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still raw
Carol Vorderman reveals the pain of losing her mum and admits she ‘misses her terribly’
The former Countdown presenter Tweeted a tribute to Jean following her private funeral this month
By Beth Allcock, Showbiz Reporter
27 Jun 2017, 9:29
Updated: 28 Jun 2017, 4:59
CAROL Vorderman admitted she misses her mum Jean "terribly" as she opened up on her heartache following her tragic death from cancer.
The ex Countdown star only revealed her sad loss on Twitter earlier this month, after telling fans she had attended her private funeral.
Carol Vorderman confessed she 'misses her mum terribly' as she revealed her heartbreak in the aftermath of her death
Carol announced her mum had passed away as she revealed to her fans she had attended her funeral this month
Her much-loved parent, aged 88, was diagnosed with terminal cancer in March.
She posted a touching Twitter tribute to her "amazing" mum hours after laying her to rest.
On today's Good Morning Britain, presenter Piers Morgan was quick to offer his sympathy and said: "We are very, very sorry about your mum.
"She was an amazing lady."
Host Piers Morgan described Jean as an 'amazing lady'Credit: ITV
The Maths whizz confessed a major part of her life had passed and replied: "Yes she was, she was always with me as you know.
"She worked for me since I was 25 and lived with me. We miss her terribly.
"But there was nothing left unsaid or undone. as she would say, it's not a tragedy, I'm nearly 89, and I've had a great life."
Piers, 52, replied: "She did have a great life - and she was very proud of you," to which a clearly-touched Carol replied: "For all my sins!" before bursting out into fits of giggles.
Carol revealed she was getting set to take to the skies after postponing her around the world flight when Jean was diagnosedCredit: itv
Earlier this year, we reported how keen pilot Carol had postponed a planned around-the-world flight after her mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Today, she told the ITV show she was gradually getting back into flight mode and said: "I was going to be doing a global flight.
"I'm gradually reorganising that with my life, and I went to see my plane this week."
Carol, 56, said 'nothing had been left unsaid' before her mum Jean, 88, died
Some days are tough, today was one of them. Today was my amazing Mum's funeral.....❤️
Rest In Peace Jean Vorderman
You will always be loved
— Carol Vorderman 💙 (@carolvorders) June 19, 2017
Telly favourite Carol, 56, chose not to publicly announce Jean's passing after previously keeping fans updated with her wellbeing, meaning this month's social media message came as a shock.
Taking to her account with a heartbreaking message she wrote: "Some days are tough, today was one of them.
"Today was my amazing Mum's funeral..... Rest In Peace Jean Vorderman You will always be loved."
Jean looked happy and smiley as she was surrounded by her family for a special lunch earlier this yearCredit: TWITTER
Immediately after the maths whizz posted her sad news, her fans were quick to send their messages of sympathy.
One wrote: "Ah I'm so so sorry to hear that. was only wondering the other day how you guys were doing as I'd seen you'd been quiet on here. Big hugs xx" while another added: "So sorry to hear your news. I'm not sure anyone gets fully over losing someone close. Time just dulls the loss."
A third then put: "My heart felt condolences Carol. What a wonderful woman xx."
Carol told of her mum's diagnosis in a Twitter post on Mother's Day
Carol Vorderman with her mother Edwina and Gyles on the Countdown tribute show One Last ConsonantCredit: PA:Press Association
Television presenter Carol opened up on Mother’s Day about her 88-year-old mum Edwina, who also goes by the name of Jean’s, diagnosis of terminal cancer.
She wrote: “A precious Mother’s Day x This wk Mum & I found out she has terminal cancer.She’s 88, beautiful inside and out & I love her beyond measure x”.
Ordinarily smiley Carol has kept fans updated with her mum's healthCredit: PA:Press Association
Carol with her mum Edwina back in 2003Credit: Times Newspapers Ltd
After her diagnosis, Carol told how Jean is coping with the news, she told the Mirror: “I love her beyond measure. We are laughing so much and she is having a lovely time. She refuses to let us be sad so we are taking our lead from her.”
Jean added: “Now my family and me will concentrate on being happy and celebrating the time we have together. I’m refusing to let them be sad.”
In April, Carol gave fans an update on "A Good Day" for Jean.
She shared a sweet image of the pair all smiles after enjoying breakfast together.
Carol was on the early-morning programme to promote the next Pride of Britain Awards.
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Pahang Regent denies he got RM1.3bil kickback from China company
Tuesday, 12 Jun 2018
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KUANTAN: The Regent of Pahang, Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah (pic), refuted an allegation circulating on social media that he had received RM1.3bil as a kickback for “his patronage” over a project.
Tengku Abdullah said on Tuesday (June 12) that he had nothing to do with China Rainbow International Investment Co Ltd (CRIIC), the company alleged to have made the payment to him.
"I have nothing to do with the China company. The company has given a reply. I do not wish to comment,” he said in a WhatsApp message through his media officer to Bernama here.
A letter purportedly claiming the award of RM1.3bil to Tengku Abdullah as an alleged kickback went viral on social media on Monday (June 11).
The letter, dated Feb 8, 2018, and purportedly signed by CRIIC Global and Pacific president Will JW Ding, said the money was a reward after the so-called Sapura-China Rainbow Consortium was awarded the MRT3 project valued at RM45bil.
Meanwhile, CRIIC, in its statement, also refuted the allegation, stressing that it “conducts business with full integrity and practices the highest standards of corporate governance”.
"The purported letter is a fabrication. CRIIC has never issued such a letter. The contents are totally false and there is no such Sapura-China Rainbow Consortium," it said.
The statement also said that CRIIC was seeking legal advice and reserved all rights to seek civil and criminal remedies against the perpetrator of the malicious act. - Bernama
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Update – Disruption In Route Services To Bathsheba Due To The Closure Of The Joe’s River Bridge
Please be advised that due to the continued closure of the Joe’s River Bridge, the Transport Board will need to continue the diversion of its Bathsheba service. This service will now turn into Bonwell, continue to Easy Hall, Malvern, Clifton Hall and onto the Martins Bay route. The service will then enter Foster Hall, onto Bathsheba then culminate at the Joes River Bridge until further notice. This route will be in place on all days except on Sundays when the route will include traversing Horse Hill and return.
However, to assist persons who will be displaced by this change, an additional service to Horse Hill has been provided and this will continue until further notice running from Monday to Saturday.
The time table for this service is as follows:
From Horse Hill – 0500, 0530, 0615, 0730 and every 2 hours until 830 pm
From B’town every 2 hours from 0630am to 730pm
From Horse Hill + 0500, 0530, every 2 hours until 0830pm
From B’town – 0630, every 2 hours until 0730pm
Additionally for commuters travelling on the Horse Hill service who might need to enter Bathsheba, a transfer system has been implemented. Commuters can obtain a transfer ticket from the Operator of the Horse Hill bus on its way into Bridgetown for travel to Bathsheba & St. Elizabeth. The embarkation point for the transfer to Bathsheba will be at the Bonwell Corner. Please note that this ticket is valid for two(2) hours only.
All other previously issued diversions remain the same. Again the Transport Board apologises for any inconvenience caused by these diversions but would wish to remind the travelling public that you are in safe hands with us.
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Baldini brought true symphonic renovation to the Argentino
La Plata´s Teatro Argentino is a big institution, the only rival for the Colón. The huge brutalist building is young but already needs repairs, and that even applies to the stage of the great Ginastera Hall. It also has a chamber one, the Piazzolla, and an equivalent to the CETC, the Centro de Experimentación y Creación (TACEC), and of the Colón´s Art Institute, the Escuela de Arte y Oficios. Totally integrated, it has an orchestra, two choirs, a ballet, production technicians, administration and a Foundation. There´s only one difference; the Colón has two orchestras, the Argentino one.
La Plata depends on an impoverished Province, so there are budgetary problems; arguably the structure is too expensive for current conditions and anyway the Argentino has a much smaller possible audience than the Colón, even if the betterment of the thruway makes it easier for porteños to travel to the Province´s capital.
The orchestra has been growing absurdly during the last decade: the hand programme lists 118 players, a number that can be used in very few scores (e.g., Mahler´s Eighth), particularly when the orchestral pit´s capacity was poorly calculated and can only hold about 85 players, less than the hundred needed for Wagner or Strauss´ "Elektra". The orchestra has been trying to obtain for the last thirty months that all of them should have permanent status ("estables"); no, two things should have been done previously and weren´t: amplify the pit to a hundred and pare down the orchestra to the same number; only then give the players that category.
On the other hand, the improvement in quality of the orchestra and its renovation with young people have been going on steadily, even before Alejo Pérez took charge during the Lombardero years. The Orchestra´s Principal Conductor nowadays is the talented Carlos Vieu, equally proficient in standard opera and concert repertoire. But the new General and Artistic Director, Martín Bauer (still in charge of Colón Contemporáneo), followed his bent and brought Christian Baldini to the Argentino for two very difficult and special concerts of XXth-XXIst Century music.
I have no doubt that they have been very positive both for the orchestra and the mostly young audience, even if both football and weather conspired against greater attendance. For the combination was surefire: a young Argentine conductor who is having a brilliant career at San Francisco and has the technical savvy and the affinity with extremely complex music; and a perfect choice of programmes lasting one hour but of colossal density. To boot, players willing to learn and put their best effort in a hard endeavor.
The first Sunday concert offered two premières for La Plata and only the second performance there of the seminal symphonic Twentieth Century score "par excellence": Stravinsky´s "Rite of Spring". György Ligeti´s "Lontano" (1967) follows his micropolyphony style in which the orchestra subdivides in multiple groups obtaining a compact timbric texture. Juan Carlos Tolosa, who was in the hall, is a composer born in Córdoba (1966) who has lived in Brussels a long time, absorbing teachings from famous contemporaries. "Dimmi chi fosti" ("Tell me who you were"), the work played, is inspired on verses from Dante´s "Divine Comedy": we are our past. The three brief movements reminisce such composers as Berio, Ellington, the spectralists or Xenakis, not as quotations but as "déjà vus" on Tolosa´s musical psyche; rather interesting.
The second concert was even more important. The La Plata première of Edgar Varèse´s "Amériques" in its second version (1927) is an event of prime significance; I confess I don´t recall a performance in our city. He was French but emigrated to the USA in 1915 and became an American citizen. Before WWII there were two great misunderstood visionairies in the USA: Charles Ives and Varèse; both saw far into the future and stopped composing for long periods. Varèse, born 1883, destroyed all his youthful works; so the initial version of "Amériques" (1920-21) is the first score he recognised as valid. He accepted a revision of the incredibly massive original orchestration, and this was premièred in 1926). It is still stunning, with nine percussionists including a siren, reinforced brass and a full complement of woodwinds and strings.
Would you believe it in such a huge orchestra as the Argentino´s? There were 15 added players! But I´m pretty sure that all the 118 didn´t play; so?
Description: fiercely dissonant chords; rhythmically complex polyphonies; continuous evolution with recurring short motifs juxtaposed without development; self-contained blocks of music against one another; enormous climaxes; the ominous siren adding tension. That´s the New York of the Twenties for Varèse. Twenty-three minutes written ninety years ago and seem penned yesterday. The impact of hearing it is electric and unforgettable.
There was another high point: the beautiful Third Piano Concerto by Bartók finished by Tibor Serly (just the last 17 measures). More lyrical, less motoric than the other two, it had a convincing performance by Helena Bugallo (a La Plata musical family: there are three Bugallos in the orchestra!), who has led a distinguished career in Europe; she lives in Basel since 2003 and has had particular experience in contemporary music. Her playing was neat, powerful and sensitive, and she was abetted by the dynamic conducting of Baldini.
Two short pieces preceded the longer ones: Silvestre Revueltas´s tellurian "Sensemayá" and Bernstein´s brilliant Overture to his operetta "Candide"; they had fine performances.
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Overcoming the 'yuck factor'
Yellow grub becomes EU's first insect food
Despite their name, mealworms are beetle larvae & are rich in protein, fat and fibre
Ynsect's Chairman and CEO Antoine Hubert shows a container of adult mealworm beetles, which are used for reproduction, at the laboratory of the insect farm Ynsect, which harvests mealworms for bug-based animal food and fertilizer, in Dole, France. (REUTERS/Ardee Napolitano/File Photo)
London, January 13
Mealworms may soon find their into Europe's pasta bowls and dinner dishes, after becoming the first insect approved in the region as a human food.
The decision by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) paves the way for the yellow grubs to be used whole and dried in curries and other recipes and as a flour to make biscuits, pasta and bread.
Despite their name, mealworms are beetle larvae rather than worms and are already used in Europe as a pet food ingredient.
Rich in protein, fat and fibre, they are likely to be the first of many insects to feature on European's plates in the coming years, EFSA chemist and food scientist Ermolaos Ververis said.
Under his supervision, mealworms were the first insect that the EU agency assessed under a "novel food" regulation that came into effect in 2018, triggering a flood of similar applications.
"There is great interest of the scientific community and also the food industry in the edible insect sector," he said.
People across much of the world - including parts of Africa, Australia and New Zealand - already enjoy tucking into insect bars, cricket burgers and other grub-based foods, Once the European Commission ratifies ESFA's endorsement, Europe will join them.
Some sociologists, however, believe psychological barriers particularly strong in Europe mean it will be some time before the yellow worms start flying off supermarket shelves there.
"There are cognitive reasons derived from our social and cultural experiences - the so-called ‘yuck factor’ - that make the thought of eating insects repellent to many Europeans," said Giovanni Sogari, a social and consumer researcher at the University of Parma in Italy.
"With time and exposure, such attitudes can change." EFSA said it had received 156 applications for "novel food" safety assessments since 2018, covering everything from algae-derived foods to an array of insect species. Reuters
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THOMAS SABO and Rita Ora inspire with Magic Stars Collection
LAUF AN DER PEGNITZ, Germany, Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — THOMAS SABO is celebrating the most beautiful time of the year…
LAUF AN DER PEGNITZ, Germany, Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — THOMAS SABO is celebrating the most beautiful time of the year with its new Magic Stars Collection, and from 15th October 2020, will be presenting exquisite pieces of jewellery that sparkle like a thousand stars in the night sky. Brand ambassador Rita Ora is once again the face of the campaign and inspires with a festive look.
The intricately worked Sterling silver jewellery enchants with elegant pearls, filigree vintage structures and radiant stones, which are artistically crafted into rings, necklaces and earrings. A highlight and extraordinary eye-catcher of the Magic Stars Collection is a stylised butterfly in two-tone look. Handcrafted, the pendant delights with detailed moon and star cut-outs, fine engravings and precisely placed decorative elements. Its high-quality workmanship and strong symbolism make it an absolute must-have with timeless magic.
All designs and even more fantastic gift ideas are now available in THOMAS SABO shops, online at www.thomassabo.com and from selected partners.
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THOMAS SABO is a leading international jewellery company, offering its versatile designs through selective and high-quality multi-channel distribution. In addition to its core segment of elaborately handcrafted jewellery in 925 Sterling silver, THOMAS SABO has designed and distributed watches since 2009 and sunglasses since 2019. Founded in 1984 by Thomas Sabo in Germany, the company has over 3,100 points of sale worldwide, including around 260 shops and the online shop at www.thomassabo.com. THOMAS SABO has an international workforce of around 1,600 employees.
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'Narcos', 'The Tick' and Kathy Bates' Ganja Comedy New in Streaming for Late Summer
Aubry D'Arminio August 22, 2017, 4:00 pm
Party Boat
Thursday, Aug. 24, Crackle
Who says partying isn’t hard? Superfun guy Max (Brett Davern, above) is putting his all into throwing an off-the-charts 25th birthday bash for his best friend, Kiley (Katie Leclerc). But when Kiley’s boyfriend reveals his plans to propose during the big celebration, the pang in Max’s heart forces him to refocus his efforts on winning her for himself.
Asian Provocateur
Series Premiere
Thursday, Aug. 24, Sundance Now
Imagine Who Do You Think You Are?, but when the show ends, the celebrity hits the road to drop in on the living members of his extended family tree. This hilarious travelogue follows British teacher turned stand-up Romesh Ranganathan on such a journey through England, Sri Lanka, Canada and the United States. Just don’t expect a series of staid family reunions. At one point, Ranganathan finds himself climbing a mountain barefoot. At another, he’s taking part in a spiritual ceremony to fix his lazy eye.
Magic Funhouse
Season 2, Thursday, Aug. 24, Fullscreen
Mix Pee-wee Herman with Marilyn Manson, add a little Norma Desmond and a lot of acid, and you get Arlo (Brandon Rogers), host of the campy kids show inside this comedy. Season 2 starts with Arlo working at a snack stand thanks to a scandal that ended his series (and sent one of his troupe to jail). Will he resist the chance to resuscitate the show by taking it on the road?
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Season Premiere
Friday, Sept. 1, Netflix
Now that Escobar (Wagner Moura) is dead, the four heads of the Cali Cartel (like Pacho Herrera, played by Alberto Ammann) want his business. Which is a compliment to Escobar, but a real pain for the DEA.
Friday, Aug. 25, Netflix
After decades of fighting to legalize marijuana, sixtysomething Ruth (Kathy Bates) opens her own California cannabis shop. Its staff: Her son (Aaron Moten) and a security guard (Tone Bell). Executive producer Chuck Lorre also made the Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous series Mom. Mixed messages, anyone?
Friday, Aug. 25, Amazon
Third time’s a charm? Ben Edlund’s tale of a colbalt superhero has already been adapted for TV (as a cartoon in 1994 and as a sitcom in 2001). But bug-eyed British comic Peter Serafinowicz (aka the voice of Darth Maul) adds an extra layer of weird that distinguishes this one from its elders.
Monday, Aug. 28, Acorn
Roland (Alan Davies), the executive chef of a country hotel restaurant, is content hiding in his office, mourning his career and writing a book about offal. But all his best friend/sous-chef, Bib (Darren Boyd), wants is some help in the kitchen. And for the staff to keep all their fingers.
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College of Business and Law Coláiste an Ghnó agus an Dlí
Teaching & Timetables Semester 1 Academic Year 2020/21
To comply with government guidelines and to ensure the safety of both our students and staff, all College of Business and Law degree Programme Teaching for the second semester will be provided online. This means students will engage in online learning (live online events and pre-made online content).
In line with a Government direction on Friday 25 Sep 2020, UCC, along with all universities in the country, introduced enhanced public health protection measures from Monday, 28 September 2020. Further to this the announced Level 3 measures on Wednesday 2nd December are consistent with our current activities. As matters stand today, the measures which currently apply to UCC activities during this Level 3 period are published on the UCC Covid-19 web pages.
In accordance with the Government’s directions, lectures shall be delivered online to the maximum extent possible during this period of enhanced protective measures. For this College and for its Schools: the School of Law and Cork University Business School (CUBS) for this period lectures will be delivered online in as far as possible.
Programme Directors and Module Co-ordinators shall communicate lecture/tutorial arrangements for Semester 2 to students via Canvas and/or email. Students should check their student email and Canvas for alerts about lectures/tutorials.
Current onsite research activities will continue as outlined in the guidance on the UCC Covid-19 web pages.
The UCC libraries remain open as they have done throughout in recent months in providing this important resource for our students, staff and researchers.
Details of Campus Services & Amenities such as restaurants and cafés are contained in the table on the UCC Covid-19 web pages
Lectures and other online and on-campus learning activities commenced for most programmes on Monday, 28th September and will continue to do so into Semester 2. Please note that all timetables are subject to change in line with government and NPHET guidelines in the context of Covid-19. 2020/21.
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School of Law https://www.ucc.ie/en/law/ (Check under “Current Students” Section)
College of Business and Law Contact details
College Office (021 4205100) BusinessandLaw@ucc.ie
School of Law (021 4902224) lawschool@ucc.ie
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Ursula Kilkelly (BA, LLM, PhD) was appointed Head of the College of Business and Law in April 2018, having served in the role on an interim basis since 2013. Ursula is a professor of law and Dean of the Law School, a position she has held since April 2012. As Head of College, Ursula has responsibility for all academic, financial and governance matters in the College, including in its two Schools – the School of Law and Cork University Business School – established in 2014. She also has responsibility for the integration of the Irish Management Institute, acquired by UCC in 2016, into the University.
As a professor of law, Ursula continues to be an active researcher and teacher. She publishes her work on international children’s rights in monographs, prestigious edited collections and peer reviewed journals, and she has generated nearly €1 million in research funds through competitive and invited tenders. She is co-editor of Youth Justice: An International Journal and she teaches Children’s Rights and Juvenile Justice on the LLM in Children’s Rights and Family Law. In the new Centre for Children’s Rights and Family Law, Ursula directs the Child Law Clinic. Ursula was appointed chairperson of the Board of Management of Oberstown Children Detention Campus by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in 2016 and she was appointed to the Irish Research Council in 2017.
For more information see Professor Kilkelly's research profile here.
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Freeland Lecture; Johns Hopkins, Case Western, Mayo Clinic talks top upcoming events
Several interesting events are scheduled for the upcoming weeks at the Medical Center.
Postdoc fellow to review ischemia, reperfusion strategy
Dr. Xuan Li, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, will give the Department of Physiology and Biophysics presentation, "The Metabolic Regulation is a Strategy to Limit Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury," from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30, in room CW308 of the Classroom Wing.
For more information, call Courtney Graham at 4-1820.
Texas orthopaedist to give Freeland Lecture, kick off Resident Research Day
Dr. Milton Lee "Chip" Routt Jr., Dr. Andrew R. Burgess Endowed Chair and Professor of Othopaedic Surgery at the University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, will give the Alan E. Freeland Research Lecture Series presentation, "Pelvic and Acetabular Update 2018," during the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation's annual Resident Research Day from 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, June 1, in room CW308 of the Classroom Wing.
The event will feature presentations by chief residents in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation. For more information, call Amy Kraus at 4-5153 or email her at akraus@umc.edu.
Psychiatry professor to investigate neuroinflammatory mechanisms
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Dr. Craig Stockmeier, professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Neurobiology and Behavioral Research, will give the Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation, "Are Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms at Play in Depression?" at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 1, in room CW106 of the Classroom Wing.
For more information, call Alexis Hicks at 5-5588 or email her at amhicks@umc.edu.
Physiology professor to discuss computer simulation
Robert L. Hester, professor of physiology, interim chair of the Department of Data Sciences and director of the Center for Computational Medicine, will give the Population Health Grand Rounds presentation, "Use of Computer Simulation to Understand Population Responses to Therapy," from noon-1 p.m. on Monday, June 4, in the fourth floor conference room of the research center.
For more information, email Sondra Redmont at sredmont@umc.edu.
Chief resident to cover landmark breast cancer trials
Dr. Ashley Griffin Ray, chief resident, will give the UMMC Department of Surgery Grand Rounds presentation, "Breast Cancer: Review of Landmark Trials and Future Treatment," from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 6, in room CW106 of the Classroom Wing.
Continuing medical education credit is available. For more information, call Jodi Boyd at 4-5102 or email jboyd@umc.edu.
Physiology prof to investigate birth weight, kidney, HTN
Dr. Barbara Alexander, professor of physiology and biophysics and director of the Analytical and Assay Core, will give the Department of Physiology and Biophysics presentation, "Low Birth Weight, the Kidney and Hypertension: Does Sex Matter?" from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6, in room CW308 of the Classroom Wing.
Johns Hopkins professor to gather protein consensus
Dr. Doug Barrick, professor of biophysics at Johns Hopkins University, will give the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology presentation, "The Consensus Approach as a Means to Create Hyper-Stable Functional Proteins," at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6, in classroom 3A.
All Medical Center faculty, staff and students are invited. For more information, call Cherese Kelly at 4-1851.
Case Western obesity expert to review therapeutic approaches
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Dr. Bartolome Burguera, professor of medicine, director of obesity programs and executive medical director of the National Obesity and Diabetes Research Center at Tradition, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, will present "Interdisciplinary Therapeutic Approach to Severe Obesity" at noon on Thursday, June 14, in room CW308 of the Classroom Wing.
The presentation is sponsored by the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, the Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research and the Cardiorenal and Metabolic Diseases Research Center. Lunch will be available on a first-come basis. For more information, call Catherine Kaime at 5-0817 or email her at ckaime@umc.edu.
Mayo Clinic faculty to entertain nerve biopsy's role
Dr. Robert J. Spinner, professor of neurosurgery, orthopaedics and anatomy at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, will give the Neuroscience Grand Rounds 2018 Orlando J. Andy Lecture, "The Evolving Role of Nerve Biopsy," from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20, in the Bank Plus Conference Center on the second floor atrium mall of the Methodist Rehabilitation Center.
Continuing medical education credit is available. For more information, call Robin French at 4-5705 or email her at rfrench@umc.edu.
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UNHCR: Rohingya crisis needs lasting solutions
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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Rohingya children at a child-friendly space in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, in July 2019. © UNHCR/Antoine Tardy
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for renewed support and solutions for displaced and stateless Rohingya communities both within and outside of Myanmar today.
Three years on from the latest exodus of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar and sought sanctuary in Bangladesh from August 2017 onwards, challenges persist and continue to evolve. The COVID-19 pandemic has added additional complexities. The international community must not only maintain support for refugees and their host communities, but adapt to critical needs and expand the search for solutions.
Rohingya communities estimate that up to three-quarters of the Rohingya people are today living outside of Myanmar. UNHCR and the Government of Bangladesh have individually registered over 860,000 Rohingya refugees in the refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar. Bangladesh has demonstrated a profound humanitarian commitment to Rohingya refugees. It has ensured their protection and extended life-saving humanitarian support, and now hosts nine out of ten Rohingya refugees registered in the Asia-Pacific region. This generosity must be acknowledged through continued investment in both Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi host communities.
Ultimately, the solution to the plight of the Rohingya lies in Myanmar, and in comprehensively implementing the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, to which the Government of Myanmar has committed.
Creating conditions that are conducive to the Rohingya people’s safe and sustainable return will require whole of society engagement, resuming and enhancing the dialogue between the Myanmar authorities and Rohingya refugees, as well as other measures that help inspire trust. These include lifting restrictions on freedom of movement, reconfirming that internally displaced Rohingya can return to their own villages and providing a clear pathway towards citizenship.
Outside of Myanmar, our collective efforts must be directed not only to ensuring the dignity and well-being of the Rohingya today but also on preserving their hopes and improving prospects for their futures. This means working towards lasting solutions not only in Myanmar itself, but also through study and work opportunities outside of countries of asylum, and third-country pathways for those with the most acute vulnerabilities.
The strength and resilience of the Rohingya people in exile in Bangladesh and elsewhere have formed the backbone of the humanitarian response over the past three years, and supported the communities hosting them in turn. Respecting and recognizing their courage and capacities means ensuring they are not forgotten as the crisis enters a fourth year.
For more information on this topic, please contact:
In Cox’s Bazar, Louise Donovan, [email protected], +880 18 4732 7279
In Myanmar, Aoife Mc Donnell, [email protected], +959 403 487572
In Bangkok, Kasita Rochanakorn, [email protected], +66 64 932 0803
In Bangkok, Catherine Stubberfield, [email protected], +66 65 929 8062
In Geneva, Andrej Mahecic, [email protected], +41 79 642 97 09
In New York, Kathryn Mahoney, [email protected], +1 347 443 7646
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Venice Airport Informational Guide to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) - Non Official
Venice Airport (VCE)
Find the most important information about Venice Airport: Flights, Departures, Arrivals, Parking, Car Rentals, Hotels near the airport and other information about Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE). Plan your travel to VCE Airport with the information provided in this guide.
Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) serves Venice, Italy.
Venice Airport has a single passenger terminal.
VCE Airport is a focus city for easyJet.
The Grand Canal in Venice is a must-see attraction.
Venice Marco Polo Airport (IATA: VCE, ICAO: LIPZ), also known as Venice-Tessera Airport, is the main international airport serving Venice, being the fourth busiest airport in Italy.
Venice Airport is located 8 km (5 miles) and 4.3 nautical miles north of Tessera, in the Comune of Venice, close to Mestre.
VCE Airport is a focus city for easyJet and Volotea.
Venice Marco Polo Airport handled 11,184,608 passengers in 2018.
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About Venice
Venice, in Italian Venezia, is the capital of Veneto region and is located in northeastern Italy. It comprises 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by 400 bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Venice is one of the most visited cities in the world and a major tourist and cruise destination.
The city highlights for its architecture and artwork, which played an important role during Renaissance period as well as in the history of symphonic and opera music for being the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.
While your stay in Venice you shouldn’t miss Piazza San Marco, St Mark’s Campanile and Basilica, Doge’s Palace, Bridge Priuli a Santa Sofia, Grand Canal, among others.
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These are the means of transportation from Venice Marco Polo Airport to city centre:
Bus: Several bus services are available at Venice Airport.
Taxi: Get within 20 minutes to downtown Venice from Marco Polo Airport by taxi.
Train: Venice Airport doesn’t have a railway station. The closest stations are Mestre Railway Station and Santa Lucia Railway Station.
Water Boat: Water Boat service at Venice Airport is owned by Alilaguna, which serves 3 lines.
Car rental: Rent a car at Venice Airport and enjoy your stay in Veneto region. Check our search engine for further details!
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – How much is about two hours of your time worth?
Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, thanks to a recent charity auction on eBay, can give a precise market value for the time it takes have breakfast with him: $9,400. That’s the cumulative price two entrepreneurs paid to shoot the breeze with Mr. Jurvetson over Huevos Rancheros and coffee at Buck’s, the Silicon Valley eatery that is to venture capital what Sardi’s is to Broadway.
The auction, an idea conceived of by a friend of Buck’s owner Jamis MacNiven, was held to benefit the Emergency Housing Consortium, a network of eight homeless shelters scattered throughout Silicon Valley. By virtue of Buck’s proximity to Sand Hill Road, Mr. MacNiven has grown friendly with many of the Valley’s top VCs, who often dine at the restaurant with hopeful entrepreneurs pitching their business plans.
When Mr. MacNiven contacted his regular customer Mr. Jurvetson about the idea, the VC was more than happy to oblige. Mr. Jurvetson, who estimated that he dines at Buck’s several times a week, has a particular interest in the homeless, as he did some pro bono work with shelters in San Francisco while he was at Bain Capital.
But did Mr. Jurvetson believe that a breakfast with him could command so much money?
“I didn’t know what to expect,” he said. “I thought, Maybe a friend will put up a few hundred dollars as a joke.’ I didn’t think an entrepreneur would be a real factor.”
One aspiring entrepreneur proved Mr. Jurvetson wrong. Mark Hernandez, a New York investment banker and Internet investor, was briefly introduced to Mr. Jurvetson once before though a mutual acquaintance. He wanted another opportunity to discuss a few of his Internet investments with the VC when he heard about the eBay auction.
“A friend called me and said, You’re not going to believe this, but Steve’s being auctioned on eBay,'” Mr. Hernandez said. “I thought, What a great sort of angle to meet Steve.'”
The would-be entrepreneur looks forward to his chance to pick the brain of the well-respected VC. “Steve is quite possibly one of the most impressive people I’ve ever met,” Mr. Hernandez said. “He’s very down-to-earth. He just gets it.”
Remarkably, however, Mr. Hernandez’s $4,400 winning bid was not the end of the story. Soon after the week-long auction ended, another undisclosed entrepreneur contacted the Emergency Housing Consortium complaining that he had been unable to log onto the auction, but offered to pay $5,000 if the charity could arrange a second breakfast. Again, Mr. Jurvetson agreed.
The auction was such a success, the Emergency Housing Consortium is considering making it a regular fund raising event. “We had no idea going in if the concept would ever fly,” said Maury Kendall, communications manager for the charity. The organization sought bidders’ feedback after the auction, and the response was unequivocally positive, Mr. Kendall said.
Can a VC’s time really be worth about $80 a minute? Well, the money is for charity, and at least everyone gets a free meal out of the deal. Buck’s is picking up the tab.
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Augmented Reality Disappeared From Gartner’s Hype Cycle – What’s Next?
ARPost
In the AR industry, this news left some open-mouthed: augmented reality is officially out of Gartner’s Hype Cycle. After climbing up the curve steadily year by year in the cycle, augmented reality took a steep ride down to the trough of disillusionment in 2018. But then the surprise came: last year augmented reality was entirely removed from the Hype Cycle. Augmented Reality’s Journey in the Cycle. MORE
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How Is Augmented Reality Enhancing Indoor Wayfinding
Fortunately, augmented reality and other immersive technologies make indoor wayfinding possible. Augmented reality wayfinding serves as a digital guide. See Also: 4 Applications of Augmented Reality in Physical Security. Much like Google Maps traffic alerts, it can streamline customer flow in crowded commercial establishments. Sabarish Gnanamoorthy, a 14-year-old innovator, is one of many developers dabbling with augmented reality wayfinding. MORE
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Google Teams with New York Times to Deliver 'Stranger Things' Augmented Reality Easter Egg in Newspapers
The promotions around last week's release of Stranger Things 3 have been numerous, with Netflix at one point even taking over an entire baseball field via augmented reality. On Thursday, Google released a new Google Lens experience that allows users to see old. MORE
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Burberry Teams with Google Search to Let You Browse High Fashion in Augmented Reality
Now, at the start of Paris Fashion Week — shadowed by similar worries — Burberry has launched an augmented reality tool that lets you view the latest high fashion from the comfort of your home. The international brand has harnessed the powers of Google Search to allow tech-centric fashionistas to experience its latest creations in immersive AR. Don't Miss: Hands-On — Here's How Augmented Reality in Google Search Works Now when you enter a search for either the "Burberry. MORE
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How Fuse.it Is Reshaping Advertising With Augmented Reality
Augmented reality has come a long way over the years. See Also: Google Swirl Redefines Advertising With Its 3D Ad Format. Augmented Reality in Advertising. to ask about their patented augmented reality solution. MORE
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Bookful Expands Its Massive Augmented Reality Library With Mattel’s Thomas & Friends And Barbie
Download Bookful from the App Store and Google Play to begin your immersive reading adventure. The post Bookful Expands Its Massive Augmented Reality Library With Mattel’s Thomas & Friends And Barbie appeared first on VRScout. MORE
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Five Tech Titans Bullish on Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) became more widely known after the success of Pokémon Go in 2016. The leaders of tech juggernauts like Apple, Google, and Facebook have been making aggressive moves into the space while publicly endorsing the world-changing potential of AR. In typical Microsoft style, their flagship mixed reality product HoloLens tends to cater to the enterprise market. The post Five Tech Titans Bullish on Augmented Reality appeared first on VRScout. MORE
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5 Industries Which Could Benefit From Augmented Reality Post COVID
Augmented reality has been making waves in a number of industries including healthcare, events, and sports. But, with the pandemic accelerating interest in augmented and virtual-related technologies, this figure might have underestimated the potential growth. MORE
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Google Grants Augmented Reality Access to Historic Art of Chauvet Cave via Arts & Culture App & Google Search
Thanks to augmented reality, the cave is now virtually open to the public once again. Don't Miss: Google Arts & Culture Builds AR Replica of Bangladeshi Mosque as Part of Historic Site Preservation Project Google's Arts and Culture team, working in partnership with the site's caretaker, Syndicat Mixte de la Grotte Chauvet, has published a collection of immersive content that enables the public. MORE
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Why is Augmented Reality Taking Such a Long Time to Gain Popularity?
Here’s a thought-provoking statistic: 70% of Snapchat users (almost 130 million) spend three or more minutes a day using augmented reality. See Also: Shoes That Fit Without Trying Them On — Thanks to Augmented Reality Online Shopping Will Never Be the Same. MORE
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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?
In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1 MORE
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Hands-On: Here's How Augmented Reality in Google Search Works
Lions and tigers and bears are just a few of the animals that Google users can now bring into their physical environments. Less than a month after previewing augmented reality capabilities in Search at Google I/O, Google has begun to roll out support for embedding 3D content into mobile search results, which can be viewed in AR on ARCore compatible devices. MORE
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Discover How Melting Ice Is Changing Mt Kilimanjaro in an Augmented Reality Film The Last Ascent
You’ll be able to witness this for yourself through an augmented reality video experience with Canadian ice climber Will Gadd. Augmented Reality for Climate Change Education. The Last Ascent is an augmented reality experience for on-demand video streaming. MORE
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Google & Magic Leap Developer Create Augmented Reality Mobile Apps for Warping Real World into Art
Because of its ability to place digital content into the real world, augmented reality lends itself well to artists and creatives. Two new mobile apps, one from Google and another from an indie developer with ties to Magic Leap, invert the creative conceit by taking the real world and morphing it via augmented reality. Don't Miss: Google's ARCore Updates Bring Scene Viewer for AR on Web & Search, Improvements to Image. MORE
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Assembling IKEA Furniture Could Be Easier With Augmented Reality
Before you jump on the Apple or Google App store looking for this app, AssembleAR is a proof of concept, so unfortunately the app isn’t available anywhere for now. Finished or not, AssembleAR is an interesting idea and proves that the future self-assembly manual for IKEA – as well as other step-by-step manuals – could have a life in augmented reality, and end up saving us all a lot of time and frustration. News AR AseembleAR Augmented Reality IKEA MORE
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Google Poly Is Shutting Down
Google has instructed users to download their personal libraries before June 30, 2021. VR content creators woke up today with a shocking email from Google stating that the company would be shutting down their 3D model sharing platform Google Poly. Google Poly is shutting down!! MORE
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Google Brings Augmented Reality to the Mainstream by Adding AR Content to Search
If Google hasn't already demonstrated that it is serious about augmented reality, then it made it abundantly clear at the Google I/O keynote on Tuesday. After opening remarks from Google CEO Sundar Pinchai, which included a preview of AR navigation included in the Google I/O app for Android and iOS, Aparna Chennapragada, vice president and head of product for augmented reality, virtual reality, and Lens, took the stage for updates on augmented reality. MORE
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D.S. Bradford Launches Augmented Reality Art Initiative Into Space
Bradford has activated his new augmented reality initiative, Go Love Universally, on the International Space Station and Mars. Pushing Boundaries With Augmented Reality. The Future of Augmented Reality Art. It’s available on Google Play and the App Store. MORE
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Google Wants Everyone to Try Scribble Art in Augmented Reality
As part of its ARCore push this week, Google has promoted Just a Line from one-time AR experiment to a full-fledged app. Available now in the Play Store, the dead-simple augmented reality drawing app makes the old Microsoft Paint app look like Adobe Illustrator. After the app establishes the user's orientation to the floor, users simply hold their fingers on their smartphone's screen and move the device around their environment to draw lines. MORE
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Escaping from Augmented Reality
Scriptum is currently available to download on Google play and iTunes for free, but there is no doubt that there is a very attractive commercial market for this sort of product out there. Scriptum is currently available to download on Google play and iTunes for free, but there is no doubt that there is a very attractive commercial market for this sort of product out there Click To Tweet. The post Escaping from Augmented Reality appeared first on Tech Trends. MORE
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Lenovo Starts Shipping Augmented Reality Enabled Google Tango Phone
So far in 2016 we’ve seen Samsung’s Note 7 go from everyone’s favorite cell phone to everyone’s favorite explosive device , the release of Google’s brand new Pixel line with DayDream support and Apple start riots over the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7. Well the fun isn’t over quite yet, as Chinese tech giant Lenovo has officially unveiled their new Phab 2 Pro, the first phone to support the state-of-the-art Google Tango technology. MORE
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Here's How Augmented Reality in Google Search Works
How Augmented Reality Supports Social Distancing
Even though the global health crisis brought the world to a standstill, the augmented reality scene has been thriving. Augmented Reality and Social Distancing Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 . Augmented Reality, Making Workplaces Safe. MORE
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Google Adds 50 New AR Animals To Google App & Chrome
Google has expanded its lineup of 3D animals available via Google Search with 50 new creatures. In a video released on Twitter, the company showcases just a handful of the augmented reality animals now accessible via the Google app and compatible Chrome browsers. MORE
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Apple Unveils ARKit For Augmented Reality
A new generation of iOS augmented reality apps are coming. Apple is jumping firmly into the world of augmented reality. In many ways, Apple is trying to keep up with competitors like Google, who already have their Tango augmented and mixed reality platform. Aside from Google, Facebook and Snapchat also are making large pushes in AR, letting you see virtual objects in the real world just by pointing your camera on your phone. MORE
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Google ARCore Brings Augmented Reality to Android
Apple’s massive leap into augmented reality with no additional sensors or hardware, only the phone in your pocket, seemingly opened up the largest AR platform in the world overnight. And as developers continued to experiment with the ARKit platform, creating some pretty killer apps , it left us scratching our heads wondering where Google fell into this mix now. It looks like Google had something up their sleeves the whole time. Image Credit: Google. MORE
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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet
Extended reality in visual solutions is making the headlines. But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. How Augmented Reality Works. Examples of Augmented Reality in Action. MORE
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Book Review: Mark Pesce’s “Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing”
Mark Pesce’s book Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing comes to shelves in January, but Polity Books put an advance copy in our hands at ARPost. The book takes a long look at augmented reality’s past in an attempt to warn us about its potential future. MORE
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Augmented Reality Top 8 of 2018
As a new communications medium, Augmented Reality (AR) is changing the way we consume and share knowledge and how we express ourselves creatively. These AR projects, apps, products, and tools are helping to rewrite reality and the way we engage with our immediate surroundings and world at large. Snapchat is using visualization to temporarily reveal something that is currently unavailable in reality: Big Ben. Partial diminished reality.”. MORE
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Transit Navigation App Moovit Adds Augmented Reality Way Finder Feature to Challenge Google Maps Live View
As helpful as it is, Google Maps isn't the only mapping app with augmented reality walking navigation anymore. Don't Miss: Hands-On with Google Maps Walking AR Navigation Experiment, a Peek into Our Smartglasses Future The feature is rolling out immediately to the iOS. This week, Israel-based startup Moovit introduced a new AR navigation feature called Way Finder for its eponymous navigation app for public transit and ridesharing services. MORE
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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner
According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. This news comes one year later than a similar one regarding Virtual Reality : in a popular post of mine of 2018, I highlighted how in that year VR had disappeared from the Gartner Hype Cycle (the curve showing the current maturity status of all emerging technologies). augmented reality Best articles market MORE
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Google Arts & Culture Offers 'Pocket Gallery' Augmented Reality Museum Featuring Picasso, Van Gogh, & More
After debuting its virtual Pocket Gallery last year with the works of Johannes Vermeer, Google Arts & Culture has released a sequel that brings even more artists into your home via augmented reality. Available in the Google Arts & Culture app for iOS and Android, "The Art of Color" features 33 famous paintings from around the world organized into wings by color palette, with Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh among the featured artists. MORE
My predictions for augmented reality in 2019
Augmented Reality in 2018. You may hate or love Magic Leap, but the fact that it has released a product is for sure a great news for all the ecosystem : if after all those investments, that startup failed, it would have had a ripple effect on all the ecosystem, making investors lose trust in augmented reality. This has been an enormous endorsement for augmented reality. Predictions for Augmented Reality in 2019. Google Maps in AR). MORE
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Augmented Reality Revives 300-Year-Old Boston Bookstore
A bookstore in Boston celebrated its 300th birthday with an augmented reality makeover. It’s not yet on the Google Play store — but you can download its SDK from HBI. The post Augmented Reality Revives 300-Year-Old Boston Bookstore appeared first on VRScout. News AR Augmented Reality Boston Historic Boston Incorporated Old Corner Bookstore VuforiaBookstore from 1718 meets the future past. MORE
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Snapchat, Facebook, Google, 8th Wall, & Immersion Bring Holiday Cheer via Augmented Reality
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Google’s Augmented Reality Microscope Quickly Highlights Cancer Cells
Discovering and diagnosing cancer may have just become much easier thanks to augmented reality. Google Research this week revealed an AR microscope (ARM) capable of detecting cancerous cells in real-time with the help of machine learning. It’s effectively doing the same job as a doctor just, according to Google, a lot faster. MORE
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Experiencing Art With Augmented Reality
The key, he believes, is to use immersive technologies such as Augmented Reality to seamlessly add digital elements to those existing and well-loved experiences, making them richer and more accessible in the process. They want to become the go-to solution for artists, galleries and creators and change the way art is created and consumed while building a community and movement around augmented reality art. Augmented Reality Will Reinvent How We Experience Art [link]. MORE
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Even though the global health crisis brought the world to a standstill, the augmented reality scene has been thriving. Augmented Reality and Social Distancing Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 . Augmented Reality, Making Workplaces Safe.
As a new communications medium, Augmented Reality (AR) is changing the way we consume and share knowledge and how we express ourselves creatively. These AR projects, apps, products, and tools are helping to rewrite reality and the way we engage with our immediate surroundings and world at large. Snapchat is using visualization to temporarily reveal something that is currently unavailable in reality: Big Ben. Partial diminished reality.”.
Augmented Reality in 2018. You may hate or love Magic Leap, but the fact that it has released a product is for sure a great news for all the ecosystem : if after all those investments, that startup failed, it would have had a ripple effect on all the ecosystem, making investors lose trust in augmented reality. This has been an enormous endorsement for augmented reality. Predictions for Augmented Reality in 2019. Google Maps in AR).
Apple’s massive leap into augmented reality with no additional sensors or hardware, only the phone in your pocket, seemingly opened up the largest AR platform in the world overnight. And as developers continued to experiment with the ARKit platform, creating some pretty killer apps , it left us scratching our heads wondering where Google fell into this mix now. It looks like Google had something up their sleeves the whole time. Image Credit: Google.
Augmented reality has been making waves in a number of industries including healthcare, events, and sports. But, with the pandemic accelerating interest in augmented and virtual-related technologies, this figure might have underestimated the potential growth.
According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. This news comes one year later than a similar one regarding Virtual Reality : in a popular post of mine of 2018, I highlighted how in that year VR had disappeared from the Gartner Hype Cycle (the curve showing the current maturity status of all emerging technologies). augmented reality Best articles market
Scriptum is currently available to download on Google play and iTunes for free, but there is no doubt that there is a very attractive commercial market for this sort of product out there. Scriptum is currently available to download on Google play and iTunes for free, but there is no doubt that there is a very attractive commercial market for this sort of product out there Click To Tweet. The post Escaping from Augmented Reality appeared first on Tech Trends.
Download Bookful from the App Store and Google Play to begin your immersive reading adventure. The post Bookful Expands Its Massive Augmented Reality Library With Mattel’s Thomas & Friends And Barbie appeared first on VRScout.
Lions and tigers and bears are just a few of the animals that Google users can now bring into their physical environments. Less than a month after previewing augmented reality capabilities in Search at Google I/O, Google has begun to roll out support for embedding 3D content into mobile search results, which can be viewed in AR on ARCore compatible devices.
Snapchat isn't the only tech company transforming landmarks with augmented reality for Pride Month. Available via the App Store and Google Play, the app, along with an accompanying documentary released on.
In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1
Extended reality in visual solutions is making the headlines. But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. How Augmented Reality Works. Examples of Augmented Reality in Action.
Now, at the start of Paris Fashion Week — shadowed by similar worries — Burberry has launched an augmented reality tool that lets you view the latest high fashion from the comfort of your home. The international brand has harnessed the powers of Google Search to allow tech-centric fashionistas to experience its latest creations in immersive AR. Don't Miss: Hands-On — Here's How Augmented Reality in Google Search Works Now when you enter a search for either the "Burberry.
Bradford has activated his new augmented reality initiative, Go Love Universally, on the International Space Station and Mars. Pushing Boundaries With Augmented Reality. The Future of Augmented Reality Art. It’s available on Google Play and the App Store.
A bookstore in Boston celebrated its 300th birthday with an augmented reality makeover. It’s not yet on the Google Play store — but you can download its SDK from HBI. The post Augmented Reality Revives 300-Year-Old Boston Bookstore appeared first on VRScout. News AR Augmented Reality Boston Historic Boston Incorporated Old Corner Bookstore VuforiaBookstore from 1718 meets the future past.
Google has instructed users to download their personal libraries before June 30, 2021. VR content creators woke up today with a shocking email from Google stating that the company would be shutting down their 3D model sharing platform Google Poly. Google Poly is shutting down!!
A new generation of iOS augmented reality apps are coming. Apple is jumping firmly into the world of augmented reality. In many ways, Apple is trying to keep up with competitors like Google, who already have their Tango augmented and mixed reality platform. Aside from Google, Facebook and Snapchat also are making large pushes in AR, letting you see virtual objects in the real world just by pointing your camera on your phone.
If Google hasn't already demonstrated that it is serious about augmented reality, then it made it abundantly clear at the Google I/O keynote on Tuesday. After opening remarks from Google CEO Sundar Pinchai, which included a preview of AR navigation included in the Google I/O app for Android and iOS, Aparna Chennapragada, vice president and head of product for augmented reality, virtual reality, and Lens, took the stage for updates on augmented reality.
Thanks to augmented reality, the cave is now virtually open to the public once again. Don't Miss: Google Arts & Culture Builds AR Replica of Bangladeshi Mosque as Part of Historic Site Preservation Project Google's Arts and Culture team, working in partnership with the site's caretaker, Syndicat Mixte de la Grotte Chauvet, has published a collection of immersive content that enables the public.
Here’s a thought-provoking statistic: 70% of Snapchat users (almost 130 million) spend three or more minutes a day using augmented reality. See Also: Shoes That Fit Without Trying Them On — Thanks to Augmented Reality Online Shopping Will Never Be the Same.
Augmented reality (AR) became more widely known after the success of Pokémon Go in 2016. The leaders of tech juggernauts like Apple, Google, and Facebook have been making aggressive moves into the space while publicly endorsing the world-changing potential of AR. In typical Microsoft style, their flagship mixed reality product HoloLens tends to cater to the enterprise market. The post Five Tech Titans Bullish on Augmented Reality appeared first on VRScout.
As part of its ARCore push this week, Google has promoted Just a Line from one-time AR experiment to a full-fledged app. Available now in the Play Store, the dead-simple augmented reality drawing app makes the old Microsoft Paint app look like Adobe Illustrator. After the app establishes the user's orientation to the floor, users simply hold their fingers on their smartphone's screen and move the device around their environment to draw lines.
Mark Pesce’s book Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing comes to shelves in January, but Polity Books put an advance copy in our hands at ARPost. The book takes a long look at augmented reality’s past in an attempt to warn us about its potential future.
Google has expanded its lineup of 3D animals available via Google Search with 50 new creatures. In a video released on Twitter, the company showcases just a handful of the augmented reality animals now accessible via the Google app and compatible Chrome browsers.
Before you jump on the Apple or Google App store looking for this app, AssembleAR is a proof of concept, so unfortunately the app isn’t available anywhere for now. Finished or not, AssembleAR is an interesting idea and proves that the future self-assembly manual for IKEA – as well as other step-by-step manuals – could have a life in augmented reality, and end up saving us all a lot of time and frustration. News AR AseembleAR Augmented Reality IKEA
The promotions around last week's release of Stranger Things 3 have been numerous, with Netflix at one point even taking over an entire baseball field via augmented reality. On Thursday, Google released a new Google Lens experience that allows users to see old.
After debuting its virtual Pocket Gallery last year with the works of Johannes Vermeer, Google Arts & Culture has released a sequel that brings even more artists into your home via augmented reality. Available in the Google Arts & Culture app for iOS and Android, "The Art of Color" features 33 famous paintings from around the world organized into wings by color palette, with Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh among the featured artists.
You’ll be able to witness this for yourself through an augmented reality video experience with Canadian ice climber Will Gadd. Augmented Reality for Climate Change Education. The Last Ascent is an augmented reality experience for on-demand video streaming.
Discovering and diagnosing cancer may have just become much easier thanks to augmented reality. Google Research this week revealed an AR microscope (ARM) capable of detecting cancerous cells in real-time with the help of machine learning. It’s effectively doing the same job as a doctor just, according to Google, a lot faster.
Why spend the time and money for a bougie photoshoot, saccharine card design, and postage when you can use augmented reality to instantly dress up photos and videos to send to friends and family instead? Sending Christmas cards via snail mail is so passé. Luckily, there is a wide range of holiday-themed camera effects and 3D content for well-wishers to reinvent the time-honored task of bringing good tidings to you and your kin.
Augmented reality has come a long way over the years. See Also: Google Swirl Redefines Advertising With Its 3D Ad Format. Augmented Reality in Advertising. to ask about their patented augmented reality solution.
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In the AR industry, this news left some open-mouthed: augmented reality is officially out of Gartner’s Hype Cycle. After climbing up the curve steadily year by year in the cycle, augmented reality took a steep ride down to the trough of disillusionment in 2018. But then the surprise came: last year augmented reality was entirely removed from the Hype Cycle. Augmented Reality’s Journey in the Cycle.
As helpful as it is, Google Maps isn't the only mapping app with augmented reality walking navigation anymore. Don't Miss: Hands-On with Google Maps Walking AR Navigation Experiment, a Peek into Our Smartglasses Future The feature is rolling out immediately to the iOS. This week, Israel-based startup Moovit introduced a new AR navigation feature called Way Finder for its eponymous navigation app for public transit and ridesharing services.
Because of its ability to place digital content into the real world, augmented reality lends itself well to artists and creatives. Two new mobile apps, one from Google and another from an indie developer with ties to Magic Leap, invert the creative conceit by taking the real world and morphing it via augmented reality. Don't Miss: Google's ARCore Updates Bring Scene Viewer for AR on Web & Search, Improvements to Image.
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So far in 2016 we’ve seen Samsung’s Note 7 go from everyone’s favorite cell phone to everyone’s favorite explosive device , the release of Google’s brand new Pixel line with DayDream support and Apple start riots over the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7. Well the fun isn’t over quite yet, as Chinese tech giant Lenovo has officially unveiled their new Phab 2 Pro, the first phone to support the state-of-the-art Google Tango technology.
Fortunately, augmented reality and other immersive technologies make indoor wayfinding possible. Augmented reality wayfinding serves as a digital guide. See Also: 4 Applications of Augmented Reality in Physical Security. Much like Google Maps traffic alerts, it can streamline customer flow in crowded commercial establishments. Sabarish Gnanamoorthy, a 14-year-old innovator, is one of many developers dabbling with augmented reality wayfinding.
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Guyana is South America's new drug smuggling route
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Drug traffickers are running increasing amounts of marijuana and Brazilian cocaine past outmanned Guyanese authorities, exploiting a new route to the United States and Europe, officials say.
The small but growing traffic in cocaine was largely due to Colombian drug lords who have moved their laboratories into the jungles of neighboring Brazil to refine coca paste into cocaine, said Sgt. Ronald Geer, head of anti-narcotics operations for the Guyana national police.
Their 'mules' then transport the drug eastward over the poorly guarded border into Guyana, where they catch airline flights bound for the United States and Europe. The new route avoids Colombia and Venezuela, where authorities have stiffened efforts against trafficking, officials said.
'We know there has been a sharp increase in cocaine through Guyana and Georgetown, mostly small couriers,' said Robert Candelaria, agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Caracas, Venezuela.
'It's an emerging problem. If nothing is done it could grow considerably more,' the DEA agent said.
The United States reacted to the drug traffic last month by supplying four 36-foot patrol boats to police and customs officers in Guyana, an English-speaking country of 800,000 people on the northeastern coast of South America.
The number of Guyanese arrested on drug-possession charges around the world has soared, with the number detained at foreign commercial airports rising from two in 1981 to 53 last year, the DEA reported. There have been 38 arrests this year through the end of August.
Geer and Candelaria said most of the cocaine was still moved in relatively small amounts of a few kilograms or less, not in the planeloads that characterize shipments from Colombia.
But over the past three years, the amount of marijuana seized shot up almost 2,500 percent, from 4,700 pounds in 1984 to 100,528 pounds last year. The amount of cocaine picked up by officers rose from 3.7 pounds in 1984 to 18 in 1986, Geer said.
The rule of thumb in law enforcement is that the amount of drugs seized usually represents only about one-tenth of what's getting through.
Indictments on marijuana charges, meantime, about doubled, from 181 in 1984 to 356 in 1986. Those for cocaine rose from three to 22.
For the first eight months of 1987, the seizure figures dramatically declined, but Geer said the drop did not indicate less trafficking so much as worsening enforcement -- including the loss of three of his best officers when theyemigrated to the United States.
Figures for the first eight months of 1987 showed some 3,250 pounds of marijuana had been seized and 307 people indicted on marijuana charges. Only 10 ounces of cocaine had been picked up by authorities and charges had been leveled against only two people for cocaine, Geer said.
The flood of Guyanese emigrating because of worsening economic conditions -- estimated at 3 percent of the population annually -- may also be contributing to the trafficking, he said.
Geer said most marijuana was being grown along rivers near Georgetown on plots of one acre or less. It was then sent directly to the United States or through Caribbean islands.
He described it as potent as the famed Jamaican 'ganja.'
