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M.A.D.S.
the digital art gallery 7.0
artworks.
artists.
madzines.
curators.
Artist: Geertje Eshuis
Geertje Eshuis
Geertje Eshuis was born on 16-11-1944 in the north of the Netherlands. When she was young, she was always drawing and painting.. and was nearly 40 years old when started to paint seriously. Her four children were all going to school, so it was her time. At first she did watercolours, later on also acrylic and oil paint. Also grafic art and sculpturing had her love.
After a live with a family and a job as Physiotherapist she is now almost busy with art production in her Atelier Orion, with four painting friends. And she's hopes to do that for a long time in future.
Critical review by Chiara Marin (Art Curator)
Critical review by Alessia Perone (Art Curator)
M.A.D.S. ART GALLERY P.IVA IT10587040964
© 2020 by Simone Segalini
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U.S. Cyber Agency: SolarWinds Attack Hitting Local Governments
A U.S. cybersecurity agency said Wednesday that the far-reaching attack into the IT management company SolarWinds discovered earlier this month has infected more systems than previously thought.
Trump Grants Slew Of Pardons, Including To George Papadopoulos And Duncan Hunter
By Vanessa Romo, Ayesha Rascoe, Ryan Lucas, Jaclyn Diaz & Natalie Escobar • Dec 23, 2020
Update at 2 a.m. ET Wednesday
Perpetrators of a massacre, perjurers, corrupt politicians, money launderers, nonviolent convicted drug dealers and a 1950s moonshine-maker are among those whom President Trump granted clemency on Tuesday, ahead of the Christmas holiday.
In all, Trump granted full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five.
U.K.-France Border Reopens Amid Spread Of New Coronavirus Strain
France has reopened its borders to travelers and truck drivers from the United Kingdom who show proof of a negative coronavirus test taken within the previous 72 hours.
The two countries reached the deal Tuesday after France closed the route on Sunday following news of an outbreak in southeast England of a new strain of the coronavirus. The shutdown caused chaos for the crucial freight route between France and the U.K., with thousands of truck drivers stranded in the port of Dover and drivers unable to return to the continent.
Ohio Officer Removed From Duty After Fatal Shooting Of Black Man
A police officer in Columbus, Ohio, was temporarily removed from duty pending the outcome of criminal and internal investigations following the fatal shooting of an apparently unarmed Black man early Tuesday.
Mayor Andrew Ginther demanded that the unidentified officer who fired the shot be removed following news that the officer's body camera was switched off in the moments leading up to the shooting.
Air Force Investigation Finds Black Members Face Racial Disparity In Service
Black members of the U.S. Air Force are treated differently than their white counterparts in a wide range of areas, including promotions and military justice, a new internal investigation reveals.
Navalny Reportedly Dupes Agent Into Revealing Details Of Poisoning
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has uncovered details of his own poisoning by duping one of the Kremlin agents involved into revealing how it was done.
The research group Bellingcat revealed details Monday of a 45-minute phone call between Navalny, who posed as an agent for Russia's National Security Council, and the alleged Kremlin agent, Konstantin Kudryavtsev. Navalny coaxed details of the attack from Kudryavtsev, who said the nerve agent Novichok was applied to the politician's underwear.
Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts On Big Island
Kilauea volcano erupted overnight for the first time in more than two years, placing Hawaii's Big Island on a red alert Monday morning.
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the situation is "rapidly evolving." It's unclear what, if any, damage has occurred so far.
The eruption began late Sunday within the volcano's Halemaumau crater, at the summit of Kilauea. The HVO said it detected a "glow" within the crater at about 9:30 p.m. local time.
Chicago's Top Attorney Resigns Following Scandal Over Botched Police Raid
The lead attorney for the city of Chicago resigned Sunday amid continuing fallout from a botched and mistaken police raid nearly a year ago at the home of a Black woman.
Attorney Mark Flessner said in a concise email to staff that he had resigned as Corporation Counsel for the city of Chicago. He said simply that he would work on a transition plan in the next few days.
U.S. Embassy In Baghdad Hit In Rocket Attack
Rocket attacks by "Iran-backed militias" into an area housing the U.S. Embassy in Iraq killed at least one local civilian and damaged the embassy compound, according to U.S. diplomatic sources.
Eight small rockets launched by Iranian forces specifically targeted the International Zone in Baghdad, also called the "Green Zone," according to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. He strongly condemned the attack in a statement released Sunday.
No embassy personnel were injured, but the rocket did damage some residential property surrounding the Green Zone, according to Pompeo.
Microsoft Says 40 Customers Hit By Ongoing Hack Of Government Agencies
Microsoft President Brad Smith has called the ever-growing hacking campaign into a U.S. tech firm that was discovered this week "a moment of reckoning."
"This is not 'espionage as usual,' even in the digital age. Instead, it represents an act of recklessness that created a serious technological vulnerability for the United States and the world," he wrote in a blog post Thursday.
China Promises To Share Findings From Its Returned Lunar Probe
After 23 days and some 230,000 miles traveled, China's Chang'e-5 lunar capsule returned to Earth during Thursday's predawn hours. It carried cargo of more than four pounds of the first fresh samples of moon rocks and other debris in more than 40 years.
China's space agency said Thursday it intends to share its findings with the global scientific community.
The capsule for the Chang'e 5 probe landed in the Siziwang district of the Inner Mongolia region, the China National Space Administration reported. It first set off for the moon on Nov. 24.
French President Macron Tests Positive For Coronavirus
French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for the coronavirus and will quarantine for a week, his official residence announced Thursday.
Macron was tested for the virus following the onset of symptoms, though the Élysée Palace didn't immediately explain what those symptoms might include. He will isolate himself for seven days and will continue to work remotely, his residence said.
U.S. Surpasses 3,600 Daily Coronavirus Deaths, Breaks Prior Hospitalization Record
The U.S. on Wednesday reported the highest number of new cases of the coronavirus and the most COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began.
As of 1:30 a.m. Thursday, more than 3,600 Americans died Wednesday from complications of the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking coronavirus infection data.
New Zealand Will Give Free Coronavirus Vaccines To Residents, Neighboring Nations
New Zealand has advance purchased two new coronavirus vaccines from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novavax, giving the small island country the ability to vaccinate its 5 million residents.
Government officials also announced Thursday they will go a step further and provide free doses to its population as well as neighboring nations Tokelau, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu, should they want them.
Russian Agents Trailed Opposition Leader Navalny Before Poisoning, Report Finds
Updated 8:30 a.m. ET
Kremlin agents followed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for years and were nearby just before an attack with a deadly nerve agent almost killed him in August, according to a new report by the research group Bellingcat.
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Nice article on the limitations of the new field of Synthetic Biology
March 16, 2013 12:35 AM Subscribe
Current state of Gene hacking leaves much to be desired but there's hope for a pull back from the rush to applications to a more basic science approach.
posted by aleph (13 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
"The hype is a thing that's hurt the field,"
Finally an actually good article in mainstream journalism talking about the real story of synthetic biology, the massive piles of bullshit everyone with half a brain and a basic knowledge of what an agar plate is could tell you was bullshit, but no one listens to people who know what they're talking about anymore. Synthetic biology does actually have some really neat potential in both the short and long term, and there are people who are not idiots working in it, but they are a solid minority of people who describe themselves as synthetic biologists. Gene switches working reliably would indeed have a lot of power to do really neat things in both genetics and genetic engineering but fodder for Singularian liberation theology they are not.
Also hey, here is a neat self link that links to a damn paper
posted by Blasdelb at 1:02 AM on March 16, 2013 [4 favorites]
Also the current state of Gene Hackman leaves much to be desired
posted by XMLicious at 1:37 AM on March 16, 2013 [4 favorites]
s/gene hacking/3d printers/g and the article is still true.
posted by DU at 4:46 AM on March 16, 2013
With Cantor's encouragement, Collins and Gardner leapt into a new, wet world. Neither was versed in the field, and the idea of reading Molecular Biology of the Cell left Collins cold. He couldn't get past the first page; too much detail.
Ladies and gentlemen, MacArthur Genius Jim Collins.
posted by mr_roboto at 5:32 AM on March 16, 2013 [3 favorites]
from the rush to application
Would that be rush to patent application? I kid, but I do kind of wonder how much of the slow down of progress might be laid at the feet of patents and royalties in this field.
posted by Toekneesan at 5:41 AM on March 16, 2013
> Neither was versed in the field, and the idea of reading Molecular Biology of the Cell left Collins cold. He couldn't get past the first page; too much detail.
... and then three years later they were published in Nature.
It's really a pretty cool story: they approached a new field that seemed ripe for experiment, picked a particular tiny problem that a mentor told them was worth working on, jumped into trying to solve it, asked experts what they were doing wrong when things didn't work, and after (presumably) a great deal of effort over three years ended up making a new contribution to the field. Science!
Speaking of embarrassing pull-quotes, how about:
The almost irrational complexity of life has been one of the biggest surprises to synthetic biologists, says Tim Lu ....
It's almost like life emerged through random processes rather than by the design of a rational creator, almost.
posted by jhc at 6:47 AM on March 16, 2013 [3 favorites]
I dunno. This line is a thing of beauty:
“Our officers got a call from a homeless male who said he’s just been beat up by Gene Hackman,” Sgt. Andrea Dobyns told Albuquerque ABC affiliate KOAT-TV.
He is like the flip side of Bill Murray.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:55 AM on March 16, 2013
Speaking of embarrassing pull-quotes
Frankly, I think the whole thing reads kind of like a hit piece on Collins. This, for instance: "For Collins, though, the definition is simple. It's 'genetic engineering on steroids.'" I doubt Collins really defines synthetic biology as "genetic engineering on steroids", and to quote him saying so makes him seem like a bit of an idiot.
That said, a hit piece on synthetic biology appeals to my own prejudices.
posted by mr_roboto at 7:34 AM on March 16, 2013
"It's sort of like using a jacked-up, loaded system to answer a question that's been out there for a while, a really fundamental one," Bashor said. "How do you get more complicated signaling networks? ... There's a feedback between discovery science and synthetic science that I think more people are starting to appreciate now."
You could almost say it's some sort of selection, like that found in nature.
posted by benzenedream at 8:27 AM on March 16, 2013
This gets to a core criticism of synthetic biology. For over 20 years, engineers interested in designing biological systems have been using directed evolution; basically, creating diversity and applying selective pressure in the lab to force a microbial population (or a gene, or a limited set of genes) to evolve towards an engineering goal. This is a very effective technique! Then the synthetic biologists came in, with little understanding of biological complexity, claiming that they could treat biosystems like microprocessor circuits, pluggin in modular building blocks. Biological systems did not evolve modularly, however, and synthetic biologists are quickly realizing that evolution-like selection techniques are the best approach to engineering metabolic pathways and complex signaling pathways. This seems a little like reinventing the wheel to many of us.
Then the synthetic biologists came in, with little understanding of biological complexity, claiming that they could treat biosystems like microprocessor circuits, pluggin in modular building blocks.
My belief in this statement is why I do not work for iGEM.
Sincere question: Where is the line drawn between protein engineering and synthetic biology?
posted by maryr at 9:07 AM on March 16, 2013
"Sincere question: Where is the line drawn between protein engineering and synthetic biology?"
One of them actually works, the other is filled with characters like these.
posted by Blasdelb at 9:50 AM on March 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
Some organisms did evolve to be genetically modular, though. Making genetically-recombinant bacteria by getting them to accept a plasmid (small circular piece of DNA, for those playing along at home) with your gene of interest spliced into it is totally old hat these days and works great. It takes advantage of horizontal gene transfer capabilities that are very much evolved traits in bacteria.
I don't dispute your basic point, mind you. Genomes are complicated-ass molecular machines and they often react poorly to hamfisted attempts to muck about with them. Weirdly though, there are at least some cases of genetic modularity that we can and do exploit in the lab to great effect.
posted by Scientist at 10:16 AM on March 16, 2013
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In Honor of Our Hot Dad Obsession, Here's a Brief, Sexy History of the DILF
By Nicolas DiDomizio
There are many types of dads in this world.
There is the corny dad with goofy dance moves who recycles the same dad joke basically every few hours. There is the absentee dad. There is the stay-at-home dad who proudly tends to the children and home while his wife leans in at the office park.
And then there is the dad you'd like to fuck. Also known as the DILF.
In the thirst-fueled climate of our modern-day internet, the DILF obsession is real.
Celebrities like Tom Hardy, Chris Hemsworth and Josh Duhamel have all been praised for their abilities to be both hot and fatherly at the same time. Chrissy Teigen famously started referring to her husband John Legend as a DILF after she birthed their daughter in April. 22 Cartoon Dads have been named DILFs by BuzzFeed. An Instagram account called DILFs of Disneyland has nearly 340,000 thirsty followers. In February, People officially crowned known DILF Ryan Reynolds with the title of "Sexiest Dad Alive."
Meanwhile, on Tumblr, Daily Dose of DILF has become the premier destination for almost 60,000 subscribers to get their, uh, daily dose of DILF. It was launched five years ago by a 20-something gay guy named Andrew who was inspired by his lifelong appreciation of hot dads.
"I had a couple high school teachers who were so fucking hot and DILF-y," he said. "It was torture sitting through their classes every day. I would get so distracted by their muscles that would be pressing through their clothing."
So what, exactly, makes a man "DILF-y"? It depends on who you ask.
"I think 'DILF' can apply to men who don't actually have kids," Andrew said. "You definitely know a DILF when you see one... They're more experienced. They're also super confident and sure of themselves."
Andrew's interpretation of the term essentially makes it interchangeable with "daddy," which is currently having its own major moment amongst internet youths.
"I'm not into dads, per se, but I can sure as hell fuck with a daddy," Eve Peyser wrote for New York Magazine's Beta Male earlier this week. "A daddy is an imperfect combination of authority and appreciation; a man my age (early 20s) is none of those things. A daddy is older and probably acts like he knows better than you; you're okay with that."
Others, however, would say that what sets a DILF apart from a daddy is the fact that a DILF is hot solely because he's a dad, regardless of his age and/or other qualities. GQ's description of a DILF, for example, is based on the well-known fact that babies — like dogs, cars and tweets about feminism — are total chick magnets, dude.
"Why do chicks dig DILFs? Well, because they like men and they like babies," Simon Mills wrote back in April. "Dads become DILFs when they embrace fatherhood, when they strap on the shearling and calfskin papoose, and when they give up Sunday-morning hangovers in favor of swing-pushing sessions."
One of the first times the fetishization of fatherhood became mainstream was in 1987, when British poster company Athena released a now-infamous print titled L'enfant and also known as "Man and Baby."
The artsy black and white photograph shows a shiny, shirtless hunk with tight jeans and perfect hair as he gazes into a baby's eyes while his chest and biceps distract viewers from the fact that there's also a baby in the picture.
"To [some people], in particular teenage girls and young women, its juxtaposition of a rugged male and helpless infant had instant appeal and was held as presaging the arrival of the sensitive but sexy 'New Man,'" wrote Cahal Milmo for the Independent. The poster sold five million copies.
The actual term "DILF" wouldn't make its way into our hearts until at least 12 years after the massive success of L'enfant, with the release of the classic 1999 comedy American Pie. There weren't any DILFs in American Pie — unless you have a thing for Eugene Levy, which: no judgment. But, there was one very famous scene in which the term MILF — mom I'd like to fuck — was used to describe the character of Stifler's mom.
Frat bros had been throwing around the term MILF since at least the early '90s, but it wasn't until American Pie that it started to become the cultural trope, and wildly successful porn genre, that it is today. And once MILF became a thing, it was inevitable that its gender-reversed version would also eventually take off. DILF first appeared in Urban Dictionary in March 2003, defined as "a heterosexual female's version of a MILF."
That definition may not be totally accurate, though, as there are a few notable difference between the hotness of a MILF and the hotness of a DILF. MILFs are typically conventionally hot sex sirens, whereas a DILF can be a fit and toned hunk or just an average Joe with a dad bod who happens to be a good-looking father.
"The crux of the MILF's hotness is that it's hard to believe she is someone's mother," notes Dave Lesser in a blog post for the Good Men Project. "DILFs...are vastly different. They're desirable because they're parents, not in spite of it."
Twenty-nine years after L'enfant and 13 years after DILF's humble entrance into our daily internet lexicon, the fever for hot dads is stronger than ever. Whether it's a celebrity dad on the cover of People or an anonymous stud on a DILF-worshipping social media account, DILFs have officially set up shop in our fantasies.
And for those of us out there actually fucking the dads we'd like to fuck, our realities as well.
"Everyone should try out a DILF in bed," Andrew said. "At least once."
So anyway! Got any plans for Father's Day?
Read more: • This Feminist T-Shirt Is the Perfect Accessory for Dads Everywhere
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Code reviews
How to give great code review feedback
June 19, 2019 December 7, 2020 Dr. Michaela Greiler 0 Comments
Code reviews are a beneficial engineering practice to ensure high-quality and maintainable code and spread knowledge amongst team members. But, the value and the benefits teams get out of code review rise and fall with the value and usefulness of the code review feedback. In this article, I show you how to give great code review feedback. The findings are backed by research and experiences of hundreds of high-performing engineering teams at Microsoft.
This article is part of a large code review blog post series you might want to check out. If you are interested in code reviews, make sure to check out my exclusive code review e-Book.
Code reviews are about problems with and the quality of the code
In a code review, recent code changes of one developer are inspected and discussed by other developers. The focus and goal of such a code review are to find problems with the code and to ensure the code is of high-quality. Even though code reviews provide a much broader set of benefits, such as knowledge dissemination, learning and mentoring, it is important to keep those two main goals in mind.
Some team fear and some teams experience the main drawback of code reviews: reduced code velocity. This means, that the team’s productivity is reduced because code reviews slow the team down.
The causes for reduced velocity can be manifold, but often it has to do with long waiting times on feedback and slow response times. If this is paired with meaningless code review feedback, code reviews become a nightmare for all involved. But teams can easily circumvent those code review pitfalls by implementing proven best practices.
In this article, I focus on the type of feedback that makes code reviews beneficial and valuable for your team.
Code review studies at Microsoft
At Microsoft, I have performed several studies to understand code reviews. In one of those, we analyzed over 2 Million code review comments to understand which code review feedback is valuable, and which is a waste of time. But let’s get started with what to look for in code reviews.
What should you look for in Code reviews?
Let’s imagine you just have been asked to review some code. The code author sends you a couple of code files, with a short description of the purpose and type of change she or he implemented. So, now you look through the code. What are you looking for?
Functional Defects
Problems with the logic
Missing Validation (e.g., edge cases)
Usage of API
Architectural Issues
Testability
Team Coding Style
Use of best practices
Language-specific issues
Use of deprecated methods
Performance (e.g., complexity of the solution)
Wow, that was a lot. To look for all those issues in a systematic way, it is a good idea to use a code review checklist, that you can quickly go over to make sure you aren’t forgetting anything. You can find my complete and detailed checklist for code reviews also on GitHub.
Now, that you saw all those issues, you asked yourself, but which of those are the most valuable issues to look for?
Which code review feedback is the most valuable?
Let’s pack up a bit and let us imagine again how you actually start the code review.
Probably once you open the review, you will look through all the files and start orientating yourself. Where and what has been changed? What parts of the code are affected? Where is the center of the change?
And while you familiarize yourself with the change, you will notice some issues: typos in comments and variables, missing comments, style-related issues such as indentation. And even though these are relevant and beneficial issues to look for, don’t get caught up in those issues. The fact is, those are valuable and relevant but shouldn’t be the main purpose of code reviews. I’ll explain in a bit.
So, what else are you looking for?
Feedback on defects, missing validation, and best practices are most valuable
Yes, the most valuable code review feedback is about actual problems with the code. This type of feedback is perceived by all developers as the most useful and beneficial. But, in the study, we also saw that those issues make up only a small part of all the code review feedback.
In the figure below, you see which kind of issues are discussed in code reviews, and also what their perceived value is from the perspective of the code review author. So what do we see?
Types of code review feedback and its usefulness
We see that the most valuable comments in code reviews address the following issues:
Functional defects. This is like a no-brainer. The most highly rated code review feedback is when a reviewer finds a functional defect in the system. But, code reviews are not the best tool to find functional defects. In fact, only a very small part of all comments are about functional defects. Nevertheless, if one is found, the pay-off of code reviews is obviously huge.
Missing validation and corner cases. Code review feedback that shows validation scenarios that have been forgotten, problems with the logic, or corner cases that have not been covered is also highly valued by developers. This feedback revolves around finding edge cases and alternate scenarios in which the current implementation would fail.
Best practices and coding conventions. Code reviews are very beneficial for ensuring a coherent, maintainable, and understandable codebase. Therefore, feedback that points out and identifies code that does not follow coding conventions or best practices is also very highly valued.
API usage and design patterns. Other highly valued code review feedback focuses on how APIs or third-party libraries are used correctly and on missing or wrongly implemented design patterns.
Code Review feedback can be a two-sided sword
Some of the issues discussed in code reviews do not reveal their value as easily as finding defects. Depending on the concrete feedback and circumstances those comments can either be valuable or wasting everybody’s time. Maybe you have already guessed it. But we are talking about issues with the coding style, coding conventions, and comments. Often such issues are referred to as nit-picking issues.
Documentation, coding style, and coding conventions. Addressing missing or outdated documentation, highlighting typos in comments, or pointing to badly named variables, is the feedback you will get often during code reviews. But is this really valuable?
Sometimes the value of such feedback isn’t immediately visible to the code reviewers. And finding a typo isn’t really a biggy, is it? Well, the real value of such comments comes from the compound effect over time. Resolving such issues fast ensures the code base stays comprehensible and maintainable over time.
Still, they can come across as “nit-picking”, and already the word has a negative connotation to it. So, teams should make sure the value of such comments is understood by the whole team.
On the other hand, it’s important to avoid lengthy and repeated discussion on such issues as indentation, or coding style. This definitely slows the productivity of teams down. To ensure teams stay productive, let’s settle on one style convention and move on!
A no-go is feedback that is beyond the code review purpose
Most feedback that focuses on the current scope of the code review is seen as valuable. But, the scope of the code review isn’t all code that is visible in the files within the code change. Neither is it beyond the purpose of the code change. Because of that, opening up new issues that are out of the scope for the current implementation is experienced as not useful for the majority of the developers.
Alternative implementations. Even though alternative solutions that improve the code are seen as valuable, discussions of alternative implementations that have no obvious benefit for the current piece of code aren’t in favor of your team’s productivity.
Existing technical debt and refactoring: Similar, starting to highlight old technical debt or potential refactoring opportunities is beyond the scope of a regular code review. Those issues should be discussed in a separate thread.
Planning and future work. Another not useful feedback type are comments that highlight future work or work that isn’t planned for the current development cycle. If you see such issues, take notes in tools such as backlogs, or issue tracker, where they are actually valuable for your team. And then, discuss them in situations where such discussions are appropriate.
Asking questions merely to understand the implementation. Even though code reviews are an extraordinary tool for learning and to spread knowledge within the team, asking questions merely to understand the code isn’t the purpose of code reviews. Do not forget, the main goal of the code review author is to get the code approved so she or he can move on.
Discussions in code reviews that go beyond the purpose of this particular review, such as discussing future work or existing technical debt, are a no-go. Let's keep reviews fast and focused. Click To Tweet
What should you do if you do not understand the code?
So what do you do if you do not understand the code? How should you give valuable feedback to code that you do not understand?
Good question. And, actually, research and experiences taught us, if you do not understand the code, you aren’t in a place to give valuable feedback. At least not a lot of it.
If that is the case, you have to better understand the underlying issues first. Why aren’t you understanding the code? Are you new to the team? Do you have limited experience as a software engineer? Haven’t you worked with the codebase before? Is the newly written code an incomprehensible mess?
If the last one is true, all your questions are valid and should be part of the code review. But probably, you can add much more than questions. Probably, you add feedback on how to improve the code, why it is incomprehensible, and so on.
What should you do if you aren’t familiar with the codebase?
If you haven’t worked within this codebase before, chances are you have a hard time understanding what’s happing in the code review. A good way to resolve this is to ask a colleague if she or he can walk you through the code and explain it. The important thing here is to not use the code reviews to ask a random question about the codebase.
It is true, learning and spreading knowledge, are two substantial benefits of code review. Still, those should be side effects of doing focus driven code reviews. And the focus should be to check whether or not the code is correct, and of high-quality.
This is, unless, the code reviews are explicitly set as a way to teach you. If that’s the case, this should have explicitly communicated to you. But, if you are added to “normal” code reviews, it is better to just observe and learn what others are doing. Over time, you will understand the codebase better, learn about team conventions and best practices, and the possibilities to add valuable feedback to the code reviews will present themselves.
Code reviews are an excellent tool to learn and spread knowledge within your team. Still, don't ask questions merely to get familiar with the code base. Click To Tweet
Less experienced developers give less valuable feedback
No, it isn’t just you. It also isn’t the junior developer’s fault. It is just a fact. Our research findings show that experience levels highly impact the ability of a developer to give useful feedback. Code reviewers that just started within an organization – independent of their seniority – give significantly less valuable feedback for about three months. After that, we can see how their feedback value increases and plateaus over the course of a year.
You have to be familiar with the code to give valuable feedback
Multiple code review studies have shown that the most useful code review feedback comes from developers that have either changes or reviewed the code under review before. The good news is, that it is enough to edit a file before once. That means, that in our study we saw no significant difference between feedback from developers that changed the code once or developers that changed the code hundreds of times, as you see in the figure below.
The density of useful feedback vs. the number of times a reviewer reviewed the file before
Domain experts can boost your code review value
Nevertheless, domain experts from other teams or cross-team reviewers can add tremendous value to your code reviews. You might choose to add for example security experts, big data experts, or usability experts even though they aren’t as familiar with your codebase as your own team.
The benefit here is that they bring this specific expertise and an outside view. Their purpose in the code review is also different. They probably aren’t looking for design best practices, and team conventions, but inspect the code for exactly the issues you added them for, for example, security.
Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself
Code review is a very social activity. And in companies and teams where people actively work on their feedback culture, it is a highly appreciated and highly-valued engineering practice. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case everywhere. In some teams, code reviews are misused as a means to demonstrate power or superiority or even to have power fights. This isn’t helpful.
If you set out to benefit from code reviews, it is wise to reflect on how to give constructive feedback. Pointing out that something isn’t of high quality isn’t enough. If you critique the code of a colleague make sure to do so in a respectful manner and always include concrete ways for improvement.
On the other hand, adding too many compliments about code pieces in code reviews isn’t necessary. In the code review study at Microsoft, we saw, that code review authors did not value comments that praised their code.
Why? Well, again it comes down to the focus and goal of code reviews. Normally, each comment is a small work item. Having more of those, even though they are just compliments, does not add value. It just aggravates the task of processing the comments.
Pointing out good work and definitely helps the team spirit and is a good motivator. But again, it is better to do so in a different context, like a meeting, or a coffee break than in the context of code reviews.
Outside circumstances that influence the value of the feedback
There are also a couple of things that influence how much value you get out of code review. In our study, we saw that developers just have a hard time reviewing non-code files, such as configuration or build files. On the other hand, developers give the most useful feedback for source code files.
Something else that drastically impacts how good the code review feedback is is the number of files under review. The larger the changeset under review, the less valuable code review feedback you will receive. Keeping chode reviews small just has many benefits, and is one of the most valuable code review best practices.
To summarize, good and valuable code review feedback is feedback to focuses on the goal of the code review: to inspect whether the current code change is correct and of high-quality. Discussions that aren’t helping to achieve this goal should happen outside of the code review process. Because good code review feedback is also feedback that is given in a timely manner and can help the code author to quickly get the code change approved.
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The Catholic Church, Experimental Treatments and Charlie Gard
Posted by Domenico Bettinelli 78sc on July 14, 2017
By Nancy Valko
A disturbing statement made by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for life, appearing to support the European Court of Human Rights decision to reject Baby Charlie Gard’s parents’ request to go to the US for an experimental treatment for their critically ill son struck a nerve with many Catholics. And although Pope Francis quickly expressed his support for Baby Charlie and his parents shortly after the statement, the ethical issue of experimental treatment remains confusing to many people, Catholic or not.
But what has the Catholic Church really said about experimental means?
Vatican Statement on Euthanasia
Perhaps the best guidance can be found in the 1980 Vatican Statement on Euthanasia that states:
“If there are no other sufficient remedies, it is permitted, with the patient’s consent, to have recourse to the means provided by the most advanced medical techniques, even if these means are still at the experimental stage and are not without a certain risk. By accepting them, the patient can even show generosity in the service of humanity. – It is also permitted, with the patient’s consent, to interrupt these means, where the results fall short of expectations.” (Emphasis added)
The document further explains that:
But for such a decision to be made, account will have to be taken of the reasonable wishes of the patient and the patient’s family, as also of the advice of the doctors who are specially competent in the matter. The latter may in particular judge that the investment in instruments and personnel is disproportionate to the results foreseen; they may also judge that the techniques applied impose on the patient strain or suffering out of proportion with the benefits which he or she may gain from such techniques. (Emphasis added)
This is a common sense and balanced approach that was not controversial in 1980 and should apply in Baby Charlie Gard’s situation, especially since there is apparently disagreement among doctors about the experimental treatment.
Two Cases of Experimental Treatment
When I worked with cancer patients in the 1980s and 1990s, I especially remember two patients who decided to try experimental treatments.
One was an older woman whose cancer had spread to her brain. A new drug had been developed that would have to be administered via an access implanted in her head. She desperately wanted to spend more time with her family and was willing to try the drug despite the potential side effects and poor chance that the drug would work.
Initially, the drug did make her worse and she was near death. Three times we called her family to come in because death was imminent and she was in a coma.
But she surprised us all by recovering and two years later was still doing well without any recurrence of the cancer. The doctors were astounded.
In another case, a man in his 40s with two sons also decided to be part of a clinical trial of a new drug for his cancer. Some of my colleagues questioned why he would take on such a challenge so I talked with him. He said that he accepted the fact that he was probably going to die of his cancer but he wanted to try the drug not only in the hope that it would benefit him or others like him but also because he wanted his sons to know that he fought to live and be with them.
Although this man died, he left a brave legacy of love to his boys.
It is important to understand that medical progress and technological marvels often happen because doctors, patients and family persist in trying.
For example, it wasn’t that long ago that AIDS was considered incurable. Experimental drugs did not work at first but later ones did and now AIDS is no longer an automatic death sentence.
Baby Charlie’s parents worked hard to find a potential treatment and even raised the money to transport their son to the US. The hospital’s decision to usurp the parents and unilaterally remove Baby Charlie’s life support has led to an outpouring of support for Baby Charlie and his parents.
Let us hope that this latest court appeal will reverse the hospital’s decision and help restore the rights of parents reasonably trying to help their children.
Nancy Valko was a speaker at the 2015 MCFL Annual Convention. She blogs at NancyValko.com. Link to the original article. Reprinted with permission.
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Weissman has over 20 years of experience at MDRC directing projects, providing technical assistance, conducting qualitative research, and disseminating findings in a wide range of education and social policy settings. His current work is primarily in postsecondary education, illuminating ways to improve college access, persistence, and success for low-income and underprepared students. Weissman’s current and recent projects focus on financial aid reform, improving students’ employability skills, strengthening student success services, and improving offerings for students assessed as needing developmental (remedial) education. Weissman has also provided technical assistance, designed and launched evaluations, and conducted qualitative research in a range of other social policy areas, including early childhood education, maternal and infant well-being, job training and parenting programs for noncustodial parents, public housing, and welfare employment programs.
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The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 has more than $6 billion in emergency aid for students. Research from MDRC and others points to several lessons that can help colleges distribute emergency aid promptly and equitably, and to the students who need it most.
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Marco Lepe, Evan Weissman
More than 300 College Promise Programs nationwide are transforming perceptions about college affordability and access while increasing rates of enrollment and completion. Participants in MDRC’s College Promise Success Initiative (CPSI) share their insights on effectively designing College Promise programs that make equity a central principle in serving students.
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Evan Weissman, Oscar Cerna, Dan Cullinan
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Evan Weissman, Oscar Cerna, Dan Cullinan, Amanda Baldiga
This study examines whether an alternative approach to distributing financial aid — in biweekly payments instead of one or two lump sums — can improve outcomes for low-income community college students. After one semester, the policy reduced students’ debt and use of federal loans but showed little consistent evidence of academic effects.
Aid Like A Paycheck
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Michelle Ware, Evan Weissman, Drew McDermott
Aid Like A Paycheck is based on a simple idea that is gaining national attention: after tuition and fees have been paid to a college, disburse the remaining financial aid to students evenly throughout the term — like a paycheck. This brief describes successful pilot tests at two colleges and discusses policy implications.
The Effects of Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Education
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Mary Visher, Michael J. Weiss, Evan Weissman, Timothy Rudd, Heather Wathington
This report looks at the short-term impacts of 174 one-semester learning communities for developmental students at six community colleges. On average, the programs produced a modest impact on credits earned.
Learning Communities for Students in Developmental English
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Evan Weissman, Dan Cullinan, Oscar Cerna, Stephanie Safran, Phoebe Richman
Two colleges implemented semester-long learning communities linking developmental English with a range of other courses. At Merced, learning communities students earned more developmental English credits and passed more English courses than a control group. At CCBC, there were no meaningful impacts on students’ credit attempts or progress. Neither college’s program had an impact on persistence or on cumulative credits earned.
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Heather Wathington, Elisabeth A. Barnett, Evan Weissman, Jedediah Teres, Joshua Pretlow, Aki Nakanishi
For entering college students with low basic skills, eight intensive summer programs provided accelerated instruction in math, reading, and/or writing; academic support; a “college knowledge” component; and the opportunity to receive a $400 stipend. Early results suggest that participants were more likely to pass entry-level college courses in math and writing.
Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Math
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Evan Weissman, Kristin F. Butcher, Emily Schneider, Jedediah Teres, Herbert Collado, David H. Greenberg
Learning communities, which co-enroll small groups of students into linked courses, are a popular strategy for helping developmental students at community colleges succeed. This report examines the impacts of one-semester learning communities for developmental math students at Queensborough Community College and Houston Community College. At both colleges, students in learning communities attempted and passed their developmental math class at higher rates than students in a control group. However, this impact generally did not translate into increased cumulative progress in math by the end of two or three semesters.
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Evan Weissman, Oscar Cerna, Christian Geckeler, Emily Schneider, Derek V. Price, Thomas J. Smith
This report describes how community colleges in California that participated in the Student Support Partnership Integrating Resources and Education (SSPIRE) initiative took steps to better serve low-income and underprepared students by integrating student support services with academic instruction.
Weiss, Michael J., Mary G. Visher, Evan Weissman, and Heather Wathington. 2015. “The Impact of Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Education: A Synthesis of Findings from Randomized Trials at Six Community Colleges.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (January).
College Promise Success Initiative
Evan Weissman, Alyssa Ratledge, Colleen Sommo, Michelle Ware, Andrea Vasquez
MDRC ’s College Promise Success Initiative provided technical assistance to College Promise and Free College programs interested in promoting success in college by implementing evidence-based student support practices. Through this initiative, MDRC disseminated best practices and tools to the 300-plus College Promise and Free College programs that exist...
Evan Weissman, Cynthia Miller, Edith Yang, Hannah Dalporto
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The college enrollment process is complex and includes many steps. Recent research has shown that short, action-oriented text messages can help people focus on critical tasks at the right times. Building on this promising research, the Text Ed project will develop and test a strategic text messaging intervention at Educational Opportunity Centers ( EOC s). One of eight...
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The Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness ( CAPR ) conducts research to document current practices in developmental English and math education across the United States and to rigorously evaluate innovative assessment and instructional practices. CAPR , led by MDRC and the Community College Research Center, is funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences.
Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow, Evan Weissman, Alexander Mayer, Amanda Grossman, John Diamond, Susan Sepanik, Dorota Biedzio
As community colleges try to increase graduation rates, one of the greatest challenges they face is improving the success of students in their developmental, or remedial, education programs. The Dana Center Mathematics Pathways ( DCMP ), formerly known as the New Mathways Project, was developed by the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, in...
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Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation
Virginia Knox, Charles Michalopoulos, Electra Small, Sharon Rowser, Evan Weissman, Erika Lundquist
Home visiting has grown in recent decades as a strategy for providing preventive services to families with young children. Federal, state, local, and private funders have supported programs operating in thousands of communities around the country. Several programs are widely disseminated in the United States, with different programs focusing on slightly different...
Learning Communities Demonstration
Oscar Cerna, Dan Cullinan, Alexander Mayer, Michelle Ware, Michael J. Weiss, Evan Weissman, Alyssa Ratledge, Jedediah Teres
A postsecondary credential has become increasingly important in the labor market, and college attendance has grown. Unfortunately, college completion remains less common, particularly in community colleges, which serve many low-income and academically underprepared students who often need remedial (developmental) courses. Finding ways to increase the rates of...
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Evan Weissman, Oscar Cerna, Michelle Ware
Reflecting the growing importance of a postsecondary credential in the labor market, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are increasingly concerned with improving poor rates of college completion, particularly among low-income and traditionally underserved students enrolled in community colleges. Research suggests that high-quality student support services may...
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To all of our Staff, Patrons, and Friends,
In light of the relentless progress of COVID-19, we have come to the conclusion that there is only one decision to make. At a time like this, we are all given an opportunity to be bigger than our business, bigger than the bottom line, and to be theIn light of the relentless progress of COVID-19, we have come to the conclusion that there is only one decision to make. At a time like this, we are all given an opportunity to be bigger than our business, bigger than the bottom line, and to be the leaders that we have always strived to be in the face of our biggest challenge yet. leaders that we have always strived to be in the face of our biggest challenge yet.
Today, hospitality has taken on a new meaning. Now, to “take care of each other” is to protect our entire community to the best of our ability and not add to the problem. In light of the developments of the last few days, we will be closing both Mister A’s and Mille Fleurs temporarily beginning Monday March 16th for a period of two weeks, and tentatively re-opening on Monday, March 30th, depending on the pace and progress of the outbreak.
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Mexican mineral exploration company Magna Gold has announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Timmins GoldCorp Mexico, a subsidiary of Alio Gold, to acquire the San Francisco mine in Sonora, Mexico.
The acquisition is expected to close at the end of March. The deal is subject to the receipt of all regulatory approvals and the acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange. Image: Alio Gold
Magna Gold CEO and president Arturo Bonillas said: “The acquisition of the San Francisco Mine is a pivotal moment in Magna’s evolution to become a growing gold producer in Mexico. Our team has a long history with the operation, and we are confident in our ability to re-establish the San Francisco mine as a profitable mine.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Magna Gold will issue 9,740,000 common shares in the capital of the company, representing approximately 19.9% of the issued and outstanding common shares upon closing of the acquisition. Twelve months from the finalisation of the deal, Magna Gold will also part with either $5m or a 1% net smelter return royalty on a portion of the San Francisco Mine, at the election of Magna Gold.
The acquisition is expected to close at the end of March. The deal is subject to the receipt of all regulatory approvals and the acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Since commercial production began in 2010, the San Francisco Mine has produced over 100,000 oz of gold per year on average. This year, the mine entered a period of residual leaching and Alio expects to recover between 12,500 oz and 15,000 oz of gold.
Following the acquisition, Magna intends to execute a mine operational improvement plan that will include a full review and update to the mine’s design and production plan, metallurgy and processing, workforce management, and local and regional exploration. Magna believes it can re-commence mining operations in the near term to establish a profitable operation.
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The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology has been taking part in various interesting activities this Spring! Metta Pratt, a graduate student in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, delivered a taste-based workshop at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History for ‘A’ level Biology students. Additionally, Emma Papworth and Julia Sklar, final year students at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art were awarded the 2015 Dunn School Art Prize.
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Interview with Philip Johnson-Laird in The Reasoner
by Sunny Khemlani
Hykel Hosni recently interviewed Phil Johnson-Laird in the latest issue of The Reasoner. Here’s a short excerpt:
HH: How about probabilistic reasoning?
PJL: The idea that probabilities enter into reasoning is quite popular at the moment: theorists want to replace logic with the probability calculus to account for reasoning. I’m skeptical. People are unlikely to adduce probabilities in reasoning unless the task itself suggests that they do. Two pilots asked me to adjudicate a disagreement between them. They were arguing about the likelihood that both engines of a twin- engined plane failed. The pilot who flew jets in Vietnam said: double the probability of one engine failing, whereas the light- plane pilot said: halve it. In a spirit of compromise, I told them that they were both wrong. What this anecdote confirms is that people don’t know how to calculate the probability of a con- junction of two events. The model theory predicts that when the two probabilities differ they take the average. Sunny Khemlani and Max Lotstein corroborated this procedure, and similar ones for disjunctions and conditional probabilities. We are all duffers about probabilities until we have mastered the calculus, and most of us remain so afterwards. You’re not a duffer, if you can answer this question: what three probabilities fix the complete joint probability distribution for two events, and no matter what numerical values you guess for them, its sum is always 100%?
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Alan Miller founded Universal Health Services in 1978 and has long served as its chairman and CEO, with his son Marc serving as president. The publicly traded King of Prussia, Pa.-based company operates acute-care hospitals and behavioral health facilities in 37 states and the United Kingdom. Modern Healthcare senior reporter Harris Meyer recently spoke with Miller about the reasons for the company's improving financial performance at a time when some other for-profit hospital chains are struggling. This is an edited transcript.
Modern Healthcare: 2015 was a good year for Universal Health Services in terms of revenue and profits. What factors accounted for your success?
Alan Miller: We've done very nicely in 2015. We had an excellent year, and it just relates to what we've been doing for the 37-year history of the company. We've been growing every year. Our focus is on high-quality services to patients. Obviously, they vote with their feet, and their physicians suggest they come to us. So we've had increasing business because of the quality of the care we give. I also think our locations are important. We have locations in places that are growing. If you have a growing population, and you do a very good job, you're going to do well.
MH: You've focused on trying to be the dominant player in the markets you're in, whether it's Las Vegas, Hidalgo County in Texas or Washington, D.C.
Miller: We have, on occasion, been dominant, but that's not my word. We just want to be important in each market. That enables us to negotiate rates on an equal basis. If you don't have substantial market share, the insurance companies don't need you. It's as simple as that. They will just say, 'Here are the rates and if you like them, fine, if not, thank you very much,' and they'll move on. But they can't do that with us because we have become very important in every market we're in, and that was a strategy. If we're not No. 1 or No. 2, we're not going to be in that market. That was our strategy with regard to acute care. In the behavioral health business, we did the same thing. But it's not quite the same because there aren't that many behavioral facilities in every location. You're most likely going to have limited competition. Of course there are others, but we have a reputation.
One thing that was very helpful is that three years ago, we managed to buy the second-largest company, Psychiatric Solutions, when some of its leaders tried to take the company private and the board said no. They brought in Goldman Sachs and sought a fair price for the company. We were the high bidder and got the company. We had about 100 hospitals and they had about 100 hospitals. By putting them together, we got about 200 hospitals, and our company became the dominant entity in the free-standing psych business. We consolidated a good number of the free-standing psychiatric hospitals in the country.
MH: Do you see your company putting more emphasis on behavioral care and that business growing more rapidly because of the limited number of facilities in many markets, along with the increasing national focus on behavioral health and substance-abuse treatment?
Miller: We're very good at both acute care and behavioral care, so it really isn't just one line of business that we focus on. Our concern is taking care of patients. If there are opportunities to build or acquire hospitals in either division, we'll do that. We are currently talking to other people, we are currently building hospitals, and we are expanding them. It's a continual thing for us.
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MH: Do you think the political talk about expanding and improving behavioral health and substance-abuse treatment is going to benefit your company?
Miller: Definitely, definitely. We provide excellent care, and there seems to be more of a need now, a better focus. A study just came out on the increase in suicides in the U.S. You have people with bipolar disorders, schizophrenia and depression, which leads to these suicides. These people are not taking their lives lightly. They're suffering greatly. So there should be more treatment open to them. There are great stresses in our society, and I think sometimes drugs and alcohol are a reaction to that. Families, at one time, used to be ashamed or would hide mental illness. Now we realize that mental ailments are a sickness like physical ailments that can be treated, and there's nothing to be ashamed of.
MH: Are you seeing troubled not-for-profit or for-profit hospitals out there that want to be acquired, or are people holding on to their independence? And are you looking for acquisitions in markets where you're already pretty strong? Is there anything holding you back from expanding?
Miller: We're not being held back at all. We have more opportunities, and we're selecting from them. We're looking in markets that we currently are in because we know the players and the markets and they know us. In fact, one of our teams is out talking to a group today. But we're open to new markets. Since we are pre-eminent in mental healthcare, a number of acute-care people are talking to us about joining them and providing that expertise to build or manage their capability in mental health, which they don't feel secure in because it's not their direct business. The future appears to be having a network that can take on financial risk and deal with the whole continuum of care, including mental health.
MH: Investor-owned hospital companies have been less inclined than not-for-profits to acquire physician practices. But I saw in one of your investor slides that you were talking about acquiring primary-care practices. What is your company's approach to owning physician practices?
Miller: That's not our business, but we have a division that acquires physician practices and manages that business. What's driving that is that physicians are facing increasing administrative requirements, and it's becoming too burdensome. So they're saying they are willing to let someone else do that and go to work for a very good organization, and they can take care of patients and not concern themselves with all these other things. We're not interested in going all over the world and buying physician practices.
We're doing that in conjunction with our facilities and in our markets.
MH: Universal recently said it was considering exiting one of the CMS bundled-payment programs. The investor-owned hospital chains have been less-active participants in the Medicare value-based payment initiatives. What are your thoughts about participating in value-based payment models in the future?
Miller: It's slow. We're involved in the demonstrations, but it's not widespread. There's a lot of conjecture that this ultimately might be where we're going, that fee-for-service will go away, there'll be bundled payments, and providers will take some risk.
But I can tell you, it's a far cry from that now. It will take some time if it does go that way.
MH: Your thoughts on likely health policy directions as we head into the November elections?
Miller: Who knows? Some Republicans are talking about eliminating Obamacare. I don't think that's possible. The Democrats are saying that's Obama's legacy, and they're going to keep it. I think what should be done—and I wrote a book about this several years ago—is that the law should be moderated and improved. There are a lot of taxes that were banged together, such as the medical device tax, to try and impress the (Congressional Budget Office) when they were scoring this thing. Now it's bipartisan that the device tax should be eliminated. I don't think you can look at anything happening now as being in any way definitive. It's an election time. Afterwards, I think there would be some changes and improvements. But I certainly don't think Obamacare is going away, nor would I want it to. It has expanded coverage to, if you believe the numbers, around 20 million people. That's a good thing for them, and it's good for us, too.
MH: Tell me your thoughts about where you think the investor-owned hospital sector is going. Do you think it's going to expand?
Miller: You can't tell. I've been at this for a very long time. There are 5,000 hospitals, and we have topped out at around 1,000. If you back up 50 years, two companies came along and brought private investment into the hospital business. They were looking for a return on investment, but they were bringing efficient business principles and group buying to a field that had been just smaller doctor-owned hospitals. The impetus was growth in the country, particularly in Texas, Florida and California. Those three big states needed new hospitals, and there were opportunities as people moved there. So we came with our capital and our expertise and built hospitals. Then other companies joined, and the Federation of American Hospitals was formed. One of its really great leaders was Mike Bromberg, who was so good at reading proposed legislation and regulations and seeing where they were going. He worked very closely with the American Hospital Association, and created a working relationship that exists today, so that all the hospitals talk to each other. We're all going to grow. The good ones will grow, and the others will be absorbed. But you know what Yogi Berra said about predictions—they're very hard, especially about the future.
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Alina Popa
Bereich: Performance, Visual Art
Point of Indifference
Above the Weather
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November 2018 - Dezember 2018
Alina Popa cares for a place from which it is possible to have artistic consequences, without a total break-up of life and art, of the politics of production and the politics of the product, of oneself as subjectivitity and oneself as performance, of the art piece and its framing. She thus found herself at the border between visual arts and performance, the white cube and the black box, writing and theory. She interrupts parties to give lectures, camouflages life in performances and performances in workshops, chants geometry as mystical meditation, writes SF as a documentary gesture, and will, at least once, intervene in a public discussion to talk about jaguars. She interested in art works as environments more than in individual works, in mediums with fuzzy borders and spatiotemporal ruses. She founded several "esthetic entities", The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Unsorcery, Black Hyperbox, Bezna. With Florin Flueras she recently developed Artworlds - art works as artworlds. Her work was shown at Fap Sao Paulo, Times Museum Guangzhou, Pratt Manhattan Gallery NY, bak Utrecht, Wing Hong Kong, CCK Buenos Aires, Trafo Budapest, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Savvy Contemporary Berlin, MUMOK Vienna, Brut Vienna, DEPO Istanbul, PAF St Erme, CNDB Bucharest, MNAC Bucharest, Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest, Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Jardim Equatorial Sao Paulo, Fabrica de Pensule Cluj, Teatru-Spălătorie Chișinău, House of Drama Oslo, Het Bos Antwerp, Theater Rampe Stuttgart, etc.
http://alinap0pa.blogspot.com
Life Programing
What if the artwork is to offer life programming (and deprogramming) services to the audience, beyond the economy of lifestyle, that is without promoting a certain identity?
What if an artwork is not human performance but the artificially programmed human, or all the nonhuman serendipitous elements that have programmed her? Life Programming proposes a frame for recognizing, developing and observing the life practices, the gestures, ethical, political, economical, that directly, but more often indirectly, influence an artistic practice. These practices can be body-related, physically restrictive, absurd or repetitive activities, invented somatic methods, that reprogram eating, sleeping, dreaming, choreographies of reading, language-related, delivering lectures or ideas, of having conversations, of being together, of writing, digging into meta-language, inventing language, concept production. They can also be behavior-related, such as strategies of intervention, ways of positioning oneself within contexts, methods of display in visual art and methods of presenting performance, political, economic, ethical, such as choosing to work with restricted means, doing nothing, methods of time-division that stand against working after the Western clock, etc. All of these, assuming that they function according to a pre-established rule and with some pre-established regularity will definitely interact with the serendipities specific to anything so uncontrollable as life, such that new practices of breaking the rule, such as procrastination, laziness, and all types of new unpredictable glitches can emerge. And maybe the essence of life doesn't at all consist in the lived experience, as the philosopher Eugene Thacker observed, so that ‘nonexperience’ can also constitute a set of practices.
If every life is artificially constructed by cultural habits (how one eats, walks, sleeps, reacts to specific contexts, etc.) and economy's dictatorship over it (as Foucault explained, life itself has been economized, and for example even family programming has borrowed concepts from economy), we want this life to be reprogrammed, further artificialized, taken back by being taken further. Many aspects that form the basis of one's life form are taken for granted, it is inconceivable for a modern Western mind to perceive and think of them otherwise. For example, there are cultural differences in the perception of one's body, so it is questionable if the limits of my body are as I see them or extend further away in invisible space (some Amazonians think that mosquitoes are part of their body), or if the body is in the possession of my conscious self - the Melanesians from New Caledonia thought that the body is not theirs, and even if we think scientifically, the body is more bacteria than human DNA, more nonhuman than human, less I and more Other.
The habits already inscribed in the body have generated unconscious automatisms of movement, of thought, of behavior, of feeling. There is no way life be given back its raw quality - which is not-programmable, not-commodifiable - by simply isolating oneself or becoming “autonomous” or withdrawing in nature. The myth of Robinson Crusoe has already been deconstructed, since the life that he leads in isolation is the life of the culture and economy of his century, all his methods and way of thinking will lead back to the slavery of his time and the same relations of oppression. Robinson Crusoe ought to have worked to reprogram his life, and as we know, changing gestures changes also thinking. Unlike him, Life Programing works directly on the conditions, on the foundation, on what generates forms of art and thinking, on what conditions what, when and where a performance is, and what gives thoughts certain forms and directions.
Usually, of the other historical figures that have been converted to new ways of life, outside of modernity's reach, nonWestern or nonbourgeois, as is the case of some Jesuit missionaries in South America or the Russian writer Tolstoy, we know nothing - their new lives have exited official history. The practices of writers or artists or philosophers without which their work would maybe not be possible are invisible to the public eye. Life Programing is thus also a research on modes of documentation, notation, scores, writing, visualizing, or other immaterial modes of presentation that can give this artificial life a life among art forms in art history. The question of this project is under what form or what strategies can be used to make this ‘artificial life’ a life worth programming by the museums or even theaters, and a type of artwork that can change the very perception of where ‘liveness’ is and how it can be experienced. Using the individual interests of each of the artists involved, whose artistic practice either is voluntarily connected to the choreography of their life, in the case of those who have a new interest in these practices, Life Programing will produce these constructed lives, and present them in forms of scores, workshops, or in more conceptual, invisible form, for the public.
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Slack Jawed Babbling
The season is sizzling. This isn’t another global warming warning and it’s not the mild weather that has me clammy all over. The jumps game is hot right now and the festive fixtures look as tasty as a turkey dinner.
The season was full of promise back in October. But aren’t they all? So often the expectancy outweighs the delivery. Not so far this term.
The Mullins battalion looks even stronger. Last season’s stellar novices are beginning to dominate in new divisions and the established Group 1 talent grows ever more formidable, bar the odd unexpected hiccup. Not by any means in the same league, but the rise and rise of new young trainers like Dan Skelton and Harry Fry is encouraging.
The narrative of the early winter has also been about the return to form of some old lags I was happy to write off. I don't just mean Philip Hobbs (love that guy). Sprinter Sacre, Sire De Grugy, Cue Card, Sir Des Champs, O’Faolains Boy, Simonsig (although that may be brief), and even Smad Place who is starting to deliver on the promise as an 8-y-o.
Now at the business end of the season, it is time for the novices to show their mettle. We have had some early skirmishes and sighters, but the Christmas fixtures are where we start to see the good ones taking each other on. Particularly so in Ireland. The magnificent Leopardstown four day-meeting is where I have started my Christmas shopping.
On Boxing Day, we will see the best two-mile novice chase of the season. Douvan is held in the highest regard by the Closesutton team, Mullins hailing him as “an amazing athlete and I would say he’s as good as I’ve ever had”. In the Racing Post Novice Chase he will bump into two other decent sorts. I backed Ttebbob at 10/1 for the race a fortnight ago after his scintillating round of jumping in a Navan Grade 3. He’s now 4/1. However, compared to my punting pals Bacchy and Si, I’ve been slow off the mark. They both took advantage of much chunkier prices after his jumping debut at Thurles. Chuck in Sizing John and we have a properly exciting contest. Henry De Bromhead has a good one in this clean-jumping gelding who should get closer to Douvan than he did in his three tries over hurdles.
Once I start to ramble around the Christmas markets, I find it hard to stop. So I’ve backed Ttebbob for the Arkle at Cheltenham at 20/1. I’ve also taken a punt on De Bromhead stepping Sizing John up in trip and backed him for the weaker-looking JLT Novice Chase at 12/1. I may be wrong about both these Festival targets. Let’s face it, that wouldn’t be the first time. I’ll just go in again. None of this false caution of previous years. Gung-ho! It’s the only way.
I haven’t looked properly at the staying novice chasers, except to note that the two at the head of the market both look impressive: No More Heroes and More Of That. Looking forward to Native River and Twea For Two at Kempton. Both have started well. Nevertheless, I’m keeping my powder dry for now. (Is that the shortest-lived ‘gung-ho’ policy in ante-post history?)
Also at Leopardstown on Boxing Day, Rashaan goes in the Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle. He’s the best Triumph prospect I’ve seen all season and I’ve duly backed him for Cheltenham at 16/1. From the small stable of Colin Kidd, I was so impressed with his neat hurdling style and smooth travelling when he took a decent Fairyhouse race last month. You have to trust what you see sometimes.
Mullins hasn’t yet sorted out his Triumph crew. He’ll have plenty to choose from. Here, it looks like Footpad is his current first choice.
Oddly, I haven’t sorted out the novice hurdlers at all, aside from the juveniles. No bet yet. Not even close. I like Barters Hill, Yorkhill and Bellshill. And anything else vaguely undulating, to be honest. But I’ve no idea which race they’ll go for. A little more under the radar, I saw on telly and liked the look of Winter Escape, trained by Alan King. I’ll keep tabs. Early days though. So unlike the novice chasers, I’m not ready to make a call.
Away from the novices, one of the few superstars we haven’t yet seen from the Co Carlow champion trainer is Un De Sceaux. All being well (and him not feeling too flat) he should finally emerge in the Paddy Power Chase on Sunday. The horse is superb to see careering at his fences, but is a ridiculously short price for the Champion Chase. Best price of 7/4. I can’t be having that. Sizing Granite, another from the De Bromhead yard, will line up against him on Sunday. I’ve dipped in to the spends again to take 14/1 there and also 33/1 about this lad for the two-mile showpiece at the Festival. This is a real punt. I thought he put in a beautiful round of jumping at Aintree in April when taking the Maghull Novices Chase. Admittedly not the strongest renewal and he failed to land the even-money on his reappearance this season. He ran well enough though, giving lumps of weight away, and showing some fight to go down by only a head. He has to improve and at the moment 33/1 is a fair price. I’m investing in potential.
Monday 28th sees the Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown over 3 miles. Martello Tower is in the early decs and I am keen to see him line up having had him as a stocking filler at 16/1 for the World Hurdle. The division has suddenly come to life with the mighty marker put down by Thistlecrack last Saturday and the reversion to hurdles of Saphir Du Rheu – surely still feeling the effects of his recent Hennessy run in the same race. I still think there’s value hereabouts, though. Whilst Martello Tower is speculative until he actually reappears, I’m also very interested in Alpha Des Obeaux and Kilcooley. I’m likely to play again.
The best race that day at Leopardstown is the Lexus Chase. The staying chase division is absolutely fascinating right now, despite the recent loss of Coneygree for the season, we are enjoying a bumper show. Mullins holds a strong hand, of course. It’s likely that Don Poli and Djakadam will be his charges here, whilst Vautour and Valseur Lido head to Kempton on Boxing Day to take on Cue Card, Don Cossack, Silviniaco Conti and Road To Riches.
The King George looks the pick of the two races and I can’t wait to see the tactics unfold. I think I will be with Don Cossack who seems to keep on improving and there should be no doubts about the track at Kempton (whether or not there are any valid ones about Cheltenham). I’d love the winner to be the new gurgle-free Cue Card but I don’t think he’s got the beating of the Elliott horse. My only other comment is to note the staggering price available about Road To Riches at 25/1. I could say the same about Valseur Lido, too. I’m talking myself into too many bets here. Maybe it’s one to leave alone and savour.
I have actually had an ante-post interest in this division. O’Faolains Boy has attracted some sentimental shopping for the Gold Cup. In a rather over-excited moment after his impressive win at Newbury last Friday, I found myself unable to resist a little of the 33s generally on offer. Then Rebecca Curtis confirmed him for the Welsh National on 27th and I rather fear that will finish him for the season. Well it’s hardly classic Gold Cup prep is it? Ho hum.
The Irish look to have the spoils of the Champion Hurdle between them. Indeed, it may even be just between three or four Mullins charges. Henderson seems to be misfiring. Peace And Co’s inability to settle is a worry; and on Saturday JP McManus seemed to say that Hargam was a more likely runner in the Ryanair Hurdle than My Tent Or Yours. It may well be that Top Notch ends up being Hendo’s best shout in the Champ, but I don’t think he’s improving fast enough. One who might be is Old Guard. The wise words on the street suggest he’s not really a convincing Champion Hurdle type. I tend to disagree at 20/1 and have had a small interest. Boxing Day will tell us more, though the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton is surely Faugheen’s for the taking.
OK, the credit cards have gone back in the wallet. I’ll wait until these Christmas crackers are out of the way before the re-gifting of ante-posts starts…
Posted by Davoski at Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Labels: ante-posts
This meeting has become a fixture in our punting calendar. For years we came on the Friday; a lower-profile card which still has a couple of decent races. Sneaking a day off work was part of the attraction. One time when the fixture was frosted-ff we simply played 10-pin bowling at the Trocadero and drank all day.
Since switching to the main event, attendance amongst our unruly gang has grown. Fourteen thirsty souls answered Bryn’s group booking invitation this year: thirteen lads and one lass.
At one point in the week before the meeting, we allowed ourselves to think that an epic Tingle Creek Chase was about to unfold. Willie Mullins had committed to the race the brightest star in the current two-mile division and reigning Arkle hero, Un De Sceaux. Henderson had also pointed two of his stable stars in the direction of Sandown Park. Scintillating Sprinter Sacre had been nursed back to something approaching his best and another sick note, previous Arkle winner Simonsig was also back to form.
Shame on us for allowing ourselves such high hopes. The increasingly nervous Hendo decided that Sprinter was not yet ready for another bout, citing possible heavy ground (it rode genuine good to soft on the day); and the unfathomable Mullins revealed that Sceaux was “a little flat in himself the last two days." Bless. On the eve of the race Simonsig was also pulled out with a new injury.
This all prompted hearty twelve-to-follow chat about those numpties who had dropped Vibrato Valtat - and others - a couple of weeks previously to bring in the Sprinter. The Vibrator (as the stable staff affectionately term Nicholl’s premier two-miler) was now heading the market.
We set out from various points of the south east regional compass. Bacchy offered a spread on people left at the entrance without their allotted ticket at 2-3. “Are you a buyer or a seller?” he asked. Another potential wrinkle was the number of punters who copped a penalty fare at the track-side exit form Esher station. It is beyond zone 6 and the ruthless Southern Railway enforcers set up camp just off the ramp to pounce on hapless incorrectly-ticketed punters. Bryn was alive to this, though and had warned about their tactics in his final briefing to us all. Top admin. Give that man a finance job.
Last year, I met Tim at Watford and he was picking out winners for that evening’s Wolverhamtpon card. I ignored it. This year was worse. “My cousin is sending a horse box over from Ireland for Monday’s Musselburgh meeting.” I rolled my eyes. “One of them will win, if not two”, he said with no little authority.
