Section is currently upgrading its facilities and reviewing its operations with a view to implementing a more customer-focused approach based on transparent communication with its clients, both internal and external. A new web-based workflow management tool is being developed for this purpose.
Staffing and recruitment, pay and conditions
In 2010, all our section’s professional staff were classified as ‘Job Family’ T7, Band 12 in the new SPC salary scale. A review implemented from 01/01/2011 has changed the cost-of-living differential, due to an increase of the cost of living in Suva (the reference duty station), in a way unfavourable to Nouméa-based staff; together with the abolition of salary increments on renewal for good performers, this means that pay increases can only be obtained at the time of the annual appraisal on the basis of agreed performance results. (No allowance has been made in the new pay structure for task differences between translators, revisers and interpreter/translators).
We have free comprehensive medical cover, 5 weeks annual leave, 5 days carer’s leave per year and a maximum of 90 days annual sick leave.
The first contract offered is for 3 years, renewable once for the same duration by mutual agreement, and subsequent renewals are obtained if the incumbent successfully applies for his/her own position. In Noumea petrol is partially tax-free; the SPC runs an in-house shop where alcohol and perfume are about the only items cheaper than in the local shops. In Noumea and in Suva staff can purchase a vehicle locally tax-free within six months of first arrival.
There is no SPC pension scheme, but staff can contribute 8% of base salary to the SPC Provident Fund with a matching contribution from the SPC. This money is invested in an interest-bearing bank account and recovered at the end of service. An opt-out is possible for staff wishing to contribute to their own pension scheme or purchase property for retirement purposes.
Working conditions and workload
Three of the current 4 staff interpreters, all AIIC members.
We work in a bilingual team configuration at all times, meaning that work into an active ‘B’ language is a regular requirement. There are no formal limits on the number of sessions worked weekly or the length of the working day, but in practice the demand on the interpreters is mostly acceptable with time off when we work on weekends, public holidays, evenings, etc. A recent trend is to try and fit big meetings into less working days than previously, with its attendant demands on the interpreters. There are regularly periods when the team covers a number of meetings over several consecutive weeks. Increasingly, we field a team of four (2x2) for ministerial level meetings.
Travel in the Pacific Islands region is a frequent feature of our work with sometimes quite gruelling travel schedules, but equally some unavoidable layovers in comfortable hotels in tropical locations.
The interpreters tend to use an individual a laptop in Noumea or on travelling assignments.
We cover many technical and administrative meetings, mostly in simultaneous mode, but also sometimes using consecutive or whispered techniques for visiting delegations, some of which may have a political or diplomatic flavour.
Regional ministerial and director-level meetings are common in the areas of the SPC’s work such as fisheries, agriculture, statistics, culture, health, science and technology, ICTs and economic development.
Our team is also often called upon for regional cultural and sporting events, arts festivals and the like when there are workshops for participants.
10 to 20 events are covered annually by this team. All the interpreters are also required by their job description to translate to the same output and quality standards as their full-time translation colleagues, while also having time for other tasks directly related to interpretation. It should be noted that there is a general upward trend in translation workload from year to year, absorbed mostly by the use of freelance translators. Total annual interpretation days are also showing an upward trend on the whole.
This is mostly due to an increase in the size of SPC which has absorbed a number of other regional organisations as part of the so called Regional Institutional Framework reform.
Headquarters Equipment and Conference Facilities
The organisation’s headquarters is in Nouméa, New Caledonia on a site fronting the attractive Anse Vata bay location, at the end of the peninsula on which the city has grown over the years. New buildings, with a striking architectural design, went up in 1995 to replace the old American Army wooden headquarters building known as the Pentagon, a few hundred yards down the seafront, where the SPC had been since 1949.
A large regional office operates from Suva, in the Fiji islands, and other sub-regional and national offices have been established or are planned.
In Noumea, the interpreters work in the Jacques Iékawé Conference Centre, featuring new (Bosch) digital interpretation equipment and booths built to ISO standards. This venue offers a large conference hall and a smaller adjoining meeting room, both fully equipped. A third room can be fitted out when required and there are now plans to equip it with fixed equipment.
In Suva, , a conference room with new built-in Bosch digital equipment is now also operational. We also use a tour guide system for bilateral and other meetings.
Missions and working conditions away from headquarters
In addition, modern portable equipments sets are based in both Noumea and Suva, Fiji Islands and can be used for events outside these two locations. These days we mostly use a lightweight aluminium and plexiglass portable booth, although we do have a full-size fabric structure with a metal frame which our technicians tend to curse!
Our team prides itself on its ability to set up and work just about anywhere in the islands (within reason).
We enjoy the services of a dedicated conference technician.
Use of new technologies (video and remote interpreting)
We are not involved in remote interpreting as such, but occasionally perform some multi-party telephone work and videoconferences.
A booth monitor makes it easier for us to view PowerPoint and other presentations from the booth, at both HQ and elsewhere.
Professional development/performance appraisal
A formal and detailed appraisal is performed annually, with a six-monthly session between the officer and his/her supervisor occurring every six months to make sure we are ‘on track.’ There is almost no provision for any kind of personal or professional development, but under newly introduced policies, all staff are encouraged to identify such opportunities.
General information on Nouméa, New Caledonia and the Pacific
Nouméa is a city built on a peninsula of rolling hills surrounded by the lagoon and featuring a series of bays. It enjoys a tropical to sub-tropical climate, with hot summers and temperate winters. Various climate anomalies make the seasons somewhat unpredictable however at the present time.
The SPC has its own housing, a mixture of older villas and newer houses and apartments and leases accommodation in the private sector for the staff it cannot accommodate in its own properties. Housing is generally of quite a high standard.
A city bus service operates but most staff find it convenient to own a car, especially for running children to school. The normal French education system is available at primary and secondary levels and the local university offers a range of degree and master level courses. Some tertiary study areas are not available locally. A local bilingual school offers a special curriculum for primary school age children, for which the fees are refundable under the SPC child education allowances for the children of staff recruited internationally.
Child-minding is readily available. Water sports and activities abound on the lagoon and outlying islets and the interior offers hiking, while rural dwellers and Melanesian villages are increasingly welcoming tourists. Camping sites now abound. Nouméa boasts a wide range of restaurants and bars and kava bars.
Led by the iconic Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa offers a fairly varied programme of cultural events: exhibitions, theatre, concerts, cinemas, dance etc.
The high cost of living quickly absorbs a considerable proportion of the salary. Many well-stocked supermarkets (with a lot of imported items) cater for most expatriate and local tastes.
Quality of life is generally considered favourable with no more petty crime than in other similar cities.
Documentation/computers/technology
Documentation for meetings continues to be a source of occasional difficulty. While most papers for the most important meetings are translated beforehand, increasing numbers of meetings and therefore the translation workload, with no corresponding increase in staff numbers or freelance budgets mean that we regularly interpret at meetings where a significant proportion of the documents are available in English only. This makes glossary preparation/updating quite important, when the time can be found.
We are well equipped with desktop computers and laptops. Dragon Naturally Speaking is used by some staff as a tool to speed up translation.
Relations with freelances
We sometimes call on locally-based freelance interpreters to make up team numbers and occasionally help them form teams. This kind of cooperation is restricted to events in areas linked in some way with the SPC’s development work.
While our relationship with the Nouméa-based (AIIC) freelances is generally cordial, with rates considered acceptable and reviewed from time to time, we have in the past often cancelled or postponed provisional contracts at quite short notice or asked for availability at equally short notice.
At times, the Noumea-based freelances have felt that the SPC was too involved in work that should have been going to them. While we sympathise, in fact we have little choice but to accept assignments on development-related matters which our Executive has accepted. The Pacific Islands region is a rather small ‘market’ and the criteria naturally applied in the US or Europe are not always directly relevant in our region. Also, their own availability is limited and an Australian-based AIIC freelancer is regularly brought in by the New Caledonian Government and private clients.
We have at times offered training attachments to students and both freelance and government linguists. These are mostly self-supervised with some input from section staff (advice, revision, mute booth assistance, etc.). Another relevant activity is our regular participation in orientation sessions at the local university and elsewhere. We’ve also hosted a number of trainees throughout the year.
Staff Interpreters. "SPC - Secretariat of the Pacific Community". aiic.net June 8, 2012. Accessed July 19, 2019. <http://aiic.net/p/6206>.
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Full Name Amanda Laura Bynes
Born April 3, 1986 (age 29) (1986-04-03) Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.
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Movies and TV shows She's the Man, What a Girl Wants, Easy A, The Amanda Show, Sydney White
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Amanda Laura Bynes (born April 3, 1986) is an American actress and fashion designer. After appearing in commercials and in plays, Bynes rose to prominence as a child star in the late 1990s and early 2000s on the Nickelodeon series All That and The Amanda Show. From 2002 to 2006, she starred in the sitcom What I Like About You on The WB. She has also starred in several films, including What a Girl Wants (2003), She's the Man (2006), Hairspray (2007), Sydney White (2007), and Easy A (2010). In 2010, Bynes announced an indefinite hiatus from acting. Seven years later, in June 2017, Bynes announced her intention to return to television acting.
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2007–2010: Films and acting hiatus
Bynes was born in Thousand Oaks, California, the youngest of three children of Lynn Bynes (née Organ), a dental assistant and office manager, and Rick Bynes, a dentist. Her father is Catholic, and is of Irish, Lithuanian, and Polish descent. Her mother is Jewish (from a family from Romania, Russia, and Poland). Bynes' maternal grandparents are Canadians from Toronto, Ontario.
Bynes attended a comedy camp, and began professionally acting at the age of 7, appearing in a television advertisement for Buncha Crunch candies. During her childhood, she also appeared on stage in versions of Annie, The Secret Garden, The Music Man, and The Sound of Music. Bynes rose to prominence with her various roles in All That for seasons three through six. She later became a regular member of Nickelodeon's Figure It Out (1997–1999). At the age of 13, she began starring in her own sketch comedy show, The Amanda Show (1999–2002). In 2002, Amanda began to establish her fan base with her debut film role in Big Fat Liar (2002) opposite Frankie Muniz, and a co-starring role in the WB sitcom What I Like About You (2002–06) with Jennie Garth, which gained positive reviews. She also made her voice-over debut in Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure and later in the animated comedy Robots (2005).
Amanda's film career took off over the next two years, with a role in the romantic comedy Lovewrecked (2005) and a starring role in the comedy She's The Man (2006). She also appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair's July 2003 edition. Bynes was named one of Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2006. Later that year, she starred in She's the Man, a comedy based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Bynes appeared in another romantic comedy, Love Wrecked. In 2006 release the film She's the Man but released after it, showing in cinemas outside of the United States in 2005 and 2006 and debuting in the U.S. on the ABC Family network on January 21, 2007.
Bynes' next role was Penny Pingleton in Hairspray. The film was a critical and commercial success. Hairspray went on to become Amanda's most successful film at the time. Bynes was featured on the Hairspray soundtrack, which went on to get a Grammy nomination. Bynes' next role was in another comedy, Sydney White, released on September 21, 2007. In August 2007, Bynes teamed up with Steve & Barry's to create her own fashion line called Dear, consisting of apparel and accessories. The line was cut short when Steve & Barry's filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008 and went out of business in January 2009. In 2008, Bynes appeared in the Lifetime Television movie Living Proof as the student assistant of Harry Connick, Jr.'s character. Bynes was also originally set to star in the 2009 comedy Post Grad, but she was replaced by Alexis Bledel.
In June 2009, Bynes signed a two-picture deal with Screen Gems. The first of the two movies was the 2010 teen comedy Easy A, starring Emma Stone and Lisa Kudrow. The film was once again another critical and commercial success with many critics praising Bynes' role. The film after Easy A would have been a starring role. Bynes also planned to reprise her role as Penny Pingleton in the sequel to Hairspray. However, Hairspray 2 was canceled. Bynes was also originally set to star in the comedy Hall Pass but dropped out and was replaced by Alexandra Daddario. Appearing on the cover of the February 2010 issue of Maxim magazine, highlighting her photo spread inside, Bynes stated: "I think every shot I did was sexy." In July, Bynes stated that she planned to retire from acting, but decided to have an indefinite hiatus. During this time she studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Irvine.
During an interview in June 2017, Bynes announced that she wanted to return to acting, but only in television.
In 2007, Bynes described herself as Jewish, and also stated: "As far as religion, I was raised both. I learned about both Judaism and Catholicism. My parents said it was up to me to decide (which faith to adhere to) when I grew up. I'm sort of a spiritual person anyway. I haven't decided yet on a religion. I don't know yet exactly what I believe."
Bynes is interested in illustration and fashion design. She has previously had her own fashion line sold nationwide, and moved from Los Angeles to New York in order to facilitate her fashion career. In 2008, Bynes briefly dated Seth MacFarlane after voicing a character in an episode of MacFarlane's show Family Guy. In December 2013, Bynes enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Irvine for 2014.
In 2012, Bynes was charged with driving under the influence (DUI) in West Hollywood. Two years later, the charge was dropped and she received a three-year probation.
In 2013, Ventura County sheriff's deputies detained her after she allegedly started a small fire in the driveway of a stranger. She was hospitalized under a 72-hour mental-health evaluation hold. Bynes' parents filed for conservatorship of their daughter shortly after her hospitalization began. In August, Bynes' mother was granted a temporary conservatorship over Bynes' affairs." In October 2014, Bynes' mother again received conservatorship.
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State Queretaro
Area 343.6 km2
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Tequisquiapan (Otomi: Ntʼe) ( ) is a town and municipality located in the southeast of the state of Querétaro in central Mexico. The center of the town has cobblestone streets, traditional rustic houses with wrought iron fixtures, balconies, and wooden windowsills, which is the legacy of its 300-year heritage as a colonial town populated mostly by indigenous people. This, the climate, and the local natural water springs have made the town a popular weekend getaway for cities such as Querétaro and Mexico City, which has led to the construction of weekend homes in the town.
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Tequisquiapan is part of Querétaro’s Ruta de Vino (Wine Route) with La Redonda as the municipality’s major producer. Grape production began in the early 1960s, but has become important enough to be featured on the municipality’s seal. The town hosts the annual Feria Nacional del Queso y el Vino, (National Cheese and Wine Fair) which showcases southern Querétaro’s cheese and wine production.
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The town of Tequisquiapan in southwestern Querétaro is a tourist town, which mostly caters to weekend visitors from Mexico City and the city of Querétaro. These visitors come to see the parish church, walk the cobblestone streets filled with traditional houses, and visit recreational attractions such as the area’s 18-hole golf course and spas/water parks (called “balenarios”) such as El Oasis, Thermas del Rey, Fidel Velásquez and La Vega.
The town is centered on the main square, named after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and the Santa María de la Asunción Temple. Hidalgo Square is a large open, paved area, facing which is the town’s parish church and a series of arches. On the east side of the plaza, there is a kiosk made of gray sandstone and metal, which often has bands playing live music such as jazz and rock and roll. Along one entire side, there are sandstone arches behind which are a number of business such as galleries, cafés and shops selling sweets, silver, furniture and crafts. It also contains some of the town’s better restaurants such as Capricho's, which offers French-Mexican fusion cooking. Another side of the square is taken up by the parish church of Santa María. This church was established in the 16th century, but the current construction is from the 19th century. It is in Neoclassical style with simple lines and made of pink sandstone. The clock in the tower dates from 1897.
Around the main square, much of the construction remains traditional with cobblestone streets and buildings that relatively simple and rustic. This is because this town was dominated by the indigenous for the first three hundred years of its existence. Many of the buildings are two stories tall painted in bright colors such as yellow and green and with balconies. They also have wrought iron fixtures with wooden sills and frames on their doors and windows. Flowerpots are a common sight as well. The narrowness of the roads means that vehicular traffic is commonly jammed, especially on weekends. Efforts at modernization have destroyed many of the town’s old trees; however, most of the original junipers along the river remain. Away from the historic center, many of the newer sections of town consist of subdivisions of weekends homes more recently built. However, these mostly follow the architectural styles of the older structures.
The town is home to a number of important legends. As it is a tourist town there is a trolley-replica bus to take visitors around the various landmarks. These landmarks include places where Tequisquiapan’s legends are set and on weekends and holidays, actors in period costumes re-enact these stories.
Another attraction of the town is shopping, especially for handcrafts and folk art. The two most traditional crafts of the area are baskets and furniture made from wood, wicker, rattan and other materials. However, crafts from many parts of Mexico are available for sale as well. The main markets, which are the municipal market and the handcrafts markets are located on Ezequiel Montes Street near Salvador Carrizal. In addition to these markets there are a number of street vendors who sell from stalls or by walking around the streets. One common type of merchandise, especially in the main square are sweet breads, dried fruit, fruits in syrup and other sweets. One unique sweet of the town is crystallized nopal cactus. Otomi women can be seen in the main plaza and other locations selling their crafts. Most of these vendors are from the neighboring municipality of Amealco. These crafts generally consist of embroidered napkins and other textiles, rag dolls, ceramics and baskets.
The most important park in the municipality is La Pila, which is located just north of the main town square. It contains fresh water springs and large areas of trees and grass for picnicking and other activities. The park was the site of an old water mill. Its namesake, a reservoir to store water built in 1567, can still be seen. It is said that there was an indigenous temazcal at the La Pila site. Before it became a park, it was the site of a commercial water park for children. Today, it is an area filled with Montezuma cypress and ash trees and is the site of the annual Feria Nacional del Queso y el Vino. Other parks include El Portón, La Recámara and El Salitrillo.
The Callejón del Piojo (lit. Louse Alley) is a historic street in the town which was recently renovated to promote fine arts and handcrafts as well as to serve as a venue for cultural and recreational events.
The Centro Cultural or Cultural Center hosts expositions of painting and crafts as well as concerts and workshops. It also has an extensive library.
In the early 20th century, Mexican president Venustiano Carranza passed through Tequisquiapan on his way to the city of Querétaro. He issued a decree announcing that the town was the “geographical center of the country.” However, today that distinction is widely considered to be in Zacatecas. However, there is a monument in the town at Centenario and 5 de Mayo Streets to commemorate the decree.
The two oldest neighborhoods of the town are the Barrio de la Magdalena and San Juan, where many of the chapels built for the indigenous population of the colonial era were built. The main chapel of the Barrio de la Magdalena has a large mesquite tree in its atrium where it is said that the mass celebrated to found the town occurred. This founding is re-enacted here each year in June.
The town contains a bullring which hosts bullfights as well as exhibitions of flamenco dance and concerts. There is a Bullfight Fair in March.
The old Bernal railroad station is located on Avenida Juarez. It was built when the rail line was constructed through the municipality. Today, it served as a viewpoint to see much of the city. It also conserves a locomotive from the beginning of the 20th century.
The Casa de Caballo is located near the river and offers horseback riding in the Barrio de la Magdalena.
Intercity bus service operates out of the town’s main terminal, which is served by Flecha azul, Transportes Tequis; Flecha Blanca; Flecha Amarilla; Autotransportes Queretanos and Enlaces Terrestres Nacionales. Two rail lines pass through here connecting Mexico City with Guadalajara and Nuevo Laredo.
The town has a number of festivals and traditions which are especially important or unique to it. The festival of the Holy Cross on May 3 is particularly important in the San Juan neighborhood with the dance of Moors and Christians as the highlight. Preparations for this event begin months in advance.
The feast day for the patroness of the town, Our Lady of the Assumption, occurs on August 15. This day is observed by all in the municipality, many of which come to the parish church in the center of town for the festivities. These festivities include traditional dances, which last from early and through the day. This is also a popular day for confirmations, first communions and other similar ceremonies. The day ends with a large frame called a castillo (castle ) filled with fireworks which is set alight.
For Holy Week, the town holds an annual Passion Play. This event begins in the main square in front of the Santa María de la Asunción Temple and passes through the streets of the town to a site called Monte Calvario, named after the place where Jesus was crucified. Here the crucifixion of Christ is re-enacted. Afterwards, an image of the deceased Jesus is carried from the area in a glass coffin. On Holy Saturday, images of Judas are burned along with those of devils and other unliked figures .
The founding of the town is celebrated each year in the Barrio de la Magdalena neighborhood on June 24, where the founding mass took place. This commemoration includes a re-enactment of the founding with actors in 16th century clothing.
The annual pilgrimage to the chapel on the Cerro Grande occurs on September 13. This procession climbs the hill where the chapel is located the day before and spends the night there. The following day, after mass, there is picnicking and spending the day in the countryside. It is not known how or when this tradition started, but it attracts not only those from Tequisquiapan, but those from Santa Rosa Xajay, El Cerrito, Bordo Blanco and San Nicolás.
The feast of Isidore the Laborer on May 15 is important in the town which is centered on a procession from the Santa María de la Asunción church to the El Llano chapel. The purpose of the feast is to ask for good crops for that growing season. The El Llano chapel is located in the agricultural center of the area.
The feast of Mary Magdalene, patroness of the Barrio de la Magdalena is celebrated on September 8. The feast of the Apostle John, patron of the San Juan neighborhood, takes place on December 27. One Christmas tradition in the town is to have a parade through the town on Christmas Eve. This parade features floats with Biblical scenes.
One local tradition is the creation of “cruces de animas” (crosses of encouragement) which can be seen on family altars or in family shrines. These crosses represent loved ones who have died and can be very elaborate although most are simple. These are most common in the former Indian neighborhoods of San Juan and Barrio de la Magdalena where they can be seen in the local chapels.
The Feria Nacional del Queso y el Vino began in the 1980s as a means to promote the region’s wine and cheese production. The fair promotes the 1,200,000 million bottles of wine and 400,000 kilograms of cheese the state produces each year. Most of the activity occurs at the La Pila Park, in the town center, but there are also cultural events, conferences, contests, charreadas, concerts and more associated with it. The main tent contains wine and cheese producers from the local area as well as the rest of Mexico and international companies. The event crowns a festival queen, who is crowned by the municipal president.
The fair is sponsored with money from the municipality, the state of Querétaro and the federal Secretary of Tourism. Artists who have played at the event include de Paco Rentería, Sonora Dinamita, Playa Limbo, Titanes de Durango, Grupo Mediterráneo, Guitarras de América, Carlos Eduardo Rico, Jorge Falcón, Sandoval, Pambo and singer María José .
The 2011, the fair resulted in 100 percent hotel occupancy and an economic impact of forty million pesos for the town. However, the fair has had problems with the uncontrolled sale of alcoholic beverages and large number of young people simply getting drunk. This has led to incidents of fighting and other illegal behavior. There have also been cases of alcohol intoxication requiring medical attention.
As municipal seat, the town of Tequisquiapan is the local governing authority for about two hundred other communities, which together cover a territory of 343.6 km. However, over 77% of the population is concentrated in five communities, with about 51% in the town of Tequisquiapan alone. The other major population centers are San Nicolás, La Fuente, Fuentezuelas and El Tejocote. The main economic activity of San Nicolás is the production of cinderblock, followed by agriculture. La Fuente’s main economic activity is agriculture with chili peppers, corn, tomatoes and beans as principle crops. La Trinidad is the center of opal mining in the municipality, but it also cultivates corn and beans.
The town and municipality are located in the far southeast of the state of Querétaro, just north of the small industrial city of San Juan del Río, and within one hour driving distance from the city of Querétaro and two hours from Mexico City. This is one reason why it is a popular place to visit on weekends and many second homes have been constructed here. The municipality borders the municipalities of Colón, Ezequiel Montes, San Juan del Río and Pedro Escobedo with the state of Hidalgo to the east. The municipal government consists of a municipal president and thirteen officials called “regidors” to represent the various communities of the municipality.
The overwhelming majority of the population is Catholic, with a small but growing number in Evangelical groups and Jehovah's Witnesses.
There is one special education school which serves 160 students with sixteen teachers. There are sixteen preschools serving over two thousands young children between four and six years of age. There are thirty six primary schools. Middle school education is offered through two modes, distance education called “telesecundaria” and a general middle school system. Most attend the latter which are located in the larger population centers near the municipal seat. The telesecundarias are located in the communities of La Fuente, Los Cerritos, Fuentezuelas, El Tejocote, San José la Laja, Santillán, El Sauz, La Trinidad and San Nicolás. High school and vocational school education is offered on five sites.
Almost all residences in the municipality are occupied by their owners, with an average of 4.9 occupants per household. Basic municipal services such as running water, garbage and other services are available to 90% or more of the population with the exception of street lighting, which is available to only 60%. Residential construction has changed significantly since the mid 20th century with the introduction of concrete and cinderblock, which is now used in almost all new construction. This is common in Mexico but there is a local variation on roofing which is a vault with a ridgeline in two styles. Constructions dating from before the 1950s are now considered to be “rustic.” These are mostly found in the historic center of Tequisquiapan and a number of the oldest communities in the municipality. New constructions tend to imitate this style.
The main highway for the municipal is Federal Highway 120, which connects it south to San Juan del Río and north to the Sierra Gorda region of Querétaro into Xilitla in San Luis Potosí. Other important roads include State Highway 200 which connects it with Galeras, Huichapan and the city of Querétaro, and State Highway 126, connecting it to Tecozautla. Almost all of the municipality’s roads are paved with only 2.3% left as dirt or paved with stone. There are also roads that connect the eighteen communities of the municipalities as well as to the state of Hidalgo.
La Trinidad has an archeological site. The site was excavated in 2009 and 2010 and dates from 750 to 900 CE., around the time of the fall of Teotihuacan. It has been proposed to make it an ecotourism site called Dö Mëkuni. In addition to conserving the areas flora and fauna, it proposes to offer activities such as rappelling, zip-lines, rock climbing, fishing and more, along with a museum dedicated to the archeological site.
The municipality sponsors the annual Rally de Tequisquiapan, which is affiliated with the PAC auto championships. The rally begins in the town and winds its way along the highways of Querétaro in the mountain areas of the state.
The name comes from Nahuatl and means “place of tequesquite (potassium nitrate)” a type of natural salt used to flavor food since pre Hispanic times. The municipality’s seal was adopted in 1989 at a contest held in conjunction with the annual Feria Nacional del Queso y el Vino. This seal contains elements related to the area such as the sun, grapes, the Tequisquiapan River and the parish church of Santa María de la Asunción.
The presence of humans in the modern state of Querétaro is estimated at between 1500 and 2500 BCE, with the oldest human remains found at a cave in the San Nicolás community. This site gives no indication that these early humans had either agriculture or pottery. Much later human remains in the same cave indicate the presence of both and perhaps influence from the Las Ranas site to the north. This would put the area within the sphere of influence of this culture, which was Huastec and part of the early Pre Classic period.
By the Post Classic period, the area was dominated by the Otomi people in the east near the Hidalgo border and by the Chichimeca in the rest. The main Chichimeca settlements were just south and west of the modern municipal seat, where fresh water springs were most abundant and the land was the most fertile. Around this same time, the area had a reputation for its fresh water and thermal springs for medicinal purposes. The area did not have any major cities during the pre Hispanic period but a number of important trade routes ran through it. By the time the Spanish arrived, most of the area was allied with the Otomi at Xilotepec, itself a tributary of the Aztec Empire. The Otomi outnumbered the Chichimecas but both lived in the area peacefully. The area around Tequisquiapan was taken over by the Spanish relatively peacefully, but the Chichimecas did resist. This resistance remained sporadic until the last battle of the Chichimecas in Querétaro against the Spanish called the Battle of Media Luna which occurred to the north in the Sierra Gorda.
The official founding date for the city is 1551 by indigenous cacique Nicolás de San Luis Montañez, who was allied with the Spanish. The settlement received its royal seal founded as Santa María de la Asuncón y de las Aguas Calientes. The foundation grouped local Chichimecas and Otomí onto the site and the foundation was celebrated with a Mass. With the pacification of southern Querétaro, lands in the area were redistributed among the Spanish and the evangelized Otomi, leading to three hundred years of intense agricultural development. However, much of this came at the expense of most of the indigenous population. By 1656, it had been definitively named Tequisquiapan.
Despite the exploitation, the population of the town and municipal area remained mostly indigenous. For this reason, the town has kept much of its rustic architecture.
