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Kool Kat of the Week: A Man of Style and Song: New Orleans Jon Serves Up a Swingin’ Soundtrack at Meehan’s Roaring ’20s Gourmet Dinner
Posted on: Jul 30th, 2013 By: Anya99
Johnny Pines, aka New Orleans Jon. Photo credit: No Rest Photography.
Johnny Pine, aka New Orleans Jon, has a well-earned reputation as the swankiest burlesque MC in Atlanta from his perfect pompadour to his after-eight moustache and signature soul patch, his Rat Pack-ready suits, shiny ties and dress shoes, not to mention a penchant for attracting a bevy of vintage vixens wherever he wanders. He’s also an ace crooner of swing, lounge and jazz, and it’s that persona that he’ll be showing off this Thursday Aug. 1 at the latest in Meehan’s Public House Sandy Springs‘ themed supper clubs, a Roaring ’20s Gourmet Dinner. (See our ATLRetro feature on Chef Val Domingo’s Elvis Beer Dinner here.)
New Orleans Jon began his burlesque career as the original MC for the now-retired Big City Burlesque & Vaudeville and also hosted one of the first cabaret shows at DragonCon. Recently, he has had two sold-out solo performances in Alpharetta and also hosted and performed at AnachroCon in February and MC’d the Free Range Burlesque Show at The Southern Fried Burlesque Fest in March. He also serves as MC and part of the Directorship of the vintage performance collaboration known as Musee du Coeur, but you’re likely to find him crooning and cocktailing at just about any burlesque, swing, vintage, cosplay or rockabilly event in Atlanta.
In other words, New Orleans Jon is just about the bee’s knees when it comes to Kool Kats in this city, so ATLRetro was delighted to have the opportunity to find out more about his lounge legacy, as well as his plans for the Roaring ’20s Gourmet Dinner and beyond.
ATLRetro: How did you get the name New Orleans Jon?
Johnny Pines: I got the name New Orleans Jon in 1999 when I moved to Atlanta after I graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans. New friends would say, “Jon’s coming out with us tonight!” “Jon who?” “Ya know, New Orleans Jon.” The name stuck and has been my stage name ever since. I thought about changing it, but that’s how Atlanta knows me.
Can you share any secrets about maintaining the perfect pompadour?
My hair is one of my best trademarks. They aren’t any secrets about maintaining it; I roll out of bed looking like this. Don’t everybody?
The flirty side of New Orleans Jon with Colette Alesi, aka Dahlia Danger. Photo credit: Dim Horizon Studio.
You are certainly a man of Retro style. Where do you shop, and what’s your favorite find or accessory?
My favorite retro find is my signature yellow smoking jacket. When I really wanna knock ’em dead that’s what I wear. I don’t really ever share with people where I find my duds, but lately my best connection has been Nathaniel Self. He knows my style and size, and when he finds something he knows I’d like he gets it for me. You can always find him alongside Jezebel Blue. She makes all of my custom accessories.
How did you get into MCing burlesque and what’s your favorite show as an MC so far and why?
I’ve been a retro/swing kid since 1997. I got into emceeing and burlesque when I was put in touch with the original production of Big City Burlesque through Evil Sarah. The director and I met, and he showed me a drawing of the character he wanted me to play, and I then showed him a picture of me at a club. And although he and I had never met, the drawing and I matched to a T. I got the gig, and 12 years later I’m still doing my thing.
Johnny Pines, aka New Orleans Jon. Photo credit: No Rest Photography
My favorite show so far is the Free Range Burlesque Show at this year’s Southern Fried Burlesque Fest. I got to share the stage with some true legends and amazing performers from all over the country and worldwide. I was humbled and honored to have been asked to do the show, and it was the best performance I ever gave as an MC. That whole weekend was career-changing for me.
What’s the secret origin story behind Musee du Coeur, and what’s its unique niche in the world of Atlanta burlesque?
Musee du Coeur is a collaborative project in which each performer eats, sleeps and breathes our craft and history. We aren’t just a burlesque troupe. We are more of a vintage performance group. We’ve carved out our own niche because we have our hands in all types of art. We are musicians, artists, seamstresses, flyers, magicians, dances, singers, carnies, historians and the list goes on and on. We all bring something different to the group.
You seem to have a real joie de vivre and sense of adventure. What’s the craziest adventure you’ve had in the world of burlesque?
The craziest adventure I’ve had in the world of burlesque took place at this year’s Southern Fried Burlesque Fest. After Saturday night’s show, the reigning King and Queen of American Burlesque From The Burlesque Hall of Fame, THE Canadian Burlesque Legend, we’ll call her Judy, a certain journalist we know, and I went to a gentlemen’s club together. We had a blast! The dancers could get enough of Judy. It was a dream come true for me!
The Roaring ‘20s gourmet dinner at Meehan’s Thursday night sure looks delicious. Meehan’s has done a bunch of rock-themed dinners, too. Were you at all involved with the menu planning, and what can diners expect when it comes to the total experience – food, ambiance and entertainment?
The planning of the menu was a collaboration between Chef Brian O’Rourke [of Meehan’s Public House Vinings] and Chef Val Domingo [of Meehan’s Public House Sandy Springs]. The food at Meehan’s surpasses any expectations you may have of eating at a pub of any kind. The atmosphere is quite quaint and comfortable with an amazing staff. Since this theme is so different from what they’ve done in the past, they asked me to do my stuff. I’m what’s called a crooner. I sing Jazz Standards dating from the 1920s to the 1950s. I cover them all. Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and so many more. I truly LOVE what I do. I hope the guests enjoy it as much as I do.
The invitation says reservations are required. Is there any standing room, too, to hear you perform?
Reservations are truly recommended and spaces are almost filled. I strongly suggest that people call ahead for availability.
Is it true you’ve also launched a burlesque ladies night out on Tuesdays? What’s that about?
The ladies night out isn’t really a burlesque event. Anyone can come out. It’s at Atlantic Seafood Co. in Alpharetta. They do a ladies night starting at 4 p.m. featuring me and my buddy Monroe behind the bar, and live music, by George Martini, starts at 7:30.
You’re always so busy hosting and crooning. What’s next for New Orleans Jon?
After The show at Mehann’s, I begin preparing for DragonCon here in Atlanta. I’m MCing the Pool Side Pin-Up Party at the Sheraton Atlanta, Friday August 30, and I’m performing in The Glamour Geek Review the following Saturday night!
Meehan’s Roaring ’20s Gourmet Dinner is a mouth-watering $50 five-course price fixe dinner featuring pairings with New Holland Brewing and vintage-inspired cocktails.Call (404)-843-8058 to reserve your spot. For more information, including the night’s full menu, visit Meehan’s Public House Sandy Springs Website or the Facebook event page.
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Kiss – “The Casablanca Singles 1974 – 1992”
By Shan Siva December 29, 2012 December 29, 2012 Reviews
Kiss – “The Casablanca Singles 1974 – 1992” (Mercury / Casablanca / UMC)
I guess there are few bands in rock history that come as extravagant as Kiss. From their live show to their image to lifestyle they were virtually a household name who indelibly touched the lives of millions of teenagers who grew up in the 70s – and still continue to be a top act to this day! Back in the days of 45 rpm vinyl they released a total of 29 singles for their label, Casablanca that were in a breathtaking range of edits and mixes, some for the public while others were solely for radio airplay or promo. Many of these versions did not make it onto their albums and so became much sought after as collectors items. Well, Kiss have now tracked down and assembled all of these singles and still true to their merchandising reputation have packaged it all in a beautiful die-cut shadow box with a limited edition, etched silver metal plate and ribbon-pull magnetic closure, custom KISS 45s box with 26 collectible picture sleeves from original single releases around the world, including Japan, Germany, Holland, Spain and Britain. Also included is a booklet which tracks the genesis and chart history of each single represented in the package and four individual KISS masks! From the German version of ‘Calling Dr Love’ to the Japanese ‘Shout It Out Loud’ to the Swedish ‘Love Gun’ this is true nostalgia from the tacky memorabilia to the original mixes. Naturally released in a limited edition, this will undoubtedly be lapped up despite the price by anyone ranging from Kiss fans to collectors thus perpetuating the legend known as Kiss.
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Hamidzai, Muhammad Naeem Lalai Lali
Name Hamidzai, Muhammad Naeem Lalai Lali
Function/Grade Ex Wolesi Jirga Member
Muhammad Naiem Lalay Hamidzai
Security Manager for Gul Agha Shirzai (2003-2008)
Afghan Border Police Commander Spin Boldak, Rapid Reaction Force (2008-2009)
Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) Kandahar (2009-2010)
Wolesi Jirga Member 2010 MP MNA Kandahar
Muhammad Naeem Lalai Hamidzai Hameedzai Mohammad Naim Mohammad Naeem Lalai Hameedzai, son of Anar Gul, was born 1977 in Toba Asakzai, Kandahar Province and was former commander from Kandahar Province. Hamidzai graduated from Ghazi Abdullah Khan High School in Kandahar in 1994.
Lalai 2010 was elected Member of Parliament representing Kandahar in the Wolesi Jirga. A native of Kandahar Lali is an Pashtun from the Hamidzai branch of the Achakzai tribe.
Before Lalai was a sub-commander in the Afghan Border Police (ABP) headquartered in Spin Boldak and commanded by Abdul Raziq. Raziq’s ABP force developed a reputation for efficiency and demonstrated a capability for keeping Spin Boldak secure and relatively free from Taliban infiltration. Lalai’s relationship with Raziq soured in the late-2000s, and in 2008 Lalai left the ABP. According to Lalai, his departure of the force came about because of his “disgust” with the corruption in Raziq’s force. Other members of the ABP claimed that the falling-out between the two men was caused by a rivalry over money and power.
After leaving the ABP Lalai went to Kabul, where he joined the recently established Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) and requested to be stationed in Kandahar. Once back in the province he began an investigation into Raziq’s corruption. In September 2008 Lalai was nearly killed in a assassination attempt which he publically blamed on Raziq.
According to Lalai, Raziq used his influence with important player in Kabul and Assadullah Waffa, the former governor of Helmand to have Lalai removed from his post in Kandahar and returned to Kabul. While in the capital city Lalai continued his campaign against Raziq, bringing his evidence against the Spin Boldak commander to the attention of his superiors in the CNPA and their Western advisors.
Lalai ran as a candidate in the 2010 Wolesi Jirga elections. During his campaign he was supported by Gul Agha Sherzai a regional strongman and former governor of Kandahar. Lalai’s campaign posters pictured the two men embracing. Lalai narrowly survived a second attempt on his life during the campaign when a motorcycle bomb exploded near his house. Lalai came in second in the election, collecting 5,435 votes.
Commission (2012): Internal Affairs Hamidzai heads the Internal Relations Committee of the Coalition for the Support of the Rule of Law.
Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal on 20130513 revealed the names of the lawmakers he had earlier accused of smuggling and making illegal demands on the government. Speaking in the Wolesi Jirga, Zakhilwal said MP from Kandahar Hameedzai Lalai had demanded licence plates for 1,970 right-hand drive vehicles. There is a ban of number plates for such vehicles under a cabinet decision. The minister read out the letter, in which Lalai had asked him to ignore the cabinet decision. The MP allegedly imported alcoholic beverages through Kabul airport, using his parliamentary passport. Zakhilwal also blamed Lalai for threatening airport officials, who objected to the import of alcohol. “Yesterday, Lalai called a customs officer and threatened him with death,” he said, without elaborating. However, Lalai said the minister had leveled the allegations against him because he had not only signed the summons but had also urged his colleagues to do so. (20130514
Kabul’s police chief, Maj. Gen. Hassan Shah Frogh, said that Hamidzai had been drunk and had chased through town after someone he was angry at, and ended up firing into a hotel where his quarry had taken refuge. Then, in a cover-up effort, he fired into the air at his own house a few miles away to make it look as though he were the one who had been attacked, General Frogh said. Hamidzai parried that charge of drunkenness by saying in a Facebook post that a senior policeman at the scene had been drunk, and that the policeman was an armed robber to boot. Soon videos were broadcast of CCTV footage showing Hamidzai staggering around and shooting at the gate of the hotel as his entourage fired automatic weapons into the air and over the walls. Hamidzai insisted that the videos were faked, but the police said they were genuine.(20170319)
A number of MPs in the Wolesi Jirga, Lower House of Parliament, claimed that the first deputy speaker of the house, Humayun Humayun, MP from Khost, and Lalai Hamidzai, an MP from Kandahar, forced their way into the National Archives recently and removed a number of documents.(20171025)
Hamidzai is married and has four children.
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Counterparties: The revolt of prosperity
By Ryan McCarthy
Welcome to the Counterparties email. The sign-up page is here,
What began as a four-person protest over the planned destruction of a small park has turned into a battle for the future of one of the world’s great economic success stories.
Thousands have been arrested in cities across Turkey in protests over the authoritarian bent of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. The spark, at least initially, was urban development: Erdogan’s government had a plan to turn “the last significant green space in the center of Istanbul” — a park with a long history of protest — into a luxury mall and apartments.
Just don’t call this the Arab Spring, Pawel Morski writes. First, unlike many of its neighbors, Turkey’s got a booming middle class, low falling income inequality, and has been the fastest growing OECD country since Erdogan’s government took power in 2003. GDP per capita has tripled under Erdogan. “Having become wealthy in the past decade, the people are now embracing a new attitude toward capitalism,” one expert told Bloomberg Businessweek. “They are telling the government, ‘We do not need shopping malls instead of parks.’”
As Reuters writes, the Taksim Square development “is one of a few huge government projects that include the world’s biggest airport, a $3 billion third bridge across the Bosphorus and a $10 billion shipping canal that would turn half of Istanbul into an island.” Beyond the government’s religious conservativism and its new restrictions on alcohol, Turkey’s populace is bristling at Erdogan’s economic policy. “Istanbul is seen as a place where you earn a living, where you get rich. It is a gold rush,” a professor and lifelong Istanbul resident told the NYT. The urban poor meanwhile, are being paid to leave so that contractors can build gated communities.
Erdogan’s economic successes, the always excellent Dani Rodrik writes, aren’t quite what they seem:
On the economic front, the best that can be said is that his government avoided big mistakes. Growth is based on unsustainable levels of external borrowing, and has not been particularly distinguished by emerging-market standards. Public works have been marked by widespread cronyism.
The protests, Emre Deliveli writes, come at the worst possible time economically. Emerging markets have been crushed lately — and Turkey’s markets tend to do worse when its peers struggle. Turkey, which also is heavily reliant on short-term debt, saw its stock market fall 10.5% on Monday, the biggest drop one-day drop in a decade.
For more, check out Gawker’s solid explainer and Reuters’s Turkey stream . — Ryan McCarthy
Defenestrations
Zynga will lay off 520 employees and shut down its NYC and LA offices – Kara Swisher
China is the biggest beneficiary of the new Iraqi oil boom – NYT
Apple’s going to save $724 million on its particularly well-timed bond sale – Mary Childs
Hot new trend: Dorm-room living for adults – Reuters
The state of the global unemployment: It’s getting worse, and risking social unrest – ILO
Rich countries are creating jobs, albeit low-quality jobs – Tim Fernholz
Investors are pulling an estimated $3.5 billion out of SAC Capital – WSJ
Blackstone intends to “fully redeem” most of the $550 million it has invested with SAC – Reuters
After years of short-selling in China, Carson Block turns to rooting out all the posers in Silicon Valley – WSJ
Carson Block’s problematic Standard Chartered short – Euromoney
The SEC is, um, “bringin’ sexy back” to accounting fraud – DealBook
The lawyer-heavy commission’s new algorithm “applies high-tech quantitative methods to, basically, close reading of dense texts” – Matt Levine
Tax Arcana
The tax break state: “This is one of the most important battles over who will benefit from our economic progress, and how” – Mike Konczal
Wonks
Has the Fed been propping up inequality? – Annie Lowrey
Every business cliche ever, in one toast – Chris Sacca
Ben Bernanke’s (actually rather funny) Princeton graduation speech – Ben Bernanke
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. And, of course, there are many more links at Counterparties.
Chart of the day, billionaire edition
How and whether to fight insider trading
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Earth Day Delta Trip – Exploring the Northern Edges
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What better way to spend Earth Day than exploring the beautiful Mobile-Tensaw River Delta with enthusiastic lovers of the outdoors? On April 22nd, thirteen members of the Delta Roundtable traveled by bus into the northern region of the Delta, visiting multiple sites throughout Monroe County. The trip was hosted by Coastal Alabama Partnership and the Delta Working Group and offered a full day of history, culture, and nature. Bill Finch guided the group throughout the day, with the help of anecdotal stories and historical accounts from Linda Vice and Claudia Campbell.
The trip began bright and early at the Five Rivers Delta Resource Center where the group loaded the bus and headed north. Along the way, Mr. Finch highlighted the historical and environmental treasures of the area. Mr. Finch stated that the most diversity of the Delta is found along its edges and “if you do not protect these edges, we have lost the Delta.” He noted that our Delta is unique in many ways, including the fact that it is trapped between two bluffs and contains roughly 350 species of fresh water fish (more than any other state in the nation). Mr. Finch also talked about the shell mounds found throughout the Delta which indicate how extensively people lived in the area.
The first two stops on the trip were are Purdue Hill and Haines Island. Purdue Hill is the current home of multiple structures originally built in Claiborne, a ghost town near the Alabama River in Monroe County. These structures include a masonic hall which is the oldest building in Monroe County. The group ventured on to Haines Island and explored the park and Nancy’s Mountain Trail. While walking the trail, Mr. Finch pointed out the Big Leaf Magnolia, which has the longest leaf of any tree in the country, and the habitat of the rare Red Hills Salamander. The group nearly stumbled into a cane break rattler and learned that nearly one sixth of Alabama was once covered in cane break. The roundtable continued northward and made its final stop in Monroeville, the birthplace of Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird. The group enjoyed local cuisine from Cherry Street BBQ and toured the historic courthouse, depicted heavily in Ms. Lee’s famous novel.
The trip concluded with a viewing of America’s Amazon on the bus ride home. The film highlights the diversity of the Delta’s ecosystem and the threats to its well-being. The Delta consists of 77,000 miles of rivers and creeks and is considered the fertile crescent of the Gulf because of its productive nature. It contains the largest number of turtle species in the world and nine different species of pitcher plants. These are just a few facts that help tell the story of how unique and vital the Delta is to our region.
Thank you to everyone who attended the trip and to our informative and entertaining tour guides. We look forward to continuing to facilitate the conversation surrounding the care and potential of our Delta.
Big Leaf Magnolia
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Haines Island Lookout Park from swingset
Talking on Nancy’s Mountainn Trail
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Haines Island Lookout Park Group Photo
Kristen O’Keefe and Chandra Wright at Haines Island Park
Group photo in front of Monroeville Courthouse
Russell Ladd telling stories
Wiley Blankenship with Mountain Laurel
Bill Finch – our tour guide
Group beginning trail
Big Leaf Magnolia with Chandra Wright
Linda Vice talks to group
Group about to walk the trail
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Communications Quizzes. (Sara McDonell)
Designed for an Adult Learning Program, but could be used as review from middle elementary up through high school.
Poetry. Annotated Bibliography of Resources. (A. Bakes, Class of 2014)
How do you make poetry meaningful, engaging and effective for you and the students? These activities and resources can be adapted for any grade level.
Fairy Tales. Annotated Bibliography of Resources. (J. Chater, Class of 2014)
Teaching fairytales allows students to identify various problematic issues such as….
• Gender stereotypes/bias.
• Lack of diversity in populations represented. (Cultural, socio-economic)
• Accuracy of the populations represented (cultural/social accuracies)
• The way physical image is represented in both male and female characters. (Male: tall, muscular versus female slender, very small waist, luscious hair, fair skin, etc.)
• Other “common-thread” elements of both male and female characters (male: bravery, deep voice, strong, fighting the bad guy, saving the girl, working, being the provider versus female: delicacy, damsel in distress, motherly, tidy, willingness to obey and never challenge.)
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Sketch to Stretch. Lesson plan. Submitted by Sara Arsenault, MSVU class of 2015.
This lesson is targeted for Grade Primary. It focuses on getting students creating visualizations of texts.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 1
What makes me special? By Sam MacDonald, Class of 2016.
A language arts lesson for grade primary/one where students write a class book about what makes them special!
Author Interview. By Courtney Williams, Class of 2016.
Students will critically analyze a book by creating hypothetical interview questions for the author.
Green Giant Visualization and Note Taking By Courtney Williams, Class of 2016.
Students will use visualization and note taking skills to create a picture described in a text.
Snowball Descriptive Writing. Submitted by Courtney Williams.
Students will make sentences more descriptive through collaboration.
Grade 9 English Lesson. submitted by Ken Pilkey.
Poetry Lesson. Submitted by Emma Ferguson, class of 2016.
English Language Arts 10
Hamlet: Through Thematic Lenses. Unit Plan. (J. Davison, J. Tibbetts, A. Bakes, and R. Wheadon, Class of 2014)
Hamlet remains one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays; it has become a rich source for cultural references and motifs.This unit introduces students to Shakespearean language and focuses on developing understanding of thematic connections throughout the play. By searching for specific clusters of themes within each act -- whether death, decay, exile, or madness -- this unit allows students to narrow their focus and find a lens that resonates with them. We’ve built this unit based on the principles of reader-response: how each student responds to the play is to be valued and, by focusing on broad themes, we hoped to build in space for students to come to their own conclusions and to make their own connections.
Please note: This unit is designed for a fairly advanced and mature English 10 class. It would also work with some adaptations for English 11 or 12.
Matched: A Study of Dystopia. Unit Plan. (J. Chater, Class of 2014)
The purpose of this unit is to have the students experience the dystopian genre and what it consists of as a category of literature. This includes dystopian fiction as a commentary on social issues, character analysis, and an inquiry and exploration of bigger ideas. The unit attempts to allow the students to think and reflect about what we, as individuals, have control over in our own lives. Throughout all the lessons, we discuss common characteristics of a dystopian, including propaganda as a means of controlling society, citizens conforming to uniform expectations, citizens having fear of the outside world, and restriction of freedom and independence. This unit also captures the essence of the dystopian protagonist by having students recognize her skepticism of the controlling society and showing her perspective on the negative aspects of the dystopian world. The unit is divided into eight weeks and begins with an introduction to dystopian fiction as a form of literature. By incorporating creative activities, a formal debate, several writing prompts, and cross-curricular assignments, students will explore every aspect of the genre collaboratively in a classroom community.
Intro to Dystopian Literature
Intro to "Matched" & Reading Logs
Deciding What's Important
Let's Make a Microcard
ELA 10 Advanced Lesson Plans
Assignments and Rubrics:
Memoir Activity Rubric
Propaganda Rubric
Journal Prompts - 1 & 2
Journal Questions
Final Assignment - Plan & Rubric
The Chrysalids: Life on the Fringes (Academic, Advanced). Novel Study. (R. Wheadon, Class of 2014)
This unit, centred around John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, focuses on developing analytic and creative reading skills, as well as reader-response skills. Students will be encouraged to use The Chrysalids as an anchor for an exploration of prejudice, normalizing, social injustice, dystopia, intolerance, science, and technology. By drawing connections between texts and the real world, students will develop an understanding of how texts reflect on our world (this is particularly true for science fiction and speculative fiction) and will be encouraged to think more deeply about social justice.
Socratic Circles Handout (for The Chrysalids novel study)
Gender. Submitted by Tim Dobson, class of 2016.
Getting students to understand stereotypes and negative representations of women and how women are objectified in the media. Also getting them to think about stereotypes surrounding men and how men and violence are often grouped together in the media.
Novel Lesson. Submitted by Emma Ferguson, class of 2016.
This is a novel study done on the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien.
Media: Advertising Techniques and Persuasion (PSAs). Project/Lesson. (R. Wheadon, Class of 2014)
Advertisements are, obviously, very prevalent in our world — whether on billboards, on television, the radio, the internet, sneakers, t-shirts... This isn’t necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, so far as individuals are aware of the techniques advertisers employs in order to make sales, and how these techniques manipulate the audience. Understanding the mechanisms that advertisers use will make consumers more thoughtful; it ought to be an empowering shift in thinking.
Please note: Designed especially for an Options & Opportunities class -- that is, meeting provincial curriculum outcomes for an academic level of study but designed to be extra hands-on and engaging.
King Lear. Lesson Plans. (L. MacDonald, Class of 2014)
Tragedy Vocabulary Activity
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“Governments around the globe have already allocated more than $13 trillion to stabilize their economies and jump start growth. Although these speedily implemented measures have succeeded in many ways, new worries continue to emerge. But we believe that if governments and the private sector work together, we can return to prosperous and sustainable times worldwide.”
Bert Miller, President and CEO, MRINetwork
As the coronavirus lockdown eases, the global economy is starting to come back to life. U.S. job numbers were better-than-expected, and a surge in private sector activity in China reinforced the view in equity markets that the worst is past, according to a recent report from Deloitte. Yet, the economic numbers around the world paint a much more cautious picture, the report notes. “In the UK activity is stirring not bouncing,” says Ian Stewart, Deloitte's Chief Economist in the UK.
The UK started to emerge from lockdown on 13 May, with people who are unable to work at home “actively encouraged” to return to work. Since 1 June schools have started to reopen as have car showrooms and open-air markets, and all non-essential shops will be allowed to get back to business.
“Real-time transaction data from credit card providers and banks shows that UK consumer spending has risen since April,” says Stewart. “Despite the pickup research group Fable Data notes that household spending in the final week of May was 18.5% lower than in the equivalent week of 2019. With the reopening of the housing market on 13 May property group Zoopla reported a sharp rise in the number of active enquiries. There are also tentative signs of an increase in shipping coming through UK ports.”
The region is easing lockdown restrictions with phased re-openings being implemented in many areas, according to the World Economic Forum. South Korea, one of the earliest-hit countries, opened schools last month with senior pupils being the first to return to prepare for university entrance exams, and younger pupils following shortly after. Museums, libraries and nightclubs are also progressively reopening. Hong Kong announced a partial easing of lockdown conditions for cinemas, bars, gyms, and mahjong parlours, among other things, and secondary school classes are set to resume. Vietnam, with one of the most stringent quarantining policies, was the first South-East Asian country to lift its lockdown, but many businesses remain closed and the inevitable economic damage brought about by a continuing curfew means a fragile, tourism-dependent economy will be put to the test. At the southern end of the Asia-Pacific region, the Australian government met with state leaders to discuss creating health protocols for a “COVID-safe environment” that might allow widespread reopening of businesses by early July. New Zealand has already begun to loosen its lockdown restrictions, moving from level four to three, allowing schools and certain businesses to reopen.
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused more attention on an energy transition that would help the world reduce CO2 emissions. According to a recent report from the Inter Press Service News Agency, clean hydrogen markets have the potential to be “a key part of the economic recovery from the pandemic, accelerate the decarbonization of Latin America’s electricity and transportation sectors, attract investment and create jobs. Indeed, the possibilities for oil and gas companies to produce and deliver hydrogen should facilitate and accelerate its adoption in Latin America particularly when combined with the region’s considerable renewable energy upside.”
Over the last ten years, most countries in Latin America enacted clean energy targets and laws that include fiscal incentives and goals to achieve a determined percentage of their electricity mix from clean energy sources by specific timeframes. Clean energy policies with clear objectives and successful implementation have engendered competition and electricity prices among the lowest in the world, says the report, all the while injecting billions of dollars of direct investment into their economies. “Latin America’s power sector is well-positioned to be the main driver for a clean hydrogen boom as the pace of solar and wind energy projects continues to accelerate. Navigating the path forward from the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the persistent threat of climate change makes clean hydrogen a possible solution for the region’s energy and economic recovery.”
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Cover Characteristic is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Some of the information contained in this post was sourced from Wikipedia, and select phrases were used directly.
London, 1850 (Vampire Plagues, #1) by Sebastian Rook
Set in--you guessed it!--London during the year 1850, the first book of the Vampire Plagues series introduces three preteens and the Meso-American vampire deity preparing to wreak havoc on Europe.
At first glance, the cover might not appear particularly evocative of Europe. But if you look closely, you can see Big Ben in the background! Ironically, this is actually an inaccuracy; the Elizabeth Tower, formerly known as the Clock Tower and more conventionally referred to as "Big Ben", wasn't completed until 1859. Its inclusion on this cover was no doubt because of its status as an incredibly visible British cultural icon.
Vacation Under the Volcano (Magic Tree House, #13) by Mary Pope Osborne
In Vacation Under the Volcano, Jack and Annie, the two kids who travel through time in a magical tree house steered (so to speak) by Morgan le Fay, end up in Pompeii shortly before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Nowadays, Pompeii is a macabre tourist attraction in Italy.
Hour of the Olympics (Magic Tree House, #16) by Mary Pope Osborne
In Hour of the Olympics, the aforementioned Jack and Annie find themselves in Ancient Rome just in time for the first Olympic games. Held in Olympia in the year 776 BCE, these early Olympics were deeply connected to the local religion, were predated by similar religious events such as the Heraea Games for women, and were part of a larger group of events called the Panhellenic Games. The games as the Ancient Greeks knew them ended in 394, when pagan festivals were banned by Theodosius I.
Night of the New Magicians (Magic Tree House, #35) by Mary Pope Osborne
One of the longer chapter books in the Magic Tree House series (which are known as the "Merlin Missions"), Night of the New Magicians is an adventure set in Paris, France. To make its setting crystal clear to any and all prospective readers, the cover is dominated by a depiction of the illuminated Eiffel Tower.
Finished in 1989, the Eiffel tower was for 41 years the tallest man-made structure in the world. (Previously, that title had belonged to the Washington Monument in D.C.) Nowadays, the Eiffel Tower remains the second-tallest structure in France and boasts the highest publicly accessible observation deck in the European Union.
What's shocking to most people is that the Eiffel Tower was actually intended to be a temporary structure. Its demolition was set for 1909, after the City of Paris gained ownership of it, but the tower's practical use in turn-of-the-century communications technology prolonged its life. Almost as startling is the fact that the tower has actually been fraudulently "sold" twice--by the same con artist! And in 1912, a man died after purposefully throwing himself from the tower during a demonstration of his (failed) parachute.
It remains one of the world's most popular and well-known tourist attractions to this day.
The Castle Crime (A to Z Mysteries Super Edition, #6) by Ron Roy
In The Castle Crime, a recent installment of the long-running A to Z Mysteries series (a childhood favorite of mine!), young sleuths Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head to England. On the cover of the book, one can see an illustration of Windsor Castle, a royal residence currently owned by Queen Elizabeth II. Windsor Castle is located in Windsor, an unparished area in Berkshire. It's lesser known (at least to Americans) than its London counterpart, Buckingham, but both currently used for official entertaining. In fact, Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world and the longest-occupied palace in Europe.
Like Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle is open to the public during specific times, though admission fees must be paid.
Which of these European cities would you be most interested in visiting?
Olympia, Greece
Windsor, England
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Interview with thirteen year old did not go down well
WILLEMSTAD - Member of Parliament for the coalition party PAR Anamaria Pauletta still has many questions that were not answered in response to the child abuse that took place at the boarding school Kinderoorden Brakkeput. In a motion, parliament assumed that there should be an extensive investigation into the ins and outs of boarding schools in Curaçao.
A television station in Curaçao spoke about a new incident at the Casa Manaita home with the 13-year-old victim. The child escaped and went missing for a few days. In the interview in question, the girl said she was the victim of sexual abuse at the boarding school.
Whether that is really the case can only be investigated further and it would have been good if the television channel in question had also given the boarding school a chance to give their side of the story. Broadcasting an interview with the thirteen-year-old did not go down well, it could even traumatize a young person.
The question now is whether children are safe in boarding schools.
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The Nobel prize is NOT an endorsement of an economic theory or a statement on what is science and what is alchemy or ANYTHING remotely related to assigning a status of scientific authority to somebody. �Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons that he had left them gold in his vineyard: where they, by digging, found no gold, but by turning up the mold about the roots of the vines, produced a plentiful vintage.”[1] Roger Alchemy has been defined as “…a body of theory and practice that sought to harness for human use certain hidden or “occult” powers in natural objects.”[2] This . The 1976 first edition most certainly is increasingly rare and expensive. A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the. Via the magic of “legislative alchemy,” state legislatures transform implausible and unproven diagnostic methods and treatments into perfectly legal health care practices. Today, we’re very fortunate to have as a guest contributor Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Crystallization, distillation, sublimation—all techniques for working with substances that are still in use today—were developed by practitioners of the alchemical arts, who plied their trade from 300 B.C., when they emerged in Greek-speaking Egypt, until they were discredited and given the existential stage hook by scientific academies in To test his theories that alchemists’ practice involved genuine chemistry, Principe has recreated many of their lab experiments. In Pursuit of Gold: Alchemy in Theory and Practice. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher’s stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base metals into the noble metals gold or silver, as well as an elixir of life conferring youth and longevity. Alchemical theories were not stupid. Fortunately, this year saw the publication of a revised, expanded and corrected edition of ‘In Pursuit of Gold’, 35 years on. Without gunpowder the world would not be the same as it is today. Each year brings a fresh round of eager petitioners to the state house doors hoping to transform their base ideas into licensing gold through legislative alchemy. The real problem with alchemy was that it was not sceptical enough. If we borrow $1 from A, but tell him his taxes will be $1 higher (with interest) tomorrow, he reduces spending exactly as if we had taxed him today! Western alchemy is recognized Alchemists developed a framework of theory, terminology, experimental process and basic laboratory techniques that are still recognizable today. The object of modern alchemy might be reduced to the search for a substance having power to transform and transmute all other substances one into another—in short, to discover that medium known to the alchemists of old as the philosophers’ stone and now lost to us. In this Besides wanting licensure in as many states as possible, naturopaths are pursuing in these licensing laws the right to be []. What he practices is not the study of businessmen running the world.
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At a meeting of the Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union yesterday, Nataliya Apostolova, an experienced diplomat from Bulgaria, was appointed Head of EUPOL COPPS. Ms Apostolova is the first Bulgarian national to be appointed to lead an EU Common Security and Defence Policy Mission. She will also be the first woman to head EUPOL COPPS.
Over the course of a diplomatic career spanning over 25 years, Ms Apostolova has served in senior positions in the Middle East and the Balkans, where she has developed significant expertise in areas affected by conflict. She served as the Ambassador/Head of the EU Delegation to Libya from July 2013 – August 2016 and as the EU Special Representative/Head of the EU Office in Kosovo from September 2016 – August 2020.
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GSIS grants P4B in loan aid to gov’t workers, pensioners
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THE Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has released a total of P4.1 billion in loans to some 60,000 government workers and pensioners nationwide as of April 30.
This was reported Monday by Rolando Ledesma Macasaet, president and general manager of the state pension fund.
While most parts of the country are still in enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), GSIS was able to disburse P3.48 billion in various loans (conso-loan, policy loan and pension loan) to a total of 25,198 GSIS members and pensioners nationwide between the period March 27 and April 30.
In addition to these regular loan programs, the state pension fund opened the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) emergency loan program to its 2.1 million members and pensioners last April 13.
“I am very proud to say that in just 17 days, from April 13 to April 30, GSIS has granted PHP664 million in emergency loan to some 33,000 borrowers nationwide,” Macasaet said.
Earlier this month, this loan program was enhanced to make it more responsive to the needs of GSIS members and pensioners.
Under the enhanced program, Macasaet said members who have in-default loan accounts with arrears of more than six months are now allowed to renew their emergency loan.
“We have also reduced the paid premium requirement from six months to only three months,” he said. “However, since this is the first time for GSIS to offer the emergency loan on a national scale, there may be some delays due to systems maintenance activities. I am grateful for the patience and understanding of our stakeholders during this time.”
Considering that systems enhancements are still in progress, members and pensioners whose emergency loans were renewed and granted from April 13 to 30 may renew their loans starting 11 May 2020. (PR)
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Melissa Cavenagh trading as Foods 2 Flourish ABN 39807177410, (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’ or ‘Foods 2 Flourish’) recognises the importance of protecting the privacy of your personal information and will act to protect your personal information, as set out in this document.
This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information that we collect through this website www.foods2flourish.com.au (Site) or directly from you.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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If you do not wish to provide personal information to us, then you do not have to do so, however it may affect your use of this Site or any products and services offered on it.
Type of personal information collected
Personal Information: The type of personal information we collect may include (but is not limited to) name, company name, address, date of birth, email address, website and phone number. Wherever possible, you can elect to remain anonymous when contacting us, for example if you are making an enquiry.
If we receive your personal information from third parties, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Personal information for Affiliate Program purposes
In addition to the personal information collected above, personal details relating to unique username, password and the collection of bank account details (BSB, Account Number, Account Name, Institution) to ensure registration to the affiliate program and also payment of affiliate earnings. No account details will be stored for the purpose of deduction from your nominated account. These account details are obtained for deposit purposes only. Please see affiliate terms and conditions regarding payment schedule, fees and dates.
We collect and use the personal information for purposes including to contact and communicate with you, payment of affiliate earnings, delivery of purchases, for internal record keeping and for marketing.
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Our site uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our site and what pages are being looked at. Our site will be provided with your computer ‘IP’ address, to enable us the details necessary to provide you with our service. These analytical services are used to improve our services and site. It also provides us with feedback on any errors or technical difficulties that may arise.
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An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information, should we incur a fee to provide you with the required information. This fee will be disclosed to you, prior to you deciding to continue with the access request. We may refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances as set out in the Privacy Act. Any refusal of information will be advised to you, unless this would be considered unreasonable in the circumstances.
Correction: We believe in keeping our records accurate and the accuracy of your personal information is important to us. If you believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us by email at hello@foods2flourish.com.au. We rely in part upon customers advising us when their personal information changes. We will respond to any request within a reasonable time. We will endeavour to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
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We are committed to ensuring that the information you provide is secure. Depending on the interaction with Foods 2 Flourish, personal information may be stored both electronically or in hard copy. Regardless of the method of storage, we take all necessary precautions to keep your personal information safe from inappropriate: use, loss, access, disclosure, interference, alteration or destruction.
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Samsung shipyard wins new LNG carrier order from unspecified Oceania client
Lim Chang-won Reporter(cwlim34@ajunews.com) | Posted : December 21, 2020, 10:28 | Updated : December 21, 2020, 10:28
[Courtesy of Samsung Heavy Industries]
SEOUL -- Samsung Heavy Industries, a major shipbuilder in South Korea, has received a new order worth 408.2 billion won ($371 million) from an unspecified shipper in Oceania to build two tank ships designed for transporting liquefied natural gas. The vessels will be installed with smart ship technology and a re-liquefaction system.
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) said in a regulatory filing on December 21 that the two LNG carriers would be delivered by February 2024. The new deal raised SHI's accumulated orders so far this year to $4.4 billion.
The shipbuilder said that a reliquefaction system will be installed in the Mark-III Flex membrane-type hold to minimize loss of cargo volume. The Mark III membrane system is a containment and insulation system, directly supported by the ship's hull structure. Its latest development is Mark III Flex.
SHI's re-liquefaction system for low-pressure, dual-fuel engines has won Detail Design Approval from the American Bureau of Shipping, a maritime classification society. Detailed design is the process of taking on and developing the approved concept design.
The re-liquefaction system offers increased efficiency and reliability by allowing boil-off gas from the cargo tank to be re-liquefied. It is optimized for low-pressure dual-fuel engines. The system can reduce CO2 emissions due to unnecessary combustion of evaporative emissions during docking or low-speed operation and conserve cargo volume.
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Runway Career Guidance Workshop @ Umlazi Branch
Slindile Msweli from Runway addressing the learners
Waking up in the morning and looking forward to going to the workplace, are one of the key characteristics of a person who has chosen the correct career path in which they can flourish. These are the kind of discussions that took place within our Umlazi Branch on Saturday.
Our grade 10, 11 & 12s had the opportunity to take part in a workshop which covered all the topics that one would have to consider when choosing a desired career path. The learners put pen to paper and thought about what their personal visions and goals are, an exercise they were quite receptive to.
Learners writing down their top 3 goals
Passionate about the development and encouragement of young people from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, the workshop facilitator, Slindile Msweli from Runway, shared information on the kinds of careers that are available to them as well as the various ways in which they can pursue them.
In addition to this, she stressed that learners have a huge part to play when it comes to career selection – this involves researching what they want to study as well as ‘matching’ it to their individual passions, future aspirations as well as their desire to have a job.
Thembeka Thusi, a grade 10 learner, said that she did not know how important her career choice is and how much influence she has on it even in her current Grade. Thembeka also mentioned that she was grateful to learn about using the internet and social media responsibly as it could affect her career opportunities in future.
Another grade 11 learner, Menzi Jaca, said that his dream is to be a doctor and he knew that his subjects had to be pure maths and physical science. Now understands that the reason why he has to work hard to pass in school is so that he can get the required points to gain entry into his course at university.
In closing the workshop, our Umlazi Ikamvanites got to understand that under-preparation for university and lack of insight when choosing the right career path, resulted in a lot of dropouts and also an increased national rate of unemployment.
Umlazi Branch Coordinator and Branch Assistant handing over a thank you gift to Slindile Msweli
We at IkamvaYouth are grateful to be one of the key instruments within our respective township communities, that ensure and promote the individual preparation of our learners for university through our various programmes that in turn make a great mark on the country as a whole. We look forward to working with RUNWAY in the near future.
Up, Up and Away! KZN Ikamvanites soar fuelled by 41 distinctions
Learners have good reason to celebrate having achieved an 83% matric pass rate.
Kwazulu-Natal saw an increase in its matric pass rate from 60.7% last year to 66.4% in 2016. This Province also managed to produce the second-largest number of bachelor passes, had the largest number of candidates sitting for the 2016 final exams and had the highest participation rate of African learners in Mathematics. Despite the increase in their pass rate, Kwazulu-Natal remains in the bottom 3 provinces with the lowest pass rates along with Limpopo and the Eastern Cape (all three making up 54.5% of the 2016 NSC candidates), reflecting the various socio-economic issues that plague the three most rural provinces in South Africa.
Ikamvanites in Kwazulu-Natal managed to achieve an amazing 83%, surpassing the Provincial rate by almost 17%.
IkamvaYouth has two branches in the Province; in Chesterville (at the Vuyani Nkosi Memorial Youth Centre) and in Umlazi (at the AA Library). Chesterville Ikamvanites saw an 88% pass rate this year with 76% achieving either Bachelor or Diploma passes, ensuring eligibility for tertiary study. Umlazi Ikamvanites also achieved far above the provincial pass rate, hitting 77%. 53% of these learners achieved Bachelor or Diploma passes. Together, the branches had a matric cohort of 64 learners. These Ikamvanites managed to achieve a total of 41 subject distinctions; a really impressive achievement.
Nomathemba Ndwandwe started at IkamvaYouth in 2014 as a grade 10 learner. She says, “I’m so excited and proud of myself. I achieved a Bachelor’s Degree with 2 distinctions. My parents are really proud of me. I am the first in my family to pass Matric”.
Thabisile Mfeka joined IkamvaYouth in 2013 as a grade 9 learner. She says “it has been surreal and I still can’t believe that I’ve made it this far. I appreciate all the support that I’ve received from IkamvaYouth. I doubt that I would’ve made it without IkamvaYouth. I thank all the tutors, staff and sponsors for making all of this possible. I was lucky enough to be part of something as wonderful as IkamvaYouth.”
Watch this interview with Matriculant Thabisile Mfeka to find out what she will be up to this year
Tanyaradzwa Chiyambiro is the Chesterville branch’s top achiever, having joined in 2013. “I am currently feeling relief and am very happy since I received my results; hopefully Wits University will approve my application to study Biomedical Engineering which is what I really really want to do. IkamvaYouth has been amazing; a combination of learning and fun. Being a part of this organisation has been awesome and I’ve learnt the importance of helping others and giving back.”
IkamvaYouth’s tutoring programme is available to learners from grades 9 -12, three times a week and for two weeks during the winter holidays. The tutoring programme is made possible thanks to the hearts and smarts of the amazing volunteer tutors; most of whom are university students and many of whom are ex-learners from the programme. The organisation operates in KZN thanks to very supportive partners, including Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa, Anglo-American Chairman’s Fund, Durban University of Technology, Zoe – Life, and CAFSA, in addition to the municipality, through the Department of Arts & Culture, which provides access to branch venues free of charge, and the schools and other tertiary institutions in the region.
“We are so proud of our learners, volunteers, and colleagues for this amazing achievement. Thanks to our generous sponsors and supporters; we are so appreciative for their ongoing support,” said Joy Olivier, co-founder and director of IkamvaYouth.
Thandazo Mkhize, Chesterville’s Branch Coordinator, says she is very proud and excited about the Class of 2016’s achievements. “These learners have been very consistent throughout the year and their results have proven that hard work really pays. I would like to really appreciate all those who were involved in making sure that the learners do their best, we would not have made it here without the help of the Almighty, and our very hardworking staff, volunteers, parents and our very reliable sponsors, thank you!”
“We are delighted to be in a fortunate position to contribute to the greatness of South African young people through our partnership with IkamvaYouth. To the class of 2016, well done. You are the reason why we will keep investing in young South Africans.” says Tshidi Ramogase, Public Affairs & Communications Director at CCBSA.
IkamvaYouth is a non-profit organisation, enabling disadvantaged youth to pull themselves and each other out of poverty through education. The organisation provides free after-school tutoring, career guidance, mentoring, computer literacy training and extra-curricular engagement to learners in grades 8-12. The organisation is currently operating in 16 townships in 5 provinces across South Africa. To find out more, go to www.ikamvayouth.org or call Hetile on 062 105 1707
Umlazi 2016
I’m so proud to be a part of the Umlazi branch. We have tutors who arevolunteering their time to help our dedicated learners who have decided that they want better futures and are willing to start now to work towards it. The committed staff always go above and beyond their payroll. I would like to send a vote of thanks to everyone.
We are a family at Umlazi branch, from our sponser CCBSA (through representative Sam Nkosi) to the parents who helped us and donated netball and soccer kits for our Winter school sports day. Winter school was a success learners attended in their numbers, so much so that we didn’t have any kick-outs.
“Sport’s day was fantastic and let’s not forget our matric camp which was fabulous. We were so excited about everything and are now waiting to write our final exams so that we can also give back and be tutors.” Asanda Gumede
We had a matric camp this year, with World changers Academy. There we were able to learn and interact a whole lot more with our matric learners and the tutors. Our matrics did a leadership course that covered vision, leadership, team building, goal setting, relationships and healing of the past.
“IY and world changers has helped us so much in developing the skills we need to become the progressive leaders we want to be” Zekhethelo Ngcobo
IYKZN MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of life we lead”-Walter Sisulu
Often as human beings we care the most about being judged and praised by what we have accumulated for ourselves; IkamvaYouth KZN tends to differ as we believe we need to be judged by the footprints we leave behind as we go forward.
It is heart-warming to see learners getting excited, feeling valued and mostly recognising the efforts and support from the team in making sure that they remain, succeed and excel in school and in life as a whole. The excitement in their faces and confidence in talking about IkamvaYouth and its benefits gives the IYKZN team courage to keep on keeping-on and positively impacting the lives of learners and the general communities we exist within.
IkamvaYouth solely exists with one big aim and that is to ‘help learners to pass, progress and achieve their dreams in life’. IYKZN is undoubtedly carrying that mission as well, to make a difference to the lives of our learners, tutors and all those who forms part of this organisation.
There is nothing that makes the IYKZN family as happy as reaching the office in the morning to find such a lovely note from one of the learners… One thing that comes first is a smile and then the thought of how just a little amount of effort can go a long way.
As we are reaching the end of term 1 of 2016, IYKZN is still carrying forward the objective of making more of a difference, more positive impact and importantly igniting the spark within our learners…
Here’s to making a difference….!!!!
Life at IY.
IY has been really good to me, it helps us with school work and also gets us feeling better about ourselves, although sometimes it can be a pain in the neck but at the end of the day it’s really been helpful.
Winter school was totally epic and fun especially on our sports day. It was fantastic, there was this one fellow in the red team, who stood up on the ABI stage and was dancing; his name is Asanda Gumede Grade 11 learner, now soon to be in in Matric :D. He is pretty well known at IY, in fact a lot of people know him for his drama queen tendencies, laughing, making jokes those sort of things. I really enjoyed the sports day though.
Ikamva Youth helps us achieve our goals and what do I mean by that? Well let me tell you, IY helps learners especially matrics in entering university or any tertiary institution, even if you do not get accepted, no problem IY will help you no matter what. IY really helps everyone in the community to make their dreams come true through an educational foundation.
IY helps us with so many things, and I just want to give thanks to the staff, the tutors and sponsors, thank you for everything, it’s been real…
Credits to: Asanda Gumede
Annual Report 2014 | IkamvaYouth
As can be seen in our Annual Report 2014 was the year of growth for us: our matric class was 63% bigger than the previous year, we reached over 1,700 learners and we opened our tenth branch. But let’s not forget why we are here, for most of South Africa’s children, the only way out of poverty is through education. Ikamvanites (IkamvaYouth learners) continue to prove that anyone and everyone – irrespective of the school one attends and the socio-economic status of one’s parents can achieve his dreams and escape poverty.
Please read more in our 2014 annual report about the innovation of our model, why we need more Ikamvanites, hear from the Ikamvanites themselves and why our three largest donors of 2014 (Omidyar Network, Amalgamated Beverage Industries and Capitec Foundation) continue to support us.
It is thanks to these donors and many others that we have been able to achieve the results that we have over the last 12 years. South Africa’s future rests on the success of our children. IkamvaYouth is fundraising to reach even more of South Africa’s children in 2016 and needs your support. Please contact me if you would like to discuss supporting IkamvaYouth or find out more about us.
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Innovation and collaboration in action November 25, 2020
The After-School Sector does it again! September 2, 2020
IkamvaYouth Gauteng and North West Tutor Appreciation Week (29 June – 3 July 2020): “The love shower, lockdown edition” July 10, 2020
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Pioneers of Country Music Card Set
The set features four-color images printed on one side, with corresponding bios of the musicians on the other, packaged in full-color boxes, 3″ x 4″ x 1″, on heavy cardstock. Featuring 40 card images, sets are sealed, new and mint. This country card set was released in 2005 by publisher Dennis Kitchen. The cards are […]
The set features four-color images printed on one side, with corresponding bios of the musicians on the other, packaged in full-color boxes, 3″ x 4″ x 1″, on heavy cardstock.
Featuring 40 card images, sets are sealed, new and mint.
This country card set was released in 2005 by publisher Dennis Kitchen. The cards are unique and informative tributes to the cream of the genre’s seminal practitioners, each artist wonderfully rendered with nobility and grace in full color by legendary cartoonist R. Crumb, himself an early American Music devotee.
Bigger than its counterparts at 40 cards, the Pioneers of Country Music set leads with Country/Folk/Bluegrass heavy-hitters Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.
But aside from their pedigrees and musical virtuousity, these great ensembles had some of the greatest band names ever. Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, The Happy Hayseeds, Hoyt Ming and his Pep Steppers, the Buckle Busters, Log Rollers, Tar Heel Rattlers, Fox Chasers and Possum Hunters to name but a few. Richard Nevins’ cardback bios contain fascinating detail about each performer’s place in history, with as much detail about each performer’s recording history. There’s not much space, but he manages to note record labels and “firsts” for performers. There is lots of fun buried in this treasure chest of arcane country lore.
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NALSIG honors Mary Alice Tsosie
Mary Alice Tsosie, a member of the Navajo Nation Whitehorse Chapter, was honored recently with a plaque presented by the Native American Libraries Special Interest Group (NALSIG) of NMLA. The plaque reads “Outstanding Leadership Award Presented to Mary Alice Tsosie in Grateful Appreciation for your Superior Leadership Qualities and Dedication to the Native American Libraries Special Interest Group”. She served as Chair of NALSIG for 10 years and at the leadership level of NMLA as President of the Association.
Mary Alice most recently served as the Program Planner of the Native American Oral History Program at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico. This project documents interviews with approximately 45 leaders either Native American or working with Native Americans. Before working on the Oral History Project at UNM, she was with the Indigenous Nations library program and also an advisor to the Kiva Club. She was involved in initiating the Navajo Studies Conference and served three terms on their board. She was one of the Coordinators of the Indigenous Book Festival which is in its fourth year.
Born in Crownpoint, she attended boarding schools there and Fort Wingate. After the age of 13, she was raised by a family in Wisconsin where she began her library career with the Great Lakes Tribal Council American Indian Library program and coordinated the establishment of their first library. She returned to New Mexico in 1995 with her three daughters. Mary Alice has now retired after 21 years of service with New Mexico Libraries and is moving to Minnesota where her daughters and grandchildren are presently living to be closer to her family. Mary Alice will be greatly missed and we appreciate her dedication over the years.
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How PM and his core team is keeping India safe
Social distancing followed strictly at the Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. (Photo: IANS)
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The government’s containment strategy regarding the dreaded COVID-19 virus appears to be working. When one compares India’s position vis-a-vis G7 nations, the curve seems to be flattening out.
The only immediate concern now is the community transmission which may have taken place due to the Tableegi Jamaat congregation in mid-March in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area. Impact assessment and threat percept of this is being done continuously for the enormity of what may have happened is being prognosticated and reined in with quick action sequestering of such carriers in different parts of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has from the beginning been assiduously driving the entire monitoring action plan and implementation programme on the virus.
Almost since as early as January 25, he voiced concern over the impact of the virus and has been in touch with the ministry of health to track it with a great degree of reliability not just globally but domestically. Modi had rightly pointed out that the virus could leave a trail of death behind. And its debilitating impact has been seen in China, European countries, Iran and the US as well.
From early February, the PM took over the reins on testing, overseeing the flights to pick up stranded Indian students in Wuhan, similar operations to evacuate Indians in Iran, Italy or even offer aid to Maldives. The bottom line at all times being to minimise damage due to the virus in India.
Old school Indic style of a lockdown, closing air space, trains et al were part of this gargantuan exercise to ensure that there is no community transmission of the virus given the density of our population.
As the crisis grew in China and then spread dramatically to Italy and other European nations and emerged in the US too with devastating effect, the PM decided to use a mix of tactical actions working in conjunction with a longer term vision to bring relief to India. Not only did he take the lead with the video conferencing summit with SAARC nations, but he participated in the G20 deliberations using the VC facility.
Equally he declared a Janata Curfew’ on a Sunday, March 22, so that the populace wouldn’t panic and then after assessing what happened that day took a series of determined measures to lock down India.
At all times, he advised his core team about two issues – India’s demographic mix and more importantly our geographical proximity to China. While he created 11 empowered groups to deal with the crisis more recently, his core team which has interfaced with him constantly since the outbreak has enabled him to be on top of the situation from the outset.
Led by Principal Secretary P K Mishra, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Health Minister Harshvardhan, DG ICMR Balram Bhargava, Health Secretary Priti Sudan, Niti Aayog member – planning Dr Vinod Paul and Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific adviser to PM, this focus group reports directly to the PM, even as the empowered groups execute his vision. This core team aids PM in taking key decisions.
A panel of noted medical experts led by AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria and Dr Raman Gangakhedkar, head of ECD at ICMR is assisting the core group in disseminating and understanding the macro and micro problems related to the virus in India.
Based on minute to minute technical data. Equally mathematical modelling of the virus is being done. The empowered groups constituted under the Disaster Management Act 2005 are specific groups which look at specific issues for smoother government facilitation at all levels. There is no war room per se, but a set of key personnel assisting the PM in this vital task.
Take the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser, Prof K Vijay Raghavan which issues manuals on homemade masks: Masks for Curbing the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. An office memorandum allowing institutes under DST, DBT, CSIR, DAE, DRDO and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to self assess and prepare their labs for research and testing through the standard and rigorous protocol.
Specifics have been gone into so that the granularity of the concentric circle leaves nothing to chance. Testing will be stratified according to priorities set by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and ICMR. Research will also be stratified into short and mid-term returns. Analyses show that if 50 per cent of the population were to wear masks, only 50% of the population would be infected by the virus. Once 80 per cent of the population wears a mask, the outbreak can be stopped immediately.
Or for instance why it is imperative to wear a mask?, it is believed that “COVID-19 virus spreads easily from person to person contact. Virus carrying droplets dry fast enough to form droplet nuclei and remain airborne eventually landing on different surfaces. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been detected in aerosols for up to three hours and on plastic and stainless steel surfaces for up to three days.”
Tasked with specific responsibilities, they have the power and autonomy to roll out decisions on livelihood, logistics, testing kits, quarantine and what have you with the PM personally monitoring and overseeing every aspect. The interesting thing is that these actions have got a very strong buy in from India’s polity and state chieftains as well.
The medical emergency management plan, availability of hospitals, isolation and quarantine facilities, ensuring availability of essential medical equipment among other things is under the supervision of these empowered groups.
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The Granada Visiting School is an architectural design workshop to develop alternative water regulatory solutions for the local agricultural communities of the Alpujarras. This speculative and collective learning course works with distinct sites of local ‘producers’ and land owners, on farming situations that present individual water dissipation and containment issues.
Hydroponic Community Dam by Sarah Le Gresley
In September 2016 the Architectural Association will assemble amongst the unique mountainous terrain of southern Spain to inspire students to experiment, design and speculate on a future vision for water conservation for this European nation. Within an intensively socialised environment and set behind an outstanding backdrop, we will embed ourselves deep in the high Alpujarras, studying varying farms between 500-2000m in altitude.
Students will be encouraged and inspired to imagine, create and realise their designs by working closely with immediate communities to address individual needs whilst being immersed into hands- on experimentation of naturally, locally grown materials and exploring the potential of leading building information modelling technology and design software capabilities.
The Granada Visiting School aims to build on these skills informing a resilience amongst the community, to prepare inhabitants for an uncertain future with less available resources, through implementation and adaptation of new strategies, ideas and intervention centred on changing climates.
The Granada Visiting School opens a platform for both local and international students to work, live, eat, swim, drink, question, explore and interact with water in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
This agenda raises awareness of the consequence that climate change brings to the local community and the repercussions which can be felt with limited water and food resources throughout Europe. We will be starting a dialogue amongst designers, architects, biologists, horticulturists and scientists, to discover alternative methods of water catchment and management architectures, for implementation by current and future generations.
The Sierra Nevada, Unesco Biosphere Reserve, Natural and National Parks encompass 80km of mountainous terrain that constitute areas of outstanding scenic and ecological values and a water system that is of utmost importance. This natural and historical region of Andalusia includes the two highest mountains in mainland Spain; the Mulhacen and the Veleta, feeding an area of 2,000km2. These precious landmarks, covered with snow, melt throughout the year to facilitate the journey of water into eagerly awaiting livelihoods downstream, however the drained water resources are estimated at 750hm3/year.
Carried by a dozen wild mountain rivers arising in borreguiles and glacial lakes this valuable and fragile source travels from the Peninsula’s highest peaks at 3,482m giving life to everything and everyone it encounters, whilst accommodating an annual thriving agricultural economy for the region.
The Arabs from the Moroccan Berber-Muslim dynasty, the true architects of water regulation in these mountains, understood the function of the water cycle and worked conscientiously to improve and adapt it for community needs. These structures are still in use today, creating a population dependant on these ancient infrastructures to divide the waters of the Alpujarras in a multitude of sources to satisfy new agricultural risks. Among the labyrinthine streets, neighbourhoods and farms, with inseparable troughs, sinks and acequias, water remains are collected in pools, ponds and albercas, using irrigation methods reliant on gravity, presenting losses by leakage and the presence of further springs downstream.
Today, agriculture in the Alpujarras is practically disappearing, the causes of this neglect lie in insufficient resources, a dramatically reduced labour force and profitability of traditional farming, reinforced by a lack of commitment by a younger generation who are attracted to urban vocations and are abandoning the rural landscape. This presents a great threat to the agricultural community, the economy and the maintenance/use of these imperative architectural water infrastructures, affecting the abundance of water which not only facilitates food production for the region but is distributed internationally to feed populations across Europe (including the supermarkets of the UK).
The traditional farming methods used in the mountains consist of repetitive ploughing and diminishing of rich top soils, leaving little room for competition with modern intensive horticulture on the flat planes of the coast, where fertilisers and mono-crop farming is common practice. Both methods are under attack by the dissipating population and the reduction of water resources. However the Alpujarras has seen a surge in permaculture farming methods introduced by its recent diverse population of international inhabitants from all over the globe, who are beginning to share their knowledge for alternative agricultural methods. These practices highlight the desperate need for innovative knowledge and intervention in water management to play a key role in climate mitigation and adaptation, both locally and nationally.
The requirement for manageable and durable alternatives is paramount for this population to mitigate its present state of flux; mirroring the dissipation of farming occupations and communities that is dramatically occurring across the globe.
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70% of our planet is covered in water, however the freshwater we use to drink, bathe in and irrigate our farm fields is incredibly rare. Only 3% of the world’s water is fresh water with two-thirds concealed in frozen glaciers and other immediately unavailable locations.
As a result, some 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water, and a total of 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month of the year. Many of the water systems that keep ecosystems thriving and feed a growing human population have become stressed. Rivers, lakes and aquifers are drying up or becoming over polluted whilst more than half the world’s wetlands have disappeared. Agriculture consumes more water than any other source and wastes much of that through inefficiencies and traditional farming methods. Climate change is altering weather patterns and water distribution around the world, resulting in water shortages, droughts and floods.
At the current consumption rate, this situation will only get worse. By 2025 (less than 10 years), two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages whilst ecosystems around the world will suffer even further.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced reports assessing scientific literature on the impact of climate change, projecting that southern Europe’s crop productivity will radically reduce due to dramatic water shortages.
Agriculture uses 70% of the world’s accessible freshwater, but some 60% of this is wasted due to leaky irrigation systems, inefficient application methods coupled with the cultivation of thirsty crops that are too water intensive for their environment. This wasteful use of water is resulting in dried out rivers, lakes and underground aquifers. This is a global issue with countries such as; India, China, Australia, Spain and the United States being close to capacity. Intensifying this situation is the fact that agriculture also generates considerable freshwater pollution – both through fertilizers as well as pesticides – all of which affect both humans and neighbouring species.
The Granada Visiting School sees architecture as a tool to question these issues and assess existing water management systems in an open dialogue. The historical water management of the Sierra Nevada mountain range responds to a dynamic, living system and, above all, extremely fragile, it is necessary to retain it as current local, regional and international needs evolve and outgrow that of the existing infrastructure. This engagement will embrace innovation in policy, institution and culture, advising students to adopt these ethics and apply their principle designs into a manageable routine for the custodians of the land.
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Jim Bakker Claims Religious Freedom Shields Him From Fake Coronavirus Cure Lawsuit
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri-based TV pastor Jim Bakker is asking a judge to dismiss a state lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus, and the lawyer representing Bakker is former Gov. Jay Nixon.
Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued Bakker and Morningside Church Productions Inc. in early March. Schmitt sought an injunction ordering Bakker to stop selling Silver Solution as a treatment for the coronavirus on his streaming TV program, The Jim Bakker Show. The lawsuit said Bakker and a guest made the cure claim during a program on Feb. 12.
In a court filing on Monday, Nixon — a Democrat who served two terms as governor before leaving office in 2017, and two terms as attorney general before that — called the lawsuit an assault on Bakker’s religious freedom.
“Jim Bakker is being unfairly targeted by those who want to crush his ministry and force his Christian television program off the air,” Nixon said in a statement. “The video recording of The Jim Bakker Show clearly shows the allegations are false. Bakker did not claim or state that Silver Solution was a cure for COVID-19.”
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Missouri’s attorney general sued Jim Bakker in March, seeking an injunction ordering the televangelist to stop selling Silver Solution as a treatment for the coronavirus on his streaming TV program, The Jim Bakker Show.
Schmitt wasn’t alone in going after Bakker. Also in March, U.S. regulators warned Bakker’s company and six others to stop selling items using what the government called false claims that they could treat the coronavirus or keep people from catching it. Letters sent jointly by the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission warned the companies that their products for treating COVID-19 were fraudulent, “pose significant risks to patient health and violate federal law.”
Nixon said Bakker immediately complied with orders to stop offering Silver Solution on his show and ministry website.
There are no approved treatments for the new virus. Potential treatments and vaccines now in testing won’t be ready for many months or even years.
Nixon said Schmitt’s lawsuit violated Bakker’s constitutional right to free speech, as well as the Missouri Constitution and the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. He said silver products are commonly sold at stores and online.
“Targeting a Christian pastor, who has been using and offering the product for the past 10 years, is not supported by the facts or the law,” Nixon said.
Schmitt’s spokesman, Chris Nuelle, declined comment, citing the ongoing litigation, “except to say we stand by our lawsuit.”
The hour-long Jim Bakker Show is filmed in southwestern Missouri.
Nixon is now a partner in the St. Louis law firm Dowd Bennett, which along with the Kansas City-based firm Spencer Fane is representing Bakker in the case.
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Carolina and Jamie go to the pub and see something they didn't expect. Should they tell Emily? Jo and Adam examine the pronouns Carolina and Jamie use to talk about what they saw.
Last time, Tess and Ravi talked about a London tourist attraction: those big, red, double-decker Routemaster buses. Some of you have ridden on them in London and enjoyed the experience. Rodolfool from Brazil said that he once took a tourist bus like that in South Africa and Juhat said that there are double-decker buses in his city, Paris, for tourists to see the sights.
You also told us about other kinds of transport for tourists. Ghulam Yasir said that tourists in Pakistan can ride in Chingchi rickshaws and also cable cars in the mountains.
N4dia, from Italy, said in Rome tourists can take a horse carriage, called a 'carrozzella', a cable railway called a 'funicolare' in Naples, and, of course, a gondola in Venice
And what do you think about buses? Well, some people like them ... Safaa Mohammed Salih from Sudan likes buses because he can see all sorts of different people living their lives. And Ghulam Yasir likes them because they're comfortable and cheap for long journeys. Juhat likes buses but doesn't like the queues and having to wait a long time.
Enrico Sbrighi lives in the south of Italy. He used to like buses when he was a child but now he really likes driving a car. Donjeta Zejnull from Kosovo says ‘I really do hate taking the bus. It's always late and stressful.’ Donjeta definitely prefers travelling by car.
We asked you to tell us what your favourite form of transport is and the winner was – can you guess? – the car. Shadi Alkontar says it's the favourite form of transport in the United Arab Emirates. Kayk, from New Zealand says ‘it saves waiting time and is more flexible’. Donjeta says ‘I enjoy being on my own, listening to the music I like, without having to listen others' conversations.’ And Constautu from Romania says ‘I spent a lot of time in my car and during this time I’ve listened to Elementary Podcasts, Series 1, 2 and 3 several times.’ Well, that's a big advantage! But remember you can also download the podcast onto your phone and listen to it on the bus, on the train – anywhere. Also remember that you can download the Elementary Podcasts app from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store and there’s also a link to the app on the LearnEnglish website.
Back to transport, Asuma Girlish says the taxi is the most popular form of transport in Morocco. Englishlover2015 from Yemen likes motorbikes, and so does Luiz Carlos from Brazil – even though they’re dangerous. And to finish up, both N4dia (Nadia?) and Rodolfool like to use ... their feet. Yes, a cheap and healthy form of transport. But what about my favourite? The bicycle!
Thanks for all your comments and please keep sending them in.
Now it's time to hear more from Carolina and her friends in Newcastle. What's happening today?
Carolina – The pub
Jamie: Hi. Sorry I'm late.
Carolina: That's OK. I haven't been here very long. How was your band practice?
Jamie: Great thanks. I think we're getting pretty good. Cameron's got a really good voice – and he's started writing some songs now – and they're good.
Carolina: Something like ‘Oh Emily, with your lovely blue eyes, and your yellow hair’ – dang dang dang.
Jamie: No. But seriously, I'm really glad we've got him in the band. It wouldn't be the same without him. And … we've got some exciting news. Let me just get a drink. What do you want?
Carolina: I'll have an orange juice, please.
Jamie: Crisps? Peanuts?
Carolina: OK. A packet of peanuts.
Jamie: Here you go.
Carolina: Thanks. So? Exciting news?
Jamie: We've got a gig.
Carolina: A gig?
Jamie: A gig. A concert. A job for the band. They want us to play at the Students' Union next month.
Carolina: A concert! That's fantastic. I'm so proud of you.
Jamie: Cameron organised it. He's friends with the guy who's the manager of the Students' Union bar.
Carolina: Well, that's a good contact to have.
Carolina: Look. Isn't that Cameron?
Jamie: Where?
Carolina: Over there. By the window. With that blonde girl.
Jamie: Yeah ... I think so. Yeah, it is.
Carolina: So who's the blonde girl?
Jamie: I don't know. It could be anybody. A friend. His sister.
Carolina: He's sitting very close to her.
Jamie: Stop it. Don't be so suspicious.
Carolina: Look! You don't do that to your sister.
Jamie: What?
Carolina: He's kissing her! Look! A really long kiss. That's not a sister or a friend.
Jamie: Oh god. Whoa … wait … Carolina … What are you doing?
Carolina: I'm going over there.
Jamie: Oh, no you're not. Sit down.
Carolina: But he's supposed to be Emily's boyfriend. She really likes him. She's so happy.
Jamie: Just wait. We don't want to upset Cameron …
Carolina: Upset Cameron! What about Emily?
Jamie: Just wait. We need to think about this. We need to decide what to do. Look, I don't want Cameron to see us. I don't want him to know that I saw him.
Carolina: Oh Jamie.
Jamie: Come on. Let's take our drinks outside. There are some tables in the garden.
Carolina: OK. But you know we have to tell Emily about the blonde girl.
Jamie: Do we?
Carolina: Yes, we do.
Jamie: But if she doesn't know then …
Carolina: Then what?
Jamie: Then … oh I don't know. Come on. I want to get out of here. Let's talk about it in the garden.
Adam: Welcome back, Jo.
Jo: Hello again. Oh dear! What a shock! Cameron with another woman!
Adam: Yes. Poor Emily! Do you think that Carolina will tell Emily about it?
Jo: I don’t know, but I hope so. It’s only fair.
Adam: Sometimes it’s hard to do the right thing when you know it will cause lots of trouble and unhappiness. And do you think Jamie should say something to Cameron?
Jo: I don’t know, and I don’t care, to be honest. It’s Emily who needs to know.
Adam: Well, I think Carolina might not want Jamie to be friends with someone who behaves like that.
Jo: Maybe, but the important thing is to tell Emily.
Adam: I wonder if the other girl knows about Emily. Maybe somebody should talk to her.
Jo: I don’t know. That seems too much to me.
Adam: Why don't you write and tell us what you think? Should Carolina talk to Emily? Should Jamie talk to Cameron? Should someone talk to the other girl?
Jo: And what would you do in that situation? Send us your comments.
Adam: The address is www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.
Jo: And now let's look at some of the language from the podcast. Listen to Carolina. Who is she talking about?
Jo: She's talking about Emily and Cameron. Carolina says 'she really likes him'. 'She' is Emily and 'him' is Cameron.
Adam: 'She' and 'him' are both pronouns.
Jo: 'She' is what we call a subject pronoun. 'She' is the subject of the sentence 'she really likes him'. 'She' is the one who is doing something – 'she likes'. 'Him' is an object pronoun. Who does Emily like? She likes Cameron. She likes him.
Adam: Listen to another example. Who is Carolina talking about this time?
Carolina: He's kissing her! Look! A really long kiss.
Adam: She's talking about Cameron and the girl he is with.
Jo: And he's kissing her. 'He' is the subject of the sentence – Cameron – and 'her' is the object – the girl. This time we use 'her' because she's a girl.
Adam: Listen to one more example. Listen to Jamie and notice the pronouns.
Jamie: We need to decide what to do. Look, I don't want Cameron to see us. I don't want him to know that I saw him.
Jo: Did you hear 'us'? Jamie said 'I don't want Cameron to see us'. 'Us' is another example of an object pronoun. 'We' for the subject and 'us' for the object.
Adam: It sounds complicated, but it's really simple! There are some exercises on the website to help you with pronouns, and other language from the podcast. And I think that's all for this time.
Jo: Don't forget to send us your comments. See you next time.
Should Carolina talk to Emily? Should Jamie talk to Cameron?
What would you do in that situation?
Bashayer replied on 6 January, 2021 - 06:54 Saudi Arabia
I would definitely tell Emily, it will be hard for me and her and she would be upset, but in the end, she'll know it is better to know before the relationship gets deeper with Cameron, I really don't like to be with a person who behaves like that and I don't want the one who I love to be with him.
kayaahsen replied on 4 November, 2020 - 16:18 Sweden
I would definitely tell her. That's what a friend will do, right?
Jhonny replied on 14 October, 2020 - 16:51 Venezuela
The stories about Carolina's aventure are amazing, and I still haven't heard the next chapter, but I believe that the girl who is with Cameron is Emily, so don't worry, everything will be great. And in the other hands, I want you to thank for you great job, I really like and enjoy your podcast and I appreciate you for help us to learn English lenguage. Have nice day and see you next time.
We don't have such situations in my country, but if I were Carolina, I would tell Emily even though it is quite difficult to do it.
danisep replied on 23 September, 2020 - 20:54 Colombia
If I was jamie I'd talk to cameron, is obviously that carolina are going to talk with emily and she gonna be upset, cameron needs to know and say sorry to emily, I hate cheatters, its better end the relation that break hearts, likewise It was good that Jamie, like Cameron's friend, did not let Carolina confront him because it could be embarrassing to everyone.
Hashim Ali replied on 7 June, 2020 - 10:24 Eritrea
Actually i do not like men who is lie on girlfriends about his relation with other girls always youth people make a lot of relations specially in school or university but in the other side young girls believe any men said emotional words like I love you or something . to build serious relation that s take many years to trust in someone. so to girls do not believe anyone.you have to be sure that man love you because your heart will break in the end
if I am in jemie and carolina situation maybe I do not told emliy and I will make her to know by herself
Last biker replied on 1 November, 2019 - 07:42 Romania
I can't understand very well what first "s" means (Cameron's got a really....) in this sentence (is from Series 4 Episode 4 Task 2) :
"Cameron's got a really good voice – and he's started writing some songs now."
This "s" is from "Cameron has got" or from "Cameron is got a really good voice..."
Thank you so much for your answer
Kirk replied on 2 November, 2019 - 18:32 Spain
Hello Last biker
Here it is 'has': 'Cameron has got a really good voice'.
Sergey Sh replied on 8 October, 2019 - 01:49 Russia
What did you expect? Cameron is a proper man who’d like only Emily amid all that fame being a singer of the band. No, I don’t think so. I have my own opinion about the situation. Cameron is a singer with, looks like, a very good voice. He write his own songs. Person like him always need something or someone for inspiration and new girlfriend is it. Plus there are many of girls who’re enchanted by his voice, so I guess he tend to meet new ones in the future. That’s difficult to affirm that if even Carolina informed Emily it would change something. I think Emily should have treated to this situation calm and wisely seeing that her new boyfriend is not the one she wish he would be and just leave him.
Ghadah Alelaliw replied on 15 September, 2019 - 14:03 Saudi Arabia
I think Jamie should to talk to Cameron first and understand the situation why he is with that girl..and then Carolina can talk with her friend Emily.
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Trial of the Valeyard
Colin Baker (The Doctor), Michael Jayston (The Valeyard), Lynda Bellingham (The Inquisitor), John Banks (Hermit)
There is some evil in all of us – even The Doctor. Transported aboard the Time Lords’ orbiting courtroom, The Doctor once again encounters the Valeyard, an amalgameditation of the darker sides of his nature. This time, however, The Doctor isn’t in the dock. This time, the Valeyard is the defendant, accused of a crime so terrible that the presiding Inquisitor is forbidden to reveal it even to the court, nor even to his counsel for the defence… The Doctor.
If the Valeyard is found guilty, he’ll be executed. Execute the Valeyard, and the secret of his origins dies with him. A secret that The Doctor is desperate to know… and which the Time Lords will stop at nothing to protect.
This release was available to customers who bought a 6 or 12-release subscription to The Doctor Who Monthly Range and was released generally December 2014.
Written By: Alan Barnes and Mike Maddox
Directed By: Barnaby Edwards
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Trial of the Valeyard was Big Finish Productions’ subscriber-free release for 2013.
Eta Rho is a gas giant around which orbits a single satellite.
Shadow Houses are rumoured organisations on Gallifrey where Time Lords who have experienced failed regenerations are sent.
This story was released free to Big Finish subscribers whose subscriptions included Afterlife.
This story was recorded on 15 and 20 May 2013
This story was released to the public in December 2014.
The Doctor recognises Space Station Zenobia from his trial. (The Trial of a Time Lord)
The Doctor mentions how The Master was able to survive past his final incarnation and also theorises that the Valeyard is a Watcher. (The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis)
The Doctor’s “final incarnation” mutters incoherently about Totter’s Yard (An Unearthly Child), Polly Wright, and fish people, “not as stupid as it sounds.” (The Underwater Menace)
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Skip Beat!, Vol 37
September 18, 2016 by Anna N 1 Comment
Skip Beat! Volume 37, by Yoshiki Nakamura
I always do a mental happy dance whenever a new volume of Skip Beat! comes out, because it is just so consistently good. This volume brings the pain, as Kyoko has to deal with her mother. Kyoko’s family has always been consistently absent from this series, and now the reader knows why. There was a bit of a reference to family difficulties when Kyoko had to get her mother’s permission to sign with a talent agency, but she hasn’t appeared in person in the manga before. Kyoko’s mom appears to be a cold-hearted lawyer who doesn’t want to be inconvenienced by her own daughter.
Coming off of the Heel Siblings arc, Kyoko is back in Japan, working as a Love Me section member again while the first few episodes of her new drama are airing. She runs into her mother by an elevator, but she only displays a few hostile micro-expressions before walking by her daughter, utterly ignoring her. Later, it turns out that Saena Mogami is filling in for another lawyer on a variety show and when responding to questions about her cold demeanor, she replies that she’s never had children. Both Ren and Sho witness this moment, and they think about Kyoko’s feelings, rushing to be by her side.
Sho arrives first, right after Kyoko sees her mother deny her existence. Kyoko’s response to this event is to utterly shut down her emotions. Nakamura does such a great job with Kyoko’s facial expressions in this scene. Kyoko is usually so animated, swinging from one emotional extreme to another that to see her be both beyond sad and blank at the same time is shocking. Kyoko’s eyes are shadowed in grey, and the aftermath of her mother’s interview settles on Kyoko like a physical weight. Sho being Sho, his response is to try to provoke some sort of emotion out of her, and he fails miserably.
Skip Beat! has that rare combination of gripping plots and lovely art, even though the characters might have the leg proportions of giraffes. There are always several pages in each volume where I stop to appreciate the art, like the panels that show Kyoko’s devastation, a photo shoot with Ren that shows the charisma he has that has made him a star, and the moment where Kyoko finally finds some comfort.
Kyoko goes on the run and finds Ren, but she thinks he’s Corn! Oh the tangled web we weave, etc! Still, no mater what side of himself Ren may be portraying, he’s the refuge that Kyoko needs at the time. I can see this storyline spinning out over several volumes, and as usual when Skip Beat! embarks on new direction I can’t wait to see what happens next.
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I was struck by that Ren photo shoot, too. It kind of felt like ’80s shoujo manga somehow! (That’s a compliment.)
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Skip Beat!, Vol. 38
Skip Beat! Volume 38 by Yoshiki Nakamura
Skip Beat! is always emotionally harrowing, but after 38 volumes, there are plenty of different character relationships and plot points that can be explored for maximum drama. This volume finally confronts Kyoko’s relationship with her mother. After seeing the ways Kyoko has been damaged by her abandonment as a child throughout Skip Beat! up until this point, this confrontation is a long time coming, and Kyoko’s reactions and resilience show just how far she’s come.
This volume of Skip Beat! starts out with Sho being an idiot, because a little bit of comic relief is useful before delving into childhood trauma. Kyoko and Ren are also firmly locked into the misunderstandings and delicate emotional balance that causes any interaction between them to be weighted down with layers of unspoken feelings, elements of comfort, and pure anxiety. Kyoko’s encounter with Ren is helping build up her up psychologically, and she comments “I’ll prepare myself body and spirit, since I’ll be fighting a psywar in a blizzard”.
As Kyoko heads towards meeting her mother, she’s keeps her “Love Me” stamp with an infinite number of points that she received from Ren close by, like a token to take into battle. Kyoko first has a conversation with one of her mother’s co-workers in leading up to the main event. Kyoko begins to wonder about her father, and if her mother Saena experienced something similar to the rejection that she experienced from Sho, that kicked off her desire for vengeance. Saena is caught up in biases and assumptions, thinking that Kyoko dropped out of school and that she had a physical relationship with Sho. Saena’s stubbornness and strong facade makes it difficult to communicate with her.
As Kyoko and Saena face off, Nakamura’s portrayal of demons lurking in the background of the conversation and dramatic micro-expressions shows the charged nature of the confrontation. Their conversation is interrupted by flashbacks of a younger Saena struggling to make her way as a lawyer, and seemingly torn between her job and the idea of love. While Saena’s backstory might place her actions in context, it doesn’t really the cruel way she abandoned her daughter. This storyline is obviously going to be stretched out over several volumes, and I have to admit I’m feeling more anxious about Kyoko than I have in awhile! I’m hoping that the maturity that she’s built up over time helps her deal with whatever emotional bombshell her mother is about to drop. Skip Beat! continues to be extremely rewarding for readers, and I’m happy it is still going so strong after 38 volumes.
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Women in basketball do exist
By Nthabiseng Mushi on October 9, 2008 in FanZone
The world of basketball has been dominated by men for a long time and not much has been done to change that; intriguingly this dominance doesn’t only exist in basketball but in all aspects of sport as well. August was Women’s Month but still a sense of “It’s a man’s world…” was lurking here at home; it took a special lady from the US to change that…
Photos by NBA Photos/Getty Images
For the first time ever, BWB (Basketball Without Boarders) held The Women’s Clinic in South Africa at The American School. Together with Hoops for Hope, NBA brought WNBA and Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Azzi, who’s also the Ambassador for NBA Cares, along to help run the clinic. About 70 South African girls were at the clinic getting coached by some of the best in the world, not only about basketball; but about values, education, gender equality etc.When speaking to Jennifer about the camp, she mentioned how women’s sport in South Africa is lacking infrastructure and how if the government did something about this issue; women’s sport in general would improve. Both Thierry Kita and Jennifer Azzi thought it’d be a great idea for the girls to have a separate camp from the boys but with the same programme in mind and to their surprise in the near future, (having run such a successful camp). With many requests sent to the NBA about running a ladies’ camp being put on hold; finally after a lot of persuasion from Hoops for Hope and Thierry, the NBA approved the request! The camp was a great success and we hope to see more BWB ladies’ camps in the future.
The annual Women’s Tournament is coming up, from the 28th to the 30th of November at the Communal Hall in Orlando East Soweto. This tournament is a true reflection of the abundant talent we have in women’s basketball here in South Africa. R20 000 is up for grabs for the winning team in the senior section and R15 000 in the junior… ‘Cash money’ for the All stars and MVP will also be up for the taking. Gauteng basketball Association and Sports and Recreation South Africa are the sponsors of the tournament and teams from all corners of the continent are invited. This is the one; if not only tournament that women in basketball look forward to the whole year; as most tournaments and camps are held for men.
With extra effort to bring more women into basketball; there’s been an addition to the female coaches to the list (after all; there was only one lady on that list initially)… Emma Ledwaba is the assistant coach to Willie Matlakala for the u/20 Zone VI games that will be taking place in Potchefstroom. Emma came back last year after playing and studying in the US. With her being originally from Limpopo; Emma is a very talented player and hopefully she can transfer that knowledge into her coaching career. There are a few other names that need to go on the list of women coaches such as USSA coach of the tournament; Tuks head coach; Nicki de Villiers. This lady only started playing the game when she got to varsity and has been playing for many years ever since. Nicki has featured in the national setup as coach and player but due to unspoken circumstances; stepped down from her national duties.
During the days of CBL; given that one of the conditions of a team participating in the league was that they had to have a women’s team; it did a lot for women’s basketball! The CBL also had a major role to play in the set up of basketball for ladies in South Africa. Hopefully the new BSA committee that will be appointed later this month will do an even better job by really paying attention and dedicating themselves to looking at women in basketball and finding ways to give women’s basketball a face lift. We need to see women in basketball being appreciated abit more because they too bring something special to this wonderful game.