Bryn’s expert planning was rewarded with the arrival of the Gang Of Four(teen), bearing shiny, happy, optimistic faces within a few moments of the appointed hour. The first concern was the lack of real ale. “Where’s the Hogsback stall?” said virtually everyone. Even the lager drinkers. Turned out they’d been booted out of the grandstand into the farthest reaches of the car park enclosure for refusing to pay inflated concession fees. In the meantime, Nick found a real ale bar underneath the Esher Stand in the family area just adjacent to kids’ pantomime stage. They don’t make it easy for the beer drinkers. Top work that man.
Fuelled by ale and increasingly animated banter, the actual racing part of the day disappeared in a rising miasma of punts, horses and pees. I do remember one or two highlights:
Gary found five winners from seven races. Outstanding. He backed Li’l Rockerfeller because it was similar to his Mother-in-Law’s cat’s name. Or some such.
Bacchy proclaimed me a genius for finding bogs with no queues over by the parade ring. A sign of the relative priorities amongst men of a certain age.
Nev not landing any forecasts. At all. (Unless I missed it)
A big surprise in the Henry VIII novice chase as Gary Moore’s Ar Mad won at 14-1 in a six runner field. No-one backed him in our gang, despite Moore running up six winners across the two-day meeting.
Everyone ignoring my winning nap on Simply A Legend in the handicap hurdle and then me ignoring everyone else’s nap of Carole’s Destrier who took the last.
Some saucy action away from SW London saw Colin tip a 33-1 runner up at Aintree; and Bacchy expecting to land a cheeky treble at Navan only to find it had been abandoned, despite the bookies taking his bet.
The most controversial moment was easily Special Tiara getting stopped in his tracks by Sire De Grugy. in the Tingle Creek. The enquiry went on forever. There’s something wrong somewhere when the common consent at the track was that Special Tiara would have won the race but that the stewards would never reverse the decision. Colin noted the transformation of Darren during this moment, discarding his 'Happy Days' banter in favour of apoplectic rage when SDG kept the race. "Even if his jockey had've shot my fuckin' jockey, he still wouldn't have been fuckin’ disqualified! Fuckin’ fix!".
Bacchy reacts to the steward's verdict
Dark days at Sandown. By 3.45pm the lights were on and we groped our way to the station. By 4.15pm we had commandeered a corner of a cosy pub in Surbiton.
Colin pulled out after one pint and a half-hearted offering up of his belly for a raspberry blow. Gary exhorted him to stay, “Go on, just one. A half. A short. A coke. A bag of crisps?" Nick was next. The hipflask had been drained and he ran up the white flag by texting Den to come and pick him up.
For some reason, Bacchy and I felt the need to escort him from the pub. Den was in the station car park surrounded by honking taxis. Nick scrambled in to the passenger seat and Bacchy leant in to Den through the open driver’s window, elbows on the frame offering wise words about getting Nick home safely. Den looked like a rabbit trapped in the headlights.
Back in the pub, Bacchy tipped his head back, extended his arm upwards and threw hipflask remnants straight down his throat. An adjacent barman looked on with incredulity but didn’t say a word. Time to go. I was almost persuaded to go to Wimbledon for a curry, but thought better of it. I was stood on the wrong platform at Surbiton and must have looked like thunder as I rejoined the gang on the right platform. “Here he comes”, said Bacchy, “the Grinch!”
There was the odd hangover from Saturday’s adventures: one missed twelve-to-follow transfer; one missed gig ticket purchase; and one winner from Tim’s work on the train down - Moonlone Lane from the Irish raiding party went in at Musselburgh on Monday afternoon by 3 lengths. This time I listened.
Stories of earlier Tingle Creek encounters and other meetings can be found in the newly published collection ‘Smug Punting – More short tales about long odds’.
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Tourism and Memories of Home: Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities
Edited by: Sabine Marschall
This book investigates 'home' and 'homeland' as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and diasporic communities in a wide range of different geographical and historical contexts. Personal and collective forms of memory are shown to play a key role in the motivation for, and experience of, such journeys. The volume contributes to the investigation of the tourism–memory nexus as it conceptualizes memory as underpinning touristic mobility, experience and performativity. Based on ethnographic case studies and other types of qualitative empirical research, the chapters of this book foreground individual touristic experiences, emotions, memories, perceptions, the search for identity and a sense of belonging. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of tourism, heritage, anthropology, identity studies, memory studies and migration/diaspora studies.
Curiosity or yearning for 'home' is the theme of this rich collection of essays on the links between tourism, memory, and cultural identity. Germans visiting pre-1945 birthplaces, Israelis touring family sites from pre-Holocaust Europe, Palestinians viewing pre-1948 villages, African-Americans exploring origins in Ghana, all exemplify commonalities in roots tourism. All, however, plus other cases in this deeply moving book, express different senses of homeland and loss.
Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College, USA
Rich in evocative case studies from around the globe, Marschall's collection charts a course through diverse fields of study (tourism, migration, mobility, transnationalism, globalisation), and breaks new ground in updating and extending conceptualisations of the ever disparate but always heartfelt process of journeying home. In a world increasingly defined by mobility, the counterpoints of home and memory are important conceptual innovations featured in this work.
Loretta Baldassar, The University of Western Australia, Australia
This book serves as a valuable resource for scholars interested in the intersection of tourism and migration. Although neglected, this field proves to be very important for a large spectrum of researchers and academics. However, the beauty of this book is actually in its universality, for almost every human knows what nostalgia, memory and home means. This makes the book's audience unlimited, as the book can be read, understood and enjoyed without being an expert in tourism, heritage or anthropology. While taking the joint journey back to one's past we learn that roots tourism is a means through which we explore personal identities
grounded in collective memories. This rich set of stories full of emotionally charged experiences will ultimately cause the reader to reflect on his own life.
Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR), XXIII (79) - 2017
Tourism and Memories of Home represents a valuable and welcome addition to the
growing body of research on diaspora tourism. The thirteen chapters challenge and deepen our understanding of how diasporas from around the world invert and reinterpret the concept of 'home and away' (...) It is a valuable and powerful teaching resource for students studying on a wide range of social science disciplines, as well as for professionals interested in understanding and developing ethical diasporic tourism products.
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2017)
Sabine Marschall is Associate Professor of Cultural and Heritage Tourism, School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research interests include memory, commemoration, heritage and heritage tourism.
1. Sabine Marschall: Tourism and Memories of Home: Introduction
2. Marjory Harper: Homecoming Migrants as Tourists: Reconnecting the Scottish Diaspora
3. Kevin Hannam and Ganna Yankovska: You Can't Go Home Again – Only Visit: Memory, Trauma and Tourism at Chernobyl
4. Julia Wagner: Emotional Inventories: Accounts of Post-war Journeys 'Home' by Ethnic German Expellees
5. Noga Kadman and Mustafa Kabha: 'Home Tourism' within a Conflict: Palestinian Visits to Houses and Villages Depopulated in 1948
6. Kalyan Bhandari: Travelling at Special Times: The Nepali Diaspora's Yearning for Belongingness
7. Jillian Powers: Collecting Kinship and Crafting Home: The Souveniring of Self and Other in Diaspora Homeland Tourism
8. Anna Arnone: Returning, Imagining and Recreating Home from the Diaspora: Tourism Narratives of the Eritrean Diaspora in Italy
9. Andrea Corsale & Monica Iorio: Travelling to the Homeland over a Double Diaspora: Memory, Landscape and Sense of Belonging. Insights from Transylvanian Saxons
10. Carol A. Kidron: Domesticating Dark Tourism: Familial Roots Trips to the Holocaust Past
11. Aaron Yankholmes: The Articulation of Collective Slave Memories and 'Home' among Expatriate Diasporan Africans in Ghana
12. John Bieter, Patrick Ireland & Nina Ray: Ongi Etorri Etxera (Welcome Home): A Gathering of Homecomings. Personal and Ancestral Memory
13. Nelson Graburn: Epilogue: Home, Travel, Memory and Anthropology
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Jupiter In Velvet 'Glitter On The Sun'
With millions of bands across this globe how can one more band really make a difference and be worthy of the music lover’s attention?… Well for starters, if the artist has something to say with a new perspective and a truly unique musical style showcased through powerful songwriting – that is a musical personality worth giving a listen to. Jupiter In Velvet is such an artist…
Who is Jupiter In Velvet and where is he from? The UK? Canada? The USA? That is the question many keep asking and speculating about. Jupiter In Velvet is a musical journeyman, American born, transplanted to the UK, and now calls home wherever he may be at the time. Initially starting off as a drummer at age 9, Jupiter played his first gig at age 10. In his teens he taught himself to play guitar, keyboard and singing, and began his songwriting development. His professional music career slowed down as he went off to college, getting a BA in marketing and an MBA in finance, before starting his PhD in finance. During his first semester working on his PhD, Jupiter stumbled into a chance trip to South Africa where he had an epiphany; Life was too short to place money in front of happiness and to not go after one’s dreams. Jupiter came back, finished the semester and quit school. He went on to play and tour for many years with a string of bands as lead guitarist and singer including: Big Mic & the Metallic Marauders, Zuzu’s Petals, Woolton Parrish and 2MorroW EvR AfteR. Finally, after limited success, Jupiter moved to the UK to remake himself and merge his vast musical influences and interests to create something new, compelling and uplifting. And thus, Jupiter In Velvet was born.
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In late 2012 Jupiter In Velvet released his debut album ‘Screaming the Love Behind the Scars’ to strong reviews and a noble amount of internet radio airplay, while quickly picking up a loyal group of fans. Here are a few quotes:
“In close, most famous artists out there have “it”, I’m not so sure what that is but Jupiter In Velvet has whatever ‘it’ is.” Michael Morrison, EVOR MAGAZINE, January 2013
In 2013 Jupiter followed his debut CD with an overall edgier effort called ‘Shut Off Your Mind’. The title track generated over 300,000 downloads, (mostly free), that ballooned his twitter following and inspired more strong support from a growing base of internet radio stations, in addition to greatly enhanced attention from among music reviewers. ‘Shut Off Your Mind’s success propelled Jupiter to the top of the ReverbNation UK Rock charts, a spot he still holds. And once again the reviews espoused accolades for Jupiter In Velvet’s excellent songcraft.
“Jupiter In Velvet displays a masterful mix of all genres, but his voice and amazing songwriter’s touch are the highlight of it all ” Michael Kula, GigBand, November 2, 2013
“I look at Jupiter In Velvet and I see a modern day version of David Bowie or even Paul McCartney” Loren Sperry – GasHouse Radio.com Oct. 23, 2013
It is 2014 and Jupiter In Velvet is back with his boldest and strongest album to date entitled ‘Glitter On The Sun’. It is a wide array of styles, colors, emotions and sounds that is all tied together into a cohesive effort through Jupiter’s vivid songwriting, his warm and passionate voice, and his unique life perspectives. The tone for the album is set by the enigmatic, yet extremely compelling opening song ‘So Automatic’. The first single ‘She’s So Sugar’ is a euphoric blast of energy & love of addictive proportions. It is a tune you will not be able to get out of your head. ‘Glitter On The Sun’ is set for release on September 23rd and it is 13 songs strong from start to finish. While Jupiter calls his music ‘Electro Dance Rock’, the song styles on this album range from rock to punk to pop to new wave. ‘Glitter On The Sun’ is the most brilliant showcase yet for Jupiter In Velvet’s compelling songwriting prowess. His music celebrates the old while embracing the new. Jersey Beat’s Joe Wawryzniak has this to say:
“Jupiter In Velvet rates highly as one of the most exciting and original artists of current vintage”
“This is insanely enjoyable and energetic pop-rock done by a true master craftsman”
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Posted on April 30, 2018 by Point Pleasant Register
Point avenges Generals, 15-7
By Scott Jones - sjones@aimmediamidwest.com
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Plenty of runs to spare.
The Point Pleasant baseball team trailed for one inning in a non-conference contest on Saturday against visiting Winfield, as the Big Blacks earned a 15-7 victory in Mason County.
PPHS (10-9) surrendered four runs in the top of the first but closed the deficit to 4-3 in the bottom of the inning, as Carter Smith connected on a two-run home run and Austin Richardson followed with a solo shot.
The Big Blacks knotted the game at 4-all in the second, as Miles Williams provided a solo home run with two outs.
Point Pleasant took control of the game in the third — highlighted by Williams second home run of the contest — as it manufactured seven runs on six hits to take an 11-4 advantage.
Winfield narrowed the margin to 11-6 in the fourth, as a double by Landon Fairchild scored Nicholas Ferguson and Peyton Stover.
PPHS extended its lead to 15-6 in the fifth, as it sent nine hitters to the plate and collected four runs on four hits, one walk and an error.
The Generals countered with one run over the span of the final two of play, as the Big Blacks closed out an eight-run victory.
Williams was the winning pitcher of record for Point Pleasant, as he surrendered seven runs, 10 hits, two walks, while striking out four hitters in six innings of work. Williams also led PPHS at the plate with three hits, including two home runs, with three RBI and four runs scored.
Kyelar Morrow provided one inning of relief for the hosts, allowing no runs, no hits with one strikeout.
On the offensive side, Brody Jeffers had three hits, while Richardson, Carter Smith, Alec Smith, Tucker Mayes and Hunter Blain each finished with two safeties apiece, respectively.
Richardson led PPHS with five runs batted in, as Jeffers provided two RBI. Blain and Carter Smith also had one RBI apiece.
Joel Beattie had one hit to conclude the offensive totals for the Big Blacks.
The win for Point Pleasant earned a season split with Winfield, having lost an 8-6 decision to the Generals on April 2 in Putnam County.
By Scott Jones
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Scott Jones can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext 2106.
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German soccer team targeted in bomb blasts
April 12, 2017 6:31 am in World by Michelle Price
A player from a German soccer team has been injured after three explosions rang out near their team vehicle while it was on its way to a Champions League game against AS Monaco.
Borussia Dortmund’s match against AS Monaco, a quarter-final first-leg, was rescheduled.
Dortmund Police said in a statement “according to what is currently known, the windows of the bus were smashed and one person was injured”.
They added “it is not yet possible to say exactly what the explosion was or exactly where something exploded”.
It is believed the player injured his hand and arm
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SHOCKING SCENES: Children trampled as chopper drops 30,000 Easter eggs on Gold Coast oval [video]
April 14, 2017 4:51 pm in Gold Coast by Jaydan Duck
CHILDREN have been trampled and pregnant women knocked to the ground after a stampede broke out when a helicopter dropped thousands of chocolate Easter eggs on a school oval on the Gold Coast.
Thousands of men, women, children and babies gathered on the oval at Upper Coomera State College to watch the chopper drop the eggs on Good Friday.
But the event, organised by Forward Church, quickly erupted into chaos when the thousands of tiny Easter treats rained from the sky. Scroll down to watch the video.
The enormous crowd, which was held back from the drop zone, broke boundary ropes and rushed towards the centre of the oval, resulting in a crushing stampede.
Video footage captured by a child clutching a GoPro camera (see it below) shows children being shoved the ground, stepped on, and smothered as the crowd swooped on the eggs.
Many children can be heard crying, screaming and gasping for air in the shocking footage as they are trampled by other kids, teenagers and in some cases, even adults.
Miraculously, though, there have so far been no reports of any serious injuries.
It’s understood the helicopter was tasked to drop a total of 30,000 eggs onto the oval in separate stages to avoid such scenes.
However, after releasing the first round of eggs for the younger children, the pilot was forced to abandon the remaining drops when the crowd stormed onto the field.
One woman who was at the event said the stampede would never have occurred if the crowd had followed the instructions.
“The first drop was for kids aged 0-3. But no, all the big kids ran in,” the woman said.
“Clearly parents didn’t explain to the kids how it was supposed to work. Once all the kids ran in, the helicopter had to stop dropping eggs.”
Hundreds of outraged parents have since flooded Facebook, many slamming the organisers of the event while others blame te crowd for not following instructions.
“It was such a shame,” one mother wrote. “What could have been a great talk around the dinner table has now turned into a “lets never do that again” topic.”
“My child was lost and whilst trying to find him between the crowds of people with bags full of eggs, children crying or parents whining, there were adults punching on.”
The woman said she was disappointed at “some of the behaviour from the community” but did not blame the church.
“I don’t fault the church as it was out of kindness that they held this event, I do however think more thought needed to go into the planning such as (the presence of) police officers.
“My three children didn’t receive any eggs from the actual drop but one did get handed 7 eggs from a church member which my child shared with his two siblings and two friends.”
Another horrified mother said the event was a complete “nightmare”.
“I went to this with my four kids this morning and will never do it again, ever,” she said.
“Kids and parents were actually pushing and barging over little kids. It was not organised or manned properly. The thought was great but in reality, it was an absolute nightmare.”
Meanwhile, one woman claims a greedy “older lady” pinched her child in a fit of rage.
“My 8yr old has pinch marks on his arm from an older lady yelling at him while pinching him to move so she could dive in on the chocolates,” she said.
The shocking scenes were captured on camera. We warn the footage may distress some viewers.
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Jaydan is a Digital News Producer at myGC.com.au. He was appointed Managing Editor of the Junee Southern Cross newspaper at the age of 17 and has since held positions in a number of newsrooms in New South Wales and Queensland. Jaydan joined the Hot Tomato Broadcasting Company in 2013 and has been keeping the Gold Coast up to date with the latest local, national and international news online at myGC.com.au ever since. With almost ten years’ experience in both print and digital media Jaydan is committed to providing the best coverage during major news and weather events.
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Board index » General Myst Online: Uru Live Discussion (READONLY) » Spoiler-free Discussion
Anti-DRC Movement Contention
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Kermit, please be assured that I firmly believe in the aims of the RR, both IC and OOC. There is no way I could argue a case for something I did not fully believe in, which is why I did not start a simple pro-DRC movement. I have always maintained that the DRC should improve their communication, but with the RR I was attempting to bring that about by building up a better relationship rather than with aggressive confrontation.
My IC character is very much a reflection of my OOC character. My opinions are the same IC and OOC.
I feel there is still a place for the RR in the Cavern. I have written about this more fully here.
Kermit D
Well, you're alright by me Jazz. And Vicki. And all the other players in this intrigue. It's pretty much a given that the only reason anyone would want to contribute to Uru is because they believe it's something worth contributing to.
The RR may continue and grow, or it may change - either way I think the principles of it are in the hearts and minds of many that play Uru. They're the same principles that we employed when playing Myst, Riven and all the other adventure stories of this fascinating universe: take in all the info you can, separate truth from deceit, and use the facts to make the best choice for all involved - [spoiler]even if it meant freeing Saavedro, helping Achenar, or just dropping the Rosetta tablet - all non-intuitive solutions unless you know the full story.[/spoiler]
But anyway, how are those stats I mentioned coming along? Anyone know?
Thanakar
K'laamas wrote:
I just want to comment that I'm quite sure that this was a fan-created story, not a Cyan-created story. In the OOC forum on the ADM web-boards, Vicki clearly stated that she created Sydney & the ADM in an attempt to get a story-line going.
The ADM had died before this but at the prodding of Nick it was resurrected to promote the story line interjected by Nick White, yes and IC character but played by a Cyan employee. The probation is nothing more then a continuation of that story.
Sh'aeri
Location: somewhere in the cavern
/me Breaks out popcorn, grape soda and heads for the cheap seats.
1. Daddy always says that "some people got the worms, there is always something eating them". So I'm going under that umbrella and watching the show.
2. This discussion is great entertainment! Y'all are thinking of stuff that I never would in my wildest dreams. I don't really know who is doing what to whom, but watching y'all intelligently argue this out is priceless! I love it! Only in Uru will you find people arguing in a non-malicious fashion to find the truth in the matter. Outside of a couple of nasty comments, I would love to show the entire planet just how wonderful the people in our community are. Bravo!!!
Oh, and about the confrontation between Cate and Sydney...as I was reading the chat logs, I wanted to tell Sydney to go choke on a rock so Cate could answer questions asked by other explorers that were in the room as well. That's just common courtesy to allow others in the room to speak and have their questions answered as well. But to be honest, I don't want Sydney to choke on a rock literally, I just want her to make sure to be courteous to her fellow explorers who would like to ask Cate a question and receive an answer as well.
I would like to thank Cyan, Cate and Sydney for their efforts. At least no one can now sit around wishing for a living, breathing cavern life. It's here. As controversial as it may be, we're not just sitting around waiting for a pod time to come up.
But then again, that's just me of course.
Conversation Interruptus....Continuus
Ignore me and continue... I just wanted to tell y'all how much I love y'all and thank all of you for the ripe old chuckle that I'm getting out of this.
Much love to all of you!!! It wouldn't be home without these kinds of discussions.
Being an Uruite is like being a hamster in an Ahnonay hamster wheel. Things keep changing around me, but I'm still not going anywhere.
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Post subject: How it all began (maybe) ...
Location: The Teledahn Stump, for no particular reason.
I have thought long and hard about whether or not to post this log; and although I have a bad feeling that I shouldn't, I am going to anyways. This is a log from my first visit with Nick and friends in Nick White's Eder Kemo. I hope it clears up a few things, and I hope it does not cause any harm to the game, the story, the cavern, the community, the explorers, the DRC, or to Nick White. Please notice that Nick White was IC the whole time.
When we first arrived, Nick was able to send and receive PM's, but could not hear Age chat so he had to leave for a bit to get a fix from Laxman:
[spoiler](03/11 22:09:55) Nick White: Laxman fixed it.
(03/11 22:10:02) sil_oh_wet: welcome back Nick
(03/11 22:10:03) Jazz cheers
(03/11 22:10:03) Rils: good ole victor
(03/11 22:10:04) Heaven: Can you hear me now?
(03/11 22:10:11) Nick White: Yeah, it's all good now
(03/11 22:10:16) Heaven cheers
(03/11 22:10:23) Rils: he just bang on yer ki a couple times with a hammer?
(03/11 22:10:29) Nick White: Although Laxman warned me to not make people upset by hanging with a small group
(03/11 22:10:35) Heaven: good ol' Lax
(03/11 22:10:35) Nick White: So I can't stay too long.
(03/11 22:10:45) Jazz: Trust Victor
(03/11 22:10:47) Nick White: Papa Lax.
(03/11 22:10:50) sil_oh_wet: we wont tell him
(03/11 22:10:53) sil_oh_wet: if you wont
(03/11 22:10:54) Rils: he's a good guy, wish he came around more...
(03/11 22:11:01) Nick White: Too busy.
(03/11 22:11:14) Rils: even engineers need breaks though, eh?
(03/11 22:11:25) Nick White: True.
(03/11 22:11:30) Nick White: Lots of pressure on the guy.
(03/11 22:11:36) sil_oh_wet nods her head
(03/11 22:11:37) Rils: yeah?
(03/11 22:11:46) Nick White: All the KI Stuff.
(03/11 22:11:56) Nick White: All the devices, the Great Zero.
(03/11 22:11:58) Nick White: Overload.
(03/11 22:12:11) Rils: poor guy.
(03/11 22:12:11) sil_oh_wet: uhg
(03/11 22:12:23) Nick White: So you three are the colored hair sisters?
(03/11 22:12:25) Nick White: I like it.
(03/11 22:12:31) Rils: he's trying to fix up the GZ too, isn't he?
(03/11 22:12:36) sil_oh_wet: thanks :-)
(03/11 22:12:37) Nick White: Right.
(03/11 22:12:39) Nick White: He is.
(03/11 22:12:49) Jazz: Trust me to be different
(03/11 22:12:52) Heaven blushes
(03/11 22:12:54) sil_oh_wet: I love your go-tee thinga ma bobber
(03/11 22:13:01) Rils: I was sayin earlier I felt the need to dye my hair...
(03/11 22:13:07) Nick White: No kidding.
(03/11 22:13:09) Nick White: Mine too.
(03/11 22:13:21) Heaven roars with laughter
(03/11 22:13:21) Rils: dye the chin patch...
(03/11 22:13:22) Nick White: You three ladies have any ideas for what you would like to do for the DRC?
(03/11 22:13:27) sil_oh_wet: yes that chin hair would look good in hot pink
(03/11 22:13:31) Nick White: I will - good call. Next time you see me.
(03/11 22:13:36) Jazz: Whatever they want . . within reason. lol
(03/11 22:13:37) Rils: nice...
(03/11 22:13:46) sil_oh_wet: what would they have us do?
(03/11 22:14:03) Nick White: Seriously. we have Rils going to help on the Neg expedition... what do you see yourselves doing?
(03/11 22:14:04) Jazz hopes her harem remark was WAY off the mark now
(03/11 22:14:26) Heaven: Seems the explorers may need a spokesperson
(03/11 22:14:29) Nick White realizes if anything like that gets out he will be fired for sure.
(03/11 22:14:34) Jazz starts to laugh
(03/11 22:14:38) sil_oh_wet: wow I hadn't even thought anything, I wasn't aware the option was there
(03/11 22:14:46) Nick White: Well think about it.
(03/11 22:14:48) Nick White: We need help.
(03/11 22:14:58) Heaven: What areas?
(03/11 22:15:01) sil_oh_wet: I would love to help influence people with the current happenings
(03/11 22:15:07) Rils: what other areas do you need a hand in, Nick?
(03/11 22:15:10) Jazz: Liaison has a bad ring
(03/11 22:15:15) Nick White: Agree.
(03/11 22:15:31) Nick White: Although just the fact that you four are here in my Kemo will give you some celebrity when you get back.
(03/11 22:15:36) Jazz: But we could certainly 'help things along'
(03/11 22:15:38) Rils: PR? translations? research?
(03/11 22:15:44) sil_oh_wet: PR
(03/11 22:15:45) Nick White: I'll think about it.
(03/11 22:15:51) Nick White: We're always looking.
(03/11 22:16:02) Nick White: You be thinking as well.
(03/11 22:16:02) Jazz: If information needs to be circulated in a certain way
(03/11 22:16:14) Jazz: Not in a liaison type way
(03/11 22:16:18) Heaven: R & D
(03/11 22:16:20) Jazz: If you see what I mean
It begins to rain in Eder Kemo...
(03/11 22:16:33) Rils: bye bye bugs
(03/11 22:16:42) Jazz: What the hair girls!
(03/11 22:16:46) Jazz: Watch
(03/11 22:16:48) sil_oh_wet: lol
(03/11 22:16:52) Rils: lol
(03/11 22:16:57) sil_oh_wet: im meltingggggg ... meltinggg
(03/11 22:17:02) Nick White: I guess you lost your sil_oh
(03/11 22:17:07) Jazz roars with laughter
(03/11 22:17:10) Rils roars with laughter
(03/11 22:17:11) sil_oh_wet: now im just good old wet
(03/11 22:17:36) sil_oh_wet: nothing wrong with that
(03/11 22:17:43) Nick White does a dance
(03/11 22:17:52) Jazz: If it helps, I am in the UK
(03/11 22:17:57) Jazz: Time zones and things
(03/11 22:17:59) sil_oh_wet: I an in Vegas
(03/11 22:18:03) sil_oh_wet: am*
(03/11 22:18:12) Nick White: Alright.
(03/11 22:18:18) Nick White: Well, keep things in mind.
(03/11 22:18:25) Jazz: Sure
(03/11 22:18:27) Heaven: If Rils has the fauna covered, I suppose the flora would need investigation as well
(03/11 22:18:28) sil_oh_wet salutes
(03/11 22:18:34) Rils: what about posting things on the hood/classroom imagers?
(03/11 22:18:40) Nick White: Hmmm....
(03/11 22:18:54) Jazz: I think maybe information may need to be filtered personally?
(03/11 22:19:01) sil_oh_wet: I would love to be able to offer support
(03/11 22:19:02) Jazz: Sort of word of mouth may be better
(03/11 22:19:05) Rils: announcements, etc. just a thoughts.
(03/11 22:19:10) Nick White: Very much agree.
(03/11 22:19:11) sil_oh_wet: I want to srta right away
(03/11 22:19:12) Jazz: Rather than anything official
(03/11 22:19:15) sil_oh_wet: start*
(03/11 22:19:18) Jazz: Is that what you had in mind Nick?
(03/11 22:19:28) Nick White: Not sure I had anything specfic in mind.
(03/11 22:19:36) Nick White: I think we're going to try things out with Rils here and see how it goes.
(03/11 22:19:44) Rils: kind of a "create your own job"? ;)
(03/11 22:19:45) Nick White: there may be room in the future for further "openings"
(03/11 22:19:46) sil_oh_wet: guinee pig
(03/11 22:19:52) sil_oh_wet: giggle
(03/11 22:19:54) Nick White: That's our Rils.
(03/11 22:19:55) Rils: oink oink
(03/11 22:19:58) Jazz: guinea squee
(03/11 22:20:07) sil_oh_wet starts to laugh
(03/11 22:20:32) Rils: I know people have been lookin for ways to help out
(03/11 22:20:38) Rils: be a part of the restoration
(03/11 22:20:38) sil_oh_wet: well come find me when you are ready to commit
(03/11 22:20:44) Nick White: If Rils pans out, we may have need for more people to "contribute".
(03/11 22:20:45) Jazz: A nice people story would be good at the moment
(03/11 22:20:54) Nick White: I think we have one.
(03/11 22:20:58) Jazz: Exactly
(03/11 22:21:04) Nick White: Nick hanging out with the colored hair sisters and Rils.
(03/11 22:21:10) Nick White: I can hear the rumors now.
(03/11 22:21:11) Jazz: lol
(03/11 22:21:14) Rils: I'm so dying my hair...
(03/11 22:21:18) Jazz: If not, we can start them. lol
(03/11 22:21:20) sil_oh_wet: hmm what exactly did we do here in the garden
(03/11 22:21:26) sil_oh_wet thinks wildly
(03/11 22:21:27) Nick White: Just don't get me fired.
(03/11 22:21:33) Jazz: We played in the pool and the garden
(03/11 22:21:43) sil_oh_wet: I didnt bring any balls
(03/11 22:21:45) Rils: chasing bugs
(03/11 22:21:51) Jazz: Just don't go there sil
(03/11 22:22:00) Rils runs away
(03/11 22:22:08) sil_oh_wet: im not going anywhere til nick leaves
(03/11 22:22:09) Nick White asks himself what he has done
(03/11 22:22:20) sil_oh_wet: im only kidding
(03/11 22:22:27) Rils pats Nick on the shoulder and sez "it'll be alright..."
(03/11 22:22:27) Nick White: Alright, good hanging with you all.
(03/11 22:22:40) Jazz: Keep in touch
(03/11 22:22:46) Heaven: We'll spread the word
(03/11 22:22:48) Nick White: Better than translating...
(03/11 22:22:51) Jazz: We'll keep on thinking
(03/11 22:22:53) Rils: If I think of anything, I'll let you know...
(03/11 22:22:57) Nick White: Cool.
(03/11 22:22:58) Jazz: Anything must be better than translating . . .
(03/11 22:23:06) sil_oh_wet: Yes, an honer to be considered
(03/11 22:23:13) Nick White: Especially Jazz, Heaven, and Sil_oh_wet
(03/11 22:23:18) Heaven blows you a kiss
(03/11 22:23:21) Nick White: and Rils of course.
(03/11 22:23:26) Rils bows
(03/11 22:23:27) Nick White bows
(03/11 22:23:29) Jazz blows Rils a kiss
(03/11 22:23:38) Rils: aww...
(03/11 22:23:40) sil_oh_wet kneels down...
(03/11 22:23:49) Nick White: I didn't get blown a kiss?
(03/11 22:23:54) Jazz: Aww
(03/11 22:23:58) Jazz blows Nick a kiss
(03/11 22:23:58) sil_oh_wet: im not kissing anyone
(03/11 22:24:01) Nick White catches it.
(03/11 22:24:06) Rils blows Nick... no, nevermind'
(03/11 22:24:07) sil_oh_wet: don;t want any rumors flying around
(03/11 22:24:20) Nick White: It must be time to leave.
(03/11 22:24:23) Rils: DOH
(03/11 22:24:23) sil_oh_wet giggles
(03/11 22:24:27) Jazz: Better watch Rils in the pod
(03/11 22:24:31) Rils: coulda sed that better...
(03/11 22:24:42) Rils: apologies
(03/11 22:24:52) Nick White: No kidding. I won't tell Sharper that incident.
(03/11 22:24:59) Rils: When ARE we going hunting, anyways?
(03/11 22:25:02) sil_oh_wet: Sharper Rocks
(03/11 22:25:04) Nick White: He'll bring extra guns.
(03/11 22:25:14) Jazz: Tranquilizer guns
(03/11 22:25:19) Nick White: Alright good seeing you all.
(03/11 22:25:23) Jazz: Bye
(03/11 22:25:24) Nick White: We'll talk again later.
(03/11 22:25:27) sil_oh_wet: Thanks for the visit
(03/11 22:25:28) Nick White: Have a good one.
(03/11 22:25:29) Rils: cool. Thanks Nick!
(03/11 22:25:31) Heaven: Thanks Nicky[/spoiler]
My purpose for posting this is to show others that we CAN play a role in the story, that the ending has not been written. If you look closely at my log and Sydney's you will see that these plot lines were created by the explorers. Nick may have helped guide it, but the original ideas came from the players. You may not agree with his involvement, but I truly believe he was acting in our own best interest.
Sorry, Nick, I hope this doesn't get you in more trouble than you're already in. I look forward to seeing you in the cavern again soon.
Caution: Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear.
Heaven, don't feel bad about posting this chatlog. It only confirms what many among the explorers have suspected for a long time: that it was planned in advance with a little help from Cyan. Or rather a loose frame was constructed and then followed the real time improvisation. And as with all improvisation it either works or it dosen't and we will only discover that, as the little interactive stories unfold. For a beginning of user generated plots I don't think we (or you) have done badly.
Of course these kinds of initiatives interfere deeply with the personal Uru movie that is going on in every explorers heads and can therefore be very disturbing. Out of sheer disappointment many explorers may even raise the question why did Cyan choose "them" and not "me" ?
But all living and ongoing processes need adjusting all the time, and hopefully, we will all eventually leave our thumbprints on this game.
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BrettM
Joined: Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:15 pm
Location: Ethereal Plane of Atrii
es, the chat-log w/Sydney, Jazz, & Nick White shows that Nick was involved with this OOC. But therein lies the problem. Nick White is an IC character, and the person who plays/controls him from Cyan was acting OOC.
Personally, I think that's why Cate said Nick was "on probation from the DRC for a couple weeks". The person who plays/controls Nick got "too involved" with the explorers OOC.
Honestly, do you really think that could happen? It makes no sense that one of the actors could go rogue like that, and keep it up for almost two months with nobody catching on to it.
I have no doubt that the cast and writers at Cyan have regular story meetings, and regular group postmortem examinations of the logs from every interaction between one of their characters and the explorers. While the actors improv during their appearances, every appearance is likely scheduled and possible interactions discussed in advance. There must be a framework in place to keep the story within the overall arc that is planned.
So many people seem to be reading "messages from Cyan" into every action of their characters. When Cate took the DRC forums down back in February, a large number of people were sure that this was done for OOC reasons because those forums (especially the liaison forum) were getting too out of hand. So, we all sat around for a couple of days debating it on the forums instead of doing something about it down in the Cavern. But we were told back then that the actions of the characters are to be interpreted IC, not as Cyan's actions OOC, and that our response to them should be IC. It appears that many people have still not absorbed that lesson.
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Maratanos
Location: Not Canada
BrettM wrote:
Yeah, that.
I can say with almost complete certainty that everything Cyan's actors have done is approved of by the higher-ups at Cyan. Rogue actors don't just happen and not get noticed.
Brett also has another extremely good point in this post. We need to stop treating things the DRC say as OOC statements about this or that. They're IC characters. If Cyan wanted the ADM to knock it off, they WOULDN'T send Cate in and call the leaders of the ADM arrogant, naive, and maybe stupid. They'd have GreyDragon step in and say "hey, knock it off". This has been proved time and time again.
With the whole "superjump over the barriers at the top of the great stairs" debacle, this was made clear the first time. The DRC were okay with people being total morons and jumping off the roofs of buildings. Cyan was not.
And now it's happening again, and we've got the same response. "Oh, Cyan must be telling us to knock it off through Cate."
NO! If Cyan wanted you to knock it off, they'd say it unambiguously through their employees, not through one of their story constructs.
For cowards die a thousand deaths, while heros die but one.
Well, unless they're playing video games, in which case heros die a lot too.
JWPlatt
Creative Kingdoms
Location: Everywhere, all at once
When Cate took the DRC forums down back in February, a large number of people were sure that this was done for OOC reasons because those forums (especially the liaison forum) were getting too out of hand. So, we all sat around for a couple of days debating it on the forums instead of doing something about it down in the Cavern. But we were told back then that the actions of the characters are to be interpreted IC, not as Cyan's actions OOC, and that our response to them should be IC. It appears that many people have still not absorbed that lesson.
This would have been far more clear if the OOC forum and real life PMs had not also been taken down by Cate, an IC character. She should only have been able to touch the IC forums. At least for my part, it would have drastically reduced my post count on the matter and forced me into an IC solution. Cyan broke the IC/OOC trust and gave us good reason to believe it was an OOC issue. RAWA later said they hadn't considered the implications.
RAWA wrote:
Marten wrote:
[JWPlatt's] point was this: Just as OOC things can have an impact within the IC world, the IC action of removing the DRC forums took away his access, OOCly, to the OOC forum here at drcsite (and also his private messages, which probably deserve to fall under the OOC category as well). And JWPlatt took objection to that. He's definitely not confusing IC and OOC here.
Ah, I understand now. A valid point, indeed. Yet another apology is in order. I seem to be having to make a lot of those lately. You (collective “you”) are correct, and I’m sorry that we didn’t think of bringing the OOC forums back seperately from the IC forums. That would have made a lot more sense.
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Yes, the chat-log w/Sydney, Jazz, & Nick White shows that Nick was involved with this OOC. But therein lies the problem. Nick White is an IC character, and the person who plays/controls him from Cyan was acting OOC.
I've read the chat-logs w/Sydney, Jazz, & Nick White, and it seems to me that Nick White was always IC. Can you show any quotes that are clearly OOC? Maybe I missed something.
SCGreyWolf
Is all this bickering and everything actually supposed to be part of Cyan's storyline and condoned by them? I'd like to see someone post a definitive answer on that in blue here... 'Cuz if this is official story, I'm outta here. X|
SCGreyWolf wrote:
Man, you just kindof srewed your chances of getting a blue response. Because I think you're not going to like the answer, and they won't like your response to that answer, so...
Maybe I'm wrong, but this looks like it was planned at least in some form.
Maratanos wrote:
That's why I wanted a blue answer. We don't know. And I never said I'd wait an eternity for a blue response...
There is only this. Sydney's reference to "storyline" takes this discussion into OOC, in my opinion. Nick does not appear to slip out of IC, but his bolded comment at the end is clearly Cyan-driven. I believe "people being mad" is misguided and it is Cyan's conceit to pursue it so relentlessly despite substantial outcry. Emotion is fine. Making the community angry is not. The reality is IC and OOC will always get mixed in a larger community of casual players and Cyan needs to acknowledge that. We'll have to wait to see if the lesson is taken seriously this time.
(03/28 16:54:34) Sydney Austin: Any thoughts on my storyline idea
(03/28 16:54:46) Nick White: Anti-restoration?
(03/28 16:54:49) Sydney Austin: Yes
(03/28 16:54:54) Nick White: You do what you do.
(03/28 16:55:05) Sydney Austin: K
(03/28 16:55:36) Sydney Austin: Just wondering if there was a need
(03/28 16:55:43) Nick White: there's always a need.
(03/28 16:55:46) Sydney Austin: Lol
(03/28 16:55:48) Nick White: Some work and some don't.
(03/28 16:55:52) Nick White: But we'll see...
(03/28 16:55:59) Sydney Austin: My last failed
(03/28 16:56:13) Nick White: You didn't try long enough.
(03/28 16:56:25) Sydney Austin: The fourum angry me off
(03/28 16:56:26) Nick White: These things take time.
(03/28 16:56:31) Nick White: You can't let that happen.
(03/28 16:56:40) Sydney Austin: it doesn't anymore
(03/28 16:56:46) Sydney Austin: Don't post to them
(03/28 16:56:49) Nick White: People being mad are good - creates controversy.
(03/28 16:56:53) Nick White: And emotion.
tkwiggins
What I get from that log is a Cyan actor repeatedly taking his NPC out of IC. To me the conversation is essentially all OCC.
If "Nick" had been played IC, we would have gotten:
(03/28 16:54:46) Nick White: Storyline?
(03/28 16:56:26) Nick White: Forum?
And no way would we have gotten:
JWPlatt wrote:
Cyan broke the IC/OOC trust and gave us good reason to believe it was an OOC issue. RAWA later said they hadn't considered the implications.
Reading the Nick White logs, I don't see where anything has changed.
EDIT: IC/OCC analysis aside, I'm appalled by this Cyanist's blatant encouragement of a player to foment anger among other players.
This is so below the belt, so far below the bar that Rand has set over the years, as to be astonishing. Cyan is mistaken if they think this sort of manipulation of their players won't come back to bite them -- and I don't mean in the bottom line.
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Man busted after having 8 rounds of sex with a goat (Photo)
Some people will go to great lengths to be rich but one Beitbridge young man took it to “absurd” levels when he acted on the advice of a sangoma (in southern Africa a traditional healer or diviner) to have 10 rounds of sex with a goat to make the cash.
With just one round left — after completing nine — Kudakwashe Hondoro ran out of luck.
Community members who had been disturbed by the continuous bleating of the goat decided to investigate and busted Hondoro pants down in the act.
Speaking to B-Metro, Talent Mangwiro — who claims to have been one of the community members that caught Hondoro in the act — said at first they assumed the goat had been attacked by a wild animal.
“We were drinking around midday and we heard the bleating of a goat but initially ignored the sounds as we thought it had been caught by one of the wild animals since it’s common in our area,” he said.
The goat’s bleating would stop then start again periodically.
“The goat would bleat for a few minutes, let’s say 10 minutes, then we would not hear the sounds for a while only for the goat to start bleating again.
This went on for some time until we eventually decided to investigate and maybe possibly rescue the goat from whatever animal was attacking it,” added Mangwiro.
Instead of a wild animal attacking the goat, the villagers were stunned to find a man pleasuring himself —without protection.
“We were stunned and scared at the same time. Hondoro was having sexual intercourse with the animal. When he heard us, he did not try to run but only looked up at us probably trying to come up with a plan,” he said.
Then instant mob justice followed.
The perpetrator incensed the villagers when he couldn’t give an explanation why he was involved in bestiality acts with the animal.
B-Metro caught up with Hondoro whose comments left these journalists in awe.
“I was told by a sangoma to look for a black goat, which he instructed me to have 10 rounds of sex with. I did exactly that but other villagers disturbed the procedure as they caught me at the ninth round.
Now I have to look for that same goat and finish the job so that I become rich,” added Hondoro, who seemed quite disturbed and troubled.
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Messi Reportedly Takes Final Decision On Leaving Barcelona
by Blessed Freedom
Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, has reportedly told the club on Sunday that he wants to leave Camp Nou this summer, according to Esporte Interativo.
Messi is not happy with the lack of dedication from the Barcelona squad and the way the Blaugrana board are running the club.
This follows their chaotic 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals on Friday night in Portugal.
Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu is planning a massive overhaul of the club’s squad following their humiliating Champions League defeat to Bayern.
Messi’s contract with Barcelona will end in June 2021.
The Argentine captain can leave Barca for free once his contract expires.
Messi ended the 2019/20 season as the team’s goalscorer with 31 goals and 25 assists.
Meanwhile, Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand, has already asked Messi to quit Barcelona this summer.Ferdinand feels Messi can’t waste the rest of his playing years with the LaLiga giants.
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Republican Lynch Mob Looking Awfully Hard to Find Rope With Which to Hang Elizabeth Warren
I’ve been keeping an eye on the Elizabeth Warren beat, although my expectation is that the skirmishes now will pale in significance compared to whatever does or does not happen on what the Republican hope will be her ritual execution at the full committee hearing of the House Oversight committee on July 14.
This situation has become an intriguing bit of political theater. The Republican have increasing become one-trick ponies. Their strategy has been to take an extreme position, scream like bloody murder, act like they have no intention of negotiating, and watch the Dems capitulate. But particularly with Obama, capitulation is tantamount to throwing Br’er Rabbit in the briar patch: it’s exactly where the Democrats like to go, but they need political cover for selling out their badly abused “base”.
The hyperventilating and bullying strategy backfired spectacularly last month in subcommittee hearings with Warren chaired by Patrick McHenry. But the Republicans have convinced themselves that if they double down, they’ll come out winners. I don’t know how much of this is reptile brain reflex on overdrive, in that they are capable only of fight or flight and even flight is no longer an option.
These Republicans have styled themselves as prosecutors; McHenry ludicrously kept demanding yes or no answers, when his hearing was not an investigation and Warren was not and has never been a sworn witness which makes the not proven claim that she was less than candid not terribly damning. Yet real litigators, unlike these Perry Mason (or worse, Tom Cruise) wannabes, are very careful when likeable women are on the stand. They know beating up on the fairer sex is not acceptable in polite company.
So as a warm-up for July, the Republicans have also been trying Warren in the press, but so far that isn’t getting much traction. The right wing organization Judicial Watch released the results of a Freedom of Information Act request last Thursday which requested, among other things, for “any and all” communications that Warren had with state attorneys general.
The results were so underwhelming that the media (even the eager to pound on Warren Wall Street Journal) ignored them; the only uptake was late, on Monday, by the ever reliable mortgage industry mouthpiece Housing Wire. And no wonder. Judicial Watch’s eagerness to make something out of virtually nothing came off a tad desperate. They seem annoyed that the CFPB and the state AGs aren’t willing to spill all about ongoing investigations. Yet Wikipedia provides a list of exemptions from the FOIA and several appear germane:
inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency;
personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;
records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication, (C) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local, or foreign agency or authority or any private institution which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or (F) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual;
contained in or related to examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of an agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions
So what did they try to make sound like smoking guns? If you actually look through what they dumped, has a lot of news stories and “you are meeting with so and so, here is who they are and when you last spoke to them”.
First is the framing: the Housing Wire industry dictation headline charges: “Judicial Watch claims emails show Elizabeth Warren already in power.” Yet what are the smoking guns? She e-mailed Tom Miller, the Iowa attorney general who later came to lead the 50 state AG mortgage settlement effort about discussing the mortgage mess back in the fall of 2009 when she was head of the Congressional Oversight Panel. Irrelevant, unless the Republicans are about to accuse Warren of being a witch in addition to being a bitch, and allege that she had a crystal ball that enabled her to see that the CFPB would indeed wind up in Dodd Frank and she’s play a role in setting it up and so was plotting well in advance.
She spoke to and had dinner with a group of called CWAG, or the Committee of Western Attorneys General, on November 30, 2010. That group, BTW, consists of a lot more than just the 15 AGs who are members, and also has law professors, law firm partners, employees of Microsoft, Office Depot, Monsanto, Anheuser Busch, JP Morgan, to name a few. I sincerely doubt anything meaningful regarding the state AG discussions, came up in such a public forum.
The one bit that the Warren accusers are trying to make mean something is a February 25 e-mail, which looks to be to all the AG offices from the Iowa state AG’s office (Tom Miller’s assistant AG, Patrick Madigan):
Elizabeth Warren would like to present the CFPB’s view on loan modifications to the entire EC. There has been a proposal to do it TODAY at 3:00 Central. Realizing that this is very short notice, and in order to maximize participation, I would like to push it to Monday. I need feedback ASAP.
Note that this is after the CFPB presented its ideas on the economic basis for a settlement to Tom Miller on February 14 (we criticized that document, which was leaked much later, for being too soft on the banks). It’s perfectly normal in professional services land for an advisor to ask to present his recommendations to the broader audience at his “client”, not just the person who brought him in. And MIller clearly approved of the idea; the call was coordinated through his office.
Yet Judicial Watch and Housing Wire are depicting this move as somehow proof that Warren was overstepping her authority. They are trying to make the fact that she stressed that her office asked for the briefing to remain confidential indicated nefarious intent. Huh? The banking industry went batshit when the idea of a $20 to $30 billion settlement was later leaked. It made sense to keep things under wraps until the AGs had agreed on their strategy, and Warren’s call was only one input into that process.
The entire Republican strategy appears to hinge on defining the word “advice” to mean something completely different from what it means in modern America. If you go to a financial advisor, or an attorney or an accountant with an issue, you don’t want an elaborate analysis that throws the problem back on you. You are asking them to tell you what to do and what their basis for their recommendation is. Now they might give you a couple of options, say the high cost versus the low cost one. But “advice” means a solution, and that means a recommendation. You as the client then accept or reject that suggestion; you might get another opinion if you don’t like what you heard. I get hired to give advice. No one would mistake me for a principal. I’ve regularly told clients to do or not do large deals, and recommend strategies. Remarkably, clients even sometimes listen to me and do what I tell them!
To use another example, McKinsey was very aggressive in pushing the Time Warner purchase of AOL, the single worst deal of all time. Yet despite how hard McKinsey worked over Time Warner (way in excess of anything Warren could have conceivably done, and recall further some ex McKinsey types were in senior roles at Time Warner), no one would call McKinsey anything other than an advisor.
The other strategy seems to be to tag Warren as overstepping her authority in acting as the de facto head of the CFPB in its startup phase. That dog does not hunt. She was clearly delegated whatever authority she has by the Treasury. And it is perfectly kosher for Warren either as a mere Treasury consultant with the approval of her minder (presumably Timothy Geithner) or in any authority delegated to her relative to the operation of the CFPB to contact state AGs. And what little correspondence there is is remarkably innocuous; Housing Wire tries to make something of her office contacting the New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman asking for input and offering to help!. She’s not a staffer, she’s a consultant, albeit one who has been authorized to take on some big tasks. To take any real bureaucratic action, like hiring people, she’d have to go through channels.
The Republicans seem to be trying to have a second go at the information extraction process; Bloomberg reports that Senator Bachus of the House Financial Services Committee has drafted a letter requesting “any and all” communication between Warren and the state AGs since September 2010. This is over my pay grade, but I don’t see how this has any more teeth than the Judicial Watch FOIA request.
The other amusing bit is the continued Administration silence. Perhaps they deem this noise to be beneath notice, but they did bother to put out some PR that got picked up at among other places, the New York Times, to the effect that the CFPB will be in business, permanent director or not, as of July 21. But the other weird bit is the continued impasse on Warren. Team Obama clearly like her to announce an exit plan; she clearly refuses to take the message. I’m surprised that she hasn’t been given a date certain for departure, but the Administration may have put itself in the position of being dependent on her and does not want her ousted until they have a permanent head. Or perhaps her agreement for her consulting gig was drafted so that she’d be engaged until a permanent head took office, and she is taking advantage of its terms.
If the Republicans don’t come up with more than what they have now, the July hearings could be a bizarre exercise of bluster and browbeating over very little. Warren said in early 2010 that:
My first choice is a strong consumer agency. My second choice is no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor.
The House oversight committee may find Warren to be a woman of her word.
This entry was posted in Banana republic, Banking industry, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class on June 22, 2011 by Yves Smith.
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hello June 22, 2011 at 8:15 am
“But particularly with Obama, capitulation is tantamount to throwing Br’er Rabbit in the briar patch: it’s exactly where the Democrats like to go, but they need political cover for selling out their badly abused “base”.”
The professional liberal base is just awful as in they (mostly) just sit down, shut up and give Obama a pass when Obama throws the liberal left under the bus.. Geez it was the liberal professional base that drafted and created the Obama juggernaut.
However with their intense desire to win, liberals are like a battered wife who keeps standing by her man (sorry not-PC but a perfect metaphor). Liberals have cognitive dissonance as bad as the right-wing wingnuts.
The liberals need to wake up and realize that they elected the first black GOP president. What would a Mitt Romney presidency look like? We know right now as Obama is a Romney clone policy-wise.
In a perfect world the professional left would wake up and coalesce around Warren regardless of where she winds up. America needs more people like Warren and less like Obama or the GOP.
Dennis June 22, 2011 at 8:36 am
Elizabeth Warren is one of the few political role models this country has left. We appreciate all your hard work and the crap you have to deal with.
jake chase June 22, 2011 at 3:46 pm
I am mystified by this hand wringing over Elizabeth Warren, as if appointing her or anyone else to a toothless agency will make a bit of difference.
Am I the only one who sees in Liz an uncanny resemblance to John Lennon?
and i June 22, 2011 at 7:15 pm
nonclassical June 22, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Not to those who take the time to view “The U.S. vs. John Lennon”…stubborn righteousness confronts fascism…
and big I says June 22, 2011 at 10:29 pm
jake chase: “Am I the only one who sees in Liz an uncanny resemblance to John Lennon?”
No, you’re not the only one. That’s the first thing my daughter said when she saw Liz on TV.
Francois T June 22, 2011 at 8:53 am
Liberals cannot wrap their mind around the fact they’re orphans; there is no political house for them anymore; therefore, they need to build a new one while the two branches of the Corporatist Party will do whatever it takes to prevent the libs to build their own house.
The obvious alternative would be to launch a primary guerrilla warfare against every Democrass incumbent and replace them with real liberal/progressives.
But this would mean to first and foremost throw out of office the whole apparatchik mafia from the DCCC and DLC.
The second alternative is to go through another real Great Depression where no amount of special interest money could tame the tsunami of rage and resentment of The People against the elites bandits and their political puppets (let’s not forget their media enablers shall we?) running this country.
nick June 22, 2011 at 9:10 am
You do realize that your post makes you sound exactly like the Tea Partiers that decry any moderate Republican as RINO. Is their strategy working?
commenting June 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm
The GOP/Tea Party has convinced/brainwashed? a big swath of America to vote against their personal economic interests for the past 30 years. So I’d say yes.
Seth June 22, 2011 at 4:24 pm
ambrit June 22, 2011 at 9:26 am
Franscois T;
Be very careful what you wish for. America was unusually lucky to have FDR and his ‘Brains Trust’ in place to fight the anarchic forces unleashed by the First Great Depression. Germany ended up with Hitler, Italy with a stronger Moussolini, various smaller states with their own Tinpot Dictators.
Thinking abiut my reply to your comment, I Googled “It Can’t Happen Here,” a book by Sinclair Lewis and a later quite good Hollywod movie about the rise of Fascism in America after the Crash. I recommend both versions for a perfect “what if?” alternative to ‘Normal’ America. While there on Google I found a post by Ron Paul under the same name, “It Can’t Happen Here.” Posted in December 2004, it decried the rise of the American Police State!
Add the Police State Movement to a new Great Depression and I’m afraid we may soon be staring down the barrel of a real American Facist State. Keep your powder dry brother.
This 14th of July hearing could end really badly…for Darrell Issa.
The asshat had better be very careful. If he’s trying to play prosecutor again, even his “base” could turn against him.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…
leapfrog June 22, 2011 at 11:18 am
I hope it all blows up in his face. You are absolutely right, couldn’t happen to a “nicer” car thief and arsonist.
Yves wrote:
“The hyperventilating and bullying strategy backfired spectacularly last month in subcommittee hearings with Warren chaired by Patrick McHenry.”
As much as I despise McHenry, I have yet to note what have been the consequences for him. Will he be primaried? Has he been stripped of his chairmanship? Did anyone called him names?
thebewilderness June 22, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Yes we did call him names. Misogynist was one. Liar was another. I called him an enormous mendacious disembodied anus. He didn’t like it one little bit.
Tony Franks June 22, 2011 at 9:07 am
If you want an explanation for the Republicans persistence just follow the money. The Republicans are performing like circus monkeys for the ABA, The Chamber of Commerce and the Financial Services Roundtable in the hopes of being rewarded during the 2012 election cycle.
The room has been filled with bank execs (JPM, BOA etc) and lobbyists during the first two Warren hearings who watched the Republican performance disintegrate into a feces throwing tantrum (with the exception of one or two reps who actually had someone courtroom experience and knew when to quit).
While the ongoing harassment of Warren may appear ludicrous and vile to those with a modicum of decency, it makes perfect sense in light of the fact that the only objective of many of the Republicans driving this is to generate money from the banks to feed the Republican machine at various levels.
readerOfTeaLeaves June 22, 2011 at 11:36 am
Ah, I’d wondered who was actually in the room watching those hearings.
There is one more strategy these folks are trying, which is right out of the ABA hopper, I’m sure: this is a *ginormous bureaucracy*, and it has **no Congressional Oversight** (quick! reach for your fainting couch!).
The last hearing voiced these themes, which as Yves has pointed out is code for ‘if we can’t control your budget, our banker bankrollers can’t keep you under their thumb – ohMyGawdOhMyGawdOhMyGawd!” At the previous hearing, I don’t recall any of the Dems on the committee exposing that fiction, so it’ll be interesting to see whether any of them have the guts, wit, and preparation to make a hash of their GOP colleagues this time out.
FWIW, some local publication in McHenry’s Congressional district (the Hickory Daily Record) had an editorial in late May arguing that McHenry owed Prof Warren an apology for his conduct at the previous hearing. Apparently, the ABA owns McHenry, but not yet the Hickory Daily Record ;-)
Privately, I’m hoping that Warren is thinking, “Game on,” as she watches these corrupt weasels try to make a hash of her.
I’m not sure I get the consternation over Obama here. Warren’s appointment has to be approved by the House, which is controlled by Republicans. I’m not really sure what “arm twisting” Obama can do to folks in the oppposition. Really, what incentive does the GOP have in voting for Warren? What can the Obama give them in return? I like Warren, a lot, but I still fail to see why the GOP would green light her, and what Obama has to offer the GOP to do so. If anyone here can enlighten me, I’m all ears.
The GOP should calculate the number of seats they would lose in 2012 if they keep being such brutish idiots against Liz Warren. They seem totally oblivious to the fact that the lady has acquired a stature way beyond an ordinary head of agency.
She represent one of the very few rays of hope of ordinary Americans of all political stripes in their losing struggle against the corporate stranglehold afflicting this country. The Reichpubliscums in Congress seem totally unaware that the proverbial backlash could be soon roar up close, mercilessly sweeping them out of office, exactly like it did for the Democrats in 2010 if not worse.
Dave of Maryland June 22, 2011 at 9:46 am
That’s true, providing any of us want to go vote. I don’t. The 2012 elections are shaping up to be the scam of the century.
Patricia June 22, 2011 at 11:34 am
Please take that 45 minutes of your time to vote third party. Any party. Vote “Time for a Party” if you like. It won’t do a thing for this futile round, but may encourage a possible future shift, if enough people do it. There is no possibility in citizen silence/absence.
mezcal June 22, 2011 at 12:34 pm
“They seem totally oblivious to the fact that the lady has acquired a stature way beyond an ordinary head of agency.”
While I’d like to believe that, I would wager that less than 5% of the electorate could pick Ms. Warren out of a lineup.
I would further wager that substantially less than 1% of the electorate could offer even a two-sentence description of who she is, what she does and why they should care.
The econ blogsphere is a relatively tiny place.
Valissa June 22, 2011 at 1:55 pm
$ka-ching$ nailed it! I checked out Intrade and Gallup and tried searching on Elizabeth Warren… nada. At Google, typing in Elizabeth Warren gets only 871 hits.
I think she’s great, but she has no real public following.
BillF June 22, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Not sure which Google you’re searching, but when I search Elizabeth Warren on my Google, it tells me:
“About 8,490,000 results (0.14 seconds)”
When I did my search, the first thing that came up on my screen in Google was 871 hits in .04. I did not wait for a longer search as I was looking for the quick public recognition hit. Sorry if I did not give enough info in my response. I’m sure you are correct given your longer earch time interval.
Chester Genghis June 22, 2011 at 1:35 pm
It’s not a question of whether Warren can/will be approved. She won’t. But Obama should nominate her to fight the good fight.
Fighting the good fight in this case also happens to be good politics in the sense that it allows Obama can position himself on the side of consumers vs. the banksters. That will play well with his base and independents and even that small portion of Tea Partiers with half a brain.
But, of course, fighting the good fight is bad politics in the sense that it will antagonize the banksters. And Obama needs the banksters money more than he needs popular support. (After all, money can BUY popular support.)
Therefore, he won’t nominate her. He’s just looking for a way to NOT nominate her as quietly as possible. That sounds easy, but so far its proven to be somewhat difficult. And that’s what making the whole process interesting….
Obama can simply recess appoint her at any time.
http://www.citizenvox.org/2011/06/21/republicans-cannot-block-elizabeth-warren-recess-appointment-cfpb/
Nice, huh?
Frank June 22, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Actually the GOP is aware of that, so they have kept the session going without calling recess. They will not allow Obama any recess appointments.
Ahh, the adjornment power… Nevermind!
See what happens when you reply before readin’ the frikkin’ link, folks? ;)
Dirk van Dijk June 22, 2011 at 3:56 pm
It would be extremely useful if a few Democratic Senators made it clear that if the GOP does not stop the sensless stopping of all sorts of good competent appointees (not just Warren, but Daimond, and a host of judicial nominees) that the next GOP president wil have to opperate without a cabinet. Any pentagon head will have to be to the left of Kucinich, any Judge would have to be the reincarnation of William O Douglas to get approved.
If the GOP realized that what comes around, goes around, they might not be inclined to play these stupid games. Of course the threat would have to be credible, which would be the hard part given the Democratic history of being a bunch of pussies.
Dems prefer appearing “weak” to being defined “bought and sold”…which is largely the truth of the matter.
Francois T June 23, 2011 at 9:35 pm
You are assuming that, by then, the Democrass would have located their spine and grow a set.
An extraordinarily generous assumption IMO.
“Or perhaps her agreement for her consulting gig was drafted so that she’d be engaged until a permanent head took office, and she is taking advantage of its terms.”