In the decades before the Mexican War of Independence, Tequisquiapan experienced a number of small rebellions on area haciendas, by indigenous people whose socioeconomic status was still serf-like. However, during Independence and other major conflicts of the 19th century, there were no major battles in the area and little information as to how this area was affected. It was officially declared a town in 1861, with the name of Villa de Mateos Tequisquiapan.
During the Mexican Revolution, army loyal to Villa, Carranza and Obregón passed through but no battles were fought in the municipality. However, these armies did sack area haciendas and other locations, mostly for supplies. The Centenario Dam was inaugurated in 1910. Venustiano Carranza visited the thermal springs of the area before heading to the city of Querétaro to sign the 1917 Constitution. This Mexican president also declared the town as the “geographic center of the country.” There is a monument in the town to this effect; however, today the geographic center is considered to be in Zacatecas .
Shortly after the end of the Revolution, there was political instability in the state and Tequisquiapan was designated as the provisional capital in 1920.
Although its first municipal status was gained in 1861, but its current municipal organization was not formalized until 1939.
The growing of grapes in the municipality begin in the early 1960s, with the planting of 120,000 vines for wine grapes in the community of San José Buenavista by the Sofimar enterprise, affiliated with Martelli in France. Initial varieties were ugni blanc (used for brandy), cabernet sauvignon and Grenache, for reds, whites and rosés.
The latter 20th century saw significant population growth, as the town transformed from a small traditional farming village to a popular weekend getaway. This growth has also been spurred by the growth of the nearby industrial city of San Juan del Río . Since 1950, the population of the municipality has grown from 10,877 to 54,929 in 2005. However, the indigenous population has severely decline, from an indigenous majority in the 19th century to only 120 people speaking an indigenous language in the entity as of 2005.
In 2007, the PRD municipal president Noé Zárraga, was shot twice by unknown persons.
The territory is located in the Mexican Plateau on the southeast side of the Sierra Gorda. The land is relatively flat with rolling hills and small valleys which are mostly farmland. The terrain contains both volcanic and sedimentary rock due to its geological history. The elevations in the area are small with mostly porous rock. In some areas there are quartz and opal deposits. In other areas, there are deposits of rhyolite and pearlite. The highest elevations in the east and are formed by volcanic basalt. This rock varies in color between black and red.
The San Juan/Tequisquiapan River crosses the municipality in the south on which are the Centenario Dam, near the town of Tequisquiapan and the Paso de Tablas Dam near the border with Hidalgo. The latter has an inactive hydroelectric plant. There are subsurface currents of water which feed a number of freshwater springs on either side of the San Juan River. Near the river a number of fruit and nut trees are grown such as walnuts, peaches, pomegranate, avocado, apricots, limes, guavas and fig. There is also vineyards which have not yet reached peak potential.
The main dam for the municipality is the El Centenario Dam, located just south of the town of Tequisquiapan. Although its reservoir is important for water storage, it has had serious problems with pollution from industrial waste. The first major disaster occurred in 1999, when over 2,000 wild ducks died from the contaminated water. A more recent spill, traced to a textile plant in San Juan del Río killed more than 6,000 fish in 2005. This incident also caused health concerns for those living near the water. The area around the dam is subject to flooding during the rainy season, which at times has affected the hotels and restaurants which are nearby. The flooding and contamination problems have had a negative effect on tourism in general.
The climate is temperate with two well-defined seasons each year. Most rain falls between June and October, with the dry season extending from November to April. Annual precipitation is 511.8mm. Summers are hot and winters are moderately cold leading to an average annual temperature of 17.5C. The coldest months are October to February, and freezes are not uncommon, occurring an average of 18 days per year. Dominant winds flow from the northeast to the southwest.
Natural vegetation is suited for temperate and relatively dry climates. In the higher elevations, there are forests of low and medium height. In the hotter, dryer lowlands vegetation such as pirul (Schinus molle), mesquite, palo bobo (Tessaria integrifolia), various types of cactus and arid land scrub.
Population growth since the Conquest, and especially in the 20th century has had a negative impact on wildlife in the municipality and other parts of Querétaro. A number of species have already disappeared, such as the jaguarondi and the puma with others in danger of extinction. Species such as deer, coyotes, owls, eagles and foxes have diminished in part due to the contamination of the waters of the Centenario Dam. The most common species of the area are the rabbit, skunk, squirrel, opossum, doves, other species of birds, rattlesnakes and coral snakes.
After tourism, agriculture and livestock is the most important economic activity of the municipality, employing just under fifteen percent of the working population. This is despite the fact that it is not very profitable due to the high operating costs, obsolete technology, insufficient credit and inadequate commercialization. The main crops are corn, beans, sorghum, alfalfa, grapes, chili peppers, tomatoes and tomatillos. Tequisquiapan is the largest producer of pasilla chili peppers in Mexico, but this production is under pressure due to imports of a similar chili pepper from Peru and China, and sold as pasilla. The municipality is asking for a registration to mark authentic pasilla chili peppers from the imported variety.
19,703 hectares of the municipality is ejido or other communally owned property. These are owned by thirteen ejidos and one agricultural and livestock cooperative. 11,078 hectares of the municipality are used for agriculture, with 4,867 irrigated and the rest planted during the rainy season.
Livestock mostly consists of the raising of bulls for bullfights. Some of the better known ranches for this include Xajay, La Gloria, San Martín and Fernando de la Mora. Outside of this, the municipality is not especially dependent on the raising of livestock although cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses can be found. The town contains a bullring which hosts bullfights as well as exhibitions of flamenco dance and concerts. There is a Bullfight Fair in March.
The growing of grapes in the municipality began with wine grapes in the early 1960s and has grown to be one of the most important agricultural products, featured on Tequisquiapan’s municipal seal. Reds, whites and rosés are produced but most are sparkling wines. The major producer in the municipality is Viñedos La Redonda, about twelve km outside of the town proper. The vineyards are mostly planted with vines of French origin such as Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec for reds and Chenin blanc and Trebbiano for whites. It has guided tours for visitors, especially at harvest time. One major producer of table grapes is Rancho San Miguel. The ranch extends over forty hectares and primarily produces Red Globe and Ribier Negra grapes. The ranch also raises 1,200 sheep which helps the ranch maintain an ecological balance through the production of fertilizer. The ranch produces 3,200 crates of the fruit daily during harvest.
Just under fifty percent are employed in industry, construction, and the making of handcrafts. The production and sale of rustic furniture and other handcrafts is an important part of the municipality’s economy. Furniture is made with wood, rattan, wicker and willow and pine branches, mostly in colonial or “rustic” style. Basketry is the other traditional craft, mostly woven from willow branches and wicker for household use. The commercialization of these baskets began after the railroad was constructed through here in the early 20th century, with baskets going to Mexico City. Later the train was substituted by buses. The space that baskets would normally take on a transport led to a system of semi construction in the town, with final assembly taking place in the place of sale. The most traditional baskets are still made of willow, but other materials have been adapted such as synthetic, rattan, fabric and more. The town’s reputation for handcrafts is part of its attraction for tourism. Tourism has impacted the production of crafts with greater quantity and variety. The most common types to the area are basketry and the making of furniture with willow branches, as well as wood. There are also artisans producing wool items, ceramics, opal items and clothing. There are several textile factories Confecciones San Nicolás S.A. de C.V., Confecciones 1910 S.A. de C.V., Piel GI S.A. de C.V. and Maklo S.A. de C.V.
Quesos Vai is the largest cheese producer in the region, with their main ranch on the Querétaro-Tequisquiapan highway and stores in the town itself. The main cheeses are Oaxaca and manchego, with the latter often containing epazote or chipotle .
Mining is focused on non-metallic minerals with opals and kaolin the most important products. The most important opal deposits are located in the southwest of the municipality in small mountain chain near the community of La Trinidad. The most productive mines include El Iris, La Carbonera, La Esperanza and El Rendón producing gems of size, quality and a variety of colors. Most kaolin deposits are found in northeast near the communities of El Sombrerete and Los Charcos. La Carbonera is an opal mine open to the public. Tours include miners telling stories about mining in the area and visitors are encouraged to look for the stones.
Just over thirty three percent are employed in commerce and services, including tourism. The tourism and service sector of the town employs about four hundred people directly, along with 200 more during the busy seasons and 450 jobs indirectly depend on it. The municipality has forty one hotels and thirty eight large restaurants. Retail commercial establishment include those catering to tourists and those catering to the local population. The municipality contains one wholesale food market, a crafts market, an open-air market for crafts, three warehouses for grain and over 2100 small retail businesses. The main market for groceries remains the municipal market .
Tequisquiapan is the second most important tourist destination in the state of Querétaro. The major tourist attractions for the town and municipality include the food, the hot springs, the crafts and the climate. It has had a reputation as a place to visit for its thermal and fresh water springs since the pre Hispanic era. However, many of these springs have dried up due to the pumping of groundwater, requiring spas and hotels to pump the spring and thermal water from below ground as well. Today, other attractions of the town include its climate, the layout of its streets, the traditional facades of its houses and the variety of handcrafts and folk art available in its markets. Spas and water parks include Balneario La Vega, Parque Acuático El Oasis, Parque Acuático Termas del Rey, Fantasía Acuática and Balneario San Joaquín. Some of the water parks feature thermal springs and other have water slides and other rides for children.
The town is part of the Ruta de Vino (Wine Route), a tourist route dedicated to the state’s wine and cheese production as well as the Peña de Bernal.
Hotels range from the inexpensive to five star accommodations. The town contains twenty nine hotels with a total of 792 rooms. Restaurants have increased in number and size as tourism grows, offering national and international cuisine. However, economical eateries including those in the Santa Cecilia tianguis market are still readily available. The cuisine of the area maintains is pre Hispanic base of corn, nopal cactus and chili peppers. Typical dishes in the municipality include barbacoa made from goat, menudo, a type of blood pudding, mole Querétaro style, rice with the viscera of chicken or turkey, quesadillas with squash flowers or huitlacoche, carnitas, tamales and gorditas. Bread is an important staple as well, where bakeries such as La Charamusca sometimes have lines of people waiting to buy sweet bread and cookies. Beverages include atole, pulque and aguardiente (a liquor made from sugar cane from the Sierra Gorda region). Although there is wine production here, it is generally not consumed by the local populace.
There are hot air balloon flights for tourists, conducted by the Club Aerostático Nacional. Balloon rides are offered only in the mornings due to wind speed.
Despite its long history of being a place to visit for its hot springs and proximity to Mexico City, hotel occupancy is only around twenty to twenty five percent during the year. One reason for this is that many of the visitors stay for only a day or weekend. Most visitors to the municipality are from Mexico City and the city of Querétaro, as these are within easy driving distance of the town for weekend visits. The municipality tried to gain a line of credit with the government finance agency Banobras in order to improve the area’s tourism infrastructure.
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A port city on Kodiak Island in Alaska. A remote town in Australia. A Red Cross centre in Kenya. A research station in Antarctica. What all these places have in common is a high level of energy self-sufficiency achieved by means of renewable energy and microgrids supplied by ABB. The company is a bellwether and the market leader in microgrid technology with well over 70 references around the world.
Microgrids are small-scale power networks – or self-contained, local electrical systems that can operate equally well whether or not connected to a central grid. Microgrids often incorporate on-site renewable energy sources like wind and solar, as well as customised battery storage systems.
Solar and wind power were previously seen as marginal and expensive forms of energy generation. They have now become competitive in windy and sunny places. Their growing popularity is down to the associated technologies having become more sophisticated and cheaper.
“Renewable energy can now be generated, decentralised and brought to where there is demand, which is why its use is growing extremely rapidly all over the world. There are several reasons for this. The Western world wants to cut carbon dioxide emissions, and developing countries want to use it to cater for their rapidly growing energy consumption. Often the use of renewable energy is an economical way to generate electricity”, says Matti Vaattovaara, Vice President, Sales, at ABB.
The move from large, centralised power generation units to increasingly decentralised systems is a true energy revolution. Renewable, locally generated energy capacity is expected to more than double, and wind and solar power are expected to account for 50 per cent of all renewable energy by 2040.
“Microgrids make it possible to flexibly integrate the generation and consumption of renewable energy either independently or with the help of a central grid”
CHALLENGES POSED BY UNRELIABILITY AND INFLEXIBILITY
Renewable energy has its own challenges: even the windiest places are not always windy, and no sunny spot gets the sun 24 hours a day. It is easy for a large central grid consisting of multiple power plants to adjust its output in real time, but wind farms and solar parks are too small to do so. The solution lies in microgrids, which are capable of alternating between decentralised resources, energy stores and traditional power sources, such as diesel generators.
“Microgrids make it possible to flexibly integrate the generation and consumption of renewable energy either independently or with the help of a central grid”, Vaattovaara explains.
Self-contained microgrids balance supply and demand locally. This can be achieved with the help of local diesel generators or a gas-fired power plant and often also battery storage systems where electricity can be stored and released from as necessary. Battery storage systems and flexible loads are key to maximising the use of renewable energy. The output of microgrids that are connected to a central grid can also be adjusted with the help of the central grid.
“The central grids in many countries are not as powerful as the one we have in Finland, and power cuts are therefore common. The sources of back-up power are not always sufficient, and a fault can cause a whole building or an entire district to lose power. Microgrids can be used to supply renewable energy locally while there is a fault in the central grid. This way, even microgrids that were not intended to be self-contained end up operating self-sufficiently due to problems in the central grid.”
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Microgrids can help communities to reduce or eliminate the use of diesel generators or other fossil-fuel sources. Vaattovaara gives an example: a remote town in Australia that was previously powered by diesel generators. The fuel had to be brought to the town from thousands of kilometres away. A microgrid solution has allowed the town to considerably increase the use of solar power, which has cut the consumption of diesel by more than 400,000 litres and carbon dioxide emissions by 1,100 tonnes per year.
“Microgrids are an excellent solution for remote locations with not much infrastructure. They help to support the central grid and improve the quality of electricity. They can also be used to optimise power generation costs by supplying electricity from battery storage systems instead of using diesel generators. Microgrids are key to maximising local renewable energy generation”, he adds.
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Rising cost of games pt. 2: Collector’s Editions
Are special editions the new way to make rising game costs?
We've already talked about the rising cost of game design and how I don't think game prices will go up in the next generation. There is something I didn't think of though, and it's pretty obvious. Collector's editions of games. Special content. It's a way of getting more $bling$ out of consumers for the same game, and it's becoming more and more popular.
For instance, the Xbox version of Doom 3 had a great collector's edition with a pretty metal case, and what's even better is that it came with full versions of Doom and Doom 2 you could play in split screen co-op or deathmatch. Very cool, you basically have a Doom collection for your Xbox. The game was US$10 more than the regular version, and from what I hear did very well at retail. ID didn't have to pay anything to put those games on there, I'm sure it took all of about ten minutes to port the Doom code to the Xbox, and they get more money per game sold. Nice. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory also had a special edition with a tin case and some collectible artwork from Penny Arcade inside. Again, more money per game sold, at very little cost to the developer. I've seen games released with soundtracks, art books, etc etc.
Is this the wave of the future? While most special editions actually have one or two things worth paying for I can see more and more companies making lame collector's editions with a different piece of art on the front and I don't know, a bigger manual or something. It's a way to make it seem like the price isn't going up when it is, sure, but as long as the bundled content is good I could rarely care. For my money Doom 2 co-op on my Xbox is worth an extra ten bones.
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Dave DiCenso
Josh Groban/Educator
Website: www.davedicenso.com/
Dave DiCenso has performed and or recorded with a wide spectrum of renowned artists including Josh Groban, Duran Duran, Hiromi, Carole King, Judith Hill, Steve Morse Band, John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Johnny A, and Cro-Mags, among many others.
As well as performing in arenas, amphitheaters, and concert halls around the world, Dave has made numerous television appearances including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live, PBS's Live at Lincoln Center, Dancing With the Stars, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Good Morning America, Live with Kelly & Michael, The View, Home Shopping Network, and MTV's Headbanger's Ball.
An equally skilled educator, Dave is the author of the acclaimed method books Rhythm andDrumming Demystified and Universal Rhythms for Drumset , and is a Professor of Percussion at Berklee College of Music, where he has mentored hundreds of drummers - many of whom have achieved world-wide recognition. He has also earned a devoted international following for his work as a clinician, drum-camp teacher, and online educator. His credits include appearances at drum industry events and educational facilities such as N.A.M.M, P.A.S.I.C, Frankfurt MusikMesse, Modern Drummer Festival, Drum Fantasy Camp, Thomas Lang's Big Drum Bonanza, Rhythm Retreat, Drumeo, 180 Drums, and Drummer's Resource, as well as numerous independent seminars in the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
Dave currently plays with multi-platinum singer, Josh Groban, and co-leads the soul-funk organ duo, DiCenso/Clark Expedition.
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Finally, some movies were watched on my second day of the Osaka Asian Film Festival. It was a packed day with two screenings, an event and a really great interview.
A Gift (พรจากฟ้า)
Four Thai directors find a creative way to pay tribute to their late king in this omnibus. Using three compositions by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who actually was an accomplished musician with a Sanford Media from the Yale School of Music, directors Chayanop Boonprakob, Jira Maligool, Nithiwat Tharatorn and Kriangkrai Vachiratamporn link together three stylistically different stories of love.
Based on a photo of two people standing in for Barack and Michelle Obama at an event rehearsal, the first section by Boonprakob and Vachiratamporn – based on Love at Sundown – tells the story of two people (Naphat Siangsomboon and Heart Attack’s Violette Wautier) who have to stand in for an ambassador and his wife during the rundown rehearsal of an event. It’s essentially a romcom meet-cute scene extended to 45 minutes.
The second film by Tharathorn (The Teacher’s Diary) is a tearjerker melodrama about a woman (One Day’s Nittha Jirayungyurn) who quits her job to take care of her Alzheimer’s-stricken father after her mother dies. Helped a piano tuner (Heart Attack’s Sunny Suwanmethanont), the woman slowly learns how to accept the reality of her father’s illness.
The third part by Maligool takes a wild swing to office comedy-musical, following a group of office workers who put together a band under the leadership of a former metal rocker. The filmmakers manage to link the three stories in a way that feel like we’ve come full circle by the end of the 144-minute running time.
A Gift, by the way, was nominated for six Thailand National Film Association Awards. It won two categories – Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing.
Boonprakob and Vachiratamporn appeared after the surprisingly well-attended screening (It was a weekday morning show, after all) for a Q&A. The festival even set up an autograph session with the two directors outside the venue:
After a ramen lunch (which took longer than expected because of the line), I returned to ABC Hall for the rest of the day.
77 Heartbreaks (原諒他77次)
One of Herman Yau’s four planned 2017 releases is this anti-romance comedy drama that once again pairs him up with writer Erica Li. Charlene Choi stars as Eva, a lawyer who has decided to leave her college sweetheart Adam (Pakho Chau) after his latest screw-up. When he discovers that Eva’s written down all 77 of his mistakes in a journal, he relives the errors one by one.
Another pleasant surprise at the festival was to see the turnout for a Herman Yau film on a Friday afternoon. In addition to the usual press guests (this was a world premiere, after all), plenty of general audience packed the room. When you can hear Japanese audiences reacting giddily to the sight of certain veteran actors in cameos, you know you’re watching the film with the right crowd.
After the screening, Yau came out and had a short Q&A. He revealed that the project was actually initiated by Choi, which is why the film had so many star cameos.
77 Heartbreaks is set to be distributed by Emperor Motion Pictures, but there’s no release date set yet, making Shock Wave the first Herman Yau release of 2017.
Hong Kong Night
This year saw an exceptional number of Hong Kong films in the lineup, especially in the competition. Sponsored by the Hong Kong Trade and Economic Office, the festival brought all the Hong Kong guests together before the screening of Mad World for a special event called Hong Kong Night. With the exception of Soul Mate, the filmmakers behind the Hong Kong films all came to the festival for at least one screening of their film.
Each director gave a small speech. As a proof of the solidarity in the Hong Kong film industry, Herman Yau actually took time to endorse Mad World and other young filmmakers (“I’m the only old guy here!” Yau says), while Fire Lee gave a ringing endorsement to Sisterhood.
Director Tracy Choi with her Sisterhood actresses Jennifer Yu and Fish Liew
Director Fire Lee
Meanwhile, a statement by programming director Sozo Teruoka revealed that the only reason that Fire Lee’s Husband Killers got left out of the competition was that it was completed too late to be included. It screened in Osaka as a special screening instead.
At the end of the event, the Hong Kong delegation all posted for a selfie in front of the audience.
I didn’t stay to watch Mad World (which I’d seen at the HK Asian Film Festival back in November) because I went back stage to interview director Wong Chun and screenwriter Florence Chan for Discovery Magazine. The interview feature will be on the magazine in a future issue, but I can say that the pair gave very thoughtful answers and were very honest about their creative process.
After the interview, I walked over to the Osaka Station Cinema to catch the feature-length version of Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time on the big screen. I saw at least one walkout. Everyone sat quietly and finished the whole film. I love the Japanese audience.
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Training to Become a Nurse in Los Angeles
May 4, 2017 science
Nurses, also known as registered nurses, take care of the sick, treat injuries and give emotional support to patients and their families. Daily activities of the registered nurse may include helping doctors examine and treat patients, administering tests to patients, submitting these tests to laboratories, providing patients and their families with instructions on how to take care of themselves, which can include proper nutrition, exercise and taking medications.
Nurses can focus on one type of treatment or one type of medical problem. Some registered nurses help doctors during surgery, while others work in emergency rooms or intensive care units. Many nurses work in doctors’ offices where they administer medical tests, take patients’ vital signs, dress wounds, do lab work and perform administrative duties.
Types of jobs for registered nurses in Los Angeles can vary — from home health nurses going to people’s homes to help patients to flying in helicopters to get to patients in an emergency. With advanced training, a registered nurse can become a nurse practitioner and prescribe medication like physicians. Nurse midwives can help women give birth.
Registered Nurses in Los Angeles who work in a hospital environment help the sick and often deal with medical emergencies, which can be very stressful. Nurses in hospitals often help many patients at once and spend a lot of time standing and walking. Safety is an issue for registered nurses because they care for people with diseases, move patients frequently, as well as come into contact with radiation (x-rays) and chemicals. Because patients need 24-hour care, hospital nurses often work nights, weekends and holidays. There is flexibility to the nursing profession as many registered nurses are able to work part-time.
How do you prepare to become a nurse in California? Nurses must graduate from an LA nursing school or other nursing school in Southern California. It takes about two years of college to finish an associate degree in nursing and about four years to complete a bachelor’s degree in nursing. A diploma in nursing usually takes about three years. Deciding what type of training to choose is important. Some careers are open only to nurses who have a bachelor’s degree. Nursing education includes clinical training, where nursing students train with registered nurses in a hospital or other healthcare environment. Nurses study anatomy, chemistry, nutrition, psychology, theory and nursing. Upon graduation, nurses must pass a test to obtain a permanent nursing credential to practice in California. Registered nurses take courses every few years to keep their skills current.
Nurses should be caring and nurturing. They also need to be good at identifying problems and remembering details. Nurses need to work well with doctors and patients. Many nurses also supervise assistants and other workers.
In Los Angeles, with experience and advanced coursework, registered nurses can become head nurses or nursing managers. Some nurses move into the business side of health care and find work in large companies in healthcare planning, and marketing.
To prepare for a nursing job in Los Angeles, prospective nursing students should take biology and other science courses. Communication skills are critical, so students need to be proficient in reading and writing. Mathematics is also important as nurses need to account for doses of medicines for patients.
How does a nursing job pay in Los Angeles as well as in the United States? The average half of all registered nurses earned between $ 47,710 and $ 69,850 in 2006. The lowest-paid 10 percent earn less than $ 40,250. The highest paid 10 percent made more than $83,440. (Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics-BLS)
Registered Nurses are the largest occupation in the healthcare industry. There are about 2.5 million nurses in the United States as of 2006, with about 60% employed by hospitals and 20% working part-time.
What does the future hold for nursing? The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects jobs for registered nurses to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through 2016. Many new jobs will be available for people who want to be nurses. Hospitals will need nurses, but many new nurses working in home health clinics, doctors’ offices and nursing homes will also be needed.
For more information about nursing careers in Los Angeles, Go to www.LANursingDegree.com
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Mrs. Laura W. Bush And Architects Unveil Design Of George W. Bush Presidential Center
DALLAS—Mrs. Laura W. Bush, Architect Robert A. M. Stern and Landscape Architect Matthew Urbanski today unveiled the design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, a modern brick and limestone structure that complements the American Georgian character of the SMU campus, set within a low-maintenance, quintessentially Texas landscape. The light-filled building is both presidential and welcoming, includes elements that evoke both Texas and Washington, and will house the three components of the George W. Bush Presidential Center: an Archive, a Museum and a policy Institute.
"I applaud the work of Robert Stern and Michael Van Valkenburgh in designing a building and landscape that will capture the dignity of the office of the Presidency, while at the same time being warm and welcoming to visitors," President George W. Bush said. "Laura and I are thrilled with the plans."
"The building and landscape evoke elements of the full span of George and Laura Bush's life and service, from their ranch in Crawford to the White House, and help us share the story of a couple committed to public service based on the core principles of freedom, opportunity, responsibility and compassion," said Mark Langdale, President of the George W. Bush Foundation.
"The George W. Bush Presidential Center reflects a unique design that is appropriate in representing the first U.S. President of the 21st Century," said R. Gerald Turner, President of Southern Methodist University. "At the same time, it reflects major components of SMU's Collegiate Georgian architectural tradition of nearly 100 years. As a modern expression of our heritage, this facility will be a welcome addition to the stately buildings and grounds that make the SMU campus a special place for learning," Turner said.
The building and landscape are designed to achieve LEED platinum certification and include numerous sustainable design strategies, including locally sourced building materials (several types of Texas limestone, stained pecan interior paneling), 20 percent recycled materials, solar hot water panels, native landscaping to reduce irrigation and a storm-water management system that conveys, cleanses and collects surface runoff and roof rainwater, and will provide 50 percent of the irrigation needed for the site.
The building and landscape are integrated, with numerous links between indoor and outdoor spaces. Visitors to the museum will enter the building through Freedom Hall, a large, light-filled open space that will tie the different aspects of the museum experience together. On one side of Freedom Hall, visitors will be able to tour the Museum's permanent exhibit, which will include a replica of the Oval Office as it was during President Bush's tenure, complete with an outdoor Texas Rose Garden that mimics the proportion and scale of the White House Rose Garden. The Museum will tell the story of the presidency by examining key decisions and the core principles that defined President Bush's service: freedom, opportunity, responsibility and compassion.
The opposite side of Freedom Hall will house the temporary exhibit space, a ceremonial courtyard and a café. The Institute portion of the building will include a conference center with a 364-seat auditorium with simultaneous translation and broadcast capabilities, along with numerous offices for scholars and a presidential suite for receptions and other functions. The Institute will have its own entrance on axis with Binkley Avenue. The Archives will be the home for the official documents and artifacts of the Bush administration, where they will be presented to the public for study and discussion.
The landscape will be an attraction in and of itself, with seasonable displays in the wildflower meadow, large tree-shaded lawns for sitting, picnicking or playing, numerous gardens and courtyards, tall grass prairie with seasonal wildflowers, and savannah and woodland clearings that provide a range of native habitat for butterflies, birds and other wildlife species.
The landscape will function as an urban park that will engage a broad range of users, including library and special event visitors, SMU students, faculty and staff and the University Park community. It provides numerous spaces for events and gatherings, including performances in the outdoor amphitheater and intramural sports on the west lawn.
Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, is a 220-person firm of architects, interior designers, and supporting staff. The firm is dedicated to the idea that architecture must engage in a conversation across time, connecting the present and future with the past. Robert A.M. Stern Architects brings to the design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center significant experience with the planning and design of museums that present a contemporary architectural response to the legacy of an important American cultural figure, including the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Massachusetts; the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York; and the Museum Center at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Stern, practicing architect, teacher, and writer, is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and received the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal from the Municipal Art Society of New York in 2009 and the tenth Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum in 2008. In 2007 he received both the Athena Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Board of Directors' Honor from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. Joining Mr. Stern in the design effort were partners Augusta Barone, Alexander P. Lamis, and Graham S. Wyatt, and project architect Jim Pearson.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects (MVVA) is known across North America and internationally for innovative landscapes that address contemporary social and environmental issues while also achieving, as with the George W. Bush Presidential Center, a timeless style that appeals to a broad range of the American public. Founded in 1982, MVVA has received numerous awards and previously worked with First Lady Laura Bush on the redesign of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. Michael Van Valkenburgh was the 2003 recipient of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Environmental Design and is a 1988 winner of the prestigious American Academy in Rome Prize. He has taught both full and part time at Harvard's Graduate School of Design since 1982. The key senior staff members working on the Library with Michael are firm Principals, Laura Solano and Matthew Urbanski, and Herb Sweeney, Associate and Project Manager.
