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Questions destroyed with answers!
Personal questions:
Q: Who are you, and what is this website?
A: I am Julius von Brunk, the only pop-icon and living folk hero to come out of Lancaster Pennsylvania, and this is my Website of Justice! I’m an eccentric artist, actor, inventor, and animator. In recent times, I’ve gained quite a bit of notoriety for my custom LEGO models (that are obviously flaunted among this site), and chances are you found me via the viral publicity of my LEGO/Transformer mashups or the Giant LEGO NES Controller — either way, welcome to my website. . . Now grease up your eyeballs and plunge into the world of Brunk! Look around; you might just learn something!
As for me, I’m a multimedia artist in his early 30s, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently living in Queens, New York. I build geeky things out of LEGO bricks and eat lots of tacos. As a profession, I currently work as a designer in the financial industry in Manhattan.
Q: What type of camera do you use, and what’s your studio like?
A: I currently own a Nikon D750, which is a high-end full-frame DSLR camera. Prior to spring 2014, most of my LEGO models and toy photos were shot on a Nikon D5200, which was an intermediate model; I still use that camera for animation. I use a variety of lenses, usually prime lenses, but mainly a 28mm lens as my primary lens for almost all of the photography. My studio is actually a makeshift setup in my attic apartment: I use a few softboxes with 5,500K CFL bulbs, and an interchangeable backdrop. Occasionally I’ll use sheets or LEDs for backgrounds. I always use a tripod no matter what, and almost every single photo I’ve taken since spring 2014 has been with a remote control: I want my photos to remain perfectly clear with no camera shake (also, most of the photos of myself on this site are self-portraits taken with the remote — which is why usually one of my hands is always out of shot).
Q: How many tattoos do you have, and what are they of?
A: Glad you asked! I currently have 14.5 tattoos — all LEGO or Nintendo themed, except for the tiny Romani Gypsy flag on my upper right bicep. I say “14.5” tattoos, as my LEGO spaceman minifig is one set, but broken up into two unconnected images, which isn’t quite a separate tattoo — hence 14.5! My red Futuron astronaut is in reference to my childhood fascination with the LEGO Space theme; the red astronaut was a rare minifigure that only came in expensive sets, so growing up in a poor family, I never had that little spaceman — but now, I’ve got one permanently on my arm! Also on my right arm is a Castle Forestman minifigure. On my left arm are all tattoos are Nintendo-related — notably Super Mario Bros. 3 and Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time: Biggoron’s Sword, the Lens of Truth, 275 rupees, and an activated Bombchu. In the summer of 2015, I got two new Super Mario Bros. 3 tattoos in St. Marks Place: the first is simply an illustration of Mario from the game’s box art, and the other is a warp pipe with a piranha plant and a Goomba; both tattoo sessions were done two weeks apart, and at two different locations in the same neighborhood. A year later in 2016, I added a few more Mario tattoos to the same section: the new designs were a Koopa Paratroopa and a coin block:
The photos below are from summer 2016 before I started wearing contact lenses again:
Q: Is von Brunk your real last name?
A: Yes, my real last name is Brunk, which is a German variant to the name “Bruno”, and in various Germanic nations, you’ll see other versions of my name such as Bruun, Brunck, Bronk and even Brunswick (the latter is the British-English version of my name). My great, great grandfather was a mid-19th century German immigrant who arrived in our country from Prussia and had the last name von Brunk before he anglicized it to Brunk. When my father’s father explained this to me as I was a child, I then began spelling my name as von Brunk, but never legally changed it yet. Also, my German ancestors were noble Junkers, to whom actually possessed the title of “baron” in the classical era, therefore I opted to adopt the same noble title myself. In 2002 when I began creating online personas and launching websites, I needed a clever title; things like Dr. von Brunk or Captain von Brunk never had a good ring to it, therefore I went ahead with “Baron”, and since then it stuck! Notice how I adhere to proper German grammar by having the V in von lowercase, and not spelled “Baron Von Brunk” [sic].
In the days that used to be, I was a popular forum poster on the now defunct G4TV forums (in the 2002-2005 years), way back when the website was strictly video game themed, and integrated with the TV show — integrated in the sense that forum postings and chat conversations would be reflected on the various TV shows. Those days have long since passed, as I don’t consider myself an avid video game player anymore (despite my Legend of Zelda tattoos, which are more of a monument of my teenage years), nor is G4 anything of the least bit an innovative, interactive television network. However, I owe a lot of my career to my hours wasted on the G4 forums arguing over Gamecube and Xbox games: Because, whilst posting on the forums and getting knee-deep in pointless quarrels about gaming, I’d use image macros to express my opinions and sometimes come off as trolling. The time spent getting better and better with Photoshop gave me a skill and experience with graphic design, to the point of gradually landing freelance gigs based on my slowly-accrued artwork. As of now, I’m a professional designer of multimedia and working in New York City.
Don’t get me wrong: I still love old video games — I mean, 90% of my LEGO creations reference that, but I lost my fascination for in-depth gaming around the early 2000s when games stopped being fun and innovative. I mean, seriously, prove me wrong: you can only make so many Madden Football games or generic Halo-ripoff first-person shooters before you get fed up and say, “Screw this, I’m busting out the old Atari 2600 and playing a round of Battlezone!”
Q: Did you actually adopt a highway in Pennsylvania?
A: The following photos have not been manipulated in any other way aside from image resizing and optimization. . .
In 2005, as a publicity stunt I decided to adopt a highway in order to basically get free advertisement for my then recently-launched website. PennDOT wouldn’t allow me to put a URL on the sign, but they were able to fit my full name. Adopting a highway actually doesn’t cost any money for the person volunteering to do it, contrary to popular belief. I’ve been away from Lancaster for four years now, yet the sign still remains! Also, this is the Mk.2 version of the sign: when first installed, PennDOT spelled my name incorrectly as “BRONK”, and it took them well over a year to fix it. These particular photos shown above were taken in the fall of 2006 shortly after the sign was repaired. I won’t giveaway the exact location of this sign, rather I will say that it is in fact located somewhere in Hempfield. I pity the fool that pollutes my road.
Q: What’s your favorite color?
A: Glow-in-the-dark
Website questions:
Q: How long have you had this website?
A: The actual domain Baronvonbrunk.com was launched in late March 2005, and simply redirected to a free site hosted on 95mb.com. My old site looked absolutely nothing like the layout of today (sans the blue color scheme); the original layout was decorated with clouds, World War 1 airplane paintings and pictures of Snoopy — yes, seriously, I thought that was funny at the time. The purpose of the old BVB dot com was more or less a pointless playground where I posted image macros and nonsensical images from my various YTMND sites, and around the same time, I was gradually becoming a Flash animator for Newgrounds.com, ergo a huge function of my site was to post my original cartoons — many of which were crude video game parodies. In addition to those ventures, I had a sort of blog where I ranted (incoherently) about things that bothered me at the time. I was 20 in 2005 when this site was first launched, so you can only imagine the sort of pointless bullshrapnel I’d ramble about! More or less, my inane ramblings and offensive image macros were getting me banned from G4TV and Geocities, so I created my own domain for the sole purpose of dumping graphics, Flash, and writings onto a website that I personally controlled, rather than being censored.
Months later, I bought web space and made this into a fully-operational site with domain, e-mails, databases and all. I even added a now-defunct message board via PHBbb, and a custom Wikipedia (that’s also gone). Throughout 2005-2007, Baronvonbrunk.com evolved and flip-flopped from being a pointless image site with Flash toons to a slightly more serious cartoon site, with a strict emphasis on animation — kind of like Homestar Runner, but on a smaller more personal scale. Around 2008-2009, I took a break from making cartoons and instead focused on art and design — and in early 2010, I moved to New York City and began a successful career as a graphic artist, which means I’ve now focused on that tangent almost entirely — with LEGO models being my primary draw. The only things I’ve really retained from the original BVB site are the blue color schemes; I actually dislike the color blue, but it’s easy on the eyes and goes well with my branding.
Q: For the love of Zeus, what in Hades’ name happened to your cartoons page!? Holy shrapnel, that was my main draw to your site many years ago! I loved your hilarious Mario and Sephiroth parodies on Newgrounds — please bring them back!
A: As much as I hate to say it, the cartoons page is no longer here, and shall never be brought back in its original form. The reason being, is that many (all) of those toons were simple parodies that I created for fun at the time, and had little foresight as to potentially taking myself seriously. For some of you newer fans, long before I focused on LEGO creations, my site was actually a hub for amateur animations with crude jokes and pop culture references, back in 2005 to 2008. My first animations were created with limited quality and poor animation, that I merely threw together in spare time originally back in my early 20s. Times have changed, and although my general quirky attitude is the same (quirkier, actually), I’ve lately focused on other ventures to make a name for myself by — e.g. LEGO, graphic arts and such. In other words, the old cartoons were never made with the intention of earning a living nor gaining popularity, unlike the graphics I do that pay the bills, or the LEGO models I build which earn me multiple interviews in major magazines.
Also, if you do stumble upon my old cartoons, you’ll notice a recurring theme: typically my animations portrayed an exaggerated version of myself constantly battling weird enemies that hate me for no reason. I was young at the time, so a lot of the subtext behind my animations were references to school and childhood when I was highly introverted, bullied, and mistreated for no reason — hence there’s always conflict depicted in my early animations. A lot of the characters and villains were even caricatures of former teachers, coworkers, and family. As of now, I’m strictly a visual artist, so anything I create has little subtext and instead focuses solely on its ascetic face value.
LEGO Questions:
Q: Do you make LEGO animations (brickfilms)?
A: As of 2017, I am now animating my LEGO minifigs and models for stop-motion, using DragonFrame software. The first brickfilm I’ve ever created is the promotional video for my LEGOformer Prismatis. In 2016 I began pre-production for a stop-motion Alice in Wonderland video, and I began animating its footage in summer 2017. I plan on releasing the Alice video by the end of 2018.
Q: Are any of your creations made by other people, or do you make everything yourself?
A: Every single LEGO creation ever put on this site has been made by me, hands down, with absolutely no reblogging or reposting of other peoples’ work. My Tumblr page, my Facebook, and Instructables profiles are only specifically for the purpose of displaying my talent. Unfortunately the internet has become oversaturated with aggregate sites rather than native content, so often times a lot of peoples’ creations are simply “reblogged” in an endless sea. I’m definitely not some no-name artist, nor do I want other peoples’ work to go uncredited.
Q: I loved that Game Boy / Transformers mashup! Can you give me instructions and a parts list?
A: Certainly! View it on my Instructables page to get the lowdown. Warning: this is NOT an easy project to build nor obtain parts to, which means I only recommend experienced LEGO builders to take a stab at it! You can also substitute it with any parts you desire to swap the colors and make clones.
Q: How long have you been a fan of LEGO?
A: The word “LEGO” was actually one of the first words I could write when I was a wee lad. I think my first sets were given to me at age 2 or 3 (screw the choking hazard warnings!), and since then (the mid-1980s) I’ve been a LEGO Maniac! As evidenced by my current two minifigure tattoos, my two oldest favorite themes were space and castle, notably the Futuron astronauts and the Castle Forestmen.
Q: Where do you buy all of your pieces?
A: I rarely ever purchase new sets — let alone follow the instructions and assemble them — which means I buy almost all of my parts specifically “on demand” from www.bricklink.com, or occasionally I’ll step out to the various LEGO Stores in Manhattan to get cups of Pick-a-Brick.
Q: Which creation are you most proud of?
A: Favorite project of all time: the N64 Transformers Ultra Hexacon and Tetragon, as it’s a particular set of models which really tested my creative limits, and still holds true to this day. Favorite technological achievement? The Giant NES Controller: frankly, I’m amazed it worked.
Q: I really like [insert LEGO creation here] — can I buy it off you?
A: This is actually a question I get a lot. To be honest, I dislike selling my creations on a personal level, as I’m not a business man. HOWEVER, I have no objection selling (or even custom building) my large monumental designs to businesses and art collectors. For example, let’s say some guy from [insert well-known video game company] randomly asks to purchase my giant NES controller to keep, I’ll gladly sell it to him in a heartbeat. Otherwise, usually when a fan asks to purchase something like one of my Mario lamps, I instead give them the tutorial I made so that they could build their own. More or less, I kind of like hanging on to my own stuff, but as stated prior, this varies on a person-to-person basis. Like, let’s say Shigeru Miyamoto wants to keep my Nintendo 64 Transformer? Hell yeah, I’ll give it to ’em for free if he asked for it!
This could also change in the future; once I establish myself better as a legitimate artist, I may actually have a store on my page that sells my original LEGO models. As of now, if there’s a certain thing in my portfolio that piques your fancy, go ahead and contact me and we could arrange a deal. Maybe if you know me in person you could barter with me or something.
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Rehoboam succeeds and Jeroboam returns out of Egypt, ver. 1, 2. The peoples petition to Rehoboam, and his answer, ver. 3 - 15. Ten tribes revolt and make Jeroboam king, ver. 16 - 20. God forbids Rehoboam to make war upon them, ver. 21 - 24. Jeroboam sets up two golden calves, ver. 25 - 33.
1: Were come - Rehoboam did not call them thither, but went thither, because the Israelites prevented him, and had pitched upon that place, rather than upon Jerusalem, because it was most convenient for all, being in the center of the kingdom; and because that being in the potent tribe of Ephraim, they supposed there they might use that freedom of speech, which they resolved to use, to get there grievances redressed. So out of a thousand wives and concubines, he had but one son to bear his name, and he a fool! Is not sin an ill way of building up a family?
3: They sent - When the people sent him word of Solomon's death, they also sent a summons for him to come to Shechem. That the presence and countenance of a man of so great interest and reputation, might lay the greater obligation upon Rehoboam to grant them ease and relief.
4: Grievous - By heavy taxes and impositions, not only for the temple and his magnificent buildings, but for the expenses of his numerous court, and of so many wives and concubines. And Solomon having so grossly forsaken God, it is no wonder if he oppressed the people.
7: This day - By complying with their desires, and condescending to them for a season, till thou art better established in thy throne. They use this expression, fore - seeing that some would dissuade him from this course, as below the majesty of a prince. And answer - Thy service is not hard, it is only a few good words, which it is as easy to give as bad ones.
8: Young men - So called, comparatively to the old men: otherwise they were near forty years old.
10: Shall be thicker - Or rather, is thicker, and therefore stronger, and more able to crush you, if you proceed in these mutinous demands, than his loins, in which is the principal seat of strength.
15: From the Lord - Who gave up Rehoboam to so foolish and fatal a mistake, and alienated the peoples affections from him; and ordered all circumstances by his wise providence to that end.
16: In David - In David's family and son; we can expect no benefit or relief from him, and therefore we renounce all commerce with him, and subjection to him. They named David, rather than Rehoboam; to signify, that they renounced not Rehoboam only, but all David's family. Son of Jesse - So they call David in contempt; as if they had said, Rehoboam hath no reason to carry himself with such pride and contempt toward his people; for if we trace his original, it was as mean and obscure as any of ours. To your tents - Let us forsake him, and go to our own homes, there to consider, how to provide for ourselves.
17: Judah - The tribe of Judah; with those parts of the tribes of Levi, and Simeon, and Benjamin, whose dwellings were within the confines of Judah.
18: Sent Adoram - Probably to pursue the counsel which he had resolved upon, to execute his office, and exact their tribute with rigour and violence, if need were.
19: Rebelled - Their revolt was sinful, as they did not this in compliance with God's counsel, but to gratify their own passions.
20: Was come - From Egypt; which was known to them before who met at Shechem, and now by all the people. Was none - That is, no entire tribe.
24: From me - This event is from my counsel and providence, to punish Solomon's apostasy.
25: Shechem - He repaired, and enlarged, and fortified it; for it had been ruined long since, (Jdg 9:45). He might chuse it as a place both auspicious, because here the foundation of his monarchy was laid; and commodious, as being near the frontiers of his kingdom. Penuel - A place beyond Jordan; to secure that part of his dominions.
26: Said, &c. - Reasoned within himself. The phrase discovers the fountain of his error, that he did not consult with God, who had given him the kingdom; as in all reason, and justice, and gratitude he should have done: nor believed God's promise, (1Ki 11:38), but his own carnal policy.
27: Will turn - Which in itself might seem a prudent conjecture; for this would give Rehoboam, and the priests, and Levites, the sure and faithful friends of David's house, many opportunities of alienating their minds from him, and reducing them to their former allegiance. But considering God's providence, by which the hearts of all men, and the affairs of all kingdoms are governed, and of which he had lately seen so eminent an instance; it was a foolish, as well as wicked course.
28: Calves - In imitation of Aaron's golden calf, and of the Egyptians, from whom he was lately come. And this he the rather presumed to do, because he knew the people of Israel were generally prone to idolatry: and that Solomon's example had exceedingly strengthened those inclinations; and therefore they were prepared for such an attempt; especially, when his proposition tended to their own ease, and safety, and profit, which he knew was much dearer to them, as well as to himself, than their religion. Too much - Too great a trouble and charge, and neither necessary, nor safe for them, as things now stood. Behold thy gods - Not as if he thought to persuade the people, that these calves were that very God of Israel, who brought them out of Egypt: which was so monstrously absurd and ridiculous, that no Israelite in his right wits could believe it, and had been so far from satisfying his people, that this would have made him both hateful, and contemptible to them; but his meaning was, that these Images were visible representations, by which he designed to worship the true God of Israel, as appears, partly from that parallel place, (Ex 32:4), partly, because the priests and worshippers of the calves, are said to worship Jehovah; and upon that account, are distinguished from those belonging to Baal, (1Ki 18:21,22:6,7), and partly, from Jeroboam's design in this work, which was to quiet the peoples minds, and remove their scruples about going to Jerusalem to worship their God in that place, as they were commanded: which he doth, by signifying to them, that he did not intend any alteration in the substance of their religion; nor to draw them from the worship of the true God, to the worship of any of those Baals, which were set up by Solomon; but to worship that self - same God whom they worshipped in Jerusalem, even the true God, who brought them out of Egypt; only to vary a circumstance: and that as they worshipped God at Jerusalem, before one visible sign, even the ark, and the sacred cherubim there; so his subjects should worship God by another visible sign, even that of the calves, in other places; and as for the change of the place, he might suggest to them, that God was present in all places, where men with honest minds called upon him; that before the temple was built, the best of kings, and prophets, and people, did pray, and sacrifice to God in divers high places, without any scruple. And that God would dispense with them also in that matter; because going to Jerusalem was dangerous to them at this time; and God would have mercy, rather than sacrifice.
29: Beth - el, &c. - Which two places he chose for his peoples conveniency; Beth - el being in the southern, and Dan in the northern parts of his kingdom.
30: A sin - That is, an occasion of great wickedness, not only of idolatry, which is called sin by way of eminency; nor only of the worship of the calves, wherein they pretended to worship the true God; but also of the worship of Baal, and of the utter desertion of the true God; and of all sorts of impiety. To Dan - Which is not here mentioned exclusively, for they went also to Beth - el, ver.(1Ki 12:32-33), but for other reasons, either because that of Dan was first made, the people in those parts having been long leavened with idolatry, (Jdg 18:30), or to shew the peoples readiness and zeal for idols; that those who lived in, or near Beth - el, had not patience to stay 'till that calf was finished, but all of them were forward to go as far as Dan, which was in the utmost borders of the land, to worship an idol there; when it was thought too much for them to go to Jerusalem to worship God.
31: An house - Houses, or chapels, besides the temples, which are built at Dan and Beth - el; he built also for his peoples better accommodation, lesser temples upon divers high places. Of the lowest - Which he might do, either,
because the better sort refused it, or,
because such would be satisfied with mean allowances; and so he could put into his own purse a great part of the revenues of the Levites, which doubtless he seized upon when they forsook him, and went to Jerusalem, (2Ch 11:13-14), or,
because mean persons would depend upon his favour, and therefore be pliable to his humour, and firm to his interest, but the words in the Hebrew properly signify, from the ends of the people; which may be translated thus, out of all the people; promiscuously out of every tribe. Which exposition seems to be confirmed by the following words, added to explain these, which were not of the sons of Levi; though they were not of the tribe of Levi. And that indeed was Jeroboam's sin; not that he chose mean persons, for some of the Levites were such; and his sin had not been less, if he had chosen the noblest and greatest persons; as we see in the example of Uzziah. But that he chose men of other tribes, contrary to God's appointment, which restrained that office to that tribe.
Levi - To whom that office was confined by God's express command.
32: A feast - The feast of tabernacles. So he would keep God's feast, not in God's time, which was the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and so onward, (Le 23:34), but on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. And this alteration he made, either,
to keep up the difference between his subjects, and those of Judah as by the differing manners, so by the distinct times of their worship. Or,
lest he should seem directly to oppose the God of Israel, (who had in a special manner obliged all the people to go up to Jerusalem at that time,) by requiring their attendance to celebrate the feast elsewhere, at the same time. Or,
to engage as many persons as possibly he could, to come to his feast; which they would more willingly do when the feast at Jerusalem was past and all the fruits of the earth were perfectly gathered in.
Fifteenth day - And so onward till the seven days ended. Like that in Judah - He took his pattern thence, to shew, that he worshipped the same God, and professed the same religion for substance, which they did: howsoever he differed in circumstances. He offered - Either,
by his priests. Or, rather,
by his own hands; as appears from (1Ki 13:1,4), which he did, to give the more countenance to his new - devised solemnity.
Nor is this strange; for he might plausibly think, that he who by his own authority had made others priests might much more exercise a part of that office; at least, upon an extraordinary occasion; in which case, he knew David himself had done some things, which otherwise he might not do. So he did - He himself did offer there in like manner, as he now had done at Dan.
33: Devised - Which he appointed without any warrant from God.
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A to Z of Proposed Kenya Constitution
Kenyans will vote in a referendum in August 2010 on a new constitution. Here’s an A to Z summary of some of what’s contained in it and the [chapters] which are cross posted at Mzalendo (where one can also download the current, proposed draft, and other analysis of the changes).
Affirmative action: provides for 1/3 women on government boards, county assemblies (177) etc. (noble, but is it practical?)
Culture: parliament will enact legislation that will see communities get royalties for use of their culture, and recognize the use of their seeds which will legalize mnazi, muratina, mayeek, busaa etc (11)
– Youth: can benefit from affirmative action and access training and employment (55), but odd for a government that continually employs retirees and has extended the retirement age
Citizenship: Dual citizenship is allowed – and a born Kenyan does not lose citizenship by becoming one of another country, and anyone who has lost it is entitled to re-acquire it (14) and (16). Also citizenship can be acquired by marriage to a citizen for 7 years, or lived in Kenya for 7 years (15) or is an orphan under 8 years can be citizens (14)
Devolution: – The 47 counties are spelt out in the first schedule and include Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Tana river, Lamu, Taita/Taveta, (for what looks like coast province), while Nairobi City is a single county
– County government will have an executive committee (led by governor and a deputy governor who may not serve more than two terms) and not more than 1/3 of the assembly members.
– National laws prevail over county laws where there is a conflict (191) (e.g. Mandera town that purported to ban DSTV)
Elections: – Will be run by one body called the independent electoral and boundaries commission (82); currently there are two separate commissions, one for boundaries, one for elections. After it passes the boundaries commission will set constituencies and ward boundaries for the remainder of their term (but not county boundaries)
– Election petitions can be served by a notice in a newspaper (87)
– Independent candidates can avoid messy, expensive, party elections by running without signing on to a political party by obtaining 1,000 signatures for MP and 2,000 for senate from constituents (99). Also political parties have one year to comply with political parties act or be disbanded
– Election date is constitutionally set (101) as second Tuesday in august, every fifth year for all including president. (This will be during August holidays for most schools which also double up as voting centres, but also importantly won’t affect busy Christmas season when elections have traditional being held and which churches have complained about)
Financial Management: – No budget busting: government may not spend more than 10% in supplementary appropriations in any financial year (223)
– Parliament shall enact creation of an ethics and anti-corruption commission (79) (good because current anti corruption commissions can’t review ethical actions such as conflicts of interest actions which don’t qualify as corruption)
– Constitution defines separate roles of attorney general (156), director of public prosecutions (157) controller of budget (228), and auditor general (229)
– The human rights & equality commission, judicial service, land commission and auditor general all have power to summon witnesses in the course of their investigations (252)
– No double jeopardy: every accused person has the right not to be tried for an offence that was previously acquitted or convicted (50). Also you can’t be tried for an act that as not an offence in Kenya, or under international law (does that exclude old economic crimes which were only legislated in 2003? would Pattni, other Goldenberg offenders go free?)
– A salaries & remuneration commissions will be created (230) that is separate from the public service commissions (233)
– County Governments: are a are a new level of Government created to devolve power to the people by way of 47 county governments (176), will receive and share at least 15% of revenue raised by the state (203). Another 0.5% will go to an equalization fund (204) for the government to use to provide services to marginalized communities for the next 20 years. A commission on revenue allocation (215) formed by the president will recommend how much each county gets out of the national government while the senate will vote every 5 years on resolutions sharing resources among counties (217). Parliament till normal vote on such bills two months before the end of their scheduled terms (218). Using the 2009 numbers, of tax revenue of Kshs 480 billion, county governments will get 72 billion
– Tax separation: county governments collect property, entertainment and other taxes approve by parliament, while only the national government may collect income tax, customs, excise and valued added – VAT taxes
– County finance: county government may take loans if their assemblies approve, but only if the national government guarantees that (212). Parliament may legislate bailout of non-functioning county governments (190) and the government must operate sound financial systems prescribed by national government
Judiciary: – Kenya will now have a supreme court (163) in addition to court of appeal (164) and high court (165) and subordinate courts (169) comprising kadhi courts, magistrate courts, and court martial
– The Kadhi’s Court is limited to Moslems matters of status, marriage, divorce and inheritance (24)
– The president will appoint judges, recommended by a judicial service commission for approval by parliament (166)
– Traditional dispute mechanisms, are encouraged, but shall not violate bill of rights (159)
– Judges and chief justice lose jobs under the constitution and have to re-apply (–)
Land: – Clause (60) says land customs and practices should not have gender discrimination, but (67) which creates a national land commission also encourages application of traditional dispute mechanism in land conflicts (where daughters are routinely left out of land inheritance)
– Community land definition (63) is vague – it mentions ethnicity, but is that Masai land (managed by specific communities), (volatile) Kalenjin land, county government land, or Ogiek land (traditionally occupied by hunter gatherer tribes)?
– Land holding by non-citizens is restricted to 99-year leases (65) (takes effect as soon as the constitution is passed) and land without an heir reverts to the state (62)
– Parliament must ratify concessions of land and mining agreements (71) (no more Tiomin’s)
– In terms of land not much will change since parliament has the discretion to set rules (68) on land investment, minimum and maximum land holding, foreign ownership of land, matrimonial sharing and inheritance
Parliament/Legislature: – Is based on 290 constituencies and 47 counties.
– Parliament (97) will comprise 290 members of parliament, 47 women one from each county, 12 nominated by political parties and a speaker
– Senate (98) will comprise 47 members, one representing each country, 16 women nominated by political parties, 2 youth nominees (M/W), 2 disabled nominees (M/W) and a speaker. They will legislate on bills concerning the county governments (110)
– There will be two different speakers and two different clerks (128) in each house, and also speakers for each county
– Money bills (114) are any that touch on taxes or use of public money or guaranteeing of loans, and will be referred to the cabinet secretary and parliamentary committee first before parliament votes on it (e.g. Anglo leasing?)
– Any parliamentary vote that affects their interest e.g. salaries wont take effect until the next parliament comes in (116)
– Quorum (121) is higher for senate (15 members ~22%) than for parliament (50 members, ~14%)
– Parliament /national assembly (132) shall approve on nominees of the president for cabinet secretary (ministers), attorney general, secretary to cabinet, principal secretaries (permanent secretaries), ambassadors/diplomats
– There are no term limits for parliament as there are for presidents, county government, judiciary and government officers e.g. inspector general of police will only serve one 4-year term (245)
President: – Is (131) head of state, government, and armed forces
– Restricted powers of acting president defined (134) as well as procedure when a president is incapacitated (144) or impeached (145)
– Will be sworn in public (141) (swipe at you know who) two weeks after election results or one week after an election petition verdict by Supreme Court
– Deputy president rules are defined (148) may not be replaced on whim (150) (has to resign or be impeached) and may not serve for more than two terms (148)
– Cabinet size is defined (152) as between 14 and 22 cabinet secretaries (152) approved by parliament (no more 40 minister plus 60 deputy minister governments)
State officers: (and anti-corruption)– Have leadership rules & guidelines set out for them mainly objective service to the public (73) & (75)
– Can’t have bank accounts outside Kenya
– Restrict number of directorships to not more than 2 simultaneous ones
– Can’t be involved in politics (e.g. chair a Kengen and a political party)
-Person who has been removed from a state office for a violation is not eligible for any others
– State officers shall not have other gainful employment (77) (is this a repeal of the (controversial) Ndegwa Rule that allowed civil servants to engage in private business?
Transition/Summary
– Parliament’s calendar for the next three years to 2012 is going to be very heavy as they amend and enact new legislation to support the constitution if it is passed in August
– President Kibaki, Vice President Kalonzo,Prime Minister Raila – his deputies Uhuru & Musalia, and the bloated cabinet of 100 ministers & deputies will remain in their posts until 2012 or the dissolution of the Grand Coalition Government. During this period Kibaki can continue to make appointments in consultation only with Raila. In effect the executive and parliament have postponed the difficult decisions of trimming the cabinet and subjecting appointees for parliamentary approval to the next government, as the constitution does not provide for prime minister or deputy ministers.
– Key government officials will be forced out including chief justice Gicheru who will be out in 6 months, attorney general Wako and the auditor general who will be out in 12 months while all other state officers remain intact. In the first year parliament is to setup up system to vet existing judges. Any acting officials are left in limbo, so expect anyone serving in an acting capacity to push for confirmation before the constitution becomes effective
– The provincial administration staff will be re-deployed into government over the next 5 years
– Civic education has not been carried out adequately in the country and media and politicians have polarized on issues of the kadhi courts, abortion and land.
– From a taxpayer perspective, taxes are likely to go up to support devolved government structures which ill take up over 15% of money raised by the current government, and services provisions are likely to go down, in the short term as the government is already on a cash crunch and devolved government set up to take on their new roles
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nice breakdown of the constitution!
OfficialRenMan
Karimi Kanini July 23, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Thank you. Even after reading the document some of these issues were too dense for me. I dread the day I’ll have to support close to 500 elected officials while they are doing little to ensure I can make Shs as fast as they can take them. Also Kibaki will extend the current parliament to sometime in 2014/5 to allow for through debate, extension of looting and politicking.
Maishinski July 27, 2010 at 11:26 am
Fact remains, this constitution gives power to the PEOPLE.
After its enacted, we (the people) can easily restrict the size of the government. No longer will we be at the mercy of politicians!
This constitution is THE framework for a PEOPLE’s REVOLUTION.
NatObser July 28, 2010 at 3:51 am
179 pages. That is crazy! Don’t make the mistake and vote for such an unwieldy document which will forge the shackles of your slavery to the state. It grants the government authority to confiscate the fruit of a person’s labor by income taxes. Vote No.
bankelele July 28, 2010 at 5:33 am
OfficialRenMan: thanks, after reading it, i just had to write & recap it
Karimi Kanini: I dont understand this but the political class seems to be st on this. all the various drafts Bomas, Wako, 2010 have all added governemnt layers and devolved units.
Maishinski: transition clauses will be key. I just dread that have deferred implementation of many chapters to the already worrying 2012 election
NatObser: yes 179 pages, took several days to read through this.
<–you really think voting no will save you from paying taxes?!
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Nippon Paint joins hands with Playback Singer Mr. Srinivas, launches Nenjil Oru Vannam
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Chennai, March 6th 2020: Nippon Paint (India), Asia’s leading paint manufacturer today launched Nenjil Oru Vannam, a music video conceived, composed and sung by celebrated playback singer, Mr. Srinivas. Produced by Nippon Paint, the music video aims to shed light on how art and music can help individuals envision a desirable future for themselves. The launch which was held at the PVR Screen, VR Mall yesterday, saw the participation of young artists and music enthusiasts alike. Singer Srinivas, along with Mr. Mahesh S. Anand, President, Nippon Paint (India) Private Limited (Decorative Division), launched the video which was greatly received by the audience.
This strong collaboration between Nippon Paint and Singer Srinivas has resulted in Nenjil Oru Vannam, an empowering video which focuses on the girl child and her struggle to shine in a challenging environment that refuses to acknowledge her talent. The project, which encourages one to follow their passion all through life, is very close to Mr. Srinivas as it weaves through his own success story as well as others who have followed their passion.
Speaking about the initiative, Mr. S Mahesh Anand, President – Decorative Paint, Nippon Paint India commented “Nippon Paint strongly believes in colouring dreams by supporting talent and providing opportunities – this is reflected in our initiatives like the nshakti initiative which provides skilling and employment opportunity to rural women, by providing them painter’s training. This belief also extends within our own workplace where we strive to empower our women employees and nurture their professional growth. Our collaboration with Singer Srinivas for Nenjil Oru Vannam is another effort in empowering and nurturing talent in a challenging environment. We are delighted to produce this video by Singer Srinivas and in the process, colour the lives of deserving individuals”.
Speaking about the event, popular singer Kalaimamani Srinivas said, “All of us dream. Without a dream, life becomes a mechanical exercise. So it is important to dream. Someone will come along to color your dreams and make it a reality. That’s when life becomes meaningful and wholesome. Never clip anyone’s wings and never pour cold water over one’s enthusiasm. Empower the young by coloring their dreams and make them Soar High”.
Nenjil Oru Vannam will evolve further and bring exciting painting competitions to schools around the city. The students will be inspired to pursue their artistic interests and the best compositions will be chosen and felicitated at an event attended by Mr Srinivas who will personally hand out the prizes to the selected winners.
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To many scouts, Will Monday is the top punter in the class of 2011 in the country. That’s good news for Duke fans, as he’s a solid commitment to the Blue Devils and was recently in Durham for the Alabama game. BDN caught up with Will shortly after his visit.
“The visit was a lot of fun. It wasn’t really the game I was expecting, but it was a great atmosphere and it was great to catch up with the coaches, who I hadn’t seen in awhile,” Will said when describing his visit. “My parents came too and had a great time. We’re really excited to get up there next year.”
Over the summer, Will solidified his reputation as one of the best punters in the class, taking top honors out of 130 punters at the Kohl Punters’ Camp in Wisconsin in July for the second year in a row. He has also won accolades at the invitation-only “Top 12” Chris Sailer Camp the past 2 summers. Scouts have called him “the most college-ready punter in the 2011 class.” The Duke coaches expect Will to come in and compete with Alex King for the starting job right away next year.
As expected, Will’s senior year at Flowery Branch High School in Georgia is off to a perfect 4-0 start. “We have a strong defense and got a big win two weeks ago,” Will said about his team, “the offense is slowly coming along with a new quarterback and I think by the 7th or 8th game they will be hitting all cylinders and roll into the playoffs. Individually, I’ve had an excellent start for my senior year and I just want to keep it going and help the team out with good field position and getting back to a state championship.”
Will plans to take his official visit to Duke for the Boston College game in November, and has no other visits scheduled for the fall. Highlights of Will’s junior year can be viewed here.
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“Anything but bleak” – All of Me – Summerhall – EdFringe
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I am not sure precisely when shows about mental health issues become more common-place in performance, but there has definitely been a surge in recent years. Whilst I am in essence in support of such a trend, there are elements of it that I sometimes find uncomfortable or which concern me. One thing that All of Me make abundantly clear is that this is the performer, Caroline Horton’s, experience of depression. It is not a universal experience, she is not speaking for all sufferers of the condition, she is telling her own story in a unique and creative way.
“a new myth built in the image of her own imagination”
In her shouted apology that opens the show, she apologises explicitly for making “another show about [her]” and in doing so, she owns her own experience, her story, her pain, her coping mechanisms – her own depression myth – and there are just so many myths surrounding the illness. Depression is cowering in a corner, alone, in the dark under a blanket right? Wrong. She may take her physical body to bed, but the story she tells is a conversation that takes place in her mind, a new myth built in the image of her own imagination.
Her depression is personified as her dark ‘Sister’, her sister who dwells in the desert of the Underworld, wears a long dark robe that hangs the height of several people (through inventive use of scaffolds and platforms), who wears a flamboyant crown of feathers and floats bare chested through the night, watching the sands of time fall at her command. She speaks through a vocoder that makes her sound growling and beast-like. She transcribes her pain into electronic music and Caroline dances by the light of giant disco balls to clear the smoke of the Underworld. ‘Sister’ is an original; powerful, terrifying and yet pitiable. She is lonely in the underworld, she wants to be visited regularly.
“his show isn’t bleak, it’s strangely beautiful”
In her opener she also apologises for her work being “unrelentingly bleak”, but this show isn’t bleak, it’s dark but strangely beautiful. ‘Sister’ is a character I will not forget in a hurry, like the show, she is extravagant and mysterious and anything but bleak.
There is also something even more subversive at work here, the flirtation with the idea that Caroline’s ‘Sister’ is a necessary part of her psyche. “We forget how to sit in the desert… it is terrifying to be in nothingness… the void needs to speak”, she muses in an emotional moment. The world isn’t ok, it isn’t easy to navigate and we’re not all happy penguins on the penguin slide (she has a toy you might remember from childhood to demonstrate this particular analogy). We all need balance, and sister is hers. She’s certainly less terrifying than the voices of calm in a soundscape which rises to a hideous scream.
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Depression and suicidal thoughts are not simplified in this laid-bare production, which offers no easy way out, no recovery montage. ‘Sister’ will be back, and Caroline’s life a cycle of being fine and then not so fine, and that’s ok. That’s just what it looks like to see all of her, no apology needed.
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Jun 28, 2020 - Foreign Viewpoints, Historical Accuracy, Historical Amnesia/Cleansing, Slavery Worldwide Comments Off on Slavery Way Up North
Slavery Way Up North
The Simcoe Compromise bill of July 1793 did not free any slaves in then-Upper Canada, but did forbid the importation of slaves into that Province. Ironically, once Michigan was incorporated as a US territory in 1805, slaves escaping from Upper Canada were fleeing across the border – by 1806 there were sufficient free blacks in Detroit to form their own militia unit, as would be the case in New Orleans and its all-black Louisiana Native Guards. Mustered into State service in May 1861, the latter was the first black unit to serve in the American Civil War.
“The history of legalized slavery in [Canada] stretches back to 1628, when the English adventurer David Kirke brought to New France a native of Madagascar. Kirke disposed of him quickly for a handsome profit, making him Canada’s first slave. [It is believed] that by 1760 there were approximately 1,100 slaves residing in New France, most of who lived near Montreal and were either house servants or farm hands.
In the treaty of capitulation [to Britain], 8 September 1760, clause 47 guaranteed the continued servitude of all slaves to their respective masters. This same clause was included in the Treaty of Paris, 1763, and it was left in force when French civil law was restored by the Quebec Act of 1774.
By 1784 there were more than 4,000 blacks living in the British colonies north of the United States, and among them could be counted at least 1,800 slaves. To encourage settlement in British North America, the home government passed the Imperial Act of 1790, which applied to all British subjects still resident in the United States. It allowed them to import “Negroes, household furniture . . . duty free” into the Bahamas, Bermuda, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and any other British territory in North America. [Author] Robin Winks claims that free blacks were discouraged from settling.
Slave owning was widespread among the emerging political and social elite of Upper Canada. Peter Russell, a senior member of the Executive and Legislative councils and the province’s administrator in the absence of [Lt. Governor John Graves] Simcoe, was reputed to be the owner of ninety-nine slaves. Matthew Elliot, Russell’s close friend, may have owned upwards of fifty slaves, many of whom were war trophies taken in border clashes with the Americans.
(Slavery and Freedom in Niagara, Power & Butler, Niagara Historical Society, 2000, excerpts pp. 11-12; 18; 24-25)
Jun 26, 2020 - Black Slaveowners, Britain's Royal African Company, From Africa to America, Historical Accuracy, Historical Amnesia/Cleansing, New England's Slave Trade, Race and the North, Sharp Yankees, Slavery Comes to America, Slavery in Africa Comments Off on A National Institution
A National Institution
The author of the 1928 source below notes that as of that date, “Liberia, the country of free Negroes, there are over two hundred thousand slaves. In Sierra Leone, the other freemen’s colony, slavery was abolished on January 1 of this year, by decree of the Legislative Council.”
“It would be a task of many pages if I attempted to give a full account of the origin and causes of slavery in Africa. As a national institution, it seems to have existed always. Africans have been bondsmen everywhere: and the oldest monuments bear their images linked with menial toils and absolute servitude.
England to-day, with all her philanthropy, sends, under the Cross of St. George, to convenient magazines of lawful commerce on the [African] coast, Birmingham muskets, Manchester cottons, and Liverpool lead, all of which are righteously swapped at Sierra Leone, Acra, and on the Gold Coast, for Spanish or Brazilian bills on London.
Yet what British merchant does not know the traffic on which those bills are founded, and for whose support his wares are purchased? France . . . dispatches her Rouen cottons, Marseille brandies, flimsy taffetas, and indescribable variety of tinsel geegaws. Germany demands a slice for her looking-glasses and beads; while multitudes of our own worthy [Boston] traders, who would hang a slaver as a pirate when caught, do not hesitate to supply him indirectly with tobacco, powder, cotton, Yankee rum, and New England notions, in order to bait the trap in which he may be caught. It is the temptation of these things, I repeat, which feeds the slave-making wars of Africa, and forms the human basis of those admirable bills of exchange.
Such may be said to be the predominating influence that supports the African slave trade; yet, if commerce of all kinds were forbidden with that continent, the customs and laws of the natives would still encourage slavery as a domestic affair, though of course in a very modified degree.
A slave is a note of hand that may be discounted or pawned; he is still a bill of exchange that carries him to his destination and pays the debt bodily . . . Thus, slavery is not likely to be surrendered by the Negroes themselves as a national institution.”
(Adventures of a Slave Trader: Being an Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory &Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story as Told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer, Garden City Publishing, 1928, excerpts pp. 126-128)
Jun 24, 2020 - Antiquity, Historical Accuracy, Historical Amnesia/Cleansing, Imperialist Adventures, Slavery Worldwide Comments Off on Slavery Way Down South
Slavery Way Down South
In the Aztec culture, war and the priesthood were the only paths “toward prestige, honors and riches,” with free land and slaves given as rewards for valor while subjugating neighbors. In the century prior to Spanish conquest, the merchant class included “slave traders whose centers of operation were in some of the large cities, but who kept purchasing bases in the furthermost cities.”
Slavery existed in all classic period Mesoamerican cultures: in Maya culture, the condition of slavery was passed down from one generation to another, often as punishment for offenses against the ruling class. “The majority of slaves, however, were prisoners of war or foreigners bought from traders. The destiny of these slaves was uncertain, and many must have ended their days as sacrificial victims.”
“Aztec conquests always had religious or economic motives . . . in the principal cities of the Aztecs and their allies lived an artisan group who were in constant need of raw materials for the manufacture of consumer goods which were traded among the Aztecs themselves or exchanged for products from their neighbors and tribute-paying subjects.
Equally important was the development of the quasi-feudal system with an increasing demand for agricultural land and serfs for the benefit of the growing nobility. Last but not least was the need for slaves to be sacrificed to the gods as state and religion merged into one unified system.
In the last years of their brief history, the Aztec nation included more than 300 vassal tribes which never amalgamated into a political or administrative entity.
While Aztec merchants traveled the trade routes, transacting business and paving the way for new conquests, the warriors and governors exercised dominion by exacting tribute and gathering the designated quotas of prisoners to be sacrificed to the many gods of the Aztec pantheon.”
(Pre-Columbian Cities, Jorge E. Hardoy, Walker and Company, 1973, excerpts pp. 124; 128; 228)
Jun 21, 2020 - Aftermath: Despotism, America Transformed, Conservatism and Liberalism, Enemies of the Republic, Fourteenth Amendment, Hatred of the American South, Lincoln Revealed, Lincoln's Revolutionary Legacy, Memorials to the Past, Myth of Saving the Union, Pathways to Central Planning, Prescient Warnings, Recurring Southern Conservatism, Republican Party Jacobins, Southern Conservatives, Southern Statesmen Comments Off on Punished for Seeking Independence
Punished for Seeking Independence
North Carolina rejected the proposed Fourteenth Amendment by a forty-five to one vote in the Senate, and by ninety-three to ten in the House. Although the amendment failed the requisite number of State ratifications, it was hurriedly and unconstitutionally enacted by Radical Republicans to maintain national political hegemony.
“The question has been asked, and will be asked again, by our children, why the Southern people did not accept the reconstruction measures and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution? It is impossible, at this day, to comprehend the import of this [amendment’s] language, or its effect upon the people of the South.
It is interesting to read the words of Governor [Jonathan] Worth, in his message to the Legislature of North Carolina, in submitting to them the proposed amendment. After reviewing its provisions he says he was unable to believe that the deliberate judgement of the people of any State would approve the innovation to be wrought by the amendment, and as anxious as he was to see the Union restored, there was nothing in the amendment calculated to perpetuate that Union, but that its tendency was rather to perpetuate sectional alienation and estrangement.
The committee of the Legislature, to which the amendment was referred, recommending its rejection, said:
“What the people of North Carolina have done, they have done in obedience to her own behests. Must she now punish them for obeying her own commands? If penalties have been incurred, and punishments must be inflicted, is it magnanimous, is it reasonable, nay, is it honorable, to require us to become our own executioners? Must we, as a State, be regarded as unfit for fraternal association with our fellow citizens of other States until after we shall have sacrificed our manhood, and banished our honor?
Like a stricken mother, the State now stands leaning in silent grief over the bloody graves of her slain children. The momentoes of her former glory lie in ruins around her. The majesty of sorrow sits enthroned upon her brow. Proud of her sons who have died for her, she cherishes, in her heart of hearts, the loving children who were ready to die for her and she loves them with a warm affection.”
(George Davis Memorial Address, H.G. Conner, Unveiling of the George Davis Statue at Wilmington, NC, April 20, 1911, by the Cape Fear Chapter, UDC)
Jun 14, 2020 - Aftermath: Destruction, America Transformed, Antiquity, Conservatism and Liberalism, Crusaders and Revolutionaries, Democracy, Memorials to the Past, Prescient Warnings Comments Off on The Wheel of Fortune’s Revolution
The Wheel of Fortune’s Revolution
“In the last days of Pope Eugenius the Fourth, two of his servants, the learned Poggius and a friend ascended the Capitoline Hill; reposed themselves among the ruins of columns and temples; and viewed, from that commanding spot, the wide and various prospect of desolation.
The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave; and it was agreed that in proportion to her former greatness the fall of Rome was the more awful and deplorable.
Her primeval state, such as she might appear in a remote age, when Evander entertained the stranger of Troy, has been delineated by the fancy of Virgil. This Tarpeian rock was then a savage and solitary thicket: in the time of the poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple: the temple is overthrown, the gold has been pillaged, the wheel of fortune has accomplished her revolution, and the sacred ground is again disfigured with thorns and brambles.
The hill of the Capitol, on which we sit, was formerly the head of the Roman empire, the citadel of the earth, the terror of kings; illustrated by the footsteps of so many triumphs, enriched with the spoils and tributes of so many nations. This spectacle of the world, how it is fallen! How changed! How defaced!
The path of victory is obliterated by vines, and the benches of the senators are concealed by a dunghill. Cast your eyes on the Palatine hill, and seek, among the shapeless and enormous fragments, the marble theater, the obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticoes of Nero’s palace: survey the other hills of the city; the vacant space is interrupted only by ruins and gardens.
The forum of the Roman people, where they assembled to enact their laws and elect their magistrates, is now inclosed for the cultivation of pot-herbs or thrown open for the reception of swine and buffaloes. The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune.”
(The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III, Edward Gibbon, Modern Library, 1995, excerpt pp. 2426-2427)
Jun 4, 2020 - Memorials to the Past, Southern Conservatives, Southern Culture Laid Bare, Southern Patriots, Southern Statesmen, Southern Unionists Comments Off on No Lost Cause
No Lost Cause
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson was chosen orator at the dedication of the South’s museum in Richmond, February 22, 1896. It was the Confederate White House and home of Jefferson Davis and family, and the mansion was given by Richmond’s City Council to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society as a place for “the reception of Confederate relics and records.”
“Our memorial will be here in Richmond, the heart and grave of the Confederacy, and around it hovers the immortal soul of love and of memory, which for all times will sanctify it to all true men and women. They will know that it is a memorial of no “Lost Cause.”
They will never believe that “we thought we were right,” immortally right, and that the conqueror was wrong, eternally wrong.
The great army of the dead is here, the sentiment of the living is here, the memories of the past are here, the monuments of the future will be here. As all roads lead to Rome, so in the ages to come all ties of memory, of sentiment, of heart and of feeling, will vibrate from Richmond.
As every follower of the prophet at sunset turns his face to Mecca, and sends up a prayer for the dead and the living, so everywhere in this great South Land, which was the Confederacy, whenever the trumpet call of duty sounds, when the call to do right without regard to consequence rings over the woods and the meadows, the mountains and the valleys, the spirit of the Confederacy will rise, the dead of Hollywood and of Oakwood will stand in ranks, and their eternal memory will inspire their descendants to do right whatever the cost of life or fortune, of danger and disaster.
Lee will ride his bronze horse, Hill (A.P.) will be by his side, Stonewall will be there, Stuart’s plume will float again, and the battle-line of the Confederacy will move forward to do duty, justice and right. The memorial of the Confederacy is here, not built by hands – made of memory and devotion. What else could it be?”
(No Lost Cause; Dedication of the South’s Museum, Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume XXIII, R.A. Brock, editor, excerpts pp. 371-372)
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What do mag covers tell us about teasing?
Even WH Smith suddenly seemed alluring today as I whiled away the windy minutes on the platform, awaiting the North-bound HST.
Inside, I stared at a towering magazine rack from which I had the intention of purchasing absolutely nothing.
I dimly recalled, however, that on one occasion, when trying to help a surprisingly receptive presenter keep listeners riveted to a piece of imminent fruity content, I had mumbled something about "what would they say about that on a magazine cover".
The mag rags wouldn't say "Inside: We've been interviewing Robbie", they'd cut out some mad single juicy quote or topic, exaggerate it hugely, take it out of context and stick it on the front in a horrible fluorescent splash. Simply because they needed you to be sufficiently curious and interested to lay out a few quid to buy the trashy thing.
Their front page is our 0755 link, I guess.
Still bored - and probably being observed on the monochrome CCTV by a crinkly bloke in a crimplene uniform - I jotted down a few of the front page mag splashes to see if my theory held water, or if it was just the usual pointless ramblings of a programmer.
Heat struck me. "Charlotte Crosby - my shocking nose job diary". That sort of works, I guess. Suitably specific to tempt me, if I were interested in people's nose jobs. It's certainly better than "We've been talking to Charlotte Crosby - and we'll be playing out that interview after the news". I've heard that sort of stuff. And 'diary' suggests secrets are about to be revealed.
Grazia tries the same trick with "Inside Kate's debauched divorce party". Now you're talking. Leave them in no doubt about what they're about to miss, but never give the pay-off.
Alas, nothing arose from my peering at the front page of Rail magazine.
Nor from the numerous mags which did lists of things like: '"5 reasons to retire"(The Lady).
'65 things about orgasms' (I just made that up) might have worked better, but I'm not entirely sure the old journo numbers trick works too well on radio. By the way, that's apparently: 'Number or trigger word + adjective + keyword + promise'.
Maybe try that magic on your website and social media click-bait. On-air, though, hand-pick one thing from the list, pull that apart, caress it, squeeze out the value - and you might have something.
The Traveller fared slightly better with a '"The results are in' about something or other. But the girls' mags excel: "She changed her Tinder to women only - and it got interesting" (Glamour). There's a radio plot.
The Radio Times promised "The most irritating TV ad ever". Now, who doesn't want to know which one that is - even if only to disagree. That's like 'the Number One' on a list or chart, 'the best song ever', or the 'worst song ever' (don't try but the latter, I'm just illustrating a point here). You cannot stop nosiness about which it will be. If you can elicit genuine curiosity in a tease, it works. There's a world of difference between 'In just a sec, the brand new song from Adele... Have a listen, see what you think" and "Adele's next". Implied or explicit questions are good.
Whatever the format, you want listeners to carry on listening - or to come back later.
Keeping people listening is really about forward momentum. Making your show difficult to leave because it's enjoyable and/or interesting - and satisfying a need. Making it a programme you want to come back to later - and tomorrow. Great content, of course, is key, and, dependent on the format, how it makes the listener feel - and helping the presenters become the listeners' friends and family.
'Teasing' can be a useful part, although not the whole, of the strategy. But the pointless previews and 'so what' teases which riddle British radio like a disease - probably do little else apart from delighting naieve programmers.
If you're going to tease, it needs to be more than a yellow AA signpost.
It needs to be an unfinished story, preferably with integral value, that arouses a pang of hunger.
Otherwise, readers will buy the next mag along, and listeners will have moved on.
Damn. Bloody train's late.
More about teasing in my book 'How to Make Great Radio'. Proceeds to the Radio Academy.
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This Thing Called Radio
A favourite song cheering a sullen moment in a grey teenage bedroom.
This thing called radio.
Hoping to hear the name of your school when the snow fell.
That birthday shout-out the day you were spotty sixteen.
The noisy album you won, aged 17, and wrote your name on.
The soundtrack to Summer journeys with your best friends in your first car.
Smiling on the way to another dark day in a dull job.
Upset because they moved your favourite presenter.
In bed. Wrapped up. Rain on the window pane. Cromarty. Dogger.
Stuck alone in a motorway jam. Knowing you're fighting it together.
Objective news reporting in a former dictatorship.
A wind-up set pulsing out life-saving messages on AIDS across Africa.
Risking imprisonment in Germany listening to Long Wave from London in the dark days of War.
A captive Terry Waite chained to a radiator in Beirut, hearing a World Service birthday message from his cousin.
It’s for good reason that nine out of ten people around their Globe spend as much as a quarter of their waking hours with this delightful one hundred year old medium.
Celebrate this thing.
On World Radio Day.
13th February is World Radio Day - A day to celebrate radio as a medium; to improve international co-operation between broadcasters and to encourage major networks and community radio alike to promote access to information, freedom of expression and gender equality over the airwaves
This year, the UNESCO theme for World Radio Day is 'Radio in time of Emergency and Disaster'. Radio still remains the medium that reaches the widest possible audience in the quickest possible time.
My book 'How to Make Great Radio' is out now. Proceeds to the UK Radio Academy
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No more radio ads with talkback effects, please
No no no.
Why do so many ad copywriters and producers believe the tinny sound of talkback effects works in a radio ad campaign?
I've said it before - but now this new contagion of ads bearing such effects is getting me very, very annoyed.
I can think of no TV campaign which is similarly obsessed with the intricacies of TV cameras, scripts or acting - nor a digital campaign obsessed with the intricacies of how the internet works or the font colour.
Why do we get this talkback theme repeated again and again, alongside juicy references to 'voiceovers', 'voicing' and 'we've got thirty seconds'?
These radio ads are presumably hatched by producers who just don't get radio. They don't get the relationship radio has with its listeners. They don't get that radio lives in the mind and hearts of its listeners. They don't get that radio excels in storytelling. They don't get that listeners don't see radio is a thing manufactured in a studio with panels and switches, but as a friend who shares their life.
Listeners don't see a mixing panel, they see a face.
I presume these creative folk are good at working with other media, so may I suggest they just concentrate on that. Or talk to a few radio listeners about the place that radio enjoys in their lives.
The tinny talkback effect is familiar to those of us who spend our lives in a radio studio. It means very little to those who do not. It is simply not part of their world. It relates to the life of copywriters and not to the listeners.
And, anyway, why on earth would you want to enhance the impression that the VO guy is absolutely nothing to do with the company advertising its wares - and is being told what to say by someone else?
As for the verb 'to voice'. It is only ever used in the media world. Normal people do not talk about voicing or 'voicing'.
Radio is gifted with storytelling. We remember the great TomTom 'quicker journeys' campaign (DDB Tribal Wordwide) with huge affection. A great simple theme of an uncomfortable car journey, illustrated with truly brilliant scripting and high quality acting. That's the way to do it.
We think back to the forces recruitment campaigns with young recruits speaking of their motives and dreams.
We recall the hugely powerful Cancer Research UK (Anomaly/Mediacom) fly on the wall campaign in which people affected by the disease spoke honestly about their diagnosis and everyday life - in other words, the very conversations they'd be having with their closest friends. The audio worked on TV - and probably even more powerfully - on radio.
"A yes (to a mortgage) can mean pencil marks on the wall as you watch your children grow ", says the current NatWest campaign. Visualisation and emotion in one great line. That works.
I quite like the recent Dreams radio campaign on the jolly theme of how long ago you last changed your mattress. How can any listener resist answering that dirty question in their mind? There, you just did. But why does the campaign not feature punter voices responding to that very question? It's interesting to note that on their website, they've troubled to do a video showing, well, vox pops with people. The soundtrack to those would have worked on radio too. Folk who do great video often cannot see the value of the pictures on the radio - and the power of real voices.
Dear radio campaign creatives, please, forget the studio, forget thirty seconds, forget voiceovers and talkback. Imagine a listener sat in a car in a world of their own and talk to them. It's not difficult.
My book, 'How to Make Great Radio', has lots of stuff on this theme. It's out now!
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Exploration of Matrix Effects in Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Cisplatin Treated Tumours
Greenhalgh, Calum J., Karekla, Ellie, Miles, Gareth J., Powley, Ian R., Costa, Catia, de Jesus, Janella, Bailey, Melanie J., Pritchard, Catrin, MacFarlane, Marion, Pringle, J. Howard et al and Managh, Amy J. (2020) Exploration of Matrix Effects in Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Cisplatin Treated Tumours Analytical Chemistry.
Exploration of Matrix Effects - AAM.docx - Accepted version Manuscript
The use of a low aerosol dispersion ablation chamber within a LA-ICP-MS set up allows for high-resolution, high-speed imaging of the distribution of elements within a sample. Here we show how this enhanced capability creates new analytical problems and solutions. We report the distribution of platinum at the cellular level in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) explant models after treatment with clinically relevant doses of cisplatin. This revealed for the first time a correlation between the platinum signal and the presence of carbon deposits within lung tissue. We show how complementary ion beam analysis techniques, particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and elastic backscattering spectrometry (EBS) can be used to explore potential matrix effects in LA-ICP-MS data. For these samples, it was confirmed that the enhancement was unlikely to have resulted from a matrix effect alone. Thus, the presence of carbon deposits within tissue has potential implications for the effective distribution of the cisplatin drug.
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Chemistry
Greenhalgh, Calum J.
Karekla, Ellie
Miles, Gareth J.
Powley, Ian R.
Costa, Catia c.d.costa@surrey.ac.uk
de Jesus, Janella janellamarie.dejesus@surrey.ac.uk
Bailey, Melanie J. M.Bailey@surrey.ac.uk
Pritchard, Catrin
MacFarlane, Marion
Pringle, J. Howard
Managh, Amy J.
Funders :
Loughborough University, Medical Research Council (MRC), MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cancer Research UK, UK Department of Health, Royal Society, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Title :
Funded PhD studentship
© 2020 American Chemical Society
Clive Harris
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OTCQB: CDBMF $0.05
Why Invest in Cordoba Minerals?
2020 Annual & Special Meeting
Cordoba Minerals Discovers Copper-Gold Porphyry Mineralization at Costa Azul and Better Defines the Montiel West and Pirita Prospects
August 5, 2014 Download PDF
TORONTO, ONTARIO, August 5, 2014: Cordoba Minerals Corp. (TSX-V:CDB) ("Cordoba" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the first phase of the ongoing RAB (rotary air blast) drilling program has located widespread copper-gold mineralization associated with diorite porphyry intrusions at the Costa Azul prospect. The shallow drilling program has better defined the porphyry copper-gold mineralization at the Montiel West prospect and higher-grade vein and breccia style mineralization adjacent to the Pirita artisanal underground workings, located immediately north of Montiel West.
Copper-gold (chalcopyrite-pyrite-bornite) mineralization at both Costa Azul and Montiel West is associated with quartz-magnetite stockwork and sheeted veining within diorite porphyry intrusions and adjacent country rocks. Higher-grade, gold-rich vein and breccia (quartz-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite) mineralization has been located in a number of parallel structures at the Pirita prospect. Costa Azul and Montiel West are the first targets to be tested by RAB in an ongoing drilling program that has currently focused on the northern-most 3 kilometres of strike of the San Matias Project. Surface exploration is underway along the highly prospective additional 10 km of strike of the major north-south structure that hosts the varying styles of porphyry, vein and replacement styles of mineralization located to date within the project tenure. Currently the RAB drill is testing the Iguana target, a copper-gold soil anomaly, located approximately 800 m north of Montiel West. From there the RAB rig will test the large copper-gold soil anomaly that stretches between the Montiel West and Montiel East porphyry targets, some 800 m of strike, and adjacent to the Montiel East artisanal mine workings.
RAB drilling is proving to be highly effective in the assessment of mineralization at shallow depths and although the results cannot be used in resource estimates, each of the targets outlined by the RAB program will be drilled in the current deeper diamond drilling program.
The Costa Azul target is a 800 m x 800 m copper-gold soil anomaly in which 112 shallow RAB drill holes, to average depth of 30 metres, have been completed on a roughly 50 m x 50 m grid. RAB drilling has outlined porphyry copper-gold mineralization in both diorite porphyry intrusions, mafic volcanic country rocks and tonalite intrusions. Maximum down-hole copper and gold results (Figures 1 and 2) show significant, copper and gold mineralization (>0.3 % Cu and/or >0.3 g/t Au) over dimensions of approximately 300 m east-west by 200 m north-south, with mineralization remaining open to the west and southwest towards areas previously trenched.
Highlights of RAB intercepts include:
CARAB013: 19m @ 0.74 g/t Au and 0.32% Cu from 6 to 25 metres
CARAB079: 12m @ 0.20 g/t Au and 0.65% Cu, from 0 to 12 metres
CARAB081: 24m @ 0.53 g/t Au and 0.35% Cu, from 22 to 46 metres
(Intervals calculated with a 0.30 g/t Au and/or 0.30% Cu cut-off with no internal zones of dilution, true-widths are unknown).