'We've been making more cases in smaller amounts, which shows we've not been hitting the larger dealers, just the retailers and users,' said Geer, a stocky man in an open-necked shirt. He spoke across a desk crowded with confiscated drug paraphernalia and a pillowcase-sized bag of marijuana.
His narcotics operations squad has only 10 men and no drug-sniffing dogs. Until the patrol boats arrived from the United States last month, police had only one vessel to search thousands of miles of coastline and rivers -- including the 6-mile-wide Corentyne. And to cover the country's 83,000 square miles of jungle, mountains, swamp and scorching savanna, police have had to rely on the military for aircraft.
'We don't have anything,' Geer said.
In Brasilia, Paulo Marro, a spokesman for Brazil's federal police, declined to detail law-enforcement efforts against clandestine laboratories along the Guyana border.
However, he said that at the end of June Brazilian police destroyed 5.3 million cocaine plants and destroyed four processing laboratories at sites along the Colombian border.
'We have been receiving some information about the area near Guyana and we are working on it,' Marro said in a telephone interview. 'We are alert to the problem and our main concern is preventing Brazil from becoming a producer and exporter of cocaine.'
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Melanie Langness is a policy assistant in the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center. She works on the Victimization and Juvenile Justice team. Langness’s research focuses on analyzing systems of violence and harm while centering a community-conscious and trauma-informed lens. Her recent research includes a national scan of trauma-informed care and victim services for incarcerated women, an evaluation of an abusive partner intervention program, and ongoing technical capacity-building work with victim service organizations in Washington, DC. Langness is a mixed-methods researcher with experience in surveying, qualitative coding, community-engaged methods, and narrative work.
Before coming to Urban, Langness worked on campus sexual assault issues, researched domestic violence policy, and studied the spatial manifestations of social injustices as she earned her degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from UNC with highest distinction and honors as a Morehead-Cain scholar with a bachelor of arts in political science and double minors in public policy and art history.
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Make Tortellini With Chef Massimo Bottura
In His New MasterClass, Italy's Best Chef Shares His Secrets for Pasta and Pesto
In 2016 and 2018, Chef Massimo Bottura's three-Michelin-starred Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy was named the best restaurant in the world.
So, if someone's going to teach you the intricacies of making tortellini, you could do a lot worse.
It's all happening via Bottura's new MasterClass. The 14-part video-based lesson in pasta, pesto, soufflé and other Italian delights is available now. And, while it's not promising to net you a Michelin star (although it's not not promising that either), it can certainly spruce up your next dinner.
You might recognize Bottura from his feature on "Chef's Table." Or from his book Bread Is Gold. Or maybe you saw him in TIME Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2019. The point is: the guy gets around, and he seems to have great time management skills. But everything he does is predicated on the fact that he's really good at making Italian food. And, unless you're some kind of cooking savant, this is likely your best chance to get some personal instruction from him.
Over the course of 12 lessons and a couple of bonus videos, you'll learn to make pesto from scratch. You'll glean insights into the classic Emilia-Romagna dish that is tortellini, from mastering the dough to creating a rich and delicious cream sauce. You'll learn the ins and outs of making tagliatelle with ragù, pumpkin risotto and a light, airy soufflé. And, in an unexpected turn of events, you'll even learn how to make Bottura's regionally-inspired interpretation of a burger.
When it's all over, you'll probably be really hungry. But you'll also be armed with hours of unrivaled instruction from Italy's best chef. Plus a downloadable cookbook full of lesson recaps and recipes that you can use to open your own Italian restaurant.
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A recent study by Ofcom of the habits of web users in the UK showed that the smartphone has overtaken the laptop; becoming the most popular device used to access the internet.
According to the study, 33% of internet users in the UK consider their smartphone to be their primary tool for surfing the web, closely beating the 30% who prefer the laptop. This demonstrates an undeniable change in the taste of web users compared to the results of last year’s study, when the laptop was still twice as popular as the smartphone.
The popularity of smartphones has inevitably played a role in this as two-thirds of people in the UK now own a smartphone, however the surge in internet users who favour smartphones has primarily been attributed to increasing popularity of high-speed mobile networks, as 4G subscriptions have increased more than eightfold over the last year.
4G was first brought to the UK by EE in October 2012, with Three, O2 and Vodafone getting involved over the course of the following year. The UK carrier market has changed significantly since then: EE has been acquired by BT and O2 have been bought by Three.
The increasing popularity of 4G has also been linked to people using their smartphones for more than those without 4G, such as shopping, banking, watching TV, face-to-face calls as well as sending more photos and videos via text.
The smartphone trend has recently hit the UK’s middle-aged population. The study shows that smartphone ownership among 55-64 year olds has risen from 19% in 2012 to 50% this year – an increase of more than double. Tablets have also experienced a surge in popularity. In 2011, only 2% of UK households owned a tablet, yet in the space of just 4 years, this number has rocketed to 54%!
Smartphones have made social media more accessible than ever, and those aged 16-24 are using a more expansive range of social media services. Within this age group, popular sites include Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube and Instagram – all boasting over 30% of Brits aged 16-24 as users. Tumblr and Vine have seen increasing popularity, however Snapchat has become the most popular new social media site, having acquired over 25% of 16-24 year olds since its launch in 2011. Facebook still remains the dominant force in the social media world, with over 97% over adults possessing a Facebook account, and half of these saying they only use Facebook. A combined 51 billion minutes were spent by Brits on Facebook in March 2015 – 50% more than Google.
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Southern African Leaders To Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Reform First, Then Aid
Southern African leaders meeting in summit in Lusaka, Zambia, have told Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe they'll organize a bailout package for his country but that he must first institute political and economic reforms, diplomatic sources said Friday.
That stern message contrasted with the standing ovation given to Mugabe, 83, by the Southern African Development Community summit when it opened on Thursday, and the summit outcome was of more substance than many observers had expected.
The summit communiqué said South African President Thabo Mbeki assured leaders that talks between the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, were "progressing smoothly."
But SADC leaders urged Mbeki and the principals to speed up the process so that the general and presidential elections slated to be held in March 2008 "are held in a free and fair environment that encourages for a democratic outcome."
The U.S. State Department soon after issued a statement expressing support for the "initiative to resolve the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, including President Mbeki's mediation effort.." SADC's "engagement illustrates that the region considers the situation an increasing threat to stability and is committed to a democratic and prosperous Zimbabwe," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
"We regret," McCormack continued, "that the Mugabe regime has not expressed a similar commitment. Its obstructive actions, such as a lack of participation in scheduled talks and statements arguing against the need for mediation, have undermined this important initiative." He went on to "deplore the Mugabe regime's continued acts of oppression" against civic and political groups and other segments of society.
The SADC communiqué said the summit instructed SADC finance ministers to work with Harare to come up with an economic plan to support economic recovery - though the document did not spell out the conditionality cited by summit insiders.
The Zimbabwean economy has been contracting for the past eight years and over the past year inflation has accelerated to an annual rate in the vicinity of 5,000% - the government stopped issuing official inflation reports several months ago. Chronic shortages of maize and other foodstuffs have worsened into an emergency.
As generally expected, the communiqué contained no overt criticism of Mr. Mugabe's authoritarian political rule or his government's incoherent economic policies.
But diplomatic sources said SADC leaders grilled the region's elder statesman behind the scenes, telling him there would be no bailout without serious reforms.
It not clear what such a rescue package would include, but sources said Harare was seeking a financial lifeline to fund critical imports of food, fuel and electricity.
Observers including Zimbabwean civil society representatives in Lusaka said SADC’s decision to refuse Harare a rescue package was a step in the right direction.
Zimbabwe Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s earlier comments to reporters in Lusaka that political reforms were not needed, did not help Harare’s case.
For perspective, reporter Ndimyake Mwakalyele of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe turned to Professor Sulyman Nyang of Howard University, Washington, and Program Manager Pedzisayi Ruhanya of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition. The interview was conducted before the release late Friday of the SADC communiqué
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean non-governmental organizations at the summit complained that they were unable to freely lobby SADC officials, due to harassment and intimidation by agents of the Zambian and Zimbabwe security services.
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Chairman Arnold Tsunga said activists were monitored by plainclothes agents of both nations who sometimes posed as civil society delegates, and that members of civic organizations were sometimes heckled in meetings.
Earlier this week, about 40 Zimbabwean activists were refused entry to Zambia at the Chirundu border post and handed over to the Zimbabwean police.
On Thursday, a National Constitutional Assembly member was arrested in Lusaka – though later released – for possessing what were called subversive materials.
Director Joy Mambenge of the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development told reporter Patience Rusere that the harassment his group’s members experienced in Lusaka was very similar to the kind of treatment they were used to at home.
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New Volunteering Opportunities for January 2020
Online Volunteer Recruitment Fair
Saturday 23rd January 2021 10am-12.30pm
Want to get involved with volunteering in your local community? Find out how you could be making a difference in 2021 at Volunteer Centre West Berkshire’s Online Volunteer Recruitment Fair.
Meet representatives from a range of inspiring charitable organisations, all of whom are looking for volunteers in West Berkshire.
Join us live online via Zoom at any time during the fair by clicking the link at www.volunteerwestberks.org.uk
Covid-19 Testing Assistants
A local education provider needs to begin regular coronavirus testing of staff and students using Lateral Flow Antigen tests. By testing once a week, they will be helping to keep schools and colleges as safe as they can. Volunteers are being recruited to assist with the testing process, with various roles available ranging from collecting swabs, preparing samples for analysis and keeping swabbing bays clean.
These roles will suit volunteers with good interpersonal skills and an ability to record information accurately. Time commitment is flexible, with volunteers required throughout the week (testing is likely to be mainly daytime on weekdays). Training will be provided.
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Crowd Funding Specialist Lead
A specialist gym with power-assisted exercise equipment operates for the benefit of people with disabilities living locally. The centre is currently planning a new hydrotherapy premises.
Fundraising has been achieved mainly through grants and contact with regular supporters. The centre would also like to raise funds through social media. It is therefore looking for a volunteer with a sound knowledge of crowd funding and using it to generate significant charitable income.
The role would suit someone with strong social media expertise, and the passion to hit a big target and have fun on the way.
Enthusiastic and Skilled Carpenter
Are you an enthusiastic carpenter who would like to give something back to the community and improve the lives of young people?
A charity is in the process of refurbishing a local youth and community centre. It is looking for a volunteer carpenter to turn wood into robust furniture such as benches and tables. You will need the ability to transport the wood, design the furniture yourself and undertake the work off site with your own tools.
The project can be completed around your other commitments, with the charity hoping the furniture to be finished by summer 2021.
Fruit Orchard Project Volunteer
A national conservation charity which monitors wildlife species and habitats is seeking volunteers to carry out simple orchard surveys in the West Berkshire area. The results of these surveys will contribute to a national map of traditional orchards.
No experience is necessary, just an interest in exploring the countryside. The organisation will provide volunteers with survey packs, maps and full instructions of how to take part.
Access to a car would be desirable, although not essential if you enjoy walking.
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A West Berkshire organisation that provides support to people whose lives are affected by mental health issues is looking for new trustees.
They would particularly welcome people with financial, legal or HR skills from any sector. However, it is more important that you share the charity’s values, have a belief in the value of every individual and have a desire to help the charity continue to grow.
You should also support real service user empowerment and leadership, and be able to work constructively with the members’ management committee. The role would suit thoughtful, organised and compassionate volunteers.
For information about these and more than 350 other volunteering opportunities please contact Volunteer Centre West Berkshire via vbase@vcwb.org.uk or call 01635 49004
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the take Aug. 14, 2008
Whit Stillman Offers Praise for August Movies — and Might Finally Be Directing a New One
But Stillman also has something pretty interesting to say about a recent favorite Vulture topic, the August Movie — and how the crappiness of other August movies has both helped his films and (in the case of August anti-classic 54) hurt them.
Stillman points out that August has been a fertile time for his tiny movies to be released, since they stand out well against the total crap that’s out there most late summers:
Metropolitan came out the first weekend in August. It was just a wonderful time to come out. We got a lot of good attention. Barcelona was the last weekend in July. So, that had always been a great time for us.
But when The Last Days of Disco, Stillman’s delightful comedy starring Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, and Robert Sean Leonard came out in 1998, it was released earlier in the summer, in order to avoid disco-related competition from … the notoriously Augustine 54. “It was just a disaster,” Stillman says now:
Normally, if you are an independent film coming out against be big studio blockbusters, you are the ‘good’ kind of programming. Normally, [your competition] are just sort of stupid action movies or ’shoot-them-ups’ or whatever. But, in our case, the big summer movies were also critical favorites and Oscar favorites. So, we came out against Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan. The independent films were also very strong - The Opposite of Sex, Henry Fool. There were just so many things just at the same time. Even the Soderbergh film, I think, it was Out of Sight? Everything that came out was not only a good film, but a critical favorite … We just got run over. I mean, it initially did well. We had great weekends in the cities. But, we were steamrolled.
The good news? There’s word a Criterion edition of Disco might be coming out soon, which would make a nifty double feature with a bootleg copy of the Pansexual Ryan Phillippe edit of 54.
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extremely offline Updated Jan. 7, 2021
Twitter Does Bare Minimum, Temporarily Locks Donald Trump’s Account
By Chris Murphy@christress
Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Ultimately, it took a few tweets inciting a riotous mob to lay siege to the U.S. Capitol to get the president temporarily kicked off of Twitter. On January 6, Twitter announced that it has “required the removal” of three tweets from Donald Trump’s personal account, @realDonaldTrump, due to “repeated and severe violations of [Twitter’s] Civic Integrity policy,” including a video in which he once again falsely claimed that the results of the 2020 election were fraudulent. Trump’s account will also be locked for 12 hours after Trump removes said tweets, which have already been made unavailable to the public. If Trump does not remove the tweets, his account “will remain locked.” Trump’s favorite social media platform went so far as to threaten him with a “permanent suspension” if the president commits any “future violations” of the Twitter Rules. While Trump’s tweets from earlier today have been removed, the @realDonaldTrump account has not been suspended and all Trump’s other tweets are remain available for public consumption. Also, the official Twitter account for the president, @POTUS, is still up and running, though it’s unclear whether Trump has access to it at this time.
As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy. https://t.co/k6OkjNG3bM
This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.
Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.
Facebook also gave Trump a slap on the wrist for his fraudulent social media posts. After the president shared the aforementioned video message on Facebook, the social media platform removed the video and blocked Trump for 24 hours. “This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump’s video,” tweeted Guy Rosen, the VP of Integrity at Facebook. “We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.” So, there you have it: Trump cannot post on Twitter or Facebook for the time being, but still has access to the nuclear codes.
This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video. We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.
— Guy Rosen (@guyro) January 6, 2021
Update, January 7: Donald Trump’s temporary suspension from Facebook just got a lot longer. Publishing a statement on his personal Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg wrote that Trump’s suspension will be extended “for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.” This applies to Instagram, a Facebook-owned platform, as well. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg explained. “His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world.” Zuckerberg also acknowledged that while Trump’s posts and videos generally aligned with Facebook’s rules in the past, “the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.”
The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining...
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, January 7, 2021
Additionally, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed to CNN that Trump deleted the three tweets that prompted the temporary lock of his Twitter account. As such, Trump can begin tweeting again as early as today.
Joy Reid Delivers Powerful Speech on Capitol Siege and Race on MSNBC
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Flipping Art: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s New Enamelled Reverso Pays Tribute to Swiss Master Ferdinand Hodler
In addition to the many watch-world anniversaries being commemorated this year, 2018 also marks 100 years since the death of one of Switzerland’s best-known artists, 19th-century symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853 – 1918). And leave it to Swiss watchmaking maison Jaeger-LeCoultre, which has previously paid tribute to the work of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, to commemorate the occasion with a limited-edition Reverso watch from its heralded “Métiers Rares” workshops. Consisting of three models, each limited to only eight pieces, the Reverso Tribute Enamel is this week’s Watch to Watch.
“Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc in the Morning Light” (1918)
Like the Van Gogh watch that preceded them in 2016, the Reverso Tribute Enamel timepieces dedicated to Hodler are notable for their miniaturized reproductions of the artist’s works, executed in intricate engraving, enameling, and miniature painting, on the dials. The front dial on the swiveling Reverso case features an engraved “woven” motif, achieved with the use of a century-old guilloché machine, which is delicately rendered by an expert artisan and then covered in translucent grand feu enamel in a color that reflects the predominant tone of the miniature painting on the watch’s back dial. Each of these enamelled paintings, framed by an intricately engraved border as well as the Reverso case’s emblematic gadroons, re-creates in stunning detail one of Hodler’s masterpieces depicting the landscapes of his (and JLC’s) native Switzerland. The artisans at the brand’s Rare Handcrafts atelier in Le Sentier required at least 50 hours of work for each painting in order to reproduce, as faithfully as possible, Hodler’s canvases on the dial’s 3 cm x 2 cm surface.
The first of the Tribute Enamel editions (below) depicts “Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc in the Morning Light,” which Hodler produced shortly before his death in 1918. The pink and gold colors of the lake, as viewed in the early sunrise hours, harmonizes with the dark blue of the mountains and gold tones of the clouds for a tranquil scene, which is balanced by the light gray dial on the front side of the watch.
The 1904 painting, “Lake Thun with Symmetric Reflections Before Sunrise” (below), is re-created in miniature on the second model. The painting depicts a brighter scene with blue-shaded mountains, clear white and light blue waves of water, and a green-tinted foreground of rocks, echoed in the watch’s pine green front dial.
“Lake Thun with Symmetric Reflections Before Sunrise” (1904)
Another depiction of Lake Thun appears on the third watch (below), whose back side depicts the 1909 work, “Lake Thun, Symmetric Reflection.” Here, the reflections of the majestic Swiss Alps create a mirror effect of blue and white shades in water, while the front dial’s enamel finish is in a complimentary shade of sky blue.
“Lake Thun, Symmetric Reflection” (1909)
The classical, Art Deco-inspired rectangular case of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Enamel is made of white gold and measures 45.5 mm x 27.4 mm in diameter 9.73 mm thick. The dial’s faceted, applied hour markers, Dauphine hands, and railtrack minutes circle are other hallmark elements of the iconic Reverso model. Inside the case beats a Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture movement, the manually wound Caliber 822A/2. Prices for each of the three eight-piece limited editions are available on request.
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2 Responses to “Flipping Art: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s New Enamelled Reverso Pays Tribute to Swiss Master Ferdinand Hodler”
baxterross April 21, 2018
Spoken like a true hodler. lol love that! Another amazing, super informative video Carl
Chris Lee April 20, 2018
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It’s beginning to look a lot like shopping: West Town Mall to open early on Black Friday
by: Melanie Vásquez Russell
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The holiday shopping season is underway – first comes Thanksgiving, then comes Black Friday.
However, for many retailers Black Friday deals have been spread out throughout the holiday season; on Friday West Town Mall will be open for extended hours.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mall closed Thanksgiving Day but will reopen at 6 a.m. Friday morning through 9 p.m. Friday night. The rest of the weekend will see normal hours of operation, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. except for Sunday, when the mall closes at 6 p.m.
And let’s not forget who else will be at West Town Mall this weekend: Santa Claus. He arrives for socially distant visits on Friday, Nov. 27.
For more information about seeing Santa safely, click the story below.
6 things to know about seeing Santa at West Town Mall during the COVID-19 pandemic
Officers responded to the Mag Lounge at 2658 E. Magnolia Avenue around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday for a reported shooting. One male gunshot victim was found in the parking lot and transported to UT Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
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The Man With a Cloak
Stellar talents Barbara Stanwyck, Joseph Cotton, Leslie Caron and Louis Calhern bring shuddery believability to this literate, deliciously creepy tale set in 1848 New York. The story follows a spirited demoiselle (Caron) determined to save her fianc�'s grandfather from his malevolent - and possibly homicidal - servants. Fortified with glass after glass of on-the-cuff wine at a local tavern, an urbane, cloaked stranger comes to her aid. The gentleman displays keen detecting skills as the plot turns from suspicion to murder to the hunt for a missing will. But one thing he does not reveal: his own identity. Surrender yourself to mystery. And a cask of amontillado if you can guess who is The Man with a Cloak.
Actors: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron, Joe De Santis, Jim Backus, Margaret Wycherly, Richard Hale, Nicholas Joy, Roy Roberts, Mitchell Lewis,
Directors: Fletcher Markle,
Writers: Frank Fenton, John Carr,
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Hazmat crews called after 50 gallons of hydrochloric acid spills
Updated: 12:20 PM EDT Jul 19, 2017
WEBVTT KATIE, THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY IS CAUSE FOR CONCERN.KATIE: LUCKILY, THERE WERE NO INJURIES.THE LEAK IS UNDER CONTROL.CLEAN-UP IS UNDERWAY.JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE THIS ALL HAPPENED, THIS ISTHE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX THAT FORMERLY HOUSED TEXAS INSTRUMENTS.WE'RE TOLD THE LEAK CAME FROM A LARGE TANK OF HYDROCHLORIC ACID INSIDE THE FACILITY.IT SPILLED ABOUT 50 GALLONS.THIS WAS A LEVEL THREE HAZMAT SITUATION.THEY NEEDED TO PULL IN AS MANY RESOURCES AS POSSIBLE.THE CAUSE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION AT THIS TIME. >> IT SOUNDS LIKE A MECHANICAL PIPE FAILURE.THEY'LL DO A POST-INCIDENT ANALYSIS AND MAKE A DETERMINATION WHAT HAPPENED SO IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.OVERALL, THEIR FACILITIES ARE VERY SAFE AND OSHA COMPLIANT FACILITY.KATIE: THE EMPLOYEES FROM ALL OFTHE BUSINESSES INSIDE OF THIS CORPORATE BUSINESS PARK WERE EVACUATED.THEY HAVE BEEN LET BACK IN.AS FOR THE BUSINESS WHERE IT
No injuries were reported Wednesday after a hydrochloric acid spill in Attleboro.The spill was reported at Engineered Materials Solutions on Perry Avenue Wednesday morning. Hazmat teams responded to control and stabilize the leak. About 50 gallons of the chemical leaked. State officials said Wednesday's heat and humidity could make the operations more physically taxing for the hazmat team members.
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No injuries were reported Wednesday after a hydrochloric acid spill in Attleboro.
The spill was reported at Engineered Materials Solutions on Perry Avenue Wednesday morning.
Hazmat teams responded to control and stabilize the leak.
About 50 gallons of the chemical leaked.
State officials said Wednesday's heat and humidity could make the operations more physically taxing for the hazmat team members.
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Cllr Francis Whetstone
East Sussex County Councillor for Forest Row and Groombridge
Cllr Francis Whetstone is the East Sussex County Councillor for Forest Row and Groombridge, representing the parishes of Forest Row ; Frant ; Hartfield ; Rotherfield; and Withyham. He is also President of Wealden Conservatives.
He was elected in 1997 and is a member of the following ESCC committees:
Children's Services Scrutiny Committee
Commons and Village Green Registration Panel
Corporate Parenting Panel
Regulatory Committee
Scrutiny Review ‘Coping with Change - the Way Forward’.
as well as an appointment to Conservators of Ashdown Forest.
I was elected councillor for Forest Row in 1997, having moved to Sussex in 1969. I feel one of the key roles of a councillor is reminding the rest of the county that not all the county faces south to the sea.
I have been involved in politics since 1955 when I helped a friend of my father who was standing in the safe Labour seat of Hackney central. As a councillor, I like to think that, in one or two cases, I have been able to help residents to get a more satisfactory outcome to their problem than they might otherwise have achieved.
Withyham is a village and large civil parish 3.5 miles from Crowborough; the parish covers approximately 7,500 acres.
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Chairman: Mr John Chalke If you are interested in joining the branch please contact John on 01892 770540 or johnchalke@gmail.com
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Pittsburgh Police Officer Being Investigated For Using Taser At Downtown Pizzeria
By An-Li Herring • Dec 29, 2017
Pittsburgh Police Officer Ronald Hough is under investigation for using a taser on downtown pizzeria employee Dominic Reale.
Sarah Kovash / 90.5 WESA
A Pittsburgh police officer is under investigation for using a taser on a downtown pizza shop employee allegedly as a joke in October.
Surveillance video from Villa Reale Pizzeria and Restaurant shows Officer Ronald Hough shocking Dominic Reale with the weapon.
Reale’s attorney, Joel Sansone, said Hough had been sitting at the pizzeria with Reale for over an hour before discharging the taser into Reale’s chest. They had been eating pizza and joking around, according to Sansone.
Then, the video shows, Hough followed Reale once around a counter before firing the taser at him. Reale immediately collapsed on the floor. He tried to remove the taser’s electrified probes from his chest, but according to Sansone, they only electrocuted Reale again.
“My client gets shocked again,” Saccone said. “It went up his arm and into his head and down into his heart again, and he honestly thought he was going to die.”
To Sansone, the only possible explanation for Hough’s behavior is that the 23-year police veteran viewed it as a joke.
“I can’t speak for what would cause a trained public servant like this violate every known rule of engagement,” he said. “But I think he just got to the point where he felt like the rules didn’t apply to him.”
Sansone said that Hough visited Villa Reale many times before, and that a second video shows the officer pointing a taser at a man while he repaired the restaurant’s cash register. That episode occurred a week before Hough tased Reale, according to Sansone, and was allegedly meant as a joke.
The incident involving Reale became public after Sansone released the surveillance footage to the media this week. Reale wanted to avoid going public because, Sansone said, multiple officers urged him to stay quiet.
“There’s been a range of intimidating conduct from [the] friendly, ‘Come on, how about cutting the guy a break?’ to threats to demands that he erase the tape,” Sansone said. “The trauma that he originally felt [from the tasing] has been exacerbated by the constant intimidation and harassment by cops trying to, I guess, save their brother cop.”
But, Sansone explained, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette informed him and Reale that it would report the incident with or without his cooperation.
“We decided to take charge of the narrative to make sure that the truth came out,” Sansone said.
While Reale has not filed a complaint with the city or taken legal action, the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety wrote in a statement that the Citizen Police Review Board and Office of Municipal Investigations (OMI) are both reviewing his case.
Sansone said his office will conduct its own investigation. While the Citizens Police Review Board is independent from the city, he is wary of the city’s investigation into its own personnel, like Hough, through OMI.
The attorney represented Jordan Miles in the high-profile use-of-force case against three Pittsburgh police officers, which settled in 2016.
“My experience tells me that ... their investigations have a tendency to exonerate the police officer rather than finding the truth,” Sansone said.
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Jury Clears One Pittsburgh Officer, Deadlocks On Other In Leon Ford Shooting Trial
By An-Li Herring & Virginia Alvino Young • Oct 10, 2017
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UPDATED: 5:31 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017
A jury Tuesday cleared one Pittsburgh police officer and deadlocked on charges against a second in a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who was paralyzed when he was shot during a traffic stop.
Ohio Man Weighing Whether To Sue For Violent Arrest
By An-Li Herring • Sep 21, 2017
*UPDATED: Sept. 22, 2017 at 2:54 p.m.
The lawyer for the Ohio man who was beaten by a Pittsburgh police officer outside PPG Paints Arena late Tuesday night declined to say whether his client, Daniel Adelman will sue for excessive use of force. A bystander caught the confrontation in a video that has been widely shared on social media.
Final Approval Pending For $125K Settlement In Jordan Miles Case
By Noah Brode • Jun 6, 2016
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Pittsburgh City Council is set to give final approval Tuesday to a $125,000 settlement in the Jordan Miles case, potentially ending a six-year legal battle between the city and the young black man who accused three white city police officers of attacking him in 2010.
There’s been no public discussion of the deal reached between Miles’ attorney, Joel Sansone, and the city Law Department; City Council held a closed-door executive session on the matter before unanimously approving the deal in a committee vote last Wednesday.
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Uncertainty Lingers Around School Starts
Students are already showing positive COVID-19 results as kids are headed back to class.
Updated: Aug 6, 2020 11:40 AM
Posted By: Erran Huber
The Tri-State remains on the losing side of the battle against COVID-19, as the return the classroom is upon us.
This, amid sobering comments from top state leaders on both sides of the Ohio as kids are heading back to school.
And as north of the Tri-State, an Avon High School student--in Hendricks County--has tested positive for the virus.
"Do I think we're in position now for schools to reopen the third week of August?" asked Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky. "I'm watching the numbers very carefully this week. If it were today, I would suggest that they delay. We're still in a very uncertain area."
Governor beshear added he's considering making another recommendation: to push the start of school in the Bluegrass back even further.
Top medical experts across the Tri-State are also keeping a careful eye as the first schools begin opening their doors.
But parents are struggling to decide what the best learning options are for their kids:
“I think for a lot of parents it’s just that emotional roller coaster. Decision fatigue," Cindy Wallace described. "We just really want to make the best choice for our kids.”
Medical experts may be limited when it comes to sharing word of COVID-19 cases.
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"There's a lot of interest in knowing about positive cases in schools. But there are a number of issues at play as we are thinking about this," said Dr. Kristina Box, with Indiana State Department of Health, "First, many of these cases will involve minors, which requires us to look carefully about what data can be shared and how. Secondly, unlike long term care, we have to navigate both HIPAA and FERPA privacy rules. I want to emphasize having a case of COVID in a school should not be a cause of panic, or a reason to close. It's a reason to take action to prevent an outbreak."
On top of it, for students who value athletics along with their studies, the Hoosier State's top doctor saying, effectively, play at your own risk.
"We have certainly seen cases from these contact sports, from these teams of individuals getting infected, and that's to be expected. I've said all along that I think this is a decision that will be made not only locally, at the community level with the schools, and the public health people in the community, but also with each family. That being said, we will see more cases of COVID with these contact sports, because you just cannot do wrestling and some of these other sports without being in each others' face."
Thursday will see more Catholic schools in Evansville bring their students back.
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WFP Warns Of Regional Crisis Due To Mass Exodus From Violent Central African Republic
ROME - As thousands of people continue to flee violence across the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that neighbouring countries are struggling with more than 150,000 new arrivals in urgent need of assistance.
"We are facing a regional crisis, that goes well beyond the borders of the Central African Republic. These people – most of them women and children – have seen their homes burned and witnessed unspeakable violence and had no choice but to leave,” said Denise Brown, WFP’s West Africa Regional Director
“They desperately need food and nutritional assistance and other support both inside CAR and in neighbouring countries. They need it now and they should not have to wait," she said.
More than 70,000 people have fled CAR to Chad since the intensification of violence in December; there are 62,000 refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); 28,000 have arrived in recent weeks in Cameroon and 12,000 have sought refuge in the Republic of the Congo.
Since December 2013, the exodus from CAR into fragile and food-insecure areas has intensified, creating new strains on local people. Among those uprooted in CAR are Chadian nationals, most of whom have never set foot in their home country or have been gone so long they no longer have any support network.
WFP is concerned it cannot meet the needs of these extremely vulnerable people because of insufficient funding. Many of the surrounding countries are already hosting large numbers of refugees from various countries and resources are stretched. WFP stocks of cereals earmarked for CAR refugees in DRC are running dangerously low and new contributions are needed.
Resourcing the response:
In Chad, 39,000 people in the south of the country have already received food assistance.
WFP is preparing to assist 150,000 people over six months: 50,000 with food and 100,000 with voucher transfers for a total cost of US$16.3 million .
In Cameroon, WFP is providing food assistance to 27,000 recent refugees from CAR and expects numbers to rise to 43,000. The emergency response requires US$ 1.5 million for an initial three-month period.
In DRC, WFP already assists refugees from CAR as well as large numbers of internally displaced people. Critical funding shortfalls have forced WFP to prioritise only the most vulnerable cases. To support the newly arrived refugees WFP needs US$6 million to feed 47,000 people over six months
In Republic of Congo, US$ 1.7 million is required to provide assistance to some 12,000 refugees over six months.
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Casper CEO says he thinks the mattress company's stock is cheap after nearly 20% drop
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Casper co-founder and CEO Philip Krim says he is staying bullish on the stock after a big post-earnings drop on Monday.
“I certainly think the stock is inexpensive. I was a buyer of the stock in the first window [after the February IPO] that we were allowed to buy. I think the business has performed well this year. I think 2021 is shaping up to be a banner year for us,” Krim told Yahoo Finance Live. “We think now is a great time to buy the stock.”
At least for right now, investors are taking the other side of the trade on Casper.
Shares of the bedding maker fell nearly 20% Monday following a disappointing third quarter earnings report. Casper pinned misses on the top and bottom lines to supply chains issues brought on the by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as strong demand for mattresses leading to shortages in foam chemicals and innersprings. In turn, Casper was unable to meet the demand from consumers on its website and had to turn away orders from key retail partners.
Here’s how Casper performed relative to Wall Street estimates compiled by Bloomberg for the quarter:
Net Sales: $123.5 million versus estimates for $146 million
Diluted Loss Per Share: 40 cents versus estimates for 33 cent loss
4Q Sales Guidance: $132 million to $142 million versus estimates for $143 million
Krim said sales have rebounded so far in the fourth quarter as the company has moved beyond its supply chain mishaps by adding more raw materials suppliers to its platform. He reiterated his goal of being EBITDA profitable by mid-2021 in the interview.
NEW YORK CITY, USA — AUGUST 02: Philip Krim, Co-Founder and CEO of Casper, poses for a portrait on August 2, 2017 in New York City. Casper is a popular direct-to-consumer mattress company. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images)
All in all, Casper has some convincing to do on Wall Street headed into 2021. The stock opened for trading on its February 6 IPO day at $14.50 a share and closed the session around $13.50 — or a valuation of about $500 million. Prior to the IPO, Casper had been valued at $1.1 billion as a private company.
The company’s current market cap is roughly $243 million as investors wait to see if Casper could deliver on its 2021 profit goal.
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Biden Official Tells Migrants ‘Now Is Not the Time’ to Come to U.S.
A senior Biden transition official is warning migrants hoping to cross the southern border into the U.S. during the early days of the new administration that “now is not the time” to come. “There’s help on the way, but now is not the time to make the journey,” an unnamed Biden official said, NBC News reported. The Biden administration is looking to end the Trump administration’s policy of requiring that migrants wait in Mexico as immigration courts consider their asylum applications. Those who have been waiting at the border will be considered first for entry over migrants who only recently arrived. Additionally, the Biden administration will scrap the stricter restrictions the previous administration imposed on asylum seekers, which limit who is eligible for entry. However, any immigration legislation proposed by the Biden administration will address illegal immigrants living in the U.S. rather than new migrants arriving at the border, the official said. “The situation at the border isn’t going to be transformed overnight,” the official explained, saying that migrants seeking to gain asylum right away “need to understand they’re not going to be able to come into the United States immediately.” A caravan of about 2,000 Honduran migrants desperate to reach the U.S. forced their way past Guatemalan authorities Friday night and are expected to reach the southern border within the next few weeks. The caravan “will not find when they get to the U.S. border that from Tuesday to Wednesday, things have changed overnight and ports are all open and they can come into the United States,” the official cautioned. “We have to provide a message that help and hope is on the way, but coming right now does not make sense for their own safety … while we put into place processes that they may be able to access in the future,” the official said. In 2018, just before the midterm elections, a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants headed for America’s southern border. Similarly, in early 2017, just before President Trump took office, a caravan made its way to the border, drawing the ire of Trump.
From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The first humanitarian workers to arrive after pleading with the Ethiopian government for access describe weakened children dying from diarrhea after drinking from rivers. A local official told a Jan. 1 crisis meeting of government and aid workers that hungry people had asked for “a single biscuit.”
Palestinian president briefs Egypt, Jordan on election plan
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday hosted the Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence chiefs to brief them on plans to hold the first Palestinian elections in 14 years. Abbas issued a decree on Friday announcing plans for parliamentary elections in May and a presidential election in July. The rival Islamic militant group Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip from Abbas’ forces in 2007, welcomed the decree.
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This will be Fernando Alonso's car for his last F1 race, the MCL33 will have some special colors for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix of F1 2018
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Fernando Alonso have a farewell surprise prepared by Liberty Media as we know, although it is not yet known what this surprise will be ... The current owners of F1 have been working to prepare everything in the GP of Abu Dhabi F1 2018 , which will most likely be the last of the Spanish driver in this category, unless it does not close the door completely and can return in 2020 or 2021, although I doubt it because of the statements that the pilot himself is making in the last hours. Although, as I say, you never know ...
We have already seen in F1 how a team manager says that they are not going to kick someone or that they are not going to sign someone and the next day we have news when it is precisely what the previous day refused ... That's why I say that in this sport you can not believe much of what is said, and we do not know if when Alonso said he is likely to come back he is telling the truth or if he says it when He says he will not come back. Moreover, I think both are true, because I think not even the pilot himself knows how things will happen in the future.
What we already know for sure is that Fernan do Alonso will run with a special car that has prepared McLaren for the last GP. They have worked together with the FIA and Liberty Media to make this possible and they can alter the decoration to commemorate this last race of the Asturian driver. The MCL33 will have the colors of the helmet of Fernando in the back, that is to say, a blue, yellow and red frills, in addition to the distntivo of Fernando Alonso in the frontal zone of the single-seater and lateral.
Now the doubt it will be if this MCL33 special edition will be in the Fernando Alonso's museum next to the normal MCL33 car or if only one of them will be. It would be nice if both of them were there, but we do not know Fernando's agreement with the team to keep the cars. Maybe being the last one is special and I want to have it also among its decoration, although only the colors vary and the car remains the same. I hope that this car can cross the finish line for reliability and that no rookie will take it to the front at the start ...
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5 Ways Countries Can Align their Emissions-Reduction Pledges with the Latest Climate Science
by Kelly Levin and David Rich - December 04, 2014
Emissions will need to drop roughly 14 percent below 2010 levels by 2030 and 40 to 70 percent below 2010 levels by 2050 to limit temperature rise to 2°C. Photo by BlackRockSolar/Flickr
As negotiators get down to business at COP 20 in Lima, one of the key issues is the development of countries’ post-2020 plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, known as “intended nationally determined contributions” (INDCs). The international community has agreed to limit warming to 2°C in order to prevent some of the most disastrous impacts of climate change. One critical question is how to ensure that contributions are sufficient to meet this goal.
The problem is that, according to the recent UNEP Emissions Gap Report, we’re far from a pathway that sticks to the 2°C target. Emissions will need to drop roughly 14 percent below 2010 levels by 2030 and 40 to 70 percent below 2010 levels by 2050. They’ll then need to fall to net zero between 2080 and 2100, requiring a phase-out of greenhouse gas emissions.
The latest climate science shows us what needs to happen to global emissions to have a likely chance of limiting warming to 2°C, but how do we translate these global numbers to the national level? How can a country design a contribution that is aligned with science when the 2 degree goal will be determined by the actions by all countries?
While there are a number of factors to take into account when considering what would constitute a fair national contribution, here are five principles countries should keep in mind to align their INDCs with the 2 degree target:
1) Global emissions must peak by 2020.
In the scenarios presented in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, emissions in all regions of the world must peak by 2020 for a cost-effective, likely chance of limiting warming to 2°C. While equity needs to be considered to determine which countries’ emissions should peak in any given year (such as 2015 versus 2025), countries should keep the global 2020 peak in mind when determining their own peak year.
Peak years by region for stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of GHGs at 430-530 ppm CO2e. Source: IPCC
2) Net GHG emissions must be phased out in the long term.
Both the UNEP Emissions Gap Report and the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report underscore the need for long-term transformation and reaching net zero emissions by the end of the century. The IPCC report states that emissions need to be “near zero or below in 2100,” while the UNEP report calculates that the world will need to phase out emissions between 2080 and 2100 to cost-effectively have a likely chance of meeting the 2°C target. Thus, countries should align their INDCs in the short-term with a long-term decarbonization pathway, and also consider putting forward a long-term emissions-reduction goal in addition to a short-term goal.
Phase out of emissions in the long term under RCP 2.6 Source: IPCC
3) We need to adopt a realistic “decarbonization” rate.
Delaying emissions reductions now and expecting a fast decline later will not only be costly, but may be technologically and socially unfeasible. Transitioning systems—such as turning over a fleet of vehicles or retrofitting power plants—takes a significant amount of time, as does changing behaviors and implementing new policies. In designing their INDCs, countries should not wait to reduce emissions steeply in later decades and should ensure that their annual rate of emissions decline, or “decarbonization,” is feasible given their peak year and phase-out year.
4) Emissions must be reduced significantly below business-as-usual.
The IPCC finds that all major emitting regions must make substantial reductions below their projected baseline emissions over the next century to have a likely chance of limiting warming to 2°C. Therefore, in designing an INDC, countries should ensure that their emissions trajectory is substantially below business-as-usual emissions.
5) Cumulative emissions must be limited.
One of the greatest advancements of the recent scientific literature is identifying the “carbon budget,” the maximum amount of cumulative carbon emissions the world can emit to have a likely chance of limiting warming to 2°C. The total carbon budget is 790 petagrams of carbon (PgC)1. We have already emitted 515 PgC—or 65 percent—and the remainder of the budget would be exhausted in about three decades if emissions continue unabated. Because cumulative emissions matter to the climate, countries putting forward INDCs should embrace “multi-year” goals, which limit emissions for a series of consecutive years (such as 2026-2030), rather than single-year goals, which only limit emissions in specific years, such as in 2025 or 2030.
In the absence of additional efforts, global temperatures are set to rise 3.7-4.8°C2 above pre-industrial levels by 2100. This level of warming would bring disastrous effects to the world’s communities and ecosystems.
But there is still a chance that we can meet the 2 degree goal. Over the coming year, countries have an opportunity to put the world on a different path by making their post-2020 emissions-reduction contributions science-based.
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Ecuador Jilted Assange as It Sought to Build Ties With U.S.
President Lenín Moreno, who described the WikiLeaks founder as a ‘stone in our shoe,’ is negotiating a trade accord with Washington
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at Ecuador’s embassy in London after Ecuador withdrew asylum protection on Thursday. Hours later, the U.S. Justice Department said Mr. Assange had been indicted in federal court on a computer-hacking conspiracy charge. Image: Ruptly
Ryan Dube
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Updated April 12, 2019 6:35 pm ET
Ecuador’s diplomatic protection of Julian Assange once allowed the small Andean nation’s leftist government to antagonize its U.S. foe and argue that it was defending free speech, while cracking down on the press at home.
But after seven years and a new government, that relationship frayed, as President Lenín Moreno sought to improve Ecuador’s relations with the U.S.
After calling the WikiLeaks founder an “inherited problem,” Mr. Moreno on Thursday revoked Mr. Assange’s asylum, allowing his arrest. Officials described him as an intolerable tenant at its London embassy, accusing him of blocking security cameras, mistreating guards and once spreading feces on the walls.
“The patience of Ecuador has reached its limit,” Mr. Moreno said.
Ecuadorian authorities raised the pressure on Friday, disclosing that they hadarrested a Swedish WikiLeaks associate a day earlieras part of its investigation into whether Mr. Assange tried to destabilize the government.
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Australian industrial court bans port strikes
By Oscar Grenfell
The Australian federal government’s industrial court, the Fair Work Commission (FWC), on Friday ordered a suspension of all industrial action by port workers at sites operated by Patrick Stevedores in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and imposed a 35-day “cooling off” period.
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) called 24-hour strikes at all Patrick’s terminals last Monday, in the first national port strike since the union’s betrayal of the 1998 waterfront dispute. Further strikes, including a 48-hour stoppage at Patrick’s Port Botany terminal in Sydney and four-hour stoppages in Brisbane and Melbourne, had been planned for the beginning of next week.
The FWC’s intervention follows a campaign by the company, the financial press and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government to present the union’s demands for improved pay and conditions as “unreasonable” and any strike action as a potential threat to the national economy. Patrick controls 45 percent of the waterfront industry nationally.
Federal Employment Minister Michaela Cash declared last week that strike action should be a “last resort” and “never be used to promote unrealistic claims which run contrary to the long-term interests of employees.”
In line with the FWC’s subsequent ruling, Cash declared: “Freight, rail and port logistics play a crucial role in ensuring Australia remains productive and competitive in an increasingly globalised economy. Actions that compromise productivity and put our international reputation at risk do nothing to serve the national interest.”
Cash said the government would not intervene in the dispute at that point, but did not rule out future intervention. Under the Fair Work laws introduced by the previous Labor government in 2009, and backed by the trade unions, the government has sweeping powers to end any industrial action that “has threatened, was threatening, or would threaten to cause damage to the Australian economy” or would cause significant economic harm to the employer or threaten to endanger the welfare of any part of the population.
The unions have invariably used these and other draconian conditions of the Fair Work Act to intimidate workers, shut down industrial action and then broker agreements along the lines demanded by the employers. The MUA has enforced round after round of job losses that have decimated the waterfront workforce and eroded its conditions.
The current industrial action is part of a long-standing dispute between the company and the MUA over a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA). Negotiations began last April amid growing anger among dockworkers over casualisation and fears of further redundancies. In an industrial ballot at the beginning of December, 83 percent of Patrick’s 878 dockworkers voted for strike action.
The MUA only called for the strike action after having secured a deal for redundancies and further restructuring at ports owned by Hutchison Ports in November. The MUA will undoubtedly use the Fair Work Commission’s decision as the pretext for seeking a deal through closed-door discussions with Patrick.
Foreshadowing such an outcome, Patrick’s human resources director Alex Badenoch responded to the court decision by stating: “It’s pretty realistic we can reach an agreement during that period, but it will be tough.” The union has not commented on the decision or issued any statement.
During the EBA negotiations, the MUA has reportedly demanded a cap on casualisation, along with a three-year, annual 5 percent pay rise across the board. At the Port Botany terminal it has called for 35 hours’ pay for a 32-hour working week and an increase in penalty rates for weekend work. Patrick’s management has branded the demands “unrealistic.”
The dispute emerged amid preparations for the sale of the Australian Stock Exchange-listed company, Asciano, which owns Patrick along with other major concerns. In August, Brookfield Infrastructure, a Canadian firm, and Qube Logistics both made bids of $9 billion for Asciano. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is evaluating both bids, with a decision to be handed down after February 18.
The prospective new owners are demanding further inroads into the conditions of port workers. The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday noted that both bidders have “made plain” that they would be hostile to any EBA involving the “signing away of any future management prerogatives”—that is, limiting their ability to restructure jobs and conditions.
The union has indicated that it is not seeking a confrontation, but rather more closed-door talks. MUA assistant national secretary Will Tracey said this week: “Action was only taken as a last resort because the company cancelled a number of meetings after a period of obfuscation and belligerent obstruction.”
The MUA’s claims to defend jobs and conditions are an utter fraud. In reality, the union has played the central role in enforcing waterfront restructuring, working hand-in-hand with management and successive governments against the workers they falsely claim to represent.
In what was a major turning point, the MUA struck a deal with the Howard Coalition government and Patrick Stevedoring in 1998 to end a six-week waterfront dispute. That betrayal was rapidly followed by the elimination of more than 650 jobs—almost half of the company’s permanent workforce—and opened the way for successive EBAs featuring further casualisation, sackings and restructurings involving ever-greater automation.
In 2012, the union called off industrial action after an intervention by Labor Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten. It entered into “conciliation” with the company at the Fair Work Commission and struck an EBA covering four of Patrick’s ports. The union cut its pay claim from 10 percent per year to 4.5 percent, conditional on productivity improvements, and agreed to the removal of limits on contract and casual labour.
Immediately after the deal was struck, the company announced 270 job cuts through the introduction of automated straddle cranes to slash costs by $50 million annually. The MUA claimed to be “shocked,” even though it had been in behind-the-scenes negotiations over the EBA for two years, and had collaborated in similar automation measures at other sites.
Last August, after Hutchison Ports sacked 97 workers by text and email, the MUA initiated limited strike action, while turning to the courts and back-room talks in a bid to wear down the port workers. In November, the union secured a deal for the destruction of 65 jobs, an extension of the working week from 30 to 32 hours and the expansion of casualisation. The betrayal involved the collaboration of the entire union bureaucracy, including the Australian Council of Trade Unions, along with the Labor Party and pseudo-left organisations.
Port workers should draw the political lessons from these experiences. The only way to oppose the stepped-up assault on jobs and conditions being demanded by the entire political establishment is through a rebellion against the thoroughly corporatised trade unions and the establishment of rank-and-file factory committees aimed at uniting all port workers, along with other sections of the working class.
Above all, a new political perspective is required, based on the fight for a workers’ government that would carry out socialist policies, including the nationalisation of the ports and other basic industries under the democratic control of the working class.
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The Frontiers Issue with Guest Editor President Barack Obama
Frontiers Issue With Guest Editor President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama on the True Meaning of Star Trek
POTUS is a Trekkie! WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss the original Star Trek series and what it reveals about our common humanity.
Well, I understand you are a Star Trek fan.
That certainly was a show
that inspired a utopian future inspired by technology.
I'm curious what about that show shaped your vision
of an optimistic future.
I was a sucker for Star Trek when I was a kid.
Even though when you look back
I think there are only twenty episodes,
they just looped over and over again,
but they were always fun to watch.
What made the show, I think, lasting,
was it wasn't actually about technology.
It was about values
and human relationships.
And, which is why it didn't matter
that the special effects were kind of cheesy and bad, right?
They'd land on (laughter)
Or they'd land on the planet and if you remember
there was all those papier-mache boulders in there.
But it didn't matter because it was really talking
about a notion of a common humanity,
and a confidence in our ability to solve problems.
And a recent movie I think captured
the same spirit, The Martian.
I mentioned that as my favorite movie last year,
not because it had a hugely complicated plot
but it showed a bunch of different people
just trying to solve a problem.
And it's employing creativity and grit
and hard work
and having confidence that if it's out there,
we can figure it out.
And I do think that what I love most about America,
this country, why it continues to attract people
from all around the world
for all the challenges that we face,
is that spirit of well, we can figure this out.
And what I value most about science
is this notion that we can figure this out.
We're going to try this, if it doesn't work
we're going to figure out why it didn't work
and then we're going to try something else.
And we will revel in our mistakes
because that is going to teach us
how to ultimately crack the code
on the thing that we're trying to solve.
And if we ever lose that spirit?
Then we're gonna,
I think lose what's essential about America
and what I think is essential about being human.
I think the only thing I would add, I totally agree,
I love the optimism,
but I also think that it's amazingly,
the federation is very diverse, the crew is very diverse.
There's a bunch of diverse group of people
and the bad guys aren't usually evil,
they're just misguided or broken.
And so it's a much more optimistic view of humans, as well.
And then a lot of shows that are about,
you know superheroes or evil
and the struggles are kind of wonderfully sort of balanced.
Well, I think that's right.
I think Star Trek like any good story
says that we're all complicated
and we've all got a little bit of Spock
and a little bit of Kirk and a little bit of Scotty
and maybe some Klingon in it,
but this is what I mean about figuring it out.
Part of figuring it out is being able
to work across barriers, or differences.
And there's a certain faith in rationality,
tempered by some humility.
Which is true of the best art
and true of the best science.
And the best literature.
A sense that, you know we possess
these incredible minds that we should use
and we're still just scratching the surface on them
but we shouldn't get too cocky and remind ourselves
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22nd Battalion 2NZEF
"Vrai et Fort"
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TWENTY-SECOND TO NONE
The History of the 22nd (N.Z.) Battalion
By Terence Power Mclean
1 Apr – 24 Apr
Ordeal by Battle
Greece and Germany were still at peace during the battalion’s 24 hour journey to Katerine and the clanking and rattling of sabres on the Bulgarian frontier. Meanwhile it was not the fashion of Kiwis to be daunted by the future, there was much of interest in the journey and the classical scholars of the battalion were treated with respect as they talked of Parnassus, Olympus and Zeus and his godly company as the train – Chevaux 8, Hommes 40, just like the old days – rattled along through the stoned countryside.
Between Katerine and the Aliakmon River, 15 miles to the north, to smaller rivers, the Tranos and the Asvestaria, ran eastward to the Gulf of Salonika. The military features of the area were anti-tank ditches and concrete obstacles which were positions but not emplacements of the so-called Metaxas Line. The divisional intention was to defend the rivers and the Sixth, Fifth and Fourth Brigades were placed across the front from right to left respectively. The battalion’s role was in divisional reserve for counter-attack and counter-coastal penetration with its carriers on the extreme right flank by the sea. On 2 Apr, Colonel Andrew and other officers made a reconnaissance and the next day the four rifle coys entered a line facing the Tranos with orders to extend the defensive positions. No. 4 Coy of 27 New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion was placed under command.
On 5 Apr Major Hart took a party of 200 men to Petras, near the entrance to the Olympus Pass, to build a road of eight miles through forest and gorge. It re-joined the unit before action and Major Bain meantime had been evacuated because of illness and Captain Campbell was appointed to command D Coy. Just before the first enemy onslaught, Captain Monk, on 13 Apr was appointed 2 I/C of B Coy and Lt MacDuff took his place as Adjutant.
At 1203 hours on 6 April, Divisional HQ flashed an immediate signal to all units that Germany had declared war on Greece and Yugoslavia. A devastating air raid was made upon Belgrade and the German columns began a surge into the Monastir Gap, the ancient military highway into Greece from the north.
German successes to the west soon made the Katerine untenable and plans were made for withdrawal of the Division to the Olympus pass, 25 miles south west of Katerine. The Fifth Brigade moved on 8 Apr and at 0700 hours the battalion began the journey. All day there were repots of enemy moves toward Salonika, 40 miles north east of Olympus.
The battalion’s new position was given a post of honour astride the Saolinka-Athens road in the mouth of the Olympus pass. The road, which within 10 miles rose from a hundred-odd feet to 3000, entered the pass through a deep gorge and the battalion front of 2½ miles was a naturally strong defensive position. Just forward of he foremost defenced locality, Belowa Bluff, there was a bridge over the Elikon River. A little further back a subsidiary road led east and south to the Petras tuberculosis sanatorium, which was staffed by German doctors, and a small road, little more than a track ad running roughly westward to Skoteina, could also be covered from the front line.
The 23rd battalion was on the right of the 22nd and the 28th Maori Battalion on the left. From right to left, or east to west, the 22nd coys were A (in contact with 23 Battalion), C (overlooking Petras Sanatorium), B (astride the main road) and D (overlooking the Skoteina road and in touch with 28 Battalion).
No. 11 Platoon and B Coy was sited on the bluff overlooking the entrance to the pass. No 10 Platoon was on the right of No. 11 and No. 12 was astride the main road 200 to 300 yards behind No. 10. About 800 yards to the rear an old fortification, soon called Gibraltar, rose up commandingly. The three inch mortars were sited on it. Battalion HQ was about 1000 yards behind B Coy with the RAP just behind. No 4 Machine Gun coy with 32 Bty of the Seventh Anti Tank Regiment were placed in support of the Battalion. The anti tank guns were two pounders.
“Roughly imagine a long, steep-sided ravine running up into a mountain,” wrote Lt McAra in one of his letters. “Across the foot of the ravine passed a road crossing the Elikon stream. About 800 yards inside the mouth of the ravine, Gibraltar rose sheer between the opposing slopes, forming the only position from which guns could be brought to bear on the stone bridge crossing the Elikon and the riverbed beyond. The ridge to the right as you looked down the ravine was held by C Coy with A Coy along the face beyond. That to the left, up which wound the road, was held by B Coy with D in line beyond.
“The wedge of dead ground into which the rifle coys could not fire was the weakest point of our front; once the enemy penetrated the bridge end they could work up the gullies on either side of Gibraltar and take us in the rear. The hillsides were so steep, rocky and bush-covered that infiltration had every chance of success. Gibraltar itself had obviously been a natural stronghold from earliest times and had ruins of houses and old fortifications hidden by masses of flowering trees, white and pink, for all the world like some Japanese cherry garden – a dreamlike place in the warm sun with butterflies, flowers and a soft wind and the great wall of snow-covered peaks in a half circle behind towering in the clear blue heavens.”
As the days passed, the battalion became like a battery being charged by incidents of the war. On 8 Apr, the Divisional Cavalry made contact with the enemy in the Aliakmon area. The next day, elements of the Cavalry, the New Zealand Artillery and Greek formations with primitive artillery weapons approached from Katerine and passed through the battalion front. On 10 Apr, the German medical staff at the sanatorium deserted – their interest in A Coy’s weapon pits had been keen – and brigade transport had to be supplied to evacuate the unfortunate patients. Fifth column activity had been reported and the Sanatorium building, with its doors banging hollowly and stray dogs barking inside became a suspected and sepulchred place.
The weather was wet, cold and misty on Good Friday, 11 Apr, and fires were lighted for the drying of clothing. There was a snowstorm on top of the pass on this of all days. Divisional Cavalry inflicted casualties and E Troop of the Fifth Field Regiment fired the first artillery round of the Second NZEF war against Germany. Late in the day, a reconnaissance plane flew over D Coy’s area.