If the above is true, one can clearly see how politically problematic (in terms of collecting campaign cash from Wall Street) this would be for team Obummer. *evil grin*
Repugs have clearly stated “no agency no nothing until we redraft some aspects of the law”, most especially the fact that the Bureau does not depend on the criminals in Congress for its budget. Yet, they’re aware they cannot stop the CFPB to start, even if there is no permanent director.
But, should Warren’s arrangement with the White House stipulate she’s in until there is a permanent director, she could be in for a long time.
*very evil grin*
Unless, of course, team Obama really blunder and tell her to leave.
*Evil AND sardonic grin*
Nothing I love more than the smell of chicken shit on a raging battlefield.
If they knew what they were doing, they’d be dangerous.
shoogie June 22, 2011 at 11:10 am
Lest we forget, the regulating agencies “examination strategy” in the Bernie Madoff case consisted mainly of asking him “pinky-swear” on his legitimacy even when all the ammunition they should have required had been repeatedly dropped in their laps.
http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/2009/oig-509.pdf
Why folks like Elizabeth Warren want to change such a system, using her own teeth if need be, is a cause well worth beating to death, donchya think?
It does make for good political theatre, however ;-)
Norman June 22, 2011 at 9:58 am
I think I’ve said this before, [S.T.M.L.], but this country would do right by itself if the “Liberal Base” which seems to be getting screwed without even bending over, were to draft Ms. Warren to run for P.O.T.U.S. in 2012! She isn’t a Hillery with baggage, has shown she has the right stuff, indeed, exactly what this country needs when it comes to standing up for the rights of the people. I don’t know if she would even consider the option, but it sure seems as though she might, after watching her performance “under fire” with the Repuglicons and the silence of man[?] who appointed her to this start up agency, perhaps to his chagrin.
NotTimothyGeithner June 22, 2011 at 10:12 am
The Democrats are looking for something to get Warren because they don’t want her at the Consumer Protection Agency. The GOP doesn’t want Warren because she has a “D” next to her name and will just make stuff up. Half the Democrats will follow the GOP’s lead.
DownSouth June 22, 2011 at 10:17 am
Yves said:
If the Republicans don’t come up with more than what they have now, the July hearings could be a bizarre exercise of bluster and browbeating over very little.
I’ve been reading Andrew M. Lobaczewski’s Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes, and I find it quite helpful in gaining some understanding as to what is going down here.
When “pathocrats,” that is psychopaths and other psychological deviants, gain political and economic power as they have in the United States, they impose an upside-down morality, like something out of The Twilight Zone. (The link’s for those too young to remember the TV series.) As Lobaczewski explains:
Pathocracy is a disease of great social movements followed by entire societies, nations, and empires. In the course of human history, it has affected social, political, and religious movements, as well as the accompanying ideologies, characteristic for the time and the ethnological conditions, and turned them into caricatures of themselves.
The ideology in question may have been marked by deficits in truth and moral criteria from the very outset, or by the effects of activities by pathological factors. The original, very high-minded idea, may also have succumbed to early contamination characteristic of a particular time and social circumstance. If such an ideology is infiltrated by foreign, local cultural material which, being heterogeneous, destroys the original coherent structure of the idea, the actual value may become so enfeebled that it loses some of its attractiveness for reasonable people. Once weakened, however, the sociological structure can succumb to further degeneration, including the activation of pathological factors, until it has become transformed into its caricature: the name is the same, but the contents are different.
The main ideology succumbs to symptomatic deformation, in keeping with the characteristic style of this very disease and with what has already been stated about the matter. The names and official contents are kept, but another, completely different content is insinuated underneath, thus giving rise to the well known doubletalk phenomenon within which the same names have two meanings: one for initiates, one for everyone else. The latter is derived from the original ideology, the former has a specifically pathocratic meaning, something which is known not only to the pathocrats themselves, but also is learned by those people living under long-term subjugation to their rule.
Doubletalk is only one of many symptoms. Others are the specific facility for producing new names which have suggestive effects and are accepted virtually uncritically, in particular outside the immediate scope of such a system’s rule. We must thus point out that paramoralistic character and paranoidal qualities frequently contained within these names. The action of paralogisms and paramoralisms in this deformed ideology becomes comprehensible to us based on the information presented in Chapter IV. Anything which threatens pathocratic rule becomes deeply immoral.
The actions of this phenomenon affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every village, small town, factory, business, or farm. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country, creating a “new class” within that nation. This privileged class of deviants feels permanently threatened by the “others”, i.e. by the majority of normal people. Neither do the pathocrats entertain any illusions about their personal fate should there be a return to the system of normal man.
A normal person deprived of privilege or high position will go about finding and performing some work which will earn him a living; but pathocrats never possessed any solid practical talent, and the time frame of their rule eliminates any residual possibilities of adapting to the demands of normal work. If the laws of normal man were reinstated, they and theirs could be subjected to judgment, including a moralizing interpretation of their psychological deviations; they would be threatened by a loss of freedom and life, not merely a loss of position and privilege. Since they are incapable of this kind of sacrifice, the survival of a system which is the best for them becomes a moral imperative. Such a threat must be battled by means of any and all psychological and political cunning implemented with a lack of scruples with regard to those other “inferior-quality” people that can be shacking in its depravity.
Any war waged by a pathocratic nation has two fronts, the internal and the external. The internal front is more important for the leaders and the governing elite, and the internal threat is the deciding factor where unleashing war is concerned…
The non-pathological majority of the country’s population will never stop dreaming of the reinstatement of the normal man’s system in any possible form. This majority will never stop watching other countries, waiting for the opportune moment: its attention and power must therefore be distracted from this purpose, and the masses must be “educated” and channeled in the direction of imperialist strivings. This goal must be pursued doggedly so that everyone knows what is being fought for and in whose name harsh discipline and poverty must be endured. The latter factor—-creating conditions of poverty and hardship—-effectively limits the possibility of “subversive” activities on the part of the society of normal people.
Whenever a society contains serious social problems, there will also be some group of sensible people stringing to improve the social situation by means of energetic reforms, so as to eliminate the cause of social tension. Others consider it their duty to bring about a moral rejuvenation of society. Elimination of social injustice and reconstruction of the country’s morals and civilization could deprive a pathocracy of any change to take over. Such reformers and moralists must therefore be consistently neutralized by means of liberal or conservative positions and appropriately suggestive catchwords and paramoralisms; if necessary the best among them has to be murdered.
Does this not describe to a “T” what is happening to Elizabeth Warren?
There is little doubt that both political parties in the United States have entered the moral Twilight Zone, replete with Lobaczewski’s “paramoralisms.” Robert Hughes noticed it almost 20 years ago, writing in Culture of Complaint:
The GOP’s “morality” was all about sex and honoring thy father, and it tactfully avoided other commandments, particularly the one against stealing. Thus one of the prototypical figures of the time was Charles Keating, a Cincinnati businessman with the lantern jaw, piercing eyes and strict ethical look of the risen cracker-salesman. Keating co-founded the National Coalition Against Pornography, with the intent of saving the innocent from Satan, and became a major agitator for “traditional moral values” in the Midwest. Only later did it appear why Keating was so interested in preserving American innocence: he cheated thousands of innocent people of hundreds of millions of dollars in his manipulations of Lincoln Savings and Loan, though—-unlike most of his fellow swindlers in the racket—-he went to jail for it.
And it is no accident that Prohibition and The War on Drugs were ushered in to lay the groundwork for two of the most extreme periods in American history—-what Kevin Phillips called “booms, speculative heydays, and other periods of money worship”—-where banks and big business were given all but free reign to rape and plunder the American people: the Roaring Twenties and our current era.
Frederick Lewis Allen offers some interesting insights into that earlier period when the normal people rose up and took their country back from the pathocrats, or at least beat them back for a while, and the paramoralisms (i.e. Prohibition) were exorcised and morality and sanity temporarily restored:
[1929] But if the maintenance of prosperity is not considered a current problem, Prohibition emphatically is. The Eighteenth Amendment is in full force, and so are the bootleggers and rumrunners. Al Capone, as it happens, is serving a year’s sentence in Philadelphia for carrying a pistol, but he will be out soon; meanwhile his Chicago gang and similar gangster groups in other cities are taking an enormous toll from the illicit liquor business. Very few people believe that repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is a reasonable possibility; any well-informed student of politics will tell you that a few dry states could block it indefinitely. Moralists are attributing the prevalence of crime to the dire influences of the speakeasy.
But to the general public nothing…really matters except Prohibition. For the wet-or-dry issue is the hottest one in American politics.
[1930] When the substantial and well-informed citizens who belonged to the National Economic League (an organization whose executive council included such notables as John Hays Hammond, James Rowland Angell, Frank O. Lowden, David Starr Jordan, Edward A. Filene, George W. Wickersham, and Nicholas Murray Butler) were polled in January, 1930, as to what they considered the “paramount problems of the United States for 1930,” their vote put the following problems at the head of the list: 1. Administration of Justice; 2. Prohibition; 3. Lawlessness, Disrespect for Law; 4. Crime; 5. Law Enforcement; 6. World Peace–and they put Unemployment down in EIGHTEENTH place! Even a year later, in January, 1931, “Unemployment, Economic Stabilization” had moved up only to fourth place, following Prohibition, Administration of Justice, and Lawlessness.
These polls suggest not only how well insulated were the “best citizens” of the United States against the economic troubles of 1930, and how prone–as Thurman Arnold later remarked–to respond to public affairs with “a set of moral reactions,” but also how deep and widespread had become the public concern over the egregious failure of Prohibition to prohibit, and over the manifest connection between the illicit liquor traffic and the gangsters and racketeers.
[1933] The next day–the 16th–the Senate voted to repeal the Prohibition Amendment. Four days later–on the 20th–the House followed, and the issue of repeal went to the States for their action, which by the following December was to make the country legally wet again. (This change in the Constitution required not only a two-thirds vote in both Senate and House–which had been secured–but the approval of conventions in three-quarters of the states.) The supposedly impossible was happening, with consequences to be felt in every American community; another landmark was being quickly swept away by the tide of change.
The contrasts between this 1933 New Deal program and the Hoover program were sharp. It was not a program of defense but of multiple and headlong attack. In most of the laws and certainly in the intent behind them there was a new emphasis on the welfare of the common man; a new attempt, as was often said, to build prosperity from the bottom up rather than from the top down. There was a new willingness to expand the scope of government operations; for a long time past these had been expanding out of sheer political and economic necessity, as the inevitable long-term tendency toward centralization took effect upon government as well as upon business, but now the brakes were removed and the expansion was abrupt. Also in contrast was the visible distrust by Roosevelt of the bankers and corporate insiders of Wall Street; Hoover had leaned upon them for advice and assistance (which was not always forthcoming), Roosevelt disregarded them. He preferred the assistance of supposedly impartial (if impractical) professors to that of supposedly practical (if partial) business men. There was a new encouragement of labor unions, a new hospitality to liberal and radical ideas which would reduce the power of the owning class. The governmental center of gravity had moved to the left.
Action there was, in abundance; and it came fast.
On Sunday, March 5, the day after the inauguration, the new President not only called Congress to meet in special session on Thursday, but also issued a proclamation putting the bank holiday on a national basis and prohibiting the export of gold and all dealings in foreign exchange. (Thus the country went at least part way off the gold standard–on a temporary basis.)
On Thursday Congress met and passed with a whoop a law validating everything that the executive had done to date and tightening still further its control over banking operations, gold, silver, currency, and foreign exchange…
…On Saturday–after a week of furious activity at the Treasury, during which regulations were devised and altered, plans for the issue of clearing-house certificates were made and abandoned, plans for the issue of new currency were promulgated, and a rough classification of banks into more and less sound was made with the aid of advice from Federal Reserve Banks and chief national bank examiners–the President announced that most of the banks of the country would open the following Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
On Sunday night the President, in his first “fireside chat,” explained to the people of the country with admirable simplicity, clarity, and persuasiveness just how the re-opening of the banks would be managed and how his hearers could help to make the process orderly.
On Monday, the 13th of March, the banks began to open. And on the same day the President asked Congress to legalize beer—thus closing his tremendous first ten days of office on a note of festivity.
Such were the bare facts of those ten days. But the mere catalogue of them gives little idea of their overtones of significance, or of what those ten days were like to the American people.
▬Frederick Lewis Allen, Since Yesterday
craazyman June 22, 2011 at 10:46 am
we @ the ICA call that “Pilot Wave Inversion”. It’s a common phenomenon when more than 113 people try to organize themselves.
Just like tornados are mirrored in the little spiraling whirlwinds that you see blowing on the streets in the fall, the PWI can be observed in everyday life, in miniature.
If you and 10 friends are trying to decide what restaurant to go to and you’re out on a street corner on a 35 degree farenheit November evening, you can end up at a diner eating a tuna club with fries (and no wine) even though everyone wanted a bistro of some sort.
Usually, nobody knows quite how this happens and everyone is pissed, but it’s a Pilot Wave Inversion made possible by the recession of the individual Gnostic Waves.
Jason Rines June 22, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I prefer simply to explain it as evolution, man’s progress doesn’t go in a straight line.
Anonymous Jones June 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The way that I can tell how awesome your comments are, craazyman, is that I’m certain almost no one can tell the extent of how awesome they are.
This is the thing, why would someone want to be “normal,” or even sane, when one can be craazy instead?
“It’s a racket,” Al Capone said of the stock market. “Those stock market guys are crooks!”
▬PBS, The Crash of 1929
The study of deliberate relational, societal, political destruction is hugely important and very little considered. I only wish that it hadn’t been given that clumsy incomprehensible term, “ponerology”. It puts one off before one even gets to the generally off-putting subject itself.
DownSouth, I don’t see how you can read stuff like this day after day after day. Are you an insomniac? However, one of your quotes did strike a nerve:
“Any war waged by a pathocratic nation has two fronts, the internal and the external. The internal front is more important for the leaders and the governing elite, and the internal threat is the deciding factor where unleashing war is concerned.”
America got started down this road when JP Morgan directed Wilson to enter America in WWI. The history of Wilson’s public relations efforts to demonize “the hun” and make unpatriotic any private expression questioning of the war are well recounted in a book called PR, the Social History of Spin by Stuart Ewin. It is written in normal English, for those who care.
General Tso June 22, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Sun Tzu formulated the substance of that quotation long before the guy who wrote ponerology was in diapers.
Downsouth,
I took your advice and am finishing “Only Yesterday”, as we
write…but “Political Ponerology” seems to have all been succinctly described by Malcolm X, and perhaps the twisted version is Machiavelli…
ep3 June 22, 2011 at 10:54 am
obama is keeping quiet because the republicans are doing his dirty work for him.
ep,
this does seem to be true…corporate dem Obama.
Deloss June 22, 2011 at 11:06 am
Tell us what to do, please, Yves. I reply to Obama’s fundraising appeals with letters that say “NOT A DIME UNTIL YOU TAKE MEDICARE OFF THE TABLE AND APPOINT ELIZABETH WARREN” (on the theory that nobody reads anything long). But you have a large and moderately well-educated following. Tell us what to do, please, Yves. These are bad times. Lots of us are perfectly prepared to be foot soldiers, if the general has a plan.
And, um, not a plan like that of the leading citizens opposed to Roosevelt, who tried in 1933 to get General Smedley Butler to overthrow the Roosevelt government by a coup. Something more in the other direction.
Deloss,
someone’s advice is to explore living in other climes…
Count von Geiger June 22, 2011 at 11:37 am
Democrats like to go, but they need political cover for selling out their badly abused “base”.
~~Yves~
Write in vote for The Consumer Protection Ticket 2012 :
Paul Volcker == President
Elizabeth Warren == Vice President
Yves == Attorney General
If enough people write in the vote, it will drive them up the wall.
NYShooter June 22, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Damn if I can remember where I read it, but I believe there’s a somewhat organized plan to hold, for want of a better term, a “Day of Outrage,” worldwide. They were calling for millions of people to descend upon (storm?) their respective Capitals for the purpose of vividly exposing the unmistakable Blitzkrieg of the Plutocracy onto the lower 99% of the population.
It may sound corny but something has to give. The fissures in the societal structures worldwide are popping out exponentially, and who knows what will be the catalyst for “all hell breaking loose?”
spark June 22, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Is this what you are thinking of?
http://october2011.org/
Paul Tioxon June 22, 2011 at 1:28 pm
It is unfortunate that much of the analysis of politics on Naked Capitalism is in the category of misdirection to sow the seeds of despair, or misguided belaboring of the obvious. The republican attacks against Obama and Warren consist of beating them with whatever is at hand to beat them with. So, if she is charged with setting up the CFPB, then, anything she does is beyond the scope and letter of the law of a bureau that has not yet become operational. The lie here is that the CFPB operates within the Treasury Department until which time it operates in the Fed. Furthermore, Warren was operating under two capacities:
“President Obama Names Elizabeth Warren Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau”
WASHINGTON – Today, President Obama announced the appointment of Elizabeth Warren to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In July, the President signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which enacts the strongest consumer financial protections ever and creates an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren will play the lead role in setting up the Bureau and ensuring it is as effective as possible. Under the Act, the Treasury Department has the authority to get the consumer agency up and running, and Warren will serve as Special Advisor to the Secretary of Treasury to guide this effort. She will also serve as an Assistant to the President.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/17/president-obama-names-elizabeth-warren-assistant-president-and-special-a
Anything she could be doing can come under either or both of these positions, acting on behalf of the president or Treasury. She was given a blank check to insinuate herself into anything remotely related to finance. And hopefully, she did. And hopefully, it was more than an insinuation. Her energy and capacity for understanding law, consumer finance and even more complicated matters of finance along with White House and Treasury credentials makes her an operational nightmare for the republicans and democrats who run interference for the banking lobby.
Yves Smith Post author June 22, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Your statement about the legality of Warren’s actions is 100% wrong. She’s a consultant. She is not acting as the head of an agency which would include doing stuff like issuing regulations and examining banks. All she has done is arrange for Treasury to hire staff (she has no ability to hire people independently) and develop some a new mortgage disclosure from which her agency cannot implement until it goes live. And she did that mainly as a template to show how the CFPB woudl work with industry.
All she has done otherwise is go to meetings and give speeches and ask the otherwise sitting around not doing much CFPB staff to assist the state AGs at their request. The latter falls within the realm of advice and her consulting role and is perfectly kosher.
Criminey, I’ve negotiated major deals on behalf of clients as a mere consultant. My authority was delegated and all my actions were subject to client approval. i don’t see why you are finding the nature of this relationship so hard to understand.
You’ve been drinking Republican Kook Aid on this one, big time.
Yves, I said “the lie here is that CFPB operates within the Treasury…” The lie referred to is the republican lie, that ANYTHING SHE DOES is beyond the scope of Dodd-Frank. It is in THEIR minds, a power grab or imperial over reach or what ever government blob that will take over the world menace they gin up on a daily basis. She is being beaten with the very fact that she HAS been appointed to get this agency started and is also a presidential assistant. She would be attacked for walking and chewing gum or using a reserved parking space with equal venom as if she personally tried out freshly printed $100 bills from the US MInt to make sure they worked when shopping at Crate and Barrel. I don’t think she is a walking a Aga Khan, making life and death decrees to the capital markets. She is just doing a job given to her, at that is enough to be considered too much from her enemies.
Got it, sorry!
Apologist June 22, 2011 at 8:18 pm
You’re a fool Paul. What’s your real name by the way?
Dovenmuehle Sewage Distribution June 22, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Darn, we shoulda’ got Melissa Bean! There’s a Democrat who knew how to kill, gut and clean consumer protections.
JPM Settles SEC Case June 22, 2011 at 3:44 pm
“This is a slap in the face of investors, taxpayers and homeowners who accepted this garbage masquerading as ‘loans.’ $153 million is chump change, unless they intend to follow it up with the same action on all the pools. JPM knew it was funding loans based upon false appraisals.” – Editor (of another blog)
NotRobertRubin June 22, 2011 at 3:48 pm
“Does Bill Clinton still not grasp that the current economic crisis is in large measure his legacy?” – Robert Scheer
Mob Rule June 22, 2011 at 6:23 pm
The “Senator for K Street” apparently has healthy, cancer-free balls. Makes plenty of sense. This particular stooge has been thoroughly corrupted by corporate health industry profiteer donations. Additionally, the scumbag had Doctors arrested for interrupting his sacred proceedings. But since this is about the Banksters, which are in no way separate from the aforementioned profiteers, we can speak postively of the corrupt Senator.
“Senator Bachus of the House Financial Services Committee has drafted a letter requesting “any and all” communication between Warren and the state AGs since September 2010.”
Since we have the Patriot Act, we could use the tenants therewithin to eavesdrop on all of his office’s Senate related business. Everything, transactions, web searches, sleeping patterns, total 100% evisceration of 4th amendment rights for our safety, just to check on the Senator, he has nothing to worry about if he isn’t doing anything “wrong” – after all, one can never tell where the terrorists are!
Lamest of Blogs June 22, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Liz Warren won’t save you. There’s this funky thing called conflict of interest: she was the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U.S. banking bailout (formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program).
An epic crime, a tragedy that never should have happened, and Warren agreed to the task to “oversee” bailouts. (Everyone needs to ask themselves, what exactly is it that the powerful do when appointed to ‘lead’ something?)
An individual can be measured (I think we agree) by where they take a stand, by particpating/endorsing the tragedy of TARP, Warren is decidely a Bank insider.
hmmmnnnn..
yet another “way” to tar Warren-this is much more accurate than historical revisionism:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15420
but why listen to two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists?
Jack Be Quick June 22, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Hmm, looks like she wrung her hands up in despair.
(Then probably climbed into a limo, whisked away to enjoy brandy and meat in a private area of the Old Ebbit Grill)
“Poor borrowers, tsk tsk.”
You’ve just revealed you’ve lost the plot. She was asked to head the COP long after the bailouts were passed and she had nothing to do with them.
And I am highly confident you didn’t read a single COP report either. You have no idea what Warren did or the COP did and yet you try to indict her from a position of ignorance.
You’re highly assumptive, and you have no right to take anyone’s contributions from your blog for your own use, but you do anyway since it’s all “legal”. It’s that fine print thing that a dolt like Liz Warren seems to think will clear up the “mortgage problems”. You can fuck people with fine print.
You seem to report on how people’s lives are being destroyed, perhaps feigning concern over their misery, but you’re completely inconsistent because you’ve earned your money in similar ways. And you work for Banks, the same ones ejecting people from their homes. You have their advertisments plastered over your site.
Skippy June 22, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Were all in the cannibals pot, we are born into, of systems, bias begins at day one, not by an act of reverse choice, experience[s revelations.
Skippy…come together or be blown off, you decide. For myself, I’m beyond repair (killed for money), but with effort here and else where, others may avoid such. Do it not for yourself but others…eh.
Gus Smith June 22, 2011 at 8:40 pm
She hasn’t done much of anything, that’s a fact. Both Dodd and Frank are corrupt beyond reproach, the bill that bears their name is a bad joke. But you’re living in an air conditoned condo in Manhattan, what do you know actually?
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KFritz June 23, 2011 at 12:18 am
I remember Perry Mason, or at least Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, as polite to most, if not all, witnesses, female or male.
lonrrangersilver June 23, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Chance Didn’t Create The Current Crisis
http://lonerangersilver.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/chance-didnt-create-the-current-economic-crisis/
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On June 12, 2014, The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB” or the “Board”) reviewed the Appeal of Fibre-Crafts Materials Corp. (“Applicant”) who had filed a trademark application for the mark BENDASTIX for jewelry making kits and arts and crafts hobby kits for making toys. The Examining Attorney refused the application based on a likelihood of confusion with Merchant Media, LLC’s (“Registrant”) registrations for the marks BENDAROOS (standard character and stylized versions) and BENDAMODEL (standard character) for “flexible building, modeling, and craft toys, namely bendable toys”. See In re Fibre-Craft Material Corp., Serial No. 86727475 (June 12, 2014). The TTAB reversed the refusal. The Board determined that the Registrant’s marks contained a highly suggestive term (“Bend”) in connection with its goods and therefore was entitled to a narrow scope of protection which would allow Applicant’s mark BENDASTIX to co-exist.
The Board relied on the factors in In re E.I. du Pont Nemours & Co., 476 F.2d 1357 177 USPQ 563 (CCPA 1973), and analyzed the probative facts in the record. First the goods were compared as recited in the trademark application and registrations. The applicant was seeking registration for kits for making jewelry and arts and crafts hobby kits for making toys. The Board held that the record did not present any facts to support a relationship between jewelry kits and toys that are bendable. However, the Board found that Applicant’s arts and crafts hobby kits could include bendable toys. Neither the Applicant nor the Registrant limited the trade channels in which the goods will be distributed. At this point in the analysis, the du Pont factors weigh in favor of finding a likelihood of confusion for Applicants craft kits, but not its jewelry making kits.
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Sudbury court: Woman held knife to man's neck during fight
'You could have severed a vein in his neck and he could have bled to death'
Harold Carmichael The Sudbury Star
Sep 13, 2019 • September 13, 2019 • 2 minute read
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A now 19-year-old former Greater Sudbury woman who put a knife to a man’s neck during a fight at a city home won’t be going to jail.
“Just like the guy (assistant Crown attorney Len Walker) told you: it’s not something I see happening again,” Chelsey Beaudry told Ontario Court Justice John Keast, just before receiving a conditional discharge and one-year probation order for the Nov. 26 incident. “It wasn’t me. It’s really not.”
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Beaudry, who was not in custody, had pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon.
Keast told Beaudry the line between life and death is a fine one in incidents where weapons such as knives become involved.
“You are the luckiest person in this situation,” he said. “It was frightening: a knife was held to a neck. You had no idea what you were doing. You could have severed a vein in his neck and he could have bled to death. This is what is frightening: the potential for this going right off the rails.
“And, what aggravating is you have no memory (of the incident). In this kind of situation, bad things happen: really bad things.”
Keast, who also issued a DNA order, told Beaudry she was lucky.
“You learned a very serious message and you better not do drugs again,” he said. “You don’t know what’s going to happen.”
The probation order includes a condition that Beaudry takes recommended counselling for issues such as life skills and drug addiction.
Heading into court, Beaudry did not have a criminal record. If Beaudry stays out of trouble over the next 12 months, she will not end up with a record.
Walker and defence lawyer Danielle Vincent suggested the sentence.
The court heard that about 2 a.m. Nov. 26, Beaudry was at a Barrydowne Road apartment when a man she was with punched another man in the face and pushed him into a wall. A fight erupted.
During the fight, Beaudry pulled out a gold-coloured knife and held it against the throat of one of the men. The man was not injured.
Vincent said that at the time, Beaudry had been homeless for a year and using illegal drugs.
“She was using quite a lot of substances on the day in question,” said the lawyer. “Chelsey doesn’t know what happened to her that day. This is a huge wake-up call for her.”
Vincent said Beaudry is “incredibly remorseful” for the trauma and pain she could have caused the man.
“She definitely regrets what happened,” said Vincent.
Vincent said Beaudry has since stopped using drugs, moved out of Sudbury, surrounded herself with good people, and plans on finishing high school and then attending college.
“The person I am dealing with (now) is a completely different person from the one who surfaced on Nov. 26,” said the lawyer. “She has really taken steps to ensure she doesn’t put herself back in that situation.”
Walker, in his sentencing submission, said that while a conditional discharge seems a light penalty considering the facts of the case, Beaudry is a much different person today.
“It happened about a year ago,” he said. “She has turned herself around. She is on the right track, I think.”
As a result of the guilty plea, the Crown dropped two other charges Beaudry was facing.
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Goodword Islamic Studies: Level 8
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This course has been designed to present the young students comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and Haddith. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, they are taught through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources. A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school text book, it is also an ideal tool for home schooling involving both the parents and the children. Through this way children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up.
A focus on learning through communication.
Development of critical thinking skills.
Discusses the culture of the language in an attractive and objective way.
Presents real-life situation lessons.
Islamic themes.
Dimensions: (9" x 11" x ")
First Publishing Date: 7/1/2006
Current Publishing Date: 7/1/2014
Current Edition: 2nd
Item Weight: .4625 pounds
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Noorart Code: CBGWIS8
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It's ALL About Islam Textbooks: Levels 6,7 & 8
It’s ALL About Islam is an English-language, three-part- Islamic Studies series designed for middle-school students (grades 6—8) in the West. The culturally-relevant teaching methods featured throughout the books in the series differ from the more traditional approaches used in many non-Western Muslim societies.
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It’s All About Islam Series:
It’s ALL About Islam takes a contemporary approach to teaching Islamic Studies that reflect life in today’s world. The textbooks in this series offer rich discussion about Islamic beliefs, history, culture, geography, science, law, and Muslim achievements. Each thematic concept is explored within the context of the Muslim experience in the West. The series has been carefully developed in cooperation with educational specialists. Islamic scholars have authenticated the content to ensure its consistency with the Quran and Sunnah. This series is suitable for Muslim full-time and weekend schools, homeschoolers, and anyone interested in knowing more about Islam.
It’s ALL About Islam features:
Vivid, full-color design.
Lesson Units: Thinking to Learn, Vocabulary Words, Skill Builders, Questions and Review Exercises.
Engaging dialogue and narrative storytelling.
Highlighted Vocabulary Words (285 words) in Arabic with English meaning that includes a glossary for easy reference and study. Plus, free access to audio-recordings on our website for all of the Arabic words.
Reference citations of Qur’an (over 300 ayaat) and Ahadith (more than 45 Hadith) in Arabic with English meaning. Plus, free access to audio-recordings on our website of the Qur’anic ayaat and Ahadith.
Extensive resource listing of enrichment materials.
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ICO Islamic Studies Textbook: Grade 8, Part 2 (With Access Code)
A well-designed curriculum serving the mission of Islamic schools to teach and transmit a common set of beliefs, values and norms
ICO - International Curricula Organization
Team of Authors
There are five content areas in the book:
‘Aqeedah (Islamic doctrine)
The Glorious Qur’an and its sciences
Seerah (biography of the Prophet) and Islamic History
‘Ibaadaat (Worship and Rituals)
Morals and manners
The material is presented using a spiral approach, where students revisit each area and study it in greater depth each year.
The Student’s Textbook contains the subject text of the lessons, exercises as well as activities.
The ICO project is a distinguished one because:
Our curricula meet the needs of the target audience for integrated, coherent, and appropriate curricula.
They were prepared according to scientific bases, assimilating the most recent educational and psychological theories.
They were prepared by special educationists who are experienced in designing curricula and who are familiar with the needs of the target group.
They employed the most recent techniques and educational aids.
They went through many quality control processes, which were carried out by specialized committees, and they were enhanced by teachers who evaluated the curricula before releasing them.
The Features and Characteristics of the Textbooks:
These books were prepared by the International Curricula Organization (ICO) and have certain features, which distinguish them from any other textbooks:
First: The Technical Features:
The textbooks have been designed in accordance with the international quality standards in all aspects: colors, paper, size, illustration, and printing.
They have been furnished with the appropriate illustrations and pictures which match the students’ educational stage and environment.
The texts have been distributed and organized in a way that makes the text stand out, paying special attention to the font type and size, and the spaces; and colors were chosen carefully to appeal to the target audience.
Second: The Instructional and Linguistic Features:
Reinforce the proper linguistic basis of the non-Arabic speaking students.
They build the students’ linguistic dictionary according to their environmental needs.
Provide non-Arabic speaking students with a good deal of Islamic vocabulary.
Identify the correct articulation of the different sounds through the study of the Glorious Qur’an.
Enable the students to evade making mistakes when reciting the Glorious Qur’an through employing the rules of the Arabic language.
Provide an integrated curriculum with well-prepared scientific content and vocabulary.
Take into consideration the students’ individual mental differences and their diverse linguistic skills.
Consider the students’ different cultures.
Develop the students’ creativity and mental faculties.
Third: The Educational Content Features:
Reinforce the principle of forgiveness and the etiquette of disagreement with others.
Develop the spirituality, morality, and values of the students.
Help students have good and balanced personalities.
Develop the students’ pride in their Muslim identity.
Help the caller to Islam to develop a balanced personality that reflects the moderation of Islam.
Learning Islam Textbook: Level 2 (7th Grade)
The series covers grades sixth through eighth, and includes a student textbook and workbook as well as a teacher’s edition.
Islamic Services Foundation (ISF)
Nabil Sadoun, Ed.D and Majida Salem
The “Learning Islam 2” is planned for students in seventh grade or equivalent setting.
It is best for students who studied Islamic Studies through “Learning Islam 1” in sixth grade and “I Love Islam” series in their primary years 1st to 5th. This volume contains lessons that cover lively character building themes extracted from the Qur’an, Hadeeth, faith, Seerah and other authentic sources. The Islamic themes and concepts are presented in an exciting and creative manner. The book includes five units and around forty chapters and lessons.
The units’ titles are:
Allah’s Message and Messengers
Journey to the Hereafter
Islam Prevails over Arabia
Muslim Life Style
Zakah and Charity.
Each chapter includes the outlines, relevant Islamic vocabulary, succinct and objective material, and relevant stories. To make the material meaningful and action oriented, the themes of the book are supported by highlighted passages from the Qur’an and relevant Hadeeth of the Prophet. Additionally, the “Faith in Action” sections encourage students to put what they learn in every chapter into actions. Pictures, illustrations and brilliant layout design makes studying Islam an exciting endeavor for students of this age group. The review sections encourage students to consolidate their knowledge and to analyze and discuss concepts.
40 Hadith for Islamic Schools: Part 1 الأربعون المدرسية
40 hadeeth for Islamic schools provides important guidelines from the Sunnah.
Al-Adly Publications
Arabic and English
CBFHIS1
Muhammad S. Adly
Collection of some of the most touching sayings of the Messenger of Allah (s) to instruct young Muslims in the virtuous manners and ethics related to social interaction in Islam. 40 Hadeeth for Islamic Schools provides important guidelines from the Sunnah on honorable social relations and the principles behind them, with valuable commentary and explanation.
Not only will teachers and students benefit from the inclusion of this book in the curriculum of their Islamic schools, but every Muslim can gain knowledge and important insight from it as well. The book covers many subjects, such as:
Aqidah (belief)
Ibadaat (worship)
Akhlaaq (behavior)
Mu'amalaat (dealing with each other)
Includes Arabic and English texts.
Islamic Studies: Grade 8
It's abundantly beneficial to students in all stages of education as well as to any one who reads them.
Darrussalam
Moulavi Abdul Aziz
The Noticeable Characteristics of Grade 8
The Pillars of Faith
The Pillars of Islam
Aayat al-Birr
Luqman’s advice to his son
The Light Verses
Sujood at-Tilawah
Stories of the Prophets: Moosa
Life of the Prophet – 6 Parts
Stories of the Companions
Drinks and Drugs
A great emphasis has been placed on values like Keeping Promises, Playing Fair, Patience, and Backbiting
Given the dire need for English Islamic studies material in schools, Darussalam has endeavored to publish an Islamic Studies series covering all grades from grades 1 through 12. This series covers all areas of Islamic studies: tafseer, hadeeth, tawheed, fiqh, seerah, and general etiquette relating to different areas and situations. Given the importance of Islamic knowledge, every effort has been made to ensure that the material presented in the series is authentic. Also, given the importance of Arabic Islamic terms, most are presented in their original Arabic script, transliteration, and translation. This also applies to supplications which must be memorized in their Arabic version. The aim is to help the students read the original text and understand its meaning. Each lesson is followed by exercises with questions about the lesson.
One striking feature of this series is the use of colorful artwork. It is appealing to students and teachers. This is certainly bound to attract young readers' attention, stimulate them, amuse them, and most importantly to educate them.
This series aims to acquaint the student with the teachings of Islam in every aspect: beliefs, practices, and moral conduct. Its unique features fill a gap in the area of English Islamic curricula, which has long been neglected.
Come to Success Through Living Eman: Part 1
Eman is the Valuable to Success…
Eman Research Foundation, Inc.
CBCSTLE
Kamal Shaarawy and Leslie Schaffer
Come to Success through Living Eman... This dynamic textbook focuses the reader's attention on the necessity to bridge the gap between an intellectual grasp and the practical application of Eman in one's daily life. By exploring the promises of success that Allah SWT has made to believers in His Glorious Qur'an and through the Sunnah of the Prophet, we can begin to see clearly the star of transformation leading to that true and ultimate success - in this life and in the Hereafter. The reader is shown the importance of formulating and purifying intention: performing a basic regimen of moral and spiritual practice… practice… practice; seeking knowledge as a lifelong devotion reflecting on meaning, purpose and benefit; practicing patience and perseverance (sabr) as an indispensable step on the path to success; and most importantly, praying to Allah SWT for His guidance, help and mercy. The requirements of Eman as supplications through worship, vicegerency and morality are looked d closely so that one can see worship as a reality broad as life itself and the virtual joy of living Eman! Vicegerency is shown to have as foundation self-governance, without which the individual is abased, the family is dysfunctional, and communities are corrupt. And Islamic morality is examined and shown to be a perfect code for the art and science of being truly human, a morality which reaches to the very nucleus of our beings and engenders the fulfilling of our Covenant with Allah SWT.
Come to Success through Living Ewan - Part I
explores both the outward aspects and the inner dimensions of Eman
presents a defining statement and picture of true and ultimate success
demonstrates the importance of reflection as daily habit
shows the benefit and joy of living a life of balance and moderation
clears up common points of ideological confusion
inspires you to discover the joy of living Eman and give this most precious gift to your children
Who con benefit from this book?
teachers and their students in Islamic schools (7th grade and up)
men and women who are incarcerated
study circles
those who want to bring about positive change in their lives
Muslims who feel that their practice of Islam is habitual, ritualistic or dogmatic
Muslims who want to experience the joy of living Eman
those who want to focus more attention on the meaning, purpose and benefit of Eman
young, adults and those who are single
those who are curious/interested in understanding Islam in a deeper way
Muslims who want to reinvigorate their faith
Al-Muin in Composition and Writing: Level 3 المعين في الإنشاء والتعبير
Designed for schools in Arab countries...
Dar Al Roqe'i
The Arabic language, our mother language, is the language of connecting and communicating between grandparents and grandchildren, old and new, tradition and modernity. For this reasons, it must be given the importance it deserves. It must be cared for, loved with devotion, and looked after like a mother cares for her child, or as a farmer protects his field.
Language is not a goal, but a tool to transfer feelings and thoughts between people. Thus, it is not an object, but a living entity that evolves, just like thoughts and feelings change from generation to generation.
The Arabic language has the ability to adjust and develop because of its structure and multiple features such as carving, shaping, painting, and metaphor. What’s more, it has evolved and succeeded in fostering communication between people. It is a social agent that cannot be underestimated.
People who have the ability to influence their listeners are those that have mastered the skills of writing and speaking. To be an effective speaker or writer among people, one must learn how to develop good rhetoric expression models.
While we may take for granted that lingual creativity is a talent or gift from Allah, we cannot forget that training and culture are the indispensable basis for nurturing and promoting creativity. Therefore, we put this three-part educational book Al-Muin - Composition and Writing into the hands of our dear readers, hoping to achieve this desired goal.
General Writing Instructions
Read the subject carefully, at least twice. Underline the words or sentences that represent the main ideas of the subject.
Ask yourself, "What did they ask me to write?"
Beware of straying off subject.
Think before you write.
Have a plan for your subject.
Start with a small focused introduction.
Finish your subject one passage at a time, following the plan you have created.
Take advantage of fluent expressions and quote suitable proverbs.
Conclude the subject with a focused sentence that best summarizes your chosen subject.
Don't neglect punctuation marks.
Correct all grammatical and spelling errors.
Reread what you have written to ensure you have thoroughly covered the subject.
Finally, copy your subject.
My Language is Arabic - Aesthetic Skills: Book 5 عربي لساني - مهارات التذوق الجمالي
A unique series is dedicated for learners’ ages between (9-14) years which aims to develop a different linguistic skills.
Itqan for educational services
This unique series is designed for students 9–14 years old to develop their various skills in the Arabic language.
This book consists of 108 pages, divided into 15 chapters. It focuses on developing students' aesthetic appreciation of various types of texts, such as stories, poems, proverbs, and other styles of literature. This text addresses the following important skills:
Analyzing a text
Classification of various types of literature
Drawing conclusions
Identifying differences in the texts
This book includes exercises and activities that help students develop an aesthetic appreciation of different types of Arabic literature and also aims to instill a love of the Arabic language and encourage them to use Arabic regularly and in various situations.
This book is appropriate for developing an aesthetic appreciation of various types of literature for students who are non-native speakers but have completed advanced levels of studying Arabic as second language. It is also intended for students in Arab countries, and it takes into account the mainstream Arabic curriculums adopted by educational systems in various countries.
This book was developed by a team of educators and academic professionals including academic counselors, distinguished university professors, and highly qualified experts in education curriculums.
Easy Quran Reading with Baghdadi Primer معلم القراءة العربية مع قاعدة بغدادية
This book is derived from the original al-Qa’idah al-Baghdadiyyah.
Easy Quran Reading
Mustafa Mohammad Al-jundi
This book is derived from the original al-Qa’idah al-Baghdadiyyah. It uses a graded technique for children and beginners, and it first teaches the alphabet, then words, then sentences arranged methodically.
This method differs from other methods that begin with sentences and moves on to words and then letters. Children younger than six years old are expected to begin repeating sentences after their teachers. It is easy for them to confuse short vowels (fatha, damma, and kasra), long vowels (alif, waw, and yaa), tanween, sukun, shadda, tarqeeq and tafkheem, and definite and indefinite nouns.
This edition is unique in that it presents a large amount of vocabulary and exercises for each lesson. It also introduces new phonetic rules with exercises. These exercises deal with the definite article, sun and moon letters, and other useful concepts.
Al-Saheeh in Arabic Language Grammar Teacher Book: Level 7 الصحيح في قواعد اللغة العربية
This curriculum gradually learns the basic language order while observing grammar rules.
Dar El-Ilm Lilmaliyeen
Dr. Joseph Elias
The objectives for teaching the Arabic language in the first part of the intermediate level are as follows:
Assist the student with the art of conversation, using classic simplified standard Arabic as the method of expression. Additionally, provide students with the ability to learn and speak Arabic fluently with confidence.
In "Reading and Archives,” enable students to read texts completely and accurately, emulating the teacher's method of reading. Furthermore, correct any errors students may have in understanding and reading the different texts.
Allow the student in "Grammar and Dictation" to gradually learn the basic language order while observing dictation and grammar rules. Also, learn to write connected sentences composed of simple texts that illustrate the vocabulary and rules taught.
Permit the student in “Verbal and Written Expression" to practice verbal expression techniques in order to vary individual style and technique. Teach the student to use acquired expressions and enhance those expressions using personal observations through individual and team activities. Finally, to analyze a text to gain understanding, and the ability to explain, summarize and remark upon it.
This series consists of 9 levels, each level consisting of a student's textbook, workbook, and a teacher book.
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This course has been designed to present young students with a comprehensive Islamic education comprised of general Islamic knowledge based on the Qur'an and Hadith.
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Saniyasnain Khan
This course has been designed to present the young students comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and Hadeeth. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, they are taught through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources. A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school text book, it is also an ideal tool for home schooling involving both the parents and the children. Through this way children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up.
• A focus on learning through communication.
• Development of critical thinking skills.
• Discusses the culture of the language in an attractive and objective way.
• Presents real-life situation lessons.
• Islamic themes.
The Goodword Islamic studies grade 6 course has been designed to present young students with a comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and hadith. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, the course teaches them through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources. A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school textbook, it is also an ideal tool for homeschooling involving both the parents and the children. In this way, children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up.
Best-selling author Saniyasnain Khan has written numerous books for children, of which over a million copies have been sold worldwide. His books reflect his own love of storytelling and deep respect for the eternal message of the Quran. He hopes that his books will make the stories of the Quran memorable for young children and will act as a foundation on which they may build a growing knowledge of Islam.
This course has been designed to present the young students comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and Haddith. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, they are taught through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources. A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school text book, it is also an ideal tool for home schooling involving both the parents and the children. In this way the children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up.
About the author: Best selling author, Saniyasnain Khan, has written numerous books for children, of which over a million copies have been sold worldwide. His books reflect his own love of story telling and deep respect for the eternal message of the Quran. He hopes that his books will make the stories from the Quran memorable for young children and will act as a foundation on which they may build a growing knowledge of Islam.
This course has been designed to present students with a comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and hadith.
This course has been designed to present students with a comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and hadith. Moral principles are not taught directly but through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources. A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school textbook, it is also an ideal tool for homeschooling. Children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up.
A focus on learning through communication
Development of critical thinking skills
Discusses the culture of the language in an attractive and objective way
Presents real-life situations
Islamic themes
This course has been designed to present the young students comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and Haddith. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, they are taught through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources. A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school text book, it is also an ideal tool for home schooling involving both the parents and the children. In this way the children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up. About the author: Best selling author, Saniyasnain Khan, has written numerous books for children, of which over a million copies have been sold worldwide. His books reflect his own love of story telling and deep respect for the eternal message of the Quran. He hopes that his books will make the stories from the Quran memorable for young children and will act as a foundation on which they may build a growing knowledge of Islam.
This course is designed to present students with comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and hadeeth. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, they are taught through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources. A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school textbook, it is also an ideal tool for homeschooling. Students will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up.
Focuses on learning through communication
Develops critical thinking skills
Presents real-life situation lessons
Utilizes Islamic themes
Goodword Islamic Studies: Level 10
9788178988153B
This course was designed to offer young students with a comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and hadith. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, they are taught through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources.
A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school textbook, it is also an ideal tool for homeschooling involving both the parents and the children. In this way, children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up. Features:
Discussions on the culture of the language in an attractive and objective way
Lessons based on real-life situations
I Love Islam Textbook: Level 1 (With Audio CD)
Level 1 in the “I Love Islam” series lays the foundations of the Islamic belief system for young learners in a colorful and age-appropriate manner.
Aimen Ansari, Nabil Sadoun, Ed.D and Majida Yousef
Level 1 in the I Love Islam series lays the foundations of the Islamic belief system for young learners in a colorful and age-appropriate manner. The key concept of tawheed is explained in simple language, drawing on the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Seerah, worship, and Islamic manners and etiquette are covered. Fun characters are introduced to students, inspiring them to learn important life lessons. With this series, students can enjoy the subject and learn lessons that will last a lifetime. The book also comes with a CD of Quran stories and nasheeds by Noorart to supplement lessons.
The I Love Islam series presents Islam to elementary school students in an exciting and creative manner. Textbooks and workbooks gradually introduce Muslim students to the essentials of their faith and bring to light historical and cultural aspects of Islam. Each book in the series is designed to emphasize aspects of Islam appropriate for that grade level.
More About the Series
This series covers grades one through twelve and includes a student textbook, a student workbook, and a teacher's edition. The series will cover many aspects of Islam, including the following:
Fiqh al-ibadat
Fiqh al-mu'amalat
Islamic character education
The Muslim world
Features of the Series
Presented in the English language, so all students can relate to the material
Uses a modern methodology to reach students
Includes simple, but engaging stories
Contains a variety of creative exercises
About the Companion CDs
Noorart, in conjunction with the Islamic Services Foundation, is pleased to offer three companion CDs with the textbooks. Each textbook contains one CD with selections from the following audio products:
We Are Muslims 1 & 2
Qur’an for Little Muslims 1 & 2
We Love Muhammad, Part 1, Life in Mecca
The text and lyrics are available in the textbooks. The corresponding units and chapters are indicated at the beginning of each selection on the CD and notated in the books for easy reference by teachers and students.
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ITV Sport Back in the Saddle for the Return of Live Sport
NEP backs production with safe, at-home production solutions.
Continuing to lead the way in the return of live sport over UK free to air television, ITV Sport resumed its horse racing coverage last weekend, facilitated by a host of innovative technical solutions from NEP, including NEP’s Home Studio offering, that allowed for remote talent contribution and interaction, all being produced by a production team from their own homes.
Broadcasting over three days, the ITV production was hosted by presenters Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani, however not from the track as would normally be the case, but from the comfort and safety of their own homes. They were joined by a host of expert guests all contributing remotely using NEP’s Home Studio platform.
Not to be outdone, ITV’s production and direction team also operated from home, using NEP’s Home Studio production pods to enable remote editorial and directorial control of the broadcast.
Challenged with connecting a distributed presenting team and production crew across ten locations, NEP made use of low latency encoding technology and bonded networking solutions to deliver a secure platform capable of real time communication with robust and reliable contribution facilities.
“Over the past few years, ITV Sport’s racing coverage has become synonymous with its ability to engage, entertain and indeed educate its audiences, and key to this is the chemistry between its on-screen talent. We knew from the outset that any interruption in conversational flow could have a real detrimental impact on the editorial output of the show, therefore we knew we needed a solution that would allow the talent to communicate with each other fluidly” said Jon Harris, Technical Projects Manager, Horse Racing, NEP UK.
Combining solutions from a number of vendors, plus some custom development, NEP deployed a platform and ecosystem that enabled real time bi-directional communication and low latency signal transport. Leveraging video conferencing methodologies, the presenting team were all able to see and hear each other all the time, as if they were in the same location while discrete signals were simultaneously being sent back to the hub to be used for the broadcast output.
“The solution provided by NEP allowed myself, Francesca, Oli and the rest of the team to communicate without the annoyance of any video encoding delays. We’ve all been there lately on awkward conference calls, where even a minor delay can lead to people talking over each other, or the dreaded silence while you wait for a reaction to the punchline of a joke! Luckily with NEP’s solution, that never happened” says ITV Racing presenter Ed Chamberlin.
Using a combination of WebRTC and SRT transmission technologies, low latency signals were contributed discretely via an SD Wan network connected over the public internet. Leveraging both domestic ISP’s and 4G/5G many data, each of the remote locations were connected to a NEP data centre POP. From here the network was extended over NEP Connect’s Anylive Fibre network to Ascot racecourse, where Equinox, ITV racing’s regular OB unit has been setup as a hub.
“It was important to us to have a solution that reliably delivered great programmes to the highest technical and production values. Whilst we are fully aware of virtual mixing solutions running in the cloud, we were working under many time and COVD-19 related constraints. This is one of the first high-profile live sports returning to a Public Service Broadcaster in the UK and as such there is no margin for error. The solution needed to be innovative but set around a known robust core” says Roger Pearce, ITV Sports Technical Director.
Equinox, built for the bespoke needs of ITV’s Horse Racing coverage, provided all of the technical fire power to facilitate the production. The majority of the production crew operated remotely with just a minimum amount of technical crew located within the truck all operating within strictest of social distancing guidelines. The OB unit itself has also been physically modified to allow greater space considerations to ensure crew safety.
NEP’s remote Production Pods were deployed to the homes of production crew. The solution uses domestic Internet and 4G/5G data to extend the reach of the truck and its technical facilities, providing monitoring, talkback panels, router panels and device control such as PTZ cameras.
For the broader production team who didn’t require the physical infrastructure for monitoring and control, a web-based solution was deployed. Developed internally, NEP’s Home Studio portal, is a web-based platform that offers low latency monitoring of video, audio and production talkback via a simple and streamlined web browser.
Designed as a multi-tenant environment content, security is a key design principle throughout. Supporting a host of codecs and transmission protocols, the platform acts as a cloud based CDN and enables secure ultralow latency monitoring of video and audio content.
"To be able to be back transmitting live horse racing safely to an ITV Sport audience has been the result of a huge effort and collaboration between ourselves and our long term racing broadcast partner NEP. Making sure we create a safe environment for everyone, is paramount to all our planning. NEP's excellent new workflow enables us as a production to be flexible with planning a phased return, in line with the latest social distancing guidelines. The ITV audience is at the heart of what we do and, in this current working climate, we are proud to be able to deliver live sport back to the nation" says Ben Russell, ITV Sport’s Head Of Production Operations.
"I’m delighted we’ve been to be able to support ITV, our long-standing client, in these challenging times. I’m incredibly proud of the ingenuity and innovation shown by our global NEP team in developing this solution. While there are still some uncertainties, for all of us, seeing those overcome through talent and determination and the forging of new ways – its strong and it gets the job done “ says Steve Jenkins, President NEP UK & Ireland, “I look forward to continuing to supporting ITV and our many other clients with safe, remote production solutions like these as they look to resume coverage of sports and events.”
Contact us for more information about NEP's at-home production services.
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Kenyan Doctors Go on Strike Protesting Inadequate Benefits, PPE
By NDT Bureau December 21, 2020 December 21, 2020
Kenyan doctors working in government hospitals began a countrywide strike on Monday over inadequate insurance benefits and lack of protective equipment while treating COVID-19 patients, their union said.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union said on Twitter late on Sunday that there had been no resolution of grievances raised over the last eight months.
“The Kenya government has neglected the Welfare, Safety & Health of health care workers,” the union said. “No provision of medical insurance, Workman injury benefits & Compensation & lack of adequate quality PPEs.”
“This greatly hampers the fight against #COVID19 in a country with an acute shortage of doctors,” it added.
Kenya reported 349 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, with 6 fatalities, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 94,500 and the number of deaths to 1,639, the health ministry said.
The virus has been spreading to rural areas where the public health system is creaking and limited intensive care units (ICU) are full, which has led to patients being turned away, medics told Reuters this month.
Nearly three quarters of Kenya’s ICU beds are in the two largest cities, Nairobi and Mombasa.
In August, doctors in most public hospitals in the capital Nairobi went on strike for a week to protest against delays in salary payments and lack of protective equipment when treating patients who may have COVID-19.
Doctors working in hospitals run by regional county governments have also been staging strikes off and on since March over similar grievances.
At least 14 doctors have died of the virus since the first coronavirus case in Kenya was confirmed in March, according to the doctors union. The strike had been due to start on Dec. 7 but was postponed for two weeks to give more time for talks with the government.
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Consumer Products in Emerging Markets: 5 Ways to Succeed
Minute Maid Pulpy Super Milky may be not only the world’s most awkwardly-named consumer product, but also one of its worst tasting.
This glutinous, fruit-flavored milk sits heavily on the tongue. In China, it’s a hit. Consumer products in emerging markets can baffle people with Western tastes, yet they represent enormous potential. For instance, there are 420 million consumers in India’s cities alone, spending $160 billion a year on consumable items, a figure that is growing by over 5% per annum. For consumer products companies, cracking the code that makes Pulpy Super Milky a success is a business imperative.
Five rules, corresponding to the five elements of a business model, offer guidance:
Customize the offering — It hardly seems necessary to say that offerings for emerging markets need to be re-thought from the ground-up, yet countless firms keep making the same mistakes. They target a thin strata of the richest consumers with Western products and hope that demand trickles down. It doesn’t. Not only are these products often poorly suited for local tastes, but consumers in some of the most critical emerging markets are increasingly nationalistic and eager to buy quality local brands. Coca-Cola seems to have learned this lesson with its Pulpy Super Milkly. True, its flagship soda is consistent worldwide, but the 64 flavors on offer at Atlanta’s World of Coca-Cola illustrate that even this iconic firm knows how to shape-shift to succeed locally.
Adapt competitive strategy — While consumers embrace novel entries in some categories (such as beverages), in many areas it can be fiendishly hard to build share against entrenched local brands. Consumers spending a relatively large amount of disposable income on a purchase want reliability. It may be easier to create a new category. For instance, shop shelves will frequently carry local brands of toothbrushes, but Western brands do far better in mouthwash. The challenge then is to displace non-consumption, which is an entirely different task. Brands still matter, though in a different way; they help make an unfamiliar purchase seem less risky, and they create staying power against the local upstarts that are likely to emerge once a category becomes significant.
Invest in partnerships and distribution — The role of distributors in emerging markets can be vastly different than in the West. Where goods move inefficiently, the power to get them to widely-dispersed retailers is key. Distributors can also provide critical assets to retailers, such as refrigeration units, signage, and even stock on consignment. For retailers chronically short of capital, these partners are essential. Distributors can also drop retailers for stocking a rival’s goods, and in a weakly-competitive distribution sector such a move can be devastating to a shop. Firms such as SABMiller, Coca-Cola and others make ironclad control of distribution a fundamental building block of their success with consumer products in emerging markets.
Rethink financials — Cost structures of course need to be kept thin in a market with price-sensitive consumers, but there is a broader need for financial innovation as well. While the gross profit on items may be relatively low, operating margins can be acceptible given inexpensive media costs and low staff overheads. Return on assets (ROA) can be quite high given the labor-intensive nature of these economies. Alternatively, a manufacturer can extend working capital to its distributors, lowering ROA but enabling higher price points. Of course, the challenging pre-condition for that latter model is an ability to get repaid, but new technologies such as mobile payments enable B2B commerce with same-day value, hitherto a real challenge in these settings.
Value new competencies — The art of brand building is important, but practical problem-solving may be the most critical skill in many emerging markets. When Zimbabwe’s railways stopped functioning, Coke’s bottler in Zambia lost its supply of glass. Sales screetched to a halt. Creative sourcing of alternatives saved the day, as scrappy approaches have countless times when the things Western firms take for granted suddenly go awry in these settings.
It is not easy to master any of these five rules, let alone all at once. However they provide a roadmap for how companies can triumph in the lands where Pulpy Super Milky can rule.
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Newsbrit - Latest Celebrity Gossip and Entertainment News
Instagram Influencer claims to be Burna Boy's side chick in a cheating scandal (Video)
Burna Boy, whose real name is Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu has been called out by a lady identified as Jo Pearl who identified herself as Burna's side chick of 2 years.
The lady took to her Instagram handle to post about how she was in a relationship with Burna Boy for two years. She alleges that they were together in 2018 and although he moved to Nigeria, she believed they were still together.
Jo Pearl says Burna never mentioned Stefflon Don when they spoke but seeing them together on social media is becoming too much for her mental health.
Jo Pearl who feels she's been hidden for too long after agreeing to be a side piece to the grammy-nominated singer took to her Instagram page to share her experiences with the singer and how she found out he was in another relationship on social media.
In two videos on her Instagram page, the 23-year-old narrated how she met and fell in love with Burna Boy before he started dating Stefflon Don.
“Two years is such a long time for a person to be hidden,” she said in the video on Instagram.
“It has affected me in so many ways, and I can’t hold it any more to protect people that wouldn’t protect me.”
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Jo Pearl is a 23-year-old Instagram Influencer from London. She has a large following with 31k followers under the handle: @_jopearl and also owns Snatched by Jo Pearl, a waist trainer company.
Speaking in an interview in June 2019, Stefflon Don said they met in Ghana in 2018 when She watched him perform at a show after missing her flight.
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Tags: obama | tax | inversions | lew | overseas | companies
Administration Rushing to Prevent More US Companies from Fleeing Overseas
By Elliot Jager | Thursday, 17 July 2014 08:30 AM
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has written lawmakers urging them to penalize U.S. companies that reincorporate overseas to reduce their tax burden, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Some 50 US multinationals have merged with foreign companies in low tax countries to reduce their tax burden in the past decade. The latest two companies to make the move are AbbVie Inc. and Mylan Inc. both in the pharmaceutical business which did so this week.
Congress has been unable to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the tax-code that would make the U.S. system more pro-business.
Congressional paralysis appears to have served as an added impetus for firms shifting overseas. Some companies have expedited their merger deals out of concern that the Obama administration would take steps to punish inversions. In drafting business arrangements, companies are protecting themselves should the tax benefits afforded by the mergers be abruptly removed by any new legislation.
While the White House wants Congress to pursue tax reform legislation, Lew urged interim measures that would promptly put an end to "this abuse of our tax system."
Many in Congress are wary of taking precipitous action so as not to make the situation worse. Republicans and some key Democrats tend to support limiting inversions through a comprehensive tax reform.
Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, who serves on the Senate Finance Committee, said, "I don't want to be part of legislation that ramps up the competitive disadvantage of being a U.S.-based company or makes U.S.-based companies more attractive targets for foreign takeovers," the Journal reported.
Oregon Democratic Rep. Ron Wyden, chairman of the Finance Committee is on record as wanting to close the inversion "loophole" and would like to see the inversions retroactively undone as a outcome of comprehensive tax reform legislation.
Lew said even as they renounced their US citizenship the companies continued to enjoy American intellectual property protections and other benefits.
"What we need as a nation is a new sense of economic patriotism, where we all rise or fall together," he wrote. "We should not be providing support for corporations that seek to shift their profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share of taxes."
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Descendants 3 Stories
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About Descendants 3 Stories Game
What do you think of the new Descendants movie? If you have not seen it yet, you can get familiar with it by playing the Descendants 3: Stories game! It follows the storyline of the film, with little changes that only you can make. Help Mal and her friends restore the peace between Auradon and the Isle before it is too late.
The Villain Kids are preparing to welcome more children with potential from the Isle of the Lost. Numerous conflicts will rise, some will turn their back on the knights, and enemies will show their good side. Make the right decisions for a happy ending!
Are you ready for the greatest adventure of your life?
The game includes 14 sperate but connected stories, which you have to play in chronological order. To better understand the plot, the prologue will tell you everything you need to know. Characters will talk through chats, which you can skip by clicking the right side of the screen. But if you feel like you missed important information, click on the opposite side.
The scenario is predetermined, but it does allow you to change it slightly! Every now and then, you will have the chance to choose some of the characters’ actions or replies. Never forget to maintain an optimistic attitude and lift everyone’s mood!
Each story has small, additional quests, so they change the linear course of the game. They are quite easy to finish, and you can redo them if you messed up. But if they get too complicated, you can skip them without worry! Their success or failure does not affect your progress in any way.
Can you turn the villains into good people?
This is precisely what Mal, Ben, Carlos, Evie, and everyone in Auradon wishes to accomplish. In the first two stories, the teens are preparing to welcome kids from the Isle. All of them are nervous, but excited, yet are sensing something terrible could happen. ‘’Who Wants to Go to Auradon?’’ finally reveals who is interested in escaping and becoming a knight.