Diamond drilling of the RAB outlined targets has commenced at Costa Azul.
Montiel West and Pirita
The Montiel prospect is a 1 km x 800 m porphyry cluster with associated vein and breccia systems in which 78 RAB drill-holes, with an average depth of 25 metres, have been drilled on a roughly 50 m x 50 m grid. This drilling and also trenching has outlined porphyry copper-gold mineralization in both feldspar-hornblende porphyry intrusions and mafic volcanic country rocks tracking north to the Pirita underground mine workings where higher grade gold with copper mineralization is defined by a series of parallel vein and breccia structures.
At Montiel West maximum down-hole copper and gold results (Figures 3 and 4) show significant copper and gold mineralization (>0.3 % Cu and/or >0.3 g/t Au) at shallow depths over dimensions of approximately 250 m east-west by 200 m north-south. Mineralization remains open to the south and also to the west where significant trench anomalies are evident. At Pirita a number of parallel northwest trending veins have been located that host significant gold and copper mineralization over strike lengths of over 250 m that are open to the north-west and south-east. Given the shallow depth of the RAB drilling at Pirita, more parallel vein and associated breccia structures are interpreted as being present and will be tested with deeper diamond drilling along with Montiel West. The majority of the significant intersections at Pirita remains open down-hole and incorporates significant down-hole widths indicating a potential larger tonnage target style adjacent to the Montiel West porphyry copper-gold target.
Highlights of RAB intercepts at Montiel West include:
MWRAB001: 12m @ 0.67 g/t Au and 0.60% Cu from 0 to 12 metres
MWRAB003: 9m @ 1.04 g/t Au and 0.46% Cu from 0 to 9 metres
MWRAB012: 5m @ 32.64 g/t Au and 1.09% Cu from 0 to 5 metres
MWRAB020: 13m @ 0.26 g/t Au and 0.77% Cu from 21 to 34 metres
Highlights of RAB intercepts at Pirita include:
Incl. 3m @ 4.39 g/t Au and 0.24% Cu from 15 to 18 metres
Incl. 3m @ 7.05 g/t Au and 0.24% Cu from 3 to 6 metres
Incl. 3m @ 12.38 g/t Au and 0.14% Cu from 6 to 9 metres
The Montiel West and Pirita targets will be diamond drilled on completion of the Costa Azul drilling in the current program.
"We are extremely pleased with the progress we have made in exploration this year," commented Mario Stifano, CEO of Cordoba. "The RAB drilling has provided us with a quick and effective method of evaluating our multiple copper-gold porphyries. With the information we have received, we can strategically plan our diamond drilling program to explore the targets the RAB drill has identified. As we continue to identify new mineralization in the various targets in our land package, it supports our belief that we are exploring a new copper-gold district in Colombia."
Figure 1. Maximum down-hole copper results from the Costa Azul target with trenching results on geology.
Figure 2. Maximum down-hole gold results from the Costa Azul target with trenching results on geology.
Figure 3. Maximum down-hole copper results from the Montiel West and Pirita targets
with trenching results on geology.
Figure 4. Maximum down-hole gold results from the Montiel West and Pirita targets
The technical information has been reviewed, verified and compiled by Christian J. Grainger, PhD, a Qualified Person for the purpose of NI 43-101. Dr. Grainger is a geologist with +15 years in the minerals mining, consulting, exploration and research industries. Dr. Grainger is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Results from RAB drilling are not permissible for the purpose of NI 43-101 resource estimates.
About Cordoba Minerals
Cordoba Minerals Corp. is a Toronto-based mineral exploration company focused on the exploration and acquisition of copper and gold projects in Colombia. Cordoba currently owns 100% of the highly prospective San Matias Project located near operating open pit mines with ideal topography in the Department of Cordoba. For further information, please visit www.cordobamineralscorp.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY
Mario Stifano, President and CEO
Cordoba Minerals Corp.
Symbol: TSX-V:CDB
Contact: Sonia Tercas
Email: info@cordobamineralscorp.com
Website: www.cordobamineralscorp.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements include predictions, projections and forecasts and are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "forecast", "expect", "potential", "project", "target", "schedule", budget" and "intend" and statements that an event or result "may", "will", "should", "could" or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions and includes the negatives thereof. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding the potential of the Company's properties are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from Company's expectations include actual exploration results, changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, future metal prices, availability of capital and financing on acceptable terms, general economic, market or business conditions, uninsured risks, regulatory changes, delays or inability to receive required approvals and other exploration or other risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Company with securities regulators. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause such actions, events or results to differ materially from those anticipated. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate and accordingly readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date of this news release. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation, except to the extent required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Copyright © 2021 Cordoba Minerals Corp.
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Peruvian Quipu
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The Inca quipu still remains somewhat of a mystery to today's scholars, and while there are many plausible and likely hypotheses as to the true functions this device served, a specific and definite answer has yet, and may never, be uncovered. Some believe the quipu represents a form of proto-writing, while others feel it embodies a system of writing all on its own. But regardless of the different magnitudes of functionality that are thought to have been applied to the quipu by the Incas, it is wholly agreed that it was an extraordinarily intricate system in which to store information.
Quipu Diagram
1 Brief Description
2 Encoding: The Symbolic Systems of the Quipu
3 Was It Writing?
3.1 Mnemonic Knot-Records
3.1.1 Binary Coding
4 Decoding: Unable to Crack the Code
4.1 Pops and Hisses
5 Formal Prohibitions
6 Remediation
7 Works Cited
A typical quipu consisted of a number of pendent and often subsidiary pendent strings made from cotton and sometimes wool, and were suspended from a main horizontal cord. Knots representing numbers were tied into the pendent strings and occasionally into the main cord, and the strings were dyed various colors in order to define the different subjects to which the numbers referred.
Encoding: The Symbolic Systems of the Quipu
Quipus were assigned both a vertical and horizontal direction, causing both the encoding and decoding of a quipu to be a multi-directional, or nonlinear experience. "The establishment of the points where the strings were attached did not have to follow any set left-to-right or right-to-left sequence. The positions of the strings were set by their points of attachment, and it is the relative position, along with the colors and the knots, that rendered the recording meaningful. Essentially then, the quipumaker had to have the ability to conceive and execute a recording in three dimensions with color" (Ascher 33). Similarly, the direct construction involved in recording information on a quipu depended to a large degree on the maker's tactile sensitivity. "In fact, the overall aesthetic of the quipu was related to the tactile: the manner of recording and the recording itself [were] decidedly rhythmic; the first in the activity, the second in the effect" (32). As one would continue
The overall function of a quipu was to record and store information, although exactly what kind and to what level of sophistication is debated. The process of encoding was very intricate and consisted of very specific and intentional manipulations of the string to create symbols that would correspond to any number of things, ideas, dates etc. However, there did not exist a universal book of codes in which to follow; each quipu constructed was very personal to the person to which it belonged.
When analyzing a quipu, there are several components that one must pay close attention to as a singular unit within the context of the whole quipu.
Strings/Cords
Unlike media such as clay and paper in which symbols are applied to the surface, the strings of a quipu functioned as both the surface and the writing tool itself. In addition to being knotted and dyed, the quipucomayac had the option of positioning the cords on different levels, in different directions, and in relative positions ( Archer 31).
There were several different type of knots used in the making of a quipu, some represented numbers in terms of quantities, while others represented numbers that were meant to act as labels.
Samples of Quipu Knots
Its not simply the type of knot used, the length or color of the string, or the number of subsidiary pendents employed that must be taken into account when recording data using a quipu. A quipucomayac must also attend closely to the necessary spacial arrangement that must be created for accurate evaluations.
The number of colors used on a particular quipu is dictated by the number of categories it encompasses. "So, too, a color system increases in complexity as the number of contexts it describes increases and as statements of relationship become involved" (Archer 31). Generally, the clarification of such relationships are encoded via the overall patterning used through out the quipu(Ascher 31). -Candy-Cane Effect: two solid colors twisted together -Mottled effect: two of candy-cane strings twisted together using the opposite twist direction -Joining effect: two solid colors that are joined so part of the cord is one color and the rest of it is another color. Furthermore, the color coding of cords also functions to unite the largely tactile nature of the quipu with the visual. This is accomplished as color coded cords that are closely connected become intertwined with the resistor color system.
Was It Writing?
Mnemonic Knot-Records
There are many scholars that firmly believe the quipu to be an extremely advanced and detailed mnemonic device; a function that is reported as working both very efficiently and successfully. In noting how precisely traditions and records were preserved, Sir Clements Markham describes the passing down of the Paccari-tampu myth. "It is told by Garcilasso de la Vega, Cieza de Leon, Betanzos, Balboa, Morua, Montesinos, Salcamayhua and Sarmiento, all agreeing sufficiently closely to prove that precisely the same tradition had been handed down, with the same details, to their various informants" ( Markham 140). -"The quipucamayas who had charge of them and served as the official historians of the empire evidently relied on the usual psychological expedients-association, interest, concentrations, and repition-in order to fix the facts in their memories" (Day 39-40)
Binary Coding
Perhaps the most interesting hypothesis for the potential meaning of these bundles of knotted cords is a theory proposed by Dr. Gary Urton, author of Signs Of The Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. In his book, Urton suggests that the Inca quipuencoded more than just the previously thought commercial transactions, including the preservation of literature, poetry, science and any other information that could be documented via a system of writing. Urton describes "the beginnings of sketching out a theory of interpreting the hierarchical and asymmetrical signs of, especially, non-decimal khipu as the architecture for canonical literatures whose essential components would have been noted by khipukamayuq and used as the framework for constructing narrative recitation" (Urton 164).
Urton argues that the systems of patterned differences in spinning, plying, knotting, numbers, and colors in the quipu are all binary in nature and interact with each other to form an information system with seven-piece sequences that function in a similar fashion to the binary language employed by computers. (Urton 40) Therefore, he concludes that we must continue the analysis of the quipu with the understanding that all structural and physical features interacted on a semiotic level.
Decoding: Unable to Crack the Code
talk about how there are a lot of kinds, statistical, cultural, knot calendars, mneumonic devices
The cultural quipus mentioned by the Spanish chroniclers "'recorded' laws, rites, treaties, speeches, and history" (Day 39), while the statistical quipus included a catalogue of "crops and agricultural produce, herds of domestic and wild animals, stores of wool and cotton, weapons and other military supplies - everything in the empire, in fact, that could be counted" (Day 39). Yet the both employed the same
Pops and Hisses
Systems that employ color coding, or any type of representational signs and symbols, must remain relatively fixed and inflexible for it to flourish among a group of people. The meanings assigned to each color must be defined and agreed upon by everyone utilizing the system, and the amount of signs must remain reasonable to meet efficiency needs. Individual users can not alter the meaning signified by a particular color without extending that change to be acceptance unanimously. However, many of these crucial traits of a successful coding system are lost with the quipu. Of course, for the purposes of keeping this information private, the random and flexible nature employed by the quipucomayacs prevented any sort of overarching associations to be made between the sign and the signifier and signified.
no hand book to determine the possibile meanings of the sign system used
-There are so many slight variations to what can be interpreted as what kind of knot, doesn't leave room for people with different "hand writings" so to speak. While it is meant to be a very controlled and stylized process of recording, its doesn't allow any room for difference among its users. "Quipumakers differ from each other in the way that no two people write alike. Quipumakers also differ in the way that some people write more legibly then others. (Ascher Ascher70)
Formal Prohibitions
The quipu as a communicative device was highly selective; only the privileged, important men of the Inca community were taught how to create and interpret this system of recording. As aforementioned, these men were known as Quipucamayacs, or quipu-makers.
The Inca civilization functioned as a bureaucracy, which, according to Max Weber, is a type of administration that fundamentally means: "the exercise of control on the basis of knowledge" (Ascher 33). Therefore, for the Incas, knowledge truly did equal power, and that knowledge was measured in large part by the amount of records they had stored. Furthermore, Ascher and Ascher notes the characteristic nature of a bureaucracy as one where its records are peculiar to itself, and remain that way. So to be a quipucamayac signified specialized knowledge, power and status, but also the responsibility of being an official historian for the Inca empire.
Understandably, quipucamayacs "never 'let their quipus out of their hands,' says Garcilaso, 'and they kept passing their cords and knots through their fingers as to not forget the tradition' which it was their function to remember" (Day 39-40). Perhaps one of the few times the quipucamayacs would separated from their quipus was for the purpose of sending a messgae. According to Cyrus Lawrence Day, "Trained runners called chasquis were stationed in pairs at intervals of about a mile along the imperial highways. Running at top speed and handing their quipus on, one chasqui to another, as in a relay race, they could transmit a message to Cuzco from two or three hundred miles away in twenty-four hours" (39).
The only addition to quipucamayas were Amautas, or learned men and councilors, who were also knowledgeable about the techniques necessary to understand the information stored by a quipu. While they didn't have a hand in composing them, the Amautas, along with the quipucamayas, played an integral role in the maintenance of Inca culture as traditions were passed down from generation to generation.
---add: this would cause a problem, as it has indeed done today, with allowing the medium to be used on a more common level--
-Binary code with the computer
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. "Civilization Without Writing - the Incas and the Quipu." The Media of Early Civilization. 28-33.
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan P, 1981.
Bingham, Hiram. "The Incas and Their Civilization." Lost City of the Incas. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. 4-10.
Day, Cyrus L. "Mnemonic Knots." Quipus and Witches' Knots. Lawrence: The University of Kansas P, 1967. 14-40.
Markham, Sir Clemets. "Language and Literature of the Incas." The Incas of Peru. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1910. 137-140.
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Home Health Centers Diabetes
Animal Tests Point to Possible Path to Ultrafast Insulin
THURSDAY, July 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental ultrafast-acting insulin could work four times quicker than current fast-acting formulas, researchers say.
For the study, the researchers focused on a form of insulin called monomeric insulin. Though its structure should, in theory, allow it to act faster, monomeric insulin is too unstable for practical use, so the Stanford University team had to find a way around that problem.
"The insulin molecules themselves are fine, so we wanted to develop a 'magic fairy dust' that you add into a vial that would help to fix the stability problem," said senior author Eric Appel, assistant professor of materials science and engineering.
"People often focus on the therapeutic agents in a drug formulation but, by focusing only on the performance additives -- parts that were once referred to as 'inactive ingredients' -- we can achieve really big advancements in the overall efficacy of the drug," Appel added in a university news release.
His team identified an additive polymer that could stabilize monomeric insulin for more than 24 hours in stressed conditions. Current commercial fast-acting insulin stays stable for six to 10 hours under the same conditions.
The researchers confirmed the ultrafast action of their formulation in pigs with diabetes, the most advanced non-human animal model. Their results were published July 1 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
In the pigs, the experimental insulin reached 90% of its peak activity within 5 minutes of injection, while commercial fast-acting insulin began showing significant activity only after 10 minutes.
The experimental insulin's activity peaked at about 10 minutes; commercial insulin required 25 minutes.
Though results of animal experiments are not always the same in humans, the researchers said the difference could be significant. It could translate to a fourfold decrease in the time insulin takes to reach peak activity in people.
"It's really unprecedented," Appel said. "This has been a major target for many big pharmaceutical companies for decades."
Additional tests are underway with an eye to applying for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for clinical trials in humans.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more on insulin.
SOURCE: Stanford University, news release, July 1, 2020
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MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Pine martens on Exmoor, November 2013?
Today Jon posted on pine martens in Somerset,this evening,also Wednesday, I found this link. Judge for yourself!
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=77547.0
TERATOLOGY: A gynandromorph cardinal: one half male, the other half female (Via Max Blake)
Male cardinals are bright red while females are a dull brownish color to provide camoflauge. This particular bird sports the colorations of both birds and is literall split down the middle.
Here’s photographer’s description of how he saw the bird:
"As you can see, the left side is male and the right female. For two winters the bird appeared at the feeder of a retired high school biology teacher. I was able to observe it on several occasions, and noticed that it didn’t associate with other cardinals, nor did I hear it produce any vocalizations. We attempted to capture it with mist nets so that Rob Fleischer and I could get blood samples for further study, but we caught every bird in the neighborhood except this one! Alas, it never returned the third winter.
This, by the way, is a very graphic demonstration of the differences between males and females, with the brighter color of the male almost certainly reflecting sexual selection (with bright colors presumably advantageous in males because they attract females, but disadvantageous in females because they attract predators).
Now how does this happen? I used to see this sometimes in my Drosophila flies, and we’ve long known how a half-male, half-female fly forms. In flies the sex is determined by the ratio of X chromosome to autosomes. Flies, like all diploid species, have two copies of every autosome. If you also have two X chromosomes, you’re a female because the ratio of autosomes to Xs is 1:1. If you have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, your ratio is 2:1 and you’re male. The Y doesn’t matter here: if you lose a Y chromosome, and hence are XO, you still look like a male, although you’re sterile (the Y carries genes for making sperm).
So to get gynandromorphs in flies, all that has to happen is that one X chromosome gets lost in one cell when the initial cell in a female (XX) zygotes divides in two. One half of the fly then becomes XX, the other XO, and the fly is split neatly down the middle, looking like the one below. But gynandromorphs don’t have to be “half and halfs”. X chromosomes can get lost at almost any stage at development, so flies can be a quarter male, have irregular patches of maleness, have just a few male cells, or even a male patch as small as a single bristle.
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8=. Haunted Skies Volume One by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway (-)
8= Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker (-)
1. Journal of Cryptozoology Vol 2 (preorder) by Karl Shuker (-)
2. When Bigfoot Attacks by Michael Newton (-)
3. Cats of Magic, Mythology and Mystery by Karl Shuker (-)
4=. Journal of Cryptozoology Vol 1 by Karl Shuker (-)
4=. The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman (2)
6. Monsters of Texas by Ken Gerhard and Nick Redfern (5)
7. Orang Pendek: Sumatra's Forgotten Ape by Richard Freeman (1)
8=. Dragons: More than a Myth by Richard Freeman (3)
8=. Big Bird by Ken Gerhard (3)
Last month's positions in this pinky colour, which I think is called cerise. Sales in the US were about normal, but in the UK they were terrible - possibly the worst October ever. Hopefully they will improve as we approach what is euphemistically known as the "Festive Season"....
PINE MARTEN IN SOMERSET
One of the perennial questions asked by critics of cryptozoology, is "what animals predicted by cryptozoologists have actually been found?" In 1996 I published a book called The Smaller Mystery Carnivores of the Westcountry which - amongst other things - presented evidence for a surviving population of pine martens in Devon and Somerset. Now - 17 years later - I have been proved right, and am quietly confident that other claims that I have made over the years will also eventually be substantiated.
A confirmed sighting of a pine marten on Edington Moor has been reported to the Vincent Wildlife Trust (VWT) – the research charity which studies the wellbeing of British and Irish wild mammals.
According to the VWT, this is the first report of a Pine Marten in Somerset since human persecution resulted in the disappearance of the creatures from the whole of southern England by the end of the 18th century.
Photo by Vincent Wildlife Trust/Tony Braithwaite
"I was driving home from Burtle across Edington Moor with my daughter Sarah," said Neil Champken, who reported the sighting.
"We knew immediately that it was something that we had not seen before. It was a little larger than a stoat, with longer legs and neck, a long bushy tail and a pure black face," said Mr Champken – who is the owner of the Somerset Cider Vinegar Company and lives on the Poldens.
Read more: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Confirmed-sighting-rare-pine-marten/story-16895542-detail/story.html#ixzz2mVrFAsmn
Many thanks to Richard Muirhead for this news item. Also, by the way, the VWT claim is wrong: the species was meant to have been extinct here since the end of the nineteenth century.
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
Woodside Officials Try Hawk "Squawk Boxes" to Keep...
Sardine crash may be hurting brown pelicans
Bird steals camera in Australia, records journey
DALE DRINNON: Kusshi, Davis report, Gigantism
I shall be out most of the day today and so here is the short list for links for tomorrow:
New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-probable-case-of-gigantism-in.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-davis-report-skin-and-hair.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/12/kusshi.html
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS MILDLY HUNGOVER
Yesterday was a very productive, but slightly strange day. Saskia our intern was here all day, and we worked incessantly on Matt Salusbury's book on Pygmy Elephants. During the day - as one does - we were talking about music, and she very shyly asked me whether I had heard of "a band called The Ramones"? To this, I burst out laughing and sand a few lines of 'Pinhead' and the rest of the day passed famously. However the evening was marred by the escape of one of Corinna's pet rats, which meant that all the carnivores were bundled off tpo bed with me so Corinna could catch the errant rodent (a process which took most of the night). I woke up late covered in dogs and cats, staggered downstairs to find Corinna (looking serene as ever) asleep on the sofa. Graham plied us each with hot beverages and Wednesday seems fair to continue as normal...
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
Today's Track of the Day is by The New Riders of the Purple Sage
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-new-riders-of.html
Music tech: Podcast: SonicTALK -Vangelis' Yamaha CS80 Presets
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/podcast-sonictalk-vangelis-yamaha-cs80.html
Barbara Dickson & Rab Noakes to play Mareel in June
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/barbara-dickson-rab-noakes-to-play.html
Beach House spearhead project to tour Gene Clark's No Other album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/beach-house-spearhead-project-to-tour.html
The legacy of Frank Zappa
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-legacy-of-frank-zappa.html
On this day in 1872 the Mary Celeste, perhaps the worlds most famous ghost ship, was found floating off the Azores. The ship had apparently been abandoned in a hurry by all hands even the 2 year old daughter, with no signs of struggle or panic.
How Legless, Leaping Fish Living On Land Avoids Pr...
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A new mammal species for Australia, already extinc...
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Is this video of an opossum carrying her litter on...
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You Won't Believe The Weird Sea Creature Mark Quar...
Well this is one Mary Celeste theory you might not have seen before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dtRRkr0AHw
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Pine martens on Exmoor, Nove...
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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WRITES AND WRITES AND WRITES AND WRITES
Graham is chopping wood outside which is very industrious of him. However, Archie (the Jack Russell, for those who didn't know) dislikes the noise, and is yapping furiously with every 'thunk' of the axe. It is a cold, crisp day outside, and = more than ever - I am very pleased to be in my warm study. Because I have so many fishtanks in with me (two four foot and two three foot tanks) it is surprisingly warm in here, and most years I never need auxiliary heating. However, in the summer the opposite apples, and it gets so hot and muggy in here that I have to have the door open for seven months of the year in order to avoid severe discomfort.
Yesterday I totally screwed up the CFZ blogs but I am rectifying this today.
NEWS Charity album for Chepstow landlady set for release features Yes and Asia keyboardist Geoff Downes
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/news-charity-album-for-chepstow.html
Music review: After all these years, Yes they can
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/music-review-after-all-these-years-yes.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Soft Machine - Tale of Talesien
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/gonzo-track-of-day-soft-machine-tale-of.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_3.html
Steve Hackett, Genesis Guitarist, Revisits His Classic Prog Rock on tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/steve-hackett-genesis-guitarist.html
The Gonzo Weekly #106
Crass, Steve Ignorant, Iona, Dave Bainbridge, Daniel Lanois, Cure, John Parr, Peter Banks, Empire, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen and ....New Seekers fans had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#106) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Steve Ignorant on the cover, and features an interview with him by Yours truly. We also meet and chat with Dave Bainbridge of Iona about his new album, and legendary record producer David Mackay about his new charity single. Doug Harr goes to see Daniel Lanois (with exclusive piccies) and Mark Murdock runs into Terry Bozzio. And we send Don Falcone to a desert island. Xtul are back in the deep woods, and there are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are back with another episode of Sub Reality Sandwich. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and animals coming in two by twos (OK, nothing to do with Noah's Ark, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
Issue 104 (Adrian Belew cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/11/gonzo-weekly-105.html
Issue 104 (Pink Fairies cover)
Issue 103 (Jack Bruce cover)
Issue 102 (Steve Hillage cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/the-gonzo-weekly-102.html
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the infantile orange cat?
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A Parallel Society in Germany
Our Flemish correspondent VH has been working overtime as a translator recently. His latest effort is to translate an article from Pro-Köln website, and in this task he had the help of our Austrian correspondent ESW.
The most striking quote from the piece is this: “Cologne-Vingst… is not a stable Central European, but a stable Turkish neighborhood.”
Germany’s Parallel Society Is Intact
Jürgen Friedrichs, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Cologne, did mean well. The 70-year-old professor had researched the living conditions at the social fringes of [native] Germans and of Turkish immigrants in the Cologne district Vingst. To Leftist newspapers Friedrichs summed up the results of his scientific work:
“German welfare recipients are in a particularly bad situation. They are isolated, have unhealthy eating habits, have fewer visitors, live in homes that are not nearly as clean as those of their Turkish neighbors — even when those Turkish neighbors also depend on welfare payments.”
This immigrant-friendly profiling tendency in the sociologist’s findings is not enough for Leftist ideologues to legitimize his methodological approach, because he dared to split the groups to be researched into Germans and Turks. It would have been more politically correct simply to research people who, as we all know, are all the same. Therefore, Friedrichs, questioned by the MSM interviewers, had to justify his choice of research groups:
“We noticed in other social focal points that Turks condemn vandalism, the beating of their own children, teenage pregnancies and shoplifting more strongly — that is the reason for the preliminary differentiation between Germans and Turks. Our result is clear: Cologne-Vingst (a district of Cologne) has been stabilized by its Turkish residents. In many other problematic neighborhoods in the Ruhr area this will probably not be any different.”
The life story of socially derailed Germans differs significantly from that of immigrants. Therefore their self-esteem is also different:
“A German who lives in a social focal point (welfare benefit status) often has a social ‘descent’ behind him, at the end of which he finds himself moving from unemployment benefits to welfare payments. The circle of friends decreases — after all, nobody wants to be known as loser. Germans feel socially isolated and they fear they will never escape from that isolation; they no longer see any chances (of escape).”
For the Turks, the reference points concerning their self esteem are set quite differently:
“They do not compare themselves with the majority, the German society, but compare themselves to the poor eastern part of Turkey, from which many of them, or at least their ancestors, originate. In comparison with the living conditions there not only their housing situation is satisfactory, but even as welfare recipients they are materially better off than their relatives in Turkey — and not much worse than other migrants in badly paid jobs.”
Our completely politically incorrect conclusion from the study is that the Turkish-Islamic parallel society in Cologne-Vingst is intact, the separation total. The parallel society may, as formulated by Friedrich, “stabilize” the district, but it is not a stable Central European, but a stable Turkish neighborhood. [emphasis added]
The question we have to address is: Do we want more and more, ever larger and more stable Turkish-Muslim neighborhoods in major German cities? These neighborhoods were initially small islands in the Islamic diaspora. But they have grown year after year, and — if we continue the parameters of the last 20 years unabated into the future — we can foresee that in the 2030’s, at the latest, the first major German cities will capsize: they will be dominated by an Arab or Turkish majority, and the non-Muslim population will themselves become islands and withdraw into a parallel society.
Undoubtedly, Arabic- and Turkish-Islamic majority cities in Central Europe will be socially stable. Imams and large mosques will contribute to that. They represent the validity of a world order on religious foundations, a religion that in itself makes complete sense. The Germans who did not convert to Islam will become a disturbing side issue.
Do we want to accept the development into such a future without opposition? The future of Europe will depend on the answer that the majority of Germans will give to this question in the next 10 years.
John Sobieski said...
The frankness is refreshing. Of course, not he must be positively punished for his offensive statements.
It's always appalling how people treat their European compatriots, the people who have been building one's own Nation through centuries along side one's own forefathers, as if they are absoluteley dispensable.
And how they see the Turks there as something good. A Turkish Germany is not Germany, it is the Extreme Northern Republic of United Kurdistan-Uzbekistan. It really disgusts me to see the raping of Europe like this, it really does.
Europeans have to stand and educate others to treat INDIVIDUALS ALWAYS as individuals with their many individualities independently of their ethnicity, religion, etc, etc... (yes, even muslims); But Europeans also have to open their eyes to realise and educate others that they can and for sure should dislike "non-Europeans" (lacking a better a world) just because without apparent reason - because they are violating and changing forever their (chose what) Nation;
Germans and others should not need a reason to not wanting non German ethnic minorities wondering in German cities; What about those people becoming a majority in German cities...
It apears that now Argentina is "whiter" than Canada and the U.S.. There is no difference to me between North America and the rest of it. The difference is merely in terms of economic power (GDP per Capita) and it will become almost similar in the next 20 years or so.
But Europe is not America, it will perish and it will be very, very bloody. I fear the worst.
Studdy the "Reconquista" in Portugal and Spain. Remember the Inquisition that came after: A Santa Inquisição.
And something nobody remembers: For you to take an idea, that's when Portugal and Spain started to colonise the world, life sucked so much that people went to colonise distant places. And beware that there were more immigrants to Brazil and Argentina than to the United States and Canada... and we had a much smaller population.
We are getting a free ticket to destruction due to stupid anti-racism and political correctness. I just wonder if there will be one last heroic European Nation, fighting against all sides like the French like to depict Charles Magne (Carlos Magno).
We will soon see the results of German "occupation" by the Turks. The German culture and religion will be taken over and then we will see how productive the Muslims are in taking the wheel of the strongest economy in the EU.
I would suggest that anyone wanting to go on a German Christmas market tour do so immediately...
Mohammedanism desiccates and corrodes any culture it is introduced to.
We can kiss European productivity, such as it is, goodbye.
The Turks may inherit the physical plant. But they won't have any notion of what to do with it.
At the point where German engineering becomes Turkish engineering, it will be, well ... Turkish engineering.
Need one say more?
Something Under the Business Model is Drooling
How Long Will This Farce Go On?
Fjordman: A History of Optics, Part 4
The Threat of Islam in Austria
The Moral Equivocation of Bert the Weeper
The Green Vests Are the New Brown Shirts
Fjordman: Why Was There No Chinese Newton?
The Threat of Islam in Flanders
The Radicalization of Rosengård
Mayor Bloomberg Supports Wilders
Shari’a vs. Civilization
The Somali Connection
Charlie, Winston, and Geert
Obama's Signs and Signals
Have an Ice Day
Whose Mother? Whose Tongue?
IDF Soldiers, Psychopathic Baby-Killers — Same Thing
Update on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Luleå
Muslims Threaten the Citizens of Cologne
Fjordman Reviews Robert Spencer’s “Stealth Jihad”
Verdict First, Trial Later
You May Be a Taliban If…
Further Thoughts on India’s Independence
Holocaust, Gaza War — Same Thing
Our Very Own Modoggie
Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!
The Continuing Suppression of Pro-Köln
Violence Against a Pro-Israel Demonstration in Malmö
Wilders’ Judges
Free Geert!
The Dhimmi Judges of Amsterdam
Western Civilization and Socratic Dialogue
A Cat Born in a Fish Shop is Not a Fish
Support the Palestinians, Support Israel
It’s Time for a Change!
Never Mind that Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Khalid Yasin: “Wilders Should Be Flogged”
Announcing the International Free Press Society
Going After the PVV’s No. 2
Every Now and Then, the Thin Crust Gets Punctured
Not-So-Hate Crimes in Malmö
Jordan Jumps on the Bandwagon
Two Camps in the Netherlands
Overwhelming Dutch Support For Geert Wilders
Hamas: Lies, Secrets, Torture, Murder, and Intimid...
The Cause of the Forced Landing of Flight 1549
White Men Needn’t Bother
Dewinter: Wilders Will Gain Due to the Trial
Beheading at Virginia Tech
Susanne Winter Found Guilty
Contact Info for Dutch Embassies
“Eroding Traditional Dutch Liberties”
Court Imports Saudi Rules
Support Geert Wilders
Sending a Signal
Geert Wilders’ Party Faces Bankruptcy
Naming Names
The Case Against Geert Wilders
Modernity? No Thanks!
Filip Dewinter: “An Assasination Attempt on the PVV”
Virginia Tech: The Gun-Free Zone Has Another Murder
Petition in Support of Geert Wilders
The Man Behind the Curtain
A Complaint Against Harry Van Bommel
“I Will Not Stand Trial Alone”
“This is a Black Day for Freedom”
Norwegian Envoy Equates Israel With Nazis
Geert Wilders to be Prosecuted for “Hate Speech”
Reconciliation Between Church and State in the Net...
Den Neuen Lebensraum
Vlaams Belang: U.S. Embassy is “Mistaken”
Vlaams Belang: Persona Non Grata at the U.S. Embassy
Khalid Yasin’s Road Show
Moorish Genes in the Iberian Peninsula
Social Democrats Turn Out for the Terrorists
Anti-Semitic Incidents in France
Suppressing the Right Wing in Germany
The Racist Sentiments of “Moderate” Muslims
The Return of Zyklon B
World Zionism Takes a Beating in Melbournistan
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Australian Festival of Chamber Music Tickets On Sale Now
Australian Festival Chamber Music Concerts Orpheus Island Tama Matheson townsville by Caroline Russo | on April 10, 2016 | 0 comments | in Entertainment | Like it
Australian Festival of Chamber Music Will Be Hottest Tickets To Get.
They are some of the hottest tickets in the country – seats to hear music from the greatest composers, performed by the world’s finest chamber musicians at the acclaimed Australian Festival of Chamber Music – and they are officially ON SALE this coming Monday, April 11 at 9am at afcm.com.au.
Based on member pre-sales, Townsville, the host of the revered event which is now a must-attend on the world’s chamber music calendar for artists and fans alike, is readying itself for a sellout. The 26th Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) will be held from 29 July to 6 August this year, under the baton of acclaimed Artistic Director Piers Lane AO.
Executive Director of the AFCM, Justin Ankus said, “Already the number of Gold and Silver Passes sold has surpassed this time last year, just from members alone. The hottest pre-sale tickets have been Concert Conversations hosted by Piers Lane, Opening Night, Governor’s Gala and the stunning concert on Orpheus Island.”
“All tickets to all concerts are officially on sale from Monday at 9am and we encourage people not to delay. With the program featuring a star studded lineup of 35 individual artists from all over the world, six of whom are making their Australian debut, it’s one of the musical events of the year. Importantly, this will be the 10th AFCM under the artistic leadership of Lane and will be staged in theatres, churches, galleries, gardens and of course the stunning Orpheus Island.”
“Our advice is to buy quickly and start planning your trip to Townsville for July!”
Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville North Queensland
The Australian Festival of Chamber Music is extraordinary, not just as a leading musical event in Australia, but for its place on the world calendar; artists and guests alike attend from all over the globe because of the incredible fusion of music, friendship, experience and celebration the event creates.
The music makers of AFCM 2016
Two celebrated Chinese artists in the charismatic pianist Sa Chen, and the superb cellist Trey Lee lead the artists making their debut in Australia at the AFCM. Others who have never before performed in Australia include Irish superstar pianist Finghin Collins, famed French horn player Hervè Joulain, multi-award winning German violinist Indira Koch, and the acclaimed German cellist Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt.
Returning to what promises to be rapturous applause is Tasmin Little, the effervescent violinist from the UK who so impressed audiences in 2014. She will perform in eight events throughout the festival.
Joining her in returning to the AFCM is internationally acclaimed percussionist and co-artistic director of Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring Claire Edwardes, together with the communicative clarinetist David Griffiths in company with his trio Ensemble Liaison, and one of Australia’s favourite bassists Kirsty McCahon. Bassoonist Andrew Barnes, flautist Bridget Bolliger, violinist Michele Walsh, the gifted and versatile soprano Valda Wilson and one of the most sought after oboists of his generation, Australia’s Nick Deutsch are among other marquee artists.
One of the highlights of pianist Andrew West’s festival program will be his performance with one of the greatest British baritones, Roderick Williams, in Schubert’s masterpiece Winterreise (Winter Journey), while acclaimed guitarist Karin Schaupp will collaborate with the very provocative and charming Australian actor Tama Matheson in the musical adventure special event, Don Juan.
Program highlights include the Opening Night Concert The Trout on Friday 29 July, which promises a musical feast of Ravel, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert, followed by the famed Governor’s Gala the following evening, this year titled The Surprise!
Winter Journey, Don Juan, Opus 127 and the exquisite beach concert on Orpheus Island – a stunning tribute to the festival’s place on earth – are all standouts along with the two church concerts, while AFCM’s famed Winterschool concerts and masterclasses ensure the festival involves, engages and celebrates young talent.
The much-loved signature series Concert Conversations, hosted by Piers over six mornings, will give audiences the rare opportunity to engage in chats with many festival artists. Added to this in 2016 is a concert featuring the winner of the prestigious *2016 Sydney International Piano Competition together with AFCM artists.
Tickets on Sale: MONDAY APRIL 11 at 9am
Festival holiday packages also on sale.
Australian Festival of Chamber Music
29 July – 6 August 2016 | Townsville, North Queensland
www.afcm.com.au | Facebook | Twitter | #afcm16
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Posted on April 1, 2016 by Ian Chadwick
Fixing the shared services agreement
First, some history: for 15 years, Collus – now Collus/Powerstream – had a beneficial, mutually-agreed-on and successful agreement with the town to provide services back to the town at reasonable rates. These were things the town did not or could not provide itself for reasons of cost, staffing, expertise, equipment or interest. It was mutually beneficial to have Collus provide them.
The list of potential services included:
Reconnect & Collection, Meter Reading, Billing & Collecting, Customer Service, Information Technology Management, Data Tracking, Accounting, Engineering, Planning & Necessary Maintenance, Contracting with Developers, Customers & Others, Subcontracting Services, After Hours Response, Normal Hours Response, Emergency Preparedness, Provision of Supervisory Services, HR, Policy Development, Regulatory Assistance, Reporting and Capital Construction Activities.
The town, of course, had to request most of the services, and if they weren’t asked for, they weren’t provided, so the town wasn’t billed for them. What was asked for and provided was billed quarterly. These figures appeared in publicly accessible financial updates and budgets presented to council. Nothing secret here.
True, not all services on that list were provided all the time. That’s because the town never asked for that service. And it wasn’t billed for what it didn’t receive. Got that? No provision = no billing.
The agreement was supposed to be restructured in 2012 when Powerstream took over the 50% share of Collus. But the person responsible for doing so didn’t accomplish it in time and left. But Collus/Powerstream continued in good faith to provide services, billing the town only for what it did.
In fact, Collus employees have always gone well above and beyond what the service agreement stipulated. After all, the employees of Collus are also residents who love and respect their home town and want it to be the best it can be – a level of dedication one doesn’t expect from interim employees.
In July, 2014, the former council called for a new agreement to bring the contract up to date and see if there were any services to add or delete. The interim CAO was tasked with the job of having the agreement examined and recommendations made for it to be updated. Should be a simple task, right?
Instead, it resulted in the now-infamous report by True North and Beacon 2020 that condemned the agreement and Collus, publicly presented to the new council in December, 2014.
Council rightfully rejected the report and asked the consultants to fix it and bring it back with the facts straight. But that’s not what happened. I wrote about this botched report back in February, 2015.
The participants who were interviewed – including me – were asked to comment on the report and provide any corrections. My own response was 27 pages long. In total, more than 100 pages correcting inaccuracies and factual errors were presented back to the town by respondents.
The town administration chose not to include them in the final report to council, or to make them public. Administration didn’t even give them to council to review until under pressure, when they put the responses in a binder marked “confidential, not to leave this room,” secreted in the council mail room. I’m surprised staff didn’t hang a sign on the door warning, “Beware of the leopard.”*
The responses sat in the room for a few days. Number of councillors who actually took the 3-4 hours to sit in a small, airless, uncomfortable room in town hall to read the corrections over a weekend? One. Council received the allegedly “updated” report that in fact had little more than some typos corrected.
Council, now properly misinformed, tasked the interim CAO with crafting a new shared services agreement. The witch hunt was on. More consultants were hired, more of your tax dollars spent on outsiders. Then Expensive Lawyers were retained. The costs spiralled upwards.
A year later, it remains in bureaucratic limbo, but the invoices are still coming in.
(FYI, the town administration would not even allow Collus/Powerstream to respond to the latest report before it was presented to council and the public this week, but that boondoggle will be the subject of another post wherein I will wax lyrical about the bygone days of openness and transparency… last term…)
For more than a year, town administration hounded Collus staff for documents and details that were either provided numerous times or were actually the town’s responsibility to keep (Question: whose responsibility is it to keep council minutes and motions? Hint: Not Collus. Question: who should administration ask to get those records? Hint: Not Collus.)
The administration wanted to know all sorts of irrelevant and immaterial details, such as the salaries of every individual (the total salary costs were always in the annual, audited financial statements, but the administration wanted personal and even private details). The delay in completing the agreement was blamed on the lack of such irrelevant or useless information.
Surprisingly, the administration has not yet asked them what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is because administrators apparently need to know that sort of thing in order to move forward. **
A digression: Collus and Collus/Powerstream employees don’t work for the town. They are not town employees: they are peers and colleagues and should always have been treated as such: with respect. Collus executives report to the utility board, not to town administration. And as a corporation under provincial law, there are legal constraints as to what it can divulge in the way of personal information.
Finally, as we learned on Thursday, the latest draft of this long-overdue agreement is finally in the hands of Powerstream for examination. If the stars and planets all align, it might even make its way back to the town later this month. A version may even be presented to council in mid-May. Almost two years since the former council first asked for it to be investigated.
Meanwhile, Collus/Powerstream has continued to provide services to the town, always acting in the best interests of everyone. Morale, however, has fallen, so I’ve been told.
Several of the services are no long viable because this council split the water utility away from the joint operation with hydro, causing a loss in the revenue for Collus/Powerstream (and additional costs for the town). That will be reflected in dwindling or even loss of dividends from hydro to the town in future years. But hey, it’s only money and council will simply raise your taxes to compensate.
Why you ask, would a town council try to destroy its own business? No one knows. Some beasts eat their own young. Some councils destroy their community. It’s a mystery.
More than a year to craft what should be a one-page agreement seems egregiously long to me. I could have hammered one out in an afternoon, over a beer, with someone from Collus/Powerstream to help with the numbers.
I have two suggestions about how to proceed.
My first is for Collus/Powerstream to tell the town to take a hike and set a deadline for stopping all services to the town under the former agreement. Just walk away.
The town has acted in such an adversarial, confrontational, invasive manner about this that the once good, mutually appreciated and respectful relationship between Collingwood and its utility is in tatters. As I understand it, there is no desire for anyone in the utility to work for or with the town. Most, I’m told, don’t even want to come downtown any more, let alone enter town hall.
So just end it. August 1 looks to me like a good date to say goodbye.
Sure it will cost the town millions of dollars to find replacement employees, hardware and equipment, but that’s clearly what most of this council wants. It’s part of its agenda, otherwise why would they have created such a hostile environment?
Council will have to find money to pay for the fallout from its witch hunt, but they haven’t been shy about raising your taxes to date. Expect whopping tax hikes in 2017.
If that’s not a viable option, then my second suggestion is: draft a short, sweet contract that says something like this:
Here are the hourly rates we will bill the town for the following services if and when the town requests such services from Collus/Powerstream, to be billed quarterly. Overtime will be billed at 1.5 times the rates below, holidays and weekends at 2 times:
Reconnect & Collection, $XX/hour,
Meter Reading, $XX/hour,
Billing & Collecting, $XX/hour,
Customer Service, $XX/hour,
Information Technology Management, $XX/hour…
…Equipment and hardware purchased for the town to provide these services will be billed at X times the market value, plus all applicable shipping and taxes, to cover costs of procurement (1.2x? 1.25x? 1.5X?).
And so on. If you want help with the wording, give me a call. Or feel free to copy and paste the above.
Cut out any service that employees or management don’t want to provide or provides no profitable return. Get a lawyer to add the requisite bureaucratese to make it legal.
That’s all anyone ever needed to do from day one. No confrontation, no erosion of trust, no recriminations and Expensive Lawyers to pontificate in front of council at taxpayer expense.
This has dragged on too long. Time to sort it out and stop harassing Collus.
* From Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
“But, Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the planning office for the last nine months!”
“Oh, yes, of course. As soon as I heard, I went straight round to see them. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call much attention to them, have you? Like telling anybody, or anything?”
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
** From Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
Bridgekeeper: Hee hee heh. Stop. What… is your name?
King Arthur: It is ‘Arthur’, King of the Britons.
Bridgekeeper: What… is your quest?
King Arthur: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: Huh? I… I don’t know that.
Bridgekeeper: Auuuuuuuugh.
King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know.
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call st. johns and im complete. said the admissions committee wont begin making decisions until after the new year called Hofstra and Im complete
call st. johns and im complete. said the admissions committee wont begin making decisions until after the new year
called Hofstra and Im complete
Thursday, December 06 2007 at 11:30 AM
No, I'm applyng regular decision to Hofstra. You might be complete even if you didn't get an e-mail or anything. It may just be taking them a really long time to notify people that they are complete. If you are concerned, I would call them like I did. They will probably be annoyed but its better to be safe than sorry!
- sms
Same Numbers
Saturday, December 22 2007 at 11:05 PM
Hey, we have very similar numbers and are applying to similar schools. Good luck with your cycle, i'll be watching how you do and rooting for both us.
- Senator86
Giasou
Monday, December 31 2007 at 12:56 PM
looks like we are applying to two of the same schools. Good luck Xioti! Happy New Year!
- nomikos86
Saturday, February 02 2008 at 01:10 PM
I'm happy that I finally got a decision in (at the forty-day mark). Don't worry about the Brooklyn decision, I'm confident that you will be receiving acceptances soon. Which is your top choice?
Sunday, February 03 2008 at 08:32 AM
my top choice is UCLA. I am surprised that the law schools you applied to (with the exception of NYLS) are taking so long to render a decision for you. The waiting game is definitely nerve-wracking!
About Brooklyn
Sunday, February 03 2008 at 07:57 PM
I was wondering how they notified you???
- teamfunny
Help? Brooklyn?
Thursday, February 07 2008 at 05:06 PM
Hey, how did you find out that you were rejected from Brooklyn? I applied stupid long ago and still haven't heard!
- Sofya
I found out by regular U.S. mail. yeah they did take a long time
- xiotaki86
Wednesday, March 19 2008 at 01:45 PM
I emailed SJU about my application status today. I can't take the wait anymore!
Monday, March 31 2008 at 07:33 AM
they really are taking extremely long. I had called this past Thursday and was told they don't know when a decision will be given. It's been over three months already. On NYLS, I have heard a lot of good and bad things as well, but as a program it has improved quite a bit. I still have no idea if I will lay a deposit there or not. Have you received an award letter from them yet?
Wednesday, April 02 2008 at 06:26 AM
took a nose dive in the 2009 U.S. news rankings. They dropped 18 spots from last year. This sucks.
Saturday, April 05 2008 at 10:10 AM
Hey, how did you hear from SJU? I have almost the same numbers and havent heard from them as well although I applied early November. Shoot me an email.
- Guest
sorry to hear about SJU but at least you are done with the law school admissions drama. Thanks for the luck, looks like I will need all the help that I can get with these guys. My NYLS award letter hasn't been sent out yet, so I am waiting on that as well. Congrats on NYLS, and I really hope you enjoy it there.
sorry to hear about SJU but at least you are done with the law school admissions drama. Thanks for the luck, looks like I will need all the help that I can get with these guys. My NYLS award letter hasn't been sent out yet, so I am waiting on that as well. Congrats on NYLS, and I really hope you enjoy it there. Keep in touch.
Tuesday, April 15 2008 at 06:12 PM
aside from the $5K academic scholarship, the rest of it is loans. That's just not right. SWU has offered me a lot more money and there tuition is 10,000 cheaper. I'm sending out my withdrawal letter sometime this week (probably Thursday). Now I'm glad that I never put the deposit down. For the time being, I will probably attend Southwestern in the fall unless any of the three schools that I'm waiting to here from will show me some love. Hope you enjoy your stay at NYLS. Definitely keep in touch. My email is on the top.
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Friday, April 18 2008 at 04:45 PM
hey hey, fellow NYLS student :) congrats ! where are you planning on living?
- alimania
Wednesday, May 07 2008 at 01:49 PM
are you planning on riding out the waitlists for SJU and Cardozo?
Friday, May 09 2008 at 09:40 AM
I am definitely interested in them, it's just that it depends on how late in the game they will notify me of an acceptance (crossing fingers). It all depends on the timing I guess.
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Friday, June 20 2008 at 04:13 PM
Hey, congrads on St. John\'s as well. I am also going to be losing deposit money sent to Pace. I don\'t think loans should be a problem. Nearly the same amount in federal loans that you got for NYLS should be given at SJU. You just have to have NYLS release the funds. I\'m kind of worried about getting housing this late and hope that they still have room in the townhouses.
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Armor protection and weapon damage ranges
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Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what protection values others assign to armor and against what typical damage types.
What is your rationale behind having an armor protect against multiple damage types with different values assigned to their types?
Is there a specific range that you use for common and typical armors used in your scenario (instructions for builders)?
When a player has access to a description of the armor (let's say using an identify spell) what kind of information does the player get?
For example, an output might be something like:
This armor provides protection against the following damage types:
Blade - extraordinary
Blunt - poor
Shock - very good
To what values would the descriptions correspond?
Additionally, what are typical damage ranges used with the SetClass() function for weapons in the scenario?
Are there upper and lower limits that are restricted?
I know this is situational for each mud, and I've seen creator documents for other mudlibs, but nothing specifically for an up and running Dead Souls mud. Just looking for some input, or even better, if you have creator documents that can be shared for comparison purposes, that would be great!
quixadhal
Re: Armor protection and weapon damage ranges
Typically, a damage type system has to allow for each weapon to have one (or more) damage types, and then each defensive item have one (or more) damage modifiers... or have every defensive item have values for all types.
Consider real life examples.
Chain mail defends quite well against blunt weapons, and against slashing weapons, but does horribly against piercing weapons, which just go through the links. OTOH, leather armor defends decently against piercing weapons, but falls apart to slashing weapons, and without padding under it, doesn't do much against blunt weapons.
If you're looking at magical damage types, plate mail would be horrible at defending against elemental attacks... heat, cold, lightning.. all would be conducted right through to any exposed skin. Cloth or leather though would insulate the wearer to some degree, but cloth would easily catch fire and leather would become brittle from cold.
Ages ago, when I was designing an original system for this, I gave each armor piece values for "damage absorbed" and "damage passed through". The idea is that every hit had some damage value and type. It would do some damage to the armor itself (absorb), and pass the rest of the damage through to the wearer. By having multipliers, you could make some armor take extra damage (itself) while still protecting the wearer, or other damage types might bypass the armor almost entirely.
Plate mail, for example, would (itself) take very little damage from fire (0.1 absorb), but would also not protect the wearer and in fact, tend to hold onto the heat and increase the damage caused to them (2.0 passthru).
Nilrin
I'm gathering you're simply looking for an idea of where to start as far as integer values for your weapons and armour? Well, in Rebirth, every tangible object that can be worn has at least some protection, albeit extremely small for basic cloth clothing, such as a point or two for most normal damage types (blunt, blade, shock, cold, heat, etc...) all the way up to your plate armours which might have 10 or 20 points defence against things such as blades. When deciding the basic attach values for common weapons such as knives and swords and such, I started with the base values used back in the old AD&D rules, where a basic dagger had a weapon class of about 4, up to your big swords that were around 8 or 10. However, Rebirth is hugely a skill based game, so those values are just the base. Also, keep in mind that, I believe by default, the damage absorbed on a strike is a range from 1/2 the armour value to the full armour value.
I don't mean to get into a medieval armour debate or anything, but technically the term 'chain mail' is a misnomer, as it is simply called 'mail' or 'maille'. This armour, in fact, protects very poorly against blunt weapons, so traditionally they wore kinds of padding under their maille, such as brigandine armour. I realise you were just giving examples quix, I just thought I could put in my two cents.
Lash, any values you go with, in the end, are just arbitrary numbers. The only thing you really want to be care of is choosing a range so small, you end up backing yourself into a corner when designing weapons and armour, or numbers so large that it becomes difficult in getting a feel for exactly how good an item really is.
A better design philosophy is to plan out how you want your systems to work, and then code appropriately.
For example, when figuring out how much experience something is worth, you should be thinking in terms of how many average NPC's a player needs to kill to level. Likewise, for armor and weapons and basic combat systems, think in terms of how long you want an average fight to last under the assumption that the players and NPC's both have appropriate weapons and armor for the fight.
THEN, when you adjust the weapons and armor against each other, you will be adjusting the duration of the fight. If the NPC's have leather armor and the players have slashing weapons, the fight would take less time (more damage gets through).
Years ago, I was trying to design a combat system that still worked mostly like traditional D&D combat, but didn't have the issue where a level 10 warrior could literally wade through a sea of level 2 or 3 creatures and slaughter them by the thousands without taking a scratch. I ran simulations to adjust the values through various combat rounds, and eventually settled on a scaling system that tended to favor the unwashed masses once they got over a threshold count.
Anyways, that's my suggestion. Decide how you want your weapons and armor values to affect combat and write some simulation code to see how adjusting a number changes the dynamic.
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October 19, 2017 October 19, 2017 heritage hub 0 Comments Alan Ormerod, Albert Hall, Bernard Gornall, Bill Armer, Dick Wareing, George Lawrence, Harold Anderson, Harry Lowe, Jack Marsh, Mr John Berry
Well, I’d two brother’s working there at the time and in 1962 I was baker and confectioner with our own business in Berry Lane at Longridge and my father died in ’62 and after that I didn’t want to carry on, I didn’t want to take over the over the business, I wanted a change. So by early ’63 I decided to change my life altogether more or less. They were bringing bigger wages over, my two brothers and that, from Berry’s at Chipping, I thought I can do that, I wouldn’t mind getting into that, you know.
I went to see Mr Berry at the big house [Kirk House] and then I knocked on the door and he said “oh come on, we’ll go and have a walk” he said. So we had a walk out over the brook and up by the dam, walking up there towards, well, towards where Muriel lives I suppose. So we were talking, just general talking it were a nice interview. He was asking me why, why do you want to come here and I just explained I said well I liked doing woodwork and anything like that with my hands and also it’s a good wage, which that made him smile and so, that was sort of it, he never really…. I just sort of got the job, we came back and they just sent for me start on Monday…and that was that the next 16 years of my life, more or less. They were happy, happy days all my family were brought up then.
I might be going to the machine shop with wood work at first, but then he said will you go into the upholsterers, so, oh, that sounds OK, that’s really interesting, just up my street. Harry Lowe were next to me, he showed me how to do a lot and Bill Armer, he taught me quite a bit as well.
Well we used to do anything up to the maximum, one chair was about 15 an hour, we used to upholster about 4 minutes apiece. They were, were they called the ‘crackerjacks’ they used to call them. And then anything down to say 8 or 10 an hour.
I still remember the numbers, they all had numbers. 869’s, 775’s, they were the tapestry ladder backs, 161’s, rocking chairs. I can’t even remember my own telephone number now but I can remember all these numbers from years ago.
They were on these staple guns, pneumatic stapler guns then. They’d just changed over from hammers and tacks, probably a year before, not much more than that. The foreman was Harold Anderson when I went there, Harold Anderson. He came from the Furness area, yea he married someone in Chipping, didn’t he?
Alan Ormerod, he was the next one, he died did Harold and Alan took over and he was there when I left in. I’d been there 16 years in 1979.
But they were struggling I could see, we made a really good wage. It was £10 a week normally and they were making about 17 or 18, so that was the difference, nearly double what everybody else, but, we were working for it really hard, you know, but the rest of the world seemed to keep catching up, but he couldn’t put the prices up and make our wages go up, because he was struggling with the imports even then, you know.
Well he used to come round did old Mr Berry. He used to come “How are you doing are you doing OK?” just like that and carry on and yea, that’s how they were, very friendly. And Jack used to be, when he came round he was flying round wasn’t he, but he’d think nothing of just coming at side of you on the bench and start doing a seat or putting screws in somewhere, he’d just join in would Jack, he was a grand bloke to work for actually. Yea, I admire him in many ways.
The Pools win
The pools, that’s when I realized there were at least 17 of us working there, I was trying to think how many there were. I thought there were at least 17 because I remember making 17 cheques out when we won the pools. Yea we made a syndicate 10p a week and there were 17 of us and everybody kept going down the bench, we all made it different every week and this week it was about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, I’d forgot to make it out so, I think the buzzer had gone, so I’m writing it down quick, got it away to Albert Hall.
Anyway, then on the Monday, this was a Friday, on the Monday someone came, it ed be Jack Marsh have you checked the coupon I think we’ve got 8 draws.I said “They won’t perm” He yea, they’re bound to perm we do a full perm you know we have…..and we checked it up and by Wednesday he said ring up to Vernon’s and try and find out. So I rang up from Berry’s and she said “Are you sitting down?” she says. Uumm and she said you’ve won Twenty Four Thousand something and in 1975/6, might have been a bit later but, em so that was good for all the… happy days, about Fourteen Hundred apiece. That was how I remembered how many worked there. Yea, you know, I think everybody changed their car, well most of them
The Bonus
It was a collective bonus, all the works got the same bonus, the sawyers, right from cutting the tree trunk to em, you know down to the upholsterers and packers and drivers, they all got the same bonus every week. It was worked out by how many were produced, certain models, they had a certain bonus, so it was all worked out like that. So we used to like these chairs that were called ‘crackerjacks’. They were…you could…I think what it was really the machine shop that called them ‘crackerjacks’ maybe it was because they made a really good bonus. They could knock them out and make a good, and every, we knew that when there were a few hundred of those were coming through one week it would be a good wage that week. You know so it was….that was the ‘crackerjacks’.
Berry’s, they always had an annual dinner dance, annual dance really at the Chipping Village Hall and like, all the workers went and their wives and Jack were usually there and Mr Berry, a really nice evening it was. I used to like going. We had a confectioners shop in Longridge at that time and as I say, I was a confectioner, baker and confectioner, and we also did catering, out. Well, we did catering at the Chipping Village Hall and me mother & dad were there working with sandwiches and cakes and tea’s and all that and me mother came to me and she said hey, Mr Berry came ‘round, John, he says to me ,”Are your lads, he says, are they all working?, he said, if any of them want a job tell them to come up and I’ll find ‘em one” So that very nice to say, wasn’t it? to me mother you know, so we always used to get stuck in, you know, we used to work, that was basically it. So that were very nice. It stuck in me mind, she once told me.
George Lawrence used to do all the piping, what they called ‘hide and banding’. The backs of the chairs were upholstered…I actually finished up doing the backs. I don’t know who did ‘em after me, but I did the whole lot, they had a machine for just doing it and eh ..he used to just go round them with a staple gun, just one chap did that, you got that good at it.
It was hide and banding, when you stapled it, it closed up on the staple so you couldn’t see them yea but most of the things were studded, like stools and that, we used to knock the studs in individually.
Longridge to Chipping
I used to think, what a journey from Longridge to Chipping, five mile, it was the nicest journey to work you could ever find, wasn’t it. I can see them going down the motorways now and having to go into Manchester, M60, gosh I wouldn’t have done this. I used to go in seven or eight minutes and we were at Chipping, quiet roads between Longridge Fell there and all the Beacon Fell, it was a lovely journey, wasn’t it? I didn’t mind it at all.
I shot my finger once or twice with the staple gun, but it wasn’t so bad if you shot yourself through the nail you didn’t hurt. But if you did, you pulled it out with pliers quick. I always pulled it out quick, you didn’t feel it, the staples were only like a quarter of an inch long. A chap next to me, Harry Lowe, he were messing about like this and the safety thing said ‘Don’t play about with pneumatic things’ He come up to me like this, on my back and pulled trigger and it stuck in my backside. I said “Hey that stuck in!” I remember it now, it went in, I don’t think it’s done any damage through my clothes. He was a bit miffed, a bit upset about it. I said no it’s alright, I didn’t do owt ….sort of things like that. No the biggest accident was when poor Dick [Wareing] got killed. You know all about that. Yea, I often think about it.
I know a long time ago when they had power cuts, do you remember the electric strike? They’d power cuts. Well, of course, nobody else could work but we just went to the hammer and tacks. We could keep doing a certain amount, couldn’t we, keep doing them. And you know you just put them in every so far. It took a lot longer to do, obviously, but just bang them in.
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This intensive four-day masterclass will be taught in English by one of the most prominent Anglo-American Spinoza scholars today, Professor Yitzhak Melamed from Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with Mogens Lærke, researcher at the CNRS (IHRIM, UMR 5317, ENS de Lyon). The class will be entirely dedicated to the reading of Spinoza’s Cogitata metaphysica. The Cogitata Metaphysica, the appendix to Spinoza’s 1663 book on Descartes’ Principles of Philosophy is a text whose precise nature is still unclear after more than 350 years of scholarship. The nature of this text and specifically the question whether it represents Spinoza’s views at the time of its composition will stand at the center of this course. We will read closely the text in three languages (Latin, English, and French) and attempt to reconstruct Spinoza’s arguments and the philosophical conversations exhibited in the text.
The masterclass is open to doctoral students and post-docs, up to a maximum of 10. We accept applicants from both ENS de Lyon and other institutions, including abroad. . Some prior knowledge of Spinoza’s philosophy is desirable. Active command of English is indispensable.
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August 11, 2019 by Peter T Young 1 Comment
Caste Social Structure
During the period from about AD 1400 to European contact, Hawaiian society underwent a transformation from descent-based (its ancestral Polynesian system) to a state-like society.
The structure that came to characterize Hawaiian society – consisting of a high upper class supported by an underprivileged lower class – was somewhat suggestive of ancient Mediterranean and Asian civilizations, as well as of medieval Europe.
The Hawaiian concept of the universe embodied the interrelationship of the gods, man and nature. The former, although the ultimate controlling influence in this system, granted their direct descendants – the royalty – control over the land, the sea and their resources.