At 1655 hours on 14 April, the last elements of the Div Cav passed through the battalion and 65 minutes later three of the Battalion carriers rumbled across the bridge. Four selected demolitions, including the bridge was then blown and the front was closed. What happened next was “not peace, but a sword.”
The first test was sharp and violent. At 2300 hours on the 14 Apr, enemy motor cycles roared down to the demolition over the Elikon. As they halted, they were engaged with small arms fire and grenades from the Height above by Lt CN Armstrong’s NO. 11 Platoon. The enemy replied, but soon withdrew. Five motorcycles left by the bridge showed that the platoon inflicted casualties and that night, enemy patrols could be heard feeling around the frontal wire.
“Next morning,” wrote Lt McAra, “we were just on the point of sitting down to breakfast (bully beef and biscuit hash), when of a sudden the Vickers guns of C Coy’s ridge opened up. We dropped everything and fairly flew into the mortar pits and the beats of the pulse were as one. The machine guns were firing at long range at armoured cars and no other signs of approaching enemy were seen, but in an hour or two the first shells began to come over. Our own 25 pounders opened up in reply. All day long the firing continued, searching ridges and gullies.
Brigadier Hargest squelched through the mud to Battalion HQ just after first light on 15 Apr and at 0800 hours there was a brigade conference. The general situation was not good. The 21st New Zealand battalion on the right was under heavy pressure on the area of the railroad tunnel on the Katerine-Athens line. On the left of the Imperial Forces, there had been enemy penetration of the Greek line. The threat to the rear was real and withdrawal for six or seven miles accordingly was planned for that night to a line across the valley below Ag Demetrious. The battalion intention was for BHQ and Headquarters Coy to move out at 2130 hours and A, C and D Coys at 2230, with B Coy thinning out from 2230 to withdrawal at 2300. C Coy was to hold a rearguard position on the hills above BHQ until the withdrawal of B Coy was completed.
The morning was quiet with occasional exchanges of fire. Light enemy tanks were active on the road and in the afternoon the German artillery began probing for the 25 pounder guns to the rear. The enemy artillery varied its counterbattery work with fire upon battalion positions. The unit had been supplied with 32 mules to assist in Q work over the rough, stony and muddy roads and at 1030 hours the train began to move non-essential gear. There was one amazing incident, a first indication of the Kiwi capacity – which became narked in later campaigns – deliberately to forget danger for the sake of a matter of personal interest. Two privates, mule drivers for the time being, became argumentative over a matter of precedence, or something equally ludicrous and in that incongruous situation they set to fight it out.
At 1730 hours, Brigade transmitted an immediate order cancelling the withdrawal for 24 hours. For a time, enemy mortaring was extensive and during the night threre was sporadic firing. In the early hours, a force could be heard moving forward of D Coy. The Germans cried out in English to draw fire and one enemy soldier said conversationally, “You’ll have to do better than that,” several times. At first light, the company discovered that the wire it had so carefully staked and the mines it had so precisely planted had both been removed.
At 0635 hours on 16 Apr, B Coy called for artillery concentrations on enemy tanks and vehicles moving up the main road. The battalion mortars and the Vickers guns efficiently sought to catch the unwary and arrogant enemy in a blaze of fire. This was concentrated defensive fire and the enemy force withdrew more than 500 yards to protected positions. Two of the armoured fighting vehicles were destroyed and it seemed hat about a company of enemy infantry had been killed or wounded. The enemy reaction was angry. The battalion’s anti tank guns were sited for counter-penetration and none could be brought to bear upon tanks forward of the demolished bridge. At 0704 hours, five enemy tanks moved to within 400 yards of B Coy’s front a nd with cannon and machine gun fire methodically bombarded the area. The artillery registered and made the tanks pull back 200 yards but from the new position there was not much lessening of the fierce fire. Pte J Whibley, the anti tank rifleman of B Coy, gave a splendid exhibition of courage in the situation, by firing his Boys rifle with regularity at armoured vehicles and enemy machine gun posts and the pile of spent cartridges by his gun was large at the end of the day. A light tank brewed up was credited to the rifle.
At 0730, an enemy column three miles long of armoured fighting vehicles, tracked troop carriers and motor cycles came into view on the road from Katerine and when a halt was made within half a mile of the battalion front it was seen that there were at least 40 vehicles, including a 20-ton tank, in the column. Some shooting by the 5Fd was inaccurate and there were complaints of shorts in B Coy’s area. The commanding officer of the regiment, Lt Col Fraser, himself sought to correct the fault and for two hours he calmly directed fire while sitting on a collapsible stool in the Coy area. The score from the Artillery, anti tank rifle and small arms shooting within two hours mounted to ten vehicles, including and ammunition truck, fired by Pte Whibley, and a tank.
Three enemy tanks charged the demolition at 0918 hours and the leading tank drove into the crater to form a bridge. Its crew was killed by rifle fire from No. 21 platoon and the other two tanks, in spite of attempts, could not cross the makeshift bridge. They fired heavily upon nearby targets before they withdrew. Before 1030 hours, B Coy had seven casualties. Four men, Ptes HH Burgess, J O’Brien (A Maori), J Tustin and D Wilson were killed and Ptes CJ Harnish, CS Lovett and AC Murray wounded. Volunteers south to help the chief stretcher bearer, Cpl Hagen, and L/Cpl Donoghue gave covering fire from a Bren, but the enemy response was so vigorous that the bearer party could not reach within 50 yards of the bodies.
Meanwhile the fighting had become general. D Coy’s area was ranged in the early morning and from shell fire in the area of Battalion HQ, Sjt T Logie was killed and Sjt J Tregea had his arm blown off. Tregea’s behaviour was astonishing. Looking down at his dismembered arm he said casually. “Get my wrist watch off it, will you? I don’t want to lose it, too.”
C Coy was attacked by a company of infantry and No. 14 Platoon, against which the main trust was directed, used its 2” mortars as well as rifles and Brens in reply. To avoid further casualties, the Germans were compelled to dig in. The activity on the A Coy front was minor, but the Maori BATTALION’s assistance with mortaring was appreciated.
At 1530 hours a tank reached the remains of D Coy’s wire and bombarded its positions. An enemy armoured troop carrier moved close enough to the line for soldiers to disembark under cover and it was reported that the enemy had penetrated the ravine between Gibraltar and C Coy. A reserve force consisting of “I” personnel, Sigs and ? in the famous phrase, odds and sods was dispatched to hold the position. C Coy put in a patrol and found nothing.
None of us slept that night ands dawn found us cold and tired in the pits, said McAra. “I walked half a mile up the road to our trucks and was just on the point of retuning when the early morning stillness was shattered by the machine guns on the ridges. An instant later, the quick, lighter chatter of Brens started up from B Coy. One of my guns (Sjt Smith’s) opened up on the bridge and the river bed. It took me 15 minutes to return and the that time my chaps had fired 180 bombs – the whole riverbed was full of drifting smoke and the echoes of violent claps dying among the ridges. A number of light and medium tanks had attempted to reach the bridge, but had failed to get through the blast put down.
“By now rain had set in and was falling steadily. Nor shall I ever forget B Coy’s front line – just a soaked and silent man every 20 yards or so along the hillside, lying in gathering pools of water and watching the silent dripping bush in front. Most of their section posts had been made untenable. The eeriness was extreme – the drip drip of the rain among the motionless leaves, the sense of danger impending, the strained faces and the rifles glistening with wet as they poked through the undergrowth. The sunken piece of road where the company had its headquarters was a sad sight with dead and badly-wounded men lying silent and bloodied in the shelter of the cookhouse tent with others struggling up the steep slope or being brought in by stretcher bearers.”
[text lost] of heavy armour and air had been used by enemy against the front. A kind word was spoken by Brigadier Hargest. “The 22nd made a steady withdrawal absolutely to time and without excitement,” he wrote in a dispatch. “It had borne the heat and burden of the day.”
“Heavy mist blotted out the road and hid the retiring coys from the German gunners, a marvellously fortunate thing for us,” wrote Lt McAra. “In the disk the silent billows of vapour rose slowly up the gullies, wet and impenetrable, obliterating ridge after ridge. The trip out was a nightmare with infantry and trucks all mixed up the narrow, winding road and all vehicles overloaded and lightless. Just one long strain to keep on the dim road at all and avoid the collisions and overturnings that were fearfully frequent.
“I shall never forget the scene – we were busy loading two trucks when the first of the rifle coys came along the road on their way back, rain beating into their faces and glistening on ground sheets and helmets as they trudged slowly by – the wearing, dragging pace of exhausted men.”
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An amount of Rs. 3 lakh crore is sanctioned under the Scheme. The limit of credit be upto 20% of their credit outstanding as on February 2020. Till now Rs. 2.03 lakh crore has been sanctioned under the Scheme.
Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel launches scheme for distribution of fortified rice:
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched a scheme for distribution of fortified rice through Public Distribution System (PDS) and other welfare initiatives for the people of Kondagaon district of the State on a pilot basis. And also setting up of English medium schools on Sunday during ”Rajyotsav” statehood celebrations.
Fortified rice is a mixture of iron, vitamin B-12 and folic acid-enriched fortified rice kernel. He also felicitated 30 individuals and three organisations with ‘Rajya Alankaran Samman’ (state awards) for their exemplary contribution in 24 different disciplines.
Chhattisgarh:
Capital: Raipur
Chief Minister: Bhupesh Baghel
Governor: Anusuiya Uikey.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates ‘Arogya Van’ in Gujarat’s Narmada district:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the ‘Arogya Van’ in the Narmada district of Gujarat. Arogya Van (health forest) is spread over an area of about 17 acres, displaying a wide range of medicinal plants that play an important role in the well-being of human beings. PM also inaugurated Arogya Kutir, Ekta Mall, and Children Nutrition Park.
Gujarat:
Governor: Acharya Devvrat
National Park: Blackbuck NP, Vansda NP, Gir Forest NP, Marine NP, Gulf of Kutch.
India’s First Ever Solar-Powered Miniature Train Launched at Veli Tourist Village in Kerala:
A solar energy-driven miniature train, billed as the country’s first of its kind, was inaugurated at the Veli Tourist Village by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The project Rs 10 crore worth and covers a distance of 2.5 km with 3 bogies. It features a fully- equipped rail system, including a tunnel, station and a ticket office.
Vijayan also dedicated an “Urban Park” and a swimming pool at the eco-friendly tourist village, located on the outskirts of the state capital where the Veli Lake meets the Arabian Sea.
Kerala:
Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
Chief Minister: Pinarayi Vijayan
Governor: Arif Mohammed Khan.
Ministry of AYUSH and Invest India to form strategic policy unit “Strategic Policy & Facilitation Bureau (SPFB)”:
Ministry of AYUSH and M/s Invest India will form a collaboration to set up a strategic policy unit called ‘Strategic Policy & Facilitation Bureau (SPFB)’ to facilitate planned and systematic growth of the Ayush Sector.
Invest India would deploy highly trained and expert resources to implement and execute the plans of the Ministry of AYUSH. This Bureau will support the Ministry in strategic and policy making initiatives that will help pave the way to reach the full potential of the Sector and stimulate growth and investment.
Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju inaugurates SAI’s new Regional Centre at Zirakpur, Punjab:
Sports Authority of India (SAI) regional centre (Chandigarh)’s new centre at Zirakpur, Punjab, was virtually inaugurated by Kiren Rijiju, Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister.
The SAI Regional centre, which is the SAI’s 11th regional centre in India and third in region after Patiala and Sonepat, will cater to athletes and coaches from Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Union Territory of Ladakh and Chandigarh.
Punjab:
Capital: Chandigarh
Chief Minister: Captain Amarinder Singh
Governor: V P Singh Badnore.
Airports Authority of India hands over Lucknow airport to Adani group on lease for 50 years:
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) handed over the Lucknow airport to the Adani group on lease for a period of 50 years. Adani group has also taken over operations of 5 more airports.
Central Government had privatised six major airports of the country namely Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram and Guwahati.
International News:
World’s strongest storm in 2020 super typhoon Goni hits Philippines:
World’s strongest storm so far this year slammed into the eastern part of the Philippines, bringing “catastrophic violent winds”. Goni is one of the strongest storms to hit the Philippines since 2013’s Haiyan, which killed more than 6,300 people.
Banking and Economy:
Government provides Rs 670-crore to support Regional Rural Banks to meet regulatory capital:
Central Government has provided support of Rs 670 crore to Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) operating in the country to help them meet the regulatory capital requirement of 9%.
Around one-third of the 43 RRBs which are suffering losses especially from north-eastern and eastern regions and need funds to meet regulatory capital requirement.
As per the current scheme for recapitalisation of RRBs, Regional Rural Banks were owned by the Central Government, the State Government and the Sponsor Bank (Any commercial bank can sponsor the regional rural banks) who held shares in the ratios as follows Central Government – 50%, State Government – 15% and Sponsor Banks – 35% to enable them to meet the regulatory requirement of CRAR.
Acquisitions and Mergers:
IREDA signs MoU with MNRE, setting key targets for the year 2020-21:
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India setting key targets for the year 2020-21.
Government of India has set a revenue target of Rs. 2,406 crore under ‘Excellent’ rating. The MOU was signed by Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi, Secretary, MNRE and Pradip Kumar Das, Chairman & Managing Director, IREDA.
ICICI Lombard partners with FreePaycard to offer health insurance solutions:
ICICI Lombard in partnership with Freepaycard has launched Group Safeguard Insurance. This strategic partnership will make the bite-sized health insurance solutions, designed specifically for Freepaycard members, available at its multi-category partner retail outlets.
Freepaycard members can add these health solutions on the go while shopping for other essential goods or services.
Axis Bank to buy 19% stake in Max Life against 17% earlier:
Axis Bank has announced that it will acquire 19.002% stake in Max Life as against 17.002% stake decided earlier. The decision has been taken after, the RBI rejected Axis Banks proposal to buy 17.002% stake in Max Life.
Now under the revised scheme, Axis Bank along with its subsidiaries Axis Capital and Axis Securities will acquire a total of 19.002% stake in Max Life.
CCI approves acquisition of General Insurance Business of Bharti AXA by ICICI Lombard:
Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves acquisition of General Insurance Business of Bharti AXA General Insurance Company Limited (Bharti AXA) by ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited (ICICI Lombard) under Section 31(1) of the Competition Act, 2002.
Bharti AXA is a general insurance company registered with the IRDAI and is a joint venture held by Bharti General Ventures Private Limited (51%) and Societe Beaujon (49%).
Science and Technology:
Indian Naval Ship Airavat reaches Port Sudan as part of ‘Mission Sagar-II’:
Indian Naval Ship, Airavat reached Port Sudan as a part of Mission Sagar-II. Indian government is providing assistance to Friendly Foreign Countries to overcome natural calamities and COVID-19 pandemic, and towards the same INS Airavat is carrying a consignment of 100 Tonnes of food aid for the people of Sudan.
As part of Mission Sagar-II, INS Airavat will deliver food aid to Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea.
IIT Bombay launches self-help website “Bandhu” to enhance emotional well-being of students:
Union Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre launched a self-help website “Bandhu” (a friend in need) for students of IIT Bombay in the presence of Director of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri.
The website addresses several issues such as procrastination, exam stress, the fear of failure, hostel life, discrimination, peer pressure, Internet addiction and a range of mental health issues.
Citigroup appointed Anand Selva as the global head of consumer banking:
Citigroup Inc has announced Anand Selva as head of its global consumer bank. He will be appointed to the post in January 2021 filling the spot left vacant by Jane Fraser when she becomes the first female CEO of a major Wall Street bank.
Writer Paul Zacharia selected for the 28th Ezhuthachan Puraskaram of Kerala:
Noted Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia has been selected for the 28th Ezhuthachan award, the highest literary award of the Kerala government. He is a recipient of many honours including Kendra Sahitya Academy Award. He has penned around 60 books.
Salam America, Oridath, Aarkkariyam, Bhaskara patelarum ente jeevithavum are among his various literary works. Zacharia won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979 and the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004.
CDAC Senior Director Dr Dinesh Katre Wins Prestigious 2020 Emmett Leahy Award:
Dr Dinesh Katre, Senior Director and Head of Human-Centred Design & Computing Group at the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC) has won the prestigious 2020 Emmett Leahy Award. Dr. Vijay P Bhatkar Founder Executive Director of C-DAC and Chancellor of Nalanda University presented the award to Dinesh Katre.
Books and Authors:
A Book titled “Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy” authored by Tamal Bandyopadhyay:
Indian business journalist Tamal Bandyopadhyay has authored a book titled “Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy” and will be released on November 09, 2020.
This book is a bird’s-eye view of Indian banking and also a fly-on-wall documentary.
‘Till We Win’: Book on Covid-19 Authored by AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria:
A new book titled “Till We Win” authored by AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria and two other doctors will give a definitive account of India’s fight against COVID-19 and how to deal with the pandemic in the days to come, announced publishing house Penguin Random House India.
Obituary News:
Eminent violin maestro and Padma Bhushan awardee TN Krishnan passes away at 92:
Legendary violinist T N Krishnan passed away. Krishnan started as a child prodigy and went on to perform with legends from several generations. He was honoured with many titles, including Sangeetha Kalanidhi, Padma Bhushan & Padma Vibhushan.
Sports News:
Lewis Hamilton wins Emilia Romagna GP as Mercedes claim seventh F1 title:
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) has won the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2020 held in Imola, Italy. This was his 9th win of the season and 93rd F1 win of his career. Valtteri Bottas finished second while Daniel Ricciardo finished third.
3-Day ‘Ganga Utsav 2020’ To Be Held Virtually from November 2020:
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is organising three-day ‘Ganga Utsav 2020’ on virtual platforms from November 2 to 4. Ganga Utsav 2020 is a cultural and educational festival to celebrate the glory of the holy river Ganga.
The aim is to connect masses to the cause of river rejuvenation and sensitive them about ecological issues through conversations and entertainment. Ganga was declared “National River” on November 4, 2008.
Assam government Laid Foundation Stone of Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables Protected Cultivation at Kehtri:
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone of Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables Protected Cultivation at Khetri on the outskirts of Guwahati in presence of Israeli Ambassador to India Dr. Ron Malka.
The Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables Protected Cultivation is estimated to be set up at an investment of Rs 10.33 Crore. It would also boost agricultural and horticultural production in Assam leading to greater economic rewards to state’s farmers.
Assam:
Chief Minister: SarbanandaSonowal
National Parks: Orang National Park, Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Kaziranga National Park, Nameri National Park, Dehing Patkai Wls.
Federation of Indian Publishers organises virtual version of Delhi Book Fair 2020:
The Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) has organised a virtual version of Delhi Book Fair this year in light of the Corona pandemic. The book fair organised in partnership with PragatiE is a two-day online event will culminate.
The organisers arranging the book fair online was a challenging task but expressed satisfaction that the virtual module of the Delhi book fair 2020 has opened up new and future avenues of marketing books.
Chief Minister: Arvind Kejriwal
Governor: Anil Baijal.
PM Narendra Modi chairs global investor roundtable virtually:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs Global Investor Roundtable virtually to provide an opportunity to leading global investors and Indian business leaders to engage and deliberate with senior policy makers on how to further accelerate the growth of international investments in the country.
The Virtual Global Investor Roundtable (VGIR) is being organised by the Ministry of Finance and the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
Larsen & Toubro bags construction order of bullet train project:
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged another construction package of the bullet train project for an estimated value of ₹7,000 crore. Larsen & Toubro is close to bagging its largest order ever as it has emerged the lowest bidder to construct a significant part of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, beating two others in the race with a bid of Rs 24,958 crore.
National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHRCL) opened the financial bids for the tender to design and construct the 237 km-mainline, of the 508 km long Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor.
Jaipur, Indore among 30 indian cities feature in WWF list of 100 cities to face greatest rise in water risks by 2050:
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has painted a grim picture for India, pointing towards its looming water crisis. According to WWF Water Risk Filter report, nearly 30 Indian cities, including Jaipur, Indore, Amritsar, Pune, Srinagar, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kozhikode and Visakhapatnam will face acute “Water Risks”.
100 cities will witness a massive rise in water risks by 2050. The list also includes cities such as Beijing, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Mecca and Rio de Janeiro.
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to inaugurate Rythu Vedika scheme to address farmers’ issues:
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will inaugurate the first Rythu Vedika at Kodakandla mandal headquarters in Jangaon district. He will address farmers and the general public to explain the reasons behind setting up of the Rythu Vedika, their importance, programmes and utilities.
Each Rythu Vedika has two rooms and two toilets with a plinth area of 2,046 square feet. They will be provided with electricity and tap water connections.
Telangana:
Capital: Hyderabad
Chief Minister: K. Chandrashekar Rao
Governor: Tamilisai Soundararajan
National Parks(NP): KasuBrahmananda Reddy NP, Mahaveer Harina NP, Mrugavani NP.
India, US, Japan and Australia kick-starts Malabar naval exercise in Bay of Bengal:
The Navies of India, US, Japan and Australia held a series of complex manoeuvres in the Bay of Bengal, kick-starting the four-day-long first phase of the Malabar naval exercise.
The Phase-I of the exercise will be held from November 3 to 6 while the Phase-II is scheduled to be held from November 17 to 20 in the Arabian sea.
RBI to extend trading hours from 2 pm to 3:30 pm starting from November 9:
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will restore trading hours in the bond and currency markets in a graded manner, effective November 9. The market opening time was revised to 10 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. for all segments. Closing timing too was revised to 2 p.m.
Trading hours for Commercial paper and Certificates of Deposit, Repo in Corporate Bonds, Government Securities, Foreign Currency/Indian Rupee Trades including Forex Derivatives, Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives, and Call/notice/term money will be 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. However, the market will continue to open at 10 a.m. instead of 9 a.m.
HDFC ERGO Insurance Implements AI Enabled Solution to Automate Motor Claim Settlements:
India’s third-largest private non-life insurance company HDFC ERGO General Insurance announced the launch of the AI tool IDEAS (Intelligent Damage Detection Estimation and Assessment Solution) for motor claim settlements.
The IDEAS module uses Neural Network image processing & Analytics, Machine Learning and Natural Language that supports instant damage detection as well as calculation of the claims estimate for the surveyors to help in motor claims settlement in real-time.
Aegon Life Insurance Launches Life + 36 critical illness Insurance’ on Flipkart:
Aegon Life Insurance, the pioneer of digital insurance in India, announced the launch of ‘Life + 36 critical illness Insurance’ on Flipkart at the starting premium of just Rs 153 for a life cover of Rs 1 lakh plus Critical Illness cover of Rs 10,000.
The policy covers most of the life-threatening illnesses such as Cancer, Heart Attack, Kidney Failure, Stroke, Burns, Alzheimer and 30 other diseases.
TransUnion CIBIL and Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) launch MSME Credit Health Index:
TransUnion CIBIL in partnership with Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has launched MSME Credit Health Index to provide a reliable measure and benchmark of the growth and strength of the MSME sector in India.
The MSME Credit Health Index will provide government, policy makers, lenders and MSME market participants, a unique and reliable numeric indicator for measuring and benchmarking the health of the MSME sector.
Duarte Pacheco of Portugal elected as new President of Inter Parliamentary Union:
Duarte Pacheco of Portugal has been elected as the new President of Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) for the period 2020-2023. He will be the 30th President of the IPU, and will succeed Mexican MP Gabriela Cuevas Barron who completed the tenure in October 2020.
Portugal has won the elections for the post the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the voting. The Indian Parliamentary Delegation led by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and consisting of Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam, MP and Shri Swapan Dasgupta, MP attended the meeting of the IPU Governing Council.
Alassane Ouattara wins 3rd term as Ivory Coast president:
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara won a third term a victory that came after his opponents had urged followers to boycott the election. He won 94% of the vote even though the 2016 Ivory Coast constitution limits the president to two terms. He was serving his 2nd consecutive term as the President of the country.
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire):
Capital: Yamoussoukro (Administratice Capital), Abidjan (Economic Capital)
President: Alassane Ouattara
Currency: West African CFA franc.
Bollywood Actor Rajkummar Rao appointed as new brand ambassador of Syska Group:
Fast Moving Electrical Goods (FMEG) company Syska Group, has roped in actor Rajkummar Rao as the new face of the brand. He will promote the Syska products across LED and fan segments. With this partnership, company aims to reach the masses across tier 2 & tier 3 cities. First ever brand ambassador of Syska was actor Irrfan Khan.
ONGC Videsh appoints Alok Gupta as MD and CEO
AK Gupta, the new Managing Director and CEO of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) took charge. Before this, Gupta was Director (Operations) of the company.
OVL is the International Petroleum Company of India and the overseas arm of national oil and gas major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited.
HDFC Bank is “Most Outstanding Company – Financial Sector” in India; Asiamoney Report:
HDFC Bank Ltd has been voted “Most Outstanding Company – Financial Sector” in India, in a poll conducted by well-known publication, Asiamoney. HDFC has been given the honour for the 2nd consecutive year.
Bharti Airtel won the overall winner by Market in India. Asiamoney aims to identify and recognise listed companies in two categories which are by country and by sector.
Obituary News
Gujarati Filmmaker and Actor Ashish Kakkad Passes Away at 49:
Gujarati filmmaker actor and voice artist Ashish Kakkad passed away. Ashish was known for his directorial ventures Better Half (2010) and Mission Mummy (2016). As an actor, he was most notably seen in Abhishek Kapoor’s Kai Po Che! in 2013.
Bihar’s shortest-serving CM Satish Prasad Singh passed away at 87:
Satish Prasad Singh, former Chief Minister(CM) and Socialist of Bihar passed away due to illness in Delhi. He became the 6th and the shortest- served CM of Bihar for 5 days (28 January to February 1, 1968).
Australian Cricketer Shane Watson announces retirement from all forms of Cricket:
The 39-year-old former Australia vice-captain and all-rounder Shane Watson has announced retirement from all forms of cricket.
Watson played almost 750 matches at all levels, leaving the game with 59 Tests, 190 ODIs and 58 T20s for his country. The allrounder is a two-time Allan Border medallist, a dual IPL MVP and former Australia captain in all formats.
Andrey Rublev beat Lorenzo Sonego to Claim Fifth Title of 2020 In Vienna:
23-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev beat Lorenzo Sonego to win the Erste Bank Open, lifting his ATP Tour-leading fifth title of the season. Andrey is now tied with World No. 1 Novak Djokovic atop the 2020 match wins leaderboard with 39.
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I was delighted to work with In Certain Places as artist in residence at Testbed. The University Of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) were beginning a major redevelopment which will eventually see the site of the previous Fylde Building replaced with a new building and publically accessible square. In Certain Places had identified the need to explore how this would be adopted by the university and surrounding communities.
In order to do this, they established Testbed - a purpose built temporary space for research and community engagement and base for my residency and creative explorations. The temporary bespoke shipping container studio and performance space were designed by Ian Banks of Atoll. During that time working with groups from across the university and the city, over 17 different activities took place that investigated, articulated and tested out what the future uses of the new square could be. These included workshops, drumming performances, artworks and events. Lee Ivett of Baxendale Studios and Architecture BSc course leader at UClan, working with students, installed a temporary roof. The Test Bed blog examined the space as an entirety and destination while examining it relationship to wider debates about public spaces.
As part of my residency I was deligheted to invite More Music director Loz Kaye to work with me to develop Boombox - a continuation of our exploration of light, sound and performance.
It felt important to establish the space and announce its presence. The compound comprised a wooden deck surrounding a pair of shipping containers. I was immediately struck by the potential of both of these as LOUD percussive instruments. We were incredibly fortunate to be able to collaborate with Worldwise samba drummers who are based at the university. Using carefully chosen elements of their repertoire, a performance emerged including light, shadow and lots of noise.
We asked a lot and the performers were incredible. They did everything from awesome playing in the compound, to processing through the containers - taking plenty of opportunity to hit them! The evening finished on the hill behind the compound in an outline of the building that will soon be built.
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Tag: SandyCoworking
SandyBaggers offers an exemplar of how, in Lincoln’s words, “the better angels of our nature,” rush to confront disaster in the digital age. So, too, do efforts like Sandy Coworking and NeedMapper. Even FEMA has recognized the importance of digital technology in the wake of a tragedy like Superstorm Sandy; the organization’s applications for Android, iOS, and Blackberrry provide checklists, weather updates, and important relief information. This, of course, raises a question that looms over any major disaster relief effort: Where do we go from here? What lessons — and innovations — can we carry with us?
In The Eye Of The Storm, Entrepreneurs Band Together – Forbes
Author NoneckPosted on November 13, 2012 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags Coworking, NY Tech Responds, NYTM, SandyCoworkingLeave a comment on
The New York Tech Meetup signed up over 800 potential volunteers to help build tools on the fly. Perhaps the most successful has been the Sandy Coworking Crowdmap, which helped businesses displaced by the storm find places to set up shop free. The map worked, and a big reason was that the local tech industry excels at spreading information internally. Efforts to reach the larger city have not caught on as easily (in part because many people’s phones did not work in the immediate aftermath of the storm).
New Tools for Disaster Aid – NYTimes.com
The problem is, much of Lower Manhattan, where many are located, is still without power and Internet. But entrepreneurs, engineers and developers aren’t letting that stop them. They are camping out in one another’s apartments and offices in an attempt to still get a day’s work done. Of course, any place with a humming Wi-Fi connection, whether a coffee shop or an Apple Store, seems to be drawing displaced workers eager to get back into the swing of things. But camaraderie spurred by the storm seemed to knit the New York start-up scene together a bit tighter.
New York Start-Ups Become Officemates in Hurricane Sandy Aftermath – NYTimes.com
ShareDesk, a company that usually charges to connect people with available office space, placed people all over the city for free. Their site was getting flooded with startups looking for a place to work but most offices on their site were already at capacity. Rather than sit idle, they began manually making calls to anyone they could think of, even companies who weren’t members. Slowly they began finding available places, but rather than post them on their own site, they posted them on Noel’s SandyCoworkingMap. As CEO Kia Rahmani said, “It’s not about profit, it’s about helping other people out, and pooling resources is the fastest way to do that.”
How Hurricane Sandy Reminded Me Why I Love the Tech Industry | Patrick Ambron
Author NoneckPosted on November 9, 2012 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags Coworking, NY Tech Responds, NYTM, SandyCoworkingLeave a comment on
One of the most amazing things is seeing the community saying ‘I have an open door. Please come in. We understand that you’ve been affected by this. We understand that your business may not survive a week or two weeks without power, without internet. So come back, get back to work, reconnect with your community, recharge and be prosperous again,’
Tech Community Helps Sandy Victims By Offering Expertise – NY1.com
Perhaps the most visible manifestation of the post-hurricane outpouring of good feeling has been Sandy Coworking, an effort to make desks and Wifi available for anyone who need a place to be productive. Almost as soon as the clouds parted, anyone with a working office was offering to host the displaced. Staffers from Buzzfeed took up residence in Heart’s cafeteria. Kickstarter moved in with Boxee. Venture capitalist Charlie O’Donnell suggested the hashtag #sandycoworking for those seeking and offering space; as the offers began flying fast and furious on Twitter, Mr. Hidalgo hacked out a platform for anyone to list what they had.
An Inside Look at How New York’s Masters of Disruptions Stepped Up to Help with Hurricane Relief | Betabeat
Author NoneckPosted on November 7, 2012 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags NY Tech Responds, NYTM, SandyCoworkingLeave a comment on
One of the pillars of our mission is to help solve our clients’ problems. I can think of few problems larger than being unable to operate your business for days, if not weeks. I want to salute our team in New York for taking the initiative to help our clients in a time of need.
Silicon Valley Bank – Supporting Entrepreneurs in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
The Yard: Brooklyn Coworking: Dear Members and Friends,I write on behalf of everyone at The Yard to…
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Here at The Yard, we have been working very hard to keep our doors open and our Interent up both for our members and those who have been displaced by the storm. While Verizon is still underwater, we have installed a proxy wifi server and propped up local and visiting businesses alike. A group with the Sid Lee agency from Montreal is set up here now and The Union Beer Distributors have moved into our Library room after their offices were flooded. We’ve also offered complimentary coworking space to displaced locals through Greenpointers.com. And we’re not the only ones! Check out #SandyCoworking on Twitter or the SandyCoworking Map.
Author NoneckPosted on November 7, 2012 Format LinkCategories UncategorizedTags NY Tech Responds, NYTM, SandyCoworkingLeave a comment on The Yard: Brooklyn Coworking: Dear Members and Friends,I write on behalf of everyone at The Yard to…
The New York community has always joined together and felt a sense of togetherness,” O’Donnell told me. “Because we don’t have the resources of Silicon Valley, New Yorkers have realized we can only succeed by working together so it’s not surprising that people have jumped on board.
NYC co-working spaces and startups step up for Sandy refugees — Tech News and Analysis
It didn’t take long for New York startups and techies to spring into action after Hurricane Sandy left parts of our fine city without power, water, shelter, or Wifi.
Techie Do-Gooders: How NYC Startups are Helping the Sandy Relief Effort | Betabeat
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Papermakers defeat Prairie Blackhawks
The Blackhawks’ Jon Nicholson (170 pounds) tries to maneuver out of the way of a large, looming Papermaker (6-3, 355) Friday night in football playoff action. (Photos by Ted Pennekamp)
Prairie du Chien’s Brady Russell lunges across the goal line for a touchdown against visiting Nekoosa Friday night in playoff action.
Chase Fisher (20) and Ryan Wall (44) team up to make the tackle during Prairie du Chien’s last game of the season.
A pair of Prairie du Chien defenders converge on the Nekoosa ball carrier.
Ryan Drinkwine (25) and Lucas Kramer (54) close in on the Nekoosa ball carrier.
Christian Black (65) and another Blackhawk defender get in on the play.
Jon Nicholson leaves a would-be tackler in his wake as he takes off after intercepting a pass.
Jon Nicholson catches a touchdown pass in the back of the end zone.
By Colton Thompson
On Friday, the Hawks played their last game of their 2020 season and the second game of this year’s playoffs. The Nekoosa Papermakers (3-4) traveled to Prairie du Chien to take on the Blackhawks (4-4) after both teams had just won their first round match-ups.
With the absence of Bradyn Saint, the Hawks were looking to pass the ball more than usual. They were able to do that as Maddox Cejka had his first game with over 200 passing yards this year but it was not enough to get the victory. The night ended with the Hawks losing 40-28 to the Papermakers.
To start the game, the Papermakers received the ball from the north end zone. On their second play of the drive, Cordero Ysquierdo ran for a 71-yard touchdown to put the Papermakers up early. All season, Nekoosa would only go for 2-point conversions and they kept that going on Friday. Hunter Lochner was able to run it in and put Nekoosa up 8-0 early.
On the Hawks first possession of the game, they were hit with two penalties to set them up for a second and 18. Maddox Cejka connected with Brady Russell for 9 yards to put them at third and 9 but the Hawks were unable to convert as Jon Nicholson punted the ball to the Nekoosa 11-yard line. The Papermakers moved up the field quickly again on big runs from Cordero Ysquierdo. After his 50-yard rush, Nekoosa was at PdC’s 15-yard line. Two plays later, Jonathan Wenzel was able to run it in for a 9-yard touchdown. Cordero Ysquierdo was stopped on his rush for the 2-point conversion but the Papermakers still led 14-0.
PdC started their new drive with 5:17 remaining in the first quarter at their own 33-yard line. They were hit with a holding penalty early and had a second and 22 early in their drive. They were unable to convert and were forced to punt again. On the punt, Cordero Ysquierdo fumbled and PdC’s own John Titlbach dove on it to start the Hawks at Nekoosa’s 16-yard line. The Hawks were called for another penalty. This time it was an offsides flag and the Hawks were moved back for a second and 15. On fourth and 14, Maddox Cejka was able to find Jon Nicholson in the end zone for a touchdown. Joey Xiya hit the PAT and the Hawks moved it to a one possession game with the score now being 14-7.
The Papermakers’ drive didn’t last long because on the fourth play of the drive Jon Nicholson was able to get an interception at the Nekoosa 41-yard line and returned it all the way back to the Nekoosa 10-yard line.
On the first play of the new PdC drive, Maddox Cejka connected with Jon Nicholson again for a touchdown. Joey Xiya hit another PAT and the Hawks tied the game at 14.
PdC came out on defense and forced a fourth down. Nekoosa tried to go for it but was held short and the Hawks took over at the Nekoosa 47-yard line. On the fifth play of the drive, Maddox Cejka connected with Brady Russell for a 27-yard touchdown to take the lead. Joey Xiya came out and hit another PAT to put Prairie du Chien up 21-14.
The Papermakers had the last drive of the half that started at 2:36 and was at the Nekoosa 24-yard line. Nekoosa went for it after PdC was able to force a fourth down and were able to get a 27-yard run from Ethan Hoogesteger. With a few seconds left in the first half, Ethan Hoogesteger threw a deep ball to Cordero Ysquierdo for 26 yards but it was not enough as they ended up on the PdC 5-yard line and the time ran out in the first half.
PdC started with the ball at their own 45-yard line for the first drive of the second half. The Hawks moved up the field fast on big plays coming from rushes by Max Amundson and passes from Maddox Cejka to Brady Russell and Jon Nicholson. The biggest play being the last one when Maddox Cejka threw it to Jon Nicholson for another touchdown. Joey Xiya hit another PAT and PdC was now up 28-14.
Nekoosa came out ready when they got the ball back in the second half. Ethan Hoogesteger was able to run the ball three times for 33 yards and three different first downs. The Papermakers eventually scored on an 8-yard rush by Hunter Lochner with 4:15 remaining in the third quarter. On the 2-point try, Ethan Hoogesteger attempted to throw it to Jonathan Wenzel but it was broken up and the Hawks still led 28-20.
Nekoosa got the ball back at their own 47-yard line with 1:54 left in the third quarter. Cordero Ysquierdo led them up the field with two big rushes for a total of 35 yards. The drive ended with a keeper as Ethan Hoogesteger ran the ball 8 yards for a touchdown and made the score 28-26. They attempted a play action rollout to the right on the 2-point conversion but were stopped short and the Hawks led 28-26.
The Hawks drive was stopped short when the Papermakers forced a three and out with 8:52 left in the fourth quarter. After the punt, Nekoosa started at their own 37-yard line. Two rushes for 20 yards from Ysquierdo and Hoogesteger moved them up the field into PdC territory. A few plays later, Ysquierdo ran for 32 yards and a touchdown to take the lead. Ysquierdo was also able to run it in for the 2-point conversion to take the lead 34-28.
The Hawks were stopped early again as Logan Cleary stopped a few plays in the backfield. Maddox Cejka rolled right on a pass play and was hit from behind by Hunter Boudreau and fumbled as Nekoosa’s James Schaefbauer recovered it at PdC’s 34-yard line. Ysquierdo marched down the field on four rushes for 29 yards and moved them close to the goal line. The drive ended in another rushing touchdown from Hoogesteger, this time for 1 yard. The Papermakers now led 40-28. The 2-point conversion was no good and the Hawks were set to receive the ball with 1:36 left in the game.
On the first play, Maddox Cejka took a shot downfield and connected with Brady Russell for a 48-yard gain. The Hawks got to the line quickly and immediately spiked the ball. Three straight incompletions followed and the Hawks had to walk off the field with a 40-28 loss.
The leading rusher for the Hawks was Max Amundson with 11 rushes for 40 yards. Leading the receivers in yards was Brady Russell with 6 receptions for 119 yards and a touchdown. Jon Nicholson added 6 catches for 61 yards and 3 touchdowns. Chase Fisher was also able to add on some catches with 2 for 30 yards. Maddox Cejka was 16-31 for 223 yards, 4 TDs, and 1 Int. The leading tackler was Christian Black with 12. Lucas Kramer, Max Amundson, and Chase Fisher all added on 11 tackles each. Jon Nicholson had 1 Int., and John Titlbach had 1 fumble recovery.
A fun season
The Hawks made this a very fun season for all of us to watch this fall and played their hearts out every game. Thank you to the seniors and good luck to them on their future endeavors. The Hawks will be back in action next fall with more football for everyone to enjoy.
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Moses in this chapter farther instructed,
Concerning the altar of incense, ver. 1 - 10.
Concerning the ransom money, which the Israelites were to pay when they were numbered, ver. 11 - 16.
Concerning the laver of brass, ver. 17 - 21.
Concerning the anointing oil, ver. 22 - 33.
Concerning the incense and perfume, which was to be burned on the golden altar, ver. 34 - 38.
1: The altar of incense was to be about a yard high, and half a yard square, with horns at the corners, a golden cornish round it, with rings and staves of gold for the convenience of carrying it, (Ex 30:1-5). It doth not appear that there was any grate to this altar for the ashes to fall into, that they might be taken away; but when they burn incense, a golden censer was brought, with coals in it, and placed upon the altar, and in that censer the incense was burnt, and with it all the coals were taken away, so that no coals or ashes fell upon the altar. The altar of incense in Ezekiel's temple is double to what it is here, (Eze 41:22), and it is there called an altar of wood, and there is no mention of gold, to signify that the incense in gospel times should be spiritual, the worship plain, and the service of God enlarged. It was placed before the veil, on the outside of that partition, but before the mercy - seat, which was within the veil. For though he that ministered at that altar could not see the mercy - seat, the veil interposing, yet he must look towards it, and direct his incense that way, to teach us, that though we cannot with our bodily eyes see the throne of grace, that blessed mercy - seat, yet we must in prayer by faith set ourselves before it, direct our prayer and look up.
7: Aaron was to burn sweet incense upon this altar every morning and every evening, which was intended not only to take away the ill smell of the flesh that was burnt daily on the brazen altar, but for the honour of God, and to shew the, acceptableness of his people's services to him. As by the offerings on the brazen altar satisfaction was made for what had been done displeasing to God, so by the offering on this what they did well was, as it were, recommended to the divine acceptance.
10: This altar was purified with the blood of the sin - offering put upon the horns of it every year, upon the day of atonement. See(Le 16:18,19). The high priest was to take this in his way as he came out from the holy of holies. This was to intimate, that the sins of the priests who ministered at this altar, and of the people for whom they ministered, put a ceremonial impurity upon it, from which it must be cleansed by the blood of atonement. This altar typified the mediation of Christ: the brazen altar in the court was a type of Christ dying on earth; the golden altar in the sanctuary was a type of Christ interceding in heaven. This altar was before the mercy - seat, for Christ always appears in the presence of God for us; and his intercession is unto God of a sweet smelling savour. And it typified the devotions of the saints, whose prayers are said to be set forth before God as incense,(Ps 141:2). As the smoke of the incense ascended, so must our desires, being kindled with the fire of holy love. When the priest was burning incense the people were praying, (Lu 1:10), to signify that prayer is the true incense. This incense was a perpetual incense, for we must pray always. The lamps were dressed or lighted at the same time that the incense was burnt, to teach us that the reading of the scriptures (which are our light and lamp) is a part of our daily work, and should ordinarily accompany our prayers and praises. The devotions of sanctified souls are well - pleasing to God, of a sweet - smelling savour; the prayers of saints are compared to sweet odours,(Re 5:8), but it is the incense which Christ adds to them that makes them acceptable; and his blood that atones for the guilt which cleaves to our best services. Yet if the heart and life be not holy, even incense is an abomination, (Isa 1:13).
11: Perhaps the repetition of those words, the Lord spake unto Moses, here and afterwards, (Ex 30:17,22,34), intimates, that God did not deliver these precepts to Moses, in a continued discourse, but with many intermissions, giving him time either to write what was said to him, or at least to charge his memory with it.
12: Some think this refers only to the first numbering of them, when the tabernacle was set up, and that this tax was to make up what was wanting in the voluntary contributions. Others think it was to be always when the people were numbered; and that David offended in not demanding it when he numbered the people. But many of the Jewish writers are of opinion, it was to be an annual tribute; only it was begun when Moses first numbered the people. This was that tribute - money which Christ paid lest he should offend his adversaries. The tribute to be paid was half a shekel, about fifteen - pence of our money. In other offerings men were to give according to their ability, but this, which was the ransom of the soul, must be alike for all; for the rich have as much need of Christ as the poor, and the poor are as welcome to him as the rich. And this was to be paid as a ransom of the soul, that there might be no plague among them - Hereby they acknowledged that they received their lives from God, that they had forfeited their lives to him, and that they depended upon his power and patience for the continuance of them; and thus they did homage to the God of their lives, and deprecated those plagues which their sins had deserved. This money was employed in the service of the tabernacle; with it they bought sacrifices, flour, incense wine, oil, fuel, salt, priests garments, and all other things which the whole congregation was interested in.
18: The laver, or font was a large vessel, that would contain a good quantity of water. The foot of brass, it is supposed, was so contrived as to receive the water, which was let out of the laver, by spouts or cocks. They then had a laver for the priests only to wash in, but to us now there is a fountain opened for Judah and Jerusalem,(Zec 13:1), an inexhaustible fountain of living water, so that it is our own fault if we remain in our pollution. Aaron and his sons were to wash their hands and feet at this laver every time they went in to minister. For this purpose clean water was put into the laver, fresh every day. Though they washed themselves ever so clean at their own houses, that would not serve, they must wash at the laver. This was designed, to teach them purity in all their ministrations, and to possess them with a reverence of God's holiness, and a dread of the pollutions of sin. They must not only wash and be made clean when they were first consecrated, but they must wash and be kept clean, whenever they went in to minister. He only shall stand in God's holy place that hath clean hands and a pure heart,(Ps 24:3,4). And it was to teach us, who are daily to attend upon God, daily to renew our repentance for sin, and our believing application of the blood of Christ to our souls for remission.
23: Interpreters are not agreed concerning these ingredients: the spices, which were in all near half a hundred weight, were to be infused in the oil, which was to be about five or six quarts, and then strained out, leaving an admirable smell in the oil. With this oil God's tent and all the furniture of it were to be anointed; it was to be used also in the consecration of the priests. It was to be continued throughout their generations, (Ex 30:31). Solomon was anointed with it, (1Ki 1:39), and some other of the kings, and all the high priests, with such a quantity of it, as that it ran down to the skirts of the garments; and we read of the making it up,(1Ch 9:30). Yet all agree that in the second temple there was none of this holy oil, which was probably owing to a notion they had, that it was not lawful to make it up; Providence over - ruling that want as a presage of the better unction of the Holy Ghost in gospel - times, the variety of whose gifts was typified by these sweet ingredients.
34: The incense which was burned upon the golden altar was prepared of sweet spices likewise, though not so rare and rich as those which the anointing oil was compounded of. This was prepared once a year, (the Jews say) a pound for each day of the year, and three pound over for the day of atonement. When it was used it was to be beaten very small; thus it pleased the Lord to bruise the Redeemer, when he offered himself for a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour. Concerning both these preparations the same law is here given, that the like should not be made for any common use. Thus God would preserve in the peoples minds a reverence for his own institutions, and teach us not to profane or abuse any thing whereby God makes himself known.
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The DFA was established in 2007 to promote and protect the interests of doc filmmakers in South Africa. To contact the DFA, please use the contact form: here . The DFA website is at: www.docfilmsa.com Membership applications can be made through the website here.
Aesthetica Short Film Competition
CALL FOR ENTRIES: AESTHETICA SHORT FILM COMPETITION
The Aesthetica Short Film Competition 2011 is now open for entries! It's a fantastic opportunity to get your work broadcast to a wider audience and Aesthetica are keen to see entries from both new and established filmmakers who are driving short film forward. The winning film receives a fantastic prize package including:
~ £500 prize money (apx. 5,440 Rand)
~ Screenings at film festivals across the UK, including Rushes Soho Shorts (London), Glasgow Film Festival (Glasgow) and Branchage (Jersey)
~ A weekend filmmaking course, courtesy of Raindance
~ 12 months membership to Shooting People, the international film network
~ Inclusion on a DVD that will be distributed to all Aesthetica readers (60,000 viewers)
The runner-up will also receive £250 (apx. 2,720 Rand), as well as DVD publication. Films should be no longer than 25 minutes but can be any genre including artists' film, music videos, dance films, horror and comedy or anything you can think of!
Entry is £15 (apx. 160 Rand) per film. No limit to the number of entries permitted. Please visit www.aestheticamagazine.com/shortfilm for more information and to submit. Deadline 30 April 2011.
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Invitation to recording of Redi on Mzansi
We are writing to invite you to join Redi Tlhabi and her guests as part of the studio audience this Wednesday 13th April for the recording of 3 episodes of the Redi show on Mzansi (DSTV Channel 107).
The topics we plan to discuss are:
2.00pm Sexual and Gender Diversity
3.00pm Celebrating life with HIV
4.00pm Teen Drinking
Guests include:
- Nkunzi Nkabinde, Lesbian Sangoma
- Victor Mukasa, Transgender man
- Zanele Muholi, World-renowned South African lesbian artist and filmmaker
- Lucky Mazibuko, Sowetan columnist, now celebrating 20 years of living with HIV.
- Former addicts and young people with alcohol problems
- Teachers and learners to discuss teen drinking
Recording starts at 2pm this Wednesday 13th April at the Sasani Studios in Highlands North, Johannesburg. You are welcome to come for just one or two of the topics, or for all three.
If you'd like to join us, please email broad.daylight.films@gmail.com with your name and cell number, indicating which shows you plan to attend. Places are limited and will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.
Ben Cashdan
Zanele Nyingwa
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Media Statement for Freedom Month (April) 2011 by Minister Paul Mashatile
Media statement by Mr Paul Mashatile, Minister of Arts and Culture, Johannesburg
FREEDOM MONTH
This month marks the 17th year of our freedom. On the 27 April 2011 we shall celebrate our collective achievements of sustained peace, unity, the restoration of human dignity to all South Africans and an inclusive citizenship based on the principles of non-racialism, non-sexism and democracy. In the past 17 years we have worked together to deepen this democracy and indeed this year as we prepare for local government elections let us be proud of what we have accomplished together.
The theme for this year’s celebrations is “Working together to unite the nation, promote democracy and protect freedom.” This theme is a reminder of the sacrifices of our people in the struggle for a free and just South Africa. We call upon all South Africans to put their differences aside and to work together to build this country – united as we are, even in our diversity. We can only protect freedom if we do so together conscious of our hard-won rights and eager to entrench this freedom and to ensure that the gains also become sustained social, economic and cultural development for all our people.
Government calls on all South African to join in celebrating National Freedom Day at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday 27 April 2011 (full details of activities planned for the month are in your pack). This event will be addressed by President Jacob Zuma and will also include a full military parade and a cultural programme.
Government also reaffirms its commitment to consolidate democracy and promote cultural diversity and social cohesion in South Africa. We celebrate the fact that we live in a system that guarantees that never again will our humanity be taken away, irrespective of race, gender, creed or sexual orientation.
We have reached this point in our history through collective will and action, through hard work and sacrifice, through national creativity and through innovation. We can be proud that we are a people with a strong sense of self-worth and a national identity that enables us to be active agents of change.
As Government we continue to play a critical role in promoting social cohesion, nation building and building civic pride – all of these contribute towards the building of a national democratic society.
We have embarked on the Magnificent Friday initiative aimed at mobilising all South Africans behind our national netball team, the cricket team and the rugby team.
We are also initiating Community conversations led by Provinces on how to build a more caring society characterised by social cohesion. These provincial gatherings will culminate in the National Summit of Social Cohesion to be held in the second half of this year.
We call on all South Africans to exercise their right and responsibility topromote democracy and protect freedom by participating at the municipal elections later this year. We all have a responsibility to continue working together to build our country. Elections are a crucial element of democracy and it is the responsibility of all eligible persons to go and vote. All of us have to oblige by and respect the rules of the election period to ensure that we continue having free and fair elections. Let us work together to unite the nation, promote democracy and protect freedom.
THE ARTS AND CULTURE MANDATE
The Department of Arts and Culture is tasked with the responsibility to develop and preserve South Africa’s culture, to ensure social cohesion and to nation-building.
One of the critical areas of focus for the Department as it delivers on its mandate is to unleash the potential of the arts, culture and heritage sector to contribute to economic growth and job creation. This is particularly important in light of the recent pronouncement by President Zuma in the State of the Nation Address that the primary focus of the work of government during this period is on job creation.
It is also our view that the arts, culture and heritage sector has a meaningful contribution to make towards the achievement of the goals of the New Growth Path; specifically the creation of 5 million jobs within the next ten years.
THE ROLE OF ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE IN THE ECONOMY AND IN JOB CREATION
Research in many parts of the world, including in countries such as Canada, United Kingdom and India, shows that the cultural and creative industries is a major contributor to economic growth and job creation. This has earned the sector the title of being referred to as the “Golden economy”.
In line with this international trend, there is also growing consensus in our country that the cultural and creative industries are a significant contributor to economic growth and job creation.
At its February Lekgotla, Cabinet identified the cultural and creative industries as one of the sectors that can contribute to the objectives of the New Growth Path; especially the creation of new jobs.
As the President indicated during the State of the Nation Address; the craft sector alone contributes more that R 2 billion to our country’s Gross Domestic Product. In addition this sector provides jobs and income for approximately 38 000 people through an estimated 7 000 small enterprises. (Source: DTI).
We estimate that Technical Services, which include stage construction, lighting and sound engineering, are worth R7 billion per annum.
Last year a research report indicated that the Cape Town International Festival contributed more than R475 million to the economy of Cape Town and created a total of 2 000 jobs. Judging from this year’s attendance and enthusiasm, I have no doubt that even these figures will be surpassed.
These (preliminary) numbers point to the vast potential of the Golden economy in South Africa.
Yet the sector generally is not considered to be visible and there is a need for the research in the sector to be collated and analysed to provide an accurate picture of the whole sector and the contribution it makes to our national life.
Overlapping functions between role players need to be addressed as soon as possible. It is necessary that a unified framework be adopted and our priority is large scale interventions that can make a difference on a mass scale.
It is for this reason that in November this year I appointed a creative team to draft a strategy on how to unleash the potential of the cultural and creative industries to contribute to economic growth and job creation.
After a process of consultation with our agencies and provincial departments of Arts and Culture, we are delighted to announce that the strategy is now ready to be presented to all our stakeholders at a National Summit on the Cultural and Creative Industries to be held from the 14th to the 15th of April this year, at the Newton Cultural Precinct in Johannesburg.
Together with our Agencies, National Departments, Provincial and Local Government and key stakeholders we shall look at new potential interventions that facilitate employment creation on a large scale.
Out of this Summit we hope to emerge with a number of resolutions that we will implement collectively with all stakeholders in the sector with a view to strengthen the contribution of the creative and cultural industries in the economy.
Most importantly this Strategy will spell out in detail how the sector will contribute to the national effort to create 5 million jobs within the next ten years as outlined in the New Growth Path. Clearly, the arts and culture sector is an emerging economic contributor, a golden economy waiting to shine!
Our task is to nurture new enterprises in the cultural and creative industries as well as drive the expansion of existing initiatives.
Today I shall highlight some of the key areas in which we intend making a major impact. These are some of the areas that we shall present to the Conference for discussion:
CULTURAL PRECINCTS AND EVENTS
We would like to establish nationally supported cultural precincts. We are already in dialogue with the provinces about the location of such areas of culture and the feasibility of implementing them.
Linkages can be made between historical sites, monuments, museums and theatre complexes so that audiences and patrons are attracted to the widest and most diverse possible offerings of the arts, culture and heritage sector.
DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURAL PRODUCT HUBS
We propose the establishment of arts and cultural product hubs offering as many categories of products as possible.
The sites for these hubs would encourage patronage, extend geographical spread and association to important cultural, archaeological and historical sites. We shall be mindful of the rural development priority of government as we undertake this task.
IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL HERITAGE LEGACY PROJECTS
Good work has been done by the Department in partnership with the National Heritage Council on the National Heritage Liberation Route. Just last week I was invited to speak at the Gauteng Liberation Heritage Route conference. which is part of the consultative processes, done by the Council to encourage public participation in this initiative.
These projects highlight liberation history and ensure that this rich heritage is preserved and is accessible to all. Some of the legacy projects include Constitutional Hill, Freedom Park, Robben Island, Luthuli Museum, Mandela Museum and so forth.
The full realisation of these projects could have a social and economic impact on the communities in which they reside.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A SOURCING INSTITUTION
In our country, there is a need for access by arts and culture practitioners to markets in which they can sell their products and thus earning a decent living from their talents.
Therefore we propose that an institution be established to complement existing informal and small scale sourcing of products and services that is currently taking place.
This new institution would source out products, activities and experiences for dissemination and distribution to audiences in towns and cities throughout the country.
This institution would also establish an inventory of all the sources of products, activities and experience that would allow for a wider choice for both international and domestic consumers.