Once school is out, everyone is saying their goodbyes to the graduating students. A major event is a reason for both happiness and madness – Prince Ben just proposed to Mal! Their friends are happy for sure, but Audrey feels enraged. Her jealousy is the beginning of something much worse.
Uma is no longer the greatest threat to the empire. Audrey has unleashed her inner villain and plans to get revenge on every last person who did her wrong. Fortunately, the Isle of the Lost and Auradon join forces and manage to beat her.
At last, both sides call it a truce, the King breaks the barrier, and allows everyone to cooperate and live a proper life together. From enemies to friends with a similar background, follow the blossoming relationship between Mal, daughter of Maleficent, and Uma, Ursula’s descendant!
Descendants 3 Stories is an excellent Descendants game that you can play on NuMuKi for free. It has been added to our website on Saturday, November 16, 2019. The game has been played 5255 times so far and has received a rating of 89 / 100 from a total of 228 user votes, 204 likes and 24 dislikes. Descendants 3 Stories is loaded in an iframe, so it would adequately render in all browsers, including the mobile devices. The game window resolution has been optimized for best visual performance, having the width of 900px and the height of 700px. If you enjoy playing Descendants 3 Stories, you might be excited finding out that there are 16 more Descendants games you can try! The most popular is Mal vs Uma and the most recently added is Descendants 3 Trivia
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Historian and professor Jaya Jones receives a package from an old boyfriend and discovers a lovely piece of what she first thinks is costume jewelry: a heavy gold ankle bracelet with a large red stone in it. She quickly learns that the boyfriend, Rupert, has died in a car crash in Scotland. And that the anklet isn't costume jewelry, it's real and part of a lost cache of Mughal-era jewelry lost for centuries. It may in fact have once belonged to Nur Mahal, wife of the famous Jahangir who built the Taj Mahal.
When Jaya's Merkely apartment is burgled, she decides answers to the threat are in Scotland. Accompanied by Lane **, atractive and blond and mysterious, she goes to London. She is followed from the British Library, where they research history of the Raj. In Scotland, the plot thickens as bogus summons to London and Lane's arrest on faked theft charges that put them out of action. But only until Jaya figures out the solution.
Filled with the lore of the Highlands and the history of the British Empire, Jaya and Lane are a great team with just enough romance to muddy the waters.
This prize-winning book and its subsequent series are a fascinating meld of history, mystery, danger, action, and just enough romance. It's a 5.
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5/series starring LA burglar-for-life Junior Bender. Sent to burgle the home of a notorious hit man called The Slugger, Junior's promised window of opportunity is abruptly closed just as he lays fingers on the prize. It's a set-up. Bender, with typical chutzpah and a spectacular save by his girlfriend, escapes, but The Slugger and a like-minded sidekick are hot and heavy on his trail. Along with the chase, his ex-wife texts a change in his daughter's birthday party plans. Yet another set-up that could turn lethal! Click below for more no-spoiler review.. .
THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT, by Simone St. James
London, 1925, where talented occult mistress Ellie Winter is left a note by her arch-rival Gloria Sutton, who has been murdered at one of Gloria's own seances. Reluctant to enter Sutton's high-visibility world, Ellie decides to honor her adversary's request to "find me", only to find herself dogged by handsome and relentless war veteran James Hawley, who despises charlatans and fakes, and lives to expose them. But Ellie is the real thing, and had given up contacting the dead after the brutal war which wiped out nearly a generation of English men, and now she will only find lost objects. Click below for more...
RADIANT ANGEL, by Nelson DeMille
Book seven in series. Further adventures of John Corey, feisty former New York City detective and now part of a task force monitoring the activities of the Russian espionage agents working in New York. Corey, whose short fuse is legendary as well as the despair of his FBI wife, tracks members of the Russian delegation to the U. N., among them one deadly agent of the KGB. Russian colonel Vasily Petrov of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service goes to a weekend party at the eastern end of Long Island, playground of the rich and devious. Corey, of course, violates protocol and masquerades as a caterer to follow the Russian into a wealthy oligarch's stronghold. When Petrov and a dozen beautiful escorts walk down tthe beach and disappear from view at the height of the party. alarms go off in Corey's head but nobody else is disturbed. Rejecting the conservative approach of asking his superiors for direction, Corey and a reluctant counterpart with mysterious connections follo
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OMCT's intervention at the Commission on Human Rights under item 13
STATEMENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE WORLD ORGANISATION AGAINST TORTURE (OMCT)
59th session March- April 2003
For consideration under Item 13 (Rights of the Child) of the Provisional Agenda
Ms. Chairperson,
In the last five years, the World Organisation Against Torture has documented and acted on hundreds of cases of torture and other forms of violence and repression against children. These are not sporadic and isolated acts. Rather, they have very often proved to be part of a systemic phenomenon, notably within juvenile justice systems.
Torture and other inhumane and degrading treatments are frequently committed against children in police stations and detention centres around the world. OMCT regularly denounces such acts as sexual abuse, beating on the most sensitive parts of the body, prolonged exposure to sunlight, deprivation of food and sleep, closed and solitary confinement. In many countries, children are subject to inhumane conditions of detention, as a result of imprisonment with adults, overpopulation and the absence of hygiene and care. In other countries, such as the Russian Federation and Central Asian States, children are victims of unfair judicial proceedings since harassment, death threats, torture and other forms of ill-treatment are commonly used for the purpose of confession. In detention, they are then denied protection, including from abuse and torture by co-detainees, and they have little opportunities of rehabilitation.
OMCT also condemns the arbitrary detention of child victims of trafficking and exploitation or child asylum seekers, treated as illegal aliens rather than as subjects of rights in need of protection and assistance, notably within the European Union and other rich nations.
OMCT is also strongly concerned that the legislation of some countries, provide that children can be subjected to corporal punishment such as amputation, flogging and stoning. These sanctions lead to immediate physical and psychological damage, long-term developmental problems, and to death in some cases. OMCT believes that any case of amputation and stoning is a case of torture under any circumstance, and that flogging amounts to torture in most cases. These punishments are therefore unlawful, yet they are permitted in the domestic legislation of at least 50 countries and are frequently imposed by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
Ms. Chairperson, the US and Iran still impose death penalty on child offenders, while over the past decade several countries have made the important step of abolishing it. As recently reminded by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the prohibition of the execution of offenders under the age of 18 years at the time of their crime is a norm of international customary law and constitute as well a norm of ius cogens. As such, this prohibition is binding for all States. Furthermore, OMCT would like to highlight the psychological suffering which children endure while awaiting execution or when at high risk of being condemned to death.
Finally, in relation with Casa Allianza’s statement, OMCT deems that unlawful killings, even when the perpetrators are not identified, may engage State responsibility for lack of due diligence. Nicaragua, Honduras, Brazil and other States must engage in proactive policies against this phenomenon. OMCT welcomes the efforts made by Honduras in that field but would like to remind that such policies, in order to be efficient, whether focusing on prevention or rehabilitation both of child victims and offenders, must not further criminalize youth. They must rather sensitize and empower children as subjects of rights.
Mainstreaming children’s rights within the existing international mechanisms on human rights must be strengthened and encouraged. OMCT strongly welcomes the UN study on violence against children and would like to reiterate the urgent need for additional measures to protect children from violence now. In that spirit, OMCT recommends the Commission to appoint a Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Children to investigate proactively, respond to allegations and take urgent action to stop, prevent and redress these violations of the fundamental human rights of children.
Thank you Ms. Chairperson.
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An electronic sign at the Tofino-Ucluelet junction notifies travellers that closure windows are in effect. (Andrew Bailey photo)
Province announces changes to Tofino-Ucluelet highway closures
The closures are due to a $38 million Kennedy Hill Safety Improvements Project.
The New Year will bring a new highway closure schedule for travellers heading in and out of the Tofino-Ucluelet region.
B.C.’s ministry of transportation and infrastructure announced on Monday, Dec. 14, that the current 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. closure will shift to 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every weekday beginning Jan. 5.
The closures are due to a $38 million Kennedy Hill Safety Improvements Project being paid for by the provincial and federal governments.
The closure shift comes after the project’s contractor Emil Anderson Construction launched an online survey on Nov. 23 asking residents for input on the closure times and announced on Nov. 26 that the 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. closure would move to 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. based on the survey’s results.
Thank you to everyone that participated in our survey. The majority of people requested us to change our closures to…
Posted by EAC Hwy 4 Kennedy Hill Project Updates on Thursday, November 26, 2020
The contractor’s announcement sparked confusion however as the ministry said no schedule changes had been approved or authorized and that the closure windows had not changed.
The ministry’s Dec. 14 announcement suggests it will indeed abide by the survey’s results.
“The new closure window follows input recently received from local residents, commercial operators and local stakeholders,” the ministry’s Dec. 14 announcement reads. “On-site geotechnical investigations determined that the safest time to blast is during daylight hours, to allow for safe and efficient removal of loose rock after each blast. Daytime blasting and scheduled road closures are expected to be required through spring 2021.”
The Tofino Long Beach chamber of commerce wrote a letter to the ministry in October urging for a change to the 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. closure window because of the negative impacts that closure time was having on both businesses and residents.
The chamber’s executive director Jen Dart told the Westerly News on Monday that she was happy to see local voices heard.
“A daytime closure at any time is obviously going to continue to inconvenience West Coast residents, but the Chamber board is pleased that the ministry took our members’ concerns seriously and acted on them. We hope this type of communication and collaboration can continue for the duration of the project,” Dart said.
The Ucluelet chamber of commerce had supported Tofino’s push for a change and also expressed gratitude for the shift.
“While the change in time poses issues for some businesses, it benefits the majority, so we’re happy that our voices were heard and considered,” Ucluelet chamber of commerce executive director Laurie Filgiano told the Westerly.
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You can have breakfast with a Disney princess…
You can have breakfast with a Disney princess — for only $125 per person
Will this special offering at Napa Rose draw diners?
Disney is planning to add princess breakfasts to the Napa Rose restaurant at Disney’s Grand Californian, starting March 30, 2019. Photo courtesy of Disney
By Marla Jo Fisher | mfisher@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: January 30, 2019 at 10:48 a.m. | UPDATED: January 31, 2019 at 11:45 a.m.
Disney princesses are a perennial favorite worldwide, and now the Disneyland Resort has added its first meal dedicated to them since Ariel’s Grotto closed in 2017 at Disney California Adventure.
The resort has begun accepting reservations for the breakfast, which is slated to begin March 30 at the upscale Napa Rose restaurant at Disney’s Grand Californian hotel. In the past, Napa Rose has been known for fine dining and its copious wine cellar — in fact every server there is required to also be a trained sommelier.
In this new offering, though, Disney is inviting anyone who wants to dine with princesses — especially kids — to enjoy a three-course breakfast, along with a special storytelling experience amid the posh ambiance, which is inspired by designs by legendary Art Nouveau designer Charles Rennie MacIntosh. The cost of the meal for both adults and kids is $125 per person — a price tag that had Disney fans on Facebook pages squawking with displeasure. Some said they were willing to pay it, though, considering that Napa Rose is known for its fine dining.
Clearly, it’s been shown that people are willing to pay serious money for their Disney dining experiences. An afternoon tea offered at the Disneyland Hotel that can cost as much as $65 — and doesn’t include any princess visits — routinely sells out.
Disney plans to add princess dining to its Napa Rose restaurant at Disney’s Grand Californian starting March 30, 2019. Photo courtesy of Disney
Disney promises this event is going to more than a plate of Mickey-shaped pancakes. On the Disney Parks blog, fans are promised “a charming new storytelling environment and served sparkling beverages, including champagne for adults. During the sumptuous breakfast event, Disney Princesses such as Belle, Tiana, Ariel, Jasmine and others arrive to greet and make memories with families.”
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The blog continues, saying that guests then move out to the patio “where girls and boys let their imaginations soar as they delight in storytelling inspired by confident, kind and courageous Disney Princesses who dream big and celebrate who they are.”
“Disney Princess Breakfast Adventures will encourage youngsters to discover their own strengths and talents, and start each morning with a ‘can-do’ attitude to never stop believing that anything is possible,” the blog says, adding that the event ends with a photo opportunity and special gift.
The breakfast is slated to be held Thursdays through Mondays between 8 a.m. and noon. Reservations are now being accepted as far as 60 days in advance.
The signature Napa Rose restaurant in Disney’s Grand Californian restaurant is based on the designs of Charles Rennie Macintosh, a Scottish designer influenced by Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement. (Photo: Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register)
The $125 price includes five hours of free parking, but not tax or tip. This is likely to sell out, so people who want to go should reserve now. Note that cancellations are free up to one day before, but cancellations the day of the reservation will incur a $10 penalty.
People can check availability by calling 714-781-3463 or online at disneyland.disney.go.com/dining/grand-californian-hotel/disney-princess-breakfast-adventures.
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Marla Jo Fisher was a workaholic hard news reporter before she adopted two children from foster care at age 46, picked up a scruffy dog along the way and somehow managed to keep them all alive, at least so far. She now writes the Frumpy Middle-Age Mom humor column that appears in the Orange County Register weekly. Due to her status as the cheapest person alive, she also writes about deals and bargains for the Register, including her Cheapo Travel column which also runs in newspapers around the country. When she's not having a nervous breakdown, she's usually traveling somewhere cheaply and writing about it.
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The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) recently named Richard “Rich” Lenz as the new anchor for the Oklahoma News Report (ONR), Oklahoma’s only statewide news program.
“We’re happy to welcome a journalist the caliber of Rich Lenz to the OETA family,” said Polly Anderson, executive director, OETA. “His professionalism and energy will help ONR serve the people of Oklahoma with even more news content, and, having a permanent anchor on the desk will help us greatly in continuity.”
Lenz began his news career as the sports director and anchor for WTXL-TV, Tallahassee, Fl., before working in the same capacity for WVLA-TV, Baron Rouge, La. Lenz then worked as a weekend sports anchor and reporter for KWTV, Oklahoma City, before returning to Louisiana to become the sports director and later the news anchor for WDSU-TV in New Orleans. Since 2007, Lenz has been the co-anchor for the 6 in the Morning program on KOTV, Tulsa.
“Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma,” said Bill Perry, vice president of local content, OETA. “His friendships, along with his knowledge of the people, government and state of Oklahoma make him an excellent addition and the perfect person to deliver the news to our viewers across the state.”
“My desire to anchor and report for ONR is based on my enthusiasm to reach the entire state each week,” said Lenz. “The opportunity to continue the great informative, interesting and entertaining storytelling that ONR is known for is something I’m honored to be a part of.”
Lenz earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, Athens.
When he’s not chasing a story, Lenz is an Emmy-winning song writer. He’s married to his wife of 29 years, Leslie, and they have two children, Cameron, 25, who’s currently in medical school at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Tulsa campus and Claire, 21, who is studying journalism at the University of Tulsa.
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Axion Consulting-led consortium unveils Reflex report on flexible plastic packaging
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A consortium led by UK-based Axion Consulting has unveiled the findings of a research and development (R&D) project, Reflex, that aims to find ways to recycle flexible plastic packaging in the UK.
Co-financed by Innovate UK, the two-year Reflex project has brought together various firms involved in polymer production, packaging manufacturing, waste management and recycling.
After examining the commercial value of packaging recovered by recycling, Reflex found that attractive yields of reusable materials could be achieved.
The project also addressed many technical challenges in establishing an infrastructure to collect, sort and recycle polyolefinic flexible packaging across the country.
The Reflex consortium includes Amcor, Dow Chemical Company, Interflex Group, Nestlé UK, SUEZ, TOMRA Sorting and Unilever.
"We think that these changes and further technology optimisation can improve the economics of recycling flexible packaging."
Axion Consulting senior engineer Richard McKinlay said: “We think that these changes and further technology optimisation can improve the economics of recycling flexible packaging and make the concept more attractive to investors and recyclers.”
Trials conducted during the Reflex project demonstrated that polymers could deliver the required performance and technical properties for various items, including boxes, crates or drainage pipe products.
With the completion of Reflex, the consortium plans to enhance collaboration between brand owners, converters and related companies across Europe to confirm and validate design guidelines for recycling.
It is estimated that flexible packaging, including plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, frozen food bags and pouches, account for 27% of consumer plastic packaging in the UK, the majority of which end up in landfills or energy recovery systems.
Image: Majority of UK’s flexible packaging ends up in landfills or energy recovery systems. Photo: courtesy of Axion Recycling.
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Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational VIP Cocktail Party and Black Tie Gala – Feb. 20, 2016
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While 2016 would have marked Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday had he been alive, the singer's place in music history continues to be passed on from generation to generation,
Writer-director-producer-actor Seth McFarlane, who received the Performing Arts Award at the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational Black Tie Gala on Feb. 19, says the "genius" of Frank Sinatra continues to be recognized.
“There isn’t a singer alive who doesn’t owe something to Frank Sinatra, the greatest vocalist in the history of popular song," McFarlane said. "Sinatra’s recordings exist outside of any genre you can describe, they transcend time, and the genius of what separates Sinatra from his contemporaries is his sense of orchestration and his appreciation of the power of orchestration.”
100 Years of Sinatra was this year’s theme for the gala held at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, benefiting the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children.
Tom Dreesden returned as emcee, with actor Joe Mantegna as co-host. Mantegna said that standing between Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett 23 years ago was like “being in Italian heaven.”
The Fifth Dimension capped an evening of accolades to the late singer and the superb work accomplished by Barbara Sinatra and the center in saving lives.
Artist Scotty Medlock’s original Sinatra portrait was auctioned off, and framed prints were given to awardees. Doug Welmas, Tribal Chairman of the Cabazon band of Mission Indians, was honored for the tribe’s seven years hosting of the tournament.
Tony Marnell II received the Business Lifetime Achievement Award for design and construction of the world’s most recognizable resort hotel and gaming properties. “I was lucky to be born at a time when people believed you could do great things,” he said.
A Special Business Award went to Chief Executive Officer Peter Bevacqua of the PGA of America. “Frank Sinatra helped me through my life – I listened to him growing up, played his recordings at my wedding, and at all significant events in my life,” he said.
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EDUCATE. Find out more about genetic illness transfer between people and the chances of you sharing a genetic disease with your family.
A genetic disorder is a disease that is caused by a change, or mutation, in an individual’s DNA sequence. The condition is an illness caused by changes in a person’s DNA. Such a condition can be transmitted genetically in a process called genetic illness transfer.
A mutation causes dominant genetic diseases in one copy of a gene. If a parent has a dominant genetic disease, then each of that person’s children has a chance of acquiring that disease through genetic illness transfer.
The current genetics definition refers to the study and manipulation of heredity and variation in living organisms. Certain genetic conditions may affect fertility or may be treated through a variety of in vitro fertilization (IVF) Mexico. In general, these genetic abnormalities fall into two categories: Single gene defects and chromosomal abnormalities.
Genetics is pervasive in twenty-first-century science and it includes reproductive screening technologies like preimplantation genetic screening.
How Genetic Illness Transfer Works?
Genetic illness transfer can happen through several patterns. These include:
Through a mutation of a dominant illness in a single copy of a gene. One great example is Huntington disease. DNA tests are available for some dominant genetic disorders.
Recessive genetic diseases. This happens when both parents possess or are carriers of a similar recessive disease. The chances of an offspring inheriting the trait from both parents vary, however, with a 25% chance that the child will inherit the disease from both parents, 50% chance that it will inherit the disease from one parent, and a 25% chance that the child will not be a carrier or have the disease.
Genetic diseases that manifest themselves based on the sex of the individual affect males and females differently. For example, diseases such as hemophilia and color-blindness are related to the gene mutations on the X or Y chromosomes. Therefore, they tend to only affect one gender.
All pregnancies run a risk of developing chromosomal abnormalities. At times, such risks have everything to do with the parent. For example, their age or even extra or missing chromosomes. Other chromosomal abnormalities relate to how they are structured and organized. Such abnormalities can be passed from parent to child in and can cause multiple unexplained miscarriages, apparent infertility, or congenital disabilities.
The Role of Genetic Testing
A genetic test is designed to identify mutations or changes in DNA. Genetic testing is useful in many areas of medicine and can positively influence the kind of medical care you or your family members receive. For example, simple genetic testing can determine whether you have a genetic condition such as Fragile X. It can also give your doctor information about your risk of developing cancer.
Here is an array of genetics examples to explore.
Genetic recombination or DNA recombination involves the exchange of genetic material either between multiple chromosomes or between different regions of the same chromosome.
Genetic variation is the distinction of DNA sequences between individuals within a population.
Genetic linkage is the tendency of DNA sequences that are close together on a chromosome to be inherited together during the meiosis phase of sexual reproduction. Genetic linkage maps can be used to identify the location of genes responsible for traits and diseases.
For example, genetics of eye color is influenced by more than one gene. There is evidence that as many as 16 different genes could be responsible for eye color in humans. However, the primary two genes linked with eye color variation are OCA2 and HERC2, and both are localized in Chromosome 15.
A genetics counselor can help make sure that you are the right person in your family to get a genetic test, you’re getting the proper genetic analysis, and that you understand your results, including:
Determining whether you possess an inherited genetic condition even before the symptoms start to manifest.
Learning whether a genetic condition will affect the current or future pregnancy
To diagnose a genetic condition that is already manifesting symptoms in you and your child.
To understand and guide your cancer prevention or treatment plan
Genetic Diseases and Disorders
Genetic diseases are any disease caused by an abnormality in the genetic makeup of an individual. The genetic defect can range from minuscule to major; from a discrete mutation in a single base in the DNA of a single gene to a chromosomal abnormality involving the entire chromosome or set of chromosomes.
Some people inherit genetic disorders from the parents, while acquired changes or mutations in a preexisting gene or group of genes cause other genetic diseases.
Genetic illness trafer can influence the transmission of different diseases from one person to the next. These diseases include:
Cancer is a genetic disease. It causes specific changes to genes that control the way our cells function, especially how they grow and divide.
Breast cancer is an example of a genetically transferred illness. About 5 to 10% of breast cancers are thought to be hereditary, caused by abnormal genes passed from parent to child.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders, affecting an estimated 1 in 59 children. ASD is highly genetically heterogeneous and may be caused by both inheritable and de novo gene variations.
Certain known genetic disorders are associated with an increased risk for autism, including Fragile X syndrome, tuberous sclerosis — each of which results from a mutation in a single, but different, gene.
Recessive Genetic Disease
If both partners are carriers, they have a 25% risk of having an affected child with a recessive genetic disease and a 50% that the child will be a carrier like the parents.
Chances of a child inheriting an autosomal recessive disorder are:
25%. Here, the child will inherit two changed mutated genes, one from each parent
50%. The child will be a carrier like the parents, but without any symptoms. They will have inherited one normal gene and one mutated gene
50%. The child will not inherit the defected gene with a change from either parent. This means that the child will not be a carrier and will not be affected by the disorder.
In an X-linked recessive disorder, a carrier mother has a 25% chance of having an affected male child in each pregnancy.
There is a 50% chance that the child is a male or female who is healthy with a normal copy of a particular gene
There is a 25% chance that it is a healthy carrier female child or a mildly affected female child
There is a 25% chance that it is an affected male with only one mutated copy of the gene
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You are more likely to make an informed decision as a parent if you go through carrier screening. This will allow you to make the right choices regarding family planning.
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How to Choose a Reverb for Music Production
by David Bawiec, iZotope Contributor May 1, 2020
Reverb can easily liven an uninteresting mix, learn how to choose the best one for your next project.
Reverb reading and resources
What is Reverb?
When to Add Reverb
What Does Digital Reverb Do?
Reverb history:
8 Unique Uses of Reverb in Music History
A History of Reverb in Music Production
General tips and techniques:
8 Reverb Effects for Sound Design
5 Essential Reverb Mixing Tips
6 Creative Reverb Production Techniques
Genre-specific Reverb Tips
Reverb problem areas:
9 Common Reverb Mixing Mistakes to Avoid
6 Times to Use Multiple Reverbs in a Mix
Managing Reverb Heavy Mixes
Reverb on specific mix elements:
Tips for Reverb on Vocals
Tips for Reverb on Guitars
Tips for Reverb on Drums
Add realistic ambience to any track or scene:
Exponential Audio Reverbs
Reverb is everywhere. Whether you're talking in a long concrete tunnel or performing in a small jazz club, each space you make noise in will have a natural reverberation, and its parameters (like the size of the room, materials, and location of other objects in the space) will affect how the reverb sounds.
If you remember our article on how to use reverb, there are different kinds of reverbs (and reverb plug-ins), from analog units to digital emulations of spaces. Just trying to choose from the kinds of spaces alone can feel daunting. So in this blog, we’ll cover basic questions you should be asking that will answer which reverb may be right for your audio.
But before we begin, one caveat: there is no such thing as a bad reverb. One reverb may work incredibly well on one instrument while sounding disastrously bad on another. And furthermore, the same reverb may sound great on a guitar on one song, and create a very muddy mix on the same guitar on another song. Making the decision as to which reverb to select is personal. This guide is meant to be an idea-sparking tool to help you in the process.
1. Are you trying to sound natural?
One of the most important questions to ask yourself is: what kind of effect are you going for?
Are you trying to recreate a natural scene of a jazz club? Are you trying to make the vocalist and all the instruments sound like they were performing in a symphonic concert hall? In these cases, you'll want to choose a reverb that emulates/imitates a real space in which the performers could have and would have actually performed.
A staircase, bathroom, or airplane hanger would probably be on the unlikely list of performance venues. Rooms, halls, and cathedrals, on the other hand, would be good starting choices. Whichever space you choose, if you're trying to stay realistic, make sure that the majority of your instruments are using the same reverb to make it sound like they actually performed in the same space. A good natural reverb like NIMBUS, PhoenixVerb and Stratus.
If, however, you're not trying to recreate a real space, then you're much more free to mix and match, or even use unconventional reverb kinds and spaces to achieve the desired effect.
Listen to the audio example below. You’ll hear the dry signal, followed by three more versions with three different reverbs. Which one sounds most natural to you?
Which Reverb Sounds Most Natural?
If you said the first of the three, I’d agree with you because it recreates a jazz club. The second and third reverb are replicating a tiny room and a prison med hall accordingly, both of which don’t sound like a natural place for a vocal to be performing in.
2. What emotion are you trying to impart?
This is a particularly important question to answer in regards to a lead vocal. Are you trying to create a sense of intimacy? Go for a drier room with a very short reverb tail, like a small club, or a small wooden room with a tail no longer than 1 second. On the other hand, if you want to create a more emotionally charged performance from the vocal, try a larger room with a longer tail that fills the space with lots of mid- and hi-end reverb gold. Both Stratus and NIMBUS from Exponential Audio are great options for tweaking the emotional impact of the signal you're working with.
There’s a reason all power-ballads use long reverb with a nice pre-delay to give you the sense that the singer is singing in a giant concert hall yet at the same time is right in your face.
Compare the two versions below. Can you hear how the different reverbs are creating two different virtual locations (intimate and then vast), and therefore two very different feelings?
Intimate Reverb, Vast Reverb
3. How busy is the part you’re adding reverb to?
Take into consideration how busy a particular part is when choosing the reverb's room size. The larger the room, the longer the tail. However, if your part (let's say guitar part) is very busy with notes and frequently changing chords, then a long reverb tail will also create a big mess. Every note will blend into the next, and each chord will also blend into the following chords. You want the reverb to create ambiance, not chaos.
So if the musical part that you're adding reverb to is very busy, consider using a room with a short reverb tail. On the other hand, if the part you're working on is sparse and features lots of empty space, then you can examine using reverb with a longer tail that will fill up the empty space.
Listen to "Work from Home" by Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dollar $ign. The lead melodic lick heard in the opening consists of very few notes that are spread out pretty wide in time. To fill the empty space, the lick has a giant reverb with a decay that lasts 6–10 seconds. On the other hand, the lead vocals are pretty busy, so they feature a short reverb tail to keep things from getting too messy.
In the audio example below, you’ll hear two phrases: the first is busy and fast. Notice how the first time you hear it it’s with a relatively short reverb tail (1.6-second reverb recreating a small concert call). The phrase is clean and clear to understand.
In the second example within the clip, I added a 6.1-second reverb tail (replicating an ancient church). Can you hear how suddenly that same phrase is messy and harder to comprehend? The reverb has become a distraction.
In the third and fourth examples within the clip, you’ll hear a slow phrase filled with long notes. Notice how this time the first reverb almost sounds dry, whereas the second one fills the space with her voice without ever really getting into the way.
Consider how busy you want to make your track when selecting and tweaking a reverb plug-in.
Demonstrating Busyness in Reverb (Short Tail vs. Long Tail)
4. Are you maintaining separation between instruments?
It’s one thing to get a single instrument sounding great with reverb. However, it's a different story trying to find the right balance in the context of your track. Follow the advice from the previous section to find the right balance of long/short reverbs for your song. Pair that with how much reverb each track should receive to keep things both clean and clear, yet at the same time interesting.
Going back to "Work from Home," notice how the intro features only two instruments. The lead melodic lick has a giant reverb on it. On the other hand, the finger snaps are completely dry. If they also had a lot of reverb on them, they would start creating a muddy mix. Make these considerations for each instrument. Does it need reverb? If so, how much should you add will depend on how much you add to other instruments in your mix.
Ultimately, you want to create a sense of space while maintaining sonic separation between your instruments. Where possible, EQ out any low frequencies from the reverb to get rid of unwanted noise in the low-end.
These four considerations are a great way to get the ball rolling in your decision-making process regarding reverbs. Try to listen to as many songs by your favorite artists to hear how they use reverbs to effectively create spaces and shape emotions. In the next article, I'll look at deciding when to add reverb and when to skip it. We'll explore different techniques that will allow you to create mix clarity all while using long-tailed reverbs.
David Bawiec
Learn more about reverb for music production:
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Tom Cain
He is the most popular President in decades - which is why they want him dead
When a people-trafficker dies a violent death in Dubai, and a gangland money-launderer has a fatal car accident in San Francisco, both bear the hallmarks of a Sam Carver 'accident'.
The only problem is Sam Carver no longer plays that game. He made a promise. But someone is setting Carver up, framing him for crimes he didn't commit. And now his old paymasters at MI6 want him stopped.
A copycat killer wants to crush Carver, and then beat him at his own game by hitting the world's most prominent target, the new President of the United States.
Carver will have to use all his cunning and tradecraft to stop this deadly opponent. Alone and on the run, he must fight to clear his name - but first he must stop a fatal shot that will be heard around the world.
The most audacious and timely thriller in years
Fast-moving, cleverly constructed and very readable
The Survivor
The Accident Man
Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with twenty-five years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers. He has lived in Moscow, Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. He is the author of The Accident Man,The Survivor, Assassin, Dictator and Carver.
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Govt-led COVID recovery plans must lead us to ‘better normal’ – Greenpeace
Greenpeace Philippines today called on the government to ensure that climate action and vulnerable sectors are at the core of its stimulus plans underscoring that recovery plans must lead the country to a ‘better normal’.
The call came as Typhoon Ambo sends tens of thousands of Filipinos whose lives and livelihoods are already affected by COVID-19—reeling from heavy rains and strong winds.
Typhoon Ambo is the first tropical storm to hit the country this year following an intense dry season that saw record high temperatures. The typhoon arrives as Congress deliberates several bills to respond to the economic impacts of the pandemic.
“The ‘new normal’ is supposed to make our communities more liveable after the pandemic, but even when the COVID19 crisis ends, Filipinos’ livelihoods, health, access to basic needs, and safety will remain threatened by more intense and frequent typhoons, droughts, and rising sea levels. The government must use this opportunity to transition to a ‘better normal’ that will integrate the solutions to both crises into a coherent response.” Greenpeace Campaigner Virginia Benosa-Llorin said.
At present, trillions are earmarked for infrastructure projects and to support a private sector “recovery” phase in order to “restart” the economy. There is a real danger that governments and industries could reinvest in a business-as-usual scenario, including more dirty investments, and will exacerbate inequitable socio-economic conditions by developing private-for-profit services that neglect the needs, concerns and rights of women, indigenous peoples, workers and marginalized communities.
Greenpeace believes that instead of going back to old business-as-usual systems that have created the climate crisis and massive inequality, any recovery plan must aim to transform our economy and society to tackle the climate crisis and promote positive environmental and health outcomes.
All infrastructure investments must be climate and community responsive, while urgently managing a phase-out of fossil fuel-dependent energy generation and infrastructure. Doing so will help build resilience against future pandemics and climate emergencies, and ensure a society that puts the well-being of people and the environment on which their well-being depends, first.
Concretely, this means, among others, that 1) infrastructure initiatives moving forward must exclude all fossil fuel, nuclear, large hydro and similarly destructive power plants; and 2) no financial incentives, subsidies, bail-outs or enabling policy measures allowing for, or leading to, further expansion of fossil fuel exploration, extraction and intensive use, including industrial agriculture and fisheries market shares.
Instead, money for recovery must go to the most vulnerable sectors which need it most, as well as systems that will lead us to a carbon-free society, such as decentralized RE, efficient and inclusive mass public transport, and shortened value chains that connect farmers and fisherfolk to people in cities.
“Most vulnerable communities, such as farmers of fisherfolk, deal with disruption of livelihood opportunities year-round due to typhoons and droughts. COVID-19 is a threat multiplier for them. This is why the government must put them at the center of recovery plans and ensure that all projects and initiatives being planned right now reshape the economy and society to lead us to a better normal,” Llorin added.
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Oregon finally looking at grey water re-use
Robert Ray
Location: Cascades of Oregon
Oregon DEQ is finally looking at legal permitting of greywater reuse.
http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/reuse/gwrulemaking.htm
Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.
Jami McBride
Location: PNW Oregon
The Link isn't going where I think you intended, can you have a look at it?
It should work now
I have to say I'm not impressed - we have no rights, no privacy, no land use or personal use rights. For the privilege of using greywater one must submit plans of their design, get a permit and pay at least $50 a year. Septic system permits and fees are still required, or in town sewer - storm drain fees will still apply. By 'allowing' GW they are just finding a new way to legislate a thing and make money off we the people - IMO. After initial costs, if your paying for your water it will save you money if you use the water to do your watering, but it still grips me......
Q: What will the permits cost?
A: The proposed permit fees will vary based on permit type.
Tier 1: A Tier 1 permit would cost $50 per year. Annual fees for the entire term of the permit must be paid at the time of application. However, someone submitting a new application for five years of coverage under a Tier 1 permit can pay an initial fee of $200. DEQ will renew the Tier 1 permit every five years, at which time the owner will receive a renewal application and bill from DEQ.
Tier 2: A new application for a Tier 2 permit would cost a one-time fee of $534 and then $50 a year. The one-time new-permit fee is necessary to cover DEQ’s costs of reviewing and approving the permit. Like a Tier 1 permit, annual fees are due at the time of application. For example, someone submitting a new application for five years of coverage under a Tier 2 permit will pay $784. When the permit is renewed, only the annual fees must be paid.
Tier 3 permit: The costs of a Tier 3 permit would vary based on the system’s size and complexity and can range from $935 to $4,539 for a new permit; annual fees may be $334 to $667.
Q: Under a Tier 1 and Tier 2 permit, I must pay an annual fee of $50. What do I get for the annual fee?
A: The Oregon Legislature directed DEQ to develop a permitting program for graywater reuse and disposal systems, but did not provide any financial support for the program. DEQ will use monies from the annual fee to provide graywater information to the public, develop supporting documentation, develop and issue permits, and cover general administrative tasks associated with the program. DEQ will also use fee monies to cover costs associated with responding to complaints.
Q: What would happen if I don’t have the required permit for a graywater system?
A: Unpermitted graywater systems may be subject to enforcement action, including the imposing of civil penalties.
Q: If I already have a graywater reuse and disposal system, is that “grandfathered in,” or do I need to get a permit?
A: The Oregon Legislature specifically stated that a person may not construct, install or operate a graywater reuse and disposal system without first obtaining a permit from the DEQ. Anyone who may have a previously installed system will have to meet all relevant requirements of the new rules and apply for a permit to operate the system.
Q: If I use graywater only for toilet flushing, do I need to get a permit from DEQ?
A: No. This type of activity may require a plumbing permit or approval from the Oregon Department of Business and Consumer Services, Building Codes Division. A DEQ permit is not required for indoor graywater reuse activities where the water is ultimately discharged to a sanitary sewer or an onsite wastewater treatment system. This includes toilet and urinal flushing as well as reuse in commercial laundries and car washes.
Q: My local county has directed me to install a septic system to develop my property. Can I avoid installing a septic system if I use a graywater reuse and disposal system with composting toilets?
A: In most cases, no. The proposed rules require a graywater reuse and disposal system to be connected to an approved onsite (septic) wastewater treatment system.
Q: Can I use my graywater reuse and disposal system in the winter?
A: Graywater can be used for irrigation only when precipitation cannot meet plant water needs. The proposed rules also prohibit graywater discharges to frozen or saturated soils.
Thanks for the link Robert
Oregon approves Grey water reuse
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St. Louis Child Abuse & Neglect Lawyers
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Investigations By The Division of Family Services, Children’s Division
The attorneys at Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C. have experience representing clients involved in investigations by the Division of Family Services, Children’s Division (also known as “DFS” or “the Children’s Division”). Our St. Louis child abuse & neglect attorneys have represented victims of abuse and those accused of abuse or neglect in front of the Child Abuse and Neglect Review Board (“CANRB”), and have handled appeals of CANRB findings in trials de novo in front of circuit courts in Missouri.
If you have been accused of child abuse or neglect, you need to act quickly and consult our St. Louis family law attorneys. Call us for an initial consultation at 314-727-2266.
Initial DFS Children’s Division Investigations
When a report is made to the DFS, Children’s Division, the Division dispatches a staff member to investigate the allegations. The reporting of any neglect or abuse is anonymous so the Division has no way of knowing before the investigation whether the person reporting has any ulterior motives or if there is a child in danger.
The Division will usually call to schedule a time to speak with you. While their investigation is not a criminal proceeding, it can lead to criminal charges, so it’s essential to speak with an experienced attorney when you are first contacted. You should not talk about the investigation with any child who may be involved in the investigation, as you do not want to appear as though you are influencing anyone or interfering with the case.
If you retain an attorney, they should contact the Division worker assigned to your case and schedule a time for both of you to meet with the Division worker together. Whether you will make a statement to the worker or not will ultimately be a decision made by you and your attorney.
Then, the Division can determine if the allegation is substantiated or unsubstantiated, or refer the family for services with no other finding. If the allegations are substantiated, there is a very small window of time in which to file an appeal of that decision to the CANRB.
The Child Abuse and Neglect Review Board
When you file an appeal of a child abuse or neglect claim that was substantiated by the Children’s Division, your appeal is heard by the CANRB. The CANRB is a committee of nine members appointed by the governor. Each member serves a term of three years.
CANRB committees must have:
One medical professional
One psychologist
One counselor or social worker
One representative of law enforcement
One attorney
The hearing by the CANRB may be in person or over the phone, and the committee can consider hearsay statements and other evidence that would not be admissible in a court of law. There is no cross-examination allowed, so it’s important that you discuss with your attorney a strategy for your case that will take those issues into account.
The CANRB will issue a decision either upholding the finding of the Children’s Division or overturning it. If the CANRB upholds the decision, your name is placed on the Child Abuse and Neglect Registry with the state. To appeal a decision of the CANRB, you have to file an appeal in the circuit court of the county in which the abuse or neglect allegedly occurred; that appeal is called a trial de novo.
Trial De Novo
If you have been the subject of an investigation by DFS, Children’s Division, of a claim that was substantiated, and your appeal to the CANRB was denied (i.e., the CANRB upheld that decision), and you want to appeal that decision, you have a limited amount of time to file a request for a trial de novo.
A trial de novo is an appeal to the circuit court in the county in which the abuse or neglect allegedly occurred. Once that window of time passes without filing an appeal, your name will be entered on the Child Abuse and Neglect Registry with the state and it cannot be removed.
When you file your request for a trial de novo, your attorney may take steps to try to protect your identity by filing under a pseudonym (e.g., “John Doe”), and she may file a request with the court for a “stay” to try to prevent your name from being placed on the Child Abuse and Neglect Registry. Whether the court allows either of those actions is within the discretion of the court.
The court hears the trial “de novo” meaning “anew,” so it’s a totally new look at the evidence of alleged abuse or neglect, not simply a review of what the CANRB or Children’s Division found. There is no jury, but the evidence presented must conform to the rules of evidence, and there is now cross examination, so your attorney should be skilled in the courtroom.
The circuit court will then render an opinion as to whether DFS has proven by a preponderance of the evidence (meaning more likely than not) that abuse or neglect occurred. If you lose the trial de novo, your next step would be to appeal to the Court of Appeals.
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SeaWorld Orlando: Christmas shows feature animals, skaters, songs
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A sea-themed tree greets SeaWorld Orlando visitors near the entrance of the theme park. (Dewayne Bevil / Orlando Sentinel)
SeaWorld Orlando cannot be accused of backing away from Christmas. All corners of the theme park are covered with decoration, and at night that even includes the illuminated Sky Tower. The park leans in on shows, too, including two all-new overlays this season. You can see all six in a day if you plan it right (I recommend the SeaWorld app, which shows your choices by times). Warning: You may have gingerbread coming out your ears at the end of the day from all the festivities.
Here’s an overview of the six shows in the order recently seen. Holiday completists will want to see the new holiday version of the Sesame Street parade also. (C’mon, Muppets with Santa beards? You know you want to.)
‘Pets Ahoy Holiday Spectacular’
Where: Seaport Theater
The skinny on the show: SeaWorld’s usual “Pets Ahoy” show gets a new overlay set in Santa’s North Pole Village, where animals are working in a toy factory. Dogs and cats crisscross on stage performing little tricks, but those are punctuated by startling appearances by various birds.
The awwww moment: There’s a public service announcement about pet adoption.
The animal angle: It’s an official menagerie. How do they train cats, let alone rodents and geese?
Surprise in the stocking: The lighting is simple but really quite lovely.
Members of the cast of "Clyde & Seamore's Sea Lion High: The Christmas Musical" (including a walrus and a mime) wrap up a show during SeaWorld Orlando's holiday celebration. (Dewayne Bevil / Orlando Sentinel)
‘Sea Lion High: The Christmas Special’
Where: Sea Lion and Otter Stadium
The skinny on the show: It’s another new holiday overlay, this time with hijinks related to putting on a Christmas pageant. Clyde and Seamore face off against a (human) villain, who has swiped the principal’s naughty and nice list. Be prepared for holiday dad jokes (“That’s Nutcracker sweet.”)
The awwww moment: Kids go ape pointing out the location of the tiny otter on the big stage.
The animal angle: Two sea lions, an otter and one whale of a walrus make appearances.
Surprise in the stocking: The SeaWorld mime pulls double duty with pre-show antics and a role of plumber.
Live animals -- including three camels -- appear on stage during "O Wondrous Night," a stage show during SeaWorld Orlando's Christmas festivities. (Dewayne Bevil / Orlando Sentinel)
‘O Wondrous Night’
Where: Nautilus Theater
The skinny on the show: Here’s where SeaWorld gets religion. It’s a birth of Christ retelling with animal puppets and an enthusiastic choir (wow, that’s a lot of robe twirling.) SeaWorld says there are more than 30 carols incorporated.
The awwww moment: There’s an angel up there.
The animal angle: Eventually, real live animals come on stage, including goats, sheep and three camels. And then the birds flutter over the audience’s head.
Surprise in the stocking: There’s a sprinkling of comedy, including a reference to “Charlie’s Angels.”
Where: On the park’s lake, visible from many shores
The skinny on the show: It’s a light show featuring more than 100 Christmas trees that appear to float above the water line.
The awwww moment: The centerpiece tree has the most tricks, displaying symbols such as candy canes, wreaths and stockings.
The animal angle: There’s a (digital) Shamu moment upon the biggest tree.
Surprise in the stocking: The shows are brief but happen multiple times throughout the evening.
‘Miracles’
Where: Shamu Stadium
The skinny on the show: Killer whales leaping to grand Christmas music, alternating with recorded children and a live saxophonist and singer.
The awwww moment: “My mom says it’s me,” says a kid when asked what a miracle is.
The animal angle: It’s all-orca all the time.
Surprise in the stocking: Even in this holiday season, SeaWorld is serious about its splash zone. Believe.
Performers take a bow at the end of "Winter Wonderland on Ice," a figure skating show at Bayside Stadium at SeaWorld Orlando. (Dewayne Bevil / Orlando Sentinel)
‘Winter Wonderland on Ice’
Where: Bayside Stadium
The skinny on the show: A variety of figure-skating acts, including big showy group numbers and pretty little couple moments.
The awwww moment: A routine that centers on hot chocolate is a break from the day’s holiday-driven merriment.
The animal angle: Just a couple of costumed penguins on skates.
Surprise in the stocking: We won’t suggest making a drinking game based on all the costume changes because you’re about to drive home.
These six shows are included with regular park admission. SeaWorld’s Christmas Celebration runs through Dec. 30.
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This website will pay you $1,000 to binge-watch all the Marvel films
Want an excuse to re-watch all the Marvel movies before "Avengers: Endgame" comes out this year?
There may be $1,000 in it for you.
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All you have to do is watch all 20 films released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before the April 26 premiere, starting with 2008's "Iron Man" and ending with 2018's "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
The person chosen to take part in the epic binge-watch will receive $1,000 as well as all Marvel movies on Blu-ray and a movie marathon survival kit complete with popcorn, themed Marvel gear and a gift card to Grubhub.
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FAQs for Prospective Music Students
Should I submit an Arts Supplement?
Whether you are thinking of becoming a music major, or not, you are encouraged to participate in the Music Department’s curricular offerings, which include private lessons, faculty-led ensembles and classroom courses. If you are an experienced performer interested in pursuing that part of the curriculum, it is highly recommended that you submit an Arts Supplement to the Admissions Office by the application deadline. Materials should be submitted electronically through the website Slideroom. More information is available on the Admissions website under Special Interest Supplements.
What should my application supplement include?
You should submit at least 10 minutes of solo performance representing your abilities and demonstrating contrasting styles, along with a resume summarizing your experience, giving years of study and awards received. If you also wish to submit letters of recommendation that speak to your musical qualifications, please include those as part of the Slideroom supplement. Supplements should feature you as a soloist rather than as a member of an ensemble, so auditors can hear you.
Do I have to audition to be a music major?
Pomona College is a liberal arts college with a strong Music Department, instead of with a conservatory or school of music attached. In common with other similar schools, it does not require students to audition to become music majors. However, in the course of their studies students must pass a qualifying exam in order to take one-hour lessons, one of the requirements for the major. Potential music majors usually do this within their first year.
I’m thinking about being a music major. How does the program at Pomona prepare me for a career in music?
Students who choose to pursue a career in music receive an excellent education through our curriculum. Recent music graduates have attended graduate schools such as Harvard, Yale, University of Michigan, San Francisco Conservatory, Cal Arts, USC, and UC Berkeley in the fields of music performance, music theory, music history, composition and nonwestern music. Others are active in arts management, musical theater and popular music.
How does the program prepare me for a career outside of music?
Our instruction is designed to develop skills that include self-discipline, teamwork, creativity, problem solving, decision-making, and communication in a precise and expressive manner. As one alumna has written, “My abilities to decipher patterns in scientific data and to conceptualize the ‘invisible’ world of chemistry are reasoning skills that were refined [through] the theoretical study and practice of music.”
- Wendy Iskendarian-Epps '04
(Chemistry/Music); Ph.D. program in Organic Chemistry, MIT, 2011
Do I have to be a music major to participate in an ensemble?
No, all courses offered by the Music Department, including private lessons and ensembles, are open to all students regardless of major and are available for academic credit.
What performance opportunities will I have?
There are many opportunities for performance and they include student recitals, performance classes, large ensembles, chamber music, junior/senior recitals, master classes and workshops, and the PCO concerto competition. Department-sponsored ensembles include Band, Choir, Glee Club, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, West African Music Ensemble and Afro-Cuban Music Ensemble. There are also student-run ensembles, not affiliated with the Department, which include a cappella groups and bands.
Do I need to audition for the ensembles?
The Orchestra, Choir and Glee Club, and Jazz Ensemble have auditions at the beginning of the semester. The other ensembles do not require auditions.
How do I sign up for lessons?
Registration for music lessons occurs during the first week of each semester. Students must come to the Thatcher Music Building to enroll; the Registrar’s office receives the registration information from the Music Department after students have registered.
Can I take lessons on two different instruments?
Yes, you may take lessons on more than one instrument.
How will I know who will be my teacher? How do I contact that person?
Most instruments have one instructor; piano, voice and guitar have multiple teachers. The faculty will place students with a teacher. If you wish to contact a particular teacher, please email the Music Department for more information.
Will I be able to play chamber music?
Yes, many students in the large ensembles also form chamber music groups. Students form groups on their own and/or in consultation with faculty to find appropriate players. Faculty members are then available to coach these groups.
Can I use the practice rooms?
Yes, students who take lessons or play in a departmental ensemble may use the practice rooms in Thatcher Music Building. Those students can have access to the basement practice rooms 24/7 with a validated student ID.
What are the practice facilities like?
We have a number of practice rooms with upright pianos. Classrooms with grand pianos, when not being used for classes or lessons, are available for use by approved piano students. Pomona has all Steinway pianos.
Will I be able to play a sport and still play in an ensemble?
The practice time demands for recruited athletes can make participation in a music ensemble difficult. Check with the coach of your particular sport to learn the specifics of what would be expected of you.
Are any scholarships specifically reserved for music students?
No. All of Pomona College’s financial aid is need-based and there are no merit scholarships for music or any other field of study.
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Elite Controllers Hospitalized More Often Than Those Treated For HIV
Elite controllers, who are able to fully suppress their HIV infection without the use of antiretrovirals (ARVs), are hospitalized more often than people on HIV treatment, aidsmap reports. Publishing their findings in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers identified 149 elite controllers among 34,354 people in the HIV Research Network.
The researchers estimated that 0.43 percent of HIV-positive Americans are elite controllers. They compared the study sample of elite controllers’ hospitalization rates to 4,709 people taking ARVs who had undetectable viral loads, 7,998 people with viral loads between 50 and 1,000, many of whom were on treatment, and 10,605 people with viral loads over 1,000, most of whom were not on treatment—known, respectively, as the medical control, low viremia and high viremia groups.
The respective hospitalization rates among the elite control, medical control, low viremia and high viremia groups were 23.3, 10.5, 12.6 and 16.9 per 100 person-years. After adjusting for various factors, the researchers found that elite control, when compared with medical control, was associated with a 1.77-fold greater risk of hospitalization for any reason, a 3.19-fold increased risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular factors, and a 3.98-fold greater risk of hospitalization for psychiatric reasons.
Among all the groups, non-AIDS-defining infections were the most common reason for hospitalization, at 24.1 percent of the total. Among the elite controllers, however, just 2.7 percent of hospitalizations were for this reason. This benefit was counterbalanced by the fact that 31.1 percent of hospitalizations among elite controllers were for cardiovascular reasons, compared with 13.5 percent among other people with HIV.
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Conclusions From The Italian GP
Date published: September 12 2011
Sebastian Vettel turns the criticism into dust while Nick Heidfeld’s exit must be ringing warning bells for Nico Rosberg…
Vettel turns the criticism into dust…
Vettel Ends A Great Doubt
It’s an illustration of just how dominant Sebastian Vettel was around Monza this Sunday that he was scarcely given more than a full minute of air time. The race was on but only if the race director continued to count him out as the inevitable winner from the moment he passed Fernando Alonso. And what a moment it was.
Though Jenson Button ranked his own move on Michael Schumacher as the bravest of his career, it lacked the aesthetic, heart-stopping drama of Vettel skating off the circuit into a puff of dust in order to find just enough room to pass the Ferrari before reaching the chicane with a second World title all but confirmed. Pass the baton: if results go his way in Singapore, Vettel will eclipse the Spaniard as the youngest two-time Champion in the sport’s history.
Now is not yet the moment to wonder where Vettel will ultimately rank in the record books and pantheon of greats, but this was the weekend when he proved beyond doubt that he is a racer as well as a winner.
Quite literally, the accusation he cannot overtake has been turned to dust.
More Or Less From The Monza
There are two Italian GPs. There’s the one we hear about and the one we see; the one for awed attendees and the one for an anxious audience. One is a classic, an essential event, punching passion in glorious late-summer sunshine. The other is a fleeting procession, a race short of time and climax. It hosts in fine fettle, but shows up without finesse.
Think Monza, think flat-out tidal wave of power in front of a sea of red. The action is almost all about the atmosphere. Vettel’s stunner around Alonso will live long in the memory but the annual frustration at the end of the Italian GP is that it always ends so quickly. Even with the deployment of the Safety Car, Sunday’s race lasted scarcely an hour and twenty minutes. To put that in context, without a mention of the Canadian GP, the BBC’s combined pre- and post-race frontline previewing and reviewing ran to almost twice as long as the actual thing. Those in three-day party residence at Monza this weekend will hardly have noticed the shortfall, but Italy’s main event needs to man up with at least another ten laps for the rest of us.
Questions For Whiting
So for once it wasn’t Lewis. And for once the stewards weren’t interested either.
Having vented his frustration at the interference of the stewards all season long, Hamilton’s frustration this weekend was the absence of interference from the stewards after Michael Schumacher blocked his progress with a blatant double weave. He might have kept quiet after the race, but the publication – both on air and on the McLaren website – of his protest “I thought you could only move once” had already supplied his salient testimony on the matter.
As the McLaren driver was handed a 20-second time penalty at Malaysia as punishment for a far-less obtrusive double-block against Fernando Alonso, Schumacher’s lenient let-off reeked of a hypocrisy. Yet the first layer to be slapped on to any discussion of the incident has to be the reminder that Hamilton’s severe punishment was meted out because he had been warned for weaving in front of Vitaly Petrov at the same circuit a year previously. He was made to suffer for being a repeat offender. Schumacher, at least officially, had no such black mark on his record.
However, he does have form for the “deliberate crowding of a car beyond the edge of the track”, to quote Article 20.2 of sporting regulations. Just ask Rubens Barrichello. If the stewards felt that Hamilton’s rather optimistic move up the inside of Curva Grande deserved a block of reality, the sight of the McLaren being forced on to the grass should at least have been factored into their considerations when reviewing the Mercedes’ double block four laps later. If, that is, they did review it at all.
Presumably, the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association will be seeking clarification of the precise judicial process at play this weekend in Monza because it was only a little over a year ago, in the wake of Hamilton’s weave in front of Petrov, that a meeting of the GPDA was convened to discuss the issue and ended, according to a report of the time, with the ‘recommendation to the FIA’s race director Charlie Whiting that they wanted to see future miscreants given a drive-through penalty.’
Recommendation rejected? Apparently so. According to Ross Brawn, his veiled warning to Schumacher was made on the specific request of the FIA race director who must have felt therefore that: a) the Mercedes driver had pushed beyond the boundaries of fair racing and, b) indirect verbal intervention would suffice as official response. Curious. So did Hamilton and McLaren’s complaint against Schumacher even reach the stewards’ office? Now there’s something to talk about.
Still, the final word must be that at least Hamilton-Schumacher provided the Italian GP with a compelling talking point. Without their duel – their first of note since the old boy’s return – the race would have been devoid of drama long before the halfway stage.
A Little Harsh On Liuzzi?
Another quick question for the stewards and Whiting: what was the difference between the race-wrecking accident caused by Tonio Liuzzi in Italy and the race-wrecking accident caused by Bruno Senna in Belgium other than a punishment for one and a let-off for the other?
This column doesn’t really believe as much, but in the interests of balance we’ll type it out anyhow: If Liuzzi was condemned for driving on to the grass, then his misdeed surely ought to have been alleviated by the fact that Alonso used precisely the same extension of road to beat Vettel and Hamilton into the first corner.
Ferrari And McLaren Still Lack A Winning Formula
For McLaren and Ferrari, the bested behemoths of Formula One, the season cannot end soon enough. There’s spin and bluster, defiant rallying cries, but fresh insult has been added to injury in recent weeks with Red Bull romping to victories at the two circuits where they were predicted to struggle. You’d think that, after two-and-a-half years of convincing superiority from Red Bull, they would no longer be under-estimated, but apparently not. These raging Bulls seem to have an answer for everything.
For McLaren, the frustration of the last two weeks has been particularly acute due to their refusal to switch the focus of their resources towards the development of next year’s car. Even when still utterly dedicated to a lost cause of a season, they cannot win. That’s gotta hurt. And their failure to win, coupled with a refusal to change priority which even Martin Whitmarsh has accepted could be considered a “weakness”, is bound to hurt their hopes of overhauling Red Bull next season. Tis far easier to evolve a winning car into another winner than successfully revolutionize an
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FourNet scoop prestigious billing award
FourNet’s Finance team have scooped this year’s Billing Growth Champion Award at the prestigious National Billing People Forum.
The national awards are some of the most sought after within the billing sector.
Vanessa Worsley, Head of Finance at FourNet, said the accolade was shared by the entire finance team and the wider FourNet family, and was recognition for several specific initiatives which had been developed during testing times for the sector and the wider UK economy.
Worsley said: “Due to the COVID pandemic the finance team have done some pioneering work which has not only been recognised by this award but also by our large high-profile customer base – for instance NHS Trusts & blue light services.”
Richard Pennington, FourNet’s CEO, said: “This is an important win for our talented Finance Team and they deserve this national recognition, particularly for the innovative work with Union Street to improve the platform.”
Worsley added: “Billing is a key part of any company’s finance department. Within the channel industry there is a clear shortage of billing expertise. FourNet acknowledges this and appreciates and supports this niche skill set. I’m fortunate to have a team who continue to bring fresh ideas and drive change into this fast-growing sector.”
Amir Hussain, FourNet’s billing manager said: “I feel privileged that we’ve won this prestigious award. We see it as recognition for completing multiple projects with Union Street. These include an out-of-hours Union Street service desk team and also our recommendations and input on Ability web migration.”
Commenting on FourNet’s victory at the awards, Vincent Disneur, Managing Director of Union Street, said: “Fournet is a longstanding and highly valued partner of Union Street. The expertise of its billing team is exceptional, as is their commitment to best practice in this crucial area of service delivery.
“The company’s growth in revenue has been nothing short of spectacular, as evidenced by this award. Clearly FourNet is serving its clients well, providing excellent value and consultancy in the provision of ICT services.”
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Vice to produce new late-night series for 4Music
The multiplatform publisher's new "sex, drugs and rock & roll" show will begin airing on the music channel in May
By Tom Cole
Wednesday, 27th March 2013 at 11:03 am
Vice, the multiplatform publisher popular with Rupert Murdoch and Shoredtich-dwelling twentysomethings, is gearing up to produce a six-part “sex, drugs and rock & roll” TV series for 4Music.
Vice World will consist of six 30-minute episodes and begin airing on Channel 4’s music station in mid-May.
It’ll be a mixed bag of news and politics alongside entertainment segments edited together from Vice’s sizeable archive of online video.
C4 hope that the post-watershed series will help attract older viewers to 4Music, which has traditionally been aimed at a young teen market.
Vice also hopes that the new TV deal will help expose its brand to a wider audience.
“It’s not only about commercially exploiting the content we own but finding new audiences to broaden our reach,” said Vice’s publisher Matt Elek. “The deal with 4Music makes sense in lots of different ways.”
Famous for exploring controversial and niche issues, Vice boasts over 1m subscribers on its YouTube channel, where the brand showcases online series like The Vice Guide to North Korea and Music World.
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Who do you think should have won Eurovision 2020? Vote now in Group Four
The contest may have been called off this year, but that doesn't mean we can't all still say thank you for the music...
By Helen Daly
Sunday, 22nd March 2020 at 9:00 am
Now that Eurovision 2020 has sadly been cancelled, we don’t currently know what will happen to the acts who were only recently announced to be taking part – but plenty of fans have big opinions on who should have won.
With that in mind, and to try and bring a bit of well-needed cheer to the continent at these troubling times, we’ve collated all the entries for the contest and will be hosting a series of polls to let people have their say on the act they think should have won.
There will be four rounds initially with the top acts moving onto the next round – all you need to do is click the link to read about the act and listen to their song, then vote for your favourites in the poll below.
The top two in each heat will go to our grand final, where you will have the chance to pick your favourite song and winner. Remember, this is who you think should have been crowned champion at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which would have taken place in Rotterdam.
Ready, steady, here’s the fourth group of songs…
[Group Four voting closes at 5pm GMT on Monday 23rd March]
GROUP FOUR
Click on the links below to hear the song and find out more about the act:
Russia: Little Big – Uno
Armenia: Athena Manoukian – Chains on You
Denmark: Ben & Tan – Yes
Israel: Eden Alene – Feker libi
Serbia: Hurricane – Hasta la vista
Albania: Arilena Ara – Fall from the Sky
Sweden: The Mamas – Move
Finland: Aksel Kankaanranta – Looking Back
France: Tom Leeb – The Best in Me
Switzerland: Gjon’s Tears – Répondez-moi
Ukraine: Go_A – Solovey
Now it’s time to vote for your favourite to go through to the grand final…
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Celebrity Big Brother 2013: Tricia Penrose
From playing Gina Ward in ITV drama Heartbeat to singing her heart out on Stars in Their Eyes, here's everything you need to know about this CBB (and almost Eurovision) hero...
Thursday, 3rd January 2013 at 8:33 pm
Name: Tricia Penrose
Famous for: Playing Gina Ward in Heartbeat and a brief musical career
Bio: Trica Penrose first stepped onto our TV screens in 1993 as Gina Ward in long-running 60s drama Heartbeat – a role she kept until 2010 when the show’s final episode aired.
The actress is also a keen singer, having released two singles (see video below) and auditioned to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest – she made it to the final before losing out to Welsh pop star Jessica Garlick.