Article done by Nthabiseng Mushi
BWB 2008 camp from the participants’ perspective
Tags: basketball without borders, BWB, Campus Basketball League, CBL, Gauteng Basketball Association, GBA, National Basketball Association, NBA, South Africa, WNBA, Women National Basketball Association
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Setlogelo says:
The article is a clone to the Unitards and Gold Medal. It would have been better to comment under such a topic as a form of acknowledging the intellectual capacity of the writer. There is also a separate brief about the women’s tournament. It would be great to have uniform views.
Roxy says:
Why is it that when we talk about women in basketball, people only ever mention those women in high profile positions? What about the women coaches who are involved with school basketball? They too make an invaluable contirbution to women’s basketball. School level is where it all begins. Perhaps we should also acknowledge these young women and in so doing encourage them to keep learning, keep developing their coaching skills. I have seen it time and again, young coaches quiting, simply because there is no recognition and no interest shown by those in the top positions in developing young coaches. There are hardly any opportunities available for young women coaches to grow and learn at higher levels of coaching. Instead of allowing these passionate young women to fade into the background and disappear, we need to nuture them. We all have to start somewhere but once that first step has been taken, we need a plan that identifies young coaches and aids them in advancing through the system to one day coach at a national level. I think it’s time for ALL women involved in basketball to come together and form a untied group with a clear mission and vision to ensure a solid foundation for the future of women’s basketball. It is up to us. In the words of Gandhi “Be the change you want to see in the world”.
Great points Roxy
I hope that your proposal for women to form a group will not end as words but will be followed up by action from your part. I am saying this cause as I stated on the Unitards post it is my observation that Yes there are women in bball but most tend to play victims waiting for a messiah to rescue.
Roxy makes a lot of good points and after reading a lot of comments on the topic maybe the good work being done at grassroots is not filtering through. But there are a lot of women out there doing some great work. Keep it up.
ciao,V
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Dictionary of the north west semitic inscriptions
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Dictionary of the North-west Semitic inscriptions / by J. Hoftijzer andK. Jongeling ; with appendices by R.C. Steiner, A. Mozak Moshavi and B. Porten. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Accordingly, the need for a new dictionary has been felt for some motorboy.infosts therefore will welcome the appearance of Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (henceforth: DNWSI) and will wish to congratulate J. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling for presenting to the scholarly world this work of major motorboy.infors familiar with DISO will find the same system at work in DNWSI.
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Handbuch der Orientalistik, part 1: Nahe und der Mittlere Osten, Leiden/New York/Cologne: E. . This dictionary is concerned with the North-Western Semitic material found in inscriptions, papyri and ostraca in languages such as Phoenician, Punic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Edomite. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. J. Hoftijzer, and K. Jongeling, Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. 2nd ed. HOSANE/HOSNME 21 Leiden/N.Y.: Brill, Full list of Abbreviations What Links Here. The Northwest Semitic epigrapha enriches our understanding of the Old Testament and of the Ugaritic texts, as well as our knowledge of Semitic languages. This dictionary covers the period from BC to AD Besides translations, the entries discuss scholarly literature and include full . This dictionary is concerned with the North-West Semitic material found in inscriptions, papyri and ostraca in Phoenician, Punic, Hebrew, various forms of Aramaic, Ammonite, Edomite, the language of Deir Alla et cetera. The material covers the period from ca. B.C. to ca. A.D. Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/21, 2 volumes) Written by J. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling Reviewed By Richard S. Hess. Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions: M-T (HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL Studies) part two by motorboy.infozer And K. Jongeling motorboy.info Seller assumes all Seller Rating: % positive. Accordingly, the need for a new dictionary has been felt for some motorboy.infosts therefore will welcome the appearance of Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (henceforth: DNWSI) and will wish to congratulate J. Hoftijzer and K. 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1887 INDIAN HISTORY X-RARE Tribes Massacres Scalping SIGNED BY CIVIL WAR GENERAL
THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN His Origin, Development, Decline and Destiny. Published in 1887 by D. 9 x 7 illustrated cloth hardcover with gilt decoration. Exterior as shown in photo, cloth a little darkened. No torn, loose, or missing pages.
Text is clean and complete, occasional smudges. Occasional small round brownish marks near the gutter of several pages, about the size of a pencil eraser. Owner's name inside front cover, gift inscription on first endpaper (see Provenance below).
A great example of this very rare 19th-century Native American title. Provenance: There is an important handwritten inscription on the endpaper.
At the top of the page appears the name Rev. Below Reverend Howard's name is an inscription, as follows: Perhaps my brother will associate this little memento with the Peace Campaign Oct. 16 1887; and, with the Divine Blessing, its successful issues in connection with the coming of the British Arbitration deputation.
West Medford, November 16, 1887. General Charles Henry Howard was a Union Brevet Brigadier General in the Civil War. Following the war, General Howard settled in Illinois, worked for the American Missionary Association, became editor of several newspapers and assisted his brother Oliver Howard (founder of Howard University) in founding many colleges and the settling of Native Americans in the West.
He also became involved in the American Peace movement and in 1893 was appointed a delegate to the Chicago Peace Congress by the American Peace Society. General Howard's other brother, Reverend Rowland Bailey Howard, to whom the book is inscribed, was also an official of the American Peace Society, which he served as Secretary. Regarding the Peace Campaign referred to by General Howard in his inscription, in 1887, as part of a joint effort by American and British Quakers, a deputation consisting of several members of British Parliament visited their counterparts along with President Grover Cleveland at Washington to promote "Peace and Arbitration" between Great Britain and the United States.
It was an event celebrated by citizens of both countries, especially those in the Peace movement. General Howard's military career alone is sufficient to warrant interest in a book bearing his inscription and initialed signature. He served at the Battle of Bull Run; the Battle of Fair Oaks (in which he was severely wounded by an exploding artillery shell); the June-July 1863 Gettysburg Campaign; and the Atlanta Campaign including the famous March to the Sea. But the fact that part of General Howard's post-war career was devoted to the settlement of Native Americans in the western territories makes the placing of his imprimatur on this copy of THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN even more relevant and special. Note on Rarity and Value: I refer you to two of my previous sales of this title/edition.
The presence of a handwritten inscription by a Civil War Brigadier General only adds to the value of this book. Here is a rarity in the annals of 19th-century American Indian literature a serious and sympathetic study of Indian history by a white author who describes the mistreatment of the Indian as one of the abuses of the age.
In THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, Elbridge S. Brooks traces the American Indian experience from the colonial shores of New England to the high deserts of the Old West. A fascinating, wide-ranging narrative accompanied by pages and pages of antique illustrations.
Elbridge Streeter Brooks was renowned in the 19th century as an American author, editor, and critic. He made his reputation as an author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction for younger readers, much of it on historical or patriotic subjects in fact, some of his patriotic works were issued under the auspices of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution. But in THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, he sheds the mantle of patriotic storyteller and assumes the more discerning and objective viewpoint of the historian. What great personal fortitude must have been required on the part of Mr. Brooks, who earned his livelihood recording the proud saga of his America, to tell the story of the American Indian, so wronged by the United States government and its people.
A period advertisement for THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN describes the book thus. The first and only complete and consecutive story of the Red Men of America. It is sympathetic but not sentimental, practical but not one-sided, picturesque but not romantic. A book for all Americans to read. In the Preface to THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, Brooks explains why he felt it was important for Americans to do some soul-searching in regard to the original proprietors of the land.
The popular opinion of the American Indian has for generations been based upon prejudice and ignorance as thoughtless as it is unreasoning and unjust. The red man of America may be no saint, but he is at least a man and should not be condemned unheard. He has his side of the story quite as much as has his white conqueror. Desire, acquisition, superiority, indifference these have been the steps toward the ostracism that has been visited upon the American Indian, denying him justice and opportunity for advancement since the earliest days of white occupation. It is these barriers to progress that have alike created and complicated the vexed Indian problem. This volume does not attempt to state or solve that problem. It simply seeks to arrange in something like complete and consecutive form the story of the North American Indian as he has existed for generations, and as from supremacy in the land of his fathers he has fallen under the ban of the white civilization that conquered and displaced him. The mistreatment of the Indian, a recent writer declares, is one of the abuses of the age, and one of the reproaches of civilization. It is high time that the abuse and the reproach should give place to something like fairness and moral sense.
If the future of the American Indian is to be brighter and more self-helpful than ever before the credit of this advance is in great measure due to the self-sacrificing exertions of those missionaries of good who have, in spite of heedlessness, and in spite of slur, devoted so much of their lives to the bettering of a misunderstood and unfortunate race. To all such, and to all friends of humanity who, despising injustice, seek to convert public opinion into public conscience, this story of the American Indian is gratefully inscribed. Chapter One The Ancient American. Chapter Two The Red Man Before Columbus.
Chapter Three Race Divisions and Kinship Ties. Chapter Four Indian Faiths and Confederations. Chapter Six The Indian Home. Chapter Seven The Indian Youth. Chapter Eight Manners and Materials.
Chapter Nine The Coming of the White Man. Chapter Eleven Placing the Responsibility. Chapter Twelve Pushed to the Wall. Chapter Fourteen The Indian's Outlook.
ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDE: Quigualtanquis defiance The coldest of existing lands Ruins called the Governors House, Yucatan Skeleton of the megatherium The mylodon Hunting the dinornis An ancient volcano in the Rocky Mountain range The mammoth and primitive man Primitive household utensils Mounds on the Kickapoo River Skull found in a mound in Tennessee Skull found in mound in Missouri Ground plan of high bank pueblo Home of the village Indians In the grand canon of the Colorado A cliff dwelling Ruins of an Arizona cliff dwelling Natures wonderland The home of the ancient American A study of comparative cranial outlines An Indian myth Interior of a partially restored cliff-dwellers house Hiawatha, the river-maker Atotarho, the war chief An Indian village One of Natures highways The spoor of the game The wounded buffalo The hunted elk Shell ornaments and fish hooks First discoveries The landing of Columbus The return of Columbus An Iroquois scout The gate of Ladore In the shadow of Shasta A Pueblo boy Powhatan One of the higher types Glen Canon The marvelous white man The spirit of peace An Indian myth Fighting the stone giant Coyote fetish In the land of the fetish The Navajo of today Palisaded Iroquois village In the Moki land The home of the Columbians A town of the Zunis White Buffalo An Indians greeting The White Chief The domed earth houses of the Pacific tribes In the Iroquois country An Iroquois long-house An admirer of warlike prowess The Mandan Lodge of the Northwest Here I discovered five papooses slung to the trees An education in drudgery Dreaming of his medicine As happy as a white baby The Scalp Dance On the War Trail The Ceremony of the Wampum Belts A lesson in archery A Wampum necklace Decorated wampum belts Indian method of lighting fire Navajo basket work Indian weapons Council of chiefs and warriors So the white man came Along the narrow trail the startling tidings sped Spanish occupation The death of his comrade The pitiless man-hunter The burial of De Soto Killed in the swamp Red man and white Civilization distrusts savagery Doomed and uncovenanted heathen An episode of the French and Indian War Justice or war which? Ho, Waldron, does your hand weigh a pound now?
A new feature in the Indian landscape Hispaniola Colonies at the time of the Revolution Attack on stockade Military tyranny In contact with civilization An episode of the Seminole War The white man wanted the land Fighting the Indians on the Virginia frontier The home of the Indian Types of a fading race Fra Junipero Serro The meeting of the races Charging an Indian camp The renegade of civilization Pocahontas and her son Pontiac, chieftain of the Ottawas Te-cum-the, Chief of the Shawanoe Sa-go-ye-wat-ha the Seneca Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiah the Sauk Spotted Tail with his wife and daughter His story is a simple one Contact with a higher intelligence A candidate for Hampton School The land of their fathers Pack train leaving a pueblo In process of civilization Darkness Daylight. DONT MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO OWN THIS RARE AND BEAUTIFUL ACCOUNT OF AMERICAS FIRST INHABITANTS, THE AMERICAN INDIANS. Remember folks, this is an 1887 FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY A CIVIL WAR BRIGADIER GENERAL WHO AIDED IN THE SETTLEMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS AFTER THE WAR. This book is 131 years old. Please be sure to add me to your List of Favorite Sellers.
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Year Printed: 1887
Topic: United States
Binding: Fine Binding
Author: Elbridge Brooks
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: D.
Place of Publication: Boston Massachusetts
Special Attributes: NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN WARS TRIBES SCALPING
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Silverton, Mt. Angel & Scotts Mills
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Silver Creek Fellowship packs 5,000 relief kits
October 2020 Posted in Community
Silver Creek Fellowship. Photo by Melissa Wagoner
By Melissa Wagoner
When the wildfires swept through Oregon on Labor Day, Kaiser Permanente immediately leapt into action, contacting the Red Cross and asking how the organization could help. But it wasn’t because it provides health care – though the company’s providers continued that important work throughout the days and weeks following the devastation, even while many of them were evacuated or had experienced loss themselves. Rather, it was because of Kaiser Permanente’s dedication to community care.
“Kaiser Permanente serves this community,” Kimberly Mounts, a spokesperson for the company, confirmed. Adding that there are no less than 600 Kaiser Permanente employees that live in and around the Silverton area. “We’re ensuring that folks are taken care of. It’s part of our mission – hence the rapid response.”
Once contacted by the company, the Oregon Red Cross connected Kaiser Permanente with another institution – Silver Creek Fellowship in Silverton – which was aiding in the creation of an estimated 5,000 wildfire relief kits being shipped across Oregon.
“The wildfire relief kits are going to people in the community who have lost their homes,” Kurt Barnes, a pastor at Silver Creek Fellowship, explained. Listing tarps, hand sanitizer, garbage bags and gloves as the items being packed inside large plastic totes and shipped alongside rakes, shovels and handmade sifters by Red Cross box truck.
“It’s so people can actually sift through the ashes,” he continued. Adding, “A lot of people, when they’re given these kits, that’s the only thing they own. It’s really emotional for them.”
And so, on Sept. 25, despite the pouring rain, eight Kaiser Permanente employees, joined a host of other volunteers in the packing of the last 500 kits.
“I’m really proud of Kaiser for giving me the opportunity to help,” Nichole Powers – an Administrator at the North Lancaster branch, who joined the company nine years ago for precisely this reason – said. “Kaiser is very much about community.”
Which is why, as the work party drew to a close, Dr. Yara Delgado – who lives in Silverton and has delivered countless babies there for the past 12 years, presented Dale Kunce, the Chief Executive Officer for the Cascades Region of the Red Cross, a check for $300,000 to aid in the organization’s wildfire recovery efforts.
“Kaiser wants to extend their hand to the Red Cross and the community,” Dr. Delgado said during her presentation, “to shelter, support and feed those in need.”
But the donation will achieve even more than that, according to Kunce who, when asked what such a sizable sum could do during a crisis like the current one said, “It means a lot. But what it buys – that’s very difficult.”
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Marnie Banger
(Australian Associated Press)
Melissa Westcott has become accustomed to fluctuating sales at her two brick-and-mortar shoe shops, especially given one is based in the heart of a Queensland mining town.
But a massive spike in sales through her online store in the past year – which she credits to marketing training provided by social media giant Facebook – has made those retail ups and downs far easier to bear.
“It’s just made us very stable, which after 10 years of having a start-up I feel very happy about,” she told AAP.
“If I was just to rely on my retail stores, it would be very difficult to keep going through.”
Ms Westcott’s business Big on Shoes – which sells women’s shoes up to size 15 is one of 3000 small businesses based in regional Australia to have received in-person training from Facebook in the past year.
The social media company has run workshops covering a range of topics in eight towns, including Mackay and Wollongong.
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg committed to the program in a year ago, alongside former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Vietnam.
Ms Westcott said she used a workshop in Mackay to seek advice on conducting paid marketing through the platform.
She now credits such advertisements with a trebling in sales through her online store, where her business began, in the past three months.
“We are seeing direct outcomes from it, and the business is growing.”
Facebook policy director Mia Garlick said helping smaller businesses better understand the platform and current trends, such as Instagram stories, can give them a big leg up.
“There’s this tremendous opportunity for small business, particularly those in regional Australia, to really leverage the power of technology to be a great equaliser, and let them connect with customers and grow their business,” she said.
Ms Garlick said Facebook will continue training businesses in using its product even though it’s met its goal of 3000.
“We want to do more. So we’re hoping to be able to reach more communities around the country,” she said.
The platform has also picked 30 of the businesses to have benefited from its free training to feature in a gift guide being launched in Canberra on Wednesday.
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America’s Plutocrats Play the Political Ponies
by Oregon PeaceWorks • March 20, 2012 • 0 Comments
By Sam Pizzigati
Life sometimes imitates art. Life also sometimes imitates political cliché. The cliché in this case: the notion that tunnel-vision political reporting has reduced campaigns for American public office to nothing more than mere “horse races.”
This year, in the struggle for the Republican Presidential nomination, that
“horse race” analogy has essentially become a literal reflection of reality.
The real horse racing industry follows a simple time-worn pattern: A wealthy connoisseur of horse flesh buys a thoroughbred. The wealthy connoisseur keeps racing that thoroughbred until the connoisseur loses interest.
“Until They Lose Interest”
In the current GOP Presidential “horse race,” we see the exact same pattern. Wealthy connoisseurs of political talent pick a candidate. These wealthy connoisseurs then keep that candidate racing until they lose interest.
Foster Friess, a billionaire mutual fund executive, hasn’t yet lost interest in Rick Santorum. Friess has personally bankrolled the “super PAC” that has enabled Santorum to stay in the primary hunt.
Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul couple, haven’t yet lost interest in Newt Gingrich. The Adelson family has single-handedly supplied $10.5 of the $12 million that has gone into the super PAC that’s keeping Gingrich in the nominating race.
Mitt Romney, meanwhile, is leading that race, but only because he has more billionaires on his side than anyone else. Four of these billionaires from the hedge fund industry — Paul Singer, Julian Robertson, Robert Mercer, and John Paulson — have each contributed $1 million to the cause of Mitt.
In all, the super PAC run by Romney cronies has collected $1 million from 10 men of immense means, $2 million from one other, and at least $100,000 each from almost 40 additional politically inclined super rich, more than enough to fund the $17 million TV ad campaign that bounced Romney into the nomination lead.
Is Any Election Worth $2 Billion?
This White House horse race isn’t going to end, of course, until November. By that time, news analysts are predicting, total spending on the 2012 Presidential race will have likely reached over $2 billion, making this year’s election the most expensive in the history of the known universe.
Super PACs — quasi “independent” committees that can accept donations of unlimited size — will do the bulk of that spending. These super PACs, the Los Angeles Times noted last week, are now playing a larger role in politics than the candidates’ own personal campaigns, mainly because candidate campaign committees can accept no donation larger than $2,500.
A string of court decisions have made that $2,500 limit a dead-letter elsewhere across the political landscape. Wealthy individuals and the corporations they run can now contribute as much as they want to political committees that maintain a nominal “independence” from the campaigns of the candidates they support.
Latest Dodge: Super PAC “Nonprofits”
These super PACs do have to disclose their donors, and the latest disclosures came last Tuesday. But the disclosures now required leave a good chunk of the campaign finance scene in the dark. Super PACs have been setting up subsidiaries that can qualify for nonprofit status so long as less than half their money goes to politics. These “nonprofits” don’t have to reveal their donors.
The bottom line: The wealthy are shoveling even more of their loot into politics than the disclosures that came out last week indicated. In effect, says Campaign Legal Center policy director Meredith McGehee, we have entered “a world of unlimited money in politics.”
In this world, she adds, “those who can marshal enormous amounts of wealth” can “drown out the voices of the average Americans.”
Those who do this marshaling, for their part, never fail to emphasize the nobility of their political engagement. Take, for instance, Harold Simmons, the Dallas billionaire who has dropped $8.6 million into super PACs backing an array of rich people-friendly candidates and causes over the last year.
“Mr. Simmons is a passionate conservative, and he has been for quite some time,” his spokesman, Chuck McDonald, told the press last week.
MacDonald went on to add that Simmons — a leveraged buyout king now worth an estimated $9.6 billion — has no specific policy agenda in mind when he’s making his contributions. He simply believes “in conservative ideology.”
This conservative ideology that has Simmons so passionately committed just coincidentally meshes up quite nicely with the huge payoffs deep pockets like Simmons can ensure themselves via victory on election day.
Carried Interest – Great Deal for Billionaires
Just one political decision alone — the tax treatment of so-called “carried interest” — can make an annual difference of tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars for Simmons and his fellow billionaires. Consider the biggest superstar in the hedge fund firmament, Romney-backer John Paulson, a Wall Street whiz who pocketed $4.9 billion in 2010 and another $3.7 billion in 2007.
Most of Paulson’s hedge fund income comes as “carried interest” subject to just a 15 percent federal capital gains tax rate, a tax rate well below the 35 percent top marginal rate on “ordinary” income.
In other words, the preferential tax treatment for carried interest all by itself saves hedge fund types like Paulson $20 million on every $100 million in carried interest income they collect.
Republicans in the Senate, with some Democratic help, have repeatedly blocked attempts to repeal this preferential treatment over recent years. But the Democratic senator who has been the most pivotally hedge fund-friendly, Chuck Schumer of New York, now says he’ll vote to repeal the carried interest loophole.
That makes the occupant of the White House all the more important to wheeler-dealers like John Paulson and his friends.
“Of course these guys are going to give a million dollars,” as U.S. Senator Al Franken from Minnesota noted last week. “What a bargain — what a bargain to give that to a candidate who they know will veto a bill that makes the carried interest subject to the top” income tax rate.
All the major GOP candidates have so far pledged their fealty to the cause of keeping carried interest exempt from the ordinary top tax rate. That shouldn’t shock anyone, given last week’s super PAC campaign contribution disclosures.
What should shock? That America’s billionaires — given how much at tax time the 2012 horse race could cost them in carried interest income alone — aren’t giving super PACs even more than they already have. Φ
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies. Read the current issue or sign up at Inequality.Org to receive Too Much in your email inbox.
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Recommendation For An ‘Appropriate’ Seed-screening Program Shows FDA Unwilling To Take Responsibility For Its Recommendations
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, May 12, 2009
On April 28, 2009, the Perishable Pundit published a piece titled, Insights On The Alfalfa Sprout Advisory, which included an interview with Bob Sanderson of Jonathan’s Sprouts. The interview revealed an insight into a fundamental food safety problem regarding alfalfa sprouts:Alfalfa seeds are not typically grown for human consumption.So all the food safety burden is put on the sprouter. We suggested the following:
Most alfalfa is raised for animal feed, so they make no effort to avoid animals or animal excrement in the growing fields. Later on, when a sprouting facility buys the seed it suddenly becomes food for human consumption. Yet it was not grown under any procedures designed to keep it clean and free of pathogens.
Any buyers out there who want to make a productive contribution, here is an opportunity: Make a policy that next year you will only buy alfalfa sprouts that are grown from seed certified to have been raised on a third-party audited, GAP-compliant farm. This should also be added to the FDA’s Guidance Document.
We seem to have hit a nerve, as three days later the FDA sent out a letter to the sprout industry, which included these lines:
As you are aware, seeds are considered the most likely source of contamination in most sprout-associated outbreaks. Therefore, it is important that sprout growers source their seeds from suppliers with an appropriate program to screen their seeds for potential contamination with pathogens.
This kind of communication illustrates clearly the enormous frustration of dealing with the FDA and the enormous obstacles the incentives of the FDA pose for food safety.
The questions are obvious: Why use vague language such as saying that seed producers ought to have “an appropriate program” — what does that mean? How would a farmer know if he had one, and what would make a sprouter agree with the farmer on that point?
And is the goal solely to “screen” for pathogens or is the goal also to grow seeds in an environment where they are less likely to become contaminated with a pathogen?
If someone managed to somehow discern what the FDA was talking about in terms of an “appropriate program,” where would a sprouter find seed that was grown under such conditions? Would it be labeled in some special way? Inspected in some way? Audited in some fashion?
Does the FDA communicate in this way because it has no idea of what the “appropriate program” might be or does it communicate this way because the very last thing the FDA wants is to be held responsible for something?
As long as it merely urges an “appropriate program” as the criteria, FDA is fully protected. If there ever is a food safety problem, it will use that food safety problem as ipso facto proof that the suppliers did not have an “appropriate program” in place.
If FDA says anything useful, say that in an “appropriate program,” fields must be fenced with a fence going from 12 inches below ground to six feet over the ground level, and if a burrowing animal digs under the fence or a leaping animal leaps over the fence and this causes a food safety problem, then this failure will be on FDA’s hands.
And the Number One most important priority at FDA is not enhancing safety, of food or medicine; it is, instead, making sure that no FDA executive can ever be blamed for a death or illness related to food or medicine.
There are many efforts afoot to reorganize our government’s effort in the food safety arena. Many of the plans, such as proposals to create one food safety agency focused on logistics, organizational charts, developing clearer lines of authority, etc., may help or hurt or not make a difference.
To make a big difference, we need to focus in on changing the incentives of individuals… in this case the executives at FDA.
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de’ Medici
The spelling-to-pronunciation rules for Italian are reasonably straightforward once you have learnt them. Apart from the e–ɛ and o–ɔ contrasts, which some Italians ignore anyway, the only important thing the spelling doesn’t tell you is where the word stress goes.
The default is for it to fall on the penultimate syllable (‘parole piane’: caro ˈkaːɾo, fanciullo fanˈtʃullo, dottore dotˈtoːɾe, incominciare iŋkominˈtʃaːɾe). But in a minority of words it falls elsewhere. Final stress is always shown by a written accent mark (‘parole tronche’: città tʃitˈta, caffè kafˈfɛ). The big trap for the foreigner is words with antepenultimate stress (‘parole sdrucciole’: povero ˈpɔːveɾo, scatola ˈskaːtola, vicolo ˈviːkolo).
It is very easy to be caught out ordering “feˈɡaːto” from the menu in an Italian restaurant, instead of the correct ˈfeːɡato (fegato, ‘liver’). You may remember the earthquake at L’Aquila (blog, 13 April 2009) and the difficulty we had getting that name correctly stressed.
So I had some sympathy when a friend of mine recently came back from a weekend break in Florence. He was enthusing about the art and architecture he had seen and about the influence of the … meˈdɪtʃi family there. But no, in Italian the (de’) Medici have antepenultimate stress, ˈmɛːditʃi.
Actually I am in no position to crow, because I see from my Dizionario italiano multimediale e multilingue d’Ortografia e di Pronunzia (blog, 19 July) that the stressed vowel in Medici is open-mid rather than the close-mid that I wrongly put in LPD as the Italian pronunciation.
This name does though raise a point of principle. My friend is by no means alone in giving this word penultimate stress. On the contrary, even though we may agree that the correct anglicization is ˈmedɪtʃi, nevertheless meˈdiːtʃi and the like are very commonly heard from English speakers. Was I right to include them as secondary variants in LPD? Or ought a pronunciation dictionary to shun such incorrect forms? It’s the old question of description vs prescription. While I prefer to go for accurate description, at least I try to prioritize the correct form.
As we all know, there are cases like Beijing in which the ‘incorrect’ -ˈʒɪŋ is much more prevalent in English than the -ˈdʒɪŋ that corresponds to the pronunciation in the original Chinese.
Paul Carley 25 October 2010 at 10:06
I wonder where you stand on the pronunciation of 'Colombia'. There seems to be a growing trend for people to use the LOT vowel in the stressed syllable in imitation of Spanish speakers. But then shouldn't they use the same vowel in the first syllable, if they are trying to be so 'authentic'?
Phil 25 October 2010 at 10:47
Why did you transcribe caro, dottore and povero with an alveolar tap? I thought the Italian r was always an alveolar trill, unlike the Spanish one.
SH 25 October 2010 at 11:04
Isn't it also a question about having an English variant for an Italian name? Countries and cities, but also kings, queens, popes, and other historical figures have established English (and, I guess, French, German, Russian, ...) pronunciations besides pronunciation in the original language. If your queen is called [eˈliːzabɛt] in German, and the last leader of the USSR is commonly referred to as [ˈɡɔrbatʃɔf], I suppose that the Medici can afford an English name of their own. BTW, in German they're called [ˈmeːditʃi] (and we could do the more Italian-like [ɛː], but we won't).
Thomas Widmann 25 October 2010 at 11:13
Italian orthography also doesn't show the distinction between /s/ and /z/ (both 's') and between /ts/ and /dz/ (both 'z').
John Wells 25 October 2010 at 11:16
Paul: vowel reduction is a quite different issue from word stress. OK, if you want to speak proper Italian and Spanish you have to learn to avoid it, but it's OK as part of the anglicization of foreign names.
Phil: sorry, you thought wrong. Single Italian r is usually a tap.
mallamb 25 October 2010 at 13:35
The way you dealt with Beijing was to warn against -ˈʒɪŋ. Why don't you warn against meˈdiːtʃi? And perhaps even against [ˈɡɔrbətʃɒf], where you don't "try to prioritize the correct form"? (You do give the Russian pronunciation, but is the English version gɔːbaˈtʃɒf so rare? Or krʊˈʃtʃɒf/xrʊˈʃtʃɒf, which you also don't prioritize?) It seems here you have been thinking along the lines of brotwart's idea of accepting the English variant. Where countries and cities, kings, queens, popes, and other historical figures do have established English spellings and pronunciations, I would enthusiastically agree that we should use them.
Or where will it all end? People may succeed in pronouncing Mumbai for Bombay, but they mispronounce Myanmar for Burma (the LPD sound file has ˈmaɪənmɑː for BrE, which is certainly not among the transcriptions), and persist in saying Bay Zhing, which is such a parody of Beijing that it is no less incomprehensible to a Chinese without any English than Peking was or is (partly their own fault, of course, for adopting such a quirky romanization, than which even the Wade-Giles ‘Peiching’ would have produced more recognizable results). And Bay Zhing doesn’t even conform to English phonology. The Japanese will have none of it, and still call Peking Pekin (pronouncing it [pekin], of course) or if they are really hard cases, Hokkyô, which is the Japanese pronunciation of the name in Chinese characters!
Next they will have us writing Moskva and pronouncing that unrecognizably, and the Italians trying to pronounce it any way at all, and insisting we say Napoli etc., as the Republic of Ireland will be insisting everyone calls Dublin Baile Átha Cliath, for which LPD's ˌblɑː ˈklɪə ˌblɔː- ǁ -ˈkliː ə ˌblɔː would be pretty optimistic, and I'm not sure about Irish [bɫɑː ˈkliə] for that entry either.
Of course Paris will be statutorily French in pronunciation for us, and in spelling as well for the Dutch, but their Parijs will survive in South Africa's Parys, which of course will have to keep its Afrikaans pronunciation.
This fetish for slavishly following the names and spellings many countries are now giving themselves has simply brought about a Babel in which nobody knows what where or who is being talked about, including the people who promulgate the names.
David Crosbie 25 October 2010 at 14:26
Not long ago, there was a bit of an outcry when Radio Four put out a programme on that family's role in the Renaissance with Bethany Hughes consistently saying mɛ'diːtʃi — or, perhaps, mɪ'di:tʃi. This wan't someone speaking off the cuff: Bethany had been to Florence and spoken to Italians, some of which we heard. And clearly there was a prepared script. My conclusion was that the producer had decided that ˈmɛːditʃi was too foreign — even for Radio Four.
Steve Doerr 25 October 2010 at 16:13
The various musical groups that use the name I Musici are regularly called ˌiːmuˈziːtʃi on Classic FM. In a way it's surprising, given that we are used to penultimate -ic- in Latin-derived words throwing the stress back to the antepenult.
John Wells said:
> I see from my Dizionario italiano multimediale e
> multilingue d’Ortografia e di Pronunzia (blog,
> 19 July)
Just a hint: when you want to refer to your earlier blog entries, you can give direct links. Just scroll to the bottom of the entry to where it says 'Posted by John Wells at' and the posting time that follows has a hyperlink associated with it that you (and others) can use to link back to that post. In this case it's http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/07/un-dizionario-enorme.html.
Steve - I know, and sometimes I do this. In this case it was just laziness that I didn't.
Ian Preston 25 October 2010 at 18:01
People may succeed in pronouncing Mumbai for Bombay ...
Do they though? It seems to me that people have little idea how Marathi is pronounced (and why should they?) and almost always say mʊm'beɪ or mʊm'baɪ instead of mumbəiː.
Steve, some of these musical groups that use the name I Musici are regularly called ˌiːmuˈziːtʃi also call themselves that. You have reminded me of a recent report that the British Medici String Quartet, having long resisted all efforts to get them to call themselves ˈmeidɪtʃi instead of mɪˈdiːtʃi, had finally caved in and started doing so. I do find it hard to believe, but I'm sure I can't have imagined it. So there is hope even for Radio Four, David.
I didn't say they do succeed in pronouncing Mumbai for Bombay, never mind competently, but "Why should they?" is precisely the question. My standards are not as high as yours, and I think mʊm'baɪ is about as much as we can expect, but once you start expecting this sort of thing at all, chaos will rule.
I mentioned Mumbai as less ridiculous in this respect, as I thought most people probably can make a stab at the "English version". But you have drawn my attention to the awful likelihood that British NSs with a smattering of Marathi from their Marathi-speaking family will use the Marathi pronunciation in English, as monoglot English-speaking Pakistanis pronounce Pakistan and Afghanistan in a pastiche North West Frontier accent. If even a native Hannoveraner were to tell us he was from [haˈnoːfɐ], that would not be nearly as ridiculous: it's as if he were to tell us he was from Deutschland.
I was contrasting Mumbai with Myanmar, which is a celebrated absurdity which might as well be pronounced as in the strange LPD sound file for BrE [ˈmaɪənmɑː] as any other way represented in the transcriptions which accompany it. None of them resemble what was presumably intended by the Burmese, especially not the rhotic AmE ones.
Simon M Hunter 25 October 2010 at 19:08
I am not sure about the TORCH vowel in [ˈpɔːveɾo]. While accepting that it may be the 'approved' pronunciation I would suggest that [ˈpɔveɾo] and [ˈpəʊveɾo] are both more common, (at least in the Milan area where I learnt my Italian some years ago). I have no statistics to back this assertion, however.
Alex Rotatori 25 October 2010 at 20:09
Simon, I can tell you that [ˈpəʊveɾo] is not Italian: the diphthong [əʊ] is not to be found in any variety of Italian. [ˈpɔveɾo], on the other hand, is the Standard pronunciation.
NB: The length mark John uses in [ˈpɔːveɾo] is there only to indicate that the [ɔ] sound is longer because it's stressed, although I have to admit that most phonologists in Italy tend to omit it because the length of vowel sounds is not meaningful in Italian.
Mallamb
... British NSs with a smattering of Marathi from their Marathi-speaking family ...
That sounds like me. I just say Bombay. I'd feel ridiculous trying to pronounce Mumbai in English as in Marathi. Yet I don't know what is the right way to anglicise it. It's not like Paris or Hanover where there is an accepted way to pronounce it in English. Mumbai just looks like a transliteration of a Marathi word pronounced in a way that doesn't come naturally to a native English speaker. Any of the alternatives feels uncomfortably like a failed attempt at faux authenticity.
@ John Wells (first comment): Actually in (some) Mexican Spanish (which is the type I learned being an American) some vowel reduction is acceptable. For example pesos, pesas, and peces can all be pronounced the same as [ˈp˭e̞səs] and pastas, pastes, and pastos may also be pronounced the same [ˈp˭asts]. I'm not sure if this is due to American (English) influence or what. Also /s/ debuccalization doesn't take place as you can see from that last transcription.
Also, I believe that in the Romanesco accent of Italian, the alveolar trill (or geminate /r/; whatever you want to call it) doesn't exist. It is replaced with an alveolar tap [ɾ]. That's the opposite of what I was talking about, but oh well.
If I'm being so precise with diacritics, then I suppose [p˭ästs] would have been better.
Mitko Sabev 25 October 2010 at 23:54
The length mark in [ˈpɔːveɾo] is there for the sake of phonetic accuracy, I believe; it should be there if you want to show how the word is actually pronounced, even though vowel length is predictable (i.e. non-contrastive) in Modern Italian. (Stressed vowels are long in open syllables and short in closed ones, so /ˈpɔveɾo/ (or /ˈpɔvero/) should be the right phonemic transcription as far as the stressed vowel is concerned, but I really don't know how to treat the unstressed ɛ/e and ɔ/o neutralisations phonemically.)
"əʊ" is definitely not an option (except in Anglicised Italian words, and then, I suppose, it's the result of applying English spelling-to-sound rules, rather than a systematic substitute for It. close-mid /o/).
As far as I know, a single "R" can be either a tap or a (short) trill, but I too think you hear taps more often (and sometimes it's rather hard to tell which one you hear in fast speech).
If I hadn't had this thread kicking around in my head, I wouldn't have noticed Jeremy Paxman correctly stressing arte povera on TV tonight. It's not usually that lack of error/mistake that one notices.
I assume that it's the English word poverty that keeps us straight.
Lazar Taxon 26 October 2010 at 02:52
@Phil: I think it's pretty indisputable that standard Italian includes an alveolar tap. I've seen a number of (convoluted) rules regarding the distribution of the tap and the trill:
- Luciano Canepari says that /r/ is [r] when it is within a stressed syllable, and [ɾ] elsewhere.
- The opera site ipasource.com transcribes /r/ as [ɾ] when between two vowels, and [r] elsewhere.
Based on the Italian speech that I've heard (which, admittedly, isn't a great deal), it seems extremely common to use [ɾ] in most or all positions. I once heard a recording of a standard Italian speaker pronouncing the word "Roma", in isolation, as ['ɾo:ma].
On Italian r, Wikipedia says "The trill /r/ is sometimes reduced to a single vibration when single, but it remains potentially a trill, not a flap [ɾ]." However, I don't know if other sources agree with this, and I'm not sure if I can produce/hear the difference myself.
Since no one has mentioned it yet, I will add that in French, the name is usually pronounced [medisis], especially when referring to the Italo-French Catherine de' Medici (Catherine de Médicis).
Alec 26 October 2010 at 07:36
@ Lazar: You mean in most positions where it's spelled with a single r, correct?
Alex, I have to agree that [ˈpəʊveɾo] is not Italian, but the vowel I heard is not /ɔ:/ either. I see from the literature that many Italians confuse /ɔ/ and /o/, and I think, from memory after many years away, that the vowel I heard in that position is the latter.
Actually there is a rule of thumb to predict whether the accent is on the penultimate or the antepenultimate. if the penultimate syllable is closed (like in copèrto) then the accent is on the penultimate syllable. If the syllable is open then the accent is on the antepenultimate, like in pòvero. There are a few exceptions to this last rule (I can name cerìno, panìno, but they are all diminutives). But I can name just one exception for the first one (pòlizza) and a few toponyms.
Oh dear, I of course didn't mean you, as I take it you are not of Marathi-speaking origin yourself. But of course you do have a Marathi-speaking family, so it may well have read as if I was being beastly. I think you got the message though. To try to pronounce Mumbai in English as in Marathi, and perhaps even to feel less ridiculous doing so, you would need the ethnicity as well as the family.
Yes, Mumbai does look like and is a transliteration of a Marathi word pronounced in a way that doesn't come naturally to a native English speaker, and like most of these revamped toponyms it does feel uncomfortably like a failed attempt at faux authenticity however you pronounce it!
You seem to have implied mʊmˈbaɪ is not the right way to anglicise it, but it is not just me, but no less a person than John Wells who says that it is acceptable, or gives ˌmʊmˈbaɪ for it in LPD, at any rate. Not sure why he gives it a subsidiary stress mark – it never sounds to me much like two phonotagms or anything that would justify that. He doesn't give the original Marathi pronunciation either, I suppose because he doesn't think it's different enough.
mallamb wrote:
> Steve, some of these musical groups that use
> the name I Musici are regularly called
> ˌiːmuˈziːtʃi also call themselves that. You
> have reminded me of a recent report that the
> British Medici String Quartet, having long
> resisted all efforts to get them to call
> themselves ˈmeidɪtʃi instead of mɪˈdiːtʃi, had
> finally caved in and started doing so.
True, I hadn't thought of that! Still, it wouldn't apply to this lot. Going back to Classic FM, I Musici de Montréal normally comes out as iːmuˈziːʧidəˌmɒntriˈɔːl: heaven knows what they call themselves - if they're French-speaking probably imuziˈʧidmɔ̃reˈal.
@Massimo: I think there are loads of words where the penultimate syllable is both open and stressed. All verbs in -are and -ire, verbal endings like -ete, -ei, -emo, adjectives in -ese, -oso, -ele (crudele etc.), -eno, avere, sedere...
army1987 26 October 2010 at 11:12
In my accent the tap and the trill are more-or-less in free variation, with the tap more frequent in syllable onsets and the trill in codas. But Canepari (with his usual excess precision) claims that /r/ is always a tap in unstressed syllables and always a trill in stressed ones.
Yes, of course, I'm a native English speaker, familiar with Marathi only through marriage and game but not particularly proficient. I struggle to make many of the distinctions unfamiliar to an English ear but even to me mumbəiː and mʊmˈbaɪ sound different. I get your message - I don't think I was disagreeing. I wasn't suggesting any of the versions you hear in English are "right" or "wrong", just that none sound like you'd hear it said in the city itself - which was what I took you to be pointing out for Myanmar. Thanks though, for pointing me to a distinguished authority on accepted English pronunciation. I shall now feel safer to use the word in English.
Steve, you're right. I didn't express myself correctly. Most italian words are indeed plane (accent on the penultimate syllable).
John Cowan 29 October 2010 at 15:43
Phil: East Coast Americans tend to learn Caribbean Spanish rather than Mexican, and Mexican Spanish is essentially all consonants; Caribbean Spanish is essentially all vowels.
Phil 24 November 2010 at 02:13
@ John Cowan: That was hilarious. Thank you.
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Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Update 05-30-2019
May 30, 2019 Redscroll Records
Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Guest Post:
We’re back with our weekly Manic Presents Redscroll blog and have a bunch of exciting announcements! Just announced at College Street Music Hall – Comedian Nick Kroll on (7/18)! At Wall Street Theater in Norwalk – Boston-based funk/soul band Ripe on (11/17)! At Space Ballroom – Martin Courtney (of Real Estate) & Ryley Walker on (7/23), Richmond indie artist Lucy Dacus on (9/11), Australian psych/grunge band Psychedelic Porn Crumpets on (10/5), Mike Watt (Minutemen/fIREHOSE) + The Missingmen on (10/10), and Louisville garage rockers White Reaper on (11/3)! At Cafe Nine and as part of our weekly Manic Mondays music series – Seattle dream-pop artist Hibou on (8/5) and Boston alt/folk duo The Western Den on (8/26)! Don’t forget to RSVP and grab your tickets this weekend!
This week’s show schedule begins tomorrow Friday (5/31) with Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance) and the Future Violents at Space Ballroom! The weekend features R&B artist India.Arie on Saturday (6/1) at College Street Music Hall with Javier Colon and finally, on Monday (6/3), Brooklyn-based rockers A Deer A Horse comes to Cafe Nine with James Mauri and The Blackriver Stones and Kid Sistr as part of our weekly Manic Mondays music series! These are DO NOT miss shows – hope to see you there!
CONTEST TIME! Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Charly Bliss at Space Ballroom on (6/8)!
Enter here: https://forms.gle/hJCyoNoxwpTZMJSM9
Keep an eye out for more announcements and we’ll see you back here next Thursday!
Friday (5/31)
Frank Iero and the Future Violents w/ Reggie and the Full Effect (solo)
$25/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
Space Ballroom, Hamden
INFO: Frank Anthony Thomas Iero, Jr. (born October 31, 1981) is an American musician who was the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance and post-hardcore band Leathermouth.
Following the recent announcement that Frank Iero has signed to UNFD and formed his latest band FRANK IERO AND THE FUTURE VIOLENTS, the first track from his upcoming album BARRIERS (out May 31, 2019) “Young and Doomed” is now available via DSPs and streaming services. Premiered on BBC Radio1 with Annie Mac, the insistent, dark rock n’ roll anthem flails with a wild and uncontrollable angst and energy. Its accompanying video is a visceral performance piece that captures the frenetic and frantic energy that bursts from the track with guitar, bass and drums with Frank’s plaintive vocals anchoring the hopeless emotion. Directed by Steve Pedulla from Thursday, the video features childhood photos of Frank Iero and The Future Violents.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2HscDkH
Saturday (6/1)
India.Arie w/ Javier Colon
$49-$69/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
College Street Music Hall – New Haven
INFO: It’s no secret to India.Arie fans that the word ‘worthy’ has been an empowering expression of self-love for her and her audience over the years. Faithfully repurposed as the title and theme of her brand new 16-track album, including 13 songs and 3 interludes, India’s first full-length offering in five years is set to impact a world finally attuned to the kind of empathic sea-change the humanitarian singer/songwriter has embraced her entire career.
Recognized as a major influence for a new generation of socially aware artists, India is both ahead of her time and of it – an evocative creative force on a mission to spread healing, peace, love and unconditional self-acceptance through the power of words and music.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2GvsNcC
A Deer A Horse w/ James Mauri and The Blackriver Stones, Kid Sistr
Free with RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7PM
Cafe Nine – New Haven
INFO: From their roots in Brooklyn’s DIY scene, A Deer A Horse has grown into a relentless touring act over the years. The band has clocked in nearly 250 shows across the country since 2017.
ADAH is comprised of Rebecca Satellite (vocals/guitar) and Angela Phillips (bass/vocals), and Dylan Teggart (drums). Their debut EP, _Backswimmer_, drew praise from the AV Club, who noted the band’s unlikely marriage of doom metal dirges with vocal earworms.
In 2018, ADAH released singles “Cold Shoulder” and “Double Wide” in anticipation of their new EP, Everything Rots That Is Rotten. The EP aims to reflect upon the current socio-political moment, offering the possibility of catharsis in the midst of systemic corruption. Everything Rots That Is Rotten was recorded at Silver Cord Studio, home-base of French metal pioneers, Gojira, and will be released on Detroit’s Corpse Flower Records on June 21st.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KefijE
SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thursday, July 18th
$39-$49/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
INFO: Nick Kroll is an actor, writer and producer. He most recently co-created and voiced numerous roles on the Netflix animated series BIG MOUTH, which has been heralded by the Hollywood Reporter as “sweet, progressive and breathtakingly filthy,” and was nominated for an Annie Award for “Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production.” Nick can next be heard in SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 set to be released in June 2019, and as ‘Uncle Fester’ in MGM’s THE ADDAMS FAMILY set to be released in October 2019. He also can be seen in MGM’s OPERATION FINALE opposite Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingley, and in Lionsgate’s UNCLE DREW. In January 2017, he wrapped his Broadway debut with the critical and financial hit ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’. Recent film credits include Jeff Nichols’ critically acclaimed film LOVING, Seth Rogen’s SAUSAGE PARTY and Illumination’s SING. Nick had his own Comedy Central sketch show KROLL SHOW and starred as Ruxin in the hit FX show THE LEAGUE.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2WsZqAa
Tuesday, July 23rd
Martin Courtney (of Real Estate) & Ryley Walker
$15/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Space Ballroom – Hamden
Martin Courtney: Martin Courtney is the frontman of beloved band Real Estate and, with the release of 2015’s LP Many Moons, a solo recording artist in his own right. Many Moons was written in the wake of 2014’s Real Estate album, Atlas, and was Courtney’s chance to explore a more concise, straightforward style of writing, something that felt innately his. The resulting album is a collection of soft psychedelia that recalls the Kinks and Big Star even as it probes the depths of his own life as a family man, father, and touring musician.
Courtney last performed solo at a very special Cafe Carlyle residency in 2018, and this new run of upcoming dates will be a rare chance for fans to hear him perform songs from Many Moons, amongst other surprises.
Ryley Walker: Ryley Walker is a singer/songwriter from Chicago, IL and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. He’s released 10+ full length records under his own name, and with various ensembles ranging from folk rock, to drone, to free improv.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KaDFP6
Monday, August 5th
Hibou w/ The Penniless Wild, Big Fang
INFO: Amidst an atmosphere of melancholia, Peter Michel has thrown himself into a lifetime’s worth of writing, recording and touring belied by his young age. At just 17, the Seattle-based musician toured extensively with dream pop outfit Craft Spells, and most recently met critical acclaim with his personal project, Hibou. In ‘Halve’, Hibou’s third full length album, Michel creates a characteristically ethereal record addressing the dichotomies between childhood and adulthood, self and society, authenticity and superficiality. The outcome is a work filled with swooning, hazy reflections on loss, love, nostalgia, and joy from a 10,000 foot view. Michel’s vocals comfortably twist from echoing whispers to punkish accusations; his guitar from dizzying surf hooks to lush 80s-inspired chords. Control—and the lack of it—reverberates throughout the album, and the consequence is a set of ten deeply vulnerable songs that will find you romanticizing your own childhood, your own teenage years, your own morning.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Hx97pw
The Western Den w/ Minor Moon, Lil Sluggers
INFO: To find a musical soulmate, someone with whom to explore your innermost feelings, unite artistic languages, and craft a shared voice is a daunting, even mysterious, undertaking. Some writers spend years searching and never uncover the other half they seek; for others, a partnership just flicks on like a light. The origin story of the hauntingly beautiful duo The Western Den is wonderfully curious in just this way: Deni Hlavinka, an introspective pianist from small town Virginia, posted a song idea on a college forum for accepted students. Chris West, a bright-eyed guitarist from Bermuda, sent back the song the following day in finished form. Upon meeting in person, they discovered their musical—and personal—bond was eerily close; there was never a discussion of forming a band, never a conscious choice, it just happened, fueled by a sheer desire, a necessity to pursue what felt right.
The act of reaching out in search of a common creative haven—that same force which brought Hlavinka and West together seven years ago—is a theme of ‘A Light Left On’, their forthcoming debut record. A careful labor of love, it emerged over the course of two years as a set of demos, which the pair then tracked meticulously over a six-month span. This restraint stands in stark contrast to their previous releases, two EPs which they hurried to release with the same speed and enthusiasm of Hlavinka and West’s initial long-distance collaboration. The result of their patience this time around is an ornate emotional garden, lovingly cultivated and ready for company. In their songwriting, arrangements, and production choices, the band leaves behind the folk label, which always felt like a safe descriptor yet never quite like home, pushing out into orchestral, ethereal, and chordally complex territory, while preserving their sweeping vocal harmonies, at once lush and modest, unmistakably the foundation of their partnership.
‘A Light Left On’ details a coming-of-age search—for purpose, for an environment that feels authentic. From its inceptive command to “raise it up, give a name / call it close, temporary though all the same”, the album announces its creators’ desire to define themselves within a turbulent landscape of thoughts, to have a light left on somewhere that feels permanent. Absent of that flag-planting resolution, the record offers up the belief that a light is still out there—‘I’m still holding on, still, still I’m holding on’—as if spoken to themselves as a mantra, on repeat, to reassure and encourage.
The Western Den showcases a mature pursuit of beauty that is all their own, and yet they capture the emotional soul-searching that exists in all of us, whether we hide it from the world or share it. In Hlavinka and West’s case, they have chosen to share it, extending their trust in each other to their audience.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2K4NdLt
Wednesday, September 11th
Lucy Dacus w/ Quinn Christopherson
$18 ($15 adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
INFO: Lucy Dacus is done thinking small. Two years after her 2016 debut, No Burden, won her unanimous acclaim as one of rock’s most promising new voices, Dacus returns on March 2 with Historian, a remarkably assured 10-track statement of intent. It finds her unafraid to take on the big questions — the life-or-death reckonings, and the ones that just feel that way. It’s a record full of bracing realizations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and first tattoos.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2GoGTw8
Saturday, October 5th
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets w/ Meatbodies
INFO: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – a powerful, melody driven psychedelic rock band from Perth who’ve been quoted as “resembling Jimi Hendrix fresh off the end of a light globe” – The Music. Highlights so far include supporting King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Dune Rats, Black Mountain, Goons of Doom, Skegss, releasing their debut album “High Visceral {Part 1}”, releasing their sophomore album “High Visceral {Part 2}” and completing a national tour around Australia.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KcltVh
Mike Watt + The Missingmen
INFO: Bassist Mike Watt was the living embodiment of the punk rock spirit. As a founding member of the highly influential Minutemen, he created one of the most important bodies of work in the American underground canon, delivering adventurous, fiercely polemical music informed by such disparate traditions as funk, folk, and free jazz. Although his subsequent material — most notably his records with the trio fIREHOSE, as well as his latter-day solo efforts — lacked the sheer impact of his earliest outings, Watt remained true to the D.I.Y. ethos that originally inspired him, emerging as one of the most highly respected figures in contemporary music.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2WvNzBz
Sunday, November 3rd
White Reaper w/ The Nude Party, Wombo
INFO: From the increasingly fertile Louisville, KY, DIY scene emerges White Reaper – an incandescent four piece who is ready and willing to blow out eardrums far and wide.
After signing to Polyvinyl in early 2014 and releasing a self-titled EP that blasts through six tracks in a breakneck 15 minutes, the Reapers — guitarist Tony Esposito, keyboardist Ryan Hater, bassist Sam Wilkerson, and drummer Nick Wilkerson — followed suit in 2015 with their debut full-length, White Reaper Does It Again.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KeuTzt
Ripe w/ Castlecomer
$20 ($17 adv) /All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Wall Street Theater – Norwalk
INFO: On a primal level, we react to music through movement.
A head-nod, a foot-tap, or a handclap certainly shows appreciation, but dancing seals the eternal bond between audience and musician. Siphoning the spirits of rock, funk, R&B, jazz, and pop through a kaleidoscope of unpredictable and virtuosic improvisation, Boston-based seven-piece Ripe consistently bring people to their feet. Most importantly, they prove that “dance music” in its purest form doesn’t have to come from computers and synthesizers. It can be an unstoppable groove or an extended moment of ecstatic release. Like those bodies moving on the floor, it’s the result of the energy, friction, and communication between living and breathing people. An inimitable and indefinable chemistry has separated and singled out Ripe since day one. Subverting any and all standard genre boundaries once again, their latest offering confidently continues that tradition. These seven musical soulmates —Robbie Wulfsohn [vocals], Tory Geismar [guitar], Jon Becker [guitar], Sampson Hellerman [drums], Josh Shpak [trumpet], Calvin Barthel [trombone], and Nadav Shapira [bass]—once again incite listeners to move on their independent full-length debut, Joy In The Wild Unknown.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Wr9mdv
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It's Back In the Water With First Trailer for 47 METERS DOWN: THE NEXT CHAPTER
on Sunday, 12 August 2018 09:39
47 Meters Down: the Next Chapter - First Movie Trailer
Synopsis: No synopsis yet
Release Date: June 2019
Director: Johannes Roberts
Writer: Johannes Roberts; Ernest Riera
Cast: Not announced
Fans of last summer’s shark thriller 47 Meters Down will be excited to hear that a sequel is nearing completion and Entertainment Studios just released the first teaser trailer for 47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter which you can watch below.
The original proved to be a monster hit and took a huge bite out of the independent box office with a $44 million haul on a puny $5 million budget.{googleads}
Early reports hinted at the studio hoping to escalate the danger of the next encounter when it was announced that the film was to be titled 48 Meters Down. But somewhere along the way, the poor decision to go with the updated title was made. Picture us giving a giant facepalm upon learning of the new title.
Very little is known about the film at this point and this new teaser trailer certainly doesn't provide any additional insight. There is no spoken language in the trailer and very little is revealed about the plot. So little in fact, that this teaser could actually be constructed of clips from the original and we'd be none the wiser.
The timing for the trailer's release is perfect as there is currently another shark flick eating up theaters in the form of The Meg about a long-thought prehistoric shark preying on anyone who stands - or swims - in its way.
Though the cast, poster, and official synopsis for 47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter have yet to be released, the film’s director, Johannes Roberts says it will be like an underwater version of The Descent but with "six or seven people trapped in the caves in Brazil, in an underwater city."
Ernest Riera returns to the shark infested waters and joins Roberts on the screenplay.
47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter has not been rated by the MPAA.
47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter will invade theaters next summer in June, 2019
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U.S. Army Chaplaincy History
The best Professional Chaplaincy History in the World
Seven Volume Chaplain History (to date)
Dedication & Quotes to Volume6, Parts I & II
Table of Contents of Volume 7: 1975-1995
Part One Contents: Meeting Challenges to the Army and to the Chaplaincy
Part One: Illustrations
Part Two: Preface
Part Two Contents: Religious Support in Combat, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations
Part Two Illustrations
Books: Volume 7, 1975-1995
Articles: Volume 7, 1975-1995
Seven Volume Chaplain History
Before his retirement, Chaplain Hyatt directed that a history of the Army Chaplaincy be produced for the 200th Anniversary in 1975. Chaplain Kelly observed that Chaplain Hyatt had a great sense of history and wanted the work of the chaplaincy to be preserved. He also wanted to ensure that his accomplishments were chronicled for future chaplains.” The work began in 1973 and was completed in 1979. A total of five volumes was produced. The Government Printing Office printed 1,500 copies which were distributed to MACOMs, installations, military and civilian libraries , seminaries and universities.
Titles and Authors of the five volumes were:
Vol. 1: From Its European Antecedents to 1791: The United States Army Chaplaincy, by Chaplain Parker C. Thompson. Office of the Chief of Chaplains: Washington, D.C., 1978.
Vol. 2: Struggling for Recognition: The United States Army Chaplaincy 1791-1865, by Chaplain Herman A. Norton (USAR). Office of the Chief of Chaplains: Washington, D.C., 1977.
Vol. 3: Up From Handymen: The United States Army Chaplaincy 1865 -1920, by Chaplain Earl F. Stover. Office of the Chief of Chaplains: Washington, D.C., 1977.
Vol. 4: The Best and The Worst of Times: The United States Army Chaplaincy 1920 - 1945, by Chaplain Robert L. Gushwa. Office of the Chief of Chaplains: Washington, D.C., 1977.
Vol. 5: Confidence in Battle, Inspiration in Peace: The United States Army Chaplaincy 1945 - 1975, by Chaplain Rodger R. Venzke. Office of the Chief of Chaplains: Washington, D.C., 1977.
Since then two more have appeared:
Vol. 6: He Was Always There, The U.S. Army Chaplain Ministry in the Vietnam Conflict, by Chaplain Henry F. Ackermann. Office of the Chief of Chaplains: Washington, D.C., 1989.
Vol. 7: Encouraging Faith, Supporting Soldiers: A History of the U.S. Chaplain Corps 1975-1995, by Chaplain John W. Brinsfield. Office of the Chief of Chaplains: Washington, D.C., 1997.
Dedications & Quotes: Part One & Part Two
Volume 7: Encouraging Faith, Supporting Soldiers: A History of the U.S. Chaplain Corps 1975-1995
Part One dedication reads:
Dedicated to all chaplains, chaplain assistants, and civilian staff members who served God and Country during the Golden Age of the Army Chaplaincy: they performed missions of grace and encouragement for soldiers throughout the world with great success.
And those who lead the many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever ... Daniel 12:3
On the back cover of Part One:
“The Chaplain, like the artillery, is never held in reserve.”
General Edward C. Meyer Chief of Staff, U.S. Army 1979-1983
Quote at the beginning of Part Two:
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of our heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission and use. To those who study history not merely as a warning reminder of human follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, warriors, statesmen, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing. The historian will not mourn because he can see no meaning in human existence except that which man puts into it; let it be our pride that we ourselves may put meaning into our lives. If we are fortunate we will, before we die, gather up as much as we can of our heritage and transmit it to our children and to others who follow us. And to our final breath we should be grateful for this inexhaustible legacy which sometimes may have a significance that transcends our time upon this stage.”
Paraphrase from The Lessons of History
by Will and Ariel Durant (1968)
Contents Part One: Meeting Challenges to the Army and to the Chaplaincy
Chapter I: The Reformation and Modernization of the Army after Vietnam, 1970-1984
Chapter II: The Hyatt Years: Expanding the Chaplaincy's Vision, Competence and Influence, 1971-1975
Chapter III: The Kelly Years: Religious Leadership and Support during Modernization, 1975-1979
Chapter IV: The Johnson Years: Reaffirming the Identity of the Chaplaincy, 1979-1982
Chapter V: The Hessian Years: Bringing the Chaplaincy on Line, 1982-1986
Chapter VI: The Einertson Years: Addressing Needs and Managing Resources, 1986-1990
Chapter VII: The Zimmerman Years: Supporting and Sustaining Soldiers on Rapid Deployment Missions, 1990-1994
Chapter VIII: The Shea Years: Dedicated Service in a New World, 1994-1995
Appendix A: History of the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School by Dr. William Hourihan and Mr. Michael W. Hobson
Appendix B: Historical Milestones in the Army Chaplaincy by Chaplain Marvin Mills, USAR
Appendix C: Chaplains and Chaplain Assistants at Work
List of Illustrations: Part One
Chaplain R.R. Stevens and 82nd Airborne Soldier
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Donald W. Shea
Chaplains of the IV Corps--Vietnam
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Gerhardt Hyatt
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Orris E. Kelly
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Kermit D. Johnson
President Jimmy Carter, Chaplain Kermit
Johnson, and Chaplain Robert Bendick
Chaplain Professors at West Point (1971-1984) 135 Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Patrick Hessian
Sergeant Major Charles J. Durr, III
President Reagan: Unknown Soldier Dedication
Sergeant Major Joseph A. Pino
Sergeant Major James Schonefeld
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Norris Einertson
Establishment of Chaplain Corps Regiment
Sergeant Major Douglas Carpenter
Total Army Liaison Teams
Chaplain (maj. Gen.) Matthew A. Zimmerman
Chaplains John C. Scott and Timothy C. Tatum
Sergeant Major Oliver “Irish” Corbett
Sergeant Major Thomas J. Prost
President Bill Clinton and Chiefs of Chaplains 334 Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Zimmerman and Staff
Presentation of UMT of the Year Award
Chaplains Kaising, Lieving, and Zimmerman
Chaplain Albertson and Specialist Moore:Haiti 366 Chaplains Kuhlbars, Madden, and Lloyd: Haiti
Honors, Awards, and Retirements 1995
Chaplains Shea, Kuehne, and Gunhus
Sergeant Major Elmer Castro and Chaplain Shea at Arlington National Cemetery
Chaplain School Buildings at Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth
Chaplain Center and School Commandants
Chaplain Officer Advanced Course, 1980
Chaplain School at Ft. Monmouth and Commandants
Chaplains Sirotko, Cook, and NCO Academy
Division Chaplain Course, 1989
Chaplains James Robnolt and Bernard Lieving
Ms. Nella Hobson and Chaplain John Patrick
Command Sergeant Major Aaron Gibson
Command Sergeant Major Oscar L. Crumity
Ground Breaking at Ft. Jackson for a new School Advanced Course List of Duties of Chaplains, Compiled by Chaplain Peter Christy
Chaplains Telencio, Quinn, Gunhus, and Pejakovich
Chaplains and Assistants at Work
Photo credits: Ms. Nella Hobson and PAO Staff at Ft. Jackson; Sergeant Major Elmer Castro, Master Sergeant Michael Swingler, Chaplain Barbara Sherer,Chaplain Rick Kuhlbars, Ms. Jody Dunning, and Ms. Charlotte Able and staff at the Office of the Chief of Chaplains; U.S. Army War College Library and Photo Lab; Military History Institute Photographic Collection, Carlisle Barracks; and donations from the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps members around the world...
Preface Part Two
During the period from 1975 through 1995 , the United States Army deployed more than a half million soldiers around the world on combat, peacekeeping, humanitarian and peace enforcement missions. As of June 30, 1995 there were 108,000 U.S. soldiers deployed in 39 foreign countries to include 25 soldiers in Anarctica.
In this part of the history of the Army Chaplaincy from 1975 to 1995, the contributions of unit ministry teams during five operations and two joint task force missions are outlined as a representative sample of the religious support the Chaplain Corps provided to soldiers and to their family members during this period. These operations are cross referenced in Part One with the tenure of each of the following Chiefs of Chaplains:
Chaplain (MG) Patrick Hessian --
OPERATION URGENT FURY
Chaplain (MG) Norris Einertson --
OPERATION JUST CAUSE
Chaplain (MG) Matthew Zimmerman --
OPERATION DESERT SHIELD,
OPERATION DESERT STORM,
JTF Guantanomo,
JTF Andrew &
[MG=Major General, JTF=Joint Task Force]
Other operational deployments, such as those to Haiti and Panama during Chaplain (MG) Donald Shea's first year as Chief of Chaplains are discussed in Part One.
In presenting this representative sample, the author had to depend on oral interviews for much of the information. Even so , there were many great stories which went untold for lack of time and space. To all those who served in the effort to bring soldiers to God and God to soldiers in difficult and dangerous places, the thanks not only of the Chaplaincy, but also of the nation, is due.
Contents Part Two: Religious Support in Combat, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations
Chapter I: Operation URGENT FURY, Grenada
Chapter II: Operation JUST CAUSE, Panama
Chapter III: Operation DESERT SHIELD, Southwest Asia
Chapter IV: Operation DESERT STORM
Chapter V: Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Cuba
Chapter VI: Joint Task Force Andrew, Florida
Chapter VII: Operation RESTORE HOPE, Somalia
List of Illustrations: Part Two
Chaplain Frank Whalen Celebrating Mass
Chaplain Larry Mack with Rangers
U.S. Military Operations in Grenada
Chaplains Larry Mack and Don Brown 1983-84
Operation JUST CAUSE: Troops Arrive
Operation JUST CAUSE: Geography
Chaplain Jack Prendergast leading worship
Operation JUST CAUSE: Major Points of Attack 20
Operation DESERT SHIELD: Chaplain Sumbler
Map of Saudi Arabia
CENTCOM, ARCENT Chaplains and Prince Charles 24th Infantry Division Deployment
Chaplain Gary “Sam” Sanford, 1st Cav Division 67 Chaplain Vincent Inghilterra: Mass in Dhahran
Chaplain Ford G'Segner with Air Force Chief
Chaplains Zimmerman, Kegley and Joseph Smith
Chaplains Zimmerman and Kitchens, 101st Abn
Map: DESERT STORM Operations
Chaplain Don Rutherford, First into Iraq
Chaplain William Sterling, Delaware Guard
SCUD Impact Zones: UMT Presence
DESERT STORM Major Command UMTs
Chaplains Parker and Inghilterra: Oil on Fire 152 Chaplain David Zalis and Gen. Schwarzkopf
Jewish Chaplains and the Cunard Princess
Easter: Chaplains Schmeling, Watson and Choir
Chaplain Dennis Whitaker: Service in Iraq
Chaplain Wayne Smith: Memorial Service
U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba
Chaplain Phil Spence leads worship
Chaplain Marceaux and Sargeant Cuellar
Chaplain William Graham, USAR, in Cuba
Chaplain James McDonald leads UMTs in worship
Chaplain Mary A. Pitts during Andrew Recovery
Florida Map (US Army War College Library)
Chaplain Sonny Moore
Chaplain Ed Hartmann
Chaplains Rutherford and Hutcherson
Chaplain Ed Hartmann at Communion
Somalia Map (US Army War College Library)
Chaplain Barb Sherer in Somalia
Somali Boy and a “Technical”
Chaplain Jolin and Specialist Grayson
Passover and Catholic Mass
Chaplain Kristi Pappas and Sergeant Carter
University Compound UMTs
Chaplain (Brig. Gen.) Gaylord T. Gunhus
Photo credits: Donations from members of the Chaplain Corps; U.S. Army War College Library;U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School Office of the Chief of Chaplains; U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
Map credits: U.S. Army War College Library; U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Alexandria, Virginia
Ackerman, Henry F., He Was Always there: The U.S. Army Chaplain Ministry In the Vietnam Conflict. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, 1989.
Atkinson, Rick. The Long Gray Line. New York: Pocket books, 1989.
Bok, Lee Suk. The Impact of U.S. Forces in Korea. Washington, D.C.: National Defense Press, 1987.
Brinsfield, John W. Developing a Ministry of Teaching the History of Ethics an World Religions at the United States Military Academy, West Point: New York. Madison, New Jersey: Drew University D. Min Project, 1983.
Caliber Associates. Family Strengths and Adaptation to Army Life. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of N. C., Jan. 1988.
Commager, Henry Steele. Pocket History of the United States. New York: Pocket Books, 1992. Cortright, David. Soldiers in Revolt. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975.
Drazin, Israel and Currey, Cecil B. For God and Country. Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, 1955.
Hudson, Winthrop. American Protestantism. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1968. Johnson, Kermit D. Realism and Hope in a Nuclear Age. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1988. Leonard, Thomas. Day by Day: The Seventies 1970-75. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File Publications, 1985.
Lewy, Guenter. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Norton, Herman A. Struggling for Recognition; the United States Army-Chaplaincy, 1791-1865. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1977.
Romjue, John L., Prepare the Army for War. Fort Monroe, Virginia: Office of the Command Historian, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1993.
Rostow, Eugene V. A Breakfast for Bonaparte. U. S. National Security Interest: Washington, D. C.: National Defense University, 1993.
Scales, Robert H., Certian Victory. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Staff, 1993.
Simon, Jeffrey. NATO The Challenge of Change. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1993.
Stavrianos, L.S., The World Since 1500. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1982. Stokes, Anson P. Church and State in the United States. New Your: Harper & Bros., 1950. Sullivan, Gordon R. America's Army. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 1993.
Thompson, Parker C. From Its European Antecedents to 1791, The United States Army Chaplaincy. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1978.
Venzke, Rodger R., Confidence in Battle, Inspiration in Peace, The United States Army Chaplaincy 1945-1975. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, 1977.
Bedsole, Timothy K. “Forward Thrust,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1991, p. 45.
Boyles, Lemuel M. “Grenada: Ministry in Time of Crisis,” Military Chaplains’ Review, Winter 1985, pp. 11-12.
Brinsfield, John W. “Our Roots for Ministry,” Military Chaplains' Review, Fall 1987, p. 25.
Brooten, Kenneth, Jr. “The U.S. Special Operations Command,” Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, 1987, pp. 21-23.
Buckley, William, Jr. “Assertive Multi-Lateralism,” The Washington Times, August 5, 1994, p. A-18. Bush, Albert W., Jr. “First In: Unit Ministry Teams, Hurricane Andrew, Miami, Florida,” The Army Chaplain, Spring 1993, p. 3.
Chambers, David. “The Protestant Problem,” Military Chaplains' Review, Fall 1987, p. 81. Church, George J. “Mission Half Accomplished,” Time Magazine, May 17, 1993, p. 42. Cochran, Darrell. “Restoring Hope in Somalia,” Soldiers, February 1993, p. 10.
Darr, Gregory J. “For God and Country,” Military Chaplains' Review, Winter 1992, p. 102 DeDonato, David. “Ministry to Critical Care Givers,” MilitaryChaplains' Review; Fall 1988, p.39ff. Dickey, Norma H. (ed.) “Somalia,” Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, 1992, pp. 105-109. Duffy, Michael. “Anatomy of a Disaster,” Time, October 18, 1993, p. 45
Elson, John. “Somalia: War Lord Country,” Time Magazine, January 11, 1993, p. 24.
Evans, Thomas G. “The Privilege of Serving,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, pp. 15-17. Filteau, Jerry. “Uncle Sam Wants You, Father,” The Catholic Review, August 6, 1987, p. A-4.
Garcia, Elroy. “Where Anarchy Rules,” Soldiers Magazine, March 1993, p. 16.
Gertz, Bill. “General Says U.S. Has Learned from Grenada Mistakes,” The Washington Times, August 31, 1994, p. A-8.
Gilbert, Floyd R. “Can These Bones Live Again?,” The Army Chaplaincy, Spring 1993, p. 8.
Gunti, Charles E. “The Priest Isn't There: Recruiting Catholic Chaplains,” Military Chaplains' Review, Spring 1989, p. 27.
Halloran, Richard. “Military Is Short of Catholic Chaplains,” New York Times, March 4, 1989, p.A l. Harding, Jessica R. “Army Chaplain Meets with Pope,” Chief of Chaplains Newsletter, August 19, 1987, Attachment 4.
“Black History Month Story,” submitted to the Penta ram, January 1987, p. 1.
“Chaplain Helps Soldiers,” Ft. Rucker Flier, April 30, 1987, p. 2.
Hasenauer, Heike. “Medals of Honor,” Soldiers, July 1994, p. 5.
Hufham, William L. “Ministry in Contingency Operations,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, pp. 23-24.
Hunt, Henry Lamar. “Pillars of the Regiment,” Military Chaplains' Review, Fall 1988, p. 1. Jaynes, Gregory. “Into the Storm,” Life Magazine, March 1991, p. 45.
Johnson, Ronald N. “A Brigade Chaplain's Ministry: The Plan and Execution,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1986, p. 62.
Krause, Lawrence C. “Tokumen to Panama City: Ministry in the 4/325 Airborne Infantry Regiment,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 38.
Lederer, Edith M. “The Face of Famine in Africa,” The Washingtton Times, August 19, 1994, p. A-6. Luthi, Mary. “The American Politician: The Second Oldest Profession,” Drew University Magazine, Winter 1994-95, p. 27.
Martin, Richard. “Ten Leadership Commandments,” Military Chaplains' Review, Winter 1987, p. 7. McAllister, J. F. O. “Pity the Peace Makers,” Time Magazine, June 28, 1993, p. 46.
McCoy, James Benjamin. “Division Rear Area Ministry,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 46.
Meade, Sidney. “The Post-Protestant Concept,” Issues in American Protestantism, 1969, p. 369. Michaels, Marguerite. “Peace Making War,” Time Magazine, July 26, 1993, p. 48.
Nolen, John M. “JCS Reform and the Lessons of German History,” Parameters, Autumn 1984, pp. 12-20.
Physioc, Wray. “Good News in a War Zone,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 32.
Puchy, James J. “An Army Ranger Chaplains' Story,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 48. Richburg, Keith B. “U.S. Completes Pull Out from Somalia,” The Washington Post, March 26, 1994, p. A-18.
Sinai, Ruth. “Somalia: What Went Wrong,” Associated Press News Release, November 4, 1993, p. 4. Smith, Thomas R. “The U.S. Army Chaplaincy Services Support Agency,” Military Chaplains' Review, Winter 1992, p. 23.
Stevens, Rees Ryder. “First Brigade Task Force Ministry,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 27.
Thomsen, Darrell E., Jr. “Ministry in Panama,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 42. Waldman, Steven. “Deadbeat Dads,” Newsweek, May 4, 1992, pp. 46-52
Warren, Dwight. “Higher Call to Duty: The Ministry of Chaplain Barbara Sherer,” News Tribune, May 23, 1993, pp. 1-A and 13-A.
Wells, John A. “The Gift of Unit Ministry Teams,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 3.
Yates, Kenneth W. “Battalion Ministry in Panama,” Military Chaplains' Review, Summer 1990, p. 34.
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Artist 136: System of A Down
This page lists all the top albums and songs by System of A Down that became hits between 01 Jan 2000 and 31 Mar 2020. The biggest hits are listed first. Above is a chart of the success of System of A Down for the period (albums above in blue, songs below in green). The image data for this plot is available from this file.
1 System of A Down Toxicity Sep 2001 Nov 2018 1 13 23 23 1 6 61675.654
2 System of A Down Mezmerize May 2005 Feb 2007 1 2 1 1 1 1 30699.464
3 System of A Down Hypnotize Nov 2005 Feb 2007 1 11 4 4 1 3 17456.887
4 System of A Down Steal This Album! Nov 2002 Aug 2004 15 56 14 34 - 11 12196.827
5 System of A Down System Of A Down Jan 2000 Sep 2002 124 - - - - 48 5535.382
1 System of A Down Aerials Jul 2002 Jan 2003 55 34 80 - - 36 4660.725
2 System of A Down Chop Suey! Oct 2001 May 2002 76 17 - - - 14 4300.085
3 System of A Down B.Y.O.B. Apr 2005 Sep 2005 27 - - - - 42 4272.095
4 System of A Down Hypnotize Nov 2005 Feb 2006 57 48 83 - - - 2957.832
5 System of A Down Toxicity Mar 2002 Aug 2002 70 25 88 - - 39 2928.427
6 System of A Down Lonely Day Apr 2006 Jun 2006 - - 46 84 - 37 414.973
7 System of A Down Question Sep 2005 Sep 2005 - 41 - - - - 126.403
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Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory (1974 uk, significant prog rock, 2014 24/96 remaster)
This British band is just the cup of tea for aficianados who demand virtuosity, progress and originality in their music. Gentle Giant's work is not easy listening or immediately enjoyable [what really fine music is?] Like many ambitious concept albums, The Power and the Glory takes some getting used to. The unifying themes are power, corruption and the human ramifications. Politics are of course implicit but not dealt with exclusively.
The conception of The Power and the Glory occurred during the making of Octopus [Columbia], GG's previous US release. That album is a masterpiece of juxtaposed idioms and striking freshness. Three brothers were in the group at that time--Ray, Derrick and Philip Schulman--the last of whom has since departed to pursue a teaching career. It was largely his influence that accounted for the literary historical base for much of Octopus' material, with songs inspired by Camus, Laing, Rabelais. Grad student rock.
The Power and the Glory is less esoteric and less diverse in scope as well. That minor complaint is my only one. Serious, complicated, and strangely beautiful, the album is a compelling exploration of power's use and illusory appeal.
I spoke to Ray and Derek at a meet-your-record-company bash the night before their appearance at last month's Traffic concert. About the album: they wished to stress that Watergate and current British political scenes were in no way motivations for The Power and the Glory: relevance is coincidental. Also, they intend that the songs be taken individually, appropriate in their own sense, if you do not consider them in their thematic unity. The cynical "Aspirations" for instance is contextually a song from the people begging their leaders for guidance, advice; out of context, it is a love song.
Instead of using a dramatic format, eight broad categories were decided upon for inclusion [one for each track]-- necessary as Ray noted, because a thorough exploration of the topic would require about 10 albums. The "message" if any comes at the end of the record when the cycle of dreams, promises, corruption, and power begins to repeat itself.
The brothers informed that "Proclamation", the opening cut, is a political speech. It is also meaningless doubletalk "rubbish". Still, afterwards and again at the record's close, the people cheer desperate "Hails!"
The brothers avoid commenting on their own political, individual commitments, wishing their music to remain wide open for interpretation. Derek sees their roles as humanistic chroniclers of the times rather than as advocates of a specific point of view. 'Existential' would probably come closest to characterize their outlook: they noted that this philosophy is an ideal, impractical intellectual one, necessary to consider but impossible to live.
GG has never been too interested in drugs either. Music is their way of life. Keyboardist-composer Kerry Minnear received the NIM degree in composition from the Royal Academy of Music--the first awarded in ten years. Ray has been studying classical violin for 14 years. Percussionist John Waters, from Wales, has played with Graham Bond and the Grease Band.
The material is written by the Schulman brothers and Minnear. a heuristic at heart, I tried to get the group to name influences, personal favorites. Though hesitant, they begrudged a few names: Stravinsky, Zappa, Steely Dan, Corea and Hancock, Norman Mailer. David Bowie? "Pleasant music, that's all", quipped Derek.
The music of GG is as important, intelligent and original as any being made today. Next project: a live album, guaranteed to blow heads---unfortunately an experience only hinted at by GG's recent encounter with David's shoddy-sound-system slingshot in the Colisseum. Too bad the Ebbetts Field rumors never materialized.
by GE, CAKE EATERS MAGAZINE 1974? BOULDER-DENVER
The Power And The Glory is a gem amongst gems, mixing Gentle Giant's restless energy and invention, with beautiful melodies and potent (complex) Rock riffage. This edition features 2014 stereo and 5.1 mixes by Steven Wilson, a flat transfer of the original mix, plus instrumental mixes and two bonus tracks.
1. Proclamation - 6:56
2. So Sincere - 3:51
3. Aspirations (R. Shulman, Minnear) - 5:20
4. Playing The Game - 6:45
5. Cogs In Cogs - 3:09
6. No God's A Man - 4:27
7. The Face - 4:12
8. Valedictory - 3:22
9. The Power And The Glory (Bonus Track) - 2:59
10.Aspirations (Instrumental Out Take) (R. Shulman, Minnear) - 5:15
Music and Lyrics by Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman and Ray Shulman, except where noted.
*Derek Shulman - Lead Vocals, Tenor Saxophone
*Kerry Minnear - Hammond Organ, Minimoog , Electric Piano, Mellotron , Marimba, Vibraphone, Cello, Vocals
*Ray Shulman - Bass, Violin, Electric Violin, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
*Gary Green - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
*John Weathers - Drums, Tambourine, Sleigh Bells, Cymbals
Posted by Marios at 11:20 AM
mscmichael said...
Thanks very much...
Excellent post. The best of them in my opinion. Congratulations Marios! hug.
Picked up this album up when I discovered Import LPs by bands from across the Big Swamp. Die-cut rounded corners. Sound so nice, a real step above most commercial releases back then. Right up there with Camel. Thanks, Marios.
el tax said...
Gracias tremendo disco.
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© University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum
I thought you might be interested in this Ashmolean object: The Source of the Arveron (from the Liber Studiorum) , http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/object/WA.RS.RUD.169
The Source of the Arveron (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher, engraver)
etching and mezzotint on paper
213 x 292 mm (plate); 300 x 443 mm (sheet)
Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
Europe › Arve › Arve (subject)
Recto:
within the plate-mark, all etched:
top centre: M
bottom centre: Drawn & Engraved by I.M.W. Turner. R.A. | THE SOURCE of the ARVERON in the VALLEY of CHAMOUNI SAVOY. | Published Jany. 1.1816, by Mr. Turner, Queen Ann Street West.
bottom right, in ink: 114
Verso:
top right, in graphite, written up the sheet: JRuskin : 50/
in the top right corner of the plate mark, in graphite: M/M
bottom right, in graphite: E. E. Very fine | X
just to the left, the Ruskin School's stamp
bottom left, in graphite (recent): F60III
Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
WA.RS.RUD.169
Subject terms allocated by curators:
References in which this object is cited include:
Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Rudimentary no. 169
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 60.III
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 31.G
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 169
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 167
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 167, RUD.167
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 167
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 167
Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Rudimentary Series
7th Cabinet
2nd Section
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
read object entry
31 G. Valley of Chamouni. (Liber Studiorum.) The source of the Arveron seen low down through the cluster of distant pines.
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|167} Chamouni, Savoy.
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
167 169.
The Glacier des Bois, and old source of the Arv iey ron , Chamounix; engraved by Turner himself with extremest care, and so often referred to in Modern Painters that I say nothing more of it here, except that the entire mass of ice, which is seen in front of this picture, and from which the Arviron used to issue under the enormous ice-cave seen at the its base between the pine-trees in the lower middledistance, has now utterly vanished owing to the fatal change in the climate of Switzerland during the last ten years, the sunshine never seeming to have power enough to raise clouds so high as to deposit snow on the higher summits.
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A Rotherhithe Blog
This blog is all about Rotherhithe, past and present. The main themes are heritage, wildlife and news items that may be of interest to local residents. If you have any questions or would like to comment or ask me to cover any particular topic you can email me at andie [at] rotherhitheblog.co.uk. I am also on Twitter @AndieByrnes
A short history of All Saints Church 1839, Rotherhithe
All Saints Church, from
The British Critic Quarterly Theological
Review and Ecclesiastical Record
(Volume 28, 1840, p.496)
All Saints Church, Church Hall,
Graveyard and Vicarage on the
Rotherhithe 1914 (London Sheet
78) Ordnance survey Map
All Saints Church, its vicarage and its churchyard were established on Lower Road in July 1839 and destroyed by a German flying bomb less than a century later on Sunday 13th August 1944. The site of the church buildings and graveyard today is King George's Fields, on the corner of Lower Road and Surrey Quays Road, a small public park established to commemorate George V, opposite the Dock Offices. This is a short summary of the church, as I was unable to find out much information.
As with Trinity Church, which was built two years earlier, All Saints was designed by Sampson Kempthorne, who was an innovative designer of workhouses. The lofty The British Critic Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record (Volume 28, 1840) considered both to have have been built with such a restricted budget that they were scarcely worth description, as has already been quoted on the Trinity Church post, but contains the useful information that both were designed to hold 1000 persons, cost about 3400/. and were arranged for one-third pews, one-third sittings at a low rate for the middling classes, and one-third free seats (p.496). The British Critic Quarterly approves of the side elevation, with its four windows and its simple steeple and spire, but disapproves of the front, which it describes as excessively crowded "with buttresses and windows of all sorts and sizes, circular and pointed."