Mrs. Laura W. Bush chaired the design committee for the Bush Presidential Center. Members of the committee included: Roland Betts, Founder and Chairman of Chelsea Piers, L.P.; The Honorable Mark Langdale, President, George W. Bush Foundation; Deedie Rose, Philanthropist; Witold Rybczynski, Martin & Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism and Professor of Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania; Sidney J. Sanders, Vice President, Facilities and Construction, The Methodist Hospital System; and R. Gerald Turner, President, Southern Methodist University.
The Presidential Center will be located at Southern Methodist University, five miles north of downtown Dallas. It will occupy a 23.11-acre site on the main campus, near the corner of SMU Boulevard and North Central Expressway (U.S. Highway 75). The site is near a light rail station.
For more information about the George W. Bush Presidential Center, please visit: www.georgewbushcenter.com
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Jennifer Egan Tweets Serial Fiction with “Black Box”
jhgardner May 30, 2012 0 Comments
Last week The New Yorker began nightly tweeting portions of a new Jennifer Egan story, titled “Black Box.” Over the course of ten installments, Egan’s futuristic spy thriller was formed, with each 140-character tweet serving as its heroine’s undercover dispatches. Read all together the tweets have a certain poetic quality; you can’t help but notice pacing and rhythm in the “lines”.
Case in point, from chapter 8:
White clouds spin and curl.
A blue sky is as depthless as the sea.
The sound of waves against rocks existed
millennia before there were creatures who
could hear it.
Spurs and gashes of stone narrate a
violence that the earth itself has long
forgotten.
Your mind will rejoin your body when it is
safe to do so.
A full, collated version of the story can be seen here. You can also view it in its original, serialized form at The New Yorker‘s twitter page, here.
“Black Box” was prominently featured in the magazine’s science-fiction issue this past week. In it, Egan shares her inspiration and process to writing this unique story:
I’d been wondering about how to write fiction whose structure would lend itself to serialization on Twitter. This is not a new idea, of course, but it’s a rich one—because of the intimacy of reaching people through their phones, and because of the odd poetry that can happen in a hundred and forty characters. I found myself imagining a series of terse mental dispatches from a female spy of the future, working undercover by the Mediterranean Sea. I wrote these bulletins by hand in a Japanese notebook that had eight rectangles on each page. The story was originally nearly twice its present length; it took me a year, on and off, to control and calibrate the material into what is now “Black Box.”
Asked whether she found the form of writing for Twitter restrictive, Egan replies,
No, because that was so essential to the voice itself. I mean, the premise is that these are the thoughts of the protagonist, which are being recorded as part of her spy mission. But they take the form of lessons, and actually the working title of the piece was “Lessons Learned.” The idea was that with each move she makes, or each thing that happens to her, she has a kind of reflection, which has a bit of a didactic quality to it. I always imagined her observations happening in this very atomized way; that was just inherent in the voice itself.
And on whether “Black Box” is a spy thriller-cum-philosophical story,
What makes something interesting enough to pursue is always the feeling that it’s unfolding on several levels at once. The best-case scenario is one in which I don’t have to look too carefully at what those levels are—I just kind of feel them happening. But one level that I was aware of and pleased about was a sort of mythological connection. I mean, she’s by the Mediterranean; she has had physical enhancements to her body that give her exceptional powers; there’s the explicit mention of the fact that she loved reading myths as a kid. I loved feeling, in this futuristic atmosphere, a connection to those ancient stories. So that was one level that I was aware of. And, yes, the sense of a kind of philosophical argument playing out was there as well.
A full transcript of Egan’s interview can be found here.
For those who are fans of Egan’s novels, the protagonist of “Black Box” is the future adult form of the precocious Lulu, of A Visit from the Goon Squad. For those who have never read any of Jennifer Egan’s work, “Black Box” stands alone as an enticing and suspenseful introduction to her writing that certainly bears a reading.
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Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. Although there have been many personnel shifts over the years, the band was formed in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums).
Originally formed as a heavy blues band named Polka Tulk, the band began incorporating occult and horror-inspired lyrics with doomy, detuned guitars, changing their name to Black Sabbath and releasing a string of gold and platinum records in the 1970s.
As one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped define the genre with releases such as 1971's quadruple-platinum Paranoid.[1] Black Sabbath has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide,[2] and were named second only to Led Zeppelin in VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.[3]
Ozzy Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979, and while initially replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, Black Sabbath would see a revolving lineup in the 1980s and 1990s that included vocalists Ian Gillan, David Donato, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin. The original lineup reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album, Reunion, which spawned the Grammy Award winning single "Iron Man", 30 years after the songs initial release on Paranoid.
Currently, the early 1980s line-up featuring Iommi, Butler, Dio, and Vinny Appice are touring under the moniker Heaven and Hell, a title taken from the 1980 Black Sabbath album of the same name.
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* Master of Reality (1971)
* Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (1972)
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* Sabotage (1975)
* Technical Ecstasy (1976)
* Never Say Die! (1978)
* Heaven and Hell (1980)
* Mob Rules (1981)
* Born Again (1983)
* Seventh Star (1986)
* The Eternal Idol (1987)
* Headless Cross (1989)
* Tyr (1990)
* Dehumanizer (1992)
* Cross Purposes (1994)
* Forbidden (1995)
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Though many bands have succeeded in earning the hatred of parents and media worldwide throughout the past few decades, arguably only such acts as Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, and Marilyn Manson have tied the controversial record of Ozzy Osbourne. The former Black Sabbath frontman has been ridiculed over his career, mostly due to rumors denouncing him as a psychopath and Satanist. Despite his outlandish reputation, however, one cannot deny that Osbourne has had an immeasurable effect on heavy metal. While he doesn't possess a great voice (it's thin and doesn't have much range), he makes up for it with his good ear and dramatic flair. As a showman, his instincts are nearly as impeccable; his live shows have been overwrought spectacles of gore and glitz that have endeared him to adolescents around the world. Indeed, Osbourne has managed to establish himself as an international superstar, capable of selling millions of records with each album and packing arenas across the globe, capturing new fans with each record.
John Michael Osbourne began his professional career in the late '60s, when he teamed up with guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer Bill Ward to form Black Sabbath. The band, made unique by their slow, gloomy melodies and themes, released their self-titled album in 1970 and went on to release classic platinum records such as Paranoid and Master of Reality throughout the rest of the decade. After the 1978 album Never Say Die, Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath, which led him to form his own solo project. With his new manager and wife, Sharon, Osbourne formed his own band, the Blizzard of Ozz, with guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley, and drummer Lee Kerslake. The group's self-titled first album was released in September 1980 in the U.K. and early 1981 in the U.S. Blizzard of Ozz had some of the same ingredients of Black Sabbath: the lyrics focused on the occult and the guitars were loud and heavy, yet the band was more technically proficient and capable of pulling off variations on standard metal formulas. Featuring the hit singles "Crazy Train" and "Mr. Crowley," Blizzard of Ozz reached number seven on the U.K. charts; it peaked at number 21 in the U.S., continuing to sell for over two years and becoming a huge success. Kerslake and Daisley were replaced with Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo shortly before the subsequent November release of Diary of a Madman. This album, which included the drug ode "Flying High Again," charted at number 16 in the U.S. and became another huge seller. As the Diary tour went underway, sales for the album continued to improve as those of Black Sabbath waned.
Osbourne had no trouble in attaining mass audiences, and his career seemed to have peaked. However, controversy soon erupted when he was accused of animal cruelty: during one performance, a bat was thrown on-stage by a fan and Osbourne bit its head off while supposedly thinking that it was fake. The show was canceled when he had to be rushed to the hospital for a rabies vaccination. Not long afterward, Rhoads was killed in a bizarre plane accident, bringing the band's success to a screeching halt. Osbourne fell into a massive depression shortly after losing his best friend, and plans for his upcoming live album were soon changed. Instead of material recorded with Rhoads, 1982's Speak of the Devil featured live recordings of classic Black Sabbath material and was recorded with guitarist Brad Gillis. Osbourne was freed from his contract with Jet Records and showed up drunk at an Epic Records meeting with two doves, one of which he freed and the other of which he killed in the same manner as the bat; Osbourne was signed to the label. Jake E. Lee became Osbourne's new guitarist for the 1984 studio effort Bark at the Moon. While it didn't match the consistency of Blizzard of Ozz or Diary of a Madman, the record was equally successful, pushing the singer to embark on a tour with glam metal stalwarts Mötley Crüe. Although Bark at the Moon opened up to rave reviews, 1986's Ultimate Sin received rather harsh criticism. The album, although containing the hit single "Shot in the Dark," was regarded as Osbourne's worst studio effort by numerous critics, who claimed it was redundant and uninteresting; nonetheless, the album was another smash hit.
Osbourne resurfaced in 1995 with Ozzmosis, which, despite mixed reviews, sold three million copies within a year after its release. After the subsequent tour proved one of the best-selling of the summer, Osbourne created Ozzfest, a tour package that featured himself along with many other metal bands. While there were only two performances in 1996, a live album was nonetheless released, simply titled The Ozzfest.
2001 was greeted with the news that not only was Black Sabbath reuniting once again for the summer's edition of Ozzfest, but that the quartet was going to enter the recording studio in the fall with producer Rick Rubin to work on the original lineup's first all-new album since 1978's Never Say Die. Unfortunately, Epic Records caught word of Osbourne's plans and stopped both a post-Ozzfest tour with Disturbed and the album itself until he finished his solo record. Ozzy fans were given the double-disc Ozzfest: Second Stage Live to tide them over in the meantime -- the collection included tracks from most of the bands that participated in the 2000 festival, as well as tracks from Ozzfest's inaugural 1996 lineup.
Finally, the new solo album Down to Earth appeared in the fall of 2001, followed by a few successful rock radio singles and a huge Christmas tour with co-headliner Rob Zombie. Meanwhile, inspired by an episode of MTV's Cribs starring his family, Osbourne and the network's producers took a chance on creating a reality show based around the infamous singer. Following his family around the house for several months at the end of 2001, the end result was The Osbournes, one of the most successful shows in the history of the network. The show, which was equal parts documentary and sitcom, reinvented Osbourne as a befuddled father with a razor-sharp wit and a loving family. It also proved to also be a critical success, and Osbourne found himself invited to a White House dinner to promote his animal protection activism, something that only came to light after an episode of the show dedicated to the family's numerous pets. A string of compilations followed Down to Earth, including 2005's Under Cover, a collection of cover songs. Ozzy returned to the studio the following year to begin work on a new studio album. The resulting Black Rain arrived in May 2007.
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Formed by ex-Carnage, Carcass, and Candlemass guitarist Michael Amott (concurrently of Spiritual Beggars) with his brother Christopher (Armageddon), Arch Enemy took a straight-ahead approach to death metal reminiscent of Entombed or late-period Carcass, blending catchy, classic-style metal riffs with crushing grooves for an intense yet accessible sound. The group's charter lineup was rounded out by bassist/vocalist Johan Liiva (Carnage, Furbowl) and drummer Daniel Erlandsson (Eucharist, session work for In Flames); they released their debut album, Black Earth, in 1996. For their second album, 1998's Stigmata, Armageddon bassist Martin Bengtsson took over those duties from vocalist Liiva, while Armageddon drummer Peter Wildoer sat in for Erlandsson. More personnel turnover ensued, as Mercyful Fate reunion bassist Sharlee D'Angelo (also formerly of Witchery and Dismember) joined up for 1999's Burning Bridges, which also featured the return of Erlandsson. Wages of Sin from 2001 found Johan Liiva departing and replaced by Angela Gossow. After touring extensively across Europe and Japan, the band returned to the studio and released Anthems of Rebellion in 2003. The EP Dead Eyes See No Future was released by the end of the year and featured a mix of cover versions and live tracks. The album Doomsday Machine landed in July of 2005 right as guitarist Christopher Amott announced he was leaving the band. Former Tiamat member Fredrik Åkesson replaced him.
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Kevin's Basketball Picks Are Hitting 69.7% L4 Yrs.
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Kevin lost his heart at an early age to Baseball when his father took him to Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Since that fateful day, Kevin has been a possessed individual with the game of pro Baseball. He made every attempt to play the game, doing well in his high school games as shortstop. During his senior year he was scouted by some of the top college teams in the nation, but did significant damage to his rotator cuff in an away game when he collided with another player. Not to be put off the sport he so dearly loved, later that year his Uncle, (through marriage only) and professional gambler, introduced him to sports wagering. He soon took all the tenacity of his on-field play and applied it to analysis of his not only his beloved sport, but Basketball, Football and even Hockey. His results even astounded his Uncle when in his first year he went 128 wins and 72 losses, and grew his $1500.00 bankroll into almost $16K. Since that time, Kevin has revised his tactics and honed his amazing skill at picking winners – and now shares his Uncle’s title of professional gambler (his only income) for the past 23 years.
Kevin amazed us because he's not only so good at picking solid consistent winners - but we at BOC refer to him as the 'Sports Nostradamus' (after the famous 14th century physician and reputed "seer"). Keven not only can pick winners, but can also predict player moves like nothing we've ever seen (and even some trades that nobody saw coming). This uncanny ability also applies to one of the most important factors in sports handicapping - figuring the dynamic of injuries and who picks up the slack and how the game plan changes. Kevin has shown us many times that he's capable of predicting team responses down to the letter - which makes him deadly to the sportsbooks. Dr. Bob Escertia brought Kevin on board with BOC sports after hearing him talking to a fellow patron about sports betting in a popular sports bar & grill. Talk about your chance meetings - the two struck up a conversation and have been close friends for 6 years. When we asked Dr. Bob who was his pick as someone he felt was his, the first name out of his mouth was Kevin Pulliphrone.
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Notley tells business leaders energy industry must clean up its act
September 22, 2015 7:16 PM The Canadian Press0 Comments
EDMONTON – The energy industry will be critical to Alberta’s economy for many years to come, but it must “clean up its environmental act,” the province’s premier told business leaders Tuesday night.
In her keynote address to the Alberta Chambers of Commerce, Premier Rachel Notley acknowledged the fiscal challenges facing the province while sounding a note of optimism about its future.
She said her NDP government will work to promote a healthy business climate, noting she will be travelling to New York next week to sell the province as a good bet for investors.
“Supporting oilsands projects, establishing new opportunities in our energy economy and pioneering advanced technologies, all of this requires investment on a significant scale,” she said, promising to boost exports by seeking out new relationships and enhancing old ones.
But while signalling the need to diversify the economy, she said there’s little doubt its centrepiece will continue to be the oil and gas industry.
“Albertans feel strongly, as do many business leaders across the province, including the energy industry, that it is long past due for Alberta to clean up its environmental act,” said Notley. “The poor quality of air in this province, as an example, is a direct threat to the health of our children and our seniors, and we need to do something about that.
“If we don’t get our act together on this issue, a solution is going to be imposed upon us, sooner or later, by others — by the federal government, and by the markets who will increasingly insist that energy products that they buy be mined and processed responsibly.”
Speaking to reporters after the event, Notley admitted she had not expected Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to take the stance she did Tuesday against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Alberta oil to Gulf Coast refineries in the U.S.
Clinton told a town-hall meeting in Iowa that she opposes the project because it’s not in the best interest of “what we need to do to combat climate change.”
Notley said Clinton’s stance “doesn’t have a significant impact” for her government.
“Their politics are their politics,” Notley said. “I continue to be very focused on trying to find a way to get a pipeline to tidewater, because I understand that’s important for our energy market.”
Notley had previously said she wouldn’t advocate for either the Keystone XL pipeline or Enbridge’s contentious Northern Gateway proposal across British Columbia, but has given qualified support to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion to the Vancouver area and TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline to New Brunswick.
“Our concern about Keystone is what that particular pipeline … meant for our capacity and the economic viability of more upgrading in Alberta. I was never really convinced that the people in Washington were spending a lot of time listening to what Alberta had to say. It was a question of whether we were using our resources wisely.”
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Uncover Deep-Rooted Business Problems With Five Whys
by Lisa Jo Rudy 27 May 2014
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This post is part of a series called Get to the Root Cause of Management Problems.
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Why are client complaints on the rise? Why did our last project go over budget? Questions like these plague every business. It may be tempting to answer the questions with off-the-cuff responses, such as “they’re never happy with anything,” or “Bill can’t manage a budget to save his life.” The underlying problem, however, may require a little more careful thought.
That’s where the “Five Whys” method comes in. Five Whys is a problem-solving technique developed by the Toyota Corporation, and it is part of the collection of tools known as Six Sigma. A form of “drill down” analysis, its purpose is to discover the underlying reasons for a glitch or problem in a business setting.
At its most basic, Five Whys starts with a problematic outcome such as “we missed our deadline for the third time.” Using this method, the business team—led by a facilitator—asks the question “why did that happen” over and over again to get to the root cause of the problem. Sometimes, there are five “whys;” sometimes the answer requires fewer or more questions. At the end of the process, in many cases, the team is able to drill down to identify the root problem related to systems or resources.
Five Why Analysis Diagram.
Five Whys can be a useful tool on its own, or it can be implemented as a tool for improving the brainstorming process during an extended process of root cause analysis. It’s important to note, however, that Five Whys is not a problem solving process; rather it’s a problem identification process. That means that once Five Whys has been successfully implemented, you’ll need to move on to developing a solution.
When to Use Five Whys
Five Whys is not perfect for every situation, but in some cases it’s an ideal troubleshooting tool. When should you pull out Five Whys to address a problem? Here’s a checklist to help you determine if Five Why’s is the right choice. If you answer “yes” to most of these questions, it’s worth your while to give Five Why’s a shot.
Are you trying to find the underlying cause of a simple problem (“why are we always out of toner for our copy machine,” for example) OR seeking a brainstorming technique as part of a more in-depth root cause analysis process? If you are trying to solve a complex problem, Five Whys may not be the best or only tool for your needs.
Are you and your team able to identify and agree upon a problem statement? If you disagree on what the problem is, it will be impossible to drill down to an agreed-upon root cause.
Do you have a facilitator who can help the process along? Five Whys is deceptively simple, and as a result it can be misused. It’s important to have a facilitator who not only understands the problem and the situation, but who also understands how to use the tool.
Do you have a plan for following up on the Five Whys drill down process? As mentioned earlier, Five Whys is a great way to uncover a problem, but it’s not a tool for crafting a solution.
Remember: Five Whys is not a problem-solving tool in itself—so even if you do use Five Whys, you will also need to use other means to craft and implement a solution to the problem you’ve uncovered.
When to Avoid Five Whys
Five Whys is very simple to use—or misuse. That means it is not the ideal tool for every situation. For example, in a situation where there is a lot of hostility or anxiety over blame, Five Whys can quickly become “Five Who’s” as in “whose fault is it that there is a problem?”
For a problem of, an important client is unhappy with our teams work, here is a Five Why's breakdown:
Why? Because they feel our account rep (Sam) is not responding to their specific needs.
Why? Because Sam isn’t getting all his messages.
Why? Because Jane, the office administrator, is always on break.
Why? Because Jane doesn’t take her work seriously.
Why? Because Jane doesn’t have the work ethic she needs to succeed at her job.
This type of an outcome to Five Whys is not only unproductive, it’s counterproductive. It is unlikely that the entire cause of a client’s dissatisfaction can be traced to an employee’s personal work ethic—and the conclusion reached allows for no meaningful action plan. Even the world’s greatest human resources department can’t change an employee’s work ethic!
Five Whys is also a poor choice when addressing a complex or multi-level problem, because it is not robust enough to stand on its own. Thus, if the problem is likely to require in-depth analysis (for example, “what are the production issues that are standing in the way of our ability to compete for price and reliability?”) Five Why’s might be used as a supporting technique, but not as a primary process for problem solving. Instead turn to a tool like a Fishbone Chart, which can be used to map out larger problems.
Five Why's is a powerful tool for drilling down to the heart of more direct problems and is effective when a few simple guidelines are followed.
How to Use Five Whys
As you’ve just seen, it’s easy to misuse Five Whys. It’s equally simple, however, to use the technique correctly. These steps will help you to formulate the problem, brainstorm efficiently, and avoid the blame game:
If possible, involve a facilitator with experience in the Five Whys method to guide the problem solving process. An inexperienced facilitator or an unguided group process can quickly fall apart or lead to unproductive outcomes.
Be sure that everyone on the team agrees on the problem. If one team member sees the problem as a missed deadline, and another sees the problem as an individual’s bad work habits, it will be tough to come to a useful conclusion.
When a team is involved with the problem solving process, it is helpful to divide the group into several problem solving “mini teams.” Allow each team to go through the Five Whys process, and then compare results. It is likely that each team will come to a slightly different conclusion, leading to additional brainstorming and more creative outcomes.
Analyze your findings and agree on an action plan. Five Whys is not, however, a planning process—so it may be that the first step in your action plan is to sit down and create a step by step action plan!
Five Whys in Action
One interesting example of the Five Whys in action, provided by Six Sigma, shows how Five Whys can lead to interesting results which require further analysis before an action plan can be developed or implemented. In this case, employees at a marina were frustrated by the ponderous task of invoicing individual boaters for services—and they used Five Whys to determine why the invoicing system was necessary.
After asking the question “Why” four times, they had drilled down to an interesting question and answer:
Question: Why would the boaters pay, when they can get away without paying.
Answer: The boaters cannot be trusted. This is why in comparable situations, there are train conductors walking around collecting tickets and parking lot attendants checking payments in payment boxes against cars in the parking lot spaces.
Once the team had uncovered their underlying belief—that boaters are not trustworthy—they decided to conduct some research to determine whether their belief was accurate. What they discovered was that “99.5 percent of moorage customers voluntarily paid their moorage fees; the average underpaid amount was 54 cents. The team also learned that customers often overpaid because they did not have exact change. The team concluded that it was not cost effective to spend $300 a day to chase an average of $2.60 a day.”
In this case, Five Whys played an important role in drilling down to underlying issues and assumptions. But the Five Why process was just one tool used, and not sufficient to analyze the issue or develop the appropriate solution—in this case, ending an unproductive and onerous invoicing system.
Five Whys in Context
Five Whys is a terrific tool for uncovering hidden layers of problems that can be addressed as needed. It’s also a great way for unearthing attitudes, assumptions, and morale issues that have not been discussed or clarified. According to Eric Ries, entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, it’s also a great way to find the human problems underlying technical issues, and to address each layer of the problem proportionately.
For example, the problem is that computers are breaking down so often that work is conducted at a crawl:
Why? Because the computers are very old and the software is not compatible with newer systems.
Why? Because new computers and software have not been purchased in five years.
Why? Because IT’s budget is too small to support regular upgrades.
Why? Because the manager in charge of IT has not made an effective case for a budget increase.
Why? Because the manager in charge of IT is new and has not been trained in management skills.
Five Why Analysis: Example of a Computer Problem Drill-Down.
This Five Whys scenario, which is fairly typical, starts with a technical problem—slow computers—lays bare several actionable concerns, and ends with a human issue which could be addressed fairly simply. By following Reis’s recommendations, the company could:
Train new managers.
Develop a process whereby managers have an opportunity to make their case for budget increases.
Consider increasing the budget for hardware and software upgrades.
Purchase new computers and software upgrades as needed.
Of course, all these action steps are easy to lay out and much harder to implement. Five Whys is a good way to get started, but it’s never enough to get the whole job done. It's just one more tool in your problem solving toolkit.
Graphic Credit: Shovel designed by Scott Lewis from the Noun Project.
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Lisa Jo Rudy has been a professional writer for more than two decades. She writes for businesses and non-profits, and has taught and written on topics ranging from accountability to zoo collections.
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Latest funding awards from LEADER in the Cairngorms National Park
The most recent awards from the European funded LEADER programme in the Cairngorms National Park have just been announced by the Cairngorms Local Action Group. They are:
Dulnain Bridge Village Hall Trust has been awarded £4,492.80 to rejuvenate and renew three walls of the village hall which are 114 years old. The work will involve the removal of existing lime mortar and the picking and pointing of all stonework.
Ballater Historic Forestry Project Association has secured £2,037.64 towards updating the existing Dalmochie feasibility study which was undertaken in 2004. It will revisit the costs for the proposed options for the site, taking into account the current tourism and economic climate.
Braemar Community Limited has been awarded £3,500 for the creation of a Braemar Castle Business and Development Plan, which is required to allow them to move forward with the restoration of Braemar Castle and the operation of the castle as a sustainable visitor attraction.
The Cairngorms National Park Authority is using an award of £1,995.00 to build on the successful Cultural Heritage Conference that took place in the summer. Community Heritage Group representatives and school groups from all around the National Park are to be given the opportunity to visit other community groups in the Park and learn more about their activities. These outings will take place in the spring and summer of 2011 at the following locations:
Nethy Bridge, hosted by Explore Abernethy
Highland Folk Museum, hosted by Laggan Heritage
Braemar Castle, hosted by Braemar Community Ltd
Braemar History Society; and Blair Atholl Museum
Blair Castle, hosted by Blair Atholl History Society
New LEADER is a European funded programme operating across the Cairngorms National Park. It is managed locally by the Cairngorms Local Action Group with support from the Cairngorms National Park Authority. Funding is aimed primarily at ‘Revitalising Communities’ and ‘Progressive Rural Economies’.
Significant funds are still available until the end of 2013, with an additional £340,000 allocated for community facility projects, community centres, village halls, and facilities for young people. Activities underpinning economic development, signposting and interpreting local path networks, improving access to broadband, heritage interpretation, training for work and many more types of project will also be considered. The next deadline for applications is 10 January 2011.
For more information and project examples visit the leader website or contact Patricia Methven on tel: 01479 870543.
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West End Transfer of The Twilight Zone casting announced
Douglas Mayo 10th January 2019 News, West End
The Almeida Theatre has announced full casting for the West End transfer of its acclaimed production of The Twilight Zone at the Ambassador’s Theatre.
The cast of The Twilight Zone at the Almeida Theatre. Photo: Marc Brenner
The Twilight Zone is based on original stories by Rod Serling, and two of the most frequent and celebrated contributors, Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson from the CBS television series. It is one of television’s most revered and influential science-fiction fantasy shows and ran on American network CBS from 1959 to 1964, winning 3 Emmy Awards during its 156-episode run. Its incisive parables explore humanity’s hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices. The programme has had a seminal influence on popular culture; from Stephen King to Lin-Manuel Miranda, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan to Steven Spielberg, The Simpsons to Black Mirror.
With the original series celebrating its 60th Anniversary Year, a new version of The Twilight Zone recently began production and is coming to CBS All Access in 2019 with Jordan Peele serving as host and narrator. The upcoming new series is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg serve as executive producers along with Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Carol Serling, Rick Berg and Greg Yaitanes.
Reprising their highly praised performances from the Almeida run are Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Adrianna Bertola and Neil Haigh, who will be joined for the West End premiere by Alisha Bailey, Natasha J Barnes, Nicholas Karimi, Dan Crossley, Dyfan Dwyfor, Lauren O’Neill and Matthew Steer.
Adapted by Anne Washburn (Shipwreck, Mr. Burns) and directed by the multi award-winning director (winner of 7 Olivier Awards), Richard Jones, this production of the acclaimed classic CBS television series The Twilight Zone is an ingenious mixture of morality tales, fables and fantasy that are as relevant today as when audiences first encountered them.
The Twilight Zone has design by Paul Steinberg, with costume design by Nicky Gillibrand, movement direction by Aletta Collins, lighting design by Mimi Jordan Sherin, and D.M Wood, composition and sound by Sarah Angliss, sound by Christopher Shutt, casting by Julia Horan, and illusions by Richard Wiseman and Will Houstoun.