In our view, this would lead to an increase in demand as a result of the increased choice, thus bringing more economic benefit to artists.
ART BANK
It is proposed that an umbrella fund which we shall coin an ‘Art Bank’ be re-established as a funded commercial venture to receive earmarked funding for qualifying projects. Together with the Deputy Minister, I would like to meet the business community to solicit support for this proposal.
NATIONAL SKILLS ACADEMY
Also linked to the development of the strategy, is the establishment of the National Skills Academy for the Arts. The Academy will coordinate and integrate the various arts training initiatives in the country.
It will become a “Center of Excellence” responsible for producing the best in our country that are capable of competing successfully on the world stage. This is our long term strategy and for this we need to work with other National Departments.
We are collaborating with the Department of Basic Education to include in the curriculum, visual arts and aspects of drama including providing learners a chance to learn to play a musical instrument.
We are engaging with the Department of Higher Education to ensure co-ordination and collaboration in all institutions in the arts, culture and heritage education sector.
EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
We intend adopting a programmatic approach to youth employment including increasing access to bursaries and internships.
Already we have made some progress in this regard with R9 million allocated for skills development in the heritage sector.
THE CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE
These are some of the key aspects of our new strategy that will come under discussion at this consultative event. The main aim is to create synergies and to rationalise and clarify roles so that government in partnership with the sector can move ahead with great clarity and precision. We invite your participation in this repositioning of the role of the arts, culture and heritage sector.
Labels: Arts and Culture Consultative Conference, Minister Paul Mashatile
SA's Digital Dividend
In presentations at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (ICASA) digital dividend workshop in Johannesburg on 7 April, both M-Net and e.tv pointed out that it was premature to talk about how to allocate the digital dividend – the frequency spectrum that will be freed up once South Africa migrates to digital terrestrial television (DTT) – before digital migration was even on the starting blocks.
The date for the commercial launch of DTT is still to be set by the Department of Communications (DoC) in consultation with ICASA. In the meantime, Minister of Communications Roy Padayachie has set the deadline for the switch off of the analogue signal for December 2013.
M-Net’s head of Regulatory Affairs Karen Willenberg stressed that three preliminary issues need to be resolved before ICASA decides how to allocate the digital dividend.
Said Willenberg: “We believe that spectrum is the fuel that will drive change and development in South Africa and that consumer demand will continue to grow. M-Net’s viewpoint on the digital dividend is that certain foundations need to be put in place first. The resolution of what we see as the three preliminary issues – timing, definition, and process – will go a long way in ensuring South Africa’s successful digital migration.
“In terms of timing, some 11 million television households have to be migrated onto the digital platform. The digital dividend is dependent on the analogue switch off, but we haven’t yet switched off the analogue signal. Neither are we in the dual illumination phase, where both analogue and digital signals are broadcast in preparation for the final analogue switch off.
“At this stage the government has not yet finalised a subsidy scheme for set top boxes (STBs) for South Africa’s poorer households, neither is there an STB manufacturing policy in place. M-Net believes that timelines are critical as we need to know when the digital dividend will become available.”
In talking about the second issue – definition – Willenberg pointed out that everyone has a different idea of what digital dividend actually means. “We don’t think it’s correct to say that digital dividend refers to all the freed up spectrum. M-Net maintains that there are two aspects to the digital dividend. There is Dividend 1 (790 MHz), which is for mobile and broadband, while Dividend 2 (the band below 790 MHz) is for broadcasting. With regards Dividend 2 we have to ask whether ICASA will ensure that some spectrum will be used to create new multiplexes and whether it will be for commercial, community or regional TV and how much spectrum will be used for future services like HD or 3D.”
In terms of the third preliminary issue – process – Willenberg specifically meant the management of small blocks of spectrum that will appear once migration from analogue to digital is completed. “So there will need to be a second migration – the digital to digital migration – and this is something that has not been planned for. These small blocks of spectrum need to be arranged into a continuous stream so that they can be properly utilised.”
The rest of the article, including e.tv's perspective here.
Labels: digital migration
Commercial Documentary Distribution and Finance
Bo Stehmeier, director of sales at Off the Fence, was the main speaker at a Documentary Filmmakers Association workshop on Commercial Documentary Distribution and Finance.
The commercial potential of documentary films is unexplored territory in South Africa. The current broadcasting environment in South Africa, with its lack of commissions and a host of new channels looking for content, presents a chance for documentary filmmakers to take control of their work and explore distribution possibilities open to them.
In response to this changing landscape, The Documentary Filmmakers’ Association (DFA), in collaboration with The Cape Film Commission (CFC) in Cape Town and with The Bioscope in Jozi, recently organised and hosted a seminar for documentary producers on Commercial Documentary Distribution And Finance For The International Market.
The main speaker was Bo Stehmeier, director of sales at Off The Fence, an international independent non-fiction distribution company with a local office in Cape Town.
The seminar was initiated by DFA treasurer, Pascal Schmitz, after he met Bo at IDFA in December 2010.
The seminars in Jozi and Cape Town had different panelists, but the learning in both centres was equally invaluable.
Bo allowed both newcomers and old timers of filmmaking to get their heads around the until-now distant world of distribution and international financing.
He began by encouraging documentary filmmakers to embrace the current uncertainties in the South African filmmaking landscape. He said the situation reminded him of the UK eight years ago, where, within three years, the most profitable export was television shows.
Producers in the UK embraced their intellectual property rights and exploited opportunities to earn from product sales.
“The stars are aligning themselves here in South Africa and it’s your responsibility to research the opportunities available,” he said.
Read further here.
Labels: Bo Stehmeier, distribution, Documentary film
South African Documentary Filmmakers on SABC 1's Shift
Shift is a Live Talk Show on SABC 1. Tx: Mon-Wed at 13h30-14h30
We are producing a show looking at SA Documentary Filmmakers.
We would like to Invite the DFA to be apart of the panel to discuss the SA documentary film making context as well as what documentary film makers are dealing with in the current climate.
We would like to extend the invite to Doccie Filmmakers in your organisation to share their stories, material and hear the voice of doccie filmmakers.
Our Guest Profile is as follows:
60% - African Language Speaking (Any South African African Language)
40% - English speaking
We can cater for a max. 6 guests. That way we can have a fairly in-depth conversation, more than that the conversation becomes thin.
We will, as mentioned, show clips, with permission granted of course and title who the footage belongs too.
Footage can be supplied in DVD, DV or Beta formats at least 48hr in advance
Contact Roberto Carletti by Tuesday 12 April at 17h00 on:
robertoc@urbanbrew.co.za
Labels: Documentary film, Opportunities, Shift
AfricAvenir: A Namibian Perspective on African Film
A Namibian perspective on African film screenings
AfricAvenir organises African Perspectives, a monthly African film series in Windhoek, Namibia that started in 2007. They’ve screened films like Oliver Schmitz’ Hijack Stories; Darrell Roodt’s Faith’s Corner; Wanuri Kahui’s From a Whisper; and Ousmane Sembene’s Moolade.
AfricAvenir’s Hans Christian Mahnke, who is the vice-chair of the board of The Filmmakers Association of Namibia, explains his drive to screen African film. “Africans have a very small share as producers and transmitters of their own images. Their participation is a relatively recent phenomenon, dating back to the 1960s. The initial position of Africa in the world of cinema was that of a consumer of film products made primarily in and by the West. Many of these films also used and continue to use Africa and Africans as resources to invent and disseminate images and discourses of Africa and Africans radically at odds with the histories and actual realities of Africa and Africans. In spite of its youth and the multifaceted challenges against which it is struggling, African cinema has grown steadily over a short period of time to become a significant part of a global cinema to which it brings many significant contributions. More specifically, it corrects the distortions and stereotypes propagated by dominant Western media, and is more in line with the realities, the experiences, the priorities and desires of their respective societies.”
He speaks about foreign films creating “cultural alienation and social disorientation” within Namibia. “The aim of African Perspectives is to counteract the dwindling socio-political examination of Africa and its increasing ahistorical and apolitical perception, and to provide new inputs for the work of educational bodies, non-governmental organisations, associations, cultural centres and foundations in Windhoek. More specifically, African Perspectives wants to overcome the marginalization of the audience and contribute to creating an audience and screening culture of African cinema.”
This hasn’t been easy. “Creating an screening culture in a country with one cinema (Ster Kinekor) in Windhoek and two cinemas in the coastal town of Swakopmund is difficult. Creating an African film screening culture is even more difficult, because people believe African films are films from Nollywood. Filmmakers like Ousmane Sembene are unheard of in Namibia.”
AfricAvenir is interested in partnering with similar initiatives in Southern African. For example, Tsitsi Dangarembga, the organiser of The International Images Women Film Festival in Harare, Zimbabwe, was AfricAvenir’s special guest in August 2010. “Besides South Africa, the other Southern African countries can’t create a national film industry big enough to be sustainable, if the neighbouring countries are not considered as markets. We sometimes think too small when it comes to national film industries. Namibia only has two million people so we need to link up with Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, etc.”
In November 2009, AfricAvenir launched The Namibian Movie Collection in cooperation with Joel Haikali from Joe-Vision Production and the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC). Placed at the Multimedia Library of the FNCC, The Namibian Movie Collection consists of more than 40 Namibian films. “The project is ongoing,” Christian says. “New films being produced in the country are constantly added to the collection.”
For the purpose of promotion, filmmakers agreed to grant non-commercial rights of their films to be part of the collection and the FNCC granted space in its Multimedia Library for public access. The catalog is on the AfricAvenir website, while the collection has also been reproduced and handed over to a public library in Berlin, Germany. “The Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sports, and Culture and the Namibian Embassy in Berlin have now also approached us in order to acquire the complete collection for promotional purposes for their respective institutions.”
Full article at The Call Sheet and Afric Avenir's web site here.
Labels: AfricAvenir, Namibia
We Love Documentary - for real!
To significantly raise the profile of documentary films and filmmakers by publicly promoting awareness, support and viewership of Canadian and international documentary films across Canada and the world.
Why the Campaign?
* Once known internationally for its leadership role in development and innovation, documentary filmmaking in Canada is in peril of disappearing due to a lack of financial support for its creation.
* Over the past 5 years more than 2,000 people have been forced to leave their jobs in documentary production even before the effects of the economic downturn hit.
* Attendance at Hot Docs, Canada’s largest documentary film festival, has increased by an astounding 750% over the past decade.
*Source: Getting Real 4: an Economic Profile of the Canadian Documentary Production Industry. Download a PDF of the report at www.docorg.ca/en/broadcasting.
More over here.
Labels: Documentary film
Art and Social Justice Conference
Pre-Conference Announcement
Arts and Social Justice: The Media Connection
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
We are proud to announce that the Department of Communications in conjunction with the Mass Media and Communications Institute at The University of Nicosia will be hosting The 2011 Arts and Social Justice Conference which will be held from 20-23 October 2011 at the University of Nicosia. The title of this year’s conference is Arts and Social Justice: The Media Connection.
The ASJ is a well established international conference based on arts, expression and citizen activism and its various mediated forms of representation. ASJ has ties to the World Social Forum, also held annually at the same time as the Davos Economic Forum and conceived as one of its counterweights. In 2010, the ASJ conference was held in Durban, South Africa, with such luminaries as Albie Sachs and Rajmohan Ghandi among the plenary speakers and key presentations from William Cleveland, Mike van Graan, and Angelina Kamba.
At the 2011 conference, we expect about 200 - 300 delegates from all over the world – artists, academics, activists. Special emphasis will be put on the media and how they can and do influence societies at large to take on greater responsibilities in making this world a just place to live. There will be three strands:
1. Arts, Media and Advocacy
2. Media, Culture and Identity
3. Arts, Cultural Diversity and Conflict Resolution
Especially the first strand will give the opportunity to analyze citizen media production and how, as in the recent cases of Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries, this has contributed to giving a forceful voice to formerly disenfranchised groups. We have approached a number of important global figures and while the negotiations are still continuing, we will have a number of celebrities, important film directors and artists such as poets Stephanos Stephanides and Neshe Yashin as part of the programme.
We welcome your interest and would encourage you to enroll in the conference and actively participate in it. There are several ways of doing that. A dedicated website will be up within the next few weeks where you will find the latest information and updates. Also, a conference publication will be published.
We look forward to welcoming you at the University of Nicosia!
Dr Mike Hajimichael (hajimichael.m@unic.ac.cy), Dr Holger Briel (briel.h@unic.ac.cy)
University of Nicosia, Makedonitissa, Nicosia, Cyprus. Tel.:00 357 22 352563 Fax 00 357 22 353682
Labels: Art and Social Justice Conference, Opportunities
Jammer as Ek So Bitter Is on Perspective
Rina Jooste’s Jammer As Ek So Bitter Is won the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA) for: Best Director of a Documentary and Best Overall Documentary in 2011. Jammer As Ek So Bitter Is explores the silent violence of peer pressure and how it manifests in the lives of four teenage girls. The girls tell their stories openly which shows that the team won their trust to elicit such frank retelling of their stories. The stories are both fascinating and disturbing which makes it difficult to watch at times.
HOW DID YOU FIND THIS STORY?
My partner Nadiva Schraibman approached me with the concept of doing a documentary series on the violence in our schools. She was editing a research paper for the Justice and Crime Prevention NGO and decided it needed to be presented through television or film in order to reach the public since research papers gather dust. Since the subject matter of violence in our country is close to my heart and I am constantly doing research about it, we wrote a proposal for a four-part series. Incidentally, shortly after we wrote the proposal, the SABC put out a brief for a documentary series focusing on Human Rights, it was open for suggestions. I decided to submit the proposal under the heading of Youth and Human Rights. SABC commissioned two of the four proposed episodes, one on bullying in primary township schools and one on peer pressure and its manifestations amongst teenage girls in white suburbia.
The rest of the interview over here.
Labels: Jammer as Ek So Bitter is, Perspective, Rina Jooste
Open Book Cape Town
Alert! The Open Book Cape Town literary festival, first mentioned in these annals, has a wee update for you, dear reader – in the form of the announcement of our first raft of authors who will be, erm, rafting in for the 21 – 25 September gig. They are plentiful, and they are major. Whoop!
Oh, and we have a shiny new logo, too. Like it?
Here’s the press release that went out this afternoon, which tells all. Feast your eyes!
Internationally-acclaimed novelists Jeanette Winterson, Paul Harding and Earl Lovelace are set to appear at Cape Town’s inaugural Open Book literary festival this September.
The three writers’ bright careers present enticing contrasts for the city’s book lovers. Winterson, born in Manchester, UK, won the Whitbread Prize in 1985, and has published over a dozen books, along with numerous scripts and play adaptations. She is best known for novels like Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and The Passion but also writes children’s books and fiction for young adults, and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2006. Winterson will launch her forthcoming novel, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? at Open Book.
Harding, meanwhile, of Massachusetts, USA, has just got his start – which has been an auspicious one, to say the least. With his first novel, Tinkers, he joins the likes of Cormac McCarthy and Philip Roth in winning the Pulitzer Prize, an extraordinary honour for a debut work of fiction, which was also named one of the Hundred Best Novels of 2009 .
Earl Lovelace’s bibliography reads as long as his seventy-five years. An essayist, journalist, playwright and novelist, in 1997 the Trinidadian won the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book for his novel Salt. His latest, Is Just a Movie, has attracted praise from all quarters, confirming his status as a master storyteller. “Is Just a Movie is the best novel I’ve read this year and I can’t wait for the opportunity to hear Lovelace talk about it,” said Mervyn Sloman, proprietor of local independent bookshop The Book Lounge and one of the festival’s organisers. [Ed's note: the others are Frankie Murrey and Yours Truly.]
Labels: Open Book Cape Town
Online Documentary Wins Digital Emmy
For National Film Board of Canada chair Tom Perlmutter, it’s shaping up to be a good week on the interactive media front.
The public filmmaker’s interactive documentary HIGHRISE/Out My Window on Monday won the international Emmy for best digital program: non-fiction category at MIP-TV.
And the NFB has been shopping 14 interactive productions to international broadcasters at MIP Doc and MIPTV this week, for content and format licensing.
HIGHRISE, directed by filmmaker and digital media creator Katerina Cizek and produced by Gerry Flahive, uses interactive 360° photography, video, text and music in 49 vignettes to capture life in highrise apartments in 13 cities.
For Perlmutter, the MIPTV showcase of the NFB’s interactive media is confirmation that Canada’s public filmmaker is well on its way to making a long-standing, and at times painful, shift from a pure documentary, animation and feature film producer to a trailblazer in online digital media.
“When I came into the NFB at the time as head of English programming, it overwhelmed me. There was so much talent and excitement, but all that people knew about the film board was nostalgia,” Perlmutter told realscreen’s sister publication Playback Daily.
So he turned an NFB from an institution whose audience honored its past to one committed to next-generation story-telling on the Internet and other emerging digital platforms, including smartphones and tablets.
Read further.
Labels: Emmy Award, online documentary project
NFVF Call for Applications for Markets and Festivals
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) invites filmmakers to apply for funding for markets and festivals attendance. The applications should be for festivals that have been scheduled to take place between May and July 2011. The applications should reach the NFVF offices on or before the 8th of April 2011.
Markets and festival attendance funding is available to filmmakers that have been invited to participate at festivals, and filmmakers whose films have been accepted at international film festivals. It is also open to those filmmakers who are able to demonstrate that attendance will benefit their company and their project through its presentation at the festival in special screenings or other activities.
The NFVF will be hosting a Sales Event at the Cannes International Film Festival, with the purpose of presenting projects to international buyers, independent filmmakers are requested to submit synopsis of projects they would like to pitch at this event. Materials should also include high-resolution posters of the projects or where possible trailers. Filmmakers should bear in mind that the NFVF reserves the right to select films that qualify to be presented at the event and included in the NFVF catalogue.
Click here to download the Markets and Festival application form.
For submissions email Lerato Mokopanele on: leratom@nfvf.co.za
Read the original call here.
Labels: Markets and Festival funding, NFVF
The Rise of the Web Series
Looking at Felicia Day, you’d never guess that this petite redhead from Huntsville, Alabama, represents the single biggest threat to the global television industry.
At just 29, this actress turned screenwriter and producer has created a web series that has been watched more than a quarter of a billion times.
Her series, called The Guild, was made on the most shoestring of budgets. Speaking at the South by South West Interactive festival last month, Day chuckled as she recalled pilfering food from another set on which she was working at the time. Shot in her house, using borrowed equipment and her friends as cast members, the show epitomises the DIY spirit of a new generation of independent producers.
In 2007 Day was already a successful actress, with parts in shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and House, when she decided to use the spare time between acting gigs to write and produce her own series. Working from the age-old premise of “write what you know”, Day decided to create a series about online gamers.
“I’ve been an online gamer my whole life and I’ve been on the net since the beginning. I had a Prodigy account,” says Day. The choice was fortuitous for a number of reasons. First, she had a built-in audience of extremely connected and net-savvy viewers -- online gamers. Second, because of her strong, organic connections to social media channels such as forums and Twitter she had an instant marketing strategy.
The most extraordinary thing about the first season of The Guild was that it was entirely financed by donations from viewers. Day was surprised by the response: “Someone said ‘Ask for donations’ and I thought no one does that.”
Labels: online broadcast
Eco Kids Thanks for Submissions
The organizers of the Eco Kids Film Initiative, in partnership with Cape Town non-profit While You Were Sleeping, are happy to announce that the call for entries for the first annual festival is now closed. We are excited about the diverse range of entries that we have received, including animations, documentaries and short narratives, some from as far afield as Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The final programme will be released in August.
For more information please contact Tarien Roux at info.ekfi@gmail.com
Labels: Eco Kids
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DFA BOARD 2011/12
To meet the new DFA Board for 2011/12 please click here.
Documentary Filmmakers' Association (DFA)
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The DFA had 122 paid up members for the 2009/10 year!
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Membership applications can be submitted electronically via our website: here
Membership for the 2011/12 year costs ZAR300, and we also offer a half price if you join as a new member from January of a year, as our membership cycle is till mid-year. We also have limited membership bursaries available for those that are not able to afford the membership.
Exclusive Member Benefits can be found here
The Members Directory for the 2009/10 year can be downloaded as a PDF here (3.5MB).
VOX: INSPIRING FILMS / INSPIRING FUNDS
The VOX blog page gives voice to filmmakers discussing the financing and support structures they've managed to access while working on their projects. To make a submission to VOX, email: info@docfilmsa.com
Initiated by DFA-member Tina-Louise Smith, Perspective is a series of interviews with South African documentary filmmakers about why they do what they do, and their experiences of making their work. Read Perspective here
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DFA Executive Board 2011/12
Co-Chair Cape: Tina-Louise Smith
Co-Chair Durbs: Odette Geldenhuys
Co-Vice C Jozi: Zulumathabo (Vusi) Zulu & Neil Brandt
Treasurer Cape: Izette Mostert
Secretary Cape: Tinashe Makwande
Secretary Jozi: Catherine Muller
Board Jozi: Ryley Grunenwald
Board Limpopo: Duncan Tshikovhi
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The Members Directory from previous years can be downloaded as a 66 page PDF book here (3.5MB), and includes all DFA 2009/2010 members till 4 July 2010.
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Candice Prinsloo
Cassidy Fine, Substance Films, +27 21 447 0164, www.substancefilms.co.za
Damian Samuels, Fade2Black Productions
Derek Serra, Controversi Films +27 21 426 1665 www.controversifilms.co.za
Don Edkins, STEPS/Day Zero Films, +27 465 5805, www.steps.co.za
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Felix Seuffert, Be Phat Motel, Plexus Films Employee
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Helena Kingwill
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Izette Mostert, Purple Pear +27 82 820 0351 www.purplepear.tv
Jane Kennedy, Trinity Productions +27 21 788 5667 www.trinityproductions.co.za
Jacky Lourens, Get the Picture +27 21 465 7148 www.getthepicture.co.za
Jacqueline van Meygaarden, Cosmos Production
Jason Crowther
Joanne Corrigall, +27 84 516 9162
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Jenny Hicks, +27 76 208 4528
Jo Higgs, Go Trolley Films +27 21 422 2064 www.gotrolley.com
Kali van der Merwe, Other-Wise Media
Karen Landsberg, Director of Photography
Khalid Shamis, Tuba Films www.tubafilms.com
Kobus Louw, Into the Light Films
Kyle O'Donoghue, Four Corners Media www.fourcornersmedia.co.za
Lauren Groenewald, Plexus Films +27 21 426 2070 www.plexusfilms.co.za
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Lisba Vosloo, Salvo Films +27 21 461 8800
Llewelyn Roderick, Fireworks Films +27 21 462 7979, www.fireworksfilms.co.za
Louise van Hoff, Okuhle Media +27 21 486 2900
Lucilla Blankenberg, Community Media Trust +27 21 788 9163, www.beatit.co.za
Mandisa Zitha
Mark Kaplan, Grey Matter Media
Martina Della Togna, Rainbow Circle Films +27 21 933 1514 www.rainbowcirclefilms.co.za
Michal Wozniak
Miki Redelinghuys, Plexus Films
Mpu Vusisizwe
Naashon Zalk, Naashon Zalk Media +27 21 422 4196 www.naashon.co.za
Nelson Ikeh
Nicky Crowther +27 82 214 7110
Pablo Pinedo, http://pablopi.org
Pascale Neuschafer +27 (0)84 942 0541
Peter Goldsmid, Southern Exposure CC
Oddveig Nicole Sarmiento, +27 78 875 2138
Reza Salie, +27 82 305 8974
Riaan Hendricks
Rudolf Rieger, On Set Film Productions (Pty) Ltd +27 21 790 2227, www.onsetproductions.co.za
Sean Leslie
Shani van Straaten Wild Talk Africa www.wildtalkafrica.com
Simon Taylor, Periphery, www.periphery.co.za
Siobhan Hodgson
Simon Wood
Steven Ellis
Steven Markovitz, Encounters/BigWorld
Tarien Roux, Eco Kids Film Initiative
Theresa Meyer, STEPS/Day Zero Films, +27 465 5805, www.steps.co.za
Terry Westby-Nunn, Independent
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Tim Wege www.fourcornersmedia.co.za
Tina-Louise Smith, Accidental Films and TV, +27 82 828 0882
Tinashe Makwande
Tiny Mungwe
Uga Carlini, Towerkop Creations
Wendy Hardie, Wendy Hardie Productions cc +27 83 616 0532
Yvette Lambrecht, Substance Films, +27 21 447 0164, www.substancefilms.co.za
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Abel Pienaar, Sentrum vir Eietydse Spiritualiteit +72 82 493 3832, www.spiritualiteit.co.za
Anthony Irving, Imageworks +27 11 022 5571, www.imageworks.co.za
Bonny Hajj, +27 82 787 1823
Carlos Francisco, +27 82 494 3175
Catherine Muller www.cathmuller.com
Chiara Frisone, +27 72 664 8003, www.cfimages.co.za
Colbert Johnes, Nhachi Entertainment CC
Darryl Els, Uhuru Productions +27 11 334 6148
David Forbes, Shadow Films +27 11 447 3960, www.shadowfilms.co.za
Eddie Edwards
Edwin Knopf, Goblinfilms +27 12 329 1687
Emmanuel Sibanda, Sobethu Media (Pty) Ltd +27 11 339 8938, www.sobethumedia.com
Fanny Tsimong
Guy Spiller
Ingrid Gavshon, Angel Films / Maya Media
Kerryn Assaizky
Kirsten Siebert
Jane Lipman, Current Affairs Films
Karin Slater
Ksenija Micic
Leon Fisher, AKU Television Productions +27 11 475 1396, www.akutvproductions.co.za
Libby Dougherty
Lieza Louw, White Goat Cine Art +27 11 717-9742 www.whitegoat.co.za
Mandilakhe Mjekula, Misfit Pictuz
Marc Schwinges, Underdog Productions +27 11 4838800 www.underdog.co.za
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Molaediwa James Mokgeth
Nadiva Schraibman, Full Circle Productions +27 11 482 1303
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Pascal Schmitz, AMARIAM Productions +27 11 484-5200 www.amariam.co.za
Pierre Friquet +27 78 673 2412 friquetpierre@yahoo.fr
Ranoe Ralitabo
Rina Jooste, Full Circle Productions +27 83 629 0622
Richard Sekwele, Mosapa Projects
Ryley Grunenwald, Marie-VFilms +27 11 431 2197, www.thedawnofanewday.co.za
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Tapiwa Chipfupa
Taryn Marie Calverey, +27 84 793 9502
Teboho Pietersen
Thea Aboud, DFA Administrator
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Tim Neary
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MPUMALANGA MEMBERS:
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KWAZULU-NATAL MEMBERS:
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www.rogueproductions.co.za
Odette Geldenhuys, Frank Films
Patrick Royal
Thamie Majozi,
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Mayenzeke Baza
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InTERTesting association between telomerase, mTOR and phytochemicals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2012
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Tabetha Sundin
Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Department of Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
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Telomeres are stretches of repeated DNA sequences located at the ends of chromosomes that are necessary to prevent loss of gene-coding DNA regions during replication. Telomerase – the enzyme responsible for immortalising cancer cells through the addition of telomeric repeats – is active in ~90% of human cancers. Telomerase activity is inhibited by various phytochemicals such as isoprenoids, genistein, curcumin, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, resveratrol and others. Human TERT (telomerase reverse transcriptase – the rate-limiting component of telomerase), heat shock protein 90, Akt, p70 S6 kinase (S6K) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) form a physical and functional complex with one another. The inclusion of Akt, mTOR and S6K in the TERT complex is compelling evidence to support mTOR-mediated control of telomerase activity. This review will define the role of mTOR, the master regulator of protein translation, in telomerase regulation and provide additional insights into the numerous ways in which telomerase activity is hindered by phytochemicals.
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Fuelled power: oil, financiers and central bank policy in Nigeria
Dafe, Florence (2018) Fuelled power: oil, financiers and central bank policy in Nigeria. New Political Economy. ISSN 1356-3467
Identification Number: 10.1080/13563467.2018.1501353
While the literature on business power and global finance has illuminated the ways in which financial institutions limit the policy autonomy of states in developing countries, we know much less about the circumstances under which the power of financiers is undermined. In this article, I advance explanations of these circumstances by arguing that state access to natural resource revenues reduces the power of financial institutions and enhances the capacity of the state to pursue central bank policies which violate the interests of major financiers. I employ a case study of central bank policy in Nigeria to probe this argument and find evidence that supports the claim that whenever the Nigerian government's access to resource revenues increased, the state's capacity to diverge from financiers’ preferred central bank policies and to advance its own preferences increased as well. The analysis provides the basis for broader propositions about the policy space of developing countries vis-à-vis financial institutions and the variability of structural power.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cnpe20/current
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Sharing the load effectively
At the end of my last post I said I was wandering off to think about scalable, low-overhead recommendation systems.
It’s funny how preconceptions work. I know, I think better than most people, how often decentralizing systems to avoid single points of failure is good engineering. Yet I had to really struggle with myself to jettison the habits of thought that said “If you want to use money to help people, you’re going to have to build a centralized, heavyweight structure around the management of that task.”
But struggle I did. Because I’d already tried that, and failed.
I also had to get past the idea that identifying good funding targets can be crowdsourced. Nope. Identifying candidates and digging up information on them can be, but actually evaluating merit and centrality will take knowledge most contributors not only lack but have no strong reason to try to acquire.
Once I got my head clear, this is what came out:
http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers
The basic trick here is piggybacking not just on the payment transfer capacity of remittance systems but on their patron/client communications channels as well. That way Loadsharers doesn’t need to manage anything itself other a handful of adviser web pages and a bunch of trust relationships.
Also notice the implications of how I designed the Adviser role. By the time we have a half-dozen or so advisers I won’t be key man anymore. That’s intentional.
I also like the fact that there will, in effect, be a (mildly) competitive market in adviser skill, with loadsharer contributors tending to gravitate to advisers who exhibit activity and diligence. That’s intentional too.
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38 thoughts on “Sharing the load effectively”
spiralofhope on 2019-06-16 at 22:16:02 said:
Thank you for recognizing the problems of political capture and corruption.
The most useful way to announce this includes a URL to a Patreon or SubscribeStar patron page. That way I can add you to the Roll of Honor and everyone can see who you’re funding.
> The most useful way to announce this includes a URL to a Patreon or SubscribeStar patron page.
The best I can do right now is to write on the topic.
“Wet infrastructure”
https://blog.spiralofhope.com/?p=41707
I think another role is needed: recruiter.
Just funding the LBIPs doesn’t solve the problem: They don’t suddenly drop their projects because they can’t spare the time and expense of working on them, sure, but they will eventually die no matter how well you fund them.
So we need a means of finding apprentices for LBIPs (at least two per LBIP), funding the apprentices, and continuing to fund both LBIP and apprentices after the apprentices are up to speed enough that the LBIP is no longer an LBIP. LBIPs are LBIPs because, out of all the people with the skillset to maintain a given project, there aren’t enough with the time, financial stability, and awareness of the project to give the project a sufficiently high bus factor.
Even if the loss of a given person wouldn’t be a catastrophe, if that person is working on a project with a bus factor of two, the loss of that person would reduce the bus factor on that project to one. We don’t just need to fund LBIPs, we need to fund enough maintainers for critical projects that people don’t become LBIPs in the first place.
Criticality should be split into two parts: how much we lose if each individual project a person works on collapses for any reason, and the bus factor for each project the person works on (the size of the smallest group such that, if the whole group were hit by a bus while crossing the street, the project would collapse).
Someone who works on 10 projects, all with moderate criticality, but two of which have bus factors under three, is probably more critical than someone who works on 10 projects with civilization-ending consequences of failure, but none of which have bus factors under 50 (unless most of those 50 live in a war zone, or something).
>I think another role is needed: recruiter.
All your points are valid. But I think you’re asking us to run while we’re learning to walk.
In particular, I don’t think we’re ready to take on the need for apprenticeships yet. When there are ten thousand loadsharers and a couple of dozen advisers that will be a good thing to revisit.
I think your idea of trying to evaluate bus factors is worthy. But have you thought about how to do that? Nobody is served if we set success criteria for advisers that no one can meet.
I agree that the apprenticeship concept isn’t appropriate to consider just now, but it’s interesting to me as I’ve thought on the bus problem for a long time.
Some thoughts..
Teaching, mentoring, learning and being apprenticed are a talent/skill most simply don’t have.
Time and mind are taken away to mentor. This makes the project suffer in the short run with the assumption that a new person will make up for it in the long run. It would be interesting to reveal how many projects couldn’t even spare the mindshare to apprentice and so are really vulnerable to the bus problem.
Some of those people are good because they are — charitably-speaking — atypically sane. They think and act in ways most humans don’t, why is why there’s only one of them. Coming from thought and experience, I don’t believe the mindset available to some of these people can be taught or learned. Projects and positions need to be simplified down to the level of “ordinary hackers” without it becoming yet another damned committee of developers. But how? This problem, and hopefully its solution, would be revealed when trying to apprentice.
Jim of Jim's blog on 2019-06-17 at 03:49:30 said:
I am using libsodium, and value it enormously.
If not for libsodium, we would be using crypto algorithms written by our evil enemies who hate us.
So I would love to make a contribution to libsodium, and am working on tool to make it easier to use,but I would like to make a monetary contribution, but am not sure who or how.
There is now a #loadsharers IRC channel on freenode.
TheDividualist on 2019-06-17 at 11:19:14 said:
Just a thought. Infrastructure like roads is mostly maintained by governments all around the world. Volunteers maintaining the Internet infrastructure doesn’t simply mean you get it cheaper and better, what it really means is that if volunteers stop doing and the governments take over, you get spying on users or banning inconvenient ones built into the whole structure of the deep thing. Nightmare fuel.
Of course there is a third option. If volunteers don’t maintain roads and I don’t want to take government roads, I can buy a very sturdy Jeep and risking driving through the prairie. So I would recommend putting some thought into how users could live without parts of the infrastructure in the worst-case scenario. What if my browser would store the IP of every website I have visited, my email client would store the IP of every domain I sent an e-mail to, so I could live with DNS being down a while? Maybe stupid idea, I am not really qualified to brainstorm about it, but just an example.
William O'Blivion on 2019-06-18 at 02:17:19 said:
> I can buy a very sturdy Jeep and risking driving through the prairie.
No, you can’t. It’s either owned by private parties, and hence fenced off or it’s owned by the government and you’re expected to keep to the existing trails.
Thinking further. From this angle, you could get donations not only from programmers but any rich dude, corporate manager who care about their privacy. Who want as little spying built into the infrastructure of the Internet as possible and therefore see it in their interest that it should be maintained by volunteers, not the government. One of your greatest achievements is selling Open Source to the suits who were originally skeptical about it, they mostly considered it hippie stuff. Maybe you can do that again.
Paul Brinkley on 2019-06-17 at 11:45:39 said:
[Offtopic, shameless excuse for subscribing to future posts – your signature seems to still include a link to the now-defunct Google Plus.]
strongpoint on 2019-06-17 at 16:34:56 said:
The list of LBIP candidates at the Loadsharers page REALLY wants to be a table (one sure sign of this: repeating categories such as “criticality” and “need” for each individual is almost always a prescription for breaking out such information into columns, which are visually cleaner and easier to read).
I have a mockup here that I’d be happy to send you. I’d offer to scratch out the HTML, but I doubt my own ability to do so in a sufficiently competent fashion.
>I have a mockup here that I’d be happy to send you.
No need, page is mastered in asciidoc, tables are easy.
Are you suggesting that I take a run through asciidoc to see how quickly I can learn to format tables?
>Are you suggesting that I take a run through asciidoc to see how quickly I can learn to format tables?
No, I can do it. Not sure I will though. I did a half-conversion and it didn’t look so good. Running-text entries in tables tend not to.
Fred Mora on 2019-06-17 at 19:25:22 said:
I’d like to donate via SubscribeStar rather than Patreon, Is there a way to do this?
>I’d like to donate via SubscribeStar rather than Patreon, Is there a way to do this?
The LBIP you want to donate to would have to have an account there.
By coincidence, I got my SubscribeStar ID approval earlier today. I’m esr there. Please forgive the somewhat stark appearance of my page, I have not had time to pretty it up yet.
Your picture on there winds up looking like some evil mastermind gloating over an enemy…
Troutwaxer on 2019-06-18 at 00:24:37 said:
It’s much too early to be thinking of volcano lairs for our best developers, but maybe someday…
“I’M YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE.”
Tpyo under “Institutional”:
> Ny stuff is everywhere in your computers, your routers, and your embedded systems. Help me keep it running smoothly for you.
Dewey on 2019-06-18 at 08:44:44 said:
FYI your PayPal link to Simon Kelley is non-functional.
Also, Stallman/FSF is noticeably absent in your list. They have had such a strong impact on the OSS system that I think they warrant a note, even if that is effectively “intentionally left blank” for whatever reason. Stallman has said, with some justice, that “it’s actually a GNU system with a Linux kernel”.
(I suggest a vague mention of a reason is necessary for advisor reputational reasons).
>Also, Stallman/FSF is noticeably absent in your list.
Because he’s safe. There’s a whole organization around RMS that exists to fund him and has been doing so for years.
Yes, I anticipated and agree with your reasoning. It’s one of his big accomplishments. I still suggest he warrants a mention.
>Yes, I anticipated and agree with your reasoning. It’s one of his big accomplishments. I still suggest he warrants a mention.
If you look at the page now you’ll see he gets one.
Also, how does one “claim a place” on the early adopters list?
>Also, how does one “claim a place” on the early adopters list?
Take the pledge, give me a link to your Patreon or SubscribeStar contributor page so others can see you’re executing on it, and I’ll add it.
-1 Duff on 2019-06-20 at 12:46:54 said:
I wrestled with this because I much prefer to not be “out there.” But my near-future plans involve providing targeted technological funding and contributions for individuals and groups, so awareness matters I guess. If this list is currently running, I will submit for addition.
Joseph Presley on 2019-06-18 at 15:54:51 said:
I used your LBIP page to give a $30 pledge to David Taht. I would have liked to give a pledge to Simon Kelley but the paypal link does not work. He also does not have a link to pledge money on his homepage.
One thing to note is that Patreon filters the erotic artists and cosplayers I support from my “Whom I contribute to” list. This is a feature and not a bug.
Christoph Happle on 2019-06-18 at 16:21:15 said:
> but the paypal link does not work
Indeed it doesn’t. It did for me 2 days ago, I sent money and he said thank you. And my PayPal dashboard still shows the next payment due to go out in a month.
I could post the email address he uses for his PayPal Account here, maybe you could find him that way, but I’m not sure if im supposed to.
Anyway, ESR’s Loadsharers page says Simon will be on Patreon soon.
It’s good to know it worked at some point. The issue seems to be some token that expired. I can wait until another link is given or until Simon has a Patreon link. Dnsmasq came in handy at a former job. It would be nice to give back.
Why are you still using centralised services such as Patreon instead of accepting donations directly to a bitcoin address?
>Why are you still using centralised services such as Patreon instead of accepting donations directly to a bitcoin address?
Because Patreon and SuscribeStar have convenient setup for recurring donations.
The goal of Loadsharers is to solve a funding problem, not be “Oooh, look! Crypto-geekery!” performance art.
“performance art”?
Why so dismissive of technology that enables permissionless, decentralised and uncensorable electronic cross-border transactions?
>Why so dismissive of technology that enables permissionless, decentralised and uncensorable electronic cross-border transactions?
I’m not dismissive of the technology at all. It has clear use cases.
But if I were to use that as a sole payment channel, it would be a performance-art gesture – appealing to a comparative handful of people, not sufficient attack either my personal funding problem or the larger one I’m trying to solve.
> But if I were to use that as a sole payment channel, it would be a performance-art gesture
You could, however, easily publish a donate-to bitcoin address for precisely zero cost as a parallel channel. Maybe the bitcoin channel would be infrequently used, but there seems little downside and at least theoretical upside in catching potential donors who won’t use paypal or similar services.
Matthew on 2020-01-04 at 08:08:23 said:
TM>> Why are you still using centralised services such as Patreon instead of accepting donations directly to a bitcoin address?
ESR> Because Patreon and SuscribeStar have convenient setup for recurring donations.
Also, if you’re going to start it you have to start somewhere. I have concerns about the implementation (previous post) but I’m up for sharing some load anyway. “Here’s an egg, go make me some chicken!”
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London, 2050. The socio-economic crisis of recent decades is over and consumerism is thriving.
Ownership of land outside the city is the preserve of a tiny elite, and the rest of the population must spend to earn a Right to Reside. Ageing has been abolished thanks to a radical new approach, replacing retirement with blissful euthanasia at a Dignitorium.
When architect Philip goes missing, his wife Alice risks losing her home and her status, and begins to question the society in which she was raised. Her search for him uncovers some horrifying truths about the fate of her own family and the reality behind the new social order.
Wolf Country is a powerful dystopian vision in the spirit of Black Mirror and Never Let Me Go.
It must have begun when my apple tree flourished and Sofia’s withered and died. Perhaps that was when Sofia first had an inkling that she didn’t belong. Dad used to say war begins at home, in the family. It was not his own idea; he must have read it somewhere and felt obliged to pass the wisdom on to his daughters. It took me twenty years to grasp its meaning, the realisation coming only yesterday after I put the phone down, an entirely changed person from the one who picked it up a minute earlier. I wonder what Dad would say now, if he saw me – saw us – like this, preparing for the final battle, a battle too painful and far too unequal to be fought in the sanctuary of the family.
I’ve never been alone at a monorail station before. It’s a peculiar feeling I can’t put my finger on. The sense of luxury, the absence of sound. Like I have my own piece of Earth.
In the passenger lounge the pebble-shaped sofas are empty and waiting, the dimly lit wood-panelled bar silent. A fragrance of orchid is released and, for a moment, I’m fooled into thinking it’s real.
Ten minutes ago, when we arrived from London, my fellow passengers left the monorail in haste. They hurried out to the square without stopping in the nineteenth-century station building. They wore well-cut clothes in the finest fabric, leather shoes soft as butter, but none of these could conceal their vacant stares, the servitude dried on their faces. A line of minibuses with tinted windows swallowed them up like a hungry mouth. The Owners must pay them well to make the long commute worthwhile. Apart from the financial remuneration, of course, there is the privilege of working directly in the service of the Owners. A privilege you can’t put a price on.
The square is just as abandoned as the station. There is a high street running through the small town, and little side streets off it, all lined with original Victorian terraced houses, now functioning as traditional pastry shops and tearooms. It is not my first time away from a megacity, but the serenity still comes as a surprise. There’s not a soul apart from me. The tourists don’t tend to arrive before 10am.
It’s a perfect English summer day, which usually lifts my spirits, though today it fails to do so. To kill time and avoid thinking about the ordeal I’m about to face, I watch the advert screens. There’s one on my left, another attached to the station building, and a third one across the road. The same video is playing on each screen. It shows an elderly lady, wearing a pale pink blouse, sitting comfortably in a Chesterfield-style armchair. Behind her, a flowery curtain is drawn open to reveal a breathtaking view. Roses are climbing up the windowsill, while in the distance rolling hills create the impression of heaven on earth. The lady, wearing gold-framed spectacles, leans closer to the camera. She says she could not be happier, and all the things Dignitorium residents usually say. I don’t want to watch it, and yet I can’t keep my eyes off the screen. Now there’s a new resident, from another Dignitorium, then another. The names and faces keep changing, only their message remains the same.
Checking the time, I’m starting to worry I’ve been forgotten when a long black car pulls up in front of me. There’s an RR emblem on its front and a tiny statue of a winged woman. In the old system, these so-called limousines were used mostly by presidents and film stars. I’m flattered, even a bit excited, but I’m not sure about getting into the vehicle. The archive footage of fatal car accidents shown on the Globe always horrifies me.
The last time I was in a car, I was seven. It was still in the old system, when everyone had cars. Now only the Owners do. They say they need them against the wolves. For everyone else there’s the monorail.
The chauffeur gets out and looks around, squinting in the sunlight. He’s in his fifties, with deep wrinkles across his forehead; he seems a trustworthy type. In his immaculate black suit, with matching hat and white gloves, he oozes professionalism. Like the butlers I have seen in period dramas, he seems to have trouble turning his head, as if he had swallowed a stick. He greets me with a courteous bow, avoiding eye contact. If only he knew that I’m more afraid of his Owner employer than he is; that I am not a fellow Owner but a helpless person desperately trying not to blow her very last chance of survival.
‘Mrs Alice Brunelli?’ he asks, and when I nod he checks my identity on his ID Phone. The official photo of me was taken three years ago, and I wonder if – after the past few months – I still resemble that young woman with honey-blonde hair, porcelain skin and a lively, elfish smile. Or has my face – carrying pain like an antiquity carries the mark of centuries – become unrecognisable?
He nods and opens the car door for me. He must enjoy watching me struggle to get in. The door seems to be in the way. I do my best to mimic what I’ve seen in old films, to climb in sideways, without hitting my head or tripping over. I refuse his offer of help. ‘Are you comfortable, madam?’ he asks. There’s a slight hint of friendliness in his tone, now that he’s realised I’m one of his kind, a mere mortal.
Inside the vehicle a gentle blue light illuminates the jet-black interior. The cool leather seat stings my arms, the cold seeping through my linen trousers and my blouse. The scent opens up a new dimension, a realm of privilege and opulence. In any other circumstances, I would be excited, but instead I’m ill at ease. This is an alien world, alien and hostile.
As the limousine reaches a high-security red fence, the gate slides open, then closes immediately behind us. We’re entering the infamous wolf country. I peer through the tinted window, trying to spot some wolves, but then remember that they don’t like coming close to vehicles. The landscape changes as the town disappears behind us. The road begins to climb and soon we reach the top of a hill; looking down, I realise how near we are to the coast, only a few miles from the silvery blue that seems to flow beyond the horizon. It shouldn’t surprise me; even as a child, Sofia was attracted to the sea. There’s something surreal about the car’s motion – like being able to fly – seeing the road ahead, running, bending, then we’re snaking our way through a forest. I don’t like the speed, though, and I’m on the verge of begging the chauffeur to slow down. Again I remember the bodies shown on the Globe, broken and blood-soaked, and a recent documentary illustrating how much living space roads used to take up and how cars had a disastrous impact on the environment. There is a sharp curve; I have to hold on to the seat. I press a button to my left and speak into the intercom.
‘Could you slow down a bit, please?’
His expression in the mirror suggests he doesn’t understand.
‘I’m not used to this speed.’
For a second it seems he wants to say something but then his face returns to a rigid mask and he slows the car down. It is still a little fast but I don’t want to ask him again.
‘When will we get there?’
‘We’ll be there in approximately twenty minutes, madam.’
I check the map on my ID Phone but all areas that belong to the Owners – everything behind the red fence – is blanked out. The closer we get to our destination, the faster my heart beats, and my palms are so sweaty they leave wet patches on the soft leather.
How did I ever dare to dream that my sister would help me? I think back to that evening, more than two decades ago. That was the day when Sofia and I, the enemies, became something much worse than that, something I don’t have the words for. That was the last time we saw each other. In the past, whenever I thought of Sofia, I was always overcome with anger, but now the questions overwhelm me. Does she regret what happened? Has she been thinking of that day? And when I manage to forget about the pain, just for a few seconds – usually early in the morning, when I’m between sleep and waking, and my mind is still enveloped in a white, thick fog – I catch myself asking: how has her life been for the past twenty years? Has she – like all of us – been moulded and mellowed by inevitable hardships, or have wealth and status shielded her? I know that for most of us, time smoothes over the rough patches and casts a rose tint over everything. However, I am not one of those lucky ones.
Eventually the floating sensation of the car calms my nerves, and another story, an earlier one, emerges from the cloud of memories. I was only nine; Sofia was twelve.
It was about a year after the new system was introduced, although the transition was far from complete. Dramatic changes of that scale take years to implement, held up by those who oppose them. The opponents were a minority of the retired population, those who were wealthy enough to escape the notorious retirement homes. They were clinging to an old, inadequate system like children to their abusive parents or Stockholm syndrome sufferers to their kidnappers. They rejected the new society and many went into hiding.
Our grandmother, in her mid-sixties and bursting with joie de vivre, was horrified by the new system. She said she would rather face prosecution from the authorities than have a tracker installed. I, for one, was excited about the trackers, and Sofia, fascinated by the science behind them, was even more so, but Grandma’s reaction was understandable; she and her peers had grown up in a very different world. No matter how much Mum tried to explain, Grandma couldn’t understand that it was for the good of everyone, that if ever something happened to her, we would be able to locate her immediately. Apart from Grandma, we had all had the trackers shot under the skin behind the left ear when the new system started, gladly and voluntarily. It took only a second, and I immediately felt safe, protected, and even proud.
It was reported in the media that with the help of the trackers, criminals were arrested within hours of committing a crime. As expected, this brought about a rapid fall in crime and won us over to the new system. But not Grandma. She – having been a homeowner, a rarity in her generation – even joined a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament, but it was stopped, and some participants were arrested; Grandma had a narrow escape. It was reported on the Globe that the authorities were looking for the ‘troublemakers’.
Mum gently tried to convince Grandma that she would have a wonderful retirement in the Dignitorium, reaping the fruits of her life’s work until she felt she was ready. Mum even brought her a shiny prospectus printed with golden letters, but she tore it up. Later that day, Sofia and I spent hours piecing together the fragments, imagining ourselves living like royalty between the walls of the grand Victorian mansion.
‘I'm loving this new system,’ she said. I nearly said I agreed when Grandma’s tearful face came to mind.
‘Yeah. But poor Grandma…’
‘Don’t tell me you wouldn’t like to retire in a place like that?’
‘I don’t know.’ I shrugged.
‘How do you want to die then?’
‘I’ve never thought about it. I don’t want to die.’
‘It’s not a choice, princess,’ she said and I felt – as usual when getting into a conversation with her – like a complete idiot. She excelled in sciences at school and had won a national competition. She even had a tiny room in our attic, which was her ‘laboratory’. Her ambition was to become a scientist. I, until my early adulthood, had no idea what I wanted to do.
Grandma fled her old house the night before the authorities began the evictions. Her house – like most built in the old system – was not nice or practical enough to be kept; they rebuilt that district into a beautiful area for High Spenders.
Grandma stayed with us. She came with just one suitcase of clothes and her wedding album. Everything else was left behind. We still lived in our old house, awaiting the completion of our new Mid-Spender area. I kept picturing our future place; Mum said the new homes would be more attractive and convenient than any accommodation in the history of mankind. We were overjoyed about the brand-new semi we would be given once it was built. Dad tried to explain to me and Sofia on our own level why the old world had collapsed. Even as a nine-year-old I understood that the increasing demands put upon the welfare system by the old and sick had led to the impoverishment of the hard-working majority. I can still feel the excitement in the air of getting free housing; I remember the constant media coverage, strangers hugging each other in the street, grown men crying with joy that the economic and housing crisis had been tackled for good. All we had to do in return was consume.
In the old system our family was lucky because Dad had inherited a house, but when I visited some of my friends I saw the poverty they lived in, two to three families sharing a house, mothers and babies crammed into tiny bedsits. Apart from well-to-do non-profit people like grandma, everyone hailed the new system. The majority of the working population, who were previously rent slaves, praised the gift of secure employment and accommodation in the regenerated megacities. The pensioners were set free from the subhuman conditions of the retirement homes and given an unprecedented quality of life in the newly completed Dignitoriums.
Grandma refused to be called a non-profit person, though we kept telling her we loved her nonetheless. She had been with us for two days, occupying Sofia’s laboratory, when the authorities visited us, enquiring about Grandma, who was in fact out that evening at a meeting with other non-profit people. They asked us to contact them once she returned, thanked us politely and left.
Of course, Mum and Dad knew that Grandma’s fear was totally unfounded – we all knew it – but strangely we couldn’t bring ourselves to turn her in. When we looked into her eyes, the terror we saw was very real indeed. I suppose it’s like taking a little bird in your hands. Though you know you won’t harm it, the bird does not. Aged nine, I learned to appreciate the power of fear.
We were prepared to defend Grandma if we had to, but they didn’t return. We hoped they had forgotten about her. In the evenings, after school, we would play cards or have dinner together. We did our best to make her happy, but she always said she felt like a prisoner. One day in the kitchen, when Grandma couldn’t hear, Mum said to Dad that Grandma was not a real prisoner, only a prisoner of her fear. That evening I asked Sofia what being the prisoner of fear meant.
‘You wouldn’t understand,’ she replied. ‘But I can tell you it’s far worse than being locked up in a real prison.’
Grandma must have been with us for two months when, one afternoon, the authorities returned. The three young female officers – kind and softly spoken – came in, and after a warm greeting they went straight upstairs to her room. Paralysed, I hid on the landing while they stood in the doorway, smiling at Grandma. Her face turned white, but her fear was unnecessary, for they were very understanding. Their leader, a petite woman with a heart-shaped face, sat down next to Grandma on the bed, and patiently explained to her why they had come.
‘It’s in your interest, Mrs King, that you make a choice now. Start to earn your Right To Reside, like everyone else, or retire to the Dignitorium. It’s totally up to you. I’m happy to announce that we have just completed a cosy little Low-Spender area, where the Right To Reside in a lovely studio is very affordable. I’m sure that with your family’s support you could spend some wonderful years there before you retire. You could even do a little part-time work.’ Grandma nearly exploded.
‘How dare you! I have been working all my life! I paid into a decent pension for forty years. We had our own house. I want my home and my pension back!’
‘I’m sorry to see how it upsets you, Mrs King,’ the chief officer said with genuine concern in her voice. ‘You, like many people of your age group, fail to understand – and I don’t blame you for it – that those times are gone. Now we have a new, more sustainable system. Ask me any questions you like. We are here to help you make the right decision.’
‘I don’t want to live in a flat, and is the Government going to compensate me for taking my home?’
‘My dear Mrs King,’ said the officer patiently, ‘if we compensated everyone, we wouldn’t have any resources for our new, improved society. We would be right back where we were before. Surely you don’t want that.’
‘Of course that’s what I want. I want it just how it was.’
The woman sighed and exchanged glances with the rest of us.
‘How can you say you want things how they were? Mrs King, I agree that you were very fortunate in the old system, but surely you must be aware of how the majority suffered? How people were denied a decent life, the country bankrupted trying to care for the elderly, unemployed and the sick? Think of the future of your family, think of your granddaughters’, she said, nodding at me and Sofia.
Grandma looked confused and was still unable to make a decision.
The officer took a device that resembled a chunky plastic pistol out of a bag. Grandma screamed that they wouldn’t put that thing near her. I wanted to go to her, cuddle her and tell her that the tracker wouldn’t hurt, but Dad gently held me back. Mum asked to have a few words with her in private, so we all left the attic.
While we were waiting down in the living room, the officers showed us a short film that had been made with families in mind. The documentary started by explaining the psychology of fear of the unknown and that this kind of fear – like all manner of degradation – increases with old age. It told us about what happens to the human body and brain as we age. Halfway through, an officer asked me and Sofia to turn our heads away, as we might find the images disturbing. I did so but Sofia didn’t; she gazed with interest at the many centenarians lying helpless and half-naked in their own waste. I know this because I turned my head back for a second when Dad didn’t see. ‘We don’t let animals suffer, why would we do it to our own parents?’ This slogan was repeated many times, and it made my heart contract in pain for what would soon happen to Grandma’s aged body.
‘At what age does it strike?’ Sofia asked.
‘We never know for sure but it gets considerably worse after the age of sixty.’
Grandma’s age, I thought.
‘And is the deterioration gradual or sudden?’ Sofia asked.
The woman was evidently surprised by a twelve-year-old using such language. She glanced at Dad.
‘Sofia is our little scientist, with big plans, aren’t you?’ He patted her shoulder, and Sofia shone like a crown jewel, then started boasting about her hope to find a cure against aging. I felt acid filling my stomach.
Finally, Grandma made a decision. After a lengthy discussion she reluctantly agreed to move into the Dignitorium. She had to leave immediately, so they offered to take us in their helicopter to a nearby one, in MN09. The roads had just been converted into pedestrian zones and cycle routes but the monorail hadn’t been completed yet.
As we flew over the city, it was fascinating to look down on London beneath us. Our city, just like the whole country and indeed the whole world, was undergoing a total transformation. It was still our city, the city we loved. Big Ben stood proudly next to the Houses of Parliament, boats on the Thames headed up towards Tower Bridge, and in the distance the dome of St Paul’s rose up majestically. But a new earth was about to be born from the ashes of the old one. From the air we could see the rows of back-to-back terraced houses, the narrow streets; a total disorder. A few miles away, the vision of the new system had already materialised, in the form of wide tree-lined promenades alongside which ran the bicycle routes and the monorail track. We marvelled at the very first monorail we saw, a glittering red metallic snake, an improved replica of those originally used in Disneyland.