“The condition of the common people was that of subjection to the chiefs, compelled to do their heavy tasks, burdened and oppressed, some even to death. The life of the people was one of patient endurance, of yielding to the chiefs to purchase their favor. The plain man (kanaka) must not complain.” (Malo)
At the time of European contact in 1778, Hawaiian society comprised four levels. People were born into specific social classes; social mobility was not unknown, but it was extremely rare. The Kapu System separated Hawaiian society into four groups of people:
Aliʻi, the ruling class of chiefs and nobles (kings, high chiefs, low chiefs) considered to be of divine origin who ruled specific territories and who held their positions on the basis of family ties and leadership abilities – the chiefs were thought to be descendants of the gods;
Kahuna, the priests (who conducted religious ceremonies at the heiau and elsewhere) and master craftsmen (experts in medicine, religion, technology, natural resource management and similar areas) who ranked near the top of the social scale
Makaʻainana, commoners (the largest group) those who lived on the land – primarily laborers, farmers, fishermen, and the like; they labored not only for themselves and their families, but to support the chiefs; and
Kauwa (or Kauā), social outcasts, “untouchables” — possibly lawbreakers or war captives, who were considered “unclean” or kapu. Their position was hereditary, and they were attached to “masters” in some sort of servitude status. Marriage between higher castes and the kauwa was strictly forbidden.
“As to why in ancient times a certain class of people were ennobled and made into aliis, and another class into subjects (kanaka), why a separation was made between chiefs and commoners, has never been explained.” (Malo)
The aliʻi attained high social rank in several ways: by heredity, by appointment to political office, by marriage or by right of conquest. The first was determined at birth, the others by the outcomes of war and political processes.
“The chiefs were anxious also to preserve the pure blood of their class by arranging marriages between chiefs and chiefesses. …”
The mating to a sister or near relative, which was not permitted to lesser chiefs or the relatives of chiefs, was considered desirable between very high chiefs in order to produce children of divine rank who carried the sacred fire (ahi) tabu.”
“Such a mating was for the purpose of bearing children, but the two need not become man and wife. Thus the chiefs multiplied, thrived, grew, and spread out over the land; but today we are taught that such practices are wrong.” (Kamakau)
“The makaainana were the fixed residents of the land; the chiefs were the ones who moved about from place to place. It was the makaainanas also who did all the work on the land; yet all they produced from the soil belonged to the chiefs; and the power to expel a man from the land and rob him of his possessions lay with the chief.” (Malo)
Power and prestige, and thus class divisions, were defined in terms of mana. Although the gods were the full embodiment of this sacredness, the royalty possessed it to a high degree because of their close genealogical ties to those deities.
The kahuna ratified this relationship by conducting ceremonies of appeasement and dedication on behalf of the chiefs, which also provided ideological security for the commoners who believed the gods were the power behind natural forces.
“If the people were slack in doing the chief’s work they were expelled from their lands, or even put to death. For such reasons as this and because of the oppressive exactions made upon them, the people held the chiefs in great dread and looked upon them as gods.” (Malo)
“Only a small portion of the kings and chiefs ruled with kindness; the large majority simply lorded it over the people. It was from the common people, however, that the chiefs received their food and their apparel for men and women, also their houses and many other things.” (Malo)
Commoners possessed little mana and were therefore prohibited from entering any of the sacred places where aliʻi and gods communicated, such as the heiau in which the upper class honored their gods. Outcasts, with no mana, could interact with commoners but not approach the upper class.
“The commoners were the most numerous class of people in the nation, and were known as the ma-ka-aina-na; another name by which they were called was hu (hu, to swell, multiply, increase like yeast.)” (Malo)
As Handy states: “It is evident that kapu determined and regulated the three castes. For the aliʻi (and kahuna,) the kapu of sanctity was at once a wall of protection and the source of prestige and authority.”
“The same kapu determined for the commoners their social and economic relationship to, and their reverential attitude towards their overlords. As for the kauwa, their segregation and exclusion from the social organism was due to a kapu of defilement.”
This social structure was reinforced by the kapu, the Hawaiian religious, political and social structure that lasted for 500-years. (Lots of information here from an NPS report, as well as others, as noted.) The painting is by Herb Kane – “Council of Chiefs.”
Council_of_Chiefs-(HerbKane)
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Lisp (which stands for "LISt Processing") is a programming language oriented towards functional programming. Its prominent features include prefix-notation syntax, dynamic typing (variables are type-neutral, but values have implicit type), and the ability to treat source code as first-class objects.
Not counting the various machine languages and assembly languages, Lisp is the second-oldest programming language still in widespread use; only Fortran is older. Like Fortran, it has changed greatly since its early days.
Strictly speaking, Lisp is now not a single language but a family of similarly-styled languages with an instantly recognizable appearance. These are known as Lisp dialects; the most well-known are Common Lisp and Scheme.
3 Minimal Lisp
4 Example programs
5 Object systems
7 Genealogy and Variants
Information Processing Language was the first AI language, from 1955 or 1956, and already included many of the concepts, such as list-processing, which came to be used in Lisp.
Lisp was invented by John McCarthy in 1958 while he was at MIT. McCarthy published its design a paper in Communications of the ACM in 1960, entitled "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I". (Part II was never published.) He showed that with a couple of simple operators and a notation for functions (see minimal lisp below) you may build a whole programming language.
Lisp was originally implementated on an IBM 704 computer, and two instructions on that machine became the primitive operations for decomposing lists: car (Contents of Address Register) and cdr (Contents of Decrement Register). Most dialects of LISP still use car and cdr for the operations that return the first item in a list and the rest of the list respectively.
Because of its expressiveness and flexibility, Lisp became popular with the artificial intelligence community. However, Lisp had its downsides as well: programs generate a large amount of intermediate output, which take up memory and have to be garbage collected. This made it difficult to run Lisp on the memory-limited stock hardware of the day. In the 1970s, an increasing user community and generous government funding led to the creation of LISP machines: dedicated hardware for running Lisp environments and programs.
During the 1980s and 1990s, a great effort was made to unify the numerous Lisp dialects into a single language. The new language, Common Lisp, was essentially a superset of the dialects it replaced. In 1994, ANSI published the Common Lisp standard, "ANSI X3.226-1994 Information Technology Programming Language Common Lisp." By this time the world market for Lisp was much smaller than in its heyday.
The language is amongst the oldest programming languages still in use as of the time of writing in 2003. Algol, Fortran and COBOL are of a similar vintage, and Fortran and COBOL are also still being used.
Lisp is an expression-oriented language. Unlike most other languages, no distinction is made between "expressions" and "statements"; all code and data are written as expressions. When an expression is evaluated, it produces a value (or list of values), which then can be embedded into other expressions.
McCarthy's 1958 paper introduced two types of syntax: S-expressions (Symbolic Expressions), which are also called sexp's, and M-expressions (Meta Expressions), which express functions of S-expressions. M-expressions never found favour, and almost all LISPs today use S-expressions to manipulate both code and data.
The heavy use of parentheses in S-expressions has been criticized -- one joke acronym for Lisp is "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses" -- but the S-expression syntax is also responsible for much of Lisp's power: the syntax is extremely regular, which facilitates manipulation by computer.
The reliance on expressions gives the language great flexibility. Because Lisp functions are themselves written as lists, they can be processed exactly like data: programs can easily be written to manipulate other programs. This is known as metaprogramming. Many Lisp dialects exploit this feature using macro systems, which make it possible to extend the language almost without limit.
A Lisp list is written with its elements separated by whitespace, and delimited by parentheses. For example,
(1 2 "foo")
is a list whose elements have the values 1, 2, and "foo". These values are implicitly typed: they are respectively two integers and a string, and do not have to be declared as such. The empty list () is also represented as nil.
Expressions are written as lists, using prefix notation. The first element in the list is the name of a form, i.e. a function, operator, macro, or "special form" (see below.) The remainder of the list are the arguments. For example, the function list returns its arguments as a list, so the expression
(list 1 2 "foo")
evaluates to the list (1 2 "foo"). If any of the arguments are expression, they are recursively evaluated before the enclosing expression is evaluated. For example,
(list 1 2 (list 3 4))
evaluates to the list (1 2 (3 4)). Note that the third argument is a list; lists can be nested.
Arithmetic operators are treated similarly. The expression
(+ 1 2 3 4)
evaluates to 10. The equivalent under infix notation would be "1+2+3+4".
"Special forms" provide LISP's control structure. For example, the special form if takes three arguments. If the first argument is non-nil, it evaluates to the second argument; otherwise, it evaluates to the third argument. Thus, the expression
(if nil
(list 3 4 "bar"))
evaluates to (3 4 "bar"). (Of course, this would be more useful if a non-trivial expression had been substituted in place of nil!)
Another special form, defun, is used to define functions. The arguments to defun are a list of arguments and the expression that the function evaluates to.
Minimal Lisp
A minimal Lisp needs just a few functions implemented in an underlying language (such as machine language, or C on Unix systems):
car -- given a pair, return the first element;
cdr -- given a pair, return the second element;
cons -- construct a new pair with given first and second elements;
quote -- denote an expression as literal, not to be interpreted;
eq -- compare two objects for equality, returning true or false values;
if or cond -- a single- or multiple-condition branch operation; and
some mechanism to define functions, such as Common Lisp's defun, or else lambda and Scheme's define.
All the other functions may be implemented in terms of these -- albeit not very efficiently. Actual Lisp systems implement a much larger set of functions than this.
Here are some examples of Lisp code. While not typical of Lisp programs used in industry, they are typical of Lisp as it is usually taught in computer science courses.
As the reader may have noticed from the above discussion, Lisp syntax lends itself naturally to recursion. Mathematical problems such as the enumeration of recursively-defined sets are simple to express in this notation. This function evaluates to the factorial of its argument:
(defun factorial (n)
(if (<= n 1)
(* n (factorial (- n 1)))))
This is an alternative function, which is more efficient in most Lisp systems because it uses tail recursion:
(defun factorial (n &optional (acc 1))
(factorial (- n 1) (* acc n))))
This function takes a list argument and evaluates to the reverse of the list. (Lisp actually has a built-in reverse function which does the same thing.)
(defun reverse (l &optional acc)
(if (atom l)
(reverse (cdr l) (cons (car l) acc))))
Object systems
Various object systems and models have been built on top of, alongside, or into Lisp, including:
Flavors, built at MIT
The Common Lisp Object System, CLOS (descended from Flavors)
CLOS features multiple inheritance, multiple dispatch ("multimethods"), and a powerful system of "method combinations". In fact, Common Lisp, which includes CLOS, was the first object-oriented language to be officially standardized.
A Lisp system may be implemented using a SECD virtual machine.
Genealogy and Variants
Over its almost fifty-year history, Lisp has spawned many variations on the core theme of an S-expression language. Moreover, each given dialect may have several implementations -- for instance, there are more than a dozen implementations of Common Lisp.
Differences between dialects may be quite significant -- for instance, Common Lisp and Scheme do not even use the same keyword to define functions! Within a dialect that is standardized, however, conformant implementations support the same core language, but with different extensions and libraries.
Note: The following list is a mix of dialects and implementations, and is not in chronological order!
Lisp -- McCarthy's original version, developed at MIT.
Common Lisp -- descended mainly from ZetaLISP and Franz, with some InterLISP input. Prevaling standard for industrial use today.
MacLisp -- developed for MIT's Project MAC (no relation to Apple's Macintosh), direct descendant of LISP.
ZetaLisp -- used on the Lisp machines, direct descendant of MACLisp.
InterLisp -- developed at MIT, later adopted as a "west coast" Lisp for the Xerox Lisp machines. A small version called "InterLISP 65" was published for Atari's 6502-based computer line.
Franz Lisp -- originally a Berkeley project; later run by Franz, Inc.
Gold Hill Common Lisp -- an early PC implementation of Common Lisp.
Coral Lisp -- an implementation of LISP for the Macintosh.
Scheme -- a minimalist LISP originally designed for teaching; an early user of lexical variable scoping rather than dynamic scoping.
AutoLISP/Visual LISP -- customization language for the AutoCAD product.
Emacs Lisp -- scripting language for the Emacs editor.
Oak Lisp -- an object-oriented Lisp based on Scheme.
Cambridge Lisp -- originally implemented on IBM mainframes; published by Metacomco for the Amiga.
the Knowledge Representation System
Lispkit Lisp -- a purely functional ("pure Lisp") dialect implemented on a virtual machine (the SECD machine) and used as a testbed for experimentation with functional language concepts.
http://lisp.org -- Association of Lisp Users
http://alu.cliki.net/ -- Association of Lisp Users Wiki, a general discussion of things Lispish
http://www.cliki.net/ -- CLiki, a wiki about free software in Common Lisp.
http://www.cons.org/ -- a collection of Lisp-related sites
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl -- a GNU cross-platform Common Lisp implementation
Bill Schelter (LISP programmer)
Kent Pitman (LISP programmer)
an interactive LISP course
Design patterns in Lisp
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David A. Bailey MBE came to prominence as one of a new generation of Black photograpers in the UK in the mid to late 1980s. Since then, he has done much work as a writer and curator, working with institutions and organisations, as well as working independently. His projects, both curated and co-curated have included Mirage, ICALondon, 2005; Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London, 1997; Black Moving Cube, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2006, Back to Black, Whitechapel/The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2005. David A. Bailey was for a time Associate Senior Curator at the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) in Londonand was subsequently Curator at Autograph, London. He edited, (with Ian Baucom and Sonia Boyce) Shades of Black, subtitled Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain. Likewise, Sonia Boyce and David A. Bailey’s collaborative work was included in the book Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain. He chaired the “Curatorial Debates Since the 1980s” panel at the Shades of Black conference, 20 April 2001, Duke University.
David A. Bailey, ‘Curator and Founder, Autograph-Association of Black Photographers’ was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2007, for services to Photography.
International Curators Forum
International Curators Forum (ICF) is a network that meets to discuss emerging issues of curatorial practice in the context of key events in the international arts calendar. It offers bursaries and professional development opportunities to curators and works in partnership with key national and international bodies. This program has been conceived to promote opportunities for curators to visit and participate in several major international art events to enable them to network and gain experience for their career development.
International Curators Forum (ICF) and University of the Arts London (UAL) present Diaspora Pavilion, an exhibition to be held in Venice from May 13th until November 26th 2017 at the Palazzo Pisani S. Marina during the 57th Venice Biennale.
The Diaspora Pavilion is conceived as a challenge to the prevalence of national pavilions within the structure of an international biennale and takes its form from the coming-together of nineteen artists whose practices in many ways expand, complicate and even destabilise diaspora as term, whilst highlighting the continued relevance that diaspora as a lived reality holds today.
The pavilion also forms part of the 22-month, joint ICF and UAL project ‘Diaspora Platform’, which is designed to deliver mentoring and professional development by eleven selected mentors for twelve UK-based emerging artists whose work engages with the topic of the diaspora. During the length of the project, these practitioners will take part in group forum, one-on-one mentoring sessions and group masterclasses. The selected participants and eight of the mentors will all showcase their work in the Diaspora Pavilion, in an exhibition curated by David A. Bailey and Jessica Taylor.
Exhibiting artists:
Larry Achiampong | Barby Asante | Sokari Douglas Camp | Libita Clayton | Kimathi Donkor | Michael Forbes | Ellen Gallagher | Nicola Green | Joy Gregory | Isaac Julien | Dave Lewis | Hew Locke | susan pui san lok | Paul Maheke | Khadija Saye | Yinka Shonibare MBE | Erika Tan | Barbara Walker | Abbas Zahedi
The free Masterclasses spotlight the best of diverse cultural leadership as part of the innovative ASTONish programme to supporting emergent and established cultural leaders in Aston and Newtown.
This event is open to all and will include a drinks and canapé reception and networking opportunities.
This masterclass is in partnership with New Art West Midlands and CREATE>.
ASTONish is produced by Birmingham Hippodrome and Lara Ratnaraja in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust and Birmingham City University. It has been made possible through the A&N funding programme.
ASTONish presents Masterclass with Zoe Whitley
ASTONish presents a masterclass with Zoe Whitley, Co-curator of ‘Soul Of A Nation’, Tate Modern. In partnership with New Art West Midlands and CREATE.
ASTONish Evalution Reports
This evaluation report was commissioned by Lara Ratnaraja and Helga Henry as part of the ASTONish programme. ASTONish focused on transforming cultural leadership by selecting creative entrepreneurs and artists both living in Aston and Newtown and those in the wider city who wish to engage with the area culturally.
Lara Ratnaraja and Helga Henry on diversity in the cultural sector
Lara Ratnaraja and Helga Henry give their opinions on the narrative surrounding diversity in the cultural sector.
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Peddling Sub-Saharan Africa’s longest promenade
Words by: Melanie Rosettenstein Images by: Melanie Rosettenstein July 9, 2020
It’s a Saturday morning and, after a flurry of filling water bottles, applying sunblock and hitching up the bikes, my family and I have arrived at Blue Lagoon, the northernmost end of Durban’s famous beachfront promenade. Helmets on, we start our ride southwards to discover the new section of beachfront that has given the city the honour of having sub-Saharan Africa’s longest promenade.
If you’re a people watcher, the Golden Mile, as it’s also known will be right up your alley. This beautiful stretch of beach is buffered by the Bluff headland which marks the entrance to Durban’s harbour in the south and the Umgeni River mouth and Blue Lagoon in the north. Expansive and flanked by road and beach or vegetated on dunes on either side, the beachfront is a living and breathing example of the city’s multicultural status. Dog walkers, rollerbladers, skateboarders, yogis, surfers and stand-up paddleboarders, bodyboarding grannies, sun worshippers, runners, riders, tourists and locals, you name it – the area draws hundreds of people every weekend to revel in the sunshine, swim in the warm sea and connect with their people.
From Blue Lagoon to uShaka Marine World, all is familiar as we ride past restaurants, cafes, fast food outlets and people just doing their thing. The new section starts from Vetch’s Pier near uShaka and extends between the beach and the Point Waterfront development towards the end of the harbour mouth. Known as the Point Promenade, the cleverly designed new 750 metre long by 30 metre wide extension cost R380 million to build and rounds the entire promenade off to a solid eight kilometre stretch. It’s a decent ride for a family of four (kids aged five and seven) and we stop just before we reach the end to grab an ice cream from a beach vendor. Being so close to the headland, the waves are much smaller at this end making it ideal for small children, beginner surfers and dogs that swim.
The Golden Mile has enjoyed both minor and major refurbishments over the past decade and this latest one also includes an amphitheatre, new restaurants and cafes and a new clubhouse for the Durban Undersea Club, or DUC as it’s affectionately known by locals.
Dovetailing with the new promenade, construction of a new R200 million cruise terminal began in December while phase one of a new R3.5 billion multi-use development including a residential, hotel and retail element is expected to begin later this year. The new cruise terminal is expected to attract 150 vessels by 2040, giving tourism a boost and creating thousands of new jobs in the city. The promenade will eventually link up with this new section allowing passengers to disembark straight onto the promenade where everything Durban has to offer is just a few footsteps away.
Our family ride ends at the harbour end of the promenade and the kids look on as a cargo ship cruises past. Iconic and inclusive, this is a very special part of Durban. Not only does it create a sense of community but it also opens our eyes to the big picture of global commerce happening right in front of us.
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NUI Seanad Éireann Election 2011 Information for Electors
The legislation governing the NUI Seanad Éireann elections stems from Bunreacht na hÉireann, Art. 18.4(i). The relevant acts may be referred to as the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Acts, 1937 – 2001.
For the convenience of voters an information pack for graduates of relevant documents is available for download which includes the following:
Registration/Update Form (Irish and English versions)
List of NUI member institutions
Frequently asked questions as listed below
Download Seanad Éireann Information Pack for Graduates
: Seanad Éireann Information Pack for Graduates (357Kb)
What Register of Electors will be in use in the NUI constituency for the April 2011 Seanad Éireann Election?
The Register published on the 1st June, 2010 will be in use.
Who can vote in the NUI constituency?
For the Seanad Éireann Election in April 2011 only those graduates whose names are listed in the current NUI Seanad Éireann Register of Electors, as published on the 1st June 2010, are eligible to vote in the NUI constituency.
How can I check if I am on the current Register?
Copies of the NUI Seanad Éireann Electoral Register are available in the libraries of the institutions within the NUI (see information pack) and in the National Library of Ireland. The register is also available for examination in the reception of the NUI office at 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
If I add my name now will I be eligible to vote in this election?
No. If you apply for registration by the 26th February, 2011 your name will be added to the revised register that is due for publication on the 1st June, 2011 but you will not be eligible to vote in the April 2011 Election.
Can I update my address on the current register?
Yes, a graduate may ensure that his/her details are up-to-date by posting, emailing elections@nui.ie or faxing (+ 353 1 439 24 77) a completed Registration/Update Form (see information pack).
To prevent unnecessary distress to relatives NUI would appreciate being made aware of the deaths of NUI graduates.
Last date for acceptance of changes of address for April 2011 Election:
Monday 18th April, 2011.
Why am I not on the register?
The right to vote is not automatic; it must be claimed. Eligible graduates are required to complete a registration/update form (see information pack) and return it to the NUI office by the 26th February in any given year for inclusion in the revised register published on the 1st June of that year. It is only necessary to register once unless, for one of the reasons given below, a name has been removed from the register.
Are names ever removed from the Register?
Yes, names are removed
on receipt of written request by a graduate to have his/her name removed
* on receipt of notification of the death of a graduate
as provided by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001: ‘after reasonable enquiry by the registration officer, whose address or the address to which the ballot paper is to be sent is unknown’. (S. 56)
A graduate whose name is removed from the Register and who wishes to be listed as an elector again, must submit a Registration /Update Form in the prescribed manner (see information pack). Such graduates will not be eligible to vote in the April 2011 Election
* To prevent unnecessary distress to relatives NUI would appreciate being made aware of the deaths of NUI graduates.
How Can I Register?
Graduates must complete, sign and return to National University of Ireland a Registration Claim Form.
Note: There is currently no provision in the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Acts, 1937-2015, for online registration or for the use of electronic signatures. For this reason there is no facility for online registration.
The downloadable version of the Registration Claim Form (below) may be completed on screen using your computer the claimant should then print and sign the form. The form can then be scanned and attached to an email and sent to records@nui.ie or posted to Records Office, National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Download Registration Claim / Graduate Update Form
Irish Version : English Version
Please download the pdf to your computer (right click and save) and complete the form using Adobe Reader as not all internet browsers support on screen completion of pdf documents
When will the election be held?
Wednesday 27 April, 2011, count will take place at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government will issue an Order, within a week of the dissolution of the Dáil, establishing three dates:
the date of close of nominations, usually approximately three weeks from the date of dissolution, 3 March, 2011
the date of issue (i.e. posting) of ballot papers, 21 March, 2011
the date of the election (close of poll), 27 April, 2011
Once these dates have been established they will be published on the NUI website and in the national press.
The day and hour at which the poll in university constituencies shall be closed shall be the 27th day of April 2011, at 11.00 a.m. (votes must be returned by post)
How will I know who is going forward for election?
The names of the candidates will be posted on this website immediately after the close of nominations. Candiates’ names and details will also, of course, be listed on the ballot paper.
BALLOT PAPER
How and when will the ballot papers be sent to the electorate?
Ballot Papers are sent by registered post on the date set out in the Minister’s Order. Because of the size of the two university electorates - currently 97,734 for NUI, and approximately 54,000 for University of Dublin (Trinity College) - delivery of the registered post may take a number of days from the date of issue. Delivery of ballot papers sent to addresses overseas depend on local postal services.
Each graduate listed in the current register will receive an envelope by registered post containing:-
Declaration of Identify Form/Instructions to Voter
two envelopes
The identify form must be signed by the voter and by a witness and returned with the ballot paper. Failure to return both documents will deem the vote to be invalid. The ballot paper should be placed separately in the small brown envelope marked Ballot Paper Envelope. The brown envelope (containing the ballot paper) and the signed identify form should then be placed in the large white envelope addressed to the Returning Officer and returned by post. No stamp is required if posted within the Republic of Ireland.
The close of poll date will appear on the registered envelope and on top of the Ballot Paper.
Last day for acceptance of completed ballot paper:
What happens if the elector is not at the address to sign for the registered post?
The postman will leave a docket informing the addressee that the post can be collected from the Post Office; if uncollected after three days, the envelope will be returned to NUI. On request, the ballot paper will be re-sent, again by registered post, provided the original envelope has been returned undelivered to NUI. The ballot paper will be re-sent to the same address unless the elector requests a change of address using the Registration/Update Form (see information pack) . This must be sent by post, fax or emailing elections@nui.ie. Preferably changes of address should be notified to NUI well in advance of the issue of ballot papers.
For any further information please contact the National University of Ireland (see details below).
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In 2015, The Sanitation Department determined that most of the department's equipment had more than exceeded its expected useful life and was past due to be replaced. It was realized that cost of replacing the existing trucks and containers would cost the City millions of dollars. It was also realized that the current rates that were established in 2013, were insufficient to meet the obligations and costs involved in rendering sanitation services and would only worsen should equipment replacement occur.
At that time, it was determined that to meet the current and additional obligations and costs all sanitation rates would need to be adjusted. For residential services, this meant that single container rates would need to be increased be $6 to $7 dollars per month, effectively raising the monthly charge for residential service to between $21 and $22 dollars per month. It should be noted that the median residential sanitation rate in Western Kentucky is $22 per month. The City needed to explore other options and sub-contracting the collection work was one of those options.
In October of 2016, The City of Murray contracted with Republic Services, Inc. to provide subcontractor services for the collection of solid waste for the Murray Sanitation Department. Under the contract agreement with Republic Services, in addition to providing the day to day collection of solid waste for the Sanitation Department in accordance with the City's rules for collection, new residential and commercial containers would be provided for all of the City's customers. Furthermore, this would all be provided at a cost to the Murray Sanitation Department so as to allow the City's current rate structure established in 2013 to remain unchanged through the contract period ending in 2021. Unfortunately, this also meant that the City must now enforce its own sanitation rules established under City ordinance that it had failed to enforce in the recent past.
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HBO’s Spike Lee–directed filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia Broadway stage play is set to open the virtual Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10, fest organizers said on Tuesday (July 22). David Byrne’s American Utopia features the Talking Heads frontman and 11 musical artists from around the world performing songs from the 2018 album American Utopia, as well as songs from Byrne’s Talking Heads and solo catalog.
The show ran from October 2019 to February 2020 on Broadway. “This joyful film takes audiences on a musical journey about openness, optimism, and faith in humanity,” Joana Vicente, executive director and co-head of TIFF, said in a statement. All cast and creative for the film, including Byrne and Lee, will not attend Toronto in person, but are expected to appear virtually. And Toronto has yet to name a venue for its first-night premiere, which traditionally has been Roy Thomson Hall.
After launching Toronto, David Byrne’s American Utopia will land on HBO in the fall, and simultaneously on the Crave streaming service in Canada. “David’s poignant vision paired with Spike’s impeccable direction is a visual journey. TIFF Festival attendees are certain to be captivated by this unique viewing experience during these demanding times,” Nina Rosenstein, executive vp of HBO programming, added in her own statement. David Byrne’s American Utopia opening Toronto’s 2020 edition marks the second year running where a movie that will debut locally on Bell Media’s Crave streaming platform is launching TIFF.
Bell Media is TIFF’s largest corporate sponsor. The Daniel Roher-directed documentary Once Were Brothers, Robbie Robertson and The Band, a Crave original, opened Toronto’s 2019 edition. But that’s where comparisons between the Toronto festival last year and a slimmed down TIFF this year end. As Toronto heads online this year, the September event plans in-theater screenings for only around 50 indie titles as well as online screenings, red carpets, press conferences and industry events on a first-time digital platform. And Toronto’s proposed in-theater play for movies, including David Byrne’s American Utopia on opening night, will require a greenlight from city and provincial health and safety authorities.
“The presentation of TIFF’s traditional in-person film festival will be contingent on the province’s reopening framework to ensure that festival venues and workplace practices meet and exceed public health guidelines,” TIFF organizers said on Tuesday. Other indie film titles to be announced so far for Toronto’s 45th edition include Halle Berry’s MMA drama Bruised; Ricky Staub’s horsemanship drama Concrete Cowboy; Francis Lee’s Ammonite, toplined by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan; Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Good Joe Bell, starring Mark Wahlberg.
Cameron Bailey, artistic director and co-head of TIFF, said Spike Lee had captured the cultural zeitgeist with his filmed version of Talking Heads frontman’s theatrical concert. “With David Bryne’s American Utopia, he [Lee] brings Byrne’s classic songs and joyous stagecraft to the screen just when we need it. Spike’s latest joint is a call to connect with one another, to protest injustice, and, above all, to celebrate life,” Bailey said in a statement. Participant, River Road Entertainment and Warner Music Entertainment executive produced and financed Lee’s movie. David Byrne’s American Utopia is produced by Byrne’s Todomundo and Lee’s Forty Acres, and is also executive produced by RadicalMedia.
Byrne and Lee serve as producers. Jeff Skoll, David Linde, Diane Weyermann, Len Blavatnik, David Bither, Charlie Cohen and Kurt Deutsch are also executive producing. And Bill Pohlad,, Christa Zofcin Workman, Jon Kamen, Dave Sirulnick, Meredith Bennett. Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson and Patrick Catullo, who lead produced the Broadway production, also serve as executive producers.
This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.
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London Bridge attack hero could be released early from prison after Queen's intervention
Steven Gallant, 41, was jailed for 17 years in 2005 for beating a man to death
By Lucia I. Suarez Sang | Fox News
UK police identify London Bridge terror attack victims
Two Cambridge University graduates were killed by a terrorist wielding kitchen knives; Gillian Turner reports.
A convicted murderer in England who was praised as a hero after helping to stop the London Bridge terror attack last year could have his sentence cut after Queen Elizabeth intervened.
Steven Gallant, 41, jailed for 17 years in 2005 for the murder of an ex-firefighter in Hull, was on day release attending a prisoner rehabilitation event when he came across attacker Usman Khan.
Police said Gallant used a narwhal tusk to help restrain Khan after he had started stabbing people on the bridge, killing two.
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Khan, armed with a fake suicide vest and two knives, killed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt. He was killed by police.
The Ministry of Justice said Queen Elizabeth employed the little used “Royal Prerogative of Mercy” to bring Gallant’s case before the parole board 10 months early.
The parole board has the final decision.
According to Sky News, Gallant has reportedly expressed remorse for the slaying of Barrie Jackson, who was beaten to death outside a pub. Gallant has also not faced any loss of privileges over the past 10 years, addressed previous substance abuse and is studying for a business degree.
David Merritt, the father of one of the terror attack victims, told the Daily Mirror that Gallant “fully deserves this pardon, or reduction in sentence.”
According to reports, Gallant had become friends with Jack Merritt after they met through his role at a rehabilitation service, mentoring the convicted killer behind bars.
“It is fantastic. He was very close to Jack and he turned his life around and reformed,” David Merritt said. “I am really pleased for him.”
Lucia I. Suarez Sang is a Reporter & Editor for FoxNews.com.
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"This force, as to its value and direction, being ascertained, it will be attempted to show that it, cooperative with the force given, will, among other effects, produce those on which the first and second laws of Kepler are founded will not only give to the times and spaces of "falling" bodies agreeably to the Newtonian law, but will exhibit a reason why bodies must be accelerated in their "fall" agreeably to that law, and finally will not conflict with the third law of Kepler.
"This statement includes the first and second law of Kepler. His third law is, that "the squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun." or "The square of the time which any planet? takes to complete its orbit is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun."
"That the argument, as to the third law of Kepler, gives rise to the curious result of a permitted libration? in the eccentricities of planets, which (the forces in question remaining unchanged in their nature) can only arise from the interference of an extraneous cause." An Essay Upon Force and its Effect Upon Matter
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Paul Stanford is an American political activist and businessman who is also the founder and president of The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation (THCF), THCF Medical Clinics, and the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH).
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Paul is an Entrepreneur with expertise in hemp, cannabis and medical marijuana, and business and nonprofit management. Paul founded and manages medical clinics in several states, and founded and manages national political organizations. In 1988 Paul arranged financing and bank letters of credit for import/export of cargo container shipments of hemp products to and from Asia, Europe and North America.
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In 1988, Paul started Tree Free Eco Paper and arranged manufacture of hemp paper in China and Europe. Tree Free Eco Paper imported hemp paper and marketed to businesses and the public via mail order.
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Since 1999, Paul’s current business The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation has operated medical clinics in 12 states helping patients obtain their state’s medical marijuana permits. THCF has helped over 250,000 patients to date and growing. THCF also produces Paul’s live weekly TV show, Cannabis Common Sense. THCF Medicinal Gardens in Oregon has won many awards for their medicine’s quality. THCF prints a newspaper, Hemp News, which has also been on-line since 1991 and is the oldest online publication still operating today. Hemp News is also available in Spanish.
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Another one of Paul’s businesses, which was founded over 25 years ago is the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of hemp (CRRH). CRRH is a federally registered political committee, a 501c4 under IRS rules. CRRH is working to end adult marijuana prohibition and to restore industrial hemp to a prominent role in the world’s economy. CRRH placed Oregon’s Measure 80 to legalize hemp and cannabis on the ballot in 2012, which obtained 47% of the Oregon vote on Nov. 6, 2012, and continues the political work for global cannabis freedom.
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Paul is an award winning cannabis cultivator and has given away over 200 kilos of free marijuana a year to sick and dying patients over the last 12 years. He grows this medicine in legal medical cannabis gardens licensed by each state that he works in. The THCF medical cannabis garden in Portland, which has been featured dozens of times on local and national news (including CNN), is the most high profile medical cannabis garden in America! Paul grows his medical marijuana using a proprietary blend of techniques that utilize all organic methods to provide the healthiest medicine possible for the hundreds of patients that he helps every year. Some people ask how can he afford to give all this medicine away for free to so many patients, and he always responds to them by saying how can he afford not to help the sick and dying with the medicine they need. Paul considers it an honor and a duty to help medical marijuana patients get the medicine they need.
Paul swept a recent Oregon Medical Cannabis Awards winning the top three places. He took first place with his version of a strain known as Lemon Pledge, second with a strain called Train Wreck, and third with his Dynamite. Paul also won an honorable mention for best flavor with his Green Lantern. Paul continues to grow many award winning cannabis strains and in 2015 he has entered the High Times Cannabis Cup.
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Paul is an associate producer and actor of a comedy adventure film, The Green Goddess.
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Paul continues his political activism today working on multiple fronts and continuing to write, work on and finance legalization petitions in Oregon and other states. He continues to be a leader in legalizing marijuana and hemp in the USA, and supporting global cannabis freedom. Paul is considered one of the most well known and high profile hemp and cannabis activists in the country, appearing in hundreds of print publications and news stories.
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One of the most noteworthy accomplishments in Paul’s distinguished career is when he got Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon who hosts his own show on CNN, to do a complete 180 on medical marijuana. Paul read a story in Time magazine where Gupta came out strongly against medical marijuana telling his readers “I’m here to tell you, as a doctor, that despite all the talk about the medical benefits of marijuana, smoking the stuff is not going to do your health any good. And if you get high before climbing behind the wheel of a car, you will be putting yourself and those around you in danger.”
After reading this article Paul told Anderson Cooper and Joe Johns in May 2009 that he wanted to debate Gupta. He gave Cooper and Johns electronic copies of medical documents on medical marijuana for Gupta, with linked citations to hundreds of studies, organized alphabetically by medical condition.
That’s when Gupta did his 180 and said that marijuana has definite medical value. Now Gupta is probably one of the most high profile people who supports medical cannabis. Check out this video to see Gupta’s change of heart;
Cooper opens the second segment at 4:46 into this video, citing Paul as saying, “…science shows marijuana has health benefits. Does it?” Gupta comes on and contradicts his article published five months before, saying yes, it does. I think it’s fair to say that Paul single-handedly turned Gupta from the dark side. But no one could predict Gupta would become one of our biggest advocates.
And check out this harrowing account from 1983 of Paul’s first arrest as a political activist;
Blocking a Payload of Death
By Paul Stanford
If anyone had told me a week before that I would be in a sheriff’s car handcuffed with a nun, on the way to jail, I probably would have told them they were crazy. But here it was really happening. I had just been busted for laying in front of an armored train that we believe was carrying over one hundred hydrogen bomb warheads to America’s newest nuclear nightmare, the Trident submarines. READ MORE…..
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Queens of the Stone Age, Deadsy & Queeny King rock out at SQ
December 31, 2018 by Marcus Henderson
San Quentin is still on many great musicians’ “must” list of places to perform. Queens of the Stone Age, Queeny King and Deadsy are now among the legends such as Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana and Metallica that have rocked the prison.
The Nov. 16 rock concert was the final leg of the “Villains World Tour 2018” for the Queens of the Stone Age. Villains is the name of the band’s latest album. The band just returned from Australia.
Queens of the Stone Age @ San Quentin
Prisoners filed into the Protestant Chapel by the hundreds, anticipating the powerful guitar riffs and a spectacular lighting show.
Many prisoners had to be turned away due to overcrowding.
Prison staff and administrators, including Warden Ron Davis, were in attendance.
“The prison system isn’t something that’s talked about very much, especially after the sentencing,” said Josh Homme, the band’s founder and lead singer. “I grew up listening to Johnny Cash. I can’t imagine how much light was shined on San Quentin by Cash doing that album.
“It was good for all sides. The inmates, the guards, everybody. So it feels, quite honestly, an honor to come here and play for you guys,” Homme added.
The band’s music was a dark pleasure. It sounded like your favorite vampire movie soundtrack. It was a mixture of soft rock, hip hop and trance music, with a hint of metal.
The band performed in a ray of red fluorescent lights that added to the vampire twilight feel for the concert.
Their song “Winter Time” had a soft thumping baseline with the mood of a vintage ’80s classic. Homme crooned “You live till you die,” sending the large crowd to its feet, drawing energetic whistles and devil horns from the hands of the incarcerated fans.
They performed “Go with the Flow” off their 2003 gold album, Songs for the Deaf. The song is also featured on the video game Guitar Hero.
One of the personal moments for Homme at San Quentin was seeing a childhood friend, Bruce Fowler, a known prison artist. Both men grew up in the Palm Desert area.
“Seeing Bruce was absolutely incredible,” Homme said. “I mean, the surprise of that was wonderful for me. Because that’s a piece of home here for me.
“I’ve had my own troubles in my life and I understand the thin blurry line between being out on the streets and finding yourself in a situation—it really doesn’t take that much,” Homme added. “I’ve been there and I understand that, but I would say this: wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from bad decisions.”
The band consists of Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertia, all guitarists and backup vocalists. Jon Theodore is the drummer. The band rocked the crowd with “The Way You Used to Do” and “The Evil Has Landed” from the Villains album.
Homme’s polished vocals blended superbly with the frantic drumming of Theodore and the guitarists’ high and low riffs. Their stellar playing inspired continuous standing ovations. One inmate even yelled “You got me going ‘White girl crazy’ out here.”
To end the band’s 45-minute set, they sang “San Quentin” to pay tribute to Johnny Cash’s iconic 1968 concert at the prison. The crowd exploded, showing appreciation for both these legends of rock.
“We have a relatively dark style of music, but it’s very personal, very emotional. That being said, I just hope I brought a little light. Just a little bit of light,” Homme said. “In all honesty, I’ll probably take more away than I’ll be able to give.”
Comedian Anthony Jeselink opened for the band and drew tremendous laughter.
“I’m famous,” Jeselink joked. “I’ve been doing this for 16 years. If you don’t know me, you must be in here for doing something really f*#ked up.”
Jeselink recently wrapped up his own tour. He also hosts the “Jeselink Offensive” on Comedy Central.
“Performing here gives us that renegade feeling,” Jeselink said. “We all have felt some kind of oppression. It’s like playing to your own.
“Everybody was so welcoming. You might be locked up but you are still in the mix and, just like everyone else, you guys deserve to be entertained,” Jeselink added.
The electronic rock group Deadsy was next to take the stage. The group hasn’t performed together in 11 years. But lead singer Elijah Blue Allman descends from pop and rock royalty; his mother is the legendary Cher and his father was Gregg Allman, of the Allman Brothers. So after a few tunings of his guitar, his 30-minute set flowed.
Elija Bluen Singing “Last Story Ever”
“Why not ‘come back’ at San Quentin?” he said. “My wife Queeny [King] played here back in March. We’ve been friends with some of the guys in Queens of the Stone Age for a long time. We wanted to do a special gig and this happened.
“Sometimes in life things just come about and that’s the best way. It happened here,” Blue added.
If the Queens of the Stone Age represented the vampires in a Twilight movie, Deadsy was like the werewolves. The group slowed down the musical pace. The stage lighting turned from red to green to purple.
Blue’s love-tortured vocals mixed with the group’s acoustic guitars on “Trouble.” He sang passionately, “The devil’s got my number, but I keep tell- ing myself everything is going to be OK.” Their song “Last Story Ever” received major applause and wild encouragement from Queeny King, who watched her husband perform for the first time.
Deadsy also consisted of Renn Hawkey, keyboardist; Alec Puro, drummer; and Carlton Bost, guitarist.
The ever-infectious Queeny King returned to play for her “boys” as she calls them. She added her brother David Lucius and friend DJ Kaos [Catherine O’Leary] to her alternative pop crew. The duo worked the turntables, while Queeny, singing rap-style, blessed each track.
Queeny King
“I wanted to debut my first show here because that was just on my heart to do,” Queeny said. “Friends of mine usually perform at the Viper room or the Peppermint Club, those sort of low-key trendy places, and I thought, I want to sing at San Quentin.”
Queeny has since performed at those venues but San Quentin still has her heart.
“My boys, the men, that’s my favorite thing about performing here,” Queeny said. “It’s really rewarding for me to do this. I just loved everybody I met.
“I made so many friends and everybody was so cool and I thought f*#k, I need to come back, absolutely,” she added.
Queeny performed “Loaded,” “Freak Show” and “Run for the Hills,” a song about going through rehab. But it was the crowd favorite, “Perfect Day,” that set hands waving and the men singing along.
“See I’ve come this far / made my own wish on a star / It’s a supercalifragilisticexpealidocious day / perfect day,” she sang.
To end this perfect day the entertainers mingled with the men in blue—capping off a magical night.
Dave, Queeny King, Dale
Queens of the Stone Age “Go with the Flow”
Deadsy, Queeny King, and DJ Kaos
David Lucius and DJ Kaos
Josh Hommes with The Queens of the Stone Age
Queeny King and DJ Kraig in front of San Quentin
Queeny performing on stage
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10th annual San Quentin CARES "Walk for a Cure" builds community
December 30, 2018 by David Ditto
Community members, volunteers and San Quentin inmates joined forces the first weekend in October to fight breast cancer at the 10th Annual “Walk for a Cure.” The two-day event featured live music, personal messages, poetry and prayer to entertain and inspire about 100 participants.
SQ CARES – Volunteers and organizers on Lower Yard
The inmate-run program San Quentin CARES (Compassionate Accountability Responsibly Expressed through community Service) organized the “Walk for a Cure.”
SQ CARES is a committee of a dozen inmates and four community volunteers.
Prisoner Rafael “Nephew” Bankston walked for his mother Michelle. She was approved to visit him and see him get his GED, but passed away from cancer the day be- fore his graduation. Bankston expressed the loss he felt in poetry he read to the gath- ered participants, “If home is where the heart is, then I’m homeless.”
Another inmate, Hieu “Rocky” Nguyen has participated in the walk since 2012. He has served on the SQ CARES committee for two years. His sister passed away from cancer 12 years — to the day — before this walk. He walks to support the community, create awareness and remember and honor his sister. He remembers how she held his hand and taught him to read and write in a concentration camp in Vietnam, where there was no school.
Charlie Thao began working with SQ CARES this year. In 2016, he found out that the victim of his crime suffered from cancer. “It felt like a stab in my heart,” Thao said. He stipulated (postponed) his parole board hearing for five years so that she would not have to endure the additional hardship it would cause her. “I want to give back to my community,” Thao said.
SQ CARES – Stephen Pascascio donates hair
Stephen Pascascio is the only one of the 10 founding committee member inmates that hasn’t gone home yet. He cut his 171⁄2-inch-long hair — six years’ worth — on stage during the event Saturday to symbolically support a program that provides wigs for cancer patients.
Women and men — incarcerated and free, wearing pink wristbands and pink ribbons — walked and talked together on San Quentin State Prison’s Lower Yard. Pink T-shirts mingled with blue state prisoner shirts in a unified community event to improve the quality of life for women with cancer.
Volunteer Tammy Crane walked for her sister, whose cancer has been in remission for six years. “This will not be the end of me,” Tammy shared with the crowd, reading her poem relating her sister’s difficult decisions dealing with her breast cancer. “I’m here six years later… with flowing sister locks, flawless skin and fully reconstructed,” she read to the crowd.
Each day of the Walk for a Cure, the participants began with “a lap of silence to remember those that we have lost to breast cancer, to stand in solidarity with those who are currently fighting, and to pay homage to the survivors,” as announced by the emcee Edmond Richardson. Richardson walked in the event for the first time this year. He walked to give back to a community that he took so much from and to “do something bigger than myself.”
Community volunteer Kim Bailey co-founded SQ CARES 10 years ago. She highlighted the importance of establishing connections between prisoners and the outside community. Bailey sees the volunteers that walk with the inmates leave with a different, more positive perception: “It gets them to see that people in here are just like them.” Bailey also walks in remembrance of her sister who died at age 45 after undergoing treatments for breast cancer.
Regarding the money raised by SQ’s “Walk for a Cure,” the other co-founder, Chris Bailey, husband of Kim Bailey, said that there are bigger donors, but the way this money is raised — community building — really makes a difference: “The little dollars can make a bigger difference.” Most inmate participants donate $5 for the cause — some making as little as eight cents an hour.
Bailey asks, “What if everybody gave a week’s pay to the cause?”
Community volunteer Shannon Gordhamer was working in San Quentin at Center Force when she was invited to join the SQ CARES committee four years ago. Gordhamer enjoys volunteer- ing with SQ CARES because it keeps her connected with the people inside even though she doesn’t work in the prison anymore. “Community building is extremely important,” she said. She also volunteers to support improving the quality of life for women with cancer, a cause that is very important to her personally.
Gordhamer also worked for Avon, a previous beneficiary of funds raised by the Walk. She recruited and trained men and women preparing for their 39-mile walks. Gordhamer has also done that walk on the outside, but she says that the walk at San Quentin is “at the top of my list.”
“This is my very favorite event that I have done,” she said. Why? “Amazing work is being done here,” Gordhamer said.
When people come in to the prison to walk, they are inspired by the heart and commitment of the incarcerated participants. She says the soul overflows to bursting and, “you get more than you give.”
The newest community volunteer committee member is Samantha Feld. She worked for the San Francisco AVON walk to end breast cancer for years and recalls hearing of the prison program from Gordhamer. Very intrigued, Feld decided to visit San Quentin a few years ago, for the ceremonial presentation of the SQ CARES check to the AVON walk. “I was so struck by the stories that I was hearing,” she said.
Impressed by the work of the men on the SQ CARES committee, Feld was inspired to join the prison walk team herself. This is her second year walking with the San Quentin inmates and is now an official committee member. “Miss Sami,” as she is now called by them, recognizes that cancer affects everyone – across walls, borders, and communities. She said, “I’m very proud and honored to be working with the committee. It’s a very inspiring group.”
Over its 10 years, the event has raised more than $45,000. That is “amazing!” said Penny, the chair of the board of directors of the Women’s Cancer Resource Center (WCRC) in the East Bay. The event raised about $4,000 this year to support the center’s mission of improving the quality of life for women with cancer. The WCRC provides 100 percent free services.
“There are thousands of people in the Bay Area who support the center. Every event is special, but there is something about this one,” Penny said. “We can only do this work because of you.”
Bailey has seen Walk for a Cure raise a lot of money over the last 10 years.
“Our primary mission is to create a community-building social event,” Bailey said. By walking together with a common cause, he explains, “We connect with each other and our humanity.”
—Marcus Henderson contributed to this story
The reporter also walked to honor his sister, who suddenly became very sick with cancer this year. “My sister Doreen has always been there for me, and always will be,” he said. She has decided to discontinue her cancer treatment. “I walk thinking of her beauty and love, and praying for her comfort and health.”
Filed Under: Health and Wellness, Health Care, Human Interest, Prison Programs, Recently Posted Tagged With: SQ CARES, Women’s Cancer Resource WCRC
Homeless center helps to reduce overdoses of addicted teens
December 30, 2018 by John Lam
A homeless center for youths in San Francisco has found success reducing overdoses and helping addicted teens find sobriety through harm reduction.
“(We) now have a suboxone clinic at our syringe access site! This is a huge lifesaver, removing bureaucratic roadblocks from the paths of people who want to get off opiates,” said Mary Howe, executive director of Homeless Youth Alliance (HYA) in San Francisco.
“Now young people, who are in withdrawal, can come to HYA’s site—a place where they already feel safe—and have a consultation with our physician, who, after evaluating them, can immediately call in a prescription to be picked up at a nearby pharmacy.
“And because of the close trusting relationships we build with youth, we’re able to help them build on the momentum of getting treatment, by helping them navigate the challenges of recovery, find safe housing, get mental health counseling, and so much more.”
Suboxone is commonly prescribed by qualified physicians to help opioid addicts reduce or eliminate withdrawal symptoms, according to the California Association for Alcohol and Drug Education.
One of the program’s success stories is a former addict Audry.
“HYA was practically the only place I could go and not feel like a piece of meat or a piece of s***,” she said. (They) cared for me until I cared for myself and fought for me to fight for myself. Letters to jail, accepting phone calls, going to court dates…free snacks, ’cause you know no dollars went to food and if it wasn’t free, I didn’t eat.
“Mary and company showed me what it feels like to show up for others and myself. HYA made getting clean and giving back look desirably punk rock.
“HYA kept me alive long enough to actually build a life I don’t want to escape from.”
Audry is now sober, married and a devoted mother and music photographer working in San Francisco.
“I love Audry’s statement because it underscores what HYA’s really about. As someone with a similar history, I was able to change the direction of my life in large part because harm reduction taught me that there’s something truly subversive and rebellious about proving hate and dismissiveness wrong, and showing kids like me should be invested in, not written off,” Howe said.
HYA Outreach Counselors and therapists work on the streets in the Haight Ashbury and Castro neighborhoods, where transient youths are often found in San Francisco.
“Our counselors…help young people process and troubleshoot the daily traumas they’re dealing with: overdose, HIV and violence, to serious health conditions from having no dry socks or access to showers,” Howe said.
“These young people are dealing with the day-to-day traumas of homelessness against a backdrop that’s getting darker and scarier.
“All we can do is to continue to let them know they have a safe haven (with) us. We provide that haven, even though, almost four years after the lease termination that put us on the street, we still don’t have a drop-in-center where youth can take a shower, eat a hot meal and get a moment of respite. The loss of our space continues to deeply affect the neighborhood as a whole.”
Despite having many challenges, HYA counselors in 2017 managed to make 9,368 contacts on outreach and held 954 individual one-to-one sessions. In addition, 596 youths attended 44 creative and educational groups, according to data given by HYA.
“To continue to meet the growing need…due to lack of indoor services in this neighborhood and lack of affordable housing in San Francisco—we need your help,” Howe said.
“When you donate, you enable us to hire and retain the very best and most effective staff…your support means dry socks, healthy snacks, Narcan training (opiate overdose reversal drug), which saves hundreds of lives. In short, your support means opportunities given, lives changed, and lives saved,” Howe added.
To donate or for more information contact:
Tides Center/Homeless Youth Alliance
San Francisco, CA 94117 www.homelessyouthalliance.org
Any amount is encouraged.
Filed Under: Health and Wellness, Recently Posted, Youth Offender Tagged With: Overdose Victims, San, San Francisco, San Francisco’s intravenous drug users, Youth Justice Coalition
Former youth offenders start Kid CAT program at Lancaster
December 30, 2018 by Joe Garcia
The successful San Quentin Kid CAT program for youth offenders is expanding to Lancaster Prison, thanks to help from three former inmates.
“It was really the guys inside’s hunger to get the program,” explained Tommy Winfrey, who left San Quentin in 2016. “There was a hunger there to change their lives. I saw the same concern and willingness to change that I witnessed during my time at San Quentin.”
Kid CAT alumni Winfrey, Philip Melendez and Anouthinh Pangthong recently visited Lancaster to help them start their own Kid CAT chapter. After paroling from San Quentin, the three men continue to advocate for awareness of youth offender programs. They reported on their work via e- mails to the San Quentin News.
Lancaster Community Resource Manager Erika Lane reviewed Kid CAT’s First Step curriculum and looked for successful members who could become part of the orientation process. The inaugural group at Lancaster consisted of 30 youth offenders, with a growing wait list.
“We’ve set up nine members who are going to facilitate the curriculum and develop the group in as close of a model as we can get it to the San Quentin group,” said Melendez, released from San Quentin in 2017. “I’m still continuing the restorative work that I learned in Kid CAT.
“I couldn’t come home and forget about the experiences of survivors or the experiences of folks who are in prison. The healing needed on all sides is what motivates me.”
“I’ve often heard that programs like Kid CAT can’t operate and affect change on a level IV yard, but I believe that sentiment is wrong,” Winfrey remarked. “People want to be a part of a community. They want to change for the better; they want to go home and be productive members of society.”
“On the Level IV, there are some programs, but not enough to meet the needs of the long waiting lists of guys who want to participate in programs,” added Melendez, who flew to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
“I didn’t get paid to do this; in fact, it cost me money,” said Winfrey, who lives in San Diego. “I did it because I was once one of those guys on a Level IV yard with nothing to help me change—no hope and the feeling of being forgotten.
“I wanted those guys to know there is hope, that they are not forgotten, and have a program that can help them see that reality.
“Since returning to society, I have been working in the field of juvenile justice reform, and this is an extension of the work I am committed to.”
“At the end of our two-day visit, we went around and checked out,” Melendez noted. “They all were super grateful and inspired by our stories.
“We told them about the charitable and restorative work we did at SQ, and I even talked to their community resource manager about the Hygiene Drive, Amala Walks, food sales and Project Avary. The guys at Lancaster will definitely be able to create these events and are anxious to start giving back.”
“I hope those guys will take charge of their destiny, join the conversation about justice in this state and country, and realize how they ended up in the place that they did,” Winfrey said. “I hope that the group grows and changes the culture of a yard so much so that critics look at them as a model of what is possible and don’t say they don’t deserve anything.
“These guys are not their actions, and they can be better tomorrow—just like the guys on Level II yards. They just need hope in their lives, and I believe that is what we left them with.”
Filed Under: CDCR, Institutions, Juvenile Justice, Prison Programs, Recently Posted, Youth Offender Tagged With: Kid CAT branch, Kid CAT Childhood development program, Lancaster
Kid CAT banquet honors the forgotten voices of youth
Kid CAT celebrated the “forgotten voices” of youth at its 2018 annual banquet.
“Tonight’s Banquet was about bringing awareness to the youths, who think that their voices are not being heard and are afraid to express how they feel to their parents or caretakers,” said Si Dang, Kid CAT chairman.
Kid CAT is a group of men who committed their crimes as juveniles and are serving adult sentences.
Capturing the night’s theme of “forgotten voices” was a series of speakers, actors and musicians who dug into the topics of foster care, homelessness and restorative justice.
Speaking about homelessness was Kid CAT member Chase Benoit, 23.
“I became homeless at 9 years old and although it only lasted a few weeks, the impact will last forever. My dad tried his hardest to make it fun like an adventure, but even then I knew something wasn’t right,” Benoit said.
Chase Benoit
The last time Benoit was homeless was at the age of 19, six months before he committed his life crime. He slept in cars, on couches and in a tent.
“We had nowhere to go. I had no one but my brother. If it weren’t for him, I probably would’ve starved to death,” Benoit said.
“Being homeless taught me that I can get through anything. Now I want to help other homeless youth find their voice because they are not alone.”
Addressing community efforts to help homeless youths was Stacy Sciortino, program director of the Community Assessment and Resource Center from Huckleberry House in San Francisco, which assists more than 1,000 runaway youths each year.
Stacy Sciotino
“A lot of these kids are misunderstood. Their traumas are often masked by acting out,” Sciortino said. “Instead of judging them, let us embrace their challenges and help them so that they won’t feel unheard.”
Youth offender Thanh Tran, 24, spoke about his journey from foster care to prison.
“I was placed into foster care at 2 years old because my mother was addicted to crack cocaine,” Tran said.
Along with growing up without a family, Tran spoke about being bullied in school and neglected by his foster parents, which led him to make a decision to join a gang.
“It is now my goal to continue to work with at-risk youths and give voice to the voiceless, so that they won’t end up here like me,” Tran adds.
Speaking on the topic of school violence was Tommy “Shakur” Ross, 52, Kid CAT member.
“School violence was at the root of my self-destructive ways,” Ross said. “At six years old, I was sexually molested on the way to school by a stranger.”
After the assault, Ross stated that his life spiraled out of control.
After a series of other traumatic assaults growing up, Ross made a decision to join a gang and committed a gang- related murder at 19 years old; this resulted in the retaliation murder of his mother and younger brother.
“Nothing and no one made me commit my crimes…But I can’t help but to wonder, how could my school-to-prison pipeline experience be prevented?” Ross added.
Giving the keynote address was paroled Kid CAT co-founder Neighp “Ke” Lam.
“Three years ago, I was sit- ting in the audience wearing blue just like you. My inmate number was J-52482. I know what it’s like to be hopeless and not knowing when I will get the chance to go home. So if I can make it out, you can too.
“I’m still doing the work, helping to pass legislation for youth offenders. Know that you are not forgotten, and we’re waiting for you out here,” Lam added.
Capping the night of forgotten voices was Kid CAT member Jason Samuel, who spoke about having a restorative justice dialogue with his victims.
“I was nervous and in disbelief when Tom Morgan, the police officer who I tried to kill on April 13, 1997, wanted to meet me in a victim-offender dialogue,” Samuel said.
Speaking at the banquet on behalf of Christy Morgan, Tom’s wife, was dialogue facilitator Martina Lutz Schneider, who read a letter from Ms. Morgan.
“I had viewed Jason as a monster for trying to kill my husband, and I was afraid of him. In May of 2018, I was able to witness a dialogue between him and my husband. Jason was humble and apologetic. He hugged Tom and cried! This was when I knew that he was not a monster but a changed man,” Ms. Morgan wrote.
“The path of Jason’s journey gives me happiness and hope, for that I am eternally thankful.”
Upon reflection, community guest and Project Avary volunteer Jon Deleon, said. “It was really moving and humbling to hear everyone’s story, the men were authentic and vulnerable.
Closing out the event was Kid CAT co-founder Phang Thao, 42.
“As Kid CATs banquet draws to a close, we all heard powerful themes which touch on children’s ‘forgotten voices’ and how these voices caused street and school violence in our communities,” Thao said.
“As Kid CAT passes along these grains of insight, it’s you, the men in blue, outside volunteers, and guests’ responsibility to nurture the growth of children. We can all do it through intervention, prevention, and mentoring our children into responsible adults.”
David Inocencio
Filed Under: Featured, Juvenile Justice, Most Read, Youth Offender Tagged With: Kid CAT branch
Rival teams join forces for All-Star basketball game
December 30, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas
Wives, fathers, girlfriends, sons, fiancés, brothers, and old friends surrounded an outdoor basketball court bordered by barbwire to experience the community atmosphere at San Quentin State Prison during its first annual All-Star game. The team picked by Quentin resident Allan McIntosh won 94-87.
Allan Mclntosh cheering on his SQ Lakers squad
“When you guys bring your family in here, that means a lot,” Brian Asey, general manager of the SQ basketball program, said. “You brought in people that you care about to see the people that you care about. It’s a testament to what we’re doing in here.”
Robert “Bishop” Butler, who paroled seven months earlier and visited to attend the game, added, “I spent 13 years on this yard. It’s like a family reunion.”
Butler was one of the four formerly incarcerated men that returned to attend the game.
Community member Griffin Reilly, a former overseas pro, brought his fiancé, Olivia Mountz.
“He (Reilly) told me he could bring family in and I wanted to come and see what he was doing in here,” she said. “I was a little scared at first because of my expectations but it was fun. Everyone was really nice.”
After her outing at the prison, Mountz added that from now on she will have a lot less prejudgment.
Normally when Reilly visits to play basketball at San Quentin, he plays against the Warriors and/or the Kings 40 and over team.
On Oct. 6, members of every community team in the basketball program – Prison Sports Ministry, Imago Dei, Lincoln Hill, Trailblazers, Shoe Palace, Bittermen, SQ Kings and SQ Warriors – were invited to take part in an all-star game, complete with play-by-play announcing and a rap half-time show. The outside community members were allowed to bring family members and girlfriends inside with them to watch friendly rivals suit up to play on the same teams with incarcerated men. Former pros and college hoopers played side-by-side with street ballers.
“It was a dream come true; the best part was that I didn’t know who was free and who was incarcerated,” Geoffrey “Free” Gary (Trailblazers) said. “That’s the dream and beauty of basketball.”
Green Team sponsor Patrick Lacey, a Claremont- McKenna alumni, who brought his mother, father and girlfriend, suited up for McIntosh’s team, the SQ Lakers, although they were coached by Ceasar “C-Money” Mc- Dowell, who normally heckles him every time he plays against the Warriors.
“I’m pumped about this,” Lacey said. “I’ve been playing against these guys for six years. I’m going to set so many screens for (McIntosh).”
Even Golden State Assistant General Manager Kirk Lacob, who McDowell once told, “Your team is gonna lose for firing coach Mark Jackson,” played for the Lakers.
“All his (McDowell’s) tough love was just toughing me up for this moment,” Lacob said with a smile on his face then added, “(McIntosh) as a GM would give Bob Myers a run with that team that he put together.”
The other members of the Lakers were David Liss, Jon Williams, Dan Wohl, Nick Newman, Ben Bergsma, Anthony Ammons, Mark Stapp, Steve Lamb, Tom Tunny and Tyrrell Price, Sr.
“We had the school yard picks,” McIntosh said. “The guys I picked were the guys I enjoy playing with. The decision wasn’t talent only.”
SQ King Oris “Pep” Williams, the oldest player on the court at 57, acted as the team captain for the Warriors. As teammates he picked Reilly, Teohn Conner, Erv Anderson, Dejon Joy, Ryan Steer, Jamal Harrison, Damien Crosby, Dominique Thompson, Rafael Cuevas, Ian Ashcraft-Williams, Tevin Fournette and Danny Brown.
For the day, Jeff “Hoov” Heitman (Trailblazers) coached the Warriors.