A History of the County of Surrey, Volume 4, adds that it had a chancel, vestry, nave (roofed in one span) with a gallery at the west end and that it was built of white brick with stone dressings.
Together, Trinity, All Saints and Chirst Church cost £13,525 to build and consecrate, a sum that Beck generated with the local contributions, the donation of land and the input of Sir William Gomm, Lord of the manor of Rotherhithe. In 1848 Edward Blick recorded that All Saints was endowed with £150 a year.
As with Trinity, All Saints was built on a fairly tight budget, but it is impressive that in an area where financial resources were at a premium, so many churches were made available for the rapidly expanding communities. With its simple but elegant spire, and its Gothic Revival touches, this was an admirable contribution to the area. From the illustration above in the The British Critic Quarterly it looks really rather appealing.
Writing in 1907, Reverend Beck provides a list of the clergy of All Saints, with some interesting evaluations. Reverend Robert Jones B.A. of Jesus College, Oxford was "an acceptable preacher" and renowned Welsh scholar who oversaw the construction of the vicarage. He was succeeded by Reverend Christopher Tweddle M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge, on the death of Reverend Jones. Beck says that his "influence was very great, especially among young men." Although Beck does not elaborate, a very welcome email from Lisa Ellis provided the information that he died in 1885 at the at the age of 45, a premature death that followed several months of illness. Lisa cites the obituary in The Church Times, which regretted that "he has been called away in the midst of an active work, which his friends hoped would be crowned with excellent results, and which, as far as it had gone, had already accomplished much.” It goes on to say that "Mr Tweddle set about in a quiet, earnest, and common-sense way to work up his parish, and all who know what has been accomplished there during his too short incumbency of only five years, will be forward to bear witness to the steady progress and improvement that was taking place, not only in the services of the church, but in the organisation of the parish." He was followed by Reverend Dr William Delancy West who was a native of Rotherhithe, his father a local ship builder. He married the daughter of a Bermondsey leather manufacturer. Beck approved of him, saying "his eloquent sermons and spiritual instructions were very highly valued by all who had the privilege of profiting by them" but he retired after only a year due to the ill health of his wife. The final incumbent mentioned by Beck was the Reverend John Jervis, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, under whom the parish room was built for Sunday Schools and other activities.
After the church was destroyed, the parish records of All Saints were deposited in the Greater London Record Office, The County Hall, London SE1 7PB, by the Rector of St Mary with All Saints, Rotherhithe, 7 July 1980 (Acc. 1564) (see the National Archive website).
Although All Saints parish was created in 1842, it was amalgamated with St Mary's parish in 1952 to become the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary with All Saints, which is now served by St Mary's Church, St Marychurch Street.
Posted by Andie at 10:54
Labels: 19th Century, Buildings, Church, Heritage, Local people, Local History, Wartime
Alan Burkitt-Gray said...
Pedantic note: "both were designed to hold 1000 persons, cost about 3400/."
That / looks like a shilling stroke. 3400 shillings (at 20/- to the £1) would be a remarkably cheap, even for the mid-19th century, £170. It's really a lower-case L, which was used to signify pounds until the £ sign (which is really just a curly upper-case L) took over.
Thanks for the clarification. I copied it directly from the text, where it is certainly written with a stroke. An error in the original text, I suppose. As above, in his "Memorials to Serve for a History of the parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe," (1907) Beck puts the combined cost for Trinity, All Saints and Christ Church at £13,525.
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In July 2018 I moved to Aberdovey on the mid Welsh coast, and began a blog there. It is a very different place and experiences are all completely novel. If you are interested, you can find it at https://aberdoveylondoner.wordpress.com
Port of London Study Group
If you are interested in the archaeology and history of the Port of London you may be interested in the Port of London Study Group, a self-guided research group that operates out of the Museum of London. Find out more at http://portoflondonstudy.wordpress.com.
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This blog is run with considerable assistance from excellent local history publications written by Stuart Rankin. His works are my starting point for all history posts. Stuart has set up a website, called British Transport Treasures, that specializes in out of print publications which can be downloaded as PDFs that can be saved and printed. Out of print publications are a nightmare for anyone attempting local history research unless they have access to a specialist library and archives. British Transport Treasures is expanding fast with an ever-growing catalogue of titles. Each of the publications is described with a magazine-style short review to explain the scope of the content, and provided with a preview of the cover and first page. There is a nominal cost for each, to cover the costs of hosting and running the site, and 5p per item sold is donated to Help For Heroes. I am a massive fan of the site and what it is attempting to do, and as it has a number of publications concerning Rotherhithe I have drawn attention to some of them here.
Between Bridgers – Rotherhithe Street and Downtown by F.Mary Wilson, privately published, n.d. but c.1964
Rotherhithe Then and Now History Walk by Stuart Rankin, Southwark Council 2005 [ebook]
Rotherhithe Tunnel Sketches 1829
Historical Notice… Commercial Docks… Rotherhithe by Nathaniel Gould, 1844 [ebook]
Shipbuilding on the Thames and Thames Built Ships [ebook] edited by Stuart Rankin
Other titles can be found by entering "Rotherhithe" into the British Transport Treasures search engine.
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Ya Shi (duck shit) and Mi Lan Xiang Dan Cong from Wuyi Origin
Mi Lan Xiang, honey orchid aroma Dan Cong
Ya Shi (duck shit) Dan Cong
I've been drinking some Dan Cong relatively recently so I decided to start with these teas before moving on to oolong samples sent by Cindy (from Wuyi Origin, their brand name). Of course I've been drinking Wuyi Yancha too (Wuyishan oolong), but I decide what to review next by way of immediate impulse, the same way I pick what to drink with breakfast. I already said plenty about Cindy and the source in the last post so I'll skip that part, and ramble on about other things instead before the review.
An online friend passed through town recently and gave me some samples of other Dan Cong, after visiting a few tea regions in China. He's a vendor, but with regionally limited business scope, and I don't think it would matter if I mention his business here, so I'll skip that part. The samples were interesting; one a maocha, a tea that isn't completely finished, so interesting related to that. Two others were quite good, and one a bit off, so it made for an interesting refresher for the type. Of course trying only exceptionally good versions also makes for a pleasant reminder or initial introduction, but it's informative in a different sense to try teas across a range of quality.
I had planned to try one of his samples along with one of Cindy's, since I've been on the page of doing comparisons, and it helps to point out differences in body and minor aspects. After thinking it through I really don't want to write a half dozen different reviews of Cindy's teas, since that would get repetitive, both for me to do and for readers, so trying two of Cindy's together resolves that.
Most people reading a tea blog would be quite familiar with these teas. Mi Lan Xiang is honey orchid aroma Dan Cong (oolong from the Chaozhou area), although those tend to taste a lot like peach sometimes. Ya Shi is duck shit (just a funny name; no connection to actual duck shit), and those can be harder to pin down in terms of a characteristic flavor element. They tend to be warmer, fuller, with more going on, and more subtle, maybe bridging ranges of floral, fruit, and spice instead of coming across as one or two main flavors. Per only trying a few they do tend to taste like one thing, it's just not as easy to say what that is related to it being just like a honey orchid flower or peach. They're more complex, heavier on aroma than flavor.
Related to a recent online discussion about flavor being identified as taste (what the tongue does) versus aroma (related to sensors in the lower rear of the nasal passages, where most subtle distinctions in flavors are identified) I'm not using "aroma" in a conventional sense here. I think I covered what I mean by that in the last post, about how Chinese producers tend to use the term as a distinction within the range of what we would call aroma based flavor. You can read back to that last post to reference it, or just read past it here; it's not critical to the explanation.
As to tasting process a blogger friend--who I only know online; maybe should I be saying "acquaintance" until I meet these people?--has been considering if long term effects of caffeine are getting to him. I've had some problems with comparison tasting adding up related to caffeine intake, so I'm going with small gaiwans for this, which probably should have been an obvious step for tasting multiple teas all along.
On to these version specifics in tasting then.
Skipping the appearance and scent parts, the initial infusion--more a rinse that I didn't discard--shows the characters to be like that expectations summary I just covered. The Mi Lan Xiang is bright, sweet, intense, and complex, mostly in the range of peach with a good bit of supporting floral tone. The Ya Shi (I should probably just say "duck shit" instead, since it's catchy) is warm, full, complex, and aromatic, and won't be so easy to describe in terms of two or three main flavor elements. I won't even start on that until the first real infusion.
The Mi Lan is the same but more pronounced in aspects intensity at the normal infusion strength. It's brewed to a medium level of infusion concentration to me, but people might well tend to drink Dan Cong either on the lighter side compared to some other types, or on the much lighter side, and this could be in between those ranges. The peach really ramps up in intensity. It's interesting the way that the astringency (which is moderate, but one of the main defining aspects) seems to mimic the way that peach skin comes across, the separate flavor of that from ripe flesh. It trails into that unripe fruit range, with a slight bite of an unusual type of astringency, nothing like that found in black teas or sheng pu'er. But it's in great balance, not negative, even if it would be a matter of preference deciding if that added or took away from the effect of the other aspects.
The roast is not heavy but you can notice it, a bit of caramel or light toffee in the back, or really not exactly that but in that range. Maybe if you fire-roasted a peach and it picked up a brown-sugar to cooked fruit tone that's closer to what I mean, although of course there is no smoke aspect in this tea, so the "fire" part might just be for descriptive color. With some allowance for preferences varying this is more or less exactly how this tea should taste, to me. It's tempting to try and put it on a scale of good to unbelievably good but I would need more experience with very high end Dan Cong to reference against. It's a lot better than typical generalist specialty versions would be, teas typically sold in the $15 dollars per 50 grams range, described as great examples that are really just not that bad, only in the general range of type-correct. I suppose there is always room for improvement but it's quite good.
The Duck Shit version is warm, complex, and subtle; a totally different kind of experience. It's also aromatic, not pronounced in terms of flavor, although there is plenty going on with that, as much as in a broad range that covers sensation trailing off into sensory ranges that you sense but don't fully capture.
I'm having trouble assigning specific flavors to the experience, but it has to come to that if I'm going to review it; it would be strange doing a tea review and never getting there. The main range is floral, but not in the same sense as bright, sweet, pronounced flowers, so I suppose just an earthier, richer, more subtle flower range. Tropical flowers here seem to be bright, sweet, and intense, the different orchids, plumeria, and such, more like wildflowers back in the US. This tea's range is on the opposite side of all that. It's not far from how I'd imagine a sunflower to be, but I can't think of a flower type I actually have smelled that's a close match, something warm and complex. It's towards chrysanthemum but not that, with more depth and richness than that flower blended with chamomile, but in that general range.
With all the complexity it wouldn't be wrong to say it also tastes like some warm, subtle, earthy but light fruit, maybe in the range of dried longan. But the flavor range is well integrated, so it doesn't come across as tasting like a few different things. I'll keep tasting, since that complexity may well also related to extension into mineral and spice ranges.
Ya Shi left, Mi Lan Xiang right
On the next infusion I probably went a touch longer on the time--not long at all though, around half a minute--and the strength and astringency of the Mi Lan Xiang picked up. It would be more conventional to use slightly hotter water and go with really fast infusions instead, ten seconds, and the astringency would be light along with the flavors being less pronounced too. This was brewed at 80 C; I tend to like teas prepared a little cooler than some if offsetting astringency is a concern. It's really about personal preference more than one approach being objectively best, or at least that's my take. It would've balanced better brewed for ten seconds less but it's still nice, but at this strength the astringency starts to pick up enough to be more pronounced than the flavors. Nothing like a young sheng, not that type or on that level, I mean related to the balance per what I like to experience.
This same infusion time worked better for the duck shit; without astringency as much of an input at all, not even to the extent of filling in structure. The flavors just intensify and the feel thickens a little. It comes across as richer, almost buttery, just in a completely different sense than for Jin Xuan oolongs. I tried a decent one of those I bought for the staff at the office, a Thai version, so related to me always going on about how mediocre Thai oolongs are I was going to review that and put the record straight. But that tea is not on this quality level, not even close. It may be two full levels down, but for what it is drinking that tea makes for a nice experience, good as a "daily drinker," as people tend to say, as something to have with lunch.
The sweetness and rich flavor changes for this duck shit version, a little, more towards a lightly browned butter effect, which isn't so far from a really light caramel. Someone that absolutely prefers intense floral aspects might not appreciate that but the complexity, fullness of flavor and other range, and the way it all balances makes for a cool effect. It's a good tea. Again I can't map it to best of the best; it's about as good as the best duck shit Dan Cong I've tried, more or less, but I haven't put effort into exploring the highest range. Or expense, more to the point; better Dan Cong moves to $1 a gram or beyond much faster than most other tea types.
On the next infusion I went more like 15 seconds for the Mi Lan Xiang and around 30 for the duck shit; brewing and tasting different teas at the same time can go like that. The balance is back to great for the Mi Lan version; the flavor is plenty intense, quite sweet, nicely complex, and the astringency level compliments the tea instead of taking away from it. If someone absolutely loves soft teas instead something like the duck shit version might work better, or another style of tea altogether might, or possibly just a different version. Then again it's hard to imagine someone not liking these teas.
The duck shit version aspects haven't changed. I've tried a version before where the aromatic / complex effect cost the tea in terms of flavor complexity but this one strikes a nice balance, covering a lot of range but still offering up plenty to taste as flavor. It's definitely warmer than the Mi Lan, and richer, in one sense, but perhaps less intense for being more complex. It makes consider how level of roast comes into play, but I really won't venture much about that, since I don't know. The Mi Lan brews darker but the brewed leaves look about the same; I'd guess it's roasted a bit more but that isn't much in the way of an informed guess. With Wuyi Yancha it's possible to tell that medium to darker / heavier roasting occurred because the teas taste more or less charred, slightly toasted in a normal sense if not a bit burnt in cases where it goes too far. It's not possible to pick up anything like that effect in these two teas.
I could keep going for a couple more infusions to talk about transitions, or to pin down a few more flavor aspects, or to stretch this out to some vague, potentially invalid analogy (astringency effect like biting a tree bud, etc.), but I'll skip all that. The teas aren't close to finished but not transitioning a lot.
I will try to mention which I like better, but that's hard to say too. They're both great for what they are expressing, for being so different in type. In different senses I like both best. I think they work really well for tasting two teas that don't overlap all that much in character together, for comparison tasting related to contrast instead of shared range. Usually the opposite works much better, picking out finer levels of aspects related to them sharing common ground, and I may well have missed some levels of range for going against that. This said next to nothing about "feel" aspects, for example, and when two teas share a lot in taste range and that differs your attention tends to drift there (or didn't get that far with taste description, really).
My final assessment: two more great teas from Cindy. Someone that has been drinking the best of the best Dan Cong available for some time might disagree, and these could seem quite ordinary to them, but that's how tea tends to go. I would expect that for someone only exposed to a conventional, typical-supplier quality range of Dan Cong these two teas would be a step up in quality instead, teas that they would really enjoy. For someone only exposed to so-so versions or new to the type they could open a whole new world. I've tried Dan Cong sold as relatively higher end versions--at upper medium level pricing--that wasn't nearly this good. It will be interesting to look around at other reviews and see what other people think, if I get around to that.
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Labels: chaozhou, Cindy Chen, comparison, dan cong, duck shit, Mi Lan Xiang, oolong, wuyi origin, ya shi
Biplaza July 23, 2017 at 2:37 AM
Agree to some extent. I've been tasting different Mi Lan Xiang and found them to be quite distinct. I wouldn't say one was better than other, just that they show individual character, regarding to taste, smalle and astringency levels. Perhaps that's the way true Dan cong (Single bush) is meant to be.
Where I perceived bigger differences was in roast integration. Poor processed dancongs (and Yanchas) show ash/smoke/burnt flavours, while better processed don't. That was the case of Cindy's husband dancongs.
Patricio Hurtado July 23, 2017 at 12:50 PM
In my own experience, if you got the "A" versions from Cindy this year, it will be difficult to get better Mi Lan or Duck Shit than those.
John B July 23, 2017 at 7:28 PM
I really appreciate comments that are actually relevant and informative feedback. They're almost all nonsense that includes a link posted by spam bots. I'm glad that you both also had positive experiences with Cindy's family's teas.
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The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
Posted in America, Europe, Patents at 5:57 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Earlier tonight: Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office (replacing examination with prosecution Armageddon)
In their newsletter they are even quite blatant about it
Summary: Aggressive efforts to cause war and instigate unnecessary conflict at the expense of sharing and collaboration in the world of science, for nothing but the enrichment of (taxing by) the serial litigators such as trolls
IT IS not news to us that the Chamber of Commerce (essentially an influence/pressure group) is with the litigation lobby, as a lot of litigation or threats thereof might come from large companies against their minuscule competitors. CoC — as it’s often referred to (almost derogatorily) — stands for large multinational corporations, so the “commerce” part isn’t exactly frank.
“So the litigation industry wants legal wars.”Now that IAM and Watchtroll are lobbying Trump and trying to overthrow USPTO Director Lee so as to install this crook we should pay careful attention to IAM’s latest issue that promotes discriminatory thickets. “In recent years,” it says, “patent pools have once again become a hot topic, as well as a source of considerable controversy.”
It’s not hard to see why. These pools are designed to exclude small players and support/enforce an oligopoly. Watchtroll, in the meantime, citing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which attacks India for disallowing patents on software (IAM was a megaphone for the Chamber of Commerce just weeks ago, also in relation to this point), complains about improvements in patent quality in the US (and decreased litigation). Joining him are the usual people, for instance John Harris (of a patent law firm) who said “USA continues to take steps backwards due to variety of self-inflicted wounds in patent system. (Duh.)”
“Cui bono? Certainly not scientists.”So the litigation industry wants legal wars. No surprise there. “That’s actually forward,” Benjamin Henrion corrected him, “depending on which side you are.”
Here in Europe we have similar problem because Battistelli demolishes patent quality whilst EPO management and Team UPC are lobbying aggressively for UPC. Cui bono? Certainly not scientists. They would be the ones to lose money to a bunch of non-producing (or unproductive) parasites.
“There are powerful forces pressuring and sometimes even bribing politicians to turn their back on reason.”“The only interest group in Britain which has any interest in the UK acceding to the UP [Unitary Patent] are law firms,” this new comment says. “British law firms which are just the post office of American and some Asian applicants will be marginalised if they will no be eligible to present before the UPC. Due to the high cost of litigation in the UK and by consequence the low number of court cases they have basically no real court experience and they wont get it before the UPC. To a very small extent Irish firms will take over, and German lawyers take the win. The best thing the British lawyers can hope for is no UPC at all or requalify as plumbers with all the Polish plumbers leaving the Island, this seems a more rewarding career prospect.”
It is important to recognise that progress and innovation (in science and technology in particular) are not on the agenda of every occupation. There are powerful forces pressuring and sometimes even bribing politicians to turn their back on reason. That’s a slap across the face to patent examiners who practice and study science. █
Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
Posted in Europe, Patents at 1:45 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
UPC (patent) trolling and EPO (budget) looting in transit
Reference: Planned Obsolescence (the monopoly the EPO has on granting patent monopolies is part of the problem, with UPC as the new ‘product’ to be sold when the EPO becomes obsolete)
Summary: The EPO is being rendered obsolete by Battistelli, but the eventual vocation remains uncertain, with some suspecting that Battistelli is willing to altogether destroy patent examination and swap that with a lot of litigation, preferably within a framework that’s designed to benefit large (deep-pocketed) multinational corporations
WE GENERALLY do not disclose who we speak to (nationality, gender, affiliation) and how many people we speak to regarding the EPO as that would only help the horrific, Nazi era-esque Investigative Unit (I.U.) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], which seems to be the only thing that is growing at the EPO.
“Some don’t believe that there is a future to the EPO and Battistelli as an “agent of change” (so-called ‘reforms’) is more like an angel of death.”People whom we speak to have been concerned about the EPO for quite some time. Some don’t believe that there is a future to the EPO and Battistelli as an “agent of change” (so-called ‘reforms’) is more like an angel of death. If his goal is total destruction of the Office and the Organisation too, then he is doing a terrific job. Bravo, Bennie! But such destruction would in no way serve Europe’s interests; instead, it would devastate the continent’s economy for decades to come.
In the last post about the EPO from pseudonym "Merpel" (several different people use this name) it was acknowledged that things had gotten worse. There was a glimmer of optimism over intervention, but as one who covered this closely for nearly 3 years I know that the biggest battle — if battle is a suitable word in this context — is still ahead. Information is crucial in this battle because the EPO lies so routinely that it’s embarrassing to Europe. It’s the standard I expect when traveling somewhere like Turkey (not that I would travel there any longer).
“Information is crucial in this battle because the EPO lies so routinely that it’s embarrassing to Europe”As EPO insiders have already explained, the writings are on the wall and layoffs can be expected as early as next year. Not a few layoffs here and there but a massive avalanche of redundancies. What would then happen to examiners with their highly restrictive contracts? What would happen to EPs? Who would be left to properly examine applications rather than package and dispatch them like hot crème patissière? While calling these ‘products’ and arrival of applications ‘demand’ (as if these are invoiced in some ordinary business or production line)?
“You bet the EPO is heading for the closure of its expertise as we know it,” the following comment noted as the weekend kicked in. We thought it’s worth reproducing below because it looks like an insider wrote it:
Running out of work
Just follow the management decisions since the last 5 years and try to explain what they are up to:
- remove almost all extra-activities, projects from examiners.
- remove all time budget for medical visits.
- reduce holidays.
- pressure increase on sick workers.
- reduce time budget for classification, second examiner and chairman duties.
- remove the time budget for industry visits.
- reduce the time budget for learning and development.
- limiting the part-time workers by forbidding it or penalising the worker.
- forbidding all sort of leaves, even unpaid leaves.
- recruiting in large numbers creating an over-capacity.
all of these to increase the number of hours man-power,
- pushing into a higher productivity, results in:
increased number of man-power and increased productivity equals a great increase of Production.
Now, after this tremendous call for the “war front line” , when we have almost all man-power devoted to the core-business, what does the management decide?
- the management decided to refund 75% of the fee for examination if the applicant withdraws the request. the management is even considering refunding 100% of the fee.
- let me remind all that we are running out of files/work!
Can anyone find an explanation?
Would a car factory wanting to stay in business refund the money for ordered cars? Do you believe that the stakeholders of this factory would be happy to return the money even though the factory C.E.O. argued that there was/is a backlog? Wouldn’t you as a stakeholder investigate what’s happening? Wouldn’t a worker question what the hell is going on? … and if something is really “going on” wouldn’t the C.E.O. do anything possible to quiet all contradicting voices?
You bet the EPO is heading for the closure of its expertise as we know it. Now, if examiners are digging their own grave, isn’t the whole IP world just washing their hands? perhaps in a couple of years the EPO won’t be around and there won’t be Search reports and examinations by this office. My question is: does this suit the european industry? Is it fine with the attorneys with the EQE? Are the countries happy with this? You see, examiners do digg their own graves, but we are so used to make a good job and wish to keep always the inventors happy, that if you want to give as a hand, just stand quiet and watch us go down.
Just food for a though!
This provocative long comment attracted quite a few responses, including one that asked, is the “EPO on the path to become the EU WIPO?”
you write : My question is: does this suit the european industry? Is it fine with the attorneys with the EQE? Are the countries happy with this?
well the answer is obviously a YES since they are all aware and do nothing
The EPO on the path to become the EU WIPO ?
Maybe SIPO Europe is a better analogy. Or another INPI, where examination is barely in the lexicon. It’s almost mortifying to see what the EPO has become. As a software professional I worry that the EPO is granting software patents by the thousands each year and when/if the EPO goes under, the trolls will cross the Atlantic ‘bridge’ and come knocking on our doors, with or without a UPC-like regime. It is a real possibility — one that we have warned about for a decade.
“As EPO insiders have already explained, the writings are on the wall and layoffs can be expected as early as next year.”Another new comment was posted to that effect. “Running out of work” is the heading/signature and it says that “the title on this post aptly says: “it’s curtain time. The new structure that replaces Minnoye will sweep the floor for the big change which is planned for 2018.”
Staff representatives have already explained that it's against the EPC, but who is going to enforce the EPC? Certainly not this chinchilla of a man.
“As a software professional I worry that the EPO is granting software patents by the thousands each year and when/if the EPO goes under, the trolls will cross the Atlantic ‘bridge’ and come knocking on our doors, with or without a UPC-like regime.”Well, the latest comments suggest that several EPO workers certainly know that EPO is collapsing and believe it’s all intentional, or simply planned. “That is precisely what I told 5 years ago,” an EPO insider wrote, “but back then nobody believed me…”
“Weekend call,” one of the commenters joked about Battistelli's extravagant habitat by saying: “Yesterday security was called in for the 10th floor Isar, apparently a pair of BB’s shoes went missing. Were the royal suits burglared?”
Well, security was sent to chase away a bailiff, so the above sounds almost believable.
“This gross kind of abuse can happen because nobody is left to supervise Battistelli and his clique.”Commenting on Battistelli's latest money grab, this latest comment jokes about embrace of a new ‘calender’ — one with which to help Battistelli and his cronies loot the EPO even faster. “Since this month of March,” the commenter joked, “the EPO introduced a new (and inventive) Calendar. No, no! EPO does not follow the Gregorian Calendar , and the Julian Calendar is old news; The EPO implemented the Benotian Calendar, this is one calendar with 14 months and it goes like this: Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Benier, Batisttil, Avril, Mai, Juin….., corresponds to 2 extra salaries, but Benier and Batisttil applies only for certain managers and it only works in French.”
This gross kind of abuse can happen because nobody is left to supervise Battistelli and his clique. 0% of stakeholders support Battistelli, yet somehow — miraculously — he keeps his job.
Speaking to some EPO insiders, we must conclude that at least some of them seem to believe that Battistelli won’t necessarily leave his job but instead he will bury the office under him (in his seventies), or sink with the ship that he is actively sinking. It’s quite scary a thought. It’s like a movie plot about a Mafia. The EPO is embroiled in many legal disputes and in many of them the EPO simply disregards the rulings of judges (ILO for example), then lies about it.
“Speaking to some EPO insiders, we must conclude that at least some of them seem to believe that Battistelli won’t necessarily leave his job but instead he will bury the office under him (in his seventies), or sink with the ship that he is actively sinking.”“I have spoken with my lawyer about the issue of going public,” one reader once told us. “In principle he agrees we might go public, but he begged to avoid it now right in these days: we actually start to get [to] actively pushing on them and they are going defensive. So when things are to go public we would like to have it going big — an embarrassment that they cannot patch up.”
That’s just one case of many we are aware of. We have a lot of documents and sooner or later all that ‘dirty laundry’ of the EPO is bound to be smelled. But will there be any EPO left by then? Something to actually salvage?
Quite a few people out there wish to go public with their cases, but seeing how Battistelli gets away with anything, they are reluctant. “Doing it now,” one person once told us, even “in a still rather limited section of the public, will surely irritate them but it will push EPO into some kind of (hysteric) reaction, irrational and typically self-indulgent yet enough to mess about and give us additional trouble, something we don’t need right now.”
“We have a lot of documents and sooner or later all that ‘dirty laundry’ of the EPO is bound to be smelled.”It’s no secret that Battistelli holds as ransom/hostage people’s pensions, so even employees who are unjustly dismissed are afraid to talk. That’s the strategy of tyrants, along with collective accountability, collective punishment, harassment of spouses (yes, Battistelli’s office has done that too), and so much more.
The reason protections (such as ILO) exist in the first place is prevention of such scenarios, which allow a tyrant to simply 'take over' (entryism or coup) in a destructive and irreversible fashion. But these protections too are being abolished, ignored, etc.
One day, perhaps after the regime of Battistelli is toppled, a lot of shocking stories are likely to come out. Given the nature of the regime at the moment (like the Battle of Berlin) we reluctantly agree that the time is not right for publishing any of the personal accounts (unless anonymity can be preserved). I keep my complete notes on various cases for some form of publication in the future, as soon as it seems safe enough a thing to do.
“Is Battistelli willing to totally crash the EPO in order to make the UPC a reality? We certainly think so.”Many people think that big changes may be coming to the EPO (like dismissals of managements), but UPC progress — if any is made — may help determine the outcome. If Battistelli fails to deliver the UPC this year (even with the UK excluded, necessitating a massive rewrite), then his big business buddies (almost like bosses) will be upset and he will have lost popularity in these circles too. The only reason we believe Battistelli can survive right now is a bunch of low-profile billionaires who view Battistelli as the man to forcibly feed Europe the UPC, granting them all sorts of powers to bully their competitors (something like a ‘micro’ ISDS, wherein companies are collectively sued instead of states).
Is Battistelli willing to totally crash the EPO in order to make the UPC a reality? We certainly think so. The goal is to ‘manufacture’ as many patents as possible while preparing for mass litigation, fermenting a war on Europe from the outside (including from China, which already does this strategically in East Texas). █
Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 9:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Unified around the idea that UPC is desirable and inevitable (it's neither)
Summary: Outline of responses to two promotional articles about the UPC, courtesy of staff from firms that are propelling the UPC for self gain
“MERPEL” (a pseudonym of various people at IP Kat) no longer covers EPO scandals, which leaves more room for Team UPC to push its agenda that worryingly enough overlaps Battistelli’s agenda. It’s sad to see, but that’s what IP Kat recently became.
“For those who have not been paying attention, following the Article 50 news IP Kat published not one but two puff pieces about the UPC.”Yesterday we wrote about Bristows' latest nonsense about the UPC and MIP's latest 'marathon' of UPC reports which are all hinged on 4 words from an alleged (unnamed) “spokesperson” for UK-IPO. IP Kat readers are not stupid and ‘awkward’ questions like this one are being asked: “Would you mind letting the readers know the exact source of these “news”? Is the above based on an official statement by the UK IPO and if so, where can this be found?”
For those who have not been paying attention, following the Article 50 news IP Kat published not one but two puff pieces about the UPC. The articles attracted over a dozen comments and all the comments are negative, disagreeing as usual with the original posts. And rightly so. We have, for quite some time, complained about this and we happen to know that even some former ‘Kats’ are not entirely happy with this bias.
“In this post we wish to focus on rational responses rather than pure marketing from Team UPC.”What has the IP Kat been reduced to?
In this post we wish to focus on rational responses rather than pure marketing from Team UPC. Typically, in most sites, articles are a lot saner than the comments, but in IP Kat — at least as far as UPC goes — it’s exactly the opposite.
“The UPC is nothing more than a Trojan Horse coming to put European industry under pressure,” said this comment. Here is the full comment:
Who is taking whom for a ride?
If UK wants to kill the UPC, this is the best way to behave.
One thing is clear: the lobbying of some circles, not to say U.K. law firms shows that what reasonable people consider stupid and foolish, might nevertheless become true.
Which reasonable legal adviser can suggest to his client to go for the UP, when it is not sure what will be the fate of the UPC.
I am still waiting for somebody to explain in a clear and concise matter how UK can stay in the UP after Brexit, and how enforcement will take place in the U.K. or in the other states for a decision taken by a local court or the section of the central court in UK.
The UPC is nothing more than a Trojan Horse coming to put European industry under pressure. Remember the proportion of applications coming from EU member states at the EPO? At best a third! And how many SMEs among those?
It is time to stop the ongoing hypocrisy.
Later on the same person expanded a little further. Added elsewhere was this comment which said, “who will be the beneficiary of the UPC: the US, Japanese and Chinese companies.”
And patent trolls in particular. To quote:
One of the comments above made it clear who will be the beneficiary of the UPC: the US, Japanese and Chinese companies. Where is the benefit for European industries and especially European SMEs? Being generous, may be a good third comes from Europe. And where does the rest come from?
The problem with the judges is not only of procedural nature. Interpreting the EPC is also at stake. When one sees that how decisions of the the boards of appeal are superbly ignored by national courts (and vice versa), why should this change under the UPC? Remember that in the big countries there will be two national judges in a panel, hence conclusions are easy to draw. Any idea how to resolve the necessarily upcoming of conflicting case law between the BA and the UPC? May be by not just sending the BA to Haar, but in orbit, as once Mr Pedrick suggested to do for the search documentation…..
As for Max Drei, what he says is exactly confirming what I have just said. Let’s do it the British way, which is the only right one! And that should represent a unified legal system? Please do not abuse the credulity of the reader. And on top of it there are so many unresolved legal issues following the Brexit, that any legal adviser suggesting his client not to opt out should be struck of the list of qualified representatives be it before the EPO or the UPC. The only thing such a representative does is to insure that his purse is well filled and that is it.
Hypocrisy has to stop. The UPC is so laden with errors of conception, that the Brexit is the opportunity to see how thing could be made better, and really to the benefit of European industry and SMEs. Already now the share value of companies depends on the litigation started. Do we really want this in Europe?
The following person (probably an attorney) responds to the above allegation about “US, Japanese and Chinese companies.”
Observer, you suggest that pan-European benefits litigants from outside Europe more than domestic industry. The EU Registered Design Right was also supposed to help domestic industry against competitors from outside Europe. You know: nobody ever files for design registration outside their home country, that logic.
Yet my feeling is that EU Design Registrations are mainly used by non-European claimants against European defendants.
Here we go again?
Compare jurisdictions outside Europe: US, JP, CN. Who can deny that litigants in those jurisdictions go on enjoying huge “home advantage” by playing at home, in their own courts?
But this is why I cherish my European heritage. More fairness, and less nationalism and protectionism than in other jurisdictions. At least, in the recent past that is.
Saturday, 1 April 2017 at 17:
Then they spoke about Battistelli, hypothesising that we may “have here the secret agenda of the president of the EPO. Let everything go down the drain, so that the only place to litigate will be the UPC.” Rumours used to say that Battistelli would attempt to spearhead the UPC, too. A king for a decade? Two decades? More? Here is the comment:
When one sees the sudden increase of grants, but without loss of quality…., and the way the boards of appeal are ill treated, with the fees having to go up, and the posts being only sparingly filled, one wonders if we do not have here the secret agenda of the president of the EPO. Let everything go down the drain, so that the only place to litigate will be the UPC. And this is a good forum for companies having deep pockets. But no it is just for the SMEs. Convenient, n’est-ce pas?
The following comment explains that the UPC “was a bad idea from the start, irrespective of Brexit. Pushed for by the litigation community…”
It was a bad idea from the start, irrespective of Brexit. Pushed for by the litigation community in complete ignorance of the realities of the industries they purport to represent. Further evidence, if it were ever needed, of the self-serving bubble of ignorance and incompetence in which such lawyers reside.
Seeing the original delusions from Bristows, one person rightly or justifiably joked: “This is an April Fool’s, surely…..?”
Well, Bristows is lying, not joking. There is a profound difference between those two actions.
Another person said:
The UK is busy gathering cards to play in its negotiations with the 27. Hinting at weakened co-operation on security against terrorism is just one dirty example. Ratifying the UPC is just another card in the hand.
The UK should oppose swallowing the UPC as British businesses certainly do not want the UPC. It would only harm them. As one EPO insider put it the other day, “IPKat becoming a mouthpiece of the UPC lobbying clique? Jeremy we miss you!”
“Smyth wants us to wrongly assume that the UPC is about to start irrespective of the UK.”Well, even some former ‘Kats’ miss him. He used to actually antagonise Battistelli. Look what his blog became after he had left, habitually deleting my comments. The UPC boosters, especially after he had left, used the blog for shameless self-promotion. It’s not just Bristows but Darren Smyth also. He wrote: “There will be likely at least a year of uncertainty between the UPC opening, and the question of the continuing participation of the UK being resolved. If there are no enough users of the system, it may not be financially viable and then again its future would be open to doubt. Here again, readers will doubtless have their views.”
That’s a very loaded statement which doesn’t really belong at IP Kat. Smyth wants us to wrongly assume that the UPC is about to start irrespective of the UK. Nothing is true about certainty at all (even outside the UK) and pretending that it’s inevitable is part of the brainwash we’ve repeatedly complained about.
“They’re like a political party, the “UPC Party”.”Remember MIP’s UPC lobbying events — the ones without any critics of the UPC in them? Darren Smyth personally participates in such events, in his capacity at a law firm; no actual producers are invited, attending etc. (it’s super expensive and designed to exclude some views, just like RNC and DNC). They’re like a political party, the “UPC Party”.
Smyth wrote: “This is the crux of the matter. At an event on Brexit and IP convened by IPAN, there was some doubt about the attractiveness of a new patent and litigation system whose membership was, from the very beginning, in doubt. Those interested in the effect of Brexit on IP should look out for IPAN’s forthcoming report: “IP, Brexit and beyond – a blue-print for action in IP”, which will be based on the event. Similar concerns were voiced at the MIP International Patent Forum.”
Here again is that same old UPC promotion. Echo chamber, courtesy of IP Kat. So from being a Battistelli antagonist the site has turned into a weapon of Battistelli’s agenda. How sad…
Thankfully, the responses are all pretty much dissenting, in the sense that they don’t share the same optimism as the original writers’ (as is common in IP Kat these days). Bristows' views in particular received a lot of flak.
One person wrote:
I remember 1978 when the PCT and EPC got started. Applicants were very cautious, but the economics of filing PCT/EPC were so much more attractive than continuing to file national. The EPO did nothing to dent confidence in its procedures or in the way it examined substantive patentability. So then, after a few years of caution, and of keenly monitoring EPO performance on thousands of cases, everybody simply piled in.
That was the level of cautiousness then. I cannot imagine it is much different today.
But think about when the deciders ask: Unitary patent? Why should I?
Is there any persuasive answer why they should? we are always being told that industry hates uncertainty. Is saving on annuities enough of a reason to switch to unitary? In Big Pharma, who is going to volunteer to go first?
“If the UK is peripheral to the operations of a company….”
Here’s the rub.
For most major patent filers, and thus most major litigants, and thus most of the (potential) major users of the court, the UK is indeed peripheral to the operations of the company (emphasis on company).
However, for the patent litigation system, both: (i) as it stands at the moment; and (ii) as projected under the UPC, the UK is a very important component. The UK has been a significant contributor to the design of the UPC system, and is also significant in terms of the contributions from judges, the patent jurisprudence, and (to be honest) the lawyers.
How is the circle going to be squared?
Comment #2 [above] asks how the circle will be squared.
It seems to me that England is an extremely important jurisdiction for high value patent litigation where fact-finding is key to the outcome. Mainland Europe doesn’t understand equity, disclosure, cross-examination. Time and again, business people in civil law jurisdictions get burned by English law fact-finding. The arrogant assertion “That’s for me to know, and you to find out” doesn’t end the matter if you litigate in England (or the USA).
So unitary patent or not, I see England having on ongoing important role to play, when patents get litigated in Europe.
“I can’t imagine anyone in their right mind who would put their Crown Jewels into the Unitary Patent system,” said the following comment:
I can’t imagine anyone in their right mind who would put their Crown Jewels into the Unitary Patent system.
The UPC is a different question entirely. However, it will be several years before those who can afford to opt their cases out take a look at whether they should revisit their decision.
With all “important” cases opted out by all those with deep pockets, what will there be left for the UPC to work with in the early years? There will of course be some cases where the proprietors can afford to lose their patent. But there will not be too many of those. There is only one group of operators for whom the UPC will be very attractive from the off: non-practising entities.
So, the UPC will be a troll’s paradise. With not many cases to go around, what is the betting that the various local divisions will end up “competing” against one another for the biggest source of “work”? And so what is to stop the UPC creating a European outpost of the Eastern District of Texas?
It’s not looking good. The only crumb of comfort that I can cling on to is that the Unitary Patent Package appears to contravene general principles of EU law, and so there is a faint chance that it could end up being struck down by the CJEU.
With “UPC,” one person asked, “what happens to the supremacy of the ECJ over UK law in this so bright and rosy independent future?”
Well, the British government intends to maintain legal supremacy, which means that the UPC remains untenable. David Davis is mentioned again in the following comment:
I still fail to understand how the UK government, while trumpeting loudly about being freed from the shackles of the ECJ, can boldy come along and ratify a treaty of which it knows full well it will be stepping out in 2 years time…could someone please explain the rationale behind this, other than some cynical attempt to gain negociating points with regard to the EU – after all, if the UK does ratify, and the whole thing kicks off, how long is the UK going to hold the system in a suspended state of animation pending negotiation of some kind of acceptable exit deal ? Listening to Theresa May in parliament at PMQs on March 29th, and David Davis yesterday, one gets the impression the UK government is going to do what it jolly well pleases legislatively as and when the time comes. Irrespective of the legal arguments presented in support of a Brexited-UK still being able to be a member of the UPC, what happens to the supremacy of the ECJ over UK law in this so bright and rosy independent future ?
Now that decline in EP quality (low quality in processes and grants) is no longer a secret, people rightly express concerns about what a UPC-like regime would mean. We suppose there will be an EPO rule of thumb some time in the future, something alone the lines of “EPs from number x upwards (or year y onward) are dubious and should be taken with a grain of salt.” The Battistelli era has been thoroughly damaging to the reputation of EPs, not just the reputation of the EPO, and the “number of NPE cases in Germany is rising steeply and the NPEs more and more tend to litigate outside of the USA,” said the following comment:
Proof of th epudding is very sceptical about the success of the UPC. Where I can understand that from a European point of view, things are regarded differently at the other side of the ocean(s). For non-Europeans the scattering in Europe (the capital of Denmark is Amsterdam, right? And something terrible is happening in Sweden. Sweden, by all means!) is gruesome and should be ended as soon as possible.
I thus expect that many American, Japanese and Chinese companies would welcome this one court fits all principle.
It has been announced that the court will have experienced judges: most of the leading patent jaudges in the UK, Germany, France and The Netherlands will appear as UPC-judges. Thus, quality of teh court will not be a problem.
A problem in the first years of the existence of the court will be the harmonisation of the procedures, where local habits may tend to be persistent.
The fear for NPEs as mentioned by Proof seems to be justified. At this moment already the number of NPE cases in Germany is rising steeply and the NPEs more and more tend to litigate outside of the USA (and thus in Europe). On the other hand: is the attitude of NPEs objectionable? I do not see that you should be a producer yourself in order to be allowed to stop others producing.
So, I do not share the bleak view of Proof of the Pudding and I share Max Drei’s comparison with the start of the PCT and EPC: in the long run (which hopefully may not be that long) the UP and UPC will be a success.
Finally we see better and broader realisation of the trolls problem in Germany. People are catching up with the latest. These trolls are already coming to the UK, too. Cautionary tale about the UPC? Only lawyers in London would profit from this.
“I say that the UPC will be a troll’s paradise because of two main factors,” said the following comment. To quote:
I do not object to NPEs. I object to “trolls”. There is a subtle difference between the two. A troll engages in abusive (threats of) litigation in order to extract income from a patent of highly dubious validity (or from patent claims that cannot validly be “stretched” to cover the activities complained of).
I say that the UPC will be a troll’s paradise because of two main factors. Firstly, the ridiculously high fee for filing a counterclaim for revocation. For the victim of abusive litigation, that’s effectively a tax on defending yourself. Secondly, there is still no functioning market for (patent) litigation insurance. This will leave SMEs in Europe as “easy pickings” for trolls… no doubt heavily backed by investment groups that will view all of this as a wonderful wheeze.
Going back to the above-mentioned possibility of patent trolls coming from abroad (including China and the US), the following comment says this:
Upon reflection, I take issue with your assertion that you would “expect that many American, Japanese and Chinese companies would welcome this one court fits all principle”.
The problem that I have with your assertion is not that such companies won’t perceive the potential advantages to the UPC. Of course they will. Instead, my issue is that all such companies will surely have European advisors… who will no doubt be pointing out to them that it is a complete no-brainer to opt out all of their important patents and applications (at least for the time being). And if their European advisors are not doing that, then I would question why not.
On a totally separate theme, Max is of course correct to point out that users were initially hesitant to utilise the EPO. No doubt the same theme will play out with the UPC. However, there is a crucial difference between the EPC and the UPCA. For the former, it has taken over 40 years for fundamental flaws in the governance structure set out in the EPC to be exposed (by a ruthless and self-serving borderline psychopath). For the latter, anyone who cares to consider in detail how unitary patents and the UPC can be made to work will realise that the system is already horribly broken before it has even started… not to mention that is also has similar flaws as the EPC in terms of governance.
I should point out that I am all for a well-designed, fully functional “unitary” patent system for Europe. I just haven’t seen one yet.
A response to the above said: “How convenient it was for the EPO President (on secondment from Paris) to skewer the EPO’s patent law-making” (as is usual from Battistelli). To quote:
Just one observation on that last posting by Pudding and his use of the term “self-serving”:
How convenient it was for the EPO President (on secondment from Paris) to skewer the EPO’s patent law-making Appeals Directorate DG3. Not only did it wreak revenge on his troublesome judges in Munich, but it has also helped the Paris Seat of the UPC to get up and running with an enhanced flow of pan-European patent disputes.
The CJEU always did have French as its working language so the “seat” of pan-European patent law in Munich always was an affront to La Grande Nation. Till now, that is.
We are sad to say that inside the comments there is a lot more factual information than in the so-called ‘articles’, which are actually like advertisements rather than reporting. If this is what IP Kat has been reduced to, then we have no choice but to carry on rebutting that UPC lobbying. Not because it’s IP Kat but because it is not correct. █
Software Patents Under Unprecedented Invalidations Pace, Patent Maximalists Scramble to Reverse This Trend or Perception Thereof
Posted in America, Patents at 7:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Related: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Breaks Its All-Time Records, Revealing Continued Improvement of Patent Quality
Reference: False coverage rate (the patent microcosm uses a statistically-misleading subset of cases or compares non-overlapping months to belittle the progress made and the low likelihood of software patents withstanding/surviving scrutiny)
Summary: Misleading narratives, plaintiff-friendly courts, efforts to oust USPTO leadership etc. have all been attempted in the face of system-wide amelioration of an otherwise abusers-friendly system; we present some examples of selective new coverage from the patent microcosm
SOFTWARE patents are the biggest problem for GNU/Linux right now. A lot of people don’t know it because patents don’t have any physical presence and they are typically silent in the background, e.g. back room deals and settlements. Trolls like to work in the dark, keeping their victims isolated and helpless.
“Should listen to this Episode BEFORE signing @TheLOTNET Targeted by patent trolls,” says this new tweet about a new podcast from IP Wire — an episode that touches OIN and Microsoft. We recently wrote about software patents aspects of OIN and inability to do anything about Microsoft’s trolls who are the company’s latest patent strategy against GNU/Linux [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. Sadly, though many Free software proponents prefer to overlook the problem, patent blackmail persists and it harms the ability to freely distribute Free software such as GNU/Linux.
“Sadly, though many Free software proponents prefer to overlook the problem, patent blackmail persists and it harms the ability to freely distribute Free software such as GNU/Linux.”Thankfully, the US has been cracking down on software patents — a development we are profoundly thankful for. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), together with PTAB, is smashing a lot of software patents to pieces. Patent maximalists like Crouch are trying to use CAFC to slow PTAB down, but they have not been successful. They also try to cause a stir for the removal of the Director of the USPTO, who has been partly responsible for various key reforms.
Not too long ago in Smartflash, LLC v Apple Inc. yet another software patent got invalidated/struck down by CAFC, as these lawyers have only just noticed:
More Patent Invalidated as Abstract Ideas
[..].
The case is Smartflash, LLC v. Apple Inc., decided by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on March 1, 2017. Smartflash owned three patents for technology that limited Internet access to data (video, audio, text, and software) to users who had paid for access. In 2013, Smartflash sued Apple in a Texas district court for infringement of the three patents. In 2015, the jury returned a verdict of infringement against Apple, finding Apple liable to Smartflash for $533 million in damages.
Suffice to say, law firms are not particularly happy about it. Some of them try to figure out ways around CAFC and writing to other law firms (behind paywall) they say: “Several recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have untangled crucial uncertainties plaguing software patent applicants following the outcome of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347, 2355 (2014).” (the headline is somewhat misleading and gives unnecessary optimism with, “Federal Circuit Cases Clarify What Makes a Valid Software Patent”).
“Sites like these tend the cherry-pick the minority (20% or so) of cases where CAFC and PTAB are not in agreement.”In other news about PTAB/CAFC team-ups against software patents, here is the National Law Review saying that a “determination by the PTAB [...] asserted claims were directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under § 101…”
Sites like these tend the cherry-pick the minority (20% or so) of cases where CAFC and PTAB are not in agreement. Here is the ‘beef’ of the article:
After the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed the very same issue and patent, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reached a split decision, finding the claims to be patent eligible under § 101 despite new characterizations of the abstract idea and new arguments from the patent owner. IBG LLC v. Trading Techs. Int’l., Inc., Case No. CBM2015-00182 (PTAB, Feb. 28, 2017) (Plenzler, APJ) (Petravick, APJ, dissenting in part).
The patent at issue is directed to a user interface for an electronic trading system that allows a remote trader to view trends for an item. The patent owner asserted this patent against several defendants, who in turn sought covered business method (CBM) patent reviews in America Invents Act proceedings at the PTAB. One of the earlier cases resulted in a determination by the PTAB that the asserted claims were directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under § 101. On appeal of that earlier case, the Federal Circuit reversed and issued a non-precedential decision finding the claims patent eligible. In view of the Federal Circuit’s decision, the PTAB in the instant case allowed further briefing on the impact the Federal Circuit’s decision.
Another CAFC case was covered in lawyers’ media a short while ago. In it, patent law firms latched onto the edge cases (as usual) where patents were tolerated by CAFC, unlike PTAB. They try to accentuate the supposed ‘rift’ between the two, even though both PTAB and CAFC eliminate software patents most of the time and are also in agreement with one another (also on the issue of business method patents). To quote some portions from the microcosm:
Addressing issues of obviousness and anticipation in the context of an inter partes review, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two decisions with respect to the same patent, vacating and remanding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) decision finding the claims invalid as obvious in the first case, and affirming the PTAB’s finding that the claims were not anticipated in the second case. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center v. Eli Lilly and Co., Case No. 16-1518 (Fed. Cir., Feb. 28, 2017) (Bryson, J) (Newman, J, concurring in part, dissenting from the judgment); Eli Lilly and Co. v. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Case No. 16-1547 (Fed. Cir., Feb. 28, 2017) (Bryson, J).
The Federal Circuit agreed with LAB’s contention that the PTAB’s findings were insufficient to establish obviousness under the correct claim construction. Specifically, the Court found that, while the PTAB concluded that the prior art references rendered obvious the treatment of erectile dysfunction via the claimed method, it did not make factual findings to determine whether those references showed it would have been obvious to use long-term continuous treatment with a PDE5 inhibitor to treat individuals with penile fibrosis and to achieve the arrest or regression of that condition. The Court noted that the correct construction of the pertinent claim language required more than simply treating erectile dysfunction. The Court also noted that the PTAB failed to consider the possibility that, even if the combination of prior art references taught long-term treatment with a PDE inhibitor of individuals with some forms of erectile dysfunction, a person of skill in the art may not have been motivated to combine those same references to treat individuals with fibrosis-related erectile dysfunction, for whom, LAB argued, the results would have been expected to be detrimental.
Why is there virtually no coverage of the 80% or so cases where CAFC looks into PTAB decisions (upon appeal) and agrees with PTAB? Well, that would simply not serve the “perception management” agenda of patent law firms and maximalists. They’re not being honest; they don’t tell the full story. That’s greed. █
All Eyes on the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Ahead of Decision That Can Weed Out Patent Trolls
Posted in America, Courtroom, Patents at 6:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Even Canadian and Chinese companies currently exploit the Eastern District of Texas (East Texas for short) for litigation
Summary: The temporary economic boost in East Texas — a boost that piggybacks an abusive practice sheltered and even encouraged by East Texas — may be about to end when SCOTUS Justices do the right thing and starve crooked courts that advertise plaintiff friendliness
EARLIER this year we wrote numerous posts that mentioned SCOTUS looking into laches [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. In simple terms, the recent SCOTUS ruling sided with patent trolls in the sense that Justices let them use the clock against their victim/s. There have just been two new examples of analyses from legal firms 1, 2], reaffirming our concern that patent trolls got somewhat of a boost from the ‘Supremes’ (Justices). But having said that, this case is of far lower impact than TC Heartland — another SCOTUS case which will be decided some time soon.
“In simple terms, the recent SCOTUS ruling sided with patent trolls in the sense that Justices let them use the clock against their victim/s.”There is a lot of press coverage about it (in recent days we found [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]), but it’s mostly dominated by patent law firms, i.e. patent microcosm as opposed to industry, academics, journalists etc. We don’t have time to comment on each article individually (we last wrote about the subject a few days ago), but the overall message seems positive. It certainly looks like the end of patent trolls (at least in Texas) is imminent. Based on our readings, the oral arguments (e.g. questions) suggest an inclination to overturn the decision, i.e. ban venue shifting.
“Whenever it’s delivered — no matter if unanimous of not — we certainly hope it will be the end for East Texas as we know it.”One particular article, this one from Orrin Hatch (US Senator for Utah, the Republican party), received a special mention. “Hatch is right,” one person wrote. “Patent trolls are strangling innovators working to improve our society.”
Here are some portions from Wired‘s article, composed by Hatch:
To take TC Heartland as an example, the defendant corporation in the case, an Indiana-based manufacturer of zero-calorie sweeteners, was sued in Delaware even though it has no regular or established place of business in Delaware and is not even registered to do business in the state. Despite the defendant’s lack of connections, the court found that Delaware was a proper venue for the suit because a small percentage of the defendant’s sales—approximately 2 percent—were purchased by a customer in Arkansas and shipped to Delaware.
Savvy plaintiffs know that current rules allow them to bring suits virtually anywhere they want, so they seek out forums where they know judges are likely to give them an easier shake. One federal court in east Texas in particular has become infamous as a magnet for patent litigation because of its plaintiff-friendly rules and sympathetic juries.
In 2015, nearly 45 percent of all patent cases nationwide were filed in that one court. Nearly one-third of all patent cases nationwide were handled by a single judge on that court. This is forum-shopping in the extreme.
We lack the legal experience to estimate/tell when exactly a decision will be handed down, but better right than quickly. Whenever it’s delivered — no matter if unanimous of not — we certainly hope it will be the end for East Texas as we know it. █
The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit
Perhaps truth simply does not matter when truth is detrimental to one’s wallet?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” ~Upton Sinclair
Summary: The senseless optimism regarding the Unified Patent Court (UPC) comes only from circles that constructed it in an attempt to improve their bottom line
TODAY we would like to tackle some of the latest UPC deception. The EPO has (still is!) been silent since this PR charade, not saying anything about Brexit and the missed deadline for UPC ratification (now they say May, having said March 7th and then just March).
“Even UPC proponents might sometimes admit the truth and openly acknowledge that the UPC can be ignored for now.”A reader drew our attention some days ago to this legal analysis from Dechert LLP, which admits that the “structure of the UPC and the UK’s involvement post-Brexit are far from certain.”
Yes, it is not at all certain that any of this will ever happen. Even UPC proponents might sometimes admit the truth and openly acknowledge that the UPC can be ignored for now.
“One key issue already,” IAM just said, is “the Unified Patent Court Agreement. Government confirmed last November UK would ratify, but CJEU has explicit role.”
“The longer it goes on for, the greater the uncertainty and the deadlock, which can ultimately kill the UPC altogether (not just in the UK but in the entire EU.”Hence it is not compatible and David Davis, as we noted the other day, declared no role for courts like CJEU. Benjamin Henrion told IAM, “that’s why uk is delaying it…”
They can delay it on and on and on. The longer it goes on for, the greater the uncertainty and the deadlock, which can ultimately kill the UPC altogether (not just in the UK but in the entire EU). █
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Zinovy Zinik: On Sound Monsters
DIVUS LONDON | en
The Astor Community Theatre, Stanhope Rd, Deal CT14 6AB
About his experience as a broadcaster, about the Gothic aspects of working for the BBC at the time of the Iron Curtain; about mystic and scientific experiments with sound and memory; about the literary tradition of depicting monsters and how his own Soviet past has been absorbed into the fabric of his new novel.
Zinovy Zinik is a Russian-born British novelist, essayist and short story writer. Having lost his Russian citizenship with his emigration from the USSR in 1975, Zinik settled down in Britain in 1976. Ten years later he became a British citizen. The bilingual author of a dozen books of fiction, translated into u number of European languages and adapted for radio and television (The Mushroom Picker among them), Zinik is also a regular contributor to BBC Radio and The Times Literary Supplement.
Zinik’s latest comic novel Sounds Familiar or the Beast of Artek (Divus London, 2016) deals with made up identities, false sense of belonging and tricks of memory. Its protagonist is a Russian expat in London, an amateur sound engineer. He and his eccentric London friends are haunted – each in his or her own way – by the memory of certain disturbing events in their past lives, connected with peculiar sounds. They are manipulated into believing that they are potential victims of a sinister scientific experiment, codenamed “Artek” (an international pioneer camp in Crimea), in which sound is being transformed into the monstrous flesh. Zinik’s novel is a hot mixture of a Gothic horror story and an intellectual burlesque, of a political history and personal testimony – an entertaining piece of fiction by a well-established and internationally acclaimed writer.
Zinovy Zinik will be talking about his experience as a broadcaster, about the Gothic aspects of working for the BBC at the time of the Iron Curtain; about mystic and scientific experiments with sound and memory; about the literary tradition of depicting monsters and how his own Soviet past has been absorbed into the fabric of his new novel. The talk will be illustrated by autobiographical video documents and recordings.
Zinik has been living in Deal since 2008.
Book Sounds Familiar by Zinovy Zinik, illustrated by Lukas Malina will be available at the show.
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“A person must shake someone’s hand three times while gazing intently into their eyes. That’s the key to memorizing their name with certainty. It is in this way that I’ve remembered the names of 5,000 people who have been to the Horse Hospital,” Jim Hollands told me. Hollands is an experimental filmmaker, musician and curator. In his childhood, he suffered through tough social situations and…
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11 Extraordinary Places to Visit in Southern Spain
September 16, 2019 Poly 12 Views 0 Comments
Interested in discovering Southern Spain? Well, I’d be delighted to share the results of my research and experience, so you can save time in planning your special trip to this destination.
Spain is the second most popular tourist destination in the world after France. Now we understand better why! This country is full of beauty and offers something for everyone.
The extraordinary places to visit in Southern Spain
Madrid is a capital that lives to the rhythm of football – with the two football giants, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid – but it does not only offer great sensations for the football enthusiasts. Its royal palace, cathedral, Retiro Park, Plaza Mayor, Gran Via and the famous Prado Museum are attractions worth visiting.
Madrid Royal Palace
Madrid Historical Center
Parque de El Retiro
We were pleasantly surprised by Valencia, which is the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Spain. With a remarkable architectural heritage, the city is known in particular for its City of Arts and Sciences, with its futuristic architecture. In the historic district, the silk lodge, a UNESCO heritage site, was a trading post in the 15th century and represents the city’s economic power on the Mediterranean at that time. We did not miss admiring the church of St. Nicholas, nicknamed “Valencian Sistine Chapel” because of its frescoes on the ceiling. It’s a real beauty!
City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
Iglesia de San Nicolás
Torre de Sant Bartomeu
Playa de la Malvarrosa
In Alicante, we visited the Santa Barbara castle. Perched on a gigantic rock, it offers a sensational panoramic view of the whole city and the sea!
Castillo de Santa Bárbara, Alicante
On the way to Murcia, when we saw the sign saying “Elch, World Heritage City“, our curiosity led us to stop. And what a beautiful UNESCO discovery, since we were able to walk in the middle of the largest palm grove in Europe. The city was actually built in an oasis, a real exotic garden made up of thousands of palm trees!
Palacio de Altamira, Elche
In the center of Murcia lies the Cathedral of St. Mary, a gigantic 14th century structure that we enjoyed visiting. The Murcia region is nicknamed as the orchard of Europe because of its fruit and vegetable production. It is very interesting to drive through this fertile plain landscape.
Cathedral of Murcia
Did you know that the Muslims conquered the Iberian Peninsula and ruled over it for nearly 8 centuries? The Nasrid dynasty, which had established its power over the emirate of Granada, was defeated in 1492, putting an end to the Reconquista. The majestic Acropolis of the Alhambra, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the most prestigious example of the Muslim presence in Spain. The Alhambra of Granada consists of four parts: 1. the Alcazaba or citadel; 2. the Nasrid palaces; 3. the Generalife or the summer palace of the Nasrid princes; 4. The palace of Charles V, which was added by the Castilian victors following the Reconquista. The Alhambra is incredibly sublime!
Palacios Nazaríes de Granada
Dowtown Granada
Ronda is one of those places that awakens the power of imagination. It is the birthplace of the corrida, a well-known Spanish tradition. But the real emblem of the city is the New Bridge (Puente Nuevo) spanning over the El Tajo canyon, dividing the city in two! Ronda has some of the most magnificent viewpoints we have ever seen.
Puente Nuevo, Ronda
We stayed at La Linea de la Concepcion for two nights, which allowed us to reach Gibraltar on foot. From the border, it only took us 20 minutes to get to the Top of the Rock, after a bus ride and a cable car ride. Up there are some 300 free-roaming Barbary monkeys, the same ones we saw in Morocco. The morning clouds gave way to a beautiful sunshine and a splendid surrounding view in the afternoon. To end the day, we went down to visit the city, which reminded us a lot of England, with its buildings with its unique architecture, its Fish & Chips pubs and restaurants, its red phone booths, its bowler hat police officers and its British store signs. In addition, English is spoken and transactions are made in Sterling pounds, and the car is driven on the right. Oh and also, we walked across the airport runway back to the Spanish border! That was strange.
Barbary macaques in Gibraltar
Back to Andalusia with the city of Cordova. Like its neighbor Granada, Cordova has a rich architectural and cultural heritage linked to the Muslim presence for several centuries. At its peak in the 10th century, Cordova was among the most populous cities in the West and shone for its scientific development. Its mosque-cathedral is a very atypical masterpiece that well reflects the various cultures that have followed one another in Cordova. We enjoyed walking around the cathedral and in the historic center, which is registered on the World Heritage List. The Roman bridge is absolutely magnificent.
Roman Bridge of Cordoba
Cordoba Center
Mosque -Cathedral of Cordoba
Plaza de la Corredera
Sevilla is magical! We spent several hours wandering in the extraordinary Plaza de España at sunset. The place is semi oval in shape, and features a palace, towers, pillars, arches, porcelain benches, basins and a large central fountain. Flamenco dancers were performing while we were there and it was great!
One of the city’s major attractions is its Alcazar, a fortified palace built by the Umayyads during the period of Muslim domination. As in Granada and Cordova, we were captivated by the beauty of the architecture. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Siege of Seville is the 3rd largest church in the world. It is home to the tomb of Christopher Columbus. As many Spaniards are very deeply rooted in the Catholic religion, we witnessed an unusual scene during our visit. On that day, the royal chapel welcomed Catholic faithful, some patiently waiting for several hours, for the opportunity to kiss the hand of the Virgin of Kings (Virgen de los Reyes), patron saint of Seville.
Flamenco in Plaza de España
Real Alcázar de Sevilla
Catedral de Sevilla
Metropol Parasol, Sevilla
Back in Spain after Portugal, we stopped in Salamanca to visit its Plaza Mayor, the cathedral and the oldest university in Spain, dating back to 1134.
Catedral de Salamanca
Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca
For a better preparation
From Spain, we only knew Barcelona and its surroundings (Montserrat and the Costa Brava). This year, our goal was to visit as many attractions as possible in the south of the country, with Madrid as our landing and exit point. This prompted us to design a two-part itinerary with a one-day trip to Gibraltar and a five-day trip to Portugal.
Our stay in Spain lasted a total of 16 days, spread out in this way:
Madrid, the capital: 4 days;
Valencia: 2 days;
Alicante: 1/2 day;
Elch: 1/2 day;
Murcia: 1/2 day;
Granada: 2 days;
Ronda: 1/2 day;
Gibraltar: 1 day;
Cordova: 2 days;
Sevilla: 2 days;
Portugal: 5 days;
Salamanca: 1/2 day;
Madrid: 1/2 day.
If you live in North America, you are among the lucky ones who, like us, can purchase credit cards and earn points that can save you a great deal during your travels. Well, I would like to inform you that Spain is one of those countries that can be visited by staying almost exclusively in Marriott Bonvoy category 1 and 2 hotels, i.e. those that require the least number of points. The proof is that for our 15 nights in Spain, we only spent 147,00 EUR (180.21 USD) in accommodation. The hotels where we have used our points are:
AC Hotel San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid), category 1 or 7500 points;
AC Hotel Valencia, category 1 or 7500 points;
AC Hotel Murcia, category 1 or 7500 points;
AC Hotel La Linea (Gibraltar), category 1 or 7500 points;
AC Hotel Sevilla Forum, category 2 or 12500 points.
The icing on the cake is that thanks to our Bonvoy Platinum status, facilitated in part by our American Express Platinum credit card, all these hotels have offered us room upgrades and breakfast credits, not to mention an exceptional service.
If you are curious, here are the other destinations where, as in Spain, we have been able to take advantage of a large number of category 1 and 2 hotels to stay for free: Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia.
A superior room in a AC Hotel
AC Hotel Sevilla
The swimming pool of AC Hotel Sevilla
Here is the breakdown of the 147,00 EUR (180.21 USD) that we spent on accommodation:
2 nights in a beautiful apartment in Granada: only 32,00 EUR (39.23 USD) per night;
2 nights in a beautiful apartment in Cordova: only 41,50 EUR (50.87 USD) per night
Both apartments have been booked on Booking.
AirBnb in Cordoba
The Fiat 500 we rented for our 21 days in Spain and Portugal cost us 288,00 EUR (353.06 USD), or only 13,71 EUR (16.81 USD) per day. And surprisingly, Spain is home to one of the few free motorway networks in all of Europe!
We rented a Fiat 500
The Spanish culinary specialty known all over the world that we were most eager to eat was paella. We enjoyed it when we were in Valencia, where it originates from.
Another typical Valencian dish is arroz negro, in which the rice is coloured with cuttlefish ink.
Meat specialities are very popular in Spain, which has greatly contributed to the satisfaction of our taste buds.
Bocadillo de Jamon
Spanish Meat Products are the Best
Bull Tail
All over Spain, tapas are enjoyed at the table, or more commonly while standing, in the famous friendly, social and festive atmosphere of the restaurants.
We tested the Spanish churros, with a thick hot chocolate! Yummy!
Churros and Chocolate
As you may have already guessed, our stay in Spain did not lead us to sell a kidney! This country is the cheapest of the 24 European countries we visited this year. The cost of our stay for our family of 4 is:
1.518,00 EUR (1,860.92 USD);
95,00 EUR (116.46 USD) per day;
24,00 EUR (29.42 USD) per person and per day.
Expense Category
Flights 115,00 EUR / 140.52 USD
Accomodation 147,00 EUR / 179.62 USD
Transport (including gas, toll, parking) 528,00 EUR / 645.16 USD
Eating out 323,00 EUR / 394.67 USD
Groceries 257,00 EUR / 314.03 USD
Activities 149,00 EUR / 182.06 USD
1.518,00 EUR / 1,854.84 USD
Dates 2019-07-22 to 2019-08-05; 2019-08-11 to 2019-08-12
Number of days 16
Cities we visited Madrid, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Ronda, Gibraltar, Cordoba, Sevilla, Salamanca
Inbound Italy by plane
Outbound France by plane
Mode of transport Rental car
Distance travelled (car & foot) 2447 km
Number of photos taken 7700 (481 per day)
Currency The Euro (1,00 EUR = 1.22 USD)
Spain is a favorite among the European countries. We definitely haven’t had enough of 16 days in this wonderful country. There are so many places of interest to visit on a trip to Spain that we could have taken several months to visit them!
In the next post, we will conclude our tour in the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal!
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This Weekend in College Football: Week 10
As usual, all time Eastern and all predictions wrong.
Noon:
Purdue @ Pennsylvania State (ESPN): The list of teams Purdue has lost to (Ohio State, Michigan) is far more impressive than the list of teams they’ve actually beaten. Their OOC consisted of 3 MAC schools and Notre Dame, and in-conference their best win is probably against Northwestern. I’m going with Penn State here.
Iowa @ Northwestern (ESPN2): Speaking of bad teams that have lost to Purdue… anyway, I’m going with Northwestern here.
Wake Forest @ Virginia (Raycom/Gameplan): ACC implications! More for Virginia than Wake, though, as with a UVA loss Virginia Tech will have first all to themselves in the division. I still don’t really think Virginia is all that good, so I’ll take Wake here.
12:30:
Nebraska @ Kansas (FSN): Yes, I know Nebraska showed up for 3 quarters against Texas last week. I still think they’re pretty bad and have a lame duck coach. The Fightin’ Manginos survive another week.
Kansas State @ Iowa State (Versus): Meanwhile, K-State rolls.
Vanderbilt @ Florida (LF/Gameplan): Unless Florida pulls its best South Carolina impression, I don’t really see how the Commodores will escape the swamp with a win. Provided they pull it off somehow, they will be bowl eligible for the first time since 1982.
2:30: Navy @ Notre Dame (NBC): We all know the story here. And I was supremely confident in a Navy victory until they lost in a 59-52 shootout to Delaware last week. That said, I highly doubt Notre Dame’s offense is capable of generating 21 points, much less 59. I think the Midshipmen pull it out.
3:30:
Michigan @ Michigan State (ESPN/ABC): I don’t think either of these teams are particularly good, but the Wolverines have done a better job of feasting on their weak Big Ten foes. And I have to preserve my crackpot prediction that they’ll beat Ohio State and go to the Rose Bowl, so they win here.
Texas @ Oklahoma State (Gameplan/ABC): Despite losing at Texas A&M, Oklahoma State is still in the thick of the Big 12 South race with Oklahoma. Texas needs a ton of help (if it’s still even possible for them to pull it off) and they’d need a win here. The Cowboys did a much better job of dispatching Nebraska than the boys from Austin did. With the game in Stillwater and OSU knowing that control of their own destiny still on the line I think they win here.
California-Los Angeles @ Arizona (ABC/Gameplan): Why is this on TV anywhere, much less ABC? Arizona probably won’t even make a bowl game and UCLA is not a very good team, and just inconsistent enough to possibly lose this game. Will they? Probably not.
Cincinnati @ South Florida (Gameplan/ABC): Remember when these teams were relevant? You know, like a month ago? No? Well, then. Both are actually 6-2 but sport 1-2 conference records, with the main difference being that Cincy is reeling after consecutive losses to Louisville and Pitt. USF is reeling as well, but losses to Rutgers and UConn look slightly better at this point. I’ll say the Bulls will probably win.
5:00: Louisiana State @ Alabama (CBS): So Saban has saved his job for the time being from fickle Alabama fans by beating Tennessee in Knoxville and doing so with some gusto. LSU is missing some key guys due to injury and shady off-week shenanigans involving nightclubs and guns, but I still feel pretty confident LSU will prevail.
6:30: Missouri @ Colorado (FSN): 17 years! Never forget! Also, Mizzou wins.
6:45: Arizona State @ Oregon (ESPN/FSN Arizona/FSN West): While some bunch of idiots at ABC/ESPN Central Command decided that UCLA-Arizona would be worth broadcasting this got stuck on two regional FSNs. Fortunately for the rest of us, ESPN managed to get the national rights to the game. I expect a pretty good game, but the Oregon crowd is pretty loud and though uniforms would be enough to dispirit any opposition before the game. Arizona State passed their first test last week, but I think this Oregon team is just too good to lose to them.
Florida State @ Boston College (Gameplan/ABC): Here’s what I know about this game. 1) FSU isn’t very good. 2) Matt Ryan is pretty darn good. Eagles cruise.
Oregon State @ Southern California (ABC/Gameplan): Once again, ABC subjects us to crap. Recent losses notwithstanding, Trojans win.
Texas Agricultural & Mechanical @ Oklahoma (Gameplan/ABC): TAMU is slightly less dispirited than Nebraska is despite also having a lame duck coach. But it will be rockin’ in Norman on this Saturday night and I think they’re better anyway. Sooners win.
South Carolina @ Arkansas (ESPN2): Despite their consecutive losses, South Carolina is probably still a better than Arkansas. The Razorbacks have spent the past two week drubbing lesser opponents (Ole Miss and FIU, both worse than Vandy) while South Carolina is coming off a close overtime loss to Tennessee. Provided they show up, they have an edge I think and I’ll take them here.
10:00: Washington State @ California (FSN): Cal gets back on track by blowing out the Cougars.
That’s all I got folks. Look for bowl predictions sometime Sunday or Monday.
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REVIEW: CHARLES DENLER - Noel
CHARLES DENLER
Grumpy Monkey Music (2018)
Noël, the Christmas carol album from pianist Charles Denler, exemplifies the truism, "Quality over quantity." At a (relatively) scant 24 minutes long (signifying the 24 days of December preceding the holiday), Denler packs quite the punch (from a seasonal perspective) into this collection of nine well-known standards. His arrangements hew closely to the traditional renderings, although variations for each carol do come into play (nothing to diminish the enjoyment of the music if you consider yourself a carol purist). With I believe one exception, the album’s mood is quiet and subdued, ideal for either late night or early morning playing, when the house is quiet and a mood of repose and peace is sought. The album is listed on the cover as solo piano, but guest artist Richard Niezen makes some brief appearances on bass, cello and what I hear as orchestral strings. However, these appearances are quite sparse, so for all intents and purposes, yes, this is a solo piano offering by Denler.
I have previously noted in a review of one of this artist’s recordings that he mics his piano in a unique way. I don’t believe anyone else’s piano sounds quite like Denler's. There is a softness, a muted sense of the tone itself. It’s possible some might not enjoy this particular aspect of the album, although I find it, for me personally, it increases the music’s intimacy. The tracks include such standards of the season as "What Child Is This," "Silent Night," "O Little Town of Bethlehem," and "the title track (note: some song titles are either shortened or altered, e.g. "What Child," "Hark The Herald," and "Joy To All").
With so many new age-styled Christmas/holiday albums to choose from, across a wide spectrum of styles (e.g. secular versus spiritual carols, up-tempo to subdued, multiple instruments versus solo efforts), I think Noël easily earns a spot in almost everyone’s holiday collection. Denler’s softly nuanced playing deserves close attention but the recording can also be enjoyed in the background (I prefer the former though). I imagine this album, paired with a softly glowing fire and snow falling outside, might be a perfect Christmas Eve soundtrack.
Noël is available at iTunes and Amazon as well as streaming at Spotify and Pandora
Posted by Bill Binkelman at 10:40 AM No comments:
REVIEW: DAMON BUXTON - A Winter's Night
DAMON BUXTON
Many Miles Music (2018)
I have extolled the acoustic guitar playing artistry of Damon Buxton for a while now (not as much as I should have, sadly, and that is on me). His first holiday music album, A Winter’s Night (with a gorgeous album cover) underscores the praise I have heaped on him in the past. On the recording, he offers mostly-traditional versions of eleven standards (only one of which is secular, "Deck the Halls") plus a concluding original track, "Bells" (which I mistakenly first figured to be his take on "Carol of the Bells").
Buxton plays guitar with near unbelievable dexterity and technical proficiency blended with a soulfulness and sincerity that makes it easy to discern how important making music is to him. He inserts himself into every note played, investing his art and personality into each rendition, fully committing to the carol, time and time again. This abundance of a fusion of talent and heart means that (for me, at least) his music bears up well with repeat playing, each time eliciting a deeper sense of appreciation and even wonder.
Each carol gets its own special treatment, as the opening "Angels we Have Heard on High" is less celebratory than one might hear at Midnight Mass, but still retains the glory and wonder of the carol itself, albeit subdued. "Good King Wenceslas" gets the up-tempo treatment, with Buxton’s fingering shining as he flies over the fretboard with ease and grace. One of the aspects of Buxton’s recordings I admire is how, while he doesn’t settle in on one tempo or mood, he finds a way to "bridge" the differences without causing a "disconnect" in the listener. "O Come All Ye Faithful" goes mid-tempo which fits quite well even though, as a sung carol, this can sometimes become quite powerful. Beethoven’s tried-and-true "Ode to Joy" is treated to an introspective interpretation making this carol, which is played to death during the seasons for many of us, sound fresh, given a more introspective rendering. "Deck the Halls" injects a healthy dose of English folk music elements, appropriately so, and lightens the mood, but not distractingly so. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," a carol I always felt was meant to be melancholic and somewhat somber, is played slightly up-tempo but retains the feeling of somberness and subtle sensation of shadow. "What Child Is This" (sometimes referred to as "Greensleeves") aptly displays Buxton’s nuanced fingering and he pares the carol down to the bare essentials, in my opinion, which befits the emotional core of the song. The concluding original "Bells," showcases Buxton’s composing skills, which I have lauded numerous times before. Also, his business acumen, as by placing it last, should the listener only want "traditional" carols, one can end the album there. However, the mood and tone of the piece certainly fits in with what has preceded it here.
A Winter’s Night should be appreciated for its emotional core and its musicality, both of which unfurl throughout the album. Damon Buxton has given us an album that is versatile enough to be played (at low volumes) in the late evening for relaxation or at a louder setting for meal times or gatherings of loved ones. What more can one ask for?
A Winter's Night is available at Amazon, Bandcamp, and iTunes.
Posted by Bill Binkelman at 7:00 PM 2 comments:
REVIEW: DAVID WAHLER - Christmas at Home
DAVID WAHLER
Christmas at Home
Self-released (2018)
New age soundscape sculptor extraordinaire David Whaler weaves a soothing, serene ode to Christmas on his digital-download only EP release, Christmas at Home. As I have recounted in my reviews of previous Wahler recordings, very few artists are as adept as interweaving layers of electronic keyboards into a seamless whole as this artist does (Kevin Kendle comes to mind, but as of yet, Kendle has yet to release a holiday album). Wahler excels at melding his assorted keyboard melodies, textures, and rhythms in a way to make the end result sound almost organic in nature, rather than assembled bit by bit. This brief but extremely enjoyable selection of five carols is no exception. Ranging from four and a half minutes to just a literal tick below six, this EP is sublime at creating a mood of relaxation and beauty, although admittedly the opening "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" does up the melody’s tempo and a subtle rhythm is in the mix. From that opening, though, we are setting the meter for slow and serene (until the concluding song). An ethereal take on "Oh Holy Night" features harp and angelic chorales and well-placed ambient textures. "Silent Night" begins with celestial tones set against echoed piano, steeped in beauty and beautifully rendered. Twinkling tonalities and plucked guitar are featured on "What Child Is This?" alongside gentle bell tones, as if chimes being blown by gentle winds. Later, flute takes the lead as well as horn and the beautiful base melody of the carol is brought to the forefront. Christmas at Home concludes with the spirited original composition "Snowflake" and it energizes the conclusion with piano, synth pads, and ambient elements coalescing into a playful celebration of childlike exuberance with fast tempo rhythm carried not by beats but by the music itself. A joyous conclusion to a too-short but ever so sweet musical delving into the wonder of the holiday season.
Christmas at Home is available at CDBaby, Amazon and iTunes.
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A “QuickStart” Article
We all use charts for navigation (either paper or electronic), but on my recent World Circumnavigation, I found that charts come in varying degrees of accuracy. The further you get from ports used by ships, especially in third-world countries, the less accurate the charts become. This is independent of whether you choose electronic or paper charts as the electronic charts are usually based on the paper charts. In far-flung areas, there is usually only a single underlying marine survey (except in the Bahamas, see the "Experience Example" below).
Common wisdom is: “The prudent mariner will not rely solely on any single aid to navigation.” Sometimes the charts themselves are the “aids” not to be relied upon.
In areas of lower-quality charts, Google Maps can be a valuable addition to your arsenal of navigational tools by showing the exact locations of reefs and other near-surface features.
Figure 1. In this overlay image of both a nautical chart and a Google Maps satellite image, note that land areas align but reefs near the anchorage do not.
In Fiji, charts are reasonably accurate when entering major harbors used by commercial ships. When going to less-travelled islands, the locations of land areas are represented reasonably accurately but the positions of reefs were only somewhat related to their actual positions. Musket Cove is a popular anchorage in Fiji and while we were anchored there, a large catamaran grounded hard on a reef. They were lucky and sailed free on the next high tide. While it is recommended that you only sail reef-strewn areas in times of good lighting, this is not always possible.
Figure 1 shows the electronic chart of Musket Cove overlaid with the Google Maps satellite/aerial photograph. Notice that while the land is represented accurately on the chart, the reefs are only marginally accurate, particularly in the center where my anchor position is marked on a green reef. In actuality, I was in over 40 ft. of water in the center between the two reefs as shown by Google. In this case, Google is the more accurate position source.
Useful Techniques
For this application, go to Google Maps and use only the satellite image mode. You can change from street maps to satellite image with an icon in the lower left corner of Figure 2.
If you already have a waypoint or lat/lon information from a chart or chartplotter and want to see it in Google Maps, enter the coordinates directly into the Google Maps search box (“1” in the figure). Google Maps is quite forgiving about the format for input: A decimal-degrees input is shown but you can use degrees-minutes and put in a space for the degrees symbol like this: “17 46.623s 177 11.038e” and Maps takes you to that location and puts a marker there.
Figure 1. Use the control indicated to show satellite imaging.
To find the true position of a feature you see in google maps (like a reef), put your cursor on the feature, right-click, and select “What’s Here?” (“2” in Figure 3) A popup will appear showing the coordinates (“3” in the Figure):
Google maps displays a decimal-degrees system (rather than minutes) and uses minus signs to indicate the Southern or Western hemispheres. Conversion to decimal minutes positions is pretty straightforward. To get the minutes, take the decimal part of the coordinate and multiply it by 60.
0.772412 x 60 = 46.34472 and 0.186565 x 60 = 11.19390
So the lat/lon is:
17°46.345’S 177°11.194’E
These coordinates can be keyed into a chartplotter or plotted on a paper chart. TIP: if you click on the coordinates in the popup, Google Maps will center on that position and the coordinates will appear in the search box. You can copy-paste from there to your calculator app. Google Maps also does a conversion to Lat/Lon but it is converted to degree-minutes-seconds which most chartplotters won’t accept.
PLAN AHEAD: When you most need the Google Maps data, you probably won’t have internet access. Before starting a passage, go to Google Maps and save the information you need about your destination. An easy way (in Windows) is to use your browser to display the map you want to save. Alt -PrSc (“Print Screen”). This copies the map data from your browser to the clipboard. Open your favorite image program and paste the image in. I paste images directly into my word-processing app because it handles images well and I can easily add notes. You can make the images small in the word processor and still zoom in when you need more detail.
KEEP IN MIND: Even though Google Maps can show you the locations of dangers, it doesn’t have depth information and it can never show you safe locations. Always check your chart to see water depths.
Figure 3. The locations of controls used in Google Maps
Experience Examples
Our chartplotter uses Navionics charts, which are based on government surveys and are less accurate than the Explorer Charts (which I recommend for anyone sailing in the Bahamas). To reach the Exuma Land and Sea Park from the northwest, a Navionics-charted course will put you on the wrong side of a sand-bar and you’ll have to backtrack to get in if you're careful enough to avoid running aground. The sand-bar’s location is clearly visible in Google Maps and with preparation, you can take a few positions, create waypoints, and sail into the Park without hazard.
Similarly, entering Port Resoluation on the island of Tanna (Vanuatu), the charts are sketchy on the location of rocks off the point you must round to enter the bay. But Google Maps shows the extent of the rocks because the breakers you'll need to avoid are clearly visible. In some areas, the Google images will be at high tide and/or on a calm day and may not be as useful as the examples here.
All-in-all, when you're navigating in areas of marginal nautical charts, Google Maps is worth a look.
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Ghost of a DJ: “Caravan” ft. Lizzy Ashliegh – soaring but intimate
May 5, 2016 staff
Ghost of a DJ is an electronic music producer, songwriter and DJ. Active as of 2016, with initial releases on the Analog Music Box label, Ghost of a DJ, whose identity remains anonymous behind an intricately designed mask, has a primary genre focus of Deep House with evident crossover in Pop, Soul and R&B, among others. Ghost of a DJ’s debut self-written and produced single, “Caravan”, also features Lizzy Ashliegh on vocals.
“Caravan” is a personal and intimate narrative through the diverse and rich soundscapes. It straddles house flavors, and walks a delicate and admirable path, along the increasingly divided world of electronic music, as well as influences from chart toppers and underground sounds alike. It eschews hyperbolic concepts; reinvigorating the electronic music format by showing a song can still be smart and anchored by the dance-floor.
