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__label__wiki	0.780633	0.780633	Nick on equal pay and the courts Nick's Observer latest is a slight curiosity. It could be a big story, but it probably isn't. The story centres around a solicitor in the north-east who has upset the unions (specifically the GMB) by getting an industrial tribunal to rule against the union for agreeing a deal with Middlesbrough that awarded some workers less that their legal entitlements. Now a lot probably hangs on the details of the case. Did the union collude with the council? Were they negligent, etc.? We don't get any of this from Nick's article, merely the suggestion that should the case stand unions will be required by law to sue employers at every available opportunity (or risk being sued themselves). Breakfastime discussion in the Cabernet household suggests that the tribunal's decision will be rejected by the courts on appeal, as contrary to the public interest. Those qualified to offer a legal opinion are invited to do so in comments. posted by Captain Cabernet at 6/18/2006 02:00:00 PM The short piece at the end of his latest column is a prize exampel of Nick's failure to understand the world, and the faultiness of his new decent compass "Muslims fail to play the game Speaking of the honour's list, the Liberal Democrats were furious that Andy Hayman, the anti-terrorist officer in charge of the Forest Gate raid, had been given a CBE. Nick Clegg, who is thought by many to be a future leader of that aimless party, admitted that Hayman was a brave man with a distinguished record. But he insisted that he should not have been honoured because the raid had brought 'enormous anger and anxiety' to Muslims. But, interestingly, it hasn't. An anti-police demonstration was given huge advance publicity in the media, but in the event, only a hundred or so people turned up, many of whom were white Islamists from the Socialist Workers party. Since then, nothing. I really feel the British Muslim community is letting everyone down. The papers, the broadcasters, the Liberal Democrats and the Trots are all desperate for a display of fury, but the stubborn Muslims refuse to oblige." So Nick thinks nobody is cross about the Forest Gate raid. And manages to go into print saying that on a day when according to the Police, 2000 people, led by the brothers hwose house was raided, are marching http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5092452.stm so roughly ten times as many people who turne dout for his Euston Manifesto launch are on the march, and dozy Nick thinks that nobody cares about the isse Damn you brother anonymous. After listening to the news about the demo, I logged in to make exactly the same point, to find that you'd beaten me to it. In any case, surely it's possible to feel 'enormous anger and anxiety' about something without actively demonstrating against it. For instance, Nick Cohen was angry about the Mohammed cartoon backlash, but by all accounts couldn't be arsed to turn up to the "Free Expression" march. Drown, you fuckers! Islingtonians don't care Aaronomics The leftie that didn't cheer in the night Airmiles Aaro? Help! I'm a prisoner in an Evening Standard column... Meow! Back in the knife box Miss Sharp! A column so good, he sold it twice So that's what it's for. Christopher Hitchens Newsnight.30th May 2006 The Sun Shines Only Half The Day, But You, Comrade...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1
__label__cc	0.5404	0.4596	More diligent research from Nick What is it with Nick? Even when he's right about some issue, he can't help writing about it in a way that makes him wrong. On a first reading, it looks like the point of Nick's main rant is to express his disgust at the way the super-rich get credit for their charitable giving. But by the time I'd reached the end of that section, it was pretty clear that Nick was only writing in order to have a dig at Muslims (in the shape of Cat Stevens) and to push the Eustonite line that promoting human rights are the best way of reducing global poverty. On the first, I'd say that there's more joy in heaven over a sinner that repenteth, etc. Perhaps I'm more forgiving than Nick, but I rather think that the fact that Stevens now condemns terrorism and works for peace, love, understanding, and all that kind of stuff is a bit of a plus point, and that we ought to forgive him some of the absurd ranting he engaged in when he was a new convert about twenty years ago. On the second, Nick writes: If you go to the www.fortuneforum.org website, you will notice that none of the admirable charities it supports is dedicated to fighting poverty by spreading human rights. Well, as a diligent Aarowatch investigator, I thought it my duty to follow up on Nick's claim and visit that very website. Among the listed charities, I found the British Red Cross, using the search box on their website I used the term "human rights". Guess what? BRC think they're rather important. But maybe I'm not reading Nick carefully enough? Perhaps he intends the emphasis to be on the "by" in "fighting poverty by spreading human rights"? On this reading, people who actually work against poverty and who actually promote human rights can still be the subject of Eustonite anathema even if they do a whole lot more than sit in front of keyboards in Islington or Didsbury. Evil BB will no doubt comment on the details of the Plymouth Brethren and pensions section of the latest Nick. I'll confine myself to noting that the view that the state only respects its citizens as equals when it mechanically applies the same law to all of them without taking religious and cultural differences into account, is just extraordinarily crude. Should Sikhs get an exemption from motorcycle helmet laws? Nick writes that the state: can't be allowed to get away with a law which discriminates by creed. If we are going to cope with the stresses of multiculturalism, the state has to be above sectarian conflict and treat all people as equal citizens. It is less obvious to me than it is to Nick, that the stresses of multiculturalism would be better coped with by, for example, banning Jewish and Islamic methods of ritual slaughter through a straightforward application of the animal welfare laws. (Oh, and Nick would like us to know that he's met Jeremy Clarkson and hates Piers Morgan.) As a commenter on Nick's piece has already observed, and Tim Worstall, further down, has expanded upon - charitable giving is tax-deductible in the US. Are the US rich not miserly anyway? If the 400 richest Americans are billionaires, then they have a lot of money to potentially give away, which they've clearly kept. Giving to charity may be a good thing - but for you and me, it's largely anonymous. For those who get plaques bearing their names "in museums, churches, hospitals, art galleries and universities" it has to be at least partly monstrous ego. Part of the divide between here and the US is how we react to ego. We also have the Rowntree Charitable Trust, and I remember Alan Sugar praised Great Ormond Street because it survives solely on donations, partly from backers like himself. I agree that Nick seemingly "can't help writing about ... in a way that makes him wrong" even when he's right. The rich in the US do not "give their fortunes away". Andrew Carnegie did; Bill Gates will give most of his away ... and that's about it. If the Fortune Forum has any ambitions, it won't really ask the rich to empty their bank accounts. The old mafia way was to keep taking a little at a time, that way there's always more. What does he mean "ferocious moral earnestness of New England Protestantism"? He's not thinking of the Kennedys is he? No, the Rockefellers, presumably. But maybe I'm not reading Nick carefully enough? Perhaps he intends the emphasis to be on the "by" in "fighting poverty by spreading human rights"? I think the subtextual emphasis is on "fighting poverty by fighting wars". He is indeed wrong on the subject of the Plymouth Brethren (like many other commentators, I think he has taken "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit" to be an accurate description of the whole Brethren, rather than the rather odd Taylor Exclusive sect that Jeanette Winterson's family belonged to). A brief email to the Observer Readers' Editor has been despatched accordingly. btw, BD, I am 99% sure that GOSH is an NHS Trust; not to say that Alan Sugar doesn't think this, but he might be wrong. Off topic I'm afraid, but did anybody see Aaro's reply on Five's Don't Get Me Started to last week's Ted Honderich special? No, because it isn't broadcast until tonight (Tuesday). Has anyone seen Nick's letter in teh Independent today? Talking about Johann Hari's "hurtful" article"? Dave for Justice for Dave The Global Dave For Darfur Paul Wolfowitz Oh no they didn't Damn, I'm Old Nearly missed this one ... Dave's Lobes dave comes out for one Milliband or other	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line2
__label__wiki	0.704725	0.704725	83. THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) March 30, 2011 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies) 21 Comments “Nothing in [critic’s] educations or experiences can have prepared them for The Holy Mountain. Here is a film completely outside the entire tradition of motion picture art, outside the tradition of modern theater, outside the tradition of criticism and review. Criticism is irrelevant.”–film critic Jules Siegel, a quote chosen for The Holy Mountain‘s trailer DIRECTED BY: Alejandro Jodorowsky FEATURING: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas PLOT: A thief, who looks like Jesus Christ, silently wanders through a bizarre and depraved city with an armless and legless midget companion, participating in a lizard circus where toads are dressed like conquistadors, bearing a crucifix through the streets and eating from Jesus’ body, and meeting a prostitute with a chimp. He comes to a giant tower in the middle of a busy highway and rides up a hook to the top, where a mystic with a menagerie introduces him to seven companions and purifies him by burning his feces and turning it into gold, among other rituals. After preparation the assembled nine set off the find the Holy Mountain where the immortals are said to live, so they can displace them and become like gods themselves. In preparation for making the film Jodorowsky studied with both a Zen master and with a disciple of Gurdijeff. Part of his training involved sleep deprivation (he claims he went a week without sleep) and taking LSD for the first time. During filming, the Catholic church in Mexico was not happy with The Holy Mountain because of its apparent blasphemy, and the President Luis Echeverría’s regime was angry with Jodorowsky because soldiers in Mexican uniforms were depicted massacring civilians. There were public marches protesting the filming. Per Jodorowsky’s DVD commentary, he left Mexico with the footage he had already shot to finish the movie in New York after receiving threats from government officials and paramilitary groups. John Lennon partly financed the film. The budget was $750,000, a fairly extravagant sum for a film largely made in Mexico in 1973. According to Jodoworowsky’s DVD commentary, George Harrison wanted to play the role of the thief, but balked at playing a nude scene where the character has his anus scrubbed. Sources at the time reported that it was Lennon who wanted the role and that he could not follow through due to scheduling conflicts. Jodorowsky dubbed the voice of the thief. Various “masters” the characters meet as they prepare for their ascent of the Holy Mountain were played by actual Mexican shamans and witch doctors. Due to disagreements between Jodorowsky and producer Allen Klein, The Holy Mountain did not receive any sort of legitimate home video release until 2007. The same issues plagued Jodorowsky’s previous film, El Topo. According to Jodorowsky, Klein became angry and vindictive when, thinking it was too commercial, the director abandoned a project to adapt the erotic classic The Story of O with the producer and instead pursued an opportunity to make George Hebert’s cult science fiction novel Dune (a project Jodorowsky never completed—David Lynch was hired instead to film Dune, which ended up as a flop and an embarrassment). INDELIBLE IMAGE: There are so many candidates—the apocalyptic toad and chameleon circus with amphibians dressed as conquistadors and missionaries, the giant mechanical vagina art installation stimulated by a nude woman with a probe, the hermaphrodite with leopard head breasts that squirt milk onto a proselyte—that choosing a single representative image seems like an almost arbitrary exercise. Still, there is one trick so stunningly beautiful and effective that Jodorowsky essentially uses it twice: the live birds that fly from out of the gaping wounds of corpses mowed down by fascist soldiers. WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: The Holy Mountain plays like a cut-up version of the world’s sacred texts. If you tore out pages from the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, The Golden Bough, and a dozen other esoteric works from the Kabbalah to Gurdijeff—throwing in a couple of sleazy pulp novels for good measure—and put them together in a giant cauldron, stirred them up and pulled out sheaves at random and asked a troupe of performance artists, carnival freaks, and hippies tripping on peyote to act them out, you might come up with a narrative something like The Holy Mountain. Here, the cauldron is Alejandro Jodorowsky’s skull, and the stirrer was LSD, and an ex-Beatle gave the director and master visual stylist a small fortune to bring any elaborate and depraved fantasy he could dream up to shocking life. The singularly bizarre results—the pure, undiluted essence of mad Jodorowsky—are unlike any film that has ever existed before, or ever shall be, world without end. Short clip from the “Neptune” sequence of The Holy Mountain COMMENTS: The first thirty or forty minutes of The Holy Mountain are as astounding, intense and hallucinatory an experience as anything any weird movie alchemist has ever conjured. It contains imagery so sacrilegious it would make Buñuel spontaneously give the sign of the cross, and so confusing it would make David Lynch throw up his hands in frustration. This extended opening segment may be as fine a work of surrealism as has ever been filmed; for pure passion, audacity and agonizing irrationality, the thief with Christ’s face’s journey through a depraved, nightmarish Mexican city is hard to beat. Though many find The Holy Mountain‘s narrative weak (if not frustratingly obscure), the story does easily break into three acts: the Thief’s adventures in the city, his apprenticeship to the Alchemist inside the tower, and the trip to and ascent of the Holy Mountain itself. Each segment has its own aesthetic sensibility, while retaining their essentially demented Jodorowskyness, and together they form a loose allegory about the soul’s quest for enlightenment: from living in a corrupt world to the first stirrings of a spiritual sense to the actual climb towards enlightenment. The film begins with a prologue featuring the Alchemist (played by Jodorowsky), his downturned face hidden by a ludicrously broad-brimmed sombrero, as he shaves the heads of two nude women. The episode has nothing to do with the main narrative but imparts a ritualistic air to what follows. The credits then roll, over a series of reverse zooms revealing flamboyant dioramas decked out with cryptic symbols—a blue eyeball surrounded by azure peacock feathers and shiny turquoise beetle shells—before the view shifts and the camera alights on the face of a bearded man covered in flies. A dwarf with stumps for arms and legs drags himself to the sleeping body and wakes him; after some adventures involving a mock crucifixion and stoning by a group of boys with green genitalia, the pair wander from the desert into a city. The metropolis is a riot of perversion and decadence: brown-skinned soldiers parade in the streets carrying crucified, gutted goat carcasses, and execute dozens of civilians in the city square while white faces laugh and take pictures from inside the air conditioned comfort of a tour bus. The Thief gets a job working in the “Great Toad and Chameleon Circus,” where costumed reptiles re-enact the conquest of Mexico in a bloody spectacle, and then serves as the model for a wax Christ made by four obese entrepreneurs, three of whom dress as Roman centurions and the fourth as the Virgin Mary (in drag). Angered by his experience, the Thief first eats the face off his likeness, which is filled with dough underneath the wax visage, then ties balloons to the statute’s legs and releases it to fly to the heavens. Uniformed prostitutes (including a child) prowl the streets and cathedrals; they follow the Thief, and the one who carries a pet chimpanzee with her is particularly attracted to him. He comes to a large red tower in the middle of a highway, before which peasants are holding a banquet; a large fishhhook descends from the tower. On the end of the hook is a bag full of gold, and the peasants place food on the hook. The Thief, spying the gold, throws the food off and climbs on the hook itself as it rises to a hole at the top of the tower. And those are just the main highlights of the tour; there are two or three stunning, never-before imagined scenes per minute during this astounding first half hour, whose never-ending stream of images assault the viewer like a swarm of surrealist bees. There is an inconsequential amount of dialogue during this amazing, lysergic sequence, which makes the proceedings all the stranger. The soundtrack (by Jodorowsky and free-jazz legend Don Cherry) consists of Hindi drones and percussion, Tuvan throat singing, pan flutes, gongs, buzzing insects, classical dirges, a bit of melodious cornet improvisation by Cherry, a German march for the conquest of the chameleons, and a waltz with muted trumpet and xylophone to which the soldiers slow dance with each other. The vast, eclectic, exotic instrumentation changes form almost as often as Jodorowsky changes visions—we find ourselves bathing in a new and unique musical environment every minute or so—and the orchestration is always in perfect harmony with what’s going on onscreen. Like the imagery, this musical invention can’t quite sustain itself for the picture’s entire running time, but it’s a masterful achievement while it lasts and adds immensely to the sensory saturation. The magic continues as the Thief enters the Alchemist’s abode: first, in a magnificent rainbow room where the master waits on his throne of goats with a camel and a naked Nubian woman tattooed with Hebrew characters and astrological symbols. The remaining sets in the sanctuary are equally opulent. The Alchemist’s marble pool comes complete with a bathing hippo. He has a hall of mirrors with an obelisk. Rooms are decorated with occult symbols on the floor, and they spin; everything is painted in vivid primary colors. One circular room is lined with Jodorowosky’s surreal interpretations of Tarot cards. In this section’s centerpiece scene, the Thief is encased in a glass bowl on top of a brick apparatus with braziers and copper tubing; the Alchemist burns his excrement, turning it into gold while the fecal smoke flows into the bulb and chokes the thief. Meanwhile, the nude woman plays a cello and a pelican strolls around the machine. More rituals ensue, as the Thief is further purified and absorbs obscure Zen lessons at the feet of the Master. The tone abruptly changes from mystical to satirical/absurdist when the script introduces seven new characters, fellow seekers like the thief, each associated with a planet. The previous segment featured some incisive, blackly comic moments—as when a soldier begins to rape a tourist’s wife, and the enthralled man tries to capture the amusing native antics with his camera—but these were tiny pointed shards of ridicule poking out from an illogical, nightmare mass. The segments here are blades, forged for cutting. In voiceover, each of the initiates describes their backstory on their home planet: they are Important People. Mars is an arms dealer, Jupiter a millionaire, Neptune an enforcer, and so on. Jodorowsky uses these segments to take scattershot aim targets including militarism, consumerism, modern art, political propaganda, fascism, and even the modern art and architecture scenes. There are many memorable images in these mini-movies. Mars designs a line of munitions targeted at the various religions (Judaism gets a multi-barelled gun shaped like a menorah). Saturn is a toy designer who develops her product line with future wars in mind; her computers predict a conflict with Peru in the coming generation, so she designs a series of anti-Peruvian amusements for kiddies. The castrating chief of police for the autocratic Neptunian despotism gets perhaps the film’s best line: “Your sacrifice has completed my sanctuary of 1,000 testicles.” Weirdness continues to permeate these sequences, and the planetary excursions allow Jodorowsky to broaden his already wild palette. But the comic tone is a jarring change from the formerly mystical atmosphere and themes, and the constant narration is a significant stylistic departure from the near wordless silence that came before. Perhaps Jodorowsky meant these digressive excursions to provide a lighthearted breather from the intense surrealism that came before; it feels like, halfway through the film, he’s drifting off point. One of the minor issues with The Holy Mountain is that each successive sequence becomes slightly less surreal and less intense than the one that came before it; which is not to say that the final act isn’t astoundingly weird, by ordinary cinematic standards, but just that what came before is so dreamlike that Jodorowsky faces an impossible task trying to top himself. After some more purification rituals, the group, under the direction of the Alchemist, leaves the tower and ventures out toward the Holy Mountain, where they intend to displace the Immortals. This journey is shot entirely out of doors, with the cast, now with shaved heads, dressed in dull brown robes or Olympic jogging suits (when they aren’t nude, that is). This new naturalistic style (Jodorowsky calls this portion a “documentary” of the group’s spiritual quest) robs the film of two of its greatest strengths: set design and costuming. Previously, whether we were in a depraved urban dystopia, an arcane alchemists lair, or an art exhibit on Jupiter, there was always some amazing detail to draw the eye, some Hermetic symbol or freak or weirdo wandering around the frame. Now, things are relatively restrained; Jodorowsky spends more time tossing out aphoristic bonbons drawn from Buddhism or rabbinical literature than he does conjuring menacing visions. There are only two sections that truly liven up the weirdness here. The first is the Pantheon Bar sequence, where the questers meet a drunken carnival of fellow seekers who began following the path of enlightenment but were distracted by a weakness of their own ego and stopped at the base of the mountain, abandoning their ascent. The most notable of the caricatures is a gentleman in a feathered hat with a stoned expression who informs them that “the cross was a mushroom–and the mushroom was also the tree of Good and Evil.” (Jodorowsky mocking acidheads seems to be the definition of biting the hand that feeds you). The second manic sequence occurs when each of the members of the team has a dream just before reaching the summit. The director goes all-out grotesque here: the visions include animal sex, hermaphrodism, castration, ejaculation, and lactation. Jodorowsky’s finale is notoriously controversial, but ending this movie was an impossible task. If the Thief’s journey is an allegory for the soul’s journey towards Ultimate Reality, then how could the director film God? What could he do that would exceed the fractured visions that started the movie? Jodorowsky doesn’t even try; what he does, instead, is basically to topple his entire house of cards with a wave of his hand. The Thief discovers that he could have ended his quest an hour ago, when he met a nice girl. Everyone goes home. With this ending, Jodorowsky seems to be saying that the character’s search for metaphorical enlightenment was itself an illusion. Of course, all the blood, sweat and cerebral juices the cast and crew spent bringing this bewildering and extravagant spectacle to life belie that conclusion. But, unable to drop an enlightenment bombshell at the film’s climax, this was the best the director could do. Is Jodorowsky a Surrealist? The tableaux he creates are shocking and appear irrational, but to him each image has a particular, specific symbolic meaning. The key part of that sentence, perhaps, is “to him,” because he rarely provides his audience the necessary clues to divine the meaning he’s propounding. Viewers pick up bits and pieces of his intended message; it’s easy to see, for example, that the transvestite Virgin Mary selling crosses to tourists represents the Catholic Church distorting the true meaning of Christ’s message. When the Thief goes on a rampage and wrecks the crucifixes, most will catch the reference to Jesus overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the Temple. But in a film where the director references nearly every mystical or occult tradition the world has ever produced, scrawling Taoist symbols on the hide of a passing elephant, how could he expect anyone to catch all the details and follow his overall argument—if, indeed, he has one? Listening to his commentary on the DVD helps explain what he had on his mind on a scene-by-scene basis, but his exegesis only confirms that he isn’t consistent with his symbolism. At one point he tells us that the Thief’s legless and armless friend represents his divine spark within (when he first awakens his body from its drunken coma). Later, we are informed that the very same character represents the monstrosities of the ego (when the Alchemist demands the Thief throw the freak over the side of a boat to cleanse his soul). How are we supposed to follow along if the author won’t even keep his own symbolism constant? A thirtieth degree Mason couldn’t decipher a third of the symbolism of The Holy Mountain. Jodorowsky’s method is to flit about from concept to concept as the mood strikes him, like a schizophrenic doctor of comparative religion, and he never paints a consistent portrait of the soul’s progress to enlightenment. The result is that, although it he intends each image to have a precise symbolic meaning, the key to unlocking their meaning is locked inside the author’s mind. The Holy Mountain is meant as a Symbolist work, not as unconscious nonsense; but the end user, unable to decipher the film, experiences it as Surrealism. Is Jodorowsky a mystic? He tosses every esoteric reference he can think of into The Holy Mountain, and the breadth of his knowledge of cabalistic traditions of the world is truly impressive. But you can’t make a lush, sensual, psychedelic film and promote authentic mysticism at the same time. True mysticism, what Aldous Huxley called “the perennial philosophy,” involves asceticism, the denial of the body and even the imagination, an absolute abnegation of the ego and the senses. It seeks and longs for what appears to be nothingness. Along the journey Jodorowsky pays lip service to the necessity of dissolving the ego, but it would be hard for a novelist to conjure up a more narcissistic character than this director. After all, here he casts himself in the role of an ascended master and spiritual teacher (admittedly a step down from his role as a messiah and demigod in El Topo). The contemporary Jodorowsky reveals that his earlier self was convinced that this film would change cinema and change the world, hardly the position of an ego-less master who has transcended pride. Most of all, Jodorowosky is obviously intoxicated by his own superlative creativity and imagination—and rightfully so. But a true mystic views imagination as a relic of the ego and an enemy to enlightenment; imagination can only work on things brought to it through the senses, which obscure the Divine. Consider the words of another mystic who wrote about a spiritual journey up a metaphorical mountain, St. John of the Cross in The Ascent of Mount Carmel, who asserted that those who wished to ascend must rid themselves of imagination and visions: All these imaginings must be cast out from the soul… Whether beginners or more advanced, all must learn to abide attentively and wait lovingly on God in a state of quiet, and to devote no attention either to imagination or its working… the soul must take care not to lean on visions that take place in the mind… they perturb it, and for this reason the soul must renounce them and strive not to have them… If the spiritual director has an inclination towards revelations of such a kind that they mean something to him, or satisfy a delight in his soul, it is impossible for him not to impress that delight and that aim on the spirit of his disciple… From his inclination toward such visions and the pleasure he takes in them, he develops a certain kind of esteem for them… In this lies a great delusion. Ascent of Mount Carmel, BOOK TWO, Chapters 9-13. This warning from a certified mystic that imagination is a false path to enlightenment could have been specifically addressed to Jodorowsky, the great magician and alchemist of cinema who hopes to change the world through the elaborate symbolic visions he constructs for the masses. St. John of the Cross would likely see Jodorowsky as one of those stuck in the Pantheon Bar at the foot of the Holy Mountain, believing he has already reached the peak and found the answer when he has not even begun to ascend the slope yet. Perhaps it was his knowledge of texts like this that explain Jodorowsky’s apparent, sudden rejection of mysticism at the end of the film. If the mystics say that imagination can only take you so far, well, then, the creative soul can play the same game and turn it around; mysticism can only take the imagination so far, and then it must abandon it and follow creativity’s own path. Jodorowsky uses the techniques of the Surrealists and the symbolism of the mystics, but he himself is neither a Surrealist nor a mystic. He’s more of a madman and a Fool, trusting and delighting in his own deranged visions. And cinema is enriched by his injection of his own singular brand of madness. No one else could have made the astounding, narcissistic, and utterly beautiful The Holy Mountain. “All the classic surrealist techniques are called into play, like when a young woman is shot down by police, and doves fly out of the wound. But finally, ‘Holy Mountain’ is all surface and very little meaning.”