“It was his first career loss as a coach, but today wasn’t about winning or losing; it was a celebration of the program,” Steer (Trailblazers) said.
However, nobody told the players the game was just a celebration. Both teams played with NBA finals in- tensity, showing out in front of family and friends starting with a basketball skills challenge.
Gary won the skills challenge by dribbling through cones, making a free-throw and throwing passes in the fastest time of 19 seconds.
“That’s because I’m here,” Gemma Mondala, Gary’s lady friend, said.
Gary added, “She’s my inspiration. I’ll be darn if I bring a cutie like that and don’t show out. I have to show what I’m working with.”
In the first quarter, with Reilly, Conner (a former ABA semi pro player) and SQ Warrior Fournette starting, the Warriors appeared to be too much for the Lakers. The Warriors jumped out to a 23- 10 lead.
Imago’s Teohn Conner and Erv Anderson suited up as Warriors
In the second quarter, the Lakers took the lead by raining three-pointers. Liss (Prison Sports Ministry), and Gary nailed two each. By half-time, the Lakers led 43-42.
“We came out soft,” Patrick Lacey said. “Coach Ceasar yelled at us a bit and we got it going. It was a big comeback – we had to get the win for coach Ceasar.”
At half-time, the formerly incarcerated men who returned as productive citizens spoke.
Danny Cox played for both the Warriors and Kings before paroling five years ago. On the outside he struggled his first two years but read the bible every day and received support from the people he once played basketball against in prison. Now he works at Tesla as a shift leader.
“This program has blessed us immensely,” Cox said. “All these cats don’t just articulate, they demonstrate if we need them. Who does everything they can to come into a prison? They love you, give them love back.”
Timothy “Detroit” Long returned wearing a Detroit Lions jersey. The former SQ King now teaches at Five Keys Charter school.
“It feels great to be back; it gives cats an opportunity to see success from a man who did 26 years,” Long said. “You can get a job. Ain’t nobody out here going to look at you funny.”
As an alarm sounded, Aubra-Lamont “Coocoo” McNeely, a former SQ King, who returned dressed in brand new Jordan basketball sneakers, an Echo hooded shirt and black shorts, emphasized the difference between now and a few years ago.
“I ain’t got to get down no more; that’s over with,” he said, referring to the rule that every incarcerated person has to sit on the ground when an active alarm, signaling that a disturbance is happening somewhere at the prison, sounds.
McNeely advised the guys that they should seek to parole to the San Francisco area because the city offers formerly incarcerated people lots of support. McNeely has two jobs including working for a homeless shelter.
Prison Sports Ministry sponsor Bill Epling commented that his goal is to see everyone who plays for the program parole and never come back. Then he gave Don Smith all the credit for recruiting him to be part of the program.
Smith responded by reminding Epling of the time he blocked his shot.
Larry Blum, of Blum Inc, who donated $7,000 worth of San Quentin Kings and San Quentin Warriors t-shirt to be sold to raise money for the San Quentin Honor Guard and athletic programs attended the game. He proudly wore a San Quentin Kings t-shirt.
As the second half started, Trailblazer Aidan Coffino, sat on the bench wishing an injury didn’t prevent him from playing. Next to him sat his father Michael, who played for City College of New York back in his days.
“I figure I’ve been talking about it for so long,” Coffino said. “It’s one of those experiences you can’t describe. He’s given me basketball and so I’m giving him this day from one basketball lover to the next.”
Michael commented, “This is amazing, inspiring. There’s so much hope in here.”
The hope M. Coffino referred to was evident on the faces of the men serving life sentences yet still included in the community. However, the Warriors’ comeback attempt as hopeless as Wohl, who played pro in Israel, went off in the second half.
The Warriors, who were ahead as much as 15 in the first half, found themselves behind 13 points with under two minutes left in regulation.
Steer nailed a three to close the gap to ten. Then the Warriors fouled to stop the clock as Reilly tried to put them on his back. He scored seven points in the final minutes but the Lakers kept making enough free-throws to keep the lead and win the game.
Reilly led all scorers with 24 points and 10 rebounds. Conner added 16 points and 10 rebounds followed by Fournette with 11 points.
Tevin Fournette trying to dribble past Geoffrey “Free” Gary
Five Lakers scored in double digits. Wohl scored 20 points with 10 rebounds and 2 assists. McIntosh added 19 points, Liss 16, Lacey 13 points with 13 rebounds and Gary 11 with 8 boards.
“It was a great experience,” Williams, whose team lost, said. “The atmosphere with them bringing their people in was real nice. I’m hoping this is the beginning of a great tradition.”
-Vincent Turner and Gemma Mondala contributed to this story.
Filed Under: Recently Posted, Sports Tagged With: basketball
21st century solutions to 20th century problems
December 29, 2018 by San Quentin News Staff
They came from all over the prison and the nation. Scholars dressed in standard blue prison uniforms walked down a staircase that leads from the cellblocks, while a group of civilians hiked down a ramp that leads from a courtyard just inside the entrance to the prison to meet on the San Quentin Lower Yard for the Prison University Project’s first ever academic conference.
The conference, called Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reform: 21st Century Solutions to 20th Century Problems, was organized by Amy Jamgochian and consisted of nine panels, where teachers, lawyers, advocates, formerly incarcerated women and incarcerated scholars presented their ideas on higher education access and criminal justice reform.
“Each panel had a lot of quality,” said Judy Appel, a Berkeley Unified School District board member who attended the conference. “The PUP students who spoke had the most deep and helpful analysis into the problems and solutions. Their nuances, as a policy maker, made me think about how we should be working more with folks inside on policy solutions.”
The panels took place in separate Prison University Project (PUP) classrooms, the study hall and even the San Quentin News room. Broken into two sessions, five panels took place in the first 90-minute period, four panels in the second.
Each panel member, guided by a moderator, presented separate ideas on focused topics. They covered “Histories and Narratives of Incarceration,” “Precursors to Prison,” “The Fine Line Between Help and Harm,” “Bodies and Control, Developing Agency in the Community,” “Alternative Methods and Materials,” “Alternatives to Incarceration,” “Incarceration and Intersectionality: the Experiences and Analyses of Formerly Incarcerated Women” and “Hurdles to Re- entry.”
Gabby Falzone, Xenia Cox both from UC Berkeley
In the room where Precursors to Prison was discussed, Jesse Vasquez, a PUP student sat on a panel with Xenia Cox, founder of Paroled to College and graduate student at Rutgers University School of Education who co-authored Using Resilience Theory and Trauma-Informed Practice to Disrupt the School to Prison Pipeline. She flew in from New Jersey just for the conference. Also on the panel were Brita Bookser and Gabby Falzone, both from the University of California at Berkeley.
“Jesse killed it,” Adnan Khan, founder of First Watch, said. “That’s one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard.”
Vasquez delivered a passionate, researched talk sprinkled with his own personal experiences in a presentation called Public Education: A Head Start or a Setup.
“The school-to-prison sewage system starts with state-mandated core curriculums and standardized testing and ends with penal statutes that criminalize ignorance and trauma,” Vasquez said. “Since children cannot identify with the academic presentation of reality, they seek an alternative. Gangs usually meet a youth’s need for identity and community.”
On panel three: The Fine Line Between Help and Harm, PUP student James King and coordinator Heather Hart gave a joint presentation about how the savior complex in prison rehabilitative programs upholds the status quo. The powerful speech made other panelists rethink their positions.
“Academics can and should be strong partners with us in facilitating criminal justice reform—we need partners who will enter prisons, work with incarcerated people to develop alternatives to incarceration and develop pathways for us to engage with outside communities,” King closed his speech saying.
“Hold on, I need a minute because I feel like you were talking about me,” one panelist said.
Nayeon Kim, an attorney and PUP instructor, considered King’s and Hart’s speeches the best she heard that day.
“It was great discussion about internal decolonization work that people should do to stay ahead of the system,” Kim said. “It called people to hold themselves accountable to true needs, spoken by people who don’t need anyone to feel bad, they need partnerships.”
The panels took a short break for lunch, where the guests were served the same thing the incarcerated men get about three times a week—boxed peanut butter and jelly lunches.
“Being here was hard for me,” said Lily Gonzalez, who spent two years in solitary confinement while incarcerated. “When I saw the peanut butter and jelly, I gagged. I knew it would be triggering, but I came because the reality I believe for myself isn’t the one I’m experiencing right now. I’m here for people in here, not because I validate institutions but because I’m willing to go through hoops to have the interactions.”
One woman visiting a prison for the first time opened up the boxed lunch, took out the bread and started eating the plain bread. When asked why she didn’t put the peanut butter and jelly on the bread first, she answered, “I thought the sandwiches were premade.”
In the second session of panels, one dealt with Incarceration and Intersectionality: the Experiences and Analyses of Formerly Incarcerated Women. The members were Venus Rountree, a currently incarcerated transgender person, Karen Shain, the moderator and three formerly incarcerated women: Kathleen Culhane, Lily Gonzalez of Revolutionary Scholars at Cal State Northridge and Romarilyn Ralston.
Ralston shared her experiences from serving 23 years at the California Institute for Women State Prison. There she enrolled in college. Upon release, she obtained two graduate degrees and works as a coordinator for Project Rebound, through which formerly incarcerated people get college degrees. She has been home for more than seven years and off parole for two.
Montrell McDuffie, a 20-year-old PUP student, teamed up with PUP coordinator Alison Lopez to present a paper on Sounding Educated: Education at a Correctional Institution about the wisdom of letting students submit papers in their own English dialects.
“As an African-American I already have negative perceptions and less of a chance at succeeding than going to prison,” McDuffie said. “Part of the reason I struggled in English was because I felt that having to write ‘grammatically correct’ was not me.”
After the final round of panels ended, the only complaint was that everyone couldn’t hear all the panels. PUP has posted a short video from the conference on their website (prison university project.org).
The conference ended with a speech called “Reimagining Justice Everywhere from the Prison to the Classroom” by Associate Professor Patrick Elliot Alexander, a teacher at Mississippi State Prison (Parchman) who wrote From Slaveships to Supermax.
Dr. Patrick Elliot Alexander of University of Mississippi
Alexander, originally from Dayton, Ohio, took the job at Parchman because he wanted to get proximate to the problem. He described Parchman as a place where the men serving time wore the same striped uniforms they did during slavery and worked in the fields picking vegetables for pennies an hour. Yet the men he interacts with are scholars.
“Every day my students repeat ‘I’m a student, I’m a teacher, I’m a scholar, I am capable.’ Now imagine doing that at Parchman at the top of your lungs,” Alexander said.
After his speech, a Native American reminded the audience that Indians also suffered greatly in this country.
“You forgot one minority—the Indian. He does six times more time than the White man and more time than the Blacks,” said Hector Heredia, Native American chaplain. “When you talk about slavery, you have to remember Indians were the first slaves.”
James King closed out the conference by thanking everyone who helped make it possible and expressing hope for more to come.
“This conference was a great experience, and I’m hoping that it leads to more academics coming into prison to work with incarcerated scholars to work on solutions to incarceration,” King said.
PUP student Angel Falcone presenting his paper to Conference Attendees
Anahi Beltran of SJSU presenting the Record Clearance Project
PUP student Kelton O’Connor with Dr. Anum Glasgow
Lilly Gonzalez, IWP
Dr. Sol Keely, University of Alaska and James King, PUP student presenting
Kimberly Connor Stanford University, Dr. Farah Godrej, UC Riverside
PUP Academic Conference Tammy Appling-Cabading Saint Mary’s College with PUP students
PUP Academic Conference Laura Wright of the Record Clearance Project Services
Filed Under: Education, Featured, Most Read, Prison Programs Tagged With: Prison University Project
Native Hawaiian Religious Group holds annual feast
December 29, 2018 by Wayne Boatwright
San Quentin was treated to a Hawaiian celebration of food, laughs and music.
About 75 prisoners and two dozen Bay Area community members enjoyed the annual feast of the Native Hawaiian Religious Group (NHRG).
“This is the second best thing to having a spread on the yard,” said inmate Romeo Pacos. The gathering reunites Asian and Pacific Islanders and created a spirit of companionship beyond any normal prison experience, said Pacos.
The broad smiles of the Pacific Islanders were evident as they dined, danced, chanted and sang at the Sept. 27 event.
The feast honors the tradi- tion that three months out of the year, war was forbidden, and it was a time for renewal and celebration, explained the group’s sponsor, Patrick Makuakane.
Each of these three promoters leads a group that contributed to the feast:
ORIGAMI GROUP – JUN HAMAMOTO
The tables were decorated with white cloth covers and assorted color origami flowers made by the San Quentin Origami Group.
“This group gives me guidance”
“Without her support, we wouldn’t have any programs,” said a number of members.
SPIRITUAL CHANT & DANCE GROUP – PATRICK MAKUAKANE
Makuakane teaches chants, which further complement the singing and dancing to the upu heke – a double-headed gourd played like a drum.
Men entered the chapel floor with a Hawaiian call and stood on either side of Makuakane as he welcomed the guests. Next, the men performed a dance with swinging hips and dexterous arm movements like shooting arrows in various directions.
Ukulele Group – Adel Serafino
Serafino, known by Auntie Adel, runs the music group that engages the men in singing and playing the four-stringed ukulele and the eight-stringed ukarere.
“What you need to know is how dedicated these guys are. I’m so proud of them. Our hope is that their performance will inspire others to join with our community,” said Auntie Adel.
“I found out about the group from my godbrother, and he invited me to a concert of the program and I got hooked to learn how to play,” said Jerome Hermosura, imprisoned since 1995.
He is the newest member of the group, but was still invited to play a three-song set. “Auntie Adel gives us of her time and culture, and we are so grateful. She brings a sense of peace in a tough environment,” Hermosura said.
Auntie Adel invited all of San Quentin to join the group on Saturday afternoons in the chapel area. “We now have plenty of donated ukuleles; come join us,” she said.
After the mandatory prison count, the feast was served, consisting of Tara root, sweet potatoes, barbecued chicken, peas, lettuces, chow mein, coconut and Tara tapioca deserts, topped off with assorted cookies.
The Native Hawaiian Religious Group reports it guides multicultural prisoners on a path toward self-discovery and is open to all inmates.
The group’s members presented different elements of the Pacific Islander traditional and with a confirmation that “This group gives me guidance to understand all races, not just my own.”
The highlight of the feast was Makuakane’s outside dancers. Some of them have danced for his troupe for 25 to 30 years. The dancers moved gracefully and mesmerized the audience as their upper bodies swayed like seaweed underwater, their lower bodies like waves clashing onto the shore. A ukulele played and guided their movement as if their bodies were strings of the instrument.
Each dancer wore a floorlength colorful dress with multiple seashell necklaces and a blossom in her hair. They all shared an open smile. It was the dancers first time performing in a prison.
Hula dancers performing at Makahiki 2018
As an encore, the incarcerated men and dancers lined up together, dancing in tune and out of tune, mimicking a hot iron dipped into cold water. Perfection was not an expectation and fun was shared as the audience shouted encouragement to all the dancers as they moved to the music.
—David Lȇ contributed to this story. Boatwright
Filed Under: Arts, Music, Recently Posted Tagged With: Asian Prisoner’s Support Community, Hawaii
Damaging effects on female prisoners’ care and critical services
December 29, 2018 by Achilles
Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is plagued by staff shortages that are having damaging effects on female prisoners’ care and critical services, re- ported Jeff Mordock of The Washington Times.
The BOP is experiencing a shortfall of trained staff nationwide. This shortage has prompted the Justice Department’s Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz to call for an increase in trained prison employees because it has been restricting the access of female prisoners to necessary care and services.
“The lack of sufficient staff is most noticeable at larger female institutions,” according to a report written by Horowitz.
For example, it is BOP’s policy that female prison- ers may only be searched by female correctional officers,
but the shortage does not allow this policy to be enforced because female correctional officers cannot be at each post where searches are conducted.
“Staff shortages are more complicated with women prisoners because it’s compound- ed when you have male correctional officers in positions where women are required to do the strip searches,” said Kara Gotsch, director of Strategic Initiatives at the Sentencing Project.
Horowitz’s report stated that 90 percent of the female population would benefit from trauma treatment, but the insufficiency of staff makes such treatment virtually impossible.
Staff shortages combined with overcrowding has result- ed in the use of cooks, teachers and civilian employees to perform guard duties.
There are an estimated 7,100 open positions at federal prisons across the country. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has 37,237 civil positions and 19, 073 correctional officers. However, these numbers could be reduced by the Trump administration’s 2019 proposal.
“The BOP will determine the appropriate level of staff- ing that should be allocated to the women and Special Populations Branch, based on an analysis of its broad mis- sion and responsibility,” said Hugh Hurwitz, acting director for the Federal Bureau of Prisons
According to Gotsch, however, the best solution to this problem is sentencing reform for women with low-level offenses.
“There is never enough money in the federal budget to adequately care for prisoners if we have significant overcrowding and maintain this high-level of incarceration,” Gotsch said.
Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care Tagged With: Federal, incarcerated women
Incarcerated women bringing #MeToo movement to prisons
December 29, 2018 by Lisa Strawn
Women on the outside are doing their work to bring incarcerated women into the #MeToo movement. According to a piece from The Fire Inside, the newsletter for the California Coalition of Women Prisoners (CCWP), more than 80 percent of incarcerated women are survivors of sexual abuse or violence.
The piece asserts that the threat of sexual abuse increases when women are behind bars and usually these women don’t have anyone to whom to report their trauma. Now, a national movement around sexual violence is reaching them.
“Fear and shame kept me quiet when I was abused,” Rita Marie Lewis said in the news- letter article titled, “Incarcerated Women Say #MeToo.”
The #MeToo movement represents a moment of exploding social awareness around sexual harassment and violence by people in positions of power. According to the article, women who fight against this violence can wind up incarcerated.
“I understand why people keep quiet about the abuse they suffer,” Lewis said.
She explained that there is a fear of becoming labeled a whistleblower or a liar by what she refers to as the ‘good old boys’ network. “Most women do not lie about abuse.”
In a poem written for the newsletter, Alisha Coleman, Program Assistant for the CCWP, opens up about her experiences being abused as a free, and later incarcerated, woman.
“I was just a kid when he did what he did,” Coleman writes. “I was a baby who had a baby and ended up in prison to be abused again by my alleged protectors. ‘Protect and serve’ is such a joke!”
CCWP is a grassroots campaign, led by loved ones and advocates who seek to educate and mobilize the public to demand an end to abusive and discriminatory behavior be- hind prison walls. Their legal team is continuing to collect stories from other prisoners about incidents of sexual abuse
Filed Under: Institutions, Legal Tagged With: incarcerated women
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Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York Attendance: 43,602
Stanton homers, Paxton wins 10th straight as Yanks top Jays
(AP Photo/Michael Owens)
By JAKE SEINER
NEW YORK (AP) The oft-injured Yankees started Saturday with a rare positive medical report. Then they got something even scarcer this year - a signature, soaring home run from Giancarlo Stanton.
Stanton connected for the first time since missing nearly three months to injury, James Paxton won his 10th straight start and New York beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-2.
New York manager Aaron Boone was ejected after another tangle with a rookie umpire, and the 101-win Yankees got promising news shortly before first pitch when an MRI of Gleyber Torres' achy right hamstring came back negative.
Two years after leading the majors with 59 homers for Miami, Stanton hit just his second of the season leading off the sixth against reliever Brock Stewart.
"Have to relearn how to jog around the bases a little bit," he joked.
Stanton also had an RBI double in the fourth. The 29-year-old has only played 12 games this year due to biceps, shoulder, calf and knee injuries, and he is hitting .300 in 40 at-bats. He was replaced defensively in the seventh inning to manage his workload in his third game since coming back.
"It's always good to get some results in your first few games back and feel like he's stringing some good at-bats together," Boone said.
The AL East champions entered with a major league-leading 294 homers.
Paxton (15-6) allowed an unearned run while pitching three-hit ball over six innings. The left-hander threw just 87 pitches and has a 2.25 ERA during his winning streak, the longest in a big league season since Justin Verlander's 12 for Detroit in 2011 and for a Yankees pitcher since Ron Guidry's 11 in 1979.
"I don't know if I've ever had a stretch quite this long," Paxton said. "I've had some good stretches in the past, but this is probably the longest stretch I've had."
The Blue Jays ended a five-game winning streak, which matched their best this season. Toronto batters struck out 15 times, including on their last five outs and 10 of their final 11 as shadows extended between the plate and the mound. Jonathan Loaisiga punched out five in two innings, and Chad Green struck out the side in the ninth.
Boone watched nearly all of it from the clubhouse. The second-year manager shouted profanities from the dugout at plate umpire Jeremie Rehak - a call-up from Triple-A - after Stanton struck out looking against T.J. Zeuch to end the first inning. Crew chief Joe West quickly booted Boone from third base, and Rehak also tossed Yankees hitting coach Marcus Thames.
"I was just upset within an at-bat where G's coming back and I felt like there were a few in there in his at-bat where it kind of got taken away, so I just got animated," Boone said. "The bottom line is I probably wasn't going to get thrown out from Jeremie. I was starting to walk away and the confrontation happened with Joe."
It was the fifth ejection this year for Boone, including his memorable "savages" tirade at rookie umpire Brennan Miller in July - Yankees players routinely wear T-shirts commemorating the rant. New York was already peeved with West over his strike zone Friday night, when Brett Gardner argued vigorously after a called strike in the ninth.
New York slugger Aaron Judge doubled leading off the fourth and scored on Stanton's two-base hit. Mike Ford drove in Stanton with a single two batters later for a 2-1 lead. Ford had three hits and two RBIs.
Stanton's homer sparked a four-run inning that included RBI hits by Clint Frazier and Kyle Higashioka.
Zeuch (1-1), a 6-foot-7 sinkerballer making his fourth big league start, took advantage of Rehak's low strike zone to rack up six strikeouts in four innings. He allowed two runs and four hits.
"The one to Stanton, I thought it was a good pitch, a good spot," he said of a down-and-in sinker. "Just probably maybe the wrong pitch at the wrong time."
The Yankees will still be careful with Torres despite the encouraging diagnosis. The star second baseman slipped and fell awkwardly fielding a ground ball Friday night. Torres was not in the lineup Saturday and won't play Sunday either, but he said he feels good and just wants to "be smart."
The 22-year-old leads the team with 38 homers and is hitting .284 with 90 RBIs and an .889 OPS, and he's among the few New York players to avoid the injured list this year. The Yankees have six games remaining before their postseason opener Oct. 4.
Blue Jays: SS Bo Bichette remained in concussion protocol after being hit by a fastball on the bill of his helmet Thursday and also won't play Sunday. Toronto is optimistic he'll return this season.
Yankees: DH Edwin Encarnacion (oblique) could return to the lineup during the upcoming midweek series against Tampa Bay. He's a bit ahead of C Gary Sanchez (groin tightness), but Boone said Sanchez could be back for the final regular season series at Texas.
Yankees RHP Luis Severino (0-0, 0.00) makes his second appearance after missing most of the season with a lat injury. He pitched four scoreless innings against the Angels on Tuesday in his season debut. Toronto will pitch rookie RHP Trent Thornton (5-9, 4.93), likely after an opener.
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Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, North Carolina Attendance: 55,860
NC State's defense gets 8 sacks in 16-10 win over Syracuse
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By AARON BEARD
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The sacks kept coming, one after another, for North Carolina State's defense all the way to the finish Thursday night.
The Wolfpack battered Tommy DeVito for eight sacks, the last coming from Larrell Murchison in the final seconds to seal a 16-10 win Thursday night.
The Wolfpack (4-2, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) led all night and by as much as 16-0 in the third quarter before having to come up with a final stop to maintain its hold on the win. Fittingly, it came on the play that the Wolfpack made a habit in this one, with Murchison dragging down DeVito on a third down that left the Orange (3-3, 0-2) frantically trying to get another snap off against a dwindling clock with no timeouts.
Instead, they were flagged for a false-start penalty with 2 seconds left, prompting a clock runoff that ended it.
"I thought we showed a lot of stamina at the end, getting that sack to close out the game," Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren said. "The defensive staff I thought really put together a great gameplan and the kids executed it well."
Going back to an eight-sack effort in the last game against Florida State, N.C. State now has a program-record 16 sacks over consecutive games. That surpassed the previous mark of 14 against Virginia and North Carolina in 1982.
That's a pretty good early return on a move to a 3-3-5 defensive scheme, while linebacker Louis Acceus also credited defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable's work.
"It's all Coach Hux and his crazy scheming, these blitzes he's drawing up," said Acceus, who had three sacks. "Everybody's crossing here, crossing there, crossing there, and somebody's going to end up open."
DeVito managed to stay upright to the end despite the constant pressure, connecting with Trishton Jackson for a 2-yard touchdown with 3 minutes left. Then the Orange forced an immediate three-and-out to get the ball back with the chance to win, though it ultimately only set up the Wolfpack's final stat-padding takedown.
"They were well-prepared after the break, and we've got to find a way to regroup," Syracuse coach Dino Babers said.
Syracuse: The Orange had at least regrouped from lopsided losses to Maryland and then-No. 1 Clemson with blowout wins against Western Michigan and Holy Cross, though they had been dealing with numerous injury concerns. That included DeVito, who left the last game early in the fourth with an upper-body injury - then took a beating in this one behind an offensive line that struggled to block anyone.
Asked about DeVito's potential limitations from injury, Babers said: "I saw a young man who was out there battling, trying to help us win."
N.C. State: The Wolfpack emerged from an open date with a new quarterback and plenty of practice reps to fix problems from the losses to West Virginia and Florida State. It was good enough on this night to win, and bring plenty of cover for the Wolfpack's offense that lacked any big-play potential under first-time starting quarterback Bailey Hockman.
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Hockman replaced Matthew McKay as the starter for this one and completed just 16 of 27 passes for 205 yards with an interception on a screen pass.
"I've just got to get better," Hockman said. "That's the only thing on my mind right now, just keep working and keep getting better."
N.C. State's only touchdown came on a double-pass, with receiver Thayer Thomas connecting downfield with Trent Pennix for a 32-yard score shortly before halftime. Hockman's first two drives ended in field goals from Christopher Dunn, who added another kick in the third quarter for the Wolfpack's 16-0 lead.
DeVito and the passing attack had to carry the offense for Syracuse considering the Orange managed just 41 yards rushing on 37 attempts (1.1 per carry). That came against a defense that entered the night ranked sixth in the Bowl Subdivision ranks against the run at 71.8 yards per game.
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The Wolfpack lost starting cornerback Chris Ingram to an apparent leg injury in the first half, joining a depleted secondary already without Nick McCloud and Taiyon Palmer.
Syracuse: The Orange host Pittsburgh in a cross-divisional league game next Friday.
N.C. State: Boston College hosts the Wolfpack on Oct. 19.
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Top Penny Stocks To Watch Today; 5 Energy Names Up Big Premarket
September 29, 2020 at 09:32 AM EDT
These Energy Penny Stocks Are Flying High On Tuesday
We’ve come to know that penny stocks in the energy sector have gotten major attention this month. If you remember last week, we saw alternative power take hold of the stock market. Everything from EV penny stocks to power production stocks and everything in between was captivating investor interest. One of the key drivers to that was Tesla’s Battery Day and statements regarding the mass expansion of EV technology.
Fast-forward to this week and that trend has continued holding strong. Monday we saw several solar, natural gas, and alternative energy stocks begin climbing. That has carried through into Tuesday’s premarket with countless names making new highs before the opening bell. Yesterday we saw the acquisition between Devon Energy and WPX wake things up even further, wrapping in oil and natural gas in the mix of energy names capturing attention.
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This morning, the small-cap sector continued seeing momentum in the sector with another big industry deal. One of the low float penny stocks that initially sparked attention was U.S. Energy Corp. (USEG Stock Report). Based on filings, USEG shows an outstanding share count of less than 2 million shares making it an incredibly low float stock.
Energy Penny Stocks To Watch Today
The company’s shares closed under $5 on Monday. However, by Tuesday morning, USEG stock was trading as high as $22.51. What was behind this initial jump? The company announced entry into an asset purchase agreement and closed on a transaction to acquire certain assets of FieldPoint Petroleum Corporation.
U.S. energy was able to acquire these assets pursuant to Fieldpoint’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy process. Proved Developed Producing reserves were estimated at approximately 237,263 barrels of oil equivalent. According to the company, the proved developed producing reserves at a present value are estimated at $2.5 million.
Considering that the company acquired these assets for $500,000 in cash, this could prove beneficial to the company. U.S. Energy also announced that the company entered into a $375,000 Secured Promissory Note with its largest shareholder, APEG Energy II, L.P. So, keep this in mind as well especially considering the huge move in price the stock has made during premarket hours. Needless to say, this was just one of the recent events sparking further interest in oil and gas penny stocks on Tuesday.
Penny Stocks To Watch: Houston American Energy
Houston American Energy (HUSA Stock Report) is another one of the energy penny stock surging during Tuesday’s premarket session. The company’s recent focus was on its activities in the Permian Basin area of the U.S. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company had to pause operations.
Last month, Houston American restarted drilling in this area. Furthermore, earlier this month, in Hockley County, TX, the company announced that its total acreage block increased from 5,871 acres to 6,336 acres. Houston American Energy owns 20% of the block. The operator has informed Houston that drilling operations were planned to begin on September 18, 2020.
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Aside from these recent updates, Houston American hasn’t released any further information in recent weeks. Like we saw last week, this could be sympathy with the rest of the sector’s big move. Keep this in mind if HUSA stock is on your list. Premarket momentum is great but it’s only great if it can continue into the open. All too often, we’ve seen premarket gapping stocks fall apart at the open. Will that happen with HUSA or can this trend continue into the week?
Penny Stocks To Watch: Enservco Corp.
It isn’t just operators taking flight premarket. The pick and shovels of the sector are also benefiting from this sympathy momentum. Enservco Corp. (ENSV Stock Report) is among the list of penny stocks meeting those criteria right now. The company provides oilfield services, including hot oiling, acidizing, frac water heating and related services. Monday the company grabbed early attention after inking its latest deal. It wasn’t to expand operations, per se, however, it did reposition it financially.
The company closed its refinancing agreement with East West Bank. According to the company, the refinancing “significantly strengthens Enservco’s balance sheet by cutting its bank debt nearly in half and increasing shareholders’ equity by approximately $17.5 million.”
ENSV is one of the lower-priced names on this list. As one of the stocks under 20 cents right now, shares gapped up from a previous close of $0.1556 to premarket highs of over $0.17. What’s more is that yesterday saw a similar surge. ENSV stock gapped up pre market to highs of $0.24. However, once the opening bell rang, the penny stock slumped. Will that be the case again today or will sector momentum help propel things a bit?
Penny Stocks To Watch: AYRO Inc.
One of the energy penny stocks unrelated to oil and gas has also taken flight today. AYRO Inc. (AYRO Stock Report) manufactures light-duty, urban and short-haul electric vehicles. This morning the company announced the formation of a strategic manufacturing, engineering and design partnership with Karma Automotive’s Innovation and Customization Center.
The deal will see Karma provide its expertise and manufacturing services to AYRO for its next generation of light duty vehicles. Greg Tarr, chief strategy officer at Karma Automotive said, “AYRO has a large footprint in fleet and commercial vehicle applications and they are helping us to better understand that space as we expand into new commercial sectors that can benefit from our sustainable vehicle solutions.”
AYRO has been one of the EV penny stocks to watch for a while now. July was a huge month for this company and we actually were there right from July 2nd when AYRO stock was still under $3. It ended up skyrocketing to highs of $8.18 before going through a consolidation period. Given the state of EV stocks right now, and this news, will AYRO stock manage to remain in this uptrend heading into the week?
Penny Stocks To Watch: Mid-Con Energy Partners Lp
Mid-Con Energy Partners Lp (MCEP Stock Report) is another one of the energy penny stocks taking off on Tuesday. It’s also another one of the relatively low float names on this list. Similar to others on this list, MCEP stock has benefited from sector sympathy today. There hasn’t been any new updates from the company in weeks.
The company develops and produces oil and natural gas properties. The company’s properties are located in Oklahoma and Wyoming core areas. Like most oil and gas companies, the name of the game is capital preservation. While there’s been a lack of public info on the company, recent filings show some interest by several firms including Stallings Management. Other than that, we’ll have to see if sympathy momentum continues pushing shares higher today or if MCEP stock pulls back at the open.
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Rowan After Hours hosts first ‘RAH Seussical’
Sanjana Kondapalli
On Saturday, Mar. 2, Rowan After Hours (RAH) hosted a brand new event, ‘RAH Seussical,’ which not so coincidentally fell on “Read Across America” day.
In this spirit, RAH held a book exchange, where donated books were available for students to take. However, the main focus of the night was to celebrate the impact and legacy of Dr. Seuss.
Activities were abundant throughout the Student Center, including DIY magnetic poetry, a photo booth, a ball pit and cotton candy (like the Truffulas in the Lorax!). RAH’s signature midnight food bar was present yet again, featuring Dr. Seuss’s most famous food, green eggs and ham.
Molly Leenas (junior early education major), Jessica Huth (sophomore elementary education major), Olivia Wright (sophomore elementary education major) and Tanaya Toupe (freshman elementary education major) hold down their club’s booth. -Staff Writer/Sanjana Kondapalli
The night’s co-sponsor, the Elementary Education Club, offered remarks about Dr. Seuss.
“His creativity with making up his own words and characters is just a way for anyone, children or adults, to have a love for reading, in his own world, and it makes reading that much more fun,” said the club’s secretary, Molly Leenas.
The Elementary Education Club helps with the professional development of early elementary education majors. Educators across the nation have started the Read Across America challenge in elementary schools where children are challenged to read as many books as they can within a limited amount of time. Many students have to track the books that they read, typically on a chart in the school or classrooms tallying the total.
Dr. Seuss’ books scattered across a table at ‘RAH Seussical.’ -Staff Editor/Sanjana Kondapalli
“Our ultimate goal is to have all our education students come together to learn off each other with our future classes,” Leenas said.
The club posits that reading is heavily linked to a child’s early development, and they wanted to share this important concept with the rest of Rowan to get the name of their club out there. Further, there was a desire to encourage Rowan students to read more while also celebrating the brilliant mind of Dr. Seuss.
“We’re hoping that some education majors who may not have known about our club would come here and see the goal of those prizes is that they can take it into their classroom and teach it themselves,” Leenas said.
Rowan After Hours “RAH Seussical” in the Student Center Pit March 2nd. -Staff Editor/Sanjana Kondapalli
Even in planning this event for the first time this year, there was a goal of reminding students about the importance of reading.
“I feel like in college, not a lot of people have time to read for fun, so we are trying to encourage people to pick up a book once in awhile, not because you have to,” said RAH’s student program coordinator, Joseph Scafiro.
Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!
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Except for an interest in colorful views on the screen, this was the first real evidence that Fuzzies possessed color perception. He proceeded to give further and more impressive proof, laying out the stones by shade, in correct spectral order, from a lump of amethystlike quartz to a dark red stone. Well, maybe he'd seen rainbows.
H. Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy
"Please be very careful. You said in your evidence that the prisoner, when told she would be charged, cried, 'To think that I should have come to this! Will no one save me? I suggest that she went up to you with her collection of purchases, pulled out her purse, and said, 'What does all this come to? I can't get any one to serve me." "No." The obstinacy of some people!
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne - The Holiday Round
And while ancient wisdom made all depend on the arbitrary and fanciful notion of Divinity, oppressing reason and conscience, and arresting progress through fear of an invisible master, the new philosophy, reversing the method, trampling on the authority of God as well as that of man, and accepting no other yoke than that of fact and evidence, makes all converge toward the theological hypothesis, as toward the last of its problems.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon - System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery
As the Commander turned to go he spoke again: "By the way, that fellow I gave ninety days to yesterday was there a woman in the case, d'you happen to know? There was nothing in the evidence, of course, but I wondered " The Commander paused while the busy brain searched among its dockets.
Bartimeus - A Tall Ship
On Other Naval Occasions
The clear, broad and deep vision of these great possibilities in the mission fields will alone overcome selfishness and apathy, awaken interest, stimulate energy. The field-secretary is the official expert in mission-matters. He will be able to accumulate strong evidence, sum up striking statistics and draw burning comparisons for the effective presentation of his case.
George Thomas Daly - Catholic Problems in Western Canada
From all which evidence it is tolerably clear that the earliest mode of conveying the idea of any number of things, was by holding up as many fingers as there were things; that is using a symbol which was equal, in respect of multiplicity, to the group symbolised.
Herbert Spencer - Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects
"Ladies will never understand that magistrates must act in accordance with the law," said Lord Lufton. "But you all say he's not guilty," said Mrs Robarts. "The fact is, that the magistrate cannot try the question," said the archdeacon; "they only hear primary evidence.
Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Discovery Channel Ranks as the Highest-Quality Network for the Eighth Consecutive Year in the 2008 Beta Research Brand Identity of Basic Cable/Broadcast Networks Study
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[via press release from Discovery]
(Silver Spring, Md.) � For the eighth consecutive year, viewers rank Discovery Channel the highest-quality TV network, according to results released today in the 2008 Beta Research Brand Identity of Basic Cable/Broadcast Networks Study. The network also earned first place rankings in several other key study categories. Viewers call Discovery Channel their favorite channel; most distinctive; bold; and, for the ninth straight year, #1 in having many original series. In addition, viewers rank Discovery Channel #1 among networks deemed entertaining and informative (tie).
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an attraction located in Fantasyland.
The entrance sign for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Attraction type
Vehicle names
Vehicle capacity
Ride duration
Disney's Winnie the Pooh series
FastPass +
1 Attraction History
2 Attraction Plot
2.1 Queue
2.2 Main Attraction
3 See the Attraction!
4 Fun Facts and Trivia
Attraction History
The idea of a dark ride based on Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise began in the late 1970s. Following the popularity of the Winnie the Pooh movies, Imagineers began to make plans for a Winnie the Pooh attraction to be added to Disneyland's Fantasyland. In fact in Disneyland's 1976 long range master plan noted that "a new dark ride type attraction possibly a Pooh theme with 900/hour capacity would be added near Casey, Jr." [1]. With Fantasyland scheduled to go under a significant renovation soon, and it was assumed that the Winnie the Pooh dark ride would be added then. When Disneyland's Fantasyland re-opened in 1983 however, there was no Winnie the Pooh ride present.
Although the attraction was not built, the idea of a Winnie the Pooh dark ride was not dead. In the late 1980s, Imagineers once again began making plans for a Disneyland Pooh ride. This time the attraction was going to be located in Disneyland's Toontown Fair. The new Winnie the Pooh rid would have allowed guests to travel through what were deemed the three best scenes in the movies in a spinable honeypot [2]. Once again however, the attraction never came to fruition and the location earmaked for the Pooh attraction was instead home to Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin. [3]
Seven years after the last attempt at a Winnie the Pooh dark ride, Imagineers once again pitched the idea. This time, they wanted to build the attraction in Walt Disney World. Although Walt Disney World's Fantasyland had enough space to build the new attraction, it was eventually decided to replace the Mr. Toad's Wild Ride attraction. Although an official reason for this descion was never give, it has widely been accepted that Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was chosen for replacement due to the fact that Pooh would be a more marketable character than Mr. Toad [4]. Despite Mr. Toad fan protests (as well as some bad publicity) [5] Disney closed Mr. Toad's Wild Ride on September 7, 1998 [6]. Mr. Toad's show building and ride structure were then reused, and on June 5, 1999 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh officially opened [7].
On November 23, 2010 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was given a new interactive queue. Sections in the new queue included: Tigger’s Bouncy Place, Rabbit’s Garden, Eeyore’s Gloomy Place and Pooh’s Hunny Hives [8]. At this time, the large tree that serves as Pooh's house was relocated from the recently closed Pooh's Playful Spot and relocated to the entrance to the queue [9]. Almost as soon as the new queue was installed, Disney decided to close the Tigger's bouncy Place portion of the queue due to safety concerns. Although the area was eventually reopened with new bounce pads and a softer surrounding area in January 2011 [10], eventually Disney decided to do away with the pads altogether and in March the area was walled off for refurbishment [11]. That area remained closed until it was repurposed for a Pooh meet and greet.
Attraction Plot
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a dark ride attraction that takes guests into the world of the 100 Acre Woods.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh's queue, is themed to be chapter one of the story that guests are about to enter. Pages from a Winnie the Pooh book, tell guests a story as they walk through the line. The queue begins with Winnie wondering what he will do today. A map of the Hundred Acre Woods is present, showing the various places that Pooh (and guests) can go. The Hundred Acre Woods begin with guests passing Pooh's house. His house is inside a large honey tree, and the words "Mr. Sanders" can be read above the front door. The attraction entrance sign actually hangs off of the honey tree, marking the beginning of the attraction. As part of the attraction's new interactive queue, guests can actually go into Pooh's house and see how the bear lives.
As guests continue on through queue, they pass both Eeyore's and Piglet's house. Storybook pages outside the homes, give guests a little background. As guests continue on, they come upon Tigger's house and also his bouncing place. Here, guests can bounce on Tigger themed springs around a small area.
After passing Tigger's house, guests come to Rabbit's garden. Here, despite his best efforts, gophers are tearing up the garden. The gophers pop up and down, interacting with guests. One section of the garden allows guests to stomp on a button, which will knock the gophers back to down into their holes. Another part of Rabbit's garden allows guests to spin giant sunflowers and beat (like a drum) various vegetables. After passing through Rabbit's garden, guests come upon the interactive "honey walls". The honey walls are large interactive touch screens, which allow guests to smear and draw in the honey.
At this point, guests finally come to the loading area. Here, another storybook page tells guests that chapter one is ending but chapter two will start soon. As guests board their honeypot ride vehicles, the pages of chapter two line the back wall. At this point, guests then enter the story themselves, starting the attraction.
The painting of Mr. Toad handing the deed over to Owl.
As Chapter two begins, guests enter the Hundred Acre Woods on blustery day. Piglet and Gopher can be seen on riders’ left, being blown around in a garden. Next to them, Pooh is holding on to a balloon and using the wind to try and get into a beehive. Back on the ground Eeyore looks on, commenting that Pooh will never get the honey. Across the room, Rabbit can be seen lying in his garden, underneath a pile on unearthed carrots. Next to him is Kanga, who is desperately trying to hang on to Roo. Roo is up in the air, holding on to the other end of a scarf. As Kanga pleads with him to hold on, Roo says: "Look mama, I'm a kite!". Riders then go through a door and into Owl's house.
Inside Owl's house, everything has been disorganized by the storm. On the right in the house, guests can see a picture of J. Thaddeus Toad (Mr. Toad) handing over a deed to Owl. Another picture on the floor shows Moley (Mr. Toad's sidekick) and Winnie the Pooh together. Both of these pictures are subtle references to the fact that Mr. Toad's Wild Ride once was located in the current location of the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. After passing through Owl's house, guests enter the next scene through a sliding door.
In the next scene of the attraction, Tigger pops up across from riders. He invites them to "Come bounce with me!", as their honeypot vehicles begin to bounce. As riders bounce around the room, Tigger can be seen all over the room. In the background, the song "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" can be heard. As guests enter the next room (Pooh's house), they see Tigger pounced on top of Pooh (who is wearing his pajamas). Tigger warns him to "watch out for Heffalumps and Woozles". He also tells Pooh that Heffalumps and Woozles will steal his honey, so Pooh decides to stand guard (holding a gun). Despite his best efforts however, Pooh falls asleep and magically floats into the next room.
As guests follow him into the next room, they enter a bizarre room. All around them, Heffalumps and Woozles manically sing. Strange objects such as Woozles with jack-in-the-box necks surrounded guests. One Woozle even seems to light the end of a Heffalump on fire, causing a smoke ring to come out of the Heffalumps trunk hitting guests. After passing through a large hole in a Heffalump, guests can see room’s exit. Before exiting however, the honeypots travel under "watering can" shaped Heffalumps, which transition them to the next scene.
Pooh happily eating his honey at the end of the attraction.
The next scene takes place back in the Hundred Acre Woods, where a large storm is brewing. Eeyore, Roo, Rabbit, Owl, and Tigger all team up to save Piglet from being washed down Floody Place Falls. On the other side of the forest, Pooh can be seen (apparently stuck), trying to get into a beehive. After the storm has ended, all of the characters (except for Pooh) can be seen celebrating at Rabbit's house. A little further down the track, Pooh can be seen happily eating honey inside a tree. After passing a beaming Pooh, a storybook page reads "The End", and guests can disembark from their honeypot. After unloading, guests exit into the Hundred Acre Goods store.
See the Attraction!
Fun Facts and Trivia
The FastPass machines for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, are located near Mickey's PhilharMagic.
A small carving of a submarine can be found on a rafter in Pooh's house. The submarine is a subtle tribute to the closed Fantasyland attraction 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
The FastPass return clock for the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh features a small Pooh "Cuckoo".
Guests can smell honey as they exit The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/magic-kingdom/attractions/many-adventures-of-winnie-the-pooh/
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/guides/magickingdom/fan-pooh.htm
↑ http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2003/08/04/168.aspx#sthash.3HtXHepG.dpuf
↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=XqaWtV6Om1sC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=1970s+Disneyland+Winnie+the+Pooh+attraction&source=bl&ots=IS3Z7p_e-P&sig=wo0q7AUXQ9ZSGIrA-wxJeQXLLPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY8-Sl2ovKAhUJPCYKHdsoAf4Q6AEITzAM#v=onepage&q=1970s%20Disneyland%20Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20attraction&f=false
↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-20/news/ol-18247_1_toon-spin
↑ http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/mtwr.htm
↑ https://www.math.miami.edu/~jam/toad/ow/ow971218.html
↑ http://allears.net/tp/mk/toad.htm
↑ http://allears.net/tp/mk/mk_pooh.htm
↑ http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/11/behind-the-scenes-the-many-adventures-of-winnie-the-pooh-at-magic-kingdom-park/
↑ http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/the-many-adventures-of-winnie-the-pooh/news/29apr2010-pooh's-playful-spot-tree-now-installed-in-the-many-adventures-of-winnie-the-pooh-queue.htm
↑ http://thedisneyblog.com/2011/01/23/tiggers-bouncy-place-opens-at-winnie-the-pooh/
↑ http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/pooh-queue-rumor-tigger-bounce-spot-to-be-removed.684076/page-7
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Call Me Mieko
Mitchell Hagerstrom
Twenty years ago a b&w xerox of the Balthus painting, Japanese Girl with a Black Mirror, kept me company as I began writing what was eventually published as Miss Gone-overseas. With a colored pencil I doctored the woman’s white sash. I made it red — instead of mimicking the painting’s red cloth on the small table. This morning as I look up from the keyboard, across the room my closet doors are open and I note the line of hanging garments — an entire battalion of white, grey, black, and beige. The only color — two red sweaters, and a red silk kimono someone recently gave me. Some parts of ourselves don’t change.
It’s a common literary envy, that of Melville’s bold opening: “Call me Ishmael.” One cannot expect such an opening gambit from the pillow book of a Japanese woman in the World War II era. My Mieko never introduces herself. In the two most famous “real” pillow books one never learns the names of the narrators in the text, but only in the titles given by the translator and/or the publisher: i.e., The Pillow Book of Sei Shongaon, and in the English translation of Murasaki Shikibu’s with the subtitle, Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs. I do admit to considering and discarding Mieko’s Diary as a title.
I am curious as to how readers feel about a narrator who remains nameless. To keep her company I also left nameless two other characters, the governor general and the corporal. My personal library diminishes each year (by choice), but one keeper is Peter Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman, an exquisite little novel with nameless characters: there’s only the woman, the man, and the child.
It wasn’t until the final rewrites that I contrived a way for my narrator to name herself: one brief sentence near the very end when she discards her name to assume another. The name I chose for her is quite similar to my own (the discarded nickname of my youth: Micki). May I borrow a phrase? Mieko, c’est moi.
::ESSAYS ABOUT REAL LIFE::,::LITERATURE::
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Hon. Cordelia Fraser1
F, #585831, b. 12 December 1949, d. 22 October 2019
Hon. Cordelia Fraser was born on 12 December 1949.1 She was the daughter of William Fraser, 2nd Baron Strathalmond and Letitia Krementz.2 She married Ralph Lyman Brown in 1981.1 She and Ralph Lyman Brown were divorced in 1986.1 She died on 22 October 2019 at age 69.3
From 1981, her married name became Brown. She lived in 2003 at 75 Carthew Road, London, England.1
Ralph Lyman Brown1
Ralph Lyman Brown married Hon. Cordelia Fraser, daughter of William Fraser, 2nd Baron Strathalmond and Letitia Krementz, in 1981.1 He and Hon. Cordelia Fraser were divorced in 1986.1
Hon. Christina Fraser1
F, #585833, b. 5 November 1954, d. 2000
Hon. Christina Fraser was born on 5 November 1954.1 She was the daughter of William Fraser, 2nd Baron Strathalmond and Letitia Krementz.2 She married Timothy Andrew Lebus, son of Oliver Lebus and Barbara Selz, in 1974.1 She died in 2000.1
From 1974, her married name became Lebus.
Child of Hon. Christina Fraser and Timothy Andrew Lebus
David Oliver Lebus2 b. 1983
Timothy Andrew Lebus1
Timothy Andrew Lebus is the son of Oliver Lebus and Barbara Selz.2 He married Georgiana Rosamund Margaret Gibbs, daughter of Lt.-Col. Patrick Somerset Gibbs and Mairi Zoe Evans.3 He married Hon. Christina Fraser, daughter of William Fraser, 2nd Baron Strathalmond and Letitia Krementz, in 1974.1
He lived in 2003 at 70 Ellerby Street, London, England.1
Child of Timothy Andrew Lebus and Hon. Christina Fraser
[S5872] Peter Bell, "re: Mainwaring Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 14 February 2012. Hereinafter cited as "re: Mainwaring Family."
David Oliver Lebus1
David Oliver Lebus was born in 1983.1 He is the son of Timothy Andrew Lebus and Hon. Christina Fraser.2
Hon. Mary Joan Fraser1
F, #585836, b. 29 October 1922, d. 6 March 2004
Hon. Mary Joan Fraser was born on 29 October 1922.1 She was the daughter of William Fraser, 1st Baron Strathalmond and Mary Roberton McLINTOCK.2 She married Sir Neil Gowanloch Westbrook, son of Frank Westbrook, on 15 February 1945.1 She died on 6 March 2004 at age 81.3
From 15 February 1945, her married name became Westbrook. She lived in 2003 at White Gables, Prestbury, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.1
Children of Hon. Mary Joan Fraser and Sir Neil Gowanloch Westbrook
Fraser Gowanloch Westbrook b. 1946
Frank Westbrook1
Frank Westbrook lived at Wilmslow, Cheshire, England.1
Child of Frank Westbrook
Sir Neil Gowanloch Westbrook+2 b. 21 Jan 1917, d. 13 Aug 2014
Sir Neil Gowanloch Westbrook1
M, #585838, b. 21 January 1917, d. 13 August 2014
Sir Neil Gowanloch Westbrook was born on 21 January 1917.2 He was the son of Frank Westbrook.3 He married Hon. Mary Joan Fraser, daughter of William Fraser, 1st Baron Strathalmond and Mary Roberton McLINTOCK, on 15 February 1945.1 He married Dorothy Lilian Stevenson in 2005. He died on 13 August 2014 at age 97.2
He was a racehorse breeder. He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.)
Children of Sir Neil Gowanloch Westbrook and Hon. Mary Joan Fraser
Thomas Galloway Dunop du Royal de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde1
M, #585839, b. 22 February 1960
Thomas Galloway Dunop du Royal de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde was born on 22 February 1960.1 He is the son of Hon. Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith and Simone Clotilde Fernande Marie Ghislaine du Roy de Blicquy.2 He married Jane Skinner, daughter of John Skinner, on 27 June 1992.1
He was educated at Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire, England.1 He was educated at University of Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France.1 He graduated from University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, EnglandG, in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)1 He was insurance broker, Bain Clarkson Ltd between 1982 and 1988.1 He succeeded as the 2nd Baron Strathclyde, of Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire [U.K., 1955] in 1985.1 He held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Employment and Ministry of Tourism between 1989 and 1990.1 He held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Scottish Office between 1990 and 1992.1 He held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Environment between July 1990 and September 1990.1 He held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Environment between 1992 and 1993.1 He held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Department of Trade and Indsutry between 1993 and 1994.1 He held the office of Minister of Department of Trade and Indsutry in 1994.1 He held the office of Chief Whip, House of Lords between 1994 and 1997.1 He was appointed Privy Counsellor (P.C.) in 1995.1 He was chairman of Trafalgar Capital Management Ltd in 2001.1
Children of Thomas Galloway Dunop du Royal de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde and Jane Skinner
Hon. Elizabeth Ida Skinner Galbraith2 b. 1 Dec 1993
Hon. Annabel Jane Simone Skinner Galbraith2 b. 15 May 1996
Hon. Rose Marie Louise Skinner Galbraith2 b. 27 Jan 1999
John Skinner1
John Skinner lived at Chenies, Hertfordshire, England.1
Child of John Skinner
Jane Skinner+2
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NBA legend Kobe Bryant killed in Calabasas helicopter crash
USC students reflect on Kobe Bryant’s life and legacy. He was an 18-time All-Star and the 2008 league MVP, bringing the Lakers to five NBA championships. (Photo via Los Angeles Lakers/Twitter) Bryant was always one of the most respected players in the league during his career and a staple of Los Angeles inside and outside of sports. The news of his passing impacted USC students — Lakers fans or not — who grew up watching and idolizing the “Black Mamba.” Bryant moved to Italy when he was 6 as his father had retired from the NBA to play internationally. Overseas, Bryant not only learned how to speak fluent Italian and play soccer but he started to seriously learn how to play basketball. Almost four years after the final game of Bryant’s career — a 60-point performance against the Utah Jazz at Staples Center in April 2016 — his impact is still felt in the NBA. Now, after Bryant’s passing, his legacy in the sport and in the lives of fans around the world is sure to live on. “Kobe’s legacy isn’t even basketball, it’s work ethic and dedication,” said Jayden Smith, a sophomore majoring in political science. “The way Kobe trained, he did that in every aspect of his life. Everything he does he obsesses over it, over the minute details, and does everything he can to be better than the person that he’s competing against.” Bryant’s legacy is a somewhat complicated one. In 2003, Bryant was arrested and charged for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel employee in Colorado. The accuser later dropped the charges after refusing to testify but later filed a separate civil suit against Bryant. Bryant did not directly admit guilt but publicly apologized for the circumstances between himself and the employee. After the news of Bryant’s death was first reported by TMZ Sports and followed by confirmation by multiple outlets, numerous celebrities, sports figures and fans were quick to share their grief on social media. Memorials were quickly set up near the crash site and outside Staples Center, the Lakers’ home arena and site of the 2020 Grammy Awards show that began just hours later, bringing a mix of attendees and mourners to L.A. Live. Bryant had three straight championship-winning seasons with teammate Shaquille O’Neal and head coach Phil Jackson from 2000-02 before O’Neal was traded to the Miami Heat in 2004. That trade, however, cemented Bryant’s role as the Lakers’ franchise leader. He would go on to win two more championships with Jackson and teammate Pau Gasol in 2009 and 2010 before tearing an Achilles tendon in 2013 at age 34. “It’s more than just basketball really with Kobe, he kind of just encompassed everything L.A.,” said Diego Briones, a junior majoring in political science. “Especially because it’s such an artsy town, he was such a sophisticated, intellectual person … He really viewed the sport like an art and I think that really resonates with a lot of Los Angeles citizens.” “He’s an international icon,” Briones said. “He helped take basketball international … I think he’s pivotal in that regard.” Bryant has become a household name for many across the globe, including those outside of the basketball community and fanbase. His legacy and approach towards his goals even impacted people off the court that did not tune in to witness his impressive on-court performances. Bryant and Gianna are survived by Kobe’s wife Vanessa and three daughters — Natalia Diamante (17), Bianka Bella (3) and Capri Kobe (7 months). Tributes to Kobe Bryant hang on the windows of Cale & Irani Residential College at USC Village. (Photo courtesy of Jayden Smith) Bryant’s tenacious work ethic, highlighted in his book “The Mamba Mentality: How I Play,” has served as a model for young athletes and others inside and outside the realm of sports. He was known for his unwavering, constant willingness to improve. Former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were killed Sunday morning after a helicopter crashed in Calabasas just before 10 a.m. Bryant and Gianna were on their way to Thousand Oaks for her basketball practice. He was 41. Bryant grew up as a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and played with them for all of his 20-year career. Considered by many as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Bryant was an 18-time All-Star and the 2008 league MVP, leading the Lakers to five NBA championships. Bryant — especially after his retirement — was also an outspoken advocate for growing women’s basketball, frequently attending college and WNBA games, coaching Gianna’s teams and using social media to praise women’s basketball players. For many, that drive and determination extends past basketball. “I think his passing is definitely a part of the city is passing, too,” Ghajar said. “And any sport you can apply his mindset, the Mamba Mentality to it. You can apply the Mamba Mentality to anything in life, really. [He] will be missed everywhere.” “Kobe has been my role model my whole life, sort of my idol,” said Tyler Ghajar, a freshman majoring in art. “I got inspiration from his work ethic and determination … to sort of apply that to my life. He was more than an athlete in terms of what he meant for this city and just for people in general.” “Kobe Bryant really was a huge influence even on those of us who never really were big on basketball,” freshman Economics major Freya Haksar said. “He was the kind of icon that gave you a vision of success…He was always kind of a figure for us to keep pushing forward, to turn our challenges and pressures into lessons, and a drive to always keep our heads up and better ourselves and spread that energy to the people around us.” Bryant was also a two-time Olympic gold medalist in Beijing and London and served as a key figure in helping expand the NBA’s international reach, attracting and inspiring young fans from all across the world. “I hope people — regardless of their affiliation to teams, whether they’re a Laker fan or whether they’re a Celtic fan, whether they’re even a basketball fan or even a sports fan — just recognize what he meant to the city,” Smith said. “He was able to get a whole city to get behind him and embrace him … Kobe is L.A. basketball.” Bryant’s death comes just one day after he was passed by current Lakers superstar LeBron James for third all-time on the NBA’s career scoring leaderboard. James was seen in tears after the Lakers landed in Los Angeles after flying in from Philadelphia, Bryant’s hometown. read more
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UNIONIST MEP PROMISES TO BACK DONEGAL ANTI-VRT CAMPAIGN
ANTI-VRT campaigners from Co Donegal have won the backing of a leading Unionist politician.John Doherty, the Donegal branch chairman of the Irish Drivers Association, said his delegation’s meeting with Democratic Unionist Party MEP Diane Dodds was very constructive.“We got a warm welcome and were well received by Mrs Dodds,” Mr Doherty told donegaldaily.com. “The association have brought it to the attention of Ms Dodds how the Irish Government are discriminating against other member states by imposing a levy as high as 36% on vehicles imported into the south.“What the Irish Government are trying to do is make it more expensive for a citizen from the south to import a vehicle from NI which is in clear contravention of the free movement of goods under article 39 of the treaty of Rome.“Ms Dodds expressed shock at this even though the association have a petition lodged in Brussels with the commission on taxation stated that it is now time to raise the matter in Brussels with the competition authorities.”Mr Doherty said Ms Dodds promised to raise the matter with the North’s Finance Minister Sammy Wilson. “This may be the first time that another member state attacks the Irish Government on the free movement of goods which could be very good news for us as Europeans,” added Mr Doherty.LEAVE YOUR COMMENT BELOW© 2011 donegaldaily.com, all Rights ReservedThe copying, republication or redistribution of donegaldaily.com Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited by law.Follow us on www.twitter.com/donegaldaily Follow us on www.facebook.com/donegaldailyUNIONIST MEP PROMISES TO BACK DONEGAL ANTI-VRT CAMPAIGN was last modified: February 21st, 2012 by BrendaShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:Diane Dodds MEPdonegalDUPIrish Drivers AssociationJohn DohertySammy Wilson read more
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Real-Life Lovebirds Audra McDonald & Will Swenson to Lead Reading of Venus and Adonis
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Government's monthly meeting for September and ecomonic growth after 9 months of 1999
Nhan dan Oct. 5-- At the government's monthly meeting for September, ministers announced that Vietnam's economic growth may not reach its 1999 target and could be the lowest in ten years.
Vietnam Builds US $500M Culture Village
Nhan dan Oct. 4--Construction of a US $500 million ethnic culture village started yesterday in Ha Tay province, about 60km west of Hanoi.
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, National Assembly Chairman Nong Duc Manh and Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem and other senior officials attending the launching ceremony laid the first bricks to build the village.
Minister of Culture and Information Nguyen Khoa Diem said in his opening speech that the ethnic culture and tourism village will help to preserve the cultural heritages of Vietnam
Export Support Fund Created
Nhan Dan Oct. 3--The Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has decided to establish an Export Support Fund aimed at boosting export and increasing competitiveness for country
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai visits Mongolia
Nhan Dan Oct. 3--Prime Minister Phan Van Khai paid a working visit to Mongolia on October 2 at the invitation of his Mongolian counterpart R. Amarjargal, after Mr. Khai's Scandinavian tour.
Mr. Khai held talks with Mr. R. Amarjargal and Mongolian Parliament Chairman R. Gonchigdorj on measures to strengthen the friendship and co-operation between the two countries as well as international and regional issues of common concern.
Vietnamese Encouraged to Work Overseas
VNS Oct. 3--The Government hopes to encourage Vietnamese citizens find employment abroad with a decree that aims at improving working conditions and making the licensing process of manpower agencies easier.
This was revealed at a workshop organised here on Friday to explain the salient features of the decree.
Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam
VNA- Ha Noi, Oct. 1 Viet Nam has to date had 2,265 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects operating with a combined working investment capital of USD 35.9 billion, according to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Nhac.
FDI capital now accounts around 30 percent of total investment capital for social development.
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai starts Denmark visit
VNA Sept. 29 -- Prime Minister Phan Van Khai arrived in Copenhagen at 11:30 hrs (local time) today (Sept. 29), starting his official visit to Denmark, the last leg of his tour of four Scandinavian countries.
Vietnamese PM Phan Van Khai and his Danish counterpart Paul Nyrup Rasmussen held talks this afternoon.