‘Not bad, but I have better ideas,’ Sofia commented.
Though she wouldn’t admit it, I could see she was spellbound, her eyes widening as she drank up the view.
‘Those are Low-Spender buildings. Ours will be much better,’ Sofia said, pointing at the six- and eight-storey blocks, painted magnolia and terracotta, complete with balconies.
‘Mid Spenders get a proper house with a garden,’ she continued.
‘And what if I want a flat?’
‘They’re not called flats any more, silly. They’re apartments!’
‘Okay, so what if a Mid Spender wants an apartment?’
‘They can get one. Those will be in four-storey condos. They will each have roof gardens and an inner courtyard with a playground and swimming pool.’
I didn’t know where Sofia had got all this information from, but later it proved she was right. Dad had requested a semi with a pleasant garden at the front and back, near our new school, and we were given just that.
Sofia pressed her nose to the window, her breath creating steam on the glass surface. I watched her for a long time. I was admiring her profile, the straight nose I so envied, her almond-shaped eyes and long dark hair that framed her face. Her immaculate white skin had never been blemished by the sun. She was studying something in the far distance, mesmerised. I followed her gaze through the window to a slim, snow-white, windowless skyscraper. It was only half finished but it already dominated the city’s skyline, like a watchtower.
‘What’s that?’ I asked her with awe.
‘The Primavera Club. The Owners’ playground. Cool, isn’t it?’
‘What’s in there?’
‘No idea.’ She shrugged.
If I look back to our childhood, this was one of the few things she ever admitted to not knowing.
‘The Owners go there to relax,’ she added, confidence returning to her voice. ‘After the responsible work they do.’
‘What work?’
‘Everything. Creating new cities, looking after the countryside, and most importantly, protecting us from the wolves.’ At the mention of wolves, I shivered.
Despite the ride being a cool adventure, I couldn’t wait to arrive. I could tell Grandma had already regretted her decision. She was trying to avoid looking down on the new London, but when we pointed something out in admiration, she looked at it with fearful disgust. I hoped once we arrived and she saw the gorgeous building and gardens of the Dignitorium, she would calm down. She kept staring ahead solemnly then suddenly looked at me and Sofia: ‘Do you girls agree with that woman?’
‘Agree about what, Grandma?’ I asked.
‘That I’m selfish. For wanting the old system back.’
‘Oh, mum.’ Mum patted her hand. ‘Forget about that woman. We are your family. We love you. We all understand how difficult it is to accept change.’ Sofia and I nodded at the same time and sent her a sweet smile.
‘I …, I love you girls,’ Grandma said with a serious face. ‘And the last thing I want is for you to think otherwise.’
Mum laughed out and cuddled Grandma. ‘You have made the right decision, that’s the only thing that counts.
‘You two really want this new system, right?’ she asked, brooding, with a strange resignation in her voice.
We arrived above the Dignitorium. The grand Victorian brick mansion was stunningly beautiful in the middle of the magical gardens and lush old trees. Even Grandma looked down with curiosity and when we arrived and said goodbye, she was calmer. What we saw – the gardens, the reception hall, the Salon where we said goodbye to Grandma before she was led away – fascinated all of us. I couldn’t wait to return to visit her and hear all her adventures.
On our journey home, we all were silent. Mum was trying hard to conceal that she was wiping her eyes. The last image of Grandma, looking back from the door of the Salon with an encouraging but somewhat forced smile, made us realise she wouldn’t be a part of our every day life any more. There was this sense of loss until Mum broke it and got Sofia and me to plan a lovely gift for Grandma we would take her upon our next visit. Sofia wasn’t paying much attention, she was admiring the view of the new London below but I loved the idea. I said we could have our bespoke doll versions made for her so she would feel we’re with her all the time. Mum loved the idea and ordered the dolls once we got home.
However, Dad couldn’t stop wondering why the authorities had gone straight upstairs to Sofia’s laboratory, how they knew she was there.
‘It doesn’t matter now,’ Mum said while dishing out plates of pasta.
‘It does matter,’ Dad replied. He didn’t touch his fork. ‘If they are monitoring us in our own home, I’ll report them.’
I looked at Sofia, who was browsing on her ID Phone, entirely uninterested in the conversation. Mum slammed the cheese grater down on the table. ‘Ben, I think you’re overreacting. Mum is now in a safe place, let’s just drop it and enjoy our meal,’ she said.
Dad didn’t reply. He stared ahead into the empty air for what felt like ages. When he spoke his voice was unusually quiet.
‘It’s not just about finding the bugs, Evelyn,’ he said. ‘If they’re really spying on us, this is more serious than I thought. And this new system is more dangerous than they tell us.’ I felt goose bumps rising all over my skin.
‘There are no bugs,’ Sofia said, not even looking up from her ID phone. ‘It was me who reported Grandma.’ Her words hung in the air. We all looked at her.
‘What are you saying?’ my father asked.
‘I reported her to the authorities. In fact, I don’t know what took them so long. I did it two months ago.’ She glanced up. ‘Why are you staring at me like that? She was cheating the system. I would report anyone for it.’ I saw something unnatural in Mum’s gaze, like she’d been hit with a hammer but was trying to conceal the pain. Dad looked at Sofia with disbelief, then at Mum, then back at Sofia. I think that evening something broke in him for good.
Sadly, Grandma didn’t enjoy the Dignitorium; she wanted to go out and do the things she was used to doing, like wandering around the local flea market or hiking in the hills with her walking group. The fact that her body would soon start to deteriorate didn’t seem to bother her. Grandma insisted she could easily live a full life for another twenty years. There were moments when I nearly believed her and was confused, but once Citizenship classes were introduced at school, they explained how it was in human nature to resist the process of ageing. We were given numerous examples of retired people in the old system not accepting their deterioration and even becoming a danger to society. One was driving a car almost blind, and killed a group of school children. Once I heard that, I understood that it was better for all of us – especially Grandma – if she accepted the new system and even tried to enjoy the luxurious retirement she was being offered.
But when Mum, Dad and I visited Grandma in the Dignitorium, she looked old and thin. I noticed how she tried to conceal her shaking hands. She told us she was organizing a little group of fellow residents to write to the Prime Minister and some important Globe broadcasters in protest against their situation. She didn’t have time to follow through with her plan. Just two weeks after she moved in, we were given an emergency call to go to the Dignitorium. They told us Grandma had been diagnosed with a very advanced cancer. She had requested instant euthanasia and her body had already been cremated. We were in shock. We knew Grandma wouldn’t have done anything like this, not without wanting to see us first. They showed us her diagnosis and explained her illness to us in great detail. Then we saw her Farewell Video in which she sat in a chair, smiling, saying goodbye to us, telling us this was what she wanted. She explained that she wished to avoid the pain of cancer. She hoped to save us the trouble, the heartache. Her name, etched on a silver plaque on the memory wall in the Dignitorium’s garden, was the only trace left of her, apart from her suitcase and the wedding album. All we could do was to return to the wall with flowers and mourn. Sofia never expressed any desire to come with us, and I had a feeling Dad wouldn’t have taken her even if she had. From the day her betrayal came to light, Dad was cautious around Sofia. Sometimes it was more than caution. I could swear it was fear.
The limousine slows down as we descend a steep hill. I can see dozens of narrow chimneys on an ancient rooftop surrounded by lofty trees. So it’s a Victorian mansion, a grand place. Within the vast grounds a snow-white chopper stands on a helipad. Even from this distance, it all radiates Sofia’s arrogance and obsession with luxury. Suddenly I start to shiver. She won’t help me.
Dad is not here to warn her that war begins in the family and that – despite the crippling interval of two decades since we have seen each other – I am still family. The only reason she has agreed to meet me is because she wants to humiliate me. She’ll listen, raising my hopes, just to laugh in my face the next moment. She’ll bring up the past, condemning me for that day when we parted, when I said things I shouldn’t have said. I want to go back to London. I bend forward, trying to form the words to tell the chauffeur to stop and turn around. It’s not too late yet. But then my survival instinct kicks in, followed by an image of Philip – the reason I’m here – and I feel ashamed for my momentary weakness. I’m ready to meet my fate, if there is just the slightest hope. Today, I will rise or fall.
‘A chilling and politically astute dystopia which grips the reader from start to finish. Sci-fi in the tradition of Wyndham, with characters I really cared about, in a terrifyingly altered world’
Jane Rogers, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award
‘Gripping’
The i Paper – top debut novels of 2019
‘Wolf Country will chill your heart and make you sick at the possibility of such a cruel and politically unsound world. Tünde Farrand absolutely nails dystopia and its unsettling predictions, with incredible writing’
‘Farrand’s stunning debut novel...is an excellent example of taking existing social phenomena and divisions and formalising them into a dystopian setting—in this case, class and inequality... [Her] real skill here is in drip-feeding the reader with details until the true horror of the book’s setting is revealed’
Electric Literature
‘A deeply moving story about a protagonist who discovers the harsh realities of her world and bravely defies them. On a par with George Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Wolf Country is a novel which sheds light on our rampant consumerist culture and is a warning of a future which might not be so far away’
BR Bensy
‘A thrilling dystopian novel set in an all-too-near and all-too-familiar future’
Burngreave Messenger
‘It’s a scary reflection of the times we live in when you read a book like this and you’re left wondering not if but when this will become a reality. I was totally transfixed by this story – horrified too. It’s one of those books that really gets under your skin’
Books & Me *****
‘I thoroughly recommend Wolf Country if you enjoy chillingly plausible novels set in the near future’
Secret Library Book Blog
‘Wolf Country had me hooked from the first page. It builds a believable world that is both threatening and ominous. I was left wanting more: I would have loved to see the characters take on the system and fight back…but maybe that means it’s open for a sequel. Fast-paced, thought-provoking and disturbing…a fantastic read’
Returning to Reading
‘An addictive and worryingly prescient read... The writing style brought to mind Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go’
Never Imitate
‘An all too plausible story, well told’
‘A truly gripping page-turner... This stunning debut had me horrified and thrilled. I can’t wait to see more of what this author has to offer’
The Bookmark Blogger
‘A story about love, depression, family and humanity that is brilliant because it’s so character-focused. It’s a beautiful story that’s also scary, and has moments of true horror. If you know me and like books, then chances are you’ll be getting it for your birthday’
Rea’s Reads
‘Truly thought-provoking, wonderfully written, horrifyingly realistic’
Bucks Books & Beyond
‘The ‘Right To Reside’ and dispatch of the elderly in a ‘dignified manner’ is terrifyingly realistic given the current political climate. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys dystopian fiction’
Rachel Read It
Tünde Farrand talks to BBC Radio Sheffield about what it’s like to write a novel in your third language – and here’s another interview with the same station about her journey from Hungary to Sheffield.
Read an interview with Tünde in the Burngreave Messenger.
Tünde Farrand grew up in Debrecen, a city in Hungary buzzing with culture, and an important hub of Hungarian literature.
She lived, studied and worked in several countries before settling in the UK in 2005, where she has continued to work as a language specialist and modern languages teacher. She gained an MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University in 2016.
When not writing, she enjoys European and Japanese cinema, yoga, boxing and weight-lifting. She lives with her husband in Sheffield.
Read more at tundefarrand.co.uk.
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You know, what with two different sets of comics awards being given out, nominally from different coasts but practically speaking all from the confines of cyberspace.
On the delayed hand, you had NCSFest handing out the various NCS Division Awards, along with the Reuben¹. In the Online Comics categories, you had wins by Alec Longstreth (Long Form) and Jim Benton (Short Form); the latter wouldn’t have been my votegetter if I had a vote, but I can’t say it’s undeserving; I can say it was probably the most familiar work for the membership who, as previously noted, notoriously skew old.
Which might explain why The Reuben itself went to the oldest nominee, one with a career stretching back four decades. A’course, the oldest nominee is the deeply subversive living legend Lynda Barry, whose work is most definitely not what I’d have expected the older members to vote for. It’s hard argue with the choice, and easy to argue that there might not have been a Raina Telgemeier if not for Lynda Barry’s deeply personal, memoirlike work (which started in print when Raina was about 2 years old) blazing the way. So no complaints here — Raina’s mantlepiece is getting a bit crowded anyway — and I suspect every one of the other nominees up for the top prize agreed that Barry was the right choice.
As a side note, I see that Joe Wos — once a recurring name on this page during his years of directing Pittsburgh’s now-folded Toonseum — was given the division award for Variety Entertainment for his Mazetoons. Congrats, Joe.
And on schedule (although distanced), the Ignatzen were also presented on Saturday, and managed a simultaneous best-and-worst outcome in the same category. Do a quick refresh on the dilemma that the Ignatz Awards found themselves in this year and you’ll understand. Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is a creator whose work I deeply admire and, I daresay, a friend. The work for which she was nominated as Outstanding Artist, the short story collection Don’t Go Without Me, is magnificent and entirely worthy of the brick.
But Valero-O’Connell was also on the jury. And while I stand second to no person in my love of and evangelical fervor for her work, and I recognize the accomplishment of being only the second person to win Outstanding Artist twice² and the only one to repeat in back-to-back years, I wish that it hadn’t happened. I do think that this situation has lessened the credibility of the Ignatz Awards, and I really, really hope that they write some ground rules to ensure that this appearance of a conflict of interest cannot happen again.
Looking at other winners, Ebony Flowers has had nearly as good a year on the awards circuit as Valero-O’Connell; last year she took the Promising New Talent brick for the short story Hot Comb and this year for the expanded print collection incorporating it (also titled Hot Comb), she’s recognized for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Ariel Ries received bricks for Outstanding Online Comic (for Witchy) and Outstanding Comic (for Cry Wolf Girl); if you weren’t following her work before, you really should be.
Outstanding Anthology went to Be Gay, Do Comics by the various contributors of The Nib. Look, you know that on a daily basis, it’s the most wide-ranging source of original editorial and nonfiction comics around, with a list of contributors that kicks every ass. Curating their best work on a theme is something that Matt Bors, Eleri Harris, and Matt Lubchansky were going to throw themselves into, and produce something terrific.
Speaking of The Nib, Whit Taylor’s contributions there have always impressed the hell out of me (as well as everyplace else her work runs), and today she must take some solace in the fact that after two years of utter bullshit being inflicted on her in the form of a baseless lawsuit³, her Fizzle took the Ignatz for Oustanding Series and nobody can remember that other guy’s name. Seriously, I had to look him up, whereas members of The Eleven keep getting recognized for their work. It was a long, expensive, pointless road, but I have to imagine that the heft of that brick is gonna feel really good in Taylor’s hands.
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¹ Yes, yes, common parlance refers to all of these awards as Reubens, but the term proper applies only to the Cartoonist Of The Year, the one chosen by the entirety of the NCS membership rather than those of a particular area. It’s the COTY that gets the fancy Rube Goldbergian trophy, where the division winners get a (admittedly, handsome and heavy) plaque.
² The first being Jaime Hernandez in 2007 and 2012.
³ Which resolved after tens of thousands of dollars of legal fees and the plaintiff not getting his US$2.5 million, which is apparently the going rate for butthurt in the first degree.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 09.14.20 @ 5:39 pm | Comments Off on Busy Weekend
Appropriately Distanced Celebrations Of Comics
Just under ten years ago, David “Damn You” Willis launched his rebooted Walkyverse¹ comic, Dumbing Of Age. In the 9 years, 11 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days since then, the story has progressed from college move-in day through about … eight weeks of story. Up to midterms or so, a rate of about 5 days of story time per real-world year.
Since Sunday, the story has wordlessly jumped forward three whole months, saving us about 15 years of daily reading. Given that Thursday is the actual tenth anniversary, I expect we’ll get one more timeskip update tomorrow, and we’ll finally reach second semester on Thursday. Which means that in four strips, Willis has shifted the rate of story time:real time up to ten years per sememster, meaning we’ll see graduation sometime in 2090 instead of 2170 at the old rate.
Given that comic strips have a long history of being passed down to third and even fourth generation creative teams, I have no doubt that Dumbing Of Age will still be running when graduation comes in, whenever that may be. In any event, congratulations to Willis on ten years of DOA and 23 years of continuous webcomicking. That’s a damn big round number.
We’re down to the wire on the Ignatz voting, with votes due before 9 September, which means you have until 11:59pm EDT to get yours in. The bricks will be awarded on Saturday the 12th, which is actually a very leisurely turnaround time for the Ignatzen, with the tallies normally taking between close of the exhibit hall and 9:30pm the same day.
For reference, given the poor situation that the Ignatzes have found themselves in, I voted Michael DeForge for Outstanding Artist rather than personal fave Rosemary Valero-O’Connell. In the Outstanding Onnline Comic category, I had a dilemma because the work is all very good. But what do you do when end up with a short editorial comic like I Exist (by Breena Nuñez) up against a words+pictures poem like Like The Tide (by Isabella Rotman), an Insta account of single-panel gags (by Gabby Schulz), and a long-stretches-silent, page-a-week updater like Superpose (by Seosamh & Anka). I tossed my vote to Witchy (by Ariel Ries) because I dig the story. Good luck to all of the nominees.
Know what else is happening this weekend, virtually? NCSFest. I lost track of it in the lockdown, but I got an email today that it’s going on this weekend, including the Reuben Awards, which will be broken up into six separate programs (the programming page doesn’t have hard start times, but the day’s programming starts at 10:00am EDT).
I wasn’t involved in the process this year, so I couldn’t tell you anything about the webcomic awards beyond what’s been publicly shared. The Online Comics — Long Form nominees are Steven Conley for The Middle Age, Maaria Laurinen for Phantomland, and Alec Longstreth for Isle Of Elsi. The most interesting thing there is that Phantomland is on Tapas, which is about three revolutions in comicking beyond what a large part of the NCS membership is aware of.
The nominees for Online Comics — Short Form are Jim Benton, Christopher Grady, and Emma Hunsinger. The short forms don’t have specific titles to go with the creators, but I’ll wager that Hunsinger is on the list because of How To Draw A Horse as much as anything else. That’s magnificent work, but so is Grady’s Lunarbaboon. Benton’s a one-man IP factory, but I think he’s outclassed by the other two.
But the Reubens news that has me most curious isn’t in the Online categories, it’s the Big Award Of The Night, the Cartoonist Of The Year, the one that’s gone to folks like Schulz, Johnston, Watterson, Larson, Trudeau, Amend, Thompson, Guisewite, and other legends of cartooning. The nominees are:
Hilary Price
Terri Libenson
Mark Tatulli
That’s three solid practitioners of the comic strip and one living legend in Lynda Barry. Also, four nominees where normally there are only three². Also, three women. And … wait, I’m being told that there’s a fifth nominee:
Raina Telgemier
Okay, the NCS almost never nominates somebody whose work is outside the newsprint mode — comic strips, editorial comics, magazine work, all periodicals is my point — and the last one to win Cartoonist Of The Year from outside that world was Matt Groening back in 2002³. I don’t think they’ve ever recognized a graphic novelist, and certainly not anybody whose medium is middle grade autobio aimed at girls.
That sound you hear is the industry coming to grips with the fact that the literal Old Boys Club is fading from existence and getting replaced by those damn Millennials. Gonna have to figure out when that broadcast is and pay some damn attention to it.
Edit to add: The NCSFest schedule page now has start times for sessions, instead of just durations.
Currency printed is NOT wealth, real wealth is what we produce (in terms and goods and services) and exchanged for currency (a measure of your productivity).
Oh crap, this is a pitch for some new blockchain fantasy, which is even more of a fiction that actual money. Go peddle your shit to somebody that’s bad at math.
¹ So named because a series of related comics — Roomies!, It’s Walky!, Joyce And Walky!, and Shortpacked! — had one David “Walky” Walkerton as a central character, to whom all of the others could trace relationships. The Walkyverse itself debuted 13 years to the day before DOA.
² I mean, since Pastis broke his Susan Lucci streak last year, may as well open it up. [shrugmoji]
³ Okay, Glen Keane, animator, won a couple of years ago, but being the son of Bil Keane of The Family Circus means he’s part of that world. The only others I can think of are Sergio Aragonés and Will Eisner, the latter of whom won in 1998 — well past his creative peak, and clearly as a lifetime achievement.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 09.08.20 @ 5:42 pm | Comments Off on Appropriately Distanced Celebrations Of Comics
When You Have To Quote Richard, Things Have Gone Sideways
Sometimes, things can happen for entirely innocent reasons and still make you say, in the immortal words of Richard Strong, This is not good.
A little history, which is at this point so historical I barely remembered it. A buncha years ago, before this blog got off the ground, the Ignatz Awards came in for some controversy because one of the panel of judges nominated himself for awards and wound up on the ballot. It was Frank Cho, and if my memory serves, he was kind of a dick about it when it was pointed out that such behavior doesn’t pass the smell test. Paraphrasing, his argument was Well, I think my work was the best of the year, so why shouldn’t I be a part of putting myself on the ballot? which just … yeesh. To his credit, he’s reportedly seen his conduct then as a mistake.
The bigger mistake? Not writing rules into the Ignatz process to prevent that from ever happening again. As readers of this page know, I am very much in favor of Rosemary Vallero-O’Connell’s work, and given the enormous number of awards she’s taken over the past year, it seems I’m not alone. Furthermore, I think she’s just a neat person, and I don’t believe that she’s got a malicious or selfish bone in her body. The fact that she’s nominated in the Ignatzen this year for Outstanding Artist is entirely merited.
Except this year, she’s on the nominating jury. I’m going to say that there’s, mathematically speaking, a zero percent chance that she nominated herself, but I can’t believe that there’s no rule about recusal/ineligibility¹/whatever you want to call it. It just doesn’t look good, and it’s caught up somebody that doesn’t deserve to be mired in controversy. For everybody’s sake, Ignatz coordinators, make sure this doesn’t happen again, please.
Ultimately, who gets the bricks is in the hands of the voters now, and as mentioned recently, that could include you. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but please — don’t vote for Valero-O’Connell, because I’m pretty sure this is a circumstance where winning would be worse than losing. We’ve had enough comics awards fuckery this year, we don’t need any more.
Thoughts on this year’s nominees to come, particularly after I receive my ballot (they should have been distributed starting yesterday, but I won’t get nervous for another couple of days).
Oh, and reminder — the free graphic novel giveaway is still going on. Tell your friends.
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Not content with emailing me, these folks actually called to try to scam me. I told them My car insurance company has rates lower than anybody else by at least 15%, and they’ve sent me three rebates on this year’s bills because COVID means people are driving less and therefore their expenses are less than anticipated. They hung up on me, either because of that or because I told them my name was Harry Mourningwood.
¹ Want to know the gold standard for this? Dog shows. You can have problems with the idea of breeding dogs for physical conformation instead of health or temperament, but there’s something they do very right — judges are almost always themselves competitive breeders, but when they’re picked to judge at a big show?
They stop competing for a year or more in advance so that there’s zero chance that one of their dogs might conceivably win or lose against a dog they’d have to judge later, just so there is no circumstance where bias could be credible.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 09.02.20 @ 3:14 pm | Comments Off on When You Have To Quote Richard, Things Have Gone Sideways
COVID Or No, We Should Recognize Good Work
One of the casualties of the pandemic, event-wise, was the annual Queer Comics Expo, which is sponsored by the good folks at the Cartoon Art Museum. It should have taken place back in May but you know, everything. One of the features of the QCE is the annual Prism Awards, which are now being presented virtually and open to all and sundry:
Prism Comics, Queer Comics Expo and the Cartoon Art Museum are excited to announce that the 2020 Prism Awards will be held virtually as a two-day livestream celebration event free and open to everyone online. Held Saturday and Sunday, September 19th and 20th from 2:00pm — 5:00pm Pacific time, the event will feature panels with the finalists and judges leading up to the awards ceremony!
Details on how to tune in will be released soon. For updates on the September 19 & 20 celebration RSVP through cartoonart.org/calendar/2020prismawards to receive reminders and the information to join. You do not need to RSVP to attend. How to watch will be shared by all three entities, Prism Comics, Queer Comics Expo and the Cartoon Art Museum, through social media and press.
That from the email that CAM sent me, which also included a list of the Prism Awards finalists. Some names that you will surely recognize are to be found there:
The Webcomic nominees are The Girl that Can’t Get a Girlfriend by Mieri Hiranishi, Cafe Suada by Jade Sarson, and Magical Boy by The Kao; the fact that two of the three nominees are on aggregator sites (Webtoons and Tapas) says something about the shifting nature of webcomics as a whole, I think.
The Short Form nominees are In Search of Absent Pigments by Alex Assan and Lin Darrow [Editor’s note: the nomination only lists Assan, but Assan’s own site credits Darrow, so I’ve included them here], Pseudo Slut Transmission by Emma Jayne, and One Day Out by Ina Bestari.
Longer form individual stories are broken up by the size of the publisher’s reach, so there are two groupings. Small/Midsize Press nominees are Trans Girls Hit The Town by Emma Jayne (a 2019 Ignatz winner), Lemonade Summer by Gabi Mendez, and Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman. The categories are a little fuzzy, as Pseudo Slut Transmission is only about six pages shorter than Trans Girls Hit The Town, which was counted as a minicomic for the purposes of Ignatz categories.
The Mainstream Press nominees were certainly spoiled for choice this year, but ultimately settled on Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, and Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T Crenshaw.
Finally, the Anthology category consists of Come Together edited by Tab Kimpton and Alex Assan, Heartwood edited by Joamette Gil, and Shout Out edited by Steven Andrews.
Five categories and fifteen nominated works means that a two-day virtual event can give great, huge gobs of time to each of the nominees. If you weren’t familiar with a particular work, by the end of the weekend you surely will be. Oh, and take a gander at the announcement and scroll down to the bottom, where you’ll find a list of all 27 judges plus the organizing committee; there’s lots of great people involved.
A fifty times rate of return? Why, I could spend just a hundo a day for a month and be set for the next couple of years! What could possibly go wrong?
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 08.20.20 @ 5:22 pm | Comments Off on COVID Or No, We Should Recognize Good Work
Eisners 2020 Post 1
The Eisner awards presentation went up last night, with Phil LaMarr doing a nice job of providing context and hopefully making all the nominees and winners feel like this is significant thing, even with the distance required.
It was a nice touch that the Hall Of Fame inductees (near the end of the program) were given the opportunity to make video acceptance speeches; I’m wondering if the Eisners will reach out to the winners of the 32 regular categories and give them the same opportunity.
Of the six inductees voted in (Nell Brinkley and E Simms Campbell were the historic inductees chosen by the jury), Alison Bechdel, Stan Sakai, and Louise Simonson spoke on their own behalf; Maggie Thompson accepted for herself, but also her late husband Don; Howard Cruse died last year and his award was accepted by Ed Sedarbaum, his husband. Bill Watterson declined to send an acceptance, but honestly — if you had the chance to have an award accepted on your behalf by Sergio Aragonés instead of public speaking, you’d probably do so, too.
Of the 32 regular categories, I called a couple closely-contested decisions, including Ebony Flowers (Hot Comb) for Best Short Story and The Way Of The Househusband, vol 1 as Best Humor Publication. I never did get around to looking at the digital/web nominees (on account of … yeah, everything), but we should acknowledge Chip Zdarsky and Jason Loo (Afterlift) as Best Digital Comic, and Erica Eng (Fried Rice Comic) as Best Webcomic¹.
But let’s talk about some Fleen favorites from last year:
Raina Telgemeier took both her nominated categories — Best Publication For Kids and Best Writer/Artist for Guts.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me touched three awards, with Mariko Tamaki getting the Best Writer nod (which included other works for the year), as well as Best Publication For Teens and Best Penciller/Inker for Rosemary Valero-O’Connell.
Tillie Walden was up for three awards, and lost out on the lettering award to Stan Sakai² (who’s literally been winning Eisners since before Walden was born) and the writer/artist award to Raina, so no shame in either of those. But I imagine that’s made up for the fact that Are You Listening? took Best Graphic Album — New, marking at as the best, single new graphic novel of the year which … damn.
Kindly consider that of the 32 categories and 43 named winners³, 23 were women (25 men and 28 women if you count the Hall Of Famers). Black women, queer women, young women, old women, women going back to the dawn of cartooning are the major force in the creation of comics, and the people that make them — including the people that make cape comics that can only recycle storylines and try to maintain sales with endless reboots, variant covers, and line-wide crossovers — recognize them as the best in the medium.
And given that Walden and Valero-O’Connell are still in their mid-20s and getting better — not to mention teaching and inspiring the creators of tomorrow — none of that is changing anytime soon. That keening sound you hear in the distance is the increasingly-irrelevant cohort of manchildren that want comics to be their boys-only club that never changes, and their tears are delicious.
Weirdly, they didn’t announce the Spirit Of Comics Retailer Award in the video, but just as weirdly, they only announced the short list a couple of days ago; the website does mention that Sergio López of Nostromo Sevilla in Seville, Spain was recognized. That makes two years in a row for shops from Spanish-speaking countries, which is just another change for the better — comics is a worldwide artform, and the more people from different backgrounds about, the better it is for all of us.
Spammers don’t get to share the day with these awesome folks.
¹ As a reminder, Best Digital Comic appears online in comic book format, and Best Webcomic is a longform work created for viewing online, neither of which necessarily describe a lot of the best work being done on the web, which is why Matt Inman keeps getting nominated for Best Short Story, I guess.
² Who had a very good virtual night; Sakai also took the award Best Archival Collection/Project — Comic Books, for the hardcover/slipcased edition of the complete Grasscutter story from Usagi Yojimbo.
³ I’m omitting translators in this count.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 07.25.20 @ 2:04 pm | Comments Off on Eisners 2020 Post 1
What’s This? More Kickstarts?
For the best experience reading that headline, adopt the accent and vocal patterns of the faux German baker¹ in the old Pillsbury Toaster Strudel commercial: Strudel … zum toasten? And yes, there are new Kickstarts of which you should be informed.
Sam Logan cannot be accused of thinking small. He’s been drawing Sam and Fuzzy for just about eighteen damn years, through four distinct eras, wrapping up the last arc after more than 1700 pages and ten years. He took time for a little introspection, and some shorter stories that won’t turn into the behemoths he’s been known for (probably).
Along the way, he published books, including five great big tomes for the final arc, ranging between 368 and 606 (!) pages each. A’course, the fifth book only contained the story up to the October/November 2015 time frame, meaning four solid years of story remained unpublished in dead tree form.
For now:
After 17 years, the Sam and Fuzzy saga’s epic, hilarious, earth-shattering conclusion has finally arrived. And this grand finale is so big, it took two books to contain it all: Volume 6 and 7: Race to the Bottom Part 1 and 2!
Race to the Bottom is the two-part conclusion to the series, and is jam-packed with over 1100 pages of surprises and mayhem.
US$45 gets you the two new volumes in softcover, which is a ridiculous value in terms of per-page costs. US$65 upgrades you to hardcover (ditto), and you can get all seven volumes for US$159 (softcover) or US$175 (hardcover). If you’re an obsessive completist and have about a linear meter of bookshelf space, you can get the print versions of the earlier three eras (pre-2009 or so) as well as all seven modern books for US$195 (softcover) or US$229 (hardcover). The bundles also come with a suitable amount of bonuses — pins, bookplates, everything in PDF, etc.
Impressively, even the largest of those instant libraries doesn’t appear to charge more than about US$25 for shipping (to the US, at least), which makes me wonder it it arrives via freight. The whole thing is under the Make That Thing umbrella, so you know it’ll get done on time and reach you when promised, subject to the possible complete destruction of the US Postal Service to meet the whims of a narcissistic sociopath. In that eventuality, I’m pretty sure the MTT magical elves will find a way to get it to you about three weeks later, possibly by unicorn.
Anyhoo, as of this writing the campaign is a little under US$24.6K of a US$37.5K goal, which is pretty damn good for a project that launched earlier today. Look for this one to fund out by a more than comfortable margin.
Speaking of comfortable margins, you’ve seen Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future, right? Launched yesterday, presently 378% of its US$50K goal, the third part of Duncan Jones’s distopian trilogy (the first two parts being the films Moon and Mute, co-written with Alex de Campi (for my money, the most broadly capable writer in comics today), with sections of the story drawn by a murderer’s row of artistic talent? No? Well, here’s the first 19 pages available for you to download now.
Artists include two of my absolute favorites, Pia Guerra and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, mixed in with a few names you might recognize: Stokoe, Fabry, Bisley, Fegredo, and more. The artistic contributors are paid their full asking rate² and will receive royalties. These 260 pages (and various bonus pages in the fancier form factors) will be done on paper period. To quote the campaign, No digital version of MADI will be made available at this time, or indeed maybe ever.
This book is going to sweep a lot of awards. The free preview has its hooks deep into my brain, and I cannot wait to get my copy come November. Check this one out at the first opportunity.
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Let me know when they’re under double secret review. Until then, you’re full of crap.
¹ This introductory paragraph is dedicated to my old college co-conspirator John Costain “Thrice” Knight III, with whom I would occasionally lock eyes and intone Strudel knowing that he would always reply zum toasten?
He also barfed over the counter in Hardee’s one post-midnight Saturday night, because when you’ve been drinking after exam week and need food at that hour no other place is open. Eventually he became responsible for standing watches to ensure that the nuclear reactor on the John C Stennis (CVN-74) did not melt down despite the fact that he was part of the pre-commissioning crew and the reactor was not yet loaded with fissile material. I’d chalk it up to weird-ass military thinking but it honestly just kind of made sense for Thrice.
² I’m now remembering some tweets from Jones, maybe end of last year, asking how much he should expect to pay for the art for a graphic novel of ~ 200 pages, because he didn’t want to be an exploitative jerk and underpay people. He didn’t know, he asked, and he didn’t pitch a fit when large numbers were quoted at him. I made a mental note of Jones’s approach then, and I’m excited to see what comics can do when a writer of expansive vision partners with a writer super skilled in the medium, with and with visual artists of supreme ability, and nobody’s getting screwed.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 05.20.20 @ 6:12 pm | Comments Off on What’s This? More Kickstarts?
Good To Know That Some Things Are Constant In This Inconstant World
Today’s example: the Cartoonist Studio Prize, presented as a joint endeavour of Slate magazine’s book review and the Center For Cartoon Studies, currently in its eighth iteration. Year after year, they put together a really strong slate¹ of ten nominees in the category of print, and ten more in web; the shortlists serve as an effective You Should Read This To Keep Up list, and each winner gets one thousand American dollars cash². Folks that you see written about on this page are frequently seen on either list.
This year’s nominees for Best Print Comic are:
Bttm Fdrs by Ben Passmore and Ezra Claytan Daniels (Fantagraphics)
Flying Kites by the Stanford Graphic Novel Project (self published)
Glenn Ganges In The River At Night by Kevin Huizenga (D&Q)
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (D&Q)
The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis (D&Q)
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers (D&Q)
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (:01 Books)
Pittsburgh by Frank Santoro(New York Review Comics)
Sobek by James Stokoe (ShortBox)
The Tenderness Of Stones by Marion Fayolle (New York Review Comics)
Part of what I love about the CSP is its utter disregard for length, subject, or genre; if it’s in print and it’s good, it’s on the list.
This year’s nominees for Best Web Comic are:
About Face by Nate Powell
Cabramatta by Matt Huynh
Eat Street Diners Club by Will Dinski
I Am More Than My Chromosomes by Elísabet Rún.
Koreangry by Eunsoo Jeong
Loving My Inner Black Weirdo by Bianca Xunise
Paranatural by Zack Morrison
Sleepless Domain by Mary Cagle
Tiger, Tiger by Petra Erika Nordlund
Unhealthy by Abby Howard
Again — there’s ongoing series, there’s one-shot autobio/nonfiction, and there’s everything in between. I was a little surprised to see the web version of Unhealthy on the list; not because it’s unworthy — it’s an excellent read — but because it’s only Abby Howard’s half of the longer print version that was a joint project with Sarah Winifred Searle.
If I were part of the jury (and let me stress that I am not), I’d be pulling for Unhealthy, and Laura Dean, which were two of the best things I read last year. But there’s great creators up and down both lists, and as is typical for the CSP, there’s not a name in sight that would annoy me for winning. Congratulations to all the shortlistketeers; the winners will be announced a few weeks.
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I didn’t think it was possible to be more pissed off at these bottom-feeding fuckers, but then I noticed the return address on this piece of shit. It was spoofed to appear to come from info (an address that doesn’t exist) at fleen.com.
Like I was going to suddenly give credence to an email claiming to come from a domain I control. That’s just weaksauce.
¹ I’m so sorry.
² Or about 1.66667 times class money.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 04.14.20 @ 4:48 pm | Comments Off on Good To Know That Some Things Are Constant In This Inconstant World
Hey. Sorry I’m Late. Had To Do Some Impromptu Coronavirus Education.
Namely, wash your hands a lot (hot water, plenty of soap and water), don’t touch your face, cover your coughs and sneezes. You know, all the stuff you’re supposed to do in cold season, flu season, and every other season because we are trying to have a godsdamned society you filthy animals.
Yes, I was talking to you. As long as I ride on an ambulance for free, I get to remind y’all to please do your part to not spread the contagion that may kill me. Also, I write about webcomics and have some things to point you towards:
The Herblock Foundation, which celebrates and promotes the work of the legendary political cartoonist, has announced the winner and finalist of their annual prize for excellence in editorial cartooning. The winner was Michael de Adder of New Brunswick, Canada, who you may recall was entirely coincidentally laid off about two days after running this cartoon.
The finalist was webcomics’ own Matt Lubchansky, whose work is frequently seen at The Nib, where they are the associate editor and an integral part of the process of producing the finest in nonfiction cartooning today. As a side note, Chef José Andrés was chosen to present a lecture on behalf of the Foundation. Curiously, all three of the honorees are famously willing to get up the nose of Screamy Orange Grandpa, and good on them for it.
As long as we’re speaking of presidential politics, there’s an opportunity to mix some primo art acquisition with political action. Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, who we at Fleen may have mentioned on some few occasions, is offering up original pencil pages from Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (we at Fleen love that book), with all proceeds going to the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Full disclosure: unless she drops out, I’m supporting Elizabeth Warren; as far as platforms go, hers and Bernie’s are distinguishable only in degree, and more similar than any other that have been proposed. In terms of what they can actually get accomplished, I think the ultimate legislation that either can expect to enact (with Bernie starting further along and inevitably having to negotiate towards the middle, and Warren starting closer to where either would end up anyway) would be pretty much indistinguishable.
I’m supporting Warren because I think she has a better chance of executing on her plans¹, but if she decides to drop out I’ll vote for Sanders gladly². I’ve given money to Warren and likely will again, I don’t feel that also giving to Bernie is a contradiction. It’s not like I’ll have any chance to really affect the nomination, seeing as how New Jersey is in the last tranche of states to vote, on 2 June.
Now grab your copy of Laura Dean, pick out your favorite page(s), and don’t you dare pick any that I did.
Solar fountain pump with 4 Nozzle Spray settings to create a relaxing environment.
Is this a bidet thing? If so, I’m curious about the solar aspect.
¹ Not to be confused with executing Mike Bloomberg’s aspirations which was totally sweet to watch.
² If neither Sanders nor Warren gets the nomination, I’ll do what I’ve done in very nearly every presidential election of my life and vote against instead of voting for.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 03.04.20 @ 6:37 pm | Comments Off on Hey. Sorry I’m Late. Had To Do Some Impromptu Coronavirus Education.
Con Ternura Indeed
There’s something that I learned years ago, somewhere between my college radio days and my job teaching, and that’s as much as you fill the space around you with words, nothing you say has as much power
as silence.
Which thought came back to me last night in the venerable Bluestockings bookstore/cafe/activist space on the Lower East Side, which was hosting the first of a monthly series of comics readings. Comics don’t get anywhere enough readings, not like books do, and that’s a shame — with the right sense of timing and a clear enough image projected, there’s real power there. The events folks at Bluestockings kicked things off with a trifecta of work by and about queer people, featuring Bee Kahn, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, and Beatrix Urkowitz; this page is famously in the tank for Ms Valero-O’Connell and I wasn’t familiar with the work of the other two, so let’s start with them.
Bee Kahn brought an introductory section of a story that was self-published and debuted at FlameCon a while back; now it’s getting a slick reissue from a publisher (they can’t say who yet) later this year. Renegade Rule is the story of four women on a pro gamer team, trying to reach the finals for VR shooter league play. It’s hard to tell where the story will go from the excerpt Kahn was able to share (enough to drop the reader into the VR experience and introduce the main characters and their personalities), but it was more than enough to say this:
Kahn’s comic book caption game is strong. You’d have to get Matt Fraction on his best day to come up with captions that land with the same impact and humor. Remember what I said up above about timing? The text in the word balloons and captions in Renegade was mostly too small to read from the audience, but having to click through to add each balloon and box to the image forced Kahn to delay just a bit and it made each bit of dialogue and especially the captions land with impact. I’m going to be keeping my eye out for this one in the fall.
Beatrix Urkowitz brought four short stories, three of which were about the same character, and which displayed a visual sensibility reminiscent of Tom Hart’s Hutch Owen (maybe a splash of Sylvan Migdal thrown in), with a KC Green-like ability to take a premise, run it as far as you possibly can, and then take it even further. The fourth story Urkowitz shared was about the annoying person we all know, and it was good. The first three were about the lover of everyone in the world.
Specifically, and introduction to TLOEITW and how she feels, followed by a story about the lovers of TLOEITW (ie: all seven point whatever billion of us) and how they (we) feel about the situation, and a third story entitled Everyone Breaks Up With The Lover Of Everyone In The World, where all of us form a gestalt entity to deliver a break-up speech to TLOEITW, who concludes that she’ll go get drunk, but literally everywhere she goes is now populated exclusively with her exes. It was a trip.
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell read one of the three stories from her just-arriving-in-the-mail-to-backers-from-Shortbox collection, Don’t Go Without Me (if you weren’t in on the Kickstart, you’ll be able to order a copy next month). The first story in the collection is the title piece, about a date to a parallel universe where telling stories robs you of your memories. It’s haunting and echoes every mythological tale of not understanding the rules of a place, from Persephone’s pomegranate to those who stay overlong in Faerie. You can read an excerpt of it here.
The second story is What Is Left, previously released as a minicomic; I got a copy at MoCCA and loved it, but reading its sci-fi take on a doomed spaceship propelled by a memory-fueled engine changed by reading in alongside Don’t Go. The former is about finding refuge — literally, in this case — in memories, and the latter about diminution from sharing, and while the stories contrast with each other, they also sharpen and strengthen each other. You can read and excerpt of What Is Left here.
The third story, the one Valero-O’Connell read last night, is Con Temor, Con Ternura, or With Fear, With Tenderness; it asks the question What would you do on the last night of the world? Valero-O’Connell, in the making of booklet that’s a Kickstarter accompaniment to the collection, describes her first comics work as dialogueless, narrated visual poetry, and Con Temor is a return to that form. As the questions posed by the story got more pointed, as the reality that a Proverbial It was building, Valero-O’Connell got steadily quieter, and the room more hushed, the audience almost holding its collective breath.
The conclusion, a cliffhanger following a countdown from three¹, slowed its pace and the silence held as everybody sought their own answers to that question, while the screen was a-whirl with swooping curves and scarcely a straight line in sight. There’s an organic life to her work, one that focuses on things that live rather than things that are built, and it lends a vitality to the visuals that’s all but unmatched. Don’t even get me started on what she does with hair; it’s so good, it makes me angry.
Silences break eventually. The applause for each of the readers was well earned.
It’s like I told Roo², we’re in an age of comics like the current age of television, where it is not possible to keep up with all the good work that’s being made³. But for one night a month, Bluestockings is going to do its best to show you some work you might have missed otherwise, and for that we can all be thankful.
As an Airbnb host, you can meet interesting new people and learn about diverse cultures without even having to leave the house.
Weird. I thought the purpose of Airbnb was to scam people and deplete stocks of housing in cities around the world, driving up rents and exacerbating the problem of homelessness.
¹ One that looks to the reader to fill in the ending, more than any story I’ve read except maybe John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider.
² You may recall that MxRoo named the Fleen Fight For Fungible Futures Fund, and that we seem to run into each other randomly. Okay, a comics reading might not be the weirdest place to bump into a longtime reader of Fleen, but on the day that Jon Rosenberg’s son got his life back via surgery? I was in Manhattan on a work gig and walking on the street to lunch when I head somebody call my name. It was Roo, with the news that Jon had just posted that the surgery had gone well. We got a history of being together for awesome things is what I’m saying.
³ Which makes it even more baffling that there’s a cohort of miserable assholes out there who have seemingly devoted their lives to shitting on people making comics they don’t like — comics they think shouldn’t be allowed to exist because they’re about things/people other than the precise interests of said miserable assholes — instead of just reading what they like. They are literally denying themselves the time to read all the stuff they do like in order to try to destroy stuff other people like. Petard-hoisters, the lot of ’em.
posted by Gary Tyrrell on 01.23.20 @ 6:16 pm | 1 Comment
What The Mail Brought
That’s a big book haul. The photo was going to include a lounging greyhound for scale, some somedog decided she had better things to do than get her picture took, hmph! Starting from the top:
Don’t Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, in fulfillment of the recent Kickstart from ShortBox.
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang; I’ve spoken with him briefly about this one, where Yang’s chronicling of Chinese culture and the immigrant experience meets Raina-style memoir. Likely to be a monster hit this year.
Go With The Flow by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann; want to be this Kids In The Hall character? You need this book which is designed to give young uterus-havers the lowdown on what’s happening with their bodies, and everybody else an appreciation for what they go through. I actually had fairly good public-school sex education starting in 5th grade, and I still expect to learn a ton. Also, a measure of how good :01 Books is — this isn’t an advanced review copy, it’s the regular release of a book that went on sale yesterday.
Kairos by Ulysse Malassagne; one of the great services that :01 has done for comics in the US is find great work in French and bring it over. There is such a huge pool of comics and creators that are just starting to become known over here.
Maker Comics: Grow A Garden! by Alexis Frederick-Frost; my beans have been okay for the past coupla’ years, and I hope this helps be improve them somewhat.
Science Comics: Crows by Kyla Vanderklugt; corvids are scary smart and you should always seek to make friends with them. Never annoy a crow, raven, jay, jackdaw, or rook.
The Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown; girl haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin? Sounds like the best ghost story since Anya had ghost trubs.
Astronauts by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks; the story of women that have been to space, by a team that’s done some of my favorite science–oriented comics for years now. Also, Ottaviani is a fabulous person to talk to, and this remains one of my favorite interviews ever.
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh; ever wonder what would happen if there were a witch in town, like a real witch, and you decided to make friends? Leyh has, and we get to follow along.
To be clear, it’s a coincidence that Don’t Go Without Me arrived on the same day as the trove of books from :01, but now I get to take it with me to the reading next week. I’ll be working my way through the pile as quickly as I can while still absorbing enough to give proper reviews; it’ll probably be Astronauts and Dragon Hoops first, so watch for reviews in the coming weeks
Oh, and I saw this on the tweetmachine today; it’s from October, but it’s very possibly new to you as it was for me. Eight tight pages, an unreliable narrator who is not having any more of this street harassment shit that we get to see past, and a satisfying gut punch of a finish. Words by Julio Anta, pictures by Katherine Lobo, letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and if these folks aren’t planning a collection of similar stories, that would be very unfortunate.
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Jesus tapdancing … do not rub Clorox wipes on your junk, godsdammit.
Look, there are these sanitary wipes that we used on the ambulance for decontamination. You know what’s on the top of the can? The international do not use on babies or other sensitive things symbol, that’s what. Know what’s not even in most of these babykiller wipes? Bleach. Use bleach wipes on hard, non-porous surfaces only and keep them the hell off of your joybits, genius.
¹ No promises for the future; prostate cancer is basically the escape clause that says individuals like me will not live forever. If nothing else gets you, that walnut-sized gland will.
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Post by mr cow » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:09 am
so before the dark knight there are two trailers. a 2 sec harry potter teaser (voice over on a black screen and then only the logo pops up) and there is a theater full of screams and clapping from the sold out show.
and then watchmen hits. and that trailer- that trailer is impressive right? and when it's over. scattered clapping. just a handful. no one outside comics knows what watchmen is (and considering i was there for batman for pete's sake, i must have been in a theater full of heath ledger fans).
i'd definitely say the marketing dept has their work cut out for them.
i'm psyched though.
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Post by Joey » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:31 am
Quote of the day regarding Watchmen from a coworker (not into comics):
"It looked stupid! I couldn't tell who was the good guy and who was the bad guy!"
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haha! yeah. i gotta feeling i'm going to be loaning out my watchmen gn to a lot of people before now and march.
i didn't realize that about the smashing pumpkins song either. i thought it sounded familiar too. very cool.
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Post by Sskessa » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:19 am
Does it really matter if other people like it, as long as it's a good movie?
i don't think it matters if other people like it. but i think it's important for them to understand what it's about before making that decision. and if it is good, i hope it'll be successful. speed racer has to be one of the saddest financial movie stories of the year. i hate seeing that happen to great films. well, any sort of media really.
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Post by jdalton » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:31 pm
Joey wrote: "...I couldn't tell who was the good guy and who was the bad guy!"
AS IT SHOULD BE!
They've got a whole year to build buzz for this movie. The first trailer was for us, for people who have read the book, to reassure us that they want to make it just like the book, whether that is the truth or not. This is why they put it on before Batman and assembled it out of random clips that recreate memorable panels from the comic.
I'm sure future trailers will be aimed at a more general audience and give a stronger indication of what the heck is going on.
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Post by William Ward » Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:12 pm
Sskessa wrote: Does it really matter if other people like it, as long as it's a good movie?
If we want them to make more.
Post by dark77778 » Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:08 pm
Finally picked up a copy of Watchmen (I know, I'm terrible aren't I?) and I just can barely put the thing down to get on the internet for. It's fantastic, I actually passed about two hours reading it thinking I'd only been reading for ten minutes. It's quite confusing at times with all the names and whatnot but I think I have them all now and their histories. Still, I can see why and how people are saying it's unfilmable, but all the challenges seem to be about perspective\pov in a way...oh, and I really hope they put in the Dylan quote chapters or the songs or something along those lines at the start of every doomsday clock hour.
(Off topic; at the same time that I bought Watchman, I successfully converted my best friend to be a fan of Flight and subsequently graphic novels in general by showing him some shorts in Flight 4 and buying him Flight vol. 2. Thanks guys!)
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Post by Gunwhale » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:49 pm
New trailer!
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I still cannot wait. It looks great.
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Post by jcaffoe » Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:05 pm
the latest trailer was underwhelming, I thought. Really poorly edited, and as much as I love Muse, the song doesn't fit at all (listen to how many times they had to chop it up...).
I also hope Zack Snyder doesn't consider the slow-mo sequences to be his cinematic trademark. I loved what he did with it in 300, but I don't think that same style of filmmaking will work here, and I feel like the film might suffer as a result.
Directors nowadays need to realize that there are more ways to shoot an action sequence than shaky cam or slow-motion.
Anyway, I'm still excited, if only because of Snyder's reverence of the source material, but I'm staying skeptical for now.
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Post by dark77778 » Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:18 pm
jcaffoe wrote: the latest trailer was underwhelming, I thought. Really poorly edited, and as much as I love Muse, the song doesn't fit at all (listen to how many times they had to chop it up...).
I think that just took every word right out of my brain. I endorse this statement 100%...save for the Muse part, they're okay.
Oh, also, was I the only one who got a "Leave Britney Alone?" moment going on with Dr.M?
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Post by dark77778 » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:19 pm
I found that I'm able to go to the advanced screening at the Bloor cinema tomorrow ^^ I hope it'll be good.
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Post by Josh Mauser » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:18 am
I don't know why I'm not sleeping right now, but I just got back and its fresh in my mind.
Because I decided to take a last minute plunge and read the TPB this week before the movie came out, it's impossible for me not to compare the film to it. Especially when the film follows the source so closely as this, save for a few things that affected my opinion greatly. So, I guess you could say, an un-biased Joe Movie-Goer perspective this is NOT.
*SPOILERS AHEAD - BOTH MOVIE AND BOOK*
You know what? The more I think about it, what's IN the movie is pretty spot on! It's the stuff that was left out that I thought really robbed folks of the emotional trip I took when I turned the pages of the trade.
I'm not even talking about the ending. I heard a lot of nerds going on and on about how they changed the ending. After viewing I'll say that this is a moot point. The ending change is pretty inconsequential. In fact, it might make MORE sense to even some book fans, as it's not nearly as elaborate of a reveal (although I liked the elaborate ending, actually...more stuff to consider, more connecting the dots, more meat period). The outcome afterwards is essentially the same, although it puts a pretty different spin on Dr. Manhattan's character.
What bothered me about the film was pretty much what I expected in retrospect. Not nearly enough character development to achieve the desired impact that was pretty much the whole point of this story. Granted, they tried to cover as many points as they could but frankly it still wasn't enough for me to generate an equal level of emotion that the TPB did. (and possibly, generate any real emotional response from the average movie-goer).
And the weird part was the stuff that they decided to speed through or omit was necessary to warrant what now looked like over-reactions from some of the actors/actresses later in the movie. (Example: when Silk Spectre breaks the Mars fortress over the realization of who the Comedian really was, from the film's point of view it seemed really overblown because they maybe spent 20 seconds detailing her reaction to the incident with him and her mother). Also, since I thought that Veidt's motives and psychology weren't given enough time to develop and sink in, it made Rorschach's sacrifice via "No compromise" seem really weak in comparison to the TPB.
It seemed like they emphasized all the wrong parts. The gore was insane, the sex scenes were juiced up. The fights extended. Who couldn't guess that Veidt was eventually evil in the film from the very beginning? So much for that reveal. In the TPB there's a 4-5 page spread of bloodied bodies hanging over the buildings of the blast site. It was gruesome, visceral, and most importantly it put WEIGHT on the actions of Veidt, how horrible it was, how morally screwed up his logic is, how great it is when Rorschach doesn't want to take any of it and walks out, and how DEPRESSING it is when Veidt pleads to Doc for justification and all he can say to him is "nothing ever ends." Why not focus on this massive detail as opposed to silly limbs flying and just how turned on Nite Owl gets in costume (important to his character, yes, but not to the whole scheme of things in the film).
so what! maybe I should shaddup and read the book again. I guess it just disappointed me. Seemed like a missed opportunity. I loved the stuff they got right (the casting was nigh perfect and the technical aspects of the film were extremely well done) and missed the things they left out. And I think the audience will be missing out as well (unless it drives them to read the book! )
EDIT: Man, I wish I had seen the Beat's review before I wrote this (http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog ... s-and-all/). It pretty much condenses all my babbling into a concise version.
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Post by Gunwhale » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:09 am
**SPOILERS**
I saw this tonight at IMAX. I really liked it, and I thought Snyder did a good job of honoring the book, but yeah, there's a lot in the book that he couldn't translate to film. However, there were two scenes that I thought he definitely could have given more attention to. One was the scene Josh pointed out, with Laurie and Jon on Mars and the reveal that Blake was Laurie's father. This was given so much attention and detail in the comic, I couldn't believe it was explained matter-of-factly in 10 seconds with a vulcan mind meld from Dr. Manhattan. But also, Ozymandias' reveal that he sent the bomb "35 minutes ago" seemed to be equally glossed over and not treated with the attention that the comic gave.
Other than that, I liked it. Rorschach was amazing. Jackie Earle Haley made the movie for me.
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Hawk’s Well Theatre recently staged a most memorable event, ‘The Deepwater Rambler’. Celebrating Sligo’s rich maritime heritage; audiences were treated to a new play written by actor, writer and director, Bob Kelly and historical talks in the unique setting of Sligo docklands. The project was made possible by the support of The Metal Mariners, MalinWaters and has been funded by The Heritage Council.
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Just before the event the production’s venue was vandalized and left unsafe after a break in by burglars. On learning about this set-back Sean McTernan of McTernan’s carpet and furniture shop at Ballast Quay generously offered his shop as a venue. The shop has an unobstructed view of Port Of Sligo and audiences delighted in the novelty of the welcoming setting for the informative talks. Over a warm cuppa audiences heard from M.C. Sligo Harbour Master John Carton, & speakers Brian Scanlon & Medbh Gillard about the port, past, present and future. The port of Sligo grew from a medieval quay into one of Ireland's principle emigration ports during the famine years. Today exports are on the rise again and future tourism offerings are planned for next year.