–M. Goodwin, Take One (contemporaneous) “…an extraordinary visual concoction, loaded with stunning primary colors, anti-religious caricatures drawn from Diego Rivera and a succession of dreamlike, grotesque vistas worthy of Dalí at his most deranged.”–Andrew O’Hehir, Salon (2007 rerelease) “…suggests what might have resulted if Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, and George Romero had all dropped acid and made a movie together.”–Mark Deming, All Movie Guide ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. – Films – The Holy Mountain – the closest thing to an official site, this is the homepage for producer/distributor ABKCO. It contains a long synopsis of the film and a couple of stills, but there is also a five minute documentary featurette mixing scenes from Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain with an interview with Jodorowsky IMDB LINK: The Holy Mountain (1973) OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST: The Holy Mountain – The Holy Mountain page at “The Symbol Grows,” a Jodorowsky fan site, contains little specific to this film, but search the site for images of vintage posters and a relatively extensive Jodorowsky bibliography The Holy Mountain (1973) at Mubi – the trailer, synopses, and links to forum discussions involving the movie The Holy Mountain (Cultographies) – A full-length assessment from Wallflower Press’ “cultographies” seires DVD INFO: The Anchor Bay DVD (buy ) features a typically fascinating (Spanish language, so be sure to turn on the subtitles) commentary by Jodorowsky, who at times seems affectionately bemused by the passion of his younger self. Other extras include deleted scenes, also with commentary, and a five minute feature where Jodorowsky explains the philosophy and symbolism of the Tarot, and the original trailer. Joe Byrne, who worked on restoring the film, gives a technical but nonetheless very interesting explanation of the restoration process; segments of the film are shown in split screen, with the original print shown on one side and the restored version on the other to dramatize the improvement. One final extra shows photographs of the working script, which is itself almost nonlinear; it’s full of markups, notes, crossouts, scrawled amendments and doodled alchemical symbols. The Holy Mountain is also available (with all special features listed above) as a key component of Anchor Bay’s The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (buy ). Also included in this collection are Fando y Lis, El Topo, and the documentary The Jodorowsky Constellation. Soundtrack CDs for El Topo and The Holy Mountain round out this very cool collection. Anchor Bay plans blu-ray releases of both The Holy Mountain (pre-order ) and El Topo on April 26, 2011. (This movie was nominated for review by too many readers to list individually. Suggest a weird movie of your own here.) 1973Alejandro JodorowskyBreaking the fourth wallFreakMexicanMidnight movieMust seeMysticismOccultPsychedelicQuestRitualisticSatireSurrealismTarotWeirdest! Previous PostCAPSULE: SUCKER PUNCH (2011)Next PostTOD BROWNING’S THE UNKNOWN (1927) 21 thoughts on “83. THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)” Caleb Moss says: The only thing I can say is Thank You. Thank you for covering this masterpiece, giving it the credit it deserves, and perhaps introducing new eyes to this visual wonder. This has to be one of my favorite films of all time. And the first thing that popped to mind when I first discovered this site. So, once again, with my deepest gratitude, I thank you, and this wonderful site committed to the strange, other-worldly, and dream-like beauty. Steve Mobia says: I know that it’s said that Surrealists such as Bunuel tried to avoid any conscious logical connections in their work, but it’s hard not to watch “Un Chien Andalou” and not see a clear Freudian allegory there. Certainly Dali’s work has strong symbolic content. The problem is that the word “surreal” has become synonymous with the word “weird” today. Andre Brenton is probably unknown to most who use the word. I do take issue with your denying Jodorowsky the mantle of “mystic” because he delights in imaginative images. If the imagery points to realms beyond the literal and sets up intuitive leaps of revelation –– I would call that a mystical endeavor. Many mystics (William Blake for one), do not deny the senses in the way the ascetics do. G. Smalley (366weirdmovies) says: Outside of isolated images, I disagree that it would be easy to make a Freudian allegory out of Un Chien Andalou. I think it would take a huge amount of work and you would come up with something that was not very convincing. I agree that the meaning of the term Surrealism has become diluted. Even I am lazy when I use the term; most of time when I say surrealism, I mean “small-s” neo-surrealism (like Jodorowosky practices), not “big-S” Andre Breton-style 1930s Surrealism. You are also correct that not all mysticism is ascetic; there is also ecstatic mysticism of the kind William Blake and Jodorowsky practice. Back when I wrote this I overplayed my hand because I was focused on the irony of Jodorowsky being inspired by “The Ascent of Mt. Carmel” while his methods directly contradicted those proposed by the book. I find the tension between the surrealist impulse to shock and the mystical impulse to harmonize in Jodorowsky interesting, but he clearly favors the former. Someday I will have time to return here and compose a new draft of this review that states the ideas with more precision, but I always prefer to press on to the next movie rather than looking backwards. Thanks for your thoughtful comments and for keeping me honest. I think you may have missed a lot with this movie. Yes, not every bit of symbolism will be understood by the audience, but the main message is clear to me after seeing it 5 times: whether it be christianity, hindu, buddhism, vodou, alchemy, the tarot, etc. all religions and paths to “enlightenment” are an utter waste of life. The afterlife is an illusion; there is NO Holy Mountain. This was made in a time where a lot of trendy American hippies were taking up “New Age” religions and mystic rituals in efforts to rebel. Jodorowsky, being the genius he is, uses his film to point out the similarities that lie between all of these “journeys,” and expose the western hippies for the fools they were. It was a time when many didn’t want to resort to the same prayers and churches of their parents, but instead of fully rejecting these concepts, they simply appropriated native/eastern religions and found a new “holy mountain.” You see, Jodorowsky does not WANT to be labeled a fucking mystic. He studies mysticism and religion only to understand it and transcend it further, not to feel “enlightened,”or anything of that nature. That should be pretty damn clear with this movie. He mocks mysticism, of course he is not of their breed. He pokes FUN at the process of spiritual cleansing, especially its use by the wealthy and privileged! Sadly, this is why the film has never taken off. Even those who truly love it have no idea what it’s about. While I personally agree with your views on mysticism, wow, I don’t think Jodorowsky did. Everything I have ever read or heard from him leads me to believe he is quite sincere in his belief in the perennial philosophy, especially at that time (and even now). In this relatively recent interview he states that he put his Holy Mountain actors through “Arica training” with a “guru” and hoped they would find enlightenment while working on the movie and become monks. He even founded his own school of psychoanalysis called “psychomagic” which is based on the Tarot. He does very clearly mock the hippies’ attempts to reach mystical enlightenment through psychedelic drugs in the movie, but I think this contrasts strongly with his poetic appreciation of other forms of occult knowledge. Pingback: “The Holy Mountain” (1973) \| grotesque ground Thanks for such a narrative review of this intricate masterpiece. The fonts of starting and ending credits ( including the title ) is really intriguing. What type of language/art/typography/ or design used to make this font ? If you happened to gave me some information about this i would be greatly thankful. Rocky. I personally don’t know anything about the font. Anyone out there have a clue? (I assume this is the font Rocky’s asking about). I wouldn’t be shocked if Jodorowsky designed it himself, since he seems to have done almost everything else on the movie. Rogerva says: I think the font design is meant to recall Devanagari, which is not a language but a script used to write several languages, including Hindi, Marathi and even Sanskrit. Vic snaggletooth says: Yes, you got my mind !! that’s the fonts i’m talking about. Thanks for the reference. According to the credits Jodorowsky did almost all ( the fonts might be too) but do anyone know what’s the origin of this type font ? It’s definitely have some references, like from which text,art,typography or ancient language pattern’s favored him to draw this font pattern. I wish i could ask Mr. Jodorowsky directly but i don’t know any via to ask him about this. To me, it just seems a generic reference to Indian scripts. There are quite a few faux Indian digital fonts for Western letters around that resemble it more or less. Pingback: Neuropink: Post Cyberpunk sci fi literature \| Alien Fiction Iam Wrong says: An excellent article, thank you. I’d like to share a different perspective than yours and prior commenters. “The Holy Mountain is meant as a Symbolist work, not as unconscious nonsense; but the end user, unable to decipher the film, experiences it as Surrealism.” Well put. Jodo was certainly attempting to be a Symbolist and Mystic. But I experienced it differently. His symbolism so resonated with me that I feel he succeeded at both. The Surrealism is a bonus that the viewer can experience if the meaning doesn’t resonate with them. “Unable to drop an enlightenment bombshell at the film’s climax, this was the best the director could do”. This is the key difference in my experience. He delivered my kind of bombshell. When the exquisite sets and costumes vanish from the film, and the ending simply breaks the 4th wall and deflates what was built, this is the Mystic in full force. This is the point where Jodo fully expresses the sentiment you quote from St. John of the Cross, “the soul must take care not to lean on visions that take place in the mind”. He departs from the visions. What visions remain, the surrealist dreams of the followers, are seen as distractions, and they are, for both the characters and the viewers. “St. John of the Cross would likely see Jodorowsky as one of those stuck in the Pantheon Bar at the foot of the Holy Mountain.” I disagree. And I think it’s in part because you were expecting a different finale. “How could the director film God?” I wasn’t expecting Jodo’s depiction of God, so I wasn’t let down. He depicted exactly what I wanted. The characters eliminated their selves and awakened to “Real Life”. This is it. The bombshell he drops at the end is the same unpalatable, mundane bombshell I’ve encountered over and over again in my mystical readings, in which I’ve sought to find sources that reject New Age promises and struggle to speak about the core commonalities of religions and mystic practices across the world, divorced from the mythology and magic. The big gag (Jodorowsky’s and one often found in world mysticisms) is that you can reach the top of the mountain, achieve enlightenment, but you are still mortal (a rejection of the myth) you simply return to Real Life (mundane). The apex is a changed perspective on mundane mortal life. Consider that in Buddhist mythology Gods and Demons exist, but only mundane humans can become Buddhas. Immortality and mythic power, God, the Holy Mountain, the surrealist visions, the costumes, the sets, the magic … we must give it all up. “It was a loan.” The journey, the symbols, the movie, they’re all a hoax, like a Zen koan. Enlightenment isn’t something contained within a Zen koan, external to mundane life. The Zen koan is a means by which one returns to life with an altered perspective. There’s nothing at the top but of the Holy Mountain but a trickster and a better view. A perfect ending to me. Jimsin Vogel says: Thank you Iam Wrong for your post (above) – reading this article I was somewhat dismayed at the writer’s conclusion & felt that he really didn’t ‘get it’. Your interpretation is very close to my own, and for me also the ending could not have been more perfect. I’ve only seen “Holy Mountain” once before about ten years ago, and while I could easily make sense of the plot to “Eraserhead” (1977) and “Beyond the Black Rainbow” (2010, also heavily influenced by “Holy Mountain”), this one entirely eluded me on a plot level, while I acknowledged its visual beauty and its immense mood-inducing emotional power. But plot-wise and in some of the camera work, it seemed like a remake of Tati’s entirely Dadaist “Play-Time” (1967) to me, only by a much greater visual artist than Tati, and it also reminded me of just-as-plotless-but-monumental “Koyaanisqatsi” (1983). I hardly remember anything of the many things your review recounts. The film’s one indelible image for me is the long tracking shot upon the guru in the white clothes in the rainbow room, the end of which you have as a screenshot in the review. While not making sense to me cerebrarily, the entire image composition and its colors and shapes, also on the walls behind the guru and the space’s entire shape as some kind of tunnel, deeply spoke to me on an emotional level. I can’t explain it in words, other than that some of the colors and shapes reminded me of picture books I had when I was little, but I think that’s only part of the explanation. The wole 2D and 3D image composition of the shot draws the eye the very same direction as is then soooo slowly, hypnotically tracked by the camera, which adds immensely to my emotional reaction to the shot. It felt almost painful when that shot was over. So, my memory of the film mainly consist of that one image, plus endless aimless but immensely aesthetic tracking and crane shots through a city that looked half-Mexican, half New York City, and your review dimly called the frugal outdoor quest at the end back into my mind. Anyways, reading your review I don’t see how the dwarf can’t at the same time be the thief’s soul and his ego. Could be that Jodorowsky was not quite consistent in his vocabulary when he explained it decades later, but both explanations refer to some kind of inner spark of consciousness as opposed to the material physical world, even if said consciousness may be profoundly shaped by the outside world into an ego to overcome. Just like steve above, I’m also not quite sure whether every mystic guru (while I don’t necessarily say that Jodorowsky is one) really has to ascetically overcome their ego and forsake the pleasures of this world, as there have been quite a few mystic cults in history who sought to reach the divine by means of intense orgiastic festivities of wine, women, and song, or look at those self-professing satanists today who publicly maintain that selfishness would be the ultimate goal in life. Not every mystic cult is necessarily as ascetic as Christianity or seeks to attain Nirvana like Hinduism and Buddhism do. Incidentally, this line of thought now reminds me of Freud’s Nirvana drive introduced in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), in which he sought to find the shared origins of his life-affirming, libidinous Eros drive and his life-destroying, sado-masochistical Thanatos drive. Freud theorized that the shared quality of Eros and Thanatos is to overcome a tension due to a need or want and reach a balanced state-of-mind by feeding the need, and the tendency towards that relaxed balanced state would be the Nirvana drive underlying both Eros and Thanatos. Freud also goes on about how the balanced state-of-mind we seek would be an evolutionary remnant of how the first spark of life in the primordial soup struggled in order not to fall back to the state of inorganic dead matter, a thought which, curiously, Roger Ebert alludes to in his review of Ken Russell’s “Altered States” (1980), without mentioning Freud by name. Ultimately, it seems like some cults in their quest for the divine emphasize the feeding of the need, while others emphasize the Nirvana state entirely void of need. As for my personal understanding of surrealism, I must admit its core has become synonymous for me with a certain lighting style and coolish, usually blue-greenish colors. I think two examples would be at least one of the attempted suicide scenes in “Delicatessen” (1991), and the “Where is the fish?” scene from Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” (1983). Beyond that central definition, yes, the broader definition would be simply “weird”. Pingback: The Holy Mountain – with a brand new Asteroid Deluxe rescore. \| Gaz Williams Spambot of the Day! says: LEAVE THIS, DONT BE SELFISH. DONT DELETE THIS. Rob Liefeld worst Rob Liefeld Drawings By Rob Liefeld The Metaphysician says: I have just finished watching this film. I have yet to see another film (or read another book) that succeeds in assaulting the viewer in chaotic and radiant waves of occult-inspired, surrealistic imagination. The amphibian re-enactment of Mexico’s conquest was simultaneously terrible and amusing. However, whilst I did like parts of the film very much, such as the Alchemist’s Gnostic monologue concerning the purification of the soul, I felt that some of the imagery, such as the lactating hermaphrodite towards the end, simply repulsive. I think Jodorowsky’s previous film, EL TOPO, is superior to THE HOLY MOUNTAIN in terms of substance; that mystic deconstruction of the Western affected me more than MOUNTAIN, whose ending, though full of splendid scenery, simply blemishes the film given the wild and peerless Saturnalia that precedes it. Nonetheless, I still think the world will be all the poorer without it. Pingback: Strange Cinema: The Holy Mountain (1973) \| Culture Vault Štic says: This is my favorite movie i watched it over 20 times, and i could more, it is pleasure that it is here, also like “el topo” , “dance of reality” , “santa sangre” etc… beautifull and weird art movies… Surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth. By the way! The best essay writing service – [spam link removed] And Happy New Year!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line4
__label__wiki	0.632608	0.632608	Shop Local Catalogue Happy Hour Guide High List Resistance&Solidarity Film Festivals&Events Food&Drink Events Readings&Talks Weed Events Bars&Clubs Weed Shops Geek&Gaming Sports&Recreation Community&Civics Parties&Nightlife What the Fuck Are Democrats Doing in Washington State This Year? In Weathering with You, Boy Meets Girl, Girl Crashes the Weather System by Suzette Smith?Wednesdayat 4:19 pm Weathering with You, the new animated feature from Your Name director Makoto Shinkai, starts out with a story I’d like to see more often: 16-year-old Hodaka Morishima runs away from home and spends a period of time living in capsule hotels and paying for showers before eventually sleeping on the Tokyo streets. His savings dwindle as he desperately searches for a job. Eventually and by happenstance, Hodoka is hired by a small, sketchy tabloid magazine editor who lets him live in a basement office and pays him for chasing stories of UFOs and other supernatural phenomena. It all falls somewhere between scary and gritty (running away is something people actually do) and the typically rose-colored view of anime (Hodoka’s office is situated on a beautiful sloped street, and no one’s moped breaks down). He Wanted Out So He Was an Asshole Until She Dumped Him—And Isn't That Better For Her? by Dan Savage?Wednesdayat 3:58 pm I did one of the things you always say is bad, immature and hurtful. I was a jerk to my girlfriend for weeks because I wanted her to break up with me. It wasn’t on purpose, it wasn’t a plan, I know it was cowardly. I think she is a great woman, I just wasn’t into it and I let it go longer than I should have. I felt terrible that she loved me and I didn’t love her back and didn’t want to hurt her. My question is, why do you think sabotaging a relationship is so bad? I'm glad she hates me now. She can feel anger instead of sadness. I didn't want to be a "great guy" that did the right thing when the relationship needed to end. I wanted her to think I’m awful so she can move on with her life.If I say all the right things, that makes me more attractive and a loss. I’ve had women do that to me—break up with me the "right" way—and all it made me do was respect them more and feel more in love with them and miss them more. I still think about them because they were so kind and respectful when they dumped me. I prefer the relationships I've had that ended with hatred because at least I knew we weren’t good for each other and the end was no skin off my back. Isn't it better this way? I’ve got no sign-off that creates a clever acronym. Make one up if you want to publish it. Annoying Shittiness Should Help Outraged Lovers Escape Whim W'him presents XPRESS, January 17, 18, 24, 25 BE CURIOUS . . . don’t miss Whim W'him's XPRESS, featuring world-premieres from 3 seasoned & internationally celebrated contemporary dance makers- Sidra Bell (NYC), Ihsan Rustem (Switzerland) &Whim W’Him Artistic Director and Founder, Olivier Wevers. This program is tailored for the contemporary dance enthusiast who craves innovation & celebrates artistic exploration. Experience XPRESS January 17, 18, 24, 25 at Cornish Playhouse. Get tickets HERE Economy?Amazon The Rash of Restaurant Closures Shows Seattle Has Reached the Second and Terminal Stage of Gentrification by Charles Mudede?Wednesdayat 3:54 pm Smoked alligator in the twilight of Central Smoke, a Central District bar and smokery that closed eight days after this image was taken. Seattle Times' article, "Is Seattle’s booming restaurant scene showing signs of slowing?" examines a spike in restaurant closures in 2019. What can it mean? Is Seattle experiencing a restaurant glut? Too many of them opened too quickly? If so, this would mean the market is presently self-correcting for a bout of investment exuberance that became irrational. In 2015, Seattle did not have enough restaurants for its booming economy, lots of entrepreneurs rushed in to meet the demand, the market rapidly became saturated, and now it is returning to a kind of equilibrium, a kind of sanity. Something of this story can also be found in the Capitol Hill Blog post on the sudden closing of a really remarkable restaurant experiment called Central Smoke on Jefferson. This reading presents the market as a domain ruled by the unforgiving law of the survival of the fittest. But Seattle Times' food critic Bethany Jean Clement points primarily to the ever-increasing costs of living in this city—rent and utility bills are breaking the backs of businesses and customers alike. However this answer, which contains a great deal of truth and so should not be dismissed, must ultimately connect those rising costs with the boom in the tech economy, which commands a large number of high-paying jobs. But that reading, in essence, returns us to the logic of supply and demand, the law of market Darwinism. It has this story to tell: many restaurants opened to draw customers with large incomes, and at some point the number of tables in these businesses surpassed the number people who can regularly spend lots of money on meals. Meaning, again, the rise in closures is merely a market correction. At this point, I want to offer another way of reading and narrating the current "market trend." Seattle, like San Francisco and Vancouver BC, has entered a stage of luxury urbanism that the Stanford professor Adrian Daub calls "second-wave gentrification." Cannabis Decreasing Alcohol Sales as Alcohol Deaths Rise by Josh Jardine?Wednesdayat 3:15 pm Erik Wieder / EyeEm There’s been a recent flurry of news stories regarding how establishing a regulated cannabis program impacts the sale and use of alcohol. And there’s also a number of stories about how alcohol abuse is on the rise in some sectors, while on the decline in others. Let’s start with a look at how having an entire country legalize cannabis impacts alcohol sales. OH CANADA: Now that people can buy cannabis from sea to shining sea in Canada, alcohol sales are on the decline. Specifically, beer sales. Per Merry Jane, the sales of Strange Brew were on the decline between 2014 to 2018 by a barely noticeable .3 percent. But in the first full year of cannabis legalization, sales dropped a full 3 percent. In Little Joe, a Flower Brings Human Happiness Among the happiness flowers: Emily Beecham as scientist Alice Woodard. PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES Little Joe is a science-fiction film that is not set in the future. It is set in a time that looks very much like the year we have just left, 2019, and the year we are now experiencing, 2020. The technologies and science in the film are all realistic, all believable. Its scientists are developing a flower that makes humans feel happier. To make this possible, a virus is used as a vector (transporter) of genetic materials that manipulate the genetic structure of a specific target, a flowering plant. The more a human cares for this plant, the happier the plant makes its caretaker by way of a scent that connects the flower to the mammalian nose. If the scientists succeed, this flower will be sold in the marketplace and make the investors behind the research fantastically rich. Food & Drink?Things To Do?EverOut 16 Places to Drink Mocktails and Non-Alcoholic Beverages in Seattle for Dry January 2020 by Stranger EverOut Staff?Wednesdayat 2:00 pm This month, you can take advantage of non-alcoholic drinks at Cortina, created in collaboration with DRY Soda for Dry January. Ethan Stowell Restaurants via Instagram Looking to decrease your alcohol consumption for January? We've compiled a handy list of places to find mocktails and non-alcoholic beverages around Seattle so you can quench your thirst. For more ideas, check out our list of food and drink specials to try in January and our full food and drink calendar. Carlile Room The "booze-free" menu at Tom Douglas's swanky lounge includes a house ginger ale, kombucha on tap, a "shrub du jour," the "party in pink mocktail," "fancy root beer," sodas, and sparkling or still water. Music?Death RIP, Steve Martin Caro, Singer for Baroque-Pop Geniuses the Left Banke by Dave Segal?Wednesdayat 1:15 pm Steve Martin Caro (second from left) was a master of wistfulness. YouTube screengrab Steve Martin Caro—lead singer and a key songwriter for the Left Banke—passed away January 14 at age 71. (Known as Steve Martin during the Left Banke's '60s prime, the musician later added "Caro" to his name after comedian Steve Martin became famous.) Martin Caro's deeply expressive voice augmented the band's sublime pop, which inevitably has been described as "baroque" due to the presence of flute, oboe, harpsichord, French horn, and other typically non-rock instrumentation, and for its florid, ambitious melodies. At their best, which was often over their first two albums—1967's Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina and 1968's The Left Banke Too—the Left Banke rivaled the Beatles and the Beach Boys for sheer hook-crafting brilliance and ingenious dynamics. Like the greatest bands of their ilk, the Left Banke made the most intimate feelings seem momentous. They deserve a prominent place in whatever musical pantheon any taste-makers want to construct. News?Politics?2020 CNN Lost the Debate by Rich Smith?Wednesdayat 12:35 pm Biden had a good night, thanks to CNN anchors going after his rivals. Spencer Platt / GETTY IMAGES Only a few weeks before the Iowa caucuses, CNN treated the good people of Des Moines (and anyone with a CNNgo account, or a Twitter feed) to a dull, disingenuous debate on several policy issues the Democratic candidates have more or less already discussed. Even the six candidates who made the cut—Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Tom Steyer—looked tired of saying the same shit over and over again. And that's a shame. Though viewership has steadily declined over the last million or so Democratic debates, these evenings don't have to be so bad. Given the toss-up status of the races in the early states, the country could have used a substantive, robust conversation that drew clear contrasts between the candidates. But that didn't happen. And yet, the show went on! Some fun stuff was said, and some fun stuff was not said. Any of it consequential? Not likely! But