The Twilight Zone runs at The Ambassadors Theatre from 4 March 2019
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TRUMP: THE DESTROYER-IN-CHIEF
In Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Military, Politics, Social commentary on February 11, 2019 at 1:16 pm
Since taking office as the Nation’s 45th President, Donald Trump has attacked or undermined one public or private institution after another. Among these:
American Intelligence: Even before taking office, Trump refused to accept the findings of the FBI, CIA and NSA that Russian Intelligence agents had intervened in the 2016 election to ensure his victory.
“I think it’s ridiculous,” he told “Fox News Sunday.” “I think it’s just another excuse. I don’t believe it….No, I don’t believe it at all.”
And when FBI Director James Comey dared to pursue a probe into “the Russia thing,” Trump fired him without warning.
On Thanksgiving Day, 2018, Trump said that the CIA hadn’t concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s had ordered the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
This was a lie—the agency has reached such a conclusion, based on a recording provided by the Turkish government and American intelligence.
American law enforcement agencies: Trump repeatedly attacked his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, for not “protecting” him from agents pursuing the Russia investigation.
On November 7, the day after Democrats won a majority of House seats, Trump fired Sessions.
He threatened to fire Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who oversaw Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian subversion of the 2016 election.
He bypassed Rosenstein to appoint Matthew Whittaker acting Attorney General—thus giving him authority over the Mueller investigation. Whittaker had often—and publicly—criticized Mueller’s probe, calling for its termination.
Trump intended to fire Mueller during the summer of 2017, but was talked out of it by aides fearful that it would set off calls for his impeachment.
American military agencies: In February, 2017, Trump approved and ordered a Special Forces raid in Yemen on an Al Qaeda stronghold. The assault cost the life of Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens.
Disavowing any responsibility for the failure, Trump said: “This was a mission that was started before I got here. This was something they wanted to do. They came to me, they explained what they wanted to do—the generals—who are very respected, my generals are the most respected that we’ve had in many decades, I believe. And they lost Ryan.”
The press: On February 17, 2017, Trump tweeted: “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”
Seven days later, appearing before the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 24, Trump said: “I want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. It’s fake, phony, fake….I’m against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there.”
The judiciary: On October 20, 2018, Trump attacked U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar as an “Obama judge.” Tigar had ruled that the administration must consider asylum claims no matter where migrants cross the U.S. border.
On October 21, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts told the Associated Press: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”
On Thanksgiving Day, 2018, Trump attacked Roberts—appointed by Republican President George W. Bush—on Twitter: “Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have ‘Obama judges,’ and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country.”
Trump has repeatedly attacked Seattle US District Judge James Robart, who halted Trump’s first travel ban: “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!”
President Barack Obama: For five years, Trump, more than anyone else, popularized the slander that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya—and was therefore not an American citizen.
Even after Obama released the long-form version of his birth certificate—on April 27, 2011—Trump tweeted, on August 6, 2012: “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @BarackObama‘s birth certificate is a fraud.”
On March 4, 2017, in a series of unhinged tweets, Trump accused former President Obama of tapping his Trump Tower phones prior to the election: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
Trump was later forced to admit he had no evidence to back up his slanderous claims.
Donald Trump isn’t crazy, as many of his critics charge. He knows what he’s doing—and why.
He intends to strip every potential challenger to his authority—or his version of reality—of legitimacy with the public. If he succeeds, there will be:
No independent press to reveal his failures and crimes.
No independent law enforcement agencies to investigate his abuses of office.
No independent judiciary to hold him accountable.
No independent military to dissent as he recklessly hurtles toward a nuclear disaster.
No candidate—Democrat or Republican—to challenge him for re-election in 2020.
No candidate—Democrat or Republican—to challenge his remaining in office as “President-for-Life.”
TRUMP: WAGING WAR ON AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS
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When making complaints in writing, carefully review your email or letter before sending it. Remove any words that are vulgar or profane. Don't make sweeping accusations: "Your agency is a waste."
Don't attribute motives to people you've had problems with, such as: "The postal clerk refused to help me because he's a drunk." If the person actually appeared to be drunk, then be precise in your description: "As he leaned over the counter I could smell beer on his breath. Behind him, in a waste basket, I saw an empty bottle of Coors beer."
Show how the failure of the official to address your problem reflects badly on the company or agency: "This is not the level of service your ads would lead potential customers to expect."
If necessary, note any regulatory agencies that can make life rough for the company or agency if your complaint isn't resolved. For the phone company, for example, cite the FCC or the PUC. But do this only after you have stated you hope your complaint can be settled amicably and privately within the company.
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“Empire State of Mind” with author Zack O’Malley Greenberg
Posted in Empire State of Mind on Jul 25th, 2012 Comments
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can -Jay Z
Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as just another celebrity/mega-star. The reality is, no matter what you think Jay-Z is, he is first and foremost a business.
You can slip into his Rocawear clothing - official sponsor of the New York Yankees - wake up to the local radio station playing Jay-Z's latest hit, spritz yourself with his 9IX cologne, lace up your Reebok S. Carter sneakers, catch a Nets basketball game in the afternoon, and grab dinner at The Spotted Pig before heading to an evening performance of the Jay-Z-backed Broadway musical “Fela!” and a nightcap at his 40/40 Club. He'll profit at every turn of your day.
But despite Jay-Z's success, there are still many Americans whose impressions of him are foggy, outdated, or downright incorrect. Surprisingly to many, he honed his business philosophy not at a fancy B school, but on the streets of Brooklyn and beyond as a drug dealer in the 1980s.
“Empire State of Mind” tells the story behind Jay-Z's rise to the top as told by the people who lived it with him. This book explains just how Jay-Z propelled himself from the bleak streets of Brooklyn to the heights of the business world. Join Zack O'Malley Greenberg, live from the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse...
Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a Forbes staff writer and author of the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind. He pens The Beat Report at Forbes, where he's covered finance and music since 2005, profiling the likes of Bon Jovi, Justin Bieber, Richard Branson and 50 Cent. Along the way, Zack's stories have taken him from Omaha's rail yards to the diamond mines of Sierra Leone. He has also written for The Washington Post, Vibe, McSweeney's, Sports Illustrated and others. He has served as a guest lecturer at Yale, Berklee School of Music, Georgetown and Harvard, and has appeared as an expert source for BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, E!, MTV, Reuters and other outlets.
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God has given Brian a deep conviction and a passionate vision for raising up laborers and building leaders on college campuses for the world harvest. He has been on staff with Campus Outreach for 28 years. He was Campus Director at University of Montevallo from 1987-1989, then Campus Director at West Georgia from 1989-1991. Brian was College Area Director for West Georgia/Berry from 1991-1995, Regional Director for the Memphis Region from 1995-2011, and he is currently the Executive Director for Campus Outreach Memphis as well as serving on the Global Campus Outreach Team. He has focused on Greeks, Athletes, and Independents over the years, as well as serving as point person for Campus Outreach in the area of ethnic diversity. Brian has been married to his wife, Joanne, for 26 years and they have three children: Grant (2nd year at University of Wyoming), Sarah (freshman at TCU), and Travis (8th grade). In his spare time he loves hunting and watching college football.
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WCET Federated Database Includes More Than 3 Million Records
By Joshua Bolkan
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) has federated databases from six institutions participating in the organization's Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework project.
Comprising data focused on 33 common variables and collected from more than 640,000 anonymized student records and more than 3 million course-level records from public, private, two- and four-year institutions, "the goal of the PAR Framework is to identify variables that influence student retention and progression and to determine the impact of various demographic data on factors influencing loss and momentum," according to information released by WCET.
Institutions participating in the PAR Framework project include:
The American Public University System;
The Colorado Community College System;
Rio Salado College;
The University of Hawaii System;
University of Illinois Springfield; and
University of Phoenix.
"We have been using analytics as a tool for improving student retention and progression for several years,” said Dr. Phil Ice, vice president, research & development, American Public University System, and principal investigator of the PAR Framework Project. "Unifying records from multiple schools has the potential to expose generalizable patterns that can provide guidance to institutions across the board, regardless of their internal level of analytics expertise. In higher education, no predictive analytics project has been able to use a multi-institutional sample of this size. As a researcher, having a sample size of this number changes everything."
"WCET is an action-based community of practice," according to information on the organization's website, with a mission of "accelerat[ing] the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education."
WCET members include colleges, universities, corporations, e-learning consortia, non-profit organizations, higher education associations, and state and system higher education executive agencies.
More information about WCET is available at wcet.wiche.edu. Further information about the PAR Framework project can also be found at wcet.wiche.edu.
Joshua Bolkan is contributing editor for Campus Technology, THE Journal and STEAM Universe. He can be reached at jbolkan@gmail.com.
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Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, ‘amazing’ finds suggest
‘Evidence that bluestones were quarried in Wales 500 years before they were put up in Wiltshire prompts theory that Stonehenge is ‘second-hand monument’
Archaeologists at one of the Stonehenge quarry sites in Wales. Photograph: UCL
Evidence of quarrying for Stonehenge’s bluestones is among the dramatic discoveries leading archaeologists to theorise that England’s greatest prehistoric monument may have first been erected in Wales.
It has long been known that the bluestones that form Stonehenge’s inner horseshoe came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, around 140 miles from Salisbury Plain.
Now archaeologists have discovered a series of recesses in the rocky outcrops of Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin, to the north of those hills, that match Stonehenge’s bluestones in size and shape. They have also found similar stones that the prehistoric builders extracted but left behind, and “a loading bay” from where the huge stones could be dragged away.
Carbonised hazelnut shells and charcoal from the quarry workers’ campfires have been radiocarbon-dated to reveal when the stones would have been extracted.
Prof Mike Parker Pearson, director of the project and professor of British later prehistory at University College London (UCL), said the finds were “amazing”.
“We have dates of around 3400 BC for Craig Rhos-y-felin and 3200 BC for Carn Goedog, which is intriguing because the bluestones didn’t get put up at Stonehenge until around 2900 BC,” he said. “It could have taken those Neolithic stone-draggers nearly 500 years to get them to Stonehenge, but that’s pretty improbable in my view. It’s more likely that the stones were first used in a local monument, somewhere near the quarries, that was then dismantled and dragged off to Wiltshire.”
The dating evidence suggests that Stonehenge could be older than previously thought, Parker Pearson said. “But we think it’s more likely that they were building their own monument [in Wales], that somewhere near the quarries there is the first Stonehenge and that what we’re seeing at Stonehenge is a second-hand monument.”
There is also the possibility that the stones were taken to Salisbury Plain around 3200 BC and that the giant sarsens – silicified sandstone found within 20 miles of the site – were added much later. “Normally we don’t get to make that many fantastic discoveries in our lives,” Parker Pearson said. “But this is one.”
Parker Pearson heads a project involving specialists from UCL and the universities of Manchester, Bournemouth and Southampton, among others. Their findings are published on Monday in the journal Antiquity alongside a new book by the Council for British Archaeology titled Stonehenge: Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery.
Prof Kate Welham, of Bournemouth University, said the ruins of a dismantled monument were likely to lie between the two megalith quarries. “We’ve been conducting geophysical surveys, trial excavations and aerial photographic analysis throughout the area and we think we have the most likely spot. The results are very promising. We may find something big in 2016,” she said.
The long-distance transport of the bluestones from Wales to Stonehenge is one of the most remarkable achievements of Neolithic societies. The archaeologists estimate that each of the 80 monoliths weighed less than two tons and that people or oxen could have dragged them on wooden sledges sliding on rail-like timbers.
Parker Pearson said people in Madagascar and other societies were known to have moved such standing stones long distances and that doing so created a spectacle that brought together communities from afar.
“One of the latest theories is that Stonehenge is a monument of unification, bringing together people from across the many parts of Britain,” he said.
He recalled the moment he looked up the near-vertical rock-face and realised that this was one of the quarries. “Three metres above us were the bases of these monoliths that were actually sitting there ready simply to be lowered out of their recesses,” he said.
“It’s the Ikea of Neolithic monument building. The nice thing about these particular outcrops is that the rock has formed 480 million years ago as pillars. So prehistoric people don’t have to go in there and bash away … All they have to do is get wedges into the cracks. You wet the wedge, it swells and the stone pops off the rock.”
Article source: Dalya Alberge (Guardian News)
Tags: Archaeologists, Bluestones, Carn Goedog, Craig Rhos-y-felin, Neolithic, Parker Pearson, Prehistoric Monument, Preseli Hills, Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, Wales
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Tag: Jewish-Christian Studies
New Judaeo-Christian Studies Digital Collection
Msgr. Oesterreicher, Rabbi Finkel, and Fr. Frizzell of the Institute for Judaeo-Christian Studies, from the John M. Oesterreicher papers, Mss 0053 (mss0053_s43_04)
The Archives and Special Collections Center has a strong relationship with the Institute for Judaeo-Christian Studies here at Seton Hall University. Five manuscript collections here at the A&SCC came to us through the Institute, and are rich resources for the study of Judaeo-Christian relations. The Edward H. Flannery papers, 1965-1996, Mss 0012, the Nancy Forsberg papers, 1913-2011, Mss 0022, the John M. Oesterreicher papers, 1920-2000, Mss 0053, the Rose Thering papers, 1944-2005, Mss 0016, and the Michael Wyschogrod papers, 1941-2002, Mss 0013 are important collections documenting the efforts of individuals striving to increase understanding among all people, especially Christians and Jews.
Now these five collections have a new digital resource, the Judaeo-Christian Studies Collections. Portions of each collection are being digitized and made available through this digital collection, and include manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, correspondence, newsclippings, and other materials. We think this collection will prove to be an invaluable resources for scholars in Judaeo-Christian Studies or in any aspect of religious studies, and will continue to add to the collection. Bridgette, a graduate student in the Judaeo-Christian Studies department, has put a great deal of work into processing these collections, digitizing selected items, and making them available online. Thanks to Bridgette, and to Fr. Frizzell of the Institute for Judaeo-Christian Studies, these materials are now widely available to interested researchers. Check out the collection, and subscribe to the updates to see newly digitized items as they are uploaded!
Author Tracy JacksonPosted on October 28, 2013 October 28, 2013 Categories Archives and Special Collections, Digital CollectionsTags Edward Flannery, Jewish-Christian Studies, John M. Oesterreicher, Michael Wyschogrod, Nancy Forsberg, Rose Thering
The Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies has a new website
Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies homepage
The Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University has a new website featuring the scholarly and community activities of the Institute. The IJCS has a long-standing partnership with the Archives and Special Collections Center, and that relationship is highlighted on the Research and Publications page on the new website, which describes the four large archival collections that have been gifted via the Institute: the John M. Oesterreicher papers, 1920-2000, Mss 0053; the Michael Wyschogrod papers, 1941-2002, Mss 0013; the Edward H. Flannery papers, 1965-1996, Mss 0012; and the Nancy Forsberg papers, 1913-2011, Mss 0022.
The new home page for the Institute describes the wide variety of work conducted at Seton Hall dedicated to Catholic-Jewish relations. The site, like the Institute, is an excellent resource for all those interested in Jewish-Christian scholarship, understanding, and peace-building efforts. In addition to the archival collections housed at the Archives and Special Collections Center, the site provides information about and links to scholarship and writings from the current Director of the Institute, Father Lawrence Frizzell, past and current publications, programs and lectures, the program of study in the Jewish-Christian Studies Graduate Program (the only graduate program of its kind in the United States), scholarship information, and the history of the Institute. The Institute also has a new Facebook page to keep in closer touch with students and scholars, and both sites provide links to the Institute’s regular radio program on WSOU, the Kinship of Catholics and Jews, which is also available for download via iTunes.
The Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies Facebook page
For any scholar interested in Christianity and Judaism, the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies is a unique and invaluable source of knowledge and exploration. Visit the site to find out more!
Author Tracy JacksonPosted on June 26, 2013 July 25, 2017 Categories Archives and Special CollectionsTags Jewish-Christian Studies, John M. Oesterreicher, Nancy Forsberg, news
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Paris Woods, Co-founder & Executive Director
Paris Woods is Co-Founder and Executive Director of College Beyond, a New Orleans-based nonprofit whose mission is to help students get to and through college. A first-generation college graduate herself, Paris earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University where she studied African American Studies and Education Policy & Management. Paris has worked in college admissions, financial aid, and student advising at Harvard, before moving to New Orleans to become the founding Director of Alumni Support for New Orleans College Prep Academies. As a result of her work with NOCP, Cohen College Prep HS became the #1 open enrollment high school in the city of New Orleans sending students to college. Paris has been honored in Gambit’s 40 Under 40, is this year’s Millenial Award recipient for Education, and her work supporting New Orleans students has been featured in numerous news outlets including the St. Charles Avenue Magazine, Times-Picayune, Hechinger Report, Education Week, and WWLTV Channel 4 News.
Sarah Payne, Co-founder & Director of Strategy
Sarah Payne is Co-Founder and strategy advisor to College Beyond. Prior to College Beyond’s launch, Sarah served as the founding Director of College Counseling at New Orleans College Prep Academies, where she directed college readiness programs and served on the high school leadership team. Sarah has also worked in the Superintendent’s Delivery Unit at the Louisiana Department of Education and as Managing Director at the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition. She moved to Louisiana in 2005 to teach middle school as a Teach For America corps member, and holds bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and French from Wellesley College. She is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research is focused on higher education and post-college outcomes.
Erica Martinez, Program Director & Founding College Success Coach
Erica brings more than 15 years of training and experience in clinical psychology and direct service with youth populations, and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Psychology from Mississippi State University. Specializing in trauma-informed care, case management, youth development, program development, and crisis support, Erica leads College Beyond’s coaching program development, direct student services, on-the-ground partnership management, data tracking, and student-facing communications.
Mia Gonzales Washington, College Success Coach
Mia Gonzales Washington is a native New Orleanian, a devoted military wife, and a passionate mother to her two young boys. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and a Masters of Arts in Teaching, both from Xavier University of Louisiana, as well as an M.A. in Romance Languages from UNO. An educator since 2008, Mia has deep experience serving first generation college students and students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, facilitating academic growth and self-reliance, while focusing her efforts on student retention and graduation. When not working, she loves talking with her mom, attending church, and enjoys listening to audiobooks, volunteering, and making memories with her family.
Michelle Anaba, Program Associate
Michelle Anaba is an Americorps VISTA member and current Program Associate at College Beyond. As Program Associate, Michelle evaluates data and works to strategically enhance College Beyond programs. She also assists college success coaches with student outreach and engagement. She graduated from Towson University with a degree in Community Health and relocated to New Orleans to follow her passion for helping under-served communities.
Ben Kleban, President
Ben Kleban was the Founder & CEO of New Orleans College Prep (NOCP), a charter school network he founded in 2007 to provide a high quality college prep education to underserved children in New Orleans from birth through 12th grade. Under Ben’s leadership, NOCP achieved significant academic gains for its students, including two successful school turnarounds. Cohen High School improved from an “F” to a “B” letter grade with 100% college acceptance after the first four years of NOCP management, and Crocker Elementary School improved from an “F” to a “C” in only two years. In January 2017, after being elected to the Orleans Parish School Board without opposition, Ben stepped down from his position at NOCP. In addition to his service on the OPSB, Ben currently chairs the board of a new non-profit, College Beyond, which provides direct coaching, mentorship, and micro-grant financial support aimed at improving the college graduation rate for low-income, first generation college students from across New Orleans and our region.
Ben has prior experience as a high school math teacher in Philadelphia, and began his career in corporate finance at The Boeing Company. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School, completed the Teacher Certification Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. In his final years at NOCP, Ben served on the statewide MFP task force, an advisory council for the public school funding formula in Louisiana.
Sean Blondell, Vice President
Sean A. Blondell is the Managing Member/Attorney of Sean Blondell Law Firm, LLC. He concentrates his practices in the area of serious and complex personal injury matters, commercial litigation, business torts, and contract negotiation and drafting. Sean began his legal career as in-house staff counsel for one of the nation’s largest insurance companies. After his tenure in insurance defense, Sean worked for a highly regarded personal injury firm where he represented clients in serious personal injury matters. Prior to law school, Sean worked in real estate finance and banking. He also worked in public relations, sponsorship and marketing for two NBA franchises. Sean is a graduate of Howard University’s School of Business in Washington, D.C., and received a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business and Marketing. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge. Sean is a resident of New Orleans East, where he and his wife Laci are raising their four children.
Malana Joseph Mitchell, Board Member
Malana M. Joseph Mitchell, a native of Edgard, LA, is an award-winning public relations professional. She is Vice President of Public Relations and Community Engagement for Spears Group, an-award winning New Orleans PR firm. Malana brings 10 years of public relations, media, journalism, communications and event planning experience to the company. Prior to joining Spears Group, Malana served as the Communications Specialist for Georges Enterprises, LLC, one of the largest private employers in Louisiana. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dillard University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communications with a minor in Speech Communications. Malana earned her Master of Arts Degree in Mass Communication with a concentration in PR from Kent State University. She is a board member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau’s PR Council, the National Association of Black Journalists, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the all-female Krewe of Muses. Malana is also listed in the 2012 & 2013 Edition of Stanford’s Who’s Who.
David Page, Board Member
David Page is currently the Vice President of Enrollment Management at Dillard University. For more than twenty-one years, Mr. Page has worked in the financial aid arena in multiple capacities. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Oklahoma State University and his Master of Arts in Higher Education (College Student Affairs) from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Prior to his current position, he served as the Vice President for Enrollment Management and Director of Financial Aid at Philander Smith College where he oversaw the Office of Recruitment and Admissions, the Financial Aid Office and the Registrar’s Office. Prior to moving to Philander Smith College in 2005, he was the associate director of financial aid at Dillard University in New Orleans, LA for six years. He has also worked at the University of Tulsa. In 2006, Page was elected the 2008 president of the Southwest Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (SWASFAA) representing over 1600 financial aid members from the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.
Gina Rachel, Board Member
Gina Rachel, CPA, is a Director in Postlethwaite & Netterville Tax Services Group. She has over 18 years of public accounting experience. Ms. Rachel offers extensive knowledge in the field of taxation, including preparation and review of individual, corporate, partnership, trust, non-profit, estate, and gift tax returns. Her experience extends to such industries as tourism (including restaurants, hotels and related services), real estate, and professional services (including physicians, attorneys, and consultants). She works with businesses and related individuals, assisting them with tax planning and consulting. She also has experience representing clients before the IRS, Louisiana Department of Revenue (LDR) and parish agencies.
In addition to her focus on client service, Gina is active in the accounting profession. She is the current Chair-Elect of the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants (LCPA), Past President of the New Orleans Chapter of LCPA, and has held various other roles.
Dr. David Robinson-Morris, Board Member
David W. Robinson-Morris, Ph.D. is the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Xavier University of Louisiana and serves an Adjunct Professor in the College of Liberal Arts Education, and Human Development at the University of New Orleans. Currently, David serves on the boards of the city of New Orleans Human Relations Commission, Forum for Equality Foundation (Louisiana), College Beyond, and is a member of the 2017 class of Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans (EPNO). He is a former member of the Son of a Saint Foundation Advisory Board, and is a founding board member of Propeller (née Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans). David obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Communications – Public Relations from Loyola University New Orleans in 2006, Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of New Orleans in 2011, and Pholds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Research with a dual concentration in Higher Education Administration and Curriculum Theory, and an Education Specialist (Ed. S.) Certificate in Educational Leadership with a focus on applied research, measurement, and evaluation both from Louisiana State University (LSU). He is a native of Galveston, Texas.
Dr. Keisha D. Smith, Board Member
A New Orleans native, Dr. Keisha Smith currently serves as the Director of Products and Publications for The Data Center. She has worked in organizational design and evaluation for over ten years, including serving on projects for the U.S. Department of Education, Drexel University, Walgreens, and the National Institute of Health, and has more than seven years of experience as a non-profit leader focused on systems thinking and strategic planning. Dr. Smith holds a B.S. in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Research from Louisiana State University.
Katie Walmsley, Board Member
Katie Walmsley is the Chief Financial Officer of KIPP New Orleans Schools, which serves as the city’s largest network of open-enrollment public charter schools and educates over 10% of New Orleans’ public school students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12. As CFO, Katie is accountable for an operating budget of $65 million that supports over 600 employees across the school support center and 12 schools and serves over 5000 students. Prior, she served as Finance and Administrative Officer of Teach For America-Greater New Orleans where she led efforts to raise and manage $58 million by aligning the priorities of funders with TFA’s strategy, bringing over 1200 education leaders to Greater New Orleans. Earlier in her career, Katie joined the founding team of a web-based talent recruitment startup, raising $5 million, growing registered users to one hundred thousand, and spearheading online marketing, communications and product redesign. Prior, she held managerial positions in finance and operations at McMaster-Carr, a large supplier to commercial facilities worldwide, increasing productivity and managing quality and profitability.
Katie began working in education to advance access to opportunity with the vision that New Orleans must become a more inclusive and equitable city. She furthered this commitment through her work on the Board of Directors of Propeller from 2011 to 2017, through which she oversaw the launch of their Accelerator programs and incubation of 100+ ventures tackling social and environmental disparities. In addition to supporting New Orleans youth to enroll and succeed in college through her board service with College Beyond, Katie also serves on the Board of Directors for the Crescent City Corps, which is building a talent pipeline that creates the next generation of law enforcement leaders. Katie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics. She spent her childhood in New Jersey and lives in New Orleans alongside her husband Semmes and their two children, Stella and Semmes.
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Anatomy of a Game Review #001: “What People Look For”
January 14, 2018 Uncategorizedthedeviot
This week I was invited to give some thoughts over at The Well Red Mage along with many other talented content creators. Check it out!
The Well-Red Mage
“The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose shallow secret may be guessed and revealed by one whose feet are wounded and who knows not his name. Rather, he will look upon Art as a goddess who mystery it is his province to intensify, and whose majesty his privilege to make more marvellous in the eyes of men.”
-Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist
Hello, NPCs, and welcome to the genesis of a new series!
I’ve been thinking about moving forward with this idea for a while, the nucleus of which was formed around the time when we put out the question “Are video games art?”. The community participated in sharing their thoughts and it was wonderful to see such a range of opinions and assertions (minus that one person on Twitter who said “Why is anyone even asking this?…
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The Final Fantasy Project At The Well- Red Mage
October 9, 2017 UncategorizedBlogs, Final Fantasy, Writingthedeviot
“Come tuhgethaaaa… right naaahoooww…. over Final Fantasy.” The crystals call, NPCs! We’re currently looking for interested writers for a new community event centered around the Final Fantasy franchise. This is going to play out similarly to the recent Zelda project led by NekoJonez (check out the community hub for that). Here’s my contribution […]
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NES Hardware For Beginners: Making The Best Buy
December 14, 2015 Uncategorizedthedeviot
Play Legit has a wonderful breakdown of the many NES/Famicom console releases. It’s great for the import game information, as well as retro game collecting information.
Play Legit: Video Gaming & Real Talk - PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, Handheld, Retro
Real Talk By: The Wizard
When many of us think of the Nintendo Entertainment System we are taken back to a time when life was simpler, with fewer worries. A time when instead of working a full-time job, we came home from school, begging our parents for just one hour to play Nintendo before homework. If you are one of the lucky people to be around in arguably one of the best, if not the most significant era’s of gaming, then you, and your grandmother must be familiar with the Nintendo Entertainment System. The first thought that probably materializes into your brain is that gray and black box, with the blinking lights when the game refused to load. Blowing in the cartridges, and wiggling the game just right to get it to load up first try. No doubt you probably mastered how to get your games to working first try…
Reader Discussion: How Important is Backwards Compatibility to You?
August 9, 2015 Uncategorizedthedeviot
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Most of us were surprised when Phil Spencer confirmed backwards compatibility for the Xbox One, and with over 3 million fan votes across numerous games, it’s safe to say it’s a pretty big big deal. I know we’re pumped about it, but what about you?
Why we’re excited:
Backwards compatibility on the Xbox One allows us, as streamers and reviewers, to capture screenshots, game footage, and live stream using the built-in Twitch app. Not only does this drastically increase the amount of games available for us to stream, but allows us to create more video content without the use of third party hardware/software.