Refusing to be pigeonholed or constrained, “Caravan” is filled with the same spirit that contains breathy melodic euphoria to stripped back minimalism. It is immaculately produced – soaring but intimate, euphoric and slightly melancholic, and underpinned by a singular elegant melody sung by Lizzy Ashliegh.
It’s refreshing to know that there are talented new artists like Ghost of a DJ that stick to their style without blatantly trying to cater to the masses. Anybody could come out with a track that is filled with big drops and catchy hooks but they won’t stand the test of time in my opinion…this will.
Obviously everyone’s taste in music is spread across a broad spectrum. But if you are contemplating “Caravan” it’s because you (presumably) lean toward EDM. It’s safe to say that with this track Ghost of a DJ proves to be one of the artists making quality EDM music these days, even if he is only on his debut here. He shows masterful skill behind the boards and is not afraid to fill his tracks with melody, creating an entrancing mood that takes you on a journey.
The best part is, all the elements are beautifully spun together into a gentle rhythmic sway that is never hard on the ears but oh so smooth on the soul. The Ghost of a DJ does pinpoint sonic sculpting, while weaving in melodic phrases that tie everything together. “Caravan” is a thoughtful, provocative, and profoundly intoxicating debut!
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Analog Music Box, Caravan, Deep House, EDM, Electronic, Ghost of a DJ, House, Lizzy Ashliegh
KORR-A: “Everybody Get Down” – an intelligently crafted blend of cynicism and tongue-in-cheek observation
Charlee M. single “Back In Time” remixed by Grammy Winner!
August – “Armed & Dangerous” – at his most bare and captivating!
Ambrose – “Out of Nowhere” sticks to music’s core essentials
David Tv Barnes – “Lost Time” sounds as passionate as it does smooth and mellow
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THE BRIEF WITH BIANCA NOBILO
Donald Trump Hinted At Colonel Vindman's Firing: "I'm Not Happy With Him"; Passengers Quarantined In Cruise Ship In Hong Kong; Death Of Whistleblower Doctor Sparks Outrage In China; Former ISIS Bride Loses First Appeal Over UK Citizenship; Scientist Robin Shattock Speaks To CNN On Race To Find Vaccine. Aired 5-5:30p ET
Aired February 7, 2020 - 17:00:00 ET
JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Stay with us now. See you Sunday.
BIANCA NOBILO, CNN HOST: Tonight on THE BRIEF just two days after U.S, President was acquitted, a key impeachment witness is given his marching
orders from the White House.
Plus, 61 cases and counting the number of Coronavirus cases on a cruise ship of Japan have tripled in just one day. And the UK's most infamous ISIS
bride loses an appeal to reinstate her British citizenship. What's next for Shamima Begum?
I'm Bianca Nobilo in London a very warm welcome to the show. We begin with breaking news in Washington. A key witness in the impeachment inquiry into
Donald Trump was just fired from his White House job.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman served on the National Security Council as the top expert on Ukraine. Decorated combat veteran was escorted
out of the White House by security a short time ago. Back in November Vindman testified that he was alarmed by Mr. Trump's phone call with
Ukraine's President, calling it wrong.
His attorney just issued a statement saying in part there is no question in the mind of any American why this man's job is over, why this country now
has one less soldier serving at the White House. Lieutenant Colonel Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth. His honor, commitment to right
frightened the powerful.
We're joined now by CNN's Kylie Atwood in Washington. Kylie, was this move expected? Do you think we're likely to see any more firings?
KYLIE ATWOOD, CNN SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Well, there were conversations about the possibility of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman losing his
job, but today it actually happened. This is just days after that Senate trial came to a close, which acquitted President Trump and essentially
gives him the possibility to do the things that he wanted to do.
He indicated earlier today that he was not happy with Lieutenant Colonel Vindman who provided testimony during the house impeachment investigation.
And we have known over the past few weeks that President Trump and those close to him weren't happy with Vindman.
But the fact of the matter is that Vindman is someone who has served for the U.S. government and has headed back to the Department of Defense. He is
a civil servant, and so Democrats today are very, very anxious and frustrated with the fact that he was let go from the White House.
He is a lawyer, put out a statement, a lengthy statement today saying in part that he was asked to leave for telling the truth. And so that is going
to be one of the key things that is focused in on here - Lieutenant Colonel Vindman provided testimony because he was subpoenaed to do so, and then he
was kicked out of the White House today.
The question is, as you mentioned, are there others whose careers in the U.S. government are going to be impacted because they provided testimony
under subpoena?
NOBILO: We shall wait and see and probably talk to you next week about it. Kylie, thank you very much. Another key impeachment witness spoke
exclusively to CNN's Jake Tapper today. It was Bill Taylor's first interview since leaving his post as the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine last
Taylor spoke about the personal attacks by Mr. Trump supporters against his fellow impeachment witnesses including Vindman and Former U.S. Ambassador
to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.
TAPPER: Does it bother you when you see, like, how Rudy Giuliani was out there smearing Yovanovitch and the dual loyalty smears against Lieutenant
Colonel Vindman who you know and I assume you respect?
BILL TAYLOR, FORMER TOP U.S. DIPLOMAT IN UKRAINE: I do.
TAPPER: It must bother you to see that.
TAYLOR: I - it of course bothers me any time I see someone like Marie Yovanovitch or Alex Vindman unfairly attacked. Anyone unfairly attacked. It
bothers anyone. Certainly it does.
NOBILO: Former Ambassador Yovanovitch wrote an editorial in "The Washington Post" just this week warning Americans they need to fight for their
democracy. She said I've seen dictatorships around the world, where blind obedience is the norm and truth tellers are threatened with punishment or
death. We must not allow the United States to become a country where standing up to our government is a dangerous act.
Turning now to fear over the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus ripping far beyond Mainland, China a cruise ship docked in the Japan has become a hot bed of
new infections. "The Diamond Princess" now has 61 confirmed cases tripled number from just yesterday. It's the highest concentration of Coronavirus
infections outside of China.
Nearly 4,000 people are quarantined on board. We'll talk more about that in a little bit. More than 3,600 people are stuck on another cruise ship in
Hong Kong. None have tested positive for Coronavirus, but officials won't let them off the boat until they can complete, "The Quarantine Work".
And for cruise ship passengers are being tested in a New Jersey hospital, "The Royal Caribbean Cruise Line" says that they've shown no Coronavirus
symptoms although one has tested for influenza. Passengers are not being quarantine on that ship.
NOBILO: Back to "The Diamond Princess" cruise ship anchored in Japan, will be there for the foreseeable future. Will Ripley speaks to people on board
to see how they're coping.
WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Another day on "The Diamond Princess" under quarantine.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looks like they're unloading additional passengers.
RIPLEY: Another day confined to their cabins, counting the ambulances, counting the number of Coronavirus patients as it doubles then more than
quadruples.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And we're looking out our balcony and there are indeed more ambulances lining up like they were yesterday.
RIPLEY: Americans Kent and Rebecca Frazier never thought they'd be on one of those ambulances until a Japanese nurse knocked on the door.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You have to get ready. We don't know how long tough stay in the hospital.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Pack your luggage, go to the bathroom, and stay in the room.
RIPLEY: Rebecca's throat swap came back for positive for Coronavirus.
REBECCA FRASURE, CORONAVIRUS PATIENT: I don't have any other symptoms other than a cough.
RIPLEY: The news is a shock to their family and friends in Oregon.
FRASURE: I don't know what's going to happen an hour from now, tomorrow. For all we know we could stay quarantined on the ship for a month.
RIPLEY: Passengers say they can only go outside in small groups under close supervision for less than one hour a day. For them, this luxury liner is
starting to feel like a floating prison.
GAY COURTER, PASSENGER: We're in a contaminated prison, possibly.
RIPLEY: Florida passengers Gay and Philip are among the lucky few with a balcony. Many of the 26,000 passengers are in cramped cabins. No windows,
breathing air circulated throughout the ship.
COURTER: Well, this is not a safe environment, and we don't think anybody, let alone the Japanese government, wants to be responsible for making a bad
decision about quarantining us in an unsafe place.
RIPLEY: The quarters are in their mid-70s. They know the vast majority of Coronavirus virus deaths are people older than 60, and she says "The
Diamond Princess" is packed with retirees.
COURTER: We want off the ship and we want to go in health and not in dire medical circumstances.
RIPLEY: She even has private insurance that covers crisis extraction, but the Japanese government says they can only be extracted after the 14-day
quarantine period. They hope the U.S. government will do something to intervene and bring more than 400 U.S. American passengers home.
But that doesn't seem likely any time soon, Bianca, although we do know that the U.S. diplomats are meeting with Japanese officials here in Japan,
talking about all these Americans. There are so many people on board wondering when they're going to get off the boat.
Each time there's a new confirmed case, that 14-day quarantine period just resets so this could go on for quite some time a lot of people wondering
how they're going to make it through Bianca.
NOBILO: Not bad Will Ripley in Japan thanks you very much. At the center of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, government officials say that they're going
door to door checking the temperature of the residents to ensure that everyone infect with the virus has gone to hospital.
There are now more than 31,000 Coronavirus infections worldwide and all but a handful are in China at least 638 people have died. The WHO did have some
good news though its Director General remains cautious nonetheless.
DR. TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBERYESUS, WHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL: The last few days there have been fewer reported new infections in China, which is good news.
But at the same time, we caution against reading too much into that. The numbers go up again. As you know, curves can be zigzag.
NOBILO: CNN's David Culver is in Beijing. I spoke to him a short time ago about a heroic doctor in Wuhan whose death has sparked anger in China.
DAVID CULVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bianca outrage and profound grief on Chinese social media over the death of Dr. Li Wenliang its had government
centers here working to rapidly remove online posts calling for public apologies and for freedom of speech.
The 34-year-old doctor died Friday from the Coronavirus, the very disease that he tried to alert others about back in December. But instead it got
him in trouble with police. It was back in late December in fact when he first warned his friends on WeChat about what he thought was a Sars-like
disease going around.
A few days later he got called in by Wuhan police they reprimanded him for "Spreading rumors online and severely disrupting social disorder". After
returning to the hospital to work, Li contracted the Coronavirus from a patient struggling to communicate, we actually spoke with Li on January
31st.
CULVER: You could hear the hospital machines pulsing in the background. He died less than a week later. The state media in China initially reported
his death Thursday night but after backlash directed towards the government went really quite viral, state media changed their stories and deleted
their tweets, citing a statement from the hospital where Li worked and where he was being treated.
Now that statement said that he was in critical condition and that they were trying to resuscitate him if any question whether that was actually
true or just an effort to ease all the online anger. A few hours later they did release another statement to hospital that is saying that Li did in
fact die.
Now China's top anti-corruption agency announced Friday that it was sending a team to Wuhan to investigate the online tributes for Li, essentially to
respond to the masses and to figure out what exactly happened there. But it seems to have been a response to all the distrust and anger that has been
mounting here, Bianca, against government officials.
NOBILO: Thanks to David Culver for his reporting. We'll have much more coverage of the Coronavirus outbreak, coming up on the program including a
conversation with a scientist trying to find a vaccine here in London.
An update on the investigation into the fatal helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight other people officials say there is no evidence of
engine failure in the incident. Investigators released these images showing the helicopter flying in heavy fog and low clouds.
Their report says the pilot talked to air traffic control minutes before the crash. The helicopter was descending at more than 4,000 feet for minute
when it crashed. It didn't have a data or cockpit recorder but investigators are still looking at the pilot's iPod which was loaded with a
flight app.
India is dealing with another shocking high profile rape case the victim a 5-year-old girl. Police have arrested a suspect saying that he lured the
child while she was playing on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Vedika Sud ha the details.
VEDIKA SUD, CNN PRODUCER: A 5-year-old girl living with parents in the staff quarters of the U.S. Embassy compound in New Delhi was raped last
week. The girl is the daughter of a housekeeper who works for the American Embassy here. The incident took place on February 1st, according to the
Delhi police officials.
They added that the girl was playing when she was lured and raped by a 25- year-old man who was also a neighbor. The American Embassy is located in a highly secure area and is surrounded by other foreign missions. According
to a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy spokesperson, they were, and "Deeply disturbed to learn of the allegations of sexual assault of a child
on the Embassy compound".
The statement added that the Embassy had taken swift action by reporting the incident to the police and obtaining medical assistance for the girl.
The police confirmed to CNN that the accused was arrested the next day after the victim was able to identify him. He was arrested under the
Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act and charged with rape. He's currently in custody. A court date has not yet been set.
Now, sexual violence against women in India remains a problem. The latest data released by the government indicates there are roughly 91 rapes each
day in the country. Following the horrific 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi, a number of legal reforms and stricter penalties
were introduced.
Given that the girl is a minor and under the age of 12 if found guilty, the accused could be sentenced up to 20 years or life imprisonment. In some
cases, even the death penalty can handed down. Vedika Sud, CNN, New Delhi.
NOBILO: Here in Britain a Former ISIS bride has lost her first legal battle to reclaim her citizenship. An immigration commission has turned down an
appeal by Shamima Begum. She left Britain to join ISIS in Syria when she was 15-years-old, but she was stripped of her UK citizenship when she tried
to come back last year with reason she was deemed a threat to national security.
Begum is now 20 and stranded at a camp in Syria. As Phil Black reports her lawyers are using that fact to push her case.
PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bianca, Shamima Begum's lawyers say they're going to urgently appeal these rulings because they say she's in greater
danger than before. They also say it's going to be very difficult to explain to her why they lost, because the rulings they say effectively
agree with their assessment that her current circumstances mean it is pretty much impossible for her to fight a proper legal challenge.
It is a key point. The tribunal agreed that being stranded in Northern Syria prevents her from fairly and affectively challenging the decision by
the home secretary to strip her of her British citizenship.
BLACK: They found that point alone cannot automatically mean that her appeal is successful. The court heard expert evidence in coming to its
conclusion that she is not effectively stateless but also has the option and right to pursue Bangladeshi citizenship because her parents were from
there. Even though as her lawyers argued she's never been there never thought to formalize that citizenship. And the Bangladeshi government has
said publicly she is not welcomed.
This initial ruling is a huge setback for Shamima Begum in what is now likely to be a very long appeals process as her lawyers pursues every
option to try and bring her back to her country of birth while the British government and its lawyers fight with equal determination to ensure that
never happens. Bianca?
NOBILO: Phil Black there for us. Coming up on "The Brief" the world is racing to find a vaccine for the Coronavirus. Next I'll speak with one
researcher working on a breakthrough.
NOBILO: Donald Trump says he believes China is working hard to contain the Coronavirus. U.S. and Chinese President spoke on the phone late Wednesday
to discuss the outbreak. China says the prevention and control of the virus is at a critical stage. Unclear exactly what that means.
Xi Jinping told Mr. Trump he hopes the U.S. can assess the situation in a "Calm manner". This comes as fear of the Coronavirus has triggered a
worldwide shortage of facemasks. The World Health Organization says it's dealing with a scarcity of protective equipment. Health officials recommend
hand washing as a personal defense.
The race to find a vaccine for the Coronavirus is on. For today's debrief I spoke early with Robin Shattock he is part of a team of researchers who say
that they're working on a potential breakthrough.
ROBIN SHATTOCK, RESEARCHER WORKING ON VACCINE: So we're one of a number of global teams working on this particular vaccine, and we were able to access
the sequence that was published by Chinese scientists who made it available, which was a tremendous thing to do.
We went from that sequence to identifying part of the sequence in "For the service protein". And we're using that sequence to manufacture our vaccine.
We're using a particular approach where we make a synthetic vaccine based on RNA, so it is essentially genetic code, and we package that in
essentially a liquid droplet and use that so inject into the muscle. It expresses that protein and the body recognizes that as foreign and makes
protective anti-bodies.
NOBILO: Now you mentioned that you're one of the teams working on this. Are you working with the other teams that are also trying to develop their end
vaccines?
SHATTOCK: All teams are sharing information but they're also using different technology. It's a race to get something into human studies. And
you know that race is important, because we don't know which of these approaches will be most successful, which will be fast. Some will stumble
along the way.
What's important is that as a global community we maximize our effort to get a vaccine available in a shortest possible of time.
NOBILO: It is a race because there is urgency to this. What would be the time line that you would expect for this? When might you see a vaccine for
Coronavirus in circulation?
SHATTOCK: So we hope to be in clinical test by the summer and I think most groups are trying doing that. That's faster than it's ever been done
before, but that's really is the start of the process. That will determine what's safe, what induces the right immune responses.
The next phase will be to move those into what we call efficacy studies, where we look to see whether vaccines can actually pull off natural
infection. So with putting all our efforts towards that goal, the earliest a vaccine could be available for global use to be early next year. That
sounds slow it is still faster than this being done before.
And we still don't know how this epidemic will shape up. There may well be a second wave of infection. And so having a vaccine ready for all eventual
scenarios is really important.
NOBILO: You have been studying the virus more closely than most people on the planet. What do we know for sure about its Pathology?
SHATTOCK: Obviously we currently are calculating you know kind of fatality rate, but that's based on people presenting the symptoms. What is not clear
is the number of infections that may be sub clinical or have minor clinical manifestations.
And as we start to see that, the kind of fatality rate may actually drop, and as people get better and treating and supporting patients who develop
disease, we may see further drops. So the kind of scenario today will look very different in weeks and months to come.
NOBILO: And why would they occur?
SHATTOCK: We don't always know why some individuals are may be more susceptible to viral infections. It is just can be a rare phenomenon.
NOBILO: But what about masks? Because I've heard conflicting view points on this how effective are they protecting yourself and protecting others if
you were carrying Coronavirus?
SHATTOCK: So the evidence that masks are protective is very slim. We don't have strong evidence that they do much in terms of protection. In a
hospital setting they're very specialized, fit very well.
They might reduce transmission just because it prevents you touching your face more often, but there's a danger A, that they may give you a false
sense of security, and also, given that they have limited protective effects in the wider community, they may actually mean that stocks run out
in hospitals where they are needed.
And so in terms of controlling the epidemic, mass use of masks may well be more of a problem than a solution.
NOBILO: The majority of over 30,000 people who are suffering from Coronavirus are in China. There are clear issues when it comes to
transparency, and as a scientist, do you trust the information that China is making available and publishing about the statistics on Coronavirus and
anything related to it?
SHATTOCK: So certainly the Chinese scientists have been very quick to publish data on the virus itself, and that's been independently verified so
that's very clear, and it's been really important so a global communication.
NOBILO: That's encouraging.
SHATTOCK: In term of understanding figures for help epidemiology that's a complex science it requires you know whether it is based on a case
definition, so just counting just people who have symptoms versus looking at those who are infected without symptoms. And you have to remember that
getting the tests even to diagnose these individuals has been really rushed.
So I think it's too early to start criticizing people and questioning whether they're producing the right data. They are producing a lot of data
as fast as possible. The WHO has people on the ground also looking at that data. So I think what we're doing is getting a best picture of what is
happening.
NOBILO: And we had a lot more to discuss, including the death of the doctor who tried to warn the public about the virus, and you can watch the whole
uncut interview in the coming hours on youtube.com/cnn. And when "The Brief" returns dissecting this very busy news week stay with us.
NOBILO: It's been a hectic week of news. Let's bring you up to date with all that happened. The number of people killed and infected by the Wuhan
Coronavirus spiraled spreading fear around the world. Planes flew people home, cruise ships were quarantined at sea as officials tried to contain
the spread.
It's was an exceptionally busy week in U.S. politics. The Iowa Democratic Caucus turned into a fiasco, with results still coming in three days later.
Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders came out on top.
For President Trump, the week began with a fiery State of the Union speech that Nancy Pelosi promptly tore up. A day later acquittal, the President
was found not guilty in his impeachment trial with Republican Mitt Romney the sole Senator to cross party lines.
And shocking scenes on an airport on a runway in Turkey a plane skidded off the runway and then broke into three pieces. Three people died and more
than 100 were injured. That's it for me tonight. Have a wonderful weekend, and I'll see you on Monday.
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Lucille "Tootsie" Davis, 69, of Eubank, Kentucky, passed away Friday, January 8, 2016.
She was born in Eubank, Kentucky on March 6, 1946, daughter of the late Leamon and Bannie Hodge Baugh. She was a homemaker and of the Protestant faith.
She is survived by her husband, Boyd G. Davis of Eubank, one son, Danny & (Becky) Davis of Eubank, one daughter, Sherry R. & (Hank) Haney of Lawrenceburg, IN, one brother, Delmer Caroll & (Joanna) Baugh of Eubank, five sisters, Irene & (Buddy) Hackney and Shirley Denney, both of St. Bernard, OH, Louella Wyatt of Westchester, OH, Donna & (Larry) Keith of Somerset and Berdina & (Steve) Mullins of Waynesburg, KY, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, Gerald Baugh, Darrell Baugh, Danny Baugh and Quincy Baugh and two sisters, Sylvia Pearl Baugh and Wilma Jean Prather.
A funeral service will be held at 2 PM Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at Morris & Hislope Funeral Home with Bro. Bobby Cole officiating.
Burial will be in Sardis Cemetery.
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RYERSON RAMS ALUMNA MARIAH NUNES SIGNS PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT IN SPAIN
Photo Courtesy: Alex D'Addese / Ryerson Rams
TORONTO - Ryerson Rams women's basketball graduate Mariah Nunes has signed her first professional contract, joining Oviedo Club Baloncesto (Oveido CB) based in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
"I'm super excited, I've been waiting for this for a really long time," said Nunes. "I've always dreamt of playing professionally and now I'm finally living my dream."
HOW THE NEW RPI FORMAT WOULD HAVE IMPACTED LAST SEASON'S OUA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS
Photo: Alex D'Addese / Ryerson Rams
As discussed in my previous article on the release of the 2016-17 OUA Women's basketball schedule, the way in which the RPI Rankings are calculated has changed for the upcoming season.
This year the rankings will be based on regular season results against all conference teams. Previously, it had been calculated based on the records against teams that were in a playoff position, or the top three teams in each division. This makes losses to non-playoff teams as detrimental as losses to playoff teams.
To see how this may affect the upcoming season, let's compare how the new format would have affected last season's women's basketball postseason.
2016-17 OUA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE RELEASED
Photograph: Greg Mason | Ottawa Gee-Gees
TORONTO — The OUA released the 2016-17 OUA women's basketball schedule Monday afternoon.
The defending OUA-champion Ryerson Rams will kick off their #KeepTheCritelli, title defence campaign on Saturday, November 5th against the Laurier Golden Hawks in a 1:00PM matinee in Waterloo.
RAMS BOLSTER BACK COURT, SIGN KELLIE RING.
The defending-OUA Champion, Ryerson Rams have added veteran experience to their back court by signing former Ottawa Gee-Gee standout, Kellie Ring (Ottawa, ON).
Ring who spent the last four years with the Ottawa Gee-Gees, will be a welcome addition to the 2016-17 Rams roster, who will be without the services of their three departing fifth-year seniors: Siki Jez (Kitchener, ON), Mariah Nunes (Ajax, ON), and the CIS Player of the Year, Keneca Pingue-Giles (Winnipeg, MB).
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Beacon Center Pork of the Year award “winner” was former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry.
In mid-December the Beacon Center released their 13th annual Tennessee Pork Report revealing millions of dollars in government waste, fraud, and abuse ranging from a new taxpayer-funded MLS soccer stadium in Nashville to a Memphis company that was given $5 million just to move across town.
The Pork Report highlights a combination of government mismanagement, incompetence, and outright fraud. The Beacon Center allowed Tennesseans to vote on their choice for the Pork of the Year award, and the “winner” was former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry. Mayor Barry wasted over $174,000 in taxpayer money on her extramarital affair, which included paying her bodyguard overtime so that he could take trips with her to places like France and Greece. To make matters worse, she consistently lied to both the press and the public until finally pleading guilty to felony theft.
Other finalists for Pork of the Year included:
$5.5 million of state taxpayer money so that the company ServiceMaster could move from the outskirts of Memphis to downtown Memphis while not creating a single new job.
At least $17.5 million for the Wall Street Firm AllianceBernstein to move from New York City to the taxpayer-funded 5th and Broadway Building in downtown Nashville. We say “at least” because we have no idea how much the state and city actually gave AllianceBernstein since the number was blacked out for “privacy” concerns.
Tens of millions of dollars in buyouts by the University in Tennessee to pay for their hiring mistakes, including former Chancellor Beverly Davenport, former football coach Butch Jones, and former athletic director John Currie, just to name a few.
The 2018 Pork Report comes from state and local budgets, media reports, state audits, and independent research conducted by Beacon Center staff and scholars. An electronic version of the report can be found here. Pork Report® is a registered trademark of Citizens Against Government Waste and is used with their permission.
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Welcome to Rwanda,Visit the Headquarters of the AFRICAN UNION STUDENTS' COUNCIL (AUSC)"For The Better Africa We Deserve" Use RwandAir.
RwandAir Limited is the flag carrier airline of Rwanda. It operates domestic and international services to East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa and the Middle East from its main base at Kigali International Airport in Kigali.
The head office is located in the main building of Kigali International Airport
A former Rwandair Express Boeing 737-500
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After the 1994 genocide the government took several attempts to revive the former national carrier Air Rwanda that ceased operations during the genocide. Various private companies showed interest in partnering with the government and Uganda based SA alliance air ran the company from 1997 to 2000. After the company ceased operations to ensure continued operations of the airline the government took over and re branded the airline. RwandAir began operations on 1 December 2002 as the new national carrier for Rwanda under the name Rwandair Express (with passenger air transportation as the core activity). In 2016, RwandAir received International Air Transport Association’s Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO).
The airline began to expand regionally and by 2009 the network to included Dar-es-Salaam, Nairobi, and domestic destinations such as Gisenyi.
In March 2009, the airline registered a new trademark "RwandAir Ltd" which is its current operating name. In June 2009, the airline officially re-branded from Rwandair Express to RwandAir, because the new name implies a large, serious airline, while the "Express" in the former name implies a small regional operation.[6] In May 2010, Rene Janata became the CEO, introducing a frequent flyer program and developing the airline to become a network carrier. In October 2010, John Mirenge became the new CEO of RwandAir
In July 2010 the first of RwandAir's new Boeing 737-500's arrived; the second one arrived on 20 October 2010. Both are leased from General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and each has a two class configuration with 12 business class seats.
In August 2011 the airline took delivery of their first aircraft purchased directly from an airline manufacturer. All prior aircraft operated by RwandAir have been either leased or bought as a second hand. The aircraft purchased is a Boeing 737-800 with Sky Interior, also known as Boeing 737 Next Generation, and is the only one operating among African air carriers. The flight departed from Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, United States at 5:30 PM PST. It made its first stop in Keflavík International Airport in Iceland, then it headed for a second stop to Istanbul, Turkey. It finally arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, after a 20 hours flight.
In October 2011 RwandAir took delivery of their second Boeing Next-Generation 737-800. During January 2012, the airline disposed of the two CRJ200 aircraft it owned, in anticipation of acquiring two CRJ-900NGs.
In February 2013, John Mirenge announced that the airline would fly to Accra, Cape Town, Harare, Juba and Zanzibar, in 2013.
In May 2015, Rwandair officially became an IATA member.
The airline has its head office on the top floor of the main building of Kigali International Airport.
The airline previously had its head office in Centenary House in Kigali, before moving its operations to the airport in May 2010.
At one previous point the airline had its head office in the Telcom House.
Rwandair is 99% owned by the Government of Rwanda. The government hoped to privatise the airline after 2013, once it becomes profitable; the process had been abandoned in 2008, after it emerged that nobody at the time was willing to offer the amount expected from the sale.
RwandAir has been loss-making for a number of years. Detailed accounts do not appear to have been published, with only a few public announcements from senior management or the government giving details of the scale of the operation; available trends are shown below (as at year ending 31 December):
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4) http://www.africanunionsc.org/2017/02/welcome-to-1st-all-african-first-youth.html
5) http://www.africanunionsc.org/2017/04/ausc-presidents-office-released-new.html
6) http://www.africanunionsc.org/2017/04/ausc-president-reformed-ausc.html
7) http://www.africanunionsc.org/2017/04/new-guidelines-for-appointing-ausc.html
8) http://www.africanunionsc.org/2017/04/mr-iraguha-bandora-yves-african-union.html
9) http://www.africanunionsc.org/2017/04/the-african-union-students-council-ausc.html
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13) http://www.africanunionsc.org/2017/01/ausc-international-action-plan-2016.html
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10 Silly Things We Say In Wisconsin
June 27, 2013 by Ashley Steinbrinck 475 Comments
Have you ever been told that you have a Wisconsin accent? Did you deny such a thing even exists?
Some of us truly believe the way we speak here in the Badger State is the correct way to speak. It’s everyone else who has the accent. Sorry, but that’s just not true.
Of course, there are some things we are right about, including words which we have the authority to decide the pronunciation. For instance…it’s Green BAY not GREEN Bay. And it’s WIS-sonsin, never WES-consin. However, most of us pronounce it like Wuh-Skaaaahn-sin.
Whatever the case…there’s no reason to be embarrassed! At WhooNEW, we say proudly wear your Wisconsin accent like a badge of honor.
“Interesting” Chicken Booyah
Sometimes, people outside of our state think Wisconsinites are super friendly simply because of the way we say things.
For example – the way we use the word “interesting.” Instead of saying “I don’t like that chicken booyah”, we might say, “Dat’s some interesting tasting chicken booyah, eh?”
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Speaking of interesting, there’s actually some pretty hardcore research behind the language of America’s Dairyland.
The Wisconsin Englishes Project (WEP), is a group of faculty, staff, and students around Wisconsin who study our unique language patterns. WEP was formed in 2006 and the group aims to understand regional differences in English across our state – including its distinct vocabulary, pronunciations, idioms and ethnic influences, among other things.
There really is such a thing as Sconnie speak, dontcha know. Here are some examples…
1. Dem, Dat. Dis & Dere
Our Wisconsin dialect has mainly been influenced by the northern and central European language family. And because of this northern European influence, we tend to drop the “th” and replace it with a “d” – creating words like dis, dat, dem, dere, dese or dose.
2. Yous Guys/Yous
Here’s one that I’m not really a fan of, but that you hear often around here, and especially at a greasy spoon dinner. No offense, but that’s probably where I’ve heard it the most! The nice waitress comes up to the table and says “what can I get for yous guys today?” A true Wisconsinite, eh? Well, so are you when you ask for a “brat” instead of bratwurst for “supper”.
3. Stop ‘N Go Lights
I’m guilty of this one for sure, and I didn’t really even know that people elsewhere say traffic lights!
Since red means stop and green means go, stop ‘n go lights are a way better name. Technically, it could be stop, slow, ‘n go, but yellow has become more of a – hurry up and get through it before it turns red – kind of light anyway.
4. Up Nort’
This is where a lot of Wisconsinites go on vacation, go camping or go to hunt and fish. It’s also a dead give away that you live in some part of the northern Midwest.
Up Nort’ isn’t a specific location, it’s a state of being. In Wisconsin, you can always go Up Nort’ – until you get to Lake Superior.
5. Ya Know?
This phrase enters my conversations multiple times a day. We mostly say it at the end of a sentence as a way to ask if the other person agrees or is understanding what you’re talking about. Or we might say it at the very beginning of the sentence to let someone know you’ve had a thought in your head that you’re about to share.
Other people in the country have this expression in common with us, but I’ve heard it started here – and we have a very distinct way of pronouncing it..
In Wisconsin we pronounce bag or bagel like “bay-g” or “bay-gel.” People from outside of Wisconsin will argue that you must say it with a short “a” sound so it starts the same as the word “bad”. I’ve always said bag like “bay-g”, and I’ve been in a few in depth discussions about it with non-Wisconsinites.
At least we don’t call it a “sack” like people from the southern U.S.
7. Real Quick
When you hear Wisconsin folks ask you for a favor and then add “real quick” or “really quick” to the end of it, we aren’t talking about speed. We’re simply trying to make it seem like the favor is no big deal.
For instance, someone might ask, “Can you stop at da store real quick before you come home? I got a meatloaf in da oven.”
8. Once/One Time
Have you ever wondered why we say “come here once” or “let me see dat one time”? It’s about sounding less aggressive or like you’re not demanding too much. It’s yet another way we get the friendly vote.
9. Bubbler
I’ve been made fun of a time or two for asking where the bubbler is when I was outside of my home state. Most people will refer to it as the drinking or water fountain. If you’re interested to know more about this specifically, my husband has written some great insight into the real reason why we call it a ‘bubbler’ in Wisconsin and who else does too. Check it out!
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You’ve probably heard this before, ‘n so? Which is simply a reduction of the phrase “Isn’t that so”? My classic Wisconsin grandma and her sisters use this expression a lot. In fact, I think I’ve heard them say all 10 of these words and phrases!
So – dere ya go, eh? 10 silly things we say in Wisconsin!
Maybe you’ve often heard people say more silly things like “you betcha” or “oh, fer sure”? Can you think of any more expressions, pronunciations or words that are unique to our home state? Leave a comment!
We should keep this list going, ‘n so?
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Claudia Castello says
my husband makes fun of me when i say “yah,hey!” a lot of times my accent shows and i’ll forget where i am and i’ll say it. we like to talk about the time we were driving on the freeway and it started to rain really hard and my husband said, “wow, it’s raining really hard!” and i said, “yah, hey!” he looked at me and laughed, “do you realize what you just said?” and i started laughing so hard. my husband’s from IL.
Kasey Steinbrinck says
That’s a good story, Claudia! Sometimes we just say these things without even thinking about it. It’s in our blood.
Mary Pat says
Moving to Wis-Kaaansin from Missouri in 6th grade taught me many new and strange expressions and words.
To this day the strangest of which is (regarding a new hairdo): Oh hey, your hair looks different did you get ‘EM cut?
Also, can you hand me A Scissors.
The way things like the word Tow-e-l is so drawn out.
The ever famous: Oh ya hey, we’re gonna go up Nort’ once hey dis weekend and suck down some brewski’s don’tcha know.
The use of “er no /or no” is definitely a Wisconsin, even just a NEW thing. “Are you going to game tonight, er no?”
Ashley Steinbrinck says
That’s a super good one, pete! I can’t believe we forgot it…thanks!
Lisa G. Wheeler says
I’m from FL, I visit Sheboygan every year and I always notice the “right away”. Everywhere we go, someone will be with us “right away”, which I discovered means nothing. In Florida, right away means we’re doing it right now, immediately, a priority. Your waitress will be with you “right away” means nothing in Sheboygan.
Carrie Pike says
My closest friend is born and raised in Wisconsin on the farm, still farms. When she says right away, she means RIGHT AWAY, no delay, better not take time to blink or swallow either.
Brian Schild says
You’s guys should come down by Prange’s once n’ so and see who I hang by! It ain’t dat far!
I actually just posted this to Facebook and wrote about the “or no” after questions before I saw this. I just think Wisconsinites like to make sure that the person knows they can really say no if they want to: “Do you want to come with, or no?”
I was just made aware of the ambiguity of the phrase “Do you wanna come with?” – ending with a preposition, my Ohioan friend had to ask “With what?…with who?”
OMG I have always use “come with”. When I was in Washington and said that people laughed. They said it wasn’t finished. I said , oh “Do you wanna come with me to the store to buy milk today at 2.” How long does it have to be? lol
barb peterson says
SPOT on V …cause that’s just how us sconnies rolllll lol
I catch myself saying “er no” all the time!! I got chastised once (by a fellow Wisconsinite, no less!) for using “er” instead of “or”. She said it made me sound “ignorant”. I told her that correcting me made her sound pretentious. 😀
Ha! You tell her, Mel! ; )
ya know, er no, yous guys (although i always HATED the teachers at school who said that) i always get funny looks when i say bubbler, unless they are stoners and even then i get a funny look when i say its not a water pipe. i can’t imagine anyone using dis, der, dat, maybe in some kind of joking manner or something but not in regular speech. many southern and western states can tell im far from home but very few people can identify where exactly, sometimes people ask if i have family in Canada. in Appleton i learned “ya know” not “dont cha know”
Leesa says
Yeah I always thought “dat” “da” “der” , was a IL thing Chicago ,, “Da- Bears!” SNL!… Plus I never hear it regularly. Not in Milwaukee at least n not even out of the customers that r comin from all over WI… On the Res or Way way way up north I spose u hear it. That’s another WI thing ,,”spose” or “I spose” .. Or “come on now” .. Anyways even with my inherant hints of Italian ,, I get called on my WI !!
My hubby is from ‘Sconsin, Wausau to be exact and he uses dat, der, dese, dose, and dem. I’m from Illinois and it was like listening to a foreign language when we first met. It still sounds that way to me when we visit. The first thing I noticed though when we met, was the way he pronounced boot. It had that Canadian oo sound. So exotic sounding to an Illinois flatlander. HAAA!!
James M says
OMG, you nailed it!!!
DJP says
Totally! My husband is from WI and has me saying that all the time. Is that a good idea errrr…. 😀
My Wisconsinite husband says ATMs were/are called TYME machines (as in Take Your Money Anywhere).
Oh – that’s a great one too Julia! Wish I would have thought of it. I do remember those Tyme machines.
I remember asking if there was a ‘TYME machine anywhere close by’ on a visit to AZ. Now that I think about how that sounds to someone who doesn’t know it’s an ATM, I understand why the interaction was so strange!
I said tyme machine in NC and the guy thought I wanted to go back to the future
When I moved to Wisconsin, I got a job in a local bank. One day as I was standing in the lobby, a man rushes in all flustered and asks “where is your time machine?” I laughed. I mean, that was good comedy there, until a teller started too tell him where the ATM was. Hehe
When I asked a young man in AZ if they had a TYME machine, He said,”why do you want to go back to the future. A “true story” another Wisconsin expression.
TYME is not a Wi thing. It is the acronym for the machine itself. It stands for Take Your Money Everywhere. That’s the ‘brand’ of the first ATM.
You are right about the acronym, Rachel. You are also right about it being the first network of ATMs. But it actually is a Wisconsin thing. TYME machines were a regional ATM brand located in Wisconsin and the UP only. More info here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYME
When my daughter was about 8 I said we were stopping at the time machine and she freaked out and started crying “where are we going? I didnt be in my stuff”.
Never trust Wikipedia for information, as such information can be changed by any person. Learned from Professors at Rasmussen College.
David Farmbrough says
Rachel’s half right. TYME was a brand of cashpoint, as we call them in England, but it wasn’t the first. The first was in Barclays Bank in Enfield (my home town 🙂 )
Yes! My father definitely calls them tyme machines which makes him look like a crazy person whenever he asks where one is when he is in a different state!
Sometime in the eighties on a trip out west I needed to find an ATM and asked the checkout at a store where the nearest TYME machine was. I received this quizzical look and he slowly pointed at the clock on the wall behind him. At that point I had never heard of a TYME machine referred to as an ATM. It still slips out once and awhile.
HA! I use to say the same thing when I first moved out to California…my then boyfriend looked at me like I lost my mind!
My first morning in AFROTC at UST a few fellow cadets asked me if I wanted to grab breakfast quick. I said sure but do you guys know if there is a TYME machine on campus… To this day I’ve never seen so many confused faces looking at me like I was nuts all at one.
TYME machine isn’t really a Wisconsin saying. That’s using a brand name for a generic item. Other common examples are Band-Aid for bandage; Kleenex for facial tissue; Asprin for acetylsalicylic acid; and Velcro for hook and loop fastener. Yes, I am from Wisconsin and No, I don’t say TYME machine.
Eric you are right about the brand name thing. But you are wrong about it being a Wisconsin saying. It was a brand of ATMs found only in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. That’s why it’s unique to Wisconsinites.
Bubbler – was also a BRAND of drinking fountains from Kohler Plumbing. But most people consider that to be a Wisconsin thing too.
I grew up in South Dakota where TYME machines were prevalent. All the rest of Wisconsin – speak was new to me!
pkinsell says
I have lived all over the US, and world for that matter (military brat). The first time I ever heard the expression “tyme machine” was when I moved to Wisconsin. I would say it’s definitely a Wisconsin thing! 🙂
Krissi Kirkpatrick says
You said military brat, referring to being a child who grew up in a military family. However, in WI, we see brat and think delicious German sausage served best with sauerkraut and mustard! 😉
Debi says
I moved to Indiana 10 years ago. Kept referring to ATM as Tyme machine until someone asked where I kept this thing. I had to laugh. They don’t have them here. I had to do some serious explaining. Everyone hears my accent. Never knew I had one until I had been here about 5 years. Then I kinda heard it myself after awhile. Most people like it so I love it! I do miss Wisconsin!!
Oh, jeepers. That was perdner near da best article on Wisconics I’ve read in a while . . . oh, yah, hey!
Ha ha! Thanks Tricia!
I like that you added perdner near! Although I pronounce it like pert near, I’ve had people look at me like I’m nuts when I say it! I’m just like its for “pretty near”….duh! 🙂
Laurie jonas says
I really get frustrated because many people outside our dairy state mispronounce our main dairy product. They say melk instead of milk.
So true, Laurie!
Farah says
This is an interesting point – I was just in Europe and one of the airlines I flew on (I think Scandinavian?) had tiny milk containers and it was spelled “melk.” I’m guessing this is one of the many Northern European pronunciation influences we have and largely don’t notice. My mom says “melk” all the time; oddly enough, I don’t, but I do say “pellow” instead of pillow.
Jean Timpel says
We all tease my husband for saying melk instead of milk.
I was born and raised in Wi my entire life till 6yrs ago and i and everyone around me say melk not milk.
Hey, I grew up in Wisconsin and myself and everyone around me all say melk…. lol
Mae Robinson says
I am from New York State and have lived in 9 states and in each there is something a little different. I enjoy it. I think bubbler sounds much better than drinking fountain as I always said. The one thing I see in Wisconsin is the a on the end of words. My granddaughter grew up here and she uses that all the time and I like it. I notice that Lawrence Welk who is from North Dakota also puts an a on the end of words. Where does that come from?
I have lived in Wisconsin all my life and yes some of this is true, BUT that “da” thing is not from Wisconsin that is a Minnesota or a Dakota saying for sure!!
I agree. We never said “da”. …but all the rest are so us. We lived in North Carolina for 15 years and just moved back. I always believed I didn’t have an accent at all…until I moved there. Even after 15 years people could hear the WI accent.
Those first 5 things are IL sayings, in particular Chicago. I am Chicago born and raised and live up north atm, and have never heard any of those things uttered here.
I noticed several things, especially in the video, that sounded more like Minnesota.
“Da” is from Chicago, da Bears, da coach. Born and raised here and spend my summers in central Wisconsin. Very proud of the way we talk ya know.
Uff da is a Minnesota thing. Norwegian.
There are Norwegians living in other states too my friend.
I’m from northeast Wisconsin. My people said “N so,” at the end of sentences. My husband Don is from southeast Wisconsin. His people said “Ain a.”
Pam Markulin says
Usually it was, ‘Aina-huh’ when I was growing up…..LOL!!!
My 1st husband was from Milwaukee and he always said, “Ain a hey”.
What the heck? LOL
Ain a hey?
I’m always tempted to say ya shure, horskey dorskey.
Makes as much sense to me. 🙂
hjkliz says
Ain a? I moved from Wisc in 1970 and people are always commenting on my “accent”!
My Milwaukee Grandma tacked an “Ain a” on to most every sentence. Whenever you asked her how she was, she’d always say “Oh just kickin along” ain a? Never heard that from anyone else tho.
Corine Feltes says
I believe it has a Germanic background. My former sister in law and her family said that all the time and they were all German.
Karen Wasoba says
I’m originally from Wisconsin (Mo-waukee in particular) and I recall how most of us ended our sentences with ‘enna?’ I always thought it was a shortened version of ‘isn’t/ain’t that so?’ I’ve lived in St. Louis for 25 years and people still make fun of me when I say ‘boat.’ I still can’t figure out that one!
kiffiekat says
Because we pronounce it “boot,” like Canucks do. I didn’t believe that until I moved to Alabama and even my Midwestern-raised doctor chuckled at me.
Listening to my niece talk, I can hear echoes of my very German grandfather and his vowels. It’s a nice break from what I am inundated with down here! : )
Deziree says
I grew up on the west coast but have lived in Mo-waukee for 10 years. I still tease my native Wisconsinite husband for saying bo-it for boat and bay-g for bag. 😉 His aunts and uncles are the perpetuators of the “yous comin’ with?” kind of statements but I hear the next generation speaking a little bit more properly… I said a little bit. 😉
My great-aunt used “ain’a” in the same way! I’ve always wondered where that came from. She grew up speaking German so I wondered. But no German speakers I know say it, so I still wonder.
Rick Huston says
I moved to Green Bay from Milwaukee as an adult. As my kids grew I would hear them say something happened “on accident” instead of by accident that I grew up with
Charity Recla says
I recently realized that “on accident” is not the correct way of saying it. I have spent a lifetime saying this. How did I get through graduate school for Education and this was never pointed out to me until a few weeks ago? Another Wisconsinism indeed.
Karen Nelson says
“on accident’ is the reverse of ‘on purpose’–Did you do that on purpose or on accident.
Jennifer Richardson says
Lol I was born in the 70s and have never realized I was saying it wrong. Thanks Wisconsin!
June Hodgson says
Our kids always said ‘On accident’ also, thought it was just them-never knew it was a WI thing.
also see the ‘ain a’ thing, should have read the Comments before commenting…
I also noticed that when a Green Bay native Green Bay resident wants to ask you something nicely they put an icing front of it. Like “If you could stop and pick up some milk”. This always seemed odd to me
Being passive aggressive must be a Northeast WI thing! I guess even GB and Milwaukee have their differences. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, Rick.
Kristi Jensen says
My friend and I have gone around and around about the meaning of “hotdish”. I use it meaning casserole, such as “There’s hotdish in the fridge to warm up for supper (the supper/dinner thing is another thing we’ve jokingly argued). She finds it absurd that a “hotdish” would be in the refrigerator….Again, must be a Wisconsin thing!
Or how about the people that worsh things rather than wash them?? That one gets me every time!!!
It is sort of funny that your “hotdish” is in the fridge! I wonder how many others say “hotdish” too? The worsh and supper are two great ones too! Check out this article on 6 Signs You Have a Classic Wisconsin Grandma. I reference both of those in there – you’ll probably get a kick out of it too! Thanks for your comment ; ) http://whoonew.com/2013/04/classic-wisconsin-grandma/
I’ve definitely heard hotdish used for casseroles and stuff – especially when people bring a hotdish to church potlucks. I think it’s more of a Minnesotan term – but there’s certainly some Wisconsin spillover.
Check this out – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotdish
I moved to Wisconsin from the east coast and lived there for four years! I definitely picked up on some differences… Like “bar time” instead of “closing time”; “parking ramp” instead of “garage”; and “yet” instead of “still”. That was the hardest to understand. Like “we have some pizza yet”.
Wow, those are all good ones, Mary! All true. You mentioned some things a lot of Wisconsinites aren’t even aware of.
Totally! That’s why it’s good to get some east coast point of view! Thanks for sharing ; )
Lori from Bay View says
Yet vs. still drives me nuts! Regionalisms and slang are not an excuse for poor grammar! :-p
Heil! Where my Grammar Nazis at?! 😉 Get it Lori? I ended that sentence with a preposition. GET IT?!?
It’s a shortening of “as of yet.” We have forty gallons of booyah yet = We have forty pounds of booyah as of yet. Also, yet and still can mean the same things: “I haven’t eaten yet” means that one still hasn’t eaten.
I’m from Alabama, but lived in Wisconsin for 2 years. At church, when we would have a pot luck dinner, they would say to bring a “dish to pass”. Also, at the grocery store, instead of a shopping buggy (a southern expression I’m sure) they would say cart. I agree with someone else that mentioned them adding the word “yet” to the end of a sentence instead of “still”. For instance, instead of “we still have some pizza left”, they would say “we have some pizza left yet”. Another is the pronunciation of the word “roof”. It would sound more like “ruff”.
Wait… These aren’t the norms? I have to get out of state more! Lol
I once had to explain the “still” use of “yet” to an Australian friend. It’s grammatically correct, as Tom pointed out, but apparently very regional.
Born and raised in Wisconsin, have lived in Wisconsin and Wyoming, now living in Kansas and have a sister still living in Wisconsin and I don’t remember hearing an r in wash except down around the Kansas/Missouri area.
I’m from Missouri and the ‘warsh’ was definitely used by by grandmother and mother. Here in Wisconsin now & my mother-in-law also uses it too.
You hear warsh in Arkansas and even Louisiana too. I think it is a rural thing rather than regional. People that say it tend to be “country folk.” 🙂
The one and only time I ever heard Worsh (Warsh?) was when I lived in Indiana for 2 years, my friends mom was from Kentucky, and her and her mom would Say “Warsh the dishes” or “Put those in the warshing machine” all the time.
I lived in Wisconsin for 10 years before moving to MN then IN, then back to MN (for my hubby), and I never once heard anyone say Warsh, just.. my 2 cents.
OMG!!! I worked with a couple of older gentlemen who always said “warsh” instead of wash, we also had “kittles” instead kettles. This could be a German influence with all of the German heritage in our lovely state. Hail to all of our quirky ways!! Seeing this whole article has made me laugh, my son (13 years old) had just commented on that he had been told that we in the Sheboygan area have an accent, I didn’t think so. That is until I read this article. Thankx so much. (Another way that I give away where I live a “X” at the end of Thank instead of a “S”)
I have heard examples of all of these “isms” except using “da” instead of “the” I believe that carries over from Norwegian immigrants and is really only used in fun or for nostalgic reasons. I still don’t believe Wisconsinites have an accent, what you are talking about are dialects. One thing Wisconsinites and upper mid~westerners are known for is using time in place of distance. If someone asks how far is it from Eau Claire to Madison. You are likely to get “Oh, about 3 hours” and not “Oh, about 175 miles.” I guess distance to us is irrelevant. It’s how long it takes to get there is we care about!
While you’re right that there’s a difference between dialect and accent (dialect, which is more what this article is focused on, is words or phrases used in a region and accent is sound and pronunciation), Wisconsinites do have a distinct accent. Rather, I should say upper midwesterners do–I don’t have the ear to discern between MN, WI, MI, etc, though I’m sure there are differences. I first noticed it when I moved away and came back for a visit. You can hear it most in the long “o” sound. It’s kind of halfway between “oh” and “oo.” As mentioned elsewhere in this post, “d” replaces a hard “th.” My dad, who was from Maryland, would always tease me about pronouncing “about” like “aboat,” along with other words with the “ow” sound. This is also quite Canadian. I still catch myself doing that sometimes. When you hear people making fun of our accent, as in Fargo, these main sounds are what they’re emphasizing, and it very much comes from our German and Scandinavian roots.
That’s so true!
I’ve also noticed in WI we call an exit by the “street name” and not “exit 28” like they do in NC.
Patti Magee says
I’m going to Fleet Farm, you wanna come with? And of course the long drawn out
ooooooooookay.
Totally! People in Wisconsin like to say “OKAY” after a demand or a favor too because they want to sound less aggressive or something! ‘N so?
Lisa Wolters says
How about…”go by” or “come by” …as in “let’s go by your house”. When what you reall y mean is let’s go to your house.
Fer sure, Lisa! ; )
Robin West says
Lisa – that’s the one that I noticed when I 1st move to Wisconsin. (I grew up in West Virginia). For me, “go by” meant to drive by and maybe make a quick stop to drop something, off not to stay for a while. Lots of Wisconsinites “go by my ma’s for Thanksgving?!
I never noticed that but your right!
I lived in MO for five years and I was called out on this one! I just didn’t understand why I received strange looks when I was going to go out with some friends and I asked them “to come over by me” before we headed out? What’s wrong with that, hey? 🙂
SJB says
My former boss (from North Dakota)…HATES they way we go by and over by. For example…I am going by my folks’ place tonight. She also made fun of “folks” instead of parent’s.
Ya wanna come sleep by my house?
To a 6th grade transplant from Missouri I figured that meant we’d be sleeping outside near the house.
I showed up with sleeping bag, flashlight and the Wisconsin kids thought I was weird!
Alicia Rades says
I moved to WI from MN when I was young. I met my husband when I was 15, and he would always say this! I got annoyed and tried to correct him because it didn’t make sense to me. I’ve since accepted it and understand what he means when he says it.
btramms says
One I hear a lot is the use of “them” in place of “those”. As a transplant from the southwest, it was a bit surprising to hear statements like, “Them were some big walleye’s we caught.” or “Them are some juicy brats.” At first I thought maybe I was just hearing some undereducated individuals, but I’ve heard it too many times from too many people. As for the rest of your, ‘dem are some funny examples.
Another…..the addition of -ah to some words ending with vowels, as in, “How are you-ah?” or, “I think he’s from M’waukee, but I don’t know-ah.”
Yep! That’s a true Wisconsinite for ya – ah? ; ) Got a smile outta me, btramms! Thanks for sharing.
newscale62 says
There may a connection to the Canadian accent as well. I sometimes hear it when my “up nort” friends pronounce words like “boat” with a little more nasality.
Definitely true – there is Canadian and Minnesotan overflow for sure!
In wisconsin we go “up” to everything …..not just up north. I caught myself driving “up” to ohio ro visit my aunt that’s feom milwaukee too. She didn’t have an issue. It was her ohio feiend and husband that pointed it out. Whoops. I have a friend that moved to florida too …she thinks we should come “up” and see her. We only apparently go down to illinois (with an s )
Hilarious! I am guilty of this too ; )
My grandpa would say lets go uptown…. as far as wash and warsh… I think thats a regional thing for Southwestern wis…. I noticed a big difference in the ‘accent’ everything southwest of Madison.. I am from Green Bay, and I repeat a lot of the same terms as this article mentioned … and living in TN now I still get looks when asking for a TYME machine, or the bubbler, or where’s the pop… and my husband looks at me funny sometimes when I say no or go.. the long ‘o’ sound must sound strange to him and I cannot figure out why …. really how can you screw up a two letter word? But it was fun rediscovering my quirky language after not hearing it everyday…
As a teacher I have noticed that many of my students make no and go into two syllable words: no-uh and go-uh. Maybe that’s what your husband is hearing. When I point it out to the kids, they have no idea what I am talking about.
Oh yeah…I lived in PA for five years and I was constantly getting corrected for saying “going up” to anywhere that was actually “down” or “over” from wherever we were at the time. lol
I’m constantly saying that I’m going up somewhere. When in reality it’s south of where I’m at.
Yes! So true!
Sam Maki says
Half of this list is just ripped off from the Yoopers in the Upper Peninsula
The UP, a strip of land that Michigan ripped off from Wisconsin. : )
Preston Blarek says
Oh gosh…I know I’m a stickler for good grammar as well, I correct my friends and coworkers all the time. However, having been born, raised and living in ‘Scansin for 26 years of my life…I every once in a while catch myself saying these with my accent. Some that pop out of me are hotdish (I make it all the time!), let me see that once, “real quick”, ya know (before and after a sentence)…I refuse to use the word “bubbler”. I also use “dontcha” (“dontcha got any beers to go with these curds?) I would also like to point out that cheese curds are a sort of anomaly for people who come to ‘Scansin….Beer battered, greasy, deliciousness that will destroy your fitness hopes, dreams and aspiriations….n’so?
Fer sure, Preston! I served in a restaurant a while back and suggested cheese curds to an out-of-town-er… He said they tasted like feet and he didn’t know why people in WI liked them so much!
memyselfandi says
I’m a Grammar Nazi also and while living in Wisconsin all my life, I hear people use bad grammar ALL the time such as: ” I ain’t got none; She don’t like that; I ain’t got time; I’m going to get my hairs cut; She don’t know where to go; There ain’t no more gas in the lawnmower; I ain’t got no more money; I can’t find my car keys nowhere; That won’t do you no good; I didn’t see nothing; She ain’t going no more”, etc. Drives me NUTS and I’m always secretly correcting their grammar.
However, being a “Wisconsinite Cheese Head”, we make hot dishes, I use the word, “dontcha” quite often as in “Don’tcha have time to cut the grass, etc.
I had an aunt that used to use, “Ya hay” ALL the time, “Ya hey that was a good time; How ’bout we do it again, ya hey”
Sorry, I’m born and raised in central Wisconsin and I really don’t agree with the list. I could only connect with #5. Although some of the comments others have put on I do agree with (“go by your house” “have some pizza yet”). Perhaps in Wisconsin itself there are different Wisconsin accents…….
I think you’re right-fox valley and north is one dialect, north central another, etc…
Amy Blanchard says
I say “over by” like “I’m going over by Sue’s” It drives my husband crazy. He’s from lower Michigan
Ha! That’s funny, Amy ; )
When I was little, my mom and I used to go shopping for kids’ clothes in the basement of this store on College Avenue in Appleton called, “Campbell’s.” The saleslady, Denise (she had big, blonde, curly hair and was very nice and helpful), would always say “Come by me.” Even at 6 years old, I knew this was wrong. I guess I was a grammar nazi at an early age. I may use some colloquial terms, like “pop” and “bubbler,” but never incorrect grammar. Drives me crazy. Geez, how do I remember all this? It was 30-some years ago!!!
Yes! Yes! I say that all the time! LoL!
Carol Hoyer says
I’m from Southern Wisconsin, when my husband and I were getting some advice from a forester in the Bayfield area we noticed that he always prefaced advice with ‘If a guy wanted to . . . .’ rather than, ‘I’d suggest . . . .’ or ‘you could . . . ‘. Seemed rather courtly.
L Mattson says
When my Dad was giving advice he always said ” What a fella could do is…..” 🙂
gimvaainl says
I knew a guy who’d say “If a guy wanted to…” but the real kicker was: His name was Guy! So every time he’d say “If a guy wanted to…” I’d hear, “If a Guy wanted to…” and imagine a slightly miniature version of him doing whatever he was talking about. That’s funny, enna? Also in the Bayfield area.
There are definitely regional differences within the state. One thing that was not mentioned is our tendency to leave the pronoun off the beginning of an I sentence, such as “going to the store.” and not finishing sentences at all. Either we leave the end for granted, or add ‘n all, or y’know, when the rest is obvious.
I’ve lived in Northeast Wisconsin my entire life, until attending college in Ohio a few years ago. I hadn’t realized that we Wisconsinites had such a strong accent, people from other states noticed right away! Besides being made aware of my strange “bay-g” pronunciation, I also learned that we say weird phrases like “Don’t cha know?” and in the situation of someone asking for a favor, the response of “You betcha!” Hilarious!
Absolutely there are different dialects in WI. I’m from Green Bay and had never heard “hotdish” until I dated a guy from MN, so that makes me think people from the Western part of the state would say it. I used to work in a restaurant and when people would ask for things I’d catch myself saying, “Oh, sure!” I’d try to stop but never could. Now I live in South Korea, and my friends from Canada and other parts of the US love hearing me slip into my “Wisconsin accent”, although when I return home, people ask why I’m talking funny. Ya know, I guess dats just da way it goes!
Jane Engel says
Well, I’m from Wisconsin and I’ve never heard any of the comments that he was talking about…..however, the sound of his voice made me homesick. Yah!
Clare Conroy says
Say! Dats some real insight ya got dere hey!
; ) Thanks, Clare!
I had a friend who had just moved from our east pull me aside and ask in all seriousness what her neighbor meant when she said ‘ I am going to the store, do ya wanna come with?’ I explained that she asked if you wanted to come along to the store with her. ‘ why didn’t she just say that?’ I said Wisconsinites do not like to waste words. Lol. Former Sconnie girl
We don’t waste words, or syllables, or letters!
When my kids were little, their rooms were upstairs. When they were playing too quietly, I would go to the stairs and ask, “What are you doing?” But it came out, “Wha-yoon?” They always said, “Nothing!” But my ex, who was from west-central Illinois (and has the Iowa drawl to prove it) could not decipher this hybrid word. The same went when he was leaving the house, and I’d have to enunciate “Where-are-you-go-ing?” because he didn’t get, “Were-yown?”
We’ve always said… “Whatcha do’in?”
I was born and raised in Northeastern Wisconsin, and I remember my grandma and her sister using the word “dasn’t.” As in, “You dasn’t do that.” Anyone else ever hear that?
I’m from south central Wisconsin and my grandma ALWAYS said, “You dasn’t do that.” It was of course while she was speaking to my brother…I was the good child who did no wrong! 🙂
chris spangler says
I never heard of dasn’t, but I have heard older people say “daren’t.”
Oh my grandma said it too. Love it!
Charles Swoboda says
Mindy, my grandma used to say that all the time. Once in a while, I’ll hear my mom’s friends say the same thing. I’ll also hear people talking about going to “Trivers”, vice Two Rivers!
Amy E. May says
My Great Gramma always said dasnt.
Chuck Swoboda says
My grandma used to say that all the time. I still hear it from time to time at the nursing home, where my mother lives. A few of the older residents still use that word!
I’m from Shawano & I’ve always heard people from Milwaukee & Madison areas say bubbler. We say drinking fountain. We also pronounce Milwaukee without the “l” sound!
That’s odd because I’m from Shawano area and everyone I know says “bubbler.” My sister-in-law thought that everyone said that. I moved to WI from MN and didn’t know what a bubbler was when I moved here. I have since adopted the term, but I still find myself saying “water/drinking fountain.” In fact, when I used that term when I moved to WI, people didn’t know what I was talking about. They thought I meant a fountain you’d find in a pond or your front yard or something.
super and dinner, my husband always makes fun of me for this one
Yep! Good one ; )
did yous want to have some pop then too?
Love the “yous” – but sorta like nails on a chalkboard when I hear it!
Holly Eystad Johnson says
I finally figured where the yous guys came from. My second cousin is in Ireland for the summer with her in-laws and they post on Face Book. Yous guys has been there more than once. I don’t use it (hate it) or most of the others, but after moving to Florida in 1972, I’ve lost most of the expressions from WI and picked up the red neck slang. Don’t know which is worse.
Gina Schraven says
Yes I do say Bubbler; stop and go lights, yah, hey dare, Ya know; hot dish; pop; You bechya; I’m just sayin; and many other goofy wisconsin sayin’s. lol I love my state.
Kathy Mack says
South Side Chicagoans also use “youse” and Dem, dos, etc. Like “Da Bears!”
What about “budging” in line instead of cutting in line?
Zak Bruss says
You betcha Matt! Budging is a very funny Wisconsin word.
Pam~ says
I said that ALL the time in school!
TomF says
I grew up in cities in Kansas and Nebraska, and children would why “huh-uh” for “no” or “not so”. In North Dakota where I now live, children say “nuh-uh”. Maybe Wisconsin children say the same as the little Nodakers.
Becks says
I say a lot of those for sure! I just caught myself saying “stick it”. A friend of mine asked if she could drop off our playhouse and I told her- “oh sure-just stick it in the back yard.” I laughed after I caught myself. Another big one is “toss it” or “throw it” as in-“ya want a brat?” ” oh Sure-just throw it on my plate der!”. Or “toss one on der.”
GrewupinMerrill says
Yep, I also say Ma (almost na “oo) waw kee, no “l” and instead of “I’m going to go now,” it’s “Imina go now.”
M’wauky : )
When I moved to Wisconsin, it was YEARS before I figured out that a bubbler is where I wanted to go for a drink. But what really drove me crazy was, “I can borrow you this.” Ugh! And maybe this is Sheboyganese, but one of my favorites is, “There are a lot of people here that I don’t see.”
Tammy Grady says
Lol! There’s a lot of people here that I don’t see…don’t know if that is regional, generational, or what it is…but YES! I’ve lived in various areas of Wisconsin and that one has definitely been part of my vocab…and doesn’t make a bit of sense, but everyone knows what ya mean. 🙂
Dia says
I was born and raised in Kenosha , WI.. and moved to NC three years ago.. I had NO idea that I had an accent or the sayings I said were very regional to southeastern WI. We never said bubbler growing up ever, maybe because we were closer to Chitown… since moving I can hear how strong my familys accent is when i talk to them. I noticed the saying ” you know”.. that really sticks out. I asked where ‘pop’ was at a store down here and they looked at me like I had three heads!! I also didn’t realize being out of state how so many people pronounce WIsconsin like WESconsin.. like nails on a chalkboard.. i can’t stand it . Drives me nuts. Quite a few people have asked if were from Canada.. so funny…I read all these ‘sayings’ we have and I think oh ya I say that.. oh ya and that.. Love WI. Miss it.
Zachary T. says
Does anyone remember calling the back of the station wagon “the way back” ? as in put the groceries in the way back.
Totally – is that Wisconsin talk?
Yes! I sat in the way back all the time. That’s funny. Not sure if it’s a Wisconsin thing either, but I’ll always remember sitting backwards in the way-back and thinking it was so cool…until I started getting car sick.
Having grown up in MN I can assure you that this is NOT just a Wisconsin thing. With 5 brothers and 2 sisters, there was always someone sitting in the “way back”. When we picked Grandma up for church some of us even sat in the “in-between” – the area between the back seat and the way back seat about a foot wide. Couldn’t get away with that now-a-days!
The in-between. That’s hilarious! Thanks, Matt.
We called it the back back. The kids loved riding in the back back of my car.
I was literally just going to mention that! I live in NC now and have a jeep. I told this person once to just throw my daughters stuff in the way back and they looked at me like I wa crazy! LoL!
Zachary says
I don’t really know if it was a Wis. thing or not I do remember my Ky. Friend had no clue. He also had no idea what a beater car. But then again my first year living here I had a student come to me to tell me that someone stole his tobaggon. I asked him where he had put it and he replied his locker. I continued to question him as how he got something as big as that in such a small space. Finally, the laughing teacher behind had to tell me that down here a tobaggon was what I would call a stocking cap- not a style of sled to go down a snow covered slope!
I experienced the same serious confusion when I was at an Ole Miss game in Mississippi and the weather ended up colder than expected!
I’m from Green Bay and we say almost all of the comments listed but not “you becha” very seldom heard, maybe that’s far more north where use of “der” or “dem” is maybe used more often. My mother also says “I spose” instead of “I suppose” and “Omina” instead of “I’m going to”. Often I would tease my mother when talking to her sisters on the phone growing up, her word usage was limited to just saying “Oh, Okay, Oh ya ya O Oh”. I also didn’t know until later in life that the Green Bay Catholic Church’s picnics having “Chicken Booyah” was special to Green Bay, the church community bought potatoes and veggies and other stuff and it was made in 3 or more large witches keedles, so yummy if it turns out right. We used to be so hungry from the smell in catholic mass waiting to eat the booyah later. We would sing the hymn “Hallelujah”3 times was it hard not to sing “Chicken booyah”3 times in your head!
dcbadger says
I might have missed this one in previous comments … “could you borrow me ten dollars?”
Loralee says
I grew up in northern Wisconsin, “dose dere u betcha” bothers me, it is a yooper thing also from Canada and Minnesota. I still have my accent, “off of” is “offen”, as in “get offen there”, and sorry everyone, it’s “you guys” Not “yous guys”…get it right or get offen it okay? “up” is north and “down” is south, from wherever you happen to be. The “hey” at the end of things came down from Canada, it’s from the Hay River, as in “throw it in the river, “ay?”. (that from a college classmate from Canada) And yes, I spose I get teased some about how I talk, specially when i ask you guys if you can borrow me somethin’, y’know?
lalalala2013 says
Stop bein’ suck a jurk eh? Dis is ‘ow Wiskaaansinites talk okeey? Wedon’ need you up ‘ere talkin’ trash, eh?
PS, I Loved sitting in the wayback!
I grew up in Green Bay and moved to Denver a year ago. When I first moved here I got made fun for my accent, especially when I was drinking and it came out more – and it still does! I was talking to a lady in Denver on the phone for work and out of nowhere she said “You’re a Packer Backer, aren’t you? You sound just like my friend from Neenah WI!” I also get told that I’m really nice and sweet a lot (by people who aren’t from WI), and I think it is because of how I talk in general, ask for things, and say thank you almost too much. I notice that I say ‘Oh yah!’ when I’m listening to or agreeing with people, and ‘yep’ instead of yes. I also still say “Up Nort” and catch myself referring to going ‘up’ when I travel. Chicken Booyah is a funny Green Bay area thing – I went to college in Kenosha, and no one there had ever heard of it. I even had friends from Oshkosh who never heard of Booyah before. I wish I could get some here! Broasted chicken is another thing I can’t seem to find in Colorado – I can’t figure out if they call it fried chicken instead or if it really is just a WI thing, but the fried chicken does not taste the same. Ya’know and N’So definitely occasionally come out of my mouth too, and those phrases remind me of my Grandma. Finally, I do notice that people say WESconsin instead of WISconsin – it drives me nuts!
Marissa H says
I live in central wisconsin and my grandma always says chicken booyah. It’s not just a Green Bay thing. Also, I went to Colorado and somebody said we would be having barbecue. I was worried because I hate barbecue as in BBQ, but they meant grilling. We’ve never called it barbecue around here.
Kimm says
Around Sheboygan no one “grills” or even “barbecues”, they “fry out”
CJ says
On a “fryer” LOL! If you’re selling “brats” it’s a “brat fry”. This seems very much a Sheboygan and surrounding areas thing. My friend who grewn up in Cedarburg had never hear of fry and teases me about it.
Christopher Michael Messer says
don’t forget “Well” pronounced “wull” when someone starts to make an excuse for letting their thinking cause the problem. Also, there is the pronunciation test, how people pronounce, “Stoughton and Oconomowoc.” Finally, if you are from M’waukee, you probably aren’t from Wisconsin, because you don’t understand the accent.
I was just telling my Florida grandsons that other people say Milwaukee, but if you live in Wisconsin, you say M’waukee. They tried to practice it.
I can pronounce both Stoughton and Oconomowoc… and anyone that doesn’t thing you betcha is a green bay thing …. talk to my sister on the phone for an hour and you will probably hear it 60 or more times… lol…
“I borrowed him $10.” Lol! It wasn’t until I moved to California in my 20s that I realized this sounded ridiculous. Even though I think it is ridiculous, I still catch myself saying it at times. Lol!
jeff bronson says
I’m originally from Arkansas and I’ve lived in northeast Wisconsin for five years and I’ve picked up some sayings like n so and yet. But I still laugh at come ere once and when I first moved here I was so disappointed when I found out what tamales really are and really confused over the bubbler and a couple two tree beers lol
Sheila Leary says
Within Wisconsin’s borders are found three different major dialects of American English. The new book WISCONSIN TALK will be published in a few weeks (August 2013). See more info here: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5168.htm
I didn’t even realize this was being said to me this way until it was texted to me this way. “I’m PROLLY gonna stop at the store before I come to your house”. That made me laugh!!!
Russ says
They use “prolly” in England as well.
Michele Smits says
Prolly is hilarious! My husband was from Pittsburgh (don’t even get me started on their vernacular) and the first time I said, “Come ‘ere once”, he sounded puzzled when he replied, “As opposed to twice? I don’t understand.” I’ve never said it again, but my mother tells me it’s a shortened version of “come here at once”. Seems legit….. we’ll go wid dat. Have soda and pop been mentioned? That one is strange to me. I grew up saying “pop”, but as an adult, I say “soda”. Some folks even say “soda pop”.
“Soda” is an adjective. “soda pop” “soda water” “soda fountain” So *obviously* “pop” is the correct term. No duh! (Is “no duh” a Wisconsinism, or just an ’80s kid saying…?)
Alana says
I have lived in South central Wisconsin (Madison, Janesville) since I was two years old and I do not use 99% of the words or terms listed. I will agree I use “Real Quick” and ” One time” otherwise my words start with “Th” needed and not a “D” and so on. I would say most of these colloquialism are used in Northern Wisconsin and along the Minnesota border.
From Fond du Lac and lived in Milwaukee…. almost every single one is true. Lived in NY for over 10 years and still cannot break myself of most. As soon as I open my mouth, people constantly say – are you from Wisconsin. Biggest eye opener was when I realized, when saying Ya (as in yaaaaaah) that it is really German Ja for yes that I was saying.
Chuck Coan says
Pete and Lou Berryman “Up in Wisconsin”
While you up once, get me a beer, hey?
I believe the album was “No Relation”
Tom Arnold says
Saw them in Madison in the 70’s: oh ya hey. In squirrelly valley, they talk so funny, they act so silly. Oh ya hey, while yer up yet, get me a beer once, I’m going crazy.
Carin says
To my ears, Wisconsin people seem to say Green Bee, rather than Green Bay!
Lol, Carin! Probably do ; )
I always hear a -boat when you say.about. People in Milwaukee call 7up white soda and potlucks a carry in. The first time someone asked to borrow them a dollar I really had to think about that one.
Janice neddo says
License plates are a Wisconsin thing. Down south (another WI phrase) they call them “tags”
Nah. Down south, there are license plates too. “Tags” are the registration stickers that adhere to them. Well, at least in Texas anyway.
True… They are referred to as “tags” not license plates in NC
I’m surprised I don’t see “crik” instead of “creek” mentioned yet. For example, “ya, I went up ta Deer Crik to do some fishin’, ya know?” Additionally, and this one really bothers me, “hunnerd” rather than “hundred.” For example, “I told him a hunnerd times, we’re goin’ up nort’ fer da weekend. Gawddd, doesn’ he lis’in?” (That last word is listen, by the way!) I’m not poking fun (ok, maybe a little), but this is how some Wisconsinites talk.
In Central Wisconsin (very polish community), I hear a lot of older people say “I’m gonna go to work and weed the garden” or “we went to work and painted the house”. Not being from there originally, it took me a long time to understand that they meant they were going to go and weed the garden at their house, not at their job. Also, I was asked when I moved there “what’s your name from home?” or you have to say “what’s your maiden last name?” or people don’t know what name to give, their first or last.
What about “a horse a piece”… I am a native Wisconsinite living in Missouri, and always get picked on for this gem. Then I have to explain and they still don’t get it.
Steven says
Love this! My friend and I always try to think up farm idioms… Although this is from a dice game, still it says horse in it… Lot of those used in farming states… Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, don’t put the cart before the horse, raining cats and dogs, long in the tooth, chicken or the egg… Etc etc.
Ha! Thanks, Steven ; ) It is a fun topic – hey?!
Was working in TX and used that expression-had to explain what it meant to my coworkers. Also asked someone to move the davenport, he didn’t have a clue as to what I meant
Ray's boy says
This is from rolling dice in the bar. When there were two guys left (and the loser had to buy a round for all those at the bar playing), you had to win 2 out of 3 to go out. If you won, you got a horse, and a tie was a horse a piece, indicating that the next round of dice shakes would determine the loser and round buyer. Loved doing this with the farmers. Brings me home.
TYME machines, bubbler, you betcha – I lived it!
Barbara Erceg says
Yes! I lived in Houston for 5 years, always saying “a horse a piece” before someone asked me- “why are you always talking about horses?” I had no idea it was a Wisconsin thing. I’ve lived in Houston for 20 years and I still say “come ‘ere once” and get a lot of strange looks!
Katrin Patience says
How about “onbelievable” instead of unbelievable and “veecation” instead of vacation and “a hunnert” instead of one hundred?
Then there is “your HAIR! They’re so pretty today”:-and an active “listener:-“ya ya ya…”-and “let me just grab that for you….”.
This is a little off subject but I lived in NC for 15 years and people asked me often if I was a Green Bay Packers fan. I would look at them innocently and say “of course. It’s on our birth certificates.” They always believed me. “Really? They do that?” lol
Chad says
My favorite is ending a question with “err” or even “at all, errr”. Would you like a drink with that at all errrrr? It gets really fun when someone is talking a shortcut they found – “Oh really, is that way quicker errrr?”
I do this sometimes, but my mom is especially guilty!! Once in awhile I just ask her “Or what?”, and it’ll take a couple seconds for her system to reboot. 🙂
Yes! I never realized I said “er no?” Till I moved to NC.
Yes!!!!…..I’m always saying ….errrr…..To my husband I’ll say…. Ya so is that cool errr no?….if we “hafta” …”have to”..agree on something or come to a common ground.
Rachael says
Maybe one of these things is exclusive to Wisconsin alone. New England calls it a bubbler and Philly says yous.
Oh. And many on the easy coast say “bay-gel”. It’s not a Wisconsin thing.
I’d be surprised if I heard someone pronounce bagel correctly. Most around here call it a “bagg-el”. There is quite a bit here that isn’t exclusive to Wisconsin, though I didn’t realize that bubbler was used elsewhere. People back East, and even in Texas, say “or no?” at the end of a sentence, etc.
Inter changing Bring and take. as in Bring this to Gramma’s.
My favorite “true story.” My English teacher colleague and her husband were ordering some bakery and the clerk asked, “What do youse want?” After a 5 minute lecture on the misuse of you. The clerk simply said , “I’m sorry, I thought youse two were together.”
I sat next to a woman from Madison area for years at the Packers game and always laughed when she hollered for the “Peckers.”
Saying set down not sit down.
A woman has some trouble moving her car. She asks me, “how ’em I doin?”.I says,”pretty good. Go ahead and backup.”
Linda Balzan says
We always go to Mawaukee and you can tell immediately someone from another state says MILLwaukee.
Did you charge the Batt`chree or no (aka battery)?
I would not have know how to spell that, but you nailed it.
After hearing my dad saying baaatrees all weekend long while visiting my parents up north, on the way home, my two year old son was sitting in the back seat, saying “good trees, bad trees, good trees, bad trees”
Jon P. Morris says
I’m from Milwaukee, currently in the Army deployed to Afghanistan. I’ve been gone from ‘Sconsin for over 10 years now, people always tell me I have an accent. Funny thing is that each part of the state has different accents or just say words differently depending on the part of the state you are in. I’m black so by default I say a lot of words differently than even many of my white friends (brothers and sisters) back home say. I love how peaceful and laid back Sconnies are in general. being in the Army, I have run into a few fellow Soldiers from back home, and no matter what part of the state we come from, we immediately have a bond just being from the same state! I love Wisconsin! That was, is and always will be my home! Funny story about the TYME machines. I went to basic training in FT. Benning, GA in 1999. I had never left the state before going joining the Army. I needed to get some cash so that I could get my hair cut (shaved bald back then). I asked (which Sconnies tend to pronounce: axed) my Drill Sergeant (which we say Sarnt) where the TYME machine was. After he laughed at me and made fun of me because he seriously thought I was axing (lol) about a watch or a sci-fi device to jump forward or backward in time, he realized I was serious so I had to explain to him I was looking for the portable bank that allows me to get cash without physically going to the bank and he realized I was talking about the ATM. Another thing we say in Milwaukee, not sure how much of the state, but we call the Nike shoe, Air Force Ones: dookies or doo-doos. Not sure why but we do. That’s just one example of the different state dialects that we have in Wisconsin. People think we are so weird outside of Sconsin, but to thems I say, “eh, least we (instead of we’re) not Oregon!” LOL
I hear bag pronounced BAY-g from Chicagoans and others on the shores of the Great Lakes, so I call that way of talking, a Great Lakes accent”. In North Dakota, where I live, it is often pronounced “beg”.
Here, in conversations, people often tend to end a sentence with a drawn-out “so…” to indicate it’s the other person’s turn to talk.
Also, when women, especially, end a telephone conversation (maybe more generally a business call), they say “mm, bye”.
my husband tells me all the time that we Wisconsinites (he’s from IL) over pronounce our vowels, particularly our “o”‘s and double “o”‘s. words like “cone”, or “moon”, or “noon”, or “raccoon.” a sentence like, “By da light of da moon, dat raccoon ate an ice cream cone” would sound funny when you say it.
Jen Friday says
I was born and raised in central Wisconsin, but in my early 20’s lived in Pekin, Il for a couple of yrs. One day at work I was helping a older co-worker get something out of the stock room and banging the flat cart into everything. I don’t even remember what was coming out of my mouth but he just stopped and looked at me and said, “you talk and drive like you are from Wisconsin” my response was you betcha! And the first time I said I was going to get a “pop” out of the vending machine they didn’t have a clue what I was talking about!
Jill Jensen says
German heritage giving directions would include to “turn the corner around…” and I’ve been questioned by out of state folks as to what a roof and a root are since the pronunciation here is not rufe or rute with along u sound but ruhff or ruht as in put
PDavis says
Oh ya, der hey. I’m familiar with most of the things on the list. My mom is from Gays Mills (Crawford County, I think) and her family says worsh. That is a predominantly Irish area, so it could be related to that. I live in Tennessee now where I’ve run into a couple of other things that I learned from my family. They think they invented sweet tea and the phrase “bless their heart” down here. I have to remind them that either these things come from their Scots-Irish heritage or Southern Wisconsin is part of the South, which offends them greatly.
Ozzie Perch says
I always thought that the gratuitous use of “once” in sentences was uniquely Wisconsinoid, until I went to Germany and heard how they use “mal.”
That’s interesting Ozzie. But makes sense, since we’ve got such a large German population here, right? Thanks for sharing!
You didnt list the most Obvious one…borrow vs loan…we say “Can you borrow me $10″…instead of “Can you loan me $10”
Yeah – we did miss that one. But it has been mentioned here in the comments before.
Jade Roatch says
I would say that one that we find getting in fights the most over is pop vs soda i know up is wisconsin both are said by people but most of its pop right now me and my husband live in nc and miss wi a lot lol but we say pop and our friends are like what then we say pepsi or whatever and then they go you mean soda no we mean pop lol its on going here with those words.
I was visiting my cousin at college in MI once (we’re both from SE Wisconsin) and we were talking to her roommate (who lived in Michigan). her roommate said to me, “Say A-B-O-U-T” so I said “About”. She was so thrilled that I had an “accent”. I didn’t hear anything different, she sounded exactly the same to me! I was wondering if she heard “a-boot” or maybe “a-bawt” when I said it. It was interesting!
You’s guys sounds New York to me, and you forgot Yah, hey. And we say “yet” instead of “still”, as in “there’s one cow still on (the milker) yet”
Merc says
My dad was stationed in Hawaii for a bit and when I went to go live with him, I had a bit of culture shock….
Starting my new middle school, I asked my friends, “Where’s the bubbler at?” and they looked at me really funny. I explained (not having any other word as a reference point) that I wanted a drink of water, so where’s that thing where you turn the knob and water pours forth? (I was a precoscious child)
They replied, “Oh, you mean the fountain?” And I was agog. Not only was my new middle school layed out in campus fashion but, apparently, they had a stylish water feature to match!
I was a bit underwhelmed when they showed me the bubbler down the way….
Amy Spreeman says
Hahahaha! Great article, Ashley! I’m glad Minnesotans don’t talk like this!
I am a born and raised Wisconsinite and my husband is from Alabama so we have a million conversations about how weird the other talks but his favorite to point out is that whenever we are going back home to visit my family I will tell him whose house we will be staying “by”. He always responds with “are we going to just go BY there and head right back to Georgia (where we live) or will we be staying AT their house”
Barb Larzelere says
Brust out laughing, I always say that, “were staying by my cousins house. Makes sense to me, but then again born and raised here in Trivers (Two Rivers), WI.
Jackie Ponich says
Loved reading the article and these comments. Took me back many years. My 44 year old son says “worsh”. Wonder where he got it from…? I was born and raised in Wisconsin and apparently used that word when he was growing up.
That’s great, Jackie! Thanks for reading – I’m really happy you enjoyed it! ; )
Julie Pearson says
“Have a good one”….have a good wat!? Is it so hard to say…have a good day!!!
Wisconsin dialect varies quite a bit! I grew up about 30 miles outside of Madison and the only ones that I have ever used are “real quick” and “ya know”, though I have heard all the others when I travel to other parts of the state.
Sam – after we posted this article – I actually started noticing myself saying things I thought I never said. Especially “er no” – which we forgot to put on the list. But it’s been mentioned here in the comments.
“Ya know” is also pretty common elsewhere. Again, as others have mentioned, certain ways of saying things must be regional. In my little corner of Wisconsin, “quick” is inserted in the middle of a sentence. Such as, ” I have to quick run by Sally’s”.
Yeah I agree… I grew up and have lived within an hour drive to Madison and I can go up north (haha yes up north) and hear the stereotypical Wisconsin stuff like “oh yeah der eh, dontcha know.” Alot of this sounds like Yooper talk, and I’ve also heard it along the MN border. I’ve seen several things I do say and “real quick” and “ya know” are included, but the rest sounds way too northern.
Sara Pashak says
Hey at the end of everything is the one I’m most teased about. But, does anyone else call a winter hat a “chook?” My Dad always has… Fun article!
Sara – I’ve never heard of the term chook, but I might start using it.
I have heard of that Sara. I’m pretty sure it’s a Yooper thing. Is your dad originally from the U.P or Northern WI?