it's worth a little walk through the highlights and lowlights of the worst debate yet. Visual Art?Stickers A Gaping Void by Jasmyne Keimig?Wednesdayat 12:23 pm Jess Stein "Be The Void" Fuck me up. Jasmyne Keimig I'm pretty sure this sticker isn't referencing the Dr. Dog album, but I've been wrong before. I love a good void. Like when Mitski talks about looking like a pulsating void at her NPR Tiny Desk concert. Or this Audrey Wollen piece reminding us who owns the void. Please never fill me up.Continue reading » Blabbermouth Who Should It Be: Bernie, Biden, or Warren? by The Stranger?Wednesdayat 11:39 am Episode 229 talks Iowa, impeachment, and the Oscar nominations. Scott Olson / Getty Images Subscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here! With a bunch of new impeachment news coming in, Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, and Rich Smith talk about how the looming Senate trial is going to look and what to expect from Chief Justice John Roberts, who’ll be presiding. After that, what did we learn from this week's final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses? Anything? It seems like the race is coming down to Bernie, Biden, or Warren, so… who should it be? Finally, Jasmyne Keimig and Chase Burns talk about the Oscar nominations and two movies worth seeing in theaters right now: 1917 and Uncut Gems. Plus... This Pot Is Bananas by Lester Black?Wednesdayat 11:00 am There are 14 hidden bananas (or bunches of bananas) in this image. RACHELLE ABELLAR A few weeks ago, I drove east toward the Cascade Mountains on damp roads shaded by evergreen trees and lined with decomposing leaves until I found a farm that smelled like bananas. I went to Fall City and found the tropics. How on earth did I find bananas growing in January in the same place where Twin Peaks was filmed? Because I went to a pot farm. It turns out, cannabis can taste just like one of the world's most popular equatorial fruits. Banana cannabis varietals—with names like Banana OG, Strawberry Banana, and Banana Kush—are being grown across the state, from Spokane to Seattle, and it might just be the best weedy way to get through the winter doldrums. Not only do these strains of weed smell and taste like you're on a sandy beach somewhere a thousand miles south of Seattle, but smoking them often creates a mildly relaxing high, just like you're sitting on said beach. Food & Drink?EverOut Five Events to Celebrate Robert Burns Night 2020 in Seattle by Stranger EverOut Staff?Wednesdayat 10:19 am Tuck into a hearty plate of haggis and sip some whisky in honor of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Shutterstock Five years after the death of Scottish bard Robert Burns in 1796, a group of friends gathered on his birthday (January 25) to celebrate his life. Today, the tradition persists and often involves haggis, bagpipes, recitations of poetry, drinking songs, revelry, and, of course, copious Scotch whisky. If you'd like to witness the unusual ritual for yourself,?here are five events where you can participate in the commemoration of Burns' life. For more food and drink events, check out our full food and drink calendar. Big Time Brewery Raise a pint to the "Ploughman Poet" and sing along to rousing Scottish drinking songs performed by vocal group whateverandeveramen. Film/TV?Music The Score of Uncut Gems Should Have Been Nominated for an Oscar by Jasmyne Keimig?Wednesdayat 9:15 am Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) in the Safdie brother's Uncut Gems. Imagine a synth playing over this image. Julieta Cervantes/A24 The Josh and Benny Safdie-directed Uncut Gems revolves around Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a jeweler in New York City's Diamond District who is a compulsive gambler, cheater, and liar. He's also an asshole. When a valuable "uncut" black opal mined in Ethiopia comes into Howard's possession, he sets up a series of anxiety-inducing and self-destructive bets and lies that wobble uneasily before all falling down. The internal and external chaos of Howard is echoed in the film's excellent score, which seems to locate itself in outer space. Composed by Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never), Uncut Gems' soundtrack is synth-heavy, cosmic, glittery. While it suggests an undercurrent of scuzz, the grandeur of the score's heights shimmers like the colors in the karmically-fucked black opal at the center of the film. It's a shame that Uncut Gems was not nominated for Best Score at the upcoming Oscars. Some have made the connection between this film's score and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's work on The Social Network, which was nominated for an Oscar and won. In a recent "Behind the Soundtrack" documentary, Lopatin talks about the connections between his synthy, far-out score and the film's tumult. Let's hear and dissect a couple of the songs Lopatin talks about in the documentary: The Top Nine Lunar New Year 2020 Events in Seattle by Stranger EverOut Staff?Wednesdayat 8:45 am Celebrate the Lunar New Year in Chinatown-International District with lion and dragon dances and other traditions from all over the world—plus the beloved $3 food walk. Cham Roeun Bunphoath Lantern festivals in Nagasaki, T?t in Vietnam, and the exchange of lucky red envelopes in China are just a few traditions that go along with the Lunar New Year (Jan 25-Feb 8). In Seattle, ways to welcome the Year of the Rat are no less diverse, ranging from dragon and lion dances at the International District's annual Lunar New Year Celebration to a week of Chinese beer specials at Lucky Envelope Brewing. Plan ahead with our roundup of this year's biggest celebrations, and find even more events on our complete Lunar New Year calendar. T?t in Seattle Celebrate the Year of the Rat at this annual festival in anticipation of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year in early February. As always, there will be hands-on cultural activities, traditional food, crafts, martial arts performances, a market, and more. News?Election!?Politics?Sports?The Weather?Slog AM/PM Slog AM: Russia's Government Resigns, Impeachment Trial Managers Named, Ken Jennings Wins It All by Nathalie Graham?Wednesdayat 8:00 am This is the only picture of Ken we can afford!!!! Getty/Getty Images News The Russian government just resigned: Russian prime minister Dmitri A. Medvedev suddenly resigned. As did Medvedev's entire cabinet. Is that… pretty much the whole Russian government? Yowza. Putin allegedly had recently introduced proposals for broad constitutional changes. These may have triggered the resignations. They also may have the ability to extend Putin's reign after his tenure as president is up in 2024. Putin's proposals would have greatly shifted power in the Russian Parliament and State Council. Another error from Seattle Children's Hospital: The hospital, which has pretty much been mold-ridden since 2001, is under scrutiny for performing cardiac surgery on an infant without the correct filtration system in the operating room. That surgery without the high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter took place as recently as last October. The infant now has an Aspergillus infection, the same infection that has sickened multiple Seattle Children's patients and killed six of them. 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__label__wiki	0.73186	0.73186	Essay: One size doesn’t fit all A universal carrier is not the combat vehicle our ground forces need In “A vehicle for modern times [December/January AFJ],” by retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the call for a Ground Combat Vehicle universal carrier is buoyed by a presumed “convergence in how all ground components, the Army, Marine Corps, and special operations forces, fight at the tactical level.” While I wholeheartedly agree with the urgent need to give our ground forces “the fighting system they deserve,” I disagree that a universal carrier design for the GCV is the answer. Specifically, I disagree that contemporary mission overlap for our ground forces equates to homogeneity at the tactical level. Further, I disagree that a universal carrier design, regardless of unity of needs, is feasibly supportable by all ground forces, given manning and maintenance constraints. Admittedly, there has been a great deal of mission overlap for these ground forces. The Army has drifted toward more traditional special operations roles with foreign internal defense and counterinsurgency, while conventional combat-arms units prosecute time-sensitive targets routinely. The Marine Corps has drifted as well, serving courageously in an undesired role as the country’s second land army. Sharing but not owning the same battle space as these conventional Army and Marine Corps units, special operations forces have differentiated themselves by leveraging their unique combination of resources and reach to remain a valued strategic- and operational-level force. While this mission and battle space overlap has occurred in the contemporary wars, the organizational manning of these three ground forces remains very different. Difficulty arises when proposed “general needs of all ground combat services” are overlaid upon organizations that are manned and resourced differently. I observed one example of the impact of manning on vehicle utilization when my mechanized infantry company conducted a relief in place of a light infantry company in Iskandiriyah, Iraq, in 2004. The first day, I joined my second platoon to conduct a joint patrol with the departing unit in order to familiarize ourselves with key areas within the area of operations. My second platoon, a mechanized infantry platoon, traveled in four M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, each equipped with a crew of three (driver, gunner and Bradley commander.) Across the four vehicles, three nine-man infantry squads traveled in the troop compartments. Upon tactical halt, the squads, configured as two fire teams each, could dismount and shoot, move and communicate, while the Bradleys could do the same, operating as two two-vehicle sections. In contrast, the light infantry platoon of 35 to 40 soldiers was configured solely as dismounted maneuver elements, three rifle squads with attached machine-gun teams. When outfitted with eight up-armored Humvees, the platoon had to pull the vehicle crews out of hide. This meant that, when the vehicles came to a tactical halt, two out of the five passengers (driver and gunner) had to remain with the vehicle. In exchange for transport, protection and additional mounted firepower, the dismounted platoon was “losing” two out of every five men, or 40 percent, to vehicle support. Additionally, Scales’ accurately notes “the need for tactical units to approach insurgent positions undetected.” But even with an ideally “fast and quiet” vehicle, small units, when traveling in groups of eight, 10 or 20 vehicles, lose their ability to surprise a determined enemy. The organizational manning conflict extends into maintenance, recovery and home station. The unit must maintain the vehicles, which requires mechanics, parts flow and motor pool space. These are all lessons being learned about the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. As GCV design starts to include “overpowering, precise … and sustained killing power,” as Scales recommends, the home station requirements extend into unit gunnery and crew qualifications and all that is entailed in that training beast. The more systems, the more that unit front- and back-end requirements grow as a result. A GCV design that reflects universality and convergence of general needs is problematic. I am reminded of the movie, “Pentagon Wars,” where the Bradley is called “a troop transport that can’t carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that’s too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snowblower but has enough ammo to take out half of D.C.” Having served in operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom on the Bradley, I believe it is a great vehicle. However, it is also a great example of how you just cannot have it all. All of the design imperatives noted by Scales are valuable on the contemporary battlefield; however, not all of them can realistically coexist in one platform, nor do they need to. Despite an overlap of mission and battle space by our Army, Marine Corps and special operations forces, the design imperatives that are not just most valuable but also most supportable by each respective force are not identical, and therefore neither should their ideal fighting systems be identical. MAJ. JOE EWERS is an Army infantry officer and a student at the Intermediate Level Education program at the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He commanded a mechanized infantry company in Iraq in 2003-2004. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Army. Clausewitz’s bad advice Why do nations go to war? Why do their people agree to...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line9
__label__cc	0.501445	0.498555	CARNITAS - THE VICTORIA' S SECRET PANTY POEM #3 CARNITAS 3d draft & most likely final version of a.k.a CARNITAS! – still unsublimated, untransfigured, raw but more sensuous and carnal! All versions @: http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2016/08/carnitas-victoria-s-secret-panty-poem.html You may wonder with so much to wonder about on a rare 100 degree day in Seattle, why oh why Roloff what has gotten into you now… and I reply: it’s overdetermined like so much else. Three days a week just about I take my laptop and work in the medium-sized restaurant part of the huge – 20,000 square foot - QFC in University Village, https://uvillage.com/ Generally I get there around opening time, 5 am, because except for lunch it is a quiet large space, and I have a favorite corner & no one bothers me, and the barista Norman and I have hit it off and from that corner I can see - one block away - the huge pink window of what is now one of two of the equally largest stores in this upscale shoppers haven: https://www.victoriassecret.com/ which occupies the former three stories of the now deservedly demoted Eddie Bauer. Victoria until not that long ago had about 2,000 square feet, near the same-sized Apple Computer store. Now it is as large as the adjoining Bed Board and Fuck Your Heads Off that has taken over the three floors that used to hold Barnes & Nobel. The only bookstore in University villages – five streets by five avenue blocks square – one square mile - is the recently opened Amazon – actual books – Bookstore; better than nothing, but obviously nothing like the disparu Barnes & Nobel nearest of which can be found, however, at five miles north Northgate Mall. In Fall, when the new set of Frosh hit the University you notice droves of Asian girls hitting Victoria’s secret and walking around campus with those little emphatic and de-emphatic pink shopping baglets that held or maybe still hold that pink panty now ready for its first college hoook-up, and I imagine you can imagine my regret at being the age I am and comparing the delights on offer with what life was like when I attended Haverford. A further determination is that I am deeply into the Darlings & Monster’s Saga http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2016/08/darling-monsters-excerpt.html which and not only in its downtown NY 70s 80s section - has carnality of all kinds and wonderfully lusty hussies! Then there are those carnal dreams! Memory of Handke’s grandfather Sivec who in his eighties kept sticking his hand up the squealing milkmaids’ skirts… The after-effect of having translated Handke’s carnal but Lawrentian The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez… http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/2015/03/aranjuez-comments-for-world-english.html VICTORIA’S SECRET – Carnitas! Nothing very secret any more about VICTORIA’S SECRET Those snug and lacy pink panties and their frisson Victoria’s special want “kiss me through” and or from behind and from the front caress me with them if they are another girlfriend’s… that really really turns her on Victoria want to sniff and rip and shred and devour and buy another pair to keep warm in my underwear or pants pocket so that I will always think of her whenever! ultra delicious oh so lacy panties snug and tissue soft that - Victoria’s special want - “fuck me through” from behind and from in front which is what really turns Victoria on those delicious bare handfulls pink as the pink that inspires them glittering with rhinestones she feels as slutty as a pink pig and I turn male spit those delicious, odiferous, sweet-smelling, perfumed glittering pink silky snug lacy panties that I sniff my especial elixir and that when they are funky give me a jump start No big surprise then at the dream where I devour Victoria’s panties like carnitas steak tatar in one famished gulp with no pits to be spat out licking the plate for left over juices At special times Victoria wears the reddest of red velvet hearts you know where and then I show Victoria how much I really love her and really devour her until she paroxysms and is briefly in Nirvana and thirst and hunger are slaked! For a while. 2d draft of Victoria’s Secret Ctd. Mostly unsublimated, untransfigured, raw. those pink panties that really turns her on that Victoria wants me to sniff and rip off and shred and devour or pants pocket! ultra delicious panties pink glittering with rhinestones I fuck through from behind and from in front those delicious pink panties glittering with rhinestones she feels slutty and I turn male slut those delicious, odiferous glittering pink panties that I sniff as my elixir when I’m down when funky No big surprise for a hungry dream where I devour Victoria’s panties and her pink pussy in one famished gulp Victoria wears the reddest of red hearts and really slurp her up! And Victoria paroxysms and is briefly in Nirvana. # `1 VICTORIA’S SECRET Nothing very secret any more about those pink panties that I kiss through from behind and from the front that Victoria wants me to sniff and rip off and shred and devour and buy another pair! with glittering rhinestones I fuck through from behind and from in front which is what really turns Victoria on with glittering rhinestones when she feels slutty and I turn male slut those delicious odiferous glittering pink panties that I sniff as my elexir when I’m down and out that, funky, give me a jump start Sometimes Victoria just wears a red heart and I show Victoria how much I love her RE: UR FASCISM / UMBERTO ECO NYRB ur-fascism/? UMBERTO ECO Umberto Eco’s recollection of his change of political allegiance at an early age brings to mind that of someone a few years his junior, that is, of a fortunate son - and I say “fortunate” with respect to that part of my parentage as compared to the unfortunate children fated to have Nazi criminals as progenitors. While writing Screen Memories, the psychoanalytically oriented memoir of my German-American childhood and youth, I discovered that at the latest by age six I was a fervent nationalist. When my parents – two of the earliest NAZI opponents participants in the 20th of July attempt to eliminate Hitler who only by a fluke survived execution and the April 1945 siege of Berlin – placed a Christmas call to me, from Istambul, in 1942, who was kept safe in the ancient monastery in Vornbach am Inn in southeastern Bavaria, I shocked them singing, proudly, the infamous German navy anthem “We lay off the coast of Madagascar, and had the plague on board,” https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wir_lagen_vor_Madagaskar which song I think must have sunk into my self-pitying little boys being as it described the essence of my feeling outcast and lonely, imprisoned and threatened, marooned. The other song that sank into boy would be manhood is Uhland’s 1807 German army song Ich hatte einen Kameraden where the line “As though he were part of me” takes its psychosomatic bite of a boy’s soul [Als wär's ein Stück von mir.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_hatt%27_einen_Kameraden Back at our place for Christmas 1944, now that the bombers had beome accurate, at the outskirts of Bremen, I made a serious sacrfice, I gifted my collection of lead soldiers to one of my grandmother’s sea-faring friends, a visiting U-Boat captain - this young armaments expert knew that U-Boats required heavy loads of lead during their diving operations; this, best to my recollection, my sole contribution to the war effort. I learned to read at age four on my mother’s Christmas gift, a magic writing tablet of the kind that elicited Freud’s A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis., but what I read, aside the usual children’s book and fairy tales, were the war time newspapers, which I picked up during extensive railway travels; and I listened to the radio; my near sole company was my hated governesses who, so a childhood friend my age informed me recently, was not a Nazi either. And I don't think it was sheer contrariness that made me into a childhood Nazi. Change in fealty in Spring 1945 was due to several factors. One fine morning in April the left-overs of a thoroughly beat-up batallion, the first soldiers I had seen from really close-up, and that had fought at Arnheim / Nijmegen during the Battle of the Bulge and had been marched hundreds of miles to participate in the defense of Bremen, were encamped around our pond – my girl cousin child bride Nona von Lehndorf [von Haeften], and I schlepped water 100 yards or so from our deep well to these soldiers, there already was no electriity for the pump, the pond was porofoundly brackish. Nona was not as fortunate as I, her father Heini, my mother’s favorite cousin, had been hung as the conspirator’s courier; the Wolf’s Lair moreover had been built on her parent’s property. Close calls all around. That afternoon she and I started hearing splashings in the pound, louder than that made by the carps and pikes, and then observed the soldiers picking up their assorted armaments, tossing them. There was not going to be a defense of Bremen, at least not for these fellows, while the elegant officers - I well recall the red piping on their trousers - continued with tea on our veranda and all the beautiful women and grandmothers. However, what sealed my disaffection was not only finding out what had transpired and what my parents had gone through but the reappearance of my beloved grandfather Werner von Alvensleben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Alvensleben who had been at the head of the list of those who were to be killed on the Night of the Long Knives but who via several flukes had escaped that fate but to spend most of the years of the 12 year Reich in four different concentration camps, and that he had been tortured. The Bremen OSS contingent whose special favorites we and our party place became and the American soldiers and their plenty all struck me as immensely attractive and nice guys as did the music they broadcast from the American Forced Network. So it is not that surprising that later in life I would do considerable research on the efforts of the opposition, and not so surprisingly have developed a life-long allergy also to any murmur of nationalism in my soul. Poor Guenter Grass who felt so ashamed of his adolescent SS membership that he did not reveal it until late in life. Poor Freedomfries consumers and the like who have never shown shame that I have noticed in the many years in the U.S.A. Perhaps children ought not to be “nationalized” as it were? Just told that they are a species of monkey? DARLING & MONSTERS EXCERPT TWO EXCERPTs FROM THE FINALLY DEVELOPING darlingS & monsters Part of the Return Section, the long long opening... The opening of the CEECEE section. (when done D & M will be app. 500,000 short! I have one fifth, it's a triple memorial, two rememberances converging on a present writing & incorporating a parallel memoir ALWAYS THE WRONG PEOPLE) A hell of a lot of sex in the beginning, it is set in the Tribeca/ Soho of the 70s and 80s & makes contact with the then HEART OF DARKNESS OF NEW YORK. let me know what you think, on the comment section or via facebook or e-mail mikerol[@]outlook.com The cab stopped smartly at the front of my loft building in Tribeca, in downtown Manhattan, as I continued to chat with the driver, who was from Madras, and as I was tipping him, generously, as I did even when I was broke, which I was not then: I had a small stipend subsequent to the recent catastrophe that allowed me to analyze all that had gone wrong. The driver, Ahmed, who was from Madras, and I had had a lively chat about Mumbay which had been much safer, as had Karachi, when I had visited fifteen years earlier and where I had walked, in horror, through Falk/ Fuckland Road and its cages full of whores and admired the Zoroaster’s consign their dead to the tops of trees where vultures fed on the flesh, leaving nothing but skeletons. The vultures, so I had read, were in trouble, the eggshells were breaking too soon, fragile, DDT, or one or the other carcinogen, the flesh rotted and liquefied and dropped down on passersby on the bluffs. I had also been with a whore, which I did not mention to Ahmed, which whore and I had picked each other up along the fine Mumbay quay. However, I had gone completely cold in her barren but clean room and been unable to perform as I had had a powerful urge just a short while before. Nothing that the attractive girl did to revive the recent ardor had the least effect: the more she tried the colder I felt, an onslaught was impending, a major intestinal event of what in Mexico was called Moctezuma’s revenge, but for the sake of my presence in India I called “the Raj’s revenge.” I felt that I must have picked up the bug in Karachi, the Hellenic Splendor’s previous port of call, or shipboard; this was my first day in Mumbay and I hadn’t been with a woman since the day of the freighter’s departure months earlier in Brooklyn, specifically with a new young girlfriend. ... It was early on a Sunday morning in June and it felt quite idyllic at the spot I stood on with the sun shooting through the streets and glistening all around and the early morning cool breeze from the Northwest, and so before entering my building I decided to take a look around, to take a deep breath, to re-orient myself in what had been my immediate visual sphere for so many years, and I put down my bag. The building opposite mine of course deserved the first look of recognition that, reassuringly, it still existed and not only in my imagination, that nothing appeared to have changed during my absence: its façade still a first rate example of turn of the 19th century American mercantile architecture with certain requisite doodads as it could and can still be found in nearly all American cities that had been a city of some kind during that time, and I continued to be proud that I was hip to the fact that the Ganymede - the building’s name stenciled in protruding sandstone lettering above the entrance - was a mere twenty feet deep, that it was mostly façade, that it was a three-quarters-of-a-block wide six-story tall lady that, as it were, had a substantial shelf but a very flat ass! And flat-assed Robin of the many years ago came to mind. And no eyes out back to the West, windowless! The other, fourth quarter of the block, its northern section, was now a parking lot – who knows what it might have been at some time was a thought that flitted through my mind at each of the many holes in the street scene downtown - whose attendant doubled as the Ganymede’s super, my friend Egbert Romain, a Trinidad-Tobagonian, evidently of both British and French slavery extraction with the physique of Sugar Ray Robinson, an idol of my American bantam weight youth when my stepfather, noting excess energies, had put some boxing stuff up in the garage and I had started to watch boxers on 50s television. There had been a time that I had planned for Egbert to be both body guard and chauffeur and conversationalist if the well-dreamed fantasies of grand success and buying the Ganymede and the printing shop on its third floor, had materialized, Egbert was a delight to talk to, his pidgin was sweet and if things had gone really well I or if the partnership had held – we had even planned to acquire the Elysian a few blocks north on Hudson, a chunky square Florentine four story job, painted battle-ship grey at present, with stairs leading up from left and right to a small balcony platform entrance perfect for holding forth and mounting the Blakean flag of the enterprise, at its center the swimmer who, however, reaches the water and does not drown as the enterprise did in a sea of debt and corruption and thievery and endless lawsuits - one of the great messes, one of those complete de-constructionist, insides turned out affairs that reveals everything, and what an everything it was. Just now there was no sign of Egbert or his relief man, a cousin of his, who always wore one of these knitted rainbow-colored Rasta caps no matter the heat and whose exotic ancient colonial British name eluded me at the moment - it was altogether still too early in the morning, though I would not have minded to hear the sweet laid-back reggae sound of Toots and the Maytals. And there, from the fourth floor fire escape railing, still dangled, in the breeze, the remnants of the South-American rope bridge that at one time, briefly, connected that fourth floor of the mercantile façade to the fourth floor roof of the so very obscure building opposite whose loft and roof was mine. That rope bridge had made for a fine and famous photo on the front page of the Post the day we strung it up and showed it to the world. How unfortunate that the city would prove humorless and