We’re hoping that backwards compatibility deters developers from falling back on remakes/remasters and allows them to focus on creating sequels to our favorite series, or new IP altogether. It seems easier for them to just give Microsoft the okay and have their game readily available to the millions of Xbox…
ConnectiCon 2015 recap
July 19, 2015 Uncategorizedthedeviot
Last weekend was Connecticut’s own multigenre convention; ConnectiCon. Over the last few years it has grown exponentially from a small, esoteric convention to a sizable middle tier convention. Some have even compared it to conventions like MAGfest or Dragoncon. While it may or may not be that big, it has been gaining steam every July. ConnectiCon is quite different from some of the larger conventions you may have gone to. Yes, there are a lot of panels, and celebrities of varying levels do show up. But ConnectiCon feels like it’s more about the fans when you walk along the Hartford Convention Center. Larger conventions feel like you’re there more for upcoming news, and announcements about products or media. Seeing a trailer for a film before anyone else. Or playing a game demo before anyone else. Or hearing about a new comic book before anyone else.
At ConnectiCon it’s more about meeting other fans, playing in tournaments with other fans, and yes hitting up Q&A panels with other fans. Of course every year there is a big chunk of the floor devoted to dealers. So often times it’s a good destination if you’re looking for a rare figure or comic. Or if you love the many T-Shirts you’ve seen online, but just prefer to buy apparel in person. The convention generally has at least one thing over the weekend for everyone. Tabletop gaming, literature, podcasting, anime screenings, and of course, panels.
Every year I tend to try to get in to as many panels as possible. Not only because I might be a fan of a particular panelist, but because they can be informative. As well as entertaining. This year most of the panels that I got into were with actors, many of whom worked mostly in voice acting. It was a pretty good look into some of what to expect if it’s something you want to get into. It was also interesting to see the kind of work that goes into some of your favorite animated shows, movies, and of course, video games.
One of the first panels I made it into was the Women In Voice Acting panel. Kari Wahlgren, and Rachel Robinson fielded questions from fans about working in voice acting. While the title was about women in the field, a lot of the information really pertained to the profession in general. There are less women voice acting, which seems largely in part to there being fewer female characters in shows, and games. Despite this fact, both of these people have gotten to play major parts in a lot of games, and anime. And you would probably be surprised if you found out just how many roles they’ve performed. I know I certainly was. For instance, you may have known Kari Wahlgren played Fuu in the American dub of Samurai Champloo. But did you know (without checking imdb) she was Anka Schlotz in the Swiss Miss episode of Archer? As in a lot of the panels, a lot of the same sort of questions about breaking into the business came up. So Rachel Robinson mentioned that a lot of these questions have been answered by Dee Bradley Baker. He’s the voice of Klaus on American Dad! He also has a wonderful site called IWantToBeAVoiceActor.com. On the site you can find a pretty lengthy F.A.Q. along with some basics, the process of getting an agent, and starting from absolute scratch. If you’ve always wanted to voice a character, check it out. A big thanks to Dee for writing it, and a big thanks to Rachel for mentioning it. Because I am sure a lot of people never knew this was something that existed.
Changing gears, I went to a very entertaining VA panel. In this one Phil Lamar, Maurice La Marche, Kari Wahlgren, Janet Varney, Bill Farmer, and DC Douglas all re-enacted Ghostbusters, in a myriad of the voices they’ve been known for. Except for Janet Varney who proved she could do a pretty good Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. The entire read was hilarious. In my opinion, one of the best moments was when Maurice La Marche was cast as William Shatner. Playing the role of Zuul.
Maurice La Marche also had his own panel I had gotten into. Which was one of the better panels I had seen. I was fortunate that I was able to ask him to elaborate on a point that Alan Oppenheimer had made at last year’s ConnectiCon. About visualizing voices. 30 years ago, studios often gave potential actors a single photo, and a description of a character they were auditioning for. So Alan had talked briefly about trying to come up with a voice based on the little given. Maurice La Marche mentioned that while the practice of giving so little material has died out, that it is still important for VA’s to do that visualizing. He talked about how when auditioning for the role of Pinky (Animaniacs, Pinky & The Brain), upon seeing the character he thought of someone who had illusions of grandeur, and believed their own hubris. So he thought a voice close to Orson Welles would fit that description really well. Had he not gone with his instincts, and tried to impersonate the person creators were lampooning, he might not have gotten the spot.
Someone else in the panel had asked him when he knew he wanted to be a voice actor. He said it was much later in his work life, but that he knew he wanted to do voices as early as 13. To impress some girls he knew in school who were enamored with an educator’s Peter Falk impression. So he would watch a lot of Columbo, until he could get his own impression down. Which even included making one eye go crossed. This impressed not only the girls but the teacher as well. He also talked about his work on Inspector Gadget, the casting changes between The Real Ghostbusters, and Extreme Ghostbusters (All due to misinterpreting an off the cuff remark). As well as the fact that Morbo, H.G. Blob, and Lrrr are all indeed different voices. In the case of Inspector Gadget he spoke highly of Don Adams, and that he learned a lot of his acting methods from him. He also recited one of his Orson Welles bits from The Critic: Rosebud frozen peas.
There was also a video game voice actor panel featuring Jon St. John, Dameon Clarke, Rachel Robinson, Christopher Bevins, Carlos Ferro, and DC Douglas. Much like the other VA panels, a lot of the questions were about the industry, entering it, and some of the panelists favorite, or least favorite roles. One of the more memorable answers to the least favorite roles were Ferro’s reaction when he learned just how nefarious one of his anime villain roles was. One hilarious moment during the panel was when Jon St. John told the audience he was tired of the questions pertaining to voice acting work, and wanted people to ask personal questions. A fan then asked if he had a favorite T-shirt. So he replied that he did, but that he couldn’t wear it in public due to the controversial joke displayed upon it.
The final VA panel had nearly everyone from the other VA panels in it including Phil Lamarr. He had one of the best answers for someone who asked about only wanting to do voice acting. He said something to the effect of “Asking about how to only do voice acting, is like saying you only want to perform on the left half of the stage.” making the point that it is but one facet of acting. Dameon Clarke also recommended fans take a class, or try getting into a public performance to see if it is even something one would like. A fair point. So often, the media we see will glamorize the world of acting. But it isn’t necessarily for everyone. Bill Farmer, and Maurice La Marche reminded one fan that there are often long breaks between jobs, especially when starting out. So having some kind of steady work to fall back on is paramount. To this day, even though Bill Farmer is essentially the official Goofy, each role as the character he does for Disney is an individual job. Rachel Robinson once again pointed out Dee Bradley Baker’s website IWantToBeAVoiceActor.com. Some interesting news came out of the panel too. Team Four Star has some work with Christopher Bevins! No real details came out about that work. The reveal came when a fan asked Rachel Robinson, Dameon Clarke, and Christopher Bevins if any of them had liked Dragon ball Z abridged. They all did.
But it wasn’t all VA panels this year. I also saw the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers panel. And while the show wasn’t something I watched a lot of, it was a pretty entertaining panel. Austin St. John, Karan Ashley, David Yost, and Jason Narvy were all on hand to talk about their time on the show. Some of the highlights were the actors talking about their experiences interviewing for the show. Most of whom had little to no experience at the time. Austin St. John was confused because the casting director was asking him if he could do martial arts, when he had already answered that in his application. Another factoid that came out of the panel was that David Yost, and Jason Narvy had actually applied for different roles on the show than what they had ended up being casted in. It was also kind of intriguing to hear them talk about things that went on outside the show, like the work they did with Make A Wish foundation. As well as things they’ve done since the show has ended. Some fans may not know that Austin St. John was a military medical officer, or that David Yost, and Karan Ashley do production. Jason Narvy actually teaches acting these days in Chicago.
The Power Rangers ended their panel by re-enacting their famous morphing segment. A great panel for not only fans, but for anybody interested in how shows are produced.
George Takei, and Michelle Nichols of Star Trek were also at the convention. George Takei had a half-hour panel on the last day of the con. He spoke at great length about Star Trek, and its importance to all of the people who have been involved with it. He also spent a long time talking to the audience about Leonard Nimoy’s contributions to the franchise like the invention of the Vulcan shoulder pinch, and the iconic live long, and prosper gesture. He also reminded fans just how kind, humble, and charitable Leonard Nimoy was. Takei also reminisced about other cast members the show lost, DeForest Kelly who he says was very shy, and private away from the set. James Doohan who he says he enjoyed drinking with, as well as Grace Lee Whitney who passed away earlier this year.
Things also became a little bit political when he talked about his controversial statement earlier this year, and clarifying what he was trying to say. All in all, whether or not you agree with his views he never came off as stand offish. He was very kind, and appreciative of everyone who attended the panel regardless of political background.
He also has a new book coming out where he will be discussing a number of things about his personal life, as well as a theatre production coming to broadway inspired by his love for his parents.
There were a couple of other panels I made it out to. One was an 18+ panel about the reproductive habits of fictional races in Star Trek. This quickly expanded into pretty much every work of fiction. And while lowbrow, it was a tongue in cheek, comedic panel.
Team Four Star had three panels. I was only able to get to one of them. In it they talked a lot about their veering into Let’s Play territory. More accurately, abridging their Let’s Plays. Starting with a play through of Final Fantasy VII. They showed off a preview of the first episode, and it was very funny. If you’ve followed these guys for any amount of time you won’t be disappointed. The reason they’re doing this is because they’ve had a lot of bad experiences with anime IP holders. So while they aren’t abandoning their parodies entirely, there will be fewer of them. The panel also included the creators of Pokémon Abridged. The Q&A was going really well until a nervous fan began asking Team Four Star about Doug Walker (The Nostalgia Critic) not being at the show. The group explained that he was never advertised for the show, and that he was actually appearing at Animecon in Finland. Things became really uncomfortable when the fan asked Team Four Star to give him Doug Walker’s personal information. Suffice it to say they did not. They played off of the request with humor to ease the tension, before moving onto more questions from fans.
But things would get back on track as other fans would ask the group relevant questions about their projects, and request performances of their various parody voices. There was also a recap of how one of the members became a meme about censorship on Bennet The Sage’s Anime Abandon show.
The final panel I got into was an unpopular opinions in gaming panel hosted by Alma. It was basically a group of fans taking turns debating their statements. Some fans didn’t understand the appeal of Zelda games. Some fans defended Call of Duty. Others thought some of the Super Smash Bros. Melee diehards should move on to other games. If there was a sacred cow in gaming it was probably being derided by somebody. But it was done in a fun way where no one really felt their opinion was the only valid opinion. A great way to mingle with other fans, and perhaps see your favorite or loathed titles from a different perspective. Even if it probably won’t change your mind.
Outside of the panels? Well I did get some time in the gaming area, where I played a quirky Japanese game called Cho Chabudai Gaeshi. It’s a high score game where you flip a table in anger hoping to knock over people, and destroy objects for points. The game has several different playable characters including a bride, an old woman, a chef, and even an odd metallic looking fellow. You slam down your fists onto the table during prompts to fill a meter. When it is filled, you literally flip the physical table as hard as possible to send it flying in the game. Not only can you choose different characters, but there are a number of stages too. Including a funeral, where the table you flip is the one that the coffin rests upon.
There isn’t much else to the game, but if you happen to live near one of the few arcades left in the world, or happen to see it at a convention it is worth checking out. There are videos of the game play online, but it is really something you have to see in person to believe. At ConnectiCon there was a huge line of people waiting to play it.
There were also a number of rhythm arcade games again this year, a PC LAN set up with some MOBAs, and strategy games. A lot of consoles going back to the NES hooked up for anyone to use as well. Once again, there was a League Of Legends tournament. I didn’t get to see that or the different Super Smash Bros. tournaments that went on. But fans really did seem to enjoy them when I talked to any that did happen to watch them. There were also board game tournaments going on. If there was a tabletop game you enjoyed, it was probably there.
Adjacent to the gaming room was the dealer room. This year there didn’t seem to be quite as many vendors. But I did manage to find one called Command D that actually had a Mint On Card Commemorative Battle Armor He-Man. I’m a HUGE Masters Of The Universe fan, and so I had to give them credit as they were the only vendor at the show with anything related to MOTU.
The other big thing I managed to do this year, as it’s a ritual was get out to City Steam Brewery with some friends for dinner the second night. If you’re of legal drinking age these guys make some of the best beer in the state of Connecticut. The brewery also makes some of the best pub food in the state of Connecticut. If you’re ever passing through CT for whatever reason, and you have a chance to stop in you should. If beer, and burgers aren’t enough for you, they also have a stand up comedy club inside, as well as a tour of the brewery. They also have a lot of City Steam swag you can buy. T-Shirts, mugs, hats, and so on.
Overall, I was pretty happy with this year’s showing. There was an awful lot to do, around 13,000 attendees to mingle with, and a ton of great costumes to check out. Some of which were featured in the annual Cosplay Death Match, and Cosplay Dating Game. I didn’t get to the DM, but the DG was enjoyable. The panel lampooned the classic show by featuring cosplays of characters from Inside Out, as the guests. Other unrelated characters would appear as potential dates. It was goofy, and a little corny. But it was still fun. And the last segment would become a lot of fodder for the Phrasing meme featured on Archer. There were a lot of double entendre moments in all of the segments, but especially the last one. So much so, that a chunk of the audience where I was seated was, indeed, chanting “Phrasing.”
And yet, there was so much I didn’t get to do. The aforementioned tournaments, RKO Army’s shadow casting shows, The Marble Hornets panel, (Yep. TMH was at ConnectiCon), Several other celebrity panels, and not to mention all of the workshops, and other cosplay events. Here’s hoping next year ups the ante even further.
“Farewell, FamiKamen Rider” – Now Live on YouTube
April 21, 2015 Uncategorizedthedeviot
FamiKamen Rider Completion Project
We are thrilled to present our full length feature film, “Farewell, FamiKamen Rider” to the world for free and without commercial interruption through YouTube today. It has been a long time coming, and we are very proud to show what work we’ve accomplished this past year with the help of all of you. You’ve all made this happen. Justin Carmical’s legacy and story can finally be told and closed, and I hope you’re all satisfied with the result, as you had a hand in making it happen. Thank you for the love and the support. I’m glad we got to see our friend, JewWario, ride on one last time.
Again, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
We look forward to posting more material related to the making of the movie in the near future.
Internet Premiere, April 15th!
April 7, 2015 Uncategorizedthedeviot
Farewell, FamiKamen Rider Internet Premiere is in about a week and a half. Come watch live with others first, and if you can’t it’ll be available immediately afterward on YouTube. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Farewell, FamiKamen Rider – Teaser Trailer
MarzGurl Productions presents “Saraba/Farewell, FamiKamen Rider,” the thrilling conclusion to the story authored by the late Justin Carmical. After a massive fight in Canada, the FamiKamen Rider has gone missing in action, leaving his transformation belt behind and his cartridge vanished. In the aftermath of the battle, a new enemy appears, seeking out the power of the FamiKamen Rider for himself.
For three years, MarzGurl has kept the transformation belt safe from enemy hands. Her search for the missing cartridge proves futile, until Chris, a rare video game collector, stumbles upon the cartridge by chance. Not knowing what he has found, Chris’s curiosity makes him a target for this new evil. As he learns about the history of the FamiKamen Rider, with the additional support of an old friend and a new hero, it is up to MarzGurl and Chris to make the journey to find answers, confront their own…
I now have a Twitch channel
March 3, 2014 Commentary, Uncategorizedgaming, LiveStream, PC Gaming, Twitch, Video Gamesthedeviot
Just to give everyone a nice heads up, I now have a Twitch channel. I know. I know. Late to the party. Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean you won’t see written reviews anymore. It isn’t the end of my love of writing. But broadcasting my own gameplay seemed interesting, and so I finally took the belated plunge. What kinds of titles will you see me play? Well for now they’ll predominantly be PC games. The reason being, I do not presently have a capture card for my PC. As such I don’t have the ability to get my console games streamed. Eventually, I’d like to but at least for the time being the games will be on my PC. I started out with Chivalry, and I’ll probably play that one a bit more in the future. But I’ll have other games going too. Some will be games I’ve reviewed for the blog, others will just be games I may be playing with friends. Many of them will probably be games that are fun, and under the radar. I enjoy introducing people to new stuff. Everyone knows about the latest blockbuster, but not everyone knows about some of the other great stuff out there.
In terms of content this week, I’ll be reposting some more of my old reviews I’ve done for defunct or lapsed sites so that they’re available for visitors to see. The day may come where those other sites go down completely, and should that happen they’ll be lost. I hope you’ll check them out once they’re reposted. I’ll be playing some stuff I’ve picked up recently too, so if I do get through any of those titles I’ll try to get a review in there for any of those too.
As always, I thank, and appreciate everyone who reads my material. I also thank, and appreciate everyone who watched my opening stream last night, or will watch future broadcasts. If you want to see me win or fail miserably you can do so at http://www.twitch.tv/thedeviot
Rest In Peace Justin Carmical 1971-2014
January 25, 2014 Commentary, UncategorizedJewWario, Justin Carmicalthedeviot
I just found out that Justin Carmical, better known as his JewWario persona has passed away. I never knew the man personally. But by all accounts he was a very generous, honest, loving human being to everyone he knew. As a fan who watched his show I think that fact really shone through in every episode. This was someone who appreciated everyone for watching his material. This was someone who really loved working, and communicating with others, and sharing with others.
His site, and show stuck out because of it. Spreading things about the hobby he loved with the world in a way other people didn’t. He actually made you feel welcome in his work. You felt included in the experience, which is something rare with a lot of people who do a show on the internet or anywhere for that matter. He also was part of the first real wave of internet personalities to rise up over the last decade. His show You Can Play This was very informative, bringing the ability to import games within reach of those who may have thought it too complicated. Other shows did crossovers with him or did interviews at conventions with him. All of which were very entertaining.
I hope, and pray that everyone who did have the honor of knowing him will find peace. The world lost a really great person today. I hope everyone will appreciate those in their own lives more.
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Chicago Homeless Shelters Serve Up Starbucks
Filed Under:Chicago Homeless Shelters, Feeding America, Food Share Program, Greater Chicago Food Depository, homeless, Lisa Fielding, Shelters, Starbucks
CHICAGO (CBS) — Every night, trucks from the Greater Chicago Food Depository pick up unsold salads, sandwiches and wraps from Starbucks and delivers them to homeless shelters.
“The Food Share Program is a partnership with Starbucks and Feeding America,” said Jim Conwell, Greater Chicago Food Depository.
“A couple of years ago Starbucks and Feeding America announced that they were going to begin a food share partnership and roll it out to the 200 food banks in the network. We are in the network. The pilot was in San Diego. They added Chicago to the program in March.”
Packed meals at Greater Chicago Food Depository (Credit: Facebook/Greater Chicago Food Depository)
Conwell said they collect about 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of food a night from more than 100 Starbucks stores in Chicago, which is equal to about 1,500 meals.
He said the Food Share program began in March and just makes sense.
“It reduces food waste, it puts nutritious and fresh meals in the hands of our neighbors in need. It’s overall a very efficient program,” Conwell said. “While less food is going to waste, more people are getting the meals they need and that’s a win win for us.”
The program is now in 11 markets, and Chicago was the largest of those until the program began in New York earlier this month. Starbucks said it hopes to donate prepared food from every company-owned store by 2020.
“The goal by the end of the year, we believe we are on pace to receive more than 635,000 pounds of food by the end of 12 months,” said Conwell. “It’s not just getting food to people in need, it’s about serving struggling neighbors with respect and dignity that they deserve. It beats a peanut, butter and jelly or bologna sandwich. It’s a great opportunity to put quality, fresh food in the hands of people in need.”
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PHOTOS: Echo and the Bunnymen Live at the Vic
November 25, 2018 December 17, 2018 Roman Sobus
Photos © 2018 by: Roman Sobus
Biography:Ian McCulloch began his career in 1977, as one third of the Crucial Three, a bedroom band which also featured Julian Cope and Pete Wylie. When Wylie left, McCulloch and Cope formed the short-lived A Shallow Madness with drummer Dave Pickett and organist Paul Simpson, during which time such songs as “Read It In Books”, “Robert Mitchum”, “You Think It’s Love” and “Spacehopper” were written by the pair. When Cope sacked McCulloch from the band,[1] A Shallow Madness changed their name to The Teardrop Explodes, and McCulloch joined forces with guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson to form Echo & the Bunnymen. This early incarnation of the band featured a drum machine, assumed by many to be “Echo”, though this has been refuted by the band. In the 1982 book Liverpool Explodes!, Will Sergeant explained the origin of the band’s name:
We had this mate who kept suggesting all these names like The Daz Men or Glisserol and the Fan Extractors. Echo and the Bunnymen was one of them. I thought it was just as stupid as the rest.[2]
In November 1978, Echo & the Bunnymen made their debut at Liverpool’s Eric’s Club,[3] appearing as the opening act for The Teardrop Explodes.
Echo & the Bunnymen’s debut single “The Pictures on My Wall” was released on Bill Drummond & David Balfe’s Zoo Records in May 1979, the B-side being the McCulloch/Cope collaboration “Read It in Books” (also recorded by The Teardrop Explodes approximately six months later as the B-side of their final Zoo Records single “Treason”). McCulloch has subsequently denied that Cope had any involvement with the writing of this song on more than one occasion.[4][5]
By the time of their debut album, 1980’s Crocodiles, the drum machine had been replaced by Trinidad-born Pete de Freitas. The lead single, “Rescue”, climbed to UK #62 and the album broke into the Top 20 at #17, following critical acclaim.[6] Their next album, Heaven Up Here (1981), was an even bigger critical and commercial success, reaching the UK Top Ten (#10), although a single lifted from the album, “A Promise”, could only reach UK #49.[6]
Mainstream success
In June 1982, the Bunnymen achieved their first significant UK hit single with “The Back of Love” (#19). This was followed in early 1983 with their first Top 10, the more radio-friendly “The Cutter”, which climbed to #8. The parent album, Porcupine, hit #2 in the album chart. Now firmly established as a chart act, further hits followed with a one-off single, “Never Stop” (#15), and “The Killing Moon”, a preview from the new album featuring a dramatic McCulloch vocal, which became the band’s second UK Top 10 single at #9.[6]
Following a PR campaign which proclaimed it “the greatest album ever made”,[7] 1984’s Ocean Rain reached #4, and today is widely regarded as the band’s masterpiece.[8] Single extracts “Silver” (UK #30) and “Seven Seas” (UK #16) consolidated the album’s continued commercial success. In the same year, McCulloch had a minor solo hit with his cover version of “September Song”.
Echo & the Bunnymen toured Scandinavia in April 1985, performing cover versions of songs from Television, the Rolling Stones, Talking Heads and The Doors. Recordings from the tour emerged as the semi-bootleg On Strike. Unfortunately for the band, Ocean Rain proved to be a difficult album to follow up, and they could only re-emerge in 1985 with a single, “Bring On the Dancing Horses” (UK #21), and a compilation album, Songs to Learn & Sing, which made #6 in the UK album chart. However, all was not well in the Bunnymen camp, and Pete de Freitas left the band. Their next album, the self-titled Echo & the Bunnymen (1987), was recorded with ex–ABC drummer David Palmer, but when de Freitas returned in 1986, it was largely re-recorded.[9] Eventually released in mid-1987, the record sold well (UK #4), and was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.
In the United States, the band’s best-known songs were “The Killing Moon” and “Lips Like Sugar”. “Bring On the Dancing Horses” is well-known as one of the songs on the soundtrack to the John Hughes film Pretty in Pink. “The Killing Moon” was featured in the films Grosse Pointe Blank and Donnie Darko, and in Series 2, Episode 4 of the E4 series Misfits. The band also contributed a cover version of The Doors song “People Are Strange” to The Lost Boys soundtrack.
1988 split
McCulloch quit the band in 1988 and de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident in mid-1989. After former Colenso Parade singer Oscar turned down an offer to take over from McCulloch,[10] Pattinson and Sergeant recruited ex-St. Vitus Dance vocalist Noel Burke and drummer Damon Reece. Keyboardist Jake Brockman (a touring member of the band for several years previously, and a contributor to the 1987 album) was promoted to full member, and the five-piece recorded Reverberation in 1990. This did not generate much excitement among fans or critics, and the group was abandoned in 1993. McCulloch, meanwhile, had continued his solo career, with the albums Candleland in 1989 and Mysterio in 1992.
Echo and the Bunnymen at Paradiso, Amsterdam, in 2006.
In 1994 McCulloch and Sergeant began working together again under the name Electrafixion; in 1997 Pattinson rejoined the duo, meaning the three surviving members of the original Bunnymen lineup were now working together again. Rather than continue as Electrafixion, the trio resurrected the Echo & the Bunnymen name and released the album Evergreen (1997), which reached the UK Top 10.
Immediately prior to the release of the band’s next album, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999), Les Pattinson quit to take care of his mother. McCulloch and Sergeant have continued to tour and record as Echo & the Bunnymen, touring repeatedly and releasing the albums Flowers (2001) and Siberia (2005). The Siberia band line up was Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Paul Fleming (keyboards), Simon Finley (drums) and Pete Wilkinson (bass), Hugh Jones produced Siberia after previously engineering early Bunnymen albums. As from August 2009 the group’s touring incarnation comprises McCulloch and Sergeant along with Stephen Brannan (bass), Gordy Goudie (guitar), Nicholas Kilroe (drums) and Jez Wing (keyboards).
In 2002 the group received the Q Inspiration award. The award is for inspiring “new generations of musicians, songs and music lovers in general.” The band were said to be worthy winners as they have done much to promote the Mersey music scene. In a later interview for Magnet magazine, McCulloch said “It validates everything that we’ve tried to achieve—cool, great timeless music. It’s not like an inspiration award affecting the past, it’s affecting the current music.”
On 11 September 2006, Echo & the Bunnymen released an updated version of their 1985 Songs to Learn and Sing compilation. Now re-titled More Songs to Learn and Sing, this new compilation was issued in two versions, a 17-track single CD and a 20-track version with a DVD featuring 8 videos from their career.
In March 2007, the Bunnymen announced that they had re-signed to their original record label, Warner, and were also working on a new album. The band were also said to be planning a live DVD, entitled “Dancing Horses”, which also contained interviews with the band. This was released in May 2007, on Snapper/SPV. The live line up was Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Simon Finley (Drums), Paul Fleming (Keyboards), Gordy Goudie (Guitar) and Steve Brannan (Bass).
On 11 January 2008 Ian McCulloch was interviewed on BBC Breakfast at the start of Liverpool 08. He was asked about new Bunnymen material and he revealed that a new album would coincide with their gig at the Royal Albert Hall in September. He went on to say that the album was, “The best one we’ve made, apart from Ocean Rain.”
In a 20 April 2008 interview with the Sunday Mail Ian McCulloch announced The Fountain as the title of the new Echo & the Bunnymen album with producers John McLaughlin and Simon Perry, which was originally due to be released in 2008 but was finally released on 12 October 2009. The first single from the album, “Think I Need It Too”, was released on 28 September 2009.
On 1 September 2009 former keyboard player Jake Brockman died on the Isle of Man when his motorbike collided with a converted ambulance. Brockman had played keyboards for the band during the 1980s.
In March 2010 Echo & The Bunnymen’s official website http://www.bunnymen.com was awarded the highly acclaimed SXSW 2010 Best Music Website Award. The award was presented to Peter Allen the bands webmaster.
In December 2010, Echo & the Bunnymen went on tour playing their first two albums Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here in their entirety.
Official: http://www.bunnymen.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebunnymen/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bunnymen
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Stealing Suspects? The Interesting Case of of Chen Yongzhou
By Elizabeth M. Lynch, November 7, 2013
New Express Headline asking for the release of their reporter, Chen Yongzhou
Last month’s drama surrounding the detention of journalist Chen Yongzhou’s (pronounced Chen Young-joe) by Changsha police, and his employer’s front page plea for Chen to be freed (“Please Release Him“), sent shock waves through the China-watching world. Was a local, albeit scrappy newspaper really taking on another city’s public security forces? Was it really publicly shaming them and essentially implying that the Changsha police were on the take?
But for many Americans watching these events unfold, the most puzzling aspects of the situation was not so much the David-and-Goliath narrative of the New Express newspaper confronting the Changsha public security bureau. Rather, most Americans were probably confused about two things: (1) police in one province can just go to another province and willy-nilly take someone away? and (2) defamation is a crime in China? This post will focus on the former.