During her showbiz career Tricia has taken part on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, Stars in Their Eyes, Sing If You Can and Celebrity MasterChef but the star has been out of the spotlight recently so who knows what she’ll get up to in the CBB house…
See Tricia as Gina Ward in Heartbeat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKYmI4ncXBo
And Tricia’s 2000 single:
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Incomplete Thought: Why We Have The iPhone and AT&T To Thank For Cloud…
December 15th, 2010 beaker 1 comment
I’m not sure this makes any sense whatsoever, but that’s why it’s labeled “incomplete thought,” isn’t it? 😉
A few weeks ago I was delivering my Cloudinomicon talk at the Cloud Security Alliance Congress in Orlando and as I was describing the cyclical nature of computing paradigms and the Security Hamster Sine Wave of Pain, it dawned on me — out loud — that we have Apple’s iPhone and its U.S. carrier, AT&T, to thank for the success of Cloud Computing.
My friends from AT&T perked up when I said that. Then I explained…
So let me set this up. It will require some blog article ping-pong in order to reference earlier scribbling on the topic, but here’s the very rough process:
I’ve pointed out that there are two fundamental perspectives when describing Cloud and Cloud Computing: the operational provider’s view and the experiential consumer’s view. To the provider, the IT-centric, empirical and clinical nuances are what matters. To the consumer, anything that connects to the Internet via any computing platform using any app that interacts with any sort of information is also cloud. There’s probably a business/market view, but I’ll keep things simple for purpose of illustration. I wrote about this here: Cloud/Cloud Computing Definitions – Why they Do(n’t) Matter…
As we look at the adoption of cloud computing, the consumption model ultimately becomes more interesting than how the service is delivered (as it commoditizes.) My presentation “The Future of Cloud” focused on the fact that the mobile computing platforms (phones, iPads, netbooks, thin(ner) clients, etc) are really the next frontier. I pointed out that we have the simultaneous mass re-centralization of applications and data in massive cloud data centers (however distributed ethereally they may be) and the massive distribution of the same applications and data across increasingly more intelligent, capable and storage-enabled mobile computing devices. I wrote about this here: Slides from My Cloud Security Alliance Keynote: The Cloud Magic 8 Ball (Future Of Cloud)
The iPhone isn’t really that remarkable a piece of technology in and of itself, in fact it capitalizes on and cannibalizes many innovations and technologies that came before it. However, as I mentioned in my post “Cloud Maturity: Just Like the iPhone, There’s An App For That… “The thing I love about my iPhone is that it’s not a piece of technology I think about but rather, it’s the way I interact with it to get what I want done. It has its quirks, but it works…for millions of people. Add in iTunes, the community of music/video/application artists/developers and the ecosystem that surrounds it, and voila…Cloud.”
At each and every compute paradigm shift, we’ve seen the value of the network waffle between “intelligent” platform and simple transport depending upon where we were with the intersection of speeds/feeds and ubiquity/availability of access (the collision of Moore’s and Metcalfe’s laws?) In many cases, we’ve had to rely on workarounds that have hindered the adoption of really valuable and worthwhile technologies and operational models because the “network” didn’t deliver.
I think we’re bumping up against point #4 today. So here’s where I find this interesting. If we see the move to the consumerized view of accessing resources from mobile platforms to resources located both on-phone and in-cloud, you’ll notice that even in densely-populated high-technology urban settings, we have poor coverage, slow transit and congested, high-latency, low-speed access — wired and wireless for that matter.
This is a problem. In fact it’s such a problem that if we look backward to about 4 years ago when “cloud computing” and the iPhone became entries in the lexicon of popular culture, this issue completely changed the entire application deployment model and use case of the iPhone as a mobile platform. Huh?
Do you remember when the iPhone first came out? It was a reasonably capable compute platform with a decent amount of storage. It’s network connectivity, however, sucked.
Pair that with the fact that the application strategy was that there was emphatically, per Steve Jobs, not going to be native applications on the iPhone for many reasons, including security. Every application was basically just a hyperlink to a web application located elsewhere. The phone was nothing more than a web browser that delivered applications running elsewhere (for the most part, especially when things like Flash were’nt present.) Today we’d call that “The Cloud.”
Interestingly, at this point, he value of the iPhone as an application platform was diminished since it was not highly differentiated from any other smartphone that had a web browser.
Time went by and connectivity was still so awful and unreliable that Apple reversed direction to drive value and revenue in the platform, engaged a developer community, created the App Store and provided for a hybrid model — apps both on-platform and off — in order to deal with this lack of ubiquitous connectivity. Operating systems, protocols and applications were invented/deployed in order to deal with the synchronization of on- and off-line application and information usage because we don’t have pervasive high-speed connectivity in the form of cellular or wifi such that we otherwise wouldn’t care.
So this gets back to what I meant when I said we have AT&T to thank for Cloud. If you can imagine that we *did* have amazingly reliable and ubiquitous connectivity from devices like our iPhones — those consumerized access points to our apps and data — perhaps the demand for and/or use patterns of cloud computing would be wildly different from where they are today. Perhaps they wouldn’t, but if you think back to each of those huge compute paradigm shifts — mainframe, mini, micro, P.C., Web 1.0, Web 2.0 — the “network” in terms of reliability, ubiquity and speed has always played a central role in adoption of technology and operational models.
Same as it ever was.
So, thanks AT&T — you may have inadvertently accelerated the back-end of cloud in order to otherwise compensate, leverage and improve the front-end of cloud (and vice versa.) Now, can you do something about the fact that I have no signal at my house, please?
/Hoff
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Corrected - Rohingya refugees fish in troubled waters to earn living in Bangladesh
By Clodagh Kilcoyne
(Corrects name of foundation in paragraph nine)
Rohingya refugees crew a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal near Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh, June 12 (Reuters) - Some Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar are finding work in the fishing industry in neighbouring Bangladesh, earning a tiny daily income and occasional share of the catch, all under the official radar.
The Shamlapur refugee camp, near a fishing colony on one of the world’s longest beaches, is home to about 10,000 Rohingya refugees, aid groups say, many driven out of Myanmar’s Rakhine State by sectarian violence last year.
“We saved our lives by escaping here, so we are happy to be here,” said Mohammed Yosuf, 20, who works as a fisherman, earning about 200 or 300 taka ($1.20 to $3.60) for each five-day trip.
Yosuf said he fled with his wife, Sobora Khatun, who was nine months’ pregnant when they escaped after two months shackled in captivity. Their three-year-old son drowned in a river crossing, but baby daughter Rukia was born safely.
They are among nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a military crackdown, the United Nations and human rights groups say, almost all of them winding up in makeshift camps around the southern district of Cox’s Bazar.
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Although the refugees cannot work legally, some find jobs on fishing boats or help push them out to sea. The vessels are similar to the craft that carried thousands of Rohingya across the waters to Bangladesh.
Others in the camp earn money by shattering ice blocks to preserve the catch in the searing heat, mending nets or repairing boats.
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Two in five Rohingyas depend on a family member with an informal job in Shamlapur, while one in 20 rely on financial assistance from a family member abroad, a survey by migration research group the Xchange Foundation shows.
“Rohingyas in Shamlapur are mostly living in makeshift accommodation and are only occasionally engaged in (illegal and seasonal) gainful employment,” the group said in March.
“A SWORD TO MY FACE”
Some Rohingya women have found work drying fish at a yard in nearby Nazirartek, for a daily takehome of 100 taka to 200 taka ($1.20 to $2.40).
“I was wounded by a sword to my face,” said Hasina Begum, 30, describing how she fled her home.
“Then I lost consciousness and I was lying on the ground and some of my neighbours took me to the boat and we crossed the river to the Bangladesh border,” said Hasina, who battles pain and memory difficulties after losing the sight of one eye.
She escaped from Kutupalong refugee camp to seek fish-drying work.
“Yes, it’s a better life, as I can work here with drying fish and I can earn money,” she added.
Spread over 200 acres (81 hectares), the fish-drying yards handle around 100 tonnes of fish every day of the peak drying season from September to May.
Here, under a blistering noon sun, a Rohingya woman toils over a long wooden table, sorting pungent clusters of fish while constantly swatting away flies and mosquitoes. Others tie up fish that had been draped over bamboo poles to dry.
The fish-drying industry generates annual revenue of about $20 million, traders and government officials say.
Even the children work hard.
From dawn, they push boats into the water or join fishing trips to earn a small bag of fish they can swap for tamarind from canny beachside vendors who get the better of the deal, as the fish is prized above the sour flavouring the children enjoy.
Hakim Ali, 45, works on a salt pan on the edge of the Teknaf river dividing the two countries, carrying bags of salt for 10 taka (12 cents) each to gather between 300 and 500 taka ($3.60 and $6) every day.
Ali said he left his home near the town of Buthidaung in Myanmar eight months ago, after rampaging mobs killed one of his brothers, threw another in jail and razed his home and paddy fields.
“We want justice and freedom of movement in Myanmar,” Ali told Reuters, when asked what it would take for him to return.
“If the Myanmar government fulfils the demand, that day I will go.”
($1=82.8800 taka)
Reporting by Clodagh Kilcoyne; Additional reporting by Ruma Paul in DHAKA; Writing by Clarence Fernandez; Editing by Darren Schuettler
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Burglars steal milk from Romford houses
By Safira Ali
Published: 12:00 PM August 16, 2013 Updated: 12:18 PM October 13, 2020
The burglar has been raiding fridges as well as homes during break-ins over the past fortnight. PA/ Dave Thompson - Credit: PA WIRE
A crook targeting homes in Romford during a burglary spree has taken valuables from householders – and snatched pints of milk from their fridges.
The prowler has been raiding fridges as well as homes during break-ins over the past fortnight.
Houses in Pettits Lane, Mashiters Walk, Havering Drive and Parkside Avenue have been targeted and homeowners say that, in addition to valuables being stolen, the burglar has helped himself to goods from their fridges.
One couple, aged 76 and 77, said they felt devastated when they discovered they had been targeted.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said sentimental jewellery had been taken, including items from her mother, mother-in-law and her work colleagues when she retired, as well as pieces bought for her wedding.
She said: “It’s taken years to collect them. They are valuable to us because we have had them for so long and many were from when we got married 53 years ago.
“We won’t be able to get any others like them and, though we are going through the insurance, I can’t ever replace what they have stolen from us.”
The patio doors and fridge had been smeared with black marks, believed to have been left by the burgler’s gloves. This caused her to check in the fridge where she discovered the milk was missing.
She said: “They took a pint from there; I remember buying it earlier that day. I can only assume they went in the fridge as people sometimes store their valuables in the fridge or freezer assuming they are out of the way.”
She added: “A week later the police called me to say that there had been a spate of similar burglaries where the milk had also been stolen!”
Pettits Safer Neighbourhoods team said they had sent leaflets to residents to make them aware of the break-ins.
Sue Connelly, Romford MP Andrew Rosindell’s secretary, said she has had calls this week about the milk thefts.
Mr Rosindell said: “Certainly from the markings it sounds like a cat burglar.”
He added burglaries increase during the summer when people are on holiday and homes are more vulnerable when residents are not around.
“People do need to be aware and alerted that this is happening and to be wary of anything going on near them.”
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Jodie Chesney murder trial: Video shows shadowy figures going into Harold Hill park before Dagenham teen was stabbed to death
Emily Pennink
Published: 5:09 PM September 25, 2019 Updated: 7:42 PM November 27, 2020
Jodie Chesney at London Pride 2018. Picture: Chesney family - Credit: Archant
Shadowy figures were caught on CCTV going into a park moments before Jodie Chesney was stabbed to death, a trial has heard.
The Old Bailey jury has also seen video of Jodie and her friends walking to Amy's Park, Harold Hill.
Jodie had been with a group of friends sitting on a bench in the park when she was knifed in the back on the evening of March 1.
The Old Bailey has heard how Jodie, of Dagenham, began to scream and her group panicked and became hysterical after realising she had been hurt.
Despite the efforts of medics, the 17-year-old died before she reached hospital, the court has heard.
Jurors were shown video footage of Jodie and her friends walking towards the park along St Neot's Road earlier that evening.
Then at around 9.20pm, grainy footage shows two shadowy figures getting out of a black Vauxhall Corsa in Retford Road, bordering the park.
The car then does a U-turn, turns its lights off, is stationary for 49 seconds before it moves off and picks up two individuals.
Before the car goes out of view, high-pitched screams are heard recorded on another audio camera, the court heard.
Jurors listened to the recording in which the cries went on for just under a minute.
The court was told that while the screams continued, the evidence did not bear out Jodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle's assertion that she screamed for 10 minutes.
Manuel Petrovic, 20, of Highfield Road, Collier Row, who is said to have been driving the black Vauxhall Corsa, denies murder along with Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, of Hillfoot Road, Collier Row and two youths aged 16 and 17 from east London.
The trial continues.
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‘Time is your friend’: Ex-Brexit sec urges Theresa May to delay Brexit vote for 2nd time
Brexit protests, Westminster © Global Look Press / Alberto Pezzali
Former Brexit Secretary David Davis has called on PM Theresa May to delay the vote on her Brexit deal for a second time, claiming the threat of leaving the EU without a deal could help engineer a better deal for the UK.
Writing in the Telegraph, Davis claimed that because the EU is so fearful of losing the £39 billion (US$49 billion) “divorce payment,” a deal could be brokered “at the eleventh hour,” so May should hold her nerve and postpone the “meaningful vote.”
It’s thought that government whips failed to convince enough Tory MPs over Christmas to back the PM’s deal. Davis says there is no need to panic, insisting negotiations on this scale were always going to end with last minute concessions to secure a deal.
Also on rt.com Tories at war: Leadsom rebukes Rudd’s 2nd Brexit referendum remarks
Davis, who resigned from the cabinet in July 2018 over May’s Chequers Brexit agreement, argues: “I have always said that the EU would push and push until finally we reach a resolution at the eleventh hour.”
“The more we prepare to leave the EU without a deal, the more likely a good deal becomes,” he added.
The UK parliamentary vote on the deal was withdrawn at the last minute by May’s Tory government and re-scheduled for the week commencing January 15. The debate on the agreement starts on January 7.
The PM will return to Brussels next week in an attempt to secure legally-binding assurances from the EU that the Northern Irish ‘backstop’ arrangement would only be temporary in the event of no trade deal being agreed – an issue that threatens May’s deal passing through the UK Parliament.
In December, May survived a vote of confidence with 200 Conservative Party MPs supporting her leadership and 117 voting against her and her highly divisive Brexit plan.
According to the Telegraph, May will attempt to persuade Tory MPs who are less than convinced with the deal she has struck with the EU, with some drinks parties at Downing Street on Monday and Wednesday of next week.
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Stearns Wharf
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Santa Barbara Attractions
Stearns Wharf is a pier at the cross section of the end of State Street and Cabrillo, in the harbor in Santa Barbara. When completed In 1872, it became the longest deep-water pier between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Named for its builder, local lumberman John P. Stearns, the wharf served the passenger and freight shipping needs of California's South Coast for over a quarter century. Before the wharf, passengers and cargo had to be rowed ashore through the breakers and kelp. Despite the great convenience offered by the wharf, Santa Barbara remained a fair-weather harbor with an acute need for a breakwater. During December 1878, storms destroyed and washed away more than 1,000 feet of the wharf. Despite these losses, it would be another 52 years before Santa Barbara got its needed breakwater.
When the railroad reached Santa Barbara in 1877, Stearns added another spur to the wharf, providing a necessary transport link to his lumberyard and the nearby Southern Pacific Depot. The spur was damaged by severe storms in the early 20th century and was finally abandoned in 1923.
The Harbor Restaurant was built on the wharf in 1941, marking an end to the shipping and transportation era of the 19th century. The restaurant proved to be the economic backbone of the wharf.
Since its beginning, Stearns Wharf has had several natural and economic disasters, from the big earthquake in 1925 to a fire in 1973 which caused its closing. The wharf stayed closed for six years until restorations were completed in 1981. Another fire in the winter of 1998 devastated the last hundred and fifty feet of the wharf, including Moby Dick Restaurant. Though the rest of the wharf remained open during this period, the rebuilding took over two years. Stearns Wharf stands today as Santa Barbara's most visited landmark.
Currently, Stearns Wharf is a great place for locals and tourists of all ages to eat, shop, fish, or simply walk and enjoy the view. There are more than a dozen businesses on the Wharf open to the public, ranging from restaurants, wine tastings, museums, souvenir shops, and smaller eateries, such as an ice cream parlor and candy store. Kiosks hours are 7am - 10pm, business hours vary depending on each location. Parking is usually not a problem, with many lots on the pier. A complimentary valet service is also available for all customers. The first 90 minutes are free, with a small fee for each hour, or part of an hour, thereafter. There are also various parking spaces off Cabrillo and the areas across Cabrillo. Take note of the parking signs to avoid any parking tickets. During the summer, parking is harder to find due to the higher tourist traffic on the pier, so plan your trip accordingly. Overall, Stearns Wharf is a must see all tourists.
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The Harbor Restaurant
The quintessential snap shot of Santa Barbara is the long range view of the city's famous pier, with a picturesque boat harbor in the foreground and a background framed by the majestic Santa Ynez Mountains. The anchor of this famous pier is one of Santa Barbara's most popular eateries, the Harbor Restaurant on Stearns Wharf. The 150 year old pier was a working pier from its infancy. It housed the Santa Barbara Yacht Club in 1929 and the pier's first restaurant opened in 1941, owned by famous actor and nearby San Ysidro Ranch owner, Ronald Colman. Colman sold the restaurant to another famous actor, James Cagney, who later sold the restaurant to the Castagnola family in 1955. The Harbor Restaurant and Stearns Wharf were destroyed by fire in 1971 and rebuilt in 1981 when the Williams family operated the Harbor Restaurant until selling to its current owner, John Scott, in 1988. Enter the Harbor Restaurant and take in the panoramic ocean views from your window table. Enjoy the freshest seafood that arrives daily in the Santa Barbara harbor or a USDA prime char-grilled filet mignon prepared expertly by the Harbor Restaurant chefs.
Moby Dick Restaurant
Enjoy seafood on the pier with ocean views from every seat. Moby Dick Restaurant is a classic all American seafood restaurant where you can find dishes unique only to Moby Dick Restaurant as well as some classic and authentic seafood favorites. Moby Dick Restaurant, located on the end of the wharf, provides the freshest seafood for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There is always something exciting going on at Moby Dick - big waves, surfers, sailboat races, visiting whales, and dolphins. If you are a local and you've never been to Moby Dick before, give it a try. Moby Dick's goal is to provide fresh food, great service and spectacular views. The restaurant has a wonderful banquet room that accommodates up to 80 people for meetings, parties, etc. They also have an outdoor cocktail patio and the Sunset Room which is a perfect setting for an evening meal.
Char West
Started in 1969, Char West is a quick service restaurant featuring Burgers, Fish Tacos, Fish n Chips, Clam Chowder, Burgers along with additional seafood with stunning views.
Santa Barbara Shellfish Company
Santa Barbara Shellfish Company was established in 1980 as a buying station for local Santa Barbara shellfish and fish and a place to sell crab. From sea to skillet to plate sums up this end-of-the-wharf seafood shack that's more of a buzzing counter joint than a sit-down restaurant. Chase away the seagulls as you chow down on garlic-baked clams, crab cakes and coconut-fried shrimp at wooden picnic tables outside. Awesome lobster bisque, clam chowder, and ocean views. The family that brings you award-winning Santa Barbara Shellfish Company also owns and operates other local restaurants including FisHouse (near Stearns Wharf), Boathouse at Hendry's Beach, and Casa Blanca Restaurant & Cantina.
Longboards Grill
Burgers, fish and chips, clam chowder, and more -- all served alongside beach-inspired cocktails and beautiful oceanfront views. Located upstairs on Santa Barbara's iconic Stearns Wharf, Longboard's offers gourmet burgers, famous fish and chips, a lively full-service bar, and incredible waterfront views in a casual, family-friendly environment. A fun-filled beach-and-surf-themed eatery, they're the perfect spot to kick back, relax, and enjoy bites and sips in the open ocean air.
Great Pacific Ice Cream Company
32 flavors of Thrifty ice cream and sherbets. Open 7 days a week.
Mother Stearns Candy Company
Mother Stearns Candy Company carries hundreds of varieties of sweets, including two dozen flavors of salt water taffy. Their bestselling flavor of fudge is Dark Chocolate Carmel with Sea Salt. Of all candies the bestseller is the chocolate-covered gummy bears. Available vintage candies include Bottle caps, Pop Rocks, Charleston Chews, Willy Wonka's Everlasting Gobstoppers, Razzles, Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans (Harry Potter), and more.
Deep Sea Tasting Room
The Deep Sea Wine Tasting Room is the home of Conway Family Wines. The space features 360 degree views of the Pacific coastline, Channel Islands, Santa Barbara Harbor and the Riviera. They offer Two Wine Tasting Flights, all of their wines by-the-glass and also by-the-bottle. The Deep Sea Tasting Room is open 7 days per week, and is available for Private events and Receptions. Reservations are not required, but are recommended for groups of 8 or more.
Old Wharf Trading Company
More than just nautical gifts, the Old Wharf Trading Company is the largest general merchandise store on the wharf. It features a wide variety of gifts and decorator items, along with clothing, toys, books and much more. Purchase Santa Barbara souvenirs of every type and browe the huge collection of shirts, sweatshirts, hats, swimwear and more.
Devil and Deep Blue Sea Gifts
Established in 1988, this popular gift shop offers a well-merchandised, neatly-organized variety of toys, home decor, souvenirs, signs, mugs, casual jewelry, skincare products, model cars, and more.
Nature's Own Gallery
Nature's Own Gallery offers a wonderful selection of shells, fossils, mineral specimens, gifts, unique jewelry, and interior design items from around the world. A family-owned business since 1976 Nature's Own Gallery focuses on natural products in all their goods.
Santa Barbara Water Taxi
Running from noon until sunset every half hour, the Waterfront Shuttle cycles continuously between two hugely popular local destinations - the Santa Barbara Harbor and Stearns Wharf. Santa Barbara Waterfront Shuttle puts you in touch with everything the Harbor and Wharf has to offer. Junior Captains: Under the watchful eye of Capt. Fred, children are encouraged to steer the boat and sound the "Lil Toot" steam whistle. Your child at the wheel of "Lil Toot" is a great photo opportunity.
Madame Rosinka Palm Reader
The Rosinka Family has operated the spiritual consultancy, Madame Rosinka, on Stearns Wharf since 1951.If you are not a skeptical about Palm Readers, you can visit Madame Rosinka to answer some of your questions. It is located in the small red tower near the restrooms on Stearns Wharf. Madame Rosinka is a well-known licensed spiritual counselor who discusses your past, present and future, and even gives some spiritual advice. Your privacy is guaranteed. Madame Rosinka's was run by Barbara Sonia Adams (d.b.a. Madame Rosinka) for decades until her passing in 2014. The business was started by her parents, both of Yugoslavian descent. The business continues to be run by family members.
Stearns Wharf Bait and Tackle
Stearns Wharf Bait & Tackle is the store closest to the ocean-end of the wharf, hidden next to Santa Barbara Shellfish Company. The business sells lures, rods, reels, bait and tackle,sodas & water, snacks & candy, bicycle rentals, and S.B. Trolley Tour tickets. Be sure to take advantage of their free fishing advice. No fishing license is needed to fish on Stearns Wharf and they are open 7 days a week.
Discover the wonders of ocean life at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center. Located on historic Stearns Wharf, this highly interactive marine education facility offers you close encounters with marine animals from the Santa Barbara Channel. In addition to permanent exhibits, the Sea Center hosts unique events and special educational programming, including the Live Dive series. Using a gentle two-finger touch, you can interact with marine animals such as sharks, rays, sea stars, sea urchins, and sea anemones. On the wet deck, be a scientist and use oceanographic tools to sample the ocean and examine marine life. Start your investigations with the Secchi disk, Ekman grab, Van Dorn bottle or crab net. Which tool would you like to use first? Upstairs, you can relax in the Channel Theater, observe mesmerizing jellies, a captivating octopus, and tour a unique marine mammal mezzanine to see life-size Gray Whale replicas. Learn about the Sea Center's White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, which is working to bring this endangered marine snail back from the brink of extinction.
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New Year programmes for Persian New Year
Programme Genre: Lifestyle
Topics: AfghanistanCulture/TraditionDandelionFarsiIranSAT-7 PARSTajikistanTogether with You
SAT-7 PARS shares a message of new life and brings people together during the Persian New Year celebrations
Norouz is the Persian New Year celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Norouz, which began on the first day of spring this year, draws families together to celebrate new beginnings and hopes for the future.
Families traditionally decorate a table or carpet in the home with seven dishes. The dishes make for a beautiful display and represent rebirth, health, happiness, prosperity, joy, patience, and beauty.
The thirteenth and final day of Norouz represents a time of carefree fun. People put aside order and their regular routines to have parties. On this day, called sizdeh bedar in the Farsi language, families gather on a walk carrying trays of sprouted grass seeds and find a cool, grassy spot for a picnic. It is a fun time for families to come together, share food, and dance.
SAT-7 PARS celebrates Norouz in several live shows, showing how the channel values and upholds generations-old traditions. During special live episodes on SAT-7 PARS, hosts prayed for the viewers in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. They prayed for resolve to tackle the social and economic problems in these countries, and that the New Year might bring blessings to all. The holiday also provided an opportunity to stress the importance of togetherness and unity.
In an episode of Together with You (in Farsi, ‘Hamra ba Shoma’), the hosts discussed family traditions (pictured above). Sully shared that her mother used to set a small piece of grass on the table to represent re-birth and place a cube of sugar in it to symbolise a sweet year ahead.
Afghan perspective
A special episode of Dandelion (in Farsi, ‘Ghasadek’) hosted guest Brother Shoaib, who talked about Norouz traditions in Afghanistan (pictured right). Instead of celebrating the 7 dishes, Afghans celebrate 7 fruits, symbolising health.
Not all Farsi-speaking Christians celebrate Norouz, but Brother Shoaib explained why SAT-7 PARS upholds the tradition. As the Persian New Year represents new beginnings, it is a good time to remember that we are renewed and have hope in Christ. He pointed to Isaiah 43:18-19, which encourages believers not to dwell on the past, but to look ahead for new works of God.
Pray that in the year ahead, SAT-7 PARS will lead more people in Farsi-speaking nations to look to Christ for new beginnings and a hopeful future.
*2011 Intermedia Research
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SAT-7 PARS
Launched on 18 December 2006, SAT-7 PARS broadcasts 24/7 to a Farsi-speaking audience in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and to the diaspora in Europe. Christians in Iran and Afghanistan face many pressures because of their faith. Many are unable to meet with other Christians and get little or no Bible teaching. SAT-7 PARS provides a spiritual lifeline for them.
SAT-7 PARS’ small viewer support team is trying to respond to over 15,000 contacts every week. The Holy Spirit is moving in hearts and lives in Iran and it is a great privilege – and hugely exciting – for SAT-7 to be a part of this.
SAT-7 PARS provides a variety of programmes including Bible teaching, women’s programmes, drama, and films. Its live children’s programmes are extremely popular, receiving hundreds of calls from young viewers every week.
Watch SAT-7 PARS
Topics: Afghanistan, Culture/Tradition, Dandelion, Farsi, Iran, SAT-7 PARS, Tajikistan, Together with You
Help SAT-7 PARS bring new life to Iranian, Afghan and Tajik viewers
People from the Persian world, primarily Iran, are finding new life in Christ in large numbers. SAT-7 PARS programmes, watched by an estimated 1.7 million viewers*, bypass censors and share God’s love with people in their homes. Your gift to SAT-7 PARS will enable more Farsi-speaking people to hear and consider the Good News of Jesus, and will encourage believers in their faith.
Just £10 enables 10 people to watch SAT-7 for a year.
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When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy Votes: 0
Ew. Someone put the dog out, "Rosalie murmured wrinkling her nose. Have you herd this one, Psycho? how do a blond's brain cells die?" She didn't say anything. Well?" I asked."Do you know the punch line or not?" She looked pointedly at the TV and ignored me. Has she heard it?" I asked Edward. No." He answered. Awesome. So you'll enjoy this, bloodsucker--a blond's brain cells die alone. Votes: 0
If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees. Votes: 0
Do you want me to sing to you? I'll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away. Votes: 0
I came to witness. I stay to fight. Votes: 0
Forever," Edward echoed in my ear. I couldn't speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire. I wouldn't have noticed. Votes: 0
non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much. Votes: 0
My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. Votes: 0
Time means little; I never notice its passing. Votes: 0
and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds. Votes: 0
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me. Votes: 0
Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas. Votes: 0
You're not the center of the universe, you know. Votes: 0
Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death. Votes: 0
Sister, they send you out for one and you bring back two... and a half. Such a clever girl. Votes: 0
Happy birthday," he sighed, and leaned down to touch his lips to mine. I reached up on my toes to make the kiss last longer when he pulled away. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, and then he disappeared into the darkness. Votes: 0
Fine,' Jared snapped. 'But if you try cuddling up to me tonight... so help me, O'Shea." Ian chuckled. ' Not to sound overly arrogant, but to be perfectly honest, Jared, were I so inclined, I think I could do better. Votes: 0
I honestly have no idea how to live without you. Votes: 0
The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter. Votes: 0
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. Votes: 0
Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV. Votes: 0
Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607 Votes: 0
The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale. Votes: 0
Woo!" Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!" Jacob and Charlie jumped. The rest of us froze. Charlie recovered, then looked at Emmett over his shoulder. "Florida winning?" "Just scored the first touchdown," Emmett confirmed. He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudville. "'Bout time somebody scored around here. Votes: 0
...the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than kiss itself. Votes: 0
He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. "Would you please tell me what you're thinking? Before I go mad? Votes: 0
Hey, do you know what you call a blond with a brain?" I asked, and the continued on the same breath, "a golden retriever." I've heard that one, too," she said, no longer smiling. I'll keep trying." I promised. Votes: 0
We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake. Votes: 0
I'm not dangerous at all I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And wolf-people like my Jacob."Renesmee dropped Edward's hand to reach back and pat Jacob's arm. Votes: 0
I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer. Votes: 0
I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often. Votes: 0
Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done. Votes: 0
It's pretty obvious, isn't it? I'm joining your crappy little renegade pack. The vampires' guard dogs. Votes: 0
I hate myself for liking you. Votes: 0
Mike's eyes narrowed shrewdly. "Don't kid yourself, Bella. The guy's head over heels for you." "I know," I sighed. "Life is complicated." "And girls are cruel," Mike said under his breath. Votes: 0
Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight. Votes: 0
Hey Jacob!" I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me. I smiled back, and something clicked silently into place, like two corresponding puzzle pieces. I'd forgotten how much I really liked Jacob Black. Votes: 0
I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner." - Wanda, The Host Votes: 0
And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways. Votes: 0
I love you more than anything in the world combined. Votes: 0
Run, Bella, run. I love you too much, for your good or mine. Votes: 0
The worst part is that I saw the whole thing -- our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me. Votes: 0
I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now. Votes: 0
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon Votes: 0
Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella. Votes: 0
Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear. Votes: 0
You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless. Votes: 0
But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action. Votes: 0
One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively. Votes: 0
The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything! Votes: 0
So, how come Jacob Black gets to give you a gift and I don't? Because I have nothing to give back to you. Bella, you give me everything just by breathing. Votes: 0
It's not what you are. It's what you do. Votes: 0
Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black Votes: 0
Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time? Votes: 0
Sometimes, kismet happens. Votes: 0
I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Culllen. And that was very, very stupid. Votes: 0
Edward: It wasn't the worst night of my life. Jake: Did it make the top ten? Edward: Possibly. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that. Votes: 0
Life sucks, and then you die... Votes: 0
It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't. Votes: 0
I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too. Votes: 0
I know love and lust don't always keep the same company. Votes: 0
I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever. Votes: 0
Dad, I wrote. I'm with Alice. Edward's in trouble. You can ground me when I get back. I know it's a bad time. So sorry. Love you so much. Bella. Votes: 0
Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool! Votes: 0
What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit. Votes: 0
I wondered how long it could last. Maybe someday, years from now.If the pain would decrease to the point where I could bear it.I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life. Votes: 0
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight? Votes: 0
There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. Votes: 0
Love doesn't always come in convenient packages. Votes: 0
A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car. Votes: 0
Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker Votes: 0
I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you Votes: 0
Do you have a multiple personality disorder? Votes: 0
I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Votes: 0
You look tired." "Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me . . . Votes: 0
Love, life, meaning...over. Votes: 0
I'd never seen anything more beautiful - even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived. Votes: 0
It never made sense for you to love me. Votes: 0
I'd been broken beyond repair. Votes: 0
And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it. Votes: 0
Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed. Votes: 0
Bella: "I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not." Edward: "And I should feel sorry that you're not sorry, but I don't. Votes: 0
We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many people, in the abstract, would...let's say Paige....how many people would she sacrifice to keep Andy alive? The answer wouldn't make any sense if you were looking at the whole of humanity as equals. Votes: 0
This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. Votes: 0
Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder Votes: 0
In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate? Why did perfect matches crumble and impossible couples thrive? I dont know the answer better than they did. Love simply is where it is. Votes: 0
I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful. Votes: 0
Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me. Votes: 0
Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.' Votes: 0
It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality. Votes: 0
There's no good story without romance. Votes: 0
Bella: Fu un bacio tenero, adorante. Dimenticai la folla, il luogo, il tempo, la ragione. Ricordavo solo che mi amava, che mi voleva, che ero sua. Lui lo aveva iniziato e stava a lui concludere quel bacio, ma io lo strinsi forte, ignorando le risatine e i colpi di tosse dei presenti. Votes: 0
Every choice has its consequences. Some more than others Votes: 0
Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. Votes: 0
Bella, I can't! Votes: 0
With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet. Votes: 0
I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong. Votes: 0
I truly love you, Ian. With my whole soul, I love you." - Wanda"I truly love you, too, my Wanderer." - Ian O' Shea Votes: 0
melanie: well, tell himwanda: what will happen then?melanie: you know what will happen. kyle broke the rules. jeb will shoot him, or they'll kick him ou. meybe ian will beat the snot out of him first.that would be fun to watch. Votes: 0
Aku berusaha sebisa mungkin hidup di masa kini tanpa masa lalu yang menghilang atau masa depan yang menjelang. Votes: 0
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale. Votes: 0
How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point? Votes: 0
In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way. Votes: 0
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Votes: 0
The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine. Votes: 0
Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own. Votes: 0
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful. Votes: 0
You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever. Votes: 0
Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike. Votes: 0
Look after my heart - I've left it with you. Votes: 0
I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating. Votes: 0
Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again. Votes: 0
Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world. Votes: 0
Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for Votes: 0
You are my life now. Votes: 0
Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you. Votes: 0
As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there. Votes: 0
I may not be a human, but I am a man. Votes: 0
Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin. Votes: 0
He's like a drug for you, Bella. Votes: 0
Jacob's little smirk became a full-blown grin, and I knew he was picturing Charlie showing up to arrest him. This grin was too bitter, too full of mocking to satisfy me. This wasn't the smile I'd been waiting to see. Votes: 0
I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in the back of my head. His name burst through all the walls I'd built to contain it. Edward, Edward, Edward. I was going to die. It shouldn't matter if I thought of him now. Edward, I love you. Votes: 0
Now, we'll have to hang out here until we're sure Jared's really gone and can't catch us." He grinned conspiratorially. "Then we'll have some fun!" I remembered that his idea of fun was usually along the lines of an armed standoff. Votes: 0
Que Quowle" -stay with me forever- Votes: 0
I love you. You're my only reason to stay alive... if that's what I am. Votes: 0
The author of the extremely successful Twilight series was rejected by 14 different publishers before the 15th picked up Twilight. What would all the tweens do if Bella and Edward hadn't been brought to life?! Votes: 0
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. Votes: 0
You're intoxicated by my very presence. Votes: 0
Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain. Votes: 0
Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off? Votes: 0
Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?" "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined. Votes: 0
I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory. Votes: 0
You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable. Votes: 0
I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen Votes: 0
Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that. Votes: 0
Carlisle: "I've seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome." Votes: 0
Stupid, shiny Volvo owner. Votes: 0
I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner. Votes: 0
Is he your warden now too? You know I saw this story on the news last week about controlling, abusive teenage relationships and- "Okay!" I cut him off, and then shoved his arm. "Time for the werewolf to get out! Votes: 0
But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether God exists in some form or the other. Not even the reflection in the mirror. Votes: 0
A girl can dream." His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?" "Not exactly," I said, frowning at his word choice. Monster, indeed. "Mostly I dream about being with you forever. Votes: 0
And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it. Votes: 0
With 'The Host,' I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. I'd love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay. Votes: 0
I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me. Votes: 0
When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me. Votes: 0
That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night. Votes: 0
"You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect me. I live every day in a climate of emotion. For the first century of my life, I lived in a world of bloodthirsty vengeance. Hate was my constant companion." - Jasper Hale Votes: 0
"Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters. Votes: 0
...humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own. Votes: 0
=> When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. => Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. => It's true that we don't know what we've got until we Votes: 0
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. Votes: 0
After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, "She wishes she was that cool! Votes: 0
After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much. Votes: 0
After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer. Votes: 0
After all the thousand times I've told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn't want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous conceptas if there were any way that I could exist without needing you! Votes: 0
After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating? Votes: 0
After all, what was more important, in the end, than love? Votes: 0
Alice is the most" supportive. Votes: 0
Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-T-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent attitude to fashion was a constant thorn in her side. If I'd allow it, she'd love to dress me everyday"perhaps several times a day"like some oversized three-dimensional paper doll. Votes: 0
Alice: "No one will dare to call you plain when I'm through with you." Bella: "Only because they're afraid you'll suck their blood. Votes: 0
All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well. Votes: 0
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space. Votes: 0
Amazing," Edward muttered. "How can someone so tiny be so annoying?" Alice laughed. "It's a talent. Votes: 0
And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend? Votes: 0
And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be. Votes: 0
And it was different because I'd already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn't my fault. Votes: 0
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb"" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion. Votes: 0
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. Votes: 0
And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable. Votes: 0
And then as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you rolled over restlessly and mumbled my name once more, and sighed. The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer. Votes: 0
And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time. Votes: 0
And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever. Votes: 0
And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was. A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me. I crossed my arms tightly across my chest, my hands balling into fists. I was losing my mind. Votes: 0
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him Votes: 0
And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?" "That's right," I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. "You're incredible. Votes: 0
Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over? Votes: 0
Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise? Votes: 0
Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted. "No." I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full - of butterflies. Votes: 0
As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened. Votes: 0
As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting me go, leaving me to the black universe I had wandered for so many lifetimes. I drifted into the black, and it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't black at all - it was blue. Warm, vibrant, brilliant blue...I floated into it with no fear at all. Votes: 0
As if you could outrun me... Votes: 0
As long as she wants me, I'm here. Votes: 0
As long as you like me the best. And you think I'm good-lookingsort of. I'm prepared to be annoyingly persistent. Votes: 0
At least he's alive and well. I love him enough that I want that. I want him to have what's best for him." She sighed. "I just don't want to stick around to watch. Votes: 0
At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise... I die for them. Votes: 0
Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn't be more eager to have mine behind me. So there's really no point. Votes: 0
Be honest, how hideous do I look?" He took another step back and pursed his lips. "That bad, huh?" I muttered. No, no Bella. Actually. . ." He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look. . .sexy." I laughed out loud. "Right." Very sexy, really. Votes: 0
Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella. Votes: 0
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. Votes: 0
Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now. Votes: 0
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries. Votes: 0
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything. Votes: 0
Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried. Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you. Keep it light. Votes: 0
Bella, can you drop the rock, please? Carefully. Don't hurt yourself. Votes: 0
Bella, it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant. Votes: 0
Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk," he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest. "Drunk?" I objected. "You're intoxicated by my very presence." He was grinning that playful smirk again. Votes: 0
Bella, there's a part of you that loves me. Votes: 0
Bella." Edward's voice was right beside me, relieved now. "Can you hear me?" "No," I groaned. "Go away. Votes: 0
Bella." He strocked my face anxiously. "I'm not going anywhere. I'll be right here as long as you need me." "Do you swear you won't leave me?" I whispered. I tried to control the gasping, at least. My ribs were throbbing. He put his hands on either side of my face and brought his face close to mine. His eyes were wide and serious. "I swear. Votes: 0
Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified." Votes: 0
Bella: How could I live with myself when it's my fault? None of you should be risking yourselves for me " Jasper: Bella, Bella, stop. You're worrying all the wrong things, Bella. Trust me on this " none of us are in jeopardy" Our family is strong. Our only fear is losing you. Bella: But why should you " Alice: It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes that we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you? Votes: 0
Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice. Votes: 0
Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now. Votes: 0
Body and soul. Two different things Votes: 0
Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof? Votes: 0
Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner Votes: 0
But I love you, " he whispered. "Doesn't that matter?" "Of course it matters. So much. Can't you see? That only makes it more" necessary." His eyes flashed open. "Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? I can keep my mouth shut, Wanda. I won't say it again. You can be with Jared, if that's what you want. Just stay. Votes: 0
But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head--if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel? Votes: 0
But I'll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy Votes: 0
But now you're unhappy," he pointed out. "And?" I challenged. "That doesn't seem fair." He shrugged, but his eyes were still intense. I laughed without humour. "Hasn't anyone told you? Life isn't fair." "I believe I have heard that somewhere before," he agreed dryly. Votes: 0
But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide? Votes: 0
But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest. Votes: 0
But what if it were you? What if you were stuffed in a human body and let loose on this planet only to find yourself lost among your own kind? What if you were such a good person that you tried to save the life that you'd taken that you almost died trying to get her back to her family? What if you then found yourself surrounded by violent aliens who hated you and tried to hurt you and tried to murder you over and over again? What if you just kept doing whatever you could to save and heal people despite that? Wouldn't you deserve a life too? Wouldn't you have earned that much? Votes: 0
But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn't even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through? Votes: 0
but you see, just because we've been...dealt a certain hand...it doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above- to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. to try to retain whatever essential humanity we can. Votes: 0
But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences. Votes: 0
By the way, I love you." "That's why we're here. Votes: 0
Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered. Votes: 0
Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses. Votes: 0
Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that. Votes: 0
Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward's. I touched the cool miracle of his skin, and I was home. Votes: 0
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. Votes: 0
Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to. Votes: 0
Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life? Votes: 0
Darkness is so predictable. Votes: 0
Dating a older woman- hot" Emmet Cullen Votes: 0
Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm--into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. Votes: 0
Dear Jacob, I win. Sincerely, Edward Votes: 0
Despite my best efforts I've seen you naked before " doesn't do much for me so no worries. Votes: 0
Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!" I protested. "Aw, what a waste. And here you're probably the one person who could take him- since he can't get into your head to cheat- and you had a perfect excuse too. I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage. Votes: 0
Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you? Votes: 0
Do I dazzle you? - Edward Frequently - Bella Votes: 0
Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before. Votes: 0
Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me?" Edward Cullen Votes: 0
Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?" He pulled me tighter against his hard chest, tucking my head under his chin. I pressed my lips against his snow-cold neck. "I know how much I love you," I answered. You compare one small tree to the entire forest." I rolled my eyes, but he couldn't see. "Impossible. Votes: 0
Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness Votes: 0
Do you think I'll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me? Votes: 0
Do you truly believe that you care more for me than I do for you?" he murmured, leaning closer to me as he spoke, his dark golden eyes piercing. I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me. "You're doing it again," I muttered. His eyes opened wide with surprise. "What?" "Dazzling me," I admitted, trying to concentrate as I looked back at him. "Oh." He frowned. "It's not your fault," I sighed. "You can't help it. Votes: 0
Don't be a baby about this. No tantrums. Votes: 0
dont be afraid", i murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by th truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, there was no way to boubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him...It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire. "Forever," he agreed. Votes: 0
Don't be afraid," i murmured. "We belong together. Votes: 0
Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together." I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words. Votes: 0
Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So . . . try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?" He smiled crookedly. The helplessness had faded as he spoke. I glared at him. "I'll see what I can do," I snapped as I jumped out into the rain. I slammed the door behind me with excessive force. He was still smiling as he drove away. Votes: 0
Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So" try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right? Votes: 0
Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun. Votes: 0
Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen Votes: 0
Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes. Votes: 0
Don't worry, Mel. Miracles don't work that way. I'll never lose you. I'll never let you get away from me. Votes: 0
Don't worry?! You sliced your hand open! Votes: 0
Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love. Votes: 0
driving at the speed limit--hideous thought. Votes: 0
Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. Votes: 0
Edward can do everything, right?" I explained. Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reproving look. "I hope you haven't been showing off-it's rude," she scolded. "Just a bit," he laughed freely. "He's been too modest actually," I corrected. "Well, play for her," Esme encouraged. "You just said showing off was rude," he objected. "There are exceptions to every rule," she replied. Votes: 0
Edward helped, making faces every so often at the raw ingredients-human food was mildly repulsive to him. Votes: 0
Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured. Votes: 0
Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him. Votes: 0
Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see. Votes: 0
Edward,' she mumbled softly. She was dreaming of me. Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to. 'Stay,' she sighed. 'Don't go. Please... don't go Votes: 0
Edward: "After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved. Votes: 0
Edward: Bella, please stop taking your clothes off! Bella: Why? Did you wanna do that part? Votes: 0
Edward's only human Bella. He's going to react like any other boy. Votes: 0
Eight full lives," I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. "Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?" "It's a strange universe," he murmured. "It's not fair," I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find love"now, in this eleventh hour"and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too? Votes: 0
Emmett thought about that for a moment. 'You really... love her?' 'I can't even describe it, Emmett. All of a sudden, this girl's the whole world to me. I don't see the point of the rest of the world without her anymore Votes: 0
Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward Votes: 0
Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do. Votes: 0
Everyone needs a little Edward in their life Votes: 0
Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect. Votes: 0
For a second I was just a kid " a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward's eyes. Votes: 0
For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours" all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet. Votes: 0
For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.... Votes: 0
For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency. Votes: 0
Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk. Votes: 0
Forever is only the beginning Votes: 0
Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered. "That's all I'm asking for," I said, Votes: 0
From that first little touch, the whole world had shifted. Where before there was just one thing I could not live without, now there were two. There was no division " my love was not split between them now; it wasn't like that. It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice its size in that moment. All that extra space, already filled. The increase was almost dizzying. Votes: 0
Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised? Votes: 0
Go jump off a cliff, Leah. Votes: 0
Go sit down and look pale. Votes: 0
Good luck tended to avoid me. Votes: 0
Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it. Votes: 0
Good or Bad? Good. That's what I thought Votes: 0
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me " so extreme, so violent that I wasn't sure I'd survive it. Votes: 0
Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine. Votes: 0
Hard to feel confident when you're surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745 Votes: 0
Hasn't anyone ever told you? Life isn't fair. Votes: 0
Hate is a passionate emotion. Votes: 0
He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful. Votes: 0
He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled. "You smell so good in the rain," he explained. "In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously. He sighed. "Both, always both. Votes: 0
He looks at you like...like you're something to eat. Votes: 0
He never leaves, does he? Votes: 0
He raised his hand, hesitant, conflict raging in his eyes, and then swiftly brushed the length of my cheekbone with his fingertips. His skin was as icy as ever, but the trail his fingers left on my skin was alarmingly warm - like I'd been burned, but didn't feel the pain of it yet. Votes: 0
He shifted his weight, throwing his good leg off the bed as if he were going to try to stand. "What are you doing?" I demanded through the tears. "Lie down, you idiot, you'll hurt yourself!" I jumped to my feet and pushed his good shoulder down with two hands. He surrendered, leaning back with a gasp of pain, but he grabbed me around my waist and pulled me down on the bed, against his good side. I curled up there, trying to stifle the silly sobs against his hot skin. Votes: 0
He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond Votes: 0
He squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure. Votes: 0
He thinks things through too much. Votes: 0
He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now. Votes: 0
He was giving up on keeping me alive, letting nature"or rather mob justice"take its course. When he returned, and I was dead, he wouldn't hold anyone responsible. He would not mourn. All this I could hear in those three words. Votes: 0
He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough. Votes: 0
He was right " she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She'd totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause. Votes: 0
He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs. Votes: 0
He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook his head as he looked at the tiny blackhaired girl. "Alice doesn"t need anyone"s help." The vampire named Alice shot a glare at Jasper. "Overprotective fool," she said in her clear soprano voice. Jasper met her stare with a half smile, seeming to forget for a second that I existed. Votes: 0
He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to. Votes: 0
Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide. Votes: 0
Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe. Votes: 0
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of years, and all the myths and legends of a hundred different lands seemed much more likely in this green haze than they had in my clear-cut bedroom. Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer Votes: 0
Here's to responsibility, twice a week.', Votes: 0
Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine. Votes: 0
He's got to let go of you sometime. Votes: 0
He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun. Votes: 0
He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. Votes: 0
He's playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he's doing and I don't. Don't blame me because he's a better manipulator than I am I haven't been around long enough to learn all his tricks. Votes: 0
Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool. Votes: 0
His eyes flashed open. "Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? Votes: 0
His gift is slower than Jane's. It creeps. It will touch us in a few seconds. Votes: 0
His gold eyes grew very soft. "You said you loved me." "You knew that already," I reminded him, ducking my head. "It was nice to hear, just the same." I hid my face against his shoulder. "I love you," I whispered. "You are my life now," he answered simply. There was nothing more to say for the moment. He rocked us back and forth as the room grew lighter. Votes: 0
His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?" Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way. But Jacob rolled his eyes. "You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" "I'm serious." Well, then, thanks. Sort of." I grinned. "You're sort of welcome. Votes: 0
His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb. Votes: 0
History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed. Votes: 0
Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan Votes: 0
Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be faster than you. Votes: 0
How could you fall in love with a three inch worm? Votes: 0
How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost you mind? Votes: 0
How did anyone survive this world, with these bodies whose memories wouldn't stay in the past where they should? With the emotions that were so strond I couldn't tell what I felt anymore? Votes: 0
How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had... Votes: 0
How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208 Votes: 0
How old are you?" "Seventeen," he answered promptly. "And how long have you been seventeen?" His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while," he admitted at last. Votes: 0
How old are you?" she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. "Seventeen." "And how long have you been seventeen?" I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. "A while," I admitted. "Okay," she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me. Votes: 0
How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much? Votes: 0
How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you? Votes: 0
however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class. Votes: 0
Humans were always surprising me. Votes: 0
I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her. Votes: 0
I almost took the door off the car Votes: 0
I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." Bella Swan Votes: 0
I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time. Votes: 0
I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems.... Edward Cullen Twilight, Chapter 5 Votes: 0
I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again... I came in through the window... Still, the intent was clear," said Edward. Votes: 0
I believe that. But I want you to know something when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I'm out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don't care who's a werewolf and who's a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too. Votes: 0
I belong wherever I want to be. Votes: 0
I bit a pillow. Or two. Votes: 0
I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word. Votes: 0
I can feel what you're feeling now and you are worth it. Votes: 0
I can hear them on the floor below. They will find me in miuntes, or seconds. I scrawl the words on a dirty shred of newsprint. They are nearly illegible, but if he finds them, he will understand: 'Not fast enough. Love you love Jamie. Don't go home' Not only do I break their hearts, I steal their refuge, too. I picture our little canyon abandoned, as it must be forever now. Or if not abandoned, a tomb. Votes: 0
I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen Votes: 0
I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips. Votes: 0
I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of fallingit was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength. Votes: 0
I couldn"t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that, the fight was over, my coven had lost and my enemies had won. But my dead coven was full of people who would have loved to watch me burn, and my enemies were speaking to me kindly when they had no reason to. Votes: 0
I couldn't get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain. Votes: 0
I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire. Votes: 0
i did know this- every second i spent with her was only going to add to the pain i would have suffer later Votes: 0
I didn't realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. "I do,' I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. "I do,' he vowed. Votes: 0
I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain. Votes: 0
I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella. Votes: 0
I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial! Votes: 0
I didn't want to kill girls" even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde. Votes: 0
I don't care about anything but keeping her alive. If it's a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if that's what it takes. Votes: 0
I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." Jacob Black Votes: 0
I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore Votes: 0
I don't like to lie " so there'd better be a good reason why I'm doing it. Votes: 0
I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should. Votes: 0
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head. Votes: 0
I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again. Votes: 0
I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life: I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today. Votes: 0
I figured if I played nice, I'd get more time with you. Votes: 0
I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty. Votes: 0
I gave you life. You're wasting it. Votes: 0
I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder. Votes: 0
I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine. Votes: 0
I had a secret that I was bound to protect but a secret that i was not to share. A secert that suddenly he knew all about. Votes: 0
I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now. Votes: 0
I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go. Votes: 0
I had the feeling Edward wasn't the kind of person anyone got used to. Votes: 0
I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public. Votes: 0
I have to step out for a second. Don't do anything funny while I'm gone. Votes: 0
I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak," he laughed. Votes: 0
I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful. Votes: 0
I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror. Votes: 0
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated. Votes: 0
I knew I was too lateand I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live. Votes: 0
I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned. Votes: 0
I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart. Votes: 0
I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors." Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed. "Why don't you just tell me who wins?" Edward said wryly. Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent. Votes: 0
I know Okay, Sorry. I am. Look, I'm human. It's hard to be fair sometimes. We don't always feel the right thing, do the right thing Votes: 0
I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003. Votes: 0
I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you. Votes: 0
I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded. Votes: 0
I love a happy ending. They are so rare. Votes: 0
I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me. Votes: 0
I miss you already I don't need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm. Votes: 0
I miss you when you're not there. When you're happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You're family. I love you, but I'm not in love with you. Votes: 0
I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full of revulsion. As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind. Votes: 0
I promise that this will be the last time you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed. Votes: 0
I said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be. Votes: 0
I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn't worried about frightening me, not overprotective like Edward always was. Votes: 0
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her. Votes: 0
I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved aside, into the smallest part of my body, the little corner that I took up physically. The rest of me yearned toward Jared with the same desperate, half-crazed hunger I'd felt since the first time I'd seen him here. This body barely belonged to me or to Melanie-it belonged to him. Votes: 0
I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them. When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight? Votes: 0
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed. There was no friction in the space between us. The stillness was peaceful - not like the calm before the tempest, but like a clear night untouched by even the dream of a storm. Votes: 0
I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval. Votes: 0
I think Ian likes you too much Votes: 0
I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her. Votes: 0
I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world. Votes: 0
I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted. Votes: 0
I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist. Votes: 0
I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don't exist, not irritating me to death. Votes: 0
I told you I didn't want to fight with Charlie." "Nobody said that you had to." I glowered at him. "I can't help myself when he gets all bossy like that"my natural teenage instincts overpower me. Votes: 0
I took his hand, and suddely he yanked me"too roughly"right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in case," he muttered against my hair, crushing me in a bear hug that about to broke my ribs. "Can't"breathe!" I gasped. Votes: 0
I tried to concentrate on the angel's voice instead. "Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, please, please, please, Bella, please!" he begged. Yes, I wanted to say. Anything. But I couldn't find my lips. "Carlisle!" the angel called, agony in his perfect voice. "Bella, Bella, no, oh please, no, no!" And the angel was sobbing tearless, broken sobs. The angel shouldn't weep, it was wrong. I tried to find him, to tell him everything was fine, but the water was so deep, it was pressing on me, and I couldn't breathe. Votes: 0
I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me. Votes: 0
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic. Votes: 0
I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again. Votes: 0
I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. Votes: 0
I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side Votes: 0
I want to be a monster too Votes: 0
i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him. Votes: 0
I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity. Votes: 0
I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed. Votes: 0
I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I'd smelled in eighty years. Votes: 0
I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house"condemned"for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all"just the one small piece. He deserved better than that"better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order. Votes: 0
I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be. Votes: 0
I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan Votes: 0
I was just thinking " today is the first and last day of forever. It's kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping. Votes: 0
I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object. Votes: 0
I was like a lost moon"my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation"that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity. Votes: 0
I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear. Votes: 0
I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming. Votes: 0
I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing. Votes: 0
I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place Votes: 0
I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow. Votes: 0
I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind. Votes: 0
I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope. Votes: 0
I watched her, waiting. She smiled. Her lips curved up and the edges, and her chocolate eyes warmed. I'd just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling. Votes: 0
I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck. Votes: 0
i will always tell you the truth. Votes: 0
I wish i'd hurt him I didn't do any damage at all-Bella I can fix that-edward I was hoping you would say that-bella there was a slight pause "that doesn't sound like you what did he do"-edward he kissed me-bella all i heard on the other end of the line was the sound of an engine accelerating Votes: 0
I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen Votes: 0
I wondered " would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up? (Jacob) Votes: 0
I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence. Votes: 0
I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. Votes: 0
I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled myself closer to him until my lips touched his. Votes: 0
I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become. Votes: 0
Ian didn't come. He just sat here with you--he said he didn't care what you looked like. He wouldn't let anyone else put a finger on your tank at all, not even me or Mel. But Doc let me watch this time. It was way cool, Wanda. I don't know why you wouldn't let me watch before. They wouldn't let me help, though. Ian wouldn't let anyone touch you but him.' Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. 'I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful. Votes: 0
Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink. Votes: 0
Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. 'I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful. Votes: 0
I'd loved in so many bodies, but never one I loved like this. Never one that I craved in this way. Of course, this would be the one I'd have to give up. The irony made me laugh, and I concentrated on the feel of the air that popped in little bubbles from my chest and up through my throat. Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one. Votes: 0
I'd never understood how Carlisle was able to do that - ignore the blood of his patients in order to treat them. Wouldn't the constant temptation be so distracting, so dangerous? But now, I could see how, if you were focusing on something else hard enough, the temptation was be nothing at all. Votes: 0