Earlier, PM Khai met with Copenhagen Mayor Hans T. Hansen. He also toured the Ore Sund Exhibition, Pepper island and the construction side of a bridge linking Copenhagen and Malmo city, southern Sweden.
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VNA Sept. 27 -- Prime Minister Phan Van Khai held talks with his Norwegian counterpart Kjell Magre Bondevik in Oslo, Norway, right after his arrival in Norway on Sept. 27.
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I'm hoping to finish this before Dec. 4th. I'd like to have this for the Artist Reception at the Chester Library. This is my first art show ever. I'm super excited. Hope it gets a nice turn-out. The painting above is done in watercolor, prismacolor markers, mirco pens, and white acrylic paint. Still a lot to get done.
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AZRIANDRATHORN
Copyright © 2010 Bonnie Watson
Up before first crow; rode out to meet the sun cresting the tops of Mount Glory. I tilted my wide-brimmed hat to block out most of the rays, then turned my horse to face town. The grass tip I'd stuck between my teeth early on was beginning to taste bitter. I slid it over. Wasn't tobacco, but it would do - now that I was on patrol.
I could feel the heat building into the morning, and I cracked a grin only a passing Horned lizard could see. A few moments more and my Duster would activate. Not the most complicated defense, but useful when scouring the desert in pursuit of possible outlaws. Supposing I was thankful to have been given the chance to redeem myself. All those years of criminal acts – the Guild must have known. They wouldn't have accepted me, let alone granted such a fine coat to display my Weapon Caster skills. Mighty thankful, if not a bit haughty.
Tilley must have read my thoughts, for she nickered, a reminder to adjust the Duster along her rump so she too could enjoy its cooling charms. I eased her out along a narrow ridge. From where I was, folk passed along the main road without a clue to who was watching them from above. I'd been successful catching several gunslingers this way. Find something to draw their guns on, and it was all point and click. I could feel the forty-four caliber resting in its holster along my left side. My trigger finger itched to take action. Instead, I gripped the reins tighter and concentrated on the road coming into town.
Peony was its name. Dinky, run-down, it was last on the list of fifty-some other towns chosen by the Guild. It was also the last place anyone would ever care to visit - anyone of decency. Probably why the Guild chose this life for me. More criminal low-life slunk around these parts than anywhere else. The town was full of it! Another reason to put me here. As much as I wanted to charge in and take everyone out in a single blast, I knew I couldn't. The rule of the West - if they ain't caught stealing, don't arrest 'em.
Self control. It was hard, but I managed. Back before the Guild caught up with me, I'd shoot any sucker that wandered within my line of sight. Well, sucker as in those who tried to stop me. I never touched innocents. Wasn't that bad.
Tilley picked up the distant sound of hoof beats before I did and let out a nicker. I patted her neck, feeling her muscles tense and ready at the slightest nudge to get going.
"Easy, girl." Matillda was my proudest accomplishment. I'd found and raised her from a frail filly to the noblest of steeds. Hell, I'd even had offers to breed her for some extra copper. Would've been worth it, but as I was stubborn, I liked the good stuff all to myself. "Ready?"
My fingers slipped around the gun and eased it out of its holster. The soft creak of leather was a beautiful sound. That was another accomplishment. Being a Weapons Caster meant creating things, mostly mechanical in nature that went boom. The louder, the better. I'd seen some pretty incredible stuff come from other Casters, but what interested me was the polished look and feel of a gun that was easy to recognize, easy to handle, and did the job first time around. None of this boisterous bulk that covered most of the arm and sounded like it could split the Grand Canyon. Ain't me. That was another Guild. Mine only had to deal with people who slipped Add-ons to their coats. Illegal, improper, and got a Caster either expelled or executed. Tempted though I was with Ad-ons, I tried to always do the right thing.
Ahem. Tried.
"Let's go," I whispered, and Tilly didn't hesitate.
She knew the drill. Down and around the large rock formation until the traveler was close enough to step out and cut his route from town. Gun drawn. If he pulled first, it was over. All I needed. Another to my list of fugitives.
"Azri?" Unless he knew me.
"Sam?" And I knew him. "Well, well. Look what the cat dragged in."
"Been years, partner. Looks like you've finally claimed your title. Couldn't have stolen that fine coat."
I had to tip my hat down at that. Samuelamus, my old partner in crime. We shared good times and great spoils. Made a muck everywhere we went. I was very surprised he even lasted this long. No criminal did unless they had a Caster with them.
"You changed," I said. "No more women and money, huh?"
Sam nodded. "Yeah. Figured I'd settle down, start myself a little ranching business. Worked out for a while until some bandits took everything while I was out herding cattle. Never found my wife yet. Been looking ever since."
"You married?" That came as a shock. Sam never seemed the kind to just settle down with any one woman. "I'm real sorry, Sam. Must have been tough trying not to return to old habits." That got to him.
"I heard this was a place to start looking."
I grinned and returned the gun at my side.
"You're more than welcome to snoop around. Careful, though. Scum everywhere you step."
"Appreciate it. By the way, nice gun. You make that?"
"You know I did."
"Took you long enough."
"Don't start with me." Back to old times again.
Katalina was the best hostess in town, the best dressed in town, and the best lover in town. She ran a saloon where men could fill their fancy of her and others like her, drink to their heart's content, and pass out later on. It was heaven, and when I was sometimes tuckered out from the day's events, I often times found myself here.
"Who's your friend?" she asked with that raised eyebrow of admiration at Sam. She passed him a drink. "On the house, handsome. A friend of Azri's is a friend anywhere."
"Kat knows people," I told Sam. "She might be able to help find who you're looking for."
"Got a request, huh?" Her smile was a real turn-on. She had those type of lips that men wanted to touch, and be touched with. Her hair was a mass of curly blond ringlets pulled back to show off her rosy cheeks. Whenever she approached a man, she purposely puckered up her breasts, an appetizer to what was to come when she knew she could get money. When she turned to grab a drink for me, my eyes couldn't stop trailing up her leg to the revealing slit in that frilly skirt. "Don't I recognize you from somewhere?" she asked, peering over her shoulder at Sam.
"Well, he was with me at one point," I said.
"Helping a fugitive?" Kat leaned across the countertop so her breasts squashed up in front of me. "Risky." She ran her tongue across the top of the glass before sliding it toward me. "I like."
Beside me, I could hear Sam chuckle. "Now I know how you pay back favors."
"That'd be a trick." Kat pulled back and made herself a drink. She gulped it down in one swallow. Impressive. "You couldn't catch Azri without his coat if life depended on it. He's stuck to it. Believe me," she winked, "I've tried."
"She's just saving my reputation," I replied. "But for the most part, she's right. Spell Caster's don't part very easily with their coats. It's too valuable."
"Only to their wearer," Sam said. "Heard a guy tried stealing one to see what he could get. You know, weapons and such. But when he dug around, all the pockets were empty."
I nodded. "Everything's build on, so you can't lose anything. But everything is also comprised of charms. If the coat leaves the Caster, the charms fade. The weapons are still there, but no one without magic can access it."
"No one without," Kat said. "That means another Caster could."
"I thought the Guilds prohibited that kind of theft," Sam said.
"They do," I replied. "If you're with a Guild. If not..." I shrugged. "I've run into a couple who do their own thing."
"Add-ons." Sam hadn't forgotten what I'd told him long ago, and for good reason. Add-ons were dangerous. They could kill a lot of people, even Caster's themselves. For that very reason, Guilds had each of their members bind themselves to whichever Guild they chose, so in case someone was struck, even once by an Add-on, they would immediately find themselves at the Guild's Healing Center. Of course, it had its drawbacks. Even someone slightly wounded could disappear, leaving behind friends or family members in need of help.
"Gonna' be around for a bit?" Kat asked while sliding drinks to other customers. "I've a practice session with some of the girls for our dance bit, but after that I'm all yours." A customer tossed out a few extra coins in response to a glass juggling and tongue licking act, which Kat performed as smooth as the curves on her body. The woman knew her stuff.
"Don't see why not." Sam nodded. "Got nothin' better to do but watch perty girls." He grinned.
I rolled my eyes. Sam hadn't changed all that much.
"How 'bout a place to stay?" I suggested. "You're more than welcome to stay with me. I'll be out on assignment anyway."
"No good." Kat finished fetching a round of empty glasses and set them down for a refill. "Remember, you're supposed to be disposing criminals, not housing them. If he gets caught..."
I waved the comment aside. "It's fine. He's here for his wife, nothing more. I doubt the Guild would start prying. They know I ain't going back." I held out the front of my Duster. "Not with this prize at stake."
Kat drew those thick lips into a pout. "And here I thought I was your only pride and joy." She picked up a tray of drinks, blew a kiss, then stepped around the bar to serve the many customers piling at tables for the next show.
I turned to Sam. "I gotta' tend to my girl for the evening. Should be back in time for the good stuff." When his eyebrows rose in question, I merely laughed. "Matilda, my horse."
Sam just smiled and went back to watching Kat pass out drinks.
A chill wind whisked through town as I stepped outside the saloon. It got dark quick in Peony, with only the oil lamps hanging alongside shop doorways and inside windows to light the way. Holding the brim of my hat down with one hand, I started for the town stables just down the road.
"Azriandrathorn," a voice came from behind. It wasn't very often someone used my full name, nor was it ever pronounced in a manner that called a Caster to duel. This one had, but not by a mere townsman.
"Jaemason." I turned, following the sound of his voice to a lone Caster leaning against one of the saloon's wooden beams. "Long time."
Jaemason had been a fellow student at the same Guild I attended. We were among the highest ranking chosen for the status of Master. Not an easy title to achieve. So the Guild conducted a test that set us against one another in a duel. The prize? The Duster I now wore, capable of allowing its wearer up to three hits before transporting that person to a designated Healer Center. I had always been slightly faster than Jaemason, and for that reason he had left for another Guild, one that supported heavier weaponry. At least it suited his tastes, if not speed.
"You actually brought a live one today," he said. "Don't you normally spill their guts on sight?"
"I didn't think Guilds assigned other Casters to an already assigned town," I changed the subject.
"Who said I was on assignment?" he returned.
That bothered me. Masters were not allowed to leave their assigned towns. If Jaemason wasn't working, then he wasn't with a Guild. Not good.
"So? What, you rode in with the cattle? Is that how I missed you? Why are you here?" I fired back. My finger was already on the trigger, and he knew it.
"Manners, manners, Azri." He straightened and strode to the saloon's entrance. "You ain't tipped your hat to me yet." He pushed through one side of the swinging doors and was gone.
I debated going in to see if he went over to Sam, but even a renegade Caster dared not try something in public, if renegade was what he had become. I decided to stay my course. I fetched Tilly some fresh water and made sure she had plenty to eat before heading back to the saloon. I didn't see Sam or Jaemason when I entered. It wasn't until Kat motioned to me from behind the stage curtain that I realized where everyone had gone. I stayed close to the wall, out of the way from hooting and hollowing cowboys over the girls dancing on stage. I quickly ducked behind the curtain to see Sam sitting near the dressing room. Lipstick smeared across his left cheek, and I had to grin. Good ol' Sam.
I stood before him with arms crossed. "Not the work of one set of lips, I'll wager."
Sam laughed and held up his hands in defense. "I swear I just came back here to chat. Didn't know nothin'!"
"Looks it," I replied. "Tell Kat your story?"
"He didn't get faces." Kat sauntered over to her room and began dressing her part for the show. She didn't bother closing the door and made sure to flash most, if not all, her well ripened breasts while slipping into a corset. "Would one of you handsome boys mind tying the back for me?"
Of course, we both jumped at the opportunity.
"Got enough of the backside of 'em to describe their clothing and horses." Sam grinned. He pulled the cord tight, and I noticed his eyes travel down her back to a plump mound of a bottom. Of course, I couldn't help but look too.
Kat glanced over one bare shoulder to flash us a wide smile. If she'd been a puppet master, we'd been helpless against our strings - and would love every minute of it! A final tug caused a soft moan to escape her lips. The corset was on.
So were we.
"I think I have enough details to check around." Kat pulled part of her her hair up, letting a few tendrils dangle around either side of her cheeks. She slipped on a blue and white frilly dress and adjusted her bosom so it looked like two melons ready for picking. All the while she played that smile across her lips, knowing full well how this was affecting us. Then again, she had this affect on all men. Kat knew how to play, and played to win. She ran a finger under both our chins as she passed. "Stick around, boys. There's a private show at my place afterwards. Then maybe we'll see if that coat really can come off."
She trailed a hand up her skirt so that it pulled aside to reveal more leg. An invitation like this was hard to pass. Sam and I never said a word and just watched her vanish behind the curtain. We could hear heavy applauds and whistling on the other side. Kat had stolen the show, and both our hearts with it.
Morning came slower than usual. Somehow, in all the confusion of legs and breasts, I'd managed to misplace my coat. Warm memories of Kat's fingers caressing my flesh was enough to get me started all over again as I found my Duster and adjusted the multiple pouches containing various items I'd created over the years, one being my gun. I kept a second handy in case I needed it. A strap of bullets looped from one shoulder across my chest and down to my left side. I'd gotten the idea from another outlaw. Only he ran out of bullets. Casters never run out. Took awhile to get approval from the Guild. Without it, the extra bullets would have been deemed an Add-on. I'd have thought it would've only applied to weapons in general, but I didn't make the rules. I just played by them.
As I saddled up Tilly for the day's assignment, I couldn't help but wonder if Sam had heard me leave - being preoccupied at the moment. Tilly must have known something was amiss, for she nuzzled the backside of my coat as I finished adjusting the stirrup.
"Don't worry." I scratched the soft patch of white just between her eyes. "You're the only girl for me." Once we'd left the stable, I swung into the saddle. Reining her around, I paused a final time to check my packs.
We'd yet to clear the side of the building when I noticed movement heading out from the other side. I eased closer to the main road while still covered by the building. Hoofbeats, then a passing rider. There was no mistaking the coat worn by Weapons Casters.
Jaemason. I plucked a piece of hay off my coat and stuck it between my teeth. The day already looked interesting.
"What do you say, girl?" I patted Tilly on the neck. "Let's see how far he rides." A quick nicker confirmed my course of action. When dust was just settling, we pulled out to the main gate to see Jaemason already fading into the distance.
I never missed the dust kicked up from other horses while on patrol. It always confirmed I was on the right path when my nose starting clogging. This was one of those times. Jaemason had gone past my usual lookout point. Yet instead of keeping directly to the road, he veered off to the left. I followed his trail of dust to a similar lookout point not too far from town. To minimize my own dust cloud, I found patches of vegetation for Tilly to walk on versus open dirt. It hadn't rained in months, so stepping on the right ones still healthy enough to settle the dirt could be tricky.
I finally dismounted behind several cacti while Jaemeson approached a large rock formation. He hadn't bothered tethering his horse, letting it roam free while he stood in the shadow of a naturally arched set of stone. Rough winds were known to cut into rock around these parts over time. This must have been one such sculpture, for the formation was as round and smooth as a bare man's head. I squinted in the warm glow of building sunlight. The other Caster rested a hand against the stone surface. I saw his lips move, though I could not make out his words. There came a low groan. Beneath my feet the ground vibrated. Then all was still. I stared at the now vacant location where Jaemason had once stood. A rectangular opening in the stone structure revealed where he must have gone. Several minutes passed before I ventured closer to peer inside.
The way was dark. Against my better judgment, I pulled a piece of flint from one of my pouches and a small vial of oil-soaked cloth. There were always plenty of dry things to burn in a desert, and after finding a suitable branch for a torch I wrapped the tip and struck the flint against the rock. Its first spark instantly ignited the damp cloth. I raised it high and stepped into the dark.
Slanting down, the tunnel contoured the circular structure until opening into a hollowed out room. There were no other levels to the inside, with the path continuing up the side wall. An opening at the top was the room's only light source. What drove the light down was a variety of mirrors. Each mirror had been angled along the wall to beam any rays to a single device in the middle of the room. A charge of light fading in and out on top of the device suggested the sun rays triggered a power source, but for what I wasn't sure.
It didn't look like any weapon I'd ever come across. I wasn't even sure it was an Add-on either.To me, the whole thing resembled a make-shift cross between a cobweb and a tabletop, rounded at the corners with hooks and hinges that might've closed upon command.
"How do you like my new invention?" the voice of Jamaeson drew my gaze to the opening at the top. He continued to speak, slowly descending the stairs to where I stood gawking at the strange contraption.
"And your Guild allows you to build something like this? Near my town?" I was furious, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Some Casters were allowed to create things, so long as they didn't test them out on innocent bystanders. "You need to notify your Guild to send someone to move this immediately."
Jamaeson just gave me that look that read, "And what gives you the authority over me?" But as I was classified as Master, I actually did have authority. Jamaeson was just plain ol' hard-headed. Always was.
"Actually, I was thinking this would replace the coat you took from me." He gestured to the device.
I rolled my eyes. "You still on that? Look, I drew first. End of story."
"You pulled before the signal, ya little cheat!" Jamaeson suddenly roared. "And the Guild knew it! Knew it! They gave you something you ain't deserved to have. It should've been me! Not you!" He waved a hand over the device. "Now I ask you again, how do you like my new invention? Because you'll be giving me that coat whether you like it or not!"
My gun was already drawn. What happened next was beyond any foresight. A slight tingle from my gun drew my attention to it. Then a strong pull yanked my arm toward the top of the device. Next thing I knew I was dangling in midair with my gun stuck, and me with it.
Snap! The sides of the device closed around me. I'd been too dang proud of the gun to just let it loose. Now I probably looked like a fly wrapped in a cocoon of metal!
"Fast on the draw, but not on the thinking, eh, Azri?"
I forced the confusion from my mind and focused on Jamaeson standing in front of me. He'd retrieved my gun, admiring it, turning it over to follow the detail of wood-carved roses along its sides. Years of perfecting shape and design, and one mistake to lose it. I wanted to string him up!
"You remember the game we used to play when we were little?"
Hangman's Bluff. I swallowed. Never occurred I'd get strung up first.
His hand turned so that the gun's handle pointed my way instead of the barrel. That's what hit me the moment I averted my gaze. A yellow haze cast all vision aside, along with feeling. When I came to, I was overlooking the side of the rock formation at the top where the light shone down inside, with a noose around my neck and my hands bound behind me.
The side of my mouth stung from the blow, but considering my current position, that was the least of my concerns. My feet were firmly planted on rock still, so it wasn't over yet. I tried loosening the knots around my wrists, but something felt...missing.
I glanced down.
Shirt. Pants. No coat.
"I'm going to enjoy the spoils of that coat."
"You need to reconsider, Jamaeson." I adjusted my weight so I could make eye contact without slipping. "Guilds don't take well to theft or murder."
"I appreciate the warning." He pointed the gun at me. My gun. "But they're far from intervening, and by the time they do you'll be nothing more than scavenged carcass left by the vultures."
The distinct click readied the gun for fire.
"Don't think this will be a quick death," he continued. "A couple of bullets for the legs, then you hang yourself."
A whinny below drew both our attentions.
"Your horse, I presume?" Jamaeson smirked and aimed for Matillda as she came trotting in full view of his shot. Yet the sound of gunfire did not come from my weapon. Neither did it hit anything living. The rope holding me up collapsed around my shoulder, and I spun to find Sam take aim for Jamaeson from inside the stone doorway.
A spark ricocheted off the weapon. Jamaeson cursed and jerked his hand back, dropping the gun. He ran for cover around the side while I ducked into the opening beside Sam. Wasn't long before returning fire hit the doorway. Sam pulled out his knife to cut me free.
"Lucky find." I rubbed my wrists, thankful to be free.
"Think you might need this." Sam handed me my coat. I quickly pulled it on. The feel of the coat's protective power and weapons urged my desire to rush the fallen gun outside. "Heard ya leave this morning. Decided to follow."
He returned fire, then slipped back inside.
I grinned. "Couldn't wait to test your skills again, could you?" I charged for the gun with Sam covering me, rolled to the side with Jamaeson's rapid fire streaking around me. I grazed his shoulder without even looking, then dived for the opening to reload.
Sam dipped his head. "Rope was perfect target practice."
More shots against the opening.
"Should've introduced me to your friend earlier, Azri!" Jamaeson shouted from around the side. He fired again.
"I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like him." I returned fire, though the jagged ridge protruding from the side made a perfect cover.
"Probably right. Not like that pretty little wife of his."
Sam's face turned white.
"I don't think I heard you right!" he returned.
"I'll be sure to say hello for you!" Jamaeson said.
"Where is she!" and he bolted outside.
"Sam, wait!" I thrust myself in front of him as Jamaeson took aim. The power behind the two shots threw me back a few steps, but not before I brought mine up and burried a bullet in his chest. He went down the same as I. I knew he'd vanished, the coat's power aiding in transporting him to a nearby Healing Center.
Ain't no trip graceful. I heard Sam shouting something as I stumbled to the ledge. I reached out to grab the remains of rope but wasn't strong enough to hold. My vision hazed again and Sam slipped from my sight as rock swirled past me in a blur of wind whipping through my coat, and I knew I was falling.
I would have preferred dirt to stone flooring when my body hit. Feet stampeded toward me, though my vision was still unclear as to who did the healing. At least I was at the Guild. Sam would be all right with Jamaeson gone for the time being.
The feel of fresh water washing over me startled me back to existence. The bullets had been removed, dressed, with company waiting next to my bed.
"You've a fine horse, my friend," Sam said beside me. "Led me right to you."
A healer left to tend to me nodded across from Sam.
"Yes," he said. "If she's been around you long enough, the pull of the coat will keep her close."
I grinned wearily. "That's my girl," then glanced over at Sam. "Jamaeson mentioned your wife. Now I'm wondering if he had something to do with her disappearance."
"We've checked all records," the healer replied. "He never appeared at any of the Guilds, which indicates he went to a rogue Healing Center instead."
"Rogue?" Sam questioned. "Ain't heard none of them before."
A nod. "They're relatively new, but spreading quickly. We don't have enough scouts to keep track."
"How do they work?" I asked.
"From what we've heard, you simply exchange something in return for later use, and it doesn't always have to be money."
I inhaled sharply. Jamaeson knew he'd lost, so it made sense for him to say he'd see Sam's wife again, because that's where he was going.
"I've spoken with the council," the healer continued. "We feel there may be more of Jamaeson's type who've refused to register back with the Guild. And we do need more scouts. With your past and present reputation, the Guild would like to offer you a new position - as Bounty Hunter. You no longer need to stay at Peony, if you so desire. You may now access other towns, and your Healing Center privileges has extended to various locations as necessary."
I couldn't believe my ears. Bounty Hunter? Katalina would have to get one more night with me before she'd see me off, and I knew she make it an all-nighter. Worth the title, that's for sure.
Doesn't take long with a Weapons Caster to heal. I joined Sam on the ridge overlooking the Guild down in the valley. Tilly nickered softly, and I patted her neck, glad to be out in the desert with my old partner in crime.
"You going after Jamaeson first or a rogue Healing Center?" Sam asked.
"Both," I answered, bringing Tilly around to face the sunset. "We're getting your wife back first. We find her, we find a rogue Healing Center." I placed a hand upon his shoulder. "We'll get her back. Don't worry."
We rode into Peony together. Kat would be waiting for us. The tension of tonight's fiesta outweighed that of my new status as Master Weapons Caster, Bounty Hunter.
Tonight, we feast.
Tomorrow, we hunt.
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An intelligence insider is warning the public about this latest CIA mass release of purported Osama Bin Laden files from devices found in the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound, saying that it has a specific political agenda with content that has been carefully and selectively published by the CIA in order to manipulate the public. This surprising insider testimony comes as Iran hawks argue they've found "proof" of an Iran and al-Qaeda connection, and as no information has yet to surface from the files regarding how bin Laden came to be living for years in the neighborhood of Pakistan's most visible military academy and within clear sight of the Pakistani government and allied US intelligence services.
Yesterday the CIA published to its public archives website 18,000 document files, about 79,000 audio and image files and over 10,000 video files taken from devices found in the deceased al-Qaeda leader's compound six and a half years ago. Among the most significant items provided is what the CIA says is bin Laden’s personal hand-written journal. This is the fourth major release of bin Laden documents since the first trove of materials was published in May 2015.
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Though currently the media has seized on some of the more sensational oddities of the files - for example, retro video games, Pixar children's movies, viral YouTube clips like 'Charlie bit my finger', RT News programming, Bin Laden's son Hamza's wedding, videos of the compounds barnyard animals, CNN documentaries, conspiracy movies, and other random things - foreign policy establishment hawks are seizing upon something quite different: they say the trove reveals al-Qaeda links with Iran.
Continue Reading at ..... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-02/former-intelligence-official-cia-using-bin-laden-files-deceive-public-iran
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Researchers have developed a method to predict the atomic structure of sodium-ion batteries
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Oxis Energy international programme for electrification of maritime vessels
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Saft launches new energy storage hub for renewables in Zhuhai, China
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Additive breakthrough paves way to safer lithium-ion batteries
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Rider, 25, whose legs were parlaysed when she was crushed by horse back in the saddle after amazing recovery
Posted byBig Wife July 4, 2012
Rider, 25, who was paralysed after she was crushed by horse recovers after getting back on the (bicycle) saddle
16:34 GMT, 4 July 2012
A woman who was left paralysed from the waist down when she was crushed by her horse has made an incredible recovery – by riding a bicycle.
Lucy Hunt, 25, snapped her spine in a horrific accident when her horse Spider rolled on top of her after she attempted a jump.
She was left with no feeling in her legs and unable to move below the waist after the accident on July 27 last year.
Back in the saddle: Lucy swapped a horse for a bicycle to strengthen her back after a riding accident. Sadly her horse Spider (pictured) had to be put down
The damage to her spine was so serious that she had to wait two days for a specialist surgeon to operate on her.
She had three large screws drilled into her pelvis after breaking her sacrum – a bone between the coccyx and spine – which also left her with nerve damage.
Walking again: Lucy thought she was permanently paralysed after she was crushed by her horse
Following the eight-hour op, Lucy spent two and a half weeks in hospital before she was allowed to return home.
Doctors warned her she might not be able to ride horses again. But she has made an incredible recovery after strengthening her back by riding a bike.
Party planner Lucy, from Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, said: 'Spider froze and decided to come back over the jump. His legs collapsed, and he fell down and rolled over on top of me.
'I was left on the floor in excruciating pain. I couldn’t feel anything from the waist down and thought I was permanently paralysed. That was why I couldn’t feel my legs.
'I was told I would walk again but that it would take a long time.
'The doctors said my horse riding days were probably over.
'They couldn’t operate for two days as it required a specialist surgeon.
'In that time I couldn’t move below my waist. It was awful, absolutely horrendous.'
After six weeks in hospital, Lucy was discharged from hospital last November.
And she stunned medics when she began cycling up to 15 miles a week with partner Kevin Burton, 24.
She said: 'I was nervous. I was a bit wobbly and my body seemed to forget what to do because I hadn’t done it for so long. I was amazed by how much my body had shut down.'
Astonishingly, Lucy is now preparing to complete a 48-mile bike ride later this month.
She added: 'I’ve always been an active person and I asked my doctors if I could get on a bike because I wasn’t allowed back on a horse.
'Kevin and I have been out riding and have been building it up.
'The past six months have been great, but it’s only been the last month that I’ve not had any pain in my back.
Lucy pictured in September 2011. he has recovered after an eight-hour operation
'I still have some nerve damage and can’t feel my toes. I’ve been told it could take up to 18 months to come back.
'Kevin and my mum and dad have been amazing. I cannot explain just how incredible they have been. Something like that does show you who your real friends are.'
Tragically, Spider had to be put down after he suffered almost identical injuries to his owner.
Lucy hopes to start riding again later this year.
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Posted byBig Wife July 4, 2012 Posted inHealthTags: accident, bicycle, coccyx, damage, horrific, horses, nerve, nottinghamshire, party, pelvis, planner, result, stapleford, time
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Keep Your Eyes On The Prize by Ian Duhig
by Fiona Gell · 3 February 2016
The poet Ian Duhig who is also one of the judges in the Remember Oluwale Writing Prize, on race, writing, and form in poetry.
Will you write about Duggan? the man wants to know.
Why don’t you? you ask.
Me? he asks, looking slightly irritated. ― Claudia Rankine, Citizen.
How do you write creatively about social injustice and racial violence without sacrificing art to the political point? This question has been hotly debated both here and in the USA in recent years. The David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) Symposium held in April 2015 took place against the background of furore caused by Kenneth Goldsmith’s appropriation of Michael Brown’s autopsy report for a piece of Conceptual writing the previous month.
DOMA has always had a lot of involvement from writers and poets with Caryl Phillips being its founding patron and still involved which, now he’s a professor at Yale, means DOMA has been alert to American developments; board member the poet Sai MuRai shared a platform with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, six weeks before Goldsmith’s reading. This controversy felt close to home because Conceptual writing is more prominently represented near us in Yorkshire than almost anywhere else in these islands, with Shandy Hall, one of its leading international centres, where both Goldsmith himself and Craig Dworkin have held residencies.
Goldsmith and Dworkin had previously been the subject of controversy when their anthology Against Expression included excerpts from M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, a work exploring legacies of the late 18th century British court case where 150 slaves were thrown overboard so the slave ship’s captain could collect the insurance money. Zong! is a constraint-based piece only using words found in the original one-page legal document. Dworkin and Goldsmith wrote of Zong!: “the ethical inadequacies of that legal document . . . do not prevent their détournement in the service of experimental writing.” This prompted an attack from Cathy Park Hong, commenting in another of her essays, Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde, “God forbid that maudlin and heavy-handed subjects like slavery and mass slaughter overwhelm the form! Thankfully, such “ethical inadequacies” have been disciplined enough to be “in the service” of experimental writing.”
Sandeep Parmar in a Wolf magazine editorial responding to this essay wrote, “Hong’s argument that poets who address race or racial politics are excluded from intellectual coteries of avant-garde or ‘innovative’ poets is hard to dispute — partly on the basis that you can’t be both ‘post-racial’ (or ‘post-identity’) and dissolve the poetic subject if you’re always read as a poet of colour”, going on to say that in her experience of the two countries you are more easily pigeon holed as an ‘ethnic’ writer in the UK than the USA. When you are so pigeon holed, like the Northern Irish writers during the Troubles, you will either be accused of cashing in on or ignoring the predicament of your community, whether or not you feel a part of any community.
At bottom, are these controversies really centred on the morality of differing poetic techniques? It is perfectly possible, and I think on balance likely, that Goldsmith does feel that his work has highlighted racism and police violence in American society. But at what cost? Perhaps a poet interested in social and political engagement should adopt a manner strategically consonant with her times and the political topography she finds herself working within, developing new forms or blends when existing ones prove inadequate to our predicament. At the opening of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen we read: “When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices”, which alludes to the usual devices of poetry as well as those of technology, in a book which goes on to be brilliantly innovative.
I hope to see a wide range of work and forms in the Remember Oluwale Writing Prize because there is no one right answer in art. Recent poetry like Rankine’s has shown that porous borders between poetry, prose, lyric essay and song, can be fertile territory here but traditional forms in the hands of writers like Patience Agbabi can be radical as well. The alchemical wedding of heart and mind in poetry is one of its chiefest glories in poetry. Good luck with the courting.
Some of this article appeared in a longer version published in Poetry London.
Ian Duhig is a poet based in Leeds and one of the judges for the Remember Oluwale Writing Prize. He is a former homelessness worker. His seventh book of poems The Blind Roadmaker is a PBS Spring 2016 Recommendation. A joint winner of a Shirley Jackson Award for short stories, Duhig has won the Forward Best Poem Prize, the National Poetry Competition twice and three times been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.
He has written about David Oluwale for the Big Bookend. You can read his article here.
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CHERISH (Climate, Heritage and Environments of Reefs, Islands, and Headlands) is an exciting, 6-year European-funded Ireland-Wales project between the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Aberystwyth University: Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and Geological Survey, Ireland. The project will receive €5.1 million through the Ireland-Wales 2014-2020 Programme.
CHERISH is a truly cross-disciplinary project. It aims to raise awareness and understanding of the past, present and near-future impacts of climate change, storminess, and extreme weather events on the rich cultural heritage of the Irish and Welsh regional seas and coast. We will be employing innovative techniques to study some of the most iconic coastal locations in Ireland and Wales.
The four main aims of CHERISH are to:
Target data and knowledge gaps to raise awareness of heritage in these remote coastal locations.
Discover, assess, map and monitor heritage on land and beneath the sea and establish new baseline data and recording standards.
Link land and sea.
Reconstruct past environments and weather history.
CHERISH will work with communities and will widely disseminate the results and best practice for future climate change adaptation.
We will be moving our website over to a new publishing platform over the next few months so please bear with us if the content is not updated as regularly!
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Toyota Camry Hybrid 2012
The all-new Camry Hybrid debuts a highly revised version of the brand’s Hybrid Synergy Drive powertrain, including a new 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. The 2012 Camry Hybrid LE, with EPA-estimated 43 mpg city/39 mpg highway/41 mpg combined, yields a more-than-30 percent boost in fuel economy in the EPA city and combined driving cycles, compared to the previous generation, thanks largely to the new hybrid powertrain, but also due to lighter vehicle weight and optimized aerodynamics.
All-New Camry Hybrid Sets New Standard for Mid-size Hybrid Sedans
Through its unique transaxle, the Hybrid Synergy Drive system combines output from the four-cylinder engine with a small high-torque electric motor. The system produces a combined 200 horsepower and varies power between the gas engine and electric motor, or combines both, as needed.
The new 2.5-liter engine, like the 2.4-liter it replaces, uses the Atkinson cycle (delayed intake-valve closing for an expansion ratio greater than compression ratio) to achieve maximum efficiency. The Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i) system on the intake camshaft enhances torque, which is greater than with the previous engine. An electric water pump, a roller-rocker type valvetrain and a variable-output oil pump help to reduce internal friction, boosting economy.
A new water-cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system helps to ensure the lowest possible emissions at all vehicle speeds and helps increase fuel efficiency. By cooling and controlling exhaust gas injected into each cylinder, the system eliminates the need to richen the air-fuel mixture to control cylinder temperatures.
The 2012 Camry Hybrid meets AT-PZEV (Advanced Technology Partial-credit Zero Emissions Vehicle) standards. New sound absorbing materials in the engine compartment, along with more linear control over engine speed, give the 2012 Camry Hybrid a more pleasing sound under acceleration.
Because there are situations in which the gas engine in the Camry Hybrid shuts off, air conditioning and power steering systems are driven electrically. New efficiency measures in the Hybrid Synergy Drive system include reducing internal losses in the transaxle, improving motor-voltage control, and optimizing the regenerative braking. The proven nickel-metal-hydride battery, located in the luggage compartment behind the rear seats, now features enhanced air-cooling. Its more compact size, along with moving the DC/DC converter to the engine compartment, results in a trunk that is 2.1-cubic feet larger than in the previous-generation Camry Hybrid.
Lighter overall vehicle weight also contributes to better performance and fuel economy. Its 7.6-second zero-to-60 acceleration time places the Camry Hybrid between the four-cylinder and V6 models. Lower rolling resistance tires, available for the first time in 17-inch size, also help boost fuel economy.
New for the 2012 Camry Hybrid, an EV Drive mode allows the driver to operate the car on the electric motor alone for up to 1.6 miles at lower speeds (below approximately 25 mph). The EV indicator illuminates when the vehicle is being propelled solely by the electric motor.
As on the previous Camry Hybrid, ECO mode optimizes throttle response and air conditioning output to prioritize maximum fuel economy. A Hybrid-exclusive instrument cluster with Hybrid System Indicator and fuel consumption indicator helps the driver to operate the car as economically as possible.
Instantaneous fuel economy is shown with LEDs (light emitting diodes) around the outside of the average fuel economy gauge. The car’s Multi-Information display graphically shows fuel economy in real time and can also show energy flow, and cruising range information.
As before, applying the brake converts the motor to a generator that captures the kinetic energy from the still-spinning vehicle wheels, storing it in the hybrid battery pack. Putting the shifter into “B” uses regenerative braking as a form of engine braking for enhanced control on steep descents. New hill-start assist control helps prevent the vehicle from rolling backward when starting off on an incline when the brake pedal is released.
Exclusive exterior and interior design touches and badging differentiate the 2012 Camry Hybrid from other Camry models. Inside, Hybrid-exclusive trim is found on the instrument panel and door switch bases, upper console panels and shift knob. The Camry Hybrid also features its own exclusive seat fabric in ivory or light gray. An exclusive leather and Ultrasuede is also available. A three-dial Optitron gauge panel with chrome-accented outer rings provides a luxurious appearance.
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To have community events listed in the Connection, send to herndon@connectionnewspapers.com. Deadline is Friday.
Friday/April 20
Environmental Film. 7 p.m. Walker Nature Center, 11450 Glade Drive, Reston. "Earth, the Operator’s Manual," a documentary on climate change and sustainable energy. Discussion follows. $5. 703-476-9689 or naturecenter@reston.org.
Saturday/April 21
Police Scam Forum. 7 p.m. Korean Presbyterian Church, 15451 Lee Highway, Centreville. The Sully Police District is hosting a community forum on the dangers of financial crimes in the Korean community, to help protect people from by financial scams, visa fraud and more. 703-246-3271.
Sunday/April 22
Can you hear me now? 12:45 p.m. Fairfax Unitarian Church, 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. The debates over climate change and other environmental issues provide case studies and point to approaches that might change the way we communicate around the issues that matter most to our society and our future.
Monday/April 23
Kindergarten Orientation. 2 p.m. Floris Elementary School, 2708 Centreville Road, Herndon. Children who will be five years old on or before Sept. 30, 2012 are eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten. The orientation will be provide information and the registration paperwork. 703-561-2900.
Speaker Series at NVHC. 8 p.m. Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, 1441 Wiehle Ave., Reston. Peter Beinart, author and Senior Fellow, New America Foundation, Time columnist and Senior Political Writer, The Daily Beast, on The Crisis of Zionism. Free admission, open to the public. ruthseldon@comcast.net.
Tuesday/April 24
Oakton HIgh School Dance Team Tryouts. 4 p.m. Oakton High School, 2900 Sutton Road, Vienna. alphajane@aol.com.
April Networking Night. 5:30-7:15 p.m. United Bank, 1801 Reston Parkway, Reston. Bring business cards. $15-$40. www.restonchamber.org.
College Drinking: Documentary and Discusssion. 7 p.m. Herndon High School, 700 Bennett St., Herndon. Screening of the documentary "Haze", followed by a question-and-answer session with representatives from the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney's office, an emergency physician, representatives from the Fairfax County Police Department, the parent of a student who died following drinking at a college party and a graduate student. 703-246-3271.
Wednesday/April 25
Fairfax County presents Understanding Medicare, Medigap, and Medicare Part D. 3 p.m. Sully Governmental Center, 4900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly. Free. Register at 703-324-5205, TTY 711, www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dfs/olderadultservices or caregiver@fairfaxcounty.gov.
Business Education Series: Media Outreach 101. 8:30 a.m. Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce, 1763 Fountain Drive, Reston. Jon Newman with The Hodges Partnership and Alan Fogg, Vice President of Communications at the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority on public & media relations, media outreach and how to position your company to be newsworthy. Members free, non-members $10. www.restonchamber.org.
Open House. 5-7 p.m. Northern Virginia Community College Reston Center, 1831 Wiehle Ave., Reston. Prospective students will learn about NOVA’s guaranteed admission agreements that allow graduates to transfer to a four-year college. Receive financial aid advice and talk to deans, faculty and current students. Refreshments served. Free. 703-450-2520 or jperara@nvcc.edu.
Thursday/April 26
Fairfax County Volunteer Service Awards Breakfast. 8 a.m. Waterford, 6715 Commerce St., Springfield. Honor volunteers who are dedicated to improving life in Fairfax County and finding new ways to serve. www.volunteerfairfax.org or 703-246-3816.
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Rosh Hashana- The Correct Time for Tashlich & Tashlich on Shabbat
The Ben Ish Chai (Rav Yoseif Chaim ben Eliyahu 1835-1909) writes that the proper time for tashlich is on the first day of Rosh Hashana, after Mincha. So one would pray Mincha in the afternoon, like we pray Mincha Ketana, and then say tashlich. The question is why?
he Ben Ish Chai explains that this is the time that Adam Harishon sinned. Rosh Hashana commemorates the birthday of Adam Harishon who was created on Rosh Hashana, and then he sinned later that same day in the afternoon. So therefore the tashlich, which is a Tikun (repair), happens at the time of day when Adam made the sin. Also we know that Mincha is a time of Et Ratzon, as brought down that Eliyahu Hanavi was answered in the time of Mincha. And lastly we do it in Mincha because, since Akedat Yitzchak was on Rosh Hashana, and the prayer that Yitzchak Avinu instituted was Tefilat Mincha, so therefore to commemorate the Akeda, we do tashlich at Mincha time.
However, the Ben Ish Chai writes that in the event that we don’t do tashlich on the first day of Rosh Hashana, for whatever reason, one would then do it on the second day of Rosh Hashana. However, the Ben Ish Chai holds that on the second day it should be done after Musaf. So there is a difference between day one and day two. Day one is after Mincha, and day two is after Musaf. It should be pointed out that Rav Chida (Rav Chaim Yoseif David Azulai, 1724-1806) argues with this and says it should always be said after Mincha. The Halacha as brought down by Chacham Ovadia is that if it is being done on the second day, it would be more proper to do it after Musaf.
The question is now, when the first day of Rosh Hashana falls out on Shabbat, is tashlich done on the first day, or on the second day Rav Chida’s opinion is that it is not done on the first day in this case. He holds that the Kabalah says that when Rosh Hashana comes out on Shabbat, it is not proper to do it on Shabbat. There is a concern in a place where there is no Erub, that the people might come to carry the Sidur. So therefore he says not to gather the people because it’s likely that they’re going to commit a sin of carrying and defeat the purpose as they came to throw away their sins. So therefore Rav Chida holds not to do tashlich when the first day comes out on Shabbat.
However, that’s not the opinion of the Ben Ish Chai, or of Rav Chayim Palachi, or of the Rashash (Rabbi Shalom Shar'aby Mizrahi), and it was not the custom in Bet El in Jerusalem. They used to make it on Shabbat, and they held that it’s proper to do it on Shabbat. The Ben Ish Chai has a whole Teshuva on this in Torah Lishma. He says that when the first day of Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbat, that that is the best day to do tashlich. They too were concerned about the Erub issues, but stated that if you have an Erub at the place where you are making tashlich, and therefore since there wouldn’t be a problem of people carrying, it would then be proper to make tashlich on the first day of Rosh Hashana occurring on Shabbat.
It should be pointed however, it seems the custom in our community, according to Chacham Baruch Ben Haim Z’L, is that they don’t make tashlich in the year when it comes out on Shabbat because of the issues of carrying. However, this is leveled in Machloket (argument). Many Rabbis held that you are supposed to make tashlich. In conclusion one should folloe the Minhag of his community and consult his Rabbi.
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Prolific Producer Alex Fisher Exclusive Interview
October 3, 2012 October 5, 2014 by EDM DJS
Alex Fisher currently has productions out on labels like High Contrast, Reset, Spinnin, Fraction, Fektive, Future Focus and more. Time for a chat with this guy!
In a few words, could you describe your style?
I would describe it as a mix of House, Techtrance and Trance with influences from “the early days”.
Is EDM the new Rock n Roll?
I believe it is. DJ/producers are the new Beatles or Rolling Stones. Certainly after EDM has crossed over to The States. This opens up a door to a massive new audience. And because of social media like Facebook and Twitter, tracks can gain attention in very little time.
If you could put one non-famous person in the spotlight who means a lot to you, other than you direct family or friends, who would that be and why?
I was watching a TV show the other day, called: ‘Over mijn lijk’ (translated ‘over my dead body’). I saw a guy named Jip who had a terminal disease . He was still so positive, despite of his destiny, and when they asked him if he had some kind of message, or last words which he wanted to share with the public, his answer was very moving. His advice, to put it short was to live your life in an open and honest way and try not to let negativity get you down. Coming from his mouth it reminded me to enjoy life to its fullest. I’m sure his story will stay in my memory forever.
What do you consider to be your biggest break that launched your DJ career?
My big break as a DJ/producer came through a co-production with Wezz Devall. We took Jeckel and Hyde’s jumpstyle track ‘Frozen Flame’ and turned it into a classic trancer. The track got immediate attention from Paul Oakenfold, who played in his set at Trance Energy and signed it to his high profile label, Perfecto. After that we signed a contract with Digidance (The Klubbheads) as Wezz & Fisher.
Do you feel the mainstream media treats famous DJs in a different way than famous popstars?
No, not anymore. Look at DJ/producers like Tiësto, Afrojack and David Guetta. Their ‘star status’ is probably just as big, if not bigger than most mainstream popstars. It also depends on who you ask. But the group of people who are discovering EDM is getting bigger by the minute. It sure makes you wonder what the future has in store for us.
Did you ever participate in a remix competition and do you feel these are good or bad for new talent?
When I first started producing? Sure, lots of times. Therefore I don’t think of it as a bad thing for new talent. If you take a track which has already proven to be successful, flip it over and turn it into something new and refreshing, chances are it will be received in a positive way. But you have make sure it is well balanced. Remixing Frozen Flame opened up quite a few doors for me.
What is the essential track from you in 2012 that no one should miss out on and why?
That would be my latest release on Future Focus Recordings: ’18 Years’. I produced the track in a time when things weren’t really going my way to say the least. It allowed me to let go of all the emotions I felt inside. Therefore track is very melancholic.
Do you have crazy dance moves?
Currently I am practicing my Gangnam style-moves, but I used to be very good at doing the Macarena 😉
How do you balance your DJ career with other obligations in your life?
Well, I can tell you that this is very challenging to say the least. In my opinion you can always find time for things you really enjoy doing, even if this means getting a few hours less sleep at night. A day only has 24 hours, so if I need extra time finishing a project, I cut my nights short.
What jobs have you done before becoming a DJ?
I started out grilling the world’s most famous hamburgers at Mc. Donalds and after that I served time in the military. Coming out of the military I worked at a couple factories, but I am currently employed for a few hours a week creating custom made car seats.
This might sound a little ‘Steve Jobs-ish’ but I believe that we are created to be the best version of ourselves. Stay true to what’s in your heart, to who you are inside, en where you want to be in life. Follow your own instincts and create the music YOU like. It’s the only way to keep the musical evolution moving forward. Think outside the box.
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The Network For Research, Education and Engineering is a nonprofit organization and service provider that assists and fulfills the networking needs of the research institutes of Russian Academy of Sciences, universities, colleges, and other research and academic institutions of Russia. The FREEnet provides, among other benefits, full IP connectivity (inside and outside the country), DNS services, mail relaying and IP Registry service and assorted information services. There are more than a dozen regional branches that operate independently but are cooperating as peers in accordance with FREEnet Charter principles. This site is in Russian and English.
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This network that aims at creating common information space of Russian science and education and its integration into the world information community. RUNNet creation was launched by Ministry of Education (former State Committee for Higher Education) of Russian Federation in accordance with the State Program "Universities of Russia". The network backbone provides connectivity for main economical regions of Russia. Federal Nodes are RUNNet points of presence in the regions. They connect regional networks of science and education, universities, research institutions and academic organizations. St. Petersburg Technical University is an organizing member of RUNNet which is connecting Russian Universities by satellite links. Initial connection cities include Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Petrozavodsk, Saratov, Ulianovsk.
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This program, funded by Open Socieity Institute (OSI), is designed to "(a) provide 32 provincial universities in the Russian Federation with a fully equipped computing center and multi-media lab with complete access to the Internet (b) to administer content based program initiatives for the university and non-university communities". This highly informative site provides detailed information on this beneficial program, a list and map of the universities that are participating, press releases and last but not least, "Russia from Coast to Coast" which is the newsletter of the UIC.
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Corporation "Universities networks of knowledge" is non-profit association established in 1992 by leading Russian universities with the aim of development of universities' telecommunications and their information resources. Nowadays more than 170 universities and institution of Academy of Science are members of the UNICOR Corporation. UNICOR is based upon scientific and educational network. Starting from 1993 a project "National academic system of databases and knowledge bases of higher school of Russia" is realizing on the basis of UNICOR and FREEnet. Forty-four (44) universities are participating in this project. From 1994 UNICOR is a member and represents Russian scientific and Educational networks in the international organization: Central and Eastern European Network (CEENet).
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''I have what it takes to compete with Buhari in the presidential election'' - Governor Tambuwal
Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has reacted to claims made by the National leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, that he defected from the ruling APC to PDP, because he could not muster the courage to contest against president Buhari for the APC presidential ticket.
Tinubu in a statement released yesterday August 19th, said Tambuwal's defection on August 1st was primarily so he can pursue his presidential ambition which he cannot achieve on the platform of APC.
Reacting via his twitter handle this morning, Governor Tambuwal said he could contest for the presidency on the platform of APC as he has what it takes to compete with President Buhari.
“If I wanted to and if the Presidency is what (why) Ahmed Tinubu thinks I defected, I could contest with President Buhari under the APC. I have what it takes to have contested with Mr. President.” one of his tweets reads
See more of his tweets below.
''I have what it takes to compete with Buhari in the presidential election'' - Governor Tambuwal Reviewed by getitrightnigerians on 14:28:00 Rating: 5
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Closing chords of the Kolberg Year 2014
On 11 December 2014 Polish Radio's Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw will host the closing gala of the Kolberg Year. This year has been filled with a vide array of celebrations marking the bicentenary of birth of the great folklorist and ethnographer. Drawing on traditional culture, the initiatives will undoubtedly go on after the Kolberg Year finishes.
At midday Professor Małgorzata Omilanowska, minister of culture and national heritage of Poland, will present the Oskar Kolberg Awards For Merit to Folk Culture for the 39th time. Also to be presented during the gala are 2014 Gloria Artis Medals For Merit to Culture.
The Oskar Kolberg Award For Merit to Folk Culture has been presented since 1974. It has always been the most important Polish distinction for involvement in folk culture. This year's winners include artists boasting great achievements in folk plastic arts and handicraft, instrumental music, singing, dance, and literature. The award is a recognition of these individuals' and ensembles' long-lasting, consistent efforts aimed at preserving and celebrating traditions and genuine values of regional folk culture in its material, social, and artistic aspects. Among the recipients are also individuals who devoted their time and energy to document and stimulate traditional culture, whose creativity, inventiveness, and persistency has contributed to raising public knowledge and artistic sensitivity, as well as understanding of and respect for the national and regional cultural heritage.
The awards have been funded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, the Cepelia Polish Art and Handicraft Foundation, and local authorities of the Mazowieckie province.
This year's edition of the awards was organised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, National Centre for Culture, Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw, Open-Air Museum of Rural Architecture in Radom, Oskar Kolberh Museum in Przysucha, and Polish Radio 2.
The second part of the gala will feature the performance "Orszak weselny/Żałobny rapsod" (Wedding Procession/Funeral Rhapsody) directed by Darek Błaszczyk, and written by Jaceka Hałas and Darek Błaszczyk. The performance gathers the Jarzebina Vocal Band of the village of Kocudza, Men's Vocal Band of the village of Godziszów, Tęgie Chłopy Band featuring Stanisław Witkowski, Wind Ensemble of the village of Zdziłowice, Brodacze of Sławatycze, and Jacek Hałas, who has also arranged music for the show.
At 7 pm the performance will be performed again, this time to the public. You may also listen to it live on Polish Radio 2.
The year 2014 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Oskar Kolberg. The Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw, Oskar Kolberg Institute, Forum
of Traditional Music, Polish Ethnological Society, Open-Air Museum of Rural
Architecture in Radom, Polish Radio, Folk Artists Association, Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Composers’ Union, Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, and the National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw have carried out a wide array of concerts and educational, promotional, and publishing projects to mark the jubilee. The most notable efforts include the official inauguration of the Kolberg Year in Przysucha and Warsaw, a website devoted to the folklorist, an interactive guide around places with Kolberg significance in Poland, digitalisation of Kolberg's manuscripts and publications for public use, renovation of his gravestone in the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków, a report on traditional music culture today, and exhibitions on Kolberg's work in the context of 19th century history and culture.
The Kolberg Year abounded in excellent performances, concerts, festivals, workshop sessions, competitions, recordings, and radio programmes. We have reminded Poles of this great figure and his legacy, walking the way from pencil to smartphone. We have also proved that today's Poland has its Kolbergs as well: a range of ethnographers and ethnomusicologists examine traditional culture today. We have also proved that folk culture is alive, interesting, dynamic, and genuine.
A comprehensive round-up of the Kolberg Year will be ready in February 2015, as many of the jubilee projects are still going on.
The Kolberg Year Celebrations Office is run by the Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw. The anniversary has been celebrated under the auspices of UNESCO. The celebrations have been financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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How To Get Rid Of Gnat
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44 Buffalo gnat bites facts uncovered
A lot of stories out there which get me scared about the buffalo gnat bites, they are life-threatening and cause nuisance to people and get them so terrified.
What the buffalo black gnat is?
What is a Buffalo Gnat?
Buffalo gnat is Simuliidae-related small black flies due to their humpbacked appearance.
Buffalo gnats are a common nuisance for humans, also named the black knats, buffalo nats or black fly. Keep focused to know why these gnats have been nuisance for people.
If you do not know what do gnats mean?
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Can gnat bites human?
How to identify buffalo black gnats very easy?
How does buffalo gnat looks like?
Black fly or turkey gnat or buffalo gnats are all the same.
Buffalo gnat is one-eighth of an inch long.
Tiny insects that measures no more than 5 mm.
Their colors are Black, gray, brown, or even some shades of orange.
Buffalo gnat has clear wings, big eyes, and antennae with eleven segments.
Read more about how to identify black gnats?
When to get gnat bites?
Why do gnat bites human?
Black fly populations swell from late April to July, becoming a nuisance to humans engaging in common outdoor activities, such as gardening, boating, camping, and backpacking. They can also be a significant nuisance in mountainous areas.
Where the buffalo gnat bites located?
I am going to uncover the facts about buffalo gnats and their bites.
Males only need nectar to survive and cannot bite.
Buffalo gnat bite are mainly by hungry females, the method how Female buffalo gnat or black fly bites is by sucking blood using their cutter mouth parts to cut into skin, secrete a blood anti-clotting chemical in their saliva into the opened wound, thus buffalo gnat sucking the victim’s blood easily and largely, due to the severity of the cut skin and large amount of blood lost, the bitten human or animal will suffer from anemia and may be develop inflammation and sensitivity reaction, by extending the flies’ feeding time.
Biting flies feed during daylight hours only and tend to zero in on areas of thinner skin, such as the nape of the neck or ears and ankles.
Buffalo gnat bites on dogs like rest of animals will be in danger of infectious diseases and anaphylaxis.
Each Buffalo gnat species has its own preferred biting area on the human skin and pets.
When gnats start biting you?
Do fungus buffalo gnats bite?
The worm-like larvae hatching from these eggs are typically less than half an inch long and shaped like an hourglass; they have fan-like mouthparts to feed on bacteria in their surrounding aquatic environment.
If you do not know what do nats looks like?
When and where buffalo gnats appear?
Where do buffalo gnats come from?
Detailed information about where gnat types come from, previously posted, you can read.
In the wetter parts of the northern latitudes of North America, including parts of Canada, New England, Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Pennsylvania, in the United States,
Populations on United states beaches may be vulnerable to buffalo gnat bites, so that they are adviced to use gnat repellent cream or something like that, such US beaches are: Outer Banks, maui, Myrtle Beach, Sanibel Island, Honolulu – Oahu, U.S. Virgin Islands, Fort Lauderdale, San Diego, Cape Cod, and Hilton Head.
States which have people more vulnerable to gnat bites:
Atlantic Coast: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (Atlantic).
Gulf Coast: Florida (Gulf), Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas.
Pacific Coast: California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska (Pacific)
Arctic Coast: Alaska (Arctic)
Also some cities got high nuisance by buffalo gnats such as in Illinois the central western part (60miles north of st.louis and 50miles south west of springfield (Latitude: 39.42085 / Longitude: -90.394127).
In England and called Blandford fly (Simulium posticatum).
In The New Zealand “sandflies” are actually black flies of the species Austrosimulium australense and A. ungulatum.
In parts of Scotland, various species of black flies are a nuisance and bite humans, mainly between May and September. They are found mainly in mixed birch and juniper woodlands, and at lower levels in pine forests, moorlands, and pastures. Bites are most often found on the head, neck, and back. They also frequently land on legs and arms.
If you do not how the nats come into your house? Please read this.
Appear in late spring and early summer when they swarm and bite birds and mammals, including domestic animals and people.
Areas with streams or rivers provide an excellent atmosphere for the buffalo gnat. Because its eggs live in water, the reproduction rate in moist areas is high, including climates with heavy precipitation. The buffalo gnat is commonly found in wooded areas, as well as arctic areas. Buffalo flies are popular in Canada.
The odd thing is that the cleaner the water in rivers and streams is, the higher the population of buffalo gnats tends to be.
Black flies are usually found around fast running water, such as river rapids and waterfalls,
The buffalo gnats have a 3-week life span, and transform from eggs to adults insects as the temperature rises,
Adults will fly 10 miles or more in search of blood, their birth place have not such source of food. Which look a bit like horse flies, spend most of their roughly three weeks of life looking for blood to provide the protein needed to lay eggs.
Do gnats bite human or animals?
All living organisms are pruned to bites of buffalo gnat. Buffalo gnat bites on human are painful and may be very dangerous to those have allergic reaction towards knats, pregnant woman are in danger of getting bitten by nats, also kids and infants are most likely to be affected and may be killed due to weakness of their bodies and immunity response, in many cases the knat bites treated in no long time and the bitten person get well soon.
Identify the gnat species and types easily.
Why to kill buffalo gnat?
Are the gnat bites dangerous?
In tropical areas and places with warm, moist climates, buffalo gnats can cause diseases in humans, Black flies are central to the transmission of the parasitic nematode Onchocerca volvulus which causes onchocerciasis, or “river blindness”. It serves as the larval host for the nematode and acts as the vector by which the disease is spread. The parasite lives on human skin and is transmitted to the black fly during feeding. They spread several diseases, including river blindness in Africa (Simulium damnosum and S. neavei) and the Americas (S. callidum and S. metallicum in Central America, S. ochraceum in Central andSouth America).
Like mosquitoes, buffalo gnats can be carriers of encephalitis.
Black gnat bites can kill the domestic animals, especially poultry due to the very weak defense of their skin, as well as exotic birds, Buffalo gnat attack cattle and other animals causing Consequences include extreme weight loss, anaphylactic shock, and death. Turkeys and other types of poultry may have parasites or diseases after being bitten by buffalo gnats.
Do Black gnat bits cause death? Black flies are not known to transmit disease to humans in the United States because they are not vectors for any life-threatening illnesses. However any reported human deaths are assumed to be from allergic reactions.
What does work to stop gnat bites?
Is there a buffalo gnat bites treatment to be effective?
Previously I put a concise help with very effective remedies to kill gnats, and many of my readers send me emails that they worked and the gnats vanished, you can read those simple techniques here.
In the next few days I will post a full guide of suitable treatment for every severity degree of bites. That’s because some buffalo nat bites only painful, and others accompanied by swelling and bleeding wound, some bites with infection inflammation, bites cause allergy, buffalo gnat bites on eye, etc., so that I have prepared a concise guide with buffalo gnat bite pictures to know how to treat buffalo gnat bites and what does work to stop itching and what does not.
Other home insects repellents.
Other natural remedies to kill flies and bugs
The government operates black fly control programs to assure the quality of life for residents and to the tourism industry.
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4 thoughts on “44 Buffalo gnat bites facts uncovered”
Lyz P April 24, 2017 at 4:26 pm
I have some gnat bites I got in Florida late March. They’re on both ankles, knees, and my neck. I have since moved to Germany and they still itch like crazy! I’d really like them to go away as I’m constantly scratching and they look unsightly. I’ve tried the common OTC remedies. Any ideas? Thanks for your help.
Jennie Gorsuch May 2, 2018 at 4:08 pm
That sounds like no-see-um bugs
Scott April 25, 2017 at 9:10 pm
I need to keep my epipen handy most days! We call them no see ems in nevada, they leave quite a huge bite and bad reaction for me. Seem to seasonal and my neighbors have lost a lot of chickens because of these little blood suckers
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We Will Create History By Winning In Dubbaka, Says Uttam
Hyderabad, Oct.19 (Hydnow): TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy today said that they would create history by winning in the upcoming by-polls in Dubbaka assembly constituency. He made these remarks while addressing the gathering of the party workers at the 30th Rajiv Gandhi Sadhbavana Yatra memorial program held at Charminar of the city. The TPCC president hoisted the party flag on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that the country has more connectivity than China thanks to the efforts made by the former PM of the country Rajiv Gandhi. He alleged that the present rulers of the country were ruling the state by dividing on the basis of religion. He made it clear that the congress party would remain in the hearts of the people of the country as a secular party. Making it clear that there is no differences in the congress party on the basis of the caste, creed and race he said that the congress party was the only party that would do social justice.
Targeting ruling TRS Party, he alleged that the ruling party was working only to earn commissions and not for the people of the state. Reddy said that the congress party was the same party which brought independence to the country and created separate Telangana state. He asked the party workers to feel proud to be the party worker. (Hydnow)
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My first experience with the work of Paolo Sorrentino came in the beginning of 2017 with his gonzo HBO series The Young Pope, a delightfully campy, often nonsensical sojourn into a campy, often nonsensical organization. I don't see any reason Pope Francis wouldn't have LMFAO playing while putting on the papal tiara, as Sorrentino's pope does, or that the real Vatican Gardens don't have a kangaroo hopping around freely. Sorrentino's auteurist mind was a fun place to hang out in for a period of time, and there's no reason the same expectation shouldn't extend to his film work. In Youth, the Italian director applies his overwrought dialogue and oddly-beautiful interstitial scenes to another cloistered area, this time a swanky spa and hotel for the rich and famous.