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"The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary television series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know : How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the west's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies and books about these western icons. But what really happened in the Wild West? All the stories you think you know, and others that will astonish you, are here--some heroic, some brutal and bloody, all riveting. Included are the ten legends featured in Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies docuseries --from Kit Carson to Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok to Doc Holliday-- accompanied by two bonus chapters on Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. Frontier America was a place where instinct mattered more than education, and courage was necessary for survival. It was a place where luck made a difference and legends were made. Heavily illustrated with spectacular artwork that further brings this history to life, and told in fast-paced, immersive narrative, Legends and Lies is an irresistible, adventure-packed ride back into one of the most storied era of our nation's rich history"--
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Michelle Cahill : The Poetics of Subalternity
May 23, 2012 / mascara / 0 Comments
By invitation this paper was presented at The Political Imagination, a Conference on Poetry held by in April 2012 at Monash and Deakin University co-ordinated by Dr Ali Alizadeh, Dr Ann Vickery and Professor Lyn McCredden. I wanted it to be considered for a journal of literary scholarship and so, after some consideration, I submitted it to an on-line refereed journal. Notwithstanding my independently-situated research the essay was returned to me within four days without readers’ reports and with the following comment:
Thank you for your submission to —-. After an initial read, the editors feel that —- isn’t the best match for your submission. Although very interesting and well-written, the piece would be better suited to a cultural studies or postcolonial theory journal. We do hope that you pursue publication with a different journal, one that could offer a better fit for your article. Thank you very much for your interest in contributing to —- .
This may be fortuitous as Mascara has, I suspect, a wider national readership than the journal in question. I don’t think the concerns this essay raises should be quarantined.
The Poetics of Subalternity
This essay attempts to assemble a radical critique of contemporary Australian literature, which in its orientation and its networks of power and interest inaugurates itself as a subject in the guise of nationalism while ignoring the divisions of cultural capital and labour. This is an exclusive and essentially White paradigm that articulates difference in Euro-Imperialist terms, elaborating discourses of difference, counter-narratives, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and non-determination while concealing its agency, its neo-colonisation and domination of Otherness. And by “Other” I am referring generally to those marginalised and disempowered by the narratives of Australian literature, history, law, political economy and adopted ideology (of the West, that is) and I am speaking as an Asian Australian writer unfortunately privy to the gatekeepers of Australian literary culture. I’ll have to ask you to indulge me in that my essay is an intentionally polemic commentary, embedded in a space I enter as a writer of colour, hybridity and Asian background rather than as Anglo-academic or cultural theorist. And I make this entreaty because in advancing my argument I am aware of causing dichotomies to arise within the trace of this text.
So how does the term “subalternity” come into all of this? I would like to argue that Spivakian subalternity emphasises the notions of economic disenfranchisement and how representation of such groups by the empowered intellectual West is co-opted into a cultural domination. I argue that this parallels our Australian postcolonial context with respect to how disenfranchised groups are being represented.
For instance Australian literary and specifically poetic representations of Asia are most frequently configured from European philosophical perspectives on ethnography, desire, grammatology, materiality etc. They may appropriate or fetishize Asian culture or themes as objects of knowledge. Some poetic representations are touristic or voyeuristic. Invariably they fail to articulate the complex sense of inheritance and belonging embodied in Asian-Australian identity. More broadly speaking, there is a lacuna in the representation of the Asian Australian presence in our literature across all genres. Relatively few numbers of Asian-Australians are being supported for cultural residencies through Asialink or indeed being nominated for awards or being reviewed in mainstream publications and journals. They are not able to hold the same expectations as their Anglo-Australian colleagues. Does this make them subaltern? No, that is not my point. Many of these imbalances reflect institutional legacies but they also constitute a covert discourse which privileges, in economic and cultural terms, coteries of race and class. Ouyang Yu’s essays on multiculturalism “Absence Asia: What’s Wrong With Australia?” first brought my attention to these alarming discrepancies. Yu’s oeuvre has since been absorbed into the postmodern mainstream, abetted by lines of patriarchal mobility and access denied to those marginalised.
So why have I chosen this seemingly obscure term? I turn to Spivak for three reasons. Firstly because she inspires me as a poet of philosophy and multi-lingual translator of Derrida, whose work in relativising the transcendental I deeply admire for its ethical applications and anti-logocentrism. Secondly because she is an engaged feminist who has critiqued the global alliance politics among women of dominant social and cultural groups, and thirdly because she is a diasporic South Asian; if not a Goan, she is a Bengali, so to reference her work opens up for me a transnational and interdisciplinary dialogue with which I can connect. Spivak provides us with a brilliant methodology, a set of analytic tools, to work towards the establishment of agency and the lines of mobility and to situate the body as the site of metonymy and resistance.
If we are to describe a poetics of subalternity we need to consider the various resonances of the term “subaltern”. The term was used by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci as a synonym for subordination of the rural based southern Italian peasantry in his memoir Prison Notebooks, however translators point out that during Gramsci’s fascist incarceration, the term ‘subaltern’ was a code word for the Marxist term proletariat, and also that at times Gramsci uses the term to mean ‘instrumental’. If so this complicates the Marxist notion of the proletariat being revolutionary in character as a result of their economic conditions but it does invite an appreciation of the common nature of the subaltern, their intrinsic weaknesses and strengths. For the Subaltern Studies Collective, the term was used to describe a class or group of contingent militant activism which was heterogeneous and discontinuously organised compared to the more national agitation during anti-Partition and Independence resistance, yet who were unable to represent themselves in the elite historiography. Subaltern Studies historians point out that such a history is grounded in British colonial ideology. These historians, people like Guha and Chakrabarty, attempted to recuperate the consciousness and intent of the subaltern in a positivist way, and moreover they reframed the social and political changes, to quote Spivak:
“ in relation to histories of domination and exploitation rather than within the great modes-of-production narrative”
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So while their postcolonial framework provides an interpretation that exceeds the Marxist modes of progression from feudalism to capitalism, Spivak critiques their discourse which she sees as “insidiously objectifying” the subaltern, thus positioning her inquiry in “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
But Spivak’s main concern is with the occlusions in political thinking by the Western male intellectual as proxy for the disempowered. Contentiously she critiques Deleuze and Foucault of being blind to the international division of labour. She critiques them for conflating the desire of the oppressed with the interests of the radical Western intellectual, thereby essentialising the concepts of power and desire to construct an undivided political subject “the oppressed who can know and speak for themselves.” She deconstructs representation, emphasising its double meaning, political representation being interdependent of aesthetic representation and she argues that it is from beyond both of these spaces that oppressed subjects speak, act and know for themselves. Now clearly a concept such as this has resonance with an Asian Australian poetics, which is a marginalised poetics. Apart from tokenism, what kind of endorsements or validity do these groups receive in terms of their political representation vis-a-vis other cultural subjects or agents? Aesthetic representation is related but not the same as its political counterpart. What are the obstructions and limitations being imposed upon us, and by who? Why are there only certain kinds of narratives being articulated and whose narratives are they? Who are the arbiters determining our cultural paradigms? How come our representing academics and creative writers remain so quarantined? Let’s stop to consider how many marginalised writers simply leave this country or become economically and physically exhausted, if not overwhelmed by insanity at the kind of indifference that their work receives. I’d like to suggest that this constitutes a form of epistemic violence, a set of pathologies imposed by neo-colonialism which critics like Fanon alludes to in his postcolonial classic, Wretched of the Earth.
If you require further evidence consider how our aesthetic representation has been repressed and Orientalised; examples of this include the Windchimes anthology, which contains many more Anglo-Australian poets writing about Asia than Asian poets, an imbalance that Kim Cheng Boey et al. are hoping to address in a forthcoming Puncher and Wattmann Anthology. It is in this respect that Spivak asserts that subalternity is a position without identity, without access to lines of social or cultural mobility. This is not to say that the subaltern cannot speak. The essential argument of Spivak is that when the gendered subaltern performs an act of resistance without the infrastructure that would make us recognise resistance, her act goes unnoticed, it is not registered as a sovereign speech act. Or in other words, it is not that she cannot act or speak, it is that there is nobody listening. Subalternity provides us with a powerful metaphor then. It enables us to more fully acknowledge that it is the sovereign speech act, the endorsement, the registration of identity within speech that ultimately confers agency or subjectship.
What does this mean for us? The implications are that to simply ventriloquise the Other as a gesture of empathy or refined embarrassment is to conceal one’s own conspiracy with the kinds of linear, institutionalised narratives that exclude the Other. What needs to happen is the infrastructure to enable subject formation of those marginalised and disenfranchised. It’s intriguing that Spivak advocates a redistribution of cultural capital through rehabilitated education. She emphasises the importance of imaginative constructs which enable us learn from the subaltern, to become sensitive to the fact the reason is not our sole European master, that there is no singularity of reason but rather many kinds of reason and that we can foster this kind of suppleness in our minds. But this suppleness would require both a resistance and a negotiation. Because to be tolerant without resistance is ultimately to transcendentalise the belief or territory on which we stand, but this desire can be halted or transgressed if we follow the traces of other texts and if we keep in mind the traces of suffering, trauma and epistemic violence. It’s in this respect that subalternity aligns itself with deconstructionism.
Spivak adopts a revisionist critique and reconstruction of Marxism thinking in order to make it relevant to the postcolonial world. But this is complicated by the situation where colonisation is no longer being driven by nationalism but by transnational economic interests in globalisation. The relationship between colonist and colonised is no longer simply the relationship between Empire and metropolis, though we also need to consider the relationship between emerging nationalism and globalisation through foreign policy. Literary critics like Jahan Ramazani proposes that it is from a transnational or cross-cultural framework of analysis that we need to consider the ruptures of decolonisation, migration, diaspora. In his book A Transnational Poetics he argues boldly for a reconceptualization of 21st century poetics straddling various geographic, historic and cultural divides, a circuitry between global North and South, East and West. While he acknowledges the homogenising model of globalisation, his aesthetic analysis eruditely maps the confluences that exceed national paradigms. But there is a difference between the concept of transnationalism and the category of ‘A Transnationlist Poetics’ which Ramazani undertakes with what becomes an essentialising discourse from which the subaltern is discussed but conspicuously absent.
Ramazani’s analysis is inclusive of postcolonial criticism, and beautifully traces the Trans-atlantic modernist tradition and is particularly strong in its exegesis of certain elements: decolonisation, mourning, modernist bricolage. Arguably the book describes but does not sufficiently differentiate its own categories of “postcolonial”, “translocal”, “diaspora” “migration” While it celebrates an energetic circuitry, “the rich self-divisions and split-affiliations, the imaginative exuberance” (162) of cross-cultural forms, its focus is to universalise the poetry of transition, decentering and renaming, and it fails to adequately describe those excluded or marginalised by its own paradigms. While referencing various appropriate historical and political events it is underpinned by a political tolerance and by a capitalist interest in the expansion of its own burgeoning field of literary criticism. If postcoloniality is the condition of a comprador groups of Western-trained intelligentsia mediating between the third world and the West through cultural capital as Appiah claims (132) then a transnationalist poetics may well constitute a similar group mediating through global networks for their own benefit in a post-political mis-en-scene. It may be a group who consider themselves politically, geographically, culturally and linguistically radical, while not necessarily being anti-capitalist or committed to developing a more democratic cultural sphere.
Can we even consider Australian poetics to be transnational? I think journals like Cordite with their Australia-Korea feature in particular, and journals like Mascara are leaning strongly in this direction. Meanjin has published many Asian writers and Australian Poetry Journal has made a promising start. Southerly, under the editorship of David Brooks and Kate Lilley has run recent issues on Transnational Mobilities, India, China, Indigenous Literature showcasing a diversity of counter-nationalist narratives emerging in this country. I feel that Overland’s focus is more local though the journal undoubtedly publishes some migrant and Indigenous writers. The experimentalism is risk-taking but is it too narrowly pitched? What about journals like Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings, Westerly, Island, Wet Ink, Griffith Review? Let’s consider the publishers. Thankfully some, like Vagabond, 5IP, UQP and Giramondo have supported collections by a sprinkling of migrant poets. But overall, the trend has and continues to be towards the European migrant over the coloured or Asian Australian reflecting the entrenched cultural legacies of the racist White Australian Immigration policy, which took 25 years to legally dismantle. Some scholars, like postcolonial feminist, Mridula Nath Chakraborty from UWS have gone so far as to ask the rhetorical question, “Which Asian are we talking about?”
But even if there are forays into the Asian encounter, how deeply does Australian poetics engage with this Otherness? My research has been external to a pedagogical space, though dallying with it in a sense. I have studied philosophy, theory and creative writing at a graduate level but my deepest influences have been drawn from my independent study of Hinduism and Buddhism. They are comparative spiritual practices in which the notions of time, self, birth, decay, dream, wakefulness and reality differ markedly from Western configurations, where logic, rationality and language take primacy. In this respect the craft of many Asian writers may be evaluated in negative terms such that sensuality or perceptual expression is described as ‘exotic’, ‘ephemeral’, ‘transcendental’ or even ‘anthropomorphic.’ This kind of Orientalist, colonial view of Asia by Australia infuses many of our literary encounters to varying extents. Both Said and Spivak have argued that writing as a cultured and gendered space is colonised by language and its philosophical assumptions, preserving the West as its subject and method. As Said reminds us, in 1914, 85% of the earth’s surface was under European control. Said applauds writing as a decolonising practice. In Culture and Imperialism Said describes the ideological resistance which extends and legitimises a fundamentally political and legal process:
“Culture played a very important indeed indispensable role” (221) in validating and justifying Empire, securing it, as well as in eroding and undermining it. Unlike some Third World theorists, like Chinwezu, who propose a poetics that is purged of foreign contamination in the guise of European models, diction, imagery and tones, for Said cross-cultural affiliations and hybridity are crucial to the poetry of decolonisation.
We are familiar with strategies of hybridity which can be performative and subversive of speech acts, materially and symbolically, but I’d like to reference métissage as an interstitial space, an interlacing between cultures and languages, between genres, texts, identities, praxis. If subalternity as a concept can metonymise the Subject of its own text, so métissage can be a metaphor for the creative strategy of fluidity, of braiding. Métissage is performative, inquiring, discursive, ambivalent, narrational often autobiographical, situated, ethical and embodied. I think of the bricolage of Adam Aitken, or Sudesh Mishra; the cross-cultural narratives of Miriam-Wei Wei Lo; the post-confessional hermeneutics of Dipti Saravannmuttu, the transliterations and abstractions in my own collection, Vishvarūpa. These poetic encounters with Asia are extremely varied but what they share in their personal journeys of identity and agency is to speak for themselves, to find a language for this contingent identity. This latent transformation, this recasting of history and power is a form of political representation exceeding aesthetics, to return to Spivak’s analysis. As a decolonising performance, it diverges, and should be differentiated, from counterpart poetic encounters into Asia (such as those of Kerry Leves, Margaret Bradstock, Judith Beveridge, Vicki Viidikas, Caroline Caddy, Kit Kelen, Chris Mooney-Singh). But such creative efforts to locate resistance beyond the constructs of Orientalism would need to be understood in a framework that exists outside of Australian nationalism. By geographical and historical determinants many Asian-Australian poets are writing from diasporic contexts.
So how does this situate poets of the Asian diaspora within Australian postcolonialism? Spivak attributes diasporic qualities to subalternity when she defines it as a differential space, a polytropos, wandering, fluent in its forms. Polytropos was Homer’s epithet for Odysseus. This word in its Greek origins describes the turns and twists of fortune as well as the strategic resourcefulness, the many minds of Odysseus. The word also breaks down into trope, in one sense meaning ‘figures of speech’.
Perhaps transnationalism like subalternity is more useful to us as a concept, rather than as a category. Concepts, like signs, may be structured and decentered in relation to one another. Not only does categorical analysis of literature risk becoming hierarchical, it is envitably aligned to publicity and marketing which oversimplifies its differences. In the case of a moniker like ‘Asian-Australian’, Simone Lazaroo (among others) has written about the complexities and limitations of the category, in terms of sterotypes, labels, oversimplified analysis which sometimes leads to inappropriately filtered reviewing. So how secure are designations like Asian-Australian and what is their purpose? Strategic essentialism can be a useful way for minority groups to utilise their common ground to achieve political goals. Spivak has largely retracted her use of the term, but she distinguishes it as a strategy from a theory. As a strategy which is not didactic or explanatory, it may help to provide a more situated account of agency for disempowered groups. If I was to describe myself, I would refer to my ethnicity as Goan-Anglo-Australian rather than as Asian-Australian. The former designates the singularity of my identity whereas the latter is a way of tracing aspects of my writing that connect in ways which record meaningful alliances with other writers. Both are decolonising strategies. Both operate to resist the assumptions implied by the cultural homogenisation of colonialism, as well as the discourses of social institutions which act as interlocutors to construct my gendered subjectivity.
In Australia our experience remains grounded in nationalisms and neo-colonialism. Our critics tip toe around the sensitive and dangerously porous term ‘transnational’ with oblique descriptions like “multicultural”, “cosmopolitan” or even “non-Anglophone.” This betrays anxiety about the future and uncertainty. But does it not also weaken the political representation of the groups to whom it refers? Is it not a less specific kind of essentialism? Timothy Yu in his essay on Transnationalism and Diaspora in American Literature refines the nuances of Ramazani’s discussion by raising the very real threat that Transnationalism poses for Asian-American studies, and by referencing the blurring of concepts like ethnicity and diaspora. Diaspora, Yu argues is becoming a preferred paradigm for theorists describing the work of Chinese, Black and Asian poets, connecting them with communities and cultures that cross national boundaries not solely as exiles of colonial expansion but by global dispersal. A diasporic account reappraises the Harlem Renaissance, shifting it from an African-American counter-poetics resisting an elite Eurocentric modernism, towards a more transnational axis in which blackness is being framed across a range of national identities. Yu suggests that the transpacific diaspora with its historical and cultural flows to/from America provides another node of exchange by which American national frameworks may be reimagined. He outlines some of the limitations for these poets and describes a poetics in which subjectivity is continuously renewed by movement, impermanence, fluidity, while at the same time registering national boundaries.
But whether we are talking about the cosmopolitan expatriate or what Yu describes as the “transnational circulation of migrants, capitals, texts” (636) we are not talking about the subaltern, we are talking about the dominance of globalisation and its compounding interests, its theorising intellectuals. Spivak is one of the few intellectuals seriously engaged in the economic and material issues that are external to discourse, language and identity, between the globalised north and south: namely armaments, commodities, drugs, exploitation, debt, migrant labour.
So to summarise, subalternity is perhaps most useful to Asian Australian poetics as an abstraction, a way of metonymysing, a way of imagining what kind of infrastructure needs to be built to establish agency of the disenfranchised. An abstraction can build a discourse not for any moral superiority, but simply and practically to fill the fault lines in our fractured spaces of theoretical crisis. If we return to Gramsci’s use of the subaltern, it is with some probability a code word for instrumentality as well as for subordination. What subalternity offers as a concept is a form of activist thinking that challenges us to rethink our poetics more radically, whether that be via the nexus of parochialisms, nationalisms, or transnationalisms. We can use its analogy to dissect the differences between material and creative capital, political and aesthetic representation. It drives us as a global community of writers and intellectuals to expunge the conflations, by which with complicity, we oppress and exploit Otherness, to deconstruct capitalism’s ethics-shaped hole. Because ultimately, speech is about recognition, and subalternity is about the division of labour and which side of that divide you happen to stand.
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MICHELLE CAHILL writes poetry and fiction. She was short listed in the ACT Premier’s Literary Award for her first collection The Accidental Cage and in the Alec Bolton Prize for Vishvarūpa. Her work is anthologised in Alien Shores, Escape, 30 Australian Poets, Ed. Felicity Plunkett (UQP) and The Yellow Nib Anthology of Modern English Poetry by Indians Ed. Sudeep Sen and Ciaran Carson (Belfast, QUP). She is one of the Red Room Company’s Disappearing Poets.
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New home found for ‘dog tag’ exhibit honoring those killed in Vietnam War
by nadignewspapers@aol.com · December 10, 2015
by BRIAN NADIG
After a nearly 3-year search, the National Veterans Art Museum, 4041 N. Milwaukee Ave., has found a new home for its “Above and Beyond” exhibit that honors all of the U.S. military personnel killed in the Vietnam War.
Plans call for the memorial exhibit to be on display at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St., from Feb. 20, 2016, to April 15, 2020.
The exhibit comprises of more than 58,000 hand-stamped replicated dog tags of every U.S. soldier killed during his or her service to the country during the war. The approximately 440 square-foot- exhibit is designed to hang from a ceiling, as a stainless steel wire is used to hold each dog tag in place.
The museum first displayed the exhibit in 2001 at its Near South Side facility at 1801 S. Indiana Ave., but the dog tags had to be placed in storage after the museum relocated to the Six Corners commercial district in 2012.
Museum chairman Lionel Rabb said that the new facility did not have the space to accommodate the hanging of the exhibit and the subsequent crowds which it would have attracted. “People call everyday looking for it,” Rabb said. “It’s a very powerful piece.”
The exhibit was commissioned by the museum and created by veterans Rick Steinbock, Ned Broderick, Joe Fornelli and Mike Helbing. The museum’s roots date back to 1981 when a group of Vietnam veterans put together an art exhibition depicting their experiences in Vietnam, leading to the formation of the Vietnam Veterans Art Group, which 15 years later helped open the museum on Indiana.
“Chicago Public Library is extremely proud to feature the ‘Above and Beyond’ exhibit at the Harold Washington Library Center,” library commissioner Brian Bannon said. “It is so important that the people of Chicago see their library as a place where ideas are brought to life and shared, whether it be through a book, picture, story or a highly impactful piece of art.”
The museum is conducting an inventory of the dog tags, and new ones will be created if any names of those killed in the war have been left out, Rabb said.
The installation of the exhibit at the library is being funded through grants from the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Rabb Family Foundation.
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Customers shop at a Walmart store on May 19, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Walmart reported a 74% increase in online sales in the US for the quarter ended April 30, and sales in the same store 10% increase over the same period that the effects of the coronavirus contributed to the increase in sales.
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Walmart recorded its biggest earnings surprise in 31 years on Tuesday, as shoppers filed their stimulus checks and online sales nearly doubled during the coronavirus pandemic.
The discounter has used its massive store base and investments in e-commerce to provide food and other goods to customers during the pandemic. Sales in the same store in the US rose 9.3% in the second quarter of fiscal year, while US ecommerce sales rose 97% as more customers sent packages to their homes and same-day delivery used the roadside pickup.
Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart, said the company will try to build on those profits by adding a member service. He didn't say when this would start or provide details on its benefits. He said the program will accelerate deliveries for customers through roadside pickup and delivery, strengthen relationships with them, and collect valuable data.
The program, called Walmart +, is expected to compete with Amazon Prime.
Shares hit a 52-week high of $ 137.63 on Tuesday but fell less than 1% in the early afternoon.
On a call to investors Tuesday, Walmart executives said customers searched online and in stores for a variety of items, including groceries, televisions, computers, fishing rods and bikes. However, they admitted that the company was struggling to keep many of these products in stock.
Supply chain management remains challenging, according to McMillon, but performance is improving.
Here's what the company did in the second fiscal quarter ended July 31:
Earnings per share: Adjusted for $ 1.56 versus $ 1.25 expected based on Refinitiv's consensus estimates. $ 137.74 billion versus $ 135.48 billion expected in the United States according to Refinitiv estimates. Revenue in the same store: up 9.3% versus up 5.4% as expected by StreetAccount survey
In the second quarter, Walmart reported a rise in net income to $ 6.48 Billion, or $ 2.27 per share, from $ 3.61 billion or $ 1.26 per share last year.
Excluding items, the company made $ 1.56 per share, more than $ 1.25 expected by analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. The excluded items include 10 cents per share of the restructuring costs. In July, The company has cut corporate positions across its organization but has not disclosed the number of jobs that have been eliminated.
Total revenue rose 5.6% from $ 130.38 billion last year to $ 137.74 billion, beating Wall Street's expectations of $ 135.48 billion.
Walmart customers shopped less often, but bought more when they did. The average ticket increased 27% in the second quarter while transactions decreased 14%.
The retailer said it spent about $ 1.5 billion on costs related to Covid-19. During the pandemic, Walmart hired more than 400,000 hourly workers to fill online orders, clean stores, and stock shelves.
Walmart's international net sales declined 6.8% to $ 27.2 billion as the government shut down limited shopping in India, Africa and Central America during the pandemic.
Membership in Sam & # 39; s Club grew more than 60% for the quarter – the highest quarterly increase in more than five years. The warehouse club's e-commerce sales increased 39% and sales in the same store increased 13.3%.
According to Charlie O & # 39; Shea, Vice President of Moodys, the new Sam & # 39; s Club memberships are a good sign for the future.
"A key factor going forward will be how many 'new' buyers return as 'normal', and the explosion in Sam's club memberships for the quarter is in that regard a favorable sign, "said O & # 39; Shea.
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Brett Biggs, Walmart's chief financial officer, told CNBC that the retailer could get another boost if there was more momentum.
"Stimulus definitely hit the consumer in the second quarter. We are watching what is going on in Washington and how we move forward with a new stimulus package," he said. "I think it would certainly be helpful to consumers."
However, he said families may retreat or pretend during the back-to-school season as students prepare to study remotely or go to school just a few days a week.
Compared to previous years, the pandemic made "back to school a little more unsafe" and "a little more restless".
Walmart didn't give a financial outlook for the rest of the year. In the first quarter, she withdrew the guidelines, explaining that many factors could change her performance, including additional government incentives, consumer confidence and the length of the pandemic.
Walmart shares, valued at $ 384 billion, are up more than 14% year-to-date. While other retailers were hit by closed stores and a slowing economy during the pandemic, Walmart benefited from sales of essential items such as groceries and from strong online activity.
– CNBC's Bertha Coombs contributed to this story.
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With everyone focused on social distancing and keeping our families healthy, one detail that hasn’t been forgotten is our pets. After all, our dogs and cats and other animals are part of the family, too.
In these uncertain times, with businesses from across industries figuring out how to move forward, pet-supply and pet-care businesses have been considered essential services by many states. If you’re thinking that now is finally the time to own a business and take control of your financial future, one potentially smart way is to open a pet-related franchise—especially if you’re wild about animals. Not only will you pursue a business you’re passionate about, but you’ll tap into a proven franchise model offering support that has survived the test of time.
From doggy day care to bird watching to pet supplies, the following are the top pet franchises on Entrepreneur’s 2020 Franchise 500 list.
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Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list rank: 50Initial investment: $440,600 to $1,315,200Initial franchise fee: $49,900New units in 2019: 17 units (3.8 percent)
Franchising for three decades (since 1990), Pet Supplies Plus is a supermarket-style pet food and supply franchise. Beyond selling products, Pet Supplies Plus stores offer grooming, self-serve pet washes, and adoptions events.
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Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list rank: 71Initial investment: $757,253 to $1,553,415Initial franchise fee: $49,500New units in 2019: 30 units (40 percent)
Focusing on education, exercise, and socialization, Dogtopia offers dog daycare and boarding services. The company was founded in 2002 and has been franchising since 2005.
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Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list rank: 118Initial investment: $290,500 to $1,065,500Initial franchise fee: $40,000New units in 2019: 41 (21.5 percent)
Franchising since 1971, Petland stores sell fish, birds, cats, dogs, small animals, reptiles and pet food and accessories. And the brand is global with stores throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, France, Chile and Israel.
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Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list rank: 137Initial investment: $150,837 to $260,991Initial franchise fee: $30,000New units in 2019: 9 units (2.7 percent)
The stores in this Carmel, Ind.-based franchise sell everything related to birds: bird-feeding and bird-watching supplies, including birdhouses, feeders, food, and binoculars. Wild Birds Unlimited was founded in 1981 and has been franchising for 37 years. Many U.S. and Canadian markets are still available for development, the company says.
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Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list rank: 248Initial investment: $751,000 to $1,458,500Initial franchise fee: $50,000New units in 2019: 13 (8.3 percent)
Camp Bow Wow locations don’t just offer dog day care services and overnight boarding. They are also equipped with live webcams so customers can check in on their pets at any time, from anywhere. Ideal franchisees will have a serious passion for pets. “You can’t fake passion to your customers, you cannot fake it that you care about dogs to your staff,” the Colorado-based company says. Camp Bow Wow was founded in 2000 and has been franchising since 2003.
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Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list rank: 376Initial investment: $59,830 to $202,000Initial franchise fee: $38,500 to $48,500New units in 2019: 55 units (79.7 percent)
Pet Wants owners pride themselves on selling pet food manufactured from whole ingredients, containing no by-products, with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of animals. Franchising since 2015, the brand has two models: a retail store or a mobile model. Both versions include delivery services.
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Schools, Many Businesses Not Reopening Anytime Soon, Governor Says
Schools and many businesses in Pennsylvania will not be opening their doors anytime soon.
On Monday afternoon, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said “all Pennsylvania schools will remain closed until further notice.”
During a press conference, the governor said businesses ordered closed as part of COVID-19 mitigation efforts will remain shuttered until the measures are revoked.
Previously, Wolf had said his office would evaluate opening schools and businesses in early and mid April.
On Monday, the governor extended the end of the stay-at-home order from April 6 until April 30.
School were closed in Bucks County and then the entire state in mid-March as the COVID-19 outbreak spread.
The announcement came as Wolf said his stay-at-home order that has been in place in Bucks County since March 23 expands to more counties in the central portion of the state.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education is expected to provide guidance to school districts in the coming days.
While some states have cancelled public school through the summer, Wolf has not yet taken that step.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump extended federal social-distancing guidelines to April 30.
Wolf has urged residents to practice social distancing to avoid the spread of COVID-19, which has infected more than 4,000 people and killed close to 50 people in the state and three in Bucks County as of Monday afternoon.
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Computers take center stage during Yukon's spring break
BY MATT PATTERSON mpatterson@opubco.com
Published: Thu, March 28, 2013 12:00 AM
YUKON — Fifth-grader Mason O'Hara didn't spend his spring break on a beach or a ski slope — he spent it in a classroom at Yukon's Skyview Elementary learning about computer code.
Mason joined 23 other young students at Scratch Camp, which teaches the basics of Scratch, a program developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help kids get into computer programming.
The camp was sponsored by iThemes, an Edmond-based company, and The Div, a nonprofit dedicated to innovation.
Mason designed a Harlem Shake video and a video game during the camp. He wants to attend MIT and become a computer programmer when he grows up.
“I like being able to see how to do something, solving problems,” he said. “And when something doesn't work, you figure something else out that will work.”
Since its development, 3.1 million kids have shared their projects on the Scratch website. Instructor Wes Fryer said the program allows kids to do just about anything they can imagine.
“It's a lot like snapping together Lego bricks,” he said. “The kids don't type code, they drag blocks in to make sprites, which are objects, do different things. It's open-ended, so kids can make all kinds of things.”
Sixth-grader Wyatt Lane created a rainbow race game.
Video: Kids learn computer coding (2013-03-27)
“There's a lot of fun stuff you can do,” he said. “It has graphics, and it's whatever you want it to be. I like to be creative, and Scratch lets you be creative.”
Scratch also allows for problem-solving and math, though it's not always obvious to the programmers they are doing math.
“The program is laid out on a coordinate grid, and the center is the origin,” Fryer said. “Kids immediately learn about moving things around on the grid. It's a subversive way of doing math, and it's all contextual.”
Mason said one of his favorite ways to spend free time is programming on his home computer.
“I like to make my own graphics,” he said.
Left: Aleena Zachariah, 8, a second-grader at Skyview Elementary in Yukon, works at her computer.
Mason O’Hara, 11, a fifth-grader at Independence Elementary, learns to write computer code at Scratch Camp held at Skyview Elementary School in Yukon. Photos by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
Colton Fuston, 8, a second-grader at Skyview Elementary, helps Caitlin Delaney, 9, a fourth-grader at Independence Elementary, learn to write computer code.
Instructor Wesley Fryer helps Treven Roach, 10, a fourth-grader at Independence Elementary, to write computer code during spring break at Yukon Public Schools’ Scratch Camp.
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AKT Turns 25, but still so much to do
Today (July 7th) marks the 25th anniversary of the UK’s Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) youth homelessness charity, The Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT), celebrated with a Reception at Manchester Town Hall hosted by Lord Mayor of the City of Manchester, Councilor Susan Cooley.
Born in Manchester out of the LGBT activism of the 70’s and 80’s a group of volunteers, led by Cath Hall, sought to address the rejection and abuse LGBT youth faced just for being brave enough to come out to their parents, care giver of peers. Starting by providing safe homes with LGBT positive carers and later mentoring the charity soon spread to meet need in London and more recently in 2013 merged with Outpost Housing in Newcastle to ensure services to LGBT youth in Newcastle were protected.
Despite legislation which has sought to establish a more fair and equal society, we are in a time were young people are facing greater challenge than ever before, in particular around homelessness and debt. In North America a crisis in youth homelessness has led charities to come together to develop a solution. Whilst at the Albert Kennedy Trust the number of bed nights we have provided to young people has risen from 3,000 to almost 8,000 in 12 month; we are predicting a further 50% rise this year.
In 2013 AKT opened the UK’s first emergency accommodation, ‘Purple Door’, exclusively for LGBT fleeing violence or homelessness. The Albert Kennedy Trust has exciting plans for 2014-15 to develop more innovative and nationally significant services for young people.
Next month the Albert Kennedy Trust will release findings from the first national survey of LGBT youth homelessness. We will not only use this information to inform our own growth nationally to meet real need, but also to inform the decisions of ministers, local government and housing providers. We hope to inform decisions around welfare and housing benefits to the under 25’s whilst providing a clear case for the provision of more safe and affordable housing for young people facing abuse and rejection.
Tim Sigsworth, CEO of The Albert Kennedy Trust, said: “My hope for the next 25 years is that AKT will no longer be needed, because society has reached a level of equality and fairness where young people are accepted by their families and mainstream provisions truly recognizes and meets their needs.”
Cath Hall, Founder Patron of AKT said: “There’s still work to be done, there is still a lot of negativity about which means the trust now has more young people coming to us than ever before. The economic climate at the moment is making it very tough for young people to survive, things are very very difficult.”
The Albert Kennedy Trust is very proud in their anniversary year to have been taken on as one of the Millivres Prowler Group’s charities to support. With their help AKT is calling on everyone who cares about the welfare of young people to become involved by participating in their 25th anniversary challenge events or hosting an ‘AKT Party’ to raise essential funds to ensure no young person has to experience homelessness, rejection or abuse. Get in touch via: contact@akt.org.uk or visit www.akt.org.uk to find out more and get involved.
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ISOLERT/ INSANITY CULT "Towards the Great Dissolution"
Two of the most promising Greek black metal bands of our time are teaming up on the split EP �Towards the Great Dissolution�. Although there are only two tracks by each of the two outfits the overall running time of over 27 minutes offers enough value for the money and a more than satisfying listen. This EP is horrifying, harrowing and darkening but also inherits a certain beauty and glimmers of hope. It reminds me of some classics, but it is more gloomy and more frowzy than most of its peers. It has atmospheric, calm, slow passages as well as faster sections. The guitar layers are thick requiring multiples listens to appreciate the true beauty of this songs. From the acoustic pieces to clean, suffocating guitar melodies to melancholic leads to the dirty, infernal riffs - the atmosphere in this EP will suck you in and not let go until the last second. The crawling bleakness and the haunting harmonies building the backbone to the heavy instrumentation are a very important factor to the overall picture that is painted on this record. While the tempo is kept in mid-tempo most of the time there are some speedier and intense but also spacey sections. The songwriting is great with some well-placed tempo changes giving the whole album a great flow. Both bands have a fantastic talent for creating haunting and beautiful melodies that feel melancholic and depressive but also offer a glimmer of hope at the same time. They have worked with the interaction of musky moments and lighter pieces and have melted all those elements into one great piece of sinister and eerie art. The ambient soundscapes dwelling in the dark build a fantastic and gloomy atmosphere. Both acts have chosen to go for a clear yet raw production perfectly fitting the music by making each detail sound crystal clear. It was a great choice to combine those two bands and songs as they build a very harmonic duo. Each fan of atmospheric black metal should give this EP a try.
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Jordan John Serves Up A Launch Party Feast Of Blues, Funk, and Soul At Knollwood
“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.” - William Blake
Jordan John released his CD entitled "New Day" tonight, and put on one heck of a musical show. I'm so glad he kept the reigns, and insists on soaring with his own musical wings! Here's what happened, and I wish you were there!
If you weren't, then go buy the CD. You'll understand me then.
- Glen Brown
The rustic patio at the Old Knollwood Golf and Country Club is a great spot to wait for the concert doors to open. My date and I have arrived early for this much anticipated celebration of the release of Oakville resident Jordan John’s first album.
The Blues Angels: Jordan John, Al Cross, Prakash John
Excitement and buzz mounts in the room as people are shown to their tables. There are no bad seats in this intimate room, capacity 100 max.
The show begins. Instantly, it is obvious that we are in the presence of professionals. All players are getting their signals straight, they are smiling, they are dressed right, and they are on their game. We’re in for a great show.
Jordan’s sweet, soulful interpretation of She Wrote Me A Letter is reminiscent of Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye. Dad Prakash settles into one of his favourite medium, deep funk grooves. Jorn Anderson on drums is visibly excited to be settled into that same groove. John’s voice is youthful, elastic, and oh-so-smoothly expressive. The song develops into a 15 minute groove-fest. Anderson ratchets things up by switching to bongos, tambourine and adding backup vocals. The tension rises and falls, flows and ebbs. The number ends with an audience participation chorus. “This night is all about me. So I’ll call the shots. We’ll do a couple of tunes off the album, but our main goal is to celebrate!”
Next, same groove, equally fine tune What's Wrong With The World. This has become one of my favourites off the CD. Sooo funky!
Keep Fallin’ In Love With You comes next. Now that the sound and any opening jitters are worked out, the band settles into the meat of the set. Another medium tempo funky groove sets the tone for this album selection.
Tell Me. Faster tempo, but still the intensity of the groove continues!
Guest guitarist Mike Branton joins the band for a couple of widely-roaming medleys of great classic titles pulled from roots rock, blues, and gospel music of the 60s and 70s: Spoonful; Fever; Wade In The Water.
Hoochie Koochie Man, the Muddy Waters piece, is up next. Now we’re seeing some serious channeling of the blues pantheon.
The gypsy woman told my mother; Before I was born
I got a boy child's comin'; He's gonna be a son of a gun
He gonna make pretty women; Jump and shout
Then the world wanna know; What this all about
But you know I'm him; Everybody knows I'm him
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man; Everybody knows I'm him
Al Cross replaces Jorn Anderson on the kit, solving the mystery. Two drummers! John moves to the Hammond B3 to get it warmed up. Oh yes, now I remember: he’s a multi-instrumentalist. Second mystery solved. The next tune starts and we think we’re hearing Don’t Get Around Much Anymore but it’s B.B. King’s Woke Up This Morning. Branton is given a mike to take the lead vocals, and then lots of room to stretch out his solo. After six choruses, Branton is just about done. He looks up to John, who gives the signal to take one more. Branton smiles and digs deeper. Prakash John and Al Cross share knowing glances and keep the energy at a matching intensity.
To see these guys work together, and to execute so precisely for the sake of the music is as satisfying as the music itself.
With all of this excitement and talent pouring off the stage, tonight’s challenge is how to get young Jordan John excited. He’s holding back, enjoying the role of sideman more than being the frontman. Mike Branton is wailing away, looking to trade licks and share the blues infection that has infused and animated him; yet Jordan lets the opportunity slide by. Not wanting to appear disingenuous, most likely, but it’s unfortunate that we didn’t get to see a more of the prodigy’s “reckless” side.
Not to worry. He’s got his wits about him and his sense of humour intact. It’s clear as the show develops that he simply wants to bring the best of the best musical talent that he knows - his mentors - to the stage for our enjoyment.
Now B3 master Michael Fonfara takes over the keys. The Leslie speaker stands as tall as him in the back corner of the stage. There is a stool for Fonfara to sit on, but he jumps to his feet when the music makes him. A great show, but it perfectly matches what the music is saying.
Do Right Woman made famous by Aretha Franklin (written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn) is next. The maximum feeling is evoked from a simple, but very rich lyric. It’s one of only two classics found on John’s CD.
During intermission a long line of fans waited patiently while both Jordan and Prakash John signed CDs and took time to chat at length. At the end of the line, I waited to have Jordan sign this message for our readers. “To my Hamilton musician friends. Keep the faith.”
"To my Hamilton Musician friends! Keep the faith."
- Jordan John
Exactly one year ago today, Jordan John signed an unprecedented five-album recording deal with Verve Records. Now it has come to light that John and Verve have “parted amicably.” Some recording work with Verve had already been completed, but the process was ended. Thankfully, (due to a well-worded, artist-friendly contract, no doubt!) John was able to exit the deal under agreed-upon terms, leaving both parties with no further obligations.
In a brief conversation with John, he commented, “I didn’t feel comfortable as an artist moving in the direction that was being suggested.” Judging by tonight’s performance, and by the music that is on his first CD which is produced without any record company affiliation, John is at an early, exploratory stage of his musical career. He has included several genres of music on the 14 track album. I’m glad that we didn’t have a pared down version of Jordan John as our first album, which could have been the result if he had stayed with the big label.
Now, with New Day, we have an honest representation of what musically is important to John at this point in his musical journey. Some other record companies have taken interest, and we can be confident that any future deals with work out satisfactorily.
As the second set begins, another surprise awaits. Tenor sax man Gene Hardy arrives as the band kicks into a rousing rendition of Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Now we see a smile on John’s face. The energy is ramping up. The show is intense. Again, the tenor player is given ample time to stretch out the solo, and he digs deep and delivers.
Midnight Hour presents an opportunity for a drum solo, followed by Funky, Funky Broadway.
“We have guests from Chicago,” Prakash John announces.
Da Blooze Brothers make their appearance. Jake and Ellwood Blues sneak in, briefcase full of blues securely handcuffed to Jake. As it is unlocked and opened, the blues power overtakes all. The well-known kicks everyone into a frenzy, then we move quickly into Soul Man.
“I’m just having a good time letting it all unfold,” John smiles while the band catches their breath.
Thank You For Lettin’ Me Be Myself segues into Dance To The Music. Jake takes his blues harp into the crowd and Elwood hammers out the tambourine. Jake returns to the stage and they sync their steps to capture the excitement.
Sweet Home Chicago pretty well wraps up this feast of classic blues/funk/soul music served up from the 60s and 70s.
The room erupts with applause and a standing ovation.
We have a treasure in our own backyard. Oakville is the home of the John family. Follow the journey of the Blues Angels and make sure you take in a show somewhere soon, before they head to Europe as the backup band for Da Blooze Brothers. One thing's for sure, these talented musicians won’t be sitting still for very long!
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When it comes to listening to music, it's often very easy for us to get set in our ways. We all have our favourite records, those artists who have been our travelling companions through life. However, there's new music out there, being made every day by people who you'd fall in love with, if you only heard them! On The Tripwire every Tuesday (at 10 AM UK time), we spend three hours on a journey of discovery together! There's so much great music being made all over the world and each week I'll share the latest and greatest tracks from artists who simply must be played! I'm blessed to be part of a wonderful community of independent musicians and they're always telling me about their friends or, perhaps, those peers are just butting in where they are most definitely wanted! Whether you like cutting edge alternative sounds or the most beautiful folk melodies, you'll walk away with a new favourite every Tuesday if you join me on The Tripwire.
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HeWho | 2012-12-27 05:14
Cube 2 (Sauerbraten) | Included | Final Release | Deathmatch | Capture | Medium (5-8) | Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA)
Blurb A moderately sized map with a future/past theme, fit for most game modes.
This map was started a few months ago by ac, Boxx, and I. We were editing together and decided to make a playable map and the rough draft of the layout was born. It was pretty rough, but we began to see that it was a great sketch and that it would turn into a quality map. I do not remember how the theme was chosen, but it is similar to rm5 and masdm (two maps in svn that we had worked on in the past) and I view it as somewhat of a mixture of the two, with improvements on both.
The map itself is a medium sized map, fit for around 4-8 players, but you could use it as a duel map if you like. FFA, Collect, Capture, Effic, Insta, and Hold (possibly?) are suggested game modes. There may not be enough ammo, but I considered it sufficient. Pretty light weight in wtr, so it should run pretty well on most computers.
This is (hopefully) the final release of this map, but I would be overjoyed if you were to comment any suggestions or thoughts you have on the map.
Special thanks to: ac for helping start this, Chris_0076 for his wonderful realistic lighting job, and the rest of cm|CubicMatter for the help and inspiration.
Update: Added some weapons, added healthboost, moved health, changed clipping, updated waypoints, top of depot center is now playable, moved some weapons, changed tele, moved some boxes, added trim to all of map, and fixed up some jumppads.
Update 2: Fixed clip and trim.
Update 3: Fixed more trim and other small things.
Update 4: Fixed trim, texture errors, (no)clip, waypoints, bases, collector-placement, and lights.
Shuzomi | 2012-12-27 11:46
Great map! I really like the details as well, I'm glad you finished this map! :D
Will check the map tomorrow.
Time to check out this map.
The map seems to be packaged very well, nothing to say about that.
The screenshot shows off almost everything, so it's dimensional perfect.
The description isn't bad either. Explains a lot of background information about how it started, etc. Nice to hear.
The theme however, is very overused. There are a lot of other maps which use just the same theme and some show off the theme even better. As for the theme in overall, it's quiet odd that you guys used the techsoc textures as they aren't giving the feeling at all for being at a depot (only certain details do so). I'll talk more about it under the right point.
The texturing isn't that great at all. There isn't any proper contrast between the textures. It's all grey and brown which appears, so you could speak off a blurry texturing (nothing pops out, you face everything at the same time).
I don't see a proper reason why there is some black hole just above a crane. If this appears to be some window, what about using some glass (you can use glasscolour to create the desired colour of the glass material if necessary (since SVN)). I've made a screenshot of it right under this point.
As I already stated, the texturing doesn't fit it's theme at all. It's not very convincing using the techsoc textures are primary textureset, because when you think of a depot, some environment which is all grey and brown isn't what comes up in your mind first (at least, for me it wouldn't).
So I would suggest to take some other textureset and drop the space-theme (as nothing else actually is being related to that).
I would also suggest to add blendmaps on certain paths, as it looks very plain right now.
The geometry is fine. A lot of details are made pretty light-weight. There are still some surfaces inside the mountains which could be deleted or skytextured, but not bad so far.
The lighting isn't that great. It seems like there has been messed a lot with the ambient, as there are a lot of situations which show off that cause (see in the screenshots in this point).
The first screenshot for example, has unnecessary light-entities. If the ambient would have been putted higher (like "24 18 12" instead of "12 9 6"), they aren't needed at all.
The second screenshot for example, shows off that the ambient has been putted so low that light entities get being forces to have a large radius else they will reveal their reach way more as when the ambient would be higher.
The third screenshot reveals a doubting situation. It's not very clear if the light-source is actually emitting the light or not.
So I would suggest to pull up the ambient again and delete such unnecessary light-entities as showed in the first screenshot of this point.
I would also suggest to make sure light-sources are clearly emitting light (just add some light-entities which has high RGB parameters but a very small radius).
I actually excepted way more details than a truck, a spotlight, some creates, an elevator and a crane. Be sure to add way more details which fit the map. That makes the theme way more convincing as it appears now.
The clipping is pretty good, but there are still some mistakes in it. As for example, some trimming isn't fully clipped (as being showed in the screenshot) and there are several places which contain noclip or clip for no reason at all.
The flow of the map isn't bad, but there are several points which ruin it a little bit. As for example in the next screenshot, it appears like you can jump from the create further on the roof, yet this can't be done because of the clipping material. Be sure to put it open or to higher it (I would recommend to make it higher).
The gameplay seems to be not bad, yet I'm pretty concerned about enabling it for collect. Especially because 1 flag is right next to a HB and the other right next to GA. The team which is near the HB also has the advantage of grabbing the YA way easier, as it is on their side. The point which really kills the gameplay is that a teleport leads right to the room of the opponent's team. So I don't think it would end that well for collect at all.
The bases are positioned pretty raggy also. There is one right next to the YA, while there also is one right next to the GA. I would suggest you reposition the bases and drop one if necessary (also make sure they are random).
The waypoints which have been set are very bad (as shown in the screenshot). There are a lot of places which create bots becoming stuck because there is only 1 way to or in that certain area (bots seem to dislike taking the same way back). There are also several cases where some unnecessary jumps have been done, which the bots try to accomplish but fail or become predictable (as you know they will jump).
There are also some nasty mistakes in waypoints which appear not even be able to be connected to each other, while they are somehow.
So be sure to just redo or to improve the waypoints greatly, as in overall; they bug.
The amount of pickups is pretty decent. I wouldn't suggest to add much more pickups to the map.
There isn't anything which makes this map special, neither original. I've seen very similar details, texturing geometry, lighting and flow in other maps and this map isn't advancing those. The only original thing of the map is the attempt of including collect also, but it seems to fail.
I would suggest to make sure the map has a certain quality instead of being a sort of copycat from other maps. Don't get me wrong, its not a bad a map though. I'll rate it 5/10 for now.
Hey, thanks for this in-depth review. I respect the fact that you go through and review most maps like this. I'm not going to argue with you about the theme, because even though it can be considered 'overused' why _not_ use something simply because others use it.
- The contrast idea is actually a really good suggestion, and I am going to go in and fix that window thing.
- Your points about the lighting are very accurate
- I agree that the details are somewhat light, but I will look into possible additions.
- I actually set up the bases before adding the armours, so I hadnt tested after adding them. Thanks for that.
- Some of the spots you commented on with the waypoints I had fixed (so I thought) maybe I just forgot to save, or posted an incorrect file.
Well, its nice to hear such comments get appreciated. I have to admit, its a pretty tough one compared to some other of mine (but you guys are with more than just 1 person, so dont blame me for that ;).
Keep in mind most screenshots are just examples, the are way more mistakes/lackings around on the map.
If a certain idea has been taken from another map and is performed well, then I wouldn't complain. But that's not what has been done in this situation. As it keeps being easier to come up with something original (for example Japanese) than an idea which everyone is used to (for example castles). The standard of the castle-theme would be way higher.
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At Fantasy Thailand with Chris Thieneman; Dr. Robin Youngson’s Compassionate Journey
I finally caught up with my friend Chris Thieneman in between his trips to Thailand. The former U of L All-American and Dallas Cowboy is a passionate advocate for whatever issue is on his plate. He started a successful charity event, led opposition to a library tax and ran for Congress and Mayor. In the show, he says he’s looking forward to clearing his name in court in July, and discusses his latest venture — a reality show/travel business based on visits to Thailand. You’ll want to listen in and hear about this.
Dr. Robin Youngson lives in New Zealand, but spent six weeks in Louisville on a mission to help health care providers build compassion into their jobs. Listen to hear about the successful venture that united the health care community here.
In the news, the Metro Council is finally taking up an ordinance on home-sharing sites like Airbnb, a thoroughly unwelcome initiative for those of us who offer to rent our homes online. The political landscape just got a little more interesting with the announcement the Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones willl emcee festivities at Fancy Farm in August. And finally, a long-time TV show, Andy Treinen, is moving on from TV. It’s all in the 99th episode of the Rusty Satellite Show.
Chris Thieneman
Dr. Robin Youngson and Meredith
Andy Treinen
Dr. Robin Youngson
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BBC risks undermining Brexit and damaging UK with ‘pessimistic and skewed’ coverage, 70 MPs warn – Telegraph.co.uk
By on March 20, 2017 Comments Off on BBC risks undermining Brexit and damaging UK with ‘pessimistic and skewed’ coverage, 70 MPs warn – Telegraph.co.uk
The row between Conservative MPs and the BBC over Brexit is the latest in a series of clashes. During the 2015 election campaign, senior Conservatives said that they were “furious at the BBC’s coverage” and accused it of an “unforgivable Labour bias”.
Tory MPs have become increasingly critical of the BBC since the referendum. In October last year Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, hit out at the corporation’s “infuriating” and “shamelessly anti-Brexit coverage”.
A total of 72 MPs have signed the letter including 60 Tory MPs, three Labour MPs, eight DUP MPs and Douglas Carswell, Ukip’s only MP.
Prominent Conservatives who have signed the letter include Iain Duncan Smith, the former Work and Pensions Secretary, and Owen Paterson, the former Environment Secretary.
BBC risks undermining Brexit and damaging UK with ‘pessimistic and skewed’ coverage, 70 MPs warn – Telegraph.co.uk added by on March 20, 2017
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The conference is organized by Institute of risks.
National Research Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation
VI International Youth Research and Practice Conference
“Mathematical and Computer Modelling
in Economics, Insurance and Risk Management”
Organizing committee:
A. N. Chumachenko, Rector of SSU, Professor, Doctor of Geography (the Chairman);
V. S. Mkhitaryan, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of Statistics and Data Analysis Department of NRU Higher School of Economics (Deputy Chairman);
E. A. Birukova, Head of the Saratov Branch of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Deputy Chairman);
S. P. Sidorov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Head of SSU Institute of Risks (Saratov) (Deputy Chairman);
S. V. Arzhenovsky, Doctor of Economics, Professor RSUE (Rostov);
V. N. Afanasiev, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chair of Statistics and Econometrics Department of OSU (Orenburg);
Abraham Altonayan, Professor (Brunel University, UK);
A. Audzeeva, (Keele University, UK);
A. M. Zakharov, Candidate of Physics and Mathematics, Associate professor, Dean of Physics and Mathematics Department of SSU (Saratov);
V.А. Balash, Doctor of Economics, Professor of Department of Mathematic Economics of SSU (Saratov);
O. S. Balash, Candidate of Economics, Associate professor, Dean of SSU Economics Department (Saratov);
L.Yu. Bogachkova, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of Chair VSU (Volgograd);
S.I. Dudov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Chair of Mathematic Economics of SSU (Saratov);
E. A. Kolomak, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Sector of inter-regional National Economic Problems Head of FSBIS Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of Siberian Branch of the RAS;
Paresh Date, Professor (Brunel University, UK);
M. I. Dyachenko, Professor of the TFiFA Department of the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of Moscow State University.
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767): Markus-Passion 1759.
Description: A previously unknown contemporary score of the St. Mark Passion falsely ascribed to the Magdeburg music director and composer Johann Heinrich Rolle recently came to light in the Library of the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. On the basis of the new identification of the copyist’s hand, a largely original version of Telemann’s St. Mark’s Passion of 1759 is now available today, and it is on this version that this recording draws. Freshly penned “poetical reflections” were added to the Evangelist’s text. The anonymous, theologically educated author of these reflective arias and accompagnati coordinated the sacred message of the text with a finely calculated affective dramaturgy. The various affective areas developed by Telemann are in each case modeled on the situations depicted in the recitatives. Here extremely harsh affective contrasts could exist side by side within a single aria. Moreover, in Telemann’s accompagnati his dramatic depictive artistry is even more apparent than in the arias. 2 CDs. German-English texts. Veronika Winter (soprano), Anne Bierwirth (alto), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Markus Flaig, Ekkehard Abele (basses), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert; Hermann Max.
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Michael A. Galianos drops the video for “Time of the Century” ft. Jenni Monday
Michael A. Galianos is a singer-songwriter from Bergenfield, NJ. In 1997 he kicked things off with the EP “Feel”, under the moniker of M.A.G. (Mad Ass Greecians). In 2006, he released his first full length, “Cerebral Snapshots”, and then followed that up in 2011 with his second album, “Beautiful Discovery”. Over 745 stations around the USContinue Reading
The Official Video For “Shine On” by Multi-Instrumentalist Jo Oliver
Jo Oliver has been making a living from music in the widest sense for many years. He studied guitar, played in many band-projects and gave guitar lessons, made jingle productions & wrote editorial articles for music magazines and made his living in this way in the earlier days. For manyContinue Reading
IAMROMEO – ‘Type Of Girl’ (ft. Neisha Neshae) – Official Video Released!
IAMROMEO is a Detroit native born to a musical family. His uncle Lathun dropped the song FREAK IT on SOSODeff BASE ALSTARS which was a platinum single. Now he is ready to carry the torch. This kid is destined for greatness, so follow his journey! IAMROMEO has been garnering listenersContinue Reading
Abdus Da Man – ‘We GoT the Alpha’ Prod. by Kayin – New Data Rap Video!