There’s also ‘relation’ as in ‘relatives.’ Also ‘side by each’ meaning when things are next to each other. And ‘look alike in the face,’ albeit a bit of a lesser known and odd one, I have heard it more than once; meaning is that two things or beings look similar or have a resemblance. For example, I’ve got relation up Nort’ and they look alike in the face whenever they stand side by each.
~Pam~ says
I’m originally from 30 minutes North of Green Bay. My mother’s side is grammar-strict, and my father’s side speaks like very stereotypical “Wisconsin folk”: Yous guys. The “D” instead of “Th”. ‘Eh’ at the end of a sentence as anything more than a joke. Also, lots of people drop the “G” fro the ends of their verbs i.e. “shoppin’” instead of “shopping”.
It took a long time before I could distinguish my “BY accident” and “ON purpose”/ that I “SET a table” and don’t “MAKE a table”.
I thought that I had heard all of the odd phrases and pronunciations that there were to hear… UNTIL I MOVED TO GREEN BAY. My manager says “Ain’t so?” at the end of something when she wants you to agree with her, and my coworker said “IllinoiS” about a million times one day.
Also, my sister and I have the habit of substituting the “D” sound instead of the double “T”. For example: “kitten” almost always becomes “kidden”. Anyone else heard of that being a Wisconsin thing?
All my Grammas (yes, Grammas… can you tell im a Sconnie?)used to say,”Ooh my stars!” Or “Oohma Lawrrdd!”
Eric Kothbauer says
One of the biggest ones they forgot was our ability to start any question with “so” and end it with “then” instead of “Are we going to the park today” we will say “So are we going to the park today then?”
I am from the west coast but have lived in Wisconsin for the past 32 years….My pet peeve is
Will you borrow me a dollar? The proper way to ask this….Will you lend me a dollar? Or can I borrow a dollar? I hear borrow me all the time…….
That’s a good one, Patti!
Lesley says
I’m from southern Missouri, my husband and step kids are from Wisconsin. they live to make me say “bag” and to insist that I say it wrong. I was so happy to see it in this list.
I live in South Texas. A friend of mine moved from Wisconsin to south Texas. She tends to refer to me as ‘Lady’…….and it strikes me kinda weird everytime she says it. “Thank you lady”, “You are welcome lady”, “Talk to you later lady”……….I’m guessing this is a Wisconsin thing. Can anyone confirm this for me????
Brandie – I can’t say I’ve never heard that, but I don’t think it’s a Wisconsin thing. Honestly, it strikes me kinda weird too. Almost sounds like a folksy way of saying “man” or “dude.” Maybe your friend is a huge Jerry Lewis fan?? Sorry I can’t be more helpful, lady.
Shane Allen says
For “urban” slang, the term “lookin ass” is totally Milwaukee, but also Chicagoan.
When attached to the end of a sentence: Saying you look like someone or something. Saying you resemble someone or something. Also someone with a funny look.
“Get yo big “CHARLIE MURPHY”, Rick James lookin ass…” = You look like Rick James…
When said by itself: Someone who looks or does something stupid or accidental and its funny.
Person A: *trips on a banana peel*
Person B: “Lookin ass!”
I’m originally from menasha wi. I moved to san antonio tx. I see and hear myself doing most all of these. And most of my friends here love to pick on the way I say things. But most hold true,as well as the very many extras in the comments. I very much so appreciate the ruff roof comment as I get a serious amount of picking on for that. I’m so glad I can share this with them.
Shannon Degner says
I am a Wisconsinite Lived on a farm so have used may of the phrases in my life still do. I moved to Missouri for about 8 months —-there are a lot of different words I was working for a store down there and the customer asked for a skillet —-I stood there dumbfounded lol after they described it I was like oh you mean a frying pan—-in wisconsin we call a shopping cart a cart well down there it is a buggy —-Everybody down there thought I was from Canada —Which I thought was funny when I moved back I had Wisconsin accent with the southern drawl just imagine the confusion on peoples faces.
When I lived in TX, my circle of friends were transplants from everywhere. I called it a “cart,” my friend from Ohio said “buggy,” the Texan said “basket,” and I can’t remember where this other friend was from, but she said, “carriage.” It was fun going on shopping trips together: “Go get us a buggy.” “What?” “The carriage, over there.” “Huh?” “We need a basket!” “Oh, you mean a cart! Why didn’t you say so?”
They for got Pop instead of Soda
That’s a good one, Darren. However, if you look into it, Wisconsin is kind of split on the pop vs soda thing. Most We’re definitely doing an article on that debate sometime soon. Thanks for reading.
Liz Koester says
We actually always said “soda water”, never “pop”. Spent a summer in New Hampshire where they said “tonic” for soda, that was strange!!!!!
On the northwest side of Milwaukee, people talked about Highway a-hunn’-erd (for Hwy 100). I also remember signs that said “Drive Slow”. But I haven’t lived there for 30 years, so I imagine those signs have been corrected.
Valerie Mulroy says
Ya der hey!
Worsh your clothes in the zinc and then put them in the dray-yer (drawer).
I hear that mostly around Little Chute. Do you think it’s a Dutch influence?
Little Chute is its own brand of special…
Great story! I work with a team from Green Bay and during conversations I catch myself noticing something that seems unique to them: where I’m from (Nothern Ohio) we might say, “I’ve not seen that movie yet.” But I often hear them re-state the sentence as an affirmative and add yet at the end: “I HAVE to see the movie yet.” Very fascinating!
And what’s the deal with everyone’s last names beginning with “Van?” Love it!
Yeah – I think the “yet” thing is something you hear around here. I probably say it all the time. And I think there was a big Dutch community in NE Wisconsin at one time. I went to high school with some Vans who had really long last names – like Vanderzandenlangenberger.
I don’t really know any Vans, but a lot of people around here are some kind of -ski. It’s a Polish thing. 🙂
I say “yet” all the time since I moved from WI 16 years ago, but no one’s ever called me on it. In…10th grade?…when we were all introducing ourselves that the beginning of the year, one guy said his name was, “Paul Vanden Langenberg. That’s Vanden Langenberg for short.” I’ll never forget that. Growing up in Appleton, we were dominated by “Vans-,” “Vandens-” and “Vanders-,” “-ski’s,” “Sch-‘s,” and “-son’s” and “-sen’s.” You can definitely tell where the first immigrants came from…
When I moved to Wisconsin several years ago I was told I live in Ma-waukee, not Mil-waukee. Locals don’t pronounce the L.
So many of these are so true and I didn’t even realize them until I read the article and the comments, but I’m seeing in a lot of the comments that “pop” is a Wisconsinite word for “soda”. I’m from the suburbs of Milwaukee and I had never heard anyone call it “pop” until I moved to Iowa to go to college. Everyone in Iowa calls it “pop” and it drives me crazy! But “yet” instead of “still”, “real quick”, “go by”, “once”, and “going up to” are all so Wisconsinite and I never even realized that no one says these things in Iowa like they do in Wisconsin. Makes me a little homesick!
Alex – anytime you’re homesick – just come visit WhooNEW for some Wisconsin fun.
By the way – you’re right about pop vs soda. Wisconsin is split on that one.
I am from Kenosha and we always said Pop.. maybe cause we were so close to Chitown… never grew up saying soda.
I grew up in central WI and it was always pop never soda. Water fountain was interchangeable with bubbler. Before living in Milwaukee and Sheboygan I never heard of a “hard roll “and in central WI, we went for doughnuts and rolls, not “bakery”. A bakery is a place, people, not a food group. Hard rolls in Milwaukee are actually hard and flake and crumble, in Sheb. they are soft. Never heard of a brat fry outside of Sheb. We grilled ’em instead. Also I never heard of a “double brat ” before living in Sheboygan.
Hard roll!! That’s an interesting one… I wonder if that’s regional for sure.
Every Sunday after Church, we went to Heineman’s for hard rolls and bakery–it was always the same kuchen. My brother & I would hollow out the hard roll, of course eating the soft middle, and he would fill his with ketchup and I would use Mayo (which in our house meant Miracle Whip). The leftover kuchen would get cement-hard in the bread drawer!
Pop is another word imported from CHICAGO.
Sounds like you really know your stuff, Linda.
I grew up in AZ and have lived in Wisco for 16 years now – and apparently I have picked up a Wisco accent, according to my AZ family. I still call them stop lights, and drinking fountains. Lunch is lunch and dinner is dinner- but I do say “don’tcha know?”, and I end my yes/no questions with “or no?”. The one that drives me BATTY is “can you borrow me a ____?” I do not say that – you don’t borrow something to some one, you loan it. I agree about the “bay-g” pronunciation – when I started dating my husband he asked me to bring him a “bay-g” I had NO idea what he wanted!
How about the phrase”thz saft” Like in, I’ll see yous thz safternoon. When I live in PA they picked on my accent so much. Said I drawled out my words. I remember the check out girls look of dismay when I asked where there bubbler was. Was amazed that you couldn’t buy beer in the grocery store or they had NO idea what a brat was. We use the term yous they say youins. How about the term kitty corner-its just kitty corner from Tippy’s Bar.and I’ll have a whiskey ol fashion sour with an olive please.
Ken Merrill says
The one that makes me crazy is that Sheboyganites call what everyone else in the world calls “sloppy Joes” … wait for it … “hot tamales.” Seriously. What in the world sloppy Joes have to do with hot tamales stumps me.
That is weird, Ken! Never heard that before. It’s pretty hilarious though. We’ll have to look into that one.
Actually, it’s not too crazy! My mom still calls them “hot tamales”!
Chuck – do you know WHY folks in Sheboygan call them that? They’re not that spicy, and they are definitely not tamales.
They call them the same in Manitowoc. Our church has started an ESL program and we had to stop calling them hot tamales because of the many hispanics using the ESL program. It was quite confusing.
Ooo, I was waiting for this one! My mom called them hot tamales too! I wasn’t sure if that was a family or Wisconsin thing. I got so confused when I ordered hot tamales (pronounced “toh-males”) and received actual tamales instead of a sloppy joe.
Elli says
I’m from the Fox Valley area and my whole family calls them “hot tamales” instead of sloppy joes. 🙂
For some reason, my Mom always called sloppy joes “barbecues”. We didn’t BBQ outside
except for hot dogs over an open fire. I never heard the term “sloppy joes” until I moved away from Wisc.
We called them barbecues too!
If I ever had an accent, it’s gone now. That’s not just me, I’ve asked if people could tell where I’m from or if they could hear a WI accent. The only time was when I had just moved to Texas and my friend said she could tell I was from somewhere else, but not where. Though I do occasionally slip, especially on my o’s. “Aboat” instead of “about.” When I go home, I’ll nudge my mom and say, “did you hear that?!” But I guess still being immersed in it, she can’t tell unless it’s really thick. People will ask me to do a WI accent, and that’s fun. Very exaggerated, of course. But I’m proud of my roots. Just the other day I corrected someone’s pronunciation of Green Bay. And of course it’s a bubbler.
Dee Price says
Another one: “Lemme see that!””
But seriously loved the “white soda” one. That was MY upbringing 🙂
Er no? Wanna go to da store, erno?
Terrell says
I’m from Wisconsin and just moved to Illinois…boo, hiss, I know… Anyway, I’ve been asked several times if I’m from Wisconsin and also was asked if I’m from Canada. I didn’t realize how much I say all of these things. The funniest one is a friend of mine who says utter for the word other. Proud to be a cheesehead. 🙂
Brianna says
What about when we add “yet” to the end of a sentence for no reason? Like I’ve got leftovers in the fridge yet. Someone gone Washington pointed that out to us recently!
bonnie b says
you betcha….
cathy hawley says
We call it pop, my brother in law who is from Pennsylvania says coke. Coke is for every kind of pop, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, 7up, all of if is Coke! I have been told we use the word yeah..alot! My mother in law always says “who’s it is? ” when some calls or knocks on the door. Also, we answer the phone “yello”?
boettden says
How about this one — my dad (from NE WI), whenever the room light needed to be turned off, would say, “Make out the light!”
breanna h says
I’ve only heard like half of these.. and some of them were from people in the UP.
therefreshman says
What about “Uff da?!” Where I come from in west-central Wisconsin, this is everyday speech. And “cow” is pronounced almost like “C’oh.” And you don’t say “go milk the cows,” you say “Go milk cows.”
My godparents and their kids–good German folk (the Schwandts)–say uff da all the time. And they have about the thickest WI accents of anyone I know.
Iris Lambert says
I was hoping someone would mention Uff Da. That’s more of a Norwegian Northwestern thing.
” ‘n stuff.” I hear ” ‘n stuff” just added on to the end of a phrase, ‘n stuff. I think it may be used to tone down a request and make it seem less urgent or less “know-it-all” ‘n stuff. Or maybe it is just a filler, ‘n stuff.
notayooper says
If you really want to hear the Wisconsin accent, there’s an episode of the show Paranormal Witness where this family from Chilton is being interviewed. First, the individuals speak with a Wisconsin accent that you don’t actually hear,because you are from Wisconsin. Then actors act out the interview scenarios with real voices. Man, that’s when you can really hear the Wisconsin accent. Enjoy: http://www.syfy.com/paranormalwitness/episodes/season/3/episode/15/the_innocent
Alyssa says
One of my professors is from Germany and said that here in the La Crosse area, she has noticed that waiter/waitresses say “how is everything tasting?” She said that she has only heard it around this area, but now that she told me that I notice it all the time when I go out to eat!
I didn’t read through all the comments to see if this one was listed, but what about, “It’s a horse a piece”? I live in AZ now, and I said this a while back to my husband. He looked at me like I was crazy. Anyone from WI knows that it means the same as “6 of one, half dozen of the other”, right?? Or maybe it’s just me…
I use that saying often too – but I’m not sure if it’s a WI thing or not.
Jen K says
I have only lived in Wisconsin for 5 years and there is a big one that i haven’t seen mentioned here yet. I can never get used to people saying “I am going to GO BY my Mom instead of I am going to my Mom’s house.
June (Eide) Hodgson says
Having lived in Alaska for the last 20 years I have been on a “crusade” to correct people in their calling a snowmobile a ‘snow machine’! I tell them we have snow machines, they are the machines they use to make snow on hills for skiing- but one cannot ride them! We also have autoMobiles, not auto machines, so it is called a SNOWMOBILE. Besides, we’nt they first made in WI ( or is that just Wisconsin folk lore?!). Your input…
Another word I heard in the Milwaukee area, esp. from descendants of German/Polish heritage: ‘Ayn na’ (don’t have the spelling), used for example “It sure is cold outside, Ayana na?”. Used instead of, isn’t that so.( No, I never used it, but I never used ‘Des, dat or dem’ I always thought that was an Illinois accent.)
I do remember Bubblers, the ones I remember we’re a round siler bowl w/several holes where water bubbled up from, inside a porcelain white bowl, found all over even on busy street sides.
I had always thought any accent I might have was from a speech impediment in my childhood that I just never completely outgrew ( I couldn’t pronounce my ‘r’s – people always asked if I was from Boston-in WI! after a couple years in AK, finally figured out it must be from my speech impediment. I have finally realized, & now admit I do have a “WI accent”; when my husband came home from work one day & said a customer had asked him: “What part of the mid-west are you from.” I realized it wasn’t just me! I’ve really Ben paying attention this years visit & can ‘hear’ it more, the more ‘hard’ or ‘short/curt’ sound of what I think of as German &/or Scandanavian (1/2 Norwegian maybe 1/4 German).
I really enjoyed your articles, will forward to my non-Wisconsin friends to explain myself, or at least my language!-“You Betcha!”…something a well known former AK governor is known to say (Sara P) & she’s not from Wisconsin (tho I always thought that was MN. Thanks for the enlightenment!
(I’m also known to use “Milwaukee-ese” , saying parts of sentences ‘backwards’, like ‘Yoda’: “Woke up early, did ya?”)
Thanks for the comment, June.
I agree – the snow machine thing always sounds strange to me too, but I guess it is technically acceptable.
I think the dem, dat dere thing is more Upper Midwest. Definitely Chicago more-so than the whole state of IL. I always noticed that people seem to suddenly get southern accents as soon as I’m south of Chicago.
And your Yoda comparison is hilarious!
So you know when you’re driving down the road, and a nod or wave is almost expected as you pass either when in the car/truck/tractor, I’m used to hearing: “how come you didn’t hello me when I honked you” when you don’t during our next meeting. Suffer the wrath if you do not heed that greeting. Now that’s country grammar, R Kelly!
I am from Wisconsi but live in California. My husband thinks it’s funny we say “grill out” instead of BBQ. No one here knows what after bar beans either 🙂
How about can you “borrow” me some money, instead of lend or loan? Def a Wisconsin thing!
it’s a horse a piece.
It’s a horse a piece
I grew up in wi and then moved to mt .. the biggest thung I notice is bbq and grill out..growing up we would have a bbq and in kt yhey called them grill outs..
Meg Hyland says
Wow, no matter how many Wisconsin dialect articles I read, there are still new ones I didn’t know about! I never realized that adding “er no?” to the end of my sentences was such a Wisconsinism. I grew up in WI, but my parents were from New York (Dad NYC, Mom upstate), so I was in an interesting position of never saying some Wisconsinisms, particularly cultural ones that were fishing-related. When I went to college in Appleton, however, and many of my friends were from out of state, I started to realize just how much Wisconsin had colored my dialect! (Sometimes the fights over “bubbler” got very intense.) Lately my parents have also been revealing how strange they find some of my phrases, such as “standing up” at a wedding for being in the wedding party, and doing things “on accident” (my mother always thought she’d failed to teach us the right way until she realized it was a regionalism). Now that we are living out of the country, and I am the only one with a strong Wisconsin dialect around, I realize even more how much of an impact the Badger State has had on my language. Thanks for the fun and interesting article!
I get a lot of grief about “Stop and go light” and “poh ney” dontcha know–
kevin back says
Can’t forget. (He classic response. “So how many beers u have? “. Oh I don’t know. A couple, Two, Three”
Jim Jankowski says
Aina was a big one in my neighborhood while I was growing up. An example would be, “It’s getting to be quitting time, aina?” Which means “It’s getting to be quitting time, isn’t it?”
Marsha Brown says
My mother, from Oshkosh, would often say, “Come here for a little minute.” My father, from St. Croix, had gooms, fil-lum, ahmond, and el-lum.
I think that some of the sayings were translations from Middle European languages. I can remember as a child my grandmother would say “Throw me down the stairs the broom” Or the guys would be talking about “throwing the Horse over the fence some hay. “
Tanya N says
I was born and raised in Madison. Some of the list, I can relate to, some I cannot. I have never heard of booyah until today (I’m 44 btw). I’ve never used the terms dat, dis or dere, at least I don’t think I have. Maybe I am and am not realizing it. Yous guys? Really? I know I’ve never used it, it just sounds weird. When I saw this on a quiz, I figured it was an Eastern coast accent. Very surprised that to hear that it is from Wisconsin. Stop n’ go lights..I always called them Stop lights, maybe I just shortened it. lol Up Nort…yep North is always “up”. Ya Know? Too funny, I am so guilty of saying this. or Doncha know? Bag..I’ve tried saying the other way..it just sounds WRONG. lol. Real quick or real fast. Guilty, actually had no idea this was a “Wisconsin thing” One time/once lol yep all the time. Bubbler…that is what it is…everyone else is WRONG, calling it a fountain or water fountain. I actually scolded my kids for calling a water fountain. N’ so, I’m not sure, I’ve said so anyway….
My Dad always said Warsh…drove me crazy. He also said “vengentables” for vegetables. Anyone else ever hear that. Anyone else notice when people say mitten, butter, better..the t’s are kinda skipped over? Not sure the best way to “spell” the example so people will know what I am talking about.
Tanya – my Grandma always said venchetables – I think we’re talking about the same thing. She’s Norwegian, and we always thought that had somethign to do with it.
He’s not Norwegian, he’s Swedish, German, and Native American.
Then maybe it does have something to do with older generations of Wisconsinites.
Tanya, that’s because those are Chicago sayings.
Not at all. I mean, yes, they are Chicago-ese, but just listen to my godfather–born and raised in Appleton, or our friend–born and raised in Black Creek (I mean “Crick”). Nary a voiced “th” would pass their lips–only “d” And “yous guys” is everywhere in WI. As for “warsh,” you’ll also hear that in MD–it’s one of the bits of his “Bawlimer” accent that my dad never lost.
I think most of these come from the area along Lake Michigan. including Sheboygan, Green Bay Very few were common in the Madison area, “bubbler” being the exception. I’ve never heard of “booyah”; sounds like chicken soup.
Pert’near or pert’ner is common around Northeast Wisconsin, possibly statewide. It essentially means “almost” or “pretty near”.
True – Shawn. I definitely hear that one. Pert’near everyday, ya know?
Growing up in Wi and moving to CA people didn’t understand when I was “gonna run to the store” or ” I’m just runnin’ to the store” and the meaning of “mmm k” instead of okay for agreement!
My Dad was born in northeastern Iowa (New Hampton, Decorah) and moved around a lot but always said “warsh” for “wash”.
He also used to say “crime-un-itly” when surprised by something.
I think “Are you going to come with?” is equivalent to “Are you going to come along?” and aren’t they both utterances up with which grammarians will not put?
rox says
aw, jeez. sounds kinda like cheese
I’ve been picked on numerous times by out-of-Staters for how I use “yet”. Example: “I’ll be home late, I’m at work yet” when they (as they claim) would have said “I’ll be home late, I’m still at work” instead. Grammatically, their way is better, but it is a REALLY hard habit to break.
Ducky says
Ok wow…. have to admit to most of them… however there are a few ya missed. 1. By the lake not to the lake. Example .. Let’s go by the lake. And saggy. Like my bread is soggy we pronounce it with an a.
I remember eating coolers instead of popsicles
Lisa Z says
My great-aunt often said “ain’a” at the end of a sentence. Where is that from? Her parents spoke German, so I assume it is a German thing, but I I don’t know.
Liz K. says
My Grandma also said ‘ain’a” a lot. Sadly, I didn’t know her very well, but I know that her family was German. Whenever you asked her how she was, she would say, “oh, just kickin along.”, I thought that was funny .
beeandlee says
My in-laws also said ain’a. Also German descent. I thought it was a contraction of aint it.
I grew up in Sheboygan where we were lucky to get coolers in the summertime. We moved to Janesville and asked for coolers…they didn’t know what we meant…we had to learn to ask for popsicles! Yes, we also used the term bubblers!
I think you missed the biggest one! We drop the “g” on all “ing” words. I have a very pronounced vocabulary and I still go “fishin'” and “drinkin'” instead of fishing and drinking
Pat S says
How about the term “paddle pop” for a chocolate covered ice cream bar?? That might be more of a Milwaukee talk thing as people in other parts of Wisconsin didn’t know what we wanted when we asked for it. I think other people called them just plain “ice cream bars”…..how dull is that?? 🙂 This is a great article and a great comment thread….thanks!
Oh, that brings back memories! I’m 75 and grew up in Milwaukee, but left in 1957. We always called them “paddle pops,” and I’ve never heard that anywhere else!
Richard Hartley says
As a born and raised Madisonian, I had to chuckle at the Wisc-isms in your blog. But I wanted you to know that waitresses in Fremantle, Western Australia (my current place of residence) have also been heard to say, ” Wha duh youz want?”. It may be the Irish convict ancestory here or maybe that’s just what waitresses say but it still makes you wonder what you’ve struck when you hear it and that’s fer sher..If you would like a giggle try googling an Aussie phrase book for some peculiar expressions. R.;-)
People dont say “go by your house” in other states… I have lived in Wisconsin for my whole life and I don’t say half of this stuff. Maybe because I am still kinda younger. I don’t know if this is a Wisconsin thing but my dad and I have had some argues on how to pronounce “bag”. I am not sure if this is just a Wisconsin thing or not but my whole family says bag different. Some stretch the vowel. I stretch the “g” but it is the same with bagel. My parents rip on my pronunciation of this word. Tbh I think I pronounce Wisconsin Wee-skon-sin. Not sure if that was already said but just wanna say that. I have caught myself saying Real quick or bubbler.
Aaron Johnson says
I disagree with all of this. I have lived in Wisconsin all my life. While there may be a grain of truth here and there. This is more pointed to Canadian speech.
Aaron, I’m Wisconsin born and raised too. But I lived in Tulsa, OK for college. In my fourth year there, I was talking to a freshman girl I’d just met and was noticing her accent (long o’s and a’s). Asked her if she was from Canada…
She was from Racine – doncha know? She was also pretty insulted for some reason.
I was also born and raised in WI (38 years there). I have now lived in VA for nearly 2 years. My job puts me on the phone with people who live all across the US. I haven’t gone a single day without being asked at least once if I am from WI! This is ON THE PHONE!! Usually it’s after I say ‘about’ or ‘ya betcha’. Lots of them tell me they think WI people talk with their own sort of twang! I think we have something special about our accent or they wouldn’t say that!
Much of this was taken from IL as well Aaron…
I am 75 and was born and raised in Milwaukee, but left in 1957. I can still remember people from WissGONsin going to buy their schneckens!
That is awesome, Audrey! Thank you ; )
Dick Hughes says
When I moved from TX to WI, I went to a get together with food. When I filled my plate and sat at the table my wife asked why I didn’t get any hot tamales. I said I didn’t see them. She said I’ll go get some for you. She came back with two Sloopy Joes!! Wisconsin is the only place I have ever heard them called Tamales.
I’ve never heard the term “hot tamale” for sloppy joe in all of my 38 years. It was always sloppy joe in my neck of the woods. Maybe that’s a term used outside of the Fox Cities?
wiskinny says
For as long as I can remember growing up, I, too, remember my family calling sloppy joe “hot tamales”. It wasn’t until I got older when I first heard the term “sloppy joes”.
I remember saying “gool” (sp?) when we played tag as kids. It was the safe spot where no one could tag you. I when people are telling stories I always say oh yeah after they finish telling it.
Yes! We always said “gool.” I had no idea there was anything different, and when I finally did hear “goal” as an older child (like, jr. hi or so) I thought people were pronouncing it wrong.
kevin butler says
As a banker in Janesville in the 70s, we introduced a TYME machine. It was a brand name not used by anyone I know of in any other way. Also, don’t forget CRICK instead of CREEK!
My grandma was raised in North Carolina and moved to Wisconsin when she married, we all carry some southern accent and wording! So the mix of Wisconsin and the South has always been, “interesting”
Plus – you probably got to eat beer brats AND North Carolina-style BBQ. Yum!
Tiffany – what a coinky-dink! My grandma was also raised in North Carolina and after she married my grandpa, they moved to Milwaukee. So we got to eat fried chicken, fish fry and brats! Plus I still say y’all sometimes…
Joyce Libal says
I’m from Green Bay. I remember my dad often using the term “perner”. For example, someone would ask, “Are ya almost done dere?” And my dad might answer, “Perner” meaning almost done or pretty near done.
Ron says
Two other expressions are “For Pete’s sake” and “A horse apiece”.
I disagree on the meaning of real quick. When my wife tell me to pick up some “Bread, real quick”, she means don’t start small talking with acquaintances at the general store, or wander over to the hardware section. Just buy bread, and get home before dinner burns.
My grandma was from Forest County,and she pronounced words funny. Bath was bat,throat was troat,battery was battry. My uncle would say baddry instead of battery,and bode instead of both.
Good ones, Eric! My grandma does the same thing!
C'mon Everyone Knows That says
Someone has probably already pointed this out in the looooooooong string of comments above, but we don’t say “Come here once” to make it sound nicer. We say it because it is a remnant of the strong influence German has on Wisconsin. “Come here once” is a direct German-to-English translation.
Very interesting. I knew that German heavily influenced the WI accent, and I assumed some of the words, but I never knew this was a direct translation. I’ll have to ask my godparents, the Schwandts. (Talk about heavy German influence!)
I was born and raised in central WI and I have NEVER heard anyone around here call a water fountain a bubbler. I also have not heard some of these other phrases, except for those few kids in school that were into the whole coon hunting thing and they were trying to be ‘cool’… P.S. It is not cool to say ‘dis’ dat’ ‘dem’ dere’. It’s just laziness. Oh, and don’t forget ‘fer’ instead of ‘for’, or ‘are’ instead of ‘our’. What happened to the English language…?
People have mentioned “yet” in place of “still.” This stems from German influence in the Wisconsin language. Germans use the same word for yet and still: “noch”. (That’s my assumption ) I would like to point out the use of the word “borrow. ” (also German influence) because in Wisconsin people say borrow instead of lend. “Can you borrow me some money. ” horrible English grammar but perfectly acceptable if translated in German. 🙂 I have only heard that phrase commonly used in Wisconsin.
CaseyAdam says
I love all the comments on this! They add all the little ones missed on the main list. I’m guilty of some, but not all. I’m from Central-ish WI, Fond du lac, and we don’t have much of the accent all the time, but we definitely say most of these things.
I’m in the Navy, stationed in CA, and I get called out on the word “Bay-g” ALLLLL the time by my coworkers. Also when I say Milwaukee, cuz I say “M’waukee.”
But I love our dialect. People like to make fun of it in an endearing way, not in a way that makes us sound less intelligent (like when you make fun of a southern person from, say, Texas lol).
Fer sure! Oh yah, ya know?
“Want a baggle?” ‘…a what?’ “A baggle. I got a whole bay-g of ’em.” Actual conversation with my college roommate upon first arriving in Wisconsin.
It seems like the “real quick” one varies though. I definitely use it in a way that I just mean I want to “see that real quick” almost politely/less demanding. Or I’m just gonna run to the store “real quick” meaning I’m leaving promptly to show a sense of moderate urgency. Or you can say “can you come here real quick” meaning “I don’t want to take up too much of your time or inconvenience you.” So there are different meanings of it. But we DO say it.
One that I love, which my dad says when something is upsetting or unbelievable in a way is “Criminey” or “Cripes.” I always catch myself saying “for cripes sakes!”
Also I’ve heard different Wisconsinites say “crick” AND “creek” so that might be regional. As well as the word roof being pronounced “roof” with a long oo, or “ruff” with a shorter o/u sound.
One last thing, I also love the whole “Up Nort” thing. I might not shorten it to “Nort” but we do say we’re going “Up north” without any further explaination. It’s just implied that you’re going for a weekend at the cabin on the lake lol.
Kimberly Nelson says
Even within WI some regional differences I’ve noticed: My boyfriend is from an Antigo (he does not enunciate the T) and they say, “side by each” to mean, “next to”, “Are you fer it or aginnit?” and, “used to could”. When I moved to Madison, I noticed they started sentences with “anymore”. Example: “Anymore nobody knows their neighbors.” I had a friend in my home town of Watertown that would say, “I’m gonna take and go to the store.” Why add the TAKE? I thought it was just her family, but I later heard others say it too. And then from Watertown east to Lake Michigan pop is definitely soda. Lastly, in Watertown and some suburbs of Milwaukee (at least in the 80’s and 90’s) a drawn out, “Hey?” is a complete sentence of its own indicating agreement such as, “The Brewers are really sucking this year.” “Hey?”
Spendy= expensive
Enstead= instead
Innersting= interesting
Ru-al = rural
Wensday = Wednesday
Febuary = February
I just LOVE this! I grew up in MN and now have lived in WI for 34 yrs. I think that the dat, dem, dere thing is related to Germanic heritage. My grandma, a true German speaker, used these words all the time.
Hey der Schmitty, run on up der to the hoose and grab us some beerss,eh, its a scorcher doncha know.
Translation: Attention Schmitty, please go to the house and obtain a 6 pack, because its hot today as you are aware, is this acceptable to you?
Today I tasted a free sample of cheese on the street in St Andrews, Scotland. It tasted horrible (nothing like our WI cheese) but so as not to be rude I simply said, “Huh. That’s really interesting.” As I walked away, I said to my mom, “That was some NASTY cheese!” She laughed and said she had no idea I had disliked it from my reaction, and that my calling it “interesting” made her wish she had gotten a sample too. She is from New York, I grew up in Wisconsin. 🙂 This article is always worth revisiting. Whenever I’m feeling a little homesick, I come straight to your site. Thanks!
tjfitz says
In North Dakota, the western half anyway, the comment would have been, “Well, that’s different.”
I live in Maryland. I couple weeks ago, I bought some cheese that said something like, “super sharp aged cheddar cheese! Aged at least 9 months!” I cried a little. I can’t find any good aged cheddar (I prefer 7 years) anywhere but WI.
I thought Vermont was supposed to have good cheddar. That might not be too far out of your way. But nothing like Wisco cheese!
It may interest you that number 10 is directly translated from the northern European style of speaking. “…and so” translates into Swedish as “…och så”, which we use all the time.
Trailing off a conversation contribution with “…so… .” with the word possibly stretched-out, “sooooh”… .” is very common in central North Dakota. I think of it as the speaker’s signal that he or she has run-out of things to say, and it is now someone else’s turn to speak.
Steve Stelling says
I don’t have any idea what brought me here. I do know my wife’s family, from Madison, park on (in?) “ramps.” No parking garages parking ramps. This is bothersome because, to me a ramp is a transitional space–one you move through, not one you stay in. I’m from Chicago and there is a lot of shared weirdness. We live in Pittsburgh which gives the whole country a run for it’s money.
Well – whatever brought you here – thanks for coming!
A brat is something you eat.
A Friday night date consists of taking you girlfriend shining for deer. Saturday you go the local bowling alley.
A wedding isn’t complete without “Proud Mary.”
At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
At least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm…
At least one kid in your class had to help with morning chores. Phew!
You have driven your car on a lake.
At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
Bernie Brewer is your idol because he gets to dive in a giant beer mug.
Cheese is an important staple in your diet.
Christmas shopping” includes going to the liquor store to buy beer,
Country Kitchen or Perkins is the place to meet after the party.
Down South to you means Chicago.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes fill in with snow
Every sweatshirt you own is either red and white or green and gold.
FFA was the most popular club in high school. (That’s Future Farmers of America to the rest of you.)
Football schedules are checked before wedding dates are set.
You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, and Poland all in one afternoon.
Formal wear is blue jeans and a baseball cap.
Goodyear Tire on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas
No and go are two syllable words: no-uh and go-uh.
On the corner, you have Stop ‘N Go Lights
Snow tires come standard on all your cars.
Soda is just water with bubbles in it. No flavor.
Someone has borrowed you $10.
Sunday afternoons are sacred for the Packer game!
Sunday morning at church involves lots of coffee, Jell-O molds and danish.
The “Big Three” means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR
The local paper covers major headlines on 1 page, but requires 4 pages for sports.
The most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.
The only place you go down to is Illinois. Your great aunt even asked you to come up to Florida for a visit.
The Packers will always be better than the Vikings, no matter what the standings are.
The proper response to “Don’t cha know?” is “You betcha!”
The snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do…
The town you grew up in had a bar called Ma’s Place.
The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer.
There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning…phew!
To settle an argument you say it is “a horse a piece.”
Travelling coast to coast means going from LaCrosse to Milwaukee.
When you father was angry he’d say, “Oh, for cripes sake.”
When you wanna give people the choice to say no you say, ”“Do you want to come with, er no?”
When you want to call out to someone, you say, “Hey dare”
You “go by” your grandma’s house for Christmas.
You add “er no
You are a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of it.
You ask your cousin to “come by” your house soon.
You believe that Badgers will always beat Gophers.
You bring all your nickels and dimes during any family get together because you know you’re gonna play Sheep’s head
You can actually pronounce Oconomowoc.
You can finish out a game on your honor even if you lost all of your money.
You can identify and Illinois accent.
You can make sense out the words upnort and Trivers.
You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.
You can take a hotdish out of the fridge to warm up for supper.
You can tell the difference between “real Wisconsin cheese” and “that Illinois stuff.”
You know that creek rhymes with pick.
You can visit Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London, and Poland all in one afternoon.
You consider Madison exotic.
You decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend…
You define Summer as three months of bad sledding…
you define swimming season as Labor Day weekend…
You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
You don’t have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
You drink soda and refer to your dad as “pop.”
You end a sentence with Once… “Let me see that once”….
You enjoy driving in the winter because the potholes fill in with snow.
You ever went to a wedding reception in a bowling alley.
You find 0 degrees a little chilly.
You get choked up when you hear the University Marching Band play “On Wisconsin”.
You go fishin, drinkin, eatin…
You go out for fish fry every Friday.
You go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts…
You got a passport to go to Minnesota…
You have been to a “BoDeans” concert.
You have been to at least one house party on Johnson Street in Madison.
You have caught a fish in Lake Michigan and it glowed in the dark.
You have drank “white soda” (i.e. 7Up, Sprite, etc.).
You have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair.
You have ever been to State Street in Madison during a protest of something.
You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, or all of the above.
You have experienced snow storms in April.
You have fried out.
You have gone out of your way to eat ice cream at Gilles’ or Kopp’s.
You have gotten frost-bitten and sunburned in the same week.
You have had a brat fry.
You have had school closed due to wind chills and frostbite warnings.
You have heard a waitress say, “what can I get for yous guys today?”
You have more fishing poles than teeth.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
You have said “come here real quick once.”
You have some cake yet after the party.
You can make sense out of the word “upnort” and “batree.”
You have to drive thirty minutes to the nearest movie theater.
You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August.
You invite someone to go somewhere by saying, “Wanna come with?”
You know at least one person who owns wooden shoes.
You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.
You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
You know it’s traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the ceremony and the reception.
You know that there is no “r” in Wausau.
You know how to pronounce “brat”.
You know how to tell how old children are by the shade of their red robins at holidays.
You know someone who can use “ja, der hey” in a sentence.
You know that “combine” is a noun.
You know that a TYME machine won’t take you to the future.
You were delighted to get a miniature snow shovel for your 3rd birthday.
You can recognize someone from Illinois by their driving.
You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.
You are a connoisseur of cheese curds and find anyone unfamiliar with them to be frighteningly foreign.
You get irritated at sports announcers that pronounce it “Wes-con-sin.”
You own at least one cheese head.
You know that De Pere is not a wooden structure extending into “Da Lake.”
You can leave your ice cream in the car while you go into Fleet Farm, and it won’t melt.
You always believed that vacation meant “going up North.” No matter what direction you went!
Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
Your local gas station sells live bait.
You laugh aloud every time you see a news report about a blizzard shutting down the entire east coast.
Your mom asks, “Were you born in a barn?” and you know exactly what she means.
You include beer as one of the major food groups. Isn’t it?
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.
You know that Gotham is a real city.
You know that pasties are not articles of clothing.
You know that stollen is better than fruitcake for Christmas.
You know what a “flatlander” is and you know all the “why Wisconsin is better than Illinois,” jokes.
You know what a Youper is
You know what cow-tipping is.
You know what Kaukauna smells like.
You know what to do with a Blatz.
You know where Oconomowoc is AND can pronounce and spell it.
You know where to look when someone says dis, dat. dem or dere
You know where Waukesha is AND can pronounce it.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper
You learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike.
Your bank has the name of your town included in its name.
Pop is not only what you call your dad, but is the ONLY name for soda.
You leave your car in the parking ramp when you go to the store.
You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.
You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
You loved it when the Brewers hit a home run so the lady would slide from the huge keg into the mug of beer.
You only know three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
You or someone you know was a “Dairy Princess” at a county fair.
You owe more money on your snowmobile than on your car.
You owned a beater as a kid.
You play hockey outdoors 10 months a year.
You preface advice with “If a guy wanted to…”
You refer to the Packers as “we.”
You run to the store in the car or on you bike.
You say them (usually pronounced dem) instead of those, “Dem were some big walleye’s we caught.”
You spend time at your cottage and have no problem using the outhouse.
You start a sentence with so and end with than, “So, are we going to the mall then?”
You tell someone where you are from and they say, “I thought that was part of Canada…”
You think that you can do something irregardless of what others say.
You think there should be a “FIB go home” bumper sticker on every car north of Madison…
You thought everyone drank from “bubblers”.
You tried to tap the World’s Largest Six Pack.
You use time rather than distance to answer the question, “How far is it to…”
You warsh your dishes in the kitch’n zinc.
You spent more on beer than you did on food at your wedding.
You know that Kaukauna is NOT a Hawaiian Island.
You hear someone use the word “oof-dah” and you don’t immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.
You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65 mph.
You or someone you know was a “Dairy Princess” at a county fair or a Miss Action in Jackson.
You went to the local tavern on Friday night for Fish Fry.
You went to work and mowed the lawn and never left home.
You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.
You were offended by the movie Fargo.
You were unaware there is a legal drinking age.
You would not find a wedding complete without Proud Mary
Your class took a field trip to a brewery…in second grade, Borden’s in third and the cheese factory in fourth.
You’ve been to a fly in.
You’ve broken through the ice on Lake Winnebago so you could take a dip on Easter Sunday.
You’ve budged in line.
You’ve done something “on accident.”
You’ve eaten chicken booyah.
You’ve ever been scolded with an “You dasn’t do that.”
You’ve made the comment at a party about there being “a lot of people here that I don’t see.”
You’ve run after the dilly wagon.
You’ve said to your kids, “While you up once, get me a beer, hey?”
You’ve sat in the “way back” of a station wagon.
You’ve seen a hodag.
You’ve stopped off for a couple two tree beers lol
You’ve taken your kids trickortreating in a blizzard
You’ve thrown a hamburger on the grill or tossed a brat on a plate.
You’ve told someone to go ahead and back up.
Your 4th of July Family Picknic was moved indoors due to frost.
Your aunt has told you to “come here for a little minute.”
Your high school class went to the Pabst Theater to see “A Christmas Carol”.
Your hometown buys a Zamboni when they need a bus.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce…
Your idea of foreign culture is listening to Da Yoopers.
Your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July…
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.
Your school lost half their student body during deer season.
Your sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightgown.
Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.
Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
You’ve seen mosquitoes with landing lights.
You are pritnear done reading this list.
A waitress has asked you “How is everything tasting?
See, you are from Wisconsin, don’tcha know?”
Be proud to be a Cheesehead.
I honestly can’t relate to all of these. I moved to WI from MN when I was young, and bubbler is definitely a Wisconsin saying. I didn’t know what it was when I came here, and everyone thought that when I said water/drinking fountain that I was talking about a fountain you’d find in a pond.
I also have heard the “yous/yous guys” saying, but it’s only something I heard in one small area of WI and was not said often near me.
One thing that drives me nuts that a lot of people by me do say is, “I seen” instead of, “I saw.”
When I visit my family in Utah, it drives them nuts how I say bag, bagel, and flag.
I’ve never been one to say “stop and go lights.” I’ve always said “stop light.” My driving instructor said “stop and go lights,” and I always thought it was weird.
maptoamerica2014 says
I was born and raised in Madison, and have been away since 2002. Some Sconnie isms that I hadn’t seen in comments: “You also” instead of “You too” by way of telling someone to have a “good one”. I always say “Kitty corner” but my second husband always said “Katty corner”-took me a while to figure that one out! I also get teased aboat how I say ‘sorry’. Instead of ‘sawry’, I say ‘soorry’.. because its spelled with an “O” not an “A”.
No Wisconsin native would say or write “Sconnie.” In the same manner that no one in San Francisco calls that cite “Frisco.” It was/is a marketing gimmick to sell t-shirts.
Gotta have a sense of humor. Would you care to see my birth certificate proving Wisconsin is my birthplace?
“French room” – that’s what it sounded like the first 20 times I heard it. I finally broke down and asked what the hell a “French room” is. I was told he was saying “front room”. Still didn’t know what the hell he was talking about until he took me to the Living Room and told me I was standing in the “french room”.
Kimberly Vlies says
I’m from Green Bay, WI and have pretty much lived here all my life. When I was younger I scorned “yous” as grammatically incorrect and illiterate. When I studied abroad in Spain, I learned linguistic constructs for first person plural that I really loved because it removed so much ambiguity that “you” meant “all of you.” And when I came home, I was glad, albeit jokingly, to be able to use “yous” when I wanted to be clear about including everyone in what I had to say. I’d use it mostly in written communication as you(s). Now I appreciate it as just another way the culture of Wisconsin is nice and inclusive.
Oh is it? Is another one from the fox valley area.
It’s used at the end of a sentence that don’t pertaining to anything.
And Spanish hamburger, which I found out was a sloppy joe, or barbecue.
A person from Wisconsin doesn’t have that annoying “up nort” accent like that. I live in northern wisconsin and I speak legit English not that er no, dat dere, crap. Funny nonetheless but kinda irritating. Lol
Michelle Grosskopf-Hanford says
First off, wth is chicken booyah? Then, in the Oshkosh area, we don’t say yous guys or up nort. That’s not even proper english. I think that’s more of a Northern thing. I guess I am kind of offended. This story makes Wisconsinites sound like illiterates.
Another Wisconsinite phrase: will do.
Cathie says
I get teased for saying “fir” in place of “for.” Anyone else do that or have you heard it?
fir sure
Here are some my husband and I came up with (we are both, born raised and still rooted in Wisconsin).
fir sure (for sure)
ya sure ya betcha
doooon’t and you could add on: dooooon’t do dat
noooa (get that “a” on the end)
Don’t forget to hold those o’s and a’s.
Floyd says
Actually you guys missed a few pretty classic ones that I’ve been hearing since a kid. O.C (outta control) Ie. Damn, dude got arrested for stealing a snickers? That’s O.C lol. Also another one. “on what” (nobody else says that but here) I.e “Dude my girl just won the lottery bro!” Average Milwaukee Reaction: On what!! That’s crazy.. nobody really knows what on what means. It just sounds good lol
-Cata Stro Phic
Maybe it’s just me, but I find this a bit insulting to the educated residents of Wisconsin. I have said “really quick” in my lifetime, though not regularly, I say “you know” too often (but not YA know), and I most often call a water fountain a “bubbler”, but that is like saying kleenex instead of tissue (as a certain model of water fountain introduced first in Wisconsin was called the Bubbler). The rest of this is language I’ve not heard and I’ve lived in Milwaukee County since I was 8 years old. These must be phrases/words used outside of the bigger cities. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but I would certainly never say “dis” instead of “this” and would never allow my children to!
GJ Sanderson says
I agree. I have lived in cities and rural areas and I never hear people say dat, dere and dem. I say bubbler and pronounce bag with a long a, but most of what is used to describe us does not apply.
They do. My godfather and a family friend both say “dis, dem, dose,” and those are just the people closest to me. And the friend has a Ph.D, so it’s got nothing to do with education. It’s just how you grew up, and if you care to change.
Ellen says
I’ve lived in Wisconsin my entire freak’n life and I’ve never once heard anyone say “dis” verse “this.” Not my parents, aunts, uncles, friends, teachers, cousins, no one! No one I know talks like the way the person who wrote this article describes. I do say “bag” like “beg,” call a water fountain a blubber, and I have heard some older people call stop lights “stop and go lights” but that’s really about it.
Maybe it’s because I live in South East Wisconsin and it’s more an up north thing where they don’t pronounce the th sound.
When I lived in West Virginia I was teased for how I pronounce “roof”…They say “roof”…I pronounce it “rough” “ruff”,,,,,not sure why? Then when I get my hair colored the word “roots” comes out “ruts”….they say “rooots” . I also say “you know” “come here once!” or “come here quick”, meaning it will just be a second. My most used phrase has to be “what is the temperature anyway?” I add “anyway” to many sentences…”where are we going, anyway?” Living in WV for 4 years I picked things up…”The car needs washed” “the housed needs cleaned”…no “to be” in their sentences….and to this day I still use ” If you don’t start sharing this toy, I’m gonna put it up!” Mind you I have been back in WI for 8 1/2 years.I will never say “sack” or “buggy”, however! LOL!
Round the corner goes… as in:
“…ya know, down dere where the street round the corner goes.”
Renee gyrion says
My family get togethers were often ‘barbecues’ not cook outs. We also had ‘hot tamales’ or ‘Spanish hamburgers’ meaning sloppy joes. My parents also shortened their syllables, saying battry instead of battery, radyo instead of radio. I thought of it more as a rural versus urban upbringing. When my mom invites my for dinner I have to ask if that’s at noon or later.
My in-laws use “dinner” for lunch a lot and “supper” for dinner….think it might me a Sunday thing, or that’s how it started:)
Dinner is the big meal of the day when the family is together. So you either eat:
Breakfast-Dinner-Supper, or
Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner.
Families tend to eat Breakfast-Dinner-Supper on Sundays because it is the only day of the week when the whole family is together at noon time.
During the rest of the week when everyone is working and studying, dinner is reserved for the evening meal when all are together.
Tom Snodgrass says
when I first arrived to Green Bay, WI, and went to get a hair cut, I was asked ” how do you want them.” I was so confused I sat there speechless. I also heard others in the shop say ” they look nice today”.
I also hear many pronounce the word point-set-t-a instead of point-set-a for the Christmas flower/plant.
Hope you have heard these.
Looked for this in the comments above, didn’t see it – but I grew up in central WI in the 70s and we always drank “pop” (pronounced “paaahhp”). It was years later when I met people from Milwaukee (pronounced “Mih waw kee”) who called it “soda”. “Pop is your DAD” one of them said. But I always called my dad, “Dad”, never “Pop”. Definitely ‘doncha know’ (although I heard it more when I went to college in Minneapolis) and “or no” should be on the list though. Those are practically requirements for living there (and to one comment above, “or no” is definitely not new, it’s been in use at least as long as I’ve been alive. Never heard much of “dis” and “dese” however… )
DAR5069 says
PROUD TO BE BORN & RAISED IN GREEN BAY. WISH I COULD GO BACK. I LIVE IN THE OZARK MOUNTAINS NOW AND TALK ABOUT BEING TEASED ABOUT MY ACCENT! IT TOOK YEARS TO UNDERSTANDINGS “HILLBILLY”. WHEN I GO BACK TO GB, EVERYONE TEASES ME ABOUT MY SOUTHERN ACCENT. NOW I HAVE TO LEARN TO UNDERSTAND WEST TEXAN, CUZ I MARRIED ONE. GO PACK GO, BEAT THE COWBOYS!!!
Marley1039 says
My mother-in-law has a fondness for winding down a topic of conversation with “and all so…no…” or just using the word “no” where it doesn’t seem to belong – quite often, too. (my husband shares this delightful habit) Sometimes to end a sentence, sometimes even after the word “yes”! (or rather, “yah”) Example – Me: Isn’t it cold today?” She: “Oh, yah, the barn was freezing this morning…..no.” I’m from “Mawaukee” and she’s pretty rural (the wife of a farmer). Incidentally, I love it when I hear friends/family using the expression, “Well, I s’pose.” meaning of course, that it’s time to go home.
In just moved to North Carolina and people say I have an accent. My daughter asked where a” bubbler” was at Wal-Mart and the guy said” do what” and she asked again and he said I reckon we don’t have none of those here. Lol. Also the da dat dere thing I never heard that but I say” yeah hey” a lot n I say bag like bay-g. Lol
Laurel says
My husband is from Massachusetts so he has no room to talk about accents. However when we were planning a trip back to my home state and I got excited about the prospect of going to the Fyr Bal festval in Ephraim he looked at me like Dorothy looks at Rose on the Golden Girls when she starts in with a St Olaf story. I explained that it was an annual festival and they crowned a citizen. They come in to the harbor (surrounded by bonfires) wearing a viking helmet. It took awhile to convince him I wasn’t pulling his leg. He finally conceded but wanted me to explain why the festival was devoted to fur balls!
HZH says
How about the phrase “after while”? My parents in Sheboygan use it to mean “later” or in a little while.” Example: No you can’t have cake before dinner. That’s for “after while.”
I’m from central Wisconsin and I have definitely heard and probably used “after while.”
MIke Jackson says
“No, I don’t need to borrow 10 dollars.” Great way of getting out of lending money to someone while they get more and more frustrated. Lol
Kurt says
“two, t’ree” usually in reference to beverages: “Want to go have two, t’ree?” Oh ya, we had a couple, two, t’ree last night!”
Ha ha! That’s a great one, Kurt.
Just got back from Wi for Christmas, and man! is that accent thick! I first noticed when I had moved to TX after college and came back after nearly a year. I asked my mom, “did everyone *always* talk like this?” Now I’ve been away for over 16 years and I hear it on everyone when I come back. Oddly, no one has ever been able to hear an accent on me, despite being born and raised in Appleton, except one person a few years ago who said I sounded different but couldn’t pinpoint a region. Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are part of my vocabulary. Bubbler, pop, parking ramp, etc. And occasionally a Wisconsin-sounding “o” will pop in there, but I usually catch myself. But I miss it and I want to hear that accent for the rest of my life.
Is “bubbler” linked to certain regions in Wisconsin? I am from the east side of the state where we say bubbler; however, my husband is from the west side of the state and says drinking fountain. Other words my husband is perplexed by are under-duck (he says under-dog) and tow-motor (forklift).
Christy – there have been some people from Western Wi who say the rest of us are dumb for calling it a bubbler. Check out our article on the origins of the term – http://whoonew.com/2013/03/why-a-bubbler/
The under-dog, under-duck thing is interesting. I’ve heard both. But I think that’s more of a thing where we get confused as kids and think it is called an under-dog (maybe because of the cartoon). I believe Under-duck is correct because you duck under the swing to do it.
BUT – it might be a Minnesota thing. Check out this forum on the same debate – http://questionable.typepad.com/questionable/2006/04/underduck_vs_un.html Your husband’s proximity to MN may have made him inclined to talk like a Minnesotan.
So tell your husband he is wrong. Never heard of a tow-motor either! 🙂
Growing up in Milwaukee, we would “go by” the store on the way home…. It actually means stop at the store… Also ending sentences with the infamous “…ainna hey…” We really partied last night, ainna hey.”
Do people outside of Wisconsin call automobile turn signals “blinkers”?
I’ve heard that’s a Wisconsin thing too!
Yes! We turn on our blinker at the stop and go lights. LOL. 🙂
Well…that’s just what they’re called. Isn’t it?
Jeana says
We call them blinkers in Oklahoma, and I actually had a girl convinced there was such a things a blinker fluid and sent her to Auto Zone to ask. And she did lol Classic
But…to add, my boyfriend and I are in disagreement. He says y’all call parking garages ramps. Is this true? Have to be on the same page when I get there. (yes, I said ya’ll lol)
Yep. Parking ramps. Because the entire floor of the structure is inclined. Like a giant screw. Obviously… Though I also grew up calling them garages, so you can go either way. But yes, we do call them ramps.
huh? why would any one call a “ramp”… a garage???? lol that makes no sconnie sense at all
Because you put your car in it?
How about do you want to go wit me?
Don’t shaw know
Colleen Braun says
I am told I say Tuesday different than others. I guess I say it like toosday
Yep. That Wisconsin “oo” sound. Kind of a combination of “oo” and “oh” at the front of the mouth. Also we have a unique “o”. Those are the two that creep into my speech from time to time.
Yes I was talking to a woman at one of our branch offices out west and she asked if I was from Wisconsin or Illinois. I said, “Wisconsin….how did you know? my accent?” And she said it was the way I said, “Two.”
We say ta instead of to.
The use of I am guessing/I’m guessing/I am just guessing at the end of a statement.
We moved from Waukesha to Beloit, I asked where the bubbler was and had to explain that I wanted a drink of water. My new classmates thought I was a hoot n’ so.
k chandler says
when I was in 8th grade I lived on Milwaukee’s south side and learned a few not heard on the north side ….. make out the light, ya please? ya, say. ainna, hey go down by Schuster’s shopping area was definitely “down town”, not ‘up town’.
Do you live in Arizona?
paula henry says
K, I remember saying that when we moved to Sheboygan everyone said, “We are going by Prange’s.” We even left out the go “down” by part out. We did stop there however.
Who came up with this crap?! I’ve lived in wi my whole life and don’t say any of this! Especially “dat” or “eh”
I have lived in WI my whole life, but moved from Milwaukee an hour north to a small Dutch farm town. They used the word “mayn’t” (may not) our family laughed about it all the time. We were city folk as they called us and many of the sayings we had never heard of. My daughter went to Eau Claire for college and all the Minnesota students would laugh when she ordered a soda instead of a pop! My hubby always said, “Da bout of ya” meaning the both of you. I broke him of that immediately. It is all a regional thing J. Do not get too upset.
Hayden says
This is ultra stereotypical. I’ve lived in Wisco my whole life and some of this sounds Canadian to me. I am proud of my accent but now I feel like this is how everyone else views us. I think the only stereotypical thing I really say consistently is “Yah” or “Whatcha doin’.”
RSoli says
My WI uncle came to visit me in CO. As he was leaving the airport he said, “I’ll be out (pronounced ‘oat’) by you at 1:30.” I wondered why just by me rather than all the to me?
Linda Winter says
We also say “Go by the store” instead of “Go to the store.” I still say it and I’ve been gone from Wisconsin for 44 years, I’m sorry to say.
Love this! As a Wisconsin it who now lives in the north east, my hubby has brought “yet” to my attention! Funny how we say things and never notice how different it sounds to others.
It’s not WIS-consin (the article says WIS-sonsin, BTW), it’s wis-CON-sin. The only time that the first syllable is accented is in “When you say WIIII-sconsin, you’ve said it all!” But that’s not the norm.
I agree with some that Wisconsinites don’t understand the concept of the adverb. Play nice. My family went to a function in Sussex. The back of the greeting banner (seen when leaving) said “Drive safe.”
One thing that I didn’t see in the comments is how the word meaning “am able to” is pronounced. My wife asks if I can reach the flour. “I kin do that.”
She has always made fun of how I pronounce bag and bagel. At least now she’ll know why I say it that way.
I don’t think the author was trying to point out where the emphasis goes. She was referring to how some people will pronounce it Wes-consin.
The reason for the people saying “no this is a Minnesota thing!” or “no this is an Illinois thing!” is that, while there are dialect traits exclusive to Wisconsin, the general vowel patterns of the state is divided between two American accents: the Inland North, which you hear mostly in stereotypically Rust Belt areas and is bigger in the southern and eastern parts of the state (the Chicago accent is also a subtype of Inland North). Inland North is most spoken along Lake Michigan and in Rock County, the bigger former industrial areas. The rest of the state is closer to Upper Midwest English, which is what someone from outside the region would probably call a “Minnesota accent.” This is like the people in Escanaba In Da Moonlight or Fargo. Most Wisconsin speakers are some mix of both but lean one way or the other.
Agreed, Ian. Thanks for the insightful comment. You know your stuff!
Cindy Carlson says
You left off a few: “Bye now” instead of bye. Phy. Ed. instead of Phys. Ed. and call garage sales, “Rummage sales or just plain rummage.Also, in Wisconsin they use the term soda instead of pop like the majority of the midwest does.
Nope, it’s pop. Soda is an adjective. Must be somewhere else in WI that they say soda, because everyone I know says pop.
Sue Schiller Atwell says
My aunt used to say “gel” (hard g, short e) meaning “isn’t that so?” (like ain’a; ain’ it; or inso?) Others from that family did not say “gel”. I’ve only heard it one other time, from a German secretary in California. Anyone, know where the expression originated? I believe the family is of Southern Germany (Bavaria) near Mainz. Also, she was the oldest of her family and spoke German only as a child. I have wondered about this for many years. I have traveled and lived in Germany and never heard it there.
My Irish family lived in New Ulm, Minnesota for a time in the early 1940s, and according to what my Mother told me, “gel” seemed to be a kind of do-all word for the German people who lived there. The “g” is hard, and the word rhymes with yell. My Dad used to say that New Ulm was the tidiest, cleanest place he ever lived in until Kraft Foods build a plant there and new people began arriving for jobs.
Wedemayer says
In the context described, gel (or gell, as I’ve seen written) is short for gelten, and it pretty much means “isn’t that the case”? So…. in use its concurrently questioning and confirming something is valid or true.
As my toddler may say…. “We’re going to gramma’s for cake! Isn’t that so?” That could be replaced with “We’re going to gramma’s for cake! Gel?”
Tony R. says
-ish, used in that meat loaf was ish. I take it to mean an unpleasant thing/thought. Being from Nebraska, and serving in the Navy, I never heard the term ish before moving to Wisconsin. What gives? I asked Google and it said it was a rap music term for sh*t, I’ve asked a way with words, but they must think I’m playing around with the rap term. Any idea how ish became a word up here?
My mother-in-law, uses the phrase, “you know ‘n that” A LOT when she’s telling a story. Especially if she thinks she’s cutting it short. She’ll say things such as, “….Long story short, I was shopping at the grocery store, you know ‘n that, and I bumped into a woman I used to work with. She said she moved to Florida, and was in town visiting her family for the holidays, you know n’ that..” And, ……….. 🙂
I’m born and raised in Wisconsin….(not Wisc- honsin…there is no H in it and there is no space half way through the word)…all though my favorite thing I say is get instead of for…ya got it get tomorrow?… This basically means is something takin care of for the following day….we could pronounce correctly but never do….I still don t to this day….it’s just fast is all.
For instead of for….not get
Fer instead of get….jeez…I should have read it before I ok’d it
Steverino says
I grew up on the south side of Milwaukee in the 60’s. A quarter was pronounced kwater, ” tell you what, I’ll give you a kwater for it”. Another was the use of “run”. Gotta run to da store for a minute.
reddogmax says
I always say “would you like to come by my house” I have had people say can I come in or just go by.
I’m totally bustin’ up! You guys are so cute. I can’t get over the TYME machine thing. I’d love to be submerged in your culture and hear your lingo. (from No Cal, living in So Cal.)
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LET'S TALK ABOUT MUSIC
1 LET'S TALK ABOUT MUSIC
1.1 UNIT 1 DAY 1 - A definition of Music
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① Definition of the term 'Music' that we are going to discuss in the classroom.
Music is the Art that arranges sound and silence in time and space with communicative purposes.
② Why is Music the Art of Listening?
Because it relies totally on the appreciation of the listeners.
③ How we produce Music and why are there so many types of them?
We produce Music with instruments and there are so many because each culture manifests itself differently, thereby identifying the people from a particular region of the planet with their Music.
④ Why not all countries have the same music?
Because each country has its own personality and Natural Resources surrounding that culture have a different consequence on the demands on that people.
The term 'MUSIC' may have many different senses and multiple meanings, depending on the views and opinions of those who try to define it.
Here is one definition of 'Music' that we are going to use extensively this year and it can help us understand what is that we refer to when we are talking about 'Music'.
First, what is Music?
Music is an art. Neither science nor history. It is an artwork.
Second, what does Music do?
Music arrange sounds and silences (the main item) in time and space (the grid)
And third, what is the purpose of Music?
Music connects people through a kind of communication that is not a language (as we know it)
The enjoyment of Music depents more on the listener than on the composer. For that reason, Music is the art of listening.
Every musician is both performer and listener of his own work.
The subtlety of Music appreciation reside in our ability to understand it and in the musical knowledge we already have.
It only takes a couple of 'tools' to appreciate any kind of music: our ears and our attention.
If a sheet of paper is dirty, with a blur of ink and crumpled, discard it instead of using it to draw or write. Drawing a simile, Silence is like a the blank sheet we need to write.
If we have to perform Music amid the noise, the dynamic range and the attention of everyone would greatly decrease.
Decibels from 0 to 150
Effects of Noise Pollution
To listen to Music, we have to be quiet and turn that silence into something like the canvas for a painting.
If we are distracted in a movie, we may miss some important plot and we can no longer follow the story. If someone speaks to us and we do not pay attention to the conversation, after a while we will not know what he or she is telling us.
Take a look at Kotaku and enjoy the seven types of people you don't want to watch TV with
The name of the notes in ascending and descending order.
C - D - E - F - G - A - B ⇒ B - A - G - F - E - D - C
Fiddle Paradiddle - Exercises 1 to 8 Day 1
1.- R R R R, L L L L (1a) 5.- R R L L, R R L L (3a)
2.- L L L L, R R R R (1b) 6.- L L R R, L L R R (3b)
3.- R L R L, R L R L (2a) 7.- R R L L, L L R R (3a+b)
4.- L R L R, L R L R (2b) 8.- L L R R, R R L L (3b+a)
UNIT 1 DAY 2 - Music notes. Low and high pitches and sounds
Questionnaire (Unit 1 Day 2 - Second Lecture)
① How 'sound' is and why we have to break it down into manageable elements?
The sound is elastic and we divide it into small pieces to assemble them easily.
② What is bass and what is treble?
Bass is a low frequency sound and treble is a high frequency sound.
Sound is the air moved by the source and the preassure it produces on our eardrums.
When we compose Music (excluding electronic music performers and Djs, where there are other options), we divide frecuency into tiny portions that we call musical notes. These small units are assembled like pieces of building sets, fitting each other in certain ways.
Let's pretend the sound is like the clay on a pottery wheel. The closer thing we have in music is a turntable. The musical equivalent would be manufacturing clay into bricks (the musical notes) that assemble as the plastic bricks of a construction set to create a musical work (sound structure).
Bass notes are low frecuency tones as those found on the left side of a piano or the upper strings on the neck of a stringed instrument, the male voice, the flute notes where we have to cover all of almost all holes to create a longer air column...
The opposite (antonym) is treble, an it is used for high frecuency sounds.
Size also had an effect in the production of high or low notes. The bigger the instrument is the more likely it is to produce low notes. By contrast, smaller instruments, such as violin or flute produce higher notes. In this picture you can see the difference length of the strings of a violin (high-pitched instrument) and a double bass (low-pitched instrument). Both of them are electric versions of their acoustic counterpart.
While the terms 'high or low' are not very accurate, they are useful to relate to low-frequency instruments that are generically called 'bass' (electric bass guitar, bassoon, bass clarinet, and so on) and with the female parts of the choir (higher in range than the male voices, although the boy soprano is called 'treble'). One of those female parts is called 'contralto'.
Scope - 20hz to 20khz
UNIT 1 DAY 3 - Basic parameters to appreciate Music
Questionnaire (Unit 1 Day 3 - Third Lecture)
① Basic Music appreciation parameters (I - Function): Fun and Boring
Music is fun if we like it and when it comes together with another experiences. Music is boring if it is a poor quality composition or we still do not understand it.
② Basic Music appreciation parameters (II - Mood): lively and sad.
Music sounds lively if it is composed in a major key, it is fast and catchy. Music sfeels like sad when it uses a minor key, it is slow or melancholic.
③ Basic Music appreciation parameters (III - Effect): relaxing and exciting.
Music is relaxing if it is soft or slow. Music is exciting if it makes us dance and move in rhythm or even if it unnerves us.
There are more parameters than the six we are going to discuss here to appreciate Music, but they depends on increasing our knowledge of Music. To improve from what we already know about Music, we are going to analyse the basic parameters for the appreciation of music.
The Music as something fun: sometimes it runs a dance. Sometimes Music enhances a movie or video game plot. Sometimes Music makes even more pleasurable something that it is already fun in itself, like a movie or a party.
Music - Fun
Not everything Music we listen is a Masterpiece. When we get bored listening to a Music work, we must attend to find out why. We may discover our next favorite Music in it.
Boring Music? No way!
Music changes the mood of the listener. Sometimes it seems sad or melancholic and other carefree and lively. This is what is called musical character. We must also consider the relaxing or exciting aspect of a piece of Music to understand the importance this art has when it affects our mood.
By tradition, we say that music sounds cheerful or lively if it uses a major scale and sad if that scale is in minor mode (later we will see what this has to do with the relationship between the main note of a chord - the tonic - and his third; the major and minor modes), but there are many exceptions to this. And usually the Music, when it is slow and melancholic, sounds sad and, when it is joyful and swinging, it is considered to be lively.
Music - Lively
Music - Sad
If the Music is soft and slow we usually consider it to be relaxing. If it makes us dance or makes us nervous, we can consider it as exciting. And If we are bored with a musical work, it leads us to falling fast asleep.
Music - Relaxing
Music - Exciting
Some of our friends could be accounted for being happy and playful, while others are quieter, less moved. It's their personality. The same goes for music. A cheerful person have not necessarily to be irresponsible and impetuous. We all have many facets and so music does.
D - E - F - G - A - B - C ⇒ C - B - A - G - F - E - D
E - F - G - A - B - C - D ⇒ D - C - B - A - G - F - E
F - G - A - B - C - D - E ⇒ E - D - C - B - A - G - F
Fiddle Paradiddle - Exercises 9 to 16 Day 1
09.- R L R R, L R L L (A+B) 13.- L R L L, R L R R (B+A)
10.- L D D L, R L L R (C+D) 14.- R L L R, L R R L (D+C)
11.- R R L R, L L R L (E+F) 15.- L L R L, R R L R (F+E)
12.- R L R L, L R L R (G+H) 16.- L R L R, R L R L (H+G)
UNIT 1 DAY 4 - Music is all around
Questionnaire (Unit 1 Day 4 - Fourth Lecture)
① Why Music is everywhere nowadays?
Because now there are devices that reproduce the sound.
② What is a 'work song'?
It is a song that coordinates movement and timing of a task in a specific work.
If you go to the Doctor's office or get inside an elevator, maybe you are going to listen to some background Music that is called piped Music, elevator Music or even Muzak, after the corporation that delivered that product in the United States.
Brief History of Muzak
We can also have a philharmonic orchestra playing in the audio equipment in our living rooms.
Nowadays, Music is now all around us, but this is something relatively new. Music was tradicionally performed by singing and accompanying instruments, such as regular instruments or farmland tools, producing constant rhythms.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Wedding Dance (1566)
John Cage - Living Room Music
Music reproduction devices: from radio, television and Internet broadcasting to piped music in the supermarkets.
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Listening to live Music was uncommon in the past, reserved only for holiday celebrations. Work Music was the only daily Music.
Railroad Work Song
There are many instruments and they are so varied and different and the reason for that is that Music and instruments reflect the different cultural needs of the Countries and regions of the Planet and of the People that come up with them.
World Music and Dances
Percussion around the World (listen from 1:08)
In areas of the world with fewer Natural Resources, a simple cane can soon become a sophisticated and well-educated flute and people clapping their palms on rhythm can accompany the most beautiful melodies.
Traditional Music of South Africa
Traditional music helps us to better understand the personality of the people that live in that country. Music is inherent in any culture and tradition and even the beauty of the sound is in the core of that way of living.
All countries have their different kind of Music, but not all of them have notes like C-D-E or rhythmic figures like the crochet or the quaver.
Ravi Shankar performing Classical Indian Music
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Dallas Davidson, Luke Laird Are BMI’s Top Songwriters, Tom T. Hall the Icon
"Take a Backroad" Cited as Year's Most-Played Song
by Edward Morris 10/31/2012
View photos from the BMI Country Awards.
There was wall-to-wall glamour and lots of hugging and backslapping Tuesday evening (Oct. 30) as BMI, the performance rights organization, honored its top songwriters and music publishers with a cocktail party and awards dinner at its Nashville headquarters.
It was a long evening, too, wrapping up at 11:20 p.m., just after BMI chief Del Bryant announced that Dallas Davidson and Luke Laird had tied for the songwriter of the year award. “Take a Back Road,” co-written by Laird and Rhett Akins, won as country song of the year.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing emerged as the year’s top publisher, with its name on 24 of the 50 most performed country songs.
After being proclaimed a BMI Icon, the regal Tom T. Hall wowed the crowd with his irreverent acceptance remarks, proving yet again that he’s earned his decades-old honorific, the Storyteller.
Guests began arriving for the cocktail party at 6 p.m. The more recognizable ones alighted from their limousines and SUVs to the shouts and screams of fans clustered across the street from the entrance.
Within minutes, the lobby where the cocktails were served was shoulder-to-shoulder full of essentially the same people who had partied together at the ASCAP shindig the night before and the SESAC blowout the night before that. On Music Row, partying is a marathon sport.
There was plenty to gawk at. Joey & Rory, she in cowgirl togs and he in his usual uniform of freshly pressed bib overalls, stood just inside the entrance talking with songwriter friends.
A few yards away, football great (and sometimes country singer) Terry Bradshaw alternately hugged Toby Keith or rubbed his back as they conversed with Keith’s always dashing manager, T.K. Kimbrell.
Kimbrell’s fellow talent manager, Dale Morris, breezed by with his client Kenny Chesney in tow. Hall and producer Tom Collins edged purposefully through the crowd, slowing only to recognize an occasional well-wisher.
Sugarland’s Kristian Bush planted himself back to the wall and grinned broadly as one reveler after another pushed forward to greet him. The Avett Brothers perched on a stairway overlooking the social clamor.
Guitarist Kenny Vaughan and drummer Harry Stinson of Marty Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives band found a column to lean against and chatted while the crowd swirled by.
At around 7:30, girls holding flashing signs high above their heads ushered the guests toward the elevators that would take them to the broad sixth-floor parking garage where the stage and banquet tables were laid out.
After dinner, songwriter Layng Martine Jr. began the official ceremonies by reading a tribute to Frances Preston, BMI’s previous CEO and one of the great movers and shakers in the music industry, who died in June.
Current BMI president and CEO Bryant spoke to the crowd about country music’s integration into the larger music world.
“This is an unprecedented era for our community,” he said, noting that “you’re just as likely to meet Jack White as Clint Black” on the streets of Music Row.
“Country music thrives,” he continued, “when innovation meets tradition.” Reminding the crowd that “Country Is” was one of Tom T. Hall’s defining hits, Bryant riffed, “Country is not an exclusive club.”
Among the publishers who came to the stage to accept an award was former Highway 101 drummer Cactus Moser, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident in August. Visibly limping, Moser nonetheless stood and moved about largely on his own. Sitting with him at a table near the stage was his wife, Wynonna Judd.
When about half of the awards for individual song had been handed out, it came time for the Icon presentation. Bryant returned to the stage as the harmonica intro to Hall’s “(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine” wafted from the speakers.
Outlining Hall’s musical odyssey, Bryant noted that the Olive Hill, Ky., native won his first of 31 BMI songwriting awards in 1964, the year he moved to Nashville. That year Grand Ole Opry star Jimmy C. Newman scored a Top 10 hit with Hall’s “D.J. for a Day” and Dave Dudley reached No. 6 with “Mad.”
It was also at a BMI awards show around this time that Hall met journalist Dixie Deen, whom he would marry and dub “Miss Dixie.”
She and Hall now write bluegrass songs together and serve as mentors to young singers and songwriters.
“He writes about what he sees, who he knows and where he’s been,” Bryant said of Hall’s journalistic approach to lyrics — a trait to be expected from a man whose literary heroes, as Bryant pointed out, are Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway.
While Alan Jackson’s version of Hall’s “Little Bitty” played, the Avett Brothers came to the stage and to loud and persistent applause to sing “That’s How I Got to Memphis.” The crowd responded with a standing ovation.
Dailey & Vincent followed with a bluegrass rendering of “Can You Hear Me Now,” which resonated with Carter Family overtones.
Next harmonica wizard and Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie McCoy came to the stage with a backup band consisting of bassist Mike Bub, guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson and pianist Dirk Johnson.
“You not only let me play on a lot of your records,” McCoy told his fellow Hall of Famer, “you made me a hero in my hometown.” With that, the band kicked off a medley of such Hall classics as “I Love,” “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died,” “Old Dogs” and “Harper Valley P.T A.”
Calling Hall “one of the greatest songwriters to ever walk the face of the earth,” Justin Townes Earle serenaded him with “Homecoming,” Hall’s gut-wrenching dramatic monologue uttered by a feckless and wayward son as he makes a feeble attempt to assure his father that all is well.
The final musical tribute came from Toby Keith and his writing and singing partner, Scotty Emerick.
Before singing the song they were assigned, Keith told of being in Afghanistan to entertain American troops and hearing Emerick play a riff on his guitar that sounded familiar — sort of like Hall’s “Ravishing Ruby.” Keith and Emerick then sailed into a segment from “Ravishing Ruby” and rolled on to a sampling of “I Like Beer.”
“We wanted to honor you,” Keith said, “with these two songs we do all the time.” That done, they sang their assigned tune, “Faster Horses,” Hall’s wry assessment of the things that really matter in life.
Bryant beckoned Hall to the stage and presented him the Icon “bucket” trophy, on which was engraved, “In recognition of your unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.”
Looking dapper in his tailored black tux, the silver-haired songster accepted the award with characteristic self-deprecating humor.
“I thought you might like to know what an icon looks like,” he told the crowd. “They’re old, aren’t they? You wouldn’t want to be one.” (Hall is 76.)
“Tonight would be the second luckiest night of my life,” he said, implying that his luckiest one was the night he met “Miss Dixie” at a BMI soiree.
Hall started to read from John Donne’s “Meditation 17,” which begins, “No man is an island entire of itself,” remarking, “It’s a very important poem to me.” But possibly noting the lateness of the hour, he put the poem aside and proceeded directly to thanking people who have been important to him.
It was a long list, and Hall interrupted it to say that the last time he was similarly honored, “somebody reviewed [the event] and said that I’d thanked everyone but my dog. So I’d like to rectify that terrible mistake and thank my dog.”
The animal in question, he explained, was “a five-thousand-dollar dog” for which he had traded “two twenty-five-hundred dollar chickens.”
One of the people he thanked was his bookkeeper. “She has been counting my money for 38 years and has now reduced her workload to 30 minutes a week.”
Hall said he wanted to make it clear he was not “one of those old farts” who have nothing good to say about the new generation of songwriters. His only complaints, he stressed, are that “they’re too talented, too good-looking and have too much money.”
He also had kind words to say about Tom Collins, who bought his publishing catalog and lured him out of retirement. But he was less flattering to Collins’ son, Bradley, who works for BMI.
Assuming a mock-censorious tone, Hall grumbled that Bradley was nothing but a drain on BMI coffers. “He comes out every two or three months and takes me and Miss Dixie to lunch — on your dime. You songwriters pay for it. And we don’t go to Shoney’s [a chain restaurant] either.”
Hall explained that he lives on a farm and generally associates with people unfamiliar with the music industry. He said he feared that when the people at the store where he buys his feeds and seeds hear he’s been named an icon, they’ll assume that means he’s “a gay communist.”
At last he reached the end of his list. “I’m sorry if I forgot anybody,” he said, looking not the least contrite. “Hell, if I did, I’ll buy you a car.”
After that, the songwriting awards resumed and Hall sat there watching until the end.
Here is the complete list of BMI’s 2012 Top 50 country songs.
“A Little Bit Stronger” Luke Laird
“All Your Life” Brian Henningsen, Clara Henningsen
“Am I the Only One” Jim Beavers, Jon Randall
“Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not” Jim Collins
Natalie Hemby, Luke Laird, Miranda Lambert
“Bait a Hook” Rhett Akins, Justin Moore
“Barefoot Blue Jean Night” Dylan Altman
“Bleed Red” Andrew Dorff, Tommy Lee James
“Colder Weather” Coy Bowles, Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette, Levi Lowrey
“Country Girl (Shake It for Me)” Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson
“Country Must Be Country Wide” Colt Ford, Brantley Gilbert
“Crazy Girl” Lee Brice, Liz Rose
“Dirt Road Anthem” Colt Ford, Brantley Gilbert
“Drink in My Hand” Eric Church, Michael Heeney, Luke Laird
“Easy” Katrina Elam
“Family Man” Jon Henderson, Joel Shewmake
“Heart Like Mine” Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe
Dean Dillon, Bubba Strait
“Home” Brett Beavers
“Honey Bee” Rhett Akins
“I Don’t Want This Night to End” Rhett Akins, Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson
“I Got You” Paul Jenkins, Shawna Thompson
“If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away” Dallas Davidson, Rob Hatch Jr.
“I’m Gonna Love You Through It” Sonya Isaacs, Jimmy Yeary
“Just a Kiss” Dallas Davidson, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley
“Just Fishin'” Casey Beathard, Monty Criswell, Ed Hill
“Keep Me in Mind” Zac Brown, Nic Cowan, Wyatt Durrette
“Knee Deep” Coy Bowles, Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette, Jeffrey Steele
Shane Minor
“Long Hot Summer” Keith Urban
“Love Done Gone”
Shawn Camp, Marv Green
“Made in America” Toby Keith, Bobby Pinson, Scott Reeves
“Mean” Taylor Swift
“Old Alabama” Randy Owen
“One More Drinkin’ Song” Richie Brown, Jerrod Niemann
“Reality” Kenny Chesney
“Smoke a Little Smoke” Eric Church, Jeff Hyde, Driver Williams
“Sparks Fly” Taylor Swift
“Storm Warning” Busbee, Hunter Hayes
“Take a Back Road”
Rhett Akins, Luke Laird
“Tattoos on This Town” Michael Dulaney, Wendell Mobley
“This” Kara DioGuardi
“Tomorrow” Frank Myers, Chris Young
“We Owned the Night” Dallas Davidson, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley
“What Do You Want” Rachel Bradshaw, Richie Brown, Jerrod Niemann
“Without You” Dave Pahanish, Joe West
“You” Luke Laird, Chris Young
“You and Tequila” Matraca Berg
“You Gonna Fly” Preston Brust, Chris Lucas
“You Lie” Aaron Henningsen, Brian Henningsen, Clara Henningsen
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From the Badge to the Bench 2020
Wake County District Court Judge Dan Nagle seeking re-election.
Since you elected me as district court judge in 2012, I have continued to make a real difference for the people of Wake County.
I provide all who appear before me a fair and impartial trial; I know the law and apply it as it is written; I treat people with compassion and respect while holding them accountable for their actions; and I continuously monitor changes in the law and faithfully follow the appellate decisions as they are handed down.
Thank you to all the Wake County citizens who supported me and who cast their vote in my favor in 2012 and elected me as district court judge in my quest “from the badge to the bench!” I look forward to each and every day on the bench and take pride in my work.
Please allow me the privilege of continuing to serve. Cast your vote to re-elect Dan Nagle, Wake County District Court Judge on November 3rd, 2020!
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Posted by FOCUS Newspaper | September, 14, 2017 | Local News
Hickory – The City of Hickory Community Relations Council (CRC) is currently seeking projects to fund for the 2017-2018 fiscal year and is inviting qualified groups or individuals to consider submitting grant requests.
“The CRC continues to bring awareness about diversity and tolerance in the community through dialogue, education, programs, and resources,” said Clise Plant, Chair of the CRC. “Non-profit agencies, churches, institutions, schools, and individuals are invited to submit their programs, during our grant application process.”
The grant application should be completed in full, approved by the director of the agency, and submitted to the CRC, care of the address on the application. Applications are reviewed twice a year. The deadline for submitting for the fall 2017 grant cycle is Tuesday, October 3 at noon. Applicants may include any 501(c)(3) or otherwise tax exempt organizations.
Priority will, generally, be given to projects that are designed to deliver the greatest impact on positive human relations, that are most effective in bringing different sub-communities of Hickory together, and that provide services and resources to the people who can most benefit. Agencies are encouraged to partner with each other to avoid duplication of services and to maximize efficiency in delivering needed services. Detailed grant guidelines will be mailed with the application form.
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NOTTI della BRIGANTE® FESTIVAL - IXa edizione
dances, cooking, books, exhibitions, authors, concerts, readings, brigands
2 - 3 - 4 August 2019
Borgo Case Troiano (motorization area - Pescara)
The most important Brigantesco-themed festival in Italy is back with the ninth edition!
Friday 2 August NOTTI of BRIGANTE® awaits you from 19.00 with the opening of the Museum documents and Bourbon coins, the camp of the Briganti, meetings with authors, guided tours, documentaries, music, concerts, readings, brigante clothes and the kitchen of the Italian Team Chef who will propose a selection of the best dishes with local products. At 7.30 pm there will be a meeting with Jeremiah Mancini and Nunzio Midnight for the presentation of the volume Stories of Briganti followed by Franco Zazzara with"Thedraining of the Fucino" will moderate the journalist Paolo De Carolis. At 20.50 Musical intervention by the bagpipers of I Gigli d'Abruzzo followed, at 21.00 La Notte del Saltarello and Pizzica with Li Straccapiazze, a group that proposes Abruzzo and Southern Italian sounds
On Saturday, August 3rd, as usual, from 7 p.m. until late at night, guided tours of the brigand camp and Bourbon army will be held. At 19:30 meeting with Gigi Di Fiore reporter of Il Mattino presenting his latest book Briganti, moderate Marco Patricelli journalist and historian of the Laterza editions. It will be premiered in Abruzzo by The Night of the Museums: Lucilla Parlato director of Identity Insurgents and Federico Hermann videomaker Sky presenting the docufilm "Under Another Volcano" dedicated to the second religious festival in the world by importance after that of San Gennaro related to the cult of St. Agatha of Catania. At 20.45 Tribute to the robbers and execution of the Anthem of the Two Sicilies with bagpipe and ciaramella and parade of the Bourbon military. Space for music, from 9 p.m. with La Notte della Pizzica with the music and dances of Ripatemare. At Midnight bonfire and the brigand's oath
On Sunday, August 4th, in addition to the guided tours of the camp of the brigands and the Bourbon army, at 19:30 there will be a meeting with Don Aniello Manganiello anti-mortar priest and Fernando Riccardi, journalist of The Inquiry and author of the book "The Onset 1799," moderates the historian Marco Patricelli. At 20.00 space in the South and Civilization with Edoardo Vitale President of the Civil section of the Court of Naples. At 20:30 from the Naples Theatre Festival, produced by Identity Insurgent, screening of the docufilm "The Legacy of Parthenon – from the Neapolitan Legends of Matilde Serao", a tribute to the 92nd anniversary of the death of the writer and journalist. At 21.00 there will be a tribute to the robbers with flag-raising, line of robbers and parade of the Bourbon military, at 21.10: La Post a Neapolitan, an evening full of the sounds and colors of traditional music of Naples famous and sung all over the world.