Cross-Border Journalism Leads to Cross-Border Detention in China?
Chen and his colleagues at New Express are part of a new breed of journalist in China – muckrackers looking to hold powerful interests responsible and seeking to expose the truth that is often kept hidden by the government. For the past 18 months, Chen’s focus had been on Zoomlion, a construction equipment maker located in Changsha, Hunan province. Zoomlion is no ordinary construction equipment company; it is the country’s second largest construction company and in a country where construction is non-stop, that means wealth and power has accrued to the company.
Although Chen and New Express are located in Guangzhou – a city over 400 miles from Changsha and located in an entirely different province –
A Zoomlion product
it is not peculiar that it chose to write and publish articles about Zoomlion. In China, where the local governments and local businesses are often in a symbiotic relationship and where the local Party is the law, it is commonplace that the local newspaper does not write about the corruption in its midst. Instead, it is an outsider newspaper – one as far away as Guangzhou – that will pick up the story.
Chen’s articles on Zoomlion fit this pattern. According to Bloomberg, Zoomlion’s controlling shareholders are Hunan State-Owned Assets (holding 19.97% of all A shares traded on the Shenzen exchange) and the Hunan government (owner of 16.2% of all outstanding shares of the company).
By May 2013, Chen was writing hard-hitting articles uncovering facts about the company that suggested it falsified its sales figures and was committing fraud on the market; a serious allegation for a company that trades on both the Shenzhen and Hong Kong exchanges. After his May 27, 2013 article, Zoomlion’s shares took a 5.4% hit on the Hong Kong stock market. While it denied Chen’s allegations, Zoomlion could not have been happy. But what is a Changsha company to do when the reporter and his newspaper are located in Guangzhou?
As far as the world knew, Zoomlion did nothing. But then on October 23, 2013, New Express stunned the world with its front page editorial acknowledging that the Changsha police had come to Guangzhou, detained Chen, and brought him back to Changsha where he remained in detention. The allegations: that Chen’s articles were false and defamed Zoomlion.
But do the police in one city have the power to swoop into a city in a different province and take away a suspect back to their home city? To Americans, this seems illegal. In the United States, because each state is sovereign within its territory, New York City police cannot just go to Boston and arrest the suspect they think did the crime. Rather, the New York City police must go through the legal proceeding of extradition: the New York City police must present the indictment to the Governor of Massachusetts who then has little choice but to consent to the arrest and orders Massachusetts or Boston police to arrest the suspect and eventually hand him over to New York City police to bring back to New York City.
In China, things are not that different. Like in the U.S., there is a recognition that at times, a criminal suspect might be living outside the confines of a local police bureau. The new Criminal Procedure Law (“CPL”)and its interpreting and implementing regulations – in particular the Ministry of Public Security’s “Procedural Regulations on the Handling of Criminal Cases by Public Security Organs (revised 2012)” (“MPS Regulations” or “Regulations”) – do contemplates this fact. Article 24 of the CPL makes it clear that by default jurisdiction of a criminal case is based on where the crime was committed. The MPS Regulations re-affirms this. Article 15 of the MPS regulations gives jurisdiction of a case to the public security bureau at the “site of the crime”, a term it defines as including not just the site of the actual criminal acts, but also any location where the consequences of the crime occurred. For a newspaper or online article, the consequences of the crime might be felt in a great number of locations, and the first public security bureau to file the case will exercise jurisdiction. The public security bureau at the place of the suspect’s residence can have jurisdiction when more appropriate, even if it isn’t a site of the crime.
As Jeremy Daum, research fellow at the Yale Law School’s China Law Center and founder of China Law Translate, pointed out recently, the Criminal Procedure Law and MPS Regulations clearly address activities by police outside of their geographic area – what Americans would likely compare to extradition.
An entire Chapter of the Regulations – entitled Cooperation in Case-Handling (Chapter 11, encompassing Articles 335-344) – specifically deals with these situations. As Daum noted, in terms of detaining a suspect, “Articles 339 and 340 [of the MPS Regulations] describe situations where police either take custody of someone in another jurisdiction or request that local police act on their behalf. Generally, the outside force has an obligation to contact the locals and to have the necessary authorizing paper work with them, and the locals have an obligation to facilitate.”
At this point, this pattern is not that different from what occurs in the United States when one state seeks to extradite a criminal suspect.
Seal for China’s Ministry of Public Security
Although there a few, technical grounds upon which a U.S. governor of one state can deny another state’s extradition request, in general, extradition is mandated by the U.S. Constitution if the other state presents the indictment. The requesting state can go to federal court and compel the governor to extradite the suspect if she refuses on illegitimate grounds.
But where China differs from the U.S. in its proceedings is that the requesting police physically go to the local police’s territory to take the suspect back to their city. In accordance with Article 340, after the local police apprehend the suspect, the outside police must immediately pick up the suspect and bring him back to its territory. In fact, Article 122 requires that the outside police do so within 24 hours.
Was Chen Yongzhou Properly Detained?
It does appear that Chen was in fact properly detained in accordance with the MPS Regulations. Whether the Changsha public security bureau’s underlying claims against Chen are just is less apparent, but in terms of the procedure for cross-provincial transfers of a suspect, the Changsha public security officials likely complied with the Regulations.
Here, the Changsha police likely have a valid argument that the crime occurred in its jurisdiction or its consequences were the most strongly felt in its jurisdiction, giving it the right to assert its jurisdiction. Zoomlion, the entity that was allegedly injured by Chen’s articles, is located in Changsha.
According to a Freedom House bulletin, on October 18, 2013, after being summoned, Chen went to the Guangzhou police station. Once there, according to an article from the China Times News Group, Changsha police confronted Chen with a document listing his crimes and then placed him into its custody for transfer to Changsha.
Chen in the custody of Changsha police
It appears that the Changsha police complied with the MPS regulations concerning “Cooperation in Case Handling:” (1) Chen was summoned to the local police station by the Guangzhou police, (2) while in the Guaungzhou police station, the Changsha police presented him with a document listing his crime (perhaps the required authorizing paperwork), and (3) Chen was immediately transferred to the Changsha police and brought to a Changsha detention center within 24 hours.
Although the underlying criminal charges reek of corruption and a Changsha police department possibly at the beck and call of Zoomlion, it is still important to recognize that the Changsha police likely followed the law in obtaining custody of Chen. To ignore this fact does a disservice in criticizing other aspects of this bizarre case.
One such bizarre aspect is Zoomlion turning to the criminal law for a charge of defamation. Is this legal? Find out in part 2 of this article posted here.
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Petition Drive Underway in Florida to Criminalize Abortion as First-Degree Murder
By Heather Clark on October 3, 2016 66 Comments
TAMPA, Fla. — A petition drive is underway in Florida in an effort to place a measure on the 2018 ballot that would amend the state constitution to criminalize abortion as murder.
“Inasmuch as abortion deprives an innocent human being of the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, any person who performs or procures an abortion shall be guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree, and any person who attempts to perform or procure an abortion shall be guilty of felony attempted murder,” the proposed constitutional amendment reads.
It defines abortion as being “the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device, to intentionally kill an unborn human being” and marks conception as beginning at fertilization as opposed to conception.
Abolish Abortion Florida, which is behind the effort, says that the goal of the petition is not only to collect enough signatures to make it on the 2018 ballot, but to also encourage politicians to put forward legislation that would outlaw abortion rather than regulate it.
“The Supreme Court cannot make murder legal. Pro-life politicians have passed incremental regulations for decades, but it’s time to abolish abortion by recognizing it for what it is—cold-blooded murder—and prosecuting it accordingly,” the group said in a statement.
It estimates that 72,000 children in Florida lose their lives every year by abortion.
As previously reported, a similar ballot proposal was submitted in Ohio, and would have prosecuted abortion as aggravated murder.
“No person shall perform, procure or attempt to perform an abortion,” the text read. “Whoever violates this section is guilty of aggravated murder and shall be punished in accordance with the penalties for that crime …”
It noted that the measure would not apply to contraception, unfertilized eggs or IVF procedures.
The petition was rejected last month by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine as some of the signatures collected could not be counted as valid, making the effort fall short of the required number of signatures by just over 150.
Oklahoma Sen. Joe Silk, R-Broken Bow, also introduced a bill earlier this year that would have added killing an unborn child to existing murder statutes.
“No person shall perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion after conception,” it read. “A person commits murder in the first degree when that person performs an abortion as defined by Section 1-745.5 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes.”
The measure passed the Health and Human Services Committee, but was then stalled by Republican leadership who opined that the move was too “extreme.”
“I’ve had other senators come up and say this goes too far, and I say, ‘Do you think life begins at conception?’ and they say, ‘Absolutely.’ So, if you believe life begins at conception then it’s not too far,” Silk told reporters.
A separate bill introduced by Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, that would revoke the medical license of any physician who performs an abortion, passed both houses, but was vetoed by Gov. Mary Fallin.
Editor’s Note: Those desiring to sign the Florida petition may do so by clicking here.
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When teaching on the importance of Bible prophecy, one of the points I always mention is the quantity of prophecy that the Bible contains. I stress that anywhere from one-fourth to one-third of all the Scriptures are prophetic in nature, and that fact alone should be sufficient to compel our study of prophecy. I then remind my audience that we are told in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 that “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” And “all Scripture” certainly includes prophecy.
Most Christians are completely unaware of how much of the Bible is devoted to prophecy, just as most are unaware of the fact that the Bible is the only book in the world that contains fulfilled prophecies. There are, for example, no fulfilled prophecies in the Quran, the Hindu Vedras or the Book of Mormon. In contrast, the Bible contains hundreds of prophecies that have already been fulfilled — prophecies about people, towns, nations, empires and the Messiah.
Getting back to the quantity of prophecy, consider the fact that one out of every 25 verses in the New Testament have to do with the Second Coming of Jesus. And the Gospels are full of prophecies about Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection.
The New Testament contains entire books dedicated to prophecy — like 1 and 2 Thessalonians and Revelation. The Gospels contain lengthy passages devoted to prophecy. Consider, for example, Matthew 24-25, Mark 13, Luke 21 and John 14-17. Other lengthy prophetic passages are scattered throughout the New Testament — Acts 1, Romans 9-11, 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Timothy 4, 2 Timothy 3-4, Titus 2, 1 Peter 1 & 4 and 2 Peter 3.
In the Old Testament, we immediately think of the Major and Minor Prophets — a total of 16 books. But these books are not the only ones in the Hebrew Scriptures that contain prophecy. Major prophetic passages can be found in the history books, a good example being Deuteronomy 28-30 where Moses prophecies that the Jewish people will one day be scattered worldwide and they will be persecuted wherever they go, but they will be preserved and regathered to their homeland.
The history books also contain Messianic prophecies. The virgin birth of the Messiah is prophesied in Genesis 3:15. In Deuteronomy 18:15-18 Moses prophesied that the Messiah would be a prophet. In Genesis 12:1-3 God promised Abraham that the Messiah would come through his lineage, and in Genesis 49:8 Jacob prophesied that the Messiah would come from the tribe of Judah. The prophecy that the Messiah would come from the house of David within the tribe of Judah is stated in 2 Samuel 7:8-16.
The Neglected Prophecies
Perhaps the most overlooked area of the Old Testament with regard to prophecy is the book of Psalms. It’s a major repository of Messianic prophecies concerning both the First and Second Advents of the Messiah. Some are direct and clear. Others are indirect and subtle.
Most scholars acknowledge that 16 of the Psalms are distinctly Messianic in nature. They are listed below in Figure 1.
All but three of these Psalms are directly quoted in the New Testament and applied to Jesus. The three not quoted are Psalm 24, Psalm 72, and Psalm 89. The most frequently quoted is Psalm 110. It is mentioned a total of fourteen times in the New Testament, more than any other Old Testament passage. Three other of these Messianic Psalms are mentioned frequently in the New Testament. They are Psalms 2 and 69, mentioned seven times each, and Psalm 118 which is cited a total of six times.
Together, these 16 Messianic Psalms present a panoramic survey of the First and Second Comings of Jesus. Figure 2 presents passages from these 16 psalms arranged in chronological order according to the events in the life of Jesus.
Other Messianic Psalms
The Messianic prophecies in the Psalms are by no means limited to the 16 which are referenced above. I would add the following 17 Psalms to the list as ones that are obviously Messianic in nature, relating to the Lord’s Second Coming:
Psalms 18 and 21— Contain vivid and detailed descriptions of the Lord’s return in wrath. (Psalm 18:7-19 and Psalm 21:8- 13)
Psalm 46 — Pictures the exalted Lord in the midst of Jerusalem following His triumphant return.
Psalm 47 — A song of joy celebrating the Lord’s reign as King of kings.
Psalm 48 —The beauty of millennial Jerusalem.
Psalm 76 — A description of the battle of Armageddon.
Psalms 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 — Songs of joy celebrating the Lord’s reign over the nations.
Psalms 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150 — Praise songs celebrating the glory, majesty, and goodness of the Lord’s reign.
The addition of these 17 Psalms gives us a total of 33 Messianic Psalms. But even these 33 do not exhaust the rich treasure of prophetic material that is contained in the Psalms. In fact, the fundamental prophetic theme of the Psalms is not even reflected in any of the Messianic Psalms thus far identified.
In the second part of this series on prophecy in the Psalms, we’ll look at the prophetic themes found in that book.
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Home News People Look for Meaning at Kanye’s Easter ‘Service’
People Look for Meaning at Kanye’s Easter ‘Service’
Jessica Mouser
For the past few months, Kanye West has been holding what he calls “Sunday services,” exclusive and private gatherings featuring gospel music. But this past Easter Sunday, he held one such service publicly at the popular music festival, Coachella. While it seems that Kanye is co-opting Christianity for his own purposes, we can learn something by looking at people’s reactions to his “services.”
“Many of [the audience members] are surely drawn to Sunday Service out of some sort of meaningful longing,” writes Jia Tolentino of the The New Yorker. “These young people who can afford to pay four figures to behave badly and photograph well in the desert are pursuing absolution, too, in their way. So many things today seem, upon reflection, like a cry for help disguised as a demonstration of cultural capital.”
Did Kanye Start His Own Church? Not Quite.
At the very beginning of 2019, Kanye began holding weekly “church services,” which essentially are concerts with a Christian flavor. During these events, a choir performs gospel songs, as well as gospel renditions of Kanye’s own music. The location changes every week, and attendees have reportedly included Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, David Letterman, and Tyler, the Creator. All guests have to sign an NDA, but there are clips of the events on social media.
A post shared by The World Famous Tony Williams (@tonywilliams) on Jan 6, 2019 at 1:03pm PST
When asked about the “church” on Jimmy Kimmel, Kim Kardashian West told Kimmel, “it’s more of just a healing experience.” Kardashian West explained that there’s no praying or sermon, but that “it’s just music and it’s just a feeling.” But it’s music with a “Christian” flair because, as Kimmel pointed out, “Otherwise, it’s a concert, right?”
In a video on Twitter, singer-songwriter Tony Williams (who is also Kanye’s cousin) says, “Why the Sunday service? The goal is to be able to communicate the message of love effectively…that is what we hope you take from this.” Many, however, believe that all of the services are simply a marketing tactic for Kanye to build up his next album.
According to TMZ, 50,000 people gathered to watch Kanye perform the morning of Easter Sunday for about two hours–although it turned out he actually performed very little. People had to watch from a distance as Kanye, a gospel choir, and others performed from the top of a hill. [Note: video contains language some may find offensive.]
Guests included Chance the Rapper and DMX, and the setlist featured actual gospel songs, covers of other artists (such as Stevie Wonder), and Kanye’s music. Something else notable was Kanye’s merch, which he called “church clothes.” Socks were priced at $50, and sweatshirts at $225, which, The New York Times observed, “was a reminder that, gospel music aside, this was not in fact church.”
It’s Troubling and It’s Working
Many people, even those who are not Christians, have found what Kanye is doing distasteful. A writer for Vox said, “As a lapsed suburban Methodist who completed at least 900 hours of Sunday school and Bible camp earlier in this life, I am obligated to point out that Jesus explicitly hated it when people attempted to use worship services as money-making opportunities.”
The fact that Kanye was the creative director for the Pornhub Awards last fall is only one of a multitude of examples of why him claiming to promote church seems insulting. There’s also the fact that he titled his last album, Yeezus, and has made comments comparing himself to God. Yet, not only did 50,000 people get up to watch his performance but the line for his merch was quite long.
This is the end of the line for Kanye’s merch tent at #Coachella. The line is long. Very long. pic.twitter.com/MUBUecAsXE
— James H. Williams (@JHWreporter) April 21, 2019
People’s Reactions Can Teach Us Something
It’s true that there were negative responses to Easter Sunday’s performance and general annoyance at the fact that the whole show was livestreamed through a peephole camera.
However, one Twitter user commented, “Do you know how many survivors just got on the mic? From Kanye to Chance to DMX? Mental health, drugs, family issues, prison and they’re all still standing like proud men in front of the world.”
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Jessica Mouser is a writer for ChurchLeaders.com. She has always had a passion for the written word and has been writing professionally for the past two years. She especially enjoys evaluating how various beliefs play out within culture. When Jessica isn't writing, she enjoys playing the piano, reading, and spending time with her friends and family.
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North-Kivu: over 100,000 uprooted in latest wave of rebel attacks, says UN
UN News - April 22, 2009
Rebel attacks in recent weeks have forced more than 100,000 people from their homes in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
This brings the total number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern DRC to over 1.4 million, mostly in North Kivu province, UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond said.
The raids by the so-called Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) in east of Goma, North Kivu's capital, have ?left a trail of death and destruction and caused recurrent displacement,? he noted.
The group is stepped up its attacks against civilians in North Kivu after the DRC and Rwanda ended their joint military offensive against it in January.
Late last week, the FDLR raided the village of Luofu, killing seven people, five of whom were children, and burning some 250 homes, according to authorities. This caused panic among the area's residents, who fled to the bush or the nearby town of Kirumba, which has reportedly been surrounded by the rebels who are threatening to overrun it.
The crumbling security situation, exacerbated by the FDLR tactic of attacking commercial vehicles on main roads, is preventing humanitarian agencies from distributing vital aid, Mr. Redmond told reporters in Geneva yesterday.
IDPs in North Kivu have typically been uprooted more than once, with families often being separated, UNHCR said.
Currently, the agency runs 11 camps and monitors the human right situation of the uprooted in eastern DRC.
Peacekeepers, Congo Army to Resume Joint Fight Against Rwandan Rebels (January 28, 2016)
Political tensions 'running high' in DR Congo ahead of 2016 elections (October 7, 2015)
DRC Army Putting Pressure on FDLR (April 1, 2015)
Denis Mukwege Wins Sakharov Prize 2014 (October 21, 2014)
Violence in North Kivu Kills 21, Mostly Women, Children (October 18, 2014)
Southern African Leaders to Meet in Zimbabwe (August 15, 2014)
Security Council extends UN mission, intervention force in DR Congo for one year (March 28, 2014)
Death toll in Lake Albert boat accident rises to 251 (March 27, 2014)
Bosco Ntaganda Attacked Civilians on Ethnic Grounds, ICC Prosecutor Says (February 10, 2014)
New DR Congo amnesty law welcomed by UN envoys (February 5, 2014)
Colonel Mamadou Ndala Is Killed in Ambush (January 2, 2014)
No 'Peace Deal' With Defeated M23 Rebels, DR Congo Says (November 11, 2013)
Congo Will Not Sign a 'Peace Deal' With Defeated M23 Rebels, Government Says (November 6, 2013)
Congo Army Takes Control of Mbuzi Hill From M23 Rebels (November 4, 2013)
Advancing Congo Troops Take Control of Rumangabo From M23 Rebels (October 28, 2013)
Congo Army Liberates Rutshuru, Kiwanja and Kibumba From M23 Rebels (October 27, 2013)
Congo Army Dislodges M23 Rebels From Strategic Town of Kibumba (October 26, 2013)
Congo Army Takes Control of Kibumba After Fighting With M23 Rebels Resumes (October 25, 2013)
U.S. Sanctions Rwanda Over Use of Child Soldiers by M23 Rebels (October 4, 2013)
Rwandan Support for M23 Rebels Frustrates Attempts to End Fighting in Eastern Congo (September 26, 2013)
Ban Ki-moon Confirms M23 Rebels Shelled Rwanda (August 31, 2013)
DR Congo Will Defend Itself Against an Attack by Rwanda, Government Says (August 31, 2013)
M23 Rebels Fired Shells Into Rwanda, Not Congo Army, UN Says (August 30, 2013)
Mortar Shells From Rwanda Kill Civilians in Eastern Congo (August 23, 2013)
UN Peacekeepers Start Enforcing Security Zone in Eastern Congo (August 1, 2013)
Rwanda 'recruiting for M23 rebels' (July 31, 2013)
UN mission sets up security zone in eastern DR Congo, gives rebels 48 hour ultimatum (July 30, 2013)
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Before January 1, 1914, the county was part of neighboring Fremont County. The newly established county was named for American president James Madison.
BYU Idaho, formerly Ricks College is located here.
Madison County was declared a national disaster area after the Teton Dam flood of June 5, 1976.
Madison County was created from Fremont County by an Enabling Act of the Idaho Legislature on February 18, 1913. It was the thirty-third county of the state. At the time of creation, its eastern boundary extended to the Wyoming line and included Teton Valley. Teton County was created in 1915, leaving Madison with its present boundaries.
Though the legislature had passed the law providing for the creation of Madison County and the governor had signed the bill, the people needed to approve. An election was held on November 7, 1913 for the people to pass the bill. All voters in then Fremont County were eligible to vote. 1760 votes were for its creation and 793 against. In Rexburg 793 votes were cast and only seven disapproved.
On November 8, the day after the election, the governor proclaimed the creation of Madison County. A big celebration was held in Rexburg. A program was held in the Tabernacle and over five thousand people attended. A big barbecue was served consisting of two steers, six pigs, six lambs, and two thousand loaves of bread.
Governor Haines appointed the first officials of Madison County on November 14. Officials named were: John Taylor of Sunnydell, J.K. Orme of Sugar City, and R.G. Meikle of Clawson, County Commissioners; John Hegsted, auditor and recorder; Conrad Walz, assessor, Harry Randall, treasurer; Oliver C.Dalby, county attorney; I.N. Corey, sheriff; L.T. Perry as county school superintendent; and Ed W. Stacy was coroner. These men entered into their duties on January 5, 1914.
The first offices were leased in the old Webster – Winter building on East Main (upstairs above the Subway and Community Care). The old dance hall in the building was made into a court room and public and private offices, and a jail of four cells was built at the rear of the building.
The courthouse we have today was finished in December, 1920.
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15 Years into the War in Afghanistan, an Embedded War Artist Looks Back
By Steve Mumford New York, NY
Steve Mumford was embedded as an artist with US military troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. 15 years later, Mumford discusses continuing the tradition of war artists in 21st century combat zones.
Steve Mumford, Anbar, 2016. Oil on linen, 60 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
A group of passengers are tightly clustered in a the open cockpit of a Blackhawk helicopter as it speeds low over the rural Iraqi terrain; a farmer looks up as the aircraft roars past, while the four passengers, lost in thought, contemplate their own disparate missions.
October 7th marked the 15th anniversary of the American invasion of Afghanistan, the longest war the US has been engaged in. While US troops in Afghanistan have been reduced to 8,400 – down by over 90% from the 2010 peak of 100,000 – little by little the Taliban are taking more territory, inflicting terrible losses on the Afghans.
Artist Steve Mumford reflects on his time in Afghanistan and on his work:
When the United States began their invasion of Iraq I became particularly interested in the work of Winslow Homer, a renowned 19th-century American painter and printmaker who had spent some time on the front lines of the Civil War. Winslow’s war paintings were humble scenes that spoke to the universal qualities of war—capturing, in vignettes, his impressions of the lives of soldiers off the battlefield. It was this universality of his work that inspired me to do something similar in Iraq, and later Afghanistan.
In the beginning I wasn’t able to get embedded with the U.S. military. So, I flew to Kuwait and got a ride with a couple of French reporters who were on their way to Baghdad, and was eventually able to embed with Army troops in Iraq. After a few trips, I became more comfortable drawing events in a war zone in real time, drawing whatever they did. Combat happens so quickly that it’s more of a photographer’s or photojournalist’s realm. Drawing doesn’t really lend itself to out-and-out combat; it’s better for capturing what happens in between the time the bullets are flying.
Steve Mumford, Female Barracks in Samarra, 2016. Oil on linen, 60 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Focused on a group of female soldiers at rest in their improvised plywood barracks, barely keeping out the heat of the midday sun. A young conscript cleans her weapon as her officer daydreams languidly in the foreground.
I didn’t have a lot of preconceptions about drawing from the front lines—I was not going in planning to take an anti-war stance. The idea was more to go and draw what was happening, to try to be true to the realities of the time and place as I experienced it.
A secondary part of the project has always been making large-scale oil paintings based on the war, back in my studio, and just recently I had a show of these works. War art has changed a lot over time. The quintessential artistic images of war are from artists in the vein of Jacques Louis David, glorifying a conqueror like Napoleon and his exploits, with grand landscapes and mass armies. But the template for my work was more along the lines of that made during World War II, when the armed services had their own artist corps—civilian artists who were working for publications like Life Magazine. That style of work was closer to Winslow Homer’s practice: a tradition of realism where people went armed with a pencil and paper, so to speak, and just drew what was happening.
Steve Mumford, Trisha and Brian at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo, 2016. Oil on canvas, 120 x 192 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
But the coda to the works in my most recent show is not from Iraq or Afghanistan at all, but from my trip in 2013 to Guantanamo Bay: Trisha and Brian at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo, massive at 10 by 16 feet. I took two trips to Guantanamo Bay to draw for Harper’s Magazine, and the thing that was so striking about the visits was that I was never allowed to see any of the detainees while I was there; my experience there was much more censored than on any of my trips to Iraq or Afghanistan. I went to Guantanamo Bay after eight trips to America’s war zones. The detention facility overall was familiar—it had the feeling of other large military bases. But Camp X-Ray—the camp where they brought the first prisoners, and where detainees were waterboarded—was a different animal. It has been shuttered for ten years, and the whole place is now overgrown and jungle-like—the grasses are tall and vines cover the barbed wire. And there is nobody around. In the distance are bare hills that run along the border with Cuba.
The camp was hauntingly beautiful, and the soldiers who escorted me evinced the sort of quiet contemplation that one associates with a sacred space. Camp X-Ray is haunted by the ghosts of our post-9/11 venture into torture. It’s a vast and intensely lonely place. In depicting that intensity, I tried to capture the feeling of the American soldiers there who were in a sense caught; they had to follow their orders but their jobs took a toll on them. After all the pain, excitement and confusion of the last decade at war, Camp X-Ray seemed to encapsulate all the questions and ambiguities that brought us there, and left an abiding question of where to go from here. In my painting, Trisha, a female trooper, is looking forward—almost symbolically. We know where we’ve been, but what lies in our future?
As told to Olivia El-Sadr Davis.
Steve Mumford, The Prayer, 2016. Oil on linen, 48 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
“The Prayer” pays tribute to the Renaissance tradition of portraying saints in the wilderness: a lone US soldier experiences a moment of spiritual contemplation or redemption in another indifferent landscape: a car, riddled with bullets sits by the berms and Hesco barriers meant to protect soldiers from an insurgent attack. A pair of helicopters track the horizon on some unknown mission; the sleepy life of the plains beyond the base, manifested in a shepherd with his flock, continues as it has for thousands of years.
Steve Mumford, Crossed Swords Monument, 2016. Oil on canvas, 36 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Steve Mumford, War Story, 2016. Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
I was embedded with a platoon of Marines in Afghanistan, and they were going into an area that was actively hostile. The translator began to hear over the Taliban radio frequency that they were monitoring, that the Taliban saw us approaching. We knew that firing was about to start, and it turned into a running series of firefights for most of the day. There was a platoon to our east who spotted a man dressed like a farmer, but who looked like he was kind of surreptitiously talking into a cell phone. Given that there was all this shooting going on around him, they figured he was almost certainly a spotter for the Taliban. The Marine shot at him but missed him at a long distance, but he dropped down anyway. When we went to collect him, we found that the bullet had gone right through the shovel that he was holding up against his shoulder – he had just given up. After taking him in, he told the Marine interrogator that they could do whatever they wanted to with him, but he wasn’t going to tell them a damned thing. The Marine responded, “Well, we’ll just have to turn you over to the Afghans in that case,” and that was all I ever heard of it. The whole story was like the quagmire of Afghanistan in a nutshell, ironies, poignancies, and all.