A data rap incorporating elements of the rapper’s personal experience surviving the streets of Philadelphia to make it to the top of New York City and get knocked down back to Kansas City. Video footage shows a young man, in his 20’s, wearing an electrode headset. In real-time, the man’sContinue Reading
Kilo M.O.E rolls out the Video for ‘Watch what Ya Say’ ft. Hecdakid
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LA based band KingQueen releases single + music video “Roller Coaster”
LA based band KingQueen releases single + music video “Roller Coaster”. The song gives that pop punk Blink182 vibes with a driving drum beat and a fun vocal melody that is easy to sing along with. A song about heartbreak? Yes but it’s not in any way a cheesy sadContinue Reading
Michigan Metal Kings KILJIN Release the official Music Video for “MY REFLECTION”
KILJIN is a 4 piece Metal band out of Michigan. They have just released their 11 track debut album, “Master Of Illusion” which is now available on all major digital stores. One of the most remarkable things about this debut studio album is that the band manage to get practically everything right here.Continue Reading
Samie Bisaso Releases official music video for his Single ”Windows Of Heaven”
The Multi award-winning Gospel artist, singer songwriter, Samie Bisaso, unveiled the video for his music single ”Windows Of Heaven”. The song is one of Samie Bisaso’s latest singles, off of his upcoming album. “I believe the message in this song will be inspiring to everyone, in the hope thatContinue Reading
The Amatory Murder are proud to release ‘Room 208’, the third single off their upcoming record ‘Singularity Complex’
The Amatory Murder are proud to release Room 208, the third single off their upcoming record Singularity Complex. Room 208 is shot by director Jonathan Rivera — who is no stranger to working with the band on their visual endeavors (Rivera attended high school with singer Christian Peppas aka XianContinue Reading
The 4PACK Ent. Music Group Presents MACKronyms – “Take Me Away” Video
The 4PACK Ent. Music Group Presents MACKronyms “Take Me Away” ft. Johnny Blk Reese as Heckle and Racci AK Ashy Knuckles as Jeckle. By and large, “Take Me Away” has the classic MACKronyms sound: a warm and crisp confluence of cinematic hip-hop, old school lyrical flows, and a modern soulfulContinue Reading
PlantBassed – “Lambo” (Original Mix) – a banging combination of percussion, synths, and voices!
In most cases, EDM producers are reacting to what’s going on around them. On a basic level, some produce in line with trends, while others produce in contrast to them. Sometimes though it is possible that an artist as singular as PlantBassed is able to blend everything that’s going onContinue Reading
Artem Cithara ft. Nicole Elizabeth and Slick Sax – “Stand Beside You”
Artem Cithara (producer, composer), Nicole Elizabeth (vocals) and Slick Sax (saxophone), once more make up a dynamic team on the feel-good, reggae-flavored single, “Stand Beside You”. Reggae music has long taken inspiration from other genres and shown its extraordinary capacity to transform the simplest of songs into works of beauty and insight. The trio ofContinue Reading
Ross Victory – Cali Cruisin’ – Official Video
LA Curbed estimates that Angelenos spent 128 hours in traffic in 2019! So cars and music are important to us and Cali Cruisin’ was recorded with that in mind. Imagine this – 80 degrees with a breeze, palm trees, good music, the best cannabis USA has to offer in aContinue Reading
Alternative Rock band RISERFALL – The Official Video for “Undone”
Riserfall is a 3-piece Alternative Rock band hailing from Dublin, Ireland, intent on turning the industry upside down. “You know what I like about these guys? No frills. Just straight-up hard rock.” Their mission is to retake the crown and return rock and roll to where it belongs, atop theContinue Reading
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LOS MUSICK and P.A.T. Louisiana’s Finest know how to trade dazzlingly intricate verses, all alliteration and propulsive rhymes, over inventive, smooth productions, and their latest 2 part project entitled “Inside The People”, supersizes this impacting aesthetic without squandering any hard-won authenticity. Singer, songwriter, producer, and emcee, LOS MUSICK is fromContinue Reading
MUNKIB – Official Video – “Shapeshifter (Remix)”
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Lino Camilo drops the video for new single ‘shut the fuck up’
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Mason Monroe and Haze present the visuals to “Crown” the first single from the project “Genesis”
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Most Active Performers for the Day: Itau Unibanco Holding (NYSE:ITUB), American Tower (NYSE:AMT)
Devon Leftovich December 5, 2016 Eco-Finance Leave a comment
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. (NYSE:ITUB) keeps its position active in context of investors’ investment valuation, price per shares surged 0.83% to $9.77 with volume of 10.44 Million.
Valuation of Investment
Looking forward to the ratio analysis, the co has price to earnings ratio of 10.30, which is indicating if firm is fluctuating between 15 to 25 than its lies on average position; but sometimes if it’s under this value some experts consider it as undervalue security. Looking on other side, Forward Price to Earnings ratio of ITUB persists on 9.28. The firm has price to earnings growth of 1.54, which is a valuation metric for determining relative trade-off among price of a stock.
Moving toward other technical indicators, stock is wondering in considerable region as it has 20 days moving average of -8.26% and struggles for 50 days moving average of buoyant run is -9.50%. The firm presented substantial 200-days simple moving average of 8.83%. The firm has floated short ration of 0.55%, hold to candle to sentiment indicator; Short Ratio was 1.23. Taking notice on average true range by J. Welles Wilder, it was 0.42. It is useful indicator for the long-term investors to monitor.
Waking on tracing line of previous stocks, American Tower Corporation (NYSE:AMT) also making a luring appeal, share price swings at $102.57 with percentage change of 1.57% in most recent trading session. The firm attains price to earnings ratio of 51.57 and its current ratio stands at 0.90. The price to current year EPS has -29.80%. To see more absolute value, taking notice on its price to next year’s EPS that cloud be 32.92%, according to Thomson Reuter. The co has dividend yield of 2.03% that is also considered as effective indicator. To see the ratio analysis, the debt to equity ratio appeared as 2.78 for seeing its liquidity position.
Always volatility measures make charm for active trader; price volatility of stock was 2.36% for a week and 2.42% for a month. The price volatility’s Average True Range for 14 days was 2.50. On these bases, analysts would recommend this stock as an “Active Spinning Stocks.” AMT’s institutional ownership was registered as 94.60% while insider ownership was 0.10%. The firm attains analyst recommendation of 1.70 on scale of 1-5 with week’s performance of -4.41%.
American Tower Corporation AMT Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ITUB NYSE:AMT NYSE:ITUB 2016-12-05
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[[Image:Awesomenauts - Title.jpg|thumb|256px|Title screen.]]
'''''Awesomenauts''''' is a multiplayer team-based action 2D platform shooter.
'''''Awesomenauts''''' is a multiplayer team-based action 2D platform shooter developed and published by [[Ronimo Games BV]] originally for the [[PlayStation 3]] on 2012-05-01, and then ported to several other platforms.
My friend Cody bought me this game.
==Status==
I own this game and have been on many winning teams.
I own this game and have been on many winning teams. I got 4/59 achievements.
==Review==
* '''Overall:''' 7/10
{{Video Game Review|7|6|8|6|8|70%|Windows}}
* '''Best Version:''' Windows
{{Spoilers}}
===Good===
* The bot AI is extremely unfair when it comes to aiming. Bots only miss when there is an obstruction in the way. So, even if you're far away and moving erratically, they'll always hit you. This makes playing against bots like Raelynn extremely frustrating.
Awesomenauts - Title.jpg|The title screen.
* [http://www.mobygames.com/game/awesomenauts mobygames.com/game/awesomenauts] - MobyGames.
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesomenauts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesomenauts] - Wikipedia.
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Title screen.
Awesomenauts is a multiplayer team-based action 2D platform shooter developed and published by Ronimo Games BV originally for the PlayStation 3 on 2012-05-01, and then ported to several other platforms.
Best Version: 70%
— This section contains spoilers! —
The character customization is a lot of fun.
The graphics and sound are really top-notch.
I love how each character has a custom theme.
Like most fighting games, I feel like there are a too many characters, which ultimately hurts the balance. I would prefer more customization among a handful of characters where you have to buy upgrades from the same starting point rather than have a totally different template.
The bots seem to be unfairly more powerful than the players. You seem to take a lot more damage from them compared to how much you deal to them.
The bot AI is extremely unfair when it comes to aiming. Bots only miss when there is an obstruction in the way. So, even if you're far away and moving erratically, they'll always hit you. This makes playing against bots like Raelynn extremely frustrating.
The title screen.
The basic characters.
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Video Game Rank - 7
Video Game Graphics Rank - 8
Video Game Sound Rank - 6
Video Game Prime Order - Action, Strategy, Adventure
Game Mechanic - Playable Female Character
Game Mechanic - Unlockable Content
Video Game Genre - Action
Video Game Genre - Platform Shooter
Video Game Genre - Science Fiction
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... aka: The Curse of Kazuo Umezu
Naoko Omi
A creepy man sitting on a swing warns against playing puerile pranks and tells us not to toy with the supernatural to preface this two-part anime. The first tale is “What Will the Video Camera Reveal?” The mysterious Rima Ogawa has just returned to Japan from Mexico and is starting at a new school. Everyone (particularly all the guys) seem interested in the beautiful young girl, but she has a strange, unnerving effect on another female student named Masami. Simply by looking at her, Masami feels electricity coursing through her body, passes out and has to be taken to the nurse's office. Later that night, she has a nightmare so disturbing she can't even remember it and awakens to discover her bedroom window open and a small, unexplained mark in the middle of her neck. She puts a band-aid over it and goes about her business. The following night, she makes sure to lock her window but has another nightmare and awakens to discover the mark on her neck is larger and bleeding. She also has a clump of black hair in her hand...
Now convinced the new girl in school is a vampire who's out to get her, Masami tries to tell others but her concerns are brushed off as her being jealous of Rima's beauty. She turns to her friend Umezu who gives her a video camera and tells her to tape herself sleeping. That way if someone is indeed sneaking into her bedroom to feast on her blood at least she'll have proof. Masami goes through the same nightmare routine as before. Umezu watches the tape and sees something so frightening he immediately leaves; only telling Masami that if she wants to see what it is, to watch the tape herself. But Masami is too scared. She does however notice some strange changes in herself; namely that her neck wound has healed and that she seems to be getting more beautiful. This is particularly strange considering suspected vampire Rima is no longer in town and has transferred schools.
Our second story is “The Haunted Mansion.” Horror movie obsessed Nanako invites her friend Miko over for a slumber party where the two eat junk food, drink beer and watch horror videos. Getting a bit tired of movies, Nanako decides it'd be even scarier to go to a nearby abandoned mansion to see if rumors that it's haunted are actually true. Because the place is going to be demolished soon, she manages to talk her apprehensive friend into going to at least look at the place. Once they arrive, two other curious neighborhood girls show up and the four break in. As soon as they enter through the door, it slams shut. And their flashlight dies. And they discover the portrait of a mysterious and beautiful woman. Always good signs. After stumbling into a child's room, the horrors begin.
Miko has a hallucination involving a music box, a teddy bear and toys bleeding and then the room filling up with blood. And then a hideous ghost in a blue flowing gown shows up. Simply by staring at someone, the ghost can make their body completely fall apart, as three of the girls soon find out. The squeamish Miko is the only one who remains as the ghost slowly approaches. She suddenly wakes up in bed, thinking everything was a nightmare. The next day at school, Nanako and the other three girls who were with Miko in her dream all have unexplained scars around their limbs and necks. In order to see if all that is connected to the mansion, the four girls decide to go there and see for themselves. Needless to say, that turns out to be a big mistake.
Running just 43 minutes, the animation here is cheap and crude when it's compared to – say – Disney movies made around this same time. But ask yourself: Do Disney movies feature a face-sucking, spider-spewing, tentacled mutant creature and dismemberments and decapitations galore? That's a lot of the appeal of something like this. Though more recent anime has certainly improved technically, this is still a lot of gory fun and both of the fast-paced stories are clever and surprising in spots. The brief bookmarking segments are also pretty amusing.
This is based on stories by horror / manga / comic writer Kazuo Umezu. As an inside joke, one of the horror videos the girls in the second story almost watch is titled “The Curse of Kazuo Umezu,” which promises “Ultimate terror!” and to be “A masterpiece of horror!” After I looked this guy up, I realized I'd already seen something based on his writings: the live action SNAKE GIRL AND THE SILVER-HAIRED WITCH (1968), which seems to be the very first adaptation of any of his work. After years of writing, Umezu made his directorial debut (at almost 80 years old!) with the autobiographical Mother (2004). He also is a noted inspiration behind the work of Junji Ito (Tomie, Uzumaki).
Labels: animation, anthology, decapitation, dismemberment, ghost, haunted house, high school, Japan, monster, nightmare, OVA, spider
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Atlantis Encyclopedia by Frank Joseph
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And abandoned in the early part of the 14th century, but whose earliest origins are still undetermined. The Cherokee also preserve a deluge legend that tells of survivors arriving on the shores of Turtle Island (North America) from “a great lodge” drowned in the Eastern Sea. The survival of this term, Atala, and its undeniably Atlantean details among peoples as widely separated as India, Morocco, and Georgia comprise persuasive evidence on behalf of a historic Atlantis. Atalanta Modern Talanto, a rocky islet west of the entrance to the Greek port city of Piraeus.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World has been unfairly condemned for its relatively few failings, mostly by Establishment dogmatists and cultural isolationists to whom any serious suggestion of Atlantis is the worst heresy. But no scholarly position has been able to remain unscathed after 100 years of scientific progress, and, for the most part, Donnelly’s work has stood the test of time. In the first 10 years after its publication, the book went through 24 editions, making it an extraordinary best-seller, even by modern standards.
A curious variation of this folk memory from Nazca, site of the great lines and effigies seen properly only from altitude, has him rising into the air and flying toward the setting sun. Other than this last suggestion of prehistoric aviation, At-ach-u-chu’s resemblance to similarly fair-faced culture-bearers appearing after a great natural disaster in the Atlantic Ocean are common throughout the Americas, from the Menomonie Indians of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to the Aztecs’ Quetzalcoatl and the Mayas’ Kukulcan.
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REMEMBERING AN ICON: Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Giusti
When I think of Mary Tyler Moore’s passing (at age 80 in Greenwich,CT) this week I am reminded of two very distinct types of women. There is the perky and adorable Laura Petrie she portrayed on The Dick Van Dyke Show when she was barely out of her teens; juxtaposed with a chilling performance as a grieving mother in the Robert Redford directed Ordinary People which explored a darker and almost sinister side to her that was recognized with an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (she lost to Sissy Spacek for her role in Coal Miner's Daughter).
In between those roles she managed to help produce her Emmy Award winning series The Mary Tyler Moore show whose main character (Mary Richards) embodied the coming of age of women’s independence from the confines of the nuclear housewife to a career path as a successful news producer. The series would explore the tribulations of being a single woman in her early 30’s and negotiating what was then a changing dynamic in how America’s values and roles were defined. Her character came of age during it’s seven year run and left on a high note in one of the funniest season finales ever.
She was a role model for women both in and out of her industry and shared a partnership with her husband Grant Tinker with her MTM Enterprises which produced a variety of American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda, Lou Grant and Phyllis (spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, The White Shadow, Friends and St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues among others.
Unfortunately there was tragedy in her life as well. In 1980 her only child from her first marriage (Richard) died of an accidental gunshot wound at age 24. A year later she would divorce Tinker. Ms.Tyler Moore admitted to being a recovering alcoholic and also suffered from type one diabetes which caused a myriad of health problems during her later years.
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[#] Fri Nov 08 2013 10:49:34 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
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Effective immediately, "anime" is an outdated term. We will now re-embrace the original and proper term: "japanimation"
[#] Fri Nov 08 2013 11:05:52 EST from zooer
an a me not going to use that.
[#] Sat Nov 09 2013 23:12:44 EST from ax25
Ah, Star Blazers, I remember it well. Great show!
[#] Sun Nov 10 2013 11:51:42 EST from zooer
Quark was a much better show. Along with Pink Lady and Jeff
[#] Tue Nov 12 2013 00:02:33 EST from ax25
Sun Nov 10 2013 11:51:42 AM EST from zooer @ Uncensored
Quark (only 19.95 usd.) - interesting, but pass. Pink Lady and Jeff, - by Syd and Marty Krofft? OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
H.R. Pufnstuf (1969) The Bugaloos (1970) Lidsville (1971) Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973) Land of the Lost (1974) Far Out Space Nuts (1975) The Lost Saucer (1975) Donny & Marie (1976) The Krofft Supershow (1976) The Brady Bunch Hour (1977) The Krofft Superstar Hour (1978) Pink Lady and Jeff (1980) Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (1980) Pryor's Place (1984) D.C. Follies (1987) Land of the Lost (1991) Family Affair (2002)
I missed the Pink Lady and Jeff (probably because the tv antenna fell down off the attic that year - I needed to improvise and put some antenna in to the attic proper, but it took time to come up with funds...), DC. Follies (out of country), and don't think the remake of Land of the Lost was on my short list. I thought Family Affair, wait, Wikipedia says I was watching Friends back then. I probably was. That or X-Files.
[#] Tue Nov 12 2013 01:56:50 EST from zooer
In 1977 Richard Benjamin was probably funny to me or at least funny to the older members of my family. What
Quark had was those twins which for a coming of age boy was great. Apparenlty they didn't do much for the
critics.
[#] Tue Nov 12 2013 14:51:04 EST from Freakdog <freakdog@dogpound2.citadel.org>
Sat Nov 09 2013 11:12:44 PM EST from ax25 @ Uncensored
I liked Star Blazers...I also liked Battle of the Planets.
Star Blazers ÷ Battle of the Planets = Battle of the Network Stars!
[#] Thu Nov 14 2013 12:22:40 EST from Freakdog <freakdog@dogpound2.citadel.org>
Tue Nov 12 2013 03:57:51 PM EST from zooer @ Uncensored
Give that individual a cigar and a kewpie doll!!!
[#] Tue Nov 19 2013 23:04:56 EST from Sig
I now have the Star Blazers theme stuck in my head. I vividly recall my older brother running home from school so he could watch it. I wasn't going to school yet.
[#] Wed Jul 09 2014 10:56:04 EDT from fleeb
(as I know Aahz would appreciate this...)
For Pony!
[#] Sat Jul 12 2014 19:54:47 EDT from wizard of aahz
Hehehe.. Yes. I absolutely did.. Still follow LFG every day.
[#] Sun Jul 13 2014 09:36:01 EDT from fleeb
I like how they intentionally blur the lines between good and evil in that comic. I also find it amusing that they set you up to think something massive and epic in scope is to happen with the characters, and instead they seem to blow it off as if such things aren't really worth the effort.
I was prepared for the story arc to include massive battles between kingdoms, one of which is lead by the elf, aaaand that isn't what happened at all.
[#] Mon Jul 14 2014 09:53:56 EDT from wizard of aahz
There are people quite upset about the plot or lack thereof. I just tune in for daily laughs. Alternative Medicine.. Heh.
[#] Mon Jul 14 2014 10:04:38 EDT from fleeb
I don't mind it. I find it funny, in a kind of meta-funny way.
I halfway expect Somner to be laughing at the audience.
"It must die! Kill it!"
The fact that people put expectations on a comic writer is really a tad much. Let is go whereever the story goes and enjoy.
Agreed. I would say the same goes for musicians as well, or any artist.
Except Phil Collins. He will never alter the sound of his music. He will continue to bang out the same five songs he wrote early in his career in some rehashed fashion until he dies or stops 'writing' music.
[#] Wed Jul 23 2014 10:53:53 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Yeah ... Phil Collins without Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford is just drab adult-contemporary. And as I mentioned earlier, if you listen to adult contemporary, you don't really like music.
[#] Wed Jul 23 2014 14:31:06 EDT from vince-q
Except Phil Collins. He will never alter the sound of his music. He
will continue to bang out the same five songs he wrote early in his
career in some rehashed fashion until he dies or stops 'writing' music.
...which is why all of Genesis from Duke to the end is nothing but a pile of constantly regurgitated PopSlop.
[#] Mon Apr 25 2016 21:26:04 EDT from zooer
BLOOM COUNTY HAS RETURNED!
http://www.cnet.com/news/bloom-county-comic-strip-returns-just-in-time/
For those of you who don't remember, Trump is accidentally and fatally injured by his own yacht's anchor in a past "Bloom County" storyline. To save Trump, his brain is transplanted into Bill the Cat's body.
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They have to do nice issues for that person, with out the other person realising. At the top of the week, ask the kids to try and guess who was doing good issues for them. Dora and friends travel to an ancient land, discover a secret pirate cave, return a lost merchandise to a princess and throw a dance get together. Yet it cannot be doubted that secret discipleship is incomplete. It is not only to Christ himself that we should obtain the blessings of his love and grace, and never speak of him to the world.
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Nicodemus was not yet prepared to come back out boldly as a disciple of Jesus; however he proved himself the friend of Jesus, even by the few phrases he spoke in the council when it required firm courage to speak in any respect. „He who on the first could come to Jesus solely by evening, now stands by him in open day, and within the face of probably the most formidable opposition, before which the braveness of the strongest may need quailed.“ The other secret friend of Jesus who assisted in his burial was Nicodemus. It was during the early weeks or months of our Lord’s public ministry that he came to Jesus for the primary time. Nicodemus also was a person of distinction, — a member of the Sanhedrin and a Pharisee, belonging thus to the class highest in rank among his people. Then it is stated additional that he was „a disciple of Jesus, however secretly, for concern of the Jews.“ That is, he was one of the friends of Jesus, believing in his Messiahship. We don’t have any way of understanding how lengthy he had been a disciple, but it’s evident that the friendship had existed for some time.
John the illustrator talks to the digital digicam wielding a hatchet, boldly stating “I’ll kill the Bitch.” I assume we’re imagined to be shocked, however it’s about as edgy as a child drawing a knob on a college prepare e-book. A fragmented story of an individual shedding his thoughts, it certainly not feels just like the movie makes up its personal about what exactly it wants to be . That Alan Bates hams it ups isn’t helpful either, but Gina Bellman delivers here , and she or he brings three totally different interpretations of 1 character that keep constant. Submit your e mail handle to obtain Barnes & Noble provides & updates. 4,199 secret friends illustrations, drawings, and clip-paintings can be found royalty-free. “Secret Friends” begins and ends on the put together taking John to London to see a publisher. In the course of the journey, his thoughts races, slicing from one livid thought to the following.
Many of the common folks had followed him; however it was mainly to see his miracles, and to collect profit for themselves from his power. There was only somewhat band of true disciples, and among these had been not one of the rulers and nice males of the individuals. There isn’t any evidence that one rabbi, one member of the Sanhedrin, one priest, one aristocratic or cultured Jew, was among the many followers of Jesus throughout his life. Dennis Potter’s cinematic directorial debut makes it method onto Blu-Ray, whether or not you prefer it or not. Alan Bates is an illustrator stuck on a practice with no recollection of who he’s or the place he’s going. Flashbacks infer he might have murdered his spouse, invented a prostitute who seems like his spouse or got his wife to act out as a prostitute. John the illustrator talks to the camera wielding a hatchet, boldly stating „I’ll kill the Bitch.“ I think we’re supposed to be shocked, but it’s about as edgy as a baby drawing a knob on a college exercise guide.
Jesus had driven out those who have been profaning the temple by using it for purposes of commerce. This act had aroused intense bitterness in opposition to Jesus among the many ruling courses to which Nicodemus belonged. This made it specifically hard for any one of the rulers to come back among the friends of Jesus, or to indicate even the least sympathy with him. The report frankly admits his fault, his weakness; for it’s by no means a noble or a manly thing to be afraid of man or devil when responsibility is obvious.
We read this guide in Story time in Year 6, and it was a good starting point for a number of class discussions round friendship, bullying, households and sadness.
Rafaella finds it onerous to make new friends due to her totally different name and ‘sticky out ears’.
We additionally used it to inspire letter writing to an agony aunt and to a trusted friend.
Lucy needs to be in style and won’t speak to Rafaella, however outside of faculty they strike up a friendship and Lucy enjoys her time at Rafaella’s house studying about her tradition.
She is teased by all the youngsters, but Lucy is the primary to start out the name calling.
He turns into so disoriented that, while consuming on Dover sole, he all of a sudden seems on the 2 strangers across the desk and asks as politely as attainable, “Am I, by any chance secret friends chat, with you? Like “The Singing Detective,” the movie is a couple of man hanging onto sanity by a thread. The center-aged John is a jealous husband to his lovely, a lot youthful partner, Helen , a faint-hearted lover to the voracious Angela and an obsessive if successful painter of wildflowers. 25,752 secret friends stock photos, vectors, and illustrations can be found royalty-free. „Secret Friends“ is a narrative centred around a younger lady named Lucy who turns into friends with a newcomer called Rafaella however only outside of college. The two turn into friends very quickly and progressively Rafaella opens up her life to Lucy.
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Her solely friend was Lucy but Lucy wouldn’t show that they were friends at school because she didn’t want to get made enjoyable of. One day when Lucy and Rafaella had been singing for the choir Rafaella informed Lucy something exciting was going to happen in the course of the Christmas break.
Yet we’re told distinctly that he was really a disciple of Jesus; although it was secretly, and though the explanation for the secrecy was an unworthy one, — concern of the Jews. Jesus had not refused his discipleship because of its impairment. Possibly it could have existed for a lot of months; and little doubt Joseph had been a consolation to Jesus in some ways earlier than his demise, although the world didn’t know that this noble and honorable councillor was his friend at all.
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We might suppose that Joseph had sought Jesus quietly, perhaps by evening, receiving instruction from him, communing with him, ingesting in his spirit; but he had never but openly declared his discipleship. He might have an imaginary friend who confusingly nonetheless appears like Bates.
Although she didn’t tell Lucy or anyone what she was doing. But then something tragic occurred and altered their lives. Because this story starts on the first day of college, it might a pleasant book to use as a stimulus for creating tips for the class on what to do if someone new starts faculty late in the course of the year. Or probably as a tenet to creating guidelines for the new class starting in September and the category can determine on the rules or how they must treat each other. Write the names of each child in your class on a separate piece of paper. Ask each child to decide on one of the names and that person becomes their ‘secret friend’ for per week.
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This brief e-book would have been an superior comply with up to our read aloud of Wonder by R.J. Unfortunately, stories such as Rafaella’s are timely and timeless. This story offers with a range of issues from bullying, cliquishness and dying. It is told in an trustworthy and thoughtful secret friends cam way with a real in-depth look at the emotions of every youngster. This story can be a great way to explore bullying within a PSHE lesson, and would encourage children to debate the results.
We owe it to him who gave himself for us to speak his name wherever we go, and to honor him in every method. Secret discipleship does not fulfil love’s duty to the world. If we’ve found that which has blessed us richly, we owe it to others to inform them about it. To cover away in our personal heart the information of Christ is to rob those who do not know of him.
We might notice progress in the friendship of this secret disciple. During the 2 years since he first got here to Jesus by evening the seed dropped into his coronary heart that night time had been rising silently.
Then, at that time the teaching and work of Jesus have been solely starting. There had been some miracles, and it is written that due to these many had believed within the name of Jesus. Already, nevertheless, there had been a pointy conflict with the monks and rulers.
However, in school Lucy was the first one to tease Rafaella about her giant ears and known as her ‚Earwig‘; a reputation that may lead to unbelievable penalties. This guide is about an exchange student who struggled to fit in to her new school. She was know as Earwig due to her large ears stuck out of her heads.
It is he who believes together with his heart and confesses together with his mouth, who has promise of salvation. Secret discipleship is repressed, restrained, confined, and is therefore hampered, hindered, stunted discipleship. It by no means can develop into the absolute best strength and richness of life. It is only when one stands earlier than the world in good freedom, with nothing to hide, that one grows into the fullest, loveliest Christlikeness. To have the friendship of Christ, and to hide it from men is to lose its blessing out of our own heart.
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It is the worst selfishness to be keen to be saved alone. Further, secret discipleship misses the fulness of blessing which involves him who confesses Christ earlier than males.
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Flower head of an onion (A. cepa)
The onion (Allium cepa), which is also known as the bulb onion,[1] common onion[2] and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.[3] The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion (A. fistulosum), Egyptian onion (A. proliferum), and Canada onion (A. canadense).[2] The name "wild onion" is applied to a number of Allium species.
The vast majority of cultivars of A. cepa belong to the 'common onion group' (A. cepa var. cepa) and are usually referred to simply as 'onions'. The 'Aggregatum Group' of cultivars (A. cepa var. aggregatum) includes both shallots and potato onions.[4]
Allium cepa is known only in cultivation,[5] but related wild species occur in Central Asia. The most closely related species include Allium vavilovii (Popov & Vved.) and Allium asarense (R.M. Fritsch & Matin) from Iran.[6] However, Zohary and Hopf warn that "there are doubts whether the A. vavilovii collections tested represent genuine wild material or only feral derivatives of the crop."[7]
Uses of an onion
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Common onion group (var. cepa)
European onions
Aggregatum Group (var. aggregatum)
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Onions are often chopped and used an ingredient in various hearty warm dishes, but are often used as a main ingredient in their own right, for example in French onion soup or onion chutney. They are also used raw in cold salads. Onions pickled in vinegar are eaten as a snack. These are often served as a side serving in fish and chip shops throughout the United Kingdom and Australia, often served with cheese in the United Kingdom, and as "pickled onions" in Eastern Europe. Fresh onion has a pungent, persistent, even irritating taste, but when sauteed, onion becomes sweet and much less pungent.
Common onions are normally available in three colors: yellow, red, and white. Yellow onions are full-flavored and are a reliable standby for cooking almost anything. Yellow onions turn a rich, dark brown when cooked and give French onion soup its tangy sweet flavor. The red onion is a good choice for fresh uses or in grilling and char-broiling. White onions are the traditional onion used in classic Mexican cuisine. They have a golden color and sweet flavor when saut ed.
While the large mature onion bulb is the onion most often eaten, onions can be eaten at immature stages. Young plants may be harvested before bulbing occurs and used whole as scallions.[8] When an onion is harvested after bulbing has begun but the onion is not yet mature, the plants are sometimes referred to as summer onions.[9]
Additionally, onions may be bred and grown to mature at smaller sizes. Depending on the mature size and the purpose for which the onion is used, these may be referred to as pearl, boiler, or pickler onions.[9] (However, true pearl onions are a different species.) Pearl and boiler onions may be cooked as a vegetable rather than an ingredient. Pickler onions are, unsurprisingly, often pickled.
Onion seed may be "sprouted", and the resulting sprouts used in salads, sandwiches, and other dishes. (See sprouting.)
Onions are available in fresh, frozen, canned, caramelized, pickled, powdered, chopped, and dehydrated forms.
Onion powder is a spice used for seasoning in cooking. It is made from finely ground, dehydrated onions, mainly the pungent varieties of bulb onions, which causes the powder to have a very strong odor. Onion powder comes in a few varieties: white, yellow, red and toasted.
Onions have particularly large cells that are readily observed at low magnification; consequently, onion tissue is frequently used in science education for demonstrating microscope usage.[10]
Onion skins have been used for dye.[11]
Bulbs from the onion family are thought to have been used as a food source for millennia. In Bronze Age settlements, traces of onion remains were found alongside fig and date stones dating back to 5000 BC.[12]
However, it is not clear if these were cultivated onions. Archaeological and literary evidence such as the Book of Numbers 11:5 suggests cultivation probably took place around two thousand years later in ancient Egypt, at the same time that leeks and garlic were cultivated. Workers who built the Egyptian pyramids may have been fed radishes and onions.[12]
The onion is easily propagated, transported and stored. The ancient Egyptians worshipped it,[13] believing its spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternal life. Onions were even used in Egyptian burials, as evidenced by onion traces being found in the eye sockets of Ramesses IV.
In ancient Greece, athletes ate large quantities of onion because it was believed to lighten the balance of blood. Roman gladiators were rubbed down with onion to firm up their muscles. In the Middle Ages, onions were such an important food that people would pay their rent with onions, and even give them as gifts.[13] Doctors were known to prescribe onions to facilitate bowel movements and erections, and also to relieve headaches, coughs, snakebite and hair loss.
The cultivated onion was introduced to North America by Christopher Columbus on his 1492 expedition to Hispaniola; however, they found that strains of wild onions already grew throughout North America. Native American Indians used wild onions in a variety of ways, eating them raw or cooked, as a seasoning or as a vegetable. Such onions were also used in syrups, as poultices, as an ingredient in dyes and even as toys. According to diaries of colonists, bulb onions were planted as soon as the Pilgrim fathers could clear the land in 1648.[13]
Onions were also prescribed by doctors in the early 16th century to help with infertility in women, and even dogs, cats and cattle and many other household pets. However, recent evidence has shown that dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and other animals should not be given onions in any form, due to toxicity during digestion.[14][15][16]
Wide-ranging claims have been made for the effectiveness of onions against conditions ranging from the common cold to heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other diseases.[17] They contain chemical compounds believed to have anti-inflammatory, anticholesterol, anticancer, and antioxidant properties, such as quercetin. Preliminary studies have shown increased consumption of onions reduces the risk of head and neck cancers.[18]
Among all varieties, Asian white onions have the most eye irritating chemical reaction.
In India some sects do not eat onions as they believe them to be an aphrodisiac;[19] various schools of Buddhism also advise against eating onions and other vegetables of the Allium family.[20]
In many parts of the undeveloped world, onions are used to heal blisters and boils. A traditional Maltese remedy for sea urchin wounds is to tie half a baked onion to the afflicted area overnight. A similar traditional cure is known in Bulgaria. Half-baked onion with sugar is placed over the finger and fingernail in case of inflammation.
An application of raw onion is also said to be helpful in reducing swelling from bee stings. In the United States, products that contain onion extract are used in the treatment of topical scars; some studies have found their action to be ineffective,[21][22][23] while others found that they may act as an anti-inflammatory or bacteriostatic[24] and can improve collagen organization in rabbits.[25]
Onions may be beneficial for women,[26] who are at increased risk for osteoporosis as they go through menopause, by destroying osteoclasts so they do not break down bone.
An American chemist has stated[27] the pleiomeric chemicals in onions have the potential to alleviate or prevent sore throat. Onion in combination with jaggery has been widely used as a traditional household remedy for sore throat in India.
Shallots have the most phenols, six times the amount found in Vidalia onion, the variety with the lowest phenolic content. Shallots also have the most antioxidant activity, followed by Western Yellow, pungent yellow (New York Bold),[28] Northern Red, Mexico, Empire Sweet, Western White, Peruvian Sweet, Texas 1015, Imperial Valley Sweet, and Vidalia. Western Yellow onions have the most flavonoids, eleven times the amount found in Western White, the variety with the lowest flavonoid content.
For all varieties of onions, the more phenols and flavonoids they contain, the more reputed antioxidant and anticancer activity they provide. When tested against liver and colon cancer cells in laboratory studies, 'Western Yellow', pungent yellow (New York Bold)[28] and shallots were most effective in inhibiting their growth. The milder-tasting cultivars (i.e., 'Western White,' 'Peruvian Sweet,' 'Empire Sweet,' 'Mexico,' 'Texas 1015,' 'Imperial Valley Sweet' and 'Vidalia') showed little cancer-fighting ability.[28]
Shallots and ten other onion (Allium cepa L.) varieties commonly available in the United States were evaluated: Western Yellow, Northern Red, pungent yellow (New York Bold), Western White, Peruvian Sweet, Empire Sweet, Mexico, Texas 1015, Imperial Valley Sweet, and Vidalia. In general, the most pungent onions delivered many times the effects of their milder cousins.[28]
The 3-mercapto-2-methylpentan-1-ol in onion was found to inhibit peroxynitrite-induced mechanisms in vitro.[29]
While members of the onion family appear to have medicinal properties for humans, they can be deadly for dogs, cats, and guinea pigs.[14][15][16]
lachrymal glands]] in the eyes to become irritated, releasing tears. As onions are sliced or eaten, cells are broken, allowing enzymes called alliinases to break down amino acid sulfoxides and generate sulfenic acids. A specific sulfenic acid, 1-propenesulfenic acid, formed when onions are cut, is rapidly rearranged by a second enzyme, called the lachrymatory factor synthase or LFS, giving syn-propanethial-S-oxide, a volatile gas known as the onion lachrymatory factor or LF.[30] The LF gas diffuses through the air and eventually reaches the eye, where it activates sensory neurons, creating a stinging sensation. Tear glands produce tears to dilute and flush out the irritant.[31] Chemicals that exhibit such an effect on the eyes are known as lachrymatory agents.
Supplying ample water to the reaction while peeling onions prevents the gas from reaching the eyes. Eye irritation can, therefore, be avoided by cutting onions under running water or submerged in a basin of water.[31] Another way to reduce irritation is by chilling, or by not cutting off the root of the onion (or by doing it last), as the root of the onion has a higher concentration of enzymes.[32] Using a sharp blade to chop onions will limit the cell damage and the release of enzymes that drive the irritation response. Chilling or freezing onions prevents the enzymes from activating, limiting the amount of gas generated.
Eye irritation can also be avoided by having a fan blow the gas away from the eyes, or by wearing goggles or any eye protection that creates a seal around the eye. Contact lens wearers may also experience less immediate irritation as a result of the slight protection afforded by the lenses themselves.
The amount of sulfenic acids and LF released and the irritation effect differs among Allium species. On January 31, 2008, the New Zealand Crop and Food institute created a strain of "no tears" onions by using gene-silencing biotechnology to prevent synthesis by the onions of the lachrymatory factor synthase enzyme.[33]
Onion and shallot output in 2005 Onion growing shoots Onions may be grown from seed or, more commonly today, from sets started from seed the previous year. Onion sets are produced by sowing seed very thickly one year, resulting in stunted plants that produce very small bulbs. These bulbs are very easy to set out and grow into mature bulbs the following year, but they have the reputation of producing a less durable bulb than onions grown directly from seed and thinned.
Seed-bearing onions are day-length sensitive; their bulbs begin growing only after the number of daylight hours has surpassed some minimal quantity. Most traditional European onions are what is referred to as "long-day" onions, producing bulbs only after 15+ hours of daylight occur. Southern European and North African varieties are often known as "intermediate day" types, requiring only 12 13 hours of daylight to stimulate bulb formation. Finally, "short-day" onions, which have been developed in more recent times, are planted in mild-winter areas in the fall and form bulbs in the early spring, and require only 9 10 hours of sunlight to stimulate bulb formation.
Either planting method may be used to produce spring onions or green onions, which are the leaves of immature plants. Green onion is a name also used to refer to another species, Allium fistulosum, the Welsh onion, which does not form bulbs.
The tree onion produces bulblets instead of flowers and seeds, which can be planted directly in the ground.
I'itoi onion (Allium cepa) is a prolific multiplier onion cultivated near Baboquiviri, Arizona. They have a shallot-like flavor. They are easy to grow and ideal for hot, dry climates. To grow them, separate bulbs, and plant in the fall 1 inch below surface and 12 inches apart. Bulbs will multiply into clumps and can be harvested throughout the cooler months. Tops will die back in the heat of summer and may return with monsoon rains; bulbs can remain in the ground or be harvested and stored in a cool dry place for planting in the fall. The plants rarely flower; propagation is by division.
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Most of the diversity within A. cepa occurs within this group, the most economically important Allium crop. Plants within this group form large single bulbs, and are grown from seed or seed-grown sets. The majority of cultivars grown for dry bulbs, salad onions, and pickling onions belong to this group.[4] The range of diversity found among these cultivars includes variation in photoperiod (length of day that triggers bulbing), storage life, flavour, and skin colour.[34] Common onions range from the pungent varieties used for dried soups and onion powder to the mild and hearty sweet onions, such as the Vidalia from Georgia, USA, or Walla Walla from Washington that can be sliced and eaten on a sandwich instead of meat.
A number of onions have Protected Geographical Status in Europe, these include:
Cipolla Rossa di Tropea, a red onion from Calabria, Italy (PGI)
Cipollotto Nocerino, a spring/salad onion-sized Allium Ccepa from Campania, Italy (PDO)
Oignon doux des C vennes, a sweet onion from the south east of France (PDO)
This group contains shallots and potato onions, also referred to as multiplier onions. The bulbs are smaller than those of common onions, and a single plant forms an aggregate cluster of several bulbs. They are propagated almost exclusively from daughter bulbs, although reproduction from seed is possible. Shallots are the most important subgroup within this group and comprise the only cultivars cultivated commercially. They form aggregate clusters of small, narrowly ovoid to pear-shaped bulbs. Potato onions differ from shallots in forming larger bulbs with fewer bulbs per cluster, and having a flattened (onion-like) shape. However, intermediate forms exist.[4] In nepali onion is called 'pyaj'.
Scallions or salad onions may be grown from the Welsh onion (A. fistulosum) as well as from A. cepa. Young plants of A. fistulosum and A. cepa look very similar, but may be distinguished by their leaves, which are circular in cross-section in A. fistulosum rather than flattened on one side.[35]
A number of hybrids are cultivated that have A. cepa parentage, such as the tree onion or Egyptian onion (A. proliferum), Wakegi onion (A. wakegi), and the triploid onion (A. cornutum).
The tree onion or Egyptian onion produces bulblets in the flower head instead of flowers, and is now known to be a hybrid of A. cepa A. fistulosum. It has previously been treated as a variety of A. cepa, for example A. cepa var. proliferum, A. cepa var. bulbiferum, and A. cepa var. viviparum.[36]
The Wakegi onion is also known to be a hybrid between A. cepa and A. fistulosum, with the A. cepa parent believed to be from the Aggregatum Group of cultivars.[37] It has been grown for centuries in Japan and China for use as a salad onion.[38]
Under the rules of botanical nomenclature, both the Egyptian onion and Wakegi onion should be combined into one hybridogenic species, having the same parent species. Where this is followed, the Egyptian onion is named A. proliferum Eurasian Group and the Wakegi onion is named A. proliferum East Asian Group.[2]
The triploid onion is a hybrid species with three sets of chromosomes, two sets from A. cepa and the third set from an unknown parent.[37] Various clones of the triploid onion are grown locally in different regions, such as 'Ljutika' in Croatia, and 'Pran', 'Poonch' and 'Srinagar' in the India-Kashmir region. 'Pran' is grown extensively in the Northern Indian provinces of Jammu and Kashmir. There are very small genetic differences between 'Pran' and the Croatian clone 'Ljutika', implying a monophyletic origin for this species.[39]
Some authors have used the name A. cepa var. viviparum (Metzg.) Alef. for the triploid onion, but this name has also been applied to the Egyptian onion. The only name unambiguously connected with the triploid onion is A. cornutum.
Green onion and leeks are optimally stored refrigerated.[40] Cooking onions and sweet onions, on the other hand, can be stored at room temperature, optimally in a single layer, in mesh bag in a dry, cool, dark, well ventilated location.[40] In this environment, cooking onions have a shelf life of three to four weeks, and sweet onions one to two weeks.[40] Cooking onions will absorb odours from apples and pears.[40] Also, they draw moisture from vegetables they are stored with which may cause them to decay.[40] Sweet onions have a greater water and sugar content than cooking onions. This makes them sweeter and milder tasting, but also reduces their shelf life.[40] Sweet onions can also be stored refrigerated; they have a shelf life of approximately one month, optimally uncovered.[40] Irrespective of type, any cut pieces of onion are optimally tightly wrapped, stored away from other produce, and used within two to three days.[40]
Onion field during harvest, Vale, Oregon (USA).
Top Ten Onion Producers 2009 (metric tons)
World Total 73,231,830
UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)[41]
The Onion Futures Act, passed in 1958, bans the trading of futures contracts on onions in the United States, after farmers complained about alleged market manipulation by Sam Seigel and Vincent Kosuga at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It provides economists with a unique case study in the effects of futures trading on agricultural prices. It remains in effect .
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Sen, Colleen T. (2004). Food culture in India. Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 0-313-32487-5.
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Allium cepa L. Medicinal Plant Images Database (School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University)
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Wheel of Smoke- Signs of Saturn (Private Release)
This quite cool Belgium band has released a new record on vinyl in 500 copies with a poster and a sticker and they are all hand numbered. I have number 338. There are quite a few guest vocalists and players adding horns, synths, and Fender Rhodes. The record has a wide range of diverse material on it and starts off with Sahara, which slowly fades in before the band kicks into an uptempo and intense song but then at the break it goes into a totally 70s section with horns and keyboards and the vocal style changes to this very laid back mood from a very powerful vocal before returning to the power of the start. Cool dynamics. Serpent is an very nice and melodic instrumental piece, which really picks up at the end. Salvation is the last track on side A, which has some very powerful lyrics ending with “chocked on materialism, forced only to see, we’re losing the power to be”.. I like that.. It starts with some very nice harmony guitars by Philip and Erik, before the heavy and slow riff kicks in and the vocals, which have a sort of nasty angry edge to them, to contrast the nice melody of the song. This track actually reminds me a bit a lot of the Finnish band, Amorphis. It ends with a long acoustic section. Flip the record over to hear Sands, which starts with a eastern flute with Fender Rhodes, section before an acoustic guitar section with a female spoken voice and as the rest of the band joins on this slow building piece. Cool song. The record ends in a very heavy fashion with the monster track, Song of Saturn. It has a very heavy riff to start but then really evolves in a unique way. This is a great record and not what I had expected at all. It is also released on a CD digipack, which I forgot to mention before.
http://wheelofsmoke.bandcamp.com http://www.wheelofsmoke.com
Polska Radio One- Cosmos Inside (Trail Records 015)
This is a new Russian band released on the very cool US label, Trail records. From the picture in the digipack, you can see four young men (Dmitry- Guitar, vocal, keys, Alexander- Electric Tambura, Andrei- Keys, bass, and Feodor- Drums, keys) who created this very diverse, cool and interesting musical journey. The Final Mantra starts things off with a slow steady beat that hardly changes throughout the track, but interesting layers of vocal chants and some psychedelic guitar playing compliment this interesting intro track. The 2nd track, The Fractalized Sky will remind people a lot of Wooden Shjips, with its sound, vibe and vocal style. It has some very cool psychedelic guitar. Time Eternity is an excellent eastern style instrumental piece and features Stepan Jee on sitar. Morosim (2 C-P dub) changes the feeling totally as it very spaced out and dub like at times but some spacey vocals and wah guitar lead lead the way. The track is also pretty hypnotic with a lot of repeated elements. To the Delta of Aquarius has some more spacey synths and a bit of a eastern feel to it again and more singing and Saucerful of Secrets Pink Floyd feel at times. Shagri-La is a slow track with hand drums and a slow evolving lead guitar line that complements the simplicity of the track as the keyboards lay low on this one and slowly creep into the sound as it gains in intensity, when the organ takes over. Launch #93 has some spoken words taken from some astronauts talking in space, while an acoustic guitar strums and different keyboard fill in the rest of the space. The 10min long title track, Cosmos Inside ends this excellent musical journey. This track has a more uptempo and groovy bass line that gets things going before the band really improvise and go out into space with a lot of cool guitar and effects and keyboards as this one gets really intense. There is one bonus track called Rhymes and Armonies and once again features Stepan Jee on sitar. The whole journey is 55mins.. I really liked this CD a lot.
http://www.trailrecords.us http://polskaradioone.bandcamp.com/
Truckfighters- The Chairman 10” (Fuzzorama Records FUZZLP007)
It has been years since I heard any Truckfighters. I had the Gravity X CD but someone made off with it at some point.. Anyway, this 10” has the title track from the bands new record as well as a live track from Australia. The new track is very groovy and has all the features that this band does best. The bass is really leading in this one and they have a lot of cool changes. The guitar player is not playing hardly any lead guitar but mixing up the riffs a lot. A very cool mix of vocals as well. Great song. Desert Cruiser is clearly a song the band and the audience dig as you can hear the audience singing a long and you almost get the energy of the audience jumping up and down with the way the band are into it and stretch this one out to 12mins! If you are a fan you will love this one. I hope to catch them when they play in Copenhagen on Feb 16th…
http://www.fuzzoramarecords.com http://www.truckfighters.com
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Spidergawd- S/T (Crispin Glover Records)
This is a new Norwegian band to me. They have release two singles before this amazing full length record. The band hails from Trondheim and features the rhythm section from Motorpsycho. This limited edition vinyl record is a super cool package with amazing artwork and on a few different colours of vinyl (I got the purple one). The album in CD is also included. All information about the record is printed on the inside of the sleeve, so you have to sort of stretch it out to see the writing. The record features 4 tracks on the A side and two on the B side, one which is most of the side. Per Borten is the lead man who plays the guitar and sings. There is also saxophone, trumpet and pedal steel on the record. Into tomorrow starts the record off with a low fi garage rock type song but then when the bass and band kicks in, it is a real rocker. The vocals when Per is at his most powerful he reminds me of Spice of Spiritual Beggars. This track also mixes in some keyboards and horns into the mix and has a cool groove. Blaer Jubel starts off sounding just like Motorpsycho the way the bass line runs through the track but Per is a more intense singer and then the cool lead guitar takes over for a brief section. The track has a long instrumental section where the guitar is mixed up front and the rhythm is just killer and it just ends as a sort of faded out jam. Master of Disguise is uptempo and really reminds me of Spiritual Beggars but with a bit more rock and roll attitude! Southeastern Voodoo Lab starts off a bit funky but then just ends up in a very jamming loose feeling track. Damn, this side is some kick ass rock and roll with attitude, some far out fuzzed out guitars and killer grooves. It is great when the horns kick in as well. Flip over the record you have an extended version of Empty Rooms that was released as a single. It starts off with a sax solo and a long intro before the band and powerful vocal kicks in and the track really rocks with a powerful bass line like Back to Komm by MC5 and a cool guitar with some massive effects on it. Million and Somersault is a long jammed out instrumental track and by far the most laid back on the record but with some excellent space outs and psychedelic parts and lots of changes. Amazing record..
http://crispingloverrecords.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spidergawd/666813483351106
Mr. Peter Hayden- We Fly High 7” (Doognad Records DOOG019)
The psychedelic rock band from Finland entitled Mr. Peter Hayden have a new 7” record out to proceed the release of their next full length record due out in April. The 7” has the long track split over two sides. If you heard the bands last record, then you will get an idea of the direction the band was heading. The side A starts off slow, heavy and spacey with a quite far out sound production to start (especially if you play it at the wrong speed!). When the track really begins it is heavy, repetitive, and slowly evolving with a distant vocal. The lead guitar lines make it pretty psychedelic before you have to turn the record over. A quick fade up before the monster space laden doom riff kicks in. This track is basically instrumental but towards the end you can hear a voice that sounds like it has a vocoder effect on it but it is mixed into the background. The next record is going to be a trip for sure!
Http://mrph.net http://doognad.com/
Falcon (Ex-Circle)- Frontier (Full Contact Records KRYPT-048)
The first (and maybe the last) Falcon record is out now. For those unaware, Falcon is all the current line up of Circle playing normal rock, with more than a hint of the worst of the 80s hard rock/metal scene, with the cheesy keyboards, etc.. but they can’t do it totally normal, there is always that little strange Circle twist. I love some of the lyrics especially on Beer and Ribs, which was released as a single last year. If you are a fan of Circle, musically you will find this a bit disappointing, unless you can really see how much fun the band had making a record like this. I enjoyed some of it quite a lot but you have to think about it in a different way, that this is not really Circle, but it still is…. Just check it out and make your own opinion and if you dig, order the record….
http://www.circlefinland.com
Siena Root- Conveniently Blind 7” (Transubstans Records TRANSV708)
This is the first new material by Siena Root in 3 years. The title track the band has been playing in their live set for a year or so. This is the last recorded material with multi-instrumentalist KG West, who has now left the band. Conveniently Blind (plays on 45rpm) is the first material to features the new singer Jonas Ahlen. This is a straight up Siena Root 70s roots rock track with some nice organ and guitar work. The whole band sounds great. Mishra Kafi is a 5½ min instrumental track that is based on a composted sitar piece for the start and then half way through a melodic hard rock build up kicks in and KG plays like a lead guitar line on the sitar that sounds really cool and then the last guitar section he switches back to his trusty Stratocaster! Great song and 7”.. I think it is pressed in 1000 copies. I can’t wait for the full length record later this year!
http://www.transubstans.com http://www.sienaroot.com
This is Nowhere- Turn on, Tune Down, Drop D (Nasoni Records 142)
This is Nowhere are a Greek band playing pretty psychedelic stuff, all tuned down, stoney and spaced out! This is the bands third release. The record comes with an insert as well as a CD version of the record with three bonus tracks, which are just remixed and different versions of three of the songs from the record (Moondub, I Need and I wish upon her for my Fall). Anyway the record starts off with Dopehead Blues (Lonnie Johnson song), a slow druggy blues track. Here you can get used to the reverb laden sound production. I need reminds me a bit of White Manna in a way. A sort of straight up rock and roll song but with strange twists and far out vocals, guitar parts, etc.. Bateman’s Late Night Shift is really psychedelic and passionate. I wish upon her for my Fall starts slow and crawling with just vocals and guitar reverb as it slowly grows. Side B starts off with the really psychedelic track, Two Nights. A great stoner rock riff and groove followed by some really spaced out vocals, which they later ease up on but the grooves continue. There is not a real guitar solo but more some spaced sounds. Theme for Peter slows things down a bit but is like a stoney psychedelic blues song. Theme for Bootsy, pretty much says it all, right? Well, it is not as Funkadelic like as you would expect. The guitar riff is pretty similar to the other songs with more spacey vocals. It gets more uptempo and spaced out towards the end and then returns to the chorus of vocals. Moondub ends this very cool record and is more floating with some nice guitar lines. I really like the vibe on the record as the songs are all like spaced out jams. They have two guitar players but there is very little lead guitar, it is mostly just heavy riffing and some psychedelic guitar parts but not many solos. Anyway, I dug the record, the vibe and it is great when you want a really heavy stoned trip. Enjoy…
http://www.nasoni-records.com http://thisisnowhere.bandcamp.com/
Dog & Sky- Denver (Crispin Glover Records NONE5CGR030)
Dog & Sky is a collaboration between Americans Matt Burt and Michael Dutch with three Norwegians from Trondheim. Matt writes all the lyrics, plays the guitar and sings (or speaks), while Michael plays the bass and mandolin, while Eirik (saxophone, piano, glückespiel, tablas, tambura), Truels (guitar, vibraphone, dobro, piano and backing vocals), and Vigdis (drums and backing vocals) make up the band. I this have heard record many time now and am pretty hooked even though it is nothing I would have bought unless someone pushed me in the right direction. Anyway, Denver starts off with a sound sample and a slow steady bass, drum and simple guitar line while Matt sings/speaks very slowly. It has an upbeat section where it becomes more “normal” for a brief period of time before the horns and all other instruments kick in and you wonder just what happened? Cool song. Jail Cells starts with some pedal steel and then the track starts to develop a bit of Americana but with a very cool and unique feel. Woman on the Corner, Matt changes his vocal approach and sings in a bit of high range as this track has an almost strange punky vibe. Reminds me of some of the Sub pop stuff by bands like Beat Happening.. Side B starts off with Sometime a Woman and it reminds me of someone that I just can’t place. The way the vocals, guitar and saxophone are played.. Ugh.. who is it??? Holding Hands has slow and fast parts and tells a nice story in this more mainstream track and features the mandolin. The Midnight Hiker is a very strange spoken word story with only minimal mood music. I found it quite a daring thing to add to the record but I actually liked it a lot. Great record.
http://crispingloverrecords.com/ https://soundcloud.com/george-mcfly/denver
Circle- Incarnation (Full Contact Records KRYPT-047)
I am only writing this review as a warning to those who might buy it. THIS IS NOT CIRCLE FROM FINLAND! It is five Finnish musicians from the Death metal scene using the CIRCLE name and making psychedelic death metal. It actually has nothing to do with Circle except being released on the label. There are 5 tracks on the record. The title track starts with like 30 seconds of silence and then some very brutal death metal blast out to shock you. It has a very low fi production and strange feeling to it as it pummels you. The mid-section is totally mad with lots of tortured screams. Infamy has a more melodic start but then hits the road at breakneck speed. The end is totally crazy with some psychedelic guitar madness. Wow.. Crazy stuff. Transcending starts off side B with some solo drums before the heavy stuff kicks in. This is also some intense stuff with the vocals mixed more in the back and some spoken words as the music is generated in waves. Bloodstreams is a very short track and returns to the super fast intense death metal of the first track. Burden has a crazy guitar sound to start things off and then a deep bass starts a kind of hypnotic groove as it slowly gets more and more psyched out and intense. Crazy record..
Circle- SSEENNSSEESS (Full Contact Records KRYPT-052)
Circle are back with a new live record, featuring 4 tracks recorded live on Nov 22nd, 2013 as part of the Mika Taanila art exhibition in Helsinki. Kudos starts slow and building with a very beautiful melodic thread and keyboard line. Slowly the lead guitar starts to play and then Mika kicks in with some really unique Finnish vocals. He is singing in a bit different style than normal Circle. The keyboards play a major part in this 15mins song that slowly builds with short keyboard and guitar solo sections interspersed between the singing. It makes a few dramatic changes at several points into an almost jazz like theme. Radiant is the next piece on Side A and nearly 9 mins long. It has a melodic repetitive groove to start but then it sort of evolves into as the operatic vocal kicks in. Again, the keyboard is playing a major role in the sound on this track, creating the main melody but also padded space at times. This can only be Circle! Flip the record over and there are two 11 min songs starting with the Sleepwalker. It has a slow repeated theme as the guitars noodle, the vocals appear and go away over the course of the track as Mika gives an occasional shout. There is some sort of recorded talking also you hear now and then but maybe it from the audience or the art exhibit? Terminal brings back the intensity with a more heavy metal like riff but 80s Falcon like keyboards in another diverse track with some cool dual psychedelic guitar jamming. This was my favourite track on the record. Pretty cool record..