made us cut it down in short order. Things hadn’t worked out as planned, as envisioned, as dreamed - and I punched “You can’t always get what you want” in the Juke Box in my mind and assured myself I wasn’t going to be grumpy, was I now, after all I had gotten what I really wanted, my kitbag of experience that I had lacked, a past a real past, and rather more of it than I could have dreamed and what an ”egg of experience” I now had to brood on and … wasn’t that one of our downtown space cadets floating high up in the breeze? a left-over from the Saturday night that had been. Magdalena? Was she, the so bereft after she and her boyfriend Zejlko had split up against all our odds that this couple would hold forever, still in space-cadet mode? No, on a closer look it was just a balloon, with furles; my fantasy was just a tad too vivid. From my fourth-floor corner office in the Ganymede I had always looked forward to this first slither of the sun shooting in from the East as I got to work, after a swim in Mr. Woolworth’s marble swimming pool in basement of the eponymous Woolworth Tower, just a few blocks over, often taking my swim in company of the mayor of the city who dog-paddled and politicked, aquatically greeting fellow swimmers, body guards on either side, before dashing across City Hall Park to his office. Noticeably, the mayor, a man with a surprisingly small head for such a tall frame, never lost the makings, modest pregnancy of a pot belly, and I attributed this phenomenon to his needing to consume a lot of chicken during civic luncheons. Pregnant with chicken fat he was, looking a lot like Jack Perdue a purveyor of chicken on T.V. At about seven in the morning in summer the sun shone directly into the two east-facing windows of my office… I quote my analytic friend, Rose Reich-Habsburg's description: "Yugi sougt to get to his office early for all the obvious reasons, because the few hours before the office opened, and the hours after closing, after a late afternoon nap, was when "the real work," as he called it, “my work,” got done; so-called normal working hours consisted of fragments, interruptions, distractions that left him frazzled until he took his afternoon nap. It was a sunny morning and the sun glinting along and half through the edges of the louvres of the two large East-facing windows seemed to electrify the motes especially at that time of day, also in my head; but the sun, or rather the earth's incline to it, would soon be concealed, first by the Internal Revenue Service [IRS] cantilevering box diagonally opposite, severely, eliminating even sun aura; by the 70 story Woolworth Tower towering over the IRS and then by the huge slabs to the south. One wonderful Southwest shaft reappeared briefly late in the late afternoon through the south facing windows, a shaft that shot in between an ATT tower on Greenwich Street, to the west of the North Tower, on Greenwich Street, and yet another hulk, shooting in through the two south-facing windows of Yuri’s office and back out through the ones that faced East across the street, but to draw dim reflections from the unwashed windows on the loft opposite, on the other side of the streer. At those moments the light played quite enchantingly in Yuri’s big, square high-ceilinged room. I always looked forward to that last sudden slither of the sun. In winter the sun existed as an absence. But because the sun shone directly into the two east facing windows at this time, around 7 of the morning Yuri, and often I, who visited him in my capacity as his friend and shrink, could not make out what if anything might be transpiring at the top, equivalent fourth floor in the building opposite, and even if the sun had not blinded Yuri, me, us, its double-insulated windows unwashed outside since the day Lincoln had spent a night in the half of it that had been a hotel during the Civil War, all I might have been able to make out was whether, possibly, one or the other light had come on to dispel the there gloom. So I presumed that Yuri’s somnolent 'Roos, who were over-staying their welcome by a year, were, as was their custom, sleeping through the finest part of the day, to start hopping, tentatively, out from under their drugged states sometime around noon, readying themselves for another drug filled alcoholic nite, another romp with “Dancing Matilda.” “My 'Roos." Yuri said, " are a Maoist theater troupe, Night Shift, led by an actor who was great when he rode a horse called horse, and an Aussie Revo who cultivated the cultivation of marijuana plants under the influence of neon, in the crawl space, beneath the stairs that led to Yuri's small bedroom on top of the loft, sort of like a captain's bridge, anyway that's how I thought of it, or referred to it when describing its, Yuris sometimes nighttime location. “Are you all right?” a voice interrupted me, my reverie. “Oh… ” I said to someone I instantly recognized as a commuter who must have just stepped out of the nearby Hudson Tubes. “You had your eyes closed and were just standing there, starting to sway.” “You didn’t see a dog falling off the roof, did you?” I said to him, associating this Jersey commuter with one just like him who had been frightened out of his wits when one of my and Elle’s one-year-old German shepherd mix puppies had fallen off the balustrade of my loft roof and landed on the sidewalk, barely missing him. “Dogs falling out of the sky in Manhattan, I’m going straight back to Jersey,” had been that commuter’s memorable words. That dog’s fall, that dog accident, that accident due to an impulsive leap, or to too fast running, to that slip, had been a sign, symbolic retrospectively, of Elle’s and my love for each other’s impending crash, doom, the first sign that I could put my finger on: I was over-extended. The dog had broken one leg and limped off, dragged himself to the landfill, to our beach, a hundred yards further West where, tracking his blood spoor, I found him and had carried him in my arms to the animal hospital where they were amazed that he had survived a four-floor fall and had only one broken leg to show for the experience. They said they would also check his internal organs, that there was no bleeding. It was pure chance that I had encountered that commuter these years ago. The dog had fallen off while I had been walking down the stairs, the commuter was standing right next to the blood-stained spot where Wolfie had landed. This commuter now gave me a very strange, somewhat frightened look as he stepped back and said “have a good day” and hurried off. I now turned around and was glad to note that nothing seemed to have changed on “my” building. Its ground floor had a pizza joint, at the corner, and the pizza joit was still a pizza joint, opposite the modernistic maroon and greenish glass multi monstrosity the third generation modernistic IRS building on the side street corner. The pizza joint adjoined a now girlie lounge that occupied what had been the Boar Head, a restaurant, which had been frequented by the merchants that had once dominated the area and that I in my fantasy future had turned into the Central Europe that served Leber-knoedel Suppe, Goose; and other central European specialties and where chiefly writers and editors and artists hung out. In my fantasy I had even imported the chef and his family from Prague. Next to the Girlie Lounge entrance was the now metal door entrance to “my” building which was such an obscure dark grey lady she might actually - to a certain kind of observer - become noticeable for her very obscurity, certainly for no other reason, as though she were trying just a bit too hard to hide but going about it in too obvious a manner. What she is hiding is that she is bifurcated, that she is two buildings of very different kind that were joined at some point early in their unheralded past, that one of her shoulders is higher or lower than the other, that she is askew, and you used the staircase, the marbled stairs from the southern half or two thirds, that was once a hotel, that dated back to the civil war era, rumor fantasy had it that Lincoln slept here, perhaps even in the same perch that I now occupied. Marble, of course, is about the last component you expected as you looked at that considerable expanse of black and gray paint, those uninviting surfaces with placards that people kept pasting there. I had seen the destruction of Lower Manhattan starting in the late 60s as Danny Lion photographed it and it was amazing that of all the buildings that had survived the wrecking ball was this gray corner once Civil War hotel with its barge of a roof and ships construction that swayed and creaked when the Arctic Northwest Express hit in Fall and Winter, and when it hit the Wall, the wall of downtown sky scrapers, it broadsided them, slammed into that Wall and the Wall turned the Express around, compressed it, from a Northwesterly into a South to North jet exhaust (like the Subway right below) that swirled garbage and garbage cans through the narrows of West Broad as high as the fourth floor of my office and the top floor of the loft on the way North uptown. Memorable, no? N’est pas? I finally picked up my bag and felt hunger pangs and put my keys away and turned to the adjacent Greek Greasy Spoon, the buildings only other ground floor enterprise, a six-foot-wide sliver, twenty feet deep, too, its one big window steamed as it had been always all these years at this hour, a steam bath of a breakfast joint, just as always, who made excellent eggs and home-fries. I had been looking forward to having a few goodbye breakfasts there and decided, for old time’s sake, to have one of them right there and then. The aging Greek, all wattles, looked cooked blonde-white like his noodles when they came steaming out of his pressure cooker or steam-bath or whatever that enclosure was, offered a grunt of recognition for a greeting. No “long time no see” as I had expected. Time must pass differently for him I concluded and said “the usual” and he failed to ask what my “the usual” was – it had been a few years - but poured the usual tepid coffee and turned three eggs into the fluffiest of scrambles that I spread across my toast, and toasted the fries just right. It was then that I could feel it taking hold, the past, I was starting to enter it, I was eating it, I had entered the past, someone who had not had a past, who had written himself out of his European past in college, and who had written the childhood out of himself, now had his American past to step into, if only for a time, and not just any past, but a past that I was already writing about, a fairly recent past yet also one that I had felt I had put behind me. A past during which I felt I had done it all or at least a lot of it wrong – Always the Wrong People, the title of the memoir of my twenty five years in New York – and I well knew that the equation “wrongness” involved me, moi meme, that I was one side of it. Yet: “No over-berating yourself,” I told myself, “no satisfying whatever tad of disgusting heroic masochism might reside in you, a cool assessment is what is needed,” but enough wrong, just enough to make difficult success even more difficult. “Always the wrong people” it had been, wrong women too! And far too many! I had succumbed far too often! At least half the time, and that was bad enough. And not been discrete. Live and learn, never live long enough! – was another truism for which my internal jukebox lacked a melody. I recalled the wounded shepherd puppy dragging its broken leg to the landfill to nurse himself! Moi meme! But pretty well recovered now, just a tad of a limp! The dog that had slunk away to nurse its broken leg, just like myself when the Ganymede Elysian field dream had imploded. I had been a shmuck I concluded. My experience of the city that had glistened and still glistened so temptingly if seen from the distant cliffs, it had singed the wings of this moth while it itself had turned into a glittering pile of garbage. I pulled out my medium-sized three ring note book with the legend “Always the Wrong People” & the Roman numeral “I” neatly inscribed on a label pasted in the upper right hand corner of its plastic cover and started to read its opening and make emendations: I grabbed the phone: it wasn’t Elle as I had feared Elle who for reasons that were entirely beyond me despite having been multiply unfaithful and leaving me and then having been kicked out of my life had decided - while trying to entrap her current boyfiend! - to pursue me after she and the Heartache Kid had been through a breakup that lasted seemngly forever until I told her I wanted her out of my life. „Kiss me through my panties!” „Spank me!” Whew! No, it was not darling ballerina Elle but CeeCee the biggest heart-ache prior to Elle! Well... anyhoo. During my twenty five years in New York! There had been others in adolescence and shortly after, and even earlier, I wasn’t called, people didn’t call me the Heartache Kid for nothing! The then, now biggest previous Heartache the Heartach Kid reminded himself right there and then. It had taken that trip on the Hellenic Splendor halfway around the world, of which I had just the briefest of deja vues, to heal the scratches - “Catskills skilled cats cats kill” had been the dream shorthand for CeeCee and my affair in those anything but comical foothills – the scratches she had administered to my vulnerable stupid heart, a heart that actually ought to have become scar tissued as only a muliply injured heart can! A wonder I thought to myself, thinking back, that until I seemed finally – I prayed – made myself invulnerable by seceding from the scene, fleeing – that I and my heart had actually lasted as long as I did. CeeCee had been the constant and I mean constant deja vue, as Elle’s previous edition, especially during the analytic sessions with Enigma, during Elle’s and my break-up. That break-up had been well examined, that had proved really interesting to do that, dream by dream and step by step, as compared to CeeCee’s and mine that had been suffered in the ignorance of oblivion in oblivious ignorance, in acting out. I now could pride myself that I knew where my fault (s) lay in the break-up, my contribution. CeeCee and I had never lived together, not as much had become involved. She had not suffered from sudden neglect after a torrid opening, she had not been yet another of the „most beautiful woman in the world” who turned into my „emasculating governess.” The „hunk,” the apparent „it boy” by the evidence of how the pretty one were seizing on me, had not turned into... what? A sudden monk? That was a part of the problem that I brought with me to the proceedings of our Elle’s and my near marriage, well yes, and if I didn’t have an invariable Albatross a beloved never hated Albatross around my neck the revolutionary enterprise or work of some kind, and never enough money to run away for a permanent Wild Palms, my work, invariably an Albatross of some kind about. And I had even had the dream -referring to my neglect of Elle and its dreadful conseqeunce - that said „remember that and don’t forget it!” Talking about talking super-ego dreams where I address myself! And then starting to write the book that would make all the ladies happy: The Well Laid Woman! CeeCee’s and my affair had been the rehearsal for the far more calamitous, the catastrophe of Elle’s and my breakup – a break-up under analysis no less, ah what you can learn what you experience when denial is thrown overboard and a thousand eyes cry their hearts out at what they now behold. CeeCee felt she always knew where I was, that we were in constant contact and communication, which played into a fantasy relationship I had had with my mostly absent mother, my conscience, that she knew what I was doing, it was spooky to find out how often CeeCee had been right. The first time I had made love to her in a bed she had pretended and wanted me to pretend, and I had, that I was her father, and when I made calm gentle love to her, diddling her clit to make sure she would come, it had been perfect for her. “Perfect” she had said, and my cock had felt awfully snug inside her cunt, well and snugly held, a memorably unique sensation, though the breach of the Oedipal order, if only as pretense, introduced a troubling note – musically forewarning, like the repeated opening of Mozar’s Haffner QUOTE NOTES - into my sleep, once we did get to sleep that night. There also had been humor. I had heard of I.U.D.s but never encountered or seen one. When I started to fuck CeeCee, after petting that she loved as much as I did, something inside her womb started to tickle my cock and I told her „What’s that inside you that’s tickling my cock?”, and she said, „Oh, that’s my I.U.D.” And I said, „it’s tickling me!” and CeeCee said „You’re not the only one!” Twenty six lover had been there – no, she had not had the good sense to get an I.U.D. prior to losing her virginity nor after I forgot whether it was her first or second abortion. CeeCee at age twenty six still dressed mostly in some variation of schoolgirl uniform but had been virginal only until age sixteen and had been gyrating and hot to trot as soon as she heard Elvis Presley at fourteen. And here I was back in the Big Dark City and its Heart of Darkness, three of whose ventricles I had come to know, two of them via CeeCee or because she and I had worked together. You needed to work all night to penetrate the heart of darkness and the spiders of the dark and to stay awake at those hours requires stronger meds and the trail of that medicine might could did also led to one of the entrances to the heart of darkness, and I had shied back, that was too black and dangerous, I lacked resolve, that domain was too deep and wide ranging for me. Inadvertencies. Who goes to the Big City and looks for its heart of Darkness? As a cab driver to take you!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line11
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__label__cc	0.698835	0.301165	ANMLY Anomaly, a journal of literature and the arts Anomaly #31 :: Comics Anomaly #31 :: Poetry Anomaly #31 :: Fiction Anomaly #31 :: Nonfiction Anomaly #31 :: Translation Anomaly #31 :: To Speak as a Flower: a Folio of Performance Writing Anomaly #31 :: Citizenship and its Discontents Anomaly #30 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS :: WRITING OURSELVES / MAD Rana Soliman The water hit the spoon’s surface and splashed all over her. Her blouse, pants and the floor got wet. Soraya blamed Umm-Kulthum’s beautiful voice for the distraction. She was keen on finishing the dishes while listening to the eight o’clock classical Arabic music radio program before the miss woke up. The miss had commented before to her that those songs encouraged women to be obsessed about love. And then she rambled and said big words such as; independence, empowerment and the type of words you hear from politicians. Soraya found solace in Umm Kalthum’s songs, what mattered more than love anyway? If it wasn’t for Umm Kalthum’s voice, she wouldn’t have had a song that reminded her of her walks with her mother to the bakery for fresh bread straight out of the oven. They would then fill it with home made chips, shared a bottle of coke, sat on the street benches overlooking the Nile and devoured their feast. This must be her favorite memory of time spent with her mother. Neither would she have had a song that reminded her of the first time Mohsen held her hand when they were strolling in the Azhar park and he confessed his love to her. Those songs kept her company and at times her peace. This was Soraya’s first job in the city. After her mother became sick, her family moved to the city in hopes of finding better medical treatments, and Soraya had begun to work to help her family out. Soon her mother died. And her father health conditions quickly deteriorated and could no longer go to work regularly. That is what happens to someone when love is gone, Soraya believed. She quickly found herself barely seventeen and the main source of income in the household. She had to drop out of her last year in school to accommodate the new working hours. Back then she made a vow to herself, that once things began to settle she would go back to school. Now it had been two years already and nothing changed. When she had first arrived at Amal’s house she was wearing one of her favorite mother’s long sleeve dresses; Amal then gave her a long inquisitive look, left her for few minutes without explanation, came in, handed her a couple of old pants and blouses and asked her to wear them instead. She told her that she would not tolerate looking at those ugly dresses. They reminded her of the poor women who worked in the field. She meant the peasants of course. It was not absolutely horrible to work for this bachelorette; at least during day-time she had to clean after one person only. “Important people visit me. So you should look presentable,” Amal would say every time she gave her clothes. She was not used to wearing pants it made her feel conscious. Yet she politely accepted them from her and wrapped a jacket around her waist to cover her back. Her body looked slim in those tight clothes. She couldn’t begin to think what her mother would say had she seen her walk like this in the village. Maybe Mohsen would like it, or maybe not, she could not tell. But mother, she wouldn’t. She sized the mess she had caused, and quickly searched for a piece of cloth to dry the sink and the wet floor. “What was that?” Amal asked coming out of her room and yawning. “Nothing,” Soraya replied as she dried the last wet spot on the floor, “Nothing to worry about Miss.” Amal came into the living room that was an extension to the open kitchen. She leaned on the kitchen’s counter for a minute. The next minute she stretched on the ground in awkward poses. She wore pink sweatpants and a white tank top. And her hair curled in rollers. She looked past Soraya and gestured with her hands, pretending she had a cup she was about to sip from. Soraya’s stomach churned whenever Amal did that, why couldn’t she just ask. “Right away,” she mumbled. Soraya rushed to fix her some coffee. She could now finally perfect American coffee. Before Amal showed her how to, she could only make regular Turkish coffee. Soraya memorized by heart how the scene played out every single day. It was a Friday morning, that meant that the miss woke up late and didn’t have to work. And like every weekend she woke up with what looked like a bad headache, and then asked for her coffee fix while staring at her cellphone. She’d then cover herself with the blanket she kept at the reception’s couch, cuddle her cat, Sonfera, and watch TV till noon. By that time of the day; Soraya would have already finished cleaning the kitchen, swept the floors of the living room and the reception, and started off with the window cleaning. During the week the miss worked in one of the prestigious companies. Soraya looked at her while waiting for the coffee to boil. She had the perfect teeth. The perfect skin. Silky hair that was now rolled, golden at the ends and brown at the roots. She looked like a goddess. Probably that’s what money does to people. “Tell me Soraya, do you love this Mohsen of yours?” Soraya bit her lower lips. She didn’t remember why she had ever mentioned Mohsen to her. “When are you getting married then?” “When God makes a way.” “God? That must be a hard relationship.” Amal rolled her eyes and ate a piece of chocolate. “Is he one of those traditional men who don’t allow their wives to work?” Soraya sighed, “We haven’t talked about that yet.” “Talked about it? This is not an option! Who will clean for me? You have to arrange for a substitute if that’ll be the case.” “Miss, not to worry.” “I worry Soraya. I worry a lot. I have so much on my plate and an unclean house is the last thing I need,” She said as she waved Sonfera away. So many thoughts passed through Soraya’s mind, but nothing that she could say out loud. “Tell me, is he good looking? Are you attracted to him?” Soraya blushed for she was not accustomed to think in that way, let alone discuss such a private affair in an open manner. “I’d like to think he is handsome.” “Poor girl, your face is red!” Amal laughed. “Anyways, I’m travelling tonight for two weeks. I ‘ll leave you the keys; make sure you come at the end of the second week, right before I arrive, to dust off the house.” At around four’ o’clock Soraya was done cleaning the house, and headed home. On her way back she stopped by Marefa public school to pick up her brothers; Omar, Ahmed, Wafik, and Hussein. She was older than the eldest, Omar, by nine years. She glimpsed Hussein first, the youngest, running towards her. She hugged him, then held his hand and waited for the rest of the boys. And then they walked back together to their house, a small flat on top of the roof overlooking the busy streets of Shubra. When they arrived home she could see from the window that her father didn’t change his position since she left him in the morning. She could hardly recognize him these days with his frail figure and large dark circles under his eyes. When her mother was alive, he used to be different but the years seemed to have smoothed his rough edges and soothed her grudges. There he was slouched on the couch, surrounded by half empty cups of tea, watching an Egyptian soap opera episode. “Hello father, how was your day?” “Good Soso, this was once Egypt. I wanted to be part of those times,” he said referring to the soap opera he watched over ten times this past year, featuring Abd el Halim’s life. “Its seems like it was a good era. Are you hungry?” “Of course it was. Yes, and make something for the kids.” She let out a long sigh and went to prepare dinner. The kitchenette was made up of a small fridge, one that the miss got rid of last year as she was refurbishing her kitchen and wanted a new one that would blend in with the new design, a vintage stove, and a sink. She fetched the peas she had shelled out the night before. And made a meal of rice and peas in red sauce and served the men. Finally, after a long day she went to her room. The only private room in the house, everything else they shared. Other than Mondays she worked all week long, and on Mondays she helped her brothers in their school work. Back when she was at school, she spent her free time with one of her girlfriends or engulfed in a book of her choice. She could hardly grasp that the next day she had the whole day to herself. She woke up as usual at five o’clock in the morning. She did not set up the alarm the night before. Her mother once explained to her, that our bodies have their own way of adapting to habits. It was one of those silly little things that people come to know alone, that her mother talked about the most. Her dad liked to tease her mother that if she had finished her education she would have had better things to talk about. But somehow those were the things she missed the most things like; “Don’t shower before you go to bed or you’ll catch a cold.” and “Eat some real food.”