Every evening you can dine with traditional dishes made with local products thanks to the Italian Team Chef who takes care of the culinary part.
I activate the Bourbon border post for the issuance of passports! The service of assistance and supervision is guaranteed, as always by Volunteers without Borders, the medical one by the Brotherhood of Mercy of Pescara while a point of food education and prevention of the Lilt – Italian League will be active Fight Tumors and a bookstore curated by Rusconi
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FAST’s Partnership with Milwaukee Public Schools: Highlighting Engleburg Elementary School
This fall, five schools in the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) district — Auer Avenue, Keefe Avenue, Hopkins Lloyd, Brown Street Academy, and Engleburg schools — are (virtually) beginning their fifth cycle of the FAST Program. FAST’s partnership with MPS, which…
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Catch up on Coffee Break with Toni: A conversation about staying connected and engaging families during crisis with Marilyn Ruffin, Director of Family & Community Initiatives at One City Schools! Click here to watch the recording of the webinar. Significant relationships with…
A conversation about toxic stress and its effects on family dynamics with Dr. Marlene Melzer-Lange, MD
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FAST Executive Director Toni K. Rivera Joachin’s Statement on the Death of George Floyd
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Parents as Heroes by Dr. Lynn McDonald
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Do-It-Yourself FAST Activities at Home (Actividades de FAST en Casa)
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Update from Executive Director Toni K. Rivera Joachin on COVID-19
To our FAST community, Families & Schools Together (FAST) is diligently monitoring the rapidly changing conditions of the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) from our international office in Madison, WI. We value the health, safety, and well-being of our children,…
A Tradition of FAST Involvement at Focus on Community
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FAST at the Core of One City Schools’ Commitment to Supporting Families in Wisconsin
Within three weeks of starting her position as Director of Family & Community Initiatives at One City Schools in Madison, Wisconsin, Ms. Marilyn Ruffin was on a flight to Cleveland, Ohio, to attend the 2017 FAST® Training of Trainers conference…
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Finding Nemo week continues with Who's Who Wednesday. Today I will be talking about everyone's favorite little clown fish, Nemo. Nemo can be found in the 2003 Disney/Pixar hit film 'Finding Nemo,' which will also be re-released starting this weekend in 3D. Disney/Pixar has also confirmed a sequel that should hit theaters some time in 2016. There hasn't been a television show on Nemo which is kind of surprising to me with the endless possibilities for stories there could be. In video games he can be found in Disney Universe and Kinect Disneyland Adventures. He can also be found in other merchandise such as toys, books, pins, clothing, and on other house hold items.
He lives in the world famous Great Barrier Reef in Australia with his father Marlin, Mr. Ray, Dory, Crush, Tad, Sheldon, Pearl, and Squirt. His enemies include P. Sherman DDS, his niece Darla, sharks, and divers.
*FUN FACT* Keep an eye out in other Disney/Pixar films such as 'Toy Story 3,' and 'Monsters, Inc.' since Nemo can be found in these films also.
Nemo is a orange, black, and white clownfish. He has three white stripes on his body and has a bad fin that he was born with. He is extremely brave, has a good heart, and is adventurous.
He was voiced by Alexander Gould who also provided the voice of Bambi in 'Bambi 2.'
Nemo can be found in Disney theme parks around the world. He can be found in The Seas with Nemo & Friends, Finding Nemo: The Musical, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, and in the new Art of Animation resort in the Finding Nemo section. Finally he can be found on the Disney cruise line, and also on Disney on Ice shows.
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Guest Post: Why we've preferred our Disney cruises over the other guys
We were fortunate enough to have cruised aboard the Disney Dream this past May and aboard the Disney Fantasy this past September. Previously, we had cruised on Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). Our favourite experience? Our Disney cruises... By far.
Our cruise on the Dream was the first cruise we had been on that actually felt like a family vacation. On our NCL cruise, for example, we felt very much in the minority having a child with us. On Disney Cruise Line (DCL), as like in Walt Disney World, we felt completely comfortable and at ease having a toddler and pre-schooler with us.
Everything onboard is constructed and organized for a family with children in mind. We can look at the stateroom itself for our first example. From the larger staterooms, to the bath tub in the stateroom bathroom, to the diaper genie in our room, we knew this was a place our children (and we, their parents) could feel at home.
Next, the pool/water areas are amazing. Despite the public health mandate that diapered children cannot be in the pool, Disney thought of everything for their younger guests. Both of my children loved Nemo's Reef (found on both the Dream and the Fantasy). It is a wonderful splash pad area themed after the Pixar favourite, Finding Nemo. For the older children, there is the Mickey pool (shallow), the Donald pool (deeper), Mickey's water slide, the Aqua Lab (on the Fantasy), and who could forget the water coaster, The Aqua Duck.
While all cruise lines offer formal nights in their dining rooms to allow guests to dress up and enjoy premium meals including lobster tails, DCL goes one better and also includes a pirate night. While formal nights appeal mainly to the adults, pirate night gives the young and the young at heart a chance to dress up in costume and enjoy pirate-themed menus and entertainment.
This brings me to the fact that DCL offers the only fireworks at sea. On pirate night, not only are the guests treated to Mickey's Pirates In The Caribbean show out on the pool deck, but this show is then followed by the Buccaneer Bash and fireworks. It is really a spectacular night.
All of the entertainment we saw on the Dream and Fantasy were top-notch. The shows are all directly or loosely based on Disney stories, perfect for Disney fans like us. What was really special, though, was the fact that all of us (parents and children) could enjoy the shows together. They enjoyed seeing some of their favourite stories and characters come to life, and we enjoyed watching the talent and special effects on stage.
Although we've enjoyed the food on all of our cruises, we really enjoyed the rotational dining that DCL offers. Switching dining rooms each night while retaining the same servers is a unique experience. The servers were truly the best we've ever encountered. They made the effort to entertain the children at meal times, and tried to diffuse situations (read: tantrums) when they were getting tense. They helped be that extra set of hands that we sometimes needed, like cutting up my son's food for us!
The restaurants on the Dream and Fantasy are experiences all on their own! The Enchanted Garden which, during the course of the evening, changes from dusk to moonlight, is a beautiful sight. The Royal Palace (Dream) or The Royal Court (Fantasy) is definitely the most elegant restaurant and certainly makes you feel like royalty. It is themed after the Disney princesses and the chandeliers in each restaurant are not to be missed. Last, but not least, is Animator's Palate. This was our favourite restaurant, although they were different in each ship. On the Dream, the big "show" in Animator's Palate is the Crush show. It is similar to "Turtle Talk" at Epcot. Crush swims through the restaurant stopping to talk to guests along the way. On the Fantasy, guests are asked to draw a person on their placemat prior to dinner. Throughout the evening, different scenes involving food from Disney movies are shown on the screens. Finally, to conclude, our drawings come to life on the big screen. If you're lucky, they may even be shown along some Disney stars in the movies! It is really something to see!
Lastly, Castaway Cay was definitely a highlight of both cruises. There is something there for everyone! For those wishing to relax: beautiful turquoise water, soft sand, an abundance of palm trees, but also varied activities for the more active folk. Rent a bike and ride around the island, or take the kids to Pelican Point and enjoy the water slides! Enjoy the sting ray encounter, or Spring A Leak water play area. Don't forget to do the Castaway Cay 5km run before everyone even gets off the ship!
We have heard only good things about the Oceaneer's Club and Oceaneer's Lab, however, we did not use these children's areas on our cruises. Our next cruise is scheduled for April 2013 and we intend to take full advantage of these clubs at that time. A report will most likely follow that cruise!
While this article was made to be a review of our experience, and not an in depth analysis of any particular area of the cruise, I would be happy to go into more detail of any part of our cruise. Please leave your request in the comments and check back, because it may be featured in an upcoming article about DCL cruises.
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~*~ Lauren ~*~ October 28, 2012 at 8:41 PM
Wow!! I was considering going on a cruise on Carvinal or Royal Caribbean but your post changed my mind! :)
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2019 Garden Party
Thank you to everyone who supported our Summer Garden Party at the end of July.
£1002.00 was raised in aid of Dovaston United Reformed Church.
Fundraising in 2018 for The Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust.
Thank you to everyone who supported the bric-a-brac stall at our end of season sale. £186.00 has been sent to The Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust.
Thank you to everyone who supported our september open w/e. £335.00 was raised on the refreshments for The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. Special thanks to Steve Lovick for giving up his weekend to serve them. Also to Janine & Lizzy who helped him.
Our 'Summer Open Evening with Cheese and Wine' raised £550 for the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. Thank you to everyone who helped and supported us.
Fundraising in 2014 for Severn Hospice
We thank everyone who supported our open day and plant sale in September. A total of £752.00 was donated to the Severn Hospice.
Fundraising for 2013
At the end of the 2012 season, we thought we may have a year off from our fundraising events. But in November we heard about a charity which we would dearly like to help - The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. Many of the people living in Gambia are poor farmers who rely on the working equines for farming and transport. The animals often provide or help provide the family income, and through education and awareness the lives of the animals can be improved. The bits typically used in The Gambia can cause horrific injuries to animal's mouths, and the trust is working to change these for more humane bits. The Trust believe education is the key to improving the welfare of working equines. They run farmers meetings, a school education programme and a donkey club for the local children. Through the training of farriers, harness makers and paravets the trust can help address problems and create employment.
We raised a total of £1215.00 for The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust in 2013.
For more information go to www.gambiahorseanddonkey.org.uk
We also raised £390 for National Garden Scheme in 2013.
Fundraising 2012
Thank you to everyone who supported our 2012 open day for Riding for the Disabled when we raised £1500 for the Perry Group.
Our Spring Open day in March raised £215 for Severn Hospice.
We also raised £315 for National Garden Scheme with our open day in June 2012.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our fundraising in 2011. Our open day in September raised £1450 for Riding for the Disabled - Perry Group, and with other fundraising we have raised £2150 for the group in 2011. We could not do it without the support of our loyal customers and the help of friends who bake cakes and help with refreshments, raffle and car parking. Also thank you to the local businesses for donations of raffle prizes. (Special thanks to The Walls Restaurant, Oswestry and Toni & Guy, Shrewsbury).
During 2011 we have also helped raised funds for Hope House Children's Hospice with our spring open day in March (£360) and Cancer Research UK with a musical evening organised by the Oswestry group, held here in June.
Thank you to everyone who supported our special events in 2010, a total of £3030 was donated to The Perry Group of Riding for the Disabled.
Thank you to all who helped with the plant sale and open day £2250 was raised for Riding for the Disabled Perry Group.
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taylor white obituary Subscribe. Forward to Family & Friends 1919-2017 Rhea Henry Taylor, 97, oldest born and raised resident of Ridley Park died March 23, 2017. White, 31, of Platteville, Wisconsin, died from the result of a swimming accident on the Mississippi River. Beloved wife of Paula White. | Burlington – It is with great Taylor White; seven sisters, three brothers and a brother-in-law, Mike George Edward White WESTHAMPTON George Edward White, 79, of Port and Stephen and wife Gayle, and three grandchildren, Brendan, Alicia and Taylor, Born in Norfolk, she was the daughter of Russell Haden Taylor and Patrice White Taylor-Welch. “Butch” Shelton, 78 Farrar DANA HOWARD TAYLOR Dana Howard Taylor, 82, of Washington Court House, OH died Tuesday, August 25, 2020 in the Grant Medical Center in Columbus where he had been a patient since August 14, 2020. Taylor wrote poems, verse and short stories for most Ware Shoals – Johanna Ware Taylor, 53, wife of Gerald Taylor, of Powerhouse Road, died Saturday, October 17, 2020 at her home. We later added obits from Louisiana and Mississippi. Announcements of deaths may be telephoned from within New York City to (212) 556-3900; outside the city to toll-free 1-800 Obituary. Obituary Headlines, View current celebrity deaths on Legacy. Bolling, granddaughters Aniyah and Jehkya, brothers Hilton III (Thomascine), Kevin, Lewis and Andre’, sisters April Freeman, Anita Taylor, Phyllis Harris (Keith), special friend John Cobbs, a host of View the profiles of people named Taylor White. Born on December 20, 1944 in Freeman, he was a son of the late Andrew and Zenith Byrd Chilco. Providence, RI and the step-daughter of Andrew Cook of Coventry, RI. On September 17, 1979 she was united in marriage to Robert Bruce Taylor, who preceded his wife in death View Obituary & Service Information He was born on October 10, 1942 in Michigan City, IN to Edward Taylor and Lura (Costello) Taylor, both of whom preceded him in death. Karen E. Shelby, daughter of Rex and Maureen Burke Pietz, was born on August 1, 1978 in San Diego, California. Taylor is survived by his wife of of nearly 37 years,Patricia (Koester) Taylor, a proud Texas native with whom he shared many adventures. Rhea was a teacher within the Ridley School District and the Chester Christian Day School. from 11am to View Obituary Willie Frank Carter The homegoing celebration will be held Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 12noon at Faith Temple Church, 3233 Jefferson Avenue S. Taylor's Funeral Home in White Plains, Maryland: info on funeral services, sending flowers, address / directions, & planning. Port Arthur & Mid-County elected leaders seeing mask use, hesitant to enforce stricter rules Saturday, January 2, 2021 12:14 am. Services were set for 2 p. Grady V. COLEMAN, Taylor Nicole of Greenville, SC formerly of White Lake, MI; passed away due to a tragic accident March 22, 2020; 18 Apr 2020 July 25, 1964 – April 18, 2020 Jennifer L. Josephine was born on October 10, 1938, in Nimmons, Arkansas to the late George R. Dennis Wayne Taylor, 81, Iowa Point, KS native, passed away early Monday, October 12, 2020. She is the Loving Mother of Ian(Irene), Elaine and Kenneth. com. Taylor loved to be creative with make-up and always had a zest for life. He was preceded in death by his parents, Woodley and Bessie Mae Heath Taylor, and his wife of 52 years, Judith Carol Taylor. A graveside service will be conducted Tuesday at 10:30 A. King-El (Taj); daughter of Deacon Jerry and Deaconess Dora Hunt. Click a name to view the obituary. Taylor was born to the late Arthur Esco and Lola Mae Sosebee Allen. Lyles. 5, at Melby Funeral Home & Crematory in Platteville. To send flowers or plant a tree in memory of Sharonlyn Taylor White, visit the Tribute Store. Waldron , 96 - Feb 19, 2020 25 Aug 2020 Taylor's Obituary. Dana was born November 12, 1937 in Gilboa, WV, a son of the late Benjamin Franklin and Freda Elizabeth Moore Taylor. Family will receive friends from 11 am to 8 pm Tuesday and 10 am until service time on Wednesday. 14, 1935, to Herbert and Lucille Glover Taylor. 00 - $ rfhr. White Horse Pike Lindenwold, 5 Jun 2018 Obituary for David Leo White | David Leo White, 57, of Manchester, Iowa Noah (friend Chanelle Helle) White of Iowa City, and Taylor White of Mel Taylor went home to be with his Lord and Savior, Tuesday morning June 24th 2008, from his home in Richmond, Indiana. May 03, 2019 · Popular and prolific Bible teacher Warren Wiersbe died on the evening of May 2, 2019, at the age of 89. InsideEko is yet to confirm Roy White’s cause of death as no health issues, accident or other causes of death have been learned to be associated 1 day ago · STEVEN “MAC” TAYLOR. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Sharonlyn White, please visit Tribute Store. Taylor White Walker, of Davison, died far too young, but she will be kept alive forever in the hearts of her family. Karen was born in Coshocton on December 6th, 1951 to the late Grover F and Gertrude (Finnell) Taylor. Dr. Water St. 8, 2020. Celebration of Life Services will be 2:00 PM Saturday, December 12, 2020 at Cox-Rowley Funeral Home Chapel, 4180 Canyon Drive with Rev. Brazos St. Linda Kay Stewart White was born, August 23, 1949, to Clarence Londel Stewart, Sr. Drue A. James Luther Skipper will be Thursday, Dec. White. Dickson Funeral Home & Cremation Center 209 East College Street Dickson, TN 37055 p: 615-446-2313 f: 615-446-4110 Join our mailing list [email protected] 63 East 79th Street ; Chicago, Illinois 60619 (773) 488-7300 Vision . Terry Taylor 59, a resident of Union City, died Thursday at his residence. The Columbian obituaries and Death Notices for Vancouver Washington area . Frances Inez White Roberts Taylor, 93, of Old Prospect Church Rd. Through our advanced obituary search , you may search our database of obituaries by name, location, date of death and keywords. Obituary On November 28, 2020, the windows of heaven swung open and called our beloved Norma Virginia White to join the heavenly host. Bernice Taylor White, age 86 of Winnfield, Louisiana passed away on Thursday, January 18, 2018. (905) 898-2100 524 Davis Drive Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 2P3 2 days ago · Obituaries newsletter. Browse White Bear Lake, Minnesota online obituaries, funeral notices, condolences, tributes and death notices posted daily by White Bear Lake, Minnesota funeral homes. He was born July 25, 1948, he was the son of the late Forest Cook and Sylvia Cook. She was born in Bellaire, OH, on September 22, 1962 to Jack Richard Taylor and Lois Louise Hall 1948 - 2020 Obituary Forest Junior Cook 72, of Naoma, WV passed away on Sunday, December 27, 2020 at the Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, WV after short illness. Turner Taylor was born on September 7, 1935 in Rienzi, MS. View The Obituary For Norby W. You have my deepest sympathy on the loss of this beautiful young lady. Lebanon passed away suddenly on Friday, April 3, 2020. , of White Hall, passed away peacefully, Tuesday, August 25, 2020, at the Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock. Howell, Dell S. Taylor, 67, of Tivoli, NY, died Monday, Nov 4, 2002, at the Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck. today at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. She was the beloved wife of Harold White; loving mother of Michael L. In compliance with Maryland Governor 's State Order, Masks Must Be Worn At All Times. He was born Sept. Heady and Son - Cralle Funeral H 2428 Frankfort Ave, Louisville (502) 896-8821 Arch L. After retiring as a supervisor from Yorktown Naval Weapo… Pittsburgh Post Gazette - a place for remembering loved ones; a space for sharing memories, life stories, milestones, to express condolences, and celebrate life of your loved ones Dec 06, 2020 · Denise Louise Taylor died Monday August 10, 2020 while on vacation visiting lifelong friends in Pinetop, Arizona. She was born on November 7, 1943 in Walters, Oklahoma to Loyd and Bette White. Viewers watched as Dallas Morning News obituaries and Death Notices for Dallas Texas area . Charlie was born in Lykens, September 4, 1949, a son of Charles E. She also did private duty home care for many years. She leaves to cherish her memory a daughter Twyla N. Shelby Taylor Pietz, age 33, formerly of Cassville, Missouri passed away on Thursday, January 25, 2012 in Springfield, Missouri. This page shows only the 20 most recent obituaries in Taylors, South Carolina. Please join us in Loving, Sharing and Memorializing Taylor White on this permanent online memorial. White | Mohawk - Michael P. until 1:45 p. August 14, 1936 - September 15, 2017 Hertford, North Carolina Set a Reminder for the Anniversary Obituary. In Northfield, MN, to Aime and Helen Valek Boudreau. White, James M. Steve was born in Dallas to Georgia and Raymond White. The family will visit with friends Saturday from 200 Apr 16, 2020 · Mr. Burial will be in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery in Pickens County. Pallbearers for the service will be Ronald Lynn Jackson, Jr. Barr-Price Funeral Home and Crematorium, Historic B-L Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Saturday, Sept. New Jersey Obituaries & Death Notices. Heady and Son Funeral Home & Cre 3601 Taylor Blvd, Louisville (502) 368-5811 Heady-Hardy Funeral Home 7710 Dixie Highway, Louisville This page shows only the 20 most recent obituaries in White Plains, New York. Charlie was a 1967 graduate of Williams Valley High School. at Oakes Nichols Funeral Home with Eddie Rogers officiating. Steve was born in Dallas Alex is survived by his parents; sister, Taylor White of North Little Rock; paternal grandparents, Vernon and Ethel White; his beloved dog, Brock; and numerous Clara Faye Taylor, 84, passed away peacefully at her home in White Salmon on October 21, 2018. Mary A. Sheriff Kirk explained to Sue Bob she could not pay a bond at a county sheriff’s office. She survived by her parents, Toni White and 25 Aug 2020 James E. Graveside Service 2 p. Taylor Ryan White his father, John and wife Sondra White, his mother, Bobbi Couvillion Stevens and husband Walton "Bubba", five sisters; Jessica White, View The Obituary For Taylor White of Marysville, Kansas. As a child he attended Barton School and St. M. 31, 2020, at 11 a. , passed away on Tuesday NY and Daniel White of Norwich; four adored grandchildren: Taylor White, 1 Sep 2020 David Taylor passed away 2020-8-28 in White Plains, Maryland. He was also preceded in death by three brothers: William, Victor, and Ronald, and a step sister Linda Butrick. White, 31, of Platteville, died on Aug. Taylor, age 73, of Burnsville, God wrapped his arms around her and took her home on March 16, 2017. Taylor Wilson, 91 Berry Highland Memorial. Robert “Bob” Taylor White II, 67, passed away Monday, June 16, 2014 at Fleur Heights in Des View Video Tribute Vida Gene Genie Taylor White, 72, former resident of Oakwood Drive, died Sunday, April 14, 2019 at Poplar Estates. Sharon was born November 6, 1943. Shy was born December 8, 1950, in Kenova, WV, to the late Joe Henry Shy and the late Willa Dean Allen Shy. Friday, October 2, 2020 at Community Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford. She died Tuesday night at 93 in a Fort Lauderdale hospital. Ray,Sr. Born in Greenville, a daughter to Robert Jay White and Nancy Barnett White, she was a caring and compassionate Registered Nurse at Baptist Easley Hospital who took special interest in making her patients comfortable and respected. May 2019 South Carolina Set a Reminder for the Anniversary of Taylor's Passing. Taylor Nicole White June 22, 1996 - January 5, 2020 Obituary Clarion Ledger obituaries and Death Notices for Jackson Mississippi area . Teresa Charlene Taylor White age 63 of Rainsville died Sunday, December 15 at Marshall Medical Center South. 1, 2011, at Volunteer Community Hospital in Martin after a single-car automobile accident. Kathryn White Easley. A resident of Tivoli for the past 25 yea. ; honorary son, Jeff Shaw; brother, Willie Langford & wife Barbara; 26 Jan 2020 Daryl is leaving his grandchildren, Madison and Allanah Thompson and Trey, DJ and Taylor White, T. Memorials may be made to Beulah UMC Blessings Box, 161 Beulah Church Rd. He was born August 22, 1942 in Sandpoint, Idaho to the late Clifford W. Read Lela Taylor’s life story, offer tributes/condolences, send flowers or create a Lela Taylor online memorial. , Gilbert, SC 29054. Born in Greenwood, she was a daughter of the late Charles Thomas“Buddy” Ware and Louise Moore Ware. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Miguel White, please visit Tribute Store. Norman was a Sales Force Automation Manager at U. Taylor, Sr. Born Thursday, January 29, 1931 in Brewtons Mill, Louisiana, she was preceded in death by her parents, Sam and Bertha Brewton Taylor brothers, Willie, Roy, Albert and Huey Taylor sister, Eunice Barnett and son-in-law, Rev. Oberlin, age 19 of White Cloud, passed away Tuesday, October 15, 2013 following injuries received in an automobile accident. She was born February 25, 1937 in New Castle, Indiana to James and Maude Hudgens who preceded her in death. age 66, of Apple Valley, passed away September 15, 2017 after a five month battle with two forms of cancer. View Taylor White's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook. Taylor was born on June 22, 1996 and passed away on Sunday, 14 Nov 2020 Obituary not available. He was the son of the late Ray. Please accept Echovita’s sincere condolences. Ella Taylor White Obituary Remember Ella Taylor White. Taylor was born on June 11, 1996 in Cabarrus County. 13 Sep 2020 Obituary for Cody Michael White | Cody Michael White, 24, entered into rest Dylan Mutispaugh and Nicholas Mutispaugh; sister, Taylor White; 16 Nov 2020 Ressie's Obituary. WEST COLUMBIA-Chief Warrant Officer III, Floyd William Taylor, US Navy Ret. A private graveside service was held Jan. Taylor Taylor J. Brenda Wilson. Also surviving One daughter: Abrianna Mae White One son: David Taylor White both of Belington Two sisters: Amy Dawn Lawrence Kevin Lloyd White departed this earth on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020. " Allen White | James "A. Swank who The passing of a loved one is a difficult time. 1, 2021, at Brooksville Cemetery with Bro. Heady and Son Funeral Home & Cre 3601 Taylor Blvd, Louisville (502) 368-5811 Obituaries Obituaries Kenneth J. m. In addition to his mother, Phillipa Taylor, he is survived by his father, Robert E. 26, 2020. Over the years, she worked for various real estate brokers as an independent agent. Sep 22, 2020 · 4433 White Plains Lane, White Plains, Maryland 20695 on Saturday, October 03, 2020 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM . Physical Address: 6625 Main Street, Gloucester, VA 23061 Jun 24, 2018 · WHITE, William Taylor Jamaal William Taylor Jamaal White (July 13, 1993 June 10, 2018), beloved son of William & Cynthia White, was adopted April 4,1995 (born to Sandra Washington & Trossi Vicki Taylor age 54 passed away on Monday, July 3, 2017 at her home in Idabel, OK. Search Obituaries in Cumberland Times News - a space for sharing memories: search for life stories, milestones, guestbook entries, and celebrate life of your loved ones. She graduated from Saginaw High School & Central Michigan University and then taught school for several years. Henry Dale Whitehouse, 70, of Shelbyville, died on Saturday, the 3 rd day of October, 2020, at The Masonic Home of Shelbyville. To help build a community environment that better supports Juneau teens in healthy choices around high risk behaviors (including drugs and alcohol). Karen was the last of the Taylor family. A pioneer of free jazz, the pianist and What can obituary records tell you? Obituaries memorialize the lives of ancestors and family with stories about: Birthplace and current residence; Education, career and distinctions; Family, friends and loved ones; Personal anecdotes; And obituaries are just the beginning. She was predeceased by her maternal grandparents, Norman HERKIMER-Mr. He was born to loving parents 17 May 2020 Blanche Taylor Moore was described by friends as “a sweet, Christian Asked if anyone close to him or his wife had died mysteriously, Dwight 23 Jan 2018 Travis Tritt, Charlie Daniels and Sawyer Brown are among those paying tribute to the "Now I Know" singer Lari White, who died at age 52 after 24 Aug 2018 Gregory Walker, the composer's son, said his father died after it from that of his ' canonized' white contemporaries," Clague writes, citing People named Taylor White. Born October 15, 1946 in Marshall County, she was the daughter of the late Paul Taylor and the late Evelyn Estes Taylor. 9, 1932, in Flint, Mich. passed away Friday, November 13th, 2020 at the Wendy Churchill, Taylor White, Rachel Woodward, Michael Samples, 3 Nov 2020 He was born July 11, 1962 to the union of Leola (Pertilla) White and Lloyd Taylor White in Chicago Illinois. Explore Life Stories, Offer Condolences & Send Flowers. She was united in marriage to Kenneth Allen on December 6, 1976, and to this union one daughter was born, Tracy Allen. Read More. He was born September 23, 1956, a son of the late Arvel and Myrtle French Allen. , NW P. , Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices as well as historical obits and celebrity obituaries. Dennis was born in Iowa Point, on November 16 th , 1938, to the late Floyd and Hazel Randall Taylor. His funeral service will be 2 Mar 2017 and Betty Jo (Jones) White, 1 brother Tom & Donna White; nieces & nephews Corey & Ashley White, Justin White, Taylor White, Colby Hix, and 25 Nov 2019 Also surviving are his great grandchildren Taylor White, Trevor White, Maddox Brady Smith, Maren Catherine Lee, Benton Thomas Lee, Brody 9 Jan 2020 Obituary. A member of the Waddy Church of Faith, he took great joy in singing and praising God. A memorial 23 Jul 2019 Obituary for Mark A. Buchhorn. She was preceded in death Obituary Scot A. OBITUARY Robert Taylor White II November 4, 1946 – June 16, 2014. She was born October 9, 1934, the tenth and last child, to Will and Nervia Dickey Horn on Horn Mountain off Richland Valley. , and Georgia Lee King Whitehouse. Funeral services are Wednesday at 1 pm ct at Corner Stone Funeral Chapel with Bro. Ty was born October 5, 1943 in Independence, KS to the late Tyrus and Iva Taylor. Jupiter, FL 33458. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. She passed from this life on February 17, 2020 in Sherman Texas. She was the precious daughter of Evelyn Wicke-Taylor and the late Dennis Taylor. White, 59, of Bedford, KY, died his daughter, Taylor White of Carrollton, KY, four brothers, Jack White of 2 Dec 2019 She is survived by her daughter, Cheri Taylor White & husband T. Obituary Notifications Signup [email protected] 406 Market Street P. John’s Lutheran School in West Condra Funeral Home 503 Talbot Street, Taylor (512) 352-3636 Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home 3220 South 31st Street, Temple (254) 773-3999 East Funeral Home 602 Olive Street, Texarkana (903) 793-3141 THELMA THERESA LYLES-TAYLOR (AGE 82) OF WHITE PLAINS, MARYLAND On Monday, February 3, 2020 in Clinton, Maryland, Thelma Lyles-Taylor peacefully transitioned to eternal life. Survivors Obituary Pamela "Pam" Glynese Wende Miller, 61, of Laguna Park, Bosque County (Lake Whitney), passed away Christmas day 2020. For the families we serve, we offer three convenient locations in Webster, Siren, and Grantsburg, Wisconsin. RECENT OBITUARIES Exquisite Tribute™ Standing Spray-White Ribbon $173 . Box 1135, Roxboro, NC 27573 Obituaries act as quiet reminders of the finite nature of our lives. Low 42F. Brooks & White Funeral Home and Crematory Phone: (336) 599-3171 907 Durham Road, P. Ann (314) 739-1133 Debo Funeral Home 833 Court Street, Fulton (573) 642-2211 Nunnelee Funeral Chapel 205 North Stoddard, Sikeston (573) 471-2242 Ourso Funeral Home 31885 Hwy 1, White Castle (225) 473-8122 Rhodes United Fidelity Funeral Home, Inc. Jerry Leggett and Clint Wilson Obituary not available. , Millersburg and the late Joan Moss Taylor. Private Cremation. avatar. Taylor Elizabeth Honeycutt, 24, of Kannapolis, left this world all too soon on Thursday, October 22, 2020. 26 Nov 2019 Marilyn (Mike) Taylor (born Marilyn Jane Wiemer) died surrounded by family on Tuesday, November 26, 2019. S. Bob was a 11 Mar 2020 Ruthie Lavera White the daughter of the late Wilbert and N. Graveside services will be 200 PM Saturday in Obion County Memorial Gardens with Bro. , to Otto Hegle and Olive Sawvel Hegle. Andrew Taylor White, 36, of Hanover, PA, formerly of Frederick, died unexpectedly on Friday, May 5, 2017 at his home. Ellison was the Beloved Wife of the Late Alex. He was the beloved husband for 69 ½ years to Wilberta Naden Pickett; loving father to Mary Wilson (Paul), of Daytona Beach, Florida, Jun 10, 2014 · Mrs. J. Dec 12, 2009 · He is survived by his wife of seventy years, Georgia Irene White and their four children, Carol Butcher of Stone Mountain, GA, John Taylor White, II of Keokee, VA, Margaret Jane Coen of Sissonville and Kay Moffatt of Charleston; nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Opelousas - Funeral services for Norma Lee Taylor (preferred name Lee) will be held at 3:00 PM on Sunday, September 6, 2020 at the Louisiana Memorial United Methodist Church in Opelousas. They raised four wonderful Roy White Death – Dead, Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On December 29, 2020, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Roy White through social media publications made on Twitter. Taylor was a dear friend to Uncle Jake and helped me tremendously after Jake died. model: Taylor White, tigerlily Produced By Young Taylor. 1956 - 2020 Obituary Albert Eugene Allen, 64, of Holly Hills, Fairdale, WV, went home to be with the Lord, December 30, 2020, at the Appalachian Regional Hospital, Beckley, WV. on September 5, 2020 at the Melby Dec 14, 2020 · Obituary Eric Taylor White, age 67, resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, passed away on Monday, December 14, 2020. passed away at his residence on Dec. au Lillian Jeanette Taylor was born January 4, 1931 in Rusk, TX to Emmitt Lester Langford Eunice May Chaffin Langford, and passed away December 2, 2019 in Richardson, TX. Shirley Mamie Taylor Hill, the retired principal Apr 08, 2018 · The White family hopes that the driver comes forward. Obituary not available. Keith was born on September 26, 1956 to Judy Davis (mother) and Richard Taylor (Father) in La Puente California. 22, 2020. Travis Austin Taylor, 22, of Union City, a student at the University of Tennessee at Martin, died Jan. Oct 5, 2019. Jan 02, 2018 · Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention and eventually a public apology, has died at 97. ObitCity. White, 62, of Bay City passed away July 15, 2020. Browse the most recent Taylor, Michigan obituaries and condolences. Sharonlyn Taylor White 1971 - 2020 Recommend Sharonlyn's obituary to your friends Obituary Notifications Signup [email protected] 222 Harriman Avenue North ; Amery, Wisconsin 54001 (715) 268-7111 (715) 268-4173 Dec 28, 2020 · December 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Christine Susan (Miles) Nagal. Apr 09, 2017 · For almost 60 years, Taylor was a top sales executive for printing companies, retiring from Quad Graphics based in WI, NYC and his beloved Saratoga, NY. “Buck” Rascoe; sister, Mae Taylor White; brothers, Federal L. , 72, of Niagara Falls, NY, passed into the loving arms of Jesus while in the presence of his family on December 27, 2020 at Niagara Hospice House. Aug 25, 2020 · Taylor S. She was born on December 16, 1931, the first of two children born to the late Willie and Gertrude Taylor. Kevin attended Muskegon Public 1 Oct 2020 Obituary for Gilbert "GL" Lee White, Jr. AP News - 30 days ago 1948 - 2020 Obituary Niagara Falls Richard Steven Kowalski, Jr. Baby Brody Allen Taylor was born an Angel in the arms of our Savior, Tuesday, December 1, 2020, at the Summerville Medical Center. com Sep 18, 2017 · Patricia L. "Bobby", 83, of White Stone, Virginia, died on October 21, 2020. Taylor Gail Thurmond, age 26, passed away November 18th, 2020 Taylor was a sweet and loving soul she had a loving personality and never met a stranger. She graduated in July, 2019 from Tricoci School as an esthetician. D. Buchhorn on this permanent online memorial presented by January 3, 2021 January 3, 2021 The Plain Dealer obituaries and Death Notices for Cleveland Ohio area . Services will be held Saturday, August 22, 2020, at 11:00 AM in the Chapel of Max Brannon Funeral Home in Calhoun, GA. Preceded in death by his mother, Margie Taylor, and one sister, Dolores Green. Dickie was born on July 1, 1938, the son of the late Russell and Marie (nee Faber) Taylor. , at Robert Barham Family Online obituary for Lela Taylor. Sharon M. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. 25, 2020. A memorial service will be conducted Saturday at 300 P. Taylor is predeceased by his parents, John and Margaret Donnelly; three siblings, Elizabeth McCarville, Margaret Desrosiers and John S. February 15 Dec 2015 He was predeceased by his parents, Robert Taylor White and Alminda Dyer White, and by 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Obituary. I love you dad and miss you like crazy life isnt the same with you and mom gone I'm sorry if I let you down Love your oldest son Timothy P. Taylor, age 51, of Hampton Twp. Robert H. Apr 06, 2018 · Cecil Taylor, Jazz Icon Of The Avant-Garde, Dies At 89 : The Record Taylor stretched the beats in a measure and played notes outside the chords of a song. (Antionette) and Aryonn J. Donnelly, Jr. Mary’s Medical Center. John Thomas Taylor, DO, 78, of Amarillo, passed away on Friday, November 27, 2020. com started with a tiny handful of free Arkansas obituaries. Joe passed from this earthly life on August 19, 2020, at the Highland Court Rehab Center in Marshall. It is a bittersweet reminder of all we've lost, but it can also help us to remember all we enjoyed while they were alive. Taylor was born on July 21, 1994 in Grand Rapids and has been a lifelong resident of the White Cloud area where she graduated from White Cloud High School in 2012. Bettie enjoyed being with her family and travelling the Dec 28, 2017 · Taylor's story, along with those of other black women attacked by white men during the civil rights era, is told in "At the Dark End of the Street," a book by Danielle McGuire released in 2010. Gregory’s Catholic Church in Marysville. Shelby and her family moved to Cassville where she attended Cassville High School. White Pine TN. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph. Join our mailing list [email protected] 1245 N. " Allen White, 66, Chrissy Bruce of Waynesboro and Taylor White of Staunton; sons, Robert 17 Feb 2020 Obituary not available. EST, Sunday, October 11, 2020 at Abundant Life Full Gospel Baptist Church. Loving mother of the late Joshua White. Find your friends on Facebook. , Gretna 504. She attended 23 May 2020 Obituary. Taylor White, 17, of Marysville, KS, died Sunday, October 4, 2009 at Topeka, KS, following a traffic accident. ‘Linda’ Panitz, who spent her life devoted to social justice issues, women’s rights, the arts and culture, dies. Taylor worked as a leasing agent for residential properties. , 71, of Williamstown, passed away Saturday, November 21, 2020 at UPMC Pinnacle Community Osteopathic Hospital. 17 Feb 2020 View The Obituary For Taylor Nicole White of Sherman, Texas. White Sr. Ellison White Age 88 of Taylor, MI passed away at home Thursday July 30, 2020. , on the night of Sept. Emma Earline Taylor Ray was born to the late Louise and Woodson Taylor on May 25,1931. Survived by his adoring parents, Mark and Lisa (Haynor) White; his loving brother Michael, his Obituary Services for Taylor Brooke Whittle, 24, will be for family only. Survivors include her husband James H. Taylor was an avid golfer, dancer, world traveler, loved 'the ponies' and had a love of all kinds of music. Join Facebook to connect with Taylor White and others you may know. , Birmingham, AL 35221. Allen Keith Taylor, of Sewell, NJ, passed Danks- Hinski Funeral Home 125 N. LANG. Taylor (Barbara) of Louisiana, Coy L. Box 1064 ; Taylor, Texas 76574 (512) 352-5909 (512) 365-8512 Taylor Funeral Home is a full-service facility that has been serving families since 1909. Mrs. Brody was a son of James Westly Taylor and Lauren Hartley Taylor of Cottageville. Willie's Obituary. He moved to Whittier California his freshman year of high school and lived wi Obituary. Abbott, Robert. Taylor's Obituary Taylor S. Nov 13, 2018 · JEAN WHITE TAYLOR was born in Hardin County, Tennessee on February 20, 1925 the daughter of the late Ira Lee and Elma Duckworth White. Taylor Funeral Home, Inc | Phenix City, AL Obituaries. Warren Wendel Wiersbe was born on May 16, 1929, the third child of Fred and Gladys Anna (Forsberg) Wiersbe, in East Chicago, Indiana (25 miles southeast of Chicago). Heady at Resthaven 4400 Bardstown Road, Louisville (502) 491-5950 Arch L. It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Eric Taylor White of West Palm Beach, Florida, who passed away on December 14, 2020, at the age of 67, leaving to mourn family and friends. She was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. “Bob” White, 59 of Prescott St. December 29, Mike White, age 59, of Erwin, passed away on Sunday, December 6, 2020 at Johnson City Medical Center. White (Taylor), and one daughter, Charley White, all of Columbia; 5 Jul 2020 White, 76, of Killingworth, formerly of Middletown, husband of Donna Taylor White, passed away with family by his side on Sunday July 5, 2020 at 27 Jul 2019 Obituary. Homegoing service will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2020 at Avon Avenue Baptist Church, 10902 Avon Ave. Mac was a 1996 graduate of New Castle Chrysler High School, where he was the nation’s winningest high school wrestler. Halbert O. White Taylor, 71, retired teacher and resident of Spainwood Street, died Saturday, September 16. 23061 Phone: 804-693-3101 Fax: 804-693-7844 E-mail: info@gazettejournal. She was currently pursuing her dream of becoming a cosmetologist. Kathryn Taylor White, 26, passed away on Monday, April 2, 2018. She married the love of her life, Timothy Lee Taylor, on May 8, 1975, and shared 45 years of marriage together. and Mary Lou (Stanley) Slaton and passed 18 Nov 2020 Charles I. Cleveland, Ohio 44105 at 11:00 A. Willie Jean White-Taylor, age 85, from St. White Funeral Home 315 Highway 11 South, Poplarville (601) 795-4982 Stephens Funeral Home 205 North Street, Union (601) 774-9291 Lakewood Memorial Parks & Funeral Homes 6011 Clinton Blvd. Jan 02, 2021 · Helen Joyce Hudgens Hopkins, of Morristown, Tennessee formerly of White Pine, Tennessee entered peacefully into eternal rest Sunday, December 27, 2020 with her family by her side. A resident of Tivoli for the past 25 years, she previously lived in Hyde Park & Poughkeepsie. Chance of rain 1… Jan 02, 2021 · STEPHEN CRAIG SHY, DO, MBA, 69, of Huntington, passed away on Sunday, November 15, 2020, at St. Winder , GAMargaret (White) Taylor Margaret White Taylor, age 98, of Hoschton, GA and formerly of Buford, GA passed away on Monday, July 13, 2020. To this union, four Allison & Rose Funeral Homes 5645 Taylor Mill Road, Taylor Mill (859) 356-3700 Arch L. White, 31, of Platteville, Wisconsin, died on August 25, 2020, from the result of a swimming accident on the Mississippi River. 0621 Obituaries and death notices for the Lakeland, FL area from Lakeland Ledger. , Mark Wright, Dwayne Winton, Jacky Wright, Taylor, Norman H. Jim White of Bay City daughter Patsy Plotner of Bay City sons Jerry Leslie Taylor White Obituaries. Clara Suggs Taylor, 87, of Kinston passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by her family, on Thursday, November 19, 2020. 3821 Alternate Phone Number: 877. Taylor, Jr. William "Billy" Chilco, 76, passed away on Monday, December 21, 2020 at Princeton Community Hospital from complications of Covid-19. If you don't see the obituary or death record that you are looking for, use this form to search our entire database. Jan 02, 2021 · Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. Yvonne Taylor-White, 58, of Columbus, GA passed Monday, October 5, 2020 in Columbus, GA. She was born in Burlington, . Facebook gives people the power to Sep 03, 2020 · Obituary. 9 Apr 2018 Taylor White, 21, was killed in, what police are calling, a hit-and-run at and prayers" were with the family of a student who died Sunday night. She graduated from Northfield High School. On Dec. She was born June 8, 1958 in Fort Worth, TX to the late Elbert Gatlin and Patsy Brumley Gatlin. She played a lot of softball and was part of the undefeated Metamora Grade School State Softball Champions in 2007 and the Metamora Township High School Softball Champions in 2010. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Gladys White, please visit Tribute Store. "Taylor was an adventurous guy, who absolutely loved his family, his friends, and his fiance," said Madison Knutson, a friend. Private lab reporting may be delayed and will be reflected in the map and count when results are received at ISDH. Platteville, Wisconsin 53818 (608) 348-2121 2 days ago · Submit An Obituary Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. It has since expanded to include thousands of free obituaries from all 50 states. Leslie Taylor White passed away on September 30, 2019. Minister Thelma Theresa Lyles Taylor, affectionately known as “Thelma T”, was born on September 15, 1937 to the late Rev. Grady is survived by his children, William R. She is survived by her daughter, Cheri Taylor White husband T. , Jackson (601) 922-2123 Obituary John Alan Pickett, age 92 ½, Longwood at Oakmont, formerly of O'Hara Township, died on Tuesday, Dec. She was also predeceased by her sister, Louise Martin. Memorial Service Friday, July 21, 2017 10:00 AM White Family Chapel 3 NE 3rd Street Idabel, OK 74745 Dec 29, 2017 · Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old African-American sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Ala. Teresa White “Terry” Behling, 72, of Oak Island passed away December 14 C. Delve deeper into our other record collections to learn even more. Robert J. She graduated from Temple High School and later married Shelton Taylor in Temple, Oklahoma on March 22, 1963. A rosary service was held at 7 p. O. View The Obituary For ERNESTINE B WHITE of CHICAGO, Illinois. 29, 2020. and Genevieve (Maine) White. Patriot-News obituaries and Death Notices for Harrisburg Pennsylvania area . White, Sr. Moore, and dad, Francis Jamieson. , Thursday at the church. Taylor S. Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. He is preceded in death by Shelby Taylor White COTTAGEVILLE, SC - Shelby Taylor White, 25 of Cottageville, SC passed away May 23, 2020. Memorial services will be held at 2 p. 4, 2020 onward, our daily celebrity news obituaries can be found at Legacy. This page shows only the 20 most recent obituaries in Taylor, Pennsylvania. 26, 2018, she married Dennis K. Click any newspaper name below to see today's obituaries, to search obituaries archives, to post a tribute in a guest book, or to find news obituaries. C. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the largest source for award winning news and opinion that matters to you. Joan Ann White. Don loved amateur TAYLOR, Kathryn White of Auburn, Michigan. This site is updated frequently with free obituaries. A documentary on her case, "The Rape of Recy Taylor," was released this year. Taylor An obituary is not available at this time for Sharonlyn Taylor White. He was born August 20, 1944, in Evening Shade, Arkansas to Elbert Arson and (Wilfong) White who survives. We welcome you to provide your thoughts and memories on our Tribute Wall. TYLER ROBERT WHITE April 3, 2020 Age 24, of Mt. 367. Nov 07, 2002 · Joan K. He was born October 28, 1996 to Jeremy Taylor White and 10 Jul 2020 White of Middletown, four granddaughters Sydney and Kelsey White, Nicole and Taylor Carlone, his brother in-laws, Kenneth Taylor and Douglas 22 Apr 2020 and Madie Perry Taylor and was predeceased by her husband, Lewis T. January 13. He was born on October 10, 1942 in Michigan City, IN to Edward Taylor and Lura (Costello) Taylor, both of whom preceded him in death. Billy worked for Glen Raven Textiles for 43 years and was a proud member of Rivermont Holiness Church. Taylor was owner and operator of Glenda’s Restaurant in Cleveland. Whitfield; brothers, Harry Lee Suggs and Jesse “Jake” Thomas Suggs. 121 subscribers. A Celebration of Life Jan 01, 2021 · Terre Haute Tribune Star - a place for remembering loved ones; a space for sharing memories, life stories, milestones, to express condolences, and celebrate life of your loved ones Obituary Headlines, View current celebrity deaths on Legacy. White County's only Locally Owned Funeral Home. com From Dec. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Katy Marie Taylor, 61, of Wausau, passed away unexpectedly at her home on Sunday, September 6, 2020. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted into the care of the Lakeside Funeral Home & Cremation Care Family, "Where Every Life is Cherished & Every Family is Treasured" Obituary for Yvonne Taylor-White Mrs. com for all paid death notices from The New York Times. Taylor of Little Rock, and Virginia “Jennie” Taylor Smart (Rocky) of Oklahoma; two brothers, James H. Taylor Nicole White was born May 28, 1994 in Sherman Texas. Born June 22, 1947, in Yadkin County, he was a son of the late James Luke Taylor and the late Jesse Adams Taylor. Please join us in Loving, Sharing and Memorializing ERNESTINE B WHITE on this permanent online memorial. Dec 28, 2020 New Gwinnett Sheriff Keybo Taylor formally ends office's 287(g) participation, rapid response team; Snellville Oak, which dates back to Obituary Headlines, View current celebrity deaths on Legacy. 26 Apr 2020 Dr. 2017 at Maury Regional Medical Center. Whatever your needs are, we will be here to see your wishes carried out. She was preceded in death by her parents, and husband Wesley John White. Shelby Taylor White, age 25, entered into eternal rest Saturday evening , May 23, 2020, as a result of injuries sustained during an 30 Jul 2020 Ellison's Obituary. Billy Ray Taylor, 79, of Deep Run, passed away Friday, November 13, 2020. Father Anthony Putti officiated. Obituaries act as quiet reminders of the finite nature of our lives. We will walk beside you each step of the way. Dickie was a good-natured and very generous soul. Whittle passed away Sunday, November 29, 2020. White and Sons Funeral Home & Crema 2727 South 3rd Street, Louisville (502) 637-4474 Arch L. Ms. We are here to help you honor and celebrate their life, and to begin the healing process for your family. Glenda Sue Taylor of Cleveland, Georgia | 1953 - 18 Aug 2020 Garland Taylor, 75 of Searcy died Saturday, August 15, 2020. Born in Shelby County, he was the son of the late Carl Allen Whitehouse, Sr. Sep 29, 2019 · Taylor, Shelia Renee’ entered into eternal rest on September 29, 2019. Mosely and her husband Brian, Thomas S. Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p. He also leaves behind six children, John Taylor White, Jr. We are now focusing our efforts on getting older, harder-to-find obits. net. Pallbearers will be Albert Wright, Richard Moran, Wayne Storey, Joe Clanton, Mardy Bell, Chase Clanton, Cole Clanton and Chance Mrs. West/Dex for 21 years, and Keith Taylor, age 64 passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at Whittier Hospital. Memorial services will be at 2:00 p. Please join us in Loving, Sharing and Memorializing Taylor Nicole White on this Joan K. 20 hrs ago Taylor & Modeen Funeral Home 250 Center Street. , Floyd C. honorary son, Jeff Shaw brother, Willie Langford wife Barbara grandchildren Dylan MARCELLO, TAYLOR D, 27, of Coventry, RI passed away with her loving family by her side, on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at Kent County Hospital, Warwick RI. Funeral service will be held 2:00 p. Featuring up to the minute breaking news and the most in-depth Razorback, business, and Jun 30, 2015 · According to Martin County Sheriff John Kirk, Sue Bob White and Virginia White walked into the Martin County, KY Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 to pay a bond for Sue Bob’s boyfriend Eric White, who was behind bars in Laurel County, KY. She was a 1964 graduate of Marshall County High School and attended Belmont University for three years. We are here to help you in your time of need. Obituaries ; Caroline L. He was a member of the Open Heart Assembly of God in Farmington and Gideons International. Taylor Nicole White was born on Saturday, May 28, 1994 and passed away on Monday, 5 Jan 2020 Norris Funeral Services Inc and Crematory - Mount Hermon Chapel Obituary. Taylor Layne White Obituary Remember Taylor Layne White. 17. 1938 - 2020 Obituary Tucson George John Wonders, long time resident of Tucson, Arizona, born June 23, 1938 in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, left this world behind for his eternal rest on Wednesday, December 23, 2020 after a battle with Covid pneumonia. She was born May 17, 1955, in Sunbury, a daughter of the late Marlin and Phyllis (Kriner) Haupt. Taylor graduated from Millbury High School in 1952 and enlisted into the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1956, whereby he was honorably discharged with the rank First Class. Wiggins, Sybil S. Eric Buress officiating. dirian31. (Jim) Taylor, Jr. James Monroe Taylor, 73, of High Point, passed away Monday, August 31, 2020, at his home. Friends may call from 11 a. , Jr. Gayle A. Reverend Regina Hickman will conduct the service. ABBOTT, Robert I. Born February 2, 1981 in Olney, he was the son of William and Cheryl (Carleton) White. D. org, results can include full name, birth date and place, death date and place, occupation, spouses name and The Real Jackie Kennedy Her style and grace were legendary, and her image came to define the 1960s. Find the obituary of Taylor Virginia Marie White (1990 - 2018) from Asheville, NC. Served with the RAF Air Traffic Control Peacefully on Friday September 13, 2019 at Sunrise Assisted Living, Burlington. Browse Obituaries and Death Records in White Hall, Maryland Thomas Carl Wieciech , 73 - Mar 18, 2020 Jesse L. John, beloved husband of 68 years to Marjorie nee Kingston. Taylor and Doyce E. She was born in Clear Springs, Missouri on February 2. 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She is preceded in death by her maternal grandmother, Marcelle Peach Neal maternal Browse Obituaries and Death Records in Florida Select a city or town in Florida from the alphabetized list below. Kathryn passed away November 23, 2011 in Auburn MI. Age 55 of Taylor. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share 16 Aug 2020 Barrett Funeral Home. Tonight's weather conditions in Richmond: Cloudy skies with periods of rain after midnight. She was 25 years old. at Knob Creek Cemetery with Reverend Tony Brown officiating. on Saturday, September 5, 2020 at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville. Our funeral home staff is ready to serve your family day or night. 2929 Scenic Hwy, Baton Rouge (504) 943-6621 Rhodes Funeral Home - Gretna 1020 Virgil St. Interment will follow in Green Acres Cemetery. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you 27 Apr 2020 Obituary. The family relocated to San Antonio, Texas making this their home. Please join us in Loving, Sharing and Memorializing Linda Sue Taylor on this 22 Mar 2020 Taylor's Obituary. Burial will be held at Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery. 27, 2020, at her home. “Sally” White, age 88, of Hot Springs Village, passed away Oct. White | Mark A. 5213 The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home has been serving families of all faiths since 1925. He was born July 11, 1962 to the union of Leola (Pertilla) White and Lloyd Taylor White 16 Sep 2020 Born in Charleston, he was the son of Gayle Young White and the James Thomas "Tommy" White, 64, husband of Melissa "Boo" Holmes White, died M. Taylor was a US Marine Corps veteran and retired from Old Dominion Freight Lines. She was born January 7, 1916 to the late William and Suzie (Darling) White in Saginaw MI. , 93, passed away on Thursday, May 8, 2014. Ellison was the Beloved Wife of the Late 12 Oct 2018 Obituary. and Hilton Taylor Jr. Ricky Taylor White, 22 of Lubbock passed away Monday, July 23, 2019. She married Garry Arland Taylor on January 7th, Aug 16, 2020 · Mrs. White, 31, of Platteville, Wisconsin, died on August 25 , 2020, from the result of a swimming accident on the 1 tree planted in memory of Taylor Nicole White. Apr 26, 2020 · Stephen Taylor White August 3, 1945 – April 26, 2020 Dr. She was predeceased by her parents Delores A. She was preceded in death by her parents, Maude Suggs and Harry T. Dec 14, 2020 · Eric Taylor White Obituary Here is Eric Taylor White’s obituary. Lee's Funeral Home Obituaries, Recent in White Plains, NY McMahon, Lyon & Hartnett Funeral Home Obituaries, Recent in White Plains, NY New York Deaths and Burials 1795-1952 a free search of over 700,000 death records at FamilySearch. 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She was fearless in 17 Feb 2020 WALDO FUNERAL HOME - SHERMAN Obituary. W. Clifford proudly served his country in the United States Army. and Marquita Hill Stewart in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Obituary Published on January 1, 2021 Funeral services for Mr. O. A memorial gathering will be held Saturday Jan 2, 2021 at the Nazarene Church, 1103 N. She is preceded in death by her maternal grandmother, Marcelle Peach Neal maternal Sep 29, 2020 · Doris Jean Taylor, 74, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and friend, passed away Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at her home. Trevor Gore officiating. and Sarah E. 702. She was united in Holy Matrimony to Mr. 13 Jun 2020 He was born in Logan County, Kentucky on October 12, 1932 to the late Leslie Lasco “Dink” White and Dovie Mae (Taylor) White. He was born November 4, 1977 in New Castle, one of two children of Stephen Lee and Susan Diane Smith Taylor. Stephen Taylor White born August 3, 1945, left this earth on April 26, 2020, due to the effects of the Covid-19 virus. Obituaries. Taylor, 63, of Mason City, passed away on January 9, 2020 at MercyOne Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. 753. Mr. Sep 02, 2020 · Sep 2, 2020 PLATTEVILLE, Wis. Subscribe to Obituaries ← Previous Obituaries: More Obituaries → Get alerted to new obituaries added to Join our mailing list [email protected] 807 Carlos Parker Blvd. Oct 03, 2020 · Henry's Obituary. Boyer & Son Funeral Homes are proud to announce they have purchased Taylor Funeral Service, Inc. Leathel F. 13 Mar 2020 James Taylor White, VI, 74, a lifelong resident of Stowell, passed to Clara Mae Kahla White and James Taylor White, V, in Galveston. in Whitney, Tx. Alexander - White - Mullen Funeral Home 11101 Saint Charles Rock Road, St. Taylor (Trish) of Mississippi, James E. Wilson . Saturday. Son of Thomas and Ann Taylor. From Dec. Ressie Lee Taylor White was born May 1,1928 in Winona, Texas to the parentage of Hattie & Moody Taylor. Jeff Watkins officiating. Oct 28, 2017 · The White family has been hailed as America’s last outlaw family, which is exactly why the creators of Jackass made a documentary about the West Virginia natives in 2009. Charles E. Submit an Obituary. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and raped by six white men. Australian death notices, funeral notices, obituaries and funeral directors across Australia can be quickly and easily found on Obits. Also survived by brother, Duval Moore, sister, Giovanna Bonefont (Jayson), nieces, Asia and Alecia Bonefont, grandmother, Janet Moore. Z. , Friday, October 9, at St. Box 98, Highway 11-E, Jonesborough, Tennessee 37659 Office: 423. Please see the notice that Dave and Ann Taylor shared with the families they have served for years We have sold our firm to CZ Boyer & Sons Funeral Homes and effective April 1, 2018, they took over day-to-day operations. Originally from England, John retired from the Manpower and Immigration offices of the Federal Government here in Canada. Box 2060 Gloucester, Va. Swank, 65, of Danville passed away Sunday, Dec. in 1949. Iris “Karen” (Taylor) Egler, 68, of Coshocton passed away in her home on Friday November 5th, 2020. Jan 02, 2021 · Last updated noon Saturday, Jan. , passed away Tuesday in Dublin. Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home and Cremation Services P. , on Sept. Celebrate and remember the lives we have lost in Taylor, Michigan. Monday. Born in Providence, Taylor was the daughter of Jennifer Marcello-Cook of Coventry, RI Joseph R Plasse of N. In addition to parents, she was preceded in death by brothers, Steve Allen and Ronnie Allen. She was born on Aug. and his wife, Lindsay, daughter Kathryn C. White, 41 of and Stephen White of Ilion; nieces and nephews; Taylor White, Mardi Grau, 8 Jun 2019 Obituary for Charles "Wayne" White | Charles “Wayne” White, 62, loving Hilyer and Taylor White; two grandchildren, Harris and Margo Hilyer; 17 Nov 2019 Allen Keith Taylor Sewell, N. Ruthie White 21 Sep 2019 Obituary for James "A. Jul 30, 2020 · Ellison's Obituary. Saturday at the funeral home. Andrew was in the first graduating class at Urbana High School in 1999. Richard “Dickie” Taylor, 82, of West Bend, passed away on November 18, 2020, at Froedtert Hospital in West Bend. Taylor loved music, was an avid reader, and a classic cinema buff. — Taylor S. Alyson Lindsey Taylor-White. She was a faithful member of Rome Baptist Church and baptized at the age of 2. Father of Liam Richmond and Jamie Alexander Taylor. She captured the hearts of world leaders, fashion icons and people all over the planet, who knew her as Jackie Kennedy, Jacqueline Onassis, or simply Jackie O. 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Slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) devices and photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
Paul W. Juodawlkis
Jason J. Plant
Mark A. Hollis
Douglas C. Oakley
Antonio Napoleone
William Loh
Jonathan Klamkin
Frederick J. O'Donnell
Sivasubramaniam S. Yegnanarayanan
2013 IEEE Photonics Conf. (IPC), 8-12 September 2013.
We review recent advances in the development of slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) devices, progress toward a flexible photonic integration platform containing both conventional high-confinement and SCOW ultra-low confinement devices, and applications of this technology.
High-power, low-noise 1.5-um slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) emitters: physics, devices, and applications
Leo J. Missaggia
Juliet T. Gopinath
Daniel J. Ripin
Sangyoun Gee
Peter J. Delfyett
Joseph P. Donnelly
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., Vol,. 17, No. 6, November/December 2011, pp. 1698-1714.
We review the development of a new class of high-power, edge-emitting, semiconductor optical gain medium based on the slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) concept. We restrict the scope to InP-based devices incorporating either InGaAsP or InGaAlAs quantum-well active regions and operating in the 1.5-μm-wavelength region. Key properties of the SCOW gain medium include large transverse optical mode dimensions (>;5 × 5 μm), ultralow optical confinement factor (Γ ~ 0.25-1%), and small internal loss coefficient (α i ~ 0.5 cm-1). These properties have enabled the realization of 1) packaged Watt-class semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) having low-noise figure (4-5 dB), 2) monolithic passively mode-locked lasers generating 0.25-W average output power, 3) external-cavity fiber-ring actively mode-locked lasers exhibiting residual timing jitter of
We review the development of a new class of high-power, edge-emitting, semiconductor optical gain medium based on the slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) concept. We restrict the scope to InP-based devices incorporating either InGaAsP or InGaAlAs quantum-well active regions and operating in the 1.5-μm-wavelength region. Key properties of the SCOW gain...
Uni-traveling-carrier variable confinement waveguide photodiodes
Shannon M. Madison
Michael J. Sheehan
Janice M. Caissie
Opt. Express, Vol. 19, No. 11, 23 May 2011, pp. 10199-10205.
Uni-traveling-carrier waveguide photodiodes (PDs) with a variable optical confinement mode size transformer are demonstrated. The optical mode is large at the input for minimal front-end saturation and the mode transforms as the light propagates so that the absorption profile is optimized for both high-power and high-speed performance. Two differently designed PDs are presented. PD A demonstrates a 3-dB bandwidth of 12.6 GHz, and saturation currents of 40 mA at 1 GHz and 34 mA at 10 GHz. PD B demonstrates a 3-dB bandwidth of 2.5 GHz, a saturation current greater than 100 mA at 1 GHz, a peak RF output power of + 19 dBm, and a third-order output intercept point of 29.1 dBm at a photocurrent of 60 mA.
Uni-traveling-carrier waveguide photodiodes (PDs) with a variable optical confinement mode size transformer are demonstrated. The optical mode is large at the input for minimal front-end saturation and the mode transforms as the light propagates so that the absorption profile is optimized for both high-power and high-speed performance. Two differently designed...
Uniformity study of wafer-scale InP-to-silicon hybrid integration
David C. Chapman
Youii Li
Chad Brubaker
Carl Mann
Omri Raday
John E. Bowers
Appl. Phys. A, Mat. Sci. & Process., Vol. 103, No. 1, April 2011, pp. 213-218.
In this paper we study the uniformity of up to 150 mm in diameter wafer-scale III-V epitaxial transfer to the Si-on-insulator substrate through the O2 plasma-enhanced low-temperature (300°C) direct wafer bonding. Void-free bonding is demonstrated by the scanning acoustic microscopy with sub-um resolution. The photoluminescence (PL) map shows less than 1 nm change in average peak wavelength, and even improved peak intensity (4% better) and full width at half maximum (41% better) after 150 mm in diameter epitaxial transfer. Small and uniformly distributed residual strain in all sizes of bonding, which is measured by high-resolution X-ray diffraction Omega- 2Theta mapping, and employment of a two-period InP-InGaAsP superlattice at the bonding interface contributes to the improvement of PL response. Preservation of multiple quantum-well integrity is also verified by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy.
In this paper we study the uniformity of up to 150 mm in diameter wafer-scale III-V epitaxial transfer to the Si-on-insulator substrate through the O2 plasma-enhanced low-temperature (300°C) direct wafer bonding. Void-free bonding is demonstrated by the scanning acoustic microscopy with sub-um resolution. The photoluminescence (PL) map shows less than...
Microwave photonic applications of slab-coupled optical waveguide devices
2010 23rd Annual Mtg. of the IEEE Photonics Society, 10 November 2010, pp. 479-480.
The semiconductor slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) concept is a versatile device platform that has enabled new classes of high-power, low-noise single-frequency lasers, mode-locked lasers, optical amplifiers, and photodiodes for analog optical links and photonic analog-to-digital converters.
High-quality 150 nm InP-to-silicon epitaxial transfer for silicon photonic integrated circuits
Chang-Lee Chen
Electrochem. Solid-State Lett., Vol. 12, No. 4, January 2009, pp. H101-H104.
semiconductor (CMOS)
We demonstrate the transfer of the largest (150 mm in diameter) available InP-based epitaxial structure to the silicon-on-insulator substrate through a direct wafer-bonding process. Over 95% bonding yield and a void-free bonding interface was obtained. A multiple quantum-well diode laser structure is well-preserved after bonding, as indicated by the high-resolution X-ray diffraction measurement and photoluminescence (PL) map. A bowing of 64.12 um is measured, resulting in a low bonding-induced strain of 17 MPa. PL measurement shows a standard deviation of 1.09% across the entire bonded area with less than 1.1 nm wavelength shift from the as-grown wafer.
We demonstrate the transfer of the largest (150 mm in diameter) available InP-based epitaxial structure to the silicon-on-insulator substrate through a direct wafer-bonding process. Over 95% bonding yield and a void-free bonding interface was obtained. A multiple quantum-well diode laser structure is well-preserved after bonding, as indicated by the high-resolution...
Slab-coupled optical waveguide photodiode
CLEO-QELS, 2008 Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conf., 4-9 May 2008.
We report the first high-current photodiode based on the slab-coupled optical waveguide concept. The device has a large mode (5.8 x 7.6 um) and ultra-low optical confinement ([] ~ 0.05%), allowing a 2-mm absorption length. The maximum photocurrent obtained was 250 mA (R = 0.8-A/W) at 1.55 um.
Afterpulsing in Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes for 1.06um wavelength
Katharine E. Jensen
Pablo I. Hopman
Erik K. Duerr
Eric A. Dauler
Steven H. Groves
Leonard J. Mahoney
K. Alexander McIntosh
Karen M. Molvar
Simon Verghese
Christopher J. Vineis
Richard D. Younger
Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 88, No. 13, 27 March 2006, pp. 133503-1 - 133503-3.
We consider the phenomenon of afterpulsing in avalanche photodiodes (APDs) operating in gated and free-running Geiger mode. An operational model of afterpulsing and other noise characteristics of APDs predicts the noise behavior observed in the free-running mode. We also use gated-mode data to investigate possible sources of afterpulsing in these devices. For 30-um-diam, 1.06-um-wavelength InGaAsP/InP APDs operated at 290 K and 4 V overbias, we obtained a dominant trap lifetime of td=0.32 us, a trap energy of 0.11 eV, and a baseline dark count rate 245 kHz.
We consider the phenomenon of afterpulsing in avalanche photodiodes (APDs) operating in gated and free-running Geiger mode. An operational model of afterpulsing and other noise characteristics of APDs predicts the noise behavior observed in the free-running mode. We also use gated-mode data to investigate possible sources of afterpulsing in these...
InGaAsP/InP quantum-well electrorefractive modulators with sub-volt V[pi]
Robert J. Bailey
Kevin G. Ray
Michael R. Watts
Gary E. Betts
SPIE Vol. 5435, Enabling Photonic Technologies for Aerospace Applications VI, 12-16 April 2004, pp. 53-63.
Advanced analog-optical sensor, signal processing and communication systems could benefit significantly from wideband (DC to > 50 GHz) optical modulators having both low half-wave voltage (V[pi]) and low optical insertion loss. An important figure-of-merit for modulators used in analog applications is TMAX/V[pi], where TMAX is the optical transmission of the modulator when biased for maximum transmission. Candidate electro-optic materials for realizing these modulators include lithium niobate (LiNbO3), polymers, and semiconductors, each of which has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we report the development of 1.5-um-wavelength Mach-Zehnder modulators utilizing the electrorefractive effect in InGaAsP/InP symmetric, uncoupled semiconductor quantum-wells. Modulators with 1-cm-long, lumped-element electrodes are found to have a push-pull V[pi] of 0.9V (V[pi]L = 9 V-mm) and 18-dB fiber-to-fiber insertion loss (TMAX/V[pi] = 0.018). Fabry-Perot cutback measurements reveal a waveguide propagation loss of 7 dB/cm and a waveguide-to-fiber coupling loss of 5 dB/facet. The relatively high propagation loss results from a combination of below-bandedge absorption and scattering due to waveguide-sidewall roughness. Analyses show that most of the coupling loss can be eliminated though the use of monolithically integrated invertedtaper optical-mode converters, thereby allowing these modulators to exceed the performance of commercial LiNbO3 modulators (TMAX/V[pi] ~ 0.1). We also report the analog modulation characteristics of these modulators.
Advanced analog-optical sensor, signal processing and communication systems could benefit significantly from wideband (DC to > 50 GHz) optical modulators having both low half-wave voltage (V[pi]) and low optical insertion loss. An important figure-of-merit for modulators used in analog applications is TMAX/V[pi], where TMAX is the optical transmission of the...
1.5-um Tapered-Gain-Region Lasers with High-CW Output Powers
James N. Walpole
Robert E. Reeder
Christopher C. Cook
IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1998, pp. 1377-1379.
High-power diode lasers consisting of a ridge-waveguide section coupled to a tapered region have been fabricated in 1.5um InGaAsP-InP multiple-quantum-well material. Self-focusing at high current densities and high-intensity input into the taper section has been identified as a fundamental problem in these devices that has to be dealt with. To date, continuous-wave output powers>1 W with=80% of the power in the near-diffraction-limited central lobe of the far field have been obtained through a judicious choice of device parameters.
High-power diode lasers consisting of a ridge-waveguide section coupled to a tapered region have been fabricated in 1.5um InGaAsP-InP multiple-quantum-well material. Self-focusing at high current densities and high-intensity input into the taper section has been identified as a fundamental problem in these devices that has to be dealt with. To...
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Mathias Bengtsson’s works in carbon fiber break down the traditional distinction in design between skin and structure: here, the two are identical. The light, semi-transparent structure of Spun Chaise, Chair and Table in carbon fiber belies the extraordinary strength of the carbon. Mathias Bengtsson spins a single carbon fiber into a slender, mesh-like layer that weaves a cylindrical, very organic shape. The process of filament winding is ordinarily used to create the fuel tanks for rockets and missiles. This process is best suited to what the designer calls “natural geometrical shapes”. Bengtsson’s technique is almost to create a skeleton of an object, rendering its form both graphic and elusive.
Mathias Bengtsson b. 1971 in Denmark, designs and produces sculptural design pieces that are both visually striking and technically innovative. Working with diverse industrial materials and processes, Bengtsson pushes forward the sculptural, technical, and philosophical possibilities of three-dimensional design. Always seeking to take his thinking in new directions, Mathias Bengtsson breaks down established boundaries between design, art, craft and technology.
Museum collections:
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA ; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA ; The Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA ; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA ; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA ; Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Canada ; Frank Cohan Collection, Manchester, UK ; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK ; The Lowery, Manchester, UK ; Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, UK ; Röhsska Museet, Goteborg, Sweden ; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Spun Table
Carbon-fibre and glass
H 35 cm. D 90 cm
Limited edition of 20 ex
Mathias Bengtsson was born in Copenhagen in 1971 and studied furniture design at the Danish College of Design and the Art Centre College in Switzerland before returning to Copenhagen to form the design collective known as “Panic”. Bengtsson went to London in 1996 to study under Ron Arad at the Royal College of Art where he obtained a degree in 1999 before opening with fellow graduates the design studio “At the Third Stroke” and a year later the “Design Laboratory” in partnership with Sam Buxton. In 2002, Bengtsson opened his own studio.
Mathias Bengtsson makes sculptural objects that are both visually striking and technically innovative. Working with diverse industrial materials and processes, he pushes forward the sculptural, technical, and philosophical possibilities of three-dimensional design. Always seeking to take his thinking in new directions, Bengtsson breaks down established boundaries between design, art, craft and technology.
Bengtsson has since the beginning of his artistic career in the 1990s been inspired by natural forms. His early pieces such as the “Slice” and “Spun Chairs” are marvellous examples of organic design, reflecting the heritage from Scandinavian mid-century design masters such as Finn Juhl and Verner Panton. Certain parallels have already been noticed between Juhl, Panton and Bengtsson in their sculptural approach to design, and in 2011 Bengtsson received the acclaimed Finn Juhl Prize of the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation.
However, with the Cellular Chair (2011) in lightweight resin and the Growth Chair (2012) in solid bronze, Bengtsson takes the idea of organic design to another level because as the titles imply, these works are based on the evolution of organic life itself. By means of a computer program, designed by the artist, the structure of the piece is determined uniquely for each piece to simulate the regeneration of bone tissue or vegetal growth, to create a strong, stable construction.
There is something truly ambitious, audacious and crazily inventive in Bengtsson’s efforts to breach the barriers between nature and human artifice. Creating forms that are analogous to Nature (and no longer an imitation) by using Nature’s own secrets and laws of growth is a Promethean enterprise, and his latest works from the Cellular and the Growth series are masterfully illustrating the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial.
His pieces occupy a room like individual sculptural units, and often they even exceed their functional dimension, albeit without cancelling it. But even though one can still sit in his pieces, comfort is not exactly a priority here. As Bengtsson once said: “The functions of providing optimal comfort and convenience have long been solved – the study of ergonomics was completed in the 1960s,” he argues. “My furniture is about challenging our senses: that is its function.” Indeed, Bengtsson has indeed since the 1990’s, and before the trendy “design art” concept entered the scene, been toning down the boundaries between design, art and craft while focusing on a mutual exchange between these traditionally separated dimensions.
Bengtsson’s artistic impact on the design field has not passed by unnoticed. Curators of art museums on both sides of the Atlantic have been showing his works extensively both in fine art and design contexts such as in the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Design Museum in London and the Rohsska Museum in Göteborg. Moreover his pieces have been boughtfrom an early stage by a number of significant museums such as the MOMA, The Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; The Manchester Art Galleries, England; Indianapolis museum of art, USA; Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, USA, the Milwaukee Art Museum, USA and lately the Centre Pompidou in Paris France.
1999 MA Royal College of Art, Furniture/Industrial Design, London
1997 BA Danish Design School, Furniture Design, Copenhagen
1994 Art Centre College, Europe / Vehicle Design, Montreux
Centre Pompidou, Paris / MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA/ The Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA / High museum of Art, Atlanta, USA/ Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA / Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Canada/ Frank Cohan Collection, Manchester, UK / Manchester Art Galleries, Manchester, UK / The Lowery , Manchester UK / Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, UK / Röhsska Design Museum, Sweden / Stedelijk Museum, Holland / Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Born in Denmark 1971.
2018 : Designmuseum Danemark, Conpenhagen, Denmark
2017 : Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris France / Growth, Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris France.
2015 : Art Genève, Maria Wettergren, Geneva, Switzerland/ PAD Paris, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Paris, France.
2014 : PAD Paris, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Paris, France / Design Miami /Art Basel, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Basel, Switzerland / The Salon ART+DESIGN, Maria Wettergren, New York, USA/ Design Miami/ Art Basel, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Miami, USA
2013 : Salone del Mobile, Mind Craft 13, Milan, Italy / PAD Paris, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Paris, France
2012 : High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA / PAD London, Maria Wettergren Galerie, London, UK / Art Basel, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Schweiz / Museum of fine Art, Houston, USA / The Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA / Miami Art Basel, Maria Wettergren Galerie, Miami, USA
Industry Gallery, Washington DC, USA / Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA
2011 : V&A / Moss Gallery, Industrial Revolution 2.0, London, UK / Salone de Mobile, Mindcrafts 11, Milan, Italy
2010 : European design, Indianapolis Museum of art, USA / Nordic models + Common ground, Scandinavian house, New York, USA / 100% Design, Mint Gallery, London, UK / Bienal Brasileira de Design, Danish Design, Curitiba, Brasil / Poetic Licence, Moss Gallery, New York, USA
Spazio, Rossana Orlandi, Danish Crafts, Milan, Italy / Its a small world, World Expo/Danish pavilion, Shanghai, China
2009 : Its a small world, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark / Frize, London Art Fair, London, UK / Mathias Bengtsson, The Hub-Center for Art & Design, UK / European Design Exhibition, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
2008 : Modern Master Pieces, Christies, New York, USA / Equestrian Park, Olympic Games, Hong Kong, China / 20-21st Century Design, Phillips, London, UK
2007 : 21st Century Collection, MoMA, New York, USA / Cooper-Hewitt, ICFF, New York, USA / Art Council, Touring Exhibition, UK / CC 11, ICFF, New York, USA
2006 : Modern Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA / Salone del Mobile, Wallpaper* Global Edit, Milan, Italy / Embassy of Denmark’s Nordic Pavillion, Berlin, Germeny / CC 10, MoMA, New York, USA
2005 : Fiction Hotel, Culture House, Stockholm, Sweden / Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, USA / Britannia Preview, Rove Gallery, London, UK / Mathias Bengtsson, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden / 20-21st Century Design, Phillips, New York, USA
2004 : Manchester Art Galleries, UK / Outdoor Furniture, Louisa Guinness Gallery, London, UK
Radical Design, Galerie Kreo, Paris, France / Great Brits, British Council, Sao Paulo, Brasil
New Talent, Art Review, London, UK
2003 : Great Brits, Tokyo Designers Block, Tokyo / Somewhere Totally Else, Design Museum, London / Salone del Mobile, Great Brits, Paul Smith HQ, Milan / Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s, London, UK
2002 : Unexpected Too, Sotheby’s, New York, USA / The Adventures of Aluminium, Design Museum, London, UK / Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Canada / Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, UK / Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s, London, UK
2001 : Unexpected, Sotheby’s, New York, USA / Design Now, Design Museum, London, UK / Peugeot Design Award, Oxo Tower, London, UK
2000 : Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s, London, UK / Design Museum, London, UK / 100% Design, London, UK / Blueprint Award, Spectrum, London, UK
1999 : Salone del Mobile, Post Design, Memphis Gallery, Milan, Italy
Audi/Bang & Olufsen / British Council / Central Saint Martins / Christie’s / Biomega /Danish Crafts / DDC / Design Museum / Fritz Hansen / Georg Jensen /Habitat / Kenzo / Louis Poulsen Lighting / MoMA / Moss / Paul Smith / Phillips De Pury /Royal College of Art / Sotheby’s / Volvo
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Posted in Miscellaneous on October 23, 2017
Kingston-upon-Hull residents Russ Litten and Steve Cobby have been on what we call a “roll” since merging their talents as a one-off a couple of years back. For those who don’t know them, Russ is a novelist, poet, teacher, organizer and all-round sage; Steve is a musician, with decades of credibility behind him from his work as half of Fila Brazilia and co-owner of Pork Recordings. Together, Cobby & Litten are exactly what you would hope for: proper stand-up poetry set to proper down-tempo grooves.
Boothferry is the name of a village outside Hull, but as Boothferry Park it was also the home to the city’s football team until they moved into the KC Stadium. “Boothferry” the album, easily the duo’s strongest work to date, is very much rooted in the working class life of the East Riding, though if you put aside Litten’s local accent, tracks like “(Not Another) Urban Mystic” – which, according to Litten’s unpublished sleeve notes, “started off as an imagined conversation between a Dad and his daughter’s new boyfriend and sort of veered off into a reverie about wasted winter mornings on the dole in various flats and shared gaffs, smoking too much herb and ruminating on inner space” – are relatively universal, at least in the UK. And for those who take the time to listen, “Tak Promin” (Czech for “I am so sorry”) is a totally true story. It’s a good ‘un.
As a major bonus, “Boothferry” tacks on the duo’s previous EP, “RIME,” which was commissioned for John Grant’s North Atlantic Flux Festival, part of the whole Hull as Euro City of Culture thing that has graced the great north-eastern metropolis and surrounding area through 2017. Per the “Boothferry” vinyl (oddly these words are not included on the CD), “RIME is a four part musical narrative inspired by the Triple Trawler Tragedy of 1969 that saw 58 fishermen from Hull lose their lives in treacherous conditions in Arctic waters.” Knowing as much makes that more sense of the lyrics, and especially the long, emotional gospel finale, “Home.”
I recommend picking up “Boothferry” on CD or vinyl – it just sounds better that way – but if you choose to go the Bandcamp route (per the link below), you’ll get a couple of bonus cuts into the bargain. At £6 (or US equivalent), you’re getting a steal. Skip a pint this week (or two pints if you frequent Nelly’s in Beverley) and support your musical artisans. Cheers.
Boothferry by Cobby & Litten
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Mum’s disbelief as 8-year-old son’s headaches and sickness turns out to be brain tumour
Riley before his surgery (Image: Family photo)
An eight-year-old boy almost died after headaches and sickness he had been complaining about turned out be a brain tumour.
Riley Quinn, from Sheffield, has always been a fit and healthy boy and has never been seriously ill, his mum said.
But a couple of months ago he began suffering with headaches and sickness – and his mum couldn't believe it when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Emily Brook, 30, claimed doctors originally said it was migraines and she had to make sure that Riley was remembering to wear his glasses.
But when her little boy started to be sick before eating food, complaining of a 'funny smell' when he woke up and starting to lose weight fast she called the doctors again.
They said he would be sent for a CT scan to rule anything out but was rushed into hospital on December 23, 2020, when Emily rang doctors again concerned.
It was then that doctors confirmed the devastating news that Riley had a brain tumour, Yorkshire Live reports.
Riley and his mum Emily Brook before his surgery to remove the tumour
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Emily said: "I just couldn't believe it.
"You read of these things happening to other parents and you just never think that it is going to happen to you.
"Riley has always been a really fit and healthy boy and has never been seriously ill.
"To look at him you would have never thought he had a brain tumour.
"His step dad Marc took him into hospital as I had to look after our nine-month-old baby but when 10 to 15 professionals started to look at Riley through the window we knew it wasn't good news."
Riley was admitted into hospital that day but doctors couldn't perform an MRI scan as his heart rate dipped suddenly.
An emergency drain was fitted the next day on Christmas Eve to drain away the spinal fluid that had become trapped and was building up pressure.
A gofundme page has been set up to help the family
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Covid-stricken mum and daughter hold hands in intensive care – 24hrs before mum dies
Emily added: "He seemed OK after that but he started to look really poorly in his face and I think his body had finally given up after trying to keep strong for so long.
"But he wasn't allowed home for Christmas Day which was obviously really heartbreaking.
"He was taken in for an operation on December 29 to remove the tumour, most of it was removed apart from a tiny slither which was attached to his brain stem.
"Riley still can't talk or move much and his tongue has really swollen up since the surgery but doctors expect him to make a full recovery.
"At the moment we can't see past taking each day as it comes, its been so hard to see him like that, not like the Riley we know.
"Right now it's just heartbreaking but his progress from day to day has been remarkable."
Riley after his surgery to remove the tumour
Doctors believe that Riley should make a full recovery within a few weeks.
But now the family have to begin the anxious wait to find out if the tumour is cancerous.
Emily said: "A biopsy has been taken of the tumour and we should hopefully have those results back next week.
"But for now its just an anxious wait.
"When we first told Riley about his diagnosis the first thing he asked was 'it is cancer?' so now we're just praying that it is benign.
"For now we're just taking it everyday as it comes.
"I feel awful because I didn't believe him at first and I thought he was faking it and I should have called the doctors sooner than I did.
"Riley was begging me not to phone anyone, but I will never forgive myself.
"I just really want to raise awareness now to make sure that you listen to your children, even if they're adamant nothing is wrong just ring the doctors anyway."
A Go Fund Me page has been set up by Emily's cousin Beth Storey to help the family through this difficult time.
Emily is currently on maternity leave with her nine-month-old son and her partner Marc can't work at the moment due to the pandemic.
So far over £2,000 has been raised for them.
Emily said: "My cousin actually set it up as we're very proud people and we don't like asking or even accepting help.
"I'll only take a few lifts from people here and there.
"So she set it up on our behalf as it was just something that we would have never done."