Black Prism- Satan’s Country 7” (Easyrider Records EZRDR-006)
This is a totally new band for me. I just read a description and thought it sounded cool so I ordered it. The band have a very raw, low fi, nasty sound but play just heavy rock in the Sabbath worship vein. The title track starts off side A is very Black Sabbath inspired (the singing) but the sound is way too low fi and gritty for Sabbath. Cool guitar riff drives the track but sadly no guitar solo at all. Yrtnuog S’natas, is the same song as the A side spelled and played backwards…… what a complete waste that is? I have no interest in listening to this. Overall, I would not recommend this 7”. The band has a cool sound but no solos, and they need some more ideas, clearly.
http://blackprism.bandcamp.com/ http://www.easyriderrecords.com/
Mammatus- Heady Mental (Spiritual Pajamas 012)
The San Francisco bay area band, Mammatus are finally back with a new record after a long break. Each side features 2 tracks related to messing up your brain with intense music. The overall sound production is much cleaner on this record than the past ones. Brain Drain starts things off with a frantic pace and a lot of harmony guitars and is pretty complex at times reminding me of Danava but with more spaced out vocals. Lots of guitar solos with chorus driving this first track. Main Brain brings things down and there are some spacey sounds as the vocals are mixed into the background and quite trippy at times, but they raise the intensity level when it is necessary. A ripping guitar solo is played in the end section and when he kicks in the wah pedal, it brings back the memories of what band we are listening to as the other guitar is making a wall of sound in the background and the drums are pounding. Brainbow is next. I wonder if any of the band are referring to the Brainbow mouse used in neuroscience research? Anyway, this one starts off with a quick pace with the bass line mixed way up front as the driver. The vocals are really trippy as sounds criss cross the soundscape and some synths as well. The guitar takes the lead later with a lot of really cool melodies and fast runs as well. Brain Train is your last trip for this record and starts with a train horn as well before taking off at a fast pace with the bass and guitar lines pushing back and forth in a really cool rhythm. Fans of Danava will dig this record for sure. It gets beautifully spaced out and then goes back to the ripping guitar before coming to a dramatic end. Wow..
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Goat- Live Ballroom Ritual (Rocket Recordings Launch 062)
I quite liked the Goat record and thought I would give this double live album. Goat is a band from the Gothenburg Sweden area. This double live record, recorded at the Electric Ballroom, Camden, London features all the songs from the record and the two from the Dreambuilding 7”/12”. The record starts off with the instrumental Diarabi and while the band stretch it out a bit, that is almost all the jamming you get. The Golden Dawn is next and the guitar does an extended psyched out solo and then back to the main theme. Disco Fever is played very straight up with the hand drumming mixed quite up front as well as the afrobeat like guitar, with the vocals a bit further back in the mix. The guitar solo comes late. Stonegoat is very short and ends the side with another uptempo track and the intense female vocal. Sounds a bit like she is getting tired of screaming already though and it is early in the concert.. Side B features 4 songs starting with Let it Bleed, which is slower and more groovey and features the saxophone. I had never heard this track Dreambuilding and it is a bit more mainstream and dreamy and the vocal is more relaxed and not so much in your face. Cool drumming. The track Run to your Mama kicks up the heat again but I was a bit disappointed they did not do anything interesting in the mid-section, just a simple guitar riff and drumming (maybe there were some special dancers or something going on that we can’t see here..), when it could be some cooler guitar or something. Goathead ends the side with another quick track but with a cool wah solo at the end. Side C starts with a straightup version of Goatman and after some feedback from the end of that track, Goatlord is a very short and leads into the long spaced out instrumental track, Det som aldrig Förandras- Kristallen den fina. Some of this will remind you of the way Hills space out. Side D has the sole track, The Sun and The Moon (6mins). Again, I get the feeling there are a lot of dancers or something going on as they have this killer groove going but the guitar is not really going for it, he is really holding back most of the time.. If you are a fan you will dig this record for sure..
http://www.rocketrecordings.com http://goatsweden.blogspot.dk/
Purson- The Contract 7” (Rise above Records)
This was a limited edition 7” sold at the Rise Above Records 25th anniversary concert in London in December 2013. It features the song The Contract from the bands last studio record and the unreleased song, Blueprints of the Dream. The leftover copies are still available from the Rise Above web store (green vinyl only). The Contract (written by Cunningham) is a sort of beautiful spooky track with a driving bass line and lots of layers of instruments and then a dramatic change and upbeat section and then back to the more spooky stuff with mellotron, strings and then back again. Nice song. Blueprints starts with some organ and bells and then another pretty spooky but lovely track begins and it has a nice fuzzed out guitar for the short solo. If you like the band, this is worth getting… There are still some for sale at the Rise above web site.
Trondheim Calling Live 2014- Jan 30th- Feb 1st
I was invited up to play with a great new Norwegian band called Black Moon Circle, who I just released their debut EP on my Space Rock Productions label, as well as played on. This festival is mainly a showcase for new bands from all music genres and mostly local acts. You get a wristband and then you can go to any of the clubs (10) where the bands are playing in Trondheim. There were a few very cool bands playing like Spider Gawd (features the rhythm section from Motorpsycho) and High Priest of Saturn, but I did not recognize any of the other names. Spider Gawd played two shows but we missed them both due to rehearsing on Friday and them playing just before us at another venue on Saturday. After rehearsal on Friday though Vemund and I went out to see High Priest of Saturn, a local doom band at a club called Blæst. I had seen them before and was hoping to hear some new material and they did play a new song, which I shot a video of called Serpent World. They only had 30mins like all bands so only played 4 tracks. The sound needed to be much more massive and the drummer was just too laid back so when you also have a laid back vocal, it just lacked intensity. It was a bit disappointing considering that I liked the record they made on Svart quite a lot.
The next day I saw part of the band playing before Black Moon Circle and they were called New Brian. They were young kids all dressed up to the max with ties, perfect hair and looks playing 80s like music, something like Wham! It was not for me and the small crowd seem to like it but I just don’t understand the point of doing stuff like this… Ugh..
We hit the stage right at 23 and played 32mins. We opened with Jack’s Cold Sweat, a track that will be on the band’s first full length record later this year. Øyvin (singer and bass player) has been fighting a cold the entire weekend so his vocals were quite harsh at times but he really sang with intensity and gave it his all. We had a nice spaced out section on this track. American Eagle, which is on the EP, was really extended with two different improvised sections and quite different from the record. We really had it together on this track and I had come up with some cool spacey sounds, that are not on the record. Plains, also from the record really let Vemund play some amazing guitar parts as we took the psychedelic space rock to another level. Sound was great on the stage (and also the audience recording). Short, powerful show.. We quickly packed up and headed back to the rehearsal room as we were going to have a studio recording session the next day. It was a great concert. I feel like I have a special musical connection with these guys that I have not had with all the bands I have played with, so early on. Awesome.
Black Moon Circle
http://trondheimcalling.no http://www.facebook.com/blackmooncircle
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A Dying Art – Traditional Japanese Tattoo
March 13, 2009 by Wade Shepard 3 Comments
KYOTO, Japan- It was the apex of spring in Japan: the cherry blossoms were in full bloom and the fierce winter winds had died down to a gentle, welcoming hum. I was on a bus with an acquaintance headed to Kitaoji Dori, a fashionable district in downtown Kyoto. There, I would be formally introduced to the old horimono master, who I hoped would agree to tattoo the entire surface of my back.
My acquaintance’s name was Rosemary, and she reminded me of my father. She was so aloofly dominating that I could not even carry on the slightest conversation with her. She carried her 30 years of life on her face and in her stride; it was obvious that she had dug deep into the depths of life and had come out the other side a touch un-amused.
Rosemary was close with a circle of men who were well-known for being involved with the Yakuza, Japan’s organized crime syndicate. This fact alone shows the power of her character, as it is extremely rare for a foreigner to be trusted in such social spheres—and Rosemary was American. Even more unusual, she had an orange koi tattooed up the entire length of the outside of her thigh, which was done in the traditional tebori (hand-made) style by Hori-Itsu, one of the last surviving horimono (traditional tattoo) artists in Japan. Here, traditional tattoo artists do not advertise on the street, and in order to receive a tattoo from them, it is necessary to secure a formal introduction from someone who is already in their social circle. Rosemary was facilitating this type of introduction for me.
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We got off the crowded bus in front of a giant shopping complex, then walked through a series of canal-lined side allies, sprinkled liberally with sex hotels and other ‘pink’-colored businesses. Rosemary suddenly came to a halt, turned and then walked down a few steps to a windowless steel door. She spoke into a receiver on the wall. There was no sign, nor any other indication that we were at a tattoo parlor. The door automatically unlocked and we entered a dark, grey stairwell, where a young Japanese man escorted us into a room on the right.
Suddenly overwhelmed, I soaked in the scene before me. Ancient wood-block prints of Kuniyoshi hung all over the walls and drawings of large Japanese-style tattoos on tracing paper were taped haphazardly around the room. A Japanese man with a body-suit of tattoos laid upon a bamboo tatami mat while a horimono artist hand-poked ink into the colorful menagerie of tattoos upon his upper thigh. All I could hear was the gentle, “thap, thap, thap” of the needles entering his skin. There were two other clients in the room, both completely tattooed, who were missing fingers and whose faces bore deep scars. They smiled at me. I bowed excessively to everyone and then bowed some more, muttering overly formal greetings in unsteady Japanese.
Rosemary got down to business. She told the master’s head apprentice that it was my wish to have the entire surface of my back tattooed in the traditional Japanese style. The design that I wanted was of the ‘Flower Monk,’ who was one of the main characters of the legendary book, 108 Heroes of the Water Margin. The book, simply called the Suikoden in Japanese, helped to inspire the revolutionary fervor of Japan’s Edo period. The lower castes of Edo society could easily identify with the heroes in the book, who were outlaws that fought against injustice in the name of brotherhood. Subsequently, the book’s images of the rebels became extremely popular as tattoo designs. In fact, tattooing itself was viewed as a revolutionary act.
One of the apprentices formally introduced himself to me, and we sat down to discuss my request. This initial stage of the horimono processes is very volatile, as it is common for artists to decline clients whom they feel may debase the sanctity of their art. To measure the degree of my sincerity, not only in regards to the piece that we were discussing but also to the art and spirit of tattooing, the apprentice asked me many in-depth questions as to why I was interested in having the ‘Flower Monk’ tattooed on me.
“Why you like ‘Flower Monk?,’” the apprentice asked me bluntly. I knew that I had to answer this question carefully, as the acceptance or denial of my tattoo request hung perilously on my reply. “I like the ‘Flower Monk’ because he was bold and rash, yet, deep down, he was also kind and gentle. I like him because he was an imperfect character who, in spite of his personality flaws, was able to let his good heart shine through in the end.” The apprentice then smiled brightly as he presented me with a binder of tattoo designs.
He then pointed out four different drawings rendering the ‘Flower Monk,’ in various poses. I contemplated each drawing carefully; after all, this was no small decision. The tattoo design that I was contemplating would cover my entire back—from the top of my shoulders to the bottom of my buttocks.
As I was choosing between the ‘Flower Monk’ images, I was told that one of them was drawn by Horiyoshi III, who is of great international fame. This drawing conspicuously stood out from rest of my options, as it was finely detailed, realistic, and vastly more modern looking than the other three designs that were based off of the Suikoden’s original wood-block prints. Authentic Japanese tattoos are generally very simple images that can be seen clearly, as they lack unnecessary detail and are constructed with thick, bold lines. The complex drawing by Horiyoshi III did not comply with these traditional standards and was a compelling indication of the direction that Japanese tattooing is heading. Electromagnetic machines are taking precedence over tebori (hand poking), chemical inks over ground sumi, walk-in parlors over intimate and hidden studios. Instead of single pictures that cover a body’s entire surface, Western influenced, free-standing tattoo designs are gaining popularity. Some say that the foundations upon which the art of horimono was built—the attributes that give it its depth, spirit, power and beauty—are being undercut by the flashy, quick and easy methods of the West.
As I held the drawing by Horiyoshi III, I knew that it was heavily influenced by Western tattooing, and did not have the authentic character that I was looking for. I quickly discarded it and chose a drawing from among the traditional options. I wanted to be tattooed with an image that was pure and authentic horimono; I wanted a tattoo that was in the same style as the one the ‘Flower Monk,’ himself, proudly wore upon his back. The apprentice nodded his head as he inspected the image that I choose. “I like this one, too,” he said with a deep smile. I knew that I had made the right decision.
We then set about discussing the particulars of the tattoo. Most often, a client chooses a design from an artist’s collection of drawings- which have been passed down from horimono master to student for hundreds of years- and then minor adaptions are discussed to suit personal tastes and interests. Rarely does a hormino master design a tattoo from scratch for a particular client; rather, nearly all traditional tattoos are based on the collection of time-honored drawings .
I soon found out that there are a plethora of unspoken rules by which the artist governs the creative direction of his art. More than once, the apprentice told me that my request to alter or add to the design simply could not be carried out. His explanations as to why were straightforward and curt. “No, cherry blossoms and maple leaves cannot go in the same tattoo. They are from different seasons,” he said, with a nearly exasperated look on his face. I soon got the feeling that I was making myself look really dumb so I threw my suggestions to the wind and took solace in the fact that I was dealing with time-honored masters of the art, who would create a piece of beauty and depth regardless of my interjections. Besides, in Japan, the tattoo is more the property of the artist than the one onto whose skin it is being etched.
It was at this time that the Master entered the room. Everyone present, including the apprentices, immediately stood and bowed to him in reverence. The master’s name was Tsukasa, an heir in the tattoo lineage of the sensei Hori-Itsu. We exchanged greetings. The mood of the room was a bit tense, as we did not know how I would be received. A foreigner’s presence in a traditional horimono studio is very rare. But the master smiled at my pitiable attempt to speak Japanese, and the suspense of the moment was broken.
Tsukasa’s eyes spoke of a man who knew how to control others. Like many other yakuza, his hair was short and bleached, his skin a well-tanned brown and his face pockmarked with scars. The small finger on his left hand was cut off at the first knuckle.
Tsukasa grabbed my lower left arm, which was covered in Western-style tattoos, and began closely studying each one. In simple English, he asked me questions about their significance, where they were done and by whom. I answered him succinctly, trying hard to suppress my nervousness. Although we were surrounded by many people, I was aware of nobody but my interviewer.
When Tsukasa had satisfactorily concluded the interrogation, he exited with his apprentice into an adjacent room and closed the curtain behind them. For 10 minutes they stood in the little room talking, while I sat on the couch consumed with apprehension. I tried to make small talk with Rosemary, but it was useless; instead, we just smiled at each other and waited for the decision.
Tsukasa and the apprentice emerged from behind the curtain. My heart nearly skipped a beat before the Master told me to take off my clothes so that a stencil could be made. It was a go. They had accepted my request.
After I stripped off my clothing, the apprentice taped a large piece of tracing paper upon my back and drew the outline of my torso from my shoulders to buttocks. I then dressed and returned to the reception room to make the necessary logistical arrangements. I paid a rather large deposit and was told that I would be called in at the appropriate time to view the initial drawings.
The call never came. After three months of anxiously waiting, I contacted Rosemary to find out what was going on. She assured me that she would get down to the bottom of it. Another week quickly passed in which I tried to busy myself with other Japanese related pursuits. I tried to concentrate on Haiku poetry, I made an honest attempt to learn about Zen Buddhism, but I could not stop thinking about getting this tattoo. I was nearly at the point of consumptive mania when Rosemary showed up on my doorstep one morning with sad news.
She told me bluntly that Tsukasa’s liver gave out after forty years of incessant alcohol and drug abuse, and that he would probably never tattoo again. I was momentarily awestruck by this information, as I was not only notified of the eminent death of a man that I had known but also of the end of a great tattoo lineage. Later that day, I hurried down to the studio to confirm this news. I found the apprentice sitting alone in the tattoo parlor that was once bustling and full of life. I asked him about the medical condition of the Master, and he just despondently shrugged his shoulders and gave a weak smile, as he confirmed what Rosmary had told me. He knew that it was coming, everybody did.
In these modern times of glitter and flash, ancient crafts are as impermanent as the old masters who practice them. The traditional art of horimono is dying and, like Tsukasa, it does not look as if it will be saved. Cultures change, people die, and traditions fade away. With the death of each Horimono master, the world comes a little closer to the death of the ancient art of Japanese tattooing.
Writer’s Bio:
Wade P. Shepard has been tramping around this here planet for the past eight years; he has wandered into the outback of Mongolia, lived in a monastery in Tibet, ate a puppy in China, danced with mystics in India, thought he was a gardener in Ireland, and got really lost in Patagonia. He has now run aground in Morocco, where he has finally decided to finish his undergraduate degree with the Friends World Program of Long Island University. Throughout all of this, he has been working diligently on his website, www.VagabondJourney.com where you can go to find more information and stories about Japanese Tattooing.
For more about tattooing around the world go to Vagabond Journey Tattoos or In search of a tattoo in the new Japan
Filed Under: Art and Music, Culture and Society, Disappearing Traditions, Japan, Tattoo Tagged With: horimono, irezumi, Kyoto
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Dave Grohl Voted in an El Mocambo Shirt
The Foo Fighter repped the Toronto venue at the voting booth
While we're all pretty exhausted from waiting around for the days-long American election "night" to end, the calamity south of the border has at least led to some pretty entertaining shenanigans up north in Canada. The latest in a string of "I Voted" posts has been of particular interest to Toronto residents, who recognized some local iconography mashed up into one of Dave Grohl's recent political tweets.
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#Vote 🤘 pic.twitter.com/pfyGUM4mA4
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Maybe we Torontonians should focus on the probability that Grohl's vote didn't aid in re-electing ye olde fashy pumpkin, but it's a way better distraction to hone in on the city's minor role in helping it (maybe) not happen. You can't vote shirtless, right?
The shirt certainly helps to add validity to the rumours about the band's possible appearance at the venue during 2020's CMW that had been circulating this year. Obviously, that never happened because of the coronavirus pandemic, but this also isn't the first time Grohl has worn an ElMo shirt on camera. Maybe the band will hit up the venue sometime? Or maybe Grohl is just a big fan of its recent major reno.
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What happens when all our cemeteries are full?
UK – The business of death has become highly lucrative as the cost of dying rises in cities across the world. So what place is there for tomorrow’s dead – and does new technology offer a better solution? Lack of space and soaring costs are familiar problems for anyone who lives in a city.
High-tech Japanese funeral industry booms
AUSTRALIA – Japan has the oldest population in the world and in the next 50 years it is set to shrink by 40 million, leading to its end-of-life industry booming. Almost all Japanese people get cremated and have their ashes put into family crypts in conventional looking cemeteries.
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Dumfries House Estate and the 'A' Frame
CHURCH WALKING GROUP
For our final walk of the year, 7 of us including Rev. Rona, drove down to Cumnock and parked at the Visions Leisure Centre. We walked alongside the Lugar Water into the Dumfries House Estate. We walked through the Estate including the Lord Bute’s walk which includes a large impressive crucifix erected in memory of the Marchioness of Bute. The path took us round to a magnificent view of the front of the House. We stopped in the grounds for our picnic lunch before continuing along paths among beech and birch with lovely views of the countryside and on to paths which were obviously very successfully reclaimed land above a coal mine.
Shortly the Barony A-Frame towered above us. This was the last pit-head winding gear of its kind in the UK and is now a “B listed” monument. It forms a memorial to four men, Henry Green, George Wade, Thomas Fyvie and John MacNeil whose bodies were never recovered following a collapse of the cage in 1962 but their names are engraved on the ground beneath the A Frame and a memorial stone stands inside the entrance. There are numerous displays around showing the working lives that the miners endured.
We joined the main road to Auchinleck passing by the Egger chipboard plant before re-entering the Estate and passing by the Home Farm where Morrisons ran research on farming efficiency, sustainability , genetics and estimated breeding values. The farm has since been reincorporated back into the day-today management of the Estate. We retraced the path back out of the Estate meandering back to the cars by the Lugar Water.
The Autumn colours of the fauna and foliage were magnificent and it proved a most educational, enjoyable and interesting walk.
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Buffalo Amateur Radio Repeater Association
444.9625MHz
Cole Road Tower Replacement Fundraising Campaign
Posted on June 27, 2018 March 9, 2019 by Doug Alderdice
To the BARRA constituency and amateur radio enthusiasts:
The club has a 100 ft freestanding tower at the Cole Road repeater site. Forty feet of tower collapsed during a winter storm in early 2017. The membership of the club has rallied since this occurrence to rebuild the tower to its former functionality. New antennas and feed lines were placed on the unaffected portion of the remaining tower, replacing the equipment damaged by the afore mentioned storm. New 2 meter and 220 collinear fiberglass stick antennas as well as numerous yagi antennas were replaced. Other critical items were added to the remaining tower as well. Hard line of 7/8 inch and 1/2 inch, their connectors, and several hundred feet of LMR-400 with connectors as well were all replaced on the structure. The tower as now being used, however, is at a fraction of its former radio coverage.
All of these renovations would not have been possible had it not been for the financial support of those donators who gave graciously to the cause. For that, the club and those who use the Cole Road repeaters and tower, thank you.
As benevolent as those donations to the tower are, this enterprise requires more financial assistance. The second part of the tower reconstruction project needs to commence. The former structure needs to be replaced with a new 100-foot tower. All of the afore mentioned equipment purchased for the partial structure is being transferred to the new one. Nothing will be discarded.
Thank you to those club members who made the building permit from the Town of Boston possible. This will allow the club to replace the old tower with a 100-foot similar structure.
As always, the budget is a consideration. Our proposed budget is as follows:
A replacement SSV 5N at the bottom and 1N at the top-used $ 4500.00
Tower base to be placed in concrete $ 747.00
Excavator for the foundation – rented $ 500.00
Concrete, nine yards, delivered, for the base $1425.00
Reinforcing rods and other installation hardware $ 200.00
Installation crane unknown
Labor unknown
This goal can be accomplished, however, only with the help of BARRA members. If all seventy members would possibly consider donating $100 each, we will come close to reaching the goal of the new tower. The club will reimburse members, who donate for this cause, should we not reach our stated goal.
Amateur radio is a hobby that is enjoyed by many hams here in western New York. Ham radio has given so many people enjoyment. Isn’t it time that we gave back to amateur radio?
Thank you for your attention and consideration.
Donations should be mailed directly to:
Or, send a donation via PayPal to buffalobarra@gmail.com (PayPal click-to-pay button coming soon!)
Doug Alderdice, President, BARRA (ka2wft)
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The $60,000 Dog
My Life with Animals
Author: Lauren Slater
A stunning book about the role of animals in our lives, by a popular and acclaimed writer
From the time she is nine years old, Lauren Slater finds in animals a refuge from her troubled life. As she matures, her attraction to animals strengthens and grows more complex and compelling, even as her family is falling to pieces around her. Her bond with animals convinces her that our connections with the furry, the four-legged, the exoskeletoned, or the winged may be just as priceless as our human relationships. The $60,000 Dog is Lauren Slater’s intimate manifesto on the unique, invaluable, and often essential contributions animals make to our lives.
“Readers familiar with Slater’s previous autobiographical works will not be fooled by the idyllic-sounding subtitle of the book. This memoir—at least the first half of it—is an occasionally terrifying account of how the writer’s encounters with animals helped her cope with tumultuous situations.” —Suzanne McNeill, The New York Times Book Review
“Because Slater is willing to take the personal essay to unsettling places and because she is a writer of uncommon, bracing eloquence, the beauty of her work can sometimes blindside her reader. But it’s precisely this wallop that makes her perpetually worth reading.” —Laura Miller, Salon
“Edgy, revelatory, disturbing, and beautifully written…She digs so deep within the stories that she’ll give you vertigo, leaving you breathless from the descent.” —Vicki Constantine Croke, The Boston Globe
“Assumption-busting, gut-wrenching, life-affirming essays about the borderlands where humans and animals intersect.” —Pam Houston, More
“Slater explores the fierce bonds she has formed with various animals…finding that as even those who outfit their Pomeranians in rain boots and parkas well know, what really matters are the emotions these beasts evoke.” —Allison P. Davis, Elle
From Chapter 5
My dog, Lila, is forty pounds packed with muscle and grit. Her hide is as rough as the rind of a cantaloupe, covered with course hair that is nevertheless somehow soft to the touch. She is a dumb dog in the sense that all dogs are dumb, driven by genes and status, she will willingly fight any mammal that threatens her alpha position, and she delights in bones, big greasy bones she can crunch in her curved canines, and then swallow, splinters and all.
My husband disparages Lila, and, to his credit, there is much there to disparage. She lacks the capacity for critical thought. She has deposited in our yard an estimated four hundred pounds of feces during her ten-year tenure with us. Her urine has bleached our green grass so the lawn is now a bright yellow-lime, the same shade as the world seen through a pair of poorly tinted sunglasses, at once glaring and false. Lila farts and howls. Lila sheds and drools. Lila costs us more per year to maintain than does the oil to heat our home. There is her food; her vaccinations; her grooming; the four times yearly palpating of her anal glands; her heartworm medications; her chew toys; her city leash; her second, country retractable leash; her dog bed; the emergency veterinary visits when she gets ill; the sheer time it takes to walk her (my husband estimates my rate at fifty dollars per hour). Picture him, my husband, at night, the children tucked in bed, punching the keys on his calculator. Picture Lila, unsuspecting (and this is why she charms us, is it not), draped across his feet, dreaming of deer and rivers as he figures the cost of her existence meshed with ours. It is cold outside. The air cracks like a pane of glass and sends its shards straight up our noses. He presses = and announces the price he claims is right. Sixty thousand. The cost of Lila’s life. I look out the window. The lawn she’s bleached is covered with a fine film of snow and the sky above is as dark as a blackboard, scrawled with stars and beyond them--what? Six trillion suns. Ancient radiation that still sizzles in our air. Scientists now claim there is more than one universe, but precisely how many more? No one knows. Some things cannot be calculated. I won’t tell my husband this. I love my husband. I love Lila too.
Why I love Lila is not clear. The facts, after all, are the facts. There are, by some estimates, 2 million tons of dog feces deposited annually on American sidewalks and in American parks and lawns. The volume of the collective canine liquid output in this country has been estimated at 4 billion gallons. Dogs are the carriers of more than sixty-five diseases they can pass to their human counterparts. Some of the more well-known ones are rabies, tuberculosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Six hundred and fifty four people died last year in the United States from dog bites, and over thirty thousand were injured enough to require a visit to the emergency room. Seems a no brainer, right? Knowing these facts, you would have to be as dumb as a dog to have a dog in your home.
Now, another small fact. I don’t have one dog. I have two. And if I had a bigger home, I would have three. Maybe even four. Or more. My idea of heaven on earth is to have as many dogs as I do socks, or spoons. All the facts in the world cannot change the final fact in this matter, which is that dogs and I--we get along.
I don’t know why this is. Nor do I know why I so adore dogs while my husband fairly despises them. I have a hunch, though not up to investigation. Still, here it is. Dogs evolved from wolves. The modern-day human evolved from the Cro-Magnon man. A long time ago, so long that even all the dog scat stretched into a single smelly string could not go that far, a few wolf pups crept into a few Cro-Magnon caves and kept some scared families company in a night dense with danger. These wolf pups howled warning when a wildebeest was near. Their multilayered coats emitted continuous waves of warmth. Faster than us on their feet, they became indispensable hunting aides, twisting up in the air and bringing down the deer, teeth sunk into the blood-speckled neck of an animal we feasted on, sharing scraps, breaking bread with these canids whose evolution is all tied up with ours. Eventually, these progenitor pups, perpetually in our presence, grew domesticated, and thus the dawning of the dog. This, understand, is the short, short, short version of what was probably in reality a synergistic push and pull, a unique kind of coevolution that kept on keeping on over spans of thousands and thousands of years.
Sometimes, if I lie very still in the flat part of our field and if, as I do so, I stare up at the spattered sky, I think I can feel those years tumbling me over and down, over and down and back. My guess? I must have descended from those early wolf-welcoming Cro-Magnons, those hairy hunters with the genetic predisposition that allowed them to open doors they didn’t know they had. I must have descended from a line of people, who liked the stink of the wild, smelling it on their palms pressed up to their faces; who knew long before Crick unraveled the chromosome that there was not much difference between our genome and theirs. And these people, per- haps they were lonely and needed the feel of fur in order to salve the skin-stinging openness of the Pliocene plains. Most of all I believe we believed, even back then--a wordless, wild belief--that humans only become beings in relation to the animals with whom we share this planet; the differences defines us and the similarities remind us of some essential primitive cry we keep a clamp on.
The bottom line? Maybe Homo can only be Sapien (wise) when he respects the radical others who populate our blue ball, when he considers their sentient suffering and their planes of knowledge. Literary critic Donna Haraway puts it well when she writes in her book The Companion Species Manifesto, “Dogs, in their historical complexity, matter here. Dogs are not an alibi for other themes; dogs are fleshy material-semiotic presences in the body of techno- science. Dogs are not surrogates for theory; they are not here just to think with. They are here to live with. Partners in the crime of human evolution, they are in the garden from the get-go.” This is all a lot of hog wash, or poodle poop, according to my husband. Jacques Derrida wrote about feeling shame when he saw the face of an animal in part because that face reflected back to him his moral failings as a man amongst men who had trampled the planet past the point of recognition, almost. My husband is a gentle man who cares about this planet. He says sorry to a tree before he cuts it down. He dutifully recycles, patiently sorting our scumbled trash, putting tin in the blue bin, plastics in the pink. He grows exotic mushrooms in our backyard’s shadiest spot, fragrant plants with gilled undersides and suede-soft caps of gray. But when it comes to dogs, my husband feels next to nothing. He has, I think, a kind of canid autism, almost utterly unable to engage in the social play between people and their pooches. His actions and attitude lead me to wonder if his long line is entirely different from mine. While I must be descended from those hairy hunters with genetic pre- dispositions that encouraged them to welcome wolf, my husband, well, he must come from a tribe the genetic constitution of which lead them to either overtly reject the canine or simply fail to hear his knock at their door. Some theorists believe that the reason why the Neanderthals became extinct is because they never took to the pups sniffing the perimeters of their property and thus lost out on all the riches that the human/canine relationship had to offer. As the Cro-Magnon flourished, the Neanderthals--living in an iced-over Europe, in a land of perpetual twilit snow--dwindled down; cold, hunger, scarcity the name of their game. What this may mean: all those “not dog” people, the ones who push away the paws and straighten their skirts after being sniffed, well, they may have one foot in the chromosomally compromised Neanderthal pool, while, on the other hand, those of us who sneak food to Fido, roam with Rover, or insist that the Pekinese is put on the bed each night, well, we may be displaying not idiocy or short-sighted sentimentality, as our critics would call it, but a sign of our superior genetic lineage. It’s possible. But I don’t want to tell my husband this. I’d hate to hurt his feelings.
Despite our different attitudes towards dogs in particular, pets in general (we also have a cat, two hamsters, and I’m planning on hens and horses when we move full time to the country) have not been a subject of sore dispute in our home until recently. In the past, my husband and I have had brief spats about Lila and her brother, Musashi, but nothing that led to a deep and abiding impasse. Now, however, circumstances are starting to change. When I got the dogs they were puppies, and so were we. Twelve years later, I have begun to read the obituaries in the paper. I worry about osteoporosis, and I experience occasional sciatica. My eye- sight is going, the distance still crisp but all that comes close to me fuzzy. Furred. Words warp and melt, slipping sideways on the page. The other day, while admiring my hydrangea in the garden, I could not recall its name. Hydrangea. Hydrangea. Hydrangea. Now I walk around repeating the names of plants to myself, as if words will keep my world intact. Hydrangea. Aster. Sedum. Astilbe.
My husband, a deeply private person, has his own assortment of worries, aches, and pains. Two years or so ago his arms started to hurt, a flaming deep in the muscles. The pain had made him smaller, solitary, sitting in his study, his wrists gleaming with Bengay. Before he left his job, unable to use a keyboard, he worked sixty, seventy hours a week and got his exercise while commuting in his car, steering with his left hand and lifting a five-pound weight with his right. Then he’d switch sides. He claimed that kept him in cardiovascular shape. I view this claim as the distortions of a desperate man. Forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven. Unemployed, now; cornered and chronic. He has a beautiful bald spot on his head, a perfect cream-colored circle haloed by red hair. He knows enough not to try a comb-over. Our children see his bald spot as a toy. Our son races his cars around and around its circumference. Our daughter draws on it: Two eyes. A heart. Enough, he says. Enough. As for our dogs, our aging reflects theirs or theirs ours. Musashi, the elder of our canines, appears blessed with youthful genes, his only sign a whitening of the whiskers. But Lila, like me, is going gray all over, her urine mysteriously tinged with pus and blood, her hips eroding, clumps of fur falling from her hide, her skin beneath raw red and scaly.
Chapter 1: The Egg
Chapter 2: Sugaring the Bit
Chapter 3: Old Homes
Chapter 4: The Swan with a Broken Beak
Chapter 5: The Sixty Thousand-Dollar Dog
Chapter 6: The Death of a Wasp
Chapter 7: Bat Dreams
Click here to read a recent article by Lauren Slater in the New York Times Magazine
Click here to read an interview with Slater with Powell's
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the milliner.
Few things are worth fighting for. The things you choose to stand up for tell you a lot about your character. I believe this dream tells me everything I need to know about the person I’ve become.
I’ve already moved to New York and worked at Arth for a few years. I’m beginning resent the fact that I can’t afford to move back home and visit the people I want to see. Frustrated for digging myself further and further into such a deep rut, but never making an effort to change; I repeat the same routines and trace the same steps daily.
Without fail, I take the exact route to and from work everyday and past by the same milliner in the window of his own hat shop. Every time I past, he’s always behind that window busying himself and fixing a different hat.
He gets up for work earlier and stays far later than I would ever be willing, and this I’m constantly reminded of twice, daily.
This milliner has been in his shop for over 60 years. Directly above his hat shop rests his apartment which he probably shares with his cat. This man has never left this situation he’s grown so fond of. For over 60 years, no one knows his first name; everyone refers to him as the Hat Man.
The Hat Man is a wafer-thin, fragile, silver-haired widowed man who has aged comfortably wearing his uniform daily; a dark grey cured felt fedora with a thin black band, white oxford shirt with the sleeves rolled up, charcoal pleated slacks, and a sturdy pair of black leather wingtips. Strictly shades of grey.
I left work early one night when I noticed a young slender man turn my corner. “It’s okay, I can share a sidewalk”, I tell myself as I slow down my pace to distance away from him.
The heels of this young man’s boots hit the pavement so violently; I can hear him undoubtedly from a block away. His head held steady as he walked with a purpose, both his hands buried deep into his leather jacket. He had to be somewhere, and from the looks of it, he could not afford to waste a single moment.
The young man makes a sharp turn into the Hat Man’s shop, which I found strange because why would someone with so much product in their hair want anything to do with hats? In any case, he turns into the Hat Man’s shop and as I’m approaching slowly, the young man rushes out. The Hat Man follows closely from behind.
“Please stop!”, the Hat Man begs.
The young man turns around and looks him directly in the eye for a moment, and as if he couldn’t finish a thought, he turns right around and continues walking.
The Hat Man is now frantic as he strives to catch up, takes off his grey fedora as a sign of desperation and presses it against his chest. He reaches out at the young man and touches his shoulder.
“Please, that’s all I’ve got. You’re taking everything”, he pleads once more.
By this point, the young man is aggravated so he turns around, pulls his right hand out of his jacket and draws a gun. He pulls one at our beloved Hat Man.
This I watch, with no one else around. I watch as the bullet leaves the barrel of the young man’s gun and drives towards the Hat Man. I also watch as the bullet bounces off the Hat Man’s fedora and forces it’s way right back to the young man and pierces him a touch below his neck.
I watch as the young man drops his gun and dies instantly, leaving the Hat Man standing there perplexed. The cops immediately show up, and from the scene presented in front of them, they arrest the Hat Man and take him away from this shop and home; far, far away from his element.
I stood there and didn’t say a thing.
This says a lot about my character.
Whoa. Put these stories in a book. I would read it.
thegirlwithflaxseedhair said...
whooa.. is this trrruuee?
eee so good<3
I hope this is not true...and how did it bounced off the fedora unless there is some source of hard/metal to enable that.
It's only a dream guys.
Summer said...
One name kept coming to mind the more I was drawn in. Murakami. He is one of my favorite authors. Something I like in his stories, you do in yours. Mysterious characters. You describe the physical features and routines this character might have, leaving you with a curiosity of what this person is like in more dept. I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself correctly, but yeah. Like I said before...Book? Or more short stories?
Naw, it was all a dream. BUT I do love Murakami.
Caroline Ha said...
LOL @ anonymous!
"how did it bounced off the fedora unless there is some source of hard/metal to enable that."
...that's why it's a dream, you fucking moron!
I always look forward to reading your writings. I hope one of these day, you'll be a famous writer (if that is what you're aiming for, and if not, you should!!) and I get to say, I follow this writer since before!!
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Yes on I-1631
Support clean air, clean energy and healthier communities.
The work of protecting people and the planet is a roller coaster of wins and losses. Lately, we are playing a lot of defense against local, state and national groups seeking to undo decades of social and environmental progress. Washington voters will soon have an opportunity to stand up for the health of our communities, economy and climate. Will you join us in our endeavor to create a cleaner future for Washington, building healthier communities for everyone in our state?
Northwest Washington has seen the consequences of a changing climate: Last summer, wildfire smoke choked the region, while salmon died in shallowing rivers. Even so, our state’s legislature failed to pass meaningful climate legislation this year. As the federal government turns its back on the reality of climate change, the real-life consequences jeopardize the health of people and the economy.
That’s why the people of Washington are moving forward with Initiative 1631, the Protect Washington Act. This initiative will create living-wage jobs by investing in clean energy, healthy forests and clean water. With funds from a fee paid by the state’s largest polluters, we can increase the resiliency of our communities to the impacts of climate change.
For decades, corporate polluters have put profits over people while dirtying our land, air and water. Many of us already contribute to cleaning up and preventing pollution. I-1631 gives us the tools to do the job right, getting the largest polluters to fund investments in clean energy infrastructure like wind and solar, and creating lasting, well-paying, local jobs.
I-1631 is backed by diverse constituencies across the state representing working families, communities of color, environmental and clean energy advocates, health professionals, businesses, and faith organizations all committed to building our state’s economy, improving the health of our residents and leading the fight against climate change. We came together to find solutions that work for all of us—especially those from the most impacted communities, who have historically been excluded from decisions about the environment and economy, Farmworkers, labor organizers, environmental advocates, health professionals, and more came together around the same table to create a policy that reflects our shared values. Every single person wants a healthy environment and a vibrant economy that works for everyone.
Here in Whatcom County, local backers of this policy include Community to Community, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, the NW Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO), Riveters Collective, 350 Bellingham, Stand.earth, Safeguard the Southfork, Jobs with Justice, and Mt Baker Group Sierra Club.
Climate change is happening now. We can’t wait for action any longer. Yet we must ensure that solutions to climate change are fair and equitable. In crafting this initiative, our coalition put justice and equity at the forefront. That means listening to the voices of those who are impacted and ensuring indigenous rights and tribal sovereignty are respected and upheld, all while ensuring protections for workers in all industries—from refineries to farms.
What will I-1631 invest in? Expanding renewable power generation from wind and solar. Restoring and protecting water sources, estuaries, fisheries, and marine shorelines, reducing flood risk, improving infrastructure for treating stormwater, preparing for sea-level rise and addressing ocean acidification. We’ll improve forest health and enhance preparedness for wildfires. Dedicated funds will assist low-income residents to ensure affordable energy, and support workers that may be displaced by the transition from fossil fuels to energy independence. All this means thousands of family-wage jobs across our state. Our policy also ensures public oversight and accountability for making good investments.
Sovereign indigenous nations have also expressed meaningful support for this initiative. Funds will aid climate adaptation and clean energy for native communities, and tribal governments must be consulted on projects directly impacting their land and resources.
Washingtonians have never been afraid to lead or create something new. Through people’s ballot initiatives, Washington voters have forged the way for other states on numerous policies. Now, we’re setting the course for equitable climate policy in the United States. That’s why we need your help to qualify for the ballot and to win in November.
You can join our movement today! To learn more about our policy, the coalition, or to join our campaign, visit: yeson1631.org
Attend Bellingham’s campaign kickoff at 6:30pm April 19 at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (1207 Ellsworth St.) to get involved in signature gathering.
Rosalinda Guillen is executive director of Community to Community Development; Ander Russell is the Clean Water program manager for RE Sources for Sustainable Communities
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The Daily Parker
Politics, Weather, Photography, and the Dog
Mama took it away after all
Friday, 31 December 2010 14:33:56 CST David-Braverman Entertainment (0)
The last Kodachrome processing machine is gone:
In the last weeks, dozens of visitors and thousands of overnight packages have raced [to Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas], transforming this small prairie-bound city not far from the Oklahoma border for a brief time into a center of nostalgia for the days when photographs appeared not in the sterile frame of a computer screen or in a pack of flimsy prints from the local drugstore but in the warm glow of a projector pulling an image from a carousel of vivid slides.
In the end, it was determined that a roll belonging to Dwayne Steinle, the owner, would be last. It took three tries to find a camera that worked. And over the course of the week he fired off shots of his house, his family and downtown Parsons. The last frame is already planned for Thursday, a picture of all the employees standing in front of Dwayne’s wearing shirts with the epitaph: "The best slide and movie film in history is now officially retired. Kodachrome: 1935-2010."
I used the film for close to 90% of my color work from 1983 to 2000, when I took my last Kodachrome photo at Lake Sacandaga, N.Y. Red always made the most striking Kodachrome slides; I don't know if a scanner exists that can duplicate it:
Boston Public Garden, 10 May 1986
But wow, was that film hard to use. It had an exposure latitude of about 1 stop, meaning you had to hit the exposure dead on to get a usable shot. A slight underexposure bias seemed to yield richer colors, so I always set my meter down a third of a stop (to ASA 80 when using Kodachrome 64, for example). And it was slow, so slow; until Kodachrome 200 came down in price in 1986, I used 64 (or even 25) most of the time. As side effect, it forced wider apertures to use reasonable shutter speeds in anything but bright sunlight. And at about 60c per shot (including developing), it led to more considered shooting. I probably wouldn't have gotten this using a digital camera or a faster film, for example:
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, Burlington, Vt., 26 September 1992
I miss Kodachrome, but not enough to keep shooting with it. I just hope the dyes last for another 50 years or so, and that sometime before they fade too much I find a scanner that can capture their true colors.
Rolle, Switzerland, 17 June 1992
Facebook cross-posting
Friday, 31 December 2010 09:15:29 CST David-Braverman Work (0)
I keep getting asked about my Facebook notes: why did I leave out the punchline? Where's the rest of the post? Why do you post three at once at odd hours?
The simple explanation: I post on my blog, The Daily Parker, throughout the day; Facebook reads the blog's RSS feed at 8-hour intervals; and the RSS Feed only has the article blurb. Facebook also rearranges embedded links and photos, so sometimes pictures attached to blog entries just seem to vanish.
Fascinating, no?
Health Care and the Commerce Clause
Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:20:46 CST David-Braverman Politics (0)
Constitution scholar and writer Garrett Epps lays out the case for the constitutionality of requiring Americans to "maintain a minimum level of health insurance." Well, for starters, it doesn't:
This snappy apothegm is the logical equivalent of saying that the Defense Appropriations Act "requires that every United States citizen, other than those who leave the country, engage in accepting a minimum level of protection by the United States military." The provisions of the Health Care Act provide a benefit. The majority of Americans, who already have health coverage (and seem, by and large, to regard this coverage as worth bargaining for) will simply see improvements in their existing health care benefits, such as an end to lifetime benefit limits and the right to include older adult children on their policies. A significant number of others who are currently uninsured will become eligible for government-funded health insurance.
There will remain a small but significant number of Americans who can afford health care insurance but choose not to buy it. But contrary to the sound bite above, even they are not required to "maintain a minimum level of health insurance." If they wish to keep their uninsured status, they may do so by paying an addition to their income tax bills--ranging from as little as $695 for an individual taxpayer to $2085 for a family of six or more. The claim that the government is "forcing individuals to buy a commercial product" is worse than spin; it is simply false.
He sums up:
The doctrine under which the Act is being assailed quite simply constitutes a threat to most of the significant advances in federal law of the past 100 years: federal pension programs, national wildernesses and parks, consumer protection, environmental regulation, and most particularly statutory guarantees of civil rights.
It's not coincidental that right now Ron Paul laments the Civil Rights Act and that Haley Barbour speaks fondly the segregated South, that anti-immigrant extremists target birthright citizenship, or that right-wingers seek to wreck the Constitution with an old-South style amendment letting states repeal federal laws. A decision to void the Act would furnish a powerful precedent for those who would "restore" a libertarian dreamland that never existed, and that for most of us would quickly become a nightmare.
The next year will be interesting. The U.S. might become a 21st-Century nation. Or we might remain the only developed country without this basic protection.
148 years too late
Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:47:23 CST David-Braverman General, Work (0)
Via Bruce Schneier, a retired CIA codebreaker recently decoded a message sent to Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton in July 1863:
The encrypted, 6-line message was dated July 4, 1863, the date of Pemberton's surrender to Union forces led by Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Siege of Vicksburg in what historians say was a turning point midway into the Civil War.
The message is from a Confederate commander on the west side of the Mississippi River across from Pemberton.
"He's saying, 'I can't help you. I have no troops, I have no supplies, I have no way to get over there,'" Museum of the Confederacy collections manager Catherine M. Wright said of the author of the dispiriting message. "It was just another punctuation mark to just how desperate and dire everything was."
That day, 4 July 1863, the Union not only captured Vicksburg but also prevailed at Gettysburg. Historians generally agree the two victories effectively ended any possibility of the Confederacy winning the war, though they would continue to fight for another 20 months.
The full text of the message to Pemberton reads:
"Gen'l Pemberton:
You can expect no help from this side of the river. Let Gen'l Johnston know, if possible, when you can attack the same point on the enemy's lines. Inform me also and I will endeavor to make a diversion. I have sent some caps (explosive devices). I subjoin a despatch from General Johnston."
The last line, Wright said, seems to suggest a separate delivery to Pemberton would be the code to break the message.
The news story has more details about how they found the message, and how they broke the code.
Chicago sunrise chart, 2011
Wednesday, 29 December 2010 13:57:58 CST David-Braverman Weather (0)
Welcome to the semi-annual update of the Chicago sunrise chart. (You can get one for your own location at http://www.wx-now.com/Sunrise/SunriseChart.aspx.)
3 Jan Latest sunrise until Oct. 29th 07:19 16:32 9:13
27 Jan 5pm sunset 07:08 17:00 9:51
5 Feb 7am sunrise 07:00 17:11 10:11
20 Feb 5:30pm sunset 06:40 17:30 10:50
27 Feb 6:30am sunrise 06:29 17:39 11:09
12 Mar Earliest sunrise until Apr. 17th
Earliest sunset until Oct. 26th 06:08 17:54 11:45
13 Mar Daylight savings time begins
Latest sunrise until Oct. 19th
Earliest sunset until Sept. 19th 07:07 18:55 11:48
17 Mar 7am sunrise, 7pm sunset
12-hour day 06:59 19:00 12:00
20 Mar Equinox 18:21 CDT 06:55 19:03 12:08
3 Apr 6:30am sunrise (again) 06:29 19:20 12:50
13 Apr 7:30pm sunset 06:14 19:30 13:15
22 Apr 6am sunrise 06:00 19:40 13:39
11 May 8pm sunset 05:35 20:00 14:25
16 May 5:30am sunrise 05:30 20:05 14:35
15 Jun Earliest sunrise of the year 05:15 20:28 15:13
21 Jun Solstice 12:16 CDT
8:30pm sunset 05:16 20:30 15:14
27 Jun Latest sunset of the year 05:18 20:31 15:12
3 Jul 8:30pm sunset 05:20 20:30 15:09
17 Jul 5:30am sunrise 05:30 20:24 14:53
9 Aug 8pm sunset 05:53 20:00 14:06
17 Aug 6am sunrise 06:00 19:48 13:48
29 Aug 7:30pm sunset 06:13 19:30 13:16
15 Sep 6:30am sunrise 06:30 19:01 12:30
16 Sep 7pm sunset 06:32 18:59 12:27
23 Sep Equinox, 03:05 CDT 06:39 18:49 12:10
26 Sep 12-hour day 06:42 18:42 12:00
3 Oct 6:30pm sunset 06:50 18:30 11:39
13 Oct 7am sunrise 07:01 18:13 11:12
22 Oct 6pm sunset 07:11 17:59 10:48
5 Nov Latest sunrise until 5 Nov 2016
Latest sunset until Feb 29th 07:28 17:40 10:12
6 Nov Standard time returns
6:30am sunrise
Earliest sunrise until Feb 28th 06:29 16:39 10:10
16 Nov 4:30pm sunset 06:41 16:30 9:47
2 Dec 7am sunrise 07:00 16:21 9:20
8 Dec Earliest sunset of the year 07:06 16:20 9:14
21 Dec Solstice, 23:30 CST 07:15 16:23 9:08
You can get sunrise information for your location at wx-now.com.
What I *should* have asked Santa for
Wednesday, 29 December 2010 11:11:19 CST David-Braverman Work (0)
Throughout my career in software development, I have spent many, many hours in meetings. Endless meetings. Soul-sucking meetings. Insurance companies are the worst, and they hire lots of developers, which just increases the aggregate lifetime meeting time-suck of the average developer.
It's fun to figure out after the meeting not only how much time just disappeared from the universe, but also how much it cost. So I am overjoyed to discover that Scott Adams sells this on his website:
When meetings are running nearly four hours long and your coworkers are sharing tales of their weekend escapades or botched nose jobs and you'd rather just be sitting at your cube getting some actual work done, motivate people to stay on task with TIM...Time Is Money calculator.
I'm not alone in wanting this. The item is on backorder until—I am not making this up—groundhog day.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Tuesday, 28 December 2010 10:06:17 CST David-Braverman Weather (0)
Reader MB sent some art from Murphy, N.C.:
[I] saw your request for winter wonderland pictures on Facebook and thought you may be interested to see what Murphy, N.C., looked like during the past few days. We were supposed to get a max of 8 cm on the 25th according to initial reports, but I think the total was closer to 40 cm as of 10am [Monday] morning when the sun finally decided to show its face.
Meanwhile, the rest of the East Coast continues to dig out. Today's snow pack map from NOAA's snow center still shows pretty heavy coverage from Maine to the Carolinas:
New bits up at Weather Now
Monday, 27 December 2010 16:23:03 CST David-Braverman Work, Weather (0)
I've just pushed out an interim build of the Inner Drive Technology demonstration project, Weather Now. In addition to fixing a couple of annoying bugs, I added a significant new feature. The weather lists on the home page now can show whatever text I want for the weather station names. Before, it could only show their official designations, which made the lists harder to use.
You can see how useful this is immediately. The list of NFL football games now shows you what game the weather goes with. Also, I added arbitrary sort ordering and station begin/end times, so the lists you see today may not be the same as the lists you see tomorrow.
These features take the site a half-step closer to the next major release, due at the end of January, that will allow you—yes, you—to set up your own lists. That feature set will take a while to develop, which explains why I wanted to get this half-point release out first.
Didn't like your gifts? Amazon has a patent for that
Monday, 27 December 2010 12:28:24 CST David-Braverman General, Work (0)
I'm not entirely sure what I think of this:
Amazon is working on a solution that could revolutionize digital gift buying. The online retailer has quietly patented a way for people to return gifts before they receive them, and the patent documents even mention poor Aunt Mildred. Amazon's innovation, not ready for this Christmas season, includes an option to "Convert all gifts from Aunt Mildred," the patent says. "For example, the user may specify such a rule because the user believes that this potential sender has different tastes than the user." In other words, the consumer could keep an online list of lousy gift-givers whose choices would be vetted before anything ships.
The proposal has also brought into focus a very costly part of the e-retailing business model: Up to 30 percent of purchases are returned, and the cost of getting rejected gifts back across the country and onto shelves has online retailers scrambling for ways to reduce these expenses.
Amazon's patent is 12 pages long, with numerous diagrams, including a "Gift Conversion Rules Wizard" that shows how a user could select rules such as, "No clothes with wool." The document makes for curious reading, reducing the art of gift giving to the dry language of patentry.
So, someone buys you a gift through Amazon, who in turn send you an email warning you about the gift, so you can take the money the other person paid and apply it to something you would prefer. That seems kind of...rude, don't you think?
On the other hand, it might cut economic deadweight loss around the holidays....
The patent is number 7,831,439.
Always look on the bright side of airports
Monday, 27 December 2010 09:41:52 CST David-Braverman Travel (0)
The Economist's Anthony Gardner didn't mind getting stranded:
Sure, there were dark moments. The first came with the news that our delayed flight from Cairo to Heathrow was being diverted to Brussels; the second, when we learnt that all the airport hotels were full. But thereafter things began to look up. Though it was after midnight by the time Egyptair despatched us to the Hotel Le Plaza in the city centre, its elegant lobby told us that we had landed firmly on our feet.
Brussels—a city I had never previously had a chance to explore—looked magical through a veil of snowflakes. The scene at the Grande Place could not have been more Christmassy: a large, brightly-lit tree; a life-size crib with real sheep; stalls selling Glühwein and waffles. As we feasted on moules et frites in a cosy restaurant with an open fire, our ordeal felt like a holiday at someone else’s expense.
In fairness, one should note that Brussels' city center and Newark's airport have different, ah, characteristics. A year ago I had a 13-hour delay at Heathrow—but I also had an Oyster Card. Never mind my winter coat was in checked baggage; I popped out of the Tube at Piccadilly, bought a warm-enough jacket for £20, and spent the day wandering London.
This demonstrates a problem with most American airports: they aren't near anything. We joke about Newark, but at least from there you can catch a commuter train straight to Penn Station in midtown Manhattan. If you're stuck at LaGuardia or Kennedy, you're really stuck, unless you're happy taking a bus for an hour or taking the A train through some "colorful" parts of New York.
Chicago, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, and to some extent Philadelphia have relatively easy access from the airport to the interesting parts. Stuck at Mid-Continent International? Maybe you find yourself at Hartsfield for a few hours? Enjoy. At least you're not in Denver International, an hour away from the city by car, without any reasonable transit options.
So, sure, Mr Gardner had a delightful time stranded in Brussels. Who wouldn't, in his circumstances? I only hope that my friends who can't get home today and can't leave the airport either manage to stay sane.
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Avalon, Rock Tech to build lithium process facility in Ontario
by MINING.COM Staff
Battery electric vehicles
Avalon Advanced Materials Inc
Rock Tech Lithium
Avalon Advanced Materials and Rock Tech Lithium announced that they have plans to collaborate on the development of a lithium battery materials process facility in Thunder Bay, Ont.
The facility would be designed to accept lithium mineral concentrates from Avalon’s Separation Rapids lithium project and Rock Tech’s Georgia Lake lithium project, as well as potentially other emerging new lithium mining operations in northern Ontario. The plan is to produce lithium sulphate, a precursor chemical for lithium-ion batteries.
In a media statement, the companies said that following the announcement, they will design a process flowsheet that allows for the treatment of petalite, spodumene and potentially other lithium mineral concentrates. The product of the flowsheet will be lithium sulphate, which can either be shipped off-site or locally upgraded to lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
Later on, they will conduct a piloting campaign using the flowsheet to prove the scalability of the process to industrial scale and feasibility level. Lastly, they plan to identify alternative applications for the byproduct of the process – high-purity aluminum silicate – in other industries such as the cement or ceramics industry.
“Northern Ontario has the potential to become a major producer of lithium-ion battery materials, including cobalt, nickel, graphite and manganese, and Thunder Bay is an ideal central location to serve as a hub for establishing these supply chains,” Avalon’s president and CEO, Don Bubar, said in the media brief. “Once established they can be the catalyst for the creation of a lithium-ion battery manufacturing business in Ontario, along with electric vehicle manufacturing, as recently announced by Premier [Doug] Ford.”
This story originally appeared on www.MINING.com.
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