Anchored by Michael Caine's apathetic composer Fred, Sorrentino stuffs the spa with meaty roles for Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda, and memorable background players like the various performers the spa brings in to entertain the guests or the eccentric guests themselves. The wealth is judiciously spread around, with Weisz's Lena, as Fred's daughter and assistant, making a meal out of a dense monologue, and a guest meant to be an obese Diego Maradonna shirtlessly, hypnotically bouncing a tennis ball high into the air, over and over again, off his foot. Sorrentino is never boring, even as the eye rolls at Keitel's director and his team of pretentious writers trying and failing to nail the last line in his next movie script.
Sorrentino, who also wrote the script, is addressing several themes in Youth, and probably too many. Fred, Keitel's Mick, and Dano's actor Jimmy are all worried that their work, though appreciated, is too banal, and that their lives won't have produced anything of great meaning. The injustices of aging form the backbone of Fred and Mick's daily conversations. A decrease in urine production has coincided with a lack of joy and motivation in them, especially in Fred who can't be bothered to do much of anything, even when asked by the queen's emissary to conduct his most famous work for her. Lena's husband is leaving her for a younger woman. Everything ties back into the value of a life, of love, of superficial beauty against something more tangible, and Sorrentino captures all this in dialogue far too flowery to ever sound natural. With his excellent cast and dazzling shot composition by DP Luca Bigazzi, Sorrentino bludgeons the viewer into submission. Like the Young Pope, Youth works in spite of itself, building to an angelic apotheosis. Sorrentino might be one of those directors I have to make allowances for. His efforts might be ridiculous, but they eventually reach past explanation into unknowable appreciation. B+
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Nicholls State quarterback Kalen Henderson is the most gifted football/athlete to play for the Colonels since Lardarius Webb, now a starting cornerback with the Baltimore Ravens, played in John L. Guidry Stadium.
The 6-0, 215 pound former East St. John High School standout has attracted a host of NFL scouts in the spring to watch him work out and a healthy 2014 season may launch him to be a middle to late round selection in the 2015 NFL draft.
After having a strong football spring and giving the Colonels the best threesome at quarterback in recent memory with Beaux Hebert and Tuscani Figaro, the strong-armed passer will now try his luck on the baseball mound for the Colonels.
Henderson says he is pleased with his development at quarterback, but would like to try his luck as a pitcher.
“I feel I had a strong spring. I learned the offense better and just had more time to work with the receivers and picked up the offensive system. I came in as a transfer from Tulsa and so last season we were just getting to know one another and I was learning the players and system here. We got pushed hard in the weight room to get mentally and physically stronger this winter and spring and I am anxious for the fall practices and be part of something special here at Nicholls, along with Beaux and Tuscani.”
“I pitched in high school and I have a family member who pitched some in high school, but he played catcher in the Chicago Cubs organization, and Coach Seth and Coach Stubbs have allowed to me give this a try. I’m just going to try and be a finisher type for the baseball team as a pitcher. “
Nicholls State baseball coach Seth Thibodaux said that he had spoken with Colonel head coach Charlie Stubbs on giving Henderson an opportunity to pitch.
"I assured Coach Stubbs I would not do anything to put Kalen at risk,” Thibodaux said. “ He would be a late inning relief pitcher for us. One inning and see what he can do on the mound. There is no doubt he can hum the baseball. He’s a just a terrific football player and we are just going to give this a try and see how well he can pitch.”
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This is a unique art structure designed by Michael Jantzen as a special place in which to retreat from the norm. It has a unique structure with hinges that allows it to be folded to reveal the scenery outside. More description by Michael Jantzen:
The Shape Shifting M-Velope is one in a series of functional art structures designed to be used as a special place in which to retreat from the norm. The structures range in size and shape, and most are made of sustainably grown wood that is colored with environmentally friendly stains or paints. In every case, the M-velope’s shape can be changed from a simple form to a complex form by repositioning the slotted hinged panels that surround the support frame. With only a minor adjustment in the positions of the surrounding slotted panels relative to the support frame, the original simple shape of the M-velope can be transformed into many more complex variations.
The M-velope shown here is approximately eleven feet tall, and eight feet square in its most simple configuration. When it is fully opened, it expands to a height of about twelve feet, a length of about sixteen feet, and a width of about eleven feet. The basic structure can be made larger, and/or the space can be increased by joining the M-velopes together. The slotted panels, support frame, floor, and ramps, all break down for shipping and can be reassembled almost anywhere with little or no foundation, depending on the site specific requirements.
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Our Lady of the Rosary (OLR) is a co-educational Catholic Parish School situated on the Sunshine Coast, in the picturesque beachside city of Caloundra. OLR is a small school of 351 students in Prep to Year Six (14 classes) and this enables us to be a tightly-knit community where we know every student and their family. OLR shares with students and parents a welcoming family atmosphere, great community spirit and an active parent body. Our school has a caring, progressive staff and offers a dynamic, evolving curriculum, based on academic excellence, gospel values and spiritual awareness.
OLR opened in 1980 by the Sisters of St Joseph and solidly built on the Catholic Christian tradition and the Charism of Mary MacKillop. The quote from Mary Mackillop which states, “Never see a need without doing something about it.” is a firmly established ‘catch-cry’ at our school which often drives our purpose as a Catholic learning community.
These traditions are highly valued and have continued to thrive through the joint efforts of staff, parents, students, parish and the wider community. Through these traditions, OLR school community strives to shape the uniqueness of our individual ‘spirits’ to create a communal spirituality which is characterised by our motto: ‘to pray, to care, to share’.
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Holly Hagan Teases The Start Of An Exciting 'New Chapter' With Jacob Blyth
The Geordie Shore lass has some big news.
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 10:20
Former Geordie Shore babe Holly Hagan has teased an exciting new chapter in her life, hinting that she and her boyfriend have taken a big step in their relationship.
The lass shared a snap from her exciting day with Jacob Blyth to her Instagram story.
Teasing her fans on Twitter about the big news, Holly wrote: "Today was the beginning of a new chapter of my life, extremely excited for the future."
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS, AND ADMINISTRATION VOLUME 13, NUMBER 1, 2010
HOUSING NEEDS FOR THE LOW-INCOME PEOPLE OF ENUGU METROPOLITAN AREAS OF NIGERIA: POLICY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Victoria Ijeoma Ononugbo, PhD
Texas Southern University Houston, Texas
Akpan Ibanga Akpan, PhD
Professor & Advisor Texas Southern University Houston, Texas Deputy Vice-Chancellor Akwa Ibom State University of Technology Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
G. Solomon Osho, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Justice Studies College of Juvenile Justice & Psychology Prairie View A&M University Member of the Texas A&M University System Prairie View, Texas
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
Professor PhD Program in Educational Leadership Whitlowe R. Green College of Education Prairie View A&M University Member of the Texas A&M University Prairie View, Texas Visiting Lecturer (2005) Oxford Round Table University of Oxford, England Distinguished Alumnus (2004) Central Washington University College of Education and Professional Studies
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Abstract The main purpose of this dissertation was to determine whether income, education, gender, family size, and constraints like high cost of building materials, high house rents, etc. are the factors that contribute to the Enugu residents decision to dwell in slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle where they generate pollutions that devastate environment and human health, warranting the need for the low-income housing for these groups to avoid environmental devastation. Therefore, a survey design was applied using constructed questionnaires, oral interviews with policymakers, professionals, bankers, and contractors. Hypothesis was used to determine the source of the significance. Statistical testing of the following null hypotheses include: HO1: That there is no significant different between income levels of the Enugu residents and those of slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. HO2: That there is no significant different between education levels of the Enugu residents and those of slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. HO3: The conclusions were that the data collected from the study revealed that low-income groups could not afford rent for a house in the city due to their low monthly salary (contributed by their educational background), large family size and strict government rules on land/housing, which pushed them to dwell in slums where there were no infrastructural services, no running clean water, no garbage pickups, and sewage services. Therefore, lowincome housing was needed in Enugu Metropolitan areas of Nigeria to avoid environmental and health devastations caused by these groups in their slum dwellings, and future research was needed in these areas. ________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION Cities can provide healthy and stimulating environment for their dwellers without imposing any unsustainable demands on natural resources and ecosystems. A successful city is one which meets multiple goals like adequate housing, working environment for her dwellers, water supply, and provision for sanitation, garbage collection/disposal, paved roads, and other forms of infrastructural services essential for healthy achievement. This implies an understanding of the link between built environment (soil, water resources and climate) and biological environment (local flora and fauna) (Todaro, 1981). Environmental problems become particularly serious where there is a rapid expansion in urban population with little or no considerations for the environmental implications. In most third world countries like Nigeria, urban populations have expanded without any associated expansion in the services and facilities essential for adequate healthy urban environment, which usually occurs with little or no effective pollution control. Most of the cities in the developing countries have inadequate affordable housing and their residential environments are commonly characterized as slums. The present study focuses on slums in Enugu, Nigeria in West Africa.
ONONUGBO, AKPAN, OSHO, AND KRITSONIS ____________________________________________________________________________________3
Location and Geographical Features of Enugu The City of Enugu, is located within latitude 6 25'N of the equator and longitude 7 25'E. It is 2545m (meter) above the mean sea level, with an area of about 79.25 square kilometers. The city is lying mainly on the Asata Nkporo Shale sedimentary rock. The soil characteristically consists of hydro orphic soil which is mineral rich soil and whose morphology is influenced by seasonal water logging caused by underlying impervious shale. The annual rainfall varies between 100 to 200 meters with its peak occurring between mid March and September. The rainfall average is 1412 millimeters per month, with the lowest rainfall in February. The temperature is generally high throughout the year with monthly maximum temperature ranging between 28.1C and 32.2C. The mean monthly minimum has been recorded at 22C and 24.9C in July and March respectively. The vegetation is generally losing its original rainforest nature to Guinea Savanna type. The city has a moderate undulating temperature with slopes ranging between 1-25%, hence enhancing effective drainage as runoff which easily empties into the network of natural drainage channels crossing the city like Mmiriocha River, which is a tributary of Ajalli River (Government of Enugu State of Nigeria, 1992). Enugu, which literally means hilltop, derives its name from its position among the Udi Hills, which is at an altitude of about 223 meters above sea level (State Land Use Decree, 1976, 78). It is an important administrative, Industrial and Commercial Center in the eastern part of Southern Nigeria (Appendix A). These led to its population growth primarily through immigration from the surrounding rural areas. Rapid urbanization and industrialization in Enugu Nigeria from the 1960s through 1989 resulted in two housing related problems. The first was the shortage of low-income housing units, and the second was the increasing price of affordable housing. The affordable housing shortage coupled with the rising cost of available units made it increasingly difficult for low-income households to maintain an acceptable standard of living in Enugu, thereby pushing them to live in slums where they caused devastations to the environment. People demonstrated in huge numbers to make the government aware of their needs, and to show how desperate the citizens needed the government's support. The issue turned into an environmental threat to the government because of the pollution generated by the "slum" dwellers. Enugu, as one of the Nigerian cities, lacks adequate infrastructure for housing, sanitation, clean water supply, solid waste management and open space amenities like parks and recreation. These are the basic facilities needed for the growth and functioning of a city. Much of these are due to the land use planning statutes that encompass the evolving functions and responsibilities of urban areas, as numerous Nigerian research studies have documented (Aka, 1993). The availability of shelter, which is one of the three basic human needs, is considered in this study as a social problem which not only affects the environment, but also, affects population growth development. Housing provides a combination of services like space amenities which creates privacy without squatting six to ten persons in a room. As family size increases in the slum with ten to twelve to a room, the waste generated impacts the environment leading to diseases like cholera, dysentery, chicken pox, premature death, and tuberculosis, while damaging or destroying natural resources.
Housing also requires other services to sustain the communities like water supply, waste/solid waste disposal, and environmental pollution control. Enugu, being a major administrative center since the colonial times, became an industrial and commercial center, which led to its population growth. Its anomalies in the indigenous land tenure system (due to its topography) became more apparent and resulted in the overcrowding measures of housing quality in the slum areas of Enugu. As a result, this increased environmental pollution which then warrants housing needs for these low-income groups. Upon this is what this research is based. Enugu is the Capital City of its state (the Enugu State), which covers an area of 85 square kilometers (km), having a population of over one million people (Government of Enugu State of Nigeria, 1992). The city is a well developed coal mining, commercial, financial, and industrial center. It is a Central Business Center (CBC), with a booming economy and vast investment opportunities. Being a well known coal mining city has earned it the euphemistic name of "Coal City." Historically, the city in 1917 was declared a second-class township and its political career grew very fast. Its political accomplishments are as follows: 1927 to 1939, capital of the Southern Province 1939-1951, capital of the Eastern Province 1951-1967, capital of the Eastern Region of Nigeria 1967-1970, capital of the Republic of Biafra 1970-1976, capital of the East Central States, when the Nigerian states were born 1976-1991, capital city of the Old Anambra State 1991-1996, capital city of Enugu including Abakaliki Administrative Division 1996-present, capital of Enugu State which excludes Abakaliki because by then Ebonyi State was created with Abakaliki as its capital. (Government of Enugu State, 1992)
All these attract people from their farmlands for job search, sustainable living and security. These contribute to its heavy population growth without sustainable housings, thus forcing low income and non-educated residents to settle for slums at Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle. Since Enugu's growth has exceeded infrastructural capacity, these slums lack social infrastructure and government services like fire services, police post, running water, electricity and solid waste management.
Research Questions To what degree do income, education, total population (gender) household size, and constraints like implementation of government policy on land and housing, the affordability of building materials, and high house rent contribute to the factors that affect the overcrowded housing in Enugu, Nigeria? The resulting problem is the environmental devastation, which manifests at three major levels: (1) adequate affordable housing, (2) clean water problems, and (3) solid waste management.
Statement of the Problem An important goal of the international development agencies for the past three decades has been "shelter for all." Unfortunately, what has been happening in less developed countries of the Sub-Saharan Africa, which includes Nigeria, made things very difficult for these nations to provide shelter for their people due to certain constraints. Enugu's housing problem evolved because the majority of low-income housing policies had been developed in time of political and economic crisis rather than as a strategy for economic change. Enugu's low-income housing policy was viewed as reactive rather than proactive because changes occurred to avoid crisis and not to address the housing conditions faced by the poor. The planning authorities in most states of Nigeria including Enugu had concentrated on building control and not on city planning, per se, which normally could have dealt with such things like urban infrastructural service provisions, growth management, zoning, subdivision regulation, urban design, sewages, economic development and waste disposables (Aka, 1993). Mabogunje (1995) discovered that major rural areas in Nigeria need affordable housing and basic sanitation instead of engaging in misguided macroeconomic policies which never work and lack of adequate infrastructure. Important factors affecting shelter include availability of land, affordable building materials and supplies that is being dominated by foreign building materials, income that is not evenly distributed, large family size among low-income groups, occupancy ratio, and strict government policy on financing that does not follow the 6,000 income rule. These constraints have contributed to slum livings in many Sub-Saharan Africa communities within Nigeria creating environmental pollution. As a result, this study examines of income, population (gender) educational status, and family size are significant factors that affect the measures of housing quality in Enugu, Nigeria, thereby creating the need for the low-income housing developments to prevent the problem of environmental devastation. The ensuing devastation manifests itself at three major levels: inadequate housing, water problems, and solid waste management. In a place like Enugu where family planning is non-existent, families of 8 to 12 share a room to avoid high rent prices, while some choose to shelter their large families in slum dwellings because of high cost of available units which is out of the reach for the low-income earners. This study therefore was concerned with the empirical analysis that was based on these factors to examine if income, population (gender), educational status, household size and constraints in building own homes, were the reasons why residents of the Enugu dwell in slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle. These slum areas lack good roads, clean water supply, and solid waste management to mention but a few (Appendix J). Secondly, because of the intimate relationship of housing to the family and to the structure as a whole, this study is intended to highlight the factors affecting the growth of slum dwellings. In every nation of the world, every family deserves affordable housing.
Objectives of the Study In major cities of the developing world like Enugu Metropolitan where changes are typically rapid, economic and social relationship are diverse. Patterns of development are often different, and in some ways, more complex than these of the cities of industrialized nations such as the United States and Japan. The factors which shape the character of urban life are numerous and confusing these lead the objective of the research to run as follows: 1. To examine the methods of meeting the Enugu housing needs for the lowincome groups to provide quality housing to maintain a good healthy environment; To analyze the factors to prevent pollutions generated from these slums; and To examine the policy measures that can assist decision makers in Nigeria, particularly in Enugu, to gain insights into the problems of sustainable housing for all, especially for those in densely populated areas of Enugu.
A number of studies have been conducted on Enugu/Nigerian low-income housing problems, but most of the research has concentrated on reviewing the policies that led to this systemic problem. This study examines a number of successful housing programs in the United States (e.g. Hope 8, Hope VI) housing policy that have resulted in better living conditions for citizens with less support from government. Housing programs such as community land trusts, deed-restricted owner-occupied housing and limited-equity flats (condominiums) have been reviewed. This study examined how these programs could be applied to the Enugu housing situations, taking into consideration the country's political obstacles and land topography. As mentioned earlier, the increase in population results in the increase in solid waste generated by the population which impacts human health and the environment. There is also a lack of solid waste management in Enugu which prevents effective utilization of organic waste in form of compost. There is a lack of segregation of solid waste, which has not gained attention. There also is a lack of centralized system of collection of solid waste generated by the overcrowding housing quality. Grigsby and Bourcessa (2003) stated that slums were breeding-grounds for fires, disease and various social pathologies that could easily endanger the general population. These affect human and the environment, since environmental pollution has no political boundaries."
Importance of the Study This study focused on recommending an affordable regional housing policy for low-income people in Enugu. It will do so by examining existing housing programs in the United States. American housing programs are significant for several reasons; for example, studies of low and moderate income housing policy in Nigeria did not take into account how residents could actively participate in the planning process. Furthermore,
public housing structures were being vandalized or neglected by tenants due to their feeling of a lack of ownership. Without these in mind, many of the environmental and housing defects in Ibadan Core of Nigeria could be successfully rehabilitated by the inhabitants of some areas aided by the government agency, civic bodies, community leaders and other agencies, and not to leave these houses in worst deplorable conditions, which contribute to the environmental hazards and pollutions (Onibokan, 1995). Therefore, it is important to find alternative programs from other countries that would help to reduce Enugu's lowincome housing problem. By examining specific programs implemented in the United States, Ghana, South Africa, and Bogota, it would be possible to determine what lessons could be adopted to improve the Enugu housing problem. In addition, this study attempted to address the practical issue of applying planning knowledge to real situation so that housing practitioners and planners could apply findings from this study to their everyday practices.
Statement of the Hypotheses In order to analyze views and opinions of the public, the following five null hypotheses were tested for this study: 1. HO1: There is no significant difference between income levels of Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. HO2: There is no significant difference between education levels of the Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. HO3: There is no significant difference between the population (gender) of the Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas.
Significance of the Study In Enugu, Nigeria, the problem of supplying low-income houses to the actual lowincome groups and the poor still exists. This study is expected to shed some light into low-income housing in Enugu. Most of the low-income houses built for these groups were not actually occupied by the groups; instead, these units were purchased from the groups by the rich, who turned back to resale them at a hundred percent (100%) gain, making it impossible for these units to be within the reach of the low-income groups. In light of this study, efforts would be made to propose policies and implement programs that would facilitate reduction in the cost of building materials and so enable these groups to remodel their homes. They could as a result come out of the slums of Agangwu, Ugwu-Aaron (Aaron's Hill), Ngele-Effor and Ugwu-Bottle, where these inhabitants lack locational services and infrastructure. This study therefore will attempt to rationalize these phenomena.
LITERATURE REVIEW Population growth and its implications on urban low-income housing in the developing countries and its environment population is a critical factor in planning to provide the urban low-income groups in developing countries with low-income housing. Accordingly, Asiama (1990) suggested that in Ghana two people per room indicated crowding, and overcrowding occurs when there are 2.5 or more people per room. His study indicates that roughly 44.5% of all households live in overcrowded housing in West Africa. This situation has serious implications for unhealthy environments both in the short and long run. The current housing conditions in Enugu, the Capital City, are far from ideal. With some perceived inadequacies in housing policies and programs of various governments in Enugu since the civilian regime. After the Civil War of 1967, there have often been housing policy and programs implemented on an ad-hoc basis lacking sound empirical analysis. It goes beyond hindering sustainable development because development usually has major effects on the environment. The Asiama review stands as the first step in attempts to improve the housing situation in Enugu and to suggest policies that may aid in improving the housing balance to be within the reach of the low-income group in Enugu. However, both population-growth and poverty are growing rapidly in the urban centers of the developing countries, especially in Enugu Metropolitan areas of Nigeria without economic growth. Magnus (1998) mentioned, "there should be some cautions in the solid waste services throughout Sub-Sahara Africa, due to the population growth which has effects on the consumption patterns." Increase in population, he mentions reflects to the expansion of cities, which however does not have effects on the financial resources due to the poor states of living and income per head, It then results in slum dwelling where solid waste generated by the dwellers cause devastation to the environment because there was no solid waste management. Magnus continues by saying that this urbanization and population growth should be controlled by providing them with affordable housing. Solid waste management would greatly help to minimize the environmental pollution. Houses are not available for all low-income earners in the urban centers of Nigeria more specifically, the Enugu metropolitan areas of this country. The rapid migration of the low-income people to this city for sustainable living worsened the housing situation. To improve the situation of urban low-income housing situation, Enugu state government must be able to provide low-income housing for the existing population, and additional houses for the increase in population. Aka's (1993) work parallels this position by pointing out that since 1946, the planning authorities in most states of Nigeria had concentrated on building control and not on city planning. Effective city planning can address the need to build and maintain urban infrastructures, services provision, growth management, zoning, subdivision regulation, urban design, sewages, economic development, and waste disposable. Planning in some areas in Enugu slums lack some infrastructures and social services. In Nigeria it involves the problems of poor maintenance of the urban environment which is due to limited financial resources, inadequate urban management machinery, and a lack of public support for planners to make a difference (Aka, 1993). Accordingly, urban infrastructure in most Nigerian cities is in an unsatisfactory condition because most urban environments are infested with dilapidated buildings with no space
for light and air between them, broken roads and streets, environmental pollution from poor drainage, sewage system, and uncollected garbage from industrial, commercial and domestic establishments. He calls on the city planners to engage their energies in city mending rather than city planning. Local government and planners should engage citizens with some necessary orientation for policy formulation, implementation and management on how to work communally in road building, drainage and sewage repairs, and communal garbage collection and disposal to minimize environmental pollution, since the shortage of funds for the urban and regional development planning is prevalent. Tadaro (1981) opined out that there are 141 nations that make up developing countries. Of these countries, 42 are the poorest, 86 are non oil exporting nations, and 13 are petroleum exporting countries (OPEC). These countries are located in Asia, Africa, the Middle-East and Latin America. Economically, developing countries are characterized by absolute poverty, high rate of unemployment and low per capita income. "The gravity of the shortage is revealed by the percentage of households occupying one room and the number of persons per room in major urban centers in Nigeria" (Okewale, 1980, p. 4) as shown in Table 1. According to the United Nations, three or more persons per room constitute overcrowding. Same is also stated by Owyer (1979, p. 172) and Murison and Lea (1979, p. 32). Table 1 Survey of Housing Conditions in Selected Urban Centers in Nigeria Town Household Occupying Average Number of One Room ( %) Persons Per Room Lagos+ 74.2 4.1 Ibadan+ 48.1 3.2 Oshogbo+ 36.4 2.2 Ilorin+ 38.2 2.6 Kaduna+ 73.5 3.8 Jos+ 74.1 3.7 Port Harcourt* 51.5 2.4 Benin City* 48.0 2.2 Kano* 69.1 2.4 Warri* 59.9 2.6 Enugu** 64.9 3.8 Onitsha** n.a Owerri** n.a 3.5 Abakaliki** n.a 2.5 Nsukka** n.a 2.5 Umnahia** n.a 2.8
Sources: +Niser, University of Ibadan. Survey of Housing Conditions in Selected Urban Centers in Nigeria (Preliminary). *Third National Development Plan 1975-80, Vol. 1 (p. 307). **Field Survey of Housing Conditions in Seven Urban Centers of the (Former) East-Central State, by C.H. Tec., Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Groves (1999) reviews the impact of planning models imported from the West in general and Europe in particular on the development aspirations of Sub-Saharan African
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countries. They constitute significant impediments to national economic, social, cultural and political development efforts. His work outlines human settlement development and planning in Su-Saharan Africa. Three chapters are of significance because they specifically address the settlement patterns that could possibly remedy the housing crisis that is being faced in Enugu. The chapter on "pre-colonial" human settlement planning points out that prior to colonialist intervention, a well-established form of planning and urban development was commonly used throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. The advent of colonialism, the author argues that colonial officials found indigenous planning schemes incompatible with their imperialist/capitalist objectives and fervently embarked on supplanting them with European varieties. Hence, the zoning and separation of land uses became the central tenet of planning policies. The European standard of housing and urban development introduced and most importantly, traditional and familial forms of ownership and control of land became undermined and replaced the individualistic and capitalistic forms of land ownership (Groves, 1999). It enabled the transfer of parcels of land on a "freehold" or "leasehold" basis in return for a "market price." Not only were these forms of planning activity entirely alien to Sub-Saharan African countries, they also had some profoundly negative consequences. Zoning policies were used not merely to differentiate socioeconomic groups within the residential market, but also to segregate groups according to race. The policies went so far as to debar the indigenous population from established urban areas, forcing the indigenous to live in slums, like the slums in Enugu metropolitan areas of Nigeria and the slums in townships of Suweto Township of South Africa (Groves, 1999). The adoption of European standard in housing construction and neighborhood development encouraged the substation of indigenous materials with expensive imported building materials. This, in turn, drove the cost beyond the affordability of all but the elite. Unfortunately, low-income groups cannot afford reasonable housing so they have no alternative but to choose to dwell in slums. The author's most fervent criticism is reserved for the land reforms. He argued that the permeation of capitalist forms of land ownership began the systematic dispossession of many indigenous communities and rendered them subject to grinding poverty as a proletarian mass dependent upon the grace and favor of the colonialist elite. Despite independence struggles of many in Sub-Saharan Africa, the incoming indigenous leadership also adopted "colonial models" of land use control and urban development. Rather than seeing an equitable release, governments have manipulated the ownership and control of land in order to maintain social class, and perpetuate their own form of elitism. The portion on housing outlined initiatives that gave greater opportunities for resourceful Africans to address their housing problems themselves. It constituted changes in the role of governments in terms of housing and urban policy. The new sets of policies are a vast improvement over conventional housing policies, which never worked. It is worthy to say that social and economic aspirations of Sub-Sahara African countries have been much impaired by the effects of colonial powers and its inheritance on land use and urban planning. Mabogunje (1995) focused his review on affordable housing and basic sanitations. He emphasized that environmental degradation; inappropriate Western model housing, technological innovations, institutional development and family planning should receive maximum education that can improve an average person's standard of living.
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Using Nigeria which appears to be the highest populated nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, he discovers that the major rural areas need affordable housing and basic sanitation instead of engaging in misguided macroeconomic policies and lack of adequate infrastructure. It is a challenge to Nigeria as a Nation whose interior urban slums still dumped solid waste anywhere without proper disposition either by landfill or by incineration. Mobogunje emphasized that sustainable development is possible with appropriate investment priorities that will provide needed infrastructure, services, and education. Urban areas need affordable housing for the poor, safe water, solid waste disposal and spatial planning to relieve congested spaces which is causing slum living. He emphasized that rural areas should focus on health education and basic sanitation. Regulatory measures and conservation measures are also importantly needed. Institutional development that promotes democracy, expands individual property rights, and increases the knowledge base should offer the most hope for alleviating poverty and protecting the environment. He concluded that this could be achieved through sustainable living like good roads, housing for the poor, clean water and solid waste management. Hansen and Williams (1993) accordingly state that most of the imported materials currently in wide use in urban housing in developing countries can, in principle, be replaced by locally produced, cheap materials. The problem is that local building regulations disallow materials traditionally used in rural areas. Knowledge about the production and use of innovative building materials that can be locally produced tends to be limited to a few laboratories and research institutions (Hansen & Williams, 1993). Even World Bank (1993) states that low income majority are largely confined to poor quality structures built in informal settlements and overcrowded dwellings where households occupy a small space or share a dwelling with others. Shortages of housing are held to be largely caused by bottlenecks in the supply of affordable land, materials, skilled workers and other inputs to the housing system (World Bank, 1993). World Bank reports that existing poor environments affect a relatively large proportion of urban population, they may become insignificant when set against the future shortfalls likely of population growth that outstrips the current supply, mechanizing by ever increasing degree. Unless future supply can equate more closely the increasing demand seriously contributes to such dysfunctions as widespread homelessness and sleeping on the streets may become commonplace in Sub-Saharan Africa.
METHODOLOGY In this study, the survey research design was applied using structured questionnaires and oral interviews where policymakers, professionals, bankers, contractors, as well as personal observations (photographs) were used to gather relevant data needed for the study. The questionnaires and oral interviews were directed to both the residents occupying the four slum areas of Agangwu, Ngele-Efor, Ugwu Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle, while the face-to-face (oral interviews) was held between the policymakers, professionals, bankers and the contractors (developers) and to the staff of Enugu State Housing Development Corporation, Enugu State Ministry of Lands, Enugu State Survey Department and Land-Use Corporation. Data collection for this study
commenced on July, 2007 by first collecting the layout plan of the study area which showed the approach to the area, its physical location within the metropolis of Enugu. Thereafter a reconnaissance survey was conducted to have a view of the nature of the environment, the housing conditions, and the infrastructural services, water solid waste situations in and around these areas.
Statistical Analysis It is important to note that data for this research already exists in Enugu State Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Ministry of Lands and Survey, Ministry of Statistic, the Customary, Magistrates and High Courts, and the Population and Planning Commission with regards to Enugu City residences' distribution of living. Information obtained from these agencies and relevant documents would be used to upgrade the current housing problem and the slum dwelling in Enugu. Responses obtained from the survey questions for the housing of low-income groups were coded for analysis, transcribed and data interpreted using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). It is important to know that the dependent variable for this study was Enugu Resident's Decision to live in slums. It is the variable that receives the effect or influence. The independent variables are factors that enhance or create the effect or influence. These factors are income, education, population (gender), household size, and constraints in building their own homes, as stated in the attached analytical framework.
Response Rate The questionnaire was self-administered to the four populations comprising the low-income residents of Agangwu, Ugwu-Aaron, Ugwu-Bottle, and Ngele-Effor. A total of 400 residents in this Enugu municipality were selected for the study. This included 98 low-income residents of Agangwu, 102 low-income resident of Ugwu-Aaron, 108 lowincome residents of Ugwu-Bottle, and 92 residents of Ngele-Effor, all totaling four hundred (400) sample size (Table 2).
Table 2 Response Rates to Self-Administered Questionnaire to the Four (4) Population Samples
Population Sample Agangwu LowIncome Residents Ugwu-Aaron LowIncome Residents Ugwu-Bottle LowIncome Residents Population Sample Size (N) 98 Responses Usable 95 Unadministered Response 3 Response Rate 97%
Ngele-Effor LowIncome Residents
Sources: Field Study, July 2007
Instrument Selection Coming to this area of instrument selection, the researcher could not find any standard instrument that would measure the degree of Income, Education, Population (Gender), Family Size, High Rent, Strict Government Policy on Land/Housing and the Affordability of Building Materials that contributed to the factors that affected the overcrowding measures of housing quality in Enugu, Nigeria, thereby inducing the need for the low-income housing, which would prevent the problem of environmental degradation. This unavailability of standard instrument necessitated the researcher to design questionnaires that were self administered to the four populations to test their attitude towards dwelling in slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and UgwuBottle. These questionnaires concerned the four populations' demographic data and their environmental areas. Survey research method was chosen for this study because it was wisely used for practical and policy goals. Again the researcher used statements in the questionnaire because the researcher felt that statements were better alternatives to questions in attitude measurement for obtaining information. The respondents had the choice to either "Very Poor," "Poor," "Average," "Good," or "Excellent." The weights were assigned as follows: Very Poor = 1, Poor = 2, Average = 3, Good = 4, and Excellent = 5. Two major steps were used in pretesting the questionnaire. 1.) The questionnaire was made available to the Nigerian Community in the City of Houston for criticism and scrutiny. This is the organization made up of 1300 members and from this selected people, 400 were chosen. 2.) Because respondents sometimes misunderstand the intention of the researcher in responding to statements, these selected people for pretesting were also asked to feed back in their own words their understanding of the meaning of each statement. And being Nigerians they understood the areas very well, and some statements were reconstructed and retained in the questionnaire, and the conditions or smoothness of the streets was added. The Nigerian community in Houston used in pretesting the questionnaire were pleased with the topic.
For this research the response rate of at least 50% is adequate in the real world, for analysis and reporting of any study. Also, a response rate of 60% is good and a response rate of 70% or more is very good. Therefore with the above summary, the response rates in this study were very good because of the response rate from Agangwu 97%, Ugwu-Aaron 83%, Ugwu-Bottle 81%, and Ngele-Effor 99% respectively. Table 3 Survey Summary of Demographic and Personal Data on Low-Income Residents of NgeleEffor in the Metropolitan of Enugu
Characteristics Space # of Persons Per Room 0 to 12: (Household Size)* Under 8 8 to 12 12 or more # of Persons Per Household Working (Employment Status): Self employed (petite trade) 1 employed in family with paid job 2 employed in family More than two Monthly Salary (in Naira):* Under N7000.00 N7000 to N9000 N9000 to N12000 N12000 to N15000 N15000 to N20000 Electricity: Available Not available Running Water: Available Not Available Street Drainages: Available Not Available Pit Latrine (Toilet): Available Not available Tarred Roads: Available Not available N = 92 Frequencies Percentages
17 60 5 10 75 10 7 0 0 6 86
18% 65% 5% 11% 81% 11% 8% 0% 0% 7% 93%
5% 95% 0% 100%
Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Sewage Services in the Area: Available Not available Education*: Secondary School or less Bsc. Degree Masters Degree Doctorate Degree Others Employment Status: Daily Paid Worker (minimum wage) Staff Employee Self Employed (traders) Part-time employed Marital Status: Single Married Widowed Divorced Separated Religious Affiliation: Catholic Protestant Muslim Others Sex: (Gender)* Male Female Duration for Low-Income to Obtain Accommodation in the City (exclude slum areas): 0 to 8 weeks 8 to 16 weeks 16 weeks and above Smoothness of Your Community: Available Not available Street Drainages: Available Not available
0 92 0 92 81 11 0 0 0
0% 100% 0 100% 88% 12% 0% 0% 0%
57% 0% 43% 0%
20 70 2 0 0 60 30 0 2 52 40
22% 76% 2% 0% 0% 65% 33% 0% 2% 57% 43%
4 31 57 4 88 3 89
4% 34% 62% 4% 96% 3% 97%
Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Emergency: Available Not available Fire Service: Available Not available Street Flooding: Available Not available Open Streams/Canals: Available Not available Hospitals in the Area: Available Not available Flood Control of the Area: Available Not available Potholes/Bumps on the Street: Available Not available
The Demographic and Personal Information Data on Low-Income Residents of Ugwu-Aaron Enugu Metropolitan are tabulated on Table 4. About 71% of the respondents lived on crowded houses with a density of 12 or more persons per room. The rest lived in houses with density of less than eight persons per room, and 8 to 12 persons per room. Coming to the employment status, out of 68% of the households, only one person in the family worked with regular pay. And the rest had two persons contributed to the family with irregular flow of income. With this, one could see that lack of employment is a factor. Concerning facilities, 85% of the respondents do not enjoy electricity, 84% had no tap running water. 80% had no benefit of street drainages while 8% had not pit toilet available and not to talk of flush toilets available in their houses. 100% of the respondents indicated there were no garbage pickups in the area, and 100% had no sewage services in the area Educationally, 4% of the respondents held university degrees and 83% had secondary school certificate, which are the appropriate
qualification for the professional group and who later converted to the professional position (rank) through many, many years of service and experience. The Marital Status of the respondents showed that 60% were married, 38% were single or never married, 9% were widowed, 2% had trouble in their marriage and 0% was divorced. In the Religious Affiliation, 58% were Catholic, 39% were Protestants while only 3% belonged to none, while none indicated of belonging to the Muslim religion. Among the respondents gender, 62% were males while 38% were female and these set of groups indicated that it requires low-income persons more than 16 weeks or more to find accommodations in the Enugu metropolitan which was at the rate of 72%. Among the respondents, 100% indicated the roughness of their community. 80% had no street drainages, 100% had no municipal council garbage pickups, and there was 100% indication of no emergency medical services in their area. Also was 100% of non availability of fire services in their areas. 10% had Police Services because they live close to the tarred road, while 90% of the police services were not available in the area. Also there was 100% of the street flooding in the area. Only 14% had elementary schools in their area, while 86% had no secondary and with 0% of universities, 5 % had hospitals in the area and these were not fully maintained by the Enugu State Ministry of education/health because there was 100% non availability of flood control of the area. The respondents indicated that once it rained, the children stayed home to avoid being swept away by the flood. Also, 79% of the respondents indicated they have potholes and bump on the street and these also increase pollution of air and community. Table 4 Survey Summary of Demographic and Personal Data on Low-Income Residents of Ugwu-Aaron In Enugu Metropolitan
Characteristics Space # of Persons Per Room 0 to 12: (Household Size)* Under 8 8 to 12 12 or more # of Persons Per Household Working (Employment Status): Self employed (petite trade) 1 employed in family with paid job 2 employed in family More than two Monthly Salary (in Naira): Under N7000.00 N7000 to N9000 N9000 to N12000 N12000 to N15000 N15000 to N20000 N = 102 Frequencies Percentages
76% 18% 6% 0% 0%
Electricity: Available Not available Unadministered Running Water: Available Not available Street Drainages: Available Not available Unadministered Pit Latrine (Toilet): Available Not available Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Sewage Services in the Area: Available Not available Education*: Secondary School or less Bsc. Degree Masters Degree Doctorate Degree Others Employment Status: Daily Paid Worker (minimum wage) Staff Employee Self Employed (traders) Part-time employed Marital Status: Single Married Widowed Divorced Separated
13 85% 2%
Religious Affiliation: Catholic Protestant Muslim Others Sex: (Gender)* Male Female Duration for Low-Income to Obtain Accommodation in the City (exclude slum areas): 0 to 8 weeks 8 to 16 weeks 16 weeks and above Smoothness of Your Community: Available Not available Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Emergency: Available Not available Fire Service: Available Not available Police Service in the Area: Available Not Available Street Flooding: Available Not available Open Streams/Canals: Available Not available Schools in the Area: Available Not Available
Hospitals in the Area: Available Not available Flood Control of the Area: Available Not available Potholes/Bumps on the Street: Available Not available
Table 5 Survey Summary of Demographic and Personal Data on Low-Income Residents of Ugwu-Bottle in Enugu Metropolitan
Characteristics Space # of Persons Per Room 0 to 12: (Household Size)* Under 8 8 to 12 12 or more Unadministered # of Persons Per Household Working (Employment Status): Self employed (petite trade) 1 employed in family with paid job 2 employed in family More than two Monthly Salary (in Naira): Under N7000.00 N7000 to N9000 N9000 to N12000 N12000 to N15000 N15000 to N20000 Electricity: Available Not available Unadministered Running Water: Available Not available Others N = 108 Frequencies Percentages
2% 15% 79% 4%
Street Drainages: Available Not available Unadministered Pit Latrine (Toilet): Available Not available Tarred Roads: Available Not available Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Sewage Services in the Area: Available Not available Education*: Secondary School or less Bsc. Degree Masters Degree Doctorate Degree Others
0 108 88 0 0 0 20
0 100% 81% 0% 0% 0% 19%
Employment Status: Daily Paid Worker (minimum wage) Staff Employee Self Employed (traders) Part-time employed Marital Status: Single Married Widowed Separated Divorced Others Religious Affiliation: Catholic Protestant Muslim Others
39 69 0 0 0 0 62 46 0 0
36% 64% 0% 0% 0% 0% 57% 43% 0% 0%
Sex: (Gender)* Male Female Duration for Low-Income to Obtain Accommodation in the City (exclude slum areas): 0 to 8 weeks 8 to 16 weeks 16 weeks and above Smoothness of Your Community: Available Not available Street Drainages: Available Not available Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Emergency: Available Not available Fire Service: Available Not available Police Service in the Area: Available Not Available Street Flooding: Available Not available Open Streams/Canals: Available Not available Schools in the Area: Available Not Available
12% 88% 100% 0%
Table 6 Survey Summary of Demographic and Personal Data on Low-Income Residents of Agangwu in Enugu Metropolitan
Characteristics Space # of Persons Per Room 0 to 12: (Household Size)* Under 8 8 to 12 12 or more Unadministered # of Persons Per Household Working (Employment Status): Self employed (petite trade) 1 employed in family with paid job 2 employed in family More than two Monthly Salary (in Naira): Under N7000.00 N7000 to N9000 N9000 to N12000 N12000 to N15000 N15000 to N20000 Electricity: Available Not available Tap Running Water: Available Not available N = 98 Frequencies Percentages
Street Drainages: Available Not available Pit Latrine (Toilet): Available Not available Tarred Roads: Available Not available Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Sewage Services in the Area: Available Not available Education*: Secondary School or less Bsc. Degree Masters Degree Doctorate Degree Others Employment Status: Daily Paid Worker (minimum wage) Staff Employee Self Employed (traders) Part-time employed Marital Status: Single Married Widowed Separated Divorced Others Religious Affiliation: Catholic Protestant Muslim Others
0% 100% 0 100%
93% 7% 0% 0% 0%
30% 62% 8% 0% 0% 0%
Sex: (Gender)* Male Female
Duration for Low-Income to Obtain Accommodation in the City (exclude slum areas): 0 to 8 weeks 8 to 16 weeks 16 weeks and above
Smoothness of Your Community: Available Not available Street Drainages: Available Not available Municipal Council Garbage Pick-ups: Available Not available Emergency: Available Not available Fire Service: Available Not available Police Service in the Area: Available Not Available Street Flooding: Available Not available Open Streams/Canals: Available Not available
0% 100% 0% 100%
0% 100% 0% 100% 0% 100%
Schools in the Area: Available Not Available
Hospitals in the Area: Available Not available
Flood Control of the Area: Available Not available
Potholes/Bumps on the Street: Available Not available
From the researcher's summary observation, major problems inducing the lowincome groups to dwell in slums were identified and include the following: 1. High standards for building 2. High cost of imported building materials that impedes urban low-income housing in the city 3. High price of urban land and poor system of urban land tenure 4. Lack of liberal policies on financing and unfair income distributions 5. Lack of technical manpower to assemble foreign imported building materials 6. Rapid industrial growth concentrated only on Enugu Urban Center 7. Increased wave of public ignorance and lack of public participation 8. Lack of control on natural growth of population 9. Lack of specific low-income housing policies that will bring low-income housing within the affordability of the low-income group. From the researcher's observation, major problems inducing the low-income groups to dwell in slums were identified by these professionals/policy makers, bankers and contractors. High standards for building involved high cost of imported building materials that impeded urban low-income housing in the city. It accounted for the high cost of housing in Enugu City itself. The question then became how could building costs be reduced? Accordingly, this could be achieved by increasing and encouraging use of locally made building materials. The researcher's suggestion to them was for everyone to have positive attitudes towards local building materials that can cut the cost of building and rent for housing. On the issue of high price of urban land and poor system of urban land tenure, the researcher attributed that to be responsible for the scarcity and high cost of housing for the low-income groups because land in most Sub-Saharan African was collectively owned by elders of communities and its use was controlled by the Chief of the community. Buyers found it a big task to negotiate with groups of people for the purchase of suitable land and at suitable location. The effect of this difficulty in securing land reduces the quality of housing. The professionals narrated that the housing
corporation in Enugu State of Nigeria encountered this problem in obtaining land for housing purpose due to inability to pay adequate compensation to the group land owners, and this is the problem facing urban lands for housing. These contractors and professionals suggested that the fundamental role of government is to remove the constraints of land availability and tenure, and then provide planning for low-income settlement in order to preserve minimum public health and accessibility standard. Coming to the liberal policy on the financing institutions, the researcher noticed that there was no availability of liberal financing institutions for low-income housing. Again, the lending terms are not within the financial capability of the low-income groups. From the face-to-face discussion with the bankers and professionals, the researcher gathered that the low-income are not qualified for the mortgage loan, and those who were bold enough to apply for loan were first screened by income qualification which would automatically disqualify. Secondly those groups would never meet up with the Federal Mortgage Bank rate which was very high. So these groups could never secure building loans from any bank because of this stringent policy. In elaborating the technical manpower which was lacking, the researcher during the face-to-face discussion with the professionals and bankers that building industries need highly skilled workers to build the needed houses were lacking and this brought about the non-progressive of the housing project. The research noted through this meeting that human capital was lacking because there was great needs for levels of technicians, which if well built-up would increase housing output. The researcher noticed that training was needed and there was no money to train technicians. All these contributed to unnecessary delay in building construction. Table 7 Land Prices: Land Purchase/Price, Bureau of Lands Enugu State PMB 01078 ENUGU Fees Payable On Lands in Government Layout in Enugu State The layout in the state are classified under five (5) groups V13 1-5. the rates are as follows: Group: Layouts Rate 1 (a) Ekulu Layout (b) Ekulu West Extension I and II (c) Independence Layout (I) N150/M2 (d) Uwani Layouts (e) Works Road Layout Group: 2 Layouts (a) River Bank Pocket Layout and its Extension (b) Trade Fair Layout (c) Trans Ekulu Pocket Layout (d) Uwani and Coal Camp Layouts Rate
N125/M2
Group: 3
Layouts Trans Ekulu New GRA China Town Pocket Layout Asata Layout Ogui Township
Rate N90/M2
Layouts (a) Obi-Agu Layout
Layouts (a) Ama Awusa Layout
Source: Enugu State Bureau of Lands LEN9331093/HODLANDS/97. Table 8 Enugu Low-Income Housing Price
ALLOCATION OF HOUSES AT TRANS EKULU PHASE VI LOW-INCOME HOUSE ENUGU IN 1996 House Allocation Selling Amount Deposited Date of Price Allocation A1 Day Month Road 32 Trans Ekulu N130,000.00 N130,000.00 Year Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria 12-1-96 A6 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria C6 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria C3 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria C5 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria C2 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria C1 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria
N130,000.00
B4 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria B6 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria B5 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria B2 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria B1 Road 32 Trans Ekulu Phase VI, Enugu Nigeria
Source: Enugu State Housing Development Corporation Schedule of Allocation of Property 1/1/94 to 31/7/006
Table 9 Enugu Low-Income House Price
ALLOCATION OF PROPERTY MADE OVER HEAD TANK AREA HOUSE TYPE C3/09D TRANS EKULU HOUSING ESTATE PHASE VI ENUGU SEWAGE AREA Plot No. Selling Amount Date of Allocation Price Deposited 69/14 and 69/15 Trans Day Month Year Ekulu Housing Estate N420,000.00 N420,000.00 5-1-97 6A/1 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate 6A/2 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate 6A/3 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate 6A/4 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate 6A/5 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate 6A/6 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate 16/19 H/TR2/06 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate N50,000.00 N50,000.00 5-1-97
N50,000.00
13/7A Trans Ekulu Housing Estate
12/IN H/T B2/05 Ph-1 N10,000.00 N10,000.00 5-1-97 Trans Ekulu Housing Estate Source: Enugu State Housing Development Corporation Schedule of Allocation of Property MDK.1/Vol. 1. 1997
Table 10 Enugu Low-Income House Price
ALLOCATION OF HOUSES AT HORMONY ESTATE PHASE I FROM NOVEMBER 20, 1998 TO JANUARY 26, 1999 Plot No/House Type Selling Amount Deposited Date of Allocation Price Day Month Year 3/10 UC/S/02 N150,000.00 N150,000.00 20-11-98 9/16 UC/S/02 6/30 UC/S/01 4/15 UC/S/02 6/28 UC/S/01 3/17 UC/S/01 3/16 UC/S/01 3/12 UC/S/01 1/15 UC/S/01 6/38 UC/S/01 11/7 UC/S/02 10/8 UC/S/02 6/8 UC/B5/09 6/5 UC/S/01 6/3 UC/S/01 6/14 UC/B5/09 6/12 UC/B5/09 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N150,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N250,000.00 N50,000.00 N250,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N250,000.00 N125,000.00 N120,000.00 N120,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N150,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N250,000.00 N50,000.00 N250,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N50,000.00 N250,000.00 N125,000.00 N120,000.00 N120,000.00 23-12-98 23-12-98 01-12-98 23-12-98 04-1-99 04-1-99 05-1-99 06-1-99 28-12-98 28-12-98 28-12-98 14-1-99 14-1-99 14-1-99 14-1-99 14-1-99
9/1 UC/S/02 9/20 UC/B5/09
N150,000.00 N120,000.00
15-1-99 15-1-99
Source: Enugu State Housing Development Corporation MKD.37/Vol. 1. 1998
Testing of the Hypotheses HO1: There is no significant difference between income levels of Enugu residents and those of slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. These hypotheses say that there is no significant difference between income levels of Enugu residents and those residents dwelling in slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle. The null hypotheses that tested for the differences among income level of Enugu residence and the low-income levels of the slum areas of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle concerning their decision to live in slums was that there was no significant difference between income levels of Enugu residence and their decisions to live in slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle. Item 11 of the survey questions was used to test these hypotheses between Enugu Metropolitan residence and the low-income residents of the slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle. This depends on their rank and their years of working. The dependent variable was Enugu residents' decision to live in slums. The analysis of variance comparison among the residents of Enugu Metropolitan, and the slum dwellers of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle was used to determine if there were significant differences at an Alpha Level of 0.05 or less (a 0.05).
HO2: There is no significant difference between education levels of Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. For the statistical purposes, null hypotheses were developed to test for the differences in Education among the residents of Enugu Metropolitan residents and the low-income dwellers and their decision to dwell in slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle. The null hypotheses that investigated the educational ability of the low-income residents of the slums relate to the type of houses they dwell because the higher the education; the higher the income and this has an effect on their residential dwellings. Again, Item 5 of the survey question was used to test this hypothesis at an alpha level of 0.05 or less (a 0.05). The null hypothesis that investigated the educational level of the low-income residents of the slum areas of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle is relative to the type of houses they dwell in comparison to their level of education. Analysis of variance comparison
was performed in item 5 of the survey questionnaire which deals with the educational level indicating that the educational level below secondary education was meant to be standard six educations and this was the data from the survey. The respondents had indicated during the survey that their highest educational level was less than secondary education and this places the low-income at the slum dwelling since they could not afford high house rent in the city. HO3: There is no significant difference between the population (gender) of the Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. This hypothesis states that there is no significant difference between the gender of Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum area.
Results and Summary of Hypotheses Testing HO1: There is no significant difference between income levels of Enugu residents and those of slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. Presented in Table 11 are the two way Analysis of Variance results regarding the difference between income levels of Enugu residents and their decision to live in slum areas. A statistically significant difference was not found in the income of Enugu residents (F = 1.997, df = 69, sig > 0.05) regarding their decision to live in slum areas at the 0.05 level. Therefore, hypothesis one was not rejected. Table 11 Distribution Table of the Two Way Analysis of Variance on Income Level of Enugu Residents and their decision to live in slum. Sources of Variation SS df ms f P. value f.crit Between Groups 60.035 1 654.10 1.997 0.154 3.980 Within Groups 37.122 68 545.92 Total 97.157 69 Significant at alpha level of 0.05
HO2: There is no significant difference between education levels of Enugu residents and those of slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. Presented in Table 12 are the two way Analysis of Variance results regarding the difference in education levels of Enugu residents and their decision to dwell in slum
areas. A statistically significant difference was not found in the education level of Enugu residents (F = 3.569, df = 69, sig > 0.05) regarding their decision to dwell in slum areas at the 0.05 level. This hypothesis meant that education was a factor why low-income residents of Enugu Metropolitan dwell in slums. Therefore, hypothesis two was not rejected. Table 12 Distribution Table of the Two Way Analysis of the Education level of Enugu Residents and their decision to live in slum is shown. Sources of Variation SS df ms f P. value f.crit Between Groups 22.857 1 22.85 3.569 0.187 3.980 Within Groups 43.714 68 0.64 Total 66.571 69 Significant at alpha level of 0.05
HO3: There is no significant difference between the population (gender) of the Enugu residents and those of slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. Presented in Table 13 are the two way Analysis of Variance results regarding the difference between the population (gender) of the Enugu residents and their decision to live in slum areas. A statistically significant difference was not found in the gender of Enugu residents (F = 3.556, df = 69, sig > 0.05) regarding their decision to dwell in slum areas at the 0.05 level. Thus, hypothesis three was not rejected. Table 13 Distribution Table of the Two Way Analysis of the Gender level of Enugu Residents and those of the slum and their decision to dwell in slum is shown. Sources of Variation SS df ms f P. value f.crit Between Groups 22.857 1 22.85 3.556 0.114 3.98 Within Groups 43.714 68 0.64 Total 66.571 69 Significant at alpha level of 0.05Significant at alpha level of 0.05
Analysis of the Results of Hypotheses The purpose of this study is to examine the differences between income levels of Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas. More specifically, this study is designed to determine if there are significant differences between Enugu Metropolitan residents and those of the residents of slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Efor, Ugwu-Aaron, Ugwu-Bottle concerning their Income, Education, Population (Gender), Household Size, or Constraints to build individual houses. This chapter
outlines research questions, null hypotheses, type of design, population (gender), sampling procedure, and data gathering procedure, instrumentation, instrument validity, reliability, and statistical analysis. Out of these five hypotheses, hypothesis one tested the significant difference between income levels of Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slum areas compared to the low income residents of the slum. Statistically significant differences were not found in Enugu residents regarding (F = 1997, df = 69, sig > 0.05) their income compared to the slum residents at the 0.05 alpha level. Therefore, hypothesis one was not rejected. The null hypothesis was not rejected. Hypothesis Two (2) tested the significant difference between education levels of Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slums compared to the low-income residents of the slums. Statistically significant differences were not found in the Enugu residents (F = 3.569, df = 69, sig > 0.05) regarding their decision to dwell in slum areas at the 0.05 level. Thus, hypothesis two was not rejected. Hypotheses Three (3) tested the significant difference between the gender of Enugu residents and those of the slum residents and their decision to live in slums compared to the low-income residents of the slum areas. Statistically, significant differences were not found in Enugu residents (F = 3.556, df = 69, sig. > 0.05) regarding their decision to dwell in slums at an alpha level of 0.05. Therefore, hypothesis three (3) was not rejected. Finally there was no statistically significant difference found in this study, in regards to the decision of Enugu residents compared to the low-income residents of the slum. Table 16 Summary of the Hypotheses Tested in the Investigation HYPOTHESES F DF P HO1: 1.997 69 0.154 HO2: 3.569 69 0.187 HO3: 3.556 69 0.114 Therefore null hypotheses were not rejected.
RESULT Failed to Reject Failed to Reject Failed to Reject
Testing of the Dependent Variable Using Logistic Model The dependent variable for this study is the "Enugu Residents Decision to Live in Slums." This is the variable that received the effect or influence and this variable depends on Income, Education, Gender, Family Size and Certain Constraints. Item number 18 of the survey questions was again suitable to test for any significant between Enugu Metropolitan residents and the Low-Income residents of the slums of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle. For statistical purposes, null hypotheses were developed to test for the differences in the mean score on the income, education, gender, family size and constraints among the populations in the study. Analysis of variance comparison was used to determine if there were significant differences among the income, education, gender, household size and certain constraints of Enugu residents compared to the slum residents at alpha level of 0.05 or less (a 0.05). The conservative Scheffe's test was used to show specifically the source/sources of the significant differences if significant differences existed.
Table 17 Summary Output: EnuguTesting of Dependent Variable Using Logistic Model Regression Statistics Multiple R R Square Adjusted R Square Standard Error Observations ANOVA
df Regression Residual Total 4 32 36 Coefficien t Intercept Education Gender Household Size Constraints 6860.248 16.196 216.596 191.215 76.093 SS 61693700.09 273349157.1 335042857.1 Standar d Error 4.752 1.856 61.856 54.357 211.856 PValue 0.027 0.077 0.017 0.857 0.065 Lower 95% 821.244 431.011 409.052 1956.44 133.052 Upper 95% 2899.25 310.14 409.052 1956.44 409.052 Lower 95.0% 821.244 28.052 409.052 1956.44 409.052 MS 15423425.4 8542161 F 3.6111 Significance F 0.016
0.429111473 0.566742999 0.452887187 2922.6924 35
t Stat 2.3139 65535 2.5115 0.1813 0.77541
Upper 95% 12899.252 771.78405 3920.1405 2338.8702 39491.050
Result of Dependent Variable Using Logistic Model In urban analysis, an increasingly wide range of geographers are now aware of the prospects of discrete choice models in urban analysis. These models are founded upon the fundamental premise that the utility of an alternative an individual can be decomposed into a systematic component Via, and (assuming the widely recognized inter-personal interpretation of utility maximization) or random component Eia· This random component represents the deviation of the tastes of individual from the group average, measurement errors and the impact of missing, omitted or unobserved socio-economic characteristic and choice alternative attributes of a (Wrigley, 1982; 1985). The second approach is to invoke prior theory to suggest an appropriate functional form. Thus, for example, an economist might postulate a non-linear form of the utility function based upon a theory such as the neoclassical goods/leisure trade off (Train & McFadden, 1978). In a transportation science travel demand study, Koppelman (1981a) represents the marginal disutility of travel time and travel cost using a power transformation. Within the
geographical and psychological literature, it is widely recognized that perceptions of space and time are non-linear in their objective surrogate measures (Cox & Golledge, 1969) and that the relationship between perception and the surrogate measures may be represented by Logarithmic power and other transformations. However, this approach becomes difficult to invoke in the absence of a clear, uncontentious body of urban theory appropriate to both the problem and the variable specification under consideration. It also raises some of the problems noted above in the context of interaction variables' approach. The third and probably most-widely used approach involves the use of statistical transformations to "search" for the most appropriate functional form. The most widely used example of this approach is the Box-Cox transformation and the derivative BoxTurkey (Gaudry & Willis, 1979) generation (see Gaudry, 1980; Hensher & Johnson, 1981; Hensher & Taylor, 1983; Koppelman, 1981b; McCarthy, 1982; for examples). Such transformations are of course, no perfect substitute for direct behavioral specification, but can assist in the specification of an improved initial set of assumptions upon which models are derived from theory (Hensher & Taylor, 1983).
Housing Market Analysis Using Discrete Choice Models Many aspects of housing decisions involve choice of one alternative or option from a restricted choice set, for example, whether or not to move, dwelling type (house, duplex or flat), tenure (owning or renting), etc. for this reason the period since the late 1970s has been the development of discrete choice models of mobility behavior (e.g. Onaka & Clark, 1983; Veldhuisen, 1982), location choice (e.g. Cronin, 1979) and dwelling selection (e.g. Williams, 1979). However, although this is an obvious and intuitively plausible application of the discrete choice modeling methodology models of revealed housing market behavior is evidently far from straightforward. This is because the revealed discrete choices actually constitute a response to important qualitative and societal considerations which have hither to lain towards the margins of mainstream housing economics (e.g. see Maclennan, 1982). For example, interdependencies between housing choice and other human activities, the intertemporal native of housing decisions and the pervasive intervention of the state prevent just three reasons why cross-sectional social surveys are unlikely to penetrate fully the motives surrounding rarely revealed housing preferences. Such considerations cannot be assumed away in the names of analytical convenience or statistical elegance, and have restricted the range of plausible empirical applications to rather smaller domains than many analysts would intend. Other researchers refute the ability of microeconomic analysis to generate any fruitful insights into observed housing market behavior, and instead place their faith in other interpretations of less tangible dominant processes in the urban arena. In moving away from the comparatively uncontentious domain of short-run travel demand forecasting, we therefore become embroiled in a conceptual maelstrom in which no single body of theory enjoys unchallenged status as the most productive means of pursuing empirical enquiry; there are simply many competing explanations of observed behavior. This is not to suggest, however, that previous research in housing economics has not exhibited in which tenure choice, residential mobility behavior and residential location/dwelling unit choices are revealed (see Longley, 1984, for review). On the
contrary, whilst some early logic model (e.g. Li, 1977) did relate revealed preferences exclusively to conventional individual socio-demographic characteristics and physical dwelling attributes, subsequent studies have developed choice contexts which embrace work-place location (Quigley, 1976), journey to-work decisions (Lerman, 1977), qualitative aspects of previous dwellings (Boehm, 1982), the learning process (Cronin, 1979), variable dwelling choice sets (Snickars, 1982) and public service provision (Anas, 1979; 1982). Nevertheless, there remain the dual problems of clarifying the theoretical premises upon which any model is based and of reconciling normative preferences with the vagaries inherent in cross sectional revealed preference data. In part, these problems can be revealed by continued refinement of the choice context within which housing market behavior is modeled and current research presents some encouraging prospects. However, at a second and more pragmatic level, a possible way of sharpening the insights derived from revealed preference analysis involves supplementing purely inferential model-building with a more exploratory approach. In essence, this implies a commitment to understand our data both (a) in the light of the anticipated shortcomings of revealed preference surveys, (b) in the context of competing theories which might be involved in order to explain patterns in these data. Public policy intervention through direct housing provision and also various indirect incentives is likely to introduce thresholds, non-linearities and discontinuities in to the variable specification which may not be precisely evident or priori. Experimentation with a variety of combination of functional forms thus becomes very desirable. Tenure choice analysis entails the interpretation of a very long-term and infrequently revealed preference, which may also be based upon household circumstances which are both personal and sensitive. As a consequence, housing surveys are notoriously vulnerable to ex pose facto rationale and other response errors to a degree uncharacteristic of most social surveys. Analytical models of tenure choice are therefore likely to be prone to poorly-fitting and/or outlying observations. This discussion reiterates the importance of functional form assessment of tenure choice models, but suggests that such assessment is likely to prove most successful if it is conducted in a sensitive and flexible manner. In the empirical example, we contrast the performance of the standard Box-Turkey approach to derivation of functional form with the graphical procedures outlined by Landwehr et al (1984). In empirical terms a single illustrative case study can only begin to scratch the surface of the much wider research agenda alluded to above. Nevertheless, we attempt to convey the spirit of a more exploratory approach to tenure choice modeling by diagnosing any glaring specification errors and by gauging the success of a series of models in portraying structure in our data; only then are causal links implied and causal mechanisms invoked (Everett & Dunn, 1983, p. 5) for a clear statement of this approach.