I'd noticed that his eyes were black " coal black. Votes: 0
I'd rather die than be with anyone but you. Votes: 0
I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane. Votes: 0
I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days. Votes: 0
If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him. Votes: 0
If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives. Votes: 0
If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker. Votes: 0
If this is how you're going to react, I'll freak out more often. Votes: 0
If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands. Votes: 0
If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now. Votes: 0
If you don't send Edward out, we're coming in after him! (Emmett) Votes: 0
If you don't send Edward out," Emmettstill invisible in the nighthissed menacingly, "we're coming in after him!" "Go," I laughed. "Before they break my house. Votes: 0
If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? Votes: 0
I'll always be waiting in the wings Bella Votes: 0
I'll meet you at the altar" "I'll be the one in white! Votes: 0
I'm a little worried about Edward" Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129 Votes: 0
I'm afraid you're going to have to make a choice. Votes: 0
I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken" If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic Votes: 0
I'm glad I came. I didn't think I would be. But it's good to see you" one more time. Not as sad as I'd thought it would be. Votes: 0
i'm in love with you, Bella Votes: 0
I'm just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may. Votes: 0
I'm just here to be your friend. Your best friend, one last time. Votes: 0
I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella Votes: 0
I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. Everything's so much more fun with you around." Emmett Cullen Votes: 0
I'm really glad I did not tattoo on my body 'cause I don't want them. So, permanence is a very scary thing to me, along with things that don't change at all. Votes: 0
I'm trying to keep"" he huffed, shifting his weight as the treetop bounced him""my promise!" I blinked my wet blurry eyes, suddenly sure that I was dreaming. "When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree? Votes: 0
In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't see his face, just his back as he walked away from me, leaving me in the blackness. No matter how fast I ran, I couldn't catch up to him; no matter how loud I called, he never turned. Troubled, I woke in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep again for what seemed like a very long time. After that, he was in my dreams nearly every night, but always on the periphery, never within reach. Votes: 0
In my head, Carlisle's kind eyes did not judge me. I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong. Votes: 0
In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days." I flushed and turned my eyes straight ahead, looking after the dark shadow that I could no longer see. I could imagine what he was hearing in Alice's thoughts now. Near-drowings, stalking vampires, werewolf friends . . . "Hm," Edward said curtly, and the casual tone of his voice was gone. Votes: 0
In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it? Votes: 0
Inspiration in desperation. Votes: 0
Interceded? You threw me to the sharks! Votes: 0
Is it really sick for me to be happy right now?" I asked. My voice broke twice. He didn't push me away. He pulled me tight against his ice-hard chest, so tight it was hard to breathe, even with my lungs securely intact. "I know exactly what you mean," he whispered. "But we have lot of reasons to be happy. For one, we're alive." "Yes," I agreed. "That's a good one." "And together," he breathed. His breath was so sweet it made my head swim. Votes: 0
Is my mom all right?" "She's perfectly fine. don't worry, Bella, I have no quarrel with her. Unless you didn't come alone, of course." Light, amused. "I'm alone." I'd never been more alone in my entire life. Votes: 0
Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief. Votes: 0
Isabella Swan?" He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. "I promise to love you foreverevery single day of forever. Will you marry me?" There were many things I wanted to say, some of them not nice at all, and others more disgustingly gooey and romantic than he probably dreamed I was capable of. Rather than embarrass myself with either, I whispered, "Yes." "Thank you," he said simply. He took my left hand and kissed each of my fingertips before he kissed the ring that was now mine. Votes: 0
It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren't going to make it that far. Votes: 0
It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed. Votes: 0
It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you. Votes: 0
It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant. Votes: 0
It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food. Votes: 0
It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London. Votes: 0
It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity? Votes: 0
It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me - even before I was off the street - as soon as I heard his voice. Votes: 0
It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... Votes: 0
It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape. Votes: 0
It was not going to be the end of the world. Just the end of the Cullens. The end of Edward, the end of me. I preferred it that way " the last part anyway. I would not live without Edward again; if he was leaving this world, then I would be right behind him. Votes: 0
It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century. Votes: 0
It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life. Votes: 0
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. Votes: 0
It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place. Votes: 0
It Will Be As If I Never Existed Votes: 0
It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface. Votes: 0
It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs. Votes: 0
It won't be the same for me," I whispered, half to myself. "You won't let me be like that. We'll live in Antarctica." Edward snorted, breaking the tension. "Penguins. Lovely. Votes: 0
It's a little dense, don't you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house?' Emmett threw his head back and snorted. 'PLEASE!' [...] I took a deep breath. 'Emmett, how do you feel about a little bet?' He was on his feet at once. 'Awesome. Bring it. Votes: 0
It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda Votes: 0
It's an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to and accept you for what you are. I've been waiting, for what seems like a very long time, to get beyond what I am. With Bella I feel like I can finally begin. So I'd like to propose a toast to my beautiful bride. No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let's start with forever. Votes: 0
it's awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you're ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see. Votes: 0
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way. Votes: 0
It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt. Votes: 0
It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain. Votes: 0
It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down"I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?" "Yeah Jake. I know that. And I already do count on you, probably more than you know. Votes: 0
It's like pain, this pleasure. Votes: 0
It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty. Votes: 0
It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more like" gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her" You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother. Votes: 0
It's not the end. It's the beginning. Votes: 0
It's over. We've all been sentenced to die. Votes: 0
It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it. Votes: 0
It's strong, Ian. The way she feels about you is something else. She loves this world, but so much of the reason she couldn't leave was really you. She thinks of you as her anchor. You gave her a reason to finally stay in one place after a lifetime of wandering. Votes: 0
It's the strange world.' 'The strangest. Votes: 0
It's too easy to be myself with you. Votes: 0
It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think? Votes: 0
I've chosen my life now I want to start living it. Votes: 0
I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it's much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that's probably just because it's you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes. Votes: 0
Jacob was a gift from the gods. Votes: 0
Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints. Votes: 0
Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried this happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was near him. Lika an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was. Votes: 0
Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. " You truly are one frightening little monster. Votes: 0
Jealous, O'Shea?" "Actually" I am. Votes: 0
Just because I'm resisting the wine doesn't mean I can't appreciate the bouquet. Votes: 0
Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it that way." -The Host Votes: 0
Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger. Votes: 0
Just snow and sapphire and ink. Votes: 0
Just you wait till I'm a vampire! I'm not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time. Votes: 0
Kiss me, Jacob. Kiss me, and then come back. Votes: 0
Kryptonite doesn't bother me, either. Votes: 0
Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? Votes: 0
Leah: "That is easily the freakin' grossest thing I've ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was anything in my stomach, it would be coming back." Seth: "They are vampires, I guess. I mean, it makes sense, and if it helps Bella, it's a good thing, right?" Leah and Jake stare at Seth. Seth: "What?" Leah: "Mom dropped him a lot when he was a baby." Jake: "On his head apparently." Leah: "He used to gnaw on the crib bars, too." Jake: "Lead paint?" Leah: "Looks like it." Seth: "Funny. Why don't you two shut up and sleep? Votes: 0
Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find. Votes: 0
Let her see me clearly. Votes: 0
Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock. Votes: 0
Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said. Votes: 0
Life and love go on... Votes: 0
Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy. Votes: 0
Like all bullies, they're cowards underneath the swagger Votes: 0
Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given. Votes: 0
Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain. Votes: 0
Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it. Votes: 0
Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. You fight dirty. You bet I do. Votes: 0
love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair. Votes: 0
Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made. Votes: 0
Love is simply where it is. Votes: 0
Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed throughusually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives. Votes: 0
May the best man win That's about right pup Votes: 0
Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn't be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob Votes: 0
Maybe you'll get lucky." I said bleakly, lurching on my feet. "Maybe I'll get hit by a truck on my way back. Votes: 0
Melanie still grieves for Jared," she stated. I felt my head nod without willing the action. "You grieve for him." I closed my eyes. "The dreams continue?" "Every night," I mumbled. "Tell me about then." Her voice was soft, persuasive. "I don't like to talk about them." "I know. Try. It might help." "How? How will it help to tell you that I see his face every time I close my eyes? That I wake up and cry when he's not there? That the memories are so strong I can't separate hers from mine anymore? Votes: 0
Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes. Votes: 0
More than my own life Votes: 0
Mostly I dream about being with you forever. Votes: 0
My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. Votes: 0
My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning. Votes: 0
My heart hasn't beat in almost ninety years but this was different it was like my heart was gone like I was hallow like I'd left everything here with you. Votes: 0
My mom is part albino. Votes: 0
My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea. Votes: 0
My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you. Votes: 0
My old mind hadn't been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I'd brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle's compassion and Esme's devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that. Votes: 0
My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest. Votes: 0
Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there. Votes: 0
Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar! Votes: 0
Nice girl who knew cars. Wow. I stared at her face harder, wishing I knew how to make it work. C'mon, Jake " imprint already. Votes: 0
No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand, i would only want more - another insignificant touch, another move closer to her. i could feel that. a new kind of desire was growing in me, working to override my self-control. no mistakes. Votes: 0
No one could be still like Edward. Votes: 0
no one had to tell me anything. I know what I am Votes: 0
No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud. Votes: 0
no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro) Votes: 0
No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot. Votes: 0
No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess. Votes: 0
Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day. Votes: 0
Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I've ever grasped how much pain she's really in. Votes: 0
Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you. Votes: 0
Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'�d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. - Jacob Black Votes: 0
Odd as this might sound, I suppose I'm glad you're here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen] Votes: 0
Of course, die for the monster spawn. It was so Bella. Votes: 0
Of course, I still saw Edward at school, because there wasn't anything Charlie [her dad] could do about that. And then, Edward spent almost every night in my room, too, but Charlie wasn't precisely aware of that. Edward's ability to climb easily and silently through my second-story window was almost as useful as his ability to read Charlie's mind. Votes: 0
Of course, then you nearly crushed to death in front of my eyes. Later I thought of a perfectly good excuse for why I acted at that moment - because if I hadn't saved you, if your blood had been spilled there in front of me, I don't think I could have stopped myself from exposing us for what we are. But I only thought of that excuse later. At the time, all I could think was, 'Not her. Votes: 0
Of course, you'd warm up faster if you took your clothes off. Votes: 0
oh you do smell good. Votes: 0
Once people start throwing wet stuff, I go inside. Votes: 0
Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore. Votes: 0
Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't see anything wrong with that picture. Jacob was a gift from the gods. Votes: 0
Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility. Votes: 0
Out of all the things about me that could frighten you, you worry about my driving. Votes: 0
Over my pile of ashes Votes: 0
Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. Votes: 0
Please don't run away. And, um, I'd rather you didn't kick me again either. Votes: 0
Ready to be humiliated, Wanda?" Wes taunted. "You may have taken the planet, but you're losing this game. Votes: 0
Real. Does that make me imaginary? Votes: 0
Romeo wouldn't change his mind. That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers Votes: 0
Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent. Votes: 0
Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular. Votes: 0
Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face! Votes: 0
She is mine.' Edward's low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn't say I would fight fair. Votes: 0
She just keeps saying "He's gone. Votes: 0
She looked around herself, disoriented, like she'd forgotten we were at lunch. Like she'd forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone in some private place. I understood that feeling exactly. It was hard to remember the rest of the world when I was with her. Votes: 0
She reminded me of what it did to her when I left what it still does to her when I leave. She feels horrible about bringing that up, but she's right. I'll never be able to make up for that, but I'll never stop trying anyway. Votes: 0
She sees things things that might happen, things that are coming. But it's very subjective. The future isn't set in stone. Things change. Votes: 0
She was thinking what I think she was thinking, wasn't she? Votes: 0
She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase. Votes: 0
She's just a little faint," I reassured Mrs. Hammond. "They're blood typing in biology." She nodded, understanding now. "There's always one." I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one. Votes: 0
Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie's head so hard that " with an earsplitting bang " it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs. Votes: 0
So eager for eternal damnation. Votes: 0
So it's still standing?" he managed to get out between his snickers. "I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?" Emmett howled with laughter. Votes: 0
So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined. Votes: 0
So what are you going to tell her?" "A little help?" I pleaded. "What does she want to know?" He shook his head, grinning wickedly. "That's not fair." "No, you not sharing what you know-now that's not fair. Votes: 0
So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin. Votes: 0
So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance. Votes: 0
So" um" what's the, er, date? You know, the due date for the little monster. Votes: 0
So, Bella, I was following your scent through the woods after I'd left your room where I was watching you sleep...Yes that would be quite the ice breaker. Votes: 0
So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that. Votes: 0
So, instead of panicking, I closed my eyes and spent the twenty minutes' drive with Edward. I imagined that I had stayed at the airport to meet Edward. I visualized how I would stand on my toes, the sooner to see his face. How quickly, how gracefully he would move through the crowds of people separating us. And then I would run to close those last few feet between us - reckless as always - and I would be in his marble arms, finally safe. Votes: 0
Some of the memories were not clear---dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin... Votes: 0
Someone has to spread the good news that we survived. Votes: 0
Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda Votes: 0
Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf." "Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK. Votes: 0
Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them. Votes: 0
Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm losing myself. Votes: 0
Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire. Votes: 0
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. Votes: 0
Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell. Votes: 0
Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you're alive Votes: 0
Spider-Man is such a whiny loser. Votes: 0
Stop being so" optimistic. It's getting on my nerves. Votes: 0
Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth Votes: 0
Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush. Votes: 0
Strange world isn't it? Votes: 0
Thank you, Wanda. My sister. I will never forget you. Be happy, Mel. Enjoy it all. Appreciate it for me. Votes: 0
thank you-for her-for everything." _Edward Cullen Votes: 0
That maybe you should make the most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you're alive? Votes: 0
That was the first night I dreamed of Eward Cullen. Votes: 0
That's Edward. He's gorgeous, of course, but don't waste your time. He doesn't date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him. Votes: 0
That's not very attractive behavior, Bella." he said. " Forgiveness is divine. "Mind your own buisness. Votes: 0
Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change. Votes: 0
That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah Votes: 0
That's why it was so impossible to tell him goodbye because I was in love with him. Too. I loved him, much more than I should, and yet, still nowhere near enough. I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more. To hurt him worse than I ever had. Votes: 0
The absence of him is everywhere I look. Votes: 0
the best 4 letter word in the world is Hope Votes: 0
The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options Votes: 0
The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely. Votes: 0
The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job. Votes: 0
The kiss began much the same as usual--Edward was as careful as ever, and my heart began to overreact like it always did. And then something seemed to change. Suddenly his lips became much more urgent, his free hand twisted into my hair and held my face securely to his. And though I was clearly beginning to cross his cautious lines, for once he didn't stop me. His body was cold through the thin quilt, but I crushed myself against him eagerly. Votes: 0
The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now. Votes: 0
The only parents in the world who don't need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429 Votes: 0
The only reason I left was to protect you. Votes: 0
The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward Votes: 0
The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same timemade me feel human. Votes: 0
The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out. Votes: 0
The Seeker needed a nice long lifetime eating sunshine. Votes: 0
The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along. Votes: 0
The smile broke across his face the way the sunrise set the clouds on fire... Votes: 0
The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow... Bella's Lullaby Votes: 0
The sun was hot on my skin, too bright as it bounced off the white concrete and blinded me. I felt dangerously exposed. More fiercely than I would have dreamed I was capable of, I wished for the green, protective forest of Forks . . . of home. Votes: 0
The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck. Votes: 0
The wasting of finite resources is everyones business Votes: 0
The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface. Votes: 0
The way everyone looked at me made me uncomfortable. Even Edward. It was like I had grown a hundred feet during the course of the morning. I tried to ignore the impressed looks, mostly keeping my eyes on Nessie's sleeping face and Jacob's unchanged expression. I would always be just Bella to him, and that was a relief. Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.747 Votes: 0
The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love youand there's nothing you can do about it!" "That's all I needed to hear. Votes: 0
The way you move you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets" or gravity. You're like a" satellite, or something. Votes: 0
There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half. Votes: 0
There really is something irresistible about a lost cause. Votes: 0
There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love. Votes: 0
There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head. Votes: 0
There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan Votes: 0
There's something" strange about the way you two are together. The way he watches you it's so" protective. Like he's about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something. Votes: 0
They call her my singerbecause her blood sings for me. Votes: 0
They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore. Votes: 0
This isn�t about them. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her! - sam uley Votes: 0
This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire? Votes: 0
This was why I was here. This was why I would take whatever reception waited for me when I got back. Because, underneath all the anger and the sarcasm, Jacob was in pain. Right now, it was very clear in his eyes. I didn't know how to help him, but I knew I had to try. It was more than that I owed him. It was because his pain hurt me, too. Jacob had become a part of me, and there was no changing that now. Votes: 0
Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step. Votes: 0
Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this. I had a strange sensation that I was somehow receiving more than my five senses were giving me - almost a feeling that there was another sense, on the fringes, not quite harnessed. Intuition? That was almost the right word. As if any creature needed more than five senses. Votes: 0
Today is the first and last day of forever. Votes: 0
Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonighta lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold. Votes: 0
Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right. Votes: 0
True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells? Maybe it would be easy - like holding his hand or having his arms around me. Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't fell like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself. Votes: 0
Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life. Votes: 0
Try not to trip. We don't have time for a concussion today. Votes: 0
Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut. Votes: 0
Um, Bella? You've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood," he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob." I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head. Why are you apologizing for bleeding?" he wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist and and pulled me to my feet. Votes: 0
Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition." "But I feel better," Jared answered, sullen. Doc smiled the tiniest smile. "Well, maybe a few more minutes of unconsciousness won't kill him. Votes: 0
Unca Jay!" "How's it going Claire?" She giggled. "Qwil aaaaawl wet now." "I can see that. Where's your mama?" "Gone, gone, gone," Claire sang. "Cwaire pway wid Qwil aaaawl day. Cwaire nebber gowin home." Jacob and Claire, Breaking Dawn, page 152. Votes: 0
Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories. "Well, now, here's a pickle. Votes: 0
Victoria?" she hissed. "Laurent?" I nodded, a teensy bit alarmed by the expression in her black eyes. I pointed at my chest. "Danger magnet, remember? Votes: 0
Wanderer: You don't really feel that way about me you know. It's this body... she's pretty isn't she? Ian: She is. Melanie is a very pretty girl. Even beautiful. But pretty as she is, she is a stranger to me. She's not the one I... care about. Wanderer: It's this body. Ian: That's not true at all. It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what they say. It's not how you look like in that body, it's what you do with it. You are beautiful. Votes: 0
We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped Votes: 0
We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday. Votes: 0
Well" don't be offended, but you smell like a dog. Votes: 0
We're a bit sensitive to blood around here. I'm sure you can understand that. Votes: 0
We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path. "Not you too," I complained. "Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in. Votes: 0
What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. Ilooked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are. Votes: 0
what choice have I? I cannot live without you, but I will not destroy your soul." -Edward Cullen Votes: 0
What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have. Votes: 0
What happens when you lose your heart's desire? Votes: 0
What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy? Votes: 0
What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I'm doing it wrong. Votes: 0
What is she to me? Except a menace a danger you've chosen to inflict on all of us. Votes: 0
What kind of an idiotic question is that? Votes: 0
What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge?...Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire? Votes: 0
What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt? Votes: 0
What's so funny?" Bella mumbled. "I got food in her hair," I told her, chortling again. "I'm not going to forget this, dog," Rosalie hissed. "S'not so hard to erase a blond's memory," I countered. "Just blow in her ear." Get some new jokes, "Rosalie snapped. Votes: 0
When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go. Votes: 0
When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark - on both of you. Votes: 0
When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing Votes: 0
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end. Votes: 0
When you can live forever what do you live for? Votes: 0
When you can't be with the one you love, will you stay with the one who loves you? Votes: 0
When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken. Votes: 0
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella Votes: 0
Who are you and what have you done with my brother? Votes: 0
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn't realized Edward's extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella Votes: 0
Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on. Votes: 0
Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth? Votes: 0
Why didn't I just walk away? Oh right, because I'm a idiot. Votes: 0
Why does Ian think I have to kiss you? Votes: 0
Will you be?" I asked, suddenly anxious. "Will you really be here?" "As long as you want me," he assured me. "I'll always want you," I warned him. "Forever. Votes: 0
With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part " you had already altered me so completely. Votes: 0
With The Host, I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. Id love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay. Votes: 0
Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning. Votes: 0
Worst high five ever." - Diego Votes: 0
Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now. Votes: 0
Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad? Votes: 0
Yeah, I'll always be your friend. No matter what you love. Votes: 0
Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are. Votes: 0
Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks. Votes: 0
Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin. Votes: 0
You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose. Votes: 0
You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there. Votes: 0
You are the most beautiful thing in my world. Votes: 0
You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered. Votes: 0
You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella Votes: 0
You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous. Votes: 0
You can have me the way i am bad behavior included or not at all. Votes: 0
You can't run with vampires. 'Cuz they're fast." -Bella "Yea? well, we're faster. Votes: 0
You can't trust a vampire, trust me Votes: 0
You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers " the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? Votes: 0
You don't have anything like this. For crying out loud, you only own one skirt! Votes: 0
You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive. Votes: 0
You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed? Votes: 0
You haven't changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always. Votes: 0
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope. Votes: 0
You know I love you right?" "I know," he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. "You know how much I wish it was enough. Votes: 0
You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you. Votes: 0
You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books. Votes: 0
You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I'm sure you'll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. Votes: 0
You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game! Votes: 0
You never know how much time you'll have. Votes: 0
You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster! Votes: 0
You really should stay away from me. Votes: 0
You really shouldn't do that to people," I criticized. "It's hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that " she's probably hyperventilating in the kitchen right now." He seemed confused. "Oh come on," I said dubiously. "You have to know the effect you have on people." He tilted his head to one side, and his eyes were curious. "I dazzle people?" "You haven't noticed? Do you think everybody gets their way so easily?" He ignored my questions. "Do I dazzle you?" "Frequently," I admitted. Votes: 0
You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods. Votes: 0
You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is. Votes: 0
You still owe me a yellow Porsche. Votes: 0
You stupid jackass," Ian said. "Who's got the crush on a worm, bro? You gonna call me stupid? Votes: 0
You think I regret saving your life? Votes: 0
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can't all be saints and martyrs. Votes: 0
You think of me as a" living stone hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back" Votes: 0
You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up? Votes: 0
You"made"me"faint," I accused him dizzily. "What am I going to do with you?" he groaned in exasperation. "Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!" I laughed weakly, letting his arms support me while my head spun. "So much for being good at everything," he sighed. "That's the problem." I was still dizzy. "You're too good. Far, far too good. Votes: 0
You. Are. Not. Leaving. Me. Votes: 0
Your hair looks like a haystack...but I like it. Votes: 0
Your hold on me is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that Votes: 0
Your number was up the first time I met you. Votes: 0
You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating. Votes: 0
You're exactly like Charlie. Once you make up your mind, there is no reasoning with you. Of course, exactly like Charlie, you stick by your decisions, too. Votes: 0
You're monopolizing the bride," Emmett said, coming up behind Edward's shoulder. "Let me dance with my little sister. This could be my last chance to make her blush. Votes: 0
You're my life now and I will do anything to protect you. Votes: 0
You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy. Votes: 0
You're not like anyone I've ever known. You fascinate me. Votes: 0
You're not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you're scared silly, and I'm guessing it's because you're afraid of me. Votes: 0
You're really not that good a mechanic, Edward. Maybe you should have Rosalie take a look at it tonight, just so you look good if Mike decides to let you help, you know. Not that it wouldn't be fun to watch his face if Rosalie showed up to help. But since Rosalie is supposed to be across the country attending college, I guess that's not the best idea. Too bad. Votes: 0
You're still waiting for the running and the screaming, aren't you? Votes: 0
You've got a bit of a temper, don't you? Votes: 0
You've got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It's insulting. Votes: 0
You've never been a teenager, sweetie. You know what's best for you. Votes: 0
Ages Is Just A Number
Be an example
Being A Good Example
Being An Example
Benefited
Dweeb
Enough Time
Horrid
I Think Of You
Long enough
Nature of people
Not Knowing
Saddest
Wide Eyes
You Like It
You Think You Know
Age is a number
Age just a number
All knowing
Another month
Bad boyfriends
Bad community
Bad eyes
Be a good girl
Be your own person
Being a good person
Being example
Being the bigger person
Being trying hard
Book endings
Boyfriend and friends
Break of dawn
Change tattoos
Dual nature
Fun couples
Good and bad friends
Good boyfriends
Good guy friends
Knowing and not knowing
Knowing it all
Late reply
Living own life
Nice boyfriends
No forever
Not reading
Not thinking
R rated movies
Rated r movies
Reading love stories
Reading outside
Reading readers writers
Right way to live
Sad but happy
Thanks to you
Thinking funny
Trying hard person
Vampiric nature
You and nature
Your important to me
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On a warm and sunny Saturday evening the stock car drivers were in good form at the Cowdenbeath Racewall enjoying racing on a dry and fast track. Mind you later on there was a slight coating of oil which made the bends a bit tricky.
There were good fields of cars in both the Formula IIs and Prostock Basics with the latter formula taking the top billing when they raced for their Scottish Championship.
There were new faces in the Prostock Basics with Taylor Osborne, John Downs and Kev Bell whilst in the Prostocks John Borthwick and Grant Barker were both making their debuts.
Triple Formula II World Champion Gordon Moodie was having his first outing since winning the World at Buxton and he made it a winning one when he came out on top in the opening heat.
The Prostock Basic gridded a field of 20 for their Scottish Championship and the public saw Tiffany Mills draw pole position and she was to start with Steven Jones alongside with Dean Whiteley and Megan Wilson behind.
After the grid had been formed the cars began their warm up lap and when the green flag dropped Mills made the better of the starts to lead Whiteley and Declan Lindsell into the turnstile bend. Mills led the field across the line at the end of the opening lap and began to ease away as Whiteley and Lindsell scrapped over second. Wilson held onto fourth but was losing ground and beginning to be caught by a group of cars led by Joanne Hilditch. However on lap seven the race was suspended after Nicole Russell was clipped and sent into a spin on the main straight. The cars lined up single file on the back straight behind Mills and when the race restarted Mills led the field away and again was easing away as Whiteley and Lindsell were again squabbling over second but now had David Sher in close order. Callum Rennie was making up ground but suddenly it was all change as Mills slowed and stopped handing the lead to Whiteley. Lindsell was now under pressure from Sher with Rennie in fourth having hauled himself into contention.
Whiteley went wide and lost ground, dropping to third as Lindsell took over at the front of the pack but now had Sher swarming all over the back of his car, A couple of laps later Sher was ahead of Lindsell with Rennie moving into third as Whiteley slowed and retired. Lindsell tried to get back ahead but Sher held his line and went through to win an exciting Scottish Championship with Rennie in third. However in post race scrutineering Sher’s car was disqualified handing the win to Lindsell with Rennie promoted to the runners up spot and Wilson to third.
In the heats which followed the first was won by Cameron Archibald, his first ever win, from Rennie and Martin Loggie. Heat two saw Loggie get the better of Russell to go through to win with Jack Robertson in third spot.
Amongst the Formula IIs in action were World Champion Gordon Moodie whilst the in-form Steven Burgoyne, who is moving up to Superstar at the beginning of October, was looking to claim yet another final win. Back in action was Antony McAuliffe and Steven McClymont whilst Colin Stewart was down from Crimond for the second week in succession.
The opening heat proved to be a race of attrition with 16 drivers starting and only six making it to the finish line. Towards the end of the race Stewart was spun into the pit bend and was collected by Peter Watt. The last lap shoot out saw Moodie secure his first win since the World Final when he made a good restart and was still clear of Adam Blacklock as they crossed the finish line with Chris Burgoyne third. S. Burgoyne then won heat two where he led home Moodie and C. Burgoyne.
Alex Gault led the field away when the final started with McAuliffe slotting into second whilst Kyle Taylor was in third. When Pete Davidson spun in front of the pack he was clipped and the race was suspended. The field lined up behind Gault who led the field away on the restart but the following lap Moodie and McAuliffe tangled and spun, although both restarted. Gault’s lead was diminishing as S. Burgoyne closed in and a few laps later the lead changed hands. Gault was falling into the clutches of A. Blacklock and Stevie Forster. C. Burgoyne retired as Gault was sent side and dropped to fourth. Up front S. Burgoyne was clear and he went through to win from A. Blacklock and Forster.
Not too many cars appeared for the Grand National with McAuliffe leading the race from start to finish to win his first ever race although he ended up spinning on the slow down lap. Garry Sime was second with S. Burgoyne third.
The Prostock drivers were in good form with Ian Christie appearing in the ex-Andrew Webster car with Borthwick and Barker making their debuts.
Ryan Martin led the opening heat from start to finish chalking up an easy win and he was followed home by Craig Murray and Robert Hamilton. It looked for a while as if Martin was going to make it double but he hit problems and it was Dean McGill who went through to win from Sean Devine and John Mason.
Barker was the leader when the final started from Martin but they swapped places on the next lap. McGill made up a couple of early places and then over the next few laps went through into the lead as the leading duo hit troubles.
McGill had built up a lead but then John Jackson began to eat into it and soon both were running in close order. Although Jackson tried to ease his way through into the lead but then McGill began to open up the gap before going through to win his second race of the night leading home Jackson and Mason.
There were a few more bangers in action than at their last outing when Brian Youngson went through to win heat one from Stevie Allan and Jon Taylor. Heat two turned out to be one of these races with Youngson sending Allan crashing into the pit bend wall resulting in both cars topping on the pit bend. Dayle Brock then led but he got out of shape and bounced off the wall and retired, Scott McConnachie took over the lead but he
ended up spinning and it was Taylor who won from Jamie Sangster.
Unfortunately not too many cars made it onto the grid for the final with Youngson going though to win from Taylor and Sangster.
Heat 1 7 852 647 71 652 250 0 0 0 0
Heat 2 674 7 647 480 512 93 652 71 922 250
Final 674 852 652 71 250 7 93 0 0 0
GN 93 480 674 652 852 250 0 0 0 0
National Bangers
Heat 1 226 456 274 180 74 441 0 0 0 0
Heat 2 274 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final 226 274 74 180 0 0 0 0 0 0
Prostocks
Heat 1 3 605 39 79 170 760 122 1 509 0
Heat 2 1 79 760 122 170 39 231 0 0 0
Final 1 122 760 79 170 0 0 0 0 0
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Heat 1 17 764 227 246 999 240 700 410 761 420
Heat 2 227 999 23 764 834 240 700 246 761 21
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RYOSUKE HOSHIYAMA
JAPANESE CULTURAL ASSOICATION
[MAY 2014 - JAN 2017]
The Japanese Cultural Association is an organization with roots in the New York University community that promotes and celebrates Japanese culture and art. Founded in May of 2014, the association has hosted 40 events and recruited 100+ members with a total attendance of 10K+.
As the Founder and President of this organization, I oversaw every aspect of the Association’s growth - from its inception to the execution of its most successful events such as Sakura Matsuri and Explore The East.
JCA has now established itself the New York Asian-American community and continues to maintain its status as an organization that promotes cross-cultural understanding.
EXPLORE THE EAST 2018
INTERNATIONAL CURRY NIGHT
OSHOGATSU: NEW YEAR
TOKYO NIGHT
SAKURA MASTURI: SPRING FESTIVAL
© 2019 RYOSUKE HOSHIYAMA
ryosukehoshiyama@gmail.com
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Greg's Ramblings
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Rambled on Mon, November 28, 2016
Convention Appearances 2017 - Update #1
Reminder: convention arrangements are often in flux, so the following may change.
But here's what I have scheduled so far in 2017:
February 17-19: Gallifrey-One in Los Angeles. I'll only be there for one day - probably Saturday, February 18th. http://www.gallifreyone.com
May 5-7: Wizard World Minneapolis. http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/minneapolis
June 16-18: Wizard World Sacramento. http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/sacramento
October 20-22: Grand Rapids Comic-Con http://www.grcomiccon.com
That's it, so far. I'm sure there will be others, particularly if Warner Bros decides to start sending Brandon Vietti and I "on tour" to talk about Young Justice. I'll try to update as I know more. BUT - ALL OF THIS IS TENTATIVE!!! ALL OF IT!!
YOUNG JUSTICE, SEASON THREE!!!!
So the big news:
YOUNG JUSTICE is coming back for a third season! Yes, that's right! Warner Bros. announced it today! It's official. Here are some links to some articles on the subject:
http://comicbook.com/dc/2016/11/07/young-justice-season-3-officially-announced/
http://io9.gizmodo.com/its-official-young-justice-is-coming-back-1788676249
http://deadline.com/2016/11/young-justice-warner-bros-animation-productions-season-3-1201850391/
Not too much more to tell. I start back at Warner Bros. on Monday, 11/14/16. Brandon Vietti and I, of course, had plans for Season Three way back when. Now, we'll get the chance to make those plans a reality!!
It's so crash!
Rambled on Thu, November 03, 2016
Today, I head down to Anaheim for my final convention of the year. It's BlizzCon 2016.
800 West Katella Avenue
Scholastic Liason: Lindsey Johnson, 910-827-2673.
Their website is here: https://blizzcon.com/en-us/
Unlike other conventions that I attend, I won't personally be selling anything. Mostly, I'm going to be doing panels, Q&As and signings in support of my new novel, WORLD OF WARCRAFT: TRAVELER
Here's my schedule:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2016.
SIGNING 01:15pm - 02:15pm
Blizzard Booth 2042 w/artist Samwise Didier.
MEET & GREET 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Scholastic Booth 3044. I'll be signing special Traveler posters here.
Q&A 06:45pm - 07:30pm
Come chat with author Greg Weisman and illustrator Samwise Didier about Aramar Thorne and the new World of Warcraft: Traveler book series.
Community Amphitheater w/Samwise Didier.
Blizzard Booth 2042 w/Samwise Didier.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 05, 2016.
MEET & GREET 11:00am
Scholastic Booth 3044.
BUILDING WORLDS 01:00pm - 02:00pm
Books, novels, and short stories have been a part of Blizzard's storytelling heritage for more than twenty years. Join us for a look inside the process of exploring our worlds through prose.
Panel Stage Hall A w/Robert Brooks, Matt Burns, Christie Golden, Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, Timothy Zahn.
PANEL SIGNING 02:15pm - 03:30pm
Blizzard Booth 2042 w/Brooks, Burns, Golden, Monroe-Cassel, Zahn.
Rambled on Wed, October 26, 2016
World of Warcraft Traveler
Please check out my new novel, WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRAVELER, available now at Amazon and bookstores everywhere.
I'm very proud of it. Here's a short blurb:
It's been years since twelve-year-old Aramar Thorne, a clever boy who is never without his precious sketch book, has seen his father. So when Captain Greydon Thorne comes ashore and asks his son to join him at sea, it feels as if someone has redrawn Aram's entire world. Once aboard ship, Aram struggles to get along--especially with second mate Makasa Flintwill, a tough teenaged girl who has been reluctantly placed in charge of him. Just as Aram starts to get his head above water, pirates attack, turning his world upside down once again. As Aram and Makasa try to find their way home, they encounter creatures both terrible and wondrous, and Aram will seek to understand Azeroth's denizens, forming unlikely friendships along the way. But the journey is hindered by Greydon's compass, which never points north. If the compass isn't leading Aram and Makasa home--to safety--to what destiny is it leading?
Rambled on Thu, October 20, 2016
GRAND RAPIDS COMIC-CON
I'm about to depart for to GRAND RAPIDS COMIC-CON.
GRAND RAPIDS COMIC-CON - DeVos Place
303 Monroe Avenue NW
http://www.grcomiccon.com
Here's my schedule for the weekend:
BOOTH 434
I'll be at my table, which is "ANIMATION ISLAND 13". (Well, the con opens at 9:30am, but I'll be driving down that morning to Long Beach from Los Angeles, so I'll get there as close to 9:30am as I can manage it.) I'll be signing and selling copies of my novels RAIN OF THE GHOSTS and SPIRITS OF ASH AND FOAM for $10 each. If you buy both, you get a free RAIN OF THE GHOSTS art print, illustrated by Christopher Jones. I'll also be selling CD sets of the RAIN OF THE GHOSTS AudioPlay for $30 This is an unabridged four hour production with 20 actors (including Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Ed Asner, Vanessa Marshall, Jim Cummings, Steve Blum, Thom Adcox and more), a full original musical score (by the composers of YOUNG JUSTICE and THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN) and sound effects. It's like a four hour movie in your head! Buy the CD set and you also receive a free print. If you ONLY want the print, it's $20. Plus I'll also be selling original Christopher Jones art prints of YOUNG JUSTICE and GARGOYLES for $20 each. Finally, I'll be selling copies of my animation scripts (from series including GARGOYLES, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS REBELS and many others) for $20 each. All transactions are cash only. Signatures - if you bring something of your own for me to sign - are FREE!
River Overlook D.
Greg Weisman - writer, story editor, voice actor, producer and co-creator of YOUNG JUSTICE - discusses the popular animated series and answers your questions about the characters, stories, people and process that went into making it's unique take on the DC Universe's Earth-16.
07:45pm - 08:00pm - BOOTH 434
LET'S MAKE A HERO
River Overlook A&B.
Everybody loves a hero - they're the characters you root for and the people you want to be. Six-time Harvey Award nominated husband and wife Action Faction Comfort Love and Adam Withers lead this seminar in two parts: first, you'll learn what makes great heroes in both writing and in art. Then, Comfort & Adam will invite the audience to participate in creating a new hero which will be designed and drawn live. Comfort and Adam will be joined by Greg Weisman and Thom Zahler.
Grand Gallery A-C.
The producer of "Gargoyles" and "Young Justice" discusses the job of a television producer from concept to premiere and answers questions on how the magic happens.
LET'S MAKE VILLAIN
River Overlook A&B
Creating great villains is essential for making great stories - whether you love their every appearance or just love to hate them. Six-time Harvey Award nominated husband and wife action faction Comfort Love and Adam Withers lead this seminar in two parts: first, you'll learn what makes great villains in both writing and in art. Then, Comfort & Adam will invite the audience to participate in creating a new villain which will be designed and drawn live. Dirk Manning, Greg Weisman, and Stuart Sayger will join Comfort and Adam with this panel..
Rambled on Fri, September 23, 2016
Spectacular Radio
For fans of THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, I've been doing a podcast where we go through the series, episode by episode, with guest starts including Josh Keaton (Peter/Spidey), Ben Diskin (Eddie/Venom), Supervising Director Vic Cook and others. The entire first season of "SPECTACULAR RADIO" is up now, here:
http://www.spidey-dude.com/?cat=118
Plus, check out Spidey-Dude.com, which also does the podcasts Mayday Mondays (based on Spider-Girl) and Clone Saga Chronicles!
LONG BEACH COMIC CON
Heading off to yet another convention. This time it's...
Long Beach Convention Center
300 East Ocean Blvd.
I'm there this Saturday and Sunday. Here's my schedule:
09:30am - 03:00pm - I'll be at my table, which is "ANIMATION ISLAND 13". (Well, the con opens at 9:30am, but I'll be driving down that morning to Long Beach from Los Angeles, so I'll get there as close to 9:30am as I can manage it.) I'll be signing and selling copies of my novels RAIN OF THE GHOSTS and SPIRITS OF ASH AND FOAM for $10 each. If you buy both, you get a free RAIN OF THE GHOSTS art print, illustrated by Christopher Jones. I'll also be selling CD sets of the RAIN OF THE GHOSTS AudioPlay for $30 This is an unabridged four hour production with 20 actors (including Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Ed Asner, Vanessa Marshall, Jim Cummings, Steve Blum, Thom Adcox and more), a full original musical score (by the composers of YOUNG JUSTICE and THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN) and sound effects. It's like a four hour movie in your head! Buy the CD set and you also receive a free print. If you ONLY want the print, it's $20. Plus I'll also be selling original Christopher Jones art prints of YOUNG JUSTICE and GARGOYLES for $20 each. Finally, I'll be selling copies of my animation scripts (from series including GARGOYLES, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS REBELS and many others) for $20 each. All transactions are cash only. Signatures - if you bring something of your own for me to sign - are FREE!
03:00pm - 04:00pm - The Star Wars Perspectives
Join Greg Weisman (Star Wars Rebels), Craig Miller (Director of Fan Relations for Lucasfilm from 1977-1980), Brian Miller (Star Wars artist), and Mike Mayhew (Star Wars comic book artist) as they discuss the different aspects of Star Wars that they have been involved in. Unique perspectives and experiences are brought to the table in this can't-miss panel! Moderated by Blair Marnell, Q&A to follow.
04:00pm - 07:00pm - I'll be back, signing & selling, at my ANIMATION ISLAND 13 table.
10:00am - 01:00pm - Signing & Selling at ANIMATION ISLAND 13.
01:00pm - 02:00pm - Young Justice: Panels to Pixels
Greg Weisman, Peter David, Todd Nauck and Kevin Hopps discuss everything Young Justice from the comics to the animation. Moderated by Ken Rolow, Q&A to follow!
02:00pm - 05:00pm - Signing & Selling at ANIMATION ISLAND 13.
Rambled on Thu, August 25, 2016
COMIC CON PALM SPRINGS
I leave tomorrow for Comic Con Palm Springs: http://comicconpalmsprings.com/index.php
Palm Springs Convention Center
277 North Avenida Caballeros
03:30pm - 08:00pm. I'll be at TABLE G12, where I'll be selling copies of my novels RAIN OF THE GHOSTS and SPIRITS OF ASH AND FOAM for $10 each. If you buy both, you get a free RAIN OF THE GHOSTS print, illustrated by Christopher Jones. I'll also be selling CD sets of the RAIN OF THE GHOSTS AudioPlay for $30 This is an unabridged four hour production with 20 actors (including Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Ed Asner, Vanessa Marshall, Jim Cummings, Steve Blum, Thom Adcox and more), a full original musical score (by the composers of YOUNG JUSTICE and THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN) and sound effects. It's like a four hour movie in your head! Buy the CD set and you also receive a free print. If you ONLY want the print, it's $20. Plus I'll also be selling original Christopher Jones art prints of YOUNG JUSTICE and GARGOYLES for $20 each. Finally, I'll be selling copies of my animation scripts (from series including GARGOYLES, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS REBELS and many others) for $20 each. All transactions are cash only. Signatures - if you bring something for me to sign - are FREE!
10:00am - 12:00pm. Back at TABLE G1.
12:30pm - 01:30pm. WONDER WOMAN 75th Anniversary Celebration
In Smoketree C with Amanda Deibert, Susan Eisenberg, Phil Jimenez, Yanick Paquette & Cat Staggs.
I'll be moderating, as we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the most popular female super hero to grace the pages of DC Comics!
01:30pm - 02:30pm. REAWAKEN GARGOYLES
In Smoketree A with Thom Adcox (voice of Lexington).
Explore the nocturnal world of the popular animated TV series of these creatures that are stone by day and warriors at night!
02:30pm - 07:00pm. TABLE G12.
09:30am - 12:00pm. TABLE G12.
12:00pm - 01:00pm. INSIDE YOUNG JUSTICE
In Smoketree C with Thom Adcox (voice of Klarion), Phil Bourassa (Emmy-winning lead character designer), Jason Spisak (voice of Kid Flash) and Brandon Vietti (Producer).
Revisit the lives of a group of teenaged protégés attempting to establish themselves as proven superheroes as they deal with normal adolescent issues in their personal lives.
Rambled on Wed, August 17, 2016
WIZARD WORLD CHICAGO COMIC CON
Hey there folks,
I'm about to depart for Wizard World Chicago Comic Con: http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/chicago
WIZARDWORLD CHICAGO COMIC CON
5555 North River Road
Rosemont, IL 60018
03:00pm - 08:00pm - I'll be at BOOTH A31, where I'll be selling copies of my novels RAIN OF THE GHOSTS and SPIRITS OF ASH AND FOAM for $10 each. If you buy both, you get a free RAIN OF THE GHOSTS print, illustrated by Christopher Jones. I'll also be selling CD sets of the RAIN OF THE GHOSTS AudioPlay for $30 This is an unabridged four hour production with 20 actors (including Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Ed Asner, Vanessa Marshall, Jim Cummings, Steve Blum and more), a full original musical score (by the composers of YOUNG JUSTICE and THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN) and sound effects. It's like a four hour movie in your head! Buy the CD set and you also receive a free print. If you ONLY want the print, it's $20. Plus I'll also be selling original Christopher Jones art prints of YOUNG JUSTICE and GARGOYLES for $20 each. Finally, I'll be selling copies of my animation scripts (from series including GARGOYLES, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS REBELS and many others) for $20 each. All transactions are cash only. Signatures - if you bring something for me to sign - are FREE!
BOOTH A31 12:00pm - 06:00pm
BOOTH A31 10:00am - 06:00pm
PANEL: WORDS INTO PICTURES: HOW TO WRITE COMICS 06:00pm - 06:45pm. ROOM 2.
Here's the description: Accomplished comics writers Greg Weisman (Gargoyles; Young Justice), Dean Haspiel (The Fox; Beef With Tomato), Jai Nitz (Dream Thief; El Diablo for Suicide Squad) and Danny Fingeroth (How to Create Comics From Script to Print; Spider-Man) talk about how to put together a compelling comics story. Plus, they'll answer your questions about both the creative and business sides of the comics writing profession, including how to find an artist to work with (hint: a comics convention is the number one place!) and how to write exciting dialogue!
PANEL: TRIPLE DC ANNIVERSARY: FLASH, BATMAN & WONDER WOMAN 02:30pm - 03:15pm. ROOM 2.
Description: 2016 is a landmark year for three key comics characters. 75 years ago, WONDER WOMAN debuted in 1941, establishing herself as the first important female superhero! 60 years ago, in 1956, the modern FLASH first appeared, starting not only his own career, but ushering in what has come to be known as "The Silver Age of Comics!" And in 1966, 50 years ago, the BATMAN "camp" TV series debuted (starring Adam West and Burt Ward), marking what is seen as both a high and low point in the history of the character! Comics and animation writer/producer Greg Weisman (Young Justice; The Batman) and comics historian Danny Fingeroth (Superman on the Couch; Disguised as Clark Kent) take you on a slideshow-guided tour of the histories of the heroes and the highlights of their careers in comics, on TV and in the movies! Join the celebration! .
Rambled on Mon, August 01, 2016
Evil Geeks Podcast Fun!
Check out the latest podcast I did:
Website: https://evilgeeks.com/2016/08/01/ep-163-talking-toons-with-greg-weisman/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvilGeeks/posts/1059457520816588
Rambled on Wed, July 20, 2016
Bringing YJ Back
Here's a short primer on how fans can help to bring Young Justice back for a third season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwoI2gSj1Sk
Rambled on Tue, June 28, 2016
CONvergence 2016
I leave tomorrow for CONvergence 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Okay, really Bloomington, MN, but close enough.) CONvergence is one of my favorite cons. And I have the honor of being their first fan-funded guest. Here's my schedule for the long weekend:
GUEST RECEPTION 07:00pm - 09:00pm
"Why Gargoyles is Still Relevant" 12:30pm - 01:30pm
Atrium 6 w/Christopher Jones, Patrick Fisher, Alana Profit, Chandra Reyer.
RADIO PLAY AUDITIONS 02:00pm - 03:00pm
Plaza 3 w/Christopher Jones.
"Physics of Time Travel" 03:30pm - 04:30pm
Edina w/Renate Fiora (m), Dan Berliner, Melanie Galloway, Jim Kakalios.
"Fancy Bastard Pie Competition" 08:30pm - 09:30pm
Garden Court - Southwest w/GPS.
SIGNING 11:00am - 12:00pm
Autograph Table B.
Plaza 3 w/Christopher Jones, Khary Payton.
"Writing by Ear" 02:00pm - 03:00pm
Bloomington w/Patrick Marsh (m), Emma Bull, Aimee Kuzenski, Jim McDoniel.
"Don't Call Them Sidekicks: The Enduring Power of Teenage Superheroes" 03:30pm - 04:30pm
Bloomington w/ Christopher Jones, Jessa Markert, Khary Payton, Sylus Rademacher.
"Drawing with the Masters" 07:00pm - 08:00pm
Plaza 2 w/Christopher Jones, Ruth Thompson.
"Why Diversity Needs to be Deeper than Marketing" 08:30pm - 09:30pm
Edina w/ Trisha Lynn (m), Kate Norlander, Jonathan Palmer, Dirk Ykema.
"Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome Live Podcast" 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Edina w/Windy Bowlsby, Melissa Kaercher.
"Building Worlds for Fiction" 09:30am - 10:30am
Plaza 1 w/Michael Carus (m), J.M. Lee, Melissa Olson, Lynne M. Thomas.
"Why We Need Representation in Superheroes" 11:00am - 12:00pm
Edina w/ Christopher Jones, Bri Lopez Donovan, Khary Payton, Lynne M. Thomas.
RADIO PLAY REHEARSAL 12:30pm - 01:30pm
Atrium 6 w/ Christopher Jones, Jim Kakalios, Khary Payton and a cast of tens.
RADIO PLAY PERFORMANCE 02:00pm - 03:00pm
"Superficially Strong Female Characters" 05:00pm - 06:00pm
Edina w/ Crystal Huff (m), Kathryn Sullivan, Chrysoula Tzavelas, Joan Marie Verba.
"One on One with Christopher Jones" 07:00pm - 08:00pm
Edina (m) w/Christopher Jones.
ANIMATION BLUE 07:00pm - 08:00pm
Atrium 6 w/Christopher Jones, Lyda Morehouse, Khary Payton, Jenna Powers, Edmund Tsabard.
YOUNG JUSTICE 09:30am - 10:30am
Atrium 6 w/Christopher Jones, Khary Payton.
RAIN OF THE GHOSTS 12:30pm - 01:30pm
Edina.
READING 02:00pm - 03:00pm
Rm 2201.
ONE ON ONE 07:00pm - 08:00pm
Atrium 6 w/Melissa Kaercher.
Rambled on Mon, June 27, 2016
Here's a podcast and a half I did...
Here's the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXwsojrctzM
...aaand here's the separate chunk of the interview all about how people can support YJ Season 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBvQTrBRAvI
It's that time again:
So in a tryce came the documentary depicting many a Chinese doll and also the three wise men (who may or may not have been kings) that needed sixty-two dollars between them to redeem the coupon, which offered up solace and not a little irony to anyone who hadn't yet seen the crew chewing on leaves that weren't tobacco, but might have been sage and still left horrible stains in the dirt floor of the lean-to where I left my ski poles after the overnight with the cranes that were kept on the lake domestically for the purpose of tourism but who could also speak Latin on occasion when prompted by offers of cheese or jerky -- though not just any jerky, it had to be salmon jerky -- which isn't always easy to come by when you've agreed to leave before closing on summer days in the springtime of your life, which has been known to last longer in people who aren't concerned about under-inebriation or over-intoxication or both: it's the balance which is everything when nothing else will do and no one else will participate in the extravaganza that's been created by the giant invisible flying monkey brain that is modern life in the Twenty-First Century, counting since the (approximate) birth of Christ -- as long as the lack of the number zero doesn't disturb your math sensibilities as, frankly, it does mine, though I like to think I've made peace with that and with the Skrull too, since I haven't picked up an issue of that book in about nine years, which wasn't an intentional or explicit act of cold turkey so much as a sliding away followed by a none-too-impressive epiphany -- far from the best epiphany I've ever had, say, compared to Tintagel or Lego, not to mention the birth of certain children, which couldn't get more personal than the zany antics of the semi-erotic flea circus, which used to travel the stars waiting for an invitation to land at your door, since you are the personal target of the extra-lunar probe that counted all the seahorses that Aquaman used to make the giant seahorse that he could actually ride, though no faster than he could swim himself on his own power -- and no, we're not talking Super Friends here, but something older, more primal, something that was born back when the Ptero-whatever streaked across the sky leaving behind contrails made not of smoke but of pure and unadulterated grace, a commodity in which we are sorely shy as a planet, and yet which we find in the most unlikley of places, including but not limited to contracts which dictate how we will interact with each other but do it in such a way that no normal human being could possibly wrap their heads around the language and internalize the meaning, which we declare to be progress or civilization and which is not meant as a criticism so much as a detachment of troopers marching on a hill that you wouldn't pay five ducats -- FIVE! -- to buy yourself, or so I told myself and Hamlet night after night, but now Hamlet is a Thief on FX and I haven't seen him face to face in over twenty years, which sometimes seems quite normal but sometimes blows me away, not that I want to move backwards at all, though I'm not sure that I'm truly moving forward and I'm convinced I'm not moving sideways, though the metaphor of the sidewinder is appealing, not in the cliché sense of something sinister and left-handed, though I do throw with my left hand, I can bowl just as badly with either hand, and even though I'm 42, I quite prefer to have bumpers instead of gutters, where the rain gets backed up and sometimes flows over the lip and creates leaks in the roof and drips, drips, drips down into the shiny metal bowl that's usually used for something much more pleasant like mixing cookie dough to create chewy wonderful ... well.. cookies (I mean "duh") that taste a little bit like home even when you are home and it is raining, or maybe ESPECIALLY when you are home and it is raining and the water overflows and the ocean fills and the giant seahorse peaks out and winks at the cranes, which is exactly what the documentary crew was hoping to capture when they first took out their cameras and shot the whole thing from three different angles across six different days and still never saw the giant invisible flying monkey brain, because it was, to put it mildly, invisible.
Rambled on Wed, June 15, 2016
Wizard World Sacramento Comic Con
Here's my schedule for Wizard World Sacramento Comic Con. Note that all panel blurbs come from the official website: http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/sacramento
WIZARDWORLD SACRAMENTO, June 17-19
1400 J Street
03:00pm - 06:45pm - SIGNING at BOOTH A5
I'll be selling copies of my novels RAIN OF THE GHOSTS and SPIRITS OF ASH AND FOAM for $10 each. If you buy both, you get a free RAIN OF THE GHOSTS print, illustrated by Christopher Jones. I'll also be selling CD sets of my RAIN OF THE GHOSTS AudioPlay for $30 This is an unabridged four hour production with 20 actors (including Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Ed Asner, Vanessa Marshall, Jim Cummings, Steve Blum and more), a full original musical score (by the composers of YOUNG JUSTICE and THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN) and sound effects. Buy this and you also receive a free print. If you ONLY want the print, it's $5. Finally, I'll be selling copies of my animation scripts (from series including GARGOYLES, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS REBELS and many others) for $20 each. All transactions are cash only. Signatures - if you bring something for me to sign - are FREE!
07:00pm - 07:45pm - 25 YEARS OF DISNEY'S DARKWING DUCK! (ROOM 104)
That's right... it's been 25 years since the terror that flaps in the night, Darkwing Duck, first appeared in a cloud of smoke on television screens, as part of Disney's beloved programming block, the Disney Afternoon! In celebration of this milestone anniversary, the masked mallard, Launchpad, Gosalyn, and all DW's villains have returned in an all-new comic series from Disney Comics, and publisher Joe Books! Join comic creators Aaron Sparrow and James Silvani as they discuss the road it took to get here, as well as what's next for the terror that flaps in the night! Moderated by Gargoyles creator Greg Weisman.
10:00am - 05:45pm - SIGNING at BOOTH A5
Selling and signing. Stop by to make a purchase or just to say hello.
06:00pm - 06:45pm - A CREATIVE LIFE: SPOTLIGHT ON COMICS AND ANIMATION WRITER AND PRODUCER (GARGOYLES, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, YOUNG JUSTICE) GREG WEISMAN (ROOM 104)
Greg Weisman has had-and continues to have-an incredible career as writer, producer, executive and editor for countless comics (including Captain Atom, Star Wars Kanan and Starbrand and Nightmask) and cartoons (including Gargoyles, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Young Justice and Star Wars Rebels). He's also a prose novelist (Rain of the Ghosts and Spirits of Ash and Foam), whose latest work-World of Warcraft: Traveler-is due out in November. Today, Greg talks about his career and how he got to work on so many cool projects. Danny Fingeroth (The Stan Lee Universe; Deadly Foes of Spider-Man) moderates.
02:00pm - 02:45pm - GARGOYLES - WE LIVE AGAIN! (ROOM 203)
Twenty years after new production ceased, the groundbreaking Disney animated television series Gargoyles still has a massive and loyal fan following. Come hear series creator Greg Weisman talk about the history of Goliath, Demona, Xanatos and the rest with Joe Books' Aaron Sparrow. Plus - spoilers! - find out what's next for everyone's favorite Defenders of the Night!
Selling and signing. Stop by to make a purchase or just to say good-bye.
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2016
Really had a great time all last week at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.
Went up with my dad, daughter, son and a couple of friends. We saw eight plays in four days, and every single one was - at minimum - highly enjoyable. And some just blew me away.
We saw:
The River Bride
Some truly amazing work. Plan on going back in September to see the three plays we missed: Yeomen of the Guard, Richard II, Timon of Athens.
Rambled on Thu, April 07, 2016
Toonami Squad Podcast
Toonami Squad podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV9GjwtrQpI
Rambled on Mon, April 04, 2016
A History of Disney Television Animation, Volume One
I've contributed to this worthy Kickstarter. I thought some of you might want to also: http://kck.st/1WRcqGd
Rambled on Fri, April 01, 2016
Young Justice Interview
If you're interested in seeing Young Justice come back for a third season, check out this interview here:
https://www.inverse.com/article/13681-young-justice-needs-a-hero-says-creator-greg-weisman
Rambled on Tue, March 29, 2016
World of Warcraft: Traveler
I'm pleased that I can finally announce one of the main things that I've been working on for most of the last year of my life.
In addition to working on Shimmer & Shine AND producing the Rain of the Ghosts AudioPlay (now available for download at www.gumroad.com/RainoftheGhosts), I have been writing a novel for Blizzard and Scholastic based on World of Warcraft. It's called Traveler, and I'm thrilled with how it's turning out.
Check out a little hype on it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QESzTP6_in4
Rambled on Sat, March 26, 2016
Bombad Radio
I'm on a podcast: http://www.bombadradio.com/e/episode-232-gargyles-young-justice-and-spectacular-spider-man-with-animation-legend-greg-weisman/
Rambled on Fri, February 19, 2016
Long Beach Comic Expo - 2016
Here's my schedule for this weekend's Long Beach Comic Expo at the Long Beach Convention Center:
DOWN TO NERD: INVADER ZIM AND GARGOYLES: CONQUEROR VS PROTECTOR
Thunderdome (Seaside Pre-Function) w/RuthAnn Thompson (moderator), Dave Crosland, Greg Weisman.
Description: Some come from another time to protect, another from a different planet to conquer- but both hold a special place in our hearts! Gargoyles VS Invader Zim. We will focus on the first 5 episodes of the TV series Gargoyles with writer/creator Greg Weisman and the first 5 issues of the Invader Zim comic books with Dave Crosland. What are the differences and similarities do these creatures out of space and time have? How will they fit in on modern day earth? Casual Fans and Hard Core Nerds alike join host RuthAnn Thompson and be "Down To Nerd"!
THE ART OF STAR WARS & THE FANDOM BEHIND IT
Danger Room (S1) w/Ben Paddon (moderator), Terry Dodson, Craig Miller, Cat Staggs, Greg Weisman.
Description: Cat Staggs has been working for the Star Wars / LUCASFILM family since 2004, for which she has illustrated short fiction for starwars.com, produced sketch and trading cards, exclusive prints for Star Wars Celebrations III, IV, Europe, Celebration V, and Celebration VI. Terry Dodson is an American comic book artist who penciled the Dark Force Rising comic series in 1997. He has also provided art for Mark Waid's Princess Leia limited series. Moreover, Dodson has drawn the Books-A-Million variant cover to the first issue of the Shattered Empire miniseries, and the CBLDF variant to Star Wars: Vader Down, Part I. Greg Weisman is the writer for Star Wars Rebels - "The Machine in the Ghost", "Art Attack", "Droids in Distress", "Breaking Ranks", "Gathering Forces" and Star Wars: Kanan: The Last Padawan. Craig Miller was Director of Fan Relations for Lucasfilm from 1977-1980. He created and oversaw the Official Star Wars Fan Club as well as having edited and written virtually all of the first two years of Bantha Tracks. He was the producer of the Star Wars Sesame Street episodes in addition to operating R2-D2's head in the episodes, as well as being Producer for Lucasfilm on commercials such as the ones for licensee Underoos.. He was also responsible for creating the 800-number telephone hotline for The Empire Strikes Back that allowed fans to call up to receive more information about the movies and characters.
DWAYNE MCDUFFIE AWARDS
Creator's Lab (S5)
Description: Long Beach Comic Con is proud to announce the commencement of the Second Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award. This one of a kind award will be granted on February 20, 2016 to an American comics work, published in print or digitally in 2015, deemed by the Selection Committee to promote diversity. In the spirit of Dwayne McDuffie, "promoting diversity" can be judged as either broadening the range of characters portrayed in comics, or adding to the variety of creators contributing to the medium.
THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN PANEL
Danger Room (S1) w/Greg Weisman (moderator), Victor Cook, Kevin Hopps, Kelly Hu, Josh Keaton, Pamela Long.
Description: In 2008, a new version of everybody's favorite friendly neighborhood Web-Slinger - dedicated to recreating the feel of the original Stan Lee & Steve Ditko and Stan Lee & John Romita, Sr. comics - hit the air. Come hear the creative talents behind The Spectacular Spider-Man talk about what went in to making this classic take on a classic character. Panelists include Victor Cook (Director-Producer), Kevin Hopps (Writer), Kelly Hu (voice of Sha Shan Nguyen), Josh Keaton (voice of Peter Parker/The Spectacular Spider-Man), Pamela Long (Color Stylist) and Greg Weisman (Writer-Producer)!
GETTING ANIMATED WITH TOP ANIMATION EXPERTS
Rumble Room (S4B) w/Ray-Anthony Height (moderator), Chris Copeland, Greg Weisman, Dean Yeagle.
Description: Top animation experts Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, Spectacular Spider-Man), Dean Yeagle (Caged Beagle Productions), and Chris Copeland (Marvel/Disney Animation) discuss how they broke into animation, their work and a Q&A with the audience!
I'll also have a table a on the show floor, specifically table AN-11 in "ANIMATION ISLAND" between Ellen Jin Over and Amy Mebberson, and near Dino Andrade, Michael Bell, Keith Coogan, Chris Copeland, Matt Doherty, Loren Lester, Tiffanie Mang, Joey McCormick, Chuck Patton, Peter Paul, Sara Richards and Aaron Sparrow. I'll be there between panels on Saturday and all Sunday morning until noon. (Not as sure about Sunday afternoon. We'll have to see.)
I'll sign and personalize anything you put in front of me, but I will also be selling copies of my two novels, RAIN OF THE GHOSTS and SPIRITS OF ASH AND FOAM ($10 each), CD sets of the RAIN OF THE GHOSTS AudioPlay ($30 each) and RAIN OF THE GHOSTS prints, drawn by artist Christopher Jones ($10 each, but free with a purchase of the AudioPlay and/or both RAIN and SPIRITS). In addition, I'll be selling animation scripts from series including GARGOYLES, W.I.T.C.H., THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, YOUNG JUSTICE, STAR WARS REBELS and others, ($20 each). Finally, I'll be selling script copies of a couple of the special one-off convention radio plays we did, i.e. THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN MEETS GARGOYLES and GARGOYLES MEETS THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN MEETS YOUNG JUSTICE ($20 each). All purchases are cash only.
Rambled on Mon, February 08, 2016
The Glen & Dean Show
I was a guest of the Glen & Dean Show last week. You can listen to it here: https://t.co/YEmsvgs7gb.
Rambled on Thu, January 28, 2016
Black Nerd Problems interview
Find it here: http://blacknerdproblems.com/i-knew-it-was-something-special-an-exclusive-interview-with-gargoyles-creator-greg-weisman/
Rambled on Thu, June 11, 2015
Bruce Timm and I (and others) were interviewed for a cool little article on adaptation, here:
http://on.mtv.com/1dz9OM9
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April 06, 2020 News » Hartmann
COVID-19 Shows Missouri How Low It Can Go
By Ray Hartmann
VIA MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
Gov. Parson's stay-at-home order isn't really that.
Watching Missouri Gov. Mike Parson undergo a political root canal last Friday was almost as painful for rational people as it must have been for him.
The governor read his “stay-at-home” statement — mislabeled and misreported as an “order” — with the glee of a hostage at gunpoint, which in a sense he was. Parson’s reluctance to regard COVID-19 as an actual pandemic is no secret, and he only quasi-caved after a torrent of pleas and criticism from health care groups (our heroes), business leaders, politicians and media.
The governor needed to get a monkey off his back while placating some less-evolved political simians to his far right. He abided no questions at his “news conference” with good reason.
But here’s the bottom line, Missouri: We don’t have a statewide stay-at-home in force here. Not even close. Not even after all those headlines and news accounts proclaimed, “Parson finally issues stay-at-home order.”
However pure his intentions, Parson issued nothing more than a strong suggestion to the 65 or so counties that had no official order in place. They remain governed by less stringent guidelines than those in St. Louis city and county and all other large population centers in the state. Lots of places that would be shuttered here have “open for business” signs dotted throughout rural areas. All enforcement is left to localities with no state-enforcement teeth whatsoever.
The first hint of this lameness was its puzzling lack of urgency: Parson announced at 5 p.m. Friday an “order’ that would not even take effect until 51 hours later, at 12:01 a.m. Monday. If that delay wasn’t a WTF moment, I don’t know what qualifies. Was this a pandemic or a picnic? Was the governor concerned that he might ruin the virus’ weekend by not giving it advance notice?
Oh, and there was this: The “order” only lasts eighteen days and actually expires six days before the aspirational end-of-April “guidance” announced by Donald Trump, the same guy who on February 27 proclaimed, “One day it’s like a miracle. It will disappear.” In the COVID-19 world, if you’re six days short of that genius, you’re a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Shutting down means shutting down. Nobody likes this, but the concept is pretty straightforward: Everyone stays home, and the virus doesn’t have a place to spread. The more exceptions you make, the harder it is to bend the curve and flatten it.