. Where would she have been if it weren’t for her? She missed her. She kept trying to fall back to sleep but she couldn’t. She thought of the things she could do today for a change. She could prepare breakfast for her fiancé in the warehouse and spend time with him. Her stomach cramped. Perhaps she should rest for a while at home, but she wouldn’t really be alone. Her father would be there. She decided that she would walk the boys to school first. So she left the bed and opened her cupboard, several beautiful dresses hanged next to each other. Today was a good day to wear one. But instead she grabbed one of the three outfits she had made out of the items Amal gave her. And headed to the bathroom. And mechanically undressed, took a shower and wore her uniform. “Good morning boys, wake up! You are going to be late to school.” Shortly after she dropped them, she took the microbus to downtown. She did not think too much about it, her feet seemed to take the lead. She arrived at building number nineteen like every morning at eight o’clock. Only this morning, she was not supposed to be there. The apartment was one of the high ceilinged ones. Amal had explained to Soraya that unlike the new areas of Cairo, downtown buildings were built during the British occupation, and their architecture mimicked the European style. The apartment belonged to her grandfather, and now that her family lived in Dubai, it was hers. She tried the keys to the apartment. It was as clean as she left it the day before. She was hesitant at first. But she entered anyway. A rush of excitement travelled all through her body. The house was empty. And she was alone. She didn’t know what to do with herself so she moved to the kitchen and boiled water for coffee. She then went inside Amal’s room; and at the inviting sight of the king-size bed she threw her full weight onto it. She stayed silent for a while. A few minutes later, she went into the bathroom attached to the master bedroom. And undressed. Then she moved to the tub, and opened the tap. She started preparing a bubble bath the same way she did for the miss. Only she could not choose from the range of the liquid soap available. So she poured a bit of each flavor. It smelled like a garden of flowers she thought. Then she immersed in the water. It could have been an hour or more before she came out, she could not tell. She enjoyed the warmth of the water and the smell of vanilla and peach that surrounded her. After the bath she felt a little bit more comfortable. This feels right she thought. She then chose one of the fur pink pajamas-she’d always wondered how they must feel on one’s skin. To be covered by something so soft. Then she lounged on the sofa and watched the television for hours while snacking on nuts. She sort of forgot the day’s hour, who she was or where she had been. Only that she wanted to stay like this for a good while. A door slammed. She jerked from her seat. She stood fixed in her place, with a startled look in her eyes. And before she could think, a man appeared. Tall, he occupied so much space. He was too big, and she was too small. He had dark brown hair and thick eyebrows. And hazel eyes that gazed at her. She could not make her mouth move. She attempted to say something, but something similar to a squeak came out. It occurred to her that he too looked like he was out of words. “Hey..I’m Mourad, Amal’s brother,” He said in a plain calm voice. Something about his voice, calmed her down, more calming then vanilla and peach. Still she did not know what to say. How would she explain why she was there? In his sister’s pajamas? He interrupted the silence “I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to scare you. Amal said she was travelling and I could use the house during my visit.” “Sorry, I talk too fast! You must be Amal’s friend?” his voice cracked. Was that nervousness she heard in his voice? She suddenly realized he had no idea who she was. She breathed. Soraya nodded, “Yes, but I was just about to leave.” “No please you don’t have to.” “No really, I was spending the night over and was going to leave anyway.” “I hope I didn’t intrude, care for some coffee before you leave?” She mechanically followed him to the kitchen. The idea of being in a closed space with a man alone, was perhaps a normal idea in Amal’s world, and probably in her brother’s world too. But for Soraya it was the most foreign. She thought of the other night with Mohsen though. She tried to refocus on the enormity of her immediate situation instead. But the memory of Mohsen and the staircase came to her mind. She reached for the coffee jar. “Let me take care of that,” he said as he took the coffee jar from her. “What is your name?” “Nesma.” She came up with that rather quickly, she thought. It had been a long day for both of them. They had had a fight about postponing their wedding, because Mohsen was not financially ready for all the preparations. And it was late so he walked her home. “Milk?” Amal’s brother asked with a charming smile. “Yes, please,” She said shyly. They had arrived and Soraya turned to tell him goodbye. But he insisted to walk her upstairs. She did not object. “Sugar?” the brother’s voice interrupted her thoughts. But her mind wondered again to that night. As she took the stairs she felt Mohsen’s breath at the back of her ears. He was close. And he came closer from behind and tenderly pulled her towards him by her waist. Her heart pace quickened. She lost her breath, and gulped back the tears. She wanted to let go and give in. She wanted to feel the heaviness of his body against hers. Allow herself to feel defeated, penetrated. And for once embrace her femininity without fighting back. “Would you like sugar?” he repeated, “Are you okay?” “No, I mean yes. I mean no about the sugar and yes I am okay.” “I am a firm believer, that the best coffee is Turkish coffee,” He said with a smile. “Me too,” she replied spontaneously. And she had loved him for a long time hadn’t she. But despite herself her legs tightened next to each other. And as if possessed by a foreign force, she pushed him away. And started to weep. “Are you always so brief in your replies or did I scare you?” he asked. He was gorgeous just like his sister. Irresistible, she thought. “No, not at all. I am just shy at first.” He laughed, and swiped his dark hair backwards. “Do you live nearby?” he asked so gently. “Half an hour away,” she replied. She moved her long hair from one side to the other. “I can give you a ride.” “I prefer to walk.” “Me too, it always helps me calm down especially after an exhausting day. Helps me breathe some fresh air, and sort out my messy thoughts. Plus, it’s a good exercise nowadays in a city like Cairo, we don’t get to walk that often,” He said, “I am rambling. Sorry.” She laughed, “No you are okay, you speak your mind.” “Is that a good thing?” “Yes. I enjoy walking too; I sometimes get myself lost on purpose to discover new places.” “You are adventurous, I see.” He poured the coffee in a cup and handed it to her and said, “I do that in reading, I try to get lost in the books I read, and imagine what it would feel like to live in a different world-the story world.” “One can only imagine such things,” she said. “Would you like to go for a walk Nesma?” he asked. “Yes. That would be lovely,” she answered. Rana Soliman an Egyptian writer who believes in the power of words, and loves to experiment with different narrative modes. Being a hybrid of both the east and west, she writes stories from that culturally conflicted viewpoint. Rana is a financial analyst during the day and a part-time student in the Masters of Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. FOLLOW ANMLY ANMLY Proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line15
__label__wiki	0.635969	0.635969	Review: The Great Holiday Baking Show Cory Anotado My bottom is so soggy in delight right now. It’s no secret that I love the Great British Bake-Off. Like, more than any one person really should, especially when said person can’t bake more than the Pillsbury tube of sugar cookies. When new episodes air on BBC One, this is my general reaction. OH SHIT FUCK YEAH IT'S FUCKING GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF NIIIIIIGHT #gbbo — Cory Anotado (@pacdude) September 9, 2015 There are so many different cues that the Great British Bake Off hits during its seasons that it’s developed a very unique fingerprint on reality competition television. For one thing, it’s so quaint it hurts. The tent in which the bakers compete is in a delightful British garden. Every part of the tent is decorated to feel comfortable, light, and airy, even if the situations the bakers are in isn’t. Speaking of the contestants, the casting department for GBBO deserves some kind of Nobel Prize for consistently finding contestants who are both good at baking and are seemingly genuinely nice and just happy to be challenged in the art of baking. No one’s ever (intentionally) nasty to anyone else, there’s never (as far as we can tell, Bingate withstanding) any malice or meanness to any other fellow bakers, and no earnest spite or animosity between any of the contestants. The enemy isn’t the opposing bakers. It’s the bakes. Which is why CBS’s attempt to bring the show to America was so disappointing. The American Baking Competition (because apparently Pillsbury owns the phrase “Bake-Off” to describe a baking competition) starred Jeff Foxworthy as host, imported Paul Hollywood from GBBO, and amped up the competition to eleven. And it left a sour taste in my mouth because what it seemed like the producers of the show focused so hard on was the “American” part of the title. So, it is with an immense amount of pleasure that I can tell you that the Great Holiday Baking Show, a truncated, four-episode mini-Bake Off premiering tonight on ABC at 10 PM after so many Peanuts specials, is a worthy import for fans of GBBO, or food in general. The things that make the Great British Bake-Off so great are here in troves: challenging competition, genuine feedback, bakers who are good at baking, and a distinct lack of manufactured, interpersonal drama. For those who aren’t familiar, the Great Holiday Baking Show is a baking competition. 6 amateur bakers compete weekly in three themed challenges. For the first week, the bakers had three Christmas Cookie challenges. The first challenge is the Signature bake, where bakers are given a task and must make something that showcases their skills. It’s a good opportunity to show off what they’re really good at. The second challenge is a Technical challenge, where each baker is given the same ingredients and a vague recipe and must try to use their technical skills in order to meet the judges’ rigid standards. The final challenge is the Showstopper challenge, a larger-than-life task that pushes the limits of what the bakers can do with the medium. For tonight’s premiere, the Showstopper was to build elaborate gingerbread structures. The show is filmed in the signature Bake-Off tent, and the show is judged by Mary Berry. The music cues, although jingle-fied for the holidays, remain recognizable as pure Bake-Off. Love Productions, who craft GBBO, are in charge of production and direction here as well. Even the “best-case-scenario-bake” drawings are still present. All the beats are there for fans of the Bake-Off to feel right at home. With that, however, means that for fans of the show, there’s nothing new being brought to the proceedings. Not that their needs to be. The changes made to accommodate American audiences are few. Replacing comedy duo Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins as hosts are My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos and her husband, Cougar Town star Ian Gomez. (If you see his face, you’ll know who he is. He was on the Drew Carey Show too.) Replacing Paul Hollywood (probably because his wife wouldn’t want ANYTHING to do with Great American Baking anything at this point, but that’s snarky stipulation and not based in reality) is celebrity Pastry Chef and Beard Award Winner Johnny Iuzzini. Johnny brings his own personality to the judging proceedings, but still banters quite well against Mary Berry’s adorable expert-baking grandma persona. Nia and Ian (they’re anagrams of each other!) also are a great duo. Ian’s more of the straight man in the comedy duo, being very matter-of-factly in the proceedings, while Nia has not only the cadence and the tone of GBBO hosts, but also the hilarious habit of picking off and eating batter, sweets and other ingredients off the table. And just like Mel and Sue, Ian and Nia not only update the contestants, but provide moral support and encouragement during more stressful points of the show. I fully expected the American contestants to be loud, annoying, in-your-face bald-eagle wave-the-flag AMERICA types, but casting has once again found a class of bakers who have a genuine personality and actual baking skill. The cross-section of America is present, but there’s here to make us some Christmas cookies, and not to pick a fight and promote their new single. It’s conscious casting choices like this that makes the GBBO so strong and so popular. Having nice people who are good at what they’re competing in is surprising in reality competitions, which is sad. Whatever problems I find with the presentation are minimal, really. The proceedings seem a bit rushed to fit America’s ever-increasing amount of commercials, so the baking segments feel a little rushed. And the forced reference to a “soggy bottom” during the premiere episode was a little cringeworthy to me, as a fan of the show. And only four episodes? Wahhhh. Is this ABC dipping a toe in the water for a full Great American Bake-Off series? Only time will tell. But for fans of food competitions, Christmas sweets, or the Great British Bake-Off, this is a wonderful way to spend an hour. ABC has another reality competition success on their hands with this well-produced import of one of the best reality competitions ever. ABC great holiday baking show ian gomez mary berry nia vardalos RIP Jim Perry Enjoy Cyber Monday With This Sale of the Century EXCLUSIVE: Password Revival May Be Coming To ABC... 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__label__cc	0.674787	0.325213	Christian – Head Designer Some say Chris doesn’t just design heads but he builds them as well. All we know is he designs awesome kites! Chris loves to kite at the top level in the surf and on a twin tip and as he only rides his own designs, he wants to make sure they are the best! So Chis works tirelessly to refine his kite designs. It’s taken many years, but it’s all finally come together. His very latest kites, the Buzz kites, are a work of art as you will experience when you ride them. Cornè – W.A Distributor Some say he used to wrestle with full grown lions and now that he’s older he’s semi-retired and moved on to tiger cubs. Some say he’s used the word “maaate” in every sentence in an attempt to disguise his South African accent. Some say he’s so addicted to kiting that he sold a kidney to fund his most recent kite trip. Some say his jokes are the Cornèist you will ever hear. All we know is that he’s somehow managed to sneak into Australia and make the country a nicer place. Cornè is the type of guy who is very polite, Tom – Head Instructor Some say Tommygun got his nick name when he killed two birds with one stone. Some say he found a way to have his cake and eat it too. All we know is he has been involved in this from the start and is one of Australia’s top riders. Tom is passionate about helping people learn to kite in the best way possible. As an IKO instructor, Tom will be leading the development of the Buzz Kites teaching methods to make sure it is as safe, effective, efficient and fun as possible. He teaches people around the Central coast of NSW. The Czech – Product testing, research and development Some say, he has a 1000 year old rain forest growing in his armpits. Some say he’s got angel wings cleverly concealed under his wetsuit. Some say he needs his pilot’s license when kiting. All we know is he’s called the Czech.Few people can consistently pull off 10M plus jumps one after the other, but the Czech is always up there somewhere. If you have not seen him on the water, it’s simply because he hasn’t landed yet. Andy – W.A Ambassador Some say his real name is Jason Stratham. Some say his pommy accent is a put on to charm the girls. Some say he bought a Jeep. All we know is that his main claim to fame is that he lives across the road from “The Pond”. His passion for kiting and energy to help others get involved is contagious so if you don’t want to catch the fever, make sure you get the no-kite vaccine before you go Eve – Perth Buzz Instructor Some say French Canada export only their best quality women. Some say Eve has only two speeds – flat out and stop. Some say Eve’s accent is almost impossible to comprehend and even if you do, she still makes no sense. All we know is that she is fun to have around, can kite like a genius and after six years of kite instructing experience, she loves to kite on Buzz kite gear! Jon – Buzz Kite School (Perth) Some say he couldn’t decide between being a rock star and a kite school owner. Some say he has a desire to stroke small rodents. Some say when he goes for a walk, it’s at least 50km long. Some say he’s equally at home on a snow board, surfboard, wakeboard or kite board. All we know is he’s a great teacher and he’s ready to get you started in kiting or take you to the next level. Lee – Chief Bottle Washer Some say his lack of kiting skills is matched only by his lack of natural talent. Some say that his life long dream is to do a back roll. Some say he’s been using the wind to go places for free since he was 8. All we know is that he had enough kiting passion to get this business started and help a whole lot of people get into some great kiting gear. Justin – Melbourne Ambassador Some say he’s loves to travel as much as he loves kittens. Some say whenever he turns up at the beach with a surfboard the waves look forward to being shredded. Some say he can fly a drone better than he can fly a spaceship. All we know is that he’s a top bloke and an awesome kiter ready to help you get familiar with the Buzz gear by helping you out with a test ride. Brock – Sunshine Coast Distributor Some say he can eat a whole 10KG watermelon in a single sitting and then polish off a bunch of kale for desert. Some say that he’s so cool that even ice baths are afraid of him. Some say he used to call Lee “Dad” until he became a Dad himself and realized that Lee had never changed his nappies. All we know is that he’s one of the coolest dudes you’ll ever meet with a true caring/sharing attitude and the desire and ability to help others be their best. Anton – South Africa Distributor Anton, a.k.a. ‘The Sting’ not only rides the gear, but is also the official distributor for Buzz Kites in South Africa. Some say he has been stung by a 1000 bees, but is so thick skinned he will only show any swelling in 2075. Others say the secret to his eternal youthful looks is none other than Beetox, but others think it is merely that time stood still when he was missing inside the barrel of a 20 foot wave for longer than anyone thought possible. All we know, is that he loves riding waves on a kite board and the bigger the waves and the stronger the wind, the better. Thomas – South Africa Ambassador Some say he couldn’t spell ‘bored’ and from an early age insisted it had to be ‘board’. Legend has it he convinced Pac-Man to get off the pills and that he is on a first name basis with every single video game character in existence. Some say he single-handedly set up the internet one weekend 20 years ago and the retinas of his eyes are actually square to match his PC screen. All we know, is that he would much rather be outdoors kiting and that his kite is barely bigger than his friendly smile. Ben – Product Testing and Refinement Some say Ben is shrinking. Others say you wouldn’t want to get into a cage fight with him. All we know is that he’s over 90KGs and kites in the meanest waves. He’s been trying to break the Griffin kite gear and now the Buzz gear since Adam was a boy. If he ever succeeds, we make sure it won’t happen again. He’s also a lovely guy with a huge smile, a gentle laugh and a willingness to help, and some cunning product development ideas that makes him a perfect fit for the Buzz team.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line25
__label__wiki	0.732658	0.732658	NEEDED DONATION COLLECTED DONATION In Our Campaigns By T Kazakhstan and human rights. Human Rights: Kazakhstan has an appalling human rights record. As Reporters Without Borders reports the state has control over independent media, NGOs, civil society, and, most critically, independent trade unions effectively crushing dissent. The vast majority of the population lives in poverty and those who speak out against the state or organise mass resistance are harassed, jailed, or killed. The human rights situation in Kazakhstan continues to deteriorate. Nazarbayev has cracked down on protestors and journalists and has limited worker’s rights. The World Democracy Audit ranks Kazakhstan 133 out of 154 countries in its Democracy Ranking and 110th in the Corruption rank, and 138th in Press Freedom.[1] Despite this many Western governments support the Nazarbayev regime. They ignore ongoing serious human rights violations. Their main interest lies in business delas, especially for the extraction of oil, gas and precious minerals – this is their key priority. When it comes to a choice between business and human rights – multi-national companies turn a blind eye to state abuse and human rights violations. Despite strikes by oil workers – which exposed their porr treatment, poor pay, and the crushing of free and independent trade unions – Western governments supported by the billionaire class continue to invest in the oil sector and other industries in Kazakhstan. Over the years various Western governments and NGO’s have tried to de-politicise human rights. Limiting human rights to issues about the right to a fair trial and the right to free speech. The West pays lip service even to these human rights, and in any case will not raise them when it comes to Kazakhstan. Campaign Kazakhstan believes that civil and political rights – right to a fair trial, free speech and crucially the right to assembly – the forming of trade unions is crucial to the demands for human rights. However, we additionally believe that socio-political human rights are equally important – the right to a home, education, water and guaranteed living wage are also essential human rights. Crucial to the demands for human rights – whether they come from socialists, trade unionists, housing activists – are for the defence of these human rights defenders. What is a Human Rights Defender? A Human Rights Defender (HRD) describes people who individually or as a collective act to promote and/or protect human rights. HRD’s is a term used to describe people who, individually or with others, act to promote and/or protect human rights. The term ‘human rights defender’ has since the adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in 1998 been used increasingly – as a result it has unified and replaced such terms as ‘human rights activist’ or ‘human rights monitor’ for instance. Campaign Kazakhstan believe that anyone regardless of their class, sex, job, age or race can be a HRD. It is our view that they are identified by what they do rather than by their profession. Some HRD’s can be professional human rights workers who may work for an NGO or a campaigning body, but most HRD’s are campaigners who work to ensure freedom of speech, to organise in trade unions, socialists or community activists involved in promoting human rights or exposing human rights abuses. What do Human Rights Defenders do? The rights defended by human rights defenders can include: civil and political rights – these rights include issues such as the right to a fair trial, and the right to be free from torture. economic and social rights – these rights include issues as diverse as the right to housing, education and water. It also will include campaigns against forced eviction. cultural rights – these rights include campaigns for the rights of indigenous people to have control over their land, the right to free, prior and informed consent and control of the resources on them. The work of HRD’s is diverse. It can include campaigns to against forced eviction or arbitrary arrest. Subsequently HRD’s in Kazakhstan may organise demonstrations, pickets or lobbies to highlight where key political or judicial decisions have been made which fail to address or ignore human rights. Whilst this work maybe done through human rights organizations, it maybe completed by lawyers or journalists. As a campaign we hope that not only will this continue but that trade unions will become more involved in this. Human Rights Defenders – internationally. HRD’s work to promote, protect and realise the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Campaign Kazakhstan believe that human rights cannot be achieved under capitalism. We argue that human rights can only be achieved through democratic socialism – that is when ordinary people take control of the economy, industry, factories and civil society. [1] http://www.worldaudit.org/democracy.htm Repression and concession in Kazakhstan Oilworkers’ representatives imprisoned, fined and sacked Repression in Kazakhstan continues – Clampdown on independent trade unions proceeds and big prison sentences for organisers of peaceful land protests Kazakhstan: New regulations tightening control over people, while replenishing government coffers! Remember Zhanaozen! End dictatorship now! Send your protest now Urgent action for Vadim Kuramshin To President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev General Prosecutor of Kazakhstan, A. Daulbaev The Minister of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, K. Kasimov Committee for the Criminal Correction System (KUIS) of Kazakhstan, B. Berdalin International Human Rights organisations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Frontline Defenders, Freedom House, Special United Nations Rapporteur on torture and other, inhumane or humiliating treatment and punishment Yesterday, 3 June 2014, we received information from the lawyer of political prisoner Vadim Kuramshin, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and is currently held in the Prison Section EC 164/4, Gorny Posyelok (Zhaman sopka), Esilsky district, North Kazakhstan region. The information about the first day of Vadim Kuramshin’s hunger strike was published on the Internet, with his statement of protest against “illegal methods of mistreatment and intimidation” on the part of the administration of EC 164/4, pressurising him into denouncing the recent article written by his wife Ekaterina Kuramshin. The recent photograph of Vadim Kuramshin, which has also been published, shows his debilitated physical and psychological condition and signs of physical abuse. Before his arrest, Vadim Kuramshin severely criticised this particular Prison EC 164/4, and this, in our opinion, is the reason for the maltreatment, which puts his life and health in danger from the authorities of this prison. We demand an urgent intervention and an immediate end to the intimidation and torture of Vadim Kuramshin! We demand urgent medical attention and help to Vadim Kuramshin! We demand the transfer of Kuramshin from EC 164/4 to another prison that has no connection to Kuramshin’s work for the rights of prisoners, where he would receive an impartial treatment. We also demand prosecution of those guilty of abuse in the administration of EC 164/4. ----------------------------- Президенту Республики Казахстан г-ну Н.Назарбаеву Генеральную прокуратуру РК г-ну А.Даулбаеву Министерство внутренних дел РК г-ну К.Касымову КУИС РК г-ну Б.Бердалину ----------------------------- Международные правозащитные организации Амнистия Интернешнл, Хьюман Райс Вотч, Фронтлайн Дефендерс, Фридом Хаус, Специальному докладчику ООН по вопросу о пытках и других жестоких, бесчеловечных или унижающих достоинство видах обращения и наказания Вчера, 3 июня 2014 года, поступила информация от адвоката политзаключенного Вадима Курамшина, осужденного на 12 лет, и находящегося в Учреждении ЕС 164/4 посёлок Горный (Жаман сопка), Есильского района, Северо-Казахстанской области. В интернете опубликовано уведомление Вадима Курамшина о начатой им голодовке в знак протеста «от незаконных методов преследования, давления» со стороны администрации ЕС 164/4 с требованием написания опровержения ранее опубликованной статьи, его супруги Екатерины Курамшиной. Опубликована фотография Вадима Курамшина, где видно, что Вадим доведён до крайнего физического истощения, видны следы избиения и плохое психологическое состояние. Учреждение ЕС 164/4 ранее, до осуждения, неоднократно критиковалось В.Курамшиным, и поэтому мы считаем, что жизнь и здоровье Вадима находится в опасности. Просим, срочно вмешаться в ситуацию, прекратить физическое и психологическое давление на Вадима Курамшина! Срочно предоставить В.Курамшину медицинскую помощь! Перевести Вадима Курамшина из учреждения ЕС 164/4 в другое безопасное учреждение, которое не имеет конфликта с В.Курамшиным из-за критики условий содержания. 