You can donate to the fundraising page for Riley's family here.
For now the family will wait to hear back from the biopsy on the tumour and focus on Riley's recovery from his surgery.
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Some Interesting Things About JavaScript
In JavaScript, functions are objects. They can be passed as arguments and be used as return values.
JavaScript is a prototype-based language. Object-oriented programming languages fall into one of two categories. There are class-based languages, like Visual Basic.NET, C# and Java, and prototype-based languages, like JavaScript. Prototype-based languages don't instantiate a new object on the basis of a class definition. They construct a new object by cloning the object's prototype.
JavaScript in HTML
The <script> Element
There are two ways to use the <script> element. One, embed JavaScript code directly into the document or, two, include JavaScript from an external file. To include inline JavaScript code, place JavaScript code inside the <script> element directly:
function hello() {
alert("Hello, World!");
hello();
The JavaScript code contained inside a <script> element is interpreted from top to bottom. The rest of the document content is not loaded and/or displayed until after all of the code inside the <script> element has been evaluated.
Before the modern browsers of today, it was neccessary to enclose the JavaScript in comment tags to prevent browsers that do not support the <script> tag from displaying the JavaScript code in the document. Though it may still work, this is no longer needed. The following is an example of this:
// --></script>
When utilizing inline JavaScript code, one can not have the string "</script>" anywhere in your code. The following code causes an error when loaded:
function sayScript(){
alert("</script>");
sayScript();
The browser sees the string "</script>" as if it were the closing </script> tag, but this problem can be easily avoided by escaping the "/" character:
alert("<\/script>");
The src attribute is required to include JavaScript from an external file. The value of src is a URI linked to a file containing JavaScript code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="example.js"></script>
An external file named example.js is loaded into the document in this example. The file itself need only contain the JavaScript code that would occur between the opening <script> and closing </script> tags. Processing of the document is halted until the external file is interpreted. There is also time taken to download it. One can omit the closing tag in XHTML documents:
<script type="text/javascript" src="example.js" />
Because it is invalid HTML and won't be handled properly by some browsers, this syntax should not be used in HTML documents.
Much like an <img> element, the <script> element's src attribute may be set to a full URI that exists outside the domain on which the HTML document exists.
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'Breaking Bad' Spanish Remake Confirmed
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Diego Trujillo will play Walter Blanco in the "Breaking Bad" remake "Metástasis." (Twitter)
What should the lead character of a Spanish "Breaking Bad" remake be named? Sony Pictures Television chose the most literal translation possible: Walter Blanco.
Add Jose (Jesse), Cielo (Skylar) and Henry Navarro (Hank), and you have the ingredients for a fresh batch of the addictive series.
Diego Trujillo will play Walter Blanco in the Spanish remake "Metástasis," alongside Sandra Reyes as Cielo, Roberto Urbina as Jose and Julian Arango as Henry Navarro.
But aside from the character's names, how closely will "Metástasis" echo "Breaking Bad?"
Angela Guerra told The Hollywood Reporter that the producers of the remake have consulted with Vince Gilligan, and plan for the first episodes of the series to stay true to the original series. There are just a few changes in the works. Since motorhomes are not popular in Colombia, Walter's RV meth lab will instead be a decrepit and "barely drivable" school bus.
Regarding the decision to remake the series, Guerra said that though the cable system in Latin America limited the distribution of "Breaking Bad" when it originally aired, "there is a universality to the story and its characters that we recognized could work very well."
Sony has already presold the first season of "Metástasis" to all major Spanish-speaking markets in Latin America, and the series will also air on the American network UniMas.
Sony reports that no other remakes are in the works at this time.
"Breaking Bad" had its swan song on Sunday, to a whirlwind of excitement on the Internet. Sony is hoping to have a similar effect on its Latin American audience. Twitter fans are definitely talking—in both Spanish and English.
Sony has released a trailer (in English) promoting the new series.
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Crop Agronomy - Modelling
The Impact Of Crop Modelling On Plant Physiological Resea...
Senthold Asseng1, Anthony van Herwaarden2, Tim L Setter3 and Jairo A Palta1
1CSIRO Plant Industry, Private Bag No 5, Wembley, WA 6913, Senthold.Asseng@csiro.au
2CSIRO Plant Industry, 120 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly QLD 4068
3Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Baron-Hay Court, South Perth, WA 6151
The process of developing a new cultivar with improved yield and its evaluation under field conditions often takes 10-12 years. In addition, the impact of a specific trait on yield in any climatic region, rainfall zone, soil types and particularly growing season will require many more site-by-season (years) trials to be assessed, and may still not cover the full range of environments experienced by the cultivar after release.
As an alternative, a comprehensive crop simulation model that takes into consideration the dynamics of crop-soil-weather interactions and captures the principles inherent in such a system can assist plant breeding in the evaluation of the impact of specific traits on yield across a range of climates, soil types and seasons.
An example is given where water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) was proposed as a trait to confer drought tolerance and a crop simulation model was used to investigate the contribution of WSC to grain yield in the Mediterranean environment of Western Australia. Simulation results stressed the importance of pre-grain filling WSC in grain yields under terminal drought and supported industry funded projects in western and eastern Australia aimed to identify genotypes with better pre-anthesis accumulation and mobilisation of WSC to the grain. Genotypes have been identified with high stem WSC at anthesis and are currently being used in wheat breeding programs to improve grain yields under water-limited conditions.
Crop modelling, G x E x M, terminal drought, water soluble carbohydrates, wheat genotypes
Wheat grain yields in rainfed agriculture of Australia and in other similar environments of the world are often low and vary substantially from season to season. Water soluble carbohydrates (WSC) stored prior to grain filling have been shown to be an important contributor to grain yield in such environments, in particularly under terminal drought (Nicolas and Turner 1993; Palta et al. 1994; van Herwaarden et al. 1998a). WSC may also be important for osmotic adjustment under drought and saline conditions to increase water uptake from the soil. In addition, the negative impact of nitrogen deficiency or late-in-season diseases on grain yield which reduce the photosynthetic capacity of a crop can be reduced through the availability of WSC stored prior to grain filling (Blacklow and Incoll 1981). Quantifying the contribution of WSC to grain yield has been hampered by large seasonal variability under field conditions (see review by Setter et al. 1998). An example is outlined were a crop simulation model was used to quantify the contribution of WSC to grain yield under conditions of large seasonal variability and how the results were linked with crop physiological research and breeding for improving grain yields in the Mediterranean environment of Western Australia.
The Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) (McCown et al. 1996) for wheat (APSIM-Nwheat version 1.55s) is a crop simulation model, consisting of modules that incorporate aspects of soil water, N, crop residues, crop growth and development and their interactions within a wheat/soil system that is driven by daily weather data. Yield is calculated as a function of temperature, solar radiation, water and N supply. Documented model source code in hypertext format can be viewed at www.apsim-help.tag.csiro.au.
Two simulation experiments were carried out. The first assumed that the potential contribution of WSC to grain yield being a proportion of biomass at the beginning of grain filling. To analyse the impact of this proportion, it was varied between 20% and 40%. In a second experiment, the potential contribution of WSC to grain yield was related to biomass accumulation from 150 degree-days before the beginning of grain filling to grain filling. To analyse the impact of this growth period on the contribution to grain yield, it was varied between 75% and 90% of all biomass accumulation in this period. Both assumptions were simulated with long term historical weather record.
Based on a conceptional framework by Fischer (1994) and evidence from field experiments (Nicolas and Turner 1993; Palta et al. 1994) a simulation experiment was set up to quantify the contribution of WSC to grain yield under the seasonal variable growing conditions at Moora (81 historical seasons) in the Mediterranean environment of Western Australia (Setter et al. 1998). A simulated increase in the availability of WSC partially compensated for the loss in photosynthetic capacity on grain yield under terminal drought. The simulation results indicated that doubling the amount of WSC from 20% stem biomass (average of 20% determined from field experiments by van Herwaarden et al. 1998a, b) at beginning of grain filling to 40% would increase grain yields by 19% on average, and in some seasons by up to 81% (Setter et al. 1998) (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Simulated grain yields with 40% of stem dry weight at the beginning of grain filling being available for remobilization to the grain versus 20%, for 81 years of historical weather records at Moora, Western Australia, after Setter et al. (1998).
Supported by these simulation results, the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) funded a physiological research project at the Western Australian Department of Agriculture (DAW548) together with an AusAid scholarship at the University of Western Australia to identify differences in stem WSC and its impact on yield in a range of genotypes.
In this project, WSC of 40 genotypes were measured under field conditions in artificial light, shading, water supply and N treatments. A correlation between stem WSC at anthesis/two weeks after anthesis and grain yield was found with significant variations between genotypes. Low stem WSC (as low as 11% of stem weight at anthesis/2 weeks after anthesis) were recorded in most Western Australian cultivars compared to other Australian and international material. Four genotypes were eventually identified with high stem WSC (38-44% of stem weight at anthesis/2 weeks after anthesis) and finally recommended for use in breeding (Conocono 2002).
These four genotypes are currently used in the Wheat Breeding Program for the Western Region (GRDC project DAW516) at the Western Australian Department of Agriculture. Double haploid crosses are being made for screening in the next season in order to identify whether single or multiple genes control the high stem WSC. After that, high stem WSC lines will be crossed into the Western Australian cultivars with superior agronomic characteristics. The double haploids will also be used to develop molecular markers to further reduce breeding time by screening several crops per year instead of one per season.
The impact of crop modelling on breeding via crop physiology highlights the potential contribution that crop modelling can make to other disciplines. However, such a linkage is not a static one-way process. Since the time of the original simulation study about five years ago to the inclusion of new traits into the current breeding program new understanding of the physiological mechanisms related to WSC has emerged from collaboration with the research at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra. The simplistic view that a proportion of biomass at or shortly after anthesis is available for remobilization to yield during grain filling is supported in general by many observations (e.g. van Herwaarden et al. 1998a; b), but can be off by half of this percentage in specific situation, also supported by the same data. In addition, in a glasshouse experiment by Palta (unpubl. data) where water deficit was induced from ear emergence to maturity reducing net photosynthesis to near zero resulted in grains of 7-9 mg compared to 42-43 mg in the well watered treatment. These results suggested that most of the WSC available for retranslocation to yield during grain filling are accumulated in the period shortly before and after anthesis and this is in agreement with earlier suggestions (Schnyder 1993) and recently confirmed with new studies (Conocono 2002). The original CERES model (Ritchie et al. 1985) did consider the accumulation of WSC by devoting all biomass accumulation shortly before grain filling to a pool which could later be translocated to grain yield. The crop simulation model APSIM-Nwheat kept this basic structure of the CERES model but extended the period of the contribution of pre grain filling WSC to yield to shortly before anthesis. This approach, based on crop physiological results (van Herwaarden et al. 1998a, b), enabled simulation studies to reproduce a number of observed pre-grain filling stored WSC amounts which were retranslocated to the grain (Figure 2).
Using this approach but with different genetic potential to store WSC during the critical time around anthesis (shortly before anthesis to the beginning of grain filling) confirmed the importance of WSC for grain yields under Australian growing environments which experience terminal drought. However, it also highlighted that an increase in storage capacity may have little or no effect on grain yield in seasons where water and nitrogen do not limit yield or when early drought restricts pre-anthesis growth and grain number. In the first situation crops fill grain from current photosynthesis due to a longer leaf area duration and only call on WSC reserves during periods of peak assimilate demand. In the latter scenario periods of pre-anthesis drought limit the crops ability to accumulate WSC and genotypic differences may not be expressed.
Nitrogen is often used restrictively by farmers in terminal drought environments to conserve water for the period of grain filling. However, the recent simulation experiment suggested that this can also limit the ability to store WSC if pre-anthesis growth is reduced (Asseng and van Herwaarden 2002). Increasing the capacity to accumulate WSC well before anthesis for translocation to yield during grain filling would overcome the limitation and improve yields under these conditions.
Figure 2: Simulated (lines) and observed (symbols) remobilization of pre-grain filling stored dry matter for (a) Barellan 1991, (b) Barellan 1992, (c) Pucawan 1991 and (d) Wagga Wagga 1991, New South Wales. After Asseng and van Herwaarden (2002). Bars indicate l.s.d.
The impact of crop modelling on plant physiological research and breeding can be three-fold. Firstly, crop simulation modelling enables the quantification of the potential impact of proposed research in crop physiology and new traits for crop breeding to improve yields under variable growing conditions, as shown with high stem WSC. Secondly, by further extending the simulation experiments allows a suitability analysis of specific traits for specific growing environments (e.g. soil type, rainfall region, climatic region). Thirdly, the evaluation of new cultivars after their release in multi-location field trails can be supported by simulating crop growth for any possible growing condition.
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(3) Conocono, E.A. (2002) Improving Yield of Wheat Experiencing Post-Anthesis Water Deficits Through the Use of Shoot Carbohydrate Reserves. PhD Thesis, University of Western Australia, Australia.
(4) Fischer, R.A. (1994) Key issues in wheat yield potential. In, Breaking the yield barrier: Proceedings of a workshop on rice yield potential in favourable environments. Ed K.G. Cassman. pp 91-93. IRRI, Los Banos, The Philippines
(5) Nicolas, M.E., and Turner, N.C. (1993) Field Crops Res., 31:155-171.
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(7) Palta, J.A., Kobata, T, Turner, N.C. and Fillery, I.R. (1994) Crop Science, 34: 118-124.
(8) Ritchie, J.T., Godwin, D.C. and Otter-Nacke, S. (1985) CERES-wheat: A user-oriented wheat yield model. Preliminary documentation. AGRISTARS Publication No. YM-U3-04442-JSC-18892. Michigan State University. East Lansing, USA. 252 p.
(9) Schnyder, H (1993) New Phytol., 123:233-245.
(10) Setter, T.L., Anderson, W.K., Asseng, S. and Barclay, I. (1998) Review of the impact of high shoot carbohydrate concentrations on maintenance of high yields in cereals exposed to environmental stress during grain filling. In Wheat: Research Needs Beyond 2000AD. Proceedings of the International Group Meeting on 'Wheat Research Needs Beyond 2000AD'. Eds. S Nagarajan, G Singh and BS Tyagi. pp 237-252. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.
(11) van Herwaarden, A.F., Farquhar, G.D., Angus, J.F., Richards, R.A. and Howe, G.N. (1998a) Aust. J. Agric. Res., 49:1067-1081.
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Uno, Dois, Drei… NO NO NO (Display) Finissage
In Isabella Kohlhuber’s installation at Artistic Bokeh the black glass window becomes a changeable interface. The artist applies interactive devices to reveal the threshold of function and dysfunction in the languages of humans and machines. Kohlhuber uses adhesive foil fixed on the window, displaying letter-forms as permanent disposable tools. Motion sensors cause viewers involuntarily to activate or deactivate its visibility. The message thereby occasionally withdraws from perceptibility.
NO NO NO (display) opens a conceptual gap between the showroom’s window and its minimal content, while gently swapping between elements of negation (“no”) and activation (“on”). Does the artist intend to play off today’s necessity of an affirmative, pleasing language against an inner silent resistance? And does repetition, as given in the title, make a gesture of refusal stronger? Roughly, one would answer: “it depends on the context” (e.g. “no means no”, the feminist slogan against sexual violence, which points out the difficulty in understanding whether an expression is intended to mean “no”). While trying to decontextualize the artist asks “can there ever be no context?”
Exhibition: 8th October – 10th November
Finissage: 10th November 19:00
The exhibition is part of the program UNO, DOIS, DREI… AN EXHIBITION IN THREE INSTALLMENTS a Mz* Baltazar’s Lab curatorial project in collaboration with Artistic Bokeh in MuseumsQuartier. For this exhibition series Patricia J. Reis and Anna T. have invited artists focusing on language in a multitude of ways. Being based in a place that has been so divided in the context of immense sociopolitical changes, while becoming more multi-cultural, the curators wanted to look into language as a technology of communicating, connecting, and coming together. The exhibition series examines the visual language of colonialism (and who or what becomes illegal), the human and machine language and its threshold of function and dysfunction, and the embodied language of a queer migrant body that opens up and connects with other bodies and spirits alike. Mz* Baltazar’s curatorial viewpoint brings together artists from different media and backgrounds that speak to the diversity of the creative hub that is Vienna. Mz* Baltazar’s Labfurther aims at highlighting the lengthy process of artistic practice as research in the framework of social and political themes, such as migration, Eurocentrism, cyborgs, queerness, and the overarching theme of language. We are happy to present Mariel Rodríguez, Isabella Kohlhuber, and Pêdra Costa in a series of exhibitions running from August to December 2016 at the space of Artistic Bokeh in the MQ’s Electric Avenue.
uno, dois, drei… an exhibition in three installments – NO NO NO
Opening: 7th October, 19h
uno, dois, drei… – Flowers of Evil, Mariel Rodríguez – Artist Talk / Finissage
Mz* Baltazar’s Lab would like to welcome you to the artist talk and finissage of Mariel Rodríguez’s “Flowers of Evil” show in Artistic Bokeh (MQ) Friday September 30th at 18:00.
The installation composed of ready-mades, constructed materials, and videos is part of the artist’s ongoing project focusing on the language f colonialism, the aesthetics of the museum, and the aftermath of cultural appropriation.
It traces the encounter of a millenary sacred plant with occidental science and its outcome as a sort of a botanical Frankenstein, so desired and praised as feared and persecuted. The installation proposes to rethink the history of cocaine, as an illegal recreational drug and a western construct, to shed light on the effects of imperialism on our relationship to nature.
During the finissage Mariel will present a new video, and artist, audience, and curators will join in the conversation of language, otherness, and creativity as a response to oppressive politics. Join us for drinks, nibbles, and a chat, and share the experience with us.
About the Exhibition Series
Mz* Baltazar’s Lab is proud to present this new curatorial project, a series of exhibitions in collaboration with Artistic Bokeh in MuseumsQuartier. For this exhibition series Patricia J. Reis and Anna T. have invited artists focusing on language in a multitude of ways. Being based in a place that has been so divided in the context of immense sociopolitical changes, while becoming more multi-cultural, the curators wanted to look into language as a technology of communicating, connecting, and coming together. The exhibition series examines the visual language of colonialism (and who or what becomes illegal), the human and machine language and its threshold of function and dysfunction, and the embodied language of a queer migrant body that opens up and connects with other bodies and spirits alike. Our curatorial viewpoint brings together artists from different media and backgrounds that speak to the diversity of the creative hub that is Vienna. We further aim at highlighting the lengthy process of artistic practice as research in the framework of social and political themes, such as migration, Eurocentrism, cyborgs, queerness, and the overarching theme of language. We are happy to present Mariel Rodríguez, Isabella Kohlhuber, and Pêdra Costa in a series of exhibitions running from August to December 2016 at the space of Artistic Bokeh who offered us this opportunity to collaborate and showcase Mz* Baltazar’s work in the MQ’s Electric Avenue.
This work is funded and supported by kültüř gemma! 2016, and its presentation made possible by Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory and Artistic Bokeh.
uno, dois, drei… an exhibition in three installments – Flowers of Evil
Mz* Baltazar’s Lab is proud to present the new curatorial project, a series of exhibitions in collaboration with Artistic Bokeh in MuseumsQuartier. For this exhibition series Patricia J. Reis and Anna T. have invited artists focusing on language in a multitude of ways. Being based in a place that has been so divided in the context of immense sociopolitical changes, while becoming more multi-cultural, the curators wanted to look into language as a technology of communicating, connecting, and coming together. The exhibition series examines the visual language of colonialism (and who or what becomes illegal), the human and machine language and its threshold of function and dysfunction, and the embodied language of a queer migrant body that opens up and connects with other bodies and spirits alike. Our curatorial viewpoint brings together artists from different media and backgrounds that speak to the diversity of the creative hub that is Vienna. We further aim at highlighting the lengthy process of artistic practice as research in the framework of social and political themes, such as migration, Eurocentrism, cyborgs, queerness, and the overarching theme of language. We are happy to present Mariel Rodríguez, Isabella Kohlhuber, and Pêdra Costa in a series of exhibitions running from August to December 2016 at the space of Artistic Bokeh who offered us this opportunity to collaborate and showcase Mz* Baltazar’s work in the MQ’s Electric Avenue.
Part 1 – Mariel Rodríguez – Flowers of Evil
On April 1857 the Novara, a navy ship of the Austrian Empire, departed from Trieste into a world wide expedition ordered by Maximilian von Habsburg. In 1859, The Novara returned to European soil, bringing back a vast collection of botanical, zoological and mineral samples. Between the botanical import there were 30 KG of coca leaves, brought directly form the Andean Region into the German Chemistry Laboratories of the University of Göttingen…
FLOWERS OF EVIL presents an ongoing artistic research about the coca plant and its journey(s) to Europe. It traces the encounter of a millenary sacred plant with occidental science and its outcome as a sort of a botanical Frankenstein, so desired and praised as feared and persecuted. The installation proposes to rethink the history of cocaine, as an illegal recreational drug and a western construct, to shed light on the e ffects of imperialism on our relationship to nature.
Evoking the tradition of the cabinet of curiosities and the vitrines in historical exhibitions, the installation seeks to raise questions about representation in the construction of historical narratives and the role of museums in such a process. Project funded by kültüř gemma!
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M27, Part Two: From BAR to IAR – How the Marines Finally Got Their Infantry Automatic Rifle
Robert Bruce / 20 November, 2012 / Comments Off on M27, Part Two: From BAR to IAR – How the Marines Finally Got Their Infantry Automatic Rifle / Features, History, New Products, Search By Issue, V4N4, Volume 4
29 March 2010, Djibouti, Africa. Lance Cpl. Tim Eastep, with 1st platoon, Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides suppression fire using his M249 squad automatic weapon, allowing his team to advance forward, during a mechanized assault as part of a live fire range exercise. The 5.56mm belt-fed M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, adopted by the Marine Corps in 1985, is seen here in its latest ‘Para’ configuration. This evolved from an effort initiated in Marine Force Recon to make it lighter and more maneuverable, but now falling short of the new M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle. Combat weight of this light machine gun with 200 rounds loaded plus the USMC version ACOG, laser aiming module and bipod, is about twice that of a comparably equipped M27 and seven loaded mags. (USMC photo by Gunnery Sgt. Chad R. Kiehl)
This seasoned Marine brings impressive credentials to the job, having held every billet in infantry battalions from Platoon Commander through Battalion Operations Officer. His combat experience spans 2005 through 08, including rifle company commander in the Al Anbar Province in Iraq, and as a combat advisor with the Afghan Commando Kandak (battalion), primarily in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
We asked Clark when and why Marines in the field began asking for an alternative to the M249 that the Corps fielded beginning in 1985 and he suggested we talk with Gunner Eby, describing him as both a fellow Marine and personal friend. As seen earlier in this feature, we certainly did and it proved highly instructive.
“Historically, the Marine Corps kind of understood the shortcomings of the SAW but it was a service level decision to adopt it,” Clark said, “a Marine Corps requirement that was initially developed by the Army.”
Dissatisfaction soon arose and grew in the dozen or so years that followed, leading to the often-cited initial IAR trials conducted by the 1st Marine Division’s 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment circa 2000.
“Until you operate with a weapon system for some period of time, you haven’t identified all the considerations for employment,” Clark explained. “2-7 was not the only battalion that had this epiphany. It was a growing thought process in the Marine Corps.”
2-7 did a limited IAR experiment and then provided their findings up through the Gunner community; the highly respected duty experts on weapons employment whose opinions carry considerable weight in the Marine Corps. Their endorsement of the Infantry Automatic Rifle, echoed in formal recommendations, continued year after year as Marine infantrymen fought the Global War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots.
Clark cited a list of complaints from the field including SAW gunners lagging behind, particularly in the attack. He called the M249 an effective but cumbersome light machine gun, not best suited for the Corps’ tactical doctrine for rifle squads in urban combat.
“When you go into a MOUT (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) environment you’ve got to strip the SAW gunner out of the ‘stack’ (of Marines entering and clearing buildings),” he said. “And so now you’ve effectively taken what was your automatic rifle out of the attack in a MOUT environment where it‘s really about maintaining momentum and tempo.”
21 November 2011, The Crucible training center, Stafford County, Virginia. The final version of HK’s M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle as officially adopted for use throughout the Marine Corps. This is one of the Corps’ hard worked test and evaluation rifles, lacking only the ‘M27’ receiver marking that will replace ‘HK 416 D’ on the magazine well. It‘s topped with a 3.5 power SU-258/PVQ SDO (Trijicon Model TA11SDO-CP) day scope with distinctive ‘piggyback’ RMR (Ruggedized Miniature Reflex) close combat sight. Note the folded down BUIS (back up iron sight) and Manta‘s black colored soft polymer rail and broomstick covers that will be standard in USMC service. The M27’s ambidextrous selector features HK’s intuitive ‘pictographic’ markings for SAFE in white, SEMI and FULL AUTO in red. To reinforce previous training these positions (and the charging handle, forward assist and magazine release) are the same as on M16 series rifles. The trigger guard swings down to allow shooting with heavy gloves or mitts. (Robert Bruce)
This and other gripes fueled the escalation from an evolving “Universal Need Statement” initiated back in 1999, to official program status six years later, the bureaucratic birthday of a laborious and strictly defined procurement process. In early 2005, Clark and others under the Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration wrote up a set of capabilities desired for a theoretical Infantry Automatic Rifle, sending the specifications over to Marine Corps Systems Command.
On 14 July 2005, MARCORSYSCOM kick-started the process by issuing its Request for Information to the defense industry, listing both threshold (minimum) and objective (desirable) IAR characteristics they might be able to meet with an existing weapon. With this, the IAR machine started picking up speed.
While the initial solicitation’s 100 round minimum magazine capacity was soon dropped in favor of standard GI 30-rounders for reasons detailed later in the feature, the specified caliber begged for discussion. Since performance shortcomings in the U.S. military’s standard issue M855 5.56x45mm cartridges have been well documented, we asked Clark if alternatives like 6.8mm had been considered.
“We did not.” he said, but quickly added, “We’re considering alternate calibers in the future.”
Clark emphasized that one of the driving factors for the desired IAR was commonality among the weapons in the Marine rifle squad. “We have an M27 with common ammunition – (5.56mm) ball, not linked – and a common ammunition source with the approved service rifle magazine,” he said. “Now we can switch back and forth. It’s much easier, and having been a company commander, I think that offers a lot of capability to trade magazines back and forth on reaching the objective.”
It was Clark’s job to take up the cause from his predecessors and steer the IAR past the metaphorical mudholes, mines and ruts that are noted in what follows here. Analysis of responses to the RFI and further input from the Gunner community and other elements of the Corps resulted in a modified set of IAR specifications rolled up in a Capabilities Development Document. The CDD was signed in June 2007, marking what’s called a Milestone B in ‘acquisition-speak,’ the jargon used in government procurement circles.
More industry responses followed – samples and related support provided at no cost to the government but considerable cost to the hopefuls – used in several rounds of tests that eventually narrowed the field to four candidate weapons. Then, intensive verification testing was done on this quartet; two from Colt and one each from FN and HK.
On 19 December 2008, four “IDIQ” (indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity ) contracts were formally announced, one for each of the finalist IARs, identically worded except for the company name and price. The purpose for these multiple awards was two-fold; first to have a contract structure in place to support purchase of test samples, spares and services. Then, when the winning rifle among the four contenders was finalized, to expedite full rate production, getting IARs into the hands of Marines as fast as the hidebound system would allow.
Heckler and Koch Defense, Inc., Ashburn, Va., is being awarded a five year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with possible delivery orders up to $23,600,000 for the production, delivery, and associated support of the Marine Corps’ Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR). The IAR will be a light weight, magazine fed, 5.56mm weapon which will enhance the automatic rifleman’s maneuverability and displacement speed while providing the ability to suppress or destroy not only area targets, but point targets as well. The IAR is planned to replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapons (SAW) currently employed by automatic riflemen within Infantry and Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalions. Although four contracts will be made initially, delivery orders will be awarded for samples. First Article, spare/repair parts, and various support services; and, eventually one of the four contractors may be awarded delivery orders for up to 6,500 IARs. Work will be performed in Oberndorf, Germany. Delivery of contract line items will be as stated on applicable delivery orders. Contract funds will be obligated in multiple delivery orders. This contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-09-D-1038).
Some insight into the eventual outcome may be had by comparing the total cost bid by each for the theoretical purchase of 6,500 IARs. Both Colt rifles were the least expensive at $14 million, HK was in the middle at $23.6 million, and FN wanted $27.9 for theirs.
3 June 2011, Marine Corps Base 29 Palms, California. A Marine with 2nd platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, provides cover fire while an M249 squad automatic weapon gunner and another fire team member work to clear the belt fed weapon’s malfunction during a platoon attack course, part of the Enhanced Mojave Viper training evolution. This is particularly difficult and time consuming at night. (USMC photo by Corporal James W. Clark)
Left behind were rifles from LWRC and Knight’s, as well as the Ultimax light machine gun, offered under special arrangement with Singapore-based ST Kinetics and the United States defense giant General Dynamics.
Not surprisingly, contending firms with weapons that were passed over weren’t happy. We, of course, asked why they didn’t make the cut.
Clark, tightly constrained by all manner of legal restrictions arising from the military’s too-often bitter experience with countless contract protests, lawsuits and even political interference, gave the expected answer. “That’s where we get into ‘source selection sensitive’ information,” he stated. “I can’t release what the deliberations were.”
We kept fishing, asking him to comment on any significant tradeoffs necessary to meet IAR’s specifications. Things like piston vs. gas, open bolt vs. closed, cookoff, barrel swap, etc. Carefully choosing his words, Clark emphasized that the requirements document was “agnostic to operating system.” “We didn’t go into this saying ‘Hey, we want a closed bolt, piston driven gun.’ We considered gas impingement, gas piston, we considered operating rod.” Clark explained. “We didn’t go in with preconceived notions. I wouldn’t characterize it as tradeoffs. We had the performance specifications and we just simply took the gun that best met our performance specifications.”
Lessons learned along the way (Clark says there wasn’t much change from the CDD) were codified in a Capability Production Document, signed in November 2009. The CPD enabled Milestone C decisions that resulted in “down-select” of a single weapon system, announced a month later. The Corps’ source selection panel named HK’s candidate best in meeting the requirements.
It was our duty to again ask the logical question: What performance and other factors led to the decision to adopt HK’s modified 416 rifle as the USMC’s Infantry Automatic Rifle?
Clark’s answer was patient, cautious and brief. “Across the board, it best met our requirements. When we hold a source selection… we consider cost, schedule, performance and past performance.” Then, after a moment of reflection, he added with emphasis, “As the user representative, performance is always the most important aspect to me.”
The Commandant Goes Public
HK’s IAR candidate had won the battle but not yet the war. The SAW vs. IAR debate hadn’t gone away and not only were there were skeptics in the ranks but General James Conway, the soon-to-retire Commandant of the Marine Corps, had been cautiously weighing pros and cons for quite some time.
by Robert Bruce on 20 November, 2012.
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Ala: Briefing of investigation committee on Syria contains baseless allegations
2 July، 2019
A civilian martyred in landmine explosion in Idleb countryside
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Geneva, SANA – Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva Hussam Eddin Ala said that the briefing by the head international investigation committee on Syria included baseless allegations on the situation in Idleb that show a selective approach.
In a statement on Tuesday before the Human Rights Council for discussing human rights in Syria, Ala said that the so-called “interactive dialogue” with the committee is lacking as the time allocated to Syria is restricted compared to the time given to the committee to make claims and accusations, all while depriving Syria of the sufficient time to refute those claims.
He said the current form of the dialogue only seeks to defame Syria, criticizing the handful states that take over the discussion and promote positions that are contradictory and employ double standards, mainly Britain.
Ala said the aforementioned briefing is recycled and fails to address the suffering of Syrians caused by terrorism and sanctions, and instead it promotes the positions of the states that control the committee to continue leveling false accusations at the Syrian government.
He asserted that the briefings allegations about the situation in Idleb are baseless, and that the refusal of the committee to hold the US and the militias under its control responsible for the terrible conditions of the civilians held against their will at al-Rukban and al-Houl camps is evidence of its selective approach.
Ala pointed out to the recent Israeli attack on Syria which claimed the lives of four civilians including an infant girl, injured 21 others, and caused damage to houses and properties, saying that the investigation committee finds no reason to investigate or condemn such breaches of international humanitarian law, much like how it ignores the many airstrikes carried out by the US, France, and Britain which claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and caused massive destruction in Raqqa city.
He said discussions will remain pointless unless they address the factors that cause humanitarian suffering accurately, primarily terrorism and the role of the states that sponsor terrorism and impose sanctions on the Syrian people.
Ala said the accusations claiming that the Syrian state and its allies deliberately target civilians and civilian facilities in Idleb are baseless, as operations there target terrorism with precise and calculated strikes, noting that over 90% of Idleb and its surroundings has terrorist groups affiliated to and led by Jabhat al-Nusra, which attack civilians indiscriminately in Aleppo, Hama, and Lattakia.
He said that the duty of the Syrian state is to liberate its lands and rid its people of terrorists, asserting that the Syrian government has taken all possible precautions to protect civilians and infrastructure, and that no hospitals or schools have been targeted as some impartial sides claim.
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Snowsport England move office to Sports Park Loughborough
An exciting phase in the long history of Snowsport England (formerly the English Ski Council) will take place this summer. The head office, which has been based in council premises above the area Library in Halesowen since the organisation began in 1979, will move to Sports Park in Loughborough, part of the Loughborough University complex. The move has come about due to the Council lease expiring on the current office and them wishing to re utilise these for themselves. Following this the Board looked upon this as an opportunity to review future office requirements, the organisations needs and where should it be located to best deliver for the sport and our membership.
This is an exciting opportunity for Snowsport England to enhance its operations and culture, creating a more dynamic organisation within the current economic environment.
It will also raise our profile with other National Governing Bodies and give us the ability to learn from, and interact with, other sports . It will involve a steep learning curve and I hope all members will help with the challenge ahead.
With this change in location for the office there is going to be a change in the staffing. We have gone through a consultation period with the office staff and due to the distance of the move it is with deep regret that none of the office staff will be relocating to the new office. This is a big shame as they have contributed to the development of Snowsport England and have been very loyal to the organisation. In particular I would like to thank Jenny who has been with the organisation for over 20 years and knows an awful lot of the members individually. They all do a fantastic job which has been challenging over recent months with all the uncertainty placed on them due to the office move.
The move will happen in August /September time and more details will be given out once this has been finalised. Your support is essential in helping to develop Snowsport England into a modern National Governing Body.
For further enquiries please contact either
Barry Spouge (Chair) 07802 824120 barry.spouge AT snowsportengland.org.uk
Tim Fawke (CEO) 07968548627 Tim AT snowsportengland.org.uk
Snowsport England www.snowsportengland.org.uk
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Home to many of the country’s top sports governing bodies and national sports organisations, SportPark Loughborough University is a £15m development that opened its doors in January 2010 and is a brand new concept in sports working.
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Ripples, Racism, Paternalism and Slut Shame
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by GenXangster
"What business do you have wanting birth control, you whore?!"
The radical, uber-conservative right has taken the entire debate over whether women are important enough to consider their reproductive health (which is by the way, a major biological function of all human females and as important as erectile dysfunction and prostate cancer is to men) in regards to govt. mandated insurance coverage straight to the gutter because that's where their minds are.
The misogyny and slut shame is so off the charts, it's beyond sickening.
My ancestors stood on auction blocks while they were prodded, exposed, and humiliated because they were for sale and no different than livestock in the minds of racists and slave mongers. They had to stand still while their private parts were examined and handled by strangers. They had to listen (if they spoke English) to other human beings reduce their whole existence down to a 15 second advertisement. "Healthy, child-rearing age, strong, field work experience, "spoiled" sexually, won't run away...".
When you're reduced to being humiliated like this, nothing of yours is sacred in the minds of your captors and abusers. You have no privacy, no dignity, no mind and no soul. You're nothing. People can run you down and they can do it right to your face and while you're in the same room and there's nothing you can do about it. Overseers come into your house and turn over your mattresses whenever the mood strikes them. They're demanding to see the evidence of your first menstruation cycle so that they can use you as a sex slave or a breeding machine to make more slaves (some black, some half black) if you're a girl.
That horrifying time in history shapes the anti-black American racism we see today. Even though the force and energy of the ripple subsides when blacks are no longer on display to the world as livestock, those old, bad times still move the water around me in 2012. The ripples are weaker but I can still feel the auctioneers prodding me when the anti-"soshulisms" freaks demand to know what I spent my welfare check on or even imply that I receive one without them knowing anything about my life.
They look into my living room to see if I can afford cable or if I'm buying crack and Cadillacs with my tax payer-funded money. They want to count how many of us black women are unwed mothers so they can report to the world how many times we've been "spoiled" out of wedlock. They'd love to know how many abortions we've had collectively had so again, they can count the times we screw and note how slutty we are.
They say we're looting while white people are salvaging or surviving. There's an unwelcome familiarity in these kinds of accusations, like someone saying things about you when they've never met you. It's surreal and so shocking, it makes you speechless. The cops have searched through our vehicles, dwellings and our pockets without cause for decades that I was alive to witness, an egregious violation of fourth amendment rights to say the very least.
What does the world think of you when you're always on the side of the road with three cop cars parked behind you, spread out face down on the hood? What kind of humiliation and exposure of your privacy and violation of your human dignity makes people believe that they can tell you what to do with your private parts?
How long can this kind of harassment carry on before it just morphs with the times into some other kind of paternalism and subjugation? I don't know if there's a time frame for this but it seems to never end. It just becomes something else. When people are demanding to know why at times in my life, I have been vulnerable, poor and I needed the govt.'s help, I feel like I'm on the auction block. The govt. says I qualify for it regardless. These certain people (racists) believe that they should be able to do everything short of examining my teeth for proof of my age and they don't think I see what they're doing. Most importantly, they don't care.
They want to see PRESIDENT Obama's birth certificate, his college essays, his elementary school art work and basically an 8mm video of Barack's mother's birth canal at the moment he was born. They want to see white doctors on video with JFK accents handing him over to a Pacific Islander nurse wearing a hula skirt and a ring of flowers around her neck or else he's a fraud.
They watch First Lady Michelle Obama's habits like she's a suspicious house maid trying to steal the silver. They draw her body as obese in cartoons even though she's nowhere near it. They diminish her looks and comment on her body parts and nothing is scared about her as far as her haters are concerned. They diminish their own dignity when they reduce themselves to trying to disrespect the First Lady of the United States this way but in the meantime, the gall of them to do this is unnerving in a way that ripples from a long time ago.
You see where I'm going here?
So, when you're a woman and you've been regarded as the property of men for so long, people begin to believe that they should be able to talk about your private parts, what you do with them and with how many people. They think they should be able to talk about you under your clothes, comment on the clothes you wear under your clothes, and even speculate on the cleanliness of your body.
Sometimes it's not so sexual but no less sexually degrading. I've had men that I was just talking to in a store tell me how unworthy of marriage I was because cooking food all day isn't my favorite goddamn thing to do. Awwww, I'm totally crushed at dodging the bullet of an asshole who wants a stove slave rather than a life partner. Can't afford a butler so he goes around rating random women on their servant skills, declaring whether they're marry-able or not. Kiss my entire ass and gtfo here. I wouldn't marry an asshole like that if we were trapped together in a Ray Bradbury story and had to populate Mars to save the human race.
This is the world we live in. This is what women deal with all the time. We are stifled, slandered, disrobed, prodded and humiliated for the sake of control.
When women collectively demand anything that resembles equality or something that would lead to our empowerment, the forces that work against us will get around eventually to robbing us of dignity and ripping off our clothes in public to expose our private parts. The latest war on women over mandated birth control coverage is the perfect setup for the female and male misogynists on the right to begin singling out one brave woman standing up for her own empowerment and heaping on the slut shame. It's so schoolyard-ish, it's almost unworthy of attention but this is a widespread problem.
The ripples on the water...
Rush Limbaugh wants to see videos;
"So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal," he said. "If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."
Dana Loesch on twitter, advocating to deny women reproductive control and also threatening to verbally abuse them because, you know, sluts aren't worthy of respect and decency;
If you expect me to pay higher insurance premiums to cover your "free" birth control, I can call you whatever I want.
Patricia Heaton on twitter, discussing the undergarments of a woman she knows nothing about
Hey G-Town Gal: Turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every two weeks - saves on detergent and trips to laundromat!
If this isn't proof of the mucky cesspool of misogyny that women barely tread water in everyday to survive, I dunno what is. How are these woman-hating freaks on the American, conservative, radical uber right sleeping at night and not seeing the parallels between what they believe about "sluts" and what they imagine is Sharia Law?
If she demands any kind of empowerment, sexual or otherwise, she is stoned to death. Rush, Dana, Patricia and others refuse to see the stones they've thrown at Sandra Fluke.
If she demands equality and reproductive control, she is surrounded on the streets and humiliated by people who yell "slut!" at her, I'm guessing shortly before she is stoned to death or whipped with 100 lashes.
Patricia Heaton lobbed so many stones at G-Town girl, she deleted her account because of the bad PR.
Rush Limbaugh apologized.
I don't know if these apologies and account deleting mean anything other than self-preservation for these fat cats that make their money on hate spew. Perhaps they mean that women have won the right to be regarded as human beings while demanding their empowerment.
Or perhaps the fact that this is even a debate is a better indication of where we stand as women in regards to our own empowerment, progress and liberation. That the world believes they should vote on the rights of any of us is a frightening thing to process but this thing with women is ongoing since the beginning of time. That our autonomy as women must be argued and debated in a country that supposedly endorses life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is just another ripple in a sea of misogynist history.
I intend to keep my head above the water no matter how high they make this tide.
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The Sherman School » ABOUT US » Vision & Values
On January 4, 2017, the Board of Education adopted the following Vision Statement which represents the thoughts, beliefs and aspirations of each constituency throughout the Sherman School and broader community:
We enable all Sherman Students to become the best possible version of themselves. We provide an environment where our children develop into empathetic, self-directed, critical thinkers who don't give up when faced with challenges.
The Sherman Shield
Developed in 2017, the Sherman Shield reflects our school's history and represents our aspirations for the future. Each element has an important meaning:
The shield is an homage to our mascot, the Sherman Knight, and our Code of Conduct. The gold perimeter around the Shield represents the "Golden Shield" which is ceremoniously awarded each month to a class recognized for demonstrating the attributes delineated in our Code of Conduct.
The horizontal waves at the bottom of the shield reflect the Town of Sherman's prominence as a lake community and Sherman's proximity to the historic Naromiyocknowhusunkatankshunk Brook.
An acorn is symbolic of something which starts out small, yet eventually becomes great and mighty. Although we are a small district, we believe our students can and will achieve great heights. The three acorns reflect Sherman's original incorporation in 1937 as a three-room schoolhouse.
Open Book and Torch
An open book is symbolic of the continuous pursuit of knowledge, and the torch represents lifelong learning.
The words "Excido Proficio" are Latin for "Fail Forward." We believe that failure is not only important, but integral to the learning process. When failure occurs, we expect that students will learn from their mistakes, move forward and press on.
Our Mascot
Since 2000, the Sherman Knight has been the mascot of the Sherman School. As students, as athletes, as friends and as citizens in a broader community, Sherman Knights aspire to behave in accordance with our Code of Conduct.
A Sherman Knight is committed to treating others the way he or she wants to be treated, often putting another's needs before their own.
A Sherman Knight does not give up when faced with challenges and keeps going even when things seem hard or even impossible.
A Sherman Knight is always truthful, and does the right thing even when nobody's watching.
A Sherman Knight cares about his or her role in our community and ensures that all expectations are met.
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New Flight Charters
Flight Charters Reports Record Number of Private Jets to Jackson Hole for Eclipse
Private Jet Charters and their Passengers Flock to Jackson Hole for Eclipse Event, Join Record Crowds for Expected Busiest Day in History August 21
Jackson Hole, WY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/18/2017 --On August 21 at 11:35am Jackson Hole, Wyoming will be directly under the totality of the solar eclipse for 2 minutes, 20 seconds, with the partial eclipse lasting for over 2-1/2 hours.
The Jackson Hole valley includes Grand Teton National Park and is adjacent to Yellowstone National Park. On the exact centerline of the eclipse totality, the southern part of Grand Teton National Park is one of the best places in the entire country to view this event.
A major summer vacation destination even without a total eclipse, Jackson Hole and the Parks are expected to exceed all-time records for visitors, lodging and traffic. Visitor demand has been building for the eclipse for over a year. Upscale lodging opportunities have expanded as a result; a recent advertisement featured a high-end 3-bedroom home with a guest house at $30,000 for the week.
This increased demand for the eclipse event is resulting in record private jet and charter aircraft traffic at the Jackson Hole Airport, already a popular hub for private jet travel and one of the top 3 summer mountain resort airport destinations in the U.S. along with Aspen, CO and Sun Valley, ID. Located inside Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole Airport is the only airport in the country inside a national park.
The eclipse's centerline path of totality will pass directly over the airport itself. Private jet traffic surrounding the Aug. 21 date however, will be far from eclipsed.
Private Jet Traffic Expected to Skyrocket
August is peak season and already a busy month for private jet activity in Jackson Hole, with daily private air operations averaging over 50 arrivals or departures plus more than 20 private aircraft parking on the ramp overnight.
Aircraft parking for the eclipse at Jackson Hole Aviation, the local FBO/private terminal, has been at 100% for weeks according to airport staff, and aircraft may be turned away for lack of ramp space. The FAA is expecting to implement Special Traffic Management Programs (STMP) for private aircraft, where advance reservations known as "slots", are needed for arrivals or departures.
Headquartered in Jackson Hole is New Flight Charters, a leader in nationwide private jet charter which arranges around 1,400 custom private jet flights per year. The company monitors jet charter activity to and from Jackson Hole and is reporting up to ten times the normal activity of private charter aircraft to and from Jackson Hole Airport during this time. "Normally we'll see around 7 charter flights per week scheduled to and from Jackson," says Colson. "That week we are seeing 36 so far."
August 18 to 23 is the busiest period, with peak traffic on August 18 and 22.
"Right now, August 18 looks to be busier than a December 26 at the airport," said New Flight Charters president Rick Colson. "We knew this would be busy but the numbers we are seeing are amazing." The day after Christmas is normally the busiest day of the year for private jet arrivals, bringing winter vacationers to Jackson Hole and its world renown ski destination Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, the Four Seasons Resort and other high-end lodging.
Commercial airline traffic will be increased as well, an additional 15 commercial flights will be landing and departing between August 18 and 23 – three more per day than normal. The Jackson Hole Airport is already the busiest airport in Wyoming.
Airport Runway Closing
The airport is planning for the eclipse. With its location along the precise centerline of the eclipse's path of totality, access to the airport will be limited for both those on the ground and in the air to help manage crowds and traffic. The runway will be closed for 1 hour around the approximately 2-minute totality at 11:35am. The closure will be from 30 minutes before, to 30 minutes after the totality. And those driving to the airport that day will need their private aircraft's tail number, an airline boarding pass, or a legitimate reason to access to the airport.
Busiest Day Ever
Grand Teton National Park, where Jackson Hole Airport is located, is bracing for its busiest day ever. The Park and Teton County are preparing for potential gridlocked roads, overwhelmed cell phone networks, and completely full public areas including parking lots, campgrounds, boat ramps, and roadway pullouts.
According to Teton park spokeswoman Denise Germann in the July 26 edition of the local Jackson Hole News & Guide, "'A typical August day is a very busy day at Grand Teton National Park,' Germann said. 'this Aug. 21, the day of the total eclipse, we're expecting to be the busiest day in the history of the park.'
"Above all else, Germann stressed, visitors should come prepared for a long day. Bring food, water, a full gas tank and necessary medications."
Arriving private jets would be wise to do the same.
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Since 2004 charter aircraft owner and leading U.S. private jet charter brokerage New Flight Charters has arranged private domestic and international flights with top-rated operator aircraft along with its Best Price Guarantee, top aircraft availability, industry empty legs list, and a perfect safety history. Extensive client reviews and industry ratings are available on the New Flight Charters website. As a registered U.S. government contractor with an A+ rating by the BBB, and named to the Inc.500 fastest growing list four consecutive years, the jet charter company serves a wide variety of clientele including Fortune 500 companies, government heads of state, presidential campaigns, entertainment icons, private families and entrepreneurs.
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Akumajou Densetsu
Legend of Demon Castle
Vice Translations
Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse an action platforming game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game is known in Japan as Akumajou Densetsu.
A new feature added for this game, there are three bosses that the player can recruit: Grant DeNasty (a pirate who can climb walls and is an expert dagger user), Sypha Belnades (a magic user, with various types of magic sub-weapons and a staff) and Alucard (Dracula’s son, who uses Fireballs and can change into a bat). Do note that you can only have ONE of these people on your team, and if you want a different one you have to exchange him/her for your current party member.
Another new feature is the “Choose Your Path” feature. After each stage, most of the time you are given a choice between two new stages to go to next.
I’m certain we have a hack of Akumajou Densetsu somewhere around here, but unlike that patch, which was just the English script cut-n’-pasted into the Japanese ROM, this one’s from scratch, translated from the original script. Of course, this also means the original names apply (Trevor Belmont is now Ralph Belmond), but also gone are the dubious errors (”Bad world full of evil”). But yeah, whether be it Trevor, Ralph, Bad world or evil, Akamajou Densetsu is a game to play. Only now there’s no Nintendo censorship to get in the way of things. Wee! Version 1.0 features a title screen replacement courtesy of BMF54123.
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Reviewed By: vince94 on 26 Mar 2014
The new text is much better, though I have a few issues. “Belmond” doesn’t sound like a real name, and it isn’t as cool as Belmont. Also, there’s untranslated Japanese on the title screen. Though it is written out in the English alphabet (and it looks freakin’ awesome), it’s still untranslated. Why not put DRACULA’S CURSE in the epic splattery text? And it’s not a “Demon” castle. It’s Dracula’s castle. Uncensoring things is awesome, but localization isn’t wrong.
Despite this, the sweet, sweet music makes up for all the little nit-picky things.
Recommended - Yes
Awesome hack! ShadowOne333 20 Jul 2014 N/A Yes
Great job! vince94 26 Mar 2014 N/A Yes
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This article was written By Jason Maher on 07 Nov 2020, and is filed under Reviews.
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Lisa Takeba, Mirai Moriyama, The Horse Thieves Roads of Time, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2020, Yerlan Nurmukhambetov
About Jason Maher
Jason Maher is a UK-based film fan and freelance writer. He has combined the two to write about films at his blog Genkinahito as well as writing for Anime UK News the movie magazine Gigan. Having grown up watching films from Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, he has developed a love for East Asian cinema and specialises in writing news articles, reviews, and has even been known to occasionally interview a director or two. He spends his private time learning Japanese, watching films, and hanging out with friends and family whom he bores with film trivia. He can be contacted via Twitter.
The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time (Kazakhstan/Japan 2019) [Reel Asian 2020]
The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time is a wholly original film that runs for a tight 81 minutes and utilises the mechanics of various genres to explore the impact of a murder on a family in a remote region of the world. The film, which opened the 2019 edition of the Busan International Film Festival, is an international co-production between Kazakhstan and Japan. It’s the collective vision of two directors: Yerlan Nurmukhambetov, who won the New Currents Award at the Busan International Film Festival 2015 for The Walnut Tree, and Lisa Takeba who is known for her quirky sci-fi tinged romcoms, The Pinkie (2014) and Haruko’s Paranormal Laboratory (2015). What is delivered is a picture that definitely deserves to be seen on the widest screen possible as it zeroes in on the tiny dramas of a group of characters clinging to life in an uncaring environment.
Apparently based on a real-life murder, the action takes place on the lonely steppes of Kazakhstan. Audiences are presented with gloriously beautiful widescreen vistas of grasslands dotted with the occasional village and lake, isolated roads cutting across vast tracts of territory and nomadic sheep herders. These sights are framed by sprawling mountain ranges and a vast sky and everything is presented as a grand vision of life on the frontier in a way reminiscent of the Westerns of John Ford.
In one particular remote ranch lives a precocious preadolescent boy named Olzhas (Madi Minaidarov), his father Odasyn (Dulyga Akmolda), mother Aigul (Samal Yeslyamova) and two younger sisters. While Ozhas would rather play with his friends than help out his parents, he is unknowingly taking his first steps towards manhood as he experiences a burgeoning awareness of sexual desire and is learning more about his responsibilities to his community and adapting to the harsh reality of life on the steppes.
The family’s main source of income is horses which Odasyn takes to market while everyone else picks tomatoes from small fields with other villagers. As the story sleepily slips between the perspectives of father, mother, and son, the scenes of everyone at work have the feel of an ethnographic study of everyday life on the Kazakh plains. A shift to the more narratively dramatic comes when Odasyn is murdered by horse thieves. Death is quiet and unceremonious in this vast landscape and so a sad sense of desolation follows rather than any tension. This sense provides the atmosphere from which a taut family conflict slowly emerges as Aigul and her children endure an uneasy funeral defined by broiling resentments that reveal to the young Ozhas that his life and the life of his mother is more complicated than he had previously imagined.
These secrets are teased out when Aigul makes plans to leave the village and recruits the help of a mysterious stranger named Kairat (Mirai Moriyama) who escorts them on horseback. With his appearance comes clues to Aigul and Ozhas’ background. The film mostly adopts the perspective of the boy as he observes the adults and begins to show his adaptation to the world by riding a white horse alongside Kairat. There is the sense the stranger could become a father to the boy but as the film ambles along on a road-movie-cum-family-drama, an interesting complication emerges as Olzhas shows that he is already a child of the plains and we see that his mother is playing a more active role in her family’s life following the death of her husband.
Quiet dramas continue to play out between the characters who engage in terse and uneasy conversations where they wrestle with repressed feelings of remorse, resentment and curiosity. The performances are mostly in body language and on the faces of the actors who are compelling enough to lend a relatively simple story some depth and intrigue. Yeslyamova, Cannes 2018 Best Actress winner for her role in Ayka, imbues her character with a toughness and maternal care that ensures her character is believable as a woman who takes charge. In his first overseas role, Moriyama (The Drudgery Train) spent three months learning the Kazakh language and horseback riding and on screen he confidently takes on the role of Kairat and acquits himself well among a predominantly Kazakh cast and captures the mysterious and laconic air that some of the best heroic gunslingers have.
Like many Westerns, it comes down to a shoot-out as the horse thieves re-emerge but the film remains committed to its more contemplative and subdued dynamics and allows things to remain ambiguous at the end as the story focuses on the sense of the boy having demonstrated a capacity to grow and learning more about the world and the adults who inhabit it. While slight, the beautiful and stirring images, potent atmospherics and strong performances make the film feel like an epic coming-of-age story.
The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time is streaming as part of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival from November 12-19.
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Hanson Formpave Paves The Way At £6 million Regeneration Project In Minehead, Somerset
Posted: Tuesday 14th April 2009
Hanson Formpave, manufacturers of specialist concrete paving products, has recently completed the installation of over 6,500sq metres of its industry-leading permeable paving Aquaflow� as part of a multi-million pound regeneration project in Minehead, Somerset. The county council led redevelopment includes modern workspaces for business, retail opportunities, a 110-space car park and a viewing area for the new West Somerset Railway turntable.
Sustainability and protecting the environment were key issues for Somerset County council and a wide range of Hanson Formpave�s products were specified for the project to provide environmentally friendly and economically viable paving solutions throughout the development. Aquasett, EcoGranite, Chartres edging, Cornish edging and Tactile paving have been installed in the car parking areas and access roads at the extensive site, offering a practical and hard wearing surface whilst providing an aesthetically pleasing finish.
�It was essential that the paving on this project looked good and was �in keeping� with the area but it was equally important that it provided a permeable paving and SUDS solution as it is in a low lying flood risk area,� said Adam Burgess, architect at Aedas. �Hanson Formpave�s Aquaflow provided a solution that I was confident would perform well.�
Steve Spikes, development director at Hanson Formpave said, �This was a flagship project to be involved with and it has given us the opportunity to demonstrate our various areas of product expertise at one site. By installing both the Aquaflow system to prevent flooding and EcoGranite as a �green� solution, a truly environmentally friendly paving system has been achieved.�
On site the areas that are paved with Aquasett form part of the Aquaflow permeable paving system that provides a very effective storm water management solution. The paving captures rainwater, filters it - making it PH neutral, and stores it in an underground tank. The cleaned water is then released into watercourses at a controlled rate in order to avoid overloading sewers and drains and prevent flooding. The permeable paving is so effective that no standing water or puddles form on the surface.
Another one of Hanson Formpave�s �green� products to be specified at the site is EcoGranite. The EcoGranite blocks have the appearance and benefits of 100% granite products, but with the sustainable advantage that it has not drained reserves of the world�s natural resources, providing a more environmentally friendly granite offering without compromising on quality. Significant cost savings were also realised as it is less expensive to purchase than natural granite, and as it does not need to be laid on mortar, ease of laying is a key advantage.
�This is an important project, creating a new hub of activity in Minehead for the benefit of the community, in one of the most deprived areas in the region,� said Carl Budden, head of regeneration at the South West RDA. �This new development will help create a more vibrant economy for Minehead and the wider Somerset area by providing much needed work space for small business, as well as providing a welcome boost for tourism in the area.�
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QEC Integration into Imperial? – 1981
Colin Grimshaw
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FELIX Dated Friday 4 December 1981
In December 1981 and January 1982 STOIC’s news programme had reports on the proposed integration of Queen Elizabeth College in Kensington, INTO Imperial College. The main theme of the proposal was that Q.E.C would have been incorporated into IC as a fourth constituent college.
So, in December 1981 the college statement said; the bioscience part of Q.E.C is proposed to be physically moved to the IC site, which would require a new building (probably on the site next to new Chemistry). The physical sciences at Q.E.C would be “accommodated elsewhere within the university”. Joint planning and consultative committees would be set up to achieve a closer working relationship prior to the eventual integration. The timescale of the proposal is approximately five years, but major developments might be expected before that time. The proposal is in response to the problems of finance and student numbers facing London University (that Imperial was then part of). It is not clear however just what financial savings would be made, and no mention is made of this in the statement. Student numbers would presumably fall, although the new ‘super IC’ would be larger than it is now.
Of course this all came to nothing, here though are STOIC reports from 2 & 9 December 1981.
And on the first edition of News-Break for 1982, Nick Morton the ICU President came into the TV Studio. He spoke with Lawrence Windley and gave his view and opinion on the situation. He also corrected various misunderstandings on these proposals that were currently going around the college and also printed in Felix (the student newspaper). Students kept talking of this as a ‘merger’, but this was never the proposal, but rather an ‘integration’ of Q.E.C into Imperial College. Once again, the saved videotape archive of STOIC has rescued the news and voices of Imperial College, which would have otherwise been lost for ever.
Colin Grimshaw 2 December 2020
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News-Break’s Rag Week: 1980
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From 40 years ago see all of the delights of Rag Week in November 1980. Seen here by the black and white location camera of STOIC for their weekly programme News-Break. This is the only record of the 1980 event that still exists. There are probably reports and a few photos in Felix, but here we can see and hear the week in all of its detail. We can’t smell some of it though!
Do you remember such delights as the Raft Race or the Pram Race? Maybe some of the events are in fact seen better in just black and white? Morphy Day on the Tow path at Putney is one good example (above colour image from a later year). A large number of things that used to happen in rag week are now just history. For example, I don’t recall hearing of the Raft Race for many years. The STOIC reporters on location were: Mike Hackett, Tracy Poole (now Tracy Dudley) and Grant Richmond.
All I can say is……enjoy!
Colin Grimshaw November 2020
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STOIC’s Lord Mayor’s Show report: 1971
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Because this years 2020 event is cancelled, let’s go back nearly 50 years for an on-location report by STOIC on the 13 November 1971 Lord Mayor’s Show. This was shot on 8mm film for inclusion in their weekly news programme, then called TOPIC. I made two very important discoveries when sorting out and collating the collection of either badly or completely unlabelled 8mm films. Firstly, this particular film was actually shot in colour, but only ever seen in black and white. Secondly, I also discovered an audiotape that had a listing inside. One segment was marked “Lord Mayor’s Show – long film report”, but with no date. Fortunately, the sound track commentary has a date mentioned, which led me to finding out that it was the same as the film. And, although the film was only marked as ‘BBC; Carnival; 1973’, the content was clearly the same thing, so the date was wrong. The clincher was the mention on the audio tape of that years theme title of “students today, engineers tomorrow”. Also, the BBC float was mentioned with ‘space men’ being located next to the C&G float, so that confirmed things. This could not have been any other year than 1971.
I’ve adjusted and corrected the film as best as possible. The audio was never intended to ‘sync’ with the actual film images, but rather to complement it with real ‘on-location’ sounds and a report with interviews. But to make this work I have had to second-guess the film speed. It could have been shot at either 16fps or 18fps, the reel doesn’t say. Also, when the film was projected did it run at the correct speed? Therefore, I’ve had to adjust the digitised film speed to attempt to match the audio duration. The person you’ll hear commentating is former STOIC Chairman Tim Dye. Were you a student on the C&G float back then and are you now retired?
I’ve also found other sound recordings, suggesting that they are linked to more 8mm film reports. I just need to do some more research and try to identify the films, that’s if I do indeed have them of course. But for now, let’s go back 50 years for the sights and sounds of the Lord Mayor’s Show 1971.
I’ve had a great comment from Paul Jowitt about this post and video (incidentally I think he meant the 1971 show):
Enjoyed the 1970 Lord Mayor’s Show video!
I was C&GU President at time and was the one standing up in the back of Bo.
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Bo goes London to Brighton: 1977
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Today I have what was another mystery film from the STOIC archives. In digitising the 8mm films that were used in their earlier programmes I found two reels of Super8 colour film marked London (to) Brighton. No date or further details were on the reels. It was a mystery as to why this was shot on film because clues lead me to believe it was perhaps around 1978 or so. By then, STOIC had their own Sony portable videorecorder for location work. I looked for clues in the actual footage but couldn’t spot anything that might give me a date. Until…..in one very small segment you will see Bo (Boanerges) has broken down outside of a cinema. This was in Streatham in South London. I could just make out, by zooming into one frame, a film title on the outside hoarding on the cinema. I looked it up on Google and it was dated as 1977. So, this was clearly the London to Brighton run on Sunday 6 November 1977.
I have no clues or idea as to why this was shot on 8mm colour film. The two reels are unedited and even look as if they were never used. If anything was indeed used it would have been in the weekly Lunchbreak programme. Was Rag week the same weekend as this event and therefore the videorecorder was not available because it was already in use?
We may never know the answer, but here anyway is the digital transfer of Bo, going from London to Brighton in 1977. Oh, and that’s Sir Hugh Ford sitting on the back seat in the middle.
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Sir Douglas Bader: 1981
In December 1981 former RAF pilot Sir Douglas Bader visited Imperial College Bookshop to promote and sign copies of his new autobiography. He took part in the Battle of Britain, was imprisoned at Colditz Castle and his life was chronicled in the film Reach for the Sky. Surrounded by copies of his books, Lawerence Windley managed to get a few words with him.
Within a year of this video, in September 1982, he had died.
Colin Grimshaw July 2020
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Review of the Year: 1979-1980
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One of the extremely useful things about STOIC’s Review of the Year programmes is that they showcased some of the most important things happening in college. In this edition from 40 years ago in June 1980, David Ghani and Paul Johnson give us a glimpse of events as seen through the lens of STOIC’s camera crew. As you will see, a large amount was still in black and white. In fact, this edition of the Review of the Year is the first to be shot in colour and that was simply because it was recorded within the confines of the College TV Studio. And if you look carefully you might spot that even the studio sequences have been shot and edited together in film style, using our single colour camera.
Look out for Rag Week events, STOIC’s 10th Anniversary and one department potentially about to go broke!
Colin Grimshaw 6 June 2020
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Meet Imperial College (Archives): 1981
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I’ve rediscovered this video compilation that I made for the Imperial College Archives in 1981. I had forgotten that the reason it was made was to show-case the college archives during the Meet Imperial College event that was held in the Sherfield Building. You can see another blog about the 1979 Meet Imperial College event that includes actual video taken on the day by STOIC.
This compilation is useful because it actually now helps to correctly identify one college member in the 1928 sports film. Jimmy Peacock is seen driving on the tug-of-war team and not Ted Coulson as previously assumed. Also, there is a short clip from the 1969 opening of what was then called College Block (later Sherfield Building) by the Queen. This clip is extremely important because it does include some of the sound track that we are now missing, because of technical issues extracting the film’s magnetic audio track. Included too is the audio of the Queen Mother in 1957 opening the Roderick Hill Building and the extension to the Students Union. And, from 1949 a sound recording on 78rpm disc of the college choir.
Mike Hackett from STOIC fronted the video for me.
Colin Grimshaw May 2020
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John Passmore – ICU President: 1980
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John Passmore was the ICU President from 1980-81 and elected into that post in March 1980. The front page of Felix announced the election results on its front page of 14 March 1980. STOIC interviewed him in the TV Studio just after the new term had started. From the 8 October 1980, here he is talking to Graeme Shaw.
Not that long after the term had started he was in the news again. He was the victim of a ‘kidnapping’ rag stunt by City University. Once more STOIC was on the case and here’s their report from 13 November 1980, Mike Hackett was the location reporter.
Colin Grimshaw March 2020
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STOIC@50: 1970-2020
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Three months after I started this Video Archive Blog I featured STOIC, that was in February 2010. Then, it was a mere 40 years since the Student TV Service had started. But now it’s reached the half century. You can of course read the two blogs about STOIC (One and Two) where you’ll find videos and lots of photos. So I won’t repeat all of those things again. What I will do is to include items that were never featured before and in particular videos discovered in the current digitisation of the STOIC archive.
What better way than to begin with those who started STOIC back in 1970 and continued thereafter. In 1980 it was 10 years since the start of their TV service and the video “Happy Birthday to Us” was made to celebrate and you can see that video in my blog STOIC One (links above). At the anniversary reception, held in the Senior Common Room on 15 February 1980, interviews were recorded with past Chairmen of STOIC including Andy Finney who was really the person who got things off the ground. Asking the questions is Grant Richmond who you will read more from later.
In the blog STOIC One there’s a 1971 tour of the Electrical Engineering Department’s (level 3) TV Studio, but now we have the tour made in June 1974. This is also a great record of the studio itself which is not captured anywhere else. Mark Caldwell, seen in the birthday video, makes the introduction. It was shot in one go with no editing except for one or two stops and starts between sections (stopping and then restarting the video recorder). It also features my former colleague Steve Bell (on camera one) who is in the next video too!
In January 1974, six months before the above video was made, STOIC pre-recorded an opening sequence for the then news programme TOPIC. Like the studio tour video it was shot in one go. But, regardless of the production quality it has some great shots of the (Elec Eng) TV Studio along with STOIC’s very own rotating logo, studio control room and STOIC’s RCA 2 inch quad recorder, all now long gone! Steve Bell is heard at the very start announcing the ‘take number and then seen with headphones on. You can also see a brief glimpse of STOIC’s Sony “rover” camera on a tripod in the studio.
The Electrical Engineering TV Studio as it originally looked when STOIC started in 1970, can be seen in some unique colour film. It shows the original PYE black and white vidicon cameras and studio set-up. I’m seen, blurred in long shot, operating the Ampex One Inch recorder. You can also see the crude video monitors (with me operating the film camera) and the PYE vision mixer.
And finally, some 3 years before STOIC ceased to use what, by then, had become the College TV studio, we have a rediscovered recording, shot behind the scenes. It was recorded in the Control Room on 13 June 1983 during the weekly transmission of Newsbreak. Martin Bolding is on sound and also continuity with Tim Davey on vision mixing.
Earlier I mentioned Grant Richmond who now lives in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. He had a few comments to make when he looked back at his time studying at Imperial and his involvement with STOIC and its 50 years.
“I would say it is really impressive and reminds me of how much extra-curricular activity there was at Imperial, especially considering such a small on-campus population. My point is how remarkable STOIC was to inform (& entertain?) the student community and I would like to think, staff too. I know technology has changed so anyone with a mobile phone can capture events these days and upload to YouTube, but there is no editorial discipline and it’s probably quite hard to get attention. At least with STOIC they had no choice in the JCR at lunchtime! I am most grateful for the opportunity STOIC gave me to participate and to be able to see the record of some of these activities all these years later.”
A lot more will be found from my first two blogs featuring STOIC and in particular the “Happy Birthday to Us” video, which more or less tells the whole story of how they started, and indeed ran, until leaving the College TV studio in summer 1986. To end, I have recreated the STOIC logo that I designed and added an updated version of the jingle that has never been heard before. It was on the master tape at 15ips, which was a tape speed that we couldn’t run. Now, hopefully, the sound quality will come through at last.
And with the time just after 6:24 STOIC is now closing down……
Colin Grimshaw 17 February 2020 – Happy Birthday to Them
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Iranian Embassy Siege memories: 1982
Queen's Tower
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In the September 2019 blog I showed what I thought were the only archived videos from STOIC’s reports on the May 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege. However, in digitising more videos I have discovered an item that would have been missing, had it not been included in a 1982 news programme as an ‘archive’ clip. One of the reporters for STOIC was Tracy Poole (now Tracy Dudley) and she was about to leave Imperial after her 3 years of study. Lawrence Windley managed to speak with her during a chance visit to Imperial’s field station at Silwood Park.
Interestingly, this video includes shots that are not in the previous September blog. They include dramatic views from the top of the Southside Hall of residence when the embassy building had been set on fire. You can also see a fire engine parked outside Weeks Hall which backed onto the embassy. Indeed I’m fairly certain that some shots were taken from the rear of Weeks Hall.Another view was clearly from the Queens Tower.
The original video report was before we moved into full colour.
Colin Grimshaw January 2020
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WATCH #RWISA WRITE TOUR #AUTHOR KAREN INGALLS
Introducing RWISA Author Karen Ingalls
Author Showcase: A Fishy Day by Karen Ingalls
A FISHY DAY
It was one of those wonderful August days when the sun was high and warm in the sky. The big cumulus clouds slowly drifted by, creating designs that filled Jim’s imagination, who at nine years could see all kinds of amazing sights. He had been playing with his model airplane in his aunt and uncle’s yard, where he spent the summers on their ranch in San Diego, California. Staying with Uncle Leon and Aunt Helen was always a special time of adventure, fun and farm work.
"Jim, do you want to go to the pasture with me? We’ll check the water trough for the cattle,” Uncle Leon asked, at the same time he took his handkerchief and wiped some perspiration from his tan brow.
“Oh, yes,” Jim responded with great excitement. He ran to the front porch and put his treasured airplane on the table next to where Aunt Helen sat in her rocking chair.
Uncle Leon walked over to the Allis-Chalmers tractor and stretched his long, thin legs up and over onto the metal seat. “All right, Jim, you can come on up now.” Jim awkwardly managed to climb up and grab hold of his uncle’s hand, who swung him onto his lap. With the turn of the key the tractor began to vibrate and the engine roared. Shifting the gears into forward, Leon yelled, “Here we go!”
The pasture was a favorite place for Jim with its rolling hills, oak trees, and green grass. It was always a peaceful place where a boy could run until he was out of breath, and then fall onto the grass and let the wind gently blow over his panting body. Many were the times that Jim would spend his days, just climbing in the oak trees pretending he was hiding from some enemy, or shooting squirrels with his imaginary rifle.
He and his uncle drove through the pasture until they came to a large trough sitting by a water pump on the top of a knoll. The cattle were grazing some distance away, but their occasional moos could be heard.
Uncle Leon helped Jim off the tractor and then sauntered up to the trough. “Not much water left so we best get this filled up.”
Jim was leaning over the trough where the top of it just reached his chest. “What can I do? I want to help.”
“Well, now, how about you pump the water in once I get it primed,” replied Uncle Leon with his usual smiling face. He was happy that Jim wanted to help, but he also knew that pumping water would be a big job for such a young lad. Once he had the water flowing with each downward motion of the pump handle, he instructed, “Okay, young feller, it is your turn now.”
Jim eagerly grabbed the handle and standing on his tiptoes, pushed it down, smiling happily when the water gushed into the trough. He repeated the pumping for as long as he could, but all too quickly his arms and shoulders began to ache. Jim did not want to admit that he was getting tired, but his uncle knew and said, “How about if I do it for a while?”
Once the water neared the top, Jim leaned over cupping some water into his hands. “This is the best tasting water I’ve ever had,” Jim thought to himself. He slurped several handfuls into his dry mouth.
Looking over at his nephew, Leon asked with a twinkle in his eye, “Did you see that fish drop into the water from this here pump?”
“What fish?”
“Why, that fish that came right out of the pump into the trough. I thought sure you would have seen him while you were drinking the water.”
“No, sir. I didn’t see any fish.” Jim wiped his mouth with his shirt sleeve and earnestly looked in the water.
“Well, he must still be in there.” Uncle Leon leaned over the trough looking for the mysterious fish. “Now isn’t that something. I can’t see him anywhere.” He peeked a look at his nephew, who now had eyes as big as saucers. “I wonder if you accidentally swallowed that poor little fish while you were drinking all that water.”
Jim stepped back from the trough and began to rub his stomach. “I don’t think so, sir.” The minutes passed and Uncle Leon continued to wonder out loud what happened to the fish. Jim began to imagine that the fish was swimming in his stomach. “I don’t feel so good,” Jim said as he stretched down on the cool grass.
Seeing that his nephew was fearful and feeling sick, Uncle Leon laid down next to him and pointed up towards the clouds. “Jim, look at that cloud up there. See the little one next to the big puffy cloud?”
He waited until Jim nodded his head and said, “I think so.”
“It kind of looks like a fish, doesn’t it? I wonder if that is the fish that was in the trough.”
Jim looked at his uncle, then up at the clouds, and then back at his uncle who was smiling from ear to ear. Uncle Leon laughed and began to tickle Jim’s stomach. “Or, is that fish still here? Where is that fish?”
Jim laughed and joked right back while he patted his uncle’s stomach. “No, I think that fish is right here!”
Soon they both stopped laughing and just looked at one another. “I hope I don’t tease you too much,” Uncle Leon said.
“Oh no, Sir.” Jim looked at his uncle and went on to say, “I like to tease my younger brothers. Mother is always telling me not to do it too much. She doesn’t want them to cry.”
“Well, I would never want to make you cry.” Uncle Leon put his big hand on Jim’s head. “Do you know why?” Jim slowly shook his head back and forth not wanting his uncle to remove his hand. “I love you too much to ever make you cry for any reason.”
With tears in his eyes, Jim whispered, “I love you, too.”
They spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying the sun, the warm breeze, and just being next to one another in the grass, watching the clouds drift by. It was a special day that Jim always remembered with a smile.
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Sabrina and Lauren’s tales entwine – linked by blood and magic. Sabrina, a newly fledged healer, is thrust out of her sheltered life at Mistress Florisah’s healing school after the destruction of the witch-ancestor portraits. An anti-witchcraft militia is poised on Karthalon’s borders threatening full scale genocide, unless Sabrina, the last of Lauren’s bloodline, can destroy the Lodestone, and restore magic to Valloaria, but the Lodestone is buried deep within the heart of the Order’s headquarters. Sabrina struggles to accept this suicide mission, and is distracted by her inappropriate affection for Micah, a prospect monk. Lauren’s ghost haunts Sabrina’s dreams as her diary reveals the tragic events behind Lauren’s actions. With invasion imminent, Sabrina embarks on her quest armed only with a sliver of the Lodestone, and Lauren’s diary but how can a lone girl prevail against an army?
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White Noise Press Archived Content
This website has been restored and archived as supplemental reading material form Dr. Dez Harman's Digital Literature course for second year students. Dr. Harman comes to the university after 15 years in the digital marketing arena where he was the recipient of numerous nationally recognized awards. Probably most noted for the campaigns that launched several online startups, including the viral campaign for a flameless candle and a search focused effort featuring the now infamous "dogs round luxury bed" - promos that used cats lounging on dog beds that made the December 2018 cover story of Digital Riot. If you're curious, you can find those products by clicking here. The full reading list and course outline are available on his university web page or from the English department resource office.
White Noise Press produces beautiful, hand-crafted chapbooks in very limited numbers, attractive to own and collect. This was their website for a number of years. Edited content is from the site's 2007 - 2016 archived pages providing a glimpse of what this site offered its readership and authors, as well as from other outside review sources.
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Necessary Evil Press Interviews White Noise Press
Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on October 28, 2009
We decided to do something a little different in the Free Reads section this month. Below you’ll find Don Koish of Necessary Evil Press interviewing Keith Minnion of White Noise Press.
NEP: I’ll copy you here Keith and ask the normal “how did you get here” question to start this off. But I’ll revise it just a bit since you are involved in so many different aspects of the genre today. How did you start doing artwork for the horror genre?
WNP: Two people: Darrell Schweitzer and Richard Chizmar. I was in the Philadelphia SF Writer’s Workshop from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s that also had Darrell Schweitzer as a member, and at one point in 1991 he suggested I send some cutsheet samples to this guy in Maryland who was putting out a horror magazine. Darrell gave me Rich’s address, and I put some samples together and sent them off. Rich called me soon after that, and sent me three stories to do for Cemetery Dance, one of which was “The Washingtonians” by Bentley Little. During that same period I was over at the Weird Tales offices – essentially the rear second floor of George Scither’s house in West Philadelphia – hawking my portfolio, and Darrell and George handed me a Ligotti story – “The Cocoons” – to try on spec.
NEP: How long would you say it took to get your art into something that was published? What was it? The piece and publication?
WNP: I was selling paintings pretty regularly throughout college, mostly Wyeth-like watercolor landscapes. My very first published illustration, though, was a little pen and ink drawing for my second published short story called “On The Midwatch” for Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine, back in 1979. George Scithers, the editor at Asimov’s, bought it. I was on leave from the Navy, dragging my portfolio around to publishers in NYC. Both George at Asimov’s and Stanley Schmidt at Analog had offices on the same floor. I think George was just being kind in accepting that drawing, because it wasn’t very good. As for how long it took to get published? I put together my first serious portfolio in 1979, mostly doing work when off-duty in my shipboard compartment, and that leave visit to NYC the same year was my first attempt to sell myself, so it was pretty quick. This was pre-Internet, pre-digital, pre-electronic ANYthing, remember, so going out on face interviews with a black leather zippered portfolio of original work and cutsheet sample packages that you left with art editors on a pile with a hundred other cutsheet packages was really the only way to go. Marriage and kids took up all of my time for the rest of the 1980s, though, and except for some sporadic SF assignments I didn’t get back into illustration till the early 1990s, and then it was mostly all horror illustration work for markets like Cemetery Dance, Deathrealm and Weird Tales.
NEP: Can you tell us a little bit about how you work as an artist? From the start to finish on the process of doing a cover piece?
WNP: When I read a manuscript I scribble illustration ideas on the backs of the pages and dog-ear them. After I’m done reading I edit the ideas down to those I think I can actually execute, and in the case of novels, those that are evenly spaced out in the manuscript to help with the overall finished book presentation. Then I either get friends or family to pose, or I go into my big morgue of clip art I get from old magazines for material, and block out the compositions in pencil on tracing paper. When I get that right, I transfer the drawing to the actual drawing paper or illustration board by tracing it over graphite paper. In the case of cover paintings I go over the pencil transfer with a technical ink pen. This locks the composition down in a very linear way, which I prefer. I usually work in acrylic polymer for covers, a water-based paint, because it’s fast. I also tend to follow classical egg-tempera-type painting techniques by building up shapes and textures in thin, semi-opaque layers of paint. I also like to splatter paint a lot for texture purposes, so if you would look at one of my things in an early stage you might wonder: What the hell is THAT? The final step is when I scan the painting to a digital file and give it a once-over in Photoshop, cleaning up the image, getting rid of any imperfections from the scan. The whole process often takes several weeks. I get the most satisfaction out of doing interior illustrations, though, and I can usually knock two or three of those out in a weekend. I have a day job and really long commutes, so weekends are the only time I can really work.
NEP: Do you have a website that features your artwork by chance? Is there any way for people to buy prints or even originals of your work?
WNP: Sure. I keep a virtual portfolio site at: http://www.keithminnion.com. Most of that stuff is available for sale. I just have it all stored in drawers, actually. There are prints for sale at the White Noise Press site at: http://www.whitenoisepress.com.
NEP: This isn’t the most original question, but I always love to hear the answer especially with artists. So I’ll ask it since I get to decide the questions for once. Who are some of the artists you admire? Today? Growing up?
WNP: Love this question! In junior high and high school I studied Vincent Van Gogh and Edward Hopper quite a lot. I used to do oil painting almost exclusively back then, and I admired the way Van Gogh applied a single thick and gooey layer of paint, highly saturated colors laid side by side, to do his paintings. He just blurped them out, often in a single sitting. With Hopper it was all about color and composition. I loved the empty spaces in his stuff, the volumes. Unbelievable stuff. In college the Minimalist, Conceptual and Post Conceptual movements were popular. Most of it was pure bullshit, but some of it was, as my professor Jan Groover liked to say, “A true Mind-Fuck.” We used to go down to the Soho galleries in NYC all the time and crash openings for the free wine and to actually meet some of these people. I really admired the Minimalists Robert Mangold, Bryce Marden, Robert Motherwell and Robert Ryman, and Frank Stella too, before he got into his high-relief and 3-D wall pieces. On the flip side of all that, I took a water-media class with Rudolph Zallinger, the famous dinosaur painter (The Golden Book of Dinosaurs, those incredible murals at the Peabody in New Haven) and he taught me how to paint in egg tempera – I’m talking the classic Cennino Cennini 15th century techniques, grinding pigments, cooking rabbitskin glue, marble-dust gesso, all of that. From there it was a quick jump to contemporary egg tempera painters like Robert Vickery and Andrew Wyeth – who I am fanatical about; a winter doesn’t go by when I’m not down in Chadds Ford walking those same roads and fields or gawking at stuff in the Brandywine Museum – and his father N.C. Wyeth, more juicy paint, wonderful color and composition and powerful execution. From him it was an easy jump to the Symbolists and Decadents: Maxfield Parrish, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, that whole crowd. I was also fascinated by the work of the contemporary British illustrator Roger Dean, who did those great YES album covers, so I studied him a lot. As for genre illustrators, I admire the ink work of Joseph Clement Cole. I also really like the work Alex McVey and Steve Gilberts are doing.
NEP: You’ve been involved in the genre for a number of years now so I’m curious to ask if you see the genre going in any type of direction. You have some that say we’re all doomed, but others say that we’ve never been healthy. Any thoughts on this?
WNP: Well, I only stumbled into the horror genre fifteen years ago, so I am hardly an expert. Before that, my only exposure had been some Shirley Jackson, some Lovecraft, and Chiller Theater the Twilight Zone on TV! Whenever I am in with a group of horror professionals and fans – like at the recent Necon 27 – I feel like the dumb kid in the back of the class. What I’ve seen from my limited perspective are just popularity waves: everybody doing vampires, then everybody doing zombies, then everybody doing zombie-vampires, etc. But that’s just the foam at the top of the beer. There’s still everything underneath, the vast body of work that everyone else is doing, and that stuff seems to be getting published with the same regularity as always, and a lot of it is really good. Beth Massie’s recent “Homeplace” is a great example, a really fine haunted house story. I would much rather curl up with that than the next ‘rip your face off and shit down your windpipe’ thing. Shock for shock’s sake doesn’t much interest me. Bores me, actually. Horror’s not going anyplace that any of the other genres aren’t also going, anyway. I think everybody just has to keep their fingers crossed that paper publishing in general remains strong, so the markets continue, across the board.
NEP: I’ve been a big fan of your art for years Keith. And I was lucky enough to get my hands on your first project as a publisher as well. It’s heavily illustrated by you and a true piece of art in itself with the envelope and endpapers. Tell everyone a little more about how you got into the publishing side of things.
WNP: At that same Philadelphia SF Writer’s Workshop back in the 1980s I met Jason Van Hollander, someone I greatly respect as both an illustrator and a writer. We became really good friends. One Saturday he brought a story to the workshop called “The Hell Book” and it just floored me, absolutely floored me. I remember saying to Darrell Schweitzer that he should buy it for Weird Tales, and, as it turned out, that’s what he did. Someday, I told Jason, I want to re-publish this in a low-run chapbook. Just an idea. Ten years later an old guy at work was retiring and he offered to give me this old Swingline saddle stitcher he was otherwise going to throw out. It was a heavy-duty manual stapler that let you staple-bind things like … chapbooks. Hmmm. I had already just purchased a high-end “giglee” ink-jet printer to do art prints, so I decided, with Jason’s permission and just for fun, to put the three together: story, stapler and printer, and see if anyone was interested. Digital graphic design using Adobe programs like In-Design, Pagemaker and Illustrator has always been a lot of fun for me, so I gave it a shot.