Steve Mumford, Lost, 2016. Oil on canvas, 18 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Steve Mumford, Large IED, 2009. Oil on linen, 18 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Steve Mumford, Afghan Soldier, 2016. Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Steve Mumford, Text, 2016. Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
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Since 2003 Steve Mumford (b. 1960, Boston) has been traveling to conflict ridden areas of Iraq and Afghanistan and most recently to Guantanamo, Cuba.
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Best Smartphones of 2017 – LG, Galaxy, Note, iPhone, Xperia, Xiaomi.
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Best Smartphones:
We are talking about best smartphones because Smartphones has quickly become the most popular technology products in the world, with each new year of technological change to new innovations always see this.
What we have heard of the new smartphones like 2017 Each of us has a lot of expectations, because all of the big players, including Apple, Samsung, LG, millet, HTC, Sony, Motorola, and many will debut again, we I do not see the new innovations.
The prospects for 2017 on top of the best smartphones including expected, and some new features debut to improve the existing models of many familiar names. The new features will be treated as operating two new Apple iOS and Google Android operating system will enhance the best features of many mobile phones. Best Smartphones
Whether 2017 Android and Apple’s smartphones and mobile payment are expected to take security to a whole new level. Not only can easily check out when shopping, but to do so with enhanced safety has become a growing trend by the development concern.
It expected that the new innovations include eye sensor technology, the enhanced wireless charging, true 4K display, the concept of folding, 30MP camera, and so much more. Some of us have heard do not see, we will see in the 2017 model is 5K connectivity, as well as real folding flagship.
In all of the top smartphones in 2017 requires a thorough understanding of this preview specification, features, price and release date Apple and Android smartphones give you great insight into things to come. Next, we conducted an in-depth look at the 2017 release of the Samsung Galaxy S8, S8 edge, iPhone 7S, Galaxy Note 7, LG G6, LG G Flex 4, the Xiaomi MI8 and Xperia Z7
Samsung has launched some of the most anticipated smartphones every year, and the new Galaxy S8 looks significantly better than the current model. With Sami want to take advantage to become the first flagship store launched in 2017 a, you can expect consumer interest in a high.
With the Samsung Galaxy S7 to start in early 2016, it will not take long for S8 official specifications is disclosed. Nevertheless, we have heard a lot of rumors that North Korea showed that Samsung is considering the launch of a new concept S8 things. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
Success in both Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge model is expected in what most consumers expect to significantly improve. As more and more consumers are increasingly dependent on their holding in his hand, expect GS8 hold more, do more.
This seems to be the biggest difference in the upcoming Galaxy S8 idea because it sounds like extended memory will be seen again. It is also rumored It’s GS8 edge and highly durable, multi-function integrated series. In addition to this, we will see Samsung’s best camera specifications do not, expandable memory, a faster processor, more efficient batteries, and more.
Below, we launched in 2017 is expected to take a closer look at the Samsung Galaxy S8 specificationsinformation, features, price and release date. Best Smartphones
Samsung Galaxy S8 Specifications – 30MP Rear Camera, 9MP Front Camera, 3D, And Optical Image Stabilization Plus:
Galaxy S8 camera specifications look promising according to the latest rumors 30MP rear shooter centers. In 30MP camera looks like a beast on the market to improve one of the best smartphone cameras. It will look more impressive to 4K display to good use, which will help bring out the best still images and video playback.
We have also heard rumors that the motion in front of Turtle 9 megapixels. When an enhanced version of the OIS, it can be called optical image stabilization plus will increase by a slight camera movement, sometimes it leads naturally blurred.
More innovation is a true 3D photographic effect the latest rumors. This is considered as an option selected by the user may be directed to take any 3D or 2D graphics and photography.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Specs – Qualcomm 820 SoC and 6GB RAM:
We would like to see two processor variants, including the highly regarded and the Exynos SoC Qualcomm 820 variants. According to where you live, all Android smartphone will see in 820 processors in most high-end 2017, including the gold standard GS8 and GS8 edges.
Coupled with 6GB RAM, efficiency, speed, processing capacity will create the fastest processor, one of which will enhance the mobile experience.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Specs – 5.2 “or 5.4” 4K display.
THE2 Galaxy S8 display size is rumored to come in either 5.2 “or 5.4” and exercise real 4K display. With a resolution of 3840 × 2160, it was just a matter of time before we see something bigger. We heard rumors of a resolution up to 7680 points ¯x4320 (FUHD), but it is unlikely in the eighth generation Galaxy S smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy S8 features – 4200 mA battery, wireless charging, and Micro SD support double
As consumers demand more power, the battery 4200 mA when seems likely. A non-removable battery will also support wireless charging which will compare the charger cable to provide users with more features and less time to upgrade their wireless charging of mobile phones. Add wireless charging capabilities to the handset quick charge from 0 –50% less to 25 minutes, in a wireless manner.
It sounds like Galaxy S8 will bring back support dual Micro SD card. This has been a long time coming, but a necessary function to consider what we need to store on our mobile phones. Expandable memory to provide users with an additional 256GB, we will be able to save our palm image, the application is almost unlimited, and all the more.
Galaxy S8 Features – waterproof, shockproof, dustproof, folding concept, retinal eye scanner
One of the things in the Galaxy S series of previous models lack standard waterproof and shockproof features. Galaxy series offers two positive features and rugged design together, but it is not as it would make the Galaxy S8 way.
Korea proposes leaked Samsung Galaxy S8 will move both shockproof, dustproof, waterproof, at least IP68 rating. This means that the last of a series of activities, as we have also heard GS8 and Note 7will use the same IP rating.
One of the biggest features consumers is waiting to see if one of Samsung has confirmed the real folding concept is on the way. And it has been implicated Sammy and leaks also signed a patent, we know that a foldable smartphone is on the way. We believe that the S8 is not foldable, but a new series will be launched in 2017.
A 3D display is also rumored many 2017 flagships, including GS8 all variants, including to be seen GS8 edges. The three-dimensional display with 4K resolution will bring out the most dynamic, can be opened and closed by the time they watched it depends on the user to switch the display. 3D pictures, games, and videos directly to the phone the most realistic viewing Samsung Galaxy S8 we’ve ever seen on one viewing experience.
What eye sensor technology that we know to be a long time coming, it sounds like Samsung to give it to all of the 2017 flagship projects. Reportedly equipped with a retinal eye scanner, fingerprint scanner gives an increased next dimension will enhance the phone’s security features. It is expected to make mobile payment solutions to provide consumers with the Android charge, charging Google and Samsung to pay a huge presence enhanced.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Release Date And Price:
According to a new leak, like the Galaxy S8 release date will be earlier than expected. It sounds like Sami is making the official launch in January at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. We hope that this, too, because it could mean the worldwide launch, as in most markets, including the United States, South Korea, Britain, China, Canada, Germany, India in early March.
S8 listing price is expected to start around $ 800 for the standard model and $ 900 up to $ 1000 expandable memory. Those in Europe can expect to see a price tag of around 775 euros, which is equivalent to about 545 £.
Samsung Galaxy S8 edges look improved, we have seen so far the most innovative flagship. With double curved edge smartphone interests of consumers looking to make 2017 the third time is the highest level in history. Samsung did not become the top smartphone maker is not known as one of the reasons in the world, and soon we will see another reason.
The GS8 edge looks promising, if you are looking forward to the world one of the many third-generation models around, then you’ll be pleased to know that it is well worth the wait. Expected to get in more packaging will facilitate the adoption of next-generation smartphones to a new level, it includes many new features, is almost here.
Some of the biggest rumors are expected in the new Galaxy S8 edge includes a slightly larger screen, stunning 4K resolution, 3D viewing, 3D camera, and more. It is believed that GS8 Edge will be unveiled next to the standard model, and a few months earlier than originally anticipated.
Ready for the next big event as GS8 Edge is definitely one of the 2017 best smartphones, something is sure to impress.
Samsung Galaxy S8 edge specifications – 28MP rear camera, 800-megapixel front camera, and 3D functionality
At the edge of the camera specifications, S8 will start with 28MP rear and 800-megapixel front camera. Self-lovers and those looking for an amazing photography experience, you’ll love the built-in 3D capabilities.
The 3D smartphone camera is not exactly a new trend, HTC is one of the earliest, but poor performance has left much to be desired. In the standard version and S8 Edge rumors shoot 3D camera effects to a new level and talk about the whole package specifications, it would be difficult to find better.
Samsung Galaxy S8 edge specs – Qualcomm SoC 820, Exynos chipset and 6GB RAM
There will certainly be an upgrade of Exynos chipset and faster Qualcomm 820 SoC. Samsung Electronics is usually loaded with both their flagship chipset and based on where you live, which will depend on you.
We may see a Qualcomm processor speeds up to 3.0GHz, while the Exynos chipset is still a mystery. 5 Dao 6 GB RAM is possible, it will be performed in both the Galaxy Note 7 & S8.
Samsung Galaxy S8 edge Specifications – 5.3 “4K Display:
Samsung is using all of their 2017 flagship real 4K display. UHD resolution 2017 will be the most smartphones, including the standard gold S8 edges. Double back along the way will make the concept of the edge in the market has quickly become the most popular smartphone one of the concepts.
Samsung Galaxy S8 edge features – 4000 mAh battery, fast wireless charging, and expandable memory
Samsung Galaxy S8 mobile looking for an edge to enhance the battery as we have heard reports 4000 mA when the battery will provide a sufficient amount of power. Samsung’s quick charge function will be faster, those who look forward to wireless charging will be pleased to know that it would also be improved.
And not just one, but two Micro SD card slot is also considered expandable memory, the onboard memory will provide additional 128GB. 64GB variant is also expected that this will provide a total memory nearly 200GB.
Metal surround, waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, retinal scanners and Fingerprint Scanner
Like standard S8, the S8 edge will use all metal one-piece design. The plastic shell is finally a thing of the past, Samsung has finally moved to a more durable, and higher quality look metal composite material.
We have also heard rumors will use the S8 IP67 rating, which means it will be waterproof, dustproof, shockproof. These characteristics are becoming which Samsung retains the previous model’s AT & T’s flagship series of activities a standard today.
As mobile payments become more popular, I would like to see the two retinal eye scanners and fingerprint scanner. Retinal eye scanner is considered to be on the screen, while the Home key will greatly improve the integration of a fingerprint scanner.
This will cause the phone almost% safe because both can be used to lock and unlock the phone. Mobile payment will be faster while providing it would be tempting expect growing trend who most excellent computer security.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Edge – Release Date And Price:
We fully expected the release date in early 1 CES in Las Vegas during the official. The annual scientific and technological activities are one of the most anticipated events this year, and in 2017 we expect to see GS8, GS8 Edge, and LG G Flex 4 debut.
Samsung has achieved a new production method, and ultimately speed up the whole process, which helps launch earlier than previous models of their phones. New production methods can vary in concept throughout that makes it faster to changes, which also makes the production process much cheaper way to build the manufacturing stage.
If the latest rumors hold true release date, we can see the Milky Way S8 two variants, including the edge of variability in March 2017 and is expected to the S8 edge than the starting price of about $ 900 U.S. standard model here in a little more. This is equivalent to about 820 euros and 5690 yuan, mostly with dual Micro SD card slot variant of about $ 100.
Apple iPhone 7S – Best Smartphones 2017 Preview:
Apple’s upcoming Apple iPhone 7S release will be undeniably one of the smartphones in 2017 the most anticipated, and for good reason. iPhone brand has become comparable to all of the Android smartphone phones on the market, and with each new version of the peak consumer interests more than before the launch.
It sounds like a lot is in store for the iPhone 7S, will best Android smartphone competition from Samsung, LG, HTC and Sony in 2017. The latest trend is expected the best, packed in with other Apple peripherals and expected a huge marketing. Expect Apple to observe 3, the latest product iPad Air, Apple paid a seamless interface.
Early rumors in the summer 2017 launch of Samsung Galaxy and iPhone 7S and S8 and a slightly larger iPhone 7S comparable competition coupled the Galaxy Note 7 flagship direct competition with 7S.
Worldwide, mainly in China, there have been many imitators, such as millet, but few can achieve what Apple on the global market to do. It will be interesting to see if Apple can maintain its nearly 50% market share in the growing competitive market with other contenders for this year’s smartphones like.
Below, we disclose the latest rumors in 2017 launched iPhone 7S, including camera specifications, processor, features, release date, and price.
Apple iPhone 7S specifications – 24MP rear camera, 7MP front-facing camera, and optical image stabilization plus
It sounds more and more Apple wants to enhance the camera’s specifications but also introduced some new features that will appeal to those who wish to get the most out of your phone. We are looking for a 24MP rear camera and a front camera 7MP, it will be a huge improvement in the iPhone 7 smartphone.
We also expect to see an upgraded version of the optical image stabilization as well as in front of the camera lens turtle wider. This will help create some of the most vibrant photos and recorded video will appear smooth and completely natural. OIS helps minimize typically occurs with the natural movement of the smartphone and the influence of the camera.
Apple iPhone 7S Specifications – Octa-Core A10 Processor And 4GB of Memory:
We believe that we will see both the iPhone 7S and 7S plus a new octa-core A10 processor. The grape juice faster processor will be seamless and iOS, which will make the phone run much faster, and the latest version significantly cooler. Onboard will be 4GB of memory, which will further enhance the user experience.
Users will be able to multimedia and productivity while at the same time without interrupting the operation of these two countries in transition from one program to another.
Apple iPhone 7S Specifications – 5.1 “4K Display With A Resolution of 4096 × 2160:
iPhone 7S specification behind the 5.1 “screen is wonderful and true 4K display. The display will mean in 4K 4096 × 2160 resolution, which will enhance the Retina display. We can also see a three-dimensional touch technology built into force display, which will help in the sensitive touch screen different effects. lightly touch or tap water will cause a response, while the squeeze will lead to a completely different reaction on the display.
Apple iPhone 7S Specifications – 3300 mAh Battery, Wireless Charging, And 320GB Total Memory:
A previous iPhone‘s biggest disappointment has been less than stellar battery power. So, 7S aims to please because we heard the 3300 mA battery will be found when the ship will be significantly improved continuous talk time and text data available. In addition, wireless charging will allow users to not only improve the ability to wirelessly charge but must be quicker than before.
Expected to be one of the biggest surprises is a total onboard memory, 320GB. Memory is considering beefing up some users have been asking for a storage device, all that capacity. There should also be two models to choose from, including local storage 32GB and 64GB, Dual Micro SD card slots while providing 128GB each.
Apple iPhone 7S Features – Eyes Sensing Technology, Apple Charges, And Fingerprint Scanner:
Some of the most notable features include iPhone 7S whether retinal or iris eyes scanner. Eye sensor technology is expected to be in the marketing concept of the new iPhone is expected to increase to pay huge with Apple. Apple’s mobile payment has become the largest but working with the wider acceptance of Google’s Android paying comparable.
Eye scanner will add a new dimension to the security of mobile payment and this will be internal security is evident. If the fingerprint scanner is still there, which would make one of the most secure iPhone 7S phones. There are increased security trends that we consider all stored on our mobile phone and will only depend on growing, adding a growth trend.
7 seconds two versions will also be launching at the same time and at the same time and the new Android smartwatch Apple Watch 3. The third-generation Apple Watch will be used for those looking for independence, support for 4G is fully compatible. I want to see a package that will allow consumers to buy the same time, at a lower price.
Apple iPhone 7S Release Date And Price:
In the latest release date, iPhone 7S name suggests Apple will seek to launch their new flagship faster than previous models. As early as 7 note published rumors than expected, we hear the same as in 2017 launched iPhone 7S. If we hear is true, we can see the global launch as early as late August to 1 week in September.
7S and 7S are added to the price, the latest rumors suggest lower prices than the normal launch. With many consumers, especially in Asia, seeking to start-ups, such as millet on a much cheaper price, which will bode well for consumers introduced a similar smartphone. This means that we can see the launch price of $ 750- $ 800 standard model, as well as the premium iPhone 7S priced at only $ 800 plus began.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Review
The long-awaited Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has finally arrived. Samsung’s Note series is designed with advanced and excellent phone one of the best series of intelligent hardware. There are now buried in this regard, the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note device 7 many leaks.
If you are planning to buy a smartphone, but expect the review, then you are we want to share with you today in the right place the detailed review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Design:
Samsung has been in the smartphone it offers great design. A major redesign in the Samsung Galaxy S6 is regarded as the device came with one-way body design. Post Introduces Samsung Galaxy S6, S7 and Note 5 after launch, with a beautiful design of these two smartphones.
If we talk about the design of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, you’ll get superior design device. This smartphone is equipped with a two-glass design. You do not get any tactile home button on the device. The heart rate sensor is right next to the camera lens device is located.
One, you will get the Galaxy Note 7 interesting thing is the iris scanner on the device adds an extra layer of security.
In the C-USB charging port at the bottom between the two speakers, then the S-pen. You do not need to worry about S- pen in Note 7, because it will not go back to the device as before in the Galaxy Note 5. SS- pen similar to last year but there are some changes in the pen, to provide a better feel.
Although Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is a curved smartphone, Samsung provides a great design, which makes it very easy for one to hold the device in their hands. Since NOTE 7 comes with IP certification, it will provide additional water protection. You can even use the S Pen when you are in the water, but we do not know.
Coming to a display device, you will get a quad-core 5.7 inches HD Super AMOLED display which is a display screen. You’ll get great views and color saturation thanks because there are different AMOLED model, which comes from the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. four high-definition display, you can change the display settings of the device, according to your preferences.
You’ll get the default screen mode in the device-adaptive mode, the screen will change as you are watching the content on the screen. You can also set the device to maintain the region change the device’s resolution. From here you can make up to 720P HD resolution.
If you love the active display, then you will love the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 total exhibition display is always available but the Samsung Galaxy S7 customization options displays always find what you want to go to the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
You can choose from a variety of manufacturing an image clock, calendar or canned. You can also personalize the display of text block activity which is really a good choice.
Galaxy Note 7 Performance:
Samsung Galaxy smartphones all know, and you intend to Samsung Galaxy Note 7 also received high performance. If you like to play games, then you’ll love the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, because it is equipped with a powerful processor and GPU enormous, which will live up to your expectations.
If we talk about you get Snapdragon processor 820,4 GB RAM and the Adreno 530 GPU hardware devices along. If you are living in the West, then you can get your hands on a variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note the Exynos 8890 processor 7. Snapdragon 820 is the best processor where it can ensure that you get the best Samsung one of the good performance of the Galaxy Note 7.
Coming to RAM, you will get 4 GB of RAM, which is a disappointment because we expect Note 7 6 GB of RAM and at least reach the device. When we tested the equipment that we are satisfied with the performance when we hit the asphalt 8 device is not lagging behind.
Galaxy Note 7 Hardware:
There is a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 provides only one storage option, which is 64 GB, but Samsung has provided micro SD memory card slot, you can use up to 256 GB of capacity to add a Micro SD card. When we tested voice quality and reception equipment, we are pleased because there is no decline in the hardware live to our expectations.
Note 7 car speakers are not up to the mark, it could have been better. If you like music, you’ll love the Note 7 as the device you want to get the headset is simply mesmerizing.
You can note 7 This is where all the fans get a treat SoundAlive. You can Galaxy Note 7. The equalizer also has an option, will analyze how to listen to love his songs, and adjust to your audience dial and sliders messing custom sound, according to your needs.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Battery Life:
Smartphone battery is always concerned about the attention. Samsung provide Galaxy Note smartphone battery 3500 mA when seven made a good move. Even smartphones rather slim, Samsung has succeeded in packaging equipment giant 3500 mAh battery, and will not influence the construction of premium. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
There are many Galaxy Note No. 7 battery power saving options, users can ensure that the proper use of the device.
You can go to Settings, then set the device battery management and equipment to play up, but you can easily get rid of extra storage space, and change some settings on the device, if your goal is to get better battery life attention on 7 items like you can reduce your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 of the resolution, reduce processor power consumption.
An Iris Scanner:
To provide an additional layer of security in Note 7, Samsung has provided an iris scanner of the device. Infrared cameras will scan your eyes, and will only allow you to access the device.
If you are using glasses, then you need to remove it, then stared at the camera lens, once your eyes are buying, you will be able to easily access your device.
Just an iris scanner for a few days, you will be able to use it without any difficulty. Iris scanner is also fast, with respect to traditional fingerprint reader that was in most smartphones.
Note 7 Camera:
Samsung offers Samsung Galaxy S7 camera Galaxy Note 7, which means you’ll get a 12-megapixel rear shooter a f 1.7 aperture. Equipment double pixel technology will help you in the light conditions shooting beautiful pictures, will also provide a fast autofocus option. Here are some pictures with the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 captured.
In front is a 5-megapixel camera with a wide angle and captures stunning self-portraits.
Galaxy E7 has no webcam application of a number of improvements, you can easily start it. In the home button, your Galaxy Note 7 to start the camera application simply double-click.
If you find difficult to use the camera application, you can open the settings, and minimize the interface of the application. You can easily do the 4K video recording equipment, use HDR to capture amazing shots and do more things in your Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Prices:
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is expected in India and Rs 59,900 price tag available. Since only a storage option in the device, you’ll get this price 64 GB variants.
According to the report, there is expected to Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will be launched on August 22, we can not determine the launch date, but we will update as soon as we get some more information on our blog. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 for the power users great smartphone. Iris scans, IP authentication, add more value, this high-quality smartphone. What are your views about Samsung Galaxy Note 7? Let us know using the comments section below.
LG G6 – Best Smartphone 2017 Preview:
LG G-series has long been considered one of the best smartphones of the year, and in 2017 launched the LG G6 will be another reason. In the latest installment of one of the most sophisticated mobile phone that will make it the sixth-generation model has increased the attractiveness of sexy, it will bring some new features in return.
LG has all but confirmed the launch, as it passes through LG G10 patents, so we already know that the 2017 model is moving our way. This means that the upcoming sixth-generation mobile phones, and in 2011 adopted a series of the minimum.
LG Electronics said in a statement confirmed that in the future there will be last year leading to 2017 foldable smartphones that we do not want to see is for LG G6 sports folding concept, which is rumored to be either in the Flex LG G 4 or a new series of all together. Nevertheless, the change is huge, shop, including fine premium look, new features, and not just LG peripherals a better interface, but all peripherals.
Below, we detail what we know so far, the latest rumors all LG G6 specifications, features, release date and price information. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
LG G6 Specifications – 24MP Rear Camera, 7MP Front-Facing Camera, And 3D Technology:
LG’s G6 specification will include a 24MP rear camera and front camera 7MP, the function and the OIS, laser autofocus, geo-tagging and face recognition, and dual LED box. There are rumors that Sony consumer camcorder by Sony Mobile has created some of the most advanced we’ve seen smartphone camera a good sign manufacturing.
3D technology is that we all want to see the front and rear cameras are expected to play a role. This is a very long time to come, and LG G6 rumored features for the viewing and shooting 3D photos and videos seamlessly support. Preloaded find LG application will allow users to take full advantage of creativity, change, and share with others what is taken.
At the beginning of the processor, there are rumors that we will see a new Qualcomm Snapdragon 3.0GHz of a processor. It is uncertain if the new processor will be an upgraded version of Qualcomm SoC 820, or we will see a completely new processor but would like to see Qualcomm’s manufacturer is yes. With onboard memory 5GB of memory, it will be not seen the fastest LG G smartphone.
LG G6 Specifications – 5.6 “4K Sapphire Screen With Gorilla Glass 4:
LG is likely to go LG G6 5.6 “sapphire screen displays crystal clear with 4K resolution, it would be like to watch TV and videos in the comfort of your own home amazing visual effect has been sufficiently improved. 4096 × 2160 is too the idea is that the resolution of smartphones in the past, thanks to the Sony Xperia Z5 accomplish.
The G6 is expected to drop from providing other types of damage to the screen and excellent protection. The new version of Gorilla glass 4 will provide better durability is being hailed asa virtually indestructible screen overlay. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
LG G6 Specifications – 4200 mA battery, fast wireless charging, as well as expandable memory 128GB Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
A huge 4200 mAh battery, I believe that the ship, which would be good, because the battery will not be moved to be found. In G6 design will be a one-piece metal composites. Fast Wireless charging lets you put the phone directly to the stringed pad inserted without the phone itself inches.
The new composite materials will allow mobile phones lighter and more durable, while increasing our previous models have been seen already an impressive attraction. There are five color choices will also include black, blue, copper, gold, and white carrier specific colors and leather choices will also be available. 32 and 64GB models will offer different price of about $ 100 an optional 128GB Micro SD cards are a more extended memory.
LG G6 Features – Retina or iris Scanner Android 7.0, waterproof, Dustproof, Shockproof:
All of the 2017 top smart phones are expected to be integrated eye sensing technologies, including LG G6. Expect one or two onboard sensors which can be a retina or iris scanner found. Under the premise is the same, but the iris scanner is considered to be more sensitive and less time spent. It would also be a cost, it is expected to cost more than choose to stick with the retinal scanner smart phone.
Android 7.0 will be the latest Google operating system at the time LG introduced G6, it is expected to be preloaded found. Time-dependent and will be different for the smart phone 7.0 is not expected to launch the Nexus device, until the end of 2016 which means that the battery support and adjustment of the new operating system to meet the needs of the device, particularly, but the operators Suppliers should have their own finishing touches done well before, in May 2017 launch
LG G6 Release Date And Price:
LG’s G6 release date is very typical of what we in this means we are likely to see in mid-April 2017 was officially declared the beginning of the end of pre-order may be delivered in the same month, last seen in mid-May by the consumers to buy Start.
The launch price of the Samsung S8 launched shortly before, to see the price tag attached to the 32GB model of the desired $ 750 quite competitive. It sounds like we will not see a 32GB model for the LG G6 in the 32 or the internal memory, it will be expanded to 128GB of 64GB. 64GB model will cost slightly more, but even at $ 800- $ 850, it would still S8 and standard versions
The LG G Flex 4 – Best Smartphone 2017 Preview:
One of the most innovative mobile phone for the first time as a fourth-generation Flex LG G Flex will be launched in early 2017 LG G 4 is expected to introduce the activities during the International Consumer Electronics Show in January in Las Vegas. The G Flex 4 is expected to have a self-healing back, we have come to appreciate in the previous model, but a new concept is being rumored
The Flex and G series has become a very popular part of the world, because of its innovative features, such as self-healing back and bendable displays. The two sides have become synonymous with the previous version, but both are expected to make a return in the fourth-generation model.
One of the most popular LG G Flex 4 rumors of a real folding design, will have a choice, an independent center of the screen. We also heard the display itself will get some extra inch and a 4K resolution, a faster processor. It will be interesting to see if we have seen in previous models the flexible concept, with returns folding design, but we will update you in the affirmative
The following LG G Flex 4 Preview of the need for a thorough understanding of the specifications, features, release date and price.
LG G Flex 4 specifications – 21MP rear, 7MP reception, dual LED and 3D camera support
A current G Flex phone biggest disappointment is the poor camera specifications, but it is expected it will be a thing of the past. There are rumors that we will see a standard feature a 21MP rear and front camera 7MP, including dual, LED, geotagging, face recognition and optical image stabilization together. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
The biggest improvement remains to be seen, but we can see that support full 3D camera. This means that the 3D function is likely to be taken into the user and view photos and record and watch videos in full 3D capability, the correct construction. In the 3D function on / off for those looking for 2D, it will still support the switch.
LG G Flex 4 Specifications – Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC of The 820 2.8GHz Processor And RAM 5GB:
The latest LG G Flex 4 release date rumor is that with our previous models have seen a fairly consistent. It will be launched in mid-February arrival means the official said during the annual Consumer Electronics Show should be in January 2017 and on a global scale. Asian countries such as Korea, China, Thailand, and Japan are likely to see is the G Flex 4 weeks before it makes its way to the United States, Britain, India, and other global markets.