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__label__cc	0.741534	0.258466	Special Event ATM Machines Start an ATM Business Permanent Location Placement ATM Machines Air Machine / Vacuum ATM Indusrty News RBC unveils $3.2bn tech budget in digital push June 14, 2018 ATM Indusrty Newsadmin Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is planning to spend $3.2bn on technology this year in a bid to attract new customers looking for more digital banking services. The plan was revealed at an investor meeting in Toronto where chief executive David McKay set out a number of growth targets and an expanded technology budget. The bank wants to use new technology such as artificial intelligence, digital services and social media to add 2.5 million new customers by 2023, a tyhreefold increase on its current rate of customer acquisition. RBC currently has 6.5 million digital users, an 8% increase on the previous year, and has released a number of new digital services in the last year via its RBC Ventures division, including a financial advice app and a digital platform for small business owners. McKay has stated his belief that banks must diversify their offerings beyond traditional financial services in order to remain relevant to customers and to see off the threat from big tech companies and e-commerce platforms. The bank is also targetting more than $1bn in costs savings as a result of greater automation and system consolidation. While RBC may be the bank with the biggest tech budget in Canada, it still falls well below the budget of other larger banks in the US and Europe. HSBC recently announced plans to spend $17bn on technology while JP Morgan has a budget in excess of $10bn, $7bn more than RBC. The superior tech budgets and their importance were acknowledged by McKay in an interview with the Financial Times. “The question every CEO should ask is, what’s [JP Morgan CEO] Jamie [Dimon] doing with the extra $7bn,” he said. ← Just a friendly reminder to make an ATM Pit Stop Today. As frictionless payments struggle for traction, consumers cling to cash →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line32
__label__cc	0.676504	0.323496	Coffeeshop Directory Coffeeshop News Medication Menus Amsterdam Coffeeshop Menus Potency Testing Dutch Coffeeshops To Reopen Smoking Areas On 1 July By Zoe As of 1 July, the Netherland’s famous coffeeshops will reopen their seating areas to guests after several months of takeaway-only service. Last night’s Corona Press Conference called for the relaxation of measures which have been in effect since March of this year, with the exception of the 1.5 meter social distancing policy, which remains enforced. Empty Coffeeshop Relax, Amsterdam The changes in Corona Virus policy will effect many industries. Events can now take place under certain conditions. All seats are now open on public transit. Gyms are set to reopen and recreational and competitive sports may resume. Sex workers can now also return to work. Prime Minister, Mark Rutte calls for residents and guests alike to practice “self discipline” to help the nation avoid further outbreaks of COVID-19. “If we relax in this or in checking basic rules, then there is a real chance that we will have to implement restrictions. We see many examples of this internationally,” Rutte urged those listening to his Wednesday evening address. “As of 1 July, inside, reservations and a health check (if you have a cold or have a fever) are compulsory if there is room for more than 100 people per room (excluding staff).” General Rules For Indoor Activities: Keep 1.5 meters away from others. Maximum 100 people per room with fixed seats (excluding staff). No maximum number of people under the following conditions: fixed seats, reservation and health check in advance. In shops, museums, libraries and other locations with flow of visitors, 1.5 meters away is the rule (locations themselves ensure compliance with this rule). There is no maximum number of people. General Rules For Outdoor Activities: Maximum 250 persons (excluding staff). The catering industry always works with a fixed seat. No maximum number of people under the following conditions: fixed seats, a reservation and a health check in advance. In zoos, amusement parks and other outdoor locations with flow of visitors, 1.5 meters away is the rule (locations themselves ensure compliance with this rule). There is no maximum number of people. Guests lined up at Amsterdam coffeeshops the night before they expected to close due to COVID-19. On June 15, the Netherlands began to allow tourists from countries where the health risks surrounding COVID-19 are similar to or lower than that of the Netherlands back into the country. Guests will soon be able to sit down and enjoy a smoke and cup of coffee at their favorite shop. Prior to July 1, guests at Dutch coffeeshops will need to wait in socially distanced lines and up until now have only been allowed in shops 2 to 3 people at a time. This was after after an initial panic that the shops would close altogether at the start of the outbreak. A major aspect of these legendary coffeeshops is the culture surrounding them. The atmosphere compares to none and the shops are viewed by many as the place to go to meet some incredibly interesting and inspiring individuals. This is lost when guests may only enter quickly for takeaway purchases. We encourage everyone visiting the shops to follow safe practices, so that we can stay healthy and continue to enjoy our coffeeshops. Zoe has integrated her background as social worker, event organizer, and scientist into the news and media lifestyle brand, Audio Kush, which she co-founded in 2018. An expat and travel enthusiast, she enjoys telling stories which explore society and delve into the mind. A major proponent of cannabis culture and the medicinal potential of marijuana, Zoe works to educate and normalize cannabis as a healing plant. Amsterdam Mayor Plans To Ban Tourists From Coffeeshops Amsterdam’s Top 20 Most Popular Cannabis Strains of 2020 Despite new measures being put in place starting t BIG NEWS THIS WEEK: The U.N. will reclassify canna Jack Herer Cup returns to Amsterdam on 12th of Dec Voting is now open for Jack Herer Cup Amsterdam 20 PrevPreviousWhat’s New On The Menus? Coffeeshop Updates (20 June 2020) NextBoerejongens Center Closed 30 June For RenovationsNext THE TOP STORIES AND LATEST UPDATES STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX! AudioKush, 2020 Get our best content straight into your inbox!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line33
__label__cc	0.740275	0.259725	SUV Performance! BMW’s formidable line of SUVs is comprised of seven models sequentially named from X1 to X7. This German marque leaves no holes in its lineup, ensuring that there is a luxury utility vehicle for every shopper. But BMW doesn’t stop there. Indeed, recognizing that many of its customers transitioned from coupes and sedans to SUVs and have also long placed a premium on speed, four models ranging from the X3 to X6 have “M” performance variants. The largest of the four is known as the BMW X6 M and was a recent visitor to the Auto Trends test fleet. Specifically, an M6 Competition model with jaw-dropping output offered a week’s worth of on-road thrills. 2020 BMW X6 Review The 2020 model year launches the X6’s fourth-generation (the third for the M line). This model continues to share the underpinnings of the X5 and offers a coupe-like design with a formidable expression. BMW offers this model in X6 sDrive40i ($64,300), X6 xDrive40i ($66,600), and X6 M50i ($85,650) configurations. Further, you’ll find a pair of “M” models known simply as the X6 M ($108,600) and the X6 M Competition ($117,600). For the focus of this review, we’ll concentrate on the X6 M/Competition and its unique styling and performance characteristics. Likewise, any mention of the standard models is for comparison purposes only. There is nothing subtle about the BMW X6 M. From its gangly shape to outrageous lines, this X6 is a beastly model. The M lines simply magnify the look with its oversized twin-kidney grille leading the way. A broad lower intake and huge side cutouts along with LED signature lights add to the drama. Overall, it’s intimidating and overpowering – if you see one fast approaching in your rearview mirror, more than likely you’ll scoot over to allow it to pass. Sculpted wheel arches, a high profile, and a sloping roof leading to a notched liftgate are among the other design features of note. From the rear, narrow wraparound lights and a diffuser highlight the look, but with far less drama and intimidation than the front. You can fit five inside the X6 M, but it’s most comfortable for four. Access and egress to the rear seat is a bit challenging as you’ll have to bend your head to avoid making contact with the roof. Once inside, the rear seat is spacious, comfortable, and roomy. The best seats, of course, are up front. Dual thrones with heating, cooling, and massaging features not only offer maximum support, but they’re thickly bolstered for spirited driving. Just make sure when you enter you clear the seat edges to avoid landing on one of the hard sides. BMW interiors are among the best in the industry and the X6 lives up to that expectation. The interiors, particularly on the top trims, feature high-end leathers, aluminum edges, quilted inserts, and Alcantara headliners. Not a plastic surface anywhere. Ambient and nighttime lighting add to the mystique. The tech goodies are apparent in the X6 M. BMW supplies this model with a 16-speaker Harman Kardon audio system with HD Radio, satellite radio, a CD player, connected services, and Apple CarPlay smartphone compatibility. Sorry, no Android Auto. Other features include wireless charging, a Wi-Fi hotspot, and the usual USB inputs. BMW supplies the X6 M with multiple driver-assist features, including active driving assistant. This suite includes frontal collision warning with city collision mitigation and lane departure warning. Automatic high beams, active blind-spot detection, surround-view cameras, and active park distance control are also included. By now, you’ve likely figured out that the X6 M is mostly about performance. Under the hood is BMW’s most powerful V8 engine, a twin-turbo beauty displacing 4.4-liters. This engine is found in a variety of applications and typically punctuates all things M. In its normal mode, it makes 523 horsepower and 553 pound-feet of torque. That alone is laudable, enabling this strapping SUV to move from 0-60 mph in about 4 seconds. If you want to move just under that threshold, then choose either M model with special engine tuning. Here, you’ll find a whopping 600 or 617 horsepower at the ready. BMW routes power to all four wheels utilizing an 8-speed automatic transmission. Doubtlessly, the X6 M is loud. And fast. Engage the ignition and the engine rumbles to life and sends out a boom throw the exhaust system. That system is adjustable, allowing for a louder cacophony as desired. Your neighbors, though, may appreciate a more silent approach, something you can supply by deactivating the soundtrack until you’re on the open road. The X6 is heavy, with the fully loaded Competition weighing just over two-and-one-half tons. That’s a lot of weight to move, but the bigly V8 does so with ease. Step-off acceleration is amazing – the twin turbos conspire to develop power flawlessly and consistently. If you want to make the run up to 100 mph, this engine never flags in zeal. Weighed steering, direct handling, and a wonderful connection to the road are among this SUV’s hallmarks. It doesn’t have quite the on-road chops of an M4, but it is close. Despite its high profile, the X6 M stays the course, handling twisty roads with ease and pulling out of corners on point, thanks largely to its rear bias. Certainly, this SUV is a gamer and individuals with deep pockets are eager to buy in. For everyone else, the standard twin-turbo V6 with 335 horsepower and 330 pound-feet of torque should do. We’ve driven other BMW models with this engine and have found it more than up to the task. There are few direct competitors to the BMW X6 M. One of the most obvious is the Mercedes-AMG GLE 43/63. The Lamborghini Urus is another one. If you’re looking at the standard X6, the Lexus GX, Audi Q7, and Infiniti QX60 are worth considering. Should you choose the X6 M or the X6 Competition? The difference between the two is $9,000, a price that includes some trim and interior upgrades, badging, and added performance. There are two packages to consider — a Drivers Assistance Professional Package ($1,700 and includes adaptive cruise control which surprisingly isn’t included elsewhere) and an Executive Package ($3,600) with heated seats, heated and cooled front cup holders, ventilated front seats, soft-close front doors, rear manual side window shades, and adaptive headlights with laser light. Other features offered separately include Night Vision With Pedestrian Detection ($2,300), a Bowers & Wilkins Diamond Surround Audio System ($3,400), Rear-Seat Entertainment Professional ($2,200), and an M Performance Package ($2,500). Fully built out and this model will set you back by more than $134,000. When all is said and done, you’ll likely pay at least $120,000 for one of most powerful SUVs available. 2020 BMW X6 Specifications Segment Midsize SUV Price Range $64,300 to $117,600 Destination Charge $995 Engine No. 1 3.0-liter, Inline6 Horsepower 335 @ 5,500 – 6,500 RPMs Torque (lb.-ft.) 330 @ 1,500 – 5,200 RPMs Engine No. 2 4.4-liter, turbocharged V8 Horsepower 523/600/617 @ 5,500 – 6,000 RPMs Curb Weight (pounds) 4,687 to 5,115 Height (inches) 66.3 to 66.8 Hip room (f,r…inches) NR Gross vehicle weight (pounds) 6,063 to 6,658 Towing (pounds) 7,200 Payload (pounds) 893 to 937 Fuel Premium EPA Fuel MPG (city/highway/combined) 20,21/26/22,23 (I6); 16/22/18 (V8) Manufacturing Plant Greer, South Carolina Data compiled by Tom Keegan. All rights reserved. See Also — Go Big or Go Home: 2019 BMW X7 SUV Photos copyright Auto Trends Magazine. All right reserved. 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__label__cc	0.511	0.489	The Club@CSE ABTP The Abhinav Bindra Targeting Performance Center (ABTP) The AB Targeting Performance Center is conveniently located at Yelahanka Taluk in the Padukone Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence (CSE). Known for providing the best sports performance training facilities and rehab therapy in India, our specialist trainers and doctors use intricate and intense exercises executed in a precise manner to attain the most accurate results. The AB Targeting Performance Centre offers comprehensive training and wellness solutions to athletes of all age groups and levels. International and national level athletes and young and aspiring sportsmen and women at the grass root level can train at the centre and elevate their performance and results. Launched in December 2017 in association with Sports Authority of India (SAI), the centre is home to over 1000 athletes training in sports of cricket, football, squash, swimming, badminton, tennis, basketball, athletics and many athletes from other disciplines make it a venue for training camps. I am delighted and excited to bring the Targeting Performance Centre to life at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence in Bengaluru. This Centre, along with those in Chandigarh and New Delhi, is the first hubs for sports facilities in India. I believe that making sports science easily accessible holds a key to our nation's sporting future and am delighted and grateful for the support of the Sports Authority of India in bringing this particular centre to life -Abhinav Bindra Abhinav Bindra Targeting Performance centres have been set up throughout the country with a mission to enable Indian athletes of all age groups to monitor their progress in terms of training, peak performance, rehabilitation and injury prevention on best facilities and system of machines which are at par with the rest of the world. The road to greater glory at multi-sports world events such as the Olympics, World Championships, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games etc. begins here. By laying a strong foundation for our athletes at the grass root level we ensure their development from a very formative stage of their career something which is of the essence in today's global sports environment. With advanced sports technology and our trained medical therapists and trainers, we aim at providing top sports training facilities through customized sport-specific programs for training and recovery for all our athletes. Our comprehensive full body approach believes in permanent correction by focusing on strength with control. Practicing quality over quantity with the help of biofeedback we are able to monitor even 1 degree of deviation in body movements. Listed below are some of the services we provide and much more. Biomechanical Assessments (Postural & Functional) Sports High-Performance Training Prehabilitation Advanced Rehabilitation Center For Sports Excellence Private Limited Survey No 336, Bettahalasura Jala Hobli, Yelanhanka Taluk, Bengaluru 562157 CSE in the Media Now@CSE <?php/* #Footer Menu... wp_nav_menu( array('theme_location' => 'secondary-menu', 'container' => false, 'menu_class' => 'footer-links', 'fallback_cb' => 'whistle_footer_navigation')); */?> © 2019 - CSE. Design: Design Esthetics	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line47
__label__cc	0.590874	0.409126	Tag: Col4a2 Background There is concern about the development of anemia-associated fetal hydrops Background There is concern about the development of anemia-associated fetal hydrops associated with maternal parvovirus B19 infection. parvovirus B19 relating to polymerase chain reaction. Immunohistochemical analysis using caspase-related M30 CytoDEATH monoclonal antibody exposed M30 staining of the placental villous trophoblasts. Conversation and evaluation Placental trophoblasts and erythroid precursor cells have been reported to express globoside (P antigen), which is necessary for parvovirus B19 infectivity, and to display apoptotic activity as a result of illness. Placentas from three additional pregnancies with recorded abruption showed no M30 staining. Summary The present case strongly suggests an association between placental abruption and apoptosis resulting from parvovirus B19 illness. cesarean section, freezing embryo transfer, pregnancy-induced hypertension, umbilical artery pH, premature rupture of the membranes, spontaneous abortion aApgar scores at 1 and 5?min (1/5) In case 1, more than 105 copies of PB19-specific DNA were detected, while all three control instances were negative, suggesting that case 1 was not a false positive (data not shown). Immunostaining for apoptosis was positive in 34.2?% of the decidual cells and in 13.6?% of the chorionic cells. In contrast, instances 2, 3, and 4 showed positive immunostaining of small numbers of decidual cells (4.9, 0.5, and 3.6?% respectively), and no staining of chorionic cells (Fig.?2). For quantitative evaluation, five fields with apparent positive findings from each section of the placenta in all instances were extracted at 200-collapse magnification, and the percentages of stained cell nuclear were calculated. Indistinct or faintly-stained areas were excluded. Open in a separate windows Fig.?2 Immunohistochemical findings of all placentas using M30 CytoDEATH antibody. Immunostaining for apoptosis in case 1 a, b showed positive findings in the decidual and contiguous chorionic cells ( em arrows /em ), while the three control instances, including case 2 c, d, showed no staining of the chorionic cells. e Graph, showing the percentage of M30-positive decidual and chorionic cells in each case Individuals follow up Neonatal blood test showed a level of 16.9?g/dL of hemoglobin, 3.2?% of reticulocytes and bad PB19 IgM. The baby was diagnosed with severe neonatal asphyxia and underwent mind hypothermia therapy, but developed neither fetal hydrops nor fetal anemia. He didnt have PB19 illness. Both mother and baby experienced good program, and right now 3 years aged, the baby offers experienced no abnormality of growth or development. Conversation and evaluation Histlogical findings of placenta suggested A 83-01 novel inhibtior that PB19-specific DNA were present and apoptosis was almost exclusively observed to a greater degree in the chorionic and decidual cells. These findings were consistent with our hypothesis that placental abruption was caused by apoptosis of the chorion and decidua due to PB19 illness. In A 83-01 novel inhibtior pregnant women, placental illness with PB19 is considered problematic. Therefore, it has Col4a2 been recommended that PB19-infected pregnant women undergo serial ultrasound including fetal middle cerebral Doppler every 1C2?weeks to check for any abnormalities, such as fetal anemia and fetal hydrops (Crane et al. 2014; Minakami et al. 2014). Prevalence of PB19 immunoglobulin G is definitely 50C75?% in ladies of reproductive age in Europe and the USA (Crane et al. 2014), and slightly under 50?% in Japanese adults (unpublished data). PB19 illness is definitely hardly ever severe in adults, and many instances present with nonspecific symptoms, such as fever, arthralgia, or small exanthems, actually in an initial illness. Consequently, it is hard to diagnose and manage PB19 illness at an early stage unless the mother or child shows an abnormality. Fetal hydrops and cardiac enlargement are commonly recognized on ultrasonography. P antigen, which is considered to become the receptor for PB19, is found to be a globoside, a neutral glycolipid that accumulates in reddish blood cell membrane lipid rafts. When PB19 binds to P antigen, apoptosis is definitely induced. P antigen is definitely expressed in a variety of cells, including placental thromboblastin (Brown et al. 1993). Although case 1 was an adult with an initial PB19 illness, no fetal disorder was found; the mother exhibited severe anemia and slightly decreased blood platelets, but her anemia did not get worse after transfusion. She developed placental abruption during hospitalization, however, she experienced no risk factors for abruption (Cunningham et al. 2014; Oyelese and Ananth 2006). In A 83-01 novel inhibtior Japan, up to 60?% of placental abruption instances do not show known risk factors. However, it has been reported that chorioamnionitis and apoptosis are associated with preterm placental abruption. Apoptosis of the trophoblasts prospects to necrosis and/or angionecrosis of the chorion and amnion, and promotes production of prostaglandins; this enhances uterine contractions, resulting in placental abruption caused by the gap.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line52
__label__cc	0.745327	0.254673	Laubichler, Manfred D.. Doppelkompetenzen gefragt In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Frankfurt/Main, 2008. Laubichler, M D.. "A semiotic perspective on biological objects and biological functions." SEMIOTICA (1999): 415-431. Laubichler, M D.. "A Constrained View of Evo-Devo's Roots, Review of "The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought"." SCIENCE 309 (2005): 1020-1021. Laubichler, M D.. "Review of "From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design"." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46 (2003): 148-153. Laubichler, M D.. D’Arcy Thompson—Biogramm In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3. vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Edited by H L. Arnold. Suttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009. Laubichler, M D., and Jane Maienschein. "Evolution and Society." In The First Four Billion Years, edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Laubichler, M D.. ""Seeing is Believing, but What do we See? Review of "The Birth of the Cell" by Henry Harris." SCIENCE 284 (1999): 58. Laubichler, M D.. "Form and Function in Evo Devo: A Conceptual and Historical Analysis." In Form and Function in Developmental Evolution, edited by M D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein, 10-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Laubichler, Manfred D., and Jürgen Renn. "Extended evolution: A conceptual framework for integrating regulatory networks and niche construction." Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 324 (2015): 565-577. Laubichler, M D.. Dobzhansky/Genetics and the Origin of Species In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3. vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Edited by H L. Arnold. Suttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009. Laubichler, M D., and G P. Wagner. "How molecular is molecular developmental biology? A reply to Alex Rosenberg's reductionism redux: Computing the embryo." Biology & Philosophy (2001): 53-68. Laubichler, M D., and W Callebaut. "Editorial: Formalizing Biology." Biological Theory 3 (2008): 1-2. Laubichler, M D.. "An egg is an egg is an egg [Essay Review]." Cell 111 (2002): 460-461. Laubichler, Manfred D.. "Oskar and Cecile Vogt: From the Neo-Cortex to Bumble Bees: An Episode in the History of the Biological Character Concept." In The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, edited by G P. Wagner, 37-56. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000. Laubichler, M D.. "Review of "The man who invented the chromosome: A lfie of Cyril Darlington"." Journal of the History of medicine and Allied Sciences 60 (2005): 520-522. Laubichler, Manfred D., and Jane Maienschein. "Ontogeny, Anatomy, and the Problem of Homology: Carl Gegenbaur and the American Tradition of Cell Lineage Studies." In Evolutionary Morphology: From Carl Gegenbaur to the Present, edited by Uwe Hoß feld, Lenart Olsson, Olaf Breidbach and George S. Levit, 132-142. St. Petersburg: Fineday Press, 2004. Laubichler, M D., and Jane Maienschein. Form and Function in Developmental Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Laubichler, M D.. "Robert Lepage's Vision." In Jahrbuch 2009/10, 120-122. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2010. Laubichler, M D., E H. Hagen, and P Hammerstein. "The strategy concept and John Maynard Smith's influence on theoretical biology." Biology & Philosophy 20 (2005): 1041-1050. Laubichler, M D.. "Review of "Membranes: Metaphors of invasion in nineteenth-century literature, science, and politics"." Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2001): 287-288. Laubichler, M D.. "Modellorganismen." In Evolution. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, edited by P Sarasin and M Sommer, 189-195. Metzler Verlag, 2010.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line62
__label__cc	0.574787	0.425213	i4 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. able to judge, than can be prescribed now, how far you may state the difficulty which may occur in restraining the violence of some of our exasperated citizens. If the British ministry should hint at any supposed predilection in the United States for the French nation, as warranting the whole or any part of these instructions, you will stop the progress of this subject, as being irrelative to the question in hand. It is a circumstance which the British nation have no right to object to us; because we are free in our affections and independent in our government. But it may be safely answered, upon the authority of the correspondence between the Secretary of State and Mr. Hammond, that our neutrality has been scrupulously observed. II. A second cause of your mission, but not inferior in dignity to the preceding, though subsequent in order, is to draw to a conclusion all points of difference between the United States and Great Britain, concerning the treaty of peace. You will therefore be furnished with copies of the negotiation upon the inexecution and infractions of that treaty and will resume that business. Except in this negotiation, you have been personally conversant with the whole of the transactions connected with the treaty of peace. You were a minister at its formation,-the Secretary of--Foreign Affairs when the sentiments of the Congress, under the confederation, were announced through your office ; and as Chief Justice you have been witness to what has passed in our courts, and know the real state of our laws, with respect to British debts. It will be superfluous, therefore, to add more to you, than to express a wish that these debts, and the interest claimed upon them, and all things relating to them, be put outright in a diplomatic discussion, as being certainly of a judicial nature, to be decided by our courts: and if this cannot be accomplished, that you support the Transcript i4 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. able to judge, than can be prescribed now, how far you may state the difficulty which may occur in restraining the violence of some of our exasperated citizens. If the British ministry should hint at any supposed predilection in the United States for the French nation, as warranting the whole or any part of these instructions, you will stop the progress of this subject, as being irrelative to the question in hand. It is a circumstance which the British nation have no right to object to us; because we are free in our affections and independent in our government. But it may be safely answered, upon the authority of the correspondence between the Secretary of State and Mr. Hammond, that our neutrality has been scrupulously observed. II. A second cause of your mission, but not inferior in dignity to the preceding, though subsequent in order, is to draw to a conclusion all points of difference between the United States and Great Britain, concerning the treaty of peace. You will therefore be furnished with copies of the negotiation upon the inexecution and infractions of that treaty and will resume that business. Except in this negotiation, you have been personally conversant with the whole of the transactions connected with the treaty of peace. You were a minister at its formation,-the Secretary of--Foreign Affairs when the sentiments of the Congress, under the confederation, were announced through your office ; and as Chief Justice you have been witness to what has passed in our courts, and know the real state of our laws, with respect to British debts. It will be superfluous, therefore, to add more to you, than to express a wish that these debts, and the interest claimed upon them, and all things relating to them, be put outright in a diplomatic discussion, as being certainly of a judicial nature, to be decided by our courts: and if this cannot be accomplished, that you support the	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line64
__label__wiki	0.924866	0.924866	History of Maryland - 2 IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE. 613 determine Avhether there was not ground for an impeachment. On the 26th of March, the committee reported six'articles of impeachment; though, in order to find sufficient grounds, they had to go back to acts done nearly five years before and during the Federal administration; his conduct in the cases •of John Fries and James Thompson Callender, tried in 1800 under the odious " Sedition Act," being selected by the committee as his most vulnerable point. An impeachment was ordered by a vote of about two to one, notwithstanding the earnest opposition of the federalists, Avho regarded the whole proceeding as mere party spite and vengeance. The session closed on the 27th of March, leaving the trial to the following session. President Jefferson, the democratic candidate for re-election, received one hundred and sixty-two of the one hundred and seventy-six electoral votes in the election of 1805, and George Clinton was chosen Vice President by the -same vote. The electors of Marylandx cast the eleven votes of the State, as follows : nine each for Jefferson and Clinton, and two each for Pinckney and King, the federal candidates. On the 2d of January, 1805, Judge Chase appeared at the bar of the Senate, and the 4th of February was assigned for his trial. On this occasion the Senate chamber was fitted up in an appropriate manner, and writh places for various official dignitaries. The accused appeared with Luther Martin, like Chase himself, originally opposed to the constitution, but who had "become long since a warm federalist. Charles Lee, late Attorney General of the United States, Robert Goodloe Harper,2 the former distinguished federal leader in the House, and Joseph Hopkinson, though then a young man, acquired for himself an exalted reputation, as his counsel. " For these," says Mr. Hildreth, " the ablest advocates in the union, to take no account of Chase, who was a host in himself, the managers on the part of the House were no match. Martin's massive logic, and Lee's and Harper's argumentative ■eloquence, directed ahvays to the point, stood in striking contrast to the tingling but desultory surface strokes of Randolph, upon Avhom the main burden •of the prosecution fell."3 The managers on the part of the House, were