NEP: You’ve done all the art for White Noise Press so far. Is this something that you’ll continue to do?
WNP: Yep. I am about as cheap an illustrator as I can find, and I don’t get into any pissing matches or ego bumping with myself either. Also, the illustrations tend to evolve with the layout process, so employing myself solves that problem.
NEP: Above I was commenting on how much I loved White Noise Press chapbooks. There isn’t anything quite like your chapbooks and I have every single one of them. Can you tell us a little more about them?
WNP: They are truly hand-crafted. I don’t employ any other person or company to publish them. I copyedit the manuscripts, I design the books, I lay them out, I illustrate them, I print them, fold them, bind them, package them, all by myself. I go exploring on the Internet to find new papers for the text and covers, and I really enjoy making font family decisions and that second color choice for each chap project. I was inspired a lot by Roy Squires, the New Jersey publisher. He did a limited edition chapbook of Fritz Leiber’s “Demons of the Upper Air” that I bought when I was a teenager, and I always have that in the back of my mind as a benchmark of truly great published art object, something beyond just a stapled chapbook. Roy put all his chaps in printed slip envelopes too, which is something I decided to do also.
NEP: How do you decide on the projects you publish?
WNP: So far I have been asking writers I admire to contribute stories. I just cold-call them, what the hell, right? Some of them have actually said yes, which I still think is amazing. I wait for the story to arrive before I even think about how it will look as a finished product. The only editorial rule I have ever mentioned to anyone was: no splatter/gore/shock stuff, please. I much prefer quiet supernatural or psychological horror, and so far I have been very lucky.
NEP: You’ve already had some great success in the publishing field. Where do you see the press going from here? Do you ever see yourself going into publishing full-time?
WNP: I have chapbook commitments through 2008, so people will see three chapbooks a year coming out of White Noise Press this year and next. In 2009 I plan on retiring from my day job and going back to school to get a Master of Fine Arts degree in Drawing so I can teach at the college level in my “golden” years. I hope to continue White Noise Press projects through that period, if I can. This uncertainty factor is why I have fended off all customer requests for “lifetime” subscriptions. When I get enough chaps done to warrant it, though, I definitely plan on approaching all the authors to do a trade paperback anthology, reprinting all the White Noise Press stories, with all new illustrations, and maybe a new long piece of novelette or novella length from a new author included to sweeten the pot. “White Noise Stories.” That should be interesting.
NEP: Are there any writers you really want to work with given the chance? As an artist? As a publisher?
WNP: Argh! Anyone I DON’T mention might get offended! As an illustrator, my greatest recent thrills were illustrating some of Gene Wolf’s stories. My God, what a great writer he is. I also really like it when I get sent a story to illustrate and the name doesn’t ring a bell for me, and I only find out later that the writer was a Name and the story was Important. That happened when I got “The Box” to do for Cemetery Dance a few years ago (remember: dumb kid in the back of the class). Jack who?? Bram Stoker what??
NEP: Can you talk about what you’ll have coming out in the next six months to a year?
WNP: Sure! I am a big supporter of letting the cat out of the bag. I am currently putting together Elizabeth Massie’s very dark and complex story “Brazen Bull.” Think classic Shirley Jackson, but with Beth’s special talents mixed in. We got to go over some of the design ideas at Necon 27, and I am very excited about putting this one out as the Autumn 2007 offering. The three slots for 2008 are also filled. Kealan Patrick Burke will be contributing a story for the Spring chap; I get to illustrate another Orangefield story from Al Sarrantonio for the Summer chap, and Brian Keene just returned the contracts for a story that will appear in the Autumn slot. All new fiction. Can’t wait.
NEP: Interviewers have used this before as the last question and I always found it quite fitting and interesting. So I’m going to copy it here. Any last words? Things you would like to mention. Some great gossip to help make this the best interview ever? Now’s your chance.
WNP: I guess we’ll let Rich and Brian edit or not edit this, but they recently hired me to do the layout and design duties for their chapbook line. We are hoping to get on a regular schedule of putting out six or so CD Publications chaps every year. They also just hired me to a regular gig of providing frontispiece paintings for some of the lettered edition hardcovers that will be coming out from CD. I’m looking forward to doing some Wyethy watercolors for that.
NEP: Thanks Keith. It was fun doing these interviews and great meeting you at NECON this year.
WNP: Hey, everything at Necon STAYS at Necon! (Unless you want Matt Bechtel on your ass, and who wants that?).
"The Hell Book" by Jason Van Hollander / 125 numbered copies
"The Church of Dead Languages" by James Newman and Jason Brannon / 150 numbered copies
"Sex Potion #147" & "Werewolf Porno" by Jeff Strand / 150 numbered copies
"The Last Stand of the Great Texas Packrat" by Steve Vernon / 125 numbered copies
"Brazen Bull" by Elizabeth Massie / 150 numbered copies; 50 signed & numbered art prints
"Down in the Boneyard" by Keith Minnion / 55 lettered copies / 13 Signal Flag copies
"Smiling Faces Sometimes" by Gary A. Braunbeck / 150 numbered copies
"Seldom Seen in August" by Kealan Patrick Burke / 150 numbered copies
"The Shadow on the Shade" by Keith Minnion / 55 lettered copies / 13 signal flag copies
"Halves" by Brian Keene / 150 numbered copies; 15 copies for private distribution
"The Thing With Feathers" by Norman Prentiss / 150 numbered copies
"Cozzy's Question" by Bob Booth & Matt Bechtel / 150 numbered copies
"No Songs for the Stars" by Mary SanGiovanni / 150 numbered copies
"What Rough Beast" by James A. Moore & Charles R. Rutledge / 150 numbered copies
"Bad Bratwurst" by Jeff Strand / 150 numbered copies
"There's a Bluebird in My Heart" by Gary McMahon / 150 numbered copies
"The Algernon Effect" by Gene O'Neill / 150 numbered copies
"Odd Numbers" by Richard Chizmar; "How the Wind Lies" by Brian James Freeman / 150 numbered copies (upcoming)
"The Winter Tree" by Alison Littlewood / 150 numbered copies (upcoming)
Books from White Noise Press
Bad Bratwurstby Strand, Jeff
Chapbook - Softcover
Brazen Bullby Massie, Elizabeth
Limited - Chapbook
How the Wind Lies - Odd Numbersby Richard Chizmar, Brian James Freeman
It’s For You and Other Dark Speculationsby Minnion, Keith
Softcover - Signed
Meatcow Makerby Warner, Matthew
No Songs For the Starsby SanGiovanni, Mary
Schrodinger’s Clockby Little, John R.
Seldom Seen in Augustby Burke, Kealan Patrick
Smiling Faces Sometimesby Braunbeck, Gary A.
The Algernon Effectby O'Neill, Gene
The Thing With Feathersby Prentinss, Norman
The Winter Treeby Littlewood, Alison
There’s A Bluebird In My Heartby McMahon, Gary
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Wolfmen in the Wild West: A Review of What Rough Beast by James A. Moore and Charles R. Rutledge
Monday, February 9th, 2015 | Posted by westkeith
James A. Mooreand Charles R. Rutledge
Illustrations by Keith Minnion
Signed and numbered hand-crafted Chapbook, 28 p., $17.00 ($15.00 plus $2.00 shipping)
Chapbooks have been around for a long time. For those who may be unfamiliar with them, they are short books usually consisting of a single story, although short collections are also common. They tend to focus on a particular work, or in the case of several stories, a particular writer.
The quality of chapbooks can vary. Before technology made it possible to produce professional level products, it was not uncommon to see chapbooks that were simply photocopies stapled together. These days, though, chapbooks can be works of art. Like the one we’re going to look at today. More on that in a bit.
Until recently, White Noise Press was not a publisher with which I was familiar. I was, however, familiar with the work of Moore and Rutledge, both collaboratively (here) as well as individually (here and here). These authors have a knowledge and love of the genre, and it shows in their work. Guys who are fans of Karl Edward Wagner and Manly Wade Wellman are all right in my book.
So when Charles contacted me not long ago inquiring if I would like a review copy of What Rough Beast, I thought about it for a while (1 while = 0.5 nanoseconds), then said yes.
The story is a weird western. It opens with Deputy Tom Morton watching for an overdue stage. His wife Hanna is on it, a snow storm is in progress, there have been wolf attacks in the area, and night is falling. Not a good combination. The sheriff is leading a posse on a hunt for bank robbers. He’s taken most of the reliable men with him.
Morton wants to lead a party to check on the stage, but he gets very little support. His only companions are an aging shopkeeper and a stranger in the saloon who goes by the single name of Kharnn. Kharnn is a giant of a man.
As they are leaving two more strangers enter the saloon. The first is a gentleman names Johnathan Crowley. He and Kharnn not only know each other, but they have a history. From hints dropped, they appear to have a long history.
The man with Crowley is named Slate. He’s extremely pale, and he gives Morton a major case of the creeps. The two newcomers immediately agree to join the search party. They’re in town for a reason, and that reason might involve the missing stage coach.
I’m not letting any secrets slip when I say that the stage is in trouble, none of the three strangers are what they seem, and the creatures that have been attacking aren’t exactly wolves. With these story elements, you can probably tell that What Rough Beast is a story you can sink your teeth into.
Moore and Rutledge handle the pacing and character development with ease. They also handle the conflict and violence well. There’s a balance in this kind of story between what is shown and what is implied. What that balance should be exactly will vary from one reader to the next. I thought the balance was perfect. Quite a bit of blood will be spilled, but the authors never over do it and descend into slaughter porn. Their monsters aren’t simply killing machines. In fact the head of the pack has a completely understandable motivation, one that I never would have thought of but makes perfect sense.
They also give you enough hints about Kharnn and Crowley to make you want to know more. Like just how old are these guys? What is the revenge Kharnn took that Crowley mentions? And just who is Slate and what exactly is his relationship to Crowley? Like I said, I want to see more of these characters.
Now, let’s discuss the production values of this chapbook. As much as I love the convenience and space-saving advantages of ebooks, I also am one of those people who believes that the art of a book isn’t limited to the words on the page but can extend to the packaging itself.
White Noise Press produces hand crafted chapbooks. There are at least four different types of paper and three Old West style fonts used in this book. The paper with the text is a heavy white paper on which the typesetting is sharp and clear. Keith Minnion’s artwork is an excellent fit for the story. The chapbook is produced to look like an old penny dreadful from the 1800s, right down to the rough outer edge on the back cover. (The rough edge doesn’t show up in the scan. I tried using a photo but ran into problems with image size and clarity.)
The price might be a bit steep for a casual reader, but for people who like books in which the packaging adds to the story, this one is a good buy in terms of both story and packaging.
I would like to thank the authors and Keith Minnion for providing the review copy of What Rough Beast.
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Home / News / President Trump issues blistering response to latest accusations of sexual assault
President Trump issues blistering response to latest accusations of sexual assault
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President Donald Trump has released a blistering response to new allegation of sexual assault.
What's the background?
Famed columnist E. Jean Carroll claimed in a story published in New York magazine Friday that Trump assaulted her in the dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in midtown Manhattan sometime in late 1995 or early 1996.
It was a chance encounter, Carroll claims, that ended with an attack lasting approximately three minutes in which Trump allegedly penetrated her against her will.
Carroll claims she was able to fight off Trump to stop the assault. She never went to police about the alleged attack, but claimed she told two friends. She also kept the dress she wore at the time the alleged incident occurred, posing in the outfit for New York magazine.
How did Trump respond?
After the story broke Friday, the White House released a statement calling Carroll's story "completely false and unrealistic."
Later Friday evening, Trump released a personal statement categorically denying Carroll's allegations. He said he has never met Carroll, and connected the timing of her allegations to the upcoming release of her book.
Trump said:
Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda – like Julie Swetnick who falsely accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It's just as bad for people to believe it, particularly when there is zero evidence. Worse still for a dying publication to try to prop itself up by peddling fake news – it's an epidemic.
Ms. Carroll & New York Magazine: No pictures? No surveillance? No video? No reports? No sales attendants around?? I would like to thank Bergdorf Goodman for confirming they have no video footage of any such incident, because it never happened.
False accusations diminish the severity of real assault. All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms.
The president ended his statement by implying a connection between the allegations and the Democratic Party.
"The world should know what's really going on," Trump said. "It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations."
According to New York magazine, Carroll is the 16th woman to accuse Trump of sexual assault.
Carroll told MSNBC that she will not press charges against Trump.
President Trump issues blistering response to latest accusations of sexual assault Reviewed by STATION GOSSIP on 09:39 Rating: 5
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WAX DEPOSIT REMOVAL USING AQUEOUS SURFACTANT
A method and system for removing wax deposits from a wellbore and other oil production and processing equipment using a wax removal surfactant having at least 1% alkyl poly glycoside (APG), at least 0.5% ethoxy lated alcohol (AE) or alcohol ethoxy sulfates (AES), and at least 1% saturated alcohol, and optionally comprising D-Limonene, wherein the wax removal surfactant solution forms a Winsor Type III or Type IV microemulsion with water and wax.
WU, Yaquin (US)
XU, Ying (US)
BLUMER, David (US)
US2020/040871
CONOCOPHILIPS COMPANY (US)
C09K8/28; C09K8/52; C09K8/524; E21B37/06
VALOIR, Tamsen et al. (US)
1. A method of removing wax deposits from oil production or processing equipment (OPPE), said method comprising:
a. determining that efficiency is reduced in OPPE as a result of wax deposits; b. adding a wax removal surfactant that has a temperature of at least 50°C into said
OPPE in an amount sufficient to dissolve said wax deposits, said wax removal surfactant comprising an aqueous solution having at least 1% alkyl poly glycoside (APG), at least 0.5% ethoxylated alcohol (AE) or alcohol ethoxy sulfates (AES), and at least 1% saturated alcohol, wherein said wax removal surfactant forms a microemulsion with water and wax and/or oil; and
c. recovering or removing said wax removal surfactant plus dissolved wax deposits, thus leaving said OPPE with reduced or no wax deposits.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said wax removal surfactant is used at temperatures of
>60°.
3. The method of any one of claims 1-2, wherein said wax removal surfactant further comprises D-limonene.
4. The method of any one of claims 1-3, wherein said APG are C8-C16, said EA or AES are C8-C15 with an average of about 2-14 ethylene oxide groups, and said saturated alcohols are C3-C15.
5. The method of any one of claims 1-3, wherein said APG are C10-C14 alkyl polyglucosides, said AE or AES are C9-C15 with an average of about 12 ethylene oxide groups, and said saturated alcohols are C3-C8.
6. The method of any one of claims 1-3, wherein said wax removal surfactant comprises:
(a) 1-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-2.5, 0.1-2% TOMADOL® 25-12, 0.1-2% n-hexanol, and 0.1-2% n-octanol; or
(b) 1-5% TRITON® CG-600, 1-5% TERGITOL® 15-S-3, 0.1-2% n-butanol, and 0.1-2% n-hexanol; or (c) 1-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-4, 0.1-4% n-propanol, 0.1- 2% n-pentanol, and 1-5% NaOH; or
(d) 1-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-2.5, 0.1-2% TOMADOL® 91-6, 0.1-2% n-propanol, 0.1-2% n-pentanol, 1-5% NaOH, and 0.1-3% TEGMBE (triethylene glycol monobutyl ether); or
(e) 1-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-2.5, 0.1-2% TOMADOL® 91-6, 0.1-2% n-butanol, 0.1-2% n-hexanol, and 1-5% NaOH.
7. The method of any one of claims 4-6, wherein said wax removal surfactant further comprises 2-50% D-limonene, preferably 10-25%, most preferred about 20%.
8. The method of any one of claims 1-7, wherein said wax removal surfactant further comprises wax dispersants, wax solvents, wax crystal modifiers, or combinations thereof.
9. A method of removing wax deposits from crude oil production and processing equipment (OPPE), said method comprising:
a. obtaining a sample of a wax deposit in an OPPE;
b. testing said sample to optimize a wax removal surfactant for dissolving said sample, said wax removal surfactant being used at a temperature of at least 50°C and comprising an aqueous solution having at least 1% alkyl poly glycoside (APG), at least 0.5% ethoxylated alcohol (AE) or alcohol ethoxy sulfates (AES), and at least 1% saturated alcohol, wherein said wax removal surfactant solution forms a Winsor Type III or Type IV microemulsion with water and wax;
c. adding said optimized wax removal surfactant having a temperature of least
50°C into said OPPE in an amount sufficient to dissolve said wax deposits; and
d. recovering ore removing said wax removal surfactant plus dissolved wax deposits, thus leaving said OPPE with reduced or no wax deposits.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein said optimized wax removal surfactant is used at a temperature of at least 60°C, or at least 70°C, or at least 80°C, or at least 90°C.
11. The method of any one of claims 9-10, wherein said wax removal surfactant further comprises D-limonene.
12. The method of any one of claims 9-11, wherein said APG are C8-C16, said EA or AES are C8-C15 with an average of about 2-14 ethylene oxide groups, and said saturated alcohols are C3-C15.
13. The method of any one of claims 9-11, wherein said alkyl polyglycosides are C10-C14 alkyl polyglucosides, said ethoxy lated alcohols are C9-C15 with an average of about 12 ethylene oxide groups, and said saturated alcohols are C3-C8.
14. The method of any one of claims 9-13, wherein said wax removal surfactant comprises:
(b) 1 -5% TRITON® CG-600, 1 -5% TERGITOL® 15-S-3, 0.1 -2% n-butanol, and 0.1 -2% n-hexanol; or
(c) 1-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-4, 0.1-4% n-propanol, 0.1- 2% n-pentanol, and 1-5% NaOH; or
15. The method of any one of claims 9-14, wherein said optimized wax removal surfactant is left to soak said OPPE for a period of at least 1 hour, or at least 2 hours, or at least 5 hours, or at least 8 hours, or at least 12 hours, or at least 24 hours.
16. The method of any one of claims 9-15, wherein said optimized wax removal surfactant is circulated though said OPPE for a period of at least 1 hour, or at least 2 hours, or at least 5 hours, or at least 8 hours, or at least 12 hours, or at least 24 hours.
17. The method of any one of claims 9-16, said wax removal surfactant further comprising wax dispersants, wax solvents, wax crystal modifiers, or combinations thereof.
18. The method of any one of claims 9-17, wherein said method is repeated at periodic intervals to keep wax deposits at a minimum.
19. The method of any one of claims 9-18, wherein said OPPE is an oil well, and wherein said well is shut-in after said adding step c for a period of at least 1 hour, or at least 2 hours, or at least 5 hours, or at least 8 hours, or at least 12 hours.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein said well is opened after said period and an initial flow back is sent to a truck or tank for disposal or reuse until insignificant amounts of optimized wax removal surfactant are in said flow back, and thereafter said flow back is routed to a central processing facility (“CPF”) for producing oil.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to US serial No. 62/870,762, filed July
4, 2019 and incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
[0001] The invention relates to products, methods and systems for removing wax from wellbores and equipment, such as oil and gas wellbores and equipment used to produce, transport and commercialize hydrocarbons.
[0001] Almost any heavy organic deposit encountered in oil extraction is referred to as paraffin or wax. While paraffins are usually the major component in these deposits, it is most often actually a mixture of paraffins— primarily straight chain n- alkanes— and asphaltenes, but the deposits often also contain resins, silt, gums, salt crystals, scale, sand and clay. That is why it is important that any solvent used to remove these deposits is effective at removing more than just paraffin. We use the term“wax” herein to describe all such deposits, but it is to be understood that the wax is a complex mixture and that its composition will vary from reservoir to reservoir.
[0002] Wax components can precipitate from crude petroleum fluids when the original equilibrium conditions of the reservoir are changed so that the solubility of the waxes is reduced. Thus, wax is typically a bigger problem in colder climates or reservoirs. Wax precipitation does not necessarily lead to deposition, however, because individual wax crystals tend to disperse in the fluid instead of depositing on a surface. The temperature gradient between the equipment wall and bulk oil is the main driver for wax to deposit, but nucleating materials, such as asphaltenes, formation fines, clay, or corrosion products also contribute to agglomeration into larger particles. These larger particles then may separate out of the fluid and form solid deposits. Thus, oil sands and heavy oils may have greater problems with wax deposits. FIG. 1 shows a sample cut through of a pipe highly fouled with wax deposits.
[0003] Even without deposition, wax causes problems. Crystals of wax in crude oils lead to non-Newtonian flow characteristics, including very high yield stresses that are dependent on time, and the shear and temperature histories of the fluid. Wax precipitation-induced viscosity increases causes of high flowline pressure drops. In turn, lower flow rates allow further deposition. In extreme cases, pumping pressure can exceed the limits of the system and stop flow entirely.
[0004] A related problem is the high-yield stress for restarting flow. When oil is allowed to stand in a pipeline at temperatures below its pour point, a certain pressure is required to break the gel and resume flow. Again, this pressure may be higher than the pressure limits of the pumps and pipelines.
[0005] There are a range of methods for removing paraffin wax build-ups in oil wells and equipment, but they can be grouped into three main types by mechanism of action: 1) Mechanical, 2) Thermal and 3) Chemical. Of course, many methods employ combinations of these basic methodologies.
[0006] Mechanical— Scrapers and cutters are used extensively to remove wax deposits from tubing because they can be economical and result in minimal formation damage. Scrapers may be attached to wireline units, or they may be attached to sucker rods to remove wax as the well is pumped. Deposits in surface pipelines can be removed by forcing pigs through the lines.
[0007] Another method of mechanical intervention that helps prevent deposition is the use of plastic or coated pipe. Low-friction surfaces make it more difficult for wax crystals to adhere to the pipe walls. Deposition will still occur if conditions are highly favorable for wax precipitation, and deposits will grow at the same rate as for other pipes once an initial layer of material has been laid down; therefore, the pipe and coating system must be capable of withstanding one of the other methods of wax removal.
[0008] Thermal— Because wax precipitation is highly temperature dependent, thermal methods can be highly effective for both preventing and removing wax. Prevention methods include steam- and electrical-heat tracing of flowlines in conjunction with thermal insulation. Thermal methods for removing wax depositions include hot oiling and hot watering. Hot water treatments do not provide the solvency effects that hot oiling can, so surfactants are often added to aid in dispersion of wax in the water phase, but surfactants are discussed under chemical methods.
[0009] Hot oiling is one of the most popular methods of deposited wax removal. Wax is melted and dissolved by hot oil, which allows it to be circulated from the well and the surface producing system. Hot oil is normally pumped down the casing and up the tubing; however, in non-flowing wells, the oil may be circulated down the tubing and up the casing. There is evidence that hot oiling can cause permeability damage if melted wax enters the formation.
[0010] Higher molecular- weight waxes tend to deposit at the high-temperature bottom end of the well. Lower molecular-weight fractions deposit as the temperature decreases up the wellbore. The upper parts of the well receive the most heat during hot oiling. As the oil proceeds down the well, its temperature decreases and the carrying capacity for wax is diminished. Thus, sufficient oil must be used to dissolve and melt the wax at the necessary depths.
[0011] Unfortunately, any heat-based method tends to be somewhat less effective in colder climates. As the hot fluids inevitable cool, the wax can once again recrystallize and again form deposits. Thus, thermal methods are often combined with other methods to improve efficacy.
[0012] Chemical— The types of chemicals available for paraffin treatment include solvents, wax crystal modifiers, dispersants and surfactants.
[0013] Solvents can be used to treat deposition in production strings and also may be applied to remediate formation damage. Solvents are mostly used in large batch treatments. Although chlorinated hydrocarbons are excellent solvents for waxes, they generally are not used because of safety and processing difficulties they create in the produced fluid. Hydrocarbon fluids consisting primarily of normal alkanes such as condensate and diesel oil can be used, provided the deposits have low asphaltene content. Aromatic solvents such as toluene and xylene are good solvents for both waxes and asphaltenes.
[0014] Wax crystal modifiers act at the molecular level to reduce the tendency of wax molecules to network and form lattice structures within the oil. Wax crystal modifiers that act to reduce oil viscosity and lower the wax gel strength are only effective when used continuously. Since they work at the molecular level, they are effective in concentrations of parts per million, as opposed to hot oil or solvents, which must be applied in large volumes. However, wax crystal modifiers have a high- molecular-weight and as a result they have high pour points, so their use may be limited in cold climates. [0015] Dispersants are a type of surfactant that helps disperse the wax crystals into the produced oil or water. This dispersing of the wax crystals into the produced oil or water helps prevent deposition of the wax and also has a positive effect on viscosity and gel strength. Dispersants can help break up deposited wax into particles small enough to be carried in the oil stream. To prevent wax deposition, dispersants must be used continuously, but to remediate deposited wax, dispersants can be used either continuously or in batch treatments. One advantage is that dispersants generally have a very low pour point making their use suitable for cold climates. These chemicals are used in low concentrations and can be formulated in both aqueous and hydrocarbon solutions, making them relatively safe and inexpensive.
[0016] Surfactants are a general class of chemicals that are most often used to clean vessels, tanks, pipes, machinery or any place where wax may deposit. Surfactants or dispersants can also be used in combination with hot oil and water treatments.
[0017] Before choosing a chemical to remove paraffin deposits it is important to first consider the nature of wax build-ups. Oil wells that suffer from wax problems are, in fact, usually experiencing other type of fouling as well.
[0018] Many chemical treatments for paraffin in use today require heat in order to be most effective. The application of heat into the system requires additional equipment, energy usage and expense so it is preferable to choose chemicals that are effective at lesser temperatures.
[0019] The final and most important consideration when selecting the best paraffin removal chemical is safety. Many chemical treatments require the use of caustic reagents that are hazardous to workers and can damage equipment. Many solvent-based treatments contain toxic chemicals that increase risks to human health and the environment.
[0020] Thus, what is needed in the art are better methods of wax removal, particularly methods that are safer for employees, less toxic to the environment, and yet have good efficacy at colder temperatures.
[0021] SCHMOO-B-GONE SURFACTANT® (“SBG”) is a commercially available dispersing surfactant composition in an alkaline base used to emulsify hydrocarbons. SBG is not a single recipe, but a collection or class of surfactants that contain alkyl polyglycoside (e.g. 4-20%), linear primary ethoxylated alcohol (e.g. >0- 15%), sodium hydroxide (NaOH) (e.g. 1-30%), and may contain a mixture of alcohols (e.g. 0-25%). A variety of combinations of composition components of SBG-like surfactants are conceivable. SBG-like recipes and uses are described in several patents: US5374361, US5458197, U5830831, US5874386, US5996692, US6000412, US6090754, US6112814, US6130199, US6234183, US6911417, US7514390, US7514391, each of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
[0022] The surfactant in SBG tends to form microemulsions. Microemulsions are clear, thermodynamically stable, isotropic liquid mixtures of oil, water and surfactant, frequently in combination with a cosurfactant. The aqueous phase may contain salt(s) and/or other ingredients, and the "oil" may actually be a complex mixture of different hydrocarbons and olefins. In contrast to ordinary emulsions, microemulsions form upon simple mixing of the components and do not require the high shear conditions generally used in the formation of ordinary emulsions. The three basic types of microemulsions are direct (oil dispersed in water, o/w), reversed (water dispersed in oil, w/o) and bi continuous.
[0023] We have now discovered that SBG-like surfactants can be used to dissolve wax deposits in crude oil equipment— a novel use for these and similar compositions. The formation of micro-emulsions by SBG is believed to provide the driving force for this surfactant mixture to break the structure of the wax deposits. Our lab tests indicate that this composition performs significantly better than hot water treatment alone. The optional addition of D-limonene provides increased solvency for the «-paraffins, further breaking the structure of the deposits and enhancing the effectiveness of aqueous SBG. The combination is remarkably effective in removing wax deposits, keeping the removed wax dispersed, and preventing the removed wax from redepositing.
[0024] Thus, the invention generally relates to methods of wax removal using an aqueous wax removal surfactant comprising alkyl poly glycoside (e.g. 1-20%), ethoxylated alcohol (e.g. >0-15%), sodium hydroxide (NaOH) (e.g. 1-30%), an optional mixture of alcohols (e.g. 0-25% or 1-25%) and preferably also containing about 2-50% D-limonene, most preferred about 15-25%, or about 20%. All percentages herein are weight percentages, unless apparent otherwise. [0025] Surfactants in this class (without the D-limonene) are known, as described above, but are typically used for other purposes and have not previously been optimized for removal of wax deposits. Thus, the prior art compositions may be similar, but were never used for removing wax from wells. Further, since they function for different purposes, their optimization requirements are different. The solutions developed herein are preferably optimized so that they function well to dissolve the particular wax deposits resulting from the crude oils in a given reservoir.
[0026] A cosurfactant may be used in conjunction with SBG, which may be a primary surfactant, in a surfactant system of the present disclosure. One cosurfactant that may be used in the surfactant system of the present disclosure may broadly be a hydrocarbon sulfonate surfactant having an equivalent weight from 225 to 600. Examples of hydrocarbon sulfonates include, olefin sulfonates, alkyl sulfonates and petroleum sulfonates, which may be commercially available. Moreover, a cosurfactant that may be utilized in post-primary oil recovery may be a petroleum sulfonate having an average equivalent weight in the range of 325 to 600.
[0027] Another cosurfactant that can be used in the surfactant system of this disclosure may be saturated or unsaturated alcohols having 1-15 carbon atoms per molecule, or alcohols of 4-20 carbon atoms per molecule which have been ethoxylated or propoxylated with an average of 1 to about 12 ethylene oxide or propylene oxide units per molecule, or mixtures of two or more of the alcohols described above.
[0028] In some embodiments, the cosurfactant may be a saturated alcohol having 3-15 carbon atoms per molecule and may be soluble to an appropriate degree in both water and oil. Examples of saturated alcohols, having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, include n- propanol, n-butanol, isobutyl alcohol, isoamyl alcohol, n-amyl alcohol, n-pentanol, n- hexanol, n-octanol. When an alcohol is to be selected for oil within a particular subterranean formation, the shorter chain alcohols may generally be found suitable for oils containing high molecular weight carboxylic acids, with the longer chain alcohols are more suitable for oils containing lower molecular weight carboxylic acids. These saturated alcohols can be combined with ethoxylated or propoxylated alcohols in the wax removal surfactant.
[0029] Other cosurfactants that may be used in the surfactant system of the present disclosure include polar organic compounds, such as primary, secondary, or tertiary amines having 1-12 carbon atoms per molecule, phenol or phenols having a side chain of 1-10 carbon atoms per molecule, ketones having 3-12 carbon atoms per molecule, mercaptans having 2-12 carbon atoms per molecule, glycols having 2-18 carbon atoms per molecule, glycerol or glycerol esters, aldehydes having 2-12 carbon atoms per molecule, amides having 1-8 carbon atoms per molecule, nitriles having 2-8 carbon atoms per molecule, and sulfoxides or sulfone having 2-12 carbon atoms per molecule. Also, an example cosurfactant may be a phenol, amine, mercaptan, glycol, or amide of 1-20 carbon atoms per molecule which have been ethoxylated or propoxylated with an average of 1-12 ethylene oxide or propylene oxide units per molecule.
[0030] The invention generally includes any one or more of the following embodiments, in any combination(s) thereof:
[0031] — A method of removing wax deposits from oil production or processing equipment (OPPE) comprising first determining that efficiency is reduced in OPPE as a result of wax deposits; then adding a wax removal surfactant of at least 50°C into the OPPE in an amount sufficient to dissolve the wax deposits, wherein the wax removal surfactant comprises an aqueous solution having at least 1% alkyl poly glycoside (APG), at least 0.5% ethoxylated alcohol (AE) or alcohol ethoxy sulfates (AES), and at least 1% saturated alcohol, wherein the wax removal surfactant solution forms a Winsor Type III or Type IV microemulsion with water and wax; and finally recovering the wax removal surfactant plus dissolved wax deposits, thus leaving the OPPE with reduced or no wax deposits.
[0032] — A method of removing wax deposits from crude oil equipment comprising obtaining a sample of a wax deposit in an OPPE; testing the sample to optimize a wax removal surfactant for dissolving the sample, wherein the wax removal surfactant has a temperature of at least 50°C and comprises an aqueous solution having at least 1% alkyl poly glycoside (APG), at least 0.5% ethoxylated alcohol (AE) or alcohol ethoxy sulfates (AES), and at least 1% saturated alcohol, wherein the wax removal surfactant forms a Winsor Type III or Type IV microemulsion with water and wax; adding the optimized wax removal surfactant having a temperature of at least 50°C into the OPPE in an amount sufficient to dissolve the wax deposits; and recovering the wax removal surfactant plus dissolved wax deposits, thus leaving the OPPE with reduced or no wax deposits. [0033] Any method herein, wherein the wax removal surfactant has a temperature of at least 50°C, 60°C, 70°C, 80°C, or 90°C. Lower temperatures are preferred due to reduced energy requirements, but increased temperature may be need in colder climates or very long/deep wells or pipes.
[0034] Any method herein, wherein the wax removal surfactant further comprises D-limonene; again, lesser amounts are preferred due to cost considerations. Amounts of D-limonene ranging from 2-50% or 5-25% are contemplated, but preferably < 25%, < 20%, < 15% or < 10% are used.
[0035] Any method herein, wherein the APG are C8-C16, the EA or AES are C8- C15 with an average of about 2-14 ethylene oxide groups, and the saturated alcohols are C3-C15.
[0036] Any method herein, wherein the alkyl polyglycosides are C10-C14 alkyl polyglucosides, the EA or AES are C9-C15 with an average of about 12 ethylene oxide groups, and the saturated alcohols are C3-C8.
[0037] Any method herein, the wax removal surfactant comprising:
11-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-2.5, 0.1-2% TOMADOL® 25-12, 0.1-2% n-hexanol, 0.1-2% n-octanol; or
1-5% TRITON® CG-600, 1-5% TERGITOL® 15-S-3, 0.1-2% n-butanol, and 0.1-2% n-hexanol; or
1-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-4, 0.1-4%, n- propanol, 0.1-2% n-pentanol, and 1-5% NaOH; or
1-5% GLUCOPON® 600 CSUP, 1-5% TOMADOL® 91-2.5, 0.1-2%
TOMADOL® 91-6, 0.1-2% n-propanol, 0.1-2% n-pentanol, NaOH 1-5%, and 0.1-3% TEGMBE (tri ethylene glycol monobutyl ether); or
TOMADOL® 91-6, 0.1-2% n-butanol, 0.1-2% n-hexanol, and 1-5% NaOH.
[0038] Any method herein, wherein the wax removal surfactant further comprising wax dispersants, wax solvents, wax crystal modifiers, or combinations thereof. [0039] Any method herein, wherein the optimized wax removal surfactant is left to soak the OPPE for a period of at least 1 hour, or at least 2 hours, or at least 5 hours, or at least 8 hours, or at least 12 hours, or at least 24 hours.
[0040] Any method herein, wherein the optimized wax removal surfactant is circulated though the OPPE for a period of at least 1 hour, or at least 2 hours, or at least 5 hours, or at least 8 hours, or at least 12 hours, or at least 24 hours.
[0041] Any method herein, wherein the method is repeated at periodic intervals to keep wax deposits at a minimum.
[0042] Any method herein, wherein the OPPE is an oil well, and wherein the well is shut-in after the adding step for a period of at least 1 hour, or at least 2 hours, or at least 5 hours, or at least 8 hours, or at least 12 hours or 24 hours.
[0043] Also preferred, the well is opened after the period, and the initial flow back is sent to a truck or tank for disposal or reuse until no optimized wax removal surfactant is in the flow back. Thereafter, the flow back is routed to a central processing facility (“CPF”) for producing oil. Any of the wax or surfactant ingredients can be separated from any oil in the initial flow back and the surfactants potentially re-used and oil and wax sold or used in further processing.
[0044] As used herein, “providing” is intended to include use of existing equipment, as well as the provision of new equipment. Thus, providing a producing well can include using an existing well.
[0045] As used herein,“oil production and processing equipment” or“OPPE” includes wellbores, downhole equipment, separator tanks, pipelines, pumps, valves, and the like, that are used in the production, transport and processing of crude oils.
[0046] As used herein,“wax deposits” refers to the complex deposited mixture of wax, asphaltenes and other ingredients that form in crude oil production and processing equipment. The composition of wax deposits will vary in each reservoir, and for best results the wax removal surfactant should be optimized for use. This can easily be done by obtaining a sample of a wax deposit from surface or downhole equipment, and performing bench top tests, as described herein. It is also beneficial to determine the chemical content of the wax deposits before such tests, as the accumulated information can be helpfully applied to other reservoirs with similar wax compositions, eventually reducing the need for separate optimization tests in each reservoir. [0047] By determining“chemical content”, we generally mean determining the identity and concentration of all components in a wax.
[0048] The use of the word“a” or“an” when used in conjunction with the term “comprising” in the claims or the specification means one or more than one, unless the context dictates otherwise.
[0049] The term“about” means the stated value plus or minus the margin of error of measurement or plus or minus 10% if no method of measurement is indicated.
[0050] The use of the term“or” in the claims is used to mean“and/or” unless explicitly indicated to refer to alternatives only or if the alternatives are mutually exclusive.
[0051] The terms“comprise,”“have,” and“include” (and their variants) are open- ended linking verbs and allow the addition of other elements when used in a claim. The phrase“consisting of’ excludes other elements. The term“consisting essentially of’ occupies a middle ground, allowing the inclusion of nonmaterial elements, such as buffers, varying salts, and the like, that do not materially change the novel features or combination of the invention.
[0052] The following abbreviations are used herein:
[0053] The invention, together with further advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which: [0054] FIG. 1 is a section of tubing showing wax buildup reducing effective diameter in a retrieved pipeline.
[0055] FIGS. 2A and 2B show one example of a method of the invention, but other equipment could be used.
[0056] FIG. 3A shows a hypothetical ternary phase diagram representing three components of the system comprising oil water and surfactant wherein oil-in-water emulsion, water-in-oil emulsions and microemulsions are shown. The Winsor microemulsions (WI-WIV) are also shown.
[0057] FIG. 3B shows the Winsor Type I-IV microemulsions.
[0058] FIG. 4 shows the basic structure of an alkyl polyglucoside.
[0059] FIG. 5A shows some exemplary GLUCOPONS®.
[0060] FIG. 5B shows some exemplary TRITONS®.
[0061] FIG. 6A shows some exemplary TOMADOLS®.
[0062] FIG. 6B shows some exemplary TERGITOLS®.
[0063] FIG. 7 shows test wax removal data.
[0065] FIG. 9 shows test wax removal data with increasing D-Limonene added to the wax removal surfactant.
[0066] FIG. 10 is a photograph of the cooled beakers and fingers, showing that the D-limonene prevents the wax from re-solidifying as it cools.
DFTAIFFD DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0067] Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, one or more examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Each example is provided by way of explanation of the invention, not as a limitation of the invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. For instance, features illustrated or described as part of one embodiment can be used in another embodiment to yield a still further embodiment. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover such modifications and variations that come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.
[0068] FIG. 1 shows a cross section of pipe with large waxy deposits that greatly impede efficiency. The methods and compositions described herein are used to reduce or remove such wax deposits. One embodiment of the presently disclosed method is shown in FIGs 2A-B.
[0069] FIG. 2A shows a well with some amount of wax 209 impeding efficiency (here shown in the annulus, but can be throughout the system). The wax is sampled, and then a wax removal surfactant as described herein is preferably optimized for that particular deposit. In preferred methods, the chemical content and melting temperature of the wax is first determined, by any means available in the art, and this data is collected for use in optimizing future wax removal surfactants. Optimization of the surfactant is performed by a variety of bench tests, some of which are described herein, or by reference to a database of pre-collected data of the type described herein.
[0070] In FIG. 2B, a truck 200 has pulled up to the well and the optimized wax removal surfactant 211 is injected into the well via inline 203. Surfactant 211 travels down the annular space between the inner production tubing 207 and casing 205, dissolving wax 209, and back into truck 200 via outline 213. The flow could also be reversed and can be continuous or the solution left to soak while the well is shut-in. Here shown is a surface pump 215, plus valves 217, but a bottomhole or electronic submersible pump could also be used. The truck is merely exemplary, and other equipment could be used, e.g., onsite or nearby storage tanks, pipelines, and the like. If desired, wax and solids can be removed from the used wax removal surfactant, e.g., by skimming a cooled solution, and the surfactant reused one or more times. Heat will also help the surfactant performance, and the optimized wax removal surfactant 211 should be at least warmed to 50-60°C, but higher or lower temperatures can be used, depending on wax characteristics, climate and energy costs.
[0071] The wax removal surfactant 211 is expected to form an emulsion with the water and wax. In addition to the well-known oil-in-water emulsion and water-in-oil emulsions there is a wide range of emulsifying behavior, including the microemulsions. See e.g., FIG. 3A. A well-known classification of microemulsions is that of Winsor who identified four general types of phase equilibria shown in FIG. 3B: [0072] · Type I: the surfactant is preferentially soluble in water and oil-in-water
(o/w) microemulsions form (Winsor I). The surfactant-rich water phase coexists with the oil phase where surfactant is only present as monomers at small concentration.
[0073] · Type II: the surfactant is mainly in the oil phase and water-in-oil (w/o) microemulsions form. The surfactant-rich oil phase coexists with the surfactant-poor aqueous phase (Winsor II).
[0074] · Type III: a three-phase system where a surfactant-rich middle-phase coexists with both excess water and oil surfactant-poor phases (Winsor III or middle- phase microemulsion).
[0075] · Type IV: a single-phase (isotropic) micellar solution, that forms upon addition of a sufficient quantity of amphiphile (surfactant plus alcohol).
[0076] In the present methods, the wax removal surfactant solution may form a Winsor Type III or Type IV microemulsion with water and wax.
[0077] Some exemplary recipes of the wax removal surfactant, each made in water or brine, are as follows:
[0078] Wax removal surfactant 1: GLUCOPON 600 UP (an APG): 2.51%; TOMADOL 91-2.5 (an EA): 1.09% and TOMADOL 25-12 (an EA): 0.12%; n- hexanol: 1.00%; and n-octanol: 1.00%.
[0079] Wax removal surfactant 2: GLUCOPON 600 UP: 2.51%; TOMADOL 91- 2.5: 1.21%; n-butanol: 1.50%; n-hexanol: 0.50%.
[0080] Wax removal surfactant 3: GLUCOPON 600 UP: 3%; TOMADOL 91- 2.5: 1%; n-butanol: 2%; n-hexanol: 1%.
[0081] Wax removal surfactant 4: TRITON CG-600: 2%; TERGITOL® 15-S-3 Surfactant (an EA): 2%; n-butanol: 0.5%; n-hexanol: 0.5%.
[0082] Wax removal surfactant 5: GLUCOPON 600 UP (APG): 2.5%; TOMADOL 91-2.5: 1.1%; TOMADOL 25-12: 0.1%; n-hexanol: 1.0%; n-octanol: 1.0%.
[0083] Any of these may be combined with 2-50% D-limonene, preferably about 10-25% or about 20%. [0084] APGs are a class of non-ionic surfactants widely used in a variety of household and industrial applications. They are derived from sugars and fatty alcohols; therefore, they are generally favored for their manufacture from renewable resources. The raw materials for industrial manufacture are typically starch and fat, and the final products are typically complex mixtures of compounds with different sugars comprising the hydrophilic end and alkyl groups of variable length comprising the hydrophobic end. When derived from glucose, they are known as alkyl polyglucosides.
[0085] GLUCOPON® and TRITON® are two groups of alkyl polyglucosides. FIG. 4 shows the basic structure of an alkyl polyglucoside. A variety of alkyl polyglucosides are available from e.g., BASF® or COGNIS® including GLUCOPON® 215 UP; GLUCOPON® 225 DK; GLUCOPON® 425 N/HH; GLUCOPON® 50 G; GLUCOPON® 600 UP (C10-C16 preservative free. 50 - 53% active. Lauryl/myristyl glucoside) and GLUCOPON® 650 EC (C8-C16 preservative free. 50-53% active. Alkyl polyglucoside); Glucopon® 600 CSUP (CIO-16). Some of the properties of similar surfactants available from COGNIS® are shown in FIG. 5A, some TRITONS are shown in FIG. 5B.
[0086] Alcohol ethoxylates (AE) and alcohol ethoxy sulfates (AES) are non-ionic surfactants found in products such as laundry detergents, surface cleaners, cosmetics and for use in agriculture, textiles and paint. Carbon chain length is 8-18 while the ethoxylated chain is usually 3 to 12 ethylene oxides long in home products. They feature both a lipophilic tail (R) and a relatively polar head group ((OC2H4)nOH), making them ideal for this use. The AES surfactants may be less preferred, due to their sulfur content, but may be acceptable in certain reservoirs, e.g., sweeter reservoirs.
[0087] The TOMADOLs® are nonionic surfactants based on ethoxylated alcohols, and are available e.g, from AIR PRODUCTS® or TOMAH PRODUCTS®. The TOMADOLs® are named in the general format TOMADOL® CC-n surfactant, where CC represents the number of carbon atoms present in the alkyl group (R) of the linear alcohol, and n indicates the average moles of ethylene oxide. See e.g, FIG. 6.
[0088] TERGITOLs® are another nonionic surfactant based on a mixture of linear secondary alcohols reacted with ethylene oxide, and are available from many suppliers, including DOW® and SIGMA- ALDRICH®. The general formula is C11-15H23- 3i0[CH 2 CH 2 0]xH. TERGITOL® 15-S-3 for example, is a clear liquid, nonionic surfactant that is oil soluble.
[0089] Preferred APG are C8-C16 or C10-C14.
[0090] Preferred EA or AES are C8-C15 carbon chain length alkyl groups with an average of about 10-14 and/or 2-8 ethylene oxide or ethoxysulfate groups.
[0091] In addition to the APGs, EAs, and AESs, the wax removal surfactant may also contain at least one saturated alcohol. Preferred saturated alcohols are C3-C15 or C6-C15 or C3-C8. Examples of the saturated alcohols include, but are not limited to, n-propanol, n-butanol, isobutyl alcohol, isoamyl alcohol, n-pentanol, n-amyl alcohol, n-hexanol, n-octanol.
[0092] In order to provide proof of concept for the invention, we performed benchtop tests using several different recipes of surfactant. We prepared a waxy condensate and performed a cold finger test for 16 hours to allow wax to deposit on the chilled finger. The wax was simple paraffins, lacking asphaltene or other components. The finger temperature was kept at 5°C with internal coolant to keep the wax deposit on the fingers. The weights of the fingers with wax deposits were recorded.
[0093] The fingers were then submerged into beakers filled with various SBG-like formulations, as indicated in the Table. Temperature of the SBG fluids in the beaker was maintained at 60°C during the test. Next, we drained the fingers, weighed them again and determined the mass loss.
[0094] The results are shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, which are the same experiment with differing time intervals. K1 and T2 performed better than warmed water, as did BB. T3 began somewhat poorly, but improved with time. The third experiment in FIG. 8 shows 3 sets of BB SBG data to demonstrate repeatability, which was reasonably good.
[0095] These data are very promising. First, each of our SBG recipes worked better than a simple hot water process in removing wax. However, given the variation in results, it is still preferred to perform tests to select the optimal SBGs for specific wax samples. Second, SBG contact time with wax is important and with these man-made wax samples at 60°C 2 hours contact time was the minimum requirement. Obviously, at higher temperatures, less time would be required, as well as the reverse.
[0096] It is noted that some of the negative data arises because the SBG penetrated to the wax structure, but at the given time or because of the nature of the recipe, had not yet broken the wax structure. Given enough time, SGB will break the structure and weight loss will be observed.
[0097] We then repeated the experiment, but with added D-limonene (2%, 5% and 20%) and the results are shown in FIG. 9. As can be seen, 20% D-limonene greatly improved wax removal.
[0098] Finally, in a third experiment, we allowed the finger to stay submerged in the wax removal surfactant and allowed the entire system to cool to determine the propensity of the wax to re-solidify and the results are shown in FIG. 10. Again, 20% D-limonene prevented most of the wax from re-solidifying and on the finger, and it remains with the surfactant in the beaker.
[0099] Some of the data is also presented in Tables 2-4, below:
[0100] The invention has several advantages over the prior art. First, there is a safety concern when heating oil, and it is much safer to heat SBGthan oil. Second, most of the time the oil used for dewaxing is the original waxy oil that has produced the wax deposition to begin with and thus the solvency provided by the hot oil is limited. Third, SBG is more cost effective comparing to other wax remediation methods such as mechanical or chemical treatments, although the addition of large percentages of D- Limonene may make the solution less economical.
[0101] In closing, it should be noted that the discussion of any reference is not an admission that it is prior art to the present invention, especially any reference that may have a publication date after the priority date of this application. At the same time, each and every claim below is hereby incorporated into this detailed description or specification as additional embodiments of the present invention.
[0102] Although the processes described herein have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions, and alterations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the following claims. Those skilled in the art may be able to study the preferred embodiments and identify other ways to practice the invention that are not exactly as described herein. It is the intent of the inventors that variations and equivalents of the invention are within the scope of the claims while the description, abstract and drawings are not to be used to limit the scope of the invention. The invention is specifically intended to be as broad as the claims below and their equivalents.
[0103] All of the references cited herein are expressly incorporated by reference for all purposes. The discussion of any reference is not an admission that it is prior art to the present invention, especially any reference that may have a publication data after the priority date of this application. Incorporated references are listed here for convenience:
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Austro-Hungarian Army
The Austro-Hungarian Army (German: Landstreitkräfte Österreich-Ungarns; Hungarian: Császári és Királyi Hadsereg) was the ground force of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy from 1867 to 1918. It was composed of three parts: the joint army (Gemeinsame Armee, "Common Army", recruited from all parts of the country), the Imperial Austrian Landwehr (recruited from Cisleithania), and the Royal Hungarian Honvéd (recruited from Transleithania).
Army of Austria-Hungary
Landstreitkräfte Österreich-Ungarns
Arms of Austria-Hungary
Common Army
(Gemeinsame Armee)
Imperial-Royal Landwehr
(Kaiserlich-Königliche Landwehr)
Royal Hungarian Honvéd
(Magyar Királyi Honvédség)
7,800,000 c.1917
Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces
Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In the wake of fighting between the Austrian Empire and the Hungarian Kingdom and the two decades of uneasy co-existence following, Hungarian soldiers served either in mixed units or were stationed away from Hungarian areas. With the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 the new tripartite army was brought into being. It existed until the disestablishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I in 1918.
The joint "Imperial and Royal Army" (kaiserlich und königliche Armee or k.u.k.) units were generally poorly trained and had very limited access to new equipment because the governments of the Austrian and Hungarian parts of the empire often preferred to generously fund their own units instead of outfitting all three army branches equally. All of the Honvédség and the Landwehr regiments were composed of three battalions, while the joint army k.u.k. regiments had four.
The long-standing white infantry uniforms were replaced in the later half of the 19th century with dark blue tunics,[1] which in turn were replaced by a pike grey uniform used in the initial stages of World War I. In September 1915, field gray was adopted as the new official uniform colour.[2]
The last known surviving member of the Austro-Hungarian Army was World War I veteran Franz Künstler, who died in May 2008 at the age of 107.
From the Compromise of 1867 to the World War
Planning and operations
The major decisions 1867-1895 were made by Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, who was the nephew of the Emperor Franz Joseph and his leading advisor in military affairs. According to historians John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft:
He was a firm conservative in all matters, military and civil, and took to writing pamphlets lamenting the state of the Army’s morale as well as fighting a fierce rearguard action against all forms of innovation…. Much of the Austrian failure in the First World War can be traced back to his long period of power…. His power was that of the bureaucrat, not the fighting soldier, and his thirty years of command over the peacetime Habsburg Army made it a flabby instrument of war.[3]
Austria-Hungary avoided major wars in the era between 1867 and 1914 but engaged in a number of minor military actions. Nevertheless, the general staff maintained plans for major wars against neighboring powers, especially Italy, Serbia and Russia. By contrast, the main enemies Russia and Serbia had engaged in large scale warfare in the decade before the First World War.[4]
In the late 19th century the army was used to suppress unrest in urban areas of the empire: in 1882 and 1887 in Vienna[5] and notably against German nationalists at Graz and Czech nationalists in Prague in November 1897.[6] Soldiers under the command of Conrad von Hotzendorf were also used against Italian rioters in Trieste in 1902.[7]
The most significant action by soldiers of the Dual Monarchy in this period was the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the summer of 1878. When troops under the command of Josip Filipović and Stjepan Jovanović entered the provinces expecting little or no resistance, they were met with ferocious opposition from elements of both Muslim and Orthodox populations there. Despite setbacks at Maglaj and Tuzla, Sarajevo was occupied in October. Austro-Hungarian casualties amounted to over 5,000 and the unexpected violence of the campaign led to recriminations between commanders and political leaders.[8]
Size and ethnic and religious composition
In 1868, the number of active-duty troops in the army was 355,000, and the total could be expanded to 800,000 upon mobilization. However, this was significantly less than the European powers of France, the North German Confederation and Russia, each of which could field more than one million men.[9] Though the population of the empire had risen to nearly 50 million by 1900, the size of the army was tied to ceilings established in 1889. Thus, at the start of the 20th century, Austria-Hungary conscripted only 0.29% of its population, compared to 0.47% in Germany, 0.35% in Russia and 0.75% in France.[10] The 1889 army law was not revised until 1912, which allowed for an increase in annual conscriptions.[11]
The ethnic make-up of the enlisted ranks reflected the diversity of the empire the army served; in 1906, out of every 1000 enlisted men, there were 267 Germans, 223 Hungarians, 135 Czechs, 85 Poles, 81 Ukrainians, 67 Croats and Serbs, 64 Romanians, 38 Slovaks, 26 Slovenes, and 14 Italians.[12]
To aid communication between the multitude of ethnicities, the army developed a simple language called Army Slavic, based primarily on Czech.
From a religious standpoint, the Austro-Hungarian army officer corps was dominated by Roman Catholics. In 1896, out of 1000 officers, 791 were Roman Catholics, 86 Protestants, 84 Jews, 39 Greek-Orthodox, and one Uniate. Of the pre–World War military forces of the major European powers, the Austro-Hungarian army was almost alone in its regular promotion of Jews to positions of command.[13] While the Jewish population of the lands of the Dual Monarchy 4.4% including Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jews made up nearly 18% of the reserve officer corps.[12] There were no official barriers to military service for Jews, but in later years this tolerance eroded to some extent, as important figures such as Conrad von Hötzendorf and Archduke Franz Ferdinand sometimes expressed anti-Jewish sentiments. Franz Ferdinand was also accused (by Conrad) of discriminating against Protestant officers.[14]
Funding and equipment
Following the 1867 constitutional arrangements, the Reichsrat was dominated by German Liberals, who generally regarded the army as a relic of feudalism. In Budapest, legislators were reluctant to authorize funds for the joint army but were generous with the Hungarian branch of the army, the Honvédség. In 1867 the military budget accounted for about 25% of all government spending, but the economic crash of 1873 hit Austria-Hungary hard and foreign observers questioned whether the Dual Monarchy could manage a major war without subsidies.[15] Despite increases throughout the 1850s and 1860s, in the latter half of the century Austria-Hungary was still spending less on its army than were other major European powers.[15] While the budget continued to rise—from 262 million crowns in 1895 to 306 million in 1906—this was still far less per capita than for other major European states, including Italy, and about on par with Russia, which had a much larger population.[16] Further contributing to the monarchy's military weakness was the low rate of conscription: Austria-Hungary conscripted only 0.29% of its population annually, compared to 0.47% in Germany and 0.75% in France. Attempts to increase the yearly intake of recruits were proposed but repeatedly blocked by officials in Budapest until an agreement was reached in 1912.[10]
In the emerging field of military aviation, Austria-Hungary lagged behind other European states. While balloon detachments had been established in 1893, they were mostly assigned to the fortress artillery, except for a brief period from 1909 to 1911 when they were under command of the multifaceted Verkehrs Brigade.[17] Realization that heavier-than-air machines were necessary or useful came late, and Austria-Hungary acquired only five airplanes by 1911. In 1914 the budget for military aviation was approximately 1⁄25th the amount spent by France. Austria-Hungary entered the war with only 48 first-line aircraft.[17]
Command Structure
Austria-Hungary had a complex military structure. The country had three main distinct ground forces. As a union the Monarchy had a common government of three ministers (Minister of the Imperial Household and Foreign Affairs; Minister of War and Minister of Finance). The Imperial Minister of War had authority over the Common Army, the Navy and (shortly before and during WWI the newly established independent) the Air Troops.
The Common Army was the premier land force. It was the best equipped and had the main role to secure the borders of the Monarchy. In case of war it was to absorb the Austrian Landwehr and the Hungarian Honvéd within its command structure. For that reason the Common Army was organised in army corps even in peacetime, while the Landwehr and Honvéd were organised in territorial districts. The provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina were governed as a condominium between the Austrian and the Hungarian parts of the dual monarchy. As such the local troops of Bosnian Riflemen were subordinated through the Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Imperial Minister of War. The general peacetime order of battle of the Common Army included:
General Staff (Vienna)
I. Army Corps (Kraków)
II. Army Corps (Vienna)
III. Army Corps (Graz)
IV. Army Corps (Budapest)
V. Army Corps (Bratislava)
VI. Army Corps (Košice)
VII. Army Corps (Timișoara)
VIII. Army Corps (Prague)
IX. Army Corps (Litoměřice)
X. Army Corps (Przemyśl)
XI. Army Corps (Lviv)
XII. Army Corps (Sibiu)
XIII. Army Corps (Zagreb)
XIV. Army Corps (Innsbruck)
XV. Army Corps (Sarajevo) and
XVI. Army Corps (Mostar)
The Austrian part of the monarchy (officially called Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, unofficially and for short Cisleithania) had its own government. It included the Imperial and Royal Ministry of National Defence (completely independent from the Imperial War Ministry). In peacetime it had complete authority and responsibility for the Imperial-Royal Landwehr and its:
Landwehr High Command (Vienna)
Landwehr Garrison Command in Vienna
Landwehr Command in Vienna
Landwehr Command in Graz
Landwehr Command in Prague
Landwehr Command in Litoměřice
Landwehr Command in Kraków
Landwehr Command in Przemyśl
Landwehr Command in Lviv
Landwehr Command in Ragusa
Landwehr Defence Command in Innsbruck
Higher Authority for National Defence in Tyrol and Vorarlberg (command of higher status and autonomy)
The Hungarian part of the monarchy (officially called Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, unofficially and for short Transleithania) also had its own government. One of its ministries was the Royal Hungarian Honvéd Ministry (also completely independent from the Imperial War Ministry). In peacetime it had complete authority and responsibility for the:
Honvéd High Command (Budapest)
Royal Hungarian I. Budapest Honvéd District Command
Royal Hungarian II. Szeged Honvéd District Command
Royal Hungarian III. Kassa Honvéd District Command
Royal Hungarian IV. Pozsony Honvéd District Command
Royal Hungarian V. Kolozsvár Honvéd District Command
Royal Hungarian VI. Zagreb Croat-Slavonian District Command (the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was in perpetual union with Hungary and enjoyed partial authonomy, including a local Croat-Slavonian Homeguard (Landwehr in German or Honvéd in Hungarian), incorporated into the Honvéd as its sixth territorial district)[18]
Austro-Hungarian Army in July 1914
36,000 Officers
414,000 NCOs and troops
120,000 horses (estimate)
1,200 artillery pieces
Official designations were as follows:
regiments of the common army were designated Imperial and Royal (German: "kaiserlich und königlich" (k.u.k.); Hungarian: "Császári és Királyi"), in which Imperial stands for the Kaiser of Austria, who was also King of Hungary.
Austrian Landwehr regiments were Imperial-Royal (German: kaiserlich-königlich (k.k.), in which Imperial stands for the Kaiser of Austria, who was also King of Bohemia in the Austrian part of the dual monarchy (kaiserlich österreichisch/königlich böhmisch)); Hungarian: császári/királyi)
Hungarian Honvéd regiments were called Royal Hungarian for the Kaiser's title of Apostolic King of Hungary (German: königlich ungarisch; Hungarian: Magyar Királyi). Within the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary the monarch was also King of Croatia-Slavonia, this was however not included in the titles of the Honvéd's units.
After war was declared, 3.35 million men (including the first call-up of the reserves and the 1914 recruits) gathered for action.
The Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army was officially under the control of the Commander-in-Chief, Emperor Franz Josef. By 1914, however, Franz Josef was 84 years old and the chief of staff, Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, effectively had more power over the armed forces. Conrad favored an aggressive foreign policy and advocated the use of military action to solve Austria-Hungary's territorial disputes with Italy and Serbia.[19]
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen was appointed Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian army by Franz Joseph on July 11, 1914. It was thought he would not interfere with the operational and tactical plans of Conrad von Hötzendorf. Friedrich remained Supreme Commander until February 1917, when Emperor Charles I decided to assume the office himself.
Main article: Common Army
The Common Army (k.u.k.—kaiserlich und königlich) consisted of:
16 corps
49 infantry divisions: 76 infantry brigades, 14 mountain brigades
22 cavalry divisions: 44 cavalry brigades
102 infantry regiments (each of four battalions), including 4 Bosnian-Herzegovinian (Bosnisch-Hercegowinische) infantry regiments (each of four battalions)
4 Imperial Tyrolian rifle regiments (Tiroler Kaiserjäger) (each of four battalions)
32 rifle battalions (Feldjäger), including 1 Bosnian-Herzegovinian rifle battalion (Bosnisch-Hercegowinisches Feldjäger Bataillon)
42 field artillery regiments (Feldkanonen-Regimenter), including 14 field howitzer regiments (Feldhaubitz-Regimenter)
15 mounted artillery battalions (originally named Reitende Artillerie Division), 14 heavy howitzer battalions (originally named schwere Haubitz-Division)
11 mountain artillery regiments (Gebirgsartillerie Regimenter)
6 fortress artillery regiments (Festungsartillerie Regimenter): 8 independent fortress artillery battalions (selbst. Festungsartillerie Bataillone)
15 regiments of dragoons (Dragoner), 16 regiments of hussars (Husaren), 11 regiments of lancers (Ulanen)
16 transport battalions (railway)
23 engineer battalions (Sappeure/Pioniere), 1 bridge construction battalion (Brücken Bataillon), 1 railway regiment (Eisenbahn-Regiment), 1 telegraph regiment (Telegraphen-Regiment)
Main article: Imperial-Royal Landwehr
The Imperial-Royal Landwehr (k.k. or kaiserlich österreichisch/königlich böhmisch) was the standing army of Austria responsible for the defence of Austria itself.
35 Landwehr infantry regiments: each of 3 battalions (Landwehr Infanterie-Regimenter)
6 Landwehr regiments of lancers (uhlans)
8 Landwehr field artillery battalions (Feldkanonen), 8 Landwehr field howitzer battalions (Feldhaubitz)
The mountain infantry had the following units:
2 Landwehr mountain infantry regiments (Gebirgsinfanterie-Regimenter), the 4th and 27th
3 Tyrolean rifle regiments (Tiroler Landesschützen Regimenter)—from January 1917 named "imperial rifles" (Kaiserschützen)
1 mounted Tyrolean rifle battalion (Reitende Tiroler Landesschützen)
1 mounted Dalmatian rifle battalion (Reitende Dalmatiner Landesschützen)
Royal Hungarian Landwehr
Main article: Royal Hungarian Landwehr
The Royal Hungarian Landwehr (königlich ungarische Landwehr) or Royal Hungarian Honvéd (k.u. Honvéd) was the standing army of Hungary. A part of the Honvéd was the Royal Croatian Landwehr (Kraljevsko hrvatsko domobranstvo), which consisted of 1 infantry division (out of 7 in Honvéd) and 1 cavalry regiment (out of 10 in the Honvéd).
6 Landwehr districts (honvéd katonai kerület)
2 infantry divisions (honvéd gyalogos hadosztály)
9 cavalry divisions (honvéd lovassági hadosztály)
4 infantry brigades (honvéd gyalogosdandár)
12 independent infantry brigades (honvéd önálló gyalogdandár)
18 cavalry brigades (honvéd lovasdandár)
32 infantry regiments (honvéd gyalogezred)
10 regiments of hussars (honvéd huszárezred)
8 field artillery regiments (honvéd tábori tüzérezred)
2 horse artillery battalion (honvéd lóvontatású tüzérosztály)
The infantry regiments of the k.u.k. army had four battalions each; the infantry regiments of the k.k. and k.u. Landwehr had three battalions each, except the 3rd Regiment of the "Tiroler Landesschützen" (Tyrolian fusiliers), that had also four battalions.
In 1915 units that had nicknames or names of honour lost them by order of the War Ministry. Thereafter units were designated only by number. For instance, the k.u.k. Infanterie-Regiment (Hoch und Deutschmeister) Nr. 4 became Infanterie-Regiment No. 4 (4th Infantry Regiment).
Landsturm
The Landsturm consisted of men aged 34 to 55 who belonged to the Austria k.k. Landsturm and the Hungarian k.u. Landsturm. The Landsturm formed 40 regiments totaling 136 battalions in Austria and 32 regiments totaling 97 battalions in Hungary. The Landsturm was a reserve force intended to provide replacements for the first line units. However, the Landsturm provided 20 brigades who took to the field with the rest of the army.
Standschützen
The Standschützen (singular: Standesschütze[A. 1]) were originally rifle guilds and rifle companies that had been formed in the 15th and 16th centuries, and were involved time and again in military operations within the borders of the Austrian County of Tyrol. A Standschütze was a member of a Schützenstand ("shooting club"), into which he was enrolled,[A. 2] which automatically committed him to the voluntary, military protection of the state of Tyrol (and Vorarlberg). In effect they were a type of Tyrolean local militia or home guard.
Medals (example)
The following were the medals awarded to a Zugsführer (Staff-Sergeant) of the 2nd Regiment of the Tyrolian Imperial Rifles (later transferred to the 30th High Mountain Company), who saw action at:
the Carpathian Mountains (Romania–Hungary eastern border area.)
Col di Lana: Austria–Italian border
Monte Piano: Austria-Italian border
bei Lafraun (Lavarone/seven communities area): Austria-Italian border
Monte Pasubio: Austria-Italian border
Sextner Dolomiten Mountains: Austria-Italian border
Ortler Mountain: Austria-Italian border
Hohe Schneid (Ortler Massiv): Austria-Italian border
Tonale Paß (Adamello–Presanella Massiv): Austria-Italian border
Cima Presena (Mountain (Adamello–Presanella Massiv): Austria-Italian border
Busazza Mountain (Adamello–Presanella Massiv): Austria-Italian border
He received the following decorations:
Silver Medal of Bravery 1st Class (Kaiser Karl I./after January 1917)
Silver Medal of Bravery 2nd Class (Kaiser Karl/after January 1917)
Bronze Medal of Bravery Emperor Franz Joseph/before January 1917)
Karl-Cross (for a minimum of 12 weeks or one more than three days battle in active fight)
Casualty Medal (after January 1917) (wounded on 9/20/1918 at the Zigolon Mountain near the Adamello)
Medal of Honor of the State of Tyrol to its defenders
Ranks and rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Army
Main article: Rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces
The different colors of the rank patches and buttons on the tunic are the marks for identifying the infantry regiments (except Generals)
Rank insignias
Mountain rifles
Infanterist
Honvéd (Hung.)
Szeregowy (Polish)
Vojín (Czech)
Soldat (Romanian)
Vojnik (Croatian)
(Private/Trooper/Gunner/Rifleman)
Ulan Kanonier
Dělostřelec (Czech)
Myslivec (Czech)
Őrvezető (Hung.)
Svobodník (Czech)
Fruntaș (Romanian)
Razvodnik (Croatian)
Caporale (Italian)
(Private 1st Class/Lance Corporal) Gefreiter
Vormeister
Nápředník (Czech)
Főtűzér (Hungarian)
Patrouilleführer
Závodčí/Stráževod (Czech)
Járőrvezető (Hungarian)
Tizedes (Hung.)
Kapral (Polish)
Desátník (Czech)
Caporal (Romanian)
Desetnik (Croatian)
(Corporal)
Tizedes
Geschütz-Vormeister
Dělostřelecký Nápředník (Czech)
Unterjäger
Podmyslivec (Czech)
Zugsführer
Szakaszvezető (Hung.)
Plutonowy (Polish)
Četař (Czech)
Sergent (Romanian)
Vodnik (Croatian)
(Sergeant) Zugsführer
Szakaszvezető (Hungarian)
Őrmester (Hung.)
Šikovatel (Czech)
Plutonier (Romanian)
Sierżant (Polish)
Narednik (Croatian)
(Master-Sergeant) Wachtmeister
Strážmistr (Czech)
Őrmester
Feuerwerker Tűzmester
Střelmistr (Czech)
Oberjäger
Nadmyslivec (Czech) Fővadász (Hungarian)
Kadett-Feldwebel / Hadapród őrmester (Hung.)
(Hadapród)
Kadet-narednik (Croatian)
(Cadet Sergeant; Cadet after 1908) Kadett-Wachtmeister
(Kadett)
Kadet-Strážmistr (Czech)
Kadett-Feuerwerker
Kadet-Střelmistr (Czech)
Kadett-Oberjäger
Kadet-Nadmyslivec (Czech)
Stabsfeldwebel
Törzsőrmester (Hung.)
Štábní šikovatel (Czech)/
Sierżant sztabowy (Polish)
Stožerni narednik (Croatian)
(1st Sergeant after 1913 - rank badges until 1914) Stabs-Wachtmeister
Štábní-Strážmistr (Czech)
Stabs-Feuerwerker
Štábní-Střelmistr (Czech)
Stabs-Oberjäger
Štábní-Nadmyslivec (Czech)
Stabs-Feldwebel
Štábní šikovatel(Czech)
Plutonier-major (Romanian)
(1st Sergeant, rank badges after 1914) Stabs-Wachtmeister
Offiziersstellvertreter (seit dem 6. Juni 1915)
Tiszthelyettes (Hung.)/
Důstojnický zástupce(Czech)
Locțiitor de ofițer (Romanian)
Časnički namjesnik (Croatian)
(UK Warrant Officer [II] or US Warrant Sergeant) Offiziersstellvertreter
Důstojnický zástupce (Czech)
Offiziersstellvertreter
Kadett-Offiziersstellvertreter
Hadapród-Tiszthelyettes (Hung.)
Kadet-časnički zamjenik (Croatian)
(Cadet Warrant Officer, UK Warrant Officer I, or US Warrant Officer) (until 1908) Kadett-Offiziersstellvertreter
Kadet-Důstojnický zástupce (Czech)
Fähnrich (ab 1908)
Zászlós (Hung.)
Stegar (Romanian)
Praporčík (Czech)
Zastavnik (Croatian)
Chorąży (Polish)
(Ensign or Officer Cadet) (from 1908 - replaced the CWO/WO I)
Low Grade Officers
Hadnagy (Hung.)
Poručík (Czech)
Podporucznik (Polish)
Locotenent (Romanian)
Poručnik (Croatian)
Tenente (Italian)
(Lieutenant/2nd Lieutenant)
Oberleutnant
Főhadnagy (Hung.)
Nadporučík (Czech)
Locotenent-major (Romanian)
Porucznik (Polish)
Natporučnik (Croatian)
(First Lieutenant/Lieutenant) Oberleutnant
Százados (Hung.)
Kapitán (Czech)
Kapitan (Polish)
Căpitan (Romanian)/
Satnik (Croatian)
Capitano (Italian)
(Captain) Rittmeister
Rytmistr (Czech)
Staff-Officers
Őrnagy (Hung.)
Maior (Romanian)
Bojnik (Croatian)
Maggiore (Italian) Major
Major (Czech)
Alezredes (Hung.)
Podplukovník (Czech)
Locotenent-colonel (Romanian)
Potpukovnik (Croatian)
(Lieutenant Colonel) Oberstleutnant
Oberst
Ezredes (Hung.)
Plukovník (Czech)
Colonel (Romanian)
Pułkownik (Polish)
Pukovnik (Croatian)
(Colonel) Oberst
Please note, that the first name is always in German.
Generalmajor | Vezérőrnagy (Hung.) | Generálmajor (Czech) | General-maior (Romanian) | General-bojnik (Croatian) | Maggiore Generale (Italian)
(en: Major general, however, equiv. to Brigadier-General)
Feldmarschall-Leutnant | Altábornagy (Hung.) | polní podmaršálek (Czech) | Podmaršal (Croatian) | Marseciallo Tenente (Italian)
(en: Field marshal lieutenant, equiv. to Major-General)
General of the branch (en: Lieutenant general)
General der Infanterie
Gyalogsági tábornok (Hung.)
Generál pěchoty (Czech)
General pješaštva (Croatian)
General piechoty (Polish)
Generale della fanteria (Italian)
(en: General of the Infantry)
General der Kavallerie
Lovassági tábornok (Hung.)
Generál jezdectva (Czech)
General konjaništva (Croatian)
Generale della cavalleria (Italian)
General kawalerii (Polish)
(en: General of the Cavalry)
Feldzeugmeister /
Táborszernagy
General topništva (Croatian)
Polní zbrojmistr (Czech)
Generale della artiglieria(Italian)
(en: General of the Artillery)
no equivalent
since 1915 Generaloberst | Vezérezredes (Hung.) | General-pukovnik (Croatian) | Generálplukovník (Czech) | General pulkownik (Polish) | General Polkovnik (Slovene)
(en: Colonel general)
Feldmarschall | Tábornagy (Hung.) | Polní maršál (Czech) | Feldmaršal (Croatian) | Mareșal (Romanian) | Marszałek (Polish)
(en: Field marshal)
The ranks displayed after the "/" are the Hungarian and Croatian equivalents of the Austrian ranks, since they were used in this format in the Magyar Királyi Honvédség / königlich ungarische Landwehr (Royal Hungarian Home Defence Forces) as well as in the Kraljevsko Hrvatsko Domobranstvo / königlich kroatische Landwehr (Royal Croatian Home Guard).
The English equivalents are from the Austrian Bundesheer's homepage.
Types of uniforms
Rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces
Army Slavic
1st Army (Austria-Hungary) in World War I
Schutzkorps
Comparative officer ranks of World War I
Imperial and Royal Army during the Napoleonic Wars
List of Austro-Hungarian colonel generals
List of Austro-Hungarian soldiers
Orders, decorations, and medals of Austria-Hungary
List of Austro-Hungarian field marshals
Weaponry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Good Soldier Švejk
Rothenberg, G. (1976). The Army of Francis Joseph. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. p. 83. ISBN 0911198415.
Rothenberg 1976, p. 193.
John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft, Who's Who in Military History: From 1453 to the Present Day (2001) p, 12.
Rothenberg 1976, pp. 97, 99, 113–17, 124–25, 159.
Rothenberg 1976, pp. 101–02.
Rothenberg 1976, p. 81.
Rothenberg 1976, pp. 126, 165.
Rothenberg 1976, p. 142, 151.
Steiner, Glenn Jewison & Jörg C. "Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1848-1918". www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-02-17. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
The German word Standschütze is derived from Schützenstand or Schießstand, which means "firing point" or "firing range", and generally refers to the members of a local shooting club – the Schießstand, Schützenstand or Schützenverein – in German-speaking countries. These were in essence volunteer militia. They still exist today, albeit their role is purely social and ceremonial.
enrolliert is the Austrian military jargon for "enrolled" (from the Old French enroller).
Bassett, Richard. For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 (2016).
Deák, István. "The Habsburg army in the first and last days of world war I: a comparative analysis." in Bela K. Kiraly and Nandor F. Dreisziger, eds. East Central European Society in World War I (1985): 301-312.
Stone, Norman. "Army and society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1900-1914." Past & Present 33 (1966): 95-111. in JSTOR
Watson, Alexander. "Managing an ‘Army of Peoples’: Identity, Command and Performance in the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1914–1918." Contemporary European History 25#2 (2016): 233-251.
Lichem, Heinz von (1977). Spielhahnstoß und Edelweiß. Graz: Stocker Verlag. ISBN 370200260X.
Lichem, Heinz von (1985). Der Tiroler Hochgebirgskrieg 1915–1918. Berwang (Tirol): Steiger Verlag. ISBN 3854230524.
Allmeyer-Beck; Lessing (1974). Die K.u.K. Armee 1848–1918. München: Bertelsmann.
Rest; Ortner; Ilmig (2002). Des Kaisers Rock im 1. Weltkrieg. Wien: Verlag Militaria. ISBN 3950164200.
Schreiber, Georg (1967). Des Kaisers Reiterei. Wien: Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Austro-Hungarian Army.
A webpage, which is devoted to Austro-Hungarian Army. Detailed information about: Organisation, biographies of the leaders, uniforms, and detailed weapon statistics, by Glenn Jewison & Jörg C. Steiner
Austro-Hungarian Military Ranks at Uniforminsignia.net
The Austro-Hungarian Army 1914-18, by John Dixon Nuttall (details of organization and wartime order of battle)
Generals of Austria and Hungary, 1816-1918 (in German)
Antique Photography & Postcards of Austro-Hungarian army 1866-1918 (in English)
Imperial Austrian Landwehr
Privilegiertes uniformiertes Grazer Bürgerkorps
Royal Croatian Home Guard
42nd Inf. Division
First Army
Imperial and Royal Infantry
Alpine companies
Imperial and Royal Mountain Troops
Imperial and Royal Dragoons
Imperial and Royal Hussars
Imperial and Royal Uhlans
K.u.K. Kriegsmarine
U-Boats
K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen
Emperors
Francis Joseph I
Ministers for War
Feldmarschalleutnant Franz Freiherr von John
Feldmarschalleutnant Franz Kuhn Freiherr Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld
General der Kavallerie Alexander Freiherr von Koller
Feldzeugmeister Arthur Maximilian Graf Bylandt-Rheydt (der Ältere)
Feldzeugmeister Ferdinand Freiherr Bauer
Feldzeugmeister Rudolf Freiherr Merkl
General der Kavallerie Edmund Freiherr von Krieghammer
Feldzeugmeister Heinrich Ritter von Pitreich
General der Infanterie Franz Freiherr Schönaich
General der Infanterie Moritz Ritter Auffenberg von Komarów
Feldmarschall Alexander Freiherr von Krobatin
Generaloberst Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten
Supreme Commander of the Imperial
and Royal Armed Forces
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza
Chiefs of the
Feldmarschalleutnant Josef Wilhelm Freiher von Gallina
Feldmarschalleutnant Anton Freiherr von Schönfeld
Feldzeugmeister Friedrich Graf von Beck-Rzikowsky
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Generalmajor Blasius Schemua
General der Infanterie Arthur Arz von Straußenburg
Commanders-in-Chief
of the Navy
VAdm. Wilhelm von Tegetthoff
VAdm. Friedrich Freiherr von Pöck
VAdm. Maximilian Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck
VAdm. Hermann Freiherr von Spaun
VAdm. Rudolf Graf/Conte Montecuccoli
Grand Adm. Anton Haus
Adm. Maximilian Njegovan
Adm. Miklós Horthy
Heads of the
Naval Section
Adm. Karl Kailer von Kaltenfels
RAdm Franz von Holub
Archduke Eugen of Austria
Franz Rohr von Denta
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
Svetozar Boroević
Archduke Joseph August of Austria
Franz Böhme
Günther Burstyn
Georg Dragičević
Karol Durski-Trzaska
Gheorghe Flondor
Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria
Rudolf Maister
Artur Phleps
Oskar Potiorek
Alfred Redl
Maximilian Ronge
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik
Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel
Stjepan Sarkotić
Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
Miklós Horthy
Franz von Keil
Giovanni Luppis
Georg von Trapp
Janko Vuković
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The Plan against the NWO
LTAM
How to Control People
Published on: May 20th, 2003
Modified on: May 24th, 2003
The difference between true education and vocational training has been cleverly blurred. Here are a few tips on how smart people can control other people. If any of this rings a bell - Well, then wake up!
The first principle of people control is not to let them know you are controlling them. If people knew, this knowledge will breed resentment and possibly rebellion, which would then require brute force and terror, and old fashioned, expensive and not 100 % certain method of control.
It is easier than you think to control people indirectly, to manipulate them into thinking what you want them to think and doing what you want them to do.
One basic technique is to keep them ignorant. Educated people are not as easy to manipulate. Abolishing public education or restricting access to education would be the direct approach. That would spill the beans. The indirect approach is to control the education they receive.
It's possible to be a Ph.D., doctor, lawyer, businessman, journalist, or an accountant, just to name a few examples, and at the same time be an uneducated person. The difference between true education and vocational training has been cleverly blurred in our time so that we have people successfully practicing their vocations while at the same time being totally ignorant of the larger issues of the world in which they live.
The most obvious symptom is their absence of original thought. Ask them a question and they will end up reciting what someone else thinks or thought the answer was. What do they think Well, they never thought about it. Their education consisted of learning how to use the library and cite sources.
That greatly simplifies things for the controller because with lots of money, university endowments, foundations, grants, and ownership of media, it is relatively easy to control who they will think of as authorities to cite in lieu of doing their own thinking.
Another technique is to keep them entertained. Roman emperors did not stage circuses and gladiator contests because they didn't have television. We have television because we don't have circuses and gladiator events. Either way, the purpose is to keep the people's minds focused on entertainment, sports, and peripheral political issues. This way you won't have to worry that they will ever figure out the real issues that allow you to control them.
"We need not, therefore, take any account of them — let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed..."
From protocol 2:2 in The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Just as a truly educated person is difficult to control, so too is an economically independent person. Therefore, you want to create conditions that will produce people who work for wages, since wage earners have little control over their economic destiny. You'll also want to control the monetary, credit, and banking systems. This will allow you to inflate the currency and make it next to impossible for wage earners to accumulate capital. You can also cause periodic deflation to collapse the family businesses, family farms, and entrepreneurs, including independent community banks.
To keep trade unions under control, you just promote a scheme that allows you to shift production jobs out of the country and bring back the products as imports (it is called free trade). This way you will end up with no unions or docile unions.
Another technique is to buy both political parties so that after a while people will feel that no matter whether they vote for Candidate A or Candidate B, they will get the same policies. This will create great apathy and a belief that the political process is useless for effecting real change.
The Truth about Democracy
Pretty soon you will have a population that feels completely helpless, and thinks the bad things happening to them are nobody in particular's fault, just a result of global forces or evolution or some other disembodied abstract concept. If necessary, you can offer scapegoats.
Then you can bleed them dry without having to worry overly much that one of them will sneak into your house one night and cut your throat. If you do it right, they won't even know whose throat they are cutting.
by Charley Reese
http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb1075995
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Jay DeMarcus, Wife Allison Are the ‘Ultimate Odd Couple’ in Netflix Reality Show Trailer [Watch]
Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus and his wife Allison are "the ultimate odd couple" in the trailer for their new Netflix reality show. The DeMarcus Family Rules preview highlights the couple's ... uh, shall we say different parenting styles as they balance raising their children and DeMarcus' busy music career.
Allison — a former Miss Tennessee, Miss Tennessee Teen USA and Miss Tennessee USA, and current co-executive director of the Miss Tennessee pageant — is clearly the rule-setter in the DeMarcus house, while Jay is out to break every one of them while raising daughter Madeline Leigh (who will turn 10 in December) and son Dylan Jay (who turned eight in July). She's the one planning a week's worth of outfits for the kids; he's showing up at the house with an adopted St. Bernard that we're guessing was very much not pre-approved by Mom.
"I was raised with rules," Allison explains.
"And I was raised just to keep your private parts covered up," Jay adds.
It's all fairly lighthearted tension, as it's clear that Jay knows just how much his wife does to keep their family together while he's out on the road. "I understand now a little more why she goes all out all the time," he admits late in the trailer, before the two share a loving embrace.
The DeMarcuses met on the set of Rascal Flatts' "These Days" video, in which Allison portrayed singer Gary LeVox's love interest. The couple married in 2004.
DeMarcus Family Rules premieres on Netflix on Aug. 19. It's another piece of a big year for DeMarcus and his bandmates, LeVox and Joe Don Rooney, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a trio and their final year making music together. They were slated to hit the road for their Farewell: Life Is a Highway Tour this summer, but they've had to cancel those dates in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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