Every inadvertent encounter with someone unknowingly having the virus can affect dozens, hundreds or thousands of people, exponentially, because it’s highly contagious and has no cure. It’s not “like viruses we’ve had before,” something the governor stated as recently as March 19. It’s a health care emergency.
Make no mistake about it: Missourians do retain more freedom than most Americans. Don’t take my word for it. Check out the website of the state Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), where the rules are spelled out. Here’s one eye-opening excerpt from the FAQ section:
“Do work places that do not qualify as ‘essential’ businesses have to close?
“No. Businesses that are not covered by (federal) guidance discussed in the Order may remain open but must comply with the social gathering and social distance requirements of the Order. This means that no more than 10 individuals can occupy a single space, this includes both employees and customers … Businesses are also encouraged to allow individuals, where feasible, to work from home to achieve optimum isolation.
“Businesses can seek a waiver of the social gathering requirements from the Director of the Department of Economic Development.”
At the risk of seeming unduly cynical, what possible case of bureaucratic dementia would possess a state health department to invite non-essential business to stay open and to invite any business to seek social-gathering waivers during the worst pandemic in human history? Allowing employees to stay at home is “encouraged?”
I’ll say this for DHHS: No freedom-loving business or virus should ever question its gentle spirit. Consider this reader-friendly translation of the state’s occupancy code in this time of shutdown:
“A 40,000 square foot grocery store would be able to have 133 customers in the store at any one time. An 8,000 square foot retail store would be able to have 66 customers in the store at any one time.”
The only distancing going on statewide in Missouri is between its government and the human brain. Are we really celebrating that the 134th customer is going to have to cool his boots outside of the Walmart for a hot minute?
Missouri still has 87 of its 91 state parks open, as opposed to Illinois, which has zero. To be fair, lots of states have kept parks open, and Missouri has closed its campgrounds on its sites. Still, outdoor enthusiasts have been streaming across the Missouri border to enjoy the Show-Me state’s natural splendor, a bizarre reversal of the customary migration of Missourians seeking gambling, topless dancing and recreational pot in Illinois.Throw in the number of people who might travel from other states to enjoy their freedom to patronize non-essential services, and one fears Missouri might embrace pandemic tourism. Hopefully, the “We’ve Got Freedom That Your State Doesn’t” campaign stays on the shelf.
All snark aside, this isn’t cool. As I said in this space just a week ago, we don’t have time for any nonsense about an urban-rural divide, not on this one.
The nurses and doctors in rural Missouri are just as wonderful and heroic and under-protected as the ones here in the St. Louis area. The people in rural Missouri are just as important and decent and caring and good-hearted and intelligent as the people in the metropolitan areas. We have some differences, yes, but no one’s better than anyone else. No one matters more or less than anyone else.
Missourians need to come together as one state — one people — resolved to work as one to bend the curve of COVID-19 and flatten it. But that’s only happening if there’s a sense of connectivity, of purpose and of urgency that’s sorely lacking today.
We need leadership now, and it’s just not there. We need unity now, and it’s just not there.
There can be no denying that state government is broken in Missouri. But it’s one thing to have a philosophical aversion to taxation and governance and make the Faustian bargain of low revenues for bottom-of-the-barrel spending for education and patrolmen and social services and all the rest. Not being able to answer the bell for a pandemic is something else again.
Editor's note: The original version of this column was altered after new statistics were released overnight.
Ray Hartmann founded the Riverfront Times in 1977. Contact him at rhartmann@sbcglobal.net or catch him on St. Louis In the Know With Ray Hartmann from 9 to 11 p.m. Monday thru Friday on KTRS (550 AM).
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Free PC Games •
Impressions: Serena
29th January 2014 / 12:00PM
Serena is perhaps the most peculiar tribute anyone could pay to a person. A dark, gruesome adventure game, portraying loss and misery, named for someone who went through tough times at the hands of a prize jerk. I mean, flowers work too.
It’s also free, designed to show off Senscape’s Dagon engine built for their Kickstarter success, Asylum. Senscape being the new company headed by Agustin Cordes, he of notorious horror adventure, Scratches. And Serena being a game made by him, with contributions from a whole bunch of other indie adventure developers, including Space Quest’s Scott Murphy and John Mandel.
It is, without doubt, a curiosity. A horror adventure short starring Josh Mandel as the main voice, with Pushing Up Roses’ Sarah Wilson as the missing Serena. You play a husband, in a very small wooden house in the middle of the woods, trying to get a grasp of your memories. Everything you look at triggers thoughts, memories, or confusion, most especially a photograph of you and your wife, with her face entirely missing. You can’t remember her properly, and you can’t work out why. By exploring all the items and furniture in the home, you attempt to put the pieces back together.
What’s most odd about this is how clumsy it feels while working perfectly. I think it’s a good thing. Memories start to change after you trigger certain moments, but the route to these feels haphazard. I kept thinking, “Well, it’s a good job I just happened to do that, then, or this wouldn’t work,” before realising that it seemed an awful coincidence that it did keep happening to work. That’s what most impressed me about a game that is arguably walking very worn ground, and certainly doesn’t have a very original story to tell. This scatterbrained feeling made it stand out, in a ghostly story for which the ending is enormously apparent.
I do remember thinking, “I wonder how they’re going to twist on the [censored] meme here,” before they ungracefully didn’t. However, the inevitability of its reveal doesn’t take away too much from the experience.
What does, I fear, is the engine. I’m complete at a loss as to why anyone would deliberately create an engine that glues your feet to the floor in 2014. Myst and its evil hellspawn children were a long, long time ago, and it’s been years since the exceedingly great Penumbra games demonstrated superbly how the same effects of intimate exploration can be achieved while allowing the player to roam free. Having to be transitioned from spot to spot feels archaic, and detached me from properly engaging in the little world.
A curiosity, like I say. The list of contributors features the likes of Kill Monday’s Natalia Figueroa, AGS master Ben Chandler, Quest For Infamy’s Jenny Pattison, The St. Christopher School Lockdown’s Laney Berry, and on and on, all throwing in a bit of art, or some content, a book name, and the like. And all because they just really like Serena Nelson. She’s very popular! She also had a pretty shitty time last year, and a whole bunch of industry colleagues rallied together in what is the strangest way imaginable! A horrible, grim game about sadness! It’s worth noting the concept for the game existed before Serena’s crappy time, then called Helena. It evolved.
“She’s a great person,” project lead Agustin Cordes explained to me. “A staunch supporter of adventure games, and played a big role in many Kickstarter campaigns (including ours). It made sense to dedicate the game to her.
The game comes out on Steam tomorrow, and is completely free.
A quick note: if I ever get horribly treated in public (um, more than usual?), could the rallying industry make me a game about fluffy clouds and happy kittens? Just in case.
Tagged with adventure, Agustin Cordes, Dagon, feature, free games, impressions, senscape, Serena.
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More LA Business Journal
Poms & Associates Rebrands with TV Ads
By Andrew Foerch
While most businesses have focused solely on surviving COVID-19, insurance brokerage Poms & Associates has launched a rebranding campaign.
The Woodland Hills risk management firm debuted this week a new logo and website, and announced a series of television commercials around the slogan “Smarter Insurance for Smarter Business.”
The 30-second commercials were produced by West Hills ad agency Glyphix and will air over the next year in Los Angeles and Albuquerque, N.M. – two of Poms’ core markets. The ads target C-suite executives with information on how Poms’ risk control services can raise a company’s bottom line, especially during the pandemic.
The first TV spot, titled “Relax,” began airing in April.
Chief Executive David Poms told the Business Journal the coronavirus hasn’t slowed down his company.
“We’ve been working on this (rebrand) pre-COVID-19. It’s been in the works for six or eight months,” he said. “The way we’re dealing with this whole crisis is we’re trying to continue to operate business as usual. Marketing efforts have not stopped.”
Along with the rebrand, Poms announced this week the launch of four risk reduction programs: Quarterback, a promised 25 percent refund if clients don’t see tangible results; Lookback, a comprehensive review of past claims; Backstory, a review of employee categorization; and Fallback, a program focused on preventing injuries at the workplace.
Poms has hosted free weekly webinars about insurance and risk control issues related to coronavirus, such as employer obligations under the new federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act and OSHA recordkeeping requirements for employee use of personal protective equipment.
While Poms expects revenue to dip slightly, he said workloads have actually increased to such an extent that he’s had to hire five new employees in the last month.
“We had to add staff to accommodate all the business interruption and workers compensation claims,” he said. “One of the great things about the insurance business is it’s very resilient. Our business will not be greatly affected. … For our agency, we don’t see more than a 5 or 10 percent drop in revenue.”
In addition to Woodland Hills and Albuquerque, N.M., Poms has offices in Sacramento, San Francisco and Dayton, Ohio.
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Tennant pitching gives Cougars doubleheader split
By Staff | Mar 30, 2018
Six innings of shutout pitching by Taylor Tennant in the opener of a Jefferson vs. Moorefield doubleheader gave the Cougars a split of the twinbill played in Moorefield on Saturday.
Tennant allowed six hits while fanning four and permitting only one walk in lifting the Cougars to a 5-0 win over the homestanding Yellowjackets. Two Moorefield pitchers combined to limit the Cougars to just one hit in the nightcap, where the Yellowjackets won 9-1. The loss was Jefferson’s first of the season after opening with three wins.
In the Tennant-pitched opener, Jefferson scored single runs in the second, third and fourth innings to take a 3-0 lead. Stevie Lee and Hayden Stang both went 2-for-3 in that game. Cory Daly was on base four straight times and went 1-for-1.
Danny Brennan drove in two runs. Brennan and Daly both stole two bases, but Brennan was caught stealing one time. Moorefield committed five errors in the opener.
Jefferson fielded a vastly revamped lineup in the second game and found itself dominated by two Moorefield pitchers, who combined for a one-hitter and struck out 12 Cougar batters. Tennant had Jefferson’s only hit.
Jefferson starting pitcher David Dinges and relievers Cameron Winston and Brooks Lowery were all roughed up by the Yellowjacket lineup, which had 11 hits. Only pitcher James Walsh (two hitless and scoreless innings) fared well in the second game loss.
Moorefield had a 6-0 lead after only three innings and completed its scoring with a three-run fifth inning.
The Cougars are scheduled to face Sectional rival Washington tonight at 6 p.m. in Shenandoah Junction. Next week, the Cougars play at least four games in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the yearly Easter Week tournament.
Hagerstown Suns, Frederick Keys become part of history
Six-man football at Shepherdstown High School
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Imams Being Higher Than Previous Prophets?
By koroigetsuga,
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Can I please have the sources for the belief that the 12 shia imams are higher in status than all prophets except Muhammed (pbuh)?
Edited February 28, 2008 by koroigetsuga
The main idea is from the Qur'an "And when his Lord tried Abraham with certain words, he fulfilled them. He said: 'Surely I will make you an Imam of men.' Abraham said: 'And of my offspring?' 'My covenant does not include the unjust,' He said." (2:124) This verse proves that the rank of the Imamate is superior to that of prophethood, since the position of the Prophet Abraham was raised from prophethood to the Imamate.
Also, The Messenger of Allah (s) said: "He who wants to see Noah (as) in his determination, Adam (as) in his knowledge, Abraham (as) in his clemency, Moses (as) in his intelligence and Jesus (as) in his religious devotion should look at Ali Ibn Abi Talib (as)."
But: Imam ar-Ridha: "Imamate is the status of the Prophets, the legacy of the successors; Imamate is the caliphate of God Almighty and of His Messenger (S.A.W.)." :unsure: according to http://www.al-islam.org/al-rida/2-3.htm#source182. No source for the hadith so could be wrong.
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There is plenty of such evidence available in both sunni and shia books.
well then please bring forth this 'plenty' of evidence.
this is a doctrine I am struggling to accept, so I need as much proof as possible
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1 ISLAM
Location: The Wild West
(salam) Ibrahim (as) asked Allah to show him how He raises the dead. Allah asked him "Are you not certain?" Ibrahim responded by saying that he wanted his heart to be more certain.
Compared to Imam Ali (as) who said, "If the veil (of the unseen) was removed, my faith would not increase." Meaning, even if he saw the unseen, his has the utmost level of certainty and faith.
Also, Ibrahim (as) struggled but succeeded in attempting to sacrifice his son in accordance to the command of Allah. Imam Hussain (as) sacrificed his entire family and eventually himself. And trust me, if it was possible to do more, he would have, however giving one's life is the ultimate sacrifice.
As for the status of Imams. Firstly we must address the issue of what is an Imam from an Islamic point of view? We see it as follows: A 1)Prophet comes to warn people
2)A Messenger comes with a complete system and a message from the All mighty
3)An Imam leads and rules over the people using that system
Let's take the example of Prophet Ibrahim (as) who was a great prophet who reached all three stations:
[2:124] And when his Lord tried Ibrahim with certain words, he fulfilled them. He said: Surely I will make you an Imam of men. Ibrahim said: And of my offspring? My covenant does not include the unjust, said He.
If you contemplate on the above verse, it is really quite inspiring. Allah has made a covenant with Ibrahim (as) that from his offspring there will be Imams. Note the the last Prophet (SAWW) and the Imams are descendants of Ibrahim (as).
The main thing about the above verse is that Ibrahim was made an Imam at the end of his age thus we as Shia believe the station of Imam is above that of Prophethood.
Because we believe the Imams are divinely guided and are Imams of the final and most perfect religion, we believe the 14 infallibles are the most beloved of the creation to Allah.
Well said... Also, I think the element of time & human progression should be included in this topic. The Imams of Ahlul Bayt (as) were ordained to protect the most complete religion of Islam, which was the final goal of all previous messages. For example, although there were medical doctors who may have held prestigious posts 100 years ago and were considered the highest medical experts of their time, a medical school student today may have more knowledge than they did simply because time and human progression has reached the level it has. Because of this element, today's medical school student would have more knowledge and expertise than the established doctor 100 years ago, even though he may not be given a prestigious position.
Edited February 28, 2008 by Fadlallah79
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Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani: "Keeping this belief that our Imams are superior than the previous prophets is not a necessity of Shi'ite religion." (i.e. if one does not keep this belief, even then he is Shia)
However, there are a number of proofs given by Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi in his book "Isbat ul Imamat" that our Imams were superior to all the previous prophets, but not Hz. Muhammad (pbuh) off course. Thus, I keep this belief on the basis of these reasons.
The author has, however, mentioned that groups of Shia ulema maintained two other beliefs as well:
1. Some believed that our Imams were not superior to the previous prophets
2. Yet another group of ulema believed that our Imams were superior to previous prophets, except the Ulul-Azm Prophets (Noah (as), Ibrahim (as), Moosa (as), Isa (as))
Edited February 28, 2008 by kalbehaider
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I don't know about the arguments and proof for and against this issue but as the poster above had indicated, Shia have two opinions on this matter. One of the marajae' rejecting the idea of Imams being higher in status than Prophets is Ayatullah Sa'eed-al-Hakim in Iraq.
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One of the marajae' rejecting the idea of Imams being higher in status than Prophets is Ayatullah Sa'eed-al-Hakim in Iraq.
Are you sure about that last part? I saw this on his website:
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http://istefta.alhakeem.com/ajwebeh/amaeh/02.htm
Q - Is Imam `Ali (as) superior (afdhal) to all of the Messengers other than our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), even the Ulu 'l-`Azm. And how is this if it is correct?
A - The many hadiths have (implied, comprehended, comprised?) that the Prophet (pbuh) and his Ahl al-Bayt are the best (afdhal) creation of Allah Ta`ala, and we are not able to oppose these texts due to their great number.
Muhammad has narrated from Ahmad from Ali ibn Nu‘man, in a marfu’ manner (rafa'ahu) from abu Ja‘far (a.s.) who has said the following. "They try to absorb the little moisture but ignore the huge river." Someone asked him, "What is (this) huge river?" The Imams (a.s.)said, "It is the Messenger of Allah (s.a.) and the Knowledge that Allah gave to him. Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, combined in Muhammad (s.a.) the Sunnah (traditions) of the all the prophets from Adam onwards to Muhammad (s.a.)." Someone asked him, "What are those sunnah (traditions)?" The Imams (a.s.) said, "They are all the knowledge of the prophets (s.a.). The Messenger of Allah transferred all of them to Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (a.s.)." The man then said, "O son of the Messenger of Allah, is Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (a.s.) more knowledgeable or some of the prophets?" Abu Ja‘far (a.s.) replied, "Listen, everyone to what he just said. Allah opens the ears of whoever He wants. I said to him that Allah combined for Muhammad (s.a.) the knowledge of the prophets and he combined all of it with Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (a.s.). He now asks me, "Was he (Ali (a.s.) more knowledgeable or some of the prophets?"
Try opening ur heart and ears.
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Please give also the source of that hadith. Thank You.
Edited February 29, 2008 by Zufa
the source is Usul al Kafi ch. 4( the book about people with divine authority)
H 595, Ch. 32, h 6
I have an old book on jurisprudence (I can't recall its print date) in which Ayatullah Sa'eed al Hakim is quoted to have said what I stated in my post. The text was in Urdu. I don't know whether he has changed his view on the matter later on or there's something else to it.
Thanks for your message.
also look at:
Hadith Al Kisaa - where Allah says that the heavens and the earth were created out of his Love for the 5 under the cloak.
Hadith Al Menzila - where Imam Ali (as) is to the Prophet (SAWW) as Harun was to Moses (as).
Let's not forget that Imam Ali (as) and the Prophet (SAWW) are the same, the only thing which differentiates them is Prophethood i.e. their knowledge is the same, their qualities are the same. If you look at the Ayah of Mubahila, Imam Ali (as) is even called the self of the Prophet (SAWW). So in actual fact we can say that Imam Ali (as) mirrors everything the Prophet (SAWW) has except for the revelation. Please pay attention to this and the hadith which says: "I am the city of knowledge and Ali (as) is its gate". We shias are lucky as we have access to the Prophets character through Ali (as). The unlucky sunnis go back to people like Omar and Abu Bakr which teachs them the exact opposite of the nature of the Prophet, thus they have hadiths which damage the image of the Prophet and higher the status of the first two.
There are several ayahs which point to the Prophets (as) praying to Allah that they are put with the Ahlulbayt (as), which shows their true status. Particularly Ibrahim (as) and Yusuf (as).
What part(s) of it do you have difficulty accepting?
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The Imams (a.s.) are subordinate to their respective Prophets (a.s.), and are therefore reflections of them.
Since the Imams of Ahlul'bayt (a.s.) are reflections of Muhammad Rasoolullah (a.s.), it therefore means they are on his level of excellence, and his level of sublime spirituality.
- Mansab
Thank you brother!
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By Cassandra Clare
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Darla A. Hineman
October 8, 1944 - November 5, 2017
Monacrest Free Methodist Church
995 Elmira Avenue
Darla J. Hineman of Brighton TownshipOn November 5th, 2017, Darla Jean Hineman (Stobart) passed away into the next life while surrounded by family and friends. She was a true home maker who welcomed everyone into her life with open arms and an open heart. She loved her family, her church, her friends and at the center of it all was Christ. She is survived by her husband Gary Hineman; four sons and their spouses, Ross (Marcie) Hineman, Brian Hineman, Harry Hineman, Bruce (Cami) Hineman, and 9 grandchildren whom she deeply loved. She will be extremely missed by her five sisters and their spouses, Mary (Vernon) Bernard, Evelyn (Jack) Smith, Carol (Steve) Karaisz, Lucy (Bill) Heuring, Faith (Bob) Everly; her sister in law Maryann Stobart, as well as many nieces, nephews and their children. She was preceded in death by her parents, Harry and Martha (Stork) Stobart, her brother Harry (Bud) Stobart Jr. and her nephew Jay Stobart.Darla was best known for her kindness and passion for the Lord. You could find her daily at Edgecombe apartments cooking food for its residents. She not only provided them dinner but she was their friend, counselor, prayer warrior and firm companion. Her family meant the world to her and she would have given anything she had to anyone who needed it. She was rich in spirit, character and compassion.Her passing has left an incredible hole in the hearts of many who dearly loved her. Family and friends will be gathering for a Celebration of Life service at 7pm on Friday November 10th at the Monacrest Free Methodist Church, 995 Elmira Street, Monaca, PA 15061. Refreshments will be provided immediately following the service in the church’s fellowship hall. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Monacrest Free Methodist Church Care Fund.To share online condolences, get directions and other information, please visit simpsonfuneralhome.com.
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Nemecek Offers “Con of Wrath” Opportunity
February 27, 2012 By Mike Hickerson Leave a Comment
Larry Nemecek, who we interviewed about the Con of Wrath on Slice 331, has an opportunity for those who would like to be part of the project.
Here’s a note from Larry about how you can be involved:
In the spirit of Oscars weekend, today marks the last day of our “donor upgrade special” for THE CON OF WRATH documentary’s fan donor program—through midnight tonight— where you get a bump up in thank-you goodies to the next stated level. Everyone still gets a screen credit, too.
It’s all part of our first phase of filming for “The Con of Wrath”—using a lot of can-do, hands-on donations from fans in return for screen credit and customary fan thank-you gifts—on eight levels ranging from just $10 and $25 on up, using the PayPal Donation system.
And this “special” expiring tonight helps jump-start our spring filming sessions for the documentary, with a reward “upgrade” for fans who can help with a donation from $10 to $500 in Phase I of filming.
If you have not heard of THE CON OF WRATH—either the original 1982 Ultimate Fantasy “meltdown to miracle” landmark Trek debacle in Houston, or our documentary about it now filming after a few sessions in L.A., Seattle and of course Houston—you can check out conofwrath.com, which sports a sneak-peek chat with Harve Bennett and Walter Koenig.
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Cheap Pop & Cheap Heat of the Week in Wrestling #271
Posted by Ross K. Foad Thursday, August 22, 2019
Welcome to another edition of Cheap Pop and Cheap Heat from Smark Out Moment! Each week, we break down the world of professional wrestling and examine two of the polar opposite ends of the spectrum: one thing that was by far the worst thing (Cheap Heat) and the best thing (Cheap Pop) to happen over the past 7 days in sports entertainment. So, what went down this week that we loved and hated about the business?
CHEAP POP OF THE WEEK:
A couple weeks ago, I was talking about the downwards trajectory of Sami Zayn. Despite a strong start for his fan hating gimmick, he quickly fell by the wayside after becoming an habitual match loser. His promo skills remained on point, but he became a spiritual successor to old Bray Wyatt i.e. nothing he said was ever backed up, and he soon became no threat whatsoever. So, what to do with him?
Thankfully, WWE appears to be trying to remedy this with an approach that may just kill two birds with one stone. Making him the manager of Shinsuke Nakamura may not take advantage of his significant in-ring talent, but, as The Miz found out, he can now effortlessly back up any trash talking by setting Shinsuke on anyone that rubs him the wrong way.
In addition, the idea of an advocate for Shinsuke has been floated around for a while now, and I do not think we have anything to lose by giving this a shot. Shinsuke as the Intercontinental Champion has been, thus far, a little uneventful, but this could all change with this pairing. Shinsuke can bring the fight and raise the match tempo, and Sami can bookend the presentations with the setups and bragging.
I mean, let us not forget, stranger pairs have proposed.
CHEAP HEAT OF THE WEEK:
O.C (OH CRAP)
Having Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman win the Raw tag team titles was an exciting way to end Monday Night Raw, but was it the right thing to do long-term?
Firstly, let us not pretend otherwise, this is not a dawning of a new Hardy Boys, Dudley Boyz, or Edge and Christian. Every couple of years, WWE likes to do the World champion wins tag titles with a rival, and then plays the how will they ever got along narrative.
We have seen it with Steve Austin/Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin/The Undertaker, and John Cena/Everyone he has ever won a tag title with. This was undoubtedly done to set up a turn and then feud for the Universal title, but should it have come at The O.C’s expense?
WWE is not faction heavy right now, and having the O.C run riot around the mid-card and tag scene for an extended period of time would have done wonders for all members involved. Now, with only AJ Styles holding a title, they no longer collectively feel quite as special. The Good Brothers are a world famous tag-team, but the fact that they can be bested by a first time team does not do wonders for their stock, or, indeed, the tag belts. After all, right now they are a mere catalyst for a feud in a different division entirely.
Thankfully, these pairings are never long for this world, and maybe Gallows and Anderson can be the ones to regain the titles and get back on track, but you cannot but help feel sorry that this is how they get treated mere weeks after signing a new five-year deal.
So there you have it, my two choices for the week. What do YOU think are the Cheap Pop and Cheap Heat this week in professional wrestling? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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AUTHOR OF THIS POST: ROSS K. FOAD
Ross K Foad is a writer, actor, YouTuber and founder of the Sherlock Holmes website No Place Like Holmes. He has been a published writer since age 13 with a comic strip in a regional newspaper and a wrestling fan since the Rock 'n' Wrestling era. You can follow him on Twitter
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Giants point guard Karragen Straub runs into a crowd of Tigers in the paint. (Pat Beck/southernminn.com)
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WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW: Le Sueur-Henderson Giants girls basketball
Pat Beck
Head coach: John Garvey, 14th year
Assistant coach: Sherri Fritz, 19th year
Returning Starters: Halle Bemmels (12), Olivia Fritz (12), Karragen Straub (12)
Key Returners: Zoe Thomson (12), MaKenna Borchardt (12), Sam Wilbright (11)
“I am relying on my seniors to take on the leadership role of this team,” Garvey said. “Many of them have been playing varsity for multiple years heading into this season, so they know what it takes to be successful in practice and in games.”
Keep Your Eye On
“We do have two sophomores who will be competing for minutes this year, and that is Rhyan Fritz and Madi Wilbright,” Garvey said.
Moved On
Morgan Goettlicher, Kyla Samora and Lauren Gregersen.
2019-20 Recap
8-19 overall (doubling the win total from the year before) In Section 2A. Seeded No. 8, LS-H defeated GFW in pigtail game and then lost to No. 1 seeded Belle Plaine 61-46.
2021 Season Outlook
“Our goal is the same as it is every year, which is to compete at our highest level and continue to improve in our conference and be playing our best basketball come playoffs<” Garvey said. “Our biggest strength is our resiliency and our ‘never quit’ attitude. We have shown great strides in each area and we will continue to improve as the season goes.”
Coach’s Comments
“We have had really good practices so far. The girls are excited to be back in the gym playing and being with their teammates. It has been different with the masks and trying to get into basketball shape, so we are taking more breaks and making sure players are doing alright.” — John Garvey, head coach
6 — seniors (5 are returning)
1 — junior will be on the varsity.
3 — sophomores will be on the varsity.
7:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, Southwest Christian at Le Sueur
7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19 at Norwood Young America
7:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, Mayer-Lutheran at Le Sueur
7:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, Tri-City United at Le Sueur
7:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5 at Belle Plaine
7:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8 at Southwest Christian
7:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, NYA at Le Sueur
7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16 at Mayer-Lutheran
7:15 p.m. Monday. Feb. 22 at Sibley East
7:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 at TCU
7:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, Belle Plaine at Le Sueur
7:30 p.m. Friday, March 5 at Lester Prairie
1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 6, Belle Plaine at Le Sueur
7:15 p.m. Monday, March 8 at NYA
7:15 p.m. Saturday, March 13 at Sibley East
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St. Peter Herald Sports Editor covers St. Peter, Cleveland, Le Center, Le Sueur-Henderson and Tri-City United and Gustavus Adolphus College. Fishing, tennis and golf enthusiast
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Andy Harris defends election challenges, Trump promises ‘orderly transition’ after Capitol chaos
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Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud.
Police in riot gear walk out of the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud.
EASTON — U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.-1st, is defending his objections to Congress’ certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump.
Harris faces criticism from Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans who are upset with the challenges and the Eastern Shore conservative sticking with those objections after protesters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.
Some critics are calling for Harris and other Trump supporters who backed objections to Biden’s win to resign or be expelled from Congress. The Maryland Democratic Party has specifically called for Harris to step down.
“I have routinely and consistently rejected violent protests, whether in the case of yesterday, or last summer. Democrats are calling for unity, yet also calling for the expulsion of Members who objected in yesterday’s Electoral College count. Today, some Marylanders are even calling for my resignation, which I will not do,” Harris said in a statement on Thursday, Jan 7.
Harris and other Trump allies had launched their first objections to Biden’s Electoral College win on Wednesday when pro-Trump protesters overran the Capitol after an earlier rally in front of the White House. Both chambers of Congress were locked down and a woman, who supports Trump, was shot and killed potentially by police.
Harris represents the Eastern Shore and areas north of Baltimore. He said the certification challenges were not about overturning the election.
“My colleagues and I held legitimate Constitutional concerns about how the November election was conducted in certain states and felt compelled to highlight those concerns during the formal vote count. We did not call for the overthrowing of an election. Joe Biden will be president on January 20th. Some of my colleagues, including those still in the Maryland delegation, offered objections in 2017 when counting the electoral votes for President Trump. Congress is afforded the right to count, and object, to electoral votes, which we utilized yesterday to highlight concerns we had regarding the November election. There was nothing treasonous or seditious about it in 2017, nor this year,” Harris said.
Social media platforms — including Facebook and Twitter — have banned Trump after the chaotic protests in D.C.
A White House spokesman issued a statement from Trump on Thursday saying he would abide by the 2020 results. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!,” Trump said portending a run again in 2024.
A number of Trump critics — including U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican — want the president out of office immediately
“I think there is no question that America would be better off if the president would be resigned or removed from office,” Hogan said during a briefing in Annapolis on Thursday, Jan. 7.
Police allege Queen Anne's man led drug trafficking ring
By TRISH McGEE pmcgee@thekentcountynews.com
CENTREVILLE — Six people have been charged in connection to what police have described as a significant drug trafficking organization on the upper Eastern Shore.
They include Terrance Darnell Brooks Jr., 41, of Millington, who allegedly headed the drug ring, according to a Jan. 7 news release from the Maryland State Police.
Also charged are Terrance Darnell Brooks Sr., 64, of Millington; Chestertown area residents Carrie Hope Harris, 40, and Aaron Ashley Garnett, 49; and Michael David Bragg, 54, and Joanne Marie Bragg, 75, both of Elkton.
The investigation is continuing. Additional arrests are pending, according to the news release.
The Queen Anne’s County Drug Task Force initiated investigation into suspected distribution of large amounts of opioid pills and cocaine in the county.
The task force requested and received assistance from the Maryland State Police Heroin Investigative Unit during the summer and fall of 2020. Multiple law enforcement agencies from Kent, Queen Anne’s, Caroline and Talbot counties,, including the Kent County Narcotics Task Force, ultimately provided assistance.
Queen Anne’s Sheriff Gary Hofmann applauded the joint law enforcement teamwork and commitment to keeping the community safe and free of illegal drugs.
“As I have often said, if you are dealing drugs it’s only a matter of time before we hunt you down and arrest those responsible for killing our community,” Hofmann said in the news release.
“If you have a substance abuse issue we will help you,” Hofmann said, “but we will not tolerate drug sales in and around our community.”
According to police, the investigation confirmed that an organization believed to be led by Terrance Brooks Jr. was involved in the daily distribution of both powder and crack cocaine and illegal opioid prescription pills in Kent and Queen Anne’s counties.
Police said evidence was developed that enabled investigators to obtain 12 search warrants for four residences, five vehicles and two individuals.
The homes searched were located in Millington and Chestertown. Two of the warrants were served at the same address.
Police recovered suspected powder cocaine, oxycodone, Adderall and Alprazolam pills, Suboxone strips, an assault pistol, a shotgun and two handguns, according to the news release.
Four vehicles and more than $17,000 in cash believed to be connected to the drug operation were seized.
The first person to be arrested was Terrance Brooks Jr.
Police on Nov. 17 served a knock-and-announce warrant at 405 Spring Road in the Queen Anne’s County portion of Millington. Police identified this as Brooks’ residence.
According to court records, police seized 38.1 grams of suspected cocaine; 150 oxycodone pills; drug paraphernalia; more than $12,000 in cash; and a loaded Ruger .44 caliber single-action revolver.
Police reported that a search of the National Crime Information Center indicated the gun was stolen from Caroline County.
The revolver was located under Brooks’ mattress and was not secured with a gun lock, according to court documents.
Police reported that Brooks’ three juvenile children were in the residence and could access the gun and drugs, which were not secured.
Brooks is charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute (four counts); possession of oxycodone with the intent to distribute; possession of drug paraphernalia (five counts); use of a firearm during a felony; use of a firearm in a drug trafficking crime; illegal possession of a regulated firearm (two counts); illegal possession of a stolen regulated firearm; reckless endangerment; and neglect of a minor.
He remains held without bail.
Terrance Brooks Sr. was arrested Dec. 2 and charged on a criminal summons with possession of an illegal assault weapon. He was released on personal recognizance.
According to online court records, Terrence Brooks Sr. also lives at 405 Spring Road.
Garnett, who was arrested Dec. 14, and Harris, who was arrested Dec. 18, also were released on personal recognizance. Their Chestertown addresses are in Queen Anne’s County, according to the online state Department of Assessments and Taxation website.
Garnett was charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute; possession of cocaine (two counts); possession of drug paraphernalia; possession of controlled dangerous substance packaging materials; and maintaining a common nuisance.
Harris was charged with possession of cocaine; possession of oxycodone with the intent to distribute; conspiracy to possess oxycodone with the intent to distribute; possession of oxycodone; and conspiracy to possess oxycodone.
Michael Bragg and Joanne Bragg, both arrested Dec. 22, were charged with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone; conspiracy to possess oxycodone with the intent to distribute; distribution of oxycodone; and possession of oxycodone with the intent to distribute.
They have the same address, according to an online case search of the Maryland Judiciary.
Michael Bragg is being held without bail.
Joanne Bragg was released on $2,500 unsecured personal bond.
In the news release, Queen Anne’s State’s Attorney Lance Richardson said: “On behalf of the State’s Attorney’s Office, we would like to convey our great appreciation of law enforcement’s efforts in this investigation. The Queen Anne’s County Drug Task Force has worked tirelessly and steadily in their fight against drug dealers. Our community is overwrought by those who are willing to make a buck by exploiting those who suffer drug addiction. But we will not stop in our fight against them.”
Hurlock man charged in Christmas shooting
By ANGELA PRICE aprice@chespub.com
Angela Price / CAMBRIDGE POLICE
CHARLES B. BIBBS III
CAMBRIDGE — A Hurlock man has been charged in the Christmas night shooting in Cambridge.
Cambridge Police arrested Charles B. Bibbs III, 42, about 11 a.m. Jan. 7. He is being held without bail in the Dorchester County Detention Center on charges of attempted first-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, handgun and other related charges.
The charges stem from an altercation between two men that occurred about 9:30 p.m. Dec. 25 in front of the Elks Lodge on Pine Street. Bibbs ended up on the ground, where he pulled out a gun and shot the other man in the abdomen, according to Capt. Justin Todd.
The shooting victim was flown to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and is currently recovering from his injuries, Todd said.
A bail review for Bibbs is set for Friday morning, Jan. 8, in Dorchester County District Court. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 20.
Cambridge Police are still looking for a suspect in a Dec. 21 shooting. A victim was found with a gunshot wound to their back about 8 p.m. on Leonard’s Lane. Their investigation determined the shooting took place in the Philip/Moore street area.
No suspect has been identified yet in the Oct. 25 shooting death of Khalil St. Croxie Reid, 21, of Laurel, Delaware. Reid was found lying on the ground in a grassy parking area in the 600 block of Chesapeake County. That case was turned over to Maryland State Police.
Police continue to look for Ryshon Kelly, 36, of Cambridge, who is wanted on a first-degree murder charge in the Oct. 24 stabbing death of Roderick Russ Jr., 28, also of Cambridge.
Police are also looking for Tiara Latanya Cromwell, 39, of Cambridge, who is wanted in connection to a bank robbery that occurred Dec. 22 at 1880 Bank.
Anyone with information in any of these cases is asked to contact Cambridge Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division at 410-228-3333.
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Brighter Christmas Fund donations top $98K
Your donation to The Star Democrat‘s Brighter Christmas Fund has helped over 1,600 children and nearly 700 families during the 2020 holiday season.
From Nov. 24 through Dec. 31, 2020, The Star Democrat and its sister newspapers published stories each day about families in Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne’s and Kent counties who struggled to provide a Christmas for their children. These stories were the only way The Star Democrat solicited donations for the Brighter Christmas Fund.
Because of your generosity, parents and caregivers were able to provide gifts for their children. The Star Democrat donated 100% of the Fund’s administrative and operating costs.
We are pleased to continue acknowledging all those who have generously donated to the Fund in 2020, as we are still receiving donations through the mail.
The Brighter Christmas Fund is a 501(c)(3) charity, and tax-deductible donations, which also help other families in need on the Mid-Shore, may be sent to The Brighter Christmas Fund, c/o The Star Democrat, P.O. Box 600, Easton, MD 21601. Donations also may be made online via credit card or Paypal at www.brighterchristmasfund.org. Click the “Donate” button. For more information about the Fund, call 410-200-1884 or email bcf@chespub.com.
The total to date is: $98,845.75.
Those sharing the spirit of giving with others this holiday include:
Norman & Marion Shannahan
In memory of Richard “Dick” Cooper and Chris Cooper Watkins
Martin Hughes and Mary Ann Shindler
Linda Goss
Paul and Barbara Ayers
Terry Schaefer and Gail Donaway
In memory of Pete Fisher
David and Pamela Baker
Neal and Patricia O’Shea
Silas Morton Creech and Linda Creech
John and June Wagner
Diane and Gene Katz
From Cooper and Tebow
John and Janice Foss
Ellen Wile
Robert Case
In memory of our parents John and Mary O’Mara and Bill and Bunny Myers
Andrew and Kellee McLean
In loving remembrance of Edwin, Eunice and Levin Bailey
John and Mary Ellen Hutchison
In memory of Dottie Streaker
In memory of Marie Haymaker Davis
Tom and Wendy Wilson
In memory of Judith J. Compton
Paulette and Al Lawing
In loving memory of Doug Edsall
Penny and Jim Reynolds
Coats Lodge No. 102, A.F. & A.M.
Billie Jane and Warren Marton
John Huntington
In memory of Bill and Betty Weisman
Shore hospitals see COVID-19 patient surge, will stay 'nimble' as pandemic endures
By CANDICE SPECTOR cspector@chespub.com
EASTON — University of Maryland Shore Regional Health is seeing more patients with COVID-19 after the holidays than it has seen since the pandemic began. The system says the rise was expected but has prompted a flexible response.
Trena Williamson, a spokesperson for Shore Regional, declined to say how many coronavirus-infected patients are currently being cared for among the region’s three hospitals. Williamson said patient bed availability “frequently changes” across the hospital system.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Shore Regional hospital at Easton has averaged 21 COVID-19 patients per day based on 7-day averaged data from Dec. 25 through Dec. 31.
Ninety-three percent of the hospital’s adult in-patient beds were in use last week, the data show, and 28% of those were occupied by COVID-19 patients.
HHS coronavirus patient data were not available for the Chestertown and Cambridge UM SRH hospital locations, but the agency reported 81% of in-patient beds were in use last week at Chestertown.
“Similar to most hospitals across Maryland, with the wider community spread of COVID this fall, we are caring for more individuals with COVID illness than in the spring while maintaining delivery of care for non-COVID related conditions such as surgeries, cancer treatment and care for heart or neurologic illnesses,” Williamson said in a statement.
The hospital spokesperson, in response to questions about Shore Regional’s preparedness for patient surges related to the coronavirus pandemic, said, “We are regularly revisiting our labor and surge plans.”
Williamson said Shore Regional is focusing on “maintaining the ability to be nimble to respond to local emergency and inpatient care needs quickly, safely and effectively.”
She named “multiple strategies” the system has to increase its staffed bed capacity if needed, including operationalizing the surge designated mobile hospital in Easton, redeploying personnel to areas of need, changing ratios, and offering opportunities for extra shifts.
Hospitalizations among Talbot County residents have increased since Thanksgiving Day on Nov. 26, with 26 residents requiring hospital care for virus-related illness within a six-week time span.
Just under 670 residents have tested positive for the virus since Thanksgiving Day, accounting for 46% of local cases reported during the entire pandemic.
The county is reporting 206 active cases as of Thursday. Twelve residents have died due to the pandemic, and 88 have been hospitalized to date.
As for how many of the regional hospital system’s employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19, Williamson declined to provide specific numbers or percentages.
She said, as of last week, the system had scheduled 32 vaccination clinics at its three hospitals and will continue running clinics at various outpatient locations.
”We are receiving regular distribution of vaccine from the state through University of Maryland Medical System COVID Incident Command and are administering all the vaccine to our team members as we receive supply,” Williamson said.
She said the hospital system expects to continue receiving regular vaccine supply for first doses and will begin administering second doses in the coming weeks.
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Experience Steamboat Art & Culture
April 2, 2020 by Chamber Guest Blogger
How to Experience the Local Arts Scene in Steamboat
When you think of Steamboat Springs, the first things that come to mind are skiing, mountain biking, hiking, fly fishing, and more. But did you know that Steamboat Springs is also host to a vibrant arts community? Indeed, the locals have cultivated a vast arts and culture scene in Steamboat Springs fit for a big city! Look around and you’ll find art studios, workshops, dance performances, galleries, musical groups and more. Wondering how to experience the local art scene during your next Steamboat visit? Here’s everything you need to know to experience Steamboat arts and culture like a local.
Visit Steamboat’s Art Galleries and Museums
First Friday Art Walk: On the first Friday of every month, Steamboat Creates hosts a free, self-guided tour through Steamboat’s art galleries. During these community-building events, local artists exhibit and sell their work to residents and tourists. With art ranging from sculpture to photography to oil painting and styles ranging from traditional Western themes to modern and abstract concepts, there is sure to be something for everyone. Unable to make it to a First Friday? Check out this list of galleries and stop by any day of the month.
Image: W Gallery provided by Steamboat Creates
Steamboat Art Museum: Located at the corner of 8th Street and Lincoln Ave, Steamboat Art Museum has been bringing fine art to the people of Northwest Colorado since 2006. In order to fulfill its mission of presenting art that reflects and enhances the cultural heritage of this community, Steamboat Art Museum frequently features exhibitions that capture the history and natural splendor of the American West. In the past it has also hosted twentieth-century Russian art, works from the American Watercolor Society, career-spanning exhibits of featured artists, and more. Admission is free and the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00-6:00.
Tread of the Pioneers Museum: Located on the corner of 8th and Oak Street, the Tread of the Pioneers Museum is the place to learn about all things Steamboat Springs. After one visit, you’ll walk away amazed at the many disparate characters, incidents, and cultural elements that have occurred over the years to form this unique Rocky Mountain community. Tread of the Pioneers also hosts many special events in town where local experts dive deep into different stories from Steamboat’s past. For more info, head to their website.
Image: Steamboat Art Museum provided by Steamboat Creates
Attend Steamboat’s Dance or Theatrical Performances
Chief Theatre: Originally built in 1926, the historic Chief Theatre began as a single-stage venue for live performances and was the first place in Northwest Colorado to show motion pictures with sound way back in the day. Fast forward to the present and it still stands as Steamboat’s go-to venue for a wide array of cultural events from one-act plays to foreign film nights. Browse their calendar of upcoming events to see what tickles your fancy.
Steamboat Dance Theatre: For almost half a century, Steamboat Dance Theatre has been connecting people in the Yampa Valley through the art of movement. In addition to hosting an annual dance concert that features over a hundred local dancers, Steamboat Dance Theatre also offers classes in a variety of dance styles throughout the year and brings world class dance troupes to Steamboat for biennial exhibitions.
Boogie Down to Steamboat’s Live Music Scene
Bar Scene: Steamboat Springs is home to a whole bunch of restaurants and bars that host musical artists from near and far. Schmiggity's, Old Town Pub, Aurum, The Barley, Timber & Torch, and The Press are just a few of the local joints that regularly feature live music performances.
Strings Music Festival: Strings is the biggest musical venue in town. Throughout the year, they host performances from visiting artists and school programs for local kids. In the summer they really ramp it up with both ticketed and free concerts for the whole community to enjoy. Don't miss Music on the Green held in the Yampa River Botanic Park all summer long. Peep their upcoming events here.
WinterWonderGrass: Every February, Steamboat plays host to the popular WinterWonderGrass bluegrass festival. Featuring artists from throughout the land, as well as Steamboat’s own local favorites Buffalo Commons, the good vibes always prevail and a fun time is had by all. For this year’s lineup and tickets, click here.
Opera Steamboat: Think that there is no way you could ever attend an opera show in a small mountain town? Think again! Opera Steamboat brings not only opera singers but talented vocalists of all stripes to the Yampa Valley throughout the year. Be sure and check out their website to get the scoop on upcoming performances.
Local Art Collective Pop-Up Events
Young Bloods Collective: Every first Friday, this nonprofit hosts pop-up events at The Ski Locker where local creatives can showcase and sell their work to the masses. To learn more about their mission and upcoming events, head to their website.
Search for Art Classes & Workshops During Your Visit
Steamboat Creates: In addition to their Depot Art Gallery, Steamboat Creates is Routt County’s go-to resource for people of all ages seeking to expand their creative horizons. Whether you’re looking to get into painting, dance, theatre, or writing, these guys can tell you who to talk to and where to sign up.
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Taking Stock business briefs
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Agriculture/Cheesemaking
•A University of Wisconsin-Madison student aiming to develop his own brand of sheep milk cheeses is the recipient of the 2015 Beginning Cheesemaker Scholarship from Wisconsin Cheese Originals.
A committee of industry leaders selected Christopher Eckerman, Antigo, for the $2,500 annual award. Wisconsin is the only state to require cheesemakers to be licensed, an 18-month process that involves attendance at five university short courses, 240 hours of apprenticeship under a licensed cheesemaker, and passing a written exam at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture.
Eckerman is a full-time student at UW-Madison, majoring in food science. He grew up on a sheep farm of 200 milking ewes in Antigo. He is a member of the Dairy Product Evaluation Team on campus, and hopes to apprentice this summer in the Babcock Dairy Plant under Master Cheesemaker Gary Grossen. His long-term goal is to continue the family farm, and craft his own brand of seasonal sheep milk cheeses.
Wisconsin Cheese Originals is a member-based organization, dedicated to growing and promoting the state's artisan cheese community by hosting seminars, cheesemaker dinners, dairy tours and educational events, including CheeseTopia, an annual traveling one-day cheese festival.
•In March, Dave Acaley returned as a marketing specialist for NRG Media's radio stations in the Wausau-Stevens Point market: Y106-5 Today's Best Country, Big Cheese Classic Hits 107-9, WGLX Classic Rock 103-3, and Hot 96-7 Top 40. He worked for the stations previously as an account executive from 2003 to 2009. Acaley is quite active in the local community, having served various positions in Rotary, Trinity Lutheran Church, the Portage County Business Council, and as a WIAA official for the past 35 years in football and baseball.
In Wausau-Stevens Point, NRG Media owns four music FM stations: 107-9 WBCV Big Cheese, 103-3 WGLX Classic Rock, Hot 96-7 WHTQ (Top 40), and Y106-5 Today's Best Country (WYTE). NRG Media was founded in 2005, and operates 40 radio stations in four midwestern states: Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illinois. NRG Media is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is led by President/CEO Mary Quass.
•Gary W. Starzinski, a licensed professional soil scientist, certified soil tester, and Brian Camlek, water resource specialist, of Star Environmental of Marathon, recently attended the Frac Sand-Industrial Sand Mining training seminar in Black River Falls.
Star Environmental specializes in Non-Metallic Mining Resource Assessments and Permitting, Wetland Delineations and Mitigation, Storm Water Management practices, Pond Developments, Phase I Environmental Assessments, Soil Erosion Control Management and WDNR Permit Assistance on land resource projects, Septic System Inspections, Soil and Site Evaluations for Septic Systems and Septic System Designs.
•ENX Magazine and BEI Services recognized EO Johnson Business Technologies of Wausau with the prestigious "Office Technology Service Excellence Award — Platinum Level." Dan Fink, BEI Services performance analyst, presented the award on April 16 to EO Johnson's Randy Knapp, vice president of service, for the outstanding level of performance of the dealership and technicians.
ENX Magazine, a national industry trade publication, used BEI Services' unbiased standards to determine service performance in key areas that directly impact customer satisfaction, machine performance, and overall service department efficiency. Recipients of this award are evaluated based on statistical service data collected and compared to BEI Services standards and the performance of dealerships nationally. BEI Services provides imaging device and technician performance benchmarking to dealerships throughout the country.
The key elements of BEI's award are based on what matters most to the customer and center on performance analytics. Four key metrics were analyzed: 1.Average call back rates: indicates technician's performance on machines and the training commitment of the dealership. This measurement indicates how frequently a customer has to call for service. 2.Average hold for parts rates: measures the amount of time a technician had the parts needed to complete the service call on the first visit, indicating the dealer's ability to effectively manage its inventories. 3.Average technician grade: based on 11 key performance metrics. 4.Average mean copies between visits: calculates the average images produced between service calls which is an indicator of machine reliability.
•Kathy Strasser joined River Valley Bank in March as executive vice president and chief operations officer. In her new role, Strasser will lead bank operations, including systems and information technology, and will drive initiatives to accelerate the pace of the bank's digital strategy, focusing on customer experience.
•On April 27, Greenheck Co. in Schofield announced Floyd Carlson as director, learning and organizational development. Carlson joined Greenheck in February 2014 as director, IT for Unison Comfort Technologies.
•The Water Quality Association (WQA), a national non-profit based in Lisle, Ill., that serves as a resource and advocate for improved water quality, names Bret Tangley of Eau Claire-based Sterling Water Inc. President of the Water Quality Association.
Tangley is a certified Master Water Specialist and has held numerous positions on the WQA executive committee of the board of governors. Tangley also recently received an award for his 25 years of service at the 2015 Culligan Dealers Association of North America Convention in New Orleans.
Send news about your company's new hires, personnel changes, achievements and more to: Taking Stock, Stevens Point Journal, 1200 Third Court, Stevens Point, WI 54481; or send email to news@stevenspointjournal.com.
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Stoke City transfer gossip: Potters and old boss Pulis go head-to-head in race to land World Cup defender
Both Stoke City and Middlesbrough are reported to be interested in a January deal for Ipswich Town left-back Jonas Knudsen
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Stoke City are ready to go head-to-head with old boss Tony Pulis for the services of Ipswich Town defender Jonas Knudsen, according to media reports.
The website Football Insider claims both Stoke and Middlesbrough hope to land the 26-year-old Danish international before the transfer window closes a week on Thursday.
In what is described as an “exclusive” report, Pete O’Rourke writes: “Boro and Stoke have held a long-term interest in Knudsen and tried to sign the Danish international in the summer, only for Ipswich to keep hold of the left-back.
“But Knudsen is out of contract at the end of the season and Ipswich would prefer to cash-in on him now rather than risk allowing him to run down his contract and leave for free.”
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Stoke were ready to pay around £1m for the World Cup left-back last summer, but the then Ipswich boss Paul Hurst was reluctant to sell.
The man now in charge at Portman Road is ex-Stoke manager Paul Lambert, and he has brought in Leicester left-back Callum Elder on loan in preparation for Knudsen’s departure.
Explaining the reasons for the Elder deal, Lambert said: “Obviously Jonas’ situation has been well documented – he’s in the last six months of his contract.
“Jonas’ representatives and himself have said they want to keep their eye open for something else, which is fine; that’s their prerogative to do that.
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“I have to say Jonas has been great in training, there’s no problem with his commitment, but I have to look at what would happen if he does go.”
New Stoke boss Nathan Jones favours attacking full-backs, a role that doesn’t come naturally to the Potters’ established left-back Erik Pieters.
He struggled when asked to play as a wing-back by Mark Hughes during Stoke’s final season as a Premier League club, and was dropped in favour of Sam Clucas when Jones went for a 3-5-2 formation against Leeds at the weekend.
Stoke City star offered £50,000-a-week deal to move Stateside
O’Rourke’s report adds: “Middlesbrough manager Tony Pulis is keen to bolster his side’s defensive options during this month’s transfer window to boost their push for promotion to the Premier League, and Knudsen has remained on his radar since the summer.
“Nathan Jones has also made a new left-back one of his top priorities since taking over the Potters, and they are ready to rival Middlesbrough for Knudsen’s signature.”
Knudsen joined Ipswich from hometown club Esbjerg in the summer of 2015 and has since made 150 appearances for the Tractor Boys.
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The Standardbred
-A Superb RIDDEN sport horse-
[This beautiful image taken by Spotted Vision images (used by permission) is the Standardbred Merlin eventing in a hackamore! His owner Brianna Touzjian regularly rides her agreeable mount in a halter, even when jumping four feet; however as you can see in this competition they went formal with a hackamore bridle. Brianna and this talented gelding have been wowing the crowds ever since they began competing.]
You might not have noticed yet, but all around you competitors are waking up to the talent found in this often overlooked breed. Turns out the best harness racing horse in the world is also a superb ridden sport horse.
This article will present a brief outline of the Standardbred to give you a introduction to its range of talents and its suitability for your sport horse projects. The full history of this fascinating breed and its history as a RIDDEN sport horse, including its unsurpassed talent for jumping, as well as its benefit for the sport horse breeder of today will be provided in detail in Standardbred Sport Horses (now available).
Just like our other sport breeds in this country, the Standardbred is based on the genetics of our original sport horse breed: the American Running Horse. The American Running Horse is a cousin to the English Thoroughbred as both came from the same root stock: the Irish Hobby, Scottish Galloway and English Running Horse; and here is the curious part--their development was simultaneous, that is both became a set breed with performance standards in place by the mid-1600s. This means all three of America's racehorse breeds: Quarter Horse, American Thoroughbred and the Standardbred, as well as the English Thoroughbred are siblings, plus the Irish breeds of Connemara Pony and Irish Draught arise from the same base stock as well--and before you dismiss the idea, realize the DNA studies back this history up.
Our Colonial Running Horse was originally a gaited race-saddle horse with tremendous sprint speed at both the pace and the gallop, with great stamina as well it could easily run four-mile heat races several times a day. With contrast to all this athletic ability was its sweet gentle temperament which made it a favorite mount for everyone--they were the preferred saddle horse of the day. As you can see demonstrated in the photo above the Standardbred has retained this lovely disposition.
Of all the descendant breeds of the Running Horse (Hobby), it appears that the Standardbred retained more the original genetics than the others (pedigree and historical research). The Standardbred is I believe unique in the sport horse world in that as a breed, it is homozygous for the speed gene, the stamina gene and the gait-keeper gene. Further, my soundness and durability study of the three racehorse breeds (Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse and Standardbred) it was the Standardbred that arose as the most sound--by a large margin.
The Standardbred only came into being in 1879 when the equine scholar and breed organizer John Wallace created his second registry for trotting horses (his first was for the American Trotter with a performance standard of 2:40 minute miles). But our passion for a fast trotter started earlier than this, and America formed its first trotting breed in 1818 when a three-minute mile standardbred had been set for the breeders, and it became a wildly successful breed not just here, but abroad. The new American Trotter went to England, Europe and even Russia where it won so handily that all other trotting breeds brought in our stock to improve their own speed and trot form.The importation of our American Trotter began in 1829 but by the late 1800s was being imported in huge numbers, and today the sport horse breeder will see their own American bloodlines behind many of the great sport horses of today--even the sacred Alme SF has some American Trotter in his background. It was the the speed--we had more of it. And it all goes back to the our first racehorse breed which was the carrier of the speed to all our stock. Plus our American Trotter and the pacing Running Horse were ridden race and sport horses, and were valued as Hunter Horses because all of them had a big jump and a calm disposition so they did not loose their head during the excitement of the chase. All of this happened before the Standardbred came into being.
John Wallace opened a registry for the American Trotter in 1871 with a standard of a 2:40 mile. Then in 1879 he opened a new Register for those Trotters that could do the mile in 2:30 or less--this was the birth of the Standardbred.. Many of the entries in the new stud book were registered American Trotters, others came from the Running Horse, Canadian Pacer or Morgan Horse populations.
We usually use our Thoroughbred for the up-grader or base of our sport horse--it is traditional after all, but it is not our only choice and you can get the speed, stamina and athletic prowess from one of our other racehorses. And with the Standardbred you get the legendary temperament and soundness--they have the best feet and legs in the sport horse world.
The skill and ability that the modern Standardbred has demonstrated in harness racing has eclipsed its saddle uses in our minds, but in the first half of the 20th century it was also shown as a combination horse, a gaited saddle horse and a "walk, trot, canter" horse in horse shows and was still widely used as a Hunter. In addition it was one of the chosen breeds from which the cavalry picked its breeding stock for the production of both the cavalry mount and its international sport horse.
The greatest American three-day event horse was a little mare named Jenny Camp who won the individual silver and team gold medals in the 1932 Olympics and she came back in 1936 to take the individual silver again. Jenny was 3/4 Thoroughbred and 1/4 was Standardbred. This sport success was not a fluke as her full brother Don R was on the 1932 Olympic jump team. Standardbred mares were a top choice for crossing on the Remount Thoroughbred stallions.
The trot and the pace are the intermediate gaits between the walk and the gallop. A horse can be 'dual-gaited', able to both trot and pace. Our original racehorse was gaited only--the trotting strains emerged with the addition of other bloodlines. For instance our New England Running Horse strain was called the Narragansett Pacer; its speed was timed in the early 1700s as pacing a mile in less than 2:30 minutes. Additions of the Colonial Dutch Cob into the breeding population produced a trot in some stains.
New science on the 'gait-keeper' gene has hypothesized that the possession of this gene is a liability in most sport, Olympic type and racing too--the thought was that a horse that was homozygous for this gene did not and could not have a balanced canter--they even said it would be a poor jumper and surely could not do dressage well. The American breeds of Standardbred, Tennessee Walker and Missouri Fox Trotter are homozygous for this trait--which by extension means these breeds would also be poor candidates for a career in sport. Is this the reality? No, the Standardbred actually is one of the best or perhaps the best jumping breed out there, and the Tennessee Walker's normal gaits are a running walk and a canter and a counter canter and many are performing well in dressage, and the Missouri Fox Trotter is proving itself in jumping as well. Things are not always as they seem at first. And when I contacted the scientist leading these studies, and presented the evidence to the contrary, she explained that it was entirely possible for other genetic factors that are present in a horse or in an entire breed could alter completely what they theorized at first.
As I mentioned above, inspired by the racing career of Foiled Again, I began a study on soundness and the Standardbred, and from there it extended it to its sister breeds of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse. The Standardbred appears to be more sound and resilient than the other breeds.
So in what way are these harness racers a resource for the sport horse breeder?
1. They are a racehorse of the highest class and therefore can be a source of speed and impulsion for our sport horse recipe, and so then they can stand as a substitute for our Thoroughbred or used in conjunction with it.
2. They have retained the sweet temperament of our original Running Horse making them both a joy to work with and a suitable mount for the amateur.
3. They have a strong work ethic, and are highly trainable
4. They are extremely versatile and can be ridden as well as driven.
5. They are excelling at dressage, jump, event and driving today.
6. They are stamina loaded, hardy and sound, with terrific legs and feet
Because of their success as a harness racer we have forgotten that until 1840 they were usually ridden in races, the pacers still were regularly ridden until the late 1800s. The pacing Running Horses are also part of the foundation stock of our talented saddle horse breeds.
Next to the Thoroughbred and probably equal to it, the Standardbred carries the greatest amount of jumping traits then any other breed. This statement may seem crazy to you, but if you have ridden a Standardbred it wouldn't.
And there is more to my statement, because I traced the jumping trait back through time to its root source, which turned out to be an early English Thoroughbred: Herod, out of the mare Cypron, a daughter of Blaze, the great trotting sireline of England. I discovered every successful jumping horse carries 'critical mass' in Heord in its background, and the best jumpers and the best producers of jumpers, that is, the jumper bloodlines all have strong pedigree focal points consolidating this talent--all this is laid out in Standardbred Sport Horses.
[Seen above is Caunis On, a Swedish Standardbred, taken off the track by Jessica Jakobsson and retrained and then competed in open competitions. As you can see this mare can jump, she is a natural, and the pair have been winning in open competitions all year long. Jessica keeps three trotters going at a time.]
As you can see it isn't just Olympic level competitors that have discovered the quality in the Standardbred, this breed has proven it is a perfect choice for the amateur also. Their agreeable disposition combined with their versatile athletic abilities make them a good choice for riders of any discipline, any age and any competition level.
The jump in the Standardbred is a given, but what is surprising to me is that there is a tremendous dressage talent that travels down some of the Standardbred lines, many having a natural ability for the passage and the piaffe. Its close relative, the Saddlebred, also displays this ability in some lines.
Here in the States you can contact a local Standardbred Pleasure Horse Society or New Vocations for help in finding a wonderful mount of your own. The horse below is another example. TC and his owner Kelly Marshall have enjoyed twelve years together, and finally after another successful season of showing in dressage, TC at age nineteen was retired.
[Kelly and her beloved TC after another winning season in dressage, in open and Standardbred shows.]
In 2010 the US Trotting Association proved how suitable the Standardbred is for all manner of ridden sport when it presented eight Standardbreds from across the country at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. These amateur competitors demonstrated the expertise they had achieved in their respective sports: driving of course, show jumping, eventing, dressage, hunter and western disciplines. Read about these wonderful horses and their talented owners here.
Retraining an OTTST
Standardbred Sport Bloodlines
Foiled Again--champion of soundness and durability
Standardbred and Soundness
Breed establishment and pedigree wars
American Sport Sources
American Sport Horse History
Gait-Keeper Gene
Captaintreacherous - top sire
Standardbred Sport Horses is now available.
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There are at least 11 reasons why the Steelers are no longer undefeated
Written By Mike DeCourcy
@TSNMike
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The number of people who expected, at any point this autumn, that the Steelers would finish the 2020 regular season undefeated almost certainly was smaller than the select group of family members gathered at Heinz Field late Monday to bear first-hand witness to the end of that dream.