Messrs. Randolph, Rodney, Nicholson, Clarke, Campbell, Boyle and Early. Aaron Burr, who had returned from his flight southward, for the killing of 1 They were: John Parnham, Tobias E. Stans- resumed the practice of the law in Baltimore, bury, Joseph Wilkinson, John Gilpin, John where he soon became eminent in the profes- Johnson, William Gleaves, Edward Johnson, sion. His defence of Judge Chase, when im- Perry Spencer, John Tyler, Ephraim K. AVilson, peached by the House of Representatives, was ;and Frisby Tilghman. a masterpiece. He was subsequently elected by 2 Robert G oodloe Harper was born near Fred- the Legislature of Maryland to the United States ericktown,Va., in 1765, and graduated at Prince- Senate in 1815-16,and was made a Major General ton in 1785. While young his parents emigrated in the State militia. He took great interest in to Greenville, N. C, and during Greene's cam- the colonization of the colored race and in the paign in the South he acted as quartermaster. promotion of works of internal improvement. He studied law at Charleston, S. C, and was A volume of his addresses and speeches was elected to the Legislature, and in 1794-1801 was published in Baltimore in 1814. He also pub- a member of Congress. He married Catharine, lished a number of pamphlets. a daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, 3 History of the United States, Second Series, and at the'expiration of his term in Congress ii., p. 542. Title History of Maryland - 2 Creator Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) Publisher J. B. Piet Place of Publication Baltimore Transcript IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE. 613 determine Avhether there was not ground for an impeachment. On the 26th of March, the committee reported six'articles of impeachment; though, in order to find sufficient grounds, they had to go back to acts done nearly five years before and during the Federal administration; his conduct in the cases •of John Fries and James Thompson Callender, tried in 1800 under the odious " Sedition Act," being selected by the committee as his most vulnerable point. An impeachment was ordered by a vote of about two to one, notwithstanding the earnest opposition of the federalists, Avho regarded the whole proceeding as mere party spite and vengeance. The session closed on the 27th of March, leaving the trial to the following session. President Jefferson, the democratic candidate for re-election, received one hundred and sixty-two of the one hundred and seventy-six electoral votes in the election of 1805, and George Clinton was chosen Vice President by the -same vote. The electors of Marylandx cast the eleven votes of the State, as follows : nine each for Jefferson and Clinton, and two each for Pinckney and King, the federal candidates. On the 2d of January, 1805, Judge Chase appeared at the bar of the Senate, and the 4th of February was assigned for his trial. On this occasion the Senate chamber was fitted up in an appropriate manner, and writh places for various official dignitaries. The accused appeared with Luther Martin, like Chase himself, originally opposed to the constitution, but who had "become long since a warm federalist. Charles Lee, late Attorney General of the United States, Robert Goodloe Harper,2 the former distinguished federal leader in the House, and Joseph Hopkinson, though then a young man, acquired for himself an exalted reputation, as his counsel. " For these," says Mr. Hildreth, " the ablest advocates in the union, to take no account of Chase, who was a host in himself, the managers on the part of the House were no match. Martin's massive logic, and Lee's and Harper's argumentative ■eloquence, directed ahvays to the point, stood in striking contrast to the tingling but desultory surface strokes of Randolph, upon Avhom the main burden •of the prosecution fell."3 The managers on the part of the House, were Messrs. Randolph, Rodney, Nicholson, Clarke, Campbell, Boyle and Early. Aaron Burr, who had returned from his flight southward, for the killing of 1 They were: John Parnham, Tobias E. Stans- resumed the practice of the law in Baltimore, bury, Joseph Wilkinson, John Gilpin, John where he soon became eminent in the profes- Johnson, William Gleaves, Edward Johnson, sion. His defence of Judge Chase, when im- Perry Spencer, John Tyler, Ephraim K. AVilson, peached by the House of Representatives, was ;and Frisby Tilghman. a masterpiece. He was subsequently elected by 2 Robert G oodloe Harper was born near Fred- the Legislature of Maryland to the United States ericktown,Va., in 1765, and graduated at Prince- Senate in 1815-16,and was made a Major General ton in 1785. While young his parents emigrated in the State militia. He took great interest in to Greenville, N. C, and during Greene's cam- the colonization of the colored race and in the paign in the South he acted as quartermaster. promotion of works of internal improvement. He studied law at Charleston, S. C, and was A volume of his addresses and speeches was elected to the Legislature, and in 1794-1801 was published in Baltimore in 1814. He also pub- a member of Congress. He married Catharine, lished a number of pamphlets. a daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, 3 History of the United States, Second Series, and at the'expiration of his term in Congress ii., p. 542.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line65
__label__wiki	0.775178	0.775178	Shared from the 11/12/2017 The Providence Journal eEdition TAG TALE Not a boast, but a life’s work The license plate belonging to Randy Blasing. [COURTESY OF RANDY BLASING] Blasing Randy Blasing, of Lincoln, writes: Last winter, when my 15-year-old — a car guy almost from birth — told me “poet” was now available as a vanity plate, I asked him to sign me up for it on the website immediately, in case it was in demand! Then, when he read “Cars” (he’s a fan) was starting “Tag Tales,” he urged me to tell my poet’s story. Robert Frost once called “poet” a word of praise, but someone else, he said, has to say it: you can’t declare yourself a poet without sounding boastful. The DMV, though, doesn’t award anybody the “poet” plate; you have to pay for it. After all, it’s not called a “vanity” plate for nothing. Vanity aside, I got the plate to help put poets back on the map and remind people we’re still out here, all-but invisible as poetry is these days. Although I’m not a household name like Frost, I taught poetry at CCRI for nearly 50 years and, as a poet, can be Googled or found on Amazon and, thanks to my new plate, on the roads — less traveled or otherwise — of our home state.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line66
__label__cc	0.625708	0.374292	Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj passed away Odisha to plant cyclone resilient trees Charampa to get its long demanded VUP (Vehicular Underpass) on NH16 Cyclone Fani creates four new mouths in Odisha’s Chilika Lake, Biodiversity likely to be affected NASA shares Power outage photo of cyclone hit Odisha Cyclone fani aftermath: Restoration work for basic Amenities at full swing in Odisha NEET 2019 exam Postponed in odisha in wake of cyclone Fani Railways to resume services from 5th May:East coast Railways UN hailed India for Pinpoint accuracy and saving million lives 206 person arrested in Excise raid Squad seizures excise articles of worth 50 Lakhs Odisha Government today reshuffles IPS Cadre officer's Reduced tax liability on homes under GST Leading Countries with high Per Capita have more cycle users All Electronic Communications email, WhatsApp, sms etc Under Scanner Posted by: DO Team Updated:18.01.2016 There are more than a billion bicycles in the world, twice as many as automobiles. In recent years bike production had climbed to over 100 million per year (compared to 50 million cars). Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and since when have been and are employed for many uses: recreation, work, military, show, sport etc. Among the worlds top economies are the top cycling countries.The facts reveals that great economies have kept the basics fixed like using cycles,etc.The nation which has more cycle users have two major benefits like less import of Oil, Good physical health of citizens & ofcourse help reduce carbon emission. China: People: 1,342,700,000, Bicycles: >500,000,000, Cyclists: >37.2% Facts: 60 percent of local cyclists in Shanghai go by cycle to work every day. The city is home to 9,430,000 million bicycles and 19,213,200 people. Belgium: People: 10,827,519, Bicycles: 5,200,000, Cyclists: ~48% Facts: In Belgium 8% of all trips are made by bike. The average distance cycled per person per day is 0.9 km. Cycling is a national sport for the Belgians. Belgians are very serious about their bike. A real Belgian keeps an expensive, quality bike well maintained with functioning breaks and inflated tires and usually wears a helmet and a bright yellow vest to make him or herself visible to car. Switzerland: People: 7,782,900, Bycicles: 3,800,000, Cyclists: ~48.8 Facts: In Switzerland 5% of all trips and 10% of trips to work are made by bike. Switzerland is a cycling country. Here this is more than just an activity, it is a healthy way to enjoy the nature and the hospitality of local people. The Swiss even have “Bike to Work“ campaigns when employees ride their bike to work. Japan: People: 127,370,000, Bicycles: 72,540,000, Cyclists: ~56.9% Facts: In Japan 15 percent of trips to work are made by bicycle. In recent years more than 10 millions bikes are sold every year. In Japan bicycles are widely used as an alternative to motorcars. A lot of people use them to ride to the train stations. In nowadays more and more Japanese are taking up bicycling to work for health reasons and to avoid traffic jams and crowded trains. Many people don’t lock their bicycles even when they leave their bikes outside railroad stations all day or overnight Finland: People: 5,380,200, Bicycles: 3,250,000, Cyclists: ~60.4% Facts: In Finland 9% of all trips are made by bike. The average distance cycled per inhabitant per day is 0.7 km. Fins ride bicycles without reference to the age or social status, both children and grown-ups: tourists and housewives, pensioners and students. Although the cycling season in this country traditionally starts in spring or summer, some fans of bikes is not afraid of neither the rain, nor slush, nor event winter snowstorms. The love of Fins cyclists to the bicycles can be compared with their love to dogs, or to fishing, or to sauna. Norway:People: 4,943,000, Bicycles: 3,000,000, Cyclists: ~60.7% Facts: In Norway 4% of all trips are made by bike. In Norway, with a population of 4,943 million people and 3 million bicycles, 60.000 bicycles disappear each year, never to be seen by their owners again.Most bicycles are stolen from places owners assume are safe. Experienced thieves can take even locked bikes in about 10-20 seconds.On the streets, the value of a stolen bicycle is approximately 5-10% of the bicycle’s original retail value, with an inverse relationship between value and percentage worth on the street. About 10% of the stolen bicycles are exported to Russia and Eastern Europe. Sweden: People: 9,418,732, Bicycles: 6,000,000, Cyclists: ~63.7% Facts: In Finland 9% of all trips are made by bike. The average distance cycled per person per day is 0.7 km. The bicycle in Finnish family is a necessary thing such as a TV-set. For Finnish people bike is even more valuable than a TV. Often a family has a few different bicycles, depending on the number of members of a family and their age. Germany: People: 81,802,000, Bicycles: 62,000,000, Cyclists: ~75.8% Facts: In the Germany 9% of all trips are made by bike. The average distance cycled per inhabitant per day is 0.9 km. Cycling is ingrained in the German culture. It is rare to find an adult German who did not grow up riding a bike and whose children, parents, and even grandparents probably still ride bikes. This fact makes drivers and pedestrians understanding and accommodating to bicycle riders (unlike in the US). Denmark: People: 5,560,628, Bicycles: 4,500,000, Cyclists: ~80.1% Facts: In the Denmark 18% of all trips are made by bike.The average distance cycled per person is 1.6 km. Cycling is generally perceived as a healthier, cheaper, environmentally friendlier and often even quicker way to travel around towns than car or public transport and it is therefore municipal policy for the number of commuters by bike to go up to 40% by 2012 and 50% by 2015. In Copenhagen (the capital of Denmark) 37% of all citizens ride their bike on a daily basis. The local town hall even offers the visitors rental bikes for free.Interesting fact: the average travelling speed in Copenhagen is 16 kph for cyclists and 27 kph for cars. Netherlands :The country known as Country of Cyclists.People: 16,652,800, Bicycles: 16,500,000, Cyclists: ~99.1% Facts: In the Netherlands 27% of all trips and 25% of trips to work are made by bike. The average distance cycled per person per day is 2.5 km. Holland and bicycles go together like bread and jam. Despite the recession the cycle-happy Dutch are still spending a lot of money on their bicycles – nearly 1 billion euros’ worth a year. About 1.3 million bicycles were sold in the Netherlands in 2009, at an average price of 713 euros ($1,008) each. Amsterdam (the capital and largest city of the Netherlands) is one of the most bicycle-friendly large cities in the world. It has 400 km of bike lanes and nearly 40% of all commutes in Amsterdam are done on bike. India stands far behind in this statistics.To increase the use of cycles, Government & Private sector-Corporates need to provide allowances or special incentives for those using cycles to office.Free fuel allowances to be stopped to encourage the use of cycles & keep the pollution away.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line67
__label__cc	0.503451	0.496549	Interview with: Nathan Fouts of Mommy's Best Games, talking Grapple Buggy and Shoot 1UP For those of you who've (still) been paying attention, a great little game called Weapon of Choice hit the Xbox 360’s Indie Games area a while ago, and quickly became one of my favorites on the system. It should be one of your favorites, too -- it was great stuff, and well-done. Following such an energetic title can't have been easy, but developer Mommy's Best Games and its mastermind Nathan Fouts have come up with not one, but TWO projects. Let's talk. Hey Nathan, thanks for speaking with me. It's been a while since we last chatted... Can you fill us in on how things have been going at MBG since Weapon of Choice launched? Once Weapon of Choice finished up (I want to say "shipped" but with digital that's not really applicable any more) I went into "marketing mode". That took about a month and a half to follow up on interviews, and opportunities, and the holidays took some time as well. After that, it was time to dig into the BIG BOOK and find out which hopefully amazing idea I needed to make next. After rejecting, or rather filing for later some fairly cool ideas, I decided "buggy with interchangeable grappling hooks" was the best fit at the time. Grapple Buggy For the last few months, the game I've been looking forward to hearing more from you about has been Grapple Buggy. How is progress there? Metaphorically, over a few months I got Grapple Buggy revved up and producing a satisfying roaring sound, but there were still a few clinks and clunks to be heard as the engine idled. It still needs some tuning there, and some rapping with the comically-sized wrench here. Right now, it’s in the shop, with some of its vital parts strewn about the floor. But the good news is this is all for a tighter driving experience in the future! Shoot 1UP Grapple Buggy aside, I have to admit I was a little surprised to find out that you had a second project in the works—and a shmup, no less! At this point, it's been released and is available on Xbox Live Indie for the incredible price of $1.00. What else can you tell us about it? Shoot 1UP is not only for shmup fans longing for a new variation on our treasured classics, but also for normal action gamers who feel side-lined by the ridiculous maneuvers required in recent bullet-hell style games. As you collect 1UPs, you gain new ships immediately, and while you do have to control a large phalanx of fighters, you also wield greater fire-power. There’s the “plasma auger” which forms once you spread your ships far enough apart, and there’s a temporary, bullet-clearing shield you can produce at any time you’re in for too-tight of a squeeze. If you do happen to get hit, each player ship detonates in an enormous explosion which wipes enemy shots, but also damages nearby attackers. The game features “Chilled” mode which is great for just taking it easy, and for non-shmuppers to enjoy (I’ve had a lot of playtesters claim they weren’t into shoot ‘em ups but were able to have fun with this mode). Harder campaign difficulties are available too, as well as the new “ScoreHore” mode. This allows you to play through the game continuously, building ship stats such as shield power, and increasing your score multiplier max. ScoreHore saves your progress including the last loop and area number, so you can quit or even die and come back where you left off. With your studio being on the smaller side, how do you have the time and resources to work on two different projects simultaneously? Are you using the mountain of cash you've accumulated from XBLI sales to fund your new development empire? Bahahaa…. Yeah, mountains of coins and they’re all mine! Honestly we’ve done okay compared to most of the Indie Games devs, but there are definitely some other higher grossers out there. It just goes to show if you find a new market not being served, you can definitely carve out a nice niche! As for Mommy’s Best, it’s a careful balance of family life and work. You can read about big developments on our company blog, and small achievements by following us on Twitter - @MommysBestGames. I’m really excited about Grapple Buggy and its potential, and I’d like it to have the proper time to breathe and grow. Shoot 1UP came about from taking time off and playing lots of shoot ‘em ups in the meantime, and finding inspiration in the Experimental Gameplay Project. With two projects in the works, are you making them both available on XBLI exclusively, or will you be hitting Sony and Nintendo as well? It’s a good, straight-forward environment to see how things do on Microsoft’s console before spending the time porting them. For now they’ll stay on the 360, but PC versions (limited by testing/compatibility issues) may be in the future. One last question, who are your intended audiences for each of your current titles? Are there certain segments of game-dom you're shooting for? Additionally, what would you say to ‘sell’ each of these titles to the people you think would enjoy them the most? I’m fighting for the gamer dads and … dadesses, or, “moms” as some call them. I’m specifically looking at gamers without tons of time that are ready to jump into an old-school adventure with great art, and interesting, new gameplay twists. Don’t squander your time on overly-long-tutorials and mind-numbing fetch quests. Lay your kids to bed and come play something new and interesting for a bit then go to sleep happy! So there you have it... Infinite thanks to Nathan and Mommy's Best. Be sure to check out Shoot 1Up NOW available on Xbox Live Indie, download Weapon of Choice if you haven't already (Seriously? You haven't yet?) and keep eyes peeled for Grapple Buggy, coming soon. 2 comments: to “ Interview with: Nathan Fouts of Mommy's Best Games, talking Grapple Buggy and Shoot 1UP ” Seriously Brad, how the hell do you manage to post a dozen times a week while playing all the games you review? Do you just pretend to play them and make up all the stuff? :P I gather you're a novelist and stuff as well which makes it particularly impressive. My secret: very little TV and a serious lack of sleep. ^_^ Lost Planet 2: Hands-On Multiplayer Preview 3D Dot Game Heroes, Chatroulette Piano 2, and Spli... Firewalker, Fragile Dreams, Patchwork Heroes, Idol... Teething, Risen, and Perfect Dark Redux The Slippery Slope of Consumer Respect and Disc Un... ECCC, Kirby Krackle Performs, Risen (360), Heavy C... Interview with: Nathan Fouts of Mommy's Best Games... Darwinia+, Risen, Some Links, and Heavy Rain Musings The PS3's Mystery Cock-Up	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line68
__label__wiki	0.566452	0.566452	logo logomark arrow icon-close icon-logo-gradient Skip to Navigation [enter] Skip to Footer [enter] Global Scores OHI+ Annual Scores and Rankings OHI at Work Sustaining Partners Resilience: Music To Our Ears Written By Dr. Steve Katona, Managing Director, Ocean Health Index Resilience is a big word for a familiar quality we all recognize: ‘bouncing back’. As Chumbawamba put it: “I get knocked down but I get up again. You’re never going to keep me down.” Have a listen. “Pick yourself up…take a deep breath…dust yourself off and start all over again” sang Ella Fitgerald, lyrics by Dorothy Field and music by Jerome Kern. Whether you sing about it or not, resilience gets more interesting the more you look into it. What’s more, it may be life’s most essential quality, the only thing that gets us through difficulties. We hope you enjoy this brief introduction to resilience, starting at high altitude with the role of social and ecological resilience at the global level and its role in the Ocean Health Index. Following that, if you are still aboard, we’ll investigate resilience evolved. Resilience Defined Lots of words and concepts converge to make resilience. Resilience has been defined in many ways. Here are useful definitions that apply at any scale. the capacity to withstand stress and catastrophe. Stockholm Resilience Center the capacity of a system to continually change and adapt yet remain within critical thresholds. Stockholm Resilience Center the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress. Stockholm Resilience Center the capacity of a system – be it a landscape, a coastal area or a city – to deal with change and continue to develop. This means the capacity to withstand shocks and disturbances such as a financial crisis or use such an event to catalyse renewal and innovation. Stockholm Resilience Center the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. Resilience Alliance Community resilience is the capability to anticipate risk, limit impact, and bounce back rapidly through survival, adaptability, evolution, and growth in the face of turbulent change. http://www.resilientus.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/definitions-of-community-resilience.pdf Unfortunately, measuring resilience is harder than defining it! Resilience in the Ocean Health Index The Ocean Health Index uses ‘resilience’ for factors that reduce the intensity of the ‘pressures’---those things that will make conditions worse in the future. Resilience improves the ability of the Index’s 10 goals (Figure 1) to sustainably deliver their ocean benefits to people (Halpern et al. 2012). The Index recognizes three kinds of resilience: ecological, social and institutional. Ecological resilience exists in natural communities and ecosystems, but is often not sufficient to withstand pressures caused by human activities. So ecosystem health also depends on the social resilience and institutional resilience demonstrated to varying degrees in human societies. How The Ocean Health Index Scores Resilience The amount of each benefit gained is compared with a sustainable reference point. The score is the average of present Status (the most recent value) and Likely Future Status (the probable change in Status during the next 5 years) as shown below. Likely Future Status depends on the trend of Status during the previous 5 years and the balance between Pressures and Resilience (Figure 2). http://www.ohi-science.org Each goal scores from 0 to 100. A score of 100 means that the evaluated system achieved its defined target (reference point) for that goal, is sustainably delivering all of the specified benefits and is likely to continue doing so in the near future. A score of 0 means that global data were available, but that the country either did not achieve any of the available benefits or that the benefits it did obtain were gained in an unsustainable manner. For each goal the Index measures several aspects of resilience: (1) ecological integrity is evaluated as the relative condition of assessed species in a given location and goal-specific regulations including laws and other institutional measures that address ecological pressures. (2) Social integrity describes the internal processes of a community that affect its resilience. Social integrity differs among nations. A nation’s successes or deficiencies affect both its own population and those of other nations, so projects have evolved to evaluate social aspects of resilience. The Ocean Health Index assesses social integrity with information from the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI). WGI evaluates how well governments exercise powers to benefit citizens and, indirectly environmental quality by assessing freedom of expression and citizens’ ability to select their government; political stability; absence of violence and terrorism; government effectiveness; quality of regulations; extent to which the rule of law prevails; and extent of corruption. World Governance Indicators A WGI score of 1 means that social integrity is the best it can be; and a score of 0 means that governance is completely ineffective, so that the country has no social Resilience. The full composite score for all six WGI indicators is used to evaluate social resilience for all of the Ocean Health Index goals except for Livelihoods; the Livelihoods goal only uses the WGI’s Regulatory Quality data layer, because it also uses the Global Competitiveness Index, which duplicates, but improves, the remaining WGI layers for this purpose. The Index also uses other composite measures of resilience for particular goals, including the Travel and Tourism Competitive Index and the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) that evaluates a country’s competitiveness in achieving sustained economic prosperity. Although resilience really should be judged by the effectiveness of its outcome, this is not possible at the global level. Therefore nations are given advanced credit for signing treaties, e.g. for conserving biodiversity or eliminating trade in endangered species, and for measures of social integrity. The assumption is that results from those beneficial actions and conditions will become visible in following years as increased scores for goal status and trend Investment Strengthens Resilience The scores for 212 countries and territories assessed by the Ocean Health Index in 2013 were positively correlated with scores published by the Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure of how well citizens achieve a long and healthy life (life expectancy), satisfactory education (years of schooling) and adequate standard of living (gross national income per capita). Human development doesn’t just happen by accident. It requires consistent investments in people throughout the life cycle. The likely results of such investments are a healthier, more educated citizenry better equipped to support themselves, participate in civic life and make more informed decisions, including conserving the natural environments that support their well-being. Food For Thought: Where Does Resilience Come From? Resilience exists everywhere Resilience simply is---everywhere! Even atoms and subatomic particles have it. They retain fundamental properties even when disturbed, only changing when they collide at the extreme temperature and pressure found in stars, nuclear reactors or particle accelerators. When that happens they reach a critical ‘tipping point’ and don’t bounce back: they are irreversibly transformed into other particles or waves. Materials too have resilience. Bonds between their atoms or molecules help materials like rubber, plastic, concrete and steel bounce back. Stretch them, compress them, douse them with water, drench them with salt spray or subject them to harsh sunlight and each responds differently, maintaining its shape, strength and function---up to a point. Push one too far and it reaches a tipping point, breaking and losing its original functions. Resilient cells Resilience may not need life, but life needs resilience. From cells to civilizations, resilience is the key to survival. Even the simplest forms of life, bacteria, blue-green algae and other single-celled organisms are laboratories of resilience. Each cell’s genome produces the structures and enzymes it needs to survive. Natural selection insures that the population always includes cells most tolerant of current environmental conditions, but waiting in the wings are others that may be more resilient when the next change comes. ‘Fitness’ is an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in a given environment; Resilience is its ability to adapt to environmental changes. Since change is intrinsic to most environments, organisms cannot remain fit for long unless they are resilient. An important lesson about resilience comes from a bacterium common on human skin and in our respiratory tract, Staphylococcus aureus. S. aureus is often harmless, but can take advantage of opportunities, including weakness of our own resilience, to multiply, spread and cause infections ranging from minor skin irritations to life-threatening or fatal infections of the brain, heart or other organs. Under the right conditions, the bacteria produce enzymes that clot blood, break down tissue, and prevent white blood cells from destroying