Conclusions The following conclusions were drawn from this study: there were insufficient low-income houses for the low-income residents of Enugu. From the survey, it took more than eight weeks for a new arrival in the low-income groups in Enugu Metropolitan
to find residential accommodation in the city, and once this could not be met, the lowincome and their large family had no other alternative than to settle for slums at Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron and Ugwu-Bottle. The low-income residents of Enugu Municipality could not conveniently afford the very few available low-income houses. This is due to their very low monthly salary, and to these low-income groups, housing is as basic a necessity as are food and clothing, due to their large family size, these then lead them to dwelling in slums, where they pay low house rent in order to greater their large family size. There was general overcrowding of the Enugu Metropolitan with a density of 8 to 12 per room among the four populations as was drawn from the survey. Drainage, toilet facilities, and garbage pickups were totally inadequate in lowincome areas of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle areas of Enugu Metropolitan. Frequent visit to hospitals due to constant suffering of diarrhea, measles and cholera were highest among the low-income groups of Agangwu, Ngele-Effor, Ugwu-Aaron, and Ugwu-Bottle due to insufficient and in adequate medical facilities. There was high standing for buildings in Enugu city which made the house rent to be high and out of the reach of the low-income, thus, making them to settle for slum areas. Provisions of financial and tax incentives to low-income and to other people willing to build using a right combination of traditional and modern building materials should be introduced. In this case, National Shelter Strategy offers directions in this area, which will work through the use of seminars and workshops for building professionals and artisans, and management training for small-scale builders is some of the specific ways this can be achieved. It is true that the Topography of Enugu contributes to this density. However, one method expanding the supply of land, or more accurately, pace, requires for low-income housing would be the construction of high-rise, multifamily units. This approach would wipe out slum dwelling, and replace with clean environment. According to Hansen and Williams, most of the imported materials currently in wide use in urban housing in developing countries can be replaced by locally produced, less expensive materials. The problem is that local building regulations disallow material traditionally used in rural areas and knowledge about the production and use of innovative building materials which can be locally produced tends to be limited to few laboratories and research institutions. This reason is not withstanding, for in using the locally building materials will involve important balance-of-payment reasons for replacing imported materials with locally made ones. In addition, many conventional building materials are made in processes which are highly sophisticated, using imported machinery and consume large amount of (imported) energy in their production and transportation. Small-scale, locally-based, relatively labour-intensive building materials manufacturing technologies are generally associated with large multiplier effects than with large-scale, capital-intensive technologies because they use locally made equipment, use local (and after renewable) energy and generate more employment per unit of output. It is also recommended that: developing and promoting the use of locally produced building materials as a means of reducing housing construction cost which will also reduce house rental cost, enabling low-income groups to afford high house rent in the city with drainages and garbage pickups. By promoting the use of indigenous professionals, appropriate design and technology in housing delivery. Promoting
measures that will mobilize long term and affordable funding for the housing sector by restructuring and recapitalizing the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria for better performance and improving access to finance by refocusing secondary mortgage market.
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NYC Ballet - Paz de La Jolla; Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir; and Concerto DSCH
It was a world premiere night on Thursday, January 31, at New York City Ballet, and what a glorious premiere it was.
Filling the slot in the New Combinations Evening originally scheduled for a new Peter Martins work was a new ballet from rising choreographer Justin Peck. (Peck is also a corps de ballet dancer with the Company.) Paz de La Jolla is set to composer Bohuslav Martinu’s “Sinfonietta la Jolla” and it’s terrific.
An homage to the area in which Peck grew up, La Jolla (near San Diego, California), Paz tells two tales on one beachfront.
We open with Annette Funicello Tiler Peck (no relation to Justin) welcoming everyone to her beach. She’s spritely and exudes a sense of wonder as she dances around in a gorgeous deep teal bathing suit. (Costumes are by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung, supervised by Company costumer Marc Happel.) Peck leads an ensemble of 15 who dance with a youthful exuberance – think the West Side Story prologue but on the beach. It’s peppy and fun.
Then Sterling Hyltin and Amar Ramasar take over the stage and bring with them grace and a slower pace. (Hyltin looks stunning in her Marilyn Monroe-esque white dress.) Moments in their pas de deux are reminiscent of some of those in the Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (which I just saw), which is not a criticism of Peck. Rather, it’s evidence of who and what work has influenced him over the years.
Hyltin and Ramasar enter into a dreamscape – some abstraction of a dream, with the other beachgoers challenging them. They unite, are separated then reunited, all while Peck the choreographer highlights the benefits of a large ensemble. They’re truly an integral part of his storytelling.
The lovers awake and it’s a new day. Tiler Peck is back to pep up the crowd, to once again welcome the day and the revelers. There’s a moment just before the end of Paz when the clip slows for a moment and the three principals gather in the center to invite everyone to join them. The mood turns back to exuberant, as all are welcome and all are one in this lovely beach community.
(Fun side note: All of the dancers appear sans tights. Naturally, since they’re on the beach.)
Justin Peck (Year of the Rabbit) is such a fantastic emerging choreographic voice. Peck is a wholly conceptual artist (much like Christopher Wheeldon) playing with unconventional music – or, rather, compositions with moments that would challenge conventional choreographers.
He seamlessly mixes classical technique with modern moves – flexed feet here, bent knees and an almost African-inspired jump there. He is absolutely the one to watch. (And, since he’s still a dancer with the Company, we got to watch him dance later in the evening, proving he’s just as masterful performing the steps as he is in arranging them.) Head over to NYCB's You Tube channel to see a glimpse of Peck creating Paz.
Unfortunately, the thrill of Paz de La Jolla was quickly made to fizzle by the second piece on the program, George Balanchine’s Variation Pour Une Porte et Un Soupir (variations for a door and a sigh). I should have known I was in for something different when instead of a “music by” credit in the program it listed “Sonority by Pierre Henry.”
As stated in the repertory notes, “The score makes use of the gamut of sounds associated with human sighing and the opening and closing of doors…” Despite principal dancers Maria Kowroski and Daniel Ulbricht’s best efforts, the pas de deux was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s not ballet – it’s performance art that should be trimmed by about 17 minutes and done at a hip gallery in Chelsea.
At first, I was not at all into the piece, especially since the “sigh” sonority sounded like a caterwaul, but then the door opened and I allowed myself to see the angular, almost Fosse-like movements. Kowroski’s body contorted into all sorts of shapes and her long body created interesting shadows on the wall. The first time.
Then the “ballet” continued through 13 more variations (for 14 total), dragging the piece on for about 25 minutes, which is way too long, particularly in this context. I couldn’t help but think of all those Halloween movies when Michael Myers has been decapitated but still isn’t dead, he just keeps getting back up and chasing after Jamie Lee Curtis. That’s how I felt when this gothic ridiculousness wouldn’t end. Variations is a piece that is performed infrequently – I think the last time was nine years ago – so I guess we can thank Thespis for small favors.
Closing out the night was Concerto DSCH, an Alexei Ratmansky ballet set to a Dmitri Shostakovich composition. I wasn’t sure I would like this, as I didn’t particularly enjoy the previous two Ratmansky works I’d seen (Dumbarton and Namouna: A Grand Divertissement), but this piece (while certainly not joining the ranks of my favorites) surpassed my expectations and proved to be a nice complement to Peck’s Paz de La Jolla.
The ballet has several notable moments and choreographic phrases, but that is part of the problem – there are several. Too many at once. Ratmansky’s choreography here is unfocused and the disparate elements don’t mesh well. The lack of direction led me to miss much of what the ensemble (which included Justin Peck) was doing. Of course it’s to Ratmansky’s credit that I wanted to see that at all, but he does his ballet a disservice by disorienting our attention.
Still, the ballet is set to beautiful music and you can rarely lose when City Ballet’s dancers are center stage. Principals Ashley Bouder and Joaquin de Luz are joined by soloist Troy Schumacher for a fun and playful pas de trois, while Janie Taylor and Tyler Angle perform an exquisite pas de deux.
The New York City Ballet winter season continues through the month. Visit nycballet.com for performance information and to purchase tickets.
Bonus: Check out sketches for Paz de La Jolla costumes on the Company's Facebook page.
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Why Is It Called Easter Island?
Easter Island, Chile - 2 people like this.
That's actually a trick question. This tiny dot in the eastern South Pacific ocean, but technically territory of Chile, is actually Rapa Nui.The world over, Easter Island is synonymous with exotic mysteries of an impossibly distant, long-lost civilization and mind-boggling human endeavor.
It may be the most remote inhabited island on the planet. Only a few thousand people live on this remnant of oceanic volcanoes sticking out of the sea, and that's the first miracle itself. The closest inhabited island is 1300 miles away (Pitcairn Island with only 50 people) and the nearest continental point is Chile – over 2000 miles away. Local tales say a 2-canoe Polynesian expedition around AD 700 was the start of Rapa Nui's extraordinary story.
Today, Easter Island is on the map of global travelers who want to come face to face with the island's nearly 1000 moai at its UNESCO World Heritage Site.
These stately, solemn statues were carved during a 500-year period in the island's history, beginning a thousand years ago. The moai share artistic characteristics with Polynesian carvings, confirming the origin tale of the Rapa Nui people. Chiseled with only stone tools out of volcanic rock in the 'quarry' of an extinct volcano, each statue took a team of half a dozen artisans about a year to complete. The largest is over 30 feet long and weighs 90 tons. They were an incredible feat of creativity and production and organized society.
You probably think of them as 'Easter Island heads'. But the moai actually have torsos and some even have complete lower bodies; just buried up to their necks over the centuries by shifting sands.
These monumental statues represented deceased ancestry. And only about a quarter were originally installed, others left in the quarry or rest en route to their intended locations. All but 7 faced inland, the spirits of the deceased 'watching over' the living and their lands. The 7 facing the sea were stood as wayfinders for travelers.
Many moai toppled after the mysterious collapse of the Rapa Nui society in the 19th century. In recent decades, local and international efforts have restored and re-mounted a number of moai. This dot on a map in Chilean Polynesia still seems as awe-inspiring with hidden secrets as when explorers first arrived.
Which brings us to: Why is it called Easter Island? The Dutch explorer who was the island's first-recorded European visitor arrived on Easter Sunday in 1722 – he came upon it while searching for another island. (He must have been pretty lost!) So 'Easter Island' it was dubbed and its current official Spanish name in Chile is still Isla de Pascua, while its Polynesian name is Rapa Nui, in local language: the 'naval of the world'.
There's more to Rapa Nui than the silent witness of the moai to the island's past. Visitors experience the local version of Polynesian culture, explore pink-sand beaches, caverns, and dive sites, cycle, hike or ride horses across prairies and volcanic hillsides, and even surf on those waves so distant from other shores.
How to get there? You can fly from both Chile and Tahiti, participate in tour packages offered by expedition and exotic travel experts, arrive by small or expedition cruise ship, or by private yacht.
There may be no where else in the world where a traveler can feel the greatness of human achievement and small in the face of a culture so far across the waves.
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Bronson - 8/10
Hercules - 3/10
INTRUDERS. A Fast supense twisted one. I give a 7 very fast fun ,crazy. I didnt even recognize little RORY Culkin.
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Backcountry - 7/10. Decent for what it is with a truly memorable bear attack that stays with you.
Ant Man - 6/10. Love Rudd, and the idea behind the shrinking was pretty cool. The antics (jajaja) were a little too hokey for me.
The Force Awakens - 6/10. I dunno. Carrie Fischer was painful to watch, the third Death Star felt like a trolling, I could go on for a bit, but the first half of the movie was pretty engaging and enjoyable.
Spotlight 9/10
Burn the Catholic Church to the ground!!!!!!
Isn't that one supposed to be based on a graphic novel or something and not the bible?
That's right. Aronofsky pitched the film to studios a long time ago but nobody wanted it, so he went away and created the graphic novel in order to get studios to take the screenplay more seriously.
Aronofsky freely admits this story/screenplay is a complete embellishment on what little is known about the story and life of Noah. He is kinda filling in the blanks.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 - 1/10
Cool, have you read it? Is it any good?
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I caught the first 'X Files' film again for the first time in years, & I'd forgotten most of it.
A solid enough movie, & I liked the story. However I'm not sure that - because I haven't finished the TV series yet, jumping ahead to the first movie helped much, but anyway. I thought some of the E.T moments towards the end at the underground facility in Antractica were a little 'B' horror movie schlock-ish & a bit too derivitive of other major properties.. but overall a good watch, & I might buy it if I see it around.
7.8 / 10.
Memento - 9/10
The Martain 8/10
Lost a point becuase I read the book......
Goosebumps 5/10
Rise of Planet of Apes. 7.5/10
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Have fun with this one.
The Godfather (first hour or so, couldn't make it through the whole thing)
boring/10
Nothing is wrong with the movie. I just was never invested into the characters, didn't care about them. Never really cared for mob styles shows/movies to begin with. It seemed like it just kept going without anything happening aside from some random dude getting choked out and another with a horse head. Way to many characters that are hard to keep track of. Just isn't a movie I can enjoy.
Can't wait to see your ratings for Citizen Kane, Casablanca, 2001, Apocalypse Now and Psycho.
Ladies in Lavender - 8/10
Superb period drama with an amazing cast of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Bruhl, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes and a who's who of British talent
Everest - 7/10
Paths of Glory - 8/10
John Carter - 8/10
Really good adventure movie. Loved the editing of scenes like when John was escaping from the union commander only to be secured better in the next scene and his being treated as a baby hatchling. Loved his having to learn to walk in the different gravity and his jump powers. The aliens and their tribal culture was cool and unlike avatar inoffensive.
Wasn't a fan of the romantic sub-plot though
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The aliens and their tribal culture was cool and unlike avatar inoffensive.
Who was offended by Avatar?
Black Sails XIX & XX. 9/10. Never watched Black Sails before. Can't vouch for the whole series ... but these two episodes were pretty badass.
The Killing (1956) - 8/10
Hellraiser - 8/10
Frozen 3D - 7/10 Thanks UK for the blu ray.
Dirty Grandpa. This is absolute garbage couldnt even finish skip this trainwreck i have lost respect for Deniro after watching this.
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Cool Hand Luke - 9/10
Seriously? Who gives a s**t.
American Psycho - 7.5/10
Hateful Eight 6/10
Crimson Peak - 6.5/10.
WWEJed - 3/10 - Tries to hard.
Citizen Kane - 7/10
Casablanca - 8/10
2001 - 9.5/10
Apocalypse Now - 8.5/10
Psycho - 8.5/10
He sure has loved making bad film after bad film for more than a decade now.
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Yep Deniro is a favorite actor in lots of movies but he's been crappin out garbage and collage humor depicts this perfectly in this skit.
https://youtu.be/dC815ZjTr-U?t=3
Something wrong? Pliss? You're sweating...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: 7.5/10
Prometheus: 8/10
Leon the Professional: 8.8/10
Walk the Line: 8/10
Goosebumps:5/10
I'm fine, I'd just appreciate you keeping your comments and hands to yourself.
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I didn't read their whole review, but IGN's summary of their review was "Dirty Grandpa is a nasty, unfunny comedy about horrible people." That's pretty definitive.
You clearly don't try hard enough.
Vurrry guuud :lol
Plastic Bateman
I had the rare privilege recently of introducing a friend who doesn't watch many films to the Star Wars trilogy last weekend. For his edification, I obtained some copies of the 1993 Laserdisc releases. Having not seen the films myself in quite some time, and certainly not having seen them without all of Lucas' CGI bobbins polluting the screen since I was about 8 years old, it was like I was watching them for the first time again too.
A New Hope - 9/10
Empire Strikes Back - 10/10
Return of the Jedi - 7/10
Empire being the closest thing to an utterly flawless movie I've ever seen, coupled with a massive nostalgia rush, means this may be the only 10/10 I'll ever award. I'd love to give Jedi more points - it has some of the most stand-out moments of all three films - but then the Ewoks happen :ohbfrank:
One thing's for sure, I now take a much dimmer view of the prequels than I did a week ago...
Howl - Ugh/10
All I wanted out of this was for a werewolf to bite somebody's face off and it never even came close. A few nice images of wolf-y people with glowy eyes walking around in the fog.
Creep - 6/10
Very self-conscious found footage thriller. If that's not enough to keep you away, it's a great performance from Mark Duplass at the forefront most of the time.
We all have different opinions obviously... but Empire is one that across the board (no pun intended) should always get a 10/10. Otherwise, you just hate great film making.
I had the rare privilege recently of introducing a friend who doesn't watch many films to the Star Wars trilogy last weekend.
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I have one simple rule when rating things - reality is fundamentally imperfect, therefore nothing ever gets a perfect 10. I love Empire so much, I'll make an exception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKoiJu9TsQ
Films still haven't caught up to this, it's honestly timeless.
Phenomena - 8/10
Birdman - 8.5/10
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER. Ben Stiller Patricia Arquette Tea Leonii a lot of good stars in this film. I dont know how to rate really a crazy story of Ben Stiller looking for his real parents but with a lot wimsy antic's along the way. I guess mayba rate a 4 because great casting but lots of weard action's of story during film had me yelling WTF ??? Worth a watch a quick short messed comedy.
X2 - 80/100.
ESB - 7.7/10
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Oh...and Terminator and Terminator 2 >>>>>>>>> SW and ESB.
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THE GOON. A ABSOLUTE SOLID 10 BAD ASS Hockey Movie a New flippin favorite. One of Seann William Scott's best films along with Liev Schreiber very fun fast film.
darthkostis
Fury: 8.5/10
A well made and intense movie. Sure, some things are glossed over and the "story" takes a back-seat to the characters but damn, if they're not enjoyable. Their interactions, the effects the war has on them, the "transformation" of Norman, all were great. As I said, a nice war flick that is sure to entertain you for the entirety of its 2 hour run time.
American Sniper: 8/10
This was a solid, well-made and well-acted movie, but I feel that something was... "missing". The effects the war had on Kyle were mostly the usual "hears sceams and is always on alert", which, while realistic, could have been fleshed out a little more. I could've done with a bit less of combat scenes, if it meant getting a deeper insight is Kyle's psyche post his return.
PS: That was an awful way to go though. Survive 4 tours only to die like this? Truly sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMoeS4Cu9qo
Goosebumps: 7/10
I really enjoyed it. Never read the books or saw the show. It had good, fun, engaging characters and a fun story. Danny Elfman’s soundtrack was great—back to his old style like MIB, Beetlejuice or Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. I have to point out that it felt very cinematic in how it was filmed. Strangely there were spots were it looked like cheap digital “film”, but other times it felt like a grand spectacle movie. I liked a lot of the effects that were made to look more old school practical effects, like the gnomes and even the smoke coming out of the books effect. That ferris wheel scene at the end was very impressive. It’s a good family movie. If I was 12 years old, it would be my favorite!
Goosebumps was suprisingly a good, fun movie. I would say 7/10 as well.
Unfriended 0/10...pure garbage. Couldnt even finish it. The teenage drama ******** was just too much to try to stomache.
Django Unchained for the 4th time 9/10
The Force Awakens for the second time in theaters 5/10
Child 44- 5/10 I don't know if the Russian accents were good, but the acting is pretty good, but the story is all over the place.
Child 44- 5/10
What did you expect? It's a US thriller film based on a British novel about pre Great Patriotic War serial killer.
The entire thing is as stupid as it gets. :lol
The etire thing is as stupid as it gets. :lol
Are the Russian accents good though? I've heard that Russian accents in most films always sound really fake and are inaccurate.
Are the Russian accents good though?
I wouldn't be able to sit through this garbage without laughing at bad accents. :D
Added a lot to the overall ridiculousness.
The Matrix - 10/10
Sucker Punch 5/10
The 400 Blows 7/10
The Green Inferno 6.5/10
Zodiac: 8.5/10
Selma: 9/10
Philomena: 8/10
I watched the 2007 'Beowulf' movie the other night for the first time -- 6.8 / 10
Ehh.. I enjoyed it actually. Looking at it in context though, it wasn't really breaking that much new ground. Sure, they captured the likenesses of those big Hollypoopers & animated them, but so what. I think that 'Final Fantasy : the spirits within' is a much better movie, DID actually break new ground - & is six years it's senior.
It's a classic story, but the new film's PS3 cut scene graphics (while fine some of the time), devolve into PS2 cut scene territory a little too often in some scenes, & don't hold up unfortunately. Still, the movie has some cool stuff in there; like the whole Grendel arc in the earlier part of the movie. Anyway, I found the collectors set for $5, so what the hey. :lol
Hero (Li) 6.5/10
Room 7.5/10
The Matrix Reloaded - 8/10
A Walk in the Woods. Robert Redford ,Nick Nolte go for a Hike along the Appalachian Trail. I didnt think i would like as much as did but Long hikes do a lot for the human spirit. A fun trek on this one give a 5.
Cartel Land (2015) 6/10
Narco Cultura (2013) 8/10
Binged watched 'em both on Netflix & I know CL got nominated for Best Doc but NC is the far better doc on the subject.
Transformers Age of Extinction: 6/10
I think I like this one the best. Honestly I can't even remember what the other three were about or any specific scenes. I just remember barely being able to pay attention to them because they were so unengaging and too much visual noise. I think Bay toned it down slightly and the action sequences were a little easier to follow. I think Shia being gone helped a lot! They totally left it open for a sequel. And talk about catering to the Chinese market, what with having the climax of the film take place in Hong Kong!
Absolutely Anything - 5/10
I Have no idea who Approved this movie but who ever was Absolutely Wasted or hi to approve the script. I feel bad this was one of Robin Williams last film's. I like Simon and Kate but OMG a crazy nonsense film.
The Matrix Revolutions - 8/10
X-Files S1 - 8,5/10
Feel smarter but don't know why? Must be good. :lol
Eat (2014) - 4/10
Absolutely, I just finished watching them too. :hi5: :duff
Seeking a friend for the end of the world. Steve Carell n Kiera Knightly
Steve gets lucky enough to hang with Cute Kiera for the end lucky s.o.b not a bad way to go. I give it a 7.
Our Brand Is Crisis - 7/10
Z for Zachariah: 7.5/10
The Theory of Everything: 9/10
Legend: 8.5/10
Absolutely, I just finished watching them too.
Some episodes aren't really good or just boring, mostly spiritual/afterlife ones.
But the main plot is very good and episodes about biological stuff are always entertaining.
Great cinematography for a 90s TV series.
Seeing "Darkness Falls" ep again was like "NOSTALGIA OVERLOooooAD!" :panic:
Loved this series as a school kid.
I couldn't get into the X-Files. I gave it a whole season. When I run out of other TV Shows in my Netflix queue I'll return to them. I know it's not fair to judge a show by its initial season but there were other shows I wanted to give a try that hooked me after only one season.
I don't know why you don't think it's fair to judge a show in the first season, you either like it or you don't, why waste time past the first season if it's not for you?
I think I gave it two seasons when it originally aired and bailed on it. Saw the films, but I wouldn't say I'm a fan in any stretch.
I Know What You Did Last Summer - 7/10
True. I gave up on Walking Dead and Mad Men after one season. But I hated those and have no desire to revisit them. I didn't hate X-Files. I just didn't love it.
There are some shows that get better as the series progresses. Seinfeld's first few seasons are my least favorite and I find all but a handful of episodes in TNG's first two seasons unwatchable.
Urban Legend - 7/10
Preach brother preach!
I'd give TDKR an 8, and Matrix Reloaded a 9 though, but still some solid ratings there.
Those of us who can truly appreciate the Matrix trilogy are a minority.
You make it sound like those that don't like it are unable to grasp its profundities.
That's exactly what I mean. 2deep4u.
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Yeah, ok.
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I liked the first Matrix movie fine, but after watching it again for the first time in years, it doesn't have rewatch value for me.
The other two? No thanks :lol
The Matrix Trilogy is so amazing. The highway sequence in Reloaded is some of the best action in any movie ever.
I thought Reloaded and Revolutions were pretty good sci-fi actioners, some ridiculous dialogue notwithstanding.
I thought Reloaded and Revolutions were pretty good sci-fi actioners.
As much sci-fi as the Star Wars. :)
The second one was ****ing stupid, sorry. :lol
The third one did nothing for me.
I hated the first two, never made it to the third one.
God damn, I'll have to marathon the trilogy soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY_pTVfz3gU
Matrix is more sci-fi than Star Wars will ever be.
Star Wars is Fantasy, if Matrix isn't sci-fi, then I don't know what it is.
They're pretty good. My favorite is still the first one, but I really like part 2 even though it was completely different from what I was expecting. It's too bad NECA or some other company doesn't have the license to make figures from the trilogy.
But, that's what I'm saying. :lol
I hear that a lot, "it didn't go were I was expecting", where could it have possibly gone? :lol if you understood the story from the beginning, the development of the trilogy was pretty telegraphed.
Yeah, I've always wanted a Revolutions Neo, so ****ing snazzy.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iL70zHv_XC8/THBJCnV0Q8I/AAAAAAAAD9U/QrwiEWM58IY/s1600/neo.jpg
Those heels tho :lol That's a Reloaded Neo.
What I mean is, by the end of the first film, Neo is Superman and he tells the Matrix that he's going to wake people up and change everything because he's the "one," but then in part 2, the new agents are stronger, Smith is back for no reason...even he couldn't explain it, and we find out that Neo is not the first "one," just the latest "one" :lol And eventually, the trilogy is about Neo fighting Smith...which is not what we're led to believe at the end of the first Matrix. So instead of being about Neo vs the Matrix and defeating it, it becomes about Neo vs Smith again, making a deal with the Matrix to save it, and things pretty much stay the same. I still like the films for what they are, but my expectations were higher....and that's my fault.
Isn't it the same suit he uses in his final fight with Smith?
What I mean is, by the end of the first film, Neo is Superman and he tells the Matrix that he's going to wake people up and change everything because he's the "one,"
And he ultimately does that, despite we later know the true cycle of the one.
but then in part 2, the new agents are stronger, Smith is back for no reason...even he couldn't explain it,
Because Smith was also an anomaly.
and we find out that Neo is not the first "one," just the latest "one" :lol And eventually, the trilogy is about Neo fighting Smith...
But that's not really all about it, it was ultimately about the salvation of mankind, Neo vs Smith was only the vehicle for that.
Which is not what we're led to believe at the end of the first Matrix. So instead of being about Neo vs the Matrix and defeating it, it becomes about Neo vs Smith again, making a deal with the Matrix to save it, and things pretty much stay the same. I still like the films for what they are, but my expectations were higher....and that's my fault.
They don't stay the same at all, and it was never about Neo vs the Matrix, Neo was a cyclical anomaly that always ended in the decimation of mankind, rebuild Zion, and do it all again, over and over, you are right about the fact that you're led to believe that, but that is before you know the full story.
In the trilogy Neo succeed in making a deal with the machines, save mankind so they can continue to progress, giving the first steps to getting out of the ****hole, the cycle was broken.
Hell, if you're familiar with the "extended stuff", you know the machines aren't the bad guys, humans are (or were) :lol
So I wouldn't say expectations for this were too high, I'd say they were misplaced altogether, and I'm pretty sure most people just didn't get it, not that is ocean deep or anything.
V for Vendetta - 9/10
Yeah, but I guess since he wore that outfit for the first time in Reloaded, I see it as a Reloaded costume. When I think of Neo in part 3, I think of the blind Neo wearing the Zion clothes.
Kind of...but he didn't do it by defeating the Matrix, right? The Matrix still exists and they are using people...or growing them...right?
That is true...he wanted to get out in the first film, but I didn't buy it when Smith was like, "I don't fully understand how it happened, perhaps some part of you imprinted onto me, something overwritten or copied. It is at this point, irrelevant. What matter is that whatever happened, happened for a reason." I was like, that's the best explanation for him coming back?
Yeah, I get that, but perhaps I was expecting a different vehicle and a different outcome. I think most people felt that way.
Misplaced is a good way of looking at it, but like you said, we don't get the full story in the first film, but we don't know that at the time, so when all these other elements are added to the story, it just wasn't what I initially thought it was going to be, and that's not the film's fault.
Does the deal involve the machines not using humans? Because if the machines are still using the humans and the Matrix still exists, then I don't see how Neo changed anything, other than the peace treaty which means that the Machines won't bother the humans...which is ok, but the machines still rule and people are still asleep, right? And isn't that what Morpheus and Neo wanted to change, initially?
Not kind of, he does change everything, Zion was supposed to be destroyed and the cycle was supposed to start from scratch all over again.
Zion was saved, they can keep freeing people, mankind has a chance now, the Matrix is still using people as batteries because that's how they survive, and it was all because of humans to begin with.
Yeah, I get that, but perhaps I was expecting a different vehicle.
Misplaced is a good way of looking at it, but like you said, we don't get the full story in the first film, but we don't know that at the time, so when all these other elements are added to the story, it just wasn't what I initially thought it was going to be. Does the deal involve the machines not using humans? Because if the machines are still using the humans and the Matrix still exists, then I don't see how Neo changed anything, other than the peace treaty which means that the Machines won't bother the humans...which is ok, but the machines still rule and people are still asleep, right? And isn't that what Morpheus and Neo wanted to change, initially?
No, the deal just involves not destroying Zion. The machines need humans to survive.
You really don't see it? The machines will let Zion alone, humanity can start aiming for restoring itself the way it was before they ****ed everything up and the machines took over, the machines were always willing to coexist with mankind.
Yes, that's what Morpheus wanted, and they can eventually get there, and the machines don't quite "rule", they just survive.
Were you expecting that everyone in the Matrix was disconnected and the evil machines were destroyed? That's just lame :lol Humans had it coming, and the machines are being nice by letting humans get their **** together little by little, which is a chance the machines didn't get from the humans.
How can they do that...freeing people? If the machines still need humans and the humans still want to free people...doesn't that create a problem all over again? If i need something to exist, and you and your friends are going to keep trying to take it away from me, we're going to have a problem eventually, so doesn't that just continue the cycle of humans vs machines?
Something not involving Smith and the deal. I know you think that fighting the evil machines and freeing all humans is lame, and it's predictable and obvious, but that's what Neo and Morpheus promised me. :monkey2
I really don't see how the machines just want to coexist. To me, they were no different than Skynet, but even if they want to coexist, how is that going to happen when the humans are trying to wake more people? There's a conflict of interest.
Traitor!!! :cuss *cries while saying it like Kylo Ren*
Seriously, the machines are scary as **** :lol The only reason they didn't kill Neo was because they needed him...and look how angry they got when Neo said that they needed him. They are bad...and scary. Human will get killed once they start ****** with the machine's food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds0ShgV_e9M
if Matrix isn't sci-fi, then I don't know what it is.
"The Matrix" is Star Trek .
Its sequels are Star Wars PT.
Bridge of Spies - 9/10
I saw it last night :hi5:
Not really, if the humans and the machines manage to coexist, as the machines wanted initially, they could find another way for both to coexist, that's up to the future.
I don't want to ruin if it you haven't watched the animatrix, you should, it explains a lot, it's not really "extended stuff" as I initially said, it's intended to go along with the movies.
Yes, before knowing the Machines aren't really evil.
Again, Animatrix.
And they don't want to coexist, they wanted to coexist, the humans ****ed that up, and it's up to the humans to reach that state with the machines again, it's a fascinating scenario of AI/Humanity future conflict imo.
The movie doesn't have to feed the "then what?" to you, Neo managed to bring change and a chance to humanity, it's up to humanity to figure it out from then on.
You need a teacher!
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He.... He didn't get it.
When do they find out in the film that the machines aren't evil? Is that in the Animatrix?
Maybe I don't remember because it was mentioned in the film, but you keep bringing up the Animatrix, but don't you think that information is vital to the story, and it should be in the film? Because, I had no idea that the machines wanted to coexist, knowing that changes everything and it makes the humans the villains, but that's not how it comes across in the actual film. In the film it looks like the machines are evil, and the poor humans are the victims. If that's the case, then it's a flaw to keep such an important piece of the history outside of the film.
Yes, and it's hinted in various occasions throughout the trilogy. Like when Morpheus says: "No one knows who started the war, but we do know it was us who fried up the sky."
It's not vital to the story, everything you need to know about the story is in the story, and it shouldn't be in the movies because it's outside of the scope of any of the characters.
It's backstory, it deepens your understanding of the universe but it's not needed to tell the story that's being told, about Neo, the Matrix and Zion, and all the themes the movies handle, the story still clicks together without skipping beats without this information.
Besides, this isn't like some obscure SW EU comicbook, the Animatrix is intended to go along the movies, it's just another part of the trilogy and it was written by the Wachowskis as part of the "canon" of the movies.
Oh, come on...stretching
http://i.imgur.com/rMjO6jS.jpg
that entire sequence shows the machines as the villains, growing humans in fields, and turning us in to....*Morpheus holds battery.* It's exposition, and we learn what we need to know about their world, but it clearly makes the machines look like the villains with the humans living scared underground.
It doesn't matter if their intention was to show the machines as the villains, which is how I initially saw it, but if what you said is the true and it is,
"they wanted to coexist, the humans ****ed that up, and it's up to the humans to reach that state with the machines again, it's a fascinating scenario of AI/Humanity future conflict imo.
The movie doesn't have to feed the "then what?" to you, Neo managed to bring change and a chance to humanity, it's up to humanity to figure it out from then on."
then it changes the whole story and how you view the ending and what's to come. Not having that extra information makes it look like Neo helped the evil machines to bring temporary peace to save Zion. The message of humans becoming better and wanting to coexist with the machines and all that doesn't come across in the film...if that was the whole point of Neo's sacrifice, so yes, I do think it affects how people view the film, the machines, and Neo's sacrifice. That little extra information makes the machines more tolerant and reasonable, but without it, they look like Skynet.
I get that, there was a video game too, but when I saw the films in theater, all I needed to know was in the film, and the films made the machines look like evil villains and the humans like victims, and that was fine. To me it was a modern take on the Terminator concept of machines taking over, but with computers and Kung Fu.
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Major nerds.
Matrix >>>> Alien
Ignored again.
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Hail, Caesar! - ICantBelieveIPaidToWatchThis/10 - Uggg
Do you like other Coen Brothers movies?
I like True Grit and No Country. Found Big Lebowski highly overrated. O Brother Where Art Thou was alright. Fargo has been on my list for some time.
This one seemed more like O Brother II but boring.
Thanks, personally I like All the films you mentioned, especially love Lebowski. Recently their movies (A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis) have been kind of tedious, at least to me.
I'll probably wait for video for this one.
Fargo is good, and the Fargo mini series was good too. No Country is probably better or at least I like it more, but Fargo is better than Big Lebowski and O Brother, imo.
Shaun of the Dead (7.5/10)
Steve Jobs - 8/10 - Pretty neat way to do a film. Acting was great, Boyle was Boyle. Left me wanting another act.
The Danish Girl - 8.5/10 - Redmayne edged out Fassbender for the Oscar IMO - DiCaprio will probably get it, though watching him crawl across the Albertan range for 3 hours didn't do it for.
The Revnant - 7/10 - Not as great as I thought it might be. Tom Hardy was fantastic though.
SUPERMAN UNBOUND. It's pretty much Supes vs Brainiac with [email protected]$$ supergirl. I liked this one alot would make a very cool live action film love the end. Give a 8.
Beasts of no Nation: 8.5/10
The Big Short: 8.5/10
**** off that's not stretching :lol
Of course Morpheus is gonna tell the human side of the story with the knowledge that he has, which is not complete, he's human, but it's subtleties like those that let you in in the truth of the matter without spoon-feeding.
Yes that's true, doesn't go against anything I said :lol
then it changes the whole story and how you view the ending and what's to come.
No it doesn't change the story at all.
Not having that extra information makes it look like Neo helped the evil machines to bring temporary peace to save Zion. The message of humans becoming better and wanting to coexist with the machines and all that doesn't come across in the film...if that was the whole point of Neo's sacrifice, so yes, I do think it affects how people view the film, the machines, and Neo's sacrifice. That little extra information makes the machines more tolerant and reasonable, but without it, they look like Skynet.
What makes you think it's temporary peace? Doesn't come across in the film? That's up to you, the movie clearly says Zion is to be destroyed time and time again EXCEPT this time, what humans do with this opportunity is up to them, and it's NOT up to the film to tell you what happens next.
The fact that the machines are evil or not doesn't affect the fact that Zion was saved by Neo and it doesn't affect the story, you haven't told me exactly how does this affect the story.
It affects how YOU view this world, but doesn't not affect the story in a structural way at all, the movies still function perfectly fine under the story and the themes are equally powerful.
The game doesn't count, I think, there were many games.
The Skynet thing was only a fraction of the themes in the movie, there still is the virtual reality thing, the power of will, the power of knowledge, etc etc, there were many underlying themes that make it a great sci-fi.
Grease - 8.5/10
but it's subtleties like those that let you in in the truth of the matter without spoon-feeding.
No, it doesn't. You can ask anyone, and they'll tell you that the machines were evil and unreasonable...not trustworthy or tolerant. It's not about spoon feeding. It takes one line or one scene to make it clear, but instead you have Smith, the Oracle, the French guy, and the the Architect babbling a bunch of bull ****.
Just have the Architect tell Neo, "In the year 2000 we gave your kind a chance to coexist in a better world, but you didn't take it because of pride...(or whatever). Your kind will never get that chance again." Until it happens in part 3 when the anomaly Smith becomes an unforeseen threat. Simple. It even makes the Architect scene more memorable. :lol
Well, not what happens literally. What happens still happens, by how that information is interpret by the audience does change when you have all the information that's not in the film, and that's just as important as what literally happens in a scene. If the meaning of a scene, a sequence, or the ending has a different connotation by knowing certain details that aren't in the film and the meaning is lost, then the audience is not getting the story.
If you watch a scene of a man shooting another man with a gun and that's all you know, and I ask you what happened, you'll say a man shot a guy. That's what literally happened. However, if some extra information is given to you, like the man that got shot was a rapist and a killer, and he killed the other man's family, when you watch the scene your view and understanding of it will not be the same. The same thing happens sure, but it makes more sense now that you have all the facts. Action without meaning, is meaningless.
What makes you think it's temporary peace? Doesn't come across in the film? That's up to you, the movie clearly says Zion is to be destroyed time and time again EXCEPT this time, what humans do with this opportunity is up to them
Not counting the animatrix and just by watching the films, what makes you think that the peace is not temporary? That the machines are trustworthy and that they'll keep their end of the deal? They never gave the audience any reason to trust the machines. What comes across is Neo making a deal with the enemy...instead of destroying them. Since there's no precedent of the machines wanting peace and wanting to coexist, it looks like Neo is taking a chance with an untrustworthy villain. If the information from the animatrix was in the film, then suddenly, we know that the machines are open to negotiate because there's a precedent, we know that Neo's sacrifice will be worth it, but more importantly, we understand why Neo no longer should destroy the machines, because they weren't that bad to begin with. None of that comes across in the film.
No, it affects how people view the film, which was one of my points.
The story functions perfectly fine as poor humans fighting evil machines. The idea of reasonable machines wanting to coexist and humans being the ones having to adapt and accept the status quo, instead of defeating the machines for there to be true change, is totally lost and nonexistent, unless you watch the Animatrix. What literally happens or what comes across to most people, is Neo saved Zion by stopping the war temporarily, but the status quo doesn't change. Anyway, I think I'm done talking about it. This is another subject that will never end....unless you want to :lol
The Godfather - 10/10
No, it doesn't. You can ask anyone, and they'll tell you that the machines were evil and unreasonable...not trustworthy or tolerant.
And most people just so happened to not get the movies.
If you watch a scene of a man shooting another man with a gun and that's all you know, and I ask you what happened, you'll say a man shot a guy. That's what literally happened. However, if some extra information is given to you, like the man that got shot was a rapist and a killer, and he killed the other man's family, when you watch the scene your view and understanding of it will not be the same. The same thing happens sure, but it makes more sense now that you have all the facts.
None of it affects the fact that Neo saved Zion and that there was total change in the cycle and that humans have now a chance, the fact that the machines are evil or not is irrelevant to this.
The machines are logical beings, peace means peace, the cycle was broken, the destruction of Zion will not be repeated, if you understand how computers work this is clear to you.
I have been humoring you in the concept that the machines are evil, machines are not evil, they're just machines, surviving, if the machines promise peace, they machines will have peace, period, they are not untrustworthy and the machines in the Matrix are very different from Skynet.
And no, the machines are not "open" to negotiate, man you're really not getting any of this :lol
No, even without that information the expectations were still misplaced.
The story functions perfectly fine as poor humans fighting evil machines. The idea of reasonable machines wanting to coexist and humans being the ones having to adapt and accept the status quo, instead of defeating the machines for there to be true change, is totally lost and nonexistent, unless you watch the Animatrix. What literally happens or what comes across to most people, is Neo saved Zion by stopping the war temporarily, but the status quo doesn't change.
smh tbh fam :lol
They do, when they're well written.
That's your interpretation of it, but then again...you saw the Animatrix.
Hey, I blame the Wachowski's awful writing for "not getting it."I understand what the film shows, and the machines wanted to destroy Zion, which is a pretty extreme solution to their problem if all they want is to survive and coexist with the humans. They might be logical, but they still showed emotion and anger when Neo offer them help, and you can't trust an emotional being.
Because people only know what they are given. :dunno If you only get one side of the story, then it becomes about that. Like you said,
Of course Morpheus is gonna tell the human side of the story with the knowledge that he has, which is not complete, he's human
We view the films from an incomplete human point of view, in which the machines are bad, not just surviving. And that affects people's understanding of the story. The machines might not be Skynet, but that's how it comes across, because in all the babbling that goes on in that film, they never made that point clear.
Meem
Clearly not.
No, even without seeing it, I'm not taking into account anything showed in the Animatrix.
There's nothing awful about it.
And it's not an extreme solution, they're machines, there's nothing extreme about it, this really just shows how you just don't understand what machines are, and again, they don't want to coexist, they wantED, also, you should understand that AI is well capable of PRETENDING emotions.
Because people only know what they are given. :dunno If you only get one side of the story, then it becomes about that.
And they were given everything they needed.
Gaspar...is that you? Are you PRETENDING to be someone else? :lol
Given the context of the scene and the incomplete human point of view of the story, there's no indication or reason for us to believe that the machines were pretending emotions....even if they could do such a thing. There are no signs ever of the machines faking emotions. I'm sure the machines are capable of many things, but only what we are shown in the film matters.
:lol it's not me, shhhhhh!
It's not like I'm the machines or anything....
Dude, the machines pretending emotions is just sci-fi/AI 101, if they have to explain that to you then you (the audience) are flawed, not the movie.
One of the usual topics in sci-fi movies is that no one knows if said emotions are real or not, but logic indicates they are faked because machines aren't capable of real emotions.
In this case, rage could be interpreted as just a way to hide the fact that the machines do indeed need Neo as well as to intimidate him.
This is something you see in every single sci-fi work that deals with AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRX6LXDpWs
Now you are bringing up other films into the equation to justify your previous point. Not all machines fake emotions in other films, not in Blade runner or I Robot, and even that Tomorrow Land film. Those machines developed emotions and feelings. I'm sure there are more examples.
I'm not bringing up anything uncalled for, it's a classic and well known trope of the sci-fi genre. Yes, in both Blade Runner and I, Robot it's also a thing. There's always a sort of "it's a machine, machines don't have feelings" and there's never a definite answer to whether they're real emotions.
and there's never a definite answer to whether they're real emotions.
Thus, making it possible for a machine to develop emotions, if the audience wishes to believe it :yess:
That doesn't make them real, they're still pretend emotions.
Dude you need more sci-fi in your life. :lol
Nope, there's no definitive answer as you pointed out. No definitive answer means, they may or may not be real. :bunnydanc God...we do sound like nerds :lol
:lol this is the place to do that :hi5:
Damn I caught this late, but most of this is just inspired by 1984, basically we're lied to in the first movie, and we find out the One was nothing more than another system of control. Usually when things are inspired by 1984 people are usually left disappointed because it means what ever comes next is playing on our expectations :lol
I still think the trilogy is one of, if not the best out there though.
Also, we the audience never need to know about Machines wanting to coexist in the past because Neo sacrificing himself to save everything was more than enough reason for them to want to work together.
Everything in the plot isn't thoroughly explained because the Wachowski's were basically using Neo as a vessel for the audience, we learn everything from his perspective. When he's lied to we're lied to, when he's given the truth we're given the truth. The movie does a good job at making the audience sort of participate to try and piece everything together, but by the end we know the truth.
I'll never understand why people didn't like Reloaded, but I do get why they hated Revolutions, it's very unconventional. Outside of a few cheesy scenes I think it was a perfect ending to the trilogy.
The first movie almost hinted at it being impossible to have a happy ending, people like Cipher might not want to be freed, so in Neo's sacrifice, literally everyone wins, and everyone is given a choice.
:clap :goodpost:
You read 1984 because of MGSV didn't you? :lol I haven't read it in ages.
Absolutely :lol
After reading it I was shocked at how similar it was to The Matrix Trilogy. It definitely helped me understand MGSV more, but I won't lie, there's still quite a few things I'm a little lost at regarding some events and characters.
Damn I caught this late, but most of this is just inspired by 1984, basically we're lied to in the first movie, and we find it the One was nothing more than another system of control. Usually when things are inspired by 1984 people are left disappointed because it means what ever comes next is playing on our expectations :lol
Everything in the plot isn't throughly explained because the Wachowski's were basically using Neo as a vessel for the audience, we learn everything from his perspective. When he's lied to, we're lied to, when he's given the truth, we're given the truth. The movie does a good job at making the audience sort of participate to try and piece everything together, but by the end we know the truth.
Oh...now you want some too? :lol
First Gaspar was throwing everything at me, even other movies and the history of sci fi,
but I was totally like
http://i.imgur.com/pAJ9AXF.gif
But then he came back as a "new man...sort of speak." He can't explain it.
And I was like
http://i.imgur.com/MbAIi7g.gif
Now you show up all like
http://i.imgur.com/Andt5TS.gif
but I'm really tired so all my brain sees is
http://i.imgur.com/OEE7Vgc.gif
But that's my incomplete side of the story from my human point of view :lol
:lol He's an Agent.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/4188815/agent-smith-oracling-o.gif
@Prince At least you don't see us as...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiypniFu_sI
No way, you and Gaspar are the kings of debating on SSF. I always prefer to stay on your side rather than debate against you guys :lol
Gaspar and Clownprince have determined that I shall rewatch the Matrix films as soon as I can find a gap in my porn addiction.
Matrix was a really solid stand-alone film. In its day it was stylistically and technologically innovative.
The other two (whatever they're called) are poo-poo and ka-ka.
Hey, the trilogy has a young Monica Bellucci, a sex scene with Trinity, and a cute woman getting a very graphic orgasm while eating cake, and a shirtless Morpheus...wait...never mind, so that should satisfy your addiction briefly :lol :wink1:
The first movie is the only one that's truly worth watching. And the Animatrix as well :lecture.
:lecture :lecture :lecture
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BuddyGus
Casting 2
Cinematograph 2
Fun Factor 2
Been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid.
Matrix reloaded is one of my favorite action movies of all time. it has some of the coolest looking fight scenes
matrix reloaded has probably one of the greatest if not the greatest soundtracks ever made
then the third one came and took a giant crap all over it
I don't see that it did. I thought the APU VS Sentinel battles were a fine equivalent for the highway chase of Reloaded.
I thought the APU VS Sentinel battles were a fine equivalent for the highway chase of Reloaded.
Exactly. They were as stupid and pointless but still enjoyable to watch.
Wachowski released their inner Bay to make these two films.
KitFisto
maybe only that one was kind of cool. but even the other sentinels scenes got boring. At least reloaded changed it up.
you got the 3 agents at the beginning, you got the park fight with Smith, the highway scene, the chateau fight, the twins fight
You got to see all 3 fight different bad guys in different places
Revolutions was the exact same battle with the same people and the same sentinels attacking the same way for like one hour... I remember being in the theater and just feeling so bored and sad and angry.. I kept thinking "when is this stupid fight going to change? when are they going into the matrix? when is something cool gonna happen???????"
I even preferred the Subway Neo scene because we got a lot of information about the machines and love. and I even liked the Smith in the real world fight because it felt more intense.
But the sentinel attack was so boring... I dont know what the directors were thinking... (Like I said, i could even appreciate the Neo subway talk to the guy a lot more")
The Shawshank Redemption: 9/10
Someone mentioned Monica Bellucci though, & I should've noted that she bumped the second one up a notch or two just by being involved. :lol
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WoAUckrPRuY/maxresdefault.jpg
Ondi
Yes, Crows has a very good point. The evidence is certainly conclusive.
I remember that being the stand out of the movie back then, everyone was saying that was actually the only reason to see the movie :lol.
This thread just goes to show opinions man, some thing think the trilogy is genius, others think it's fine, and others think they're crap. I'm just happy we're talking Matrix in here :lol
Yes, Persephone was spectacular.
Man of Steel 3d - 7.5/10
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WoAUckrPRuY/maxresdefault.jpgWhen I think of Bellucci I only remember Kaileena. :lol
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/princeofpersia/images/b/bf/Kaileena.png/revision/latest?cb=20140718095833&path-prefix=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB2dfFiwiLE
She's probably the best looking Caucasian woman to ever walk this earth. I would put a prime Angelina Jolie right behind her.
prime Angelina Jolie right
Nope. Maybe Gemma Arterton but definitely not Jolie.
Good Will Hunting: 8.5/10
Child 44: 7/10
Ex Machina: 8/10
FSLAR
When I think of Bellucci I only remember Kaileena. :lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB2dfFiwiLE I have to confess, this is the only thing that comes to mind too :lol
Good Will Hunting: 8.5/10not my last movie watched, but the score I would give it :hi5:
Why did Gaspar get banned?
That discussion about the Matrix kind of makes me want to revisit it but at the same time makes me happy that I haven't watched that series in a loooooooong time. I loved the first one. It was one of the first (if not the first) DVDs I owned. I must have watched it three dozen times before seeing Reloaded. I loved Reloaded. I probably saw it a dozen times before seeing Revolutions. I didn't like Revolutions. I watched it a second time and hated it and have never since revisited the sequels. I tried watching the original but my viewing had been tainted. I think I've given it enough time. I think I'll revisit the first one.
GREENBERG Movie. Ben Stiller as a crazy messed up a-hole friend and brother hated Ben in this one he was a complete doush and woulnt recomend at all.
Eh, her face is a little too masculine for me, but if that's what you're into Riddick :lol
Prime, Tomb Raider Angelina looks far better and has a more unique look in my opinion.
He was banned?
Foxcatcher - 89/100. It's difficult to watch, grueling even, but in a good way. Simply haunting.
He hurt a puppy's feelings :lol
Yes :lol
Damn, is it a permanent ban? He's usually respectful even in arguments, what did he do?
It's temporary.
Thank the heavens, I was about to make a Change.org :lol
Just have to say, tough break for Gaspar. He's a friend, I know he can be playfully annoying sometimes (as with all of us), but damn... this isn't right. I can think of a few, who're significantly more worthy of a ban.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Amazon Women --------- 9/10
Lost Kingdom ----------- 8/10
Circle of Fire ---------- 10/10
Underworld ----------- 10/10
Maze of the Minotaur - 6/10
Season 1 ----------- 9/10
The Outlaw Josey Wales - 9/10
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and this movie certainly dishes it out. Clint Eastwood at his best.
I need to rewatch it, along with Xena :lol.
Just have to say, tough break for Gaspar. He's a friend, I know he can be playfully annoying sometimes (as with all of us), but damn... this isn't right. I can think of a few, who're significantly more worthy of a ban.This 1000x. By FAR.
Temporary ban for the false account, or something else in here? I've noticed he's been arguing recently in here.
I need to rewatch it, along with Xena. lol
I really don't like later halfs of each show but early stuff is sooo lovely!
It's just so well-balanced and entertainin'.
Man, I feel old...
https://media.giphy.com/media/uHxpBdHMBcO8o/giphy.gif
American Sniper 9/10. Pretty badass. Probably not the best war movie I've ever seen ... but on the short list. Homefront interaction between he and his wife reminded me of my wife and I.
Filth - 8.5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMXGJ5g_zRM
Amazing - bleak, grimy, tar-black comedy not for the easily-offended, or people who don't understand Scotland. Probably the most realistic portrayal of the British police force ever committed to film :lol
Just rewatched season 1 last year around this time. Love it and Xena and fully agree about later seasons of both not being great.
She's probably the best looking Caucasian woman to ever walk this earth.
Can't argue with that. :lol
I would put a prime Angelina Jolie right behind her.
Oh HELL no, come on! :lol
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I know we all have different taste here, but how is this not a universally shared opinion?
(Prime) Angelina and (prime) Monica Bellucci are part of a rare breed of women that have that statuesque beauty while also being sexy. Usually its one or the other.
Ehh.. well to be fair, I only recently watched the second Tomb Raider movie the other night, & I liked it. I watched the bonus material after that, & checked out the KoRn video (which she appears in) & man.. I've never seen her look better there.. but they glossed her up way too much & it looked obvious.
Anyway, she was dare I say almost perfect casting, but I would've gone with Rhona Mitra personally - much better looking, & was pretty much Lara incarnate at the time - & a popular actress too might I add. Of course, they wanted a big name behind the movie.
Jolie looks too much like her brother, I never really found her appealing.
Rhona Mitra in her prime was a beautiful woman, but again to me, her face is a bit too masculine. I still think Jolie was the better casting but Mitra could have worked as well
You’re definitely right about Angelina’s brother putting a dent in her image though, they do look very similar but most of the time I forget he exists and all I see is Angelina again :lol
Fair enough. :lol
Monica is in a class all her own though - even now, & Jolie doesn't compare at all, as far as I'm concerned.
Fair enough, at least we agree on Monica :lol
I'll take Carter over Monica :monkey3
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Iggyrox
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 8/10. Darcy and Lily James dollies would be great. With guns and swords, of course.
i used to never buy movies when i was young but i got the matrix vhs tape the day it came out lol (and bought the soundtract right away too )
Jolie played the role expertly, no question. She's one of those few Americans that exist, who can actually do a foreign accent & not butcher it - in fact, her British accent is flawless.
Oh dude, you're killing me!!! :gah: :lol
Lynda is so fine.. :love
Still Monica though. :lecture
She’s certainly on my list, but like Vintij said, Monica still :lol
I enjoy watching Jolie on screen, and she's undoubtedly pretty, but I don't get any sense of frisson from her or her performances.
Jolie is pretty, but I don't care for any of her performances. They all come off as smug.
I should've also mentioned, that I recently caught the 2007 'Beowulf' movie for the first time the other night.
I thnk CG Jolie trumps the real one. :lol
I liked her in Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Wanted. That's it.
Taibhse
Salt?
I've never seen it. But after Googling it, it sounds fairly typical of her oeuvre. :lol
Oh, I saw that, what, 2 years ago and I loved it. Like you said, it was raw and vulgar, but hot damn, was it engrossing. Mcavoy was brilliant I though.
In the Loop: 9/10
I haven't laughed at a movie in a long time but good God, was this funny. My favourite was probably the "anti-war shack".
Pound of Flesh - 3/10
Contracted Phase II - 6.5/10
slipknotpredator
Spectre...
What a let down.
Oldboy 2003 - 10/10
The orchestrator of all Jame Bonds pain has his helicopter taken out by small caliber snub nose pistol at super long range. Umm ok.
All the Craig Bonds got worse after CR.
Contracted really is a terrible Bond movie.
Exodus: Gods and Kings: 6.5/10
Not bad. The story was well told and the acting was good. But nothing extraordinary, either.
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Agreed. Watched it at christmas, could hardly wait for it to end. Broke my heart when the film continued beyond the stuff at Blofeld's lair.
Killing Season - 34/100. Too much of it is laugh-out-loud atrocious. DeNiro and Travolta have no shame.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - 6/10. The animation was superb as usual, but the story was drab, glacially slow in parts, and a massive letdown in comparison to the last two films.
The Avengers - 8.5/10
Ant-Man - 4/10
The story just doesn't work, at all.
The film is semi-watchable but not good by any stretch.
I'm still confused how Age of Ultron and Antman got really good reviews.
Age of Ultron is very entertaining and way better than the Nerd Rage consensus.
And Ant Man is okay. :lol
Agree on this (sadly). I found Antman was trying too hard to be witty, and Age of Ultron blatantly rehashed the formula of the first film and mucked up half the characters.
I wasn't expecting much from AOU since I'm not a fan of Whedon's filmmaking and writing, but Antman I thought was going to turn out much better than it did.
Yea, AOU really did make a lot of the main characters unlikeable. The time on the farm, Thor's vision bath, Hulk and Widow romance, the ridiculously comedic Ultron etc... I just don't know what redeeming qualities the movie had.
Thor's vision bath LOL.
Yeah, I remember too many cringe moments watching it in the theatre. Hopefully a sophomore slump for the avengers movies, though after AoU, and to some extent Ant-Man -- couldn't get past the ants, I'm only half hopeful for their two-parter finale.
Masters of the Universe - 4/10
I can enjoy it for what it is but even though I'm not familiar with He Man lore even I can tell it cops out like the first Thor movie by taking things to Earth for budget and relatability reasons. That being said I like Skeletor and Lundgren did okay.
Goodwill most likely.
I'm confident if I looked at the reviews of Ant-Man that 90% of them would mention the shared universe and studio it's made by, thus the reviewers being swayed by their outlook on all, rather than solely judging the movie by itself on its own merits.
I loved Ant Man.
This is the only decent scene in the entire movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grldu9JT4Zc
That and the hammer test. Rest is average filler.
I liked the hammer gags in general but the Cap ''language'' thing didn't do anything for me. And Joke-Tron just killed off any sense of threat from him.
Nah, best part of the movie is still Don Cheadle's hollow joy at retelling his tank story to the groupies. I literally laugh out loud at his reaction every time. Hammer joke is also good, as is the final exchange between Ultron and Vision.
I agree, Cap's language joke got old pretty fast.
Loved Ant Man too. :dunno I thought it was an interesting and unique take on a superhero movie, being essentially a "heist" movie. And loved Luis's storytelling, and making waffles for everyone. I also liked that Ant Man, and essentially other superheroes besides Cap, have been around for a while but in secret. It opened up a nice history to the Universe.
the Cap ''language'' thing didn't do anything for me.
Never said something ridiculous in a company of friends who then used it to taunt you?
Come on, it's a nice gag.
Yeah the War Machine story was good, there should be a GIF of his self-satisfied reaction if there isn't already.
Yep, loved Ant-Man. A very fun little movie that finally got away from the "save the world from bad guy who wants to destroy everything just to rebuild it" theme prevalent in most recent MCU films. Awesome cast too.
It was funny the first time, just not so much on follow-up viewings. I'm not saying it was horrible it just didn't stand up the way the Hammer test/War Machine story did.
Well, it's the opposite for me. :lol
I don't care for Cheadle one bit, always fast forward all the scenes he's in. Got tired of the Hammer contest before film was even released - it was everywhere during their marketng campaign.
It is...too late...for me RIDDICK. :vader
It wasn't a case of not understanding the joke, quite simply
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I thought it was funny. I still think it's funny. I feel like Chief Brody in that pic.
I feel like Chief Brody in that pic.
:lol:lol:lol:lol
Did Chief Brody laugh in that scene?
I don't think so but he looks uncomfortable and he's cupping his balls for comfort.
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ODD THOMAS. Anton Yelchin & Willem Dafoe.
Anton plays a medium that can see the dead n demons helps save live's or victim's wish he had a psyhic to save him from in real life give this one a 7.
Animated batman movie
The Killing joke. i give a 7.
cokebabies
A Talking Cat !?! : 10/10
It's got me even more excited to see Nine Lives, if that's even possible.
Mnl_actionfigures
Sahara (1943) - 8/10
Bogart does it it again. A WW2 classic.
A Touch of Evil (1958)
Big Eyes - 8.5/10
Star trek Beyond 7.5/10
Central intelligence. Dwayne Johnson , Kevin Hart.
I liked the goofy team up. The plot of the story was crap but lots of laughs to the end i give a 6.
Jameson Rook
A solid and fairly faithful adaptation of the book with superb acting and an all too short run time. A few pacing issues aside, this is one of the better Batman films there is.
Prince_Planet
Big Trouble (2002)
Fun movie. All star cast. Some very funny
moments. Hadn't seen it in over a decade.
Came across it late at night when nothing else was on.
Star trek Beyond 8 /10
Batman: The Killing Joke 4 /10
Decent premise for a military thriller compromised by contrived, sentimental scenarios and shallow character development/10
Star Trek Beyond - 8.5/10
Secret Life of Pets - 3/10. Lovely CGI (I was especially in awe of the lighting), but the script was just awful. I zoned out about thirty minutes in, and all the good parts were already shown in the trailer.
X-MEN: Days Of Future Past (Rogue cut) -- 8/10
Second viewing - loved it. :rock
Zoolander 2: 6/10
Some really funny bits here and there, but just average funny overall.
BlueberryJerry
Creepozoids (1987)
Started out kinda cool, but turned out to be a REALLY bad movie. Not even the boobs could save it.
3/10 (mainly because of the semi-interesting beginning and Linnea Quigley)
Hush (2015) - 5.5/10
The Unborn (2009) - 4/10
Hush kept my interest from beginning to end and had a couple moments where I thought "that's kind of different and neat" but otherwise wasn't much to write home about. The Unborn actually had a cool backstory for the ghost but the movie itself was so damn by-the-numbers and contrived that I ended up feeling like the entire experience was a waste of time.
BRONZE. Movie. Mellissa Raunch aka Bernadette from Big Bang Theory. O.k you will NEVER look at Bernadette or Mellissa the same again after this one. There is a SEINFELD Episode when JERRY dates a GYMANIST and think's about sex with her lol. Well in this movie it go's down lol craziest sex scene i ever seen lol.:horror:lol I give this one a 10 or gold medal a MUST SEE MOVIE.
Hoomania - 10/10 would go to Heaven again
THE Secret of Moonacre. A quick fun fairytale enjoyed this one ,LOVED the LION. I give a 7. A great cast.