Neither, though, did many expect that it would be the Washington Football Team who would do the honors.
The WFT is fighting for relevance in the most irrelevant of all NFL divisions, the NFC East, but its coaching staff entered the stadium with a solid plan mostly cribbed from the Ravens and enough quality players to make it work in a 23-17 victory. That stopped the Steelers' perfect start to the season at 11 games; they were one of 11 teams since the 1970 merger to get that far into a season without losing.
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The Steelers, whose next game is at the AFC East-leading Bills on “Sunday Night Football,” had been trending toward such an outcome but always found enough impact in their defense or their playmaking receivers to avoid defeat. This time, there were at least 11 reasons they did not reach 12-0:
1. Running on empty. The Steelers’ running game is failing on first down, failing at general productivity and failing, most glaringly, in essential circumstances. It is failing at full strength (with top back James Connor and Pro Bowl center Maurkice Pouncey) and reduced capacity (with reserve back Benny Snell and rookie JC Hassenauer handling snaps).
They’ve generated 100 yards just once in the past seven games, including a season-worst 21 yards on 14 attempts in the WFT game. First-down runs have been a ticket to second-and-long. And lately they’ve failed so regularly in short-yardage situations that the Steelers chose to pass twice when needing a single yard on the most pivotal sequence in Monday’s game.
Why they can’t run is the bigger issue. The offensive line hasn’t allowed a sack in 252 pass attempts, a span of five games. But that same group is generating no push and routinely creating traffic for their own backs behind the line. When the Steelers had a 2nd-and-goal from the 1 with 6:17 left in the first half, they pulled Matt Feiler from left guard into a planned hole on the right side — and it was Feiler who knocked Snell off his stride.
“If you can’t get a yard, in our game, you don’t deserve to win,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday.
2. Unreasonable demands. Three of the most important plays the Steelers ran in short-yardage situations required players to accomplish extraordinary things to achieve the ordinary goal of advancing the football 36 inches.
On the third-down play that followed the Feiler-Snell collision, the Steelers ran a tackle-eligible play. But not the kind where he sneaks unnoticed into the end zone and catches a soft pass over the middle. Oh, no. The Steelers had 305-pound Jerald Hawkins flare to the right and twist to attempt to catch a pass in stride and then run it into the end zone. Who does that?
Well, the same team that, on third-and-1 from the WFT 28 with 4:59 left in a tie game, asked Ben Roethlisberger to throw an inch-perfect pass to a closely covered JuJu Smith-Schuster running an out pattern. And the team followed that by sending rookie back Anthony McFarland, with five career catches for 45 yards, on a streak down the right sideline and asking him to adjust in the air as though he were an All-Pro wideout.
In case it was not clear, none of those plays succeeded.
3. Slow starts. For the third consecutive game, and the fifth time in six, the Pittsburgh offense failed to produce a single point in the first quarter. The group produced one touchdown in that stretch — which is fewer than the Steelers’ defense has managed.
This is an obvious failure of game-planning, which falls on the offensive coordinator, Randy Fichtner, who is charged with constructing those plans.
For much of the year, the OC has been bailed out by production the Steelers have managed with the quarterback calling plays in no-huddle schemes.
Steelers beat writer Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette pointed out that the team averaged 9.3 yards on 13 no-huddle plays against the Ravens, but only 3.6 yards when operating out of a huddle. So what happened against the WFT? It appeared that there was even less use of the no-huddle approach.
4. Drops. The Steelers have dropped 32 passes, the sixth-worst figure in the league. It’s been a glaring and galling problem over the past two weeks, as tight end Eric Ebron and wideout Diontae Johnson each dropped multiple passes against the Ravens and WFT.
It’s impossible to control the football with a passing game if the receivers drop catchable passes. Not referencing particular players, Tomlin said, “They can catch the ball or get replaced by those that will catch it. It’s just as simple as that.”
5. The long game. There has been a logic to the Steelers’ move to a controlled passing game, particularly with the rushing attack so meager. It’s allowed them to rank high in time-of-possession stats and keep Roethlisberger on his feet. But it ought not to represent the entirety of the offense.
Even facing stacked boxes the past two weeks, the Steelers have not attempted to push the ball downfield. That they’re averaging just 6.1 yards per attempt is a problem. That they’ve had only six touchdown passes that traveled longer than 30 yards is evidence of a challenged offense.
6. Personnel decisions. Rookie wideout Chase Claypool, the team’s leader in touchdown catches and yards per reception, was stranded on the sideline for 56 percent of offensive snaps in the WFT game. Claypool had only two catches but generated an average of 19 yards on those plays.
He would have been a better option, on multiple levels, than Ebron on a number of plays. On the fourth-and-goal call that ended the second-quarter sequence, Ebron was in for a called run. He was sent in motion and assigned to block the defensive end, in this case gifted rookie Chase Young. Ebron ran past Young in the formation and left him a clear lane to attack Snell. It was Young’s tackle that kept Snell from reaching the goal line. Claypool would make that block.
7. Intransigence. One can’t say a lack of imagination from the Steelers’ offensive staff led to the absence of adjustments in Monday’s defeat. Because this is the same team that jet-sweeped the Browns into submission and once got a 58-yard carry out of return man Ray-Ray McCloud. But none of that was revisited when the Steelers went stale against the Ravens and WFT. In the rushing game, instead of trying to make great use of 5-8, 208-pound McFarland’s speed and elusiveness in the open field, they’ve sent him on off-tackle sojourns as if he were Jerome Bettis.
“We’re open to doing anything that’s required of us to find the fluidity we once had,” Tomlin said. That was not the approach Monday.
8. Communication. Because of injury, the Steelers were in a scramble with multiple non-regulars in key defensive positions as the game advanced — and one starter missing was inside linebacker Robert Spillane, who typically wears the radio device connecting the field to the sideline. The gradual disintegration of their pass coverage appeared to be related to the inability to assure that all defenders recognized their assignments. With Spillane expected to miss time with a knee injury, if the Steelers try to use Avery Williamson in this role, they’ll be handing it to someone who just joined the team a month ago; if they use Vince Williams, it’ll be someone they typically don’t want to play three downs.
9. Injuries. The absence of Pouncey and Conner certainly impacted the offense, but the first game played without budding star linebacker Bud Dupree revealed a defense that had lost some of its sting. Rookie replacement Alex Highsmith did a fine job. He played 83 percent of defensive snaps and delivered five tackles, but he was unable to exert the degree of pressure that might have been expected of his predecessor.
They finished this game without their top two corners; Steven Nelson missed with a knee injury and Joe Haden left with a concussion. And they were down to their third choice at inside linebacker.
10. Aggression. The Steelers sacked Smith three times, but he got plenty of time as he heated up in the second half. The Steelers chose to blitz less frequently, even though they’d had great success with attacking schemes in the first half — and even though they were leaving receivers wide open without sending extra rushers after the QB. Taking the same tone as their offense, they played not to lose.
11. Luck ran out. Throughout their perfect start, the Steelers frequently benefited from timely penalties against the opposition that continued drives. Passes thrown by Roethlisberger that were deflected at the line, and those thrown into too-tight coverage, fell harmlessly to the grass.
This time, it was Washington’s drive inside the 10 that was revived by a holding call against linebacker T.J. Watt and subsequently turned into a touchdown. It was the Steelers punished by a clock situation mismanaged by officials at the end of the first half, which led to WFT getting a field goal it might not have deserved. Roethlisberger’s attempt at conjuring a game-winning drive ended when his first pass was deflected — too typically, it was a modest sideline route that would have netted just a few yards if completed — and intercepted by former Steeler Jon Bostic.
There’s not much in all of this that is beyond the Steelers’ control.
Tomlin seemed inclined to make the changes necessary to avoid the season’s first losing streak. He did note, however, that the Steelers again will be operating again on a short week. And, this time, they’ll face an opponent few question as a contender.
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Lamb, Catherine / Harmonic Space Orchestra
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Two hauntingly beautiful works in microtonal composer and violist Catherine Lamb's "Prisma Interius" series, the first a duo with violinist Johnny Change and Xavier Lopez on the "secondary rainbow synthesizer", which channels the sound outside of the performance space as a generator of ambient sound; then a sextet of strings and winds with two secondary rainbow synthesizers.
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Recorded at Andreas Kirche, in Wansee, Berlin, Germany, in August, 2019, by Adam Asnan. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Catherine Lamb-viola, composer
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"Following interacting points within expanding harmonic space, Catherine Lamb has devoted her structural work to the inner life of tonality, constantly searching through the limits of human perceptions and resonances in overlaying atmospheres.
Lamb's continued series Prisma Interius (2016-ongoing), made with her partner and frequent collaborator Bryan Eubanks, filters the outside environment into a harmonic field, basso continuo, tanpura, or bridge between the musical form and the perceptual listening space. Her first orchestral work, Portions Transparent/Opaque (2014), was premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the 2014 Tectonics Festival in Glasgow, Scotland. After an extended tour of her solo work Shade/Gradient (2012) through North America in 2012, Lamb received a travel grant from the Henry Cowell Foundation, allowing her to pursue work with Eliane Radigue and to form new relationships with European musicians.Earlier in her career, Lamb studied under composers James Tenney and Michael Pisaro at the California Institute of the Arts, where she also met director and dhrupadi Mani Kaul. It was during this time that she began diving deeply into her own practice of what she later termed "the interaction of tone."
Lamb is the co-founder of Singing by Numbers (2009-11), an experimental vocal ensemble formed with Laura Steenberge that focused on pedagogical research around pure ratio tuning. She has written for ensembles such as Ensemble Dedalus, Konzert Minimal, the London Contemporary Orchestra, NeoN, Plus/Minus, and Yarn/Wire. Lamb is involved in ongoing research with Marc Sabat on intonation; with Johnny Chang on Viola Torros; develops work regularly with musicians such as Rebecca Lane, Dafne Vincente-Sandova, and Frank Reinecke; as well as taking part in Triangulum with Julia Holter and Laura Steenberge.
Lamb is the recipient of a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude (2016); an Emerging Composers Grant from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations (2008-09); and was a Staubach Fellow at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany (2016). Lamb's writings and recordings have been published by another timbre, Black Pollen Press, Kunst Musik, NEOS, THE OPEN SPACE Magazine, Q-O2, sacred realism, and winds measure recordings.She received a B.M. from California Institute of the Arts, and an M.F.A. in music/sound from Bard College."
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"Berlin-based composer-performer Johnny Chang engages in extended explorations surrounding the relationships of sound/silence and the in-between areas of improvisation, composition, performance and listening. Current collaborations/projects include: Antoine Beuger, Alessandro Bossetti, Lucio Capece, Olivier Di Placido, Jürg Frey, Chris Heenan, Christian Kesten, Annette Krebs, Luke Munn, Koen Nutters, Michael Pisaro, Derek Shirley."
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"Xavier Lopez (born 1981, Perpignan, France) is a multi-instrumentalist currently based in Paris. He studied saxophone, piano and drums at Perpignan's conservatory before moving to Amsterdam in 2002, where he studied jazz and classical music. He moved to Paris in 2006. Today Lopez performs electroacoustic music either solo or as half of the duo Chance."
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Rebecca Lane is a flute and bass flute performer from Melbourne who is currently based in Berlin.
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"Lucy Railton is a British cellist and composer whose work bridges experimental electronic and electroacoustic practices with modern classical composition and performance. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2008, Railton has worked as a cofounder and director of the London Contemporary Music Festival, played with electronic producers as varied as Peter Zinovieff and Beatrice Dillon and performed works by avant-garde artists such as Iannis Xenakis and Morton Feldman. In March 2018, she released her debut solo album, Paradise 94, on the Modern Love label. As she explores her interest in electroacoustic music, improvisation and modified cello, Railton's sound is an absorbing, often extreme examination of the potential of an acoustic instrument."
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"Jon Heilbron is an Australian Double Bass player, improviser and composer, working within the areas of contemporary classical, improvised and experimental music. Jon has performed both as a soloist and with various groups in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Denmark, Israel, Russia, Norway, Austria and Singapore.
As an interpreter of contemporary music, he has performed with Klangforum Wien (Austria), Apartment House (UK), Kammerensemble Neue Musik (Germany), An Assembly (UK), Ensemble Soundinitiative (France) Konzert Minimal (Germany) and Ensemble Schallfeld (Austria).
He has presented music at festivals including the Darmstädter Ferienkürse (Germany), Archipel Geneva (Switzerland), Wien Modern (Austria), Manifeste Paris (France), the Impuls festival, Graz (Austria), The Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), SpinaFest in St. Petersburg (Russia) and the Multiversal Festival in Copenhagen (Denmark).
He is active within improvised and experimental music with his collaborative groups Ellipsis, Arches, DRUM and doubleFRAU, and is the founder of the Phonetic Orchestra, an ensemble made up of some of Melbourne's most innovative emerging Improvisers, composers and performers."
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"Joseph Houston is a British pianist active in the fields of contemporary and experimental music. Based in Berlin, Joseph performs regularly in festivals and venues across Europe both as a soloist and with other artists. He particularly enjoys projects which involve collaborating closely with composers and other performers, including recently with: Christian Wolff, Lore Lixenberg, Louis D'Heudieres, Rolf Hind, Nomi Epstein, Mark Barden, Stephen Crowe, Catherine Lamb, and Christian Mason. He is principal pianist with the Octandre Ensemble, a London-based new music group focusing on music written since 1945.
Joseph aims to curate unique and immersive programmes that combine works from various musical genres, generating a whole that is bigger than the sum of its parts, while involving himself as much as possible in the compositional process of new commissions. He believes music is fundamentally collaborative and is particularly interested in works that challenge the traditional composer-performer-listener triangle; new or unusual notation practices; and pieces that intensely explore the sonic possibilities of the instrument. He works on a project-by-project basis, building programmes that explore these ideas.
After undergraduate studies at the University of York - receiving a first-class BA in Music and the Wilfrid Mellers Prize for outstanding academic achievement - Joseph attended the Royal College of Music, London, where he was awarded the Frank Merrick Prize, 2nd Prize in the Beethoven Piano Competition, and an MMus in Advanced Performance with distinction.
Soon after leaving the RCM he was selected for Making Music's Philip and Dorothy Green Award for young concert artists; received 2nd Prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition; won a Help Musicians UK 'Emerging Excellence' award; and gained a place on City Music Foundation's young artist scheme. He was also chosen as a Park Lane Group Young Artist in 2013, which led to his debut solo recitals at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall, performing works by Scriabin, Michael Zev Gordon, Beethoven, Thomas Simaku, Charlotte Bray, Colin Matthews, and Debussy. Joseph has performed as a soloist with various orchestras, playing music ranging from Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto, to Messiaen's 'Turangalîla-Symphonie' and John Cage's 'Concert for Piano and Orchestra'. In recent years he has performed all over Europe at venues and festivals such as the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Ухо Festival (Kiev, Ukraine), the BBC Proms, Summartónar Festival (Faroe Islands), and Lilles Piano(s) Festival. His playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 4, and 6 Music, Radio Cemat Rome, France Musique, SWR2, and SRF Radio.
Recent performances include Cat Lamb's 'Prisma Interius VIII' at the Berlin Biennale, duos with Sarah Saviet (violin) at Radialsystem as part of Sasha Waltz's ZUHÖREN, and solo performances at Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019. Future projects include a CD of Thomas Simaku's chamber music with Quartor Diotima, to be released on BIS; a portrait CD of composer Mark Barden, to be released on WERGO; and performances throughout 2020 of Feldman's 'Patterns in a Chromatic Field' with Lucy Railton in Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, and London."
-Joseph Houston Website (https://www.josephhouston.co.uk/about)
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1. Prisma Interius VII 38:12
2. Prisma Interius VIII 34:14
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descriptions, reviews, &c.
"In Catherine Lamb's Prisma Interius series the unpredictability of the outside articulates the field of perception through precise bandpass filters, while acoustic instruments and musicians guide the unfolding of its harmonic space. The series consists of nine pieces exploring the potential of the Secondary Rainbow synthesizer, an instrument developed in 2016-2017 with Bryan Eubanks, that uses the live environment outside the performance space as a noise generator for basic subtractive synthesis. The intention is to dynamically fuse the outside world and acoustic instruments, and what emerges is a sort of Aeolian harp "residue" highlighting the spectral information the listener might perceive in a given moment. A beautiful addition to an already impressive catalog of recordings and scores by the young composer. Captured with stunning clarity by Adam Asnan and featuring a phenomenal ensemble of musicians."-Sacred Realism
"Back in 2017, when writing about the fifth and, at the time, latest in Catherine Lamb�s ongoing series Prisma Interius, i talked a lot about consonance and dissonance, the way that its pitches began life around a central point from which they emerged and split off, ultimately creating a harmonic language that i characterised as �provisional�. And last year, when Lamb�s Atmospheres Transparent / Opaque featured in my Best Albums of 2019, with regard to Prisma Interius IX I remarked on the ambient quality of its behavioural language. All of these things can also be said of two other works in this series, numbers VII and VIII, which have recently been released together on a new album. The commonality this suggests means that it�s easy not only to hear these two pieces as a single work � the latter a continuation (or alternate rendition; or expansion) of the former � but as part of an over-arching, long-form, multi-faceted but single strain of compositional thought.
That being said, there�s much to distinguish between them. Prisma Interius VII is a duet for violin and �secondary rainbow synthesizer�, the latter being the name for a device �that uses the live environment outside the performance space as a noise generator for basic subtractive synthesis. The intention is to dynamically fuse the outside world and acoustic instruments and what emerges is a sort of Aeolian harp residue highlighting the spectral information the listener might perceive in a given moment.� The contribution of this instrument, as in all the Prisma Interius works, is extremely subtle but, perhaps precisely because of that subtlety, becomes the key element that gives the music real electricity and excitement. The violin�s material is slow and considered, positioning a variety of sustained tones in close microtonal proximity to each other, while the synthesizer initially sounds like a far-off continuous marimba roll. Over time, though, both parts grow in complexity, both inwardly and outwardly.
The language of the violin pitches becomes less certain, with more of a tendency to roam, in the process (by around the mid point, around 20 minutes in) conveying a significant melodic impulse. The synthesizer provides a context for this, an atmosphere around it. Yet it�s more than just that: slowly one can infer a strange kind of dialogue taking place, like a conversation playing out in ultra slow motion. All is stillness and intimacy, given a timeless quality due to the way the music seems cyclical (reinforced by continual stops and starts) while avoiding a clear sense of repetition. It�s a form of steady state, behaviourally consistent while its details continually change though, as i�ve indicated, with the most gentle dramatic arc. That drama, i admit, could be and probably is imaginary, but what isn�t imagined is its timelessness. This manifests in the fact that, like all music with a true ambient sensibility, the music could feasibly continue like this forever, and it�s worth noting how, at 38 minutes� duration, this rendition of the piece is much longer than its 21-minute first performance at the 2018 Borealis Festival. Clearly it�s not only the harmony in these works that�s provisional but also their form.
Harmony plays a much more complex role in Prisma Interius VIII due to its greater number of players, comprising tenor recorder, viola (played by Lamb), cello, double bass and a pair of secondary rainbow synthesizers. Though behaviourally similar, the way the material alludes to notions of harmonic movement (often coalescing around possible major thirds and perfect fourths) leads to a fascinating push-pull of implied (non-)progressions. This defiance of expectations extends to the sound palette of the ensemble, which often becomes timbrally neutral, a collection of anonymous slow tones largely devoid of strong instrumental origins. Only at the start and end of each halting sequence do the instruments become briefly but clearly identifiable. Furthermore, equally hard to pin down or define is any kind of implied emotional tone. In practice, like the other aspects already mentioned the music�s relationship to such conventions is, at most, implied, but in the same was as the harmony appears to progress it�s impossible not to feel a gentle movement between quiet poles of happiness and discontent in its constant slip-sliding between sweet and sour major-minor connotations.
The combination of all this with the permanently inscrutable synthesizers here makes for true magic. Its middle- or background presence doesn�t simply act as an atmosphere but as a kind of glimmering light source, bestowing on the instruments a sheen or patina that, like everything else, is in continual flux. Thus, in ways that are hard to qualify Prisma Interius VIII becomes strangely moving, stunningly beautiful, achingly fragile � in fact, despite the greater number of players the piece often sounds far more delicate than the smaller-scale Prisma Interius VII. The pauses that keep recurring are an important part of this: while everything is moving and sustaining its intensity is so potent that it comes as a shock to hear it so effortlessly silenced.
The fact that a great deal of what one gets from these pieces is either imagined or imposed upon the music from one�s relative, entirely subjective, listening perspective hardly matters. These pieces continually draw us in and push us away, allusive one moment and elusive the next, familiar and alien at the same time. Perhaps the only definitive statement one can make about this music is that, from start to end, it is utterly mesmerising."-Simon Cummings, 5:4
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W1H 0EJ
Area Information for London, W1H 0EJ
This postcode is in the London region of England. The postcode is within the Marylebone High Street ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Cities of London and Westminster. This page combines information for the address London, W1H 0EJ, and the neighbourhood in which it resides. If you wish, you can also view information for the whole of W1H here. For more details on the exact area these statistics cover, please see the map below and click "Show Census Area Covered" immediately below the map.
This postcode was terminated by the Royal Mail in December 1996. Where possible, we have attempted to find data relating to the area in which the postcode used to reside before retirement. However, some data such as street names and house pricing is based on current postcodes only and so may be missing or incomplete.
The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about London, W1H 0EJ is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2011. They are performed once every 10 years. Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. The figures are therefore representative of the local area, not a specific street address or row of houses. The census collection is designed so that each group of postcodes should contain at least 100 people (50 in Scotland). This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building. You can see the area covered by the census statistics by clicking "Show Census Area Covered" below the map above.
Rented: From Council 11
Rented: Other Social inc. charities and housing associations 21
One Person 118
In the immediate vicinity of W1H 0EJ there is a large concentration of residents that are single - 54% of the resident population. On average, around 35% of census respondents were single. Areas with large single populations are often in built-up areas, with good entertainment facilities. It is also common to see a younger population in these areas.
W1H 0EJ and surrounding area has a larger than average concentration of residents that are degree educated or similar - 61% of the resident population. On average, around 27.1% of census respondents fall in to this category.
London can be considered more ethnically diverse than the UK average. As whole, the UK population claims itself as approximately 86% white, with residents of this area being 63% so.
Note that an individual may hold one or more passports. The data may include people living in adjacent addresses to W1H 0EJ
Hindu 25
This address within the Marylebone High Street ward showed a higher than average concentration of student residents - 21% of the resident population. On average, around 9.2% of census respondents were students. Male residents were slightly less likely than women to be students. The figures for students include both working and full-time studying students.
Retired 11
London, W1H 0EJ is within the Marylebone High Street policing neighbourhood, under the Metropolitan Police Service force area. For non-urgent queries, contact 101. For emergency assistance, please contact 999.
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Below are the details of the closest services to W1H 0EJ. All distances are straightline distances, please consult the map of the facility to check the exact location. You can also view these details on our interactive services map for W1H 0EJ.
Listed here are the 20 closest railway stations to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest railway station is London Marylebone, approximately 0.8 miles away.
Vauxhall 2.3 miles
Listed here are the 20 closest Tube and Docklands Light Railway stations to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest Tube station is Bond Street, approximately 250 yards away.
Marble Arch Tube Station half a mile
Baker Street Tube Station 0.6 miles
Edgware Road (Bakerloo) Tube Station 1 mile
Covent Garden Tube Station 1 mile
Charing Cross Tube Station 1.1 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest primary schools to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest is St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, approximately 480 yards away.
All Souls CofE Primary School 860 yards
St George's Hanover Square CofE Primary School half a mile
Listed here are the 10 closest secondary schools to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest is The St Marylebone CofE School, approximately 820 yards away.
London Nautical School 1.8 miles
Sir Simon Milton Westminster University Technical College 1.9 miles
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School 1.9 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest GPs (General Practitioners) to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest is The Mayfair Medical Centre, approximately 340 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
Marylebone Health Centre half a mile
Crawford Street Surgery 0.6 miles
Soho Centre For Health And Care 0.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest dentists to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest is T E Davies & R J O, approximately 230 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
CLCH Dental Service for Homeless People 0.6 miles
Marylebone House Dental Practice 0.6 miles
Soho Dental Care 0.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest hospitals to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest is No25 Harley St Phoenix Hospital Group, approximately 180 yards away.
Samaritan Hospital For Women half a mile
The Portland Hospital For Women & Children half a mile
Listed here are the 10 closest opticians to London, W1H 0EJ. The nearest is Boots-London - Wigmore St, approximately < 50 yards away.
Boots-London - Wigmore St < 50 yards
David Clulow Opticians 90 yards
Boots-London - Sedley Place 210 yards
Hollands Of London 420 yards
Vision Express Opticians 420 yards
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W1H 5EE
Area Information for Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE
Harrowby Street in Westminster is in the London region of England. The postcode is within the Bryanston and Dorset Square ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Cities of London and Westminster. This page combines information for the address Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE, and the neighbourhood in which it resides. If you wish, you can also view information for the whole of W1H here. For more details on the exact area these statistics cover, please see the map below and click "Show Census Area Covered" immediately below the map.
Our information is available for almost all UK postcodes. Why not take a look at some of these other postcodes in the immediate vicinity of Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE:
Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5ED
Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EF
Cato Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5JG
Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EB
Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EG
Cato Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5JQ
The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2011. They are performed once every 10 years. Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. The figures are therefore representative of the local area, not a specific street address or row of houses. The census collection is designed so that each group of postcodes should contain at least 100 people (50 in Scotland). This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building. You can see the area covered by the census statistics by clicking "Show Census Area Covered" below the map above.
The area containing Harrowby Street, Westminster, London consists predominantly of flats, which is common in inner cities, student neighbourhoods and poorer suburban settings. Please note that the figures may include adjacent streets - see the Summary tab for an explanation and map of the area that these figures cover.
The area containing Harrowby Street, Westminster, London contains a higher than average level of rented housing (excluding social housing) - 68% of household spaces. This contrasts with the national average of just over 16%.
In the immediate vicinity of W1H 5EE there is a large concentration of residents that are single - 57% of the resident population. On average, around 35% of census respondents were single. Areas with large single populations are often in built-up areas, with good entertainment facilities. It is also common to see a younger population in these areas.
This area is fit as a fiddle, with over 92% of the population reporting themselves as being in Good or Very Good health at this address.
Harrowby Street and surrounding area has a larger than average concentration of residents that are degree educated or similar - 58% of the resident population. On average, around 27.1% of census respondents fall in to this category.
Harrowby Street, Westminster, London can be considered more ethnically diverse than the UK average. As whole, the UK population claims itself as approximately 86% white, with residents of this area being 49% so.
Black African 14
In this area (Harrowby Street, Westminster, London), only 29% of the residents were born in England, so the majority of the residents of this area were not born in England.
Note that an individual may hold one or more passports. The data may include people living in adjacent addresses to W1H 5EE
This address within the Bryanston and Dorset Square ward showed a higher than average concentration of student residents - 19% of the resident population. On average, around 9.2% of census respondents were students. Male residents were slightly less likely than women to be students. The figures for students include both working and full-time studying students.
Looking After Home or Family 10
Long-Term Sick or Disabled 10
Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE is within the Bryanston and Dorset Square policing neighbourhood, under the Metropolitan Police Service force area. For non-urgent queries, contact 101. For emergency assistance, please contact 999.
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Listed here are the 20 closest railway stations to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest railway station is London Marylebone, approximately 630 yards away.
London St Pancras (Intl) 2 miles
London Kings Cross 2 miles
West Hampstead 2.4 miles
Finchley Road & Frognal 2.4 miles
Shepherd's Bush 2.4 miles
West Hampstead Thameslink 2.5 miles
Listed here are the 20 closest Tube and Docklands Light Railway stations to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest Tube station is Edgware Road (Circle Line), approximately 400 yards away.
Edgware Road (Bakerloo) Tube Station 560 yards
Paddington Tube Station 860 yards
Bond Street Tube Station 0.7 miles
Great Portland Street Tube Station 1 mile
Oxford Circus Tube Station 1 mile
Royal Oak Tube Station 1.1 miles
Bayswater Tube Station 1.1 miles
Queensway Tube Station 1.1 miles
Knightsbridge Tube Station 1.1 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest primary schools to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest is Hampden Gurney CofE Primary School, approximately 80 yards away.
Hampden Gurney CofE Primary School 80 yards
St Edward's Catholic Primary School 730 yards
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School 0.5 miles
Hallfield Primary School 1 mile
St Joseph's RC Primary School 1 mile
Listed here are the 10 closest secondary schools to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest is Marylebone Boys' School, approximately 0.5 miles away.
St Augustine's Federated Schools: CE High School 1.7 miles
The UCL Academy 1.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest GPs (General Practitioners) to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest is Crawford Street Surgery, approximately 350 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
Dr Creme & Partners 790 yards
Lees Place Medical Centre 0.6 miles
The Mayfair Medical Centre 0.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest dentists to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest is Crescent Dental Clinic, approximately 230 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
AYOUB-BEY SM MR 690 yards
Church Street Dental Surgery 840 yards
mydentist, Edgware Road, Westminster half a mile
Central London Community Healthcare 0.5 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest hospitals to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest is Western Eye Hospital, approximately 420 yards away.
St Mary's Hospital (HQ) 690 yards
St Mary's Hospital 690 yards
Weymouth Street Hospital 0.6 miles
London Welbeck Hospital 0.6 miles
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street 0.7 miles
Samaritan Hospital For Women 0.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest opticians to Harrowby Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5EE. The nearest is Specsavers Opticians, approximately 170 yards away.
Marble Arch Medical Centre 390 yards
Lauder & Rees Optician 670 yards
In-Focus Optician 750 yards
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Breitling Avenger Hurricane Now Available With 12-Hour Dial
Posted on February 7, 2017 by stnmgru_j4tj Posted in Breitling Military Watches
Breitling introduced the Breitling Avenger Hurricane, with its military-aviator-influenced 24-hour dial, at Baselworld 2016. This year, the brand introduces a more civilian-friendly model with a traditional 12-hour dial in two dial colors.
Like the original Avenger Hurricane, the new model has an extra-large 50-mm case made of Breitlight, a proprietary high-tech material that Breitling says is 3.3 times lighter than titanium and 5.8 times lighter than steel but significantly harder than both. Among its other listed attributes are exceptional resistance to scratches, traction, and corrosion; thermal stability; and antimagnetic and non-allergenic properties, in addition to being warmer to the touch than other metals and, aesthetically, having a somewhat mottled surface texture.
The case is water-resistant to 100 meters (330 feet) and has a unidirectional rotating bezel with rider tabs. The crown is screw-locked; both it and the chronograph push-pieces have a grooved checkerboard pattern for a non-slip grip, even for gloved hands. The extra-thick sapphire crystal has been glareproofed on both sides and the hands and numerals are luminous.
The watch’s dial (Breitling refers to the color options as “Cobra yellow” and “Volcano black”) sports the same military-style stencil numerals as its predecessor, but here in a more conventional 12-hour arrangement, rather than the 24-hour scale preferred for timing in the armed forces. The new dial configuration necessitated the replacement of the original’s Caliber B12 movement with the tried-and-true Breitling Caliber B01, the first of the Swiss brand’s in-house movements.
Caliber B01’s attributes include automatic winding, a high-frequency 28,800-vph balance; a lengthy 70-hour power reserve; a date function at 4:30; and an integrated 1/4 second chronograph, with 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock and 12-hour counter at 6 o’clock, along with small seconds subdial at 9 o’clock. Like all Breitling’s in-house movements, this one has earned a chronometer certificate for timekeeping accuracy from the Swiss testing agency COSC.
The Breitling Avenger Hurricane with 12-hour dial has a sturdy but comfortable strap with a rubber inner lining and an exterior made of anthracite high-resistance military textile fiber. Available at Breitling retailers now, it is priced at $8,390.
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Posted on June 21, 2015 by stnmgru_j4tj Posted in Sinn Military Watches
The German sports watch brand Sinn, which sells its watches direct-to-consumer on the Web, has long prided itself on its close relationship with its customers. Its newest limited edition, the Sinn 556 Weiss — a watch for which the buyer can choose his or her own serial number — is a product of that connection. Scroll down to read more on this week’s Watch to Watch.
Despite being known for its tough, professional-grade tool watches specially engineered for divers, aviators, military operators and even firefighters, Sinn also makes more classically elegant timepieces such as the Sinn 556 I, one of the brand’s best sellers. The Sinn 556 Weiss is based on this popular model, but adds a new dial design with a matte white (weiss in German) background and a black Super-LumiNova coating (which appears as black in daylight but glows green in darkness) on the hour and minute markers and hands. Sinn says that a white-dial version of the 556 has been among the most requested models by the brand’s fan base.
The case of the Sinn 556 Weiss Limited Edition is made of surgical-grade 316L stainless steel and sports a bead-blasted matte finish that masks most small abrasions and scratches that the case might acquire over its lifetime. Its dimensions — 38.5 mm in diameter, just 10 mm thick — are decidedly modest, adding to the watch’s understated, dressy look. Also contributing to this look is the white central seconds hand, which blends inconspicuously into the dial but for the red tip that reminds you the watch is functioning, and the small date window (with a black numeral on a white field) at 3 o’clock.
The watch has a dual-seal, locking crown (which aids in its 200-meter water resistance) and a sapphire crystal with nonreflective treatment on both surfaces; there is also a pane of sapphire in the caseback, showing off the automatic movement (based on a “Top Grade” ETA 2824), including the big, engraved rotor that is in one sense the timepiece’s most precious feature. As mentioned above, the owner of each watch (of the only 150 being produced) gets to choose his own exact serial number (between 1 and 150, first come, first served), which is engraved on the oscillating weight.
The Sinn 556 Weiss Limited Edition comes on a black calfskin leather strap with white stitching and a steel tang buckle. A bracelet option can be added at an additional charge to the watch’s base price of $1,070. The watch is available exclusively at the website of its U.S. distributor, www.watchbuys.com. Below is a wrist shot of the 556 Weiss taken at the brand’s recent New York Road Show.
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Utah Jazz ready to make ‘a real push for an NBA championship’, says Donovan Mitchell
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Photo: Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) dunks during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the New York Knicks, Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) AP
Donovan Mitchell recently signed a max contract extension with the Utah Jazz, officially becoming the cornerstone of Salt Lake’s NBA franchise.
While speaking to Eric Walden of The Salt Lake City Tribune, Mitchell opened up about the Jazz blowing a 3-1 lead in the 2020 playoffs and his championship aspiration with the current squad in Utah.
(via Hoopsrumors.com):
“We have good pieces to make a real push for this thing. We blew a 3-1 lead [in the playoffs] this year. I look at it as we need to find a way to get over that hump in the first round and find a way to push and get to a championship. That’s really on the forefront of my brain.”
The Jazz blew a 3-1 lead in the first round of the playoffs against the Denver Nuggets, despite Mitchell’s inspiring performances through the series.
Mitchell averaged 36.3 points, five rebounds, and 4.9 assists per game in the series. He also shot an impressive 52.9 percent from the field and 51.6 percent from the three-point range against the Nuggets.
While the Western Conference is expected to be more competitive the upcoming season, the All-Star certainly believes that he and his teammates are going to make some noise in the next postseason.
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Democrat panic set in late Tuesday night as their criminal clown show to steal the election: had not worked, so in key Democrat controlled states, they paused the vote count to determine just how many votes they needed to manufacture to overcome Trump's leads, and then at precisely 4:00am, the fake Biden votes began streaming in to vote counting locations.
There is now an ever growing avalanche of video evidence, whistleblower accounts, and other proof continues to mount, and again, add to that Joe Biden bragging that the Democrats had launched the most extensive and "Effective" voter fraud effort in American history, and the smoking guns are now smoldering cannons.
President Trump's "A Team" of legal experts is growing, filing law suits regarding the Democrat voter fraud.
Dr. Corsi again outlines the legal remedies, per the Constitution, that WILL result in President Trump's final declaration of victory.
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Dead Or Alive / Fan the Flame (Part 1) 30th anniversary white vinyl LP
March 20, 2020 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1990, coloured vinyl, dead or alive
30th anniversary • White vinyl • Original configuration
Dead Or Alive‘s 1990 album Fan The Flame (Part 1) is issued as a standalone vinyl record for the first time in May.
The album was only ever issued in Japan originally, but formed part of the content of Demon Music’s Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI box set in 2016.
This followed 1988’s Nude and was the band’s fifth studio album. It was only ever released on CD (in Japan) where it reached #27. The singles were ‘Your Sweetness (Is Your Weakness)’, ‘Unhappy Birthday’ and ‘Gone 2 Long’, all of which reached the top 20 in Japan.
The record features contributions from UK pop band Londonbeat, the London Community Gospel Choir and Billy Currie.
This new white vinyl pressing includes printed inner sleeve and will be released on 29 May 2020 (was 22 May). Like previous DOA coloured vinyl, this is available via the SDE shop using this link or the button(s) below.
Fan The Flame part 1 - white vinyl LP
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1. Your Sweetness (Is Your Weakness)
2. Unhappy Birthday
3. Gone 2 Long
4. Total Stranger
6. What Have U Done (2 Make Me Change)
7. And Then I Met U
8. Blue Christmas
32 responses to Dead Or Alive / Fan the Flame (Part 1) 30th anniversary white vinyl LP
Harrison Moccio says:
I received mine a few days ago and it’s beautiful! The original and restored album artwork looks great as does the physical record itself. Fan The Flame is probably my second favorite DOA album after Nude, so it’s awesome to have it in a format other than a Japanese only import CD from 1990.
If Demon Music Group is out there listening, I really hope that they can get in contact with Marina Zacco Coy and release Part 2 of Fan The Flame one day. It was recorded but never released, and Steve Coy showed some interest up until he passed away a couple years ago (of course I’m talking about the actual Part 2 and not the acoustic bootleg cassette that’s been floating around forever).
MikeW says:
Mine arrived today. Pure white vinyl without any dark splodges, so looks great and pressing sounds really good too. However it is slightly warped, which their box set vinyl discs often were too. Shame as the Music On Vinyl reissues were all flat. Not sufficient to send back to supplier as plays fine, but it will make me think carefully before buying Nukleopatra or Fragile.
See Demon have put back the release date to 29th May now (and Amazon are currently not committing to an estimated delivery date, based on the email they sent me!). Looking forward to getting this as the original artwork and coloured vinyl match will look very nice. Just hope its sounds as good as the MOV DOA coloured reissues.
Tiziano says:
Please, there’s a VERY important audio issue to talk about here.
The 2016 CD versions of “Fan the Flame (Part 1)”, “Nukleopatra”, “Fragile” and even “Youthquake Live” – contained on the “Sophisticated Boom Box” set – are plagued with “click noises” popping here and there on most of the tracks… they are not 100% evident, but I can hear them, and I’m not the only one. I’m afraid that the issue is inherent to the DAT masters that Steve Coy provided the label with, because the original CDs are uncontaminated.
Have you fixed this issue for the vinyls? Hopefully yes.
Julian De Backer says:
‘Your Sweetness (Is Your Weakness)’, eh? Title resembles the MC Hammer song :)
Never knew Billy Currie played on this.I wonder how that happened?
I am guessing the solo on Unhappy Birthday is his electric viola..?
It would be great if conditions allowed for a new online retailer to swoop in and steal amazon’s music customers while they are busy refocussing their priorities over the virus.
I mean, I see no reason why these releases should not come out.
I see no reason why the music industry should use this as a reason to move completely to streaming. Amazon is not the world.
Yeah ! Remember Londonbeat s 9am what a tune !!
Joshua P. Durr says:
I was living in Sydney in 1990. A few months before Fan The Flame (Part 1) was released in Japan I went to the Sony Music offices in Sydney to pick up some Cyndi Lauper promo photos I had requested and whilst I was there I asked if there were any updates/news on Dead or Alive (who have been one of my favourites ever since I heard That’s The Way (I Like it). The A&R manager had been sent a copy of the album from Sony Japan and sadly, he told me that the label were not going to release the album in Australia. He excused himself and came back with the CD and gave it to me. I remember rushing home to play the CD and was totally blown away by the album from start to finish. Pete’s vocals are absolutely stunning. It was on heavy rotation at home and on the walkman over the next few months
It was fantastic to see Fan The Flames (Part 1) with new artwork included in the vinyl boxset. After the release of DOA’s first 4 albums on coloured vinyl I am thrilled that Flame The Flame (Part 1) is being issued on coloured vinyl to celebrate its 30th anniversary
As Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know was re-issued on white vinyl my only grip is Fan The Flame (Part 1) also being issued on white vinyl. Either a clear vinyl with the rose & flames on the back cover for the labels or a mottled splattered colour looking like flames would have been magnificent
My next wish is for picture disc LP’s all the albums including Rip It Up
bertielego says:
Very good album, inexplicably only released in Japan at the time… I have the original JP CD (with its obi strip in perfect condition!), and still enjoy it to this day.
It has apparently been a smart move from Demon Records to release this album back in 2016 with a new artwork, as part of “Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI (The Vinyl LP Collection)”. This gave them the potential to re-release it on vinyl with the original artwork for the first time. Which they just did. One can now foresee what may come next from the label: the albums “Nukleopatra” and “Fragile” on vinyl with original artwork for the very first time…
I own the SBB vinyl set, and purchasing this LP again only for getting the original artwork I already have on CD isn’t enough of an incentive. If this new release would have been a 2-disc LP+12inch set, expanded with the bonus period tracks featured on the CD version found in the SBB 17CD+2DVD box set, then I would have been tempted: “Fan The Flame (feat Gina X)”, “Total Stranger (Remix)”, “Unhappy Birthday (Heavy Metal Version)”, and “Your Sweetness (Is Your Weakness) (Instrumental)”.
It says currently unavailable but is a best seller :(
Michel Banen says:
I guess it will be back for pre-order soon. No mention of it being a limited edition so there’s hope it will be back up soon. Maybe they made a number of copies available for Amazon to check if demand is good and now that it was quickly a best seller Demon might increase the planned number of copies to be pressed ? Just my sugestion and pure speculation.
creamlemon says:
Great stuff, I love Fan The Flame still have my import JP copy. I think Nude is their best album, but FTF really has a great bunch of songs that are up there as some of my most favourite of their whole catalogue – Your Sweet, Unhappy Birthday, Total Stranger, Blue Christmas.
The production is less Hi-NRG and more House influenced than their earlier albums, but it’s very melodic with great song writing and Pete’s usual themes of lust and heartbreak. We really missed out here in the UK by not getting FTF or even by not have the earlier Nude singles perform better, this was artistically their best period imo and it completely passed us by.
I have the Boombox vinyl set but I’m a sucker for shiny new things…so hello!..and welcome to my collection.
I really want the CDs to be released as individual deluxe sets. I never bought the CD Boombox set (colour me with regret) in the hope of Demon’s book bound deluxe reissues. With that set selling out…why are they not milking Dead or Alive & doing so?! Hopefully this LP will be the first of many.
Really wish MOV had continued their reissue campaign as well but they may not of been able to. Their Youthquake is fantastic. Always on my turntable…sounds so good.
Gary Clutterbuck says:
I wish the Sophisticated Boom Box collection could be made available again. I couldn’t afford it at the time of release.
Is this a Music on Vinyl release the previous four?
No, Demon Records
Good to know ! The Music on vinyl releases are always available from a few local outlets but then this one won’t be. Thanks for the info !!!
Hope Demon will reissue all the albums on CD too, eventually.
Great to see this coming out Paul, just ordered.
Was wondering if they would continue with the series. Have the Boombox, but the completest in me, needs these too!
Awesome! Thank you for this!
“Dead or Alive”….REALLY????
I think I’ll avoid this one for a few months until I actually become one or the other….
London Beat are not unknown. They were at the time of Fan The Flame but they shortly after had a number one with I’ve Been Thinking About You.
Glad to see this album is being released in it’s original cover. Dead Or Alive always had such great record sleeves done by Andie Airfix who also did Thompson Twins amongst many others. Pete Burns was his favourite client. He would tell record company people off when they tried to interfere with his decisions ‘THIS is a record sleeve not a cure for fucking cancer’
Pete was also responsible for artists on cbs to get paid for sales of 12″ records. The record company tried to say they were for promotional purposes. He challenged them & won. He is missed.
Massimiliano, Italy says:
I’m so glad that these luxury reissues are continuing…. just ordered. Thank you Paul for your site… impossible not to check it out at least 2 – 3 times a day.
Yes, many of my purchases and excellent deals the past few years were found due to this site. I check it daily as well !
This only available in japan only very rare vinyl promo stickered gold sleeve.
Is a beautiful reléase with original artwork , and not the boombox different sleeve
pete and Steve forever
Londonbeat – little known UK / American pop soul band….. BUT… two of the three original members of Londonbeat were Jimmy Chambers and George Chandler who became Paul Young’s backing singers for the latter half of his Golden era taking over from the fabulous Fabulous Wealthy Tarts halfway through the recording of The Secret of Association. So you will have heard their sound on the brilliant self penned Everything Must Change and the Hall and Oates cover Every Time You Go Away (and can be seen all over the video on YouTube). Plus if you don’t like Paul Young (Shame on you) you might have heard their work with Deacon Blue, particularly on When Will You (Make My Telephone ring).
Nik Yeomans says:
Not forgetting The Stranglers Aural Sculpture of course… for which the also supplied their backing vocals (including the singles No Mercy and Let Me Down Easy).
I don’t think Londonbeat are that unknown, I think their four albums did ok and they had quite a few big hits, 9AM, I’ve Been Thinking About You, A Better Love spring to mind?
I remember IBTAY being massive, well, in Canada.
Still on my phone and play it often.
Rod Masf says:
The new acoustic version is amazing!
Blimey (Michael / Mike) – I said “little known” not “unknown”. There is a difference.
Compared to the better known Dead or Alive or Paul Young. I am a fan, not trying to put them down as you would have got from the rest of my post.
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Unless you’re Odell Beckham, you’re probably upset that 2020 took a shit on the world’s collective chest. No disrespect if you’re into that kind of thing, but for the rest of us, it is less than desirable. A worldwide pandemic, while it is definitely inspirational for metal musicians the world over, only inspired depression and despair amongst most of us. For us here at Teeth of the Divine, , this is where metal comes in.
Nothing beats headbanging the doom and gloom out of oneself with some, well, doom and gloom. Every year is a banner year for metal. If you’re one who opines that there’s no good metal released anymore, you’re not looking hard enough. You should stop squinting and put on your glasses, four eyes.
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Yeah, it’s been a weird year, but another excellent one for metal. I certainly had more than enough time to sample hundreds of bands/albums, but even with so much good stuff, I found myself returning often to specific tracks, but not necessarily taking in the full album each time.
So given that this year was, you know, special, I’m gonna do my list a little differently and focus on the top 20 songs that kept me moving forward. It makes for a hell of a playlist, and if you like what you hear, check out the full albums too.
Top 20 Tracks
1. Exocrine “Abyssal Flesh” from Maelstrom (Unique Leader). Symphonic/Technical Death Metal. Epic orchestration, pummelling groove, streamlined songwriting, and an unpredictable creativity that reminds me of my favorite tracks from Nile, Gorod, and Benighted. This track is just pure fun if you like your tech death fast, groovy, and focused.
2. Valdrin “Red Burning Candles of Hatred” from Effigy of Nightmares (Blood Harvest). Black Metal. Blazes with the fury of classic Emperor or Gehenna, yet these guys are from the wastes of Ohio and not dark and frozen Norway. Love the Nightside wall-of-sound production and the seething vocals, and most of all the two main melodies – a spidery, scrabbling attack in the verses, and then a descent-into-madness downward spiral in the chorus. By far the best black metal song I’ve heard all year.
3. King Buffalo “Eta Carinae” from Dead Star (King Buffalo). Psychedelic/Stoner Metal. KB’s new EP is a spacey leap forward from their warm and earthy sound, but this track, and not the 20-minute epic that opens the album, is the real star here. Just wait ’til you get to the back half, with its long, hypnotic groove – super addictive and you’ll crank that volume knob every time.
4. Keiser “Scourge of the Wicked” from Our Wretched Demise (Non Serviam Records). Black Metal. Spotify tried to tell me that I listened to a lot of “voidgaze” this year, which is apparently a fancy new catch-all term for expansive, atmospheric, or post-black metal. First off, I’m never using that term again, and second, I didn’t really, as that style has started to wear thin. Instead, I’ve been craving black metal that is more direct, aggressive, and satisfying, but without sacrificing any of the melody.
Enter Keiser, a Norwegian band I had not heard until recently, but who, in this one song, has accomplished everything that Satyricon has tried to do over the last two decades but with more focus and venom. The rest of the album kills too – check it out.
5. Nite “Night Terrors” from Darkness Silence Mirror Flame (Creator-Destructor Records). Black/Heavy Metal. This whole album is a blackened, occult love letter to 80s heavy metal – think Bathory covering Ozzy – but this track is the soaring, swaggering centerpiece.
6. Wytch Hazel “I Am Redeemed” from III: Pentecost (Bad Omen Records). Heavy Metal/Hard Rock. Speaking of heavy metal, this track is the year’s hookiest, catchiest rocker. And it’s well, Christian. Fans of Thin Lizzy, Hawkwind, and classic NWOBHM do not want to miss this.
7. Havukruunu “Kunnes Varjot Saa” from Uinuos Syomein Sota (Naturmacht Productions). Pagan Black Metal. These guys should get tapped to write the theme music for every Viking show, movie, and documentary from now on. (Sorry Moonsorrow.) Triumphant and epic.
8. Katavasia “The Tyrant” from Magnus Venator (Dry Clean Records). Black Metal. What is it about Greek black metal that gives it such a uniquely raw and evil energy? Love the exaggerated vocals on this, the folk elements, and the theatrical presentation. Just a badass track from a very cool band.
9. Giobia “Parhelion” from Plasmatic Idol (Heavy Psych Sounds). Psychedelic Doom. This Italian album is an odd mix of laidback stoner metal and dark, synth-driven doom/prog odysseys. This falls into the latter camp and I wish the whole album was as mesmerizing or cinematic. If you love Goblin, Italian giallo soundtracks, etc, you will love this.
10. (O) “Tyndere End Hud” from SkamHan (Napalm Records). Progressive Black Metal/Sludge. These Danes mix burly, crushing, sludgy tones with scrabbling black metal and it works really well. The whole album is terrific but this is still my favorite of the set. Awesome debut!
11. Unleash the Archers “Through Stars” from Abyss (Napalm Records). Power Metal. I had never listened to this band before, and while I appreciate the energy and ambition of their “Dragonforce with female vocals” concept, this more straightforward track is the one I kept coming back to. It’s just a great pop metal song with killer melodies and a gorgeous chorus.
12. Anaal Nathrakh “Endarkenment” from Endarkenment (Metal Blade Records). Black Metal. It’s funny to think that a band this corrosive and insane could ever turn out a hooky earworm – more likely they’d just shove a coil of barbed wire into your head. But they keep doing it, and this is one of their catchiest yet.
13. Descend “The Deviant” from The Deviant (Aftermath Music). Progressive Death Metal. This Swedish band comes from Stockholm, and like their scenemates in Opeth, they combine progressive song structures and rippling death metal to craft long and engaging creations.
14. White Stones “Drowned in Time” from Kuarahy (Nuclear Blast). Progressive Death Metal. This side project from Martin Mendez is a lurching, groovy, death metal monster with a unique and grimy tone. As a massive Opeth fan, of course I was going to be drawn to the one track that switches things up with a strange and off-kilter intro.
15. …And Oceans “Five of Swords” from Cosmic World Mother (Season of Mist). Black Metal. Never thought we’d hear another album like this from these maniacal melodic black metallers (they switched to industrial metal in the early 00s) but this is a fantastic comeback and I love the Emperor-like sweep and menace on this track.
16. Wayfarer “Masquerade of the Gunslingers” from A Romance with Violence (Profound Lore). Progressive Death Metal. This is what it would sound like if Opeth had binged a bunch of old Westerns before writing My Arms Your Hearse.
17. Esoctrihilum “Exh-Eni Soph – 1st Passage” from Eternity of Shaog (Voidhanger Records). Black Metal. One of the most eccentric and creative one-man acts in the black metal underground. The rest of the album sometimes strays too far afield for my ears, but I love the journey this track takes.
18.Barishi “Blood Aurora” from Old Smoke (Season of Mist). Sludge/Black Metal. This song sounds like Cult of Luna covering Thantifaxath and if that doesn’t sound cool to you, then you need to go listen to both of those bands after you hear this.
19. Haken “Prosthetic” from Virus (Inside Out Records). Progressive. This sounds like Porcupine Tree jamming with Meshuggah or Devin Townsend. The rest of the album is less direct than this but wow, what an opener.
20. Binary Code “Memento Mori” from Filaments Dissolve (Memory Facility). Progressive Sludge/Deathcore. If you’re like me and found the new Katatonia to be mostly dull and aimless, give this a shot. It’s got the same mournful beauty but contrasts it with some crushing, Fallujah-like passages.
Soilwork “Death Diviner” from A Whisp of the Atlantic (Nuclear Blast).
envy “Swaying Leaves and Scattering Breath” from The Fallen Crimson (Pelagic Records).
Vampire “Pandemoni” from Rex (Century Media).
Benighted “Obscene Repressed” from Obscene Repressed (Season of Mist).
Fires in the Distance “The Climb” from Echoes from Deep November (Prosthetic Records).
Favorite Non-2020 Album
Elder – The Gold and Silver Sessions (2019). I lose patience with most of Elder’s standard prog-doom tracks (I should love them, but I don’t), but this gorgeous, instrumental 3-track EP was a non-stop play for me this year. It fit right in with the other psychedelic albums I jammed all year (from Agusa, Hadal Sherpa, old 70’s Swedish prog like Kebnekasje, Bo Hansson, etc) and I’d love to hear a full-length just like it.
Best Covers Album
Plenty of bands kept busy during quarantine via remote collaboration, but the best by far were the members of At the Movies (Speed Strid from Soilwork, plus members of Pretty Maids and King Diamond), who banged out hilarious and fist-pumping renditions of classic 80s movie theme songs, week after week. They covered “Far From Over” from Rocky III, “No Easy Way Out” from Rocky IV, “We Don’t Need Another Hero” from Mad Max III, “Maniac” from Flashdance, and others. Hope they continue to play together because I really want a heavy cover of “Thunder in Your Heart” from Rad.
There aren’t a lot of big veterans on my list this year, even though long-time faves like Katatonia, Enslaved, and Carcass all put out new releases. But they all just left me cold and failed to make an impact even after a few dedicated listens.
The Mare Cognitum/Spectral Lore split Wanderers was probably the biggest disappointment though. I just found it impenetrable and without any of the sweeping melodies and intricate structure that led me to choose Phobos Monolith as my #1 pick in 2014.
Oh yeah and not getting to see Insomnium play (or anyone else, for that matter) sucked too.
Anticipating in 2021
New releases coming from Cult of Luna, At the Gates, Dream Theater, Ghost, Mastodon, Orden Ogan, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest. Also really curious to hear the new Megadeth, which could at long last be a worthy follow-up to Rust in Peace (we’ll see).
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2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook’s apps
Facebook is hiding that users are leaving its main app but sticking with Instagram and WhatsApp by publicizing a new metric. Facebook today for the first time announced that in June, 2.5 billion people used at least one of its apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger. That’s a helpful number because it counts real people, rather than accounts, since people can have multiple accounts on a single app. 2.5 billion people compares to 2.23 billion monthly users on Facebook, 1 billion users on Instagram, 1.5 billion users on WhatsApp, and 1.3 billion users on Messenger.
Mark Zuckerberg announced the new stat on Facebook’s Q2 2018 earnings call following a tough report that saw its user growth slow to its lowest rate ever. Zuckerberg said the 2.5 billion count “Individual people rather than active accounts” which he says “excludes when people have multiple accounts on a single app. And it reflects that many people use more than one of our services.”
It seems as if Facebook announced the stat in hopes of deflecting attention from the fact that its user count shrank in Europe and was flat in the US & Canada, contributing to extraordinarily low monthly and daily user growth. That growth trouble in turn sent Facebook’s share price down over 9 percent in after-hours trading.
On the 2.5 billion stat, Facebook CFO David Wehner explained that “We believe this number better reflects the size of our community.” He also clarified that Facebook’s monthly active user count of 2.23 billion “does count multiple accounts for a single user, and that accounts for 10 percent of Facebook’s MAU” or 223 million.
By bundling the user counts into a “family of apps audience metric”, Facebook can obscure the fact that its core app is hitting a wall. Instead, it can rely on WhatsApp and Instagram to shore up the number. For example, if teens slip from Facebook to Instagram, they’ll still be counted in the new metric. But that doesn’t change the fact that the company’s main money-maker is losing its edge.
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Florcy Morriset received a pivotal award last week when she was honored by Haitian Roundtable. Haitian American to Watch in the United States., indeed – it’s phenomenal to see Florcy’s work with Haitian Professionals of Philadelphia and Vivant Art Collection get some extremely visible love.
It’s like deja vu all over again: the proposed design for the Museum of the American Revolution. Rendering: Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
Nathaniel Popkin’s resistance to the rather unimaginative design for the Museum of the American Revolution has a couple of fronts going: he recently wrote about it in the Inquirer, and in the spirit of fun this week, he wrote “A Declaration of Architectural Independence” to drum up support from Philadelphians, and to show the Art Commission that there could and should be a much better design for the museum. With “No reactionary design for a revolution museum” as its tagline, you can find Nathaniel’s Declaration on Change.org. His hope is to get 238 signatures –one for every year since the real Declaration was signed, since the Revolution is a living document – and deliver it to the Art Commission.
Work on paper by Laura Sallade, one of the recipients of PAFA’s 2014 Venture Fund. Photo: laurasallade.com.
For the first time ever, PAFA has launched its own venture fund, answering a call for its own grant-seeking process. In the program’s first year, the Fund awarded more than $15,000 to nine applicants, including painters, sculptors, installation and video-based artists at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The 2014 Fine Arts Venture Fund recipients are: Joon Bae (Cert. ’14); Inga Kimberly Brown (BFA ’14); Caitlin Clements (MFA ’14); Alexandria Douziech (BFA ’14); Brendan Keen (BFA ’13, Cert.’14); Claire Kowalewski (Cert. ’14), Lauren Pellerito (BFA ’14); Laura Sallade (Cert.’13); and Evan Schukis (BFA & Cert. ’14). Congratulations to all, and know that we’re looking forward to seeing the results of all those proposals!
In a couple days, Gallery Joe is opening a different set of doors – those at
Drawing Now Paris | Le Salon du dessin contemporain. They’re anticipating plenty of beaten paths to their location at booth i15, Carreau du Temple from March 26 – 30, where the setup features Allyson Strafella, Sharka Hyland, Rob Matthews and Alex Paik.
Our friends at the Philadelphia Film Society are giving away two golden tickets for their upcoming Philadelphia Film Festival: Spring Showcase. You can redeem these vouchers at any film screened during the Spring Showcase (April 11-17) – even if it’s sold out, making recipients VIP.
Deadlines are approaching for a raft of Transart RFPs, which end on April 30. There are categories for a variety of needs, so definitely take the time to go through them thoroughly. There are eight 5 digit Scholarships for Transart’s MFA, which are project-based. The Earth Awareness Prize goes to two artists with environmentally aware MFA projects; the Social Change Award gives a quarter of tuition costs to two artists whose MFA projects champion social change; and the Peace and Mediation Prize awards the same amounts (2x$10,000) to two artists with MFA projects that deal with the role of art in peace and mediation. There are also two Transart Merit Awards, not specific to any media, theme or specific field, in amounts awarded equally to other prizes. Artists who wish to be considered for any of the awards need to apply to the MFA Creative Practice by April 15. Award winners in each category are chosen by an independent jury no later than May 5.
The Free Library of Philadelphia is going full speed with their plans to revive a number of branch locations with art installations. Now open for applications, the 21st Century Libraries Initiative is taking on the Lillian Marrero Library, 601 West Lehigh Avenue; Logan Library, 1333 Wagner Avenue; Lovett Library, 6945 Germantown Avenue; South Philadelphia Library, 1700 South Broad Street (slated for reopening in the winter of 2016); and Tacony Library, 6742 Torresdale Avenue. to apply, you must be a Philly resident and not enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program during the span of the project. If chosen, artists must attend a full day workshop on Friday, April 11 and commit to workshopping with community members, Free Library staff, and others at neighborhood libraries to develop and finalize their designs. Finally, selected artists must be available to present their final designs at community meetings at each of the neighborhood libraries in December 2014, when the final funding round takes place. For more information, please contact Theresa Ramos, Program Development Coordinator, at ramost@freelibrary.org.
Ryan Trecartin spoke with Calvin Tomkins for this week’s New Yorker, in which he talks about his internationally-recognized video work.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, “Solar Equation.” Photo courtesy of the artist.
via e-flux – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, of Open Air fame, is the keynote speaker at “Monument/Anti-Monument,” an international conference on sculpture at St. Louis, Missouri’s Chase Park Plaza Hotel on Saturday, April 12, 5:30pm. His talk, titled “Anti-monuments and Subsculptures,” is part of Sculpture City Saint Louis 2014, a vibrant set of events and discussions on what St. Louis offers for the world of sculpture.
Serena Perrone is on a panel discussion at the Souther Graphics Council in San Francisco called Free Radicals: Historical Mash-Ups and the Poetry of Change. With fellow speakers Michael Krueger and Ben Venom, the panel, titled “Free Radicals: Historical Mash-Ups and the Poetry of Change”, runs on March 29 from 1-2:00 pm. The conference itself starts on March 26.
allyson strafella, florcy morriset, free library of philadelphia, gallery joe, laura sallade, nathaniel popkin, pafa, philadelphia film society, rafael lozano-hemmer, Ryan Trecartin, serena perrone, transart, vivant art collection
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