Over the years, we have seen the launch price of the Flex Series G remained relatively unchanged, we do not expect any significant change. With this, it might set you back about $ 650 more than the 32GB model and $ 750 64GB model. Although this is just speculation at this point, it should be fairly close to the actual price of LG G Flex 4 once the reservation form by the officials
All the top mobile operators will be on the reservation include Sprint, Verizon company, AT & T, T-Mobile in the United States where all the world’s top operators to enter. LG is likely to be thrown in for those who pre-order as early as a few goodies, such as a free wireless charger or another free accessory to attract more early sales. Pricing will be based on the operator’s option, the two-year contract is different from the direct acquisition or monthly installment plan. For example, AT & T may be the next 24-month plan, no money, ranging from only $ 25- $ 30.
Xiaomi MI7 – Best Smartphone 2017 Preview:
Xiaomi is not a high-end Android smartphone while introducing a fraction of the price, from the rest of the competition to differentiate themselves right thing. Since the original Xiaomi Mi phone is launched some time ago, we have seen throughout the series that has helped shape the smartphone industry a huge change. With the upcoming Xiaomi MI7 find it significant to the international community, it will be interesting to see what happens next.
Despite some time until reality millet MI7 are public, numerous rumors have begun to take shape. What began as a huge success in the Asian market, it sounds like Chinese startups are considering the global market. Although it has been a long time coming, other smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung, Apple, LG and all the rest is sure to take notice.
The MI7 has been seen as one of the best smartphones in 2017, and for good reason. With excellent photo quality, high-end Qualcomm processor, expandable memory options, and prices are still significantly lower than other flagship it will be impossible not be excited.
In this in-depth Xiaomi MI7 preview below, we take the camera, processor, screen, memory, battery closer look, and so much more. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
Xiaomi MI7 specifications – 25MP rear camera, 800-megapixel front camera, 3D quality, and OIS plus.
Millet looks to upgrade both the front and rear camera MI7s. After the leak came recommendations rear camera will be upgraded to 25MP, we will see an 800-megapixel front camera.
Xiaomi MI7 other camera features may include 3D quality, plus optical image stabilization, auto-focus laser, and so on. 3D camera quality will be the best feature is recorded in 3D, with 3D pictures, play, and even one of the images in real 3D viewing.
Xiaomi MI7 specifications – Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processor and 4GB of memory
Most of 2017’s flagship smartphone will be able to choose to go with Qualcomm’s 830 SoC, at least during the second half of this year. If the debut during the early part of MI7 summer, we might see Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 820, but since it is expected to launch a faster, more efficient SoC 830 may be in the third quarter.
4GB of memory is the most likely scenario, which would significantly faster than MI7 and potentially as fast as the iPhone 7S, S8 and Galaxy Galaxy Note 7.
Xiaomi MI7 Specifications – 5.3 “True 4K 4096 × 2160” Resolution:
We hope that the rumors of the Secret Intelligence Service Xiaomi on the display are true, because if so, we’ll see an amazing true 4K resolution. Sony 4K smartphone displays a pioneer, and because of the Xperia Z5, we have seen a lot of people to follow suit. Glass front and back, near a small display bezel and 3D viewing will see the creation of any smartphone 2017 for the best viewing experience.
We can see the MI7 Premium 5.10 inches around the future of a 5.3 “display. There is an enlarged version of MI7 and no official news, so that as a grain of salt.
Xiaomi MI7 Specifications – 2900 mAh Battery, Fast Charging, 32, 64, And 128GB of Memory, And Dual Micro SD:
Xiaomi MI7 date of specifications we’ve all heard, the battery is probably the biggest disappointment. Although the rumor does suggest we will see a larger battery than the MI6, it is time to see the specifications of the battery is still smaller than other flagship smartphones 2017
We heard that 2900 mA battery onboard with fast charging. Battery specifications should give the user more than one day there is no standard course of charging, but significantly less resource-intensive applications for those who use. If in-vehicle wireless charging, which will help the burden, especially for those who live life on the move.
It is rumored that there will be three models, including 32, 64, and 128GB memory version. For those looking for extended memory, additional possibilities may be related to the rumored 256GB dual micro SD card slot can be found. We still do not know if all three variants of the dual micro SD memory card slot, but we will update you as soon as we get more
Xiaomi MI7 Features – Android 7.0 Operating System, Eye Scanners, Wireless Charging, And 3D Display:
MI6 and some of the most significant features of the operating system MI7 enhance the charging function, of course, three-dimensional features. The latest version of Android 7.0 pre-installed out of the box and play a role to bring the best fourth Google material design elements. 7.0 is expected to be much faster, packed full of features and will work seamlessly with third-party applications.
For those looking for enhanced security, eye scanner may be on board, instead of a fingerprint scanner found. Retina or iris versions will significantly improve the locking and unlocking MI7 and can be used for mobile payment security.
Wireless charging also allows users to not only charge the onboard, without the need of a charging cable but to do so faster than before. Fast charging characteristics are expected to be as fast as any strung than previous wireless charger fast-charging characteristics nearly 50% Yes.
Xiaomi MI7 rumors probably the best new features 3D display. This will also watch, camera, video can be seen, even while playing the game. Xiaomi, not only from the interface but support for other third-party vendors will be more practical. For those looking for the standard 2D view, there should be quickly set up a switch for opening and closing.
Xiaomi MI7 Release Date And Price:
Xiaomi has some unpredictable and launch its own flagship phone, but rumors hint Xiaomi MI7 release date will be in 2017 this summer to do a lot of sense, because they want to compete against Apple and Samsung, the world’s largest, including the stage here, in the United States, Britain, China, India, Japan, and other international markets.
It is believed that around MI7 will make it probably has been rumored for some time in Earth’s way. The actual launch is rumored to be in September or October 2017 in China and other Asian markets and is not expected to make their own India, UK, US, and other markets the way until the fourth quarter.
Millet MI7 price is expected to become one of the strongest selling points but is considered to be slightly more than MI6. This is due to the higher-end technologies such as 4K display and 3D camera, but will still than the iPhone 7S, Galaxy S8 significantly less, and the Galaxy Note 7
Those in China can expect to pull out about 2,000 yuan to convert it to approximately $ 450 and $ 30 800 rupees. Although MI7 listed price yet to be confirmed, which is based on leaked China’s most consistent information. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
Sony Xperia Z7 – Best Smartphones 2017 Preview:
Sony Xperia Z series is one of the smartphone market, the oldest, over the years it has seen some serious ups and downs. Earlier versions helped establish the industry as we know it, after others such as Samsung, Apple and Xiaomi have taken over, Sony hopes to climb to the top again.
The Xperia Z5 help brings some highlight Sony’s flagship smartphone series, and we look forward to seeing more innovation and upcoming Xperia Z7. With rumors of new features, such as 3D visualization screen, wireless charging, and an amazing camera, it’s hard not to get excited about the next generation of models.
In addition to the Sony Xperia Z7 launch, rumors suggesting that there will be three models of the total. For those looking for something more compact, less expensive, but still retains some high-end features at Z7 Mini will be yours. Whether it is the standard model and Z7 premiums will share similar specifications department, and the difference lies in the definition of the scale.
Sony Xperia Z7 specifications – 28MP rear camera, 10 million pixels front camera, a three-dimensional camera, and OIS plus elements:
Gone are the days, and a phone is considered just a phone, the Xperia Z7 front, and back of the camera will be the biggest reason is Sony. Japanese high-tech manufacturer of digital camera technologyand is proud that an industry leader, and will see this again in the seventh generation model.
The first word implies Z7 rear camera will have 28 megapixels, while the front camera self-timer in an amazing 10 megapixels. When using high-end technology with Sony’s other flagship smartphone comparison 2017 Z7, it would appear larger.
Other camera features include expected it would be to watch videos and still images of 3D cameraelements. Plus optical image stabilization, auto-focus laser, and everything you would expect from a flagship high-end configuration features will become standard in all three models.
Sony Xperia Z7 Specifications – Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor 830 and 5GB Memory:
We expect to see the Sony Xperia Z7 processor upgrade to the next generation of Snapdragon processor should be just in time to achieve mass production. We hear Qualcomm SoC 830 in the spring of 2017 which will make it the most likely candidate to be provided at the completion of the Z7 power supply. Best Smartphones Best Smartphones
It is still uncertain if the mini will use the high-end processor or whether it will have a Qualcomm SoC 820, but either way, we should be a very quick, very efficient, or better than the previous version of the processor. It is also expected to get a boost of dedicated 5GB memory expectations
Sony Xperia Z7 Specifications – 4.6 “, 5.3” and 6.0 “display with the Resolution of 4K:
Who says size does not matter is wrong, Sony will have three reasons why. Get Sony Xperia Z7 is thought to come in at 4.6 inches, and a standard cell is 5.3 inches, and the Xperia Z7 2017 Advanced will become the largest smartphone came in at 6.0 inches one.
Two larger Z7 variants will also feature true 4K watch the upcoming 3840 XX 2160 resolution. Smaller Mini is unlikely to support the 4K resolution and will not make a lot of sense if it does not. Mini is said to feature full HD resolution and other smaller comparable smartphone 2017.
Sony Xperia Z7 Specifications – 3900 mA battery, fast charge, 32 and 64GB of memory, and expandable Micro SD:
As more and more processes running at the same time, there is a bigger battery will be a must which is a powerful 3900 mAh battery will start to play. Both standard fast, fast wireless charging users will be able to a couple in just 30 minutes to fully charge Z7.
Wireless charging side will herald consumers on the go, especially considering that many new cars and trucks equipped with a wire charging technology. The standard Z7 and Premium versions are likely to be equipped with 3900 mA when the battery while the smaller Z7 Mini is likely to have a smaller battery.
Memory will not be a problem, because all three versions, is expected to available in both 32 and 64GB models. The standard and premium Xperia Z7 are rumors expanded memory capabilities, which will allow the user to another 128GB for those who love pictures and other needs.
Sony Xperia Z7 features – Android 7.0 operating system, fast wireless charging, and the 3D visualization screen:
Sony Xperia Z7 mobile shall handset manufacturers in Japan are seeking to once again become the industry leader in one packed full of new features. One of the biggest advances will be Google’s latest Android operating system should be pre-installed. Later, it will start the summer Sony Z7 certainly have enough time to make the Android 7.0 can run effectively.
Fast wireless charging is that we should in all three variants Z7 see another feature. Wireless charging is one of the latest advances, and also a lack of something in the previous flagship of Sony Corporation. The fast element is expected to be more than the full-charge time is reduced by up to 50% of the standard wireless charging much faster.
Three-dimensional visualization of the screen is what we will hear something Z7 squeeze, but it does not look like it will make its way to the Xperia Z7 mini. If the latest rumors are true, only the Standard Edition and Premium Edition will which can be easily opened and closed in the user wishes to select 3D technology. In some cases, 3D viewing has become a deterrent, and other third-party manufacturers with more updated encryption technology this is a must-have.
Sony Xperia Z7 release date and price
Sony Xperia Z7 release date has been rumored in advance of the summer of 2017, certainly hit the Asian markets in the future it will make its way to Europe, India before, and here in the US is likely to launch in Japan around June. Want to see all three versions Z7 if they become on the same day so the choice between becoming a reality, Mini, Standard and Premium Edition will definitely be worth considering.
Consumers want Z7 price will launch slightly less than Z6, and we expect this to happen. As for other entrepreneurs out of Asia are seizing much of the market, such as Xiaomi, Sony Mobile will seek to make a bigger splash with Z7.
This is just the price we want to see the launch of Sony Xperia Z7 price is about $ 600 which is equivalent to about ¥ 68,000 and just over 41,000 rupees mean good things for consumers. Expected to be about $ 550 and come in a little more than $ 650 which may be listed in the Z7 mini Z7 advanced slightly lower price.
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Art Out in the Open: Desert X Is Placing Site-Specific Installations by Renowned Artists Throughout the Coachella Valley
Claudia Comte, "128 Triangles and Their Demonstration," 2016, Art Basel Miami. Courtesy of Raphael Fanelli
The Coachella Valley is home to many arts festivals—but the new Desert X is unlike any arts event ever done here before.
Desert X, short for the Desert Exhibition of Art, is a site-specific contemporary art exhibition, spread out throughout the Coachella Valley, from Feb. 25 through April 30. Artists contributing installations include Date Farmers’ owner Armando Lerma, Doug Aitken, Norma Jeane and many others.
The president of the Desert X board of directors is Susan Davis, the editorial director at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands.
“It’s a valley-wide exhibition. A curator put together a list of artists who we invited to the desert to choose sites that specifically resonated in them,” Davis said. “They created works specific to those sites. There will be about 15 installations. One of them is up in Whitewater, and the farthest (east) are in Indio and Coachella. We will also have pieces in Palm Springs, Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage as well. The pieces will be available to view for free for anyone who wants to visit or happens upon them.”
The Ace Hotel and Swim Club in Palm Springs will serve as the Desert X headquarters.
“People will be able to get maps and get information, and we’ll be offering bus tours on Saturdays and Sundays,” Davis said.
Davis touted the wide reach of Desert X’s participants.
“These are all artists with international reputations who are in major museums throughout the world,” she said. “It’s very exciting. We’re working with a number of local cultural organizations who have become our program partners. We have the Palm Springs Art Museum. Sunnylands is going to host one of the pieces. (Local student film festival) Digicom has a number of students in the local schools who are using these pieces to create documentary films, and we’re working with Modernism Week. The parallel projects are projects that have been selected through a series of criteria and include things up in the High Desert as well as an exhibition at the Marks Center for the Arts at College of the Desert.”
Davis offered hints about what people can expect at the installations.
“In the case of the project that’s out in Palm Desert in Adams Park, Claudia Comte chose that location and created a piece that echoes the landscape,” Davis said. “The shape of the wall is from her standpoint and echoes the mountains and the landscape.
“Another artist, Jeffrey Gibson, whose piece is going to be in the sculpture garden at the (Palm Springs) Art Museum, was inspired by the windmills. He went through a process where he wanted his piece on the wind farms, but as it evolved, he realized that it would better speak to being in Palm Springs, because he’s a Native American and was very interested in the confluence in Palm Springs of Native Americans, the LGBT community and the alternative energy history. All of the artists have created pieces for those places specific to the ideas that resonated in them and influenced them.”
Davis said she had the idea for Desert X after attending biennials and big festivals in other cities.
“The purpose is to show off a city or an area as a cultural destination, and to highlight contemporary art simultaneously,” she said. “… After Hurricane Katrina, they had an exhibition every three years to bring people back to New Orleans to show that the city was growing back after the flood, and that it was a vibrant community. It was bringing people back, which was good for the economy and showcased contemporary art.
“I’ve been living in the valley for about seven years, and my background and my passion is contemporary art. … Contemporary art exhibitions could fill a vacuum here in the valley. (Visitors) come for a number of things, but not contemporary art. They certainly don’t come for art at all. I thought this would also shine a spotlight on the Palm Springs Art Museum and also shine a light on the cultural richness here in the Coachella Valley.”
Davis said she’s excited about the potential that Desert X has to show off the Coachella Valley to visitors and locals alike, using Comte’s work at Palm Desert’s Adams Park as an example.
“It’s a way for all of us who live here to see the desert through the lens of contemporary art,” she said. “From my standpoint, the exhibition has already been successful, because people have already interacted with Claudia Comte’s work and started asking questions: ‘Is it political?’ ‘Is it a mirage?’ ‘What’s it doing here?’ ‘Is it staying here?’ ‘This should be permanent.’ It starts a conversation, and that’s one thing.
“The second thing is there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who don’t have a clue where Adams Park is. It shines a light on a beautiful part of Palm Desert for its residents and the people in the Coachella Valley.”
Desert X takes place from Saturday, Feb. 25, through Sunday, April 30, with installations across the Coachella Valley. For more information, visit www.desertx.org. Below: Phillip K. Smith III's "The Circle of Land and Sky," Palm Desert; mirror polished stainless steel; 165 feet diameter by 10 feet high (rendering).
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The battle for Idlib: Three scenarios
Marwan Kabalan
The fate of the last remaining stronghold of the Syrian opposition in Idlib will likely be decided in the coming few days. The international media has been speculating about an imminent battle for the province, which has been the focus of hectic diplomatic activity.
On September 7, the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran will meet and decide the future of Idlib and with it the fate of Syria's seven-year conflict.
The illusion of de-escalation
Idlib is the last unconquered de-escalation zone of the four that were agreed to by the Astana trio (Russia, Iran, and Turkey) following the fall of the opposition-held eastern Aleppo in December 2016. The idea of de-escalation was designed - or at least that was the general perception at the time - to freeze the conflict, decrease human suffering, and pave the way for a political solution.
That proved to be a mere illusion. Lacking adequate manpower to fight at different fronts, the Russians threw their weight behind the de-esclation zones idea, originally proposed by the UN special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura in 2014.
In addition, following the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, known as ISIS) in Mosul, the Russians started to realise that while they were busy fighting the opposition along the western belt of Syrian territories between Aleppo and Damascus, the US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) was quickly retrieving ISIL territories in the oil and gas-rich east.
For that reason, Moscow decided to freeze the conflict with the Syrian opposition and entered into a race with the US-led coalition to regain as much territory from retreating ISIL as possible. The Euphrates River acted as a natural borderline between the Russian and the American spheres of influence.
As the war with ISIL was approaching its end, Russia reverted back to its strategy of crushing the armed opposition before any political solution can be negotiated. It attacked and took over the de-escalation zone in Eastern Ghouta, near the capital, Damascus.
Russia and regime forces then moved onto the province of Homs in the north before going after Daraa and Quneitra in the southwest, near the borders with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Hundreds of thousands of opposition fighters have been relocated to the northwest under evacuation agreements. Idlib was turned into a gathering place for all opposition factions, along with some two million refugees, preparing for a final showdown.
Three scenarios
Turkey and Russia have both announced that the leaders of the two countries will hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Tehran summit to discuss the future of Idlib. Three scenarios can be discussed here.
The first one is that Turkey and Russia would agree to uphold the de-escalation zone in Idlib, providing that Turkey deal with the HTS problem. Over the past several months, Turkey has been trying to persuade the HTS to dissolve itself and melt within the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army factions.
The HTS foreign fighters have been offered a safe exit to relocate somewhere else. These efforts have not yielded the desired results, however.
Last week, as a sign of frustration, Turkey listed the HTS as a terror group, signalling a possible military action against it.If Turkey agrees to take action against the HTS, this could avert a Russian attack on Idlib until a lasting peace is achieved in Syria.
If Turkey fails to deal with the HTS, the second scenario becomes very probable. It would allow for a limited Russian-led military action in Idlib to take out the HTS and other "radical" groups.
Given the high population density in the area, Russia and even the Syrian regime seem to be trying to avoid a massive military attack - something that Iranwould like to undertake.
At this stage, Russia seems to be mainly seeking to secure its Hmeimim airbase in Latakia from drone attacks by pushing the opposition factions in Idlib further north. The Syrian regime, on the other hand, seems to be mainly interested in regaining control of the M5 highway, the country's main trade road, which passes through parts of Idlib.
For the past two years, the regime's offensive strategy has traced the M5's 470km from Aleppo in the north to Hama, Homs, Damascus and more recently Daraa in the south. The only remaining part of the M5 outside regime control lies now in parts of Idlib.
Indeed, the regime would want to regain every inch of Idlib but simply does not have the manpower to do so, especially against tens of thousands of die-hard opposition elements, with nowhere else to go.
The third and the most feared scenario is an all-out offensive in Idlib. This scenario is unlikely at this stage because it is very costly both politically and militarily.
It would also lead to a humanitarian disaster, a massive refugee crisis and destruction at a large scale. It would destroy the evolving partnership between Russia and Turkey and lead to the collapse of the Astana process.
It will put more pressure on the already strained Russian-European relations as it would lead to a new wave of refugees. The US has also warned against a massive attack in Idlib and stated that it would intervene in case chemical weapons are used.
Lastly, an all-out attack in Idlib runs counter to the new Russian strategy, aiming at returning the Syrian refugees back home and starting the reconstruction process with aid from Europe and the Gulf states.
The Tehran summit will, however, show which of these three scenarios will prevail and whether the future of Idlib will be decided by war or by diplomacy.
There is, in fact, some room for cautious optimism here but that is mainly because of war fatigue, not because we have some great diplomats handling the Syrian conflict.
The writer is Director of Policy Analysis at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies.
Courtesy: Al Jazeera
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Sambo, AMCON Boss, Others for Presidential Transition Team
Vice President Namadi Sambo will lead the Federal Government transition team, as the Goodluck Jonathan administration begins to wind down, the Daily Times has learnt.
Also on the list is the Managing Director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Mr. Mustapha Chike Obi; the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Patrick Akpobolokemi; and the chairman of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Dr. Musa Babayo.
Also on the board are Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Ezra Dikki; the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan.
The Head of Service of the Federation, Danladi Kifasi, is expected to be the secretary.
The names of the officials of the incoming party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), that will be in the committee are still be expected.
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78 percent of American and European marketers worked with influencers in 2018
78 percent of American and European marketers worked with influencers last year, according to Launchmetrics’ latest report on the state of influencer marketing, based on a survey with over 600 professionals in the fashion, luxury and beauty industries.
Instagram is their platform of choice, with 36 percent of respondents saying they prefer to advertise with influencers with large Instagram followings. Facebook and YouTube come next, at 17 percent and 13 percent, respectively. The global influencer market on Instagram alone is estimated in over 1 billion US dollars by statistics firm Statista, which also predicts it to reach 2.38 billion dollars by 2019.
Obviously, companies wouldn’t be allocating so much money for influencers if they didn’t see a return on their investment. 90 percent of the professionals interviewed by Launchmetrics said they consider influencer marketing to be an effective tool to generate brand awareness, while 69 percent said their campaigns with social media stars helped them to boost sales.
Social media seems to have become the new window shopping, as consumers turn to people they trust to help them filter all the options they come across. According to Facebook, which owns Instagram, one in three Instagram users in the US, UK, Brazil and Indonesia said they have become more interested in a brand or product after seeing it on the platform. Google, which owns YouTube, also commissioned a research about shoppers’ behavior on its video platform. The study revealed that 80 percent of shoppers who watch a YouTube video related to a planned purchase do so at the start of the buying process. Considering YouTube is a search engine, one could assume most shoppers would use it at the research and action phases of shopping.
The use of social media for “window shopping” might explain why nearly 42 percent of marketers in Launchmetrics’ research said they prefer working with influencers upon launching new products. Sending out gifts and product samples is the most common way they interact with influencers, with 98 percent of them naming this as their preferred approach.
Consumers starting to grow tired of repetitive influencer content
However, despite of all these impressive numbers, influencer marketing may be a bubble just waiting to burst — that is, if marketers and social media creators continue to offer the same content formats again and again. In a survey with 4000 European consumers, published by digital marketing firm Bazaarvoice this week, 47 percent of respondents said they are tired of the repetitive nature of influencer content. 23 percent of them feel content quality has been dropping lately.
The research also revealed that 62 percent of European consumers believe that influencer content takes advantage of impressionable audiences by being too materialistic (55 percent) and misrepresenting real life (54 percent). Germans are the ones with the strongest negative negative feelings about social media stars, with 32 percent of them saying influencers do not promote ethical behaviour.
However, part of these problems may be caused by the audience itself, as it has grown accustomed to constant updates from the influencers they follow. 49 percent of UK surveyors and 68 percent of French surveyors said they expect their favorite social media stars to publish new content every day. Although the companies behind social networks do not reveal how their algorithms work, creators such as Casey Neistat (over 10 million YouTube subscribers) and PewDiePie (65 million YouTube subscribers) said they noticed their channels grow faster once they started to post daily. On Instagram, for example, users who post Stories more frequently always appear on the top of their followers’ feed. The pressure for more quantity may be therefore be harming quality.
Respondents have also manifested a discontent with influencers whose opinions about products don’t seem genuine. Since many countries still lack regulations for influencer marketing, social media users often find it hard to tell editorial content and advertising apart. In fact, 49 percent of respondents said it is time for an influencer marketing association to embed stricter rules for content social media stars produce.
“At the core, influencer marketing is really intended to be about word-of-mouth”, said Joe Rohrlick, General Manager of EMEA at Bazaarvoice, in a statement. “It is clear that influencers need to work towards improving the quality and authenticity of the content they produce. There is a balance to be struck with advertisers and audiences, promotional content and the results that can reasonably be expected and achieved”.
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Getty Museum returns the Head of Hades to Italy
Sometime between 300-400B.C., an unknown artist in Morgantina, Italy carefully sculpted this terra-cotta replica of the famed god of the Underworld, the feared Hades. The skull or head itself was carefully sculpted on its own, and later the curly hair and beard were individually added, one curl at a time, just before the final firing in the kiln. Afterwards, it was carefully painted, and some parts of the paint remain such as the red in his hair and the blue in his beard. This beautiful artifact is an amazingly well-preserved momento of painstaking artistry.
The piece goes by both the name “Head of Hades” and “Bluebeard” and was illegally excavated from an Italian archaeological dig during the 1970s. Afterwards it was sold and ended up at the Getty Museum in the USA.
According to the Getty Website, the work was initially believed to be a depiction of Hades’ brother, Zeus (known occasionally as Bluebeard). However, examination of the nearby discovered artifacts and the knowledge that Morgantina worshipped Persephone (kidnapped wife of Hades), they now believe it is actually Hades instead. The kidnapping of Persephone is thought to have occurred at a lake near the city.
Long story short, because the work was illegally excavated, it technically still belongs to Italy and was stolen property, meaning the Getty had to repatriate the bust to its nation of origin. Although the legal exchange happened a couple years ago, the official trade occurred recently when Italian officials arrived to take over possession.
One of the interesting notes to me is the fact that the Getty has owned this work since 1985 (almost 20 years) according to their own website. It is unclear why it took so long for them to return the stolen relic.
Either way, the work is finally home as Hades returns to his royal lands, protecting the good and punishing the wicked as they pass into his deadly realm.
Getty Website
Tags: Art Law, Bluebeard, Cultural Heritage Law, CulturedMuse, Getty Museum, Hades, Head of Hades, Italy, Repatriation, Terra Cotta, Terracotta, Zeus
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Congressman Doug Collins
Northeast Georgia
Postal Service Ignores Residents in Green Street Relocation
GAINSEVILLE, Ga.—The United States Postal Service (USPS) has apparently disregarded its own regulations in its efforts to relocate its facility at 364 Green St NE in Gainesville, Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) has learned.
“Residents have been advocating for the relocation of the Green Street post office for decades, and the Postal Service has turned a deaf ear to these requests since 1975. Now, it appears that the Postal Service has decided to forgo community input related to where the post office should make its new home,” said Collins.
“Gainesville residents depend on the Postal Service to help their businesses and households run smoothly, and it’s outrageous that bureaucrats would circumvent community voices in this process. I will do everything in my power to ensure that the Postal Service plays by its own rules and collaborates with the city of Gainesville to ensure this relocation serves residents.”
The USPS opened the Green Street post office in 1967, and, eight years later, the city of Gainesville unanimously voted to request that the USPS relocate the Green Street facility due to safety concerns. Despite this, the USPS purchased the Green Street building 16 years later.
In January 2018, a representative of the USPS came to the Gainesville City Council meeting and noticed that the USPS would consider relocating the Green Street facility. With Collins’ support, the USPS announced its decision to relocate the facility and proceed with consideration of new locations in March 2018.
According to USPS regulations, once the agency decides to relocate an existing facility, the USPS must advertise for potential sites to house the new facility and then advise local officials in writing of all contending sites as well as explanations behind sites that are not being considered. The USPS must then seek public comments from local officials and the community for 30 days, during which the USPS cannot make a decision on the relocation site.
Instead of following these regulations, which Collins asked the agency to respect on multiple occasions, the USPS seems to have disregarded them comprehensively by failing to advertise for potential sites and existing buildings, to identify sites in consideration and advise local officials in writing of the contending sites and to seek community feedback on those proposed sites. In doing so, it seems the USPS has purposefully and willfully ignored what is best for the people of the Ninth District of Georgia.
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