Netflix this month.
No one will like this BUT.
I thought its the worse of the new films......but still better than 80% of whats done today.
Some non-spoiler comments:
Its a beautiful movie. Lots of color and detail , which adds depth to the universe.
The acting is decent, but not as good as I had hoped. The best performance comes from our newest characters.
The story is good, yet predictable.
Its Star Trek.....
Great Score as usual.
Some touching tributes....
I do not like LIN as a director. It seemed like he was spinning the camera the whole time. I get he is trying to give the feeling of being in space, but mostly it was nausea inducing...and WAY over played. You think Abraham "lens flares" were gratuitous......try finding a stable shot in this film....
Way to many over the top action shots, that are also poorly shot. The fights and gun play is shot so fast and zoomed you really can't see whats going on at all....lots of flash and boom....but really whats the point if you just see flash and boom.
I didn't feel they added anything to the original characters at all......they basically wanna quit SF and move on......and then don't, cause I got in an exciting battle. The relationships in between the characters didn't progress at all.
The totally stupid and unneeded motorcycle scene and rescue.
Beastie Boys saves the day.....Cute throwback, but the more I think on it ......CRINGE.
A few main actors just FLAT acting.
Spock Laughing...(not sure about that)
More cast interaction , less boom boom , blast blast. In short it felt more like a summer action block buster than a star trek film.
The Big Lebowski 5.0/10
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Crimson peak - :rip/10
Ghostbusters - 9/10
*slowly puts the silencer on the gun in case the wrong answer is given*
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Lost River - wtf?/10
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Warcraft - 7.5/10. I enjoyed this movie. Some of the CGI was a little off.
X-Files: Fight the Future - Still love this movie!
Big Trouble in Little China - First viewing - this one snuck past my childhood with Goonies. Pretty great example of 80s filmmaking. Lots of fun.
Star Trek Beyond - 9/10
Ghost busters (2016) - 7/10
Batman Vs Superman - 5/10
It's very apparent the people running the DC movie universe just do not understand the Superman character. If I had to pick a highlight I'd go with Wonder Woman, but this movie was just too bloated and bleak.
Batman Vs Superman Ultimate Edition - 7/10
I still stand by my dislike of this interpretation of Superman. It's amazing that adding to a movie that I thought was too long made it better for me. Being able to flesh out a few things helped quite a bit, though they still stuffed in about 3 movies worth of stuff.
Life of Pi: 7/10
Yeah the only downside to the UE is that when I started up the movie I was bummed knowing I was still two and a half hours away from sweet Batman and Wonder Woman action sequences. :lol
And it's such a disappointment to not have the IMAX aspect ratio on the blu-rays. It was annoying watching the Knightmare sequence knowing that there were tons of para-demons flying over Batman's head that I could no longer see. Also the ears of his armored cowl were cut off in almost every shot during his duel with Superman which totally changes the look of his suit. After purchasing my first laser-disc player over 20 years ago I never thought I'd live to see another day of cropped movie images at home.
10 Rillington Place 8/10
The Big Heat 8.5/10
Freaks of Nature - 7/10
Cool horror/comedy flick about humans, vampires and zombies all living (somewhat) peacefully together in a small town until an Alien invasion. Yeah.. :lol
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Extended Edition) - 10/10
Gave the theatrical version the same score. Great movie. All the extra features were great too. Suicide Squad and in general ALL the upcoming DC films have a huge presence in the extras. Kinda cool.
Remember 7/10
Thought you were talking about the Bullock/Affleck movie until I read the synopsis. :lol
Yeah, I really appreciated the Wonder Woman decade by decade retrospective. I learned more about her character in that one puff piece than I had in my entire life prior to that. And Suicide Squad can't come fast enough. Man I hope it doesn't suck. But if it does, eh, I'll probably enjoy it. :lol
Oh lawd, this surprises even me :lol
I think it's a masterpiece but I wouldn't give it a 10, since I don't think it's perfect.
Well, I have yet to see the movie, but with a 10/10, how can I be disappointed?
Subtle and masterful. Impressive, your baiting skills are improving quicker than I anticipated. Perhaps...you're the one. :panic:
No that's no bait, that's fact.
Plebs will reject or struggle with the idea.
Impressive, it's a new level of baiting I've never seen before. Method baiting, you believe your own bait in order for the bait to be pure and effective. :D
I'm like crows, I bait with the truth.
I'm afraid your pleb side is struggling with this, it's ok, you'll reach enlightenment some day.
PS: I am baiting, as a matter of fact, but which is the bait? The statement or the taunt? e.e
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I think the cool kids are calling it Letokering.:gah:
Do you even know anymore? :lol
If they're calling it that, they're not cool.
I don't :monkey2 I taunt with pleb stuff, but more often than not, it turns out they're actual plebs :lol
Lifetime Movie's Talhotblond - 10/10
Last couple weeks....
And Soon the Darkness (2010) - 5/10
Batman v Superman: Ultimate - 8/10
The Invitation - 6/10
Stranger Things - 8/10
Rebirth - 6/10
Standoff - 6/10
Road Games - 6/10
The Blackout - 4/10
Southbound - 6/10
I Am Thor - 5/10
The Shallows - 7/10
The Fear of 13 - 7/10
The Abandoned - 4/10
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter - 7.5/10
The Ghoul - 3/10
Countess Dracula - 6.5/10
Estranged - 5/10
Big Trouble in Little China - 9/10
The Conjuring 2 - 7.5/10
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - 6/10
Jason Bourne - 9/10
Lifetime Movies..
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Very good, love paranormal stuff (especially kids with TK), government conspiracies, sci-fi, and this utilizes all of it with complete comprehension, not to mention the characters are likable, the story is engaging, and the writing is very good.
There was only one time the story falls into horror movie cliché territory, one time, in 8 episodes, and it's not even that bad, that's very impressive.
I was also very impressed by how easily they explained parallel realities.
If there was something close to a perfect way to do an Akira adaptation, Netflix is it.
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The Big Heat - 9/10
The Hound of the Baskervilles - 7/10
BvS Ultimate - 8.5/10
Ghostbusters 2016 - 8/10
Midnight Special: 6/10
The story and tone were good, but it all felt a bit thin. I feel like it needed more dialogue to flesh out the characters more and make them more likable. Adam Driver was great in it though. Probably the best character in the movie.
North by Northwest (1959) - 7.9/10
The Dead Zone (1983) 7/10
After The Shining, it's my favorite King Adaptation.
There's so many, I'm not sure where I'd put it on the list.
At least tell me it's higher than Maximum Overdrive. :lol
A Hologram for the king. Tom Hanks has a business deal in Saudia Arabia nothing too special give a 3 it was Meh i seen it.
That Goblin truck was so iconic though! :lol
Yeah it's definitely above that one.
Tried to watch the ghostbusters since it's online...
10 minutes in, and there's a vajay fart joker.... Nope, can't do it guys.
Ghost gurls - 1/10 It's even worse than I thought, the hate is real.
Nearly gave up at several times, sigh, so stupid, it's just a bad SNL skit, not even a chuckle... some FX are cool I guess, characters are caricatures, jokes are "please laugh", I would totally give the stink eye to anyone who laughs at any of this, that Haltzman chick is "lmao I'm so corky and randumb" (and I was probably the only one who liked her when the trailers came out), I can't stress enough how soul crushingly dumb the dialogue and script are.
I was totally defeated by the end, didn't even care about them hitting the ghost you know where.
Dat end credits, sweet lord no, don't let it happen.
The best thing that happened to this movie is us giving it more publicity, cause this piece of **** doesn't even deserve it on its own, I almost feel bad for the feminist who picked this movie as a banner of female empowerment.
The Wife He Met Online - 10/10
The Panic in Needle park - 7.5/10
Awesome. :lol
Poor Gaspar, how you gonna get those 2hrs back? :(
Jodorowsky's Dune: 5.5/10
Very interesting documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to get Dune made in 1975. I have to say that I'm kinda glad it didn't get made back then because I think it would have been way too weird and psychedelic and over the top. It would have looked like a cross between 1980 Flash Gordon and Barbarella, but with some majorly effed up stuff in there. But I have to commend him for assembling an amazing team (Moebius, HR Giger, Dan O'Bannon) that went on to create other masterpieces (including Alien, Flash Gordon and MOTU) whose origins can be found in that Dune treatment. They created an amazing hard bound book of the entire movie storyboarded (by Moebius) plus paintings of sets, costume designs, etc. that they distributed to all the major Hollywood studios. They should totally have that printed for consumers.
BTW, I'm a huge fan of Lynch's Dune. Jodorowsky said he was heartbroken when that got made, especially by Lynch who he considered a true artist, and he was literally dragged to go see it. But he said as the movie played on, he got happier and happier and happier because he thought the movie was terrible! :lol
Tell the truth Gaspar, did you suffer through two hours of new GB just so you could give it a 1/10 thereby giving more credibility to your positive BvS review? ;)
Really looking forward to seeing Ghostbusters now
I thought Kristen Wig and Kate McKinnon did o.k and and didnt mind Leslie Jones but just felt she didnt fit and just is a comedy filler. The things that really bothered me was the old absence of the cast not being involved but are in it. Helmsworth was kinda funny but no doubt this will go to dvd fast to recoup sales of this Trainwreck of a movie. I can not stand Mellissa Mcarthy she's the same loud mouth annoying in everything. She needs to stop ruining every damn movie. Pissed me off she shows up in Central intelligence movie end for no damn reason.
I knooooow, I regret spending that precious time in this folly.
Eeerr... n-nooooe, w-what makes you think that? he he he.
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I thought Kristen Wiig was ok, that's about it, everything else was soooo try hard. And actually I though McArthy wasn't as loud and annoying here, or maybe she was only overshadowed by Leslie Jones.
It's your time, buddy, I tried to warn you.
So I guess straight forward discussion of any movie reboot with all female leads is forbidden now?
I'm guessing it's because Crows can't control himself.
I don't know what I missed but I saw crows being pretty civil and open to discussion in the thread :lol but don't mind me, I'm open to it.
In fact, before the GB thread was closed, we were discussing that possible "Expendabelles" spin-off, we thought it was a cool idea.
I'm also talking about the short lived Rocketeer reboot thread, though I think the thread title could have been worded a bit better.
I'm glad you've seen the light and the error of your ways.
Oh really? There was one? They're making a Rocketeer reboot with a girl? That doesn't sound bad at all actually, the movie was not very good so there's lots of room for improvement.
As long as they keep it art deco and not modern and overdesigned.
Oh yeah, and Prince was the one being the cis misogynist pig :lol
Could've been worse, too.
The Cawklessteer
Wokka.
I never said a single sexist or negative thing about Girlbusters. I was opened minded :)
I'm kidding man, that wasn't even bait :lol
But I was...baiting you :lol One of the first things I said in that thread was that Melissa McCarthy looked like the GB logo. Technically, that's not sexist...but still :lol
But I was...baiting :lol One of the first things I said in that thread was that Melissa McCarthy looked like the GB logo. Technically, that's not sexist...but still :lol
Dude you're baiting to the wrong tree, I ain't no white knight :lol
I think that would be direct to video Adult film market.
Bored and need a good laugh while at the same time losing whatever thread of faith you might have left in the average person? Try reading the movie reviews on the Redbox App. Good times!
Misery - 7.5/10 I hate movies with torture. My wife hadn't seen this so I watched it again with her. As far as movies go it's very good, but hard for me to watch. Brutal and psychopathic. Excellent suspense.
OUTLAWS AND ANGELS. Francesca Eastwood & Luke Wilson.
OH MY Gosh! This one scarred me and just WOW! A PURE 10
Secret Life of Pets: 5/10 - trailers had me thinking something different turned very average quickly
Catch me if you can - 7.9/10
Back to the Future 10/10
Back to the Future 2 8/10
Had a marathon today whilst I set up LED's for my 2 new Detolfs......
1000 post !!!!!!!!!!
It Follows - 7/10
The Apparition (2012) : -50 / 10.
My gawd, what rubbish. It was on TV, & free.. so I watched it. Big ****n mistake.
Bucky's in it, & his girlfriend was gorgeous, but that's inconsequential. Stupid story, & an imbecilic movie.
Do not watch.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Part of an all day Harry Potter marathon.
It's both Harry and J.K. Rowling's birthday.
I saw them yesterday. It rained all day here, and all 3 movies
are perfect to sit back and watch on such a day.
Acting is great, script sounds like what people would actually say
under the circumstances, and the cast is perfect.
Congrats. Your next post will screw that perfect number up lol.
Falling Down - 4/10 Eeeh, it wasn't bad per say, but as society sucks critiques go, I've seen better. Didn't like the main character, liked the cop couple better, I found little of teachable or artistic value.
It was just a long ass garden variety cop drama TV show episode.
Is that the first time you'd seen it? It was really a film for a particular era, and made a lot more sense seeing it in the 90s.
Having said that, when I saw it I thought it was interesting, different... had some good moments - but I didn't feel it was the brilliant treatise many were saying it was.
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Xmen apocalypse
On par with the others, some cool parts, 7/10
God's Not Dead 4.5/10
Star Trek : Beyond 6.5/10
Pretty good, but I don't think it will prove to be all that memorable for me. Daughter liked it more than I did, she wants to buy it on Blu.
Yeah it was, that's what I figured, it's boxed in this 90's trend of social critique, I think American Psycho or even Fight Club do a better job at it. I'm sure it was a lot fresher in the 90's.
I thought it was a movie about a good man screwed over by society on a righteous spree of self-rationalized justice, sort of a proto-Breaking Bad or something, but nope, it was just an autistic man-child throwing a big tantrum because **** happens to him, which looks like it's mostly his fault.
But it's not as bad as God Bless America.
Sounds like they spoiled it a bit with the title.
So, Justice League?
It's sad when milestone movies get dug up from their time and you find they just don't work. When I first saw The Big Lebowski I thought it was a comedic and satirical masterpiece. I watched it a few years later and it felt flat.
Instead of feeling uplifted I felt like I had just watched a piece of conservative right wing propaganda disguised as a Christian movie.
Are you asking in reference to the title giving the movie away or DC's god (Superman) isn't dead?:lol
Little Shop of Horrors ('86) - 9/10
A personal favorite of mine, the only thing that drags it down is the ending, because it was changed, feels tacked on and a bit out of place.
Mei Ren Yu (The Mermaid) - 1.5/10
I have liked Stephen Chow movies in the past, Kung Fu Hustle coming to mind, but this was awful. I'll give it a pass on the horrendous FX, and use of stock footage, but I think I laughed twice during the whole movie. Towards the end the movie combined horrific acts of violence with comedy, which I just found disturbing. The success this has had in China makes this all the more disturbing to me.
I gave it a 1.5 for the 2 laughs and for some eye candy.
No One Would Tell - 10/10
Ghostbusters 2016 no score, I refuse
Two groups of people should be ashamed of themselves. The critics who gave the movie just enough of a good score so that it would be certified fresh, and the YouTube reviewers who overreacted like this was the worst POS they'd ever laid eyes on. It's dumb and I barely laughed, but it's not any worse than the first GI Joe movie with Tatum. Yes, the men in this movie are completely useless but honestly it's so dumb that you don't notice. Wiig and Jones were tolerable and funny occasionally. The other two, ugh. I like McKinnon on SNL so I'm not sure what the hell happened other than a weak director didn't have the balls to actually direct her. Cameos were forgettable to awful(Murray's and Slimer's).
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: 6.5/10
Surprisingly good! I think it would have worked very well as a straight re-telling of P&P. The filmmakers took good care of treating that aspect of the story with respect. The zombie stuff was interesting, a very interesting backstory as to how it all began and how the British had learned to deal with zombies for decades (but much of that was quickly zipped over). It also had a different take on zombies, making them retain their humanity (and are able to talk and reason) as long as they don't eat human brains--it's only then that they go crazy and attack other humans. They're also the quick running zombies. Not too gory at all--I believe it was PG13.
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I've got a mate that looks exactly like that guy. :lol
I can't give a score to a bootleg version of a movie. You know it's bad, stop harassing me! :lol
The Purge Election year 5/10
Independence day Resurgence 4/10
Fight Club 9/10
The Force Awakens 7.5/10
Batman V Superman 5/10
10 Cloverfield Lane 6/10
hush there there, it's alright, that's all I wanted to hear.
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Prometheus. I still Love still think its a Amazing movie only thing would change is that they shoot down the other ship instead of destroying the ship. I mean come on why wouldnt it not have top of the line weapons ? That is just one big WTF to me. Anyway i cant wait for more. I still think its a 10.
Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue - 10/10
Akira - 10/10
I can't not be amazed by this masterpiece every single time.
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I wish Hollywood would just leave this alone and didn't attempt an adaptation, but I know it's a pipe dream, I'll just expect the worst while hoping for the best.
Now, on to read the manga after watching the movie, which is my own little ritual.
I've caught the occasional obscure anime film on TV, & some of them are really quite brilliant. Truly imaginative stuff. You can see that lots of love & heart go into them. I should track a few down when I get around to it.
I watched one the other day about a girl that discovers a kingdom of cat people within her own city, & they try to make her a bride to the prince after she slowly starts to turn into a cat herself while being amongst them. Not exactly 'Akira' type action, but I enjoyed it. :)
T2 - 93/100.
Only one big WTF from that movie? No wonder you gave it a ten.
Forgot all about this movie. It's not even in theater, in this area. Surprise that it is directed and written by Chow, Hing-Ka Chan. Big fan of Steven Chow but no interest in this movie anyway.
*EDIT: Strange how Rotten Tomatoes have a score of 93%
Before We Go: 6/10
Nice, light little movie directed by Captain America himself: Chris Evans! About a woman (Alice Eve) who is stranded in Manhattan after getting her purse stolen and a busker (Evans) who helps her out. Takes place during the course of the night and they get to know each other. Good script, good performances and an overall good job by Evans. Ending is left ambiguous.
Well, it was a big hit in China, so tastes in humor are obviously radically different there. My Wife was originally from Hong Kong, but has lived in the U.S. for over 20 years, she laughed a little more than me at the movie, but she didnt think it was too good. Most Asians don't get a lot of western humor, I remember showing Monty Python and the Holy Grail to her and a friend of hers, they hated it, she often looked over at me as I laughed at the film and several times asked if I could explain what was funny about it. That was about 15 years ago, would be a good experiment to see if her reaction to the film has changed, I bet it has.
I Suppose another WTF could be the engineer or the team not being better prepared in fighting the alien's and why the hell did fastbender character do what he did ? A lot of questions but still love and stand by my rated 10 score for Prometheus. I know some people didnt like it and entitled to not ,but to me its a favorite i love.
Tallulah movie. Ellen Page plays a young homeless girl with her bf living in a van down by the river lol.:lol Her boyfriend leaves and she ends up in a messed up babysitting situation with a unfit mom and newborn baby story starts to get weebit crazy from there i give a 4.
Would that be The Cat Returns? I haven't seen that one but it looks very comfy :duff I have a huge backlog of the Japanese Pixar studio to watch :lol
You can find a lot of gems in anime, more likely if you dive into pre 2000 movies.
I love the action in Akira, but I watch it for mind expanding high sci-fi concepts and the parallels with Japanese culture more than anything.
I've always wanted to check out the Anime genre but I have no idea where to start. It's a big mystery to me.
Chances are you've seen anime before and didn't even know it. Anime has been around since at least the 60's, but it took a long time for people outside Japan to start calling it by that name. What I started watching anime it was referred to as japanamation.
There's anime for every genre of tv and movies you can think of, so what would you be interested in?
My personal favorite is Fullmetal Alchemist.
Mostly porn, but I'm open to all genres.
Thanks for the tip.
A classic for me is Enchanted Journey with the chipmunks. Anyone else seen it? I haven't tracked down a DVD yet, but I have a downloaded file of it. We had the VHS growing up.
Life of Pi. A very crazy cool story not at all what expected ,a lot of beautiful spiritual scene's I give a 8.
I admit to being a bit envious of people who really love this movie. It's visually stunning, but I couldn't get past the WTFs :lol
I'm a fan of Prometheus too. It's got issues sure, but I still dig it for - yes the visuals, but I'm a big fan of Noomi too.
Still spewing that HT never made that Dr Shaw figure. :gah:
I liked the first half, but then it just becomes ambien in motion.
Fassbender and Noomi were good. I got nothing else.
A streetcar named desire (1951) - 10/10
Suicide Squad - 6/10
Conan the Barbarian - 7/10
I forgot how good it was. The action could be better, but Conan's story is interesting and Arnold really sells the character.
From a physical stand point, Arnold was perfect for that role and there will never be another actor in Hollywood with Arnold's physique, capable of playing Conan.
I need to watch that all the way through. I've seen parts of it, but never stuck around the whole film.
Maybe Dave Bautista?
Maybe even the guy who played The Mountain in GOT.
Arnold was the package though, he achieved what probably no one else in Hollywood will be able to replicate.
It was bad enough they tried again with AquaMamoa.
Just leave it. :lol
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie: 5.5/10
I like some of the stuff these guys do, but they aren't the funniest guys out there. And this is essentially a feature length version of their adult swim show with more gross out stuff than usual. It works better in small doses. Nice seeing Walter Peck getting work though.
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The Lobster - 6.5/10
Very astute film in its observations on relationships and the way society (and those involved) views them, and views those that stay single.
A bit on the slow side though, but interesting enough for a single viewing.
It's deadpan tone grates a little after a while, but, in a way reminiscent of 1984.
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Suicide squad: 5.5/10
Nailz
Garbage, not even worth the streaming of it online
Independence Day : 7/4
Apocalypse Now (theatrical Cut) - 10/10
Been watching the redux Ver. for years and almost forgot how the two difirenciated, I do prefer the redux for its extra footage but both are 10/10
I prefer Redux too. It's quite a task to sit through the whole thing in one sitting, but I think it's a very immersive experience that I never felt bored during it.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 7.3/10
I was still able to enjoy the movie despite it not having aged well. Two things that really stood out to me as I was watching it. The first was the part of the film that takes place on the farm. That came straight from the comics(like most of the movie) and most studios today would never have kept those scenes in their big blockbuster franchise films. The second thing; kids smoking in a PG movie!! I completely forgot about that scene so it was a little shocking to see considering the MPAA's rules depicting smoking in movies. :lol
Thanks for saving me two hours
Suicide Squad: 5/10.
Kick Ass - 1st viewing - loved it 7.9/10
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Escape from Alcatraz 7/10 it was good.
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Suicide Squad-💩/10
I was still able to enjoy the movie despite it not having aged well.
It's cool that you enjoyed it, but I don't agree about it not standing up today.
It *still* makes the Shrek HULK movies look like embarrassing Hollywood action parody showreels. :huh
I love the film. It's got a light heartened things in it but it's still a pretty dark film for kids. It was filmed in the perfect time too since it was still partly scary NYC.
Suicide Squad-��/10
Time to reboot :lol
:exactly:
Steve Jobs: 7/10
Great dialogue and great acting. But I couldn't help but think it felt limited about how much of his life it covered even though it covered about 15 years. The focus felt too narrow (it was basically about his relationship to his daughter Lisa) and it left you feeling like there was much more of his story to tell.
Tusk: 6/10
Very impressed again by a Kevin Smith movie. I was equally impressed by his Red State, but I was almost afraid of watching this one since it got such divisive/bad reviews. But it turned out not to be nearly as odd or disturbing or ludicrous as I was led to believe. Michael Parks really sells the part and the movie works mostly because of his talent. Justin Long was quite good too. I think Smith is definitely getting better and better. His dialogue feels much more natural. Either that or he's getting better actors to recite his dialogue properly. And the actual directing and cinematography was quite good--very polished and professional. The Walrus suit was pretty crappy, but eh, I went with it.
I didn't say it Teenage mutant ninja turtles didn't stand up, I said it didn't age well, meaning dated. Some movies you can watch and they look like they can belong in any time period. Turtles isn't one of them. Nothing to do with the technical aspects. I still won't watch the bay turtles movies. Just some of the goofiness, like them doing 3 stooges motions and sounds, plus fight choreography has come a long way. I need to watch the second movie again but I remember better fighting in that one.
Lost in Translation...loved that film
What! Wait, you went to see it? For real?
Yeah, two hours ago.I don't hate it. I don't love it. It's really not bad enough to hate...just forgettable. It had potential though.
"It had potential though". That's a fitting epitaph for a movie universe. Here lies the DCEU, aka DC Films- It had potential though.
Yeah, you can see glimpses of that potential. It's really just a Will Smith film with him playing a good guy, shooting cgi stuff to make his daughter proud. There is no DCEU.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace - 6.5/10
Total Recall, the old one - 6/10
Both movies are the same, amazing production values and interesting concepts and themes, hindered by bad performances, lazy scripts and bad direction, but it's even more jarring in Total Recall because TR is more sci-fi as opposed to TPM which is just fantasy, and even so, TPM does a much better job exploring the concepts it presents.
But ultimately lots of heart and personality on both movies, that make the cheesiness tons of fun instead of eye rolling.
Both movies have little to do with each other, I just watched them almost back to back so it lent itself for a comparison.
As for Total Recall, I just found out it's based on a novel, maybe the story is better delivered there so I'm gonna check it out, see if I can find out a little more about those aliens.
Phillip K. ****'s stories have resulted in a lot of great movies, unfortunately nobody has really done "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" justice. That being said, Arnies was far more entertaining than Colin Farrell's.
Edit - Geesh! ****** ****ing language filter.
Yeah well, Arnie's always super fun to watch, that's what I figured about the story, I already downloaded the audiobook for the next time a take a stroll or something.
I've never read anything about Phillip K Deck :lol watched the movies but never read the books, I'm looking forward to reading/listening to his stuff.
The Phantom Menace > The Force Awakens
I was going to say, "only if your 7", but then my 7 year old would take issue with that.
:lol no offense taken here man, I wish I was 7 years old again. TFA is a better made movie I guess, but it's just so bland that I appreciate TPM more. It had great visuals for its time, a great soundtrack and even a more interesting villain in my opinion. In fact as I'm typing this in now starting to this it's a better movie, JAr Jar Binks, terrible acting and all :lol
I would put them sort of on equal level. I even think I gave TFA the same score IIRC.
TFA is better made, better directed, better scripted, but lacks personality, originality and heart, it doesn't feel like Star Wars anymore to me, it feels like fan fiction of Star Wars.
While TPM is incompetently made in some important aspects like script and direction, it has a ton of heart and personality, it's also original and it feels completely Star Wars.
I honestly think all that stuff about the republic and the taxation of trade routes and everything was interesting, and could've been better exploited, I feel if TPM had a better script and was better directed, it could be right up there with the OT, which could be said for the entirety of the PT :lol while I don't feel TFA has anything to contribute to the lore, it even feels like a total waste to throw away all that fantastic EU stuff just for TFA.
At least Zahn is bringing back Thrawn.
I feel if TPM had a better script and was better directed, it could be right up there with the OT, which could be said for the entirety of the PT :lol while I don't feel TFA has anything to contribute to the lore, it even feels like a total waste to throw away all that fantastic EU stuff just for TFA.
This pretty much sums up how I feel, but TFA is just so forgettable I have to rank it lower than TPM. If I'm being objective then yea, it's probably a better movie.
Oh wow you're proving my point about your credibility in *other* threads too? :lol
Yeah, but it had the advantage of using the OT as a template.
Damn I was hoping you didn't see this :lol
But I do recognize TFA as a better made movie, just really forgettable.
But TFA has the advantage of using the original characters/actors and they were just as boring in my opinion.
That's what I'm saying :lol that TFA had the advantage of using OT structure and elements. Which could be what killed the originality.
Oh my bad :lol
I honestly can't see how though, new characters had the most screen time, and the action scenes were absolutely forgettable too. TPM had much better action in my opinion.
TPM had much better action in my opinion.
True, this is pretty much the Star Wars equivalent of the Batman warehouse fight yo!
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I'd take that over that boring plot hole of a final fight in TFA.
You would wouldn't you you sick son of a *****! :cuss
Of course it did, QuiGon/Obi vs Maul is probably the second best fight in the entire franchise.
I think TFA had better aerial battles though, seeing the Xwings to the rescue is the only thing that pumps me up in TFA.
Could you imagine how Loved TPM would be if it was as good as TFA and had Darth Maul in it?
What TPM gets right just can't overwhelm what it got wrong, but you're right, it is quite memorable. Maul still gives me goosebumps.
Yea that was probably my favorite scene of the movie.
Koyaanisqatsi - 8/10 Woah, what a trip, I was gonna play this as background while I did other stuff but I ended up watching it entirely, I loved this, the final Atlas-Centaur sequence brought tears to my eyes, and it got me into a nice and comfy Hopi mythology research, plus, can't beat Philip Glass.
Gaspar and pturtle make good points about TPM v TFA. I might agree if it weren't for 3 things; Jar Jar, baby boy Anakin, and midichlorians :Flush :thud: :monkey4
The killing joke: 5/10 - I'm not one to speak to the source material from a pure film perspective it was rather average.
Re watching it, I don't hate baby Anakin anymore, I think he was equally as bad as almost everyone else. The rest you're right about though, I also hated the long underwater scene.
Has it? I dunno 'bout that. Most films these days seem to favour extreme closeup and relentless cutting. Hard to even tell if they've got much in the way of choreography at all.
I watched Turtles '90 the other day myself and I was impressed by what I saw.
The Godfather (1972) - 10/10
Star Trek Beyond 7/10
Red Sonja :monkey5/10
Jason Bourne (2016) - 5/10 eh, cool ending.
BVS ultimate cut - 4/10
Extra footage Didn't help it much
Bone Tomahawk 7.8/10
I'm still trying to process what I just watched. I was prepared for the goriness ahead of time but the movie still lulled into a sense of "oh it won't be so bad". Ha! It's not a movie I'd recommend to just anybody without telling them to watch at their own risk. I think I'm giving this movie such a high score because the performances from the cast were so great, especially Richard Jenkins as the back up deputy. The writing was very good through the majority of the film as well.
Rainpaulo
Locke 8/10.....great watch, Hardy is just so watchable.
Classic movie, not discussed as much as Arnold's other flicks.
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Final Destination 3 - 3/10. I liked the first two as just "turn your brain off" movies. You could certainly turn your brain off during this one, but the deaths were so lazy. No where near as fun as 1 and 2.
American Beauty 10/10
Final Destination 3 - so bad, turned it off
Alien - 9.5/10
Mad Max Fury Road: 9/10
Just so damn good in every way.
Just a super high quality movie across the board.
The Revenant - 7/10. I wanted to like it a lot more than I did. The cinematography, battles, and the bear scene were great. I thought Hardy and Gleeson out-acted Dicaprio. The story was just kind of..unremarkable. Still a good movie.
My only knocks against the movie would be it needed a little more editing, the visuals were a little underwhelming for a Western, and I didn't buy the actress who played Mrs O'Dwyer as a fronteir woman. She was a bit too glamorous.
Grimlock
Suicide Squad - 2/10. It sucked.
Pacific Rim....
Fun and artistic as hell.....
Aliens - 9.5/10 I can't decide which one I like better.
The Nice Guys 9/10
Star Trek: Beyond 9/10
Suicide Squad 8/10
The Hunter (2011) - 5.5/10
Reeeeaaaallly slow moving Willem Dafoe film about a man commissioned to bring down the last Tazmanian tiger but it was decent enough and had a pretty touching final scene (and not what you'd probably expect based on the premise.)
It seems the 'blockbuster' has become nothing more than toy marketing & glorified junk mail.
Hooray for Hollypoop.
Lethal Weapon - 9/10
Rock 'n' Roll High School - 7/10
Sweet Home - 6/10
Suicide Squad - 7.5/10
The Haunting of Morella - 5/10 - naked chicks helped the rating.
Vampirella - 4/10 - Never new this existed. There is a reason....
Night of the Demons - 6/10
Jason Bourne - 6.5/10
On the Waterfront (1956) - 10/10
Suicide Squad: 8.5/10 shattered all expectations, gives me hope for this DCEU.
Batman Begins - 8/10
I only dock points for Nolan's crappy shooting of action and fight scenes and the old guy repeating the same thing about the water mains again and again.
I've always thought the best fight scene of the 3 was the docks fight in BB. just felt like pure batman.
Yeah I almost expected that guy to go "The train is coming right at us, it's gonna blow the water main!"
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That's a prime Wilhelm moment
Not being able to tell what the hell is going on is OK for the first fight maybe - to demonstrate Batman's stealth and why he might be scary to criminals but when all the fights are like that it starts to look like a cover for just not being able to shoot good action.
The 1990 Turtles movie did this. It opens with a fight scene where you literally can't see anything so as to convey the speed and efficiency of the Turtles. But they kinda do make up for it later. Nolan doesn't really.
Yup, other then that Nolan's fight scenes are subpar, but that's also because it's so hyper-realisitc. TDKR's fight scene was pretty awesome until bane just ****ing died. :lol
Batman Vs Superman: 7.9/10
I don't get the hate for this, it's a solid film. Much better than any film released by Marvel/Disney. It's much more dark and gritty which I think superhero films should be.
I do feel Jesse Eisenberg done a good job portraying a pyschopath but not Lex Luthor.
Wow, this shocks me. [emoji15]
It shocked me too. :lol
This thread needs an enema.
greygoose
Agreed. :clap
Crocodile Dundee - 5/10 Nostalgic. Love the 80'sness and the good feel, but not a great movie lol.
Bane breaking our hero so effortlessly in the sewer fight is my fave of the series. I thought it was very well shot. The dialogue was great too. I wish the final showdown had done it justice, but women screw up everything. Even men trying to kill each other.
Agreed. Almost as bad as Winter Soldier with all the indecipherable action.
To this day I dont know why Winter Soldier is so praised. Flame on.....oh wait!!
The Dark Knight - 8/10
Again, at times too hard to tell what the **** is happening in action scenes and it's a little bit too long. And to this day I just can't bring myself to like the TDK batsuit, looks silly to me.
Otherwise, great film.
I suppose I'll watch TDKR tomorrow but, as for many people here, I don't really like where they took it. It does have some redeeming qualities though so...
Batman v Superman - 5.5/10
Had good qualities, worth watching, some room for optimism with the future if others can handle these characters better, but pretty mediocre overall. Tonally discordant, overly sentimental without earning it or feeling natural about it, and feels like it kept reigning things in so it could appeal to the broadest possible audience.
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:lol Perfect LOL!
Solid movie, but a good quarter of it needs to be edited out.
Terrible costume.
Blurry fight scenes do get anoying too.
Star Wars Episode 2 - 3.5/10 Yet I still watch it over and over. Bad movie. Remember kids...cgi kills.
I have a harder time putting up with horrible dialogue, I can sometimes look past bad cgi.
Horrible dialogue aside...I can't look past CGI, good or bad. It's a mockery to what the original Star Wars trilogy was, and to all those involved in making it. A green screen full of cartoons will never compare to the countless hours of work put into models and miniatures used to film the original.
The Purge: Election Year - 71/100. Good concept but it's on its last legs.
Won't argue with that.
Can't recall what I would have rated it last time I watched it but I think lower than this?
For some reason I enjoyed it more this time, maybe the 4th or 5th viewing - possibly due to how disappointed I've been with the new DCEU.
My most abiding criticisms are.....again...weak underwhelming action, the silly TDK suit and Bale's Batvoice which had become its own parody by this point.
What were your favorite parts of the film after revisiting it again?
Well, I really liked Hardy as Bane. I know, midget Bane, but they managed to make him look big most of the time - low angles and probably casting shorter actors as his henchmen :lol I loved his voice and his dialogue. I think he owned almost every scene he was in, very much earning his ''Boss'' walk - particularly love when he sees Batman and Catwoman escaping in the Bat and Zimmer's music is pretty damn good there.
Anne Hathaway did a pretty good catwoman and I very much enjoyed a few shots in particular of her ''Feline'' walk. :naughty
Michael Caine put in a great performance as Alfred. I know people found his crying annoying and his stance on Bruce returning as Batman to be confusing given his support and encouragement of it in the previous films however I think his change of heart was plausible in context. Given how long he'd been out and how frail he'd become Alfred just didn't want Bruce to risk it anymore, he thought Bruce might get killed this time, he had a bad feeling about it. He couldn't stop him from going back out as Batman, but he couldn't stay and watch either so he left.
I liked the Gordon/Batman scenes. Oldman was great as always. The early scene with Bruce visiting Gordon in hospital as a ''civvies'' Batman was interesting. Anyone else would be hyper curious to find out who the hell Batman was if he would just remove the balaclava but Gordon really didn't care or want to know. At least not until the very end when it appears that Batman will likely die and he finally asks him. I think the film provided a decent closure to their relationship and alliance. Yeah it makes little sense that Blake would guess who Batman was and Gordon never did but **** it.
The first fight with Bane was very dramatically impactful - seeing Batman get his ass kicked, wow - for some reason I really like the shot when Bane knocks him over the railing to the floor below with his cape fanning out. Again Bane's dialogue throughout is fantastically quotable. The second fight however doesn't live up to it and that's a real shame because we were badly in need of catharsis. It starts off bad ''no, I came back to stop you''...Holy weak verbal comeback Batman! And then the fighting itself, annoyingly edited between other scenes, visibly non-connecting punches and elbows and Batman seemingly having no new strategy. He does what really should have happened if even by accident in the first fight - dislodges the wires in Bane's mask and then a mere 3 or 4 blows later Bane is out of it and Bale's Batvoice reaches the pinnacle of it's unintentional, lisping hilarity. Even this victory is immediately undermined as Talia reveals her true nature and Batman is again at Bane's mercy...dead if not for Catwoman saving his ass. But anyway you asked what my favourite parts were - the first fight was definitely a highlight, particularly by comparison with the second.
Great soundtrack - I hadn't listened to these scores in a long time because I've kinda gotten tired of Zimmer's name on everything - but they were perfect for these films. His Batman theme destroys whatever that was for Batfleck in BvS.
You didn't like Batman's comeback/intro for the first time in many years? I thought it was a cool "return," especially with the older cop telling the rookie cop he's about to watch something "cool." Love the shot of all the cops chasing Bats and the escape with the Zimmer music.
Not A-D but........When Batman talks to himself in the Batman voice. :lol
Love the opening plane sequence.
I've always liked the dialogue that Bane rattles off to Bats in their first encounter.
I like when Bruce finally scales the wall of the prison. And also drops the ropes for the others.
The brawl when the freed cops engage with Banes army.
When Bats blasts the top of the building while carrying the bomb and the kids on the bus start cheering.
The ending montage.
And love love love soundtrack more than the other two flicks.
Srsly hate that they just didn't call Blake 'D!ck Grayson'. It would have been fine and more fitting for him to carry on as Batman.
Don't like out of shape Bats getting beat down by Bane.
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The Snowman (1982)
Why oh why did I decided to re-watch this emotionally crushing movie today is a mistake I'll regret for a while. A film that gently lifts you up to the sky, suffocates you and slams you right back into the ground.
Oh, and David Bowie's in it! :rock
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Arkema Forms Industrial Partnership with Chinese Glass Manufacturer Qinhuangdao Yaohua
Arkema, a company specializing in glass coatings for the flat glass industry and represented in the United States by Arkema Inc., in Philadelphia , has announced that it is to partner with Qinhuangdao Yaohua, China's leading hard coated glass producer on a second glass production line project. This new line will use the next generation Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Low E process, jointly developed by Arkema and its engineering partner Stewart Engineers.
This second production plant using Arkema's CVD Low E coating system will allow Qinhuangdao Yaohua to add additional capacity for the hard coated Low E grades within its range of thin glass and solar control glazing products in 2007. This expansion comes two years after a successful startup of the first line. The products from this partnership will fulfill the growing demand of the local market, while providing Qinhuangdao Yaohua with strong assets to maintain its leading position in hard coated glass in China.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 | Interviews | YGR
Institute have been kicking around Texas and the rest of the United States for a couple years now, but it was their debut album Catharsis that really threw me for a loop. Who knew classic early post-punk tribute could sound so fresh, vital and, well, unique? With lyrics as abstract and poetic as they are unabashedly punk in spirit (more than enough nihilism to go around), Institute spin classic Crass Records punk into two-chord tapestries that blend psychedelia with the mundane. I was able to get some words out of vocalist Moses Brown, although not too many, as he seemed to instantly sniff out my standing as an old-guy punk interloper rather than a glue-sniffing Toxic State intern (and he’s the only artist I’ve interviewed thus far who asked that I take one question and answer off the record for the final print). Fair enough!
Where does the name “Institute” come from? An acquaintance of mine thinks it’s a horrible name, but I think he’s crazy, that it perfectly captures the sort of mundane outlook / generic drudgery that your music seems to spotlight. Or am I crazy?
Institute came from a list of band names Adam had. We were working with Morale at the start, but thought it sounded like a screamo band so we dropped it and went with Institute. Can’t say it was chosen for its mood, but it ended up reflecting the music well.
Am I wrong in feeling despair/negativity from your songs? Does getting that sort of stuff out in your music help you mentally in your daily life from going crazy?
Oh yeah, definitely. I get to vocalize all the negative baggage inside my head. It’s a pretty great tool; it also makes playing good shows that much more enjoyable. I was in a slump. This record paired with love helped me pull out. I thought you were talking about our day to day personalities… We’re nice and happy people.
How did you come upon your vocal style? Was it a matter of finding a vocal approach that fits the music, or is this the only way you could ever see yourself singing? Is this your first time singing in a band?
Yeah this was the first band. Pretty much just wanted to sound like Steve Ignorant and PiL-era Johnny Rotten, haha. Just kinda played shows until I figured it out.
Is there some bit of British inflection I hear in your voice? Why don’t more ‘punk’ vocalists try to develop their own style these days? I appreciate that I can easily pick your voice out of a lineup.
I just try and do what sounds cool. You see hardcore bands recycling the same front-man character, but I would say there’s a lot of punk bands out there today with interesting front-people.
Who are some of your punk front-persons today? What do you look for in a vocalist?
Like Mary-Jane from Vexx, Kevin from Big Zit, Emil from Dawn of Humans. I love confidence. Doing whatever the hell you want, not sticking to any sort of trend… that is always going to make things exciting.
Institute seems to be lumped into hardcore-punk, but I don’t necessarily think that’s a sonic match. Are you used to playing hardcore shows? Should people mosh to Institute?
People don’t really mosh, I’d say they dance around and occasionally fall over. We get lumped into that punk scene because all of us are a part of that scene; this band just happened to sound different.
Catharsis really jams out toward the end, meandering around further into something I’d consider closer to kraut-rock / improvisation than punk rock. Is that just a small part of your musical equation, or is that something you think you’ll be pursuing into the future, the sort of looser, open-ended tunes?
It could be called a nod to the roots of punk. I love when I hear psych-rock songs that sound like punk songs or vice versa. Maybe we’ll do another one… We’ve been playing an abridged version of “Christian Right” live recently – that’s probably the version we should be talking about.
How does the live version differ – is it just abridged, or do you change it up in other ways?
It’s shorter and harder with the punk-knob dialed up. I don’t really know what it sounds like. It’s a Can rip with anarcho vocals thrown on top.
Are you not afraid of blatantly ripping off previous musical ideas? I feel like there is this notion that ripping something else off is inherently bad in punk/hardcore, but I don’t think that’s the case. Attempting to rip something off can often yield unexpected results.
Punk is folk music. It’s a formula, a set of guidelines proven to make exciting music. As long as what you’re making has real heart to it or is pushing boundaries you can rip-off as much as you’d like. If you’re in punk today and worried about originality, maybe find something else to do.
You’ve got some pretty good moans and groans on Catharsis. Where do those come from? Are they just something that happens?
The moans? A moan is just another lyric.
What was the rationale behind signing with Sacred Bones? What were they able to offer you that, say, self-releasing your album wouldn’t?
We decided we’d go with any sort of opportunity thrown at us. They hit us up on our first tour, so we went with it. They’re super sick, genuinely nice people who care a lot about what we do. They make our shows bigger and give us cool opportunities. Pretty much we thought it would be fun, and so far we’ve been right.
Is Institute something you’d hope to live off of one day? Is that preposterous?
Nah. Touring should be fun, not a job. If you can do both, more power to you, but I don’t think we have the means to do that. We’re not interested in pursuing a “successful” music career as a punk band in 2015. We’ve seen what it would look like and decided we’d rather play basements.
Why did you decide basements are preferable to pro clubs for Institute?
Pretty much because your friends are booking the show, you get paid about the same, and it’s much more fun.
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Here is an abstract of our United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism compliant elementary/middle school program, including supplementary and enrichment education.
Aleph/Bet (first/second grade)
Our youngest students begin their study of Judaism through a joyful and age-appropriate interactive exploration of the Hebrew alphabet. Using games, songs and stories, our first and second graders learn basic Hebrew reading and text skills. They also master basic parts of the liturgy (prayer) through song and discussion.
Parallel to Hebrew liturgy and language, our students explore the early Torah narrative (Beresheet/Genesis) exploring both the text and the wider values that emerge from it. Students enjoy using movement and drama as well as creative craft projects in studying the Creation, the account of Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden), the Mabul (the flood), Avraham and Sarah and the other great cycles of Genesis.
Finally, our students gain content and skills relating to the Jewish holidays including the names of the major holidays and their associated Mitzvot and customs as well as symbols and rituals.
Our Aleph and Bet students work on a Havdalah (end of Shabbat) project culminating in a Havdalah family evening.
Gimel (third grade)
Now that they have gained a degree of mastery of the Hebrew alphabet and can read competently, our third graders begin to acquire Hebrew vocabulary of liturgy and gain an awareness of the value-concepts that form the core of Jewish teaching. They learn the core Shema and Amidah liturgies as well as the universal values of compassion, justice, faith and human responsibility that emerge from them.
Holiday practices and values are deepened and broadened and students begin to learn about the central role that Israel has in Jewish civilization and history. In addition, they learn about focal Jewish values and how they are exemplified in the lives of great Jews throughout history.
Our Gimel students receive their first Siddur (prayer book) and do a project choosing and presenting a favorite prayer.
Dalet/Heh (fourth/fifth grade)
Our fourth and fifth graders focus on the Shabbat (Friday night and Saturday morning) liturgy comprising Kabbalat Shabbat and Shacharit. They gain greater mastery of Hebrew fluency in reading and continue to master basic vocabulary and value-concepts. Using drama and discussion, they explore the weekly Sedra (Torah portion) and gain a more nuanced and richer understanding of the themes of the later narratives of the Torah including the Exodus, generation of the wilderness, the Revelation at Sinai and others.
Older students also begin to study Jewish life milestones learning the special rituals and practices associated with birth, childhood, raising a family and loss in Jewish tradition.
Our fourth and fifth graders take part in an adopt a grandparent program and create Jewish hero projects.
Vav/Zayin (sixth/seventh grade)
Our oldest students complete their mastery of central features of the Shabbat morning service including Musaph, the Torah service and other sections. In addition, they learn how to craft a personal exploration of the meaning of the Torah narrative as they prepare a D'var Torah (formal exposition of the Torah).
Sixth and seventh graders learn about Jewish history from the biblical period to modernity. In addition, they make a special study of both the Holocaust and the reestablishment of Israel as a modern state and learn to see themselves as the heirs of Jewish tradition with the responsibility and privilege of carrying on their heritage. Our oldest students also have the opportunity to create their own Mitzvah projects wherein they are empowered to learn to make a difference in their Jewish and general communities.
Supplementary Education
Family Shabbatot - Over the course of the year, each class enjoys a Shabbat together including a Shabbat dinner and leading an age-appropriate Shabbat service.
Junior Congregation - Students are required to attend monthly junior congregational services, reinforcing and enriching skills and content learned in Religious School.
Special Celebrations - Our Religious School year is filled with joyful and memorable celebrations including assemblies, special guests, activities, fairs and field trips.
September/October: High Holidays Mitzvah Opportunities
November/December: Jewish book month, Kristalnacht Commemoration, Chanukah Fair
January/February: Tu Bishvat Tree Celebration and Seder
March/April: Purim Fair, and Model Seder
May: Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, Yom Ha'atzma'ut, Lag BaOmer and Shavuot Celebrations
Middat HaChodesh - Our program features a character education program called "Middat HaChodesh"- value of the month. Using discussion, art projects, essays and readings, students internalize and exemplify Torah values. "Torah is not in heaven but here with us." (Deuteronomy 23)
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A rogue scientist who escaped the bloody massacre in B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Russia assembles a paranormal cult bent on world destruction. Can an elite B.P.R.D. task force hunt down the mad Russian's stronghold in time, or will monsters overwhelm a world already teetering on the edge of apocalypse? Collects B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Return of the Master #1-#5.
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Impacts of Covid-19 to the Entertainment Industry
Covid-19 is a global pandemic and the way how government and industry response are unprecedented. The most common approach of preventing the issue now is putting restrictions among people. Thus, it’s the reason why we now have a lockdown and quarantine. With such bold move, many industries are affected on how it will carry through the situation.
This is true especially in the entertainment industry. And whether you believe it or not, there are stages in which this pandemic could impact the business. These will be discussed further in the next lines. If your career is in line of this industry, then better stick until the end of this article and see how it could affect your living and lifestyle.
Despite the fact that the entertainment is consumed away from public places, exception from live performances of course, process of production for contents will require frequent human contact. Therefore, this increases the risks of spreading and having Covid-19.
Needless to say, every media outlet will be affected differently but still, there are guidelines and restrictions that concerns certain group of people and those who are working at home have impacted filming of movies and TV shows with majority ft he projects tentatively put on hold.
But this is not entirely a disadvantage to the industry. This is because social talents and podcast creators are making the most of the situation by publishing their own content and generate great number of audiences who were once glued to movies and TV shows. So even with these channels, you may be hearing of various ads from Vaillant Combi boiler price and the likes. At the end of the day, it is “Business as usual”.
Live entertainment venues that encompass sports, music, theater, clubs and cinemas are more affected by the outbreak. But recovery has to transpire in mid to long term. Among the mentioned venues, sports are most impacted and were one to respond. On the meantime, holes left by sports both for live and TV opens an opportunity for other types of entertainment to fill in. The same is true with live music entertainment.
Well it is forecasted that as soon as the pandemic is over, everything will return to normal, stronger than ever.
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Bullet for Sandoval, A
May 4, 2018 Matt Blake Italian Cinema, Reviews, Spanish cinema 2
Ernest Borgnine in A Bullet for Sandoval
aka Los desperados (Es), Les quatre desperados (Fr), Um sie war der Hauch des Todes (WG), Vengeance is Mine (UK), Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte (It)
Italy/Spain
Elio Scardamaglia and Ugo Guerra for Leone Film, Daiano Film (Rome), Atlantida Film (Madrid)
Director: Julio Buchs
Story & screenplay: Ugo Guerra, Jose Luis Martinez Molla, Francisco De Urrutia, Julio Buchs
Music: Gianni Ferrio
Cinematography: Francisco Sempere {Eastmancolor}
Editor: Daniele Alabiso
Set design: Giuseppe Bassan
Cameraman: Roberto Girometti
Filmed:
Original running time: 108 mins
Release information: Registered 20.11.69. Italy (26.11.69, 108 mins), Spain (15.12.69, Madrid), France (1971, Paris), West Germany (20.11.70, 89 mins), UK (1971), US (06.70, 91 mins)
Spanish takings: €214.002,77
A Bullet for Sandoval
Cast : George Hilton (John Warner), Ernest Borgnine (Pedro Sandoval), Alberto De Mendoza (Lucky Boy), Leo Anchoriz (Friar Converso), Annabella Incontrera (Carol Day), Gustavo Rojo (Guadalupano), Antonio Pica (Sam), Manuel De Blas (Gonzales Sandoval), Jose Manuel Martin (One Eye), Andrea Aureli (Wannabe gangmember), Jose Guardiola (Governor Gonzales), Andres Mejuto (the judge), Manuel Miranda (Francisco), Vidal Molina (Captain Parker), Maria Paz Pondal (Isabel Gonzales), Jorge Rigaud (the General), Alfonso Rojas (the Ranch Owner), Adalberto Rossetti, Claudio Trionfo [Claudio Trionfi], Alfredo San-Tacruz [Alfredo Santa Cruz] (Senator Walsh), Jose Riesgo, Charly Bravo [Ramon Carlos Miron Bravo] (a mexican soldier), Rafael Hernandez, Lorenzo Robledo (the corporal), Alfonso De La Vega (Sandoval’s man), Tito Garcia (a Mexican ranch owner), Luis Barboo (the Mexican ranch owner’s foreman), Dan Van Husen (a bandit), Jose Luis Zalde (festival organiser)
A truly memorable Spaghetti Western, A Bullet for Sandoval is unquestionably one of the top ten examples of its type. It exhibits a singularly mean spirited atmosphere as well as an unusual plot that incorporates the ‘revenge for a slaughtered family’ theme in an engrossing and unusual way. For some reason it has traditionally been rather ignored by genre aficionados, but a well-deserved DVD release gives the opportunity for a timely reappraisal.
John Warner (George Hilton) is a soldier fighting with the losing side in the civil war. He hears that his beloved is about to give birth and reluctantly decides to desert, return home and marry her. He is soon captured, court-martialed and sentenced to death. Along with two friends, Sam (Antonio Pica) and Lucky (Alberto De Mendoza), he manages to escape. Arriving back at his hometown, he finds it to be in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and that his girlfriend has died during childbirth. Her father Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine), who has always hated him, hands Warner his newborn son and forces him out into hiding. After his requests for help are callously ignored by all of those with whom they come into contact, the child dies.
Consumed by grief, he decides to have vengeance, and starts by drowning a rancher – who had turned him away fearing the spread of cholera – in a pail of milk. He then forms a gang, centrally composed of his fellow deserters and an ex preacher (Leo Anchoriz), and begins to terrorize the surrounding countryside. Before long his path again crosses with Sandoval and, in a superb climax set in a bullring, their differences are resolved the only way possible – with bullets.
As you can probably tell from the above synopsis, this is not a typical George Hilton film. There is no humor whatsoever, and the character he plays treads a precarious line between being sympathetic and an out and out bastard. He doesn’t hesitate in carrying out acts of alienating cruelty, and at no point is there even the suggestion of a wisecrack being uttered. Then again, his nemesis is not much better – an overly possessive parent who destroys the ones he loves with his hatred for a demonized enemy.
Alberto De Mendoza and George Hilton in A Bullet for Sandoval
In fact what we have here is one of the few instances in which an Italian (or, to be more precise, Spanish with some Italian input) oater can be considered as an out and out tragedy. By this I mean that both central characters start out as basically dignified people. Sandoval cares for his children – perhaps too much – and it is his unwillingness to let go of his daughter that triggers the events that turn him into an irrationally selfish tyrant. He still retains his dignity, and is appalled when he is forced to break his word – even to his nemesis – as the result of an impetuous act by his eldest son. Warner is a brave and honorable soldier who is transformed by events into a murderous criminal (his destiny seems to be shaped by the maxim “If you’ve had to be a killer once, you’d better carry on if you want to stay alive”). It’s no mean task, but Sandoval manages to make both of the main characters equally (un) sympathetic.
The whole production is drenched with the feeling of death. It starts with the corpse-strewn aftermath of a battle, veers into a disease-ridden town and ploughs to its inevitable downbeat conclusion. Strangely, the gun battles are often shown simply by the sight of someone holding a gun and then people lying dead on the floor. The moment of destruction is not shown, merely the aftermath of the act of shooting.
With fine acting – both the leads give the performances of their life – a wonderful Gianni Ferrio soundtrack, literate scripting, sumptuous photography and top-notch direction, this is one of the very best of it’s type. It must have had a pretty decent budget. Apart from the topline cast (supporting actors of the quality of De Mendoza, Anchoriz and Jose Manuel Martin) it also has quite a few large-scale shots (i.e. the army chasing the outlaws across the Almerian landscape). Blessed with the double whammy of a totally arresting beginning and end (this is one of the few Spaghetti climaxes to truly give Sergio Leone a run for his money), A Bullet for Sandoval is a must see for anyone with even the vaguest interest in the genre.
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Excellent review Matt. I remember the first time I saw this film and was very impressed by Hilton’s portrayal. A common man driven to almost insanity by circumstances outside of his control. He deserts, he finds his wife dead, he’s rejected by her family given hi newborn son and thrown to the streets. He fights for survival in a plague infested countryside and when his son dies from the rejection and fear of others he goes off the deep end. One can feel for him as he puts together a band of ragtag misfits and goes after the people who have caused his world to fall apart. Borgnine is also perfect as the girl’s father who cannot find it in his heart to forgive Hilton and blames him for his loss. The two finally meet and as you say only death comes from this tragic film. An excellent score Ferrio adds to the the films bleakness and good supporting acting and direction by Julio Buchs makes this one of the best Spaghetti westerns.
Has this ever actually had a decent blu ray / dvd release? It really deserves it… it’s a film that seems to have fallen through the cracks, somewhat…
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Want to Get Acquired? Think PR
Mar 7, 2017·4 min read
In 2016, the largest fintech acquisition in Chicago was the purchase of 3Points client OptionsHouse by E*Trade. While the addition of OptionsHouse strategically filled a gap (active options traders) for E*Trade, and the acquisition was driven by their management team’s ability to build an exciting and dynamic business, the tactical leveraging of PR — while perhaps an easily overlooked aspect — we think also served as a key driver of the deal. We know, because 3Points was there for many steps along the way and saw firsthand how a strong PR campaign can help an enterprise command top dollar in an acquisition.
3Points began working with a predecessor of OptionsHouse, tradeMONSTER, as one of our first clients. We started small with them, and the relationship grew as their business did. We were intimately involved in the development of the business, so much so that our principal, Drew Mauck, created their tagline (“Proactive Investing”) and co-invented a first-of-its-kind product innovation in “tradeSHARE.” This feature allowed users to share trade details on social media. (Yes, we assert that it was the first social media “share” button on a trading platform.) The teamwork deployed to create an exciting brand led to media coverage for tradeMONSTER, including a very detailed and colorful feature in the Chicago Sun-Times about six months before the company’s acquisition by General Atlantic and subsequent merger with OptionsHouse.
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Our success with tradeMONSTER / OptionsHouse taught us several important lessons:
tradeMONSTER and OptionsHouse weren’t the first or only companies in their space. In fact, there were a number of other online options trading platforms, and this made crafting and delivering a strong message all the more important. In a competitive situation, having a clear and distinctive message that is delivered consistently can make all the difference in distinguishing you from the pack.
A successful PR campaign delivers your message and amplifies that message in a way that generates more power for your brand. When it works, a good PR campaign raises your company’s profile among everyone — potential acquirers and investors included. For OptionsHouse, we saw this happen through powerful media placements, such as a Wall Street Journal article on the addition of credentialed CTO (and all-around good guy) Lance Braunstein, and top-3 rankings in the Barron’s survey of online brokers in 2015 and 2016.
A good PR agency is your partner and can help beyond the three pillars of earned, owned and social media. In the case of tradeMONSTER / OptionsHouse, 3Points helped in creating taglines and unique, differentiating services — à la “Proactive Investing” and “tradeSHARE.” While your PR partner certainly won’t execute all of the day-to-day, down-in-the-trenches activities (i.e. product development, direct sales) that lead to core success, they can nevertheless be much more than passive creatives that only do the minimum to meet their commitments. At 3Points, we become immersed in our partners’ businesses, spending time at their locations and learning everything we can about what makes their businesses tick.
Once your PR work has helped you become part of the public discourse, it can create a frenzy among potential investors — they all want to get in while it’s hot, and they don’t want to be beaten to the punch by rivals. Now, more than ever, it’s important to keep on delivering for the brand. As the business faces an ever-changing landscape of ups and downs, a good PR agency will learn, react and adapt to the changing conditions. It’s far too often that early momentum is squandered and lost by a lack of follow-through and adjustment. A savvy PR partner will know how to capitalize on and amplify success in a way that will create interest in your company and certainly puts the market on notice.
Pulling together the recipe for success
Many factors go into determining whether a company is able to attract an acquirer, with growth, a unique product offering and a stellar ability to execute being at the top of the list. As important as all of these factors are, however, the addition of a comprehensive and powerful communications strategy may well be the deciding factor between a good business and a great one — one that is able to command a premium in the market. Just as a little bit of flour can pull together a sauce for a top chef, the application of a robust PR and communications plan can help an entrepreneur create an exceedingly successful company that secures top dollar in an acquisition.
If you have any questions about our experiences with acquisitions or about our PR in general, please email us at info@3ptscomm.com or DM us on Twitter.
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As a business leader or business decision-maker, knowing when and how to adopt emerging technologies can seem like a formidable task. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one such technology, and it holds a unique place in the emerging technology market in general....
Who’s in Your Dream Data Team? – The Optimal Data Team Structure
by AI Superior Team | Oct 7, 2020 | AI, Data Science and Machine Learning
Most companies today understand the importance of harnessing data and transforming it into actionable insights that add value to the business. However, many companies are still stuck when it comes to putting this into action. How do you mobilize a data science team?...
How HR Analytics Drives Recruitment and Improves the Employee Experience
by AI Superior Team | Jun 4, 2020 | AI, Data Science and Machine Learning
AI solutions are being implemented across the world and fundamentally changing the way our businesses work. One area that has been getting a lot of attention in recent years is HR analytics, otherwise known as people analytics. People are the lifeblood of businesses....
How artificial intelligence is transforming the finance and cryptocurrency industry
by AI Superior Team | Apr 22, 2020 | AI, Data Science and Machine Learning
Digital disruption is greatly impacting how businesses operate in our contemporary world and revolutionizing industries including the financial industry. Many industries are beginning to access different options and embracing options that would help them create more...
Social Media Analytics as a Boost for Your Business
by AI Superior Team | Mar 30, 2020 | AI, Data Science and Machine Learning
In a data-driven world, social media analytics are proving to be a game-changer for businesses all over the globe. By collecting and analyzing social media data, companies can gain actionable insights into their customer base in a way never seen in the past. These...
How data science helps you understand your customer and optimize your business
by AI Superior Team | Mar 5, 2020 | AI, Data Science and Machine Learning
Marketing in the modern and digital world has moved away from blind advertising to a game of strategy. It has now been dominated by concepts like data, analytics, insights, and the likes. This is to prove that brands that wish to ride with the trend have to step up...
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