them. Overuse of antibiotics in medicine and in the poultry and meat industries has selected for S. aureus individuals immune to penicillin and other commonly used antibiotics, giving rise to methicillin resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (MRSA) strains that produce potentially deadly infections. Figure 5. Scanning electron micrograph of methycillin resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (MRSA) bacteria ona dead neutrophil (white blood cell). © National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID). Staphylococcus aureus teaches us that resilience itself is amoral. It benefits the individual or group possessing it, but is not necessarily good or bad in any larger context. Cooperating cells build resilience Single-celled organisms have all their resilience in their genes, including the potential for environmental factors to modify gene expression (‘epigenetics’). In contrast, the tissues and organs present in multi-celled organisms bring new layers of resilience, including enhanced abilities to sense the environment, make decisions, resist pathogens, crawl or swim away from danger and many others. Individuals whose internal systems are coordinated most effectively are more likely to survive environmental challenges and leave the most offspring. Another important lesson emerges. In addition to the intra-organism cooperation that builds resilience in multi-celled organisms, there may also conflict. The same genes that build an individual’s reservoir of resilience can proclaim their own resilience even at the expense of their host. A gene mutation that promotes cancer multiplies rapidly to form a tumor, demonstrating its own resilience while harming the rest of the organism. The tumor’s ability to become resistant to chemotherapy also demonstrates selfish resilience. Resilience at each level of a system---gene, cell, organism, group, society, nation and beyond--- may or may not be in conflict with the interests of other levels. Figure 6. Green sea turtle in Hawaii with large benign fibropapillomastosis (FP) tumors caused by a virus. More common in green turtles than in other sea turtles, FP tumors can grow large enough to impede vision and swimming. Keller/National Institute of Standards and Measurment (NIST) Group resilience The genetic and experiential differences among individuals of a human or wild species form a pool of potential resilience. Pools differ among groups, so some may respond better than others to environmental changes. For example, every marine species has certain limits of tolerance for temperature, salinity, pressure, light intensity, etc. The sum of those tolerances describes the species’ ecological niche. The individuals comprising each species differ slightly in their own tolerances, but few if any can withstand the entire range of variables known for the species. However, there are nearly always some that can better withstand changes and they will carry the torch into the future as long as conditions do not exceed the boundaries of the species niche. Thus the resilience of each population or species is increased by the range of resilience within its individual members, but constrained by the overall tolerance of the species. Resilient ecosystems, small to enormous Did you know you that you are a resilient ecosystem? Each of us contains something like 100 trillion microbial cells in our gut, vagina, mouth, nose and on our skin, outnumbering our human cells by a factor of ten. Those microbes keep us healthy by fighting pathogens, helping to regulate our immune system, digest food and produce some vitamins that our tissues cannot. Similar mutualistic relationships probably occur in all animals and plants. The greater the number and variety of participants in an ecosystem, the more interesting resilience gets. In general, systems with more species present gain increased resilience, because if one declines, another may be able to replace some or all of its ecological roles. Tropical coral reefs have such high biological diversity and such complex species interactions that they are sometimes described as ‘superorganisms’, and Australia’s 2000 km long Great Barrier Reef has been called our planet’s largest living organism. Figure 7. Portion of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef along the Queensland coast at Cape Flattery. Figure 8. A variety of corals form an outcrop on Flynn Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 24 July 2010. Photo credit: Toby Hudson. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. All tropical corals depend on symbiotic microalgae that live in their tissues. The algae are very sensitive to elevated temperature and die or abandon the corals when sea temperature rises above their thermal limits, as is happening more frequently owing to global warming. This is called ‘bleaching’ because without their greenish-brown algae, the remaining coral is white. Corals usually recover if high temperature lasts less than a month and algae can recolonize them. If bleaching lasts longer or occurs frequently, seaweeds and other organism settle and may overgrow the reef and prevent larval corals from settling and recolonizing. Healthy populations of grazers, particularly parrotfish, eat the algae, clearing space for coral growth and resettlement. Dozens of such species interactions form the reef’s resilience network. Figure 9. Bleached branching coral (foreground) and normal branching coral (background). Keppel Islands, Great Barrier Reef Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. In today’s world, all species assemblages, including coral reefs, also includes humans either directly when we are present or indirectly through the lingering effects of our activities. For example, a coral reef’s ecology depends not only on the interactions of its composite species, but also on the very rapid rate of human-caused climate change, direct and indirect effects of fisheries, damage from habitat-destructive fisheries (explosives, cyanide), decreased water quality caused by pollution and sediment runoff from poor forestry practices and others. Coral reef organisms have very limited resilience to human-caused pressures. Some individuals and species may tolerate environmental insults better than others, but no natural resilience can reduce such pressures. Protective actions taken by people are a reef’s only ultimate source of resilience. Humans don’t usually take such actions just to preserve a reef for its existence value, but also to safeguard the its flow of benefits to people, including food, ornamental fishes for aquariums, medical products, tourism and others. So from the human perspective, preserving coral reefs is an expression of resilience. Add brains and stir Brains help! They accelerate resilience. Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, some dolphins and whales, wolves and other animals have evolved brains with robust memory and intellectual ability, empathy and strong maternal and social support systems. In such groups, personal experiences, psychological factors, interactions with other individuals, reciprocal altruism, altruism and other high level behaviors supplement genes and physiology to influence how well individuals—and the group itself-- bounce back from a setback. Individuals within a group generally help each other in various ways and with well-understood expectations. Figure 10. Humpback whalesin Alaska cooperate to catch fish more effectively by coordinating their dives, making bubble nets and carrying out a synchronized attack on the trapped schools. Marilyn Dahlheim NOAA/NMFS. See an extraordinary video of such behavior here The strong bonds between mothers and their children, nuclear families, extended families and friends support all individuals within a human or animal society, raising their resilience to most challenges, though the form and intensity of that support may differ between groups or cultures. Figure 11. A group ofchimpanzees in grooming and removing lice from each other at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, 23 July 2010. © Ikiwaner, GNU FreeDocumentation License, Version 1.2 Different unrelated groups--including humans, animals and sometimes humans and animals-- can also improve resilience by coming together for mutual aid and support or to assist or oppose other groups or causes. Here too resilience can reside in aberrant individuals or groups. Criminals, psychopaths, groups motivated by hate or others may be remarkably resilient even though harmful. The many dimensions of resilience can differ substantially among humans groups. For example, traditional Inuit communities have historically had the knowledge, social systems and physiology that enabled them to survive in the Arctic, one of our planet’s most intensely challenging habitats. But the Inuit had never had contact with Western diseases and had no resistance to them. As happened in other First Nation societies, when whalers from Russia, the U.S. or Europe introduced influenza, tuberculosis, measles, scarlet fever and others during the 1700s to 1900s, epidemics spread death, sometimes killing 90% of a village’s population. Conversely, though the westerners had immunity to those diseases, they had much less resilience than the Inuit to Arctic conditions. Resilient societies. As human settlements and societies grew larger, new pressures forced their citizens to develop new forms of resilience that transcended individuals, many groups and even species. Informal norms like reciprocity (the golden rule) slowly evolved into official codes of conduct, beginning with the Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu (about 2050 BC), Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (about 1750 BC) and later including the Principles of Confucius (about 500 BC), Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), Christian Bible (New Testament), Islam’s Quran and many newer documents. Figure 12. The first written code of laws, the Code of Ur Nammu from Sumeria, about 2050 BC. Clay tablet in Louvre Museum, Paris, Accession Number 5378. WikimediaCreative Commons License. Translation of the code is found here Such codes built more cohesive societies by proclaiming shared expectations, minimizing disruptions, encouraging individuals to help each other, establishing penalties for transgressions (murder, adultery, theft, lying, etc.) and encouraging help and charity for the less fortunate. As nation states arose, laws and regulations have steadily evolved to meet their needs. Physical manifestations of resilience also appeared, such as public works projects for worship, defense, transportation, water, sanitation and many others. As is the case for genes, species and individuals, resilience differs among nations and strong social resilience in one nation may hinder or harm others. A nation may show extraordinary social resilience while initiating and conducting wars with horrifying results for other peoples or countries. Similarly, leaders of a nation may use force, corruption, disinformation and other tools to deprive citizens of opportunities and basic rights, all the while displaying strong resilience at staying in power. Resilience in no man’s land What can support resilience in areas beyond any national jurisdiction? Tribal chiefs, princes, kings and presidents have historically signed treaties for waging war or regulating trade or access to resources, but it took the tragedy of World War I to stimulate the first attempt at collaboration among all countries, the League of Nations. Formed in 1920, the League was established to promote disarmament, prevent war, improve collective security and settle disputes by negotiation rather than warfare. World War II demonstrated its failure, but in 1945 the world tried again, forming the United Nations (UN). The UN’s main goal was to prevent another world war, but over time it has become the nucleus for international and planetary resilience through programs in peace and security, development, human rights, humanitarian affairs and international law. Figure 13. United Nations General Assembly Hall, UN Headquarters, New York. Photo credit: Basil D. Soufi. Wikimedia Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike The UN also organizes treaties such as the Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and programs such as the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals that aim to end poverty and hunger, build healthy lives and well-being, achieve gender equality and empower women and girls; ensure access to sustainable sources of water, sanitation, energy; reduce inequality; combat climate change; create safe and resilient cities and settlements; and use ocean and land sustainably. Though such engagements are entirely voluntary, most countries participate, and the Ocean Health Index considers such participation in calculating resilience scores. Resilience is our only safeguard against intolerable change. Our resilience is built from genes, experience, instinct, interactions with others, empathy, intelligence, memory, consciousness, foresight, education, cooperation and good governance. It is the only means we have for creating healthy sustainable societies and supporting the wild partners with whom we share the planet. Thirty years ago, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote a poignant description of resilience, ‘We Are the World’, recorded in 1985 for the USA for Africa Concert. We are the world, we are the children We are the ones who make a brighter day So let’s start giving There's a choice we're making We're saving our own lives Its true we'll make a better day Just you and me Three years later in Man in the Mirror, Jackson showed that building a better day begins at home: I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you want to make the world a better place Take a look at yourself, and then make a change. …You gotta get it right, while you got the time! Our species capacity for resilience has evolved at an accelerating rate over millions of years, but the images accompanying Man in the Mirror show how much we still lack. Thirty years have passed since that video was recorded. We should have listened harder and watched more closely then. Do it now! 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__label__wiki	0.851147	0.851147	Resume - David Landers DVM Library A Christmas Promise: A Novel On: October 14, 2007 By: admin Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub Downloadable formats: PDF The British Parliament - like that of most larger countries - is bicameral, that is there are two houses or chambers. No bidders and notified to clients who have left single or partial exercise of such right or remedy commission bids, or an announcement made by the shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that auctioneer either at the beginning of the sale, or before a particular lot is auctioned. or any other right or remedy. Publisher: Ballantine Books (October 27, 2009) ISBN: B0091JON0O A Bright New Day (Severn House Large Print) Winging It (90s) The Women in Black Poor Tom The Testament of Gideon Mack Mr Thundermug They knew that an incursion beyond the immediate border area was completely out of the question. Overall, the report reflected the deficiencies that existed within the army. The army assessors produced a realistic report of what the small, under-strength and under-equipped Irish military could accomplish—a brief, limited, short-term incursion across the border A Vintage Affair: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle). It went through two reprints and was used as a textbook in one or two courses despite being almost universally dismissed in the press. The 85 poets included are divided (ghettoised, some feel) into four separate editors' sections: Fred D'Agiuar ("Black British Poetry"); Gillian Alnutt ("Quote Feminist Unquote Poetry"); Eric Mottram ("A Treacherous Assault on British Poetry") and Ken Edwards ("Some Younger Poets") The Women in Black. Found guilty of nine murders, ten Mollies were hanged in 1876. This did not deter Irish involvement in American labor activities, however. Powderly (1849-1924), the son of an Irish immigrant, was for years leader of the Knights of Labor, the first national labor organization, which was founded in 1869 Mother to Mother. The organisation of local government in England is complex, with the distribution of functions varying according to local arrangements Bunker Man. It is the nature of power to hold to concepts of Absolute Reality, through which it controls, and to which it claims to be obedient: Necessity; Justice; Morality; Intelligibility; Art Lost Horizon: A Novel. Among the impressive cast are Robert Newton as Ancient Pistol, George Robey as Falstaff and Harcourt Williams as Charles VI. Olivier received a Special Academy Award in 1946 for bringing this film to the screen A Catered Affair. The Easter Uprising took place in April 1916 in Dublin and is one of the pivotal events in modern Irish history. At the end of the Easter Uprising, 15 men identified as leaders were executed at Kilmainham Jail Jane Eyre Laid Bare: The Classic Novel with an Erotic Twist. Download A Christmas Promise: A Novel pdf The Arts Review praised the ‘perfect form’ of his sculptures whereas the The Listener wrote, ‘there is a sense of ease and power one usually fnds only in you should read them carefully before doing so The Famished Road. A dowser is someone who can find supplies of water by instinct, perhaps magic. What do you think the relationship is between the narrator, the child and the dowser? What does the child feel about the dowser Saint Errant (The Saint Series)? Russell's administration believed that Irish wealth should relieve Irish poverty, and rejected the policy of direct state intervention or aid The House on Kyverdale Road. The concomitant disruptions relocate politics within everyday experience. Overall, such work opened up the possibility of an open poetry of exploration and even interrogation characterized by a play of possible meanings, rather than by the enunciation of a meaning forwarded by thesis, and initiated the gradual formulation of meaning as a construction of the reader's rather than of the writer's The Hawthorne Heritage. H.M.S. Unseen Your Roots Are Showing The Chymical Wedding In fact, Nathan had concluded that if anyone did participate in the uprising, the numbers would be small and those involved would be hopelessly disunited Sibyl's Cave. Consequently his lack of action is difficult to explain. During the winter of 1845-1846 Peel's government spent £100,000 on American maize which was sold to the destitute. The Irish called the maize 'Peel's brimstone' Blood Brothers: A Novel. University College Cork is creating an Atlas of Irish Names from the 1850s Griffith's Valuation A Spot of Bother. For these and other historiographical reasons the IRA’s relationship with the Nazis, as with other nationalist groups, is difficult to unpack objectively. That, however, is the historian’s unforgiving burden Friends at Thrush Green (Thrush Green Series #10). Here is my list of the novelists you must read to get up to snuff on British novel-writing. For authors who I perceive to already be big names in America — Ian MacEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel — I tried to focus on lesser-known books Time Stops At Shamli & Other Stories. The chief objection to any monolithic nationalism is that it cannot adequately deal with the diverse and competitive nationalisms present in Ireland Skin. Welsh people could be the oldest ethnic group in the UK. [341] A 2006 genetic study shows that more than 50% of England's gene pool contains Germanic Y chromosomes. [342] Another 2005 genetic analysis indicates that "about 75% of the traceable ancestors of the modern British population had arrived in the British isles by about 6,200 years ago, at the start of the British Neolithic or Stone Age", and that the British broadly share a common ancestry with the Basque people. [343] [344] [345] The UK has a history of small-scale non-white immigration, with Liverpool having the oldest Black population in the country dating back to at least the 1730s during the period of the African slave trade, [346] and the oldest Chinese community in Europe, dating to the arrival of Chinese seamen in the 19th century. [347] In 1950 there were probably fewer than 20,000 non-white residents in Britain, almost all born overseas. [348] Since 1948 substantial immigration from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia has been a legacy of ties forged by the British Empire. [349] Migration from new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe since 2004 has resulted in growth in these population groups, although some of this migration has been temporary. [350] Since the 1990s, there has been substantial diversification of the immigrant population, with migrants to the UK coming from a much wider range of countries than previous waves, which tended to involve larger numbers of migrants coming from a relatively small number of countries. [351] [352] [353] Academics have argued that the ethnicity categories employed in British national statistics, which were first introduced in the 1991 census, involve confusion between the concepts of ethnicity and race. [354] [355] In 2011 [update], 87.2% of the UK population identified themselves as white, meaning 12.8% of the UK population identify themselves as of one of number of ethnic minority groups. [356] In the 2001 census, this figure was 7.9% of the UK population. [357] Because of differences in the wording of the census forms used in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, data on the Other White group is not available for the UK as a whole, but in England and Wales this was the fastest growing group between the 2001 and 2011 censuses, increasing by 1.1 million (1.8 percentage points). [358] Amongst groups for which comparable data is available for all parts of the UK level, there was considerable growth in the size of the Other Asian category, which increased from 0.4 to 1.4% of the population between 2001 and 2011. [356] [357] There was also considerable growth in the Mixed category The Happy Highwayman (The Saint Series). Juliet Rising (Black Lace) Housing Lark: A Novel (Three Continents Press) Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans Balcony of Europe Summertime: A Novel The Forgotten Story The Very Picture of You: A Novel Rough Music Cabin Fever: A Novel MacNeill made it clear that the ‘success which is calculated. .. must be success in the operation itself, not merely some future or moral political advantage which may be hoped for as the result of non-success.’ In other words, the important question of whether the Rising was intended to overthrow British rule or merely to register a ‘bloody protest’ in an effort to revive the physical force tradition was debated by advanced nationalists before the Rising took place When We Were Orphans. By Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston and David Jenkins, with Derek Adams, Geoff Andrew, Adam Lee Davies, Gareth Evans, Paul Fairclough and Wally Hammond. 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__label__cc	0.663076	0.336924	Wes Kennedy Athbasca, Canada Military Fitness, CrossFit Wes developed his passion for fitness during his eight years in the Canadian Forces. He spent the last five years as a Special Forces Operator, which required him to develop into a mentally tough and physically robust individual. Wes believes that every person goes through various levels of growth throughout their lives, but they all follow the same general cycle. They aspire to achieve something beyond which they are capable of in that moment. They then grow, learn, and develop themselves in pursuit of these goals. And by doing this repeatedly over time, they begin to excel not only at these various skill sets, but at life as a whole. Wes’s goal is to provide a system to coach and mentor people through this process as effectively as possible. While he trains people for physical performance goals, he incorporates aspects of assessment, nutrition coaching, stress management and lifestyle practices, as well as individualized program design so each athlete experiences much more than just great fitness results. Wes provides a first-class remote coaching experience to athletes in Canada, the United States, and around the world. He believe the individual comes first, and that coaches should not push their wants and needs onto the athlete, but rather help the athlete discover his or her own path in the world of fitness by listening to and guiding the athlete on his or her journey. Wes specializes in training CrossFit athletes and Special Forces candidates. All Articles By Wes Kennedy Phase 3 Special Forces Prep: Endurance, Rucking, and Swimming Whether you want to join Special Forces or train at this level, this nine-month program uses an intelligent progression incorporating injury-proofing, strength, stamina, and toughness training. Phase 2 Special Forces Prep: Strength, Skill Work, Aerobic Power Phase 1 Special Forces Prep: Structural Balance, Strength, Aerobic Base This six-month program uses an intelligent progression incorporating injury-proofing, strength, stamina, and toughness training. Introducing the Special Forces Workouts (and a Must-Read FAQ) The Special Forces workouts for current and aspiring operators start today. This FAQ will help you get the most out of the program.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line79
__label__wiki	0.725414	0.725414	Journal of Materials Research (1) Microstructure and 1000–1400 K mechanical properties of cryomilled NiAl–0.7Zr J. D. Whittenberger, A. Garg, Mohan G. Hebsur Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 14 / Issue 6 / June 1999 An attempt has been made to improve the intermediate temperature strength of cryomilled NiAl by utilizing third element solid solution or precipitation strengthening mechanisms. To this end an NiAl–0.7 (at.%) Zr alloy was cryomilled, densified by hot extrusion, and tested between 1000 and 1400 K. Although over 3 wt% nitrogen was introduced via cryomilling, mechanical testing revealed that the cryomilled NiAl–0.7Zr was significantly weaker than the base alloy between 1000 and 1200 K. Chemical and microstructural analyses revealed that, in addition to ∼ 16 vol% AlN, all the Zr had been converted into ZrN. A thermodynamic analysis of cryomilling indicated that the formation of ZrN could have been anticipated since it is a more stable nitride than AlN. While Zr was an unsatisfactory addition in NiAl, thermodynamics also suggest several alloying elements that might lead to good intermediate temperature strength after cryomilling. Microstructure, Creep and Fracture Toughness of Directionally Solidified NiAl/(Cr,Mo) Alloys Modified with Hf, Si, Ta, Ti Additions I. E. Locci, S. V. Raj, J. D. Whittenberger, J. A. Salem, D. J. Keller Journal: MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 552 / 1998 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011, KK8.1.1 A statistical design of experiments (DOE) strategy was implemented to optimize alloys based on the Ni-33AI-31Cr-3Mo eutectic system using small amounts of potential strengthening elements (Hf, Si, Ta, Ti). Following the analysis of the DOE results, several alloys were selected for directionally solidification (DS) utilizing a modified Bridgeman technique. The as-grown alloys were microstructurally examined by optical and scanning electron microscopy. They were also evaluated for fracture toughness at room temperature and compressive properties at 1300K. The microstructures and mechanical properties of these DS DOE alloys are discussed and compared to the directionally solidified Ni–33Al–3lCr–3Mo base composition. Microstructural Characterization of Creep Tested Cryomilled NiAl-13vol. % AlN A. Garg, J. D. Whittenberger, B. J. M. Aikin Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011, 231 Cryomilling of prealloyed NiAl powders, followed by extrusion, has been used to produce a particulate strengthened NiAl-13vol.% AlN material. At 1300 K, the compressive strain rate-flow stress diagram has two distinct deformation regimes, with the transition occurring near 150 MPa. The low and the high stress regimes have power law creep exponents of ∼ 6.1 and 14.2, respectively. Microstructural characterization of the as-extruded and tested samples has been performed to develop an understanding of the superior mechanical properties of the material. The microstructure of the as-extruded material was inhomogeneous and consisted of mantle regions containing a mixture of small NiAl grains (diameter ∼ 50–150 nm) and fine AlN particles (size ∼ 5–50 nm) that surround larger NiAl grains (diameter ∼ 0.3–8.0 μm) which were mostly particle free. In the low-stress regime, samples tested to steady state exhibited a structure composed of subgrain boundaries in the particle-free NiAl grains. In addition, some of the subgrains had developed a well defined dislocation network. AlN patricles occasionally found within large NiAl grains acted as pinning centers for dislocations. Small NiAl grains and the AlN particles constituting the mantle coarsened during these tests. In the high-stress regime, samples tested to steady state exhibited a high density of dislocations in most of the particle-free NiAl grains. Subgrain boundaries were found occasionally but dislocation networks were rare. The AlN particles had not significantly coarsened due to the shorter times at temperature. 1200 K Compressive Properties of N-Containing Nial J. Daniel Whittenberger, R. D. Noebe, D. R. Wheeler As part of a series of experiments to understand the role of N on the strength of NiAl, a heat of NiAl was enriched with N by melting and atomization to powder in a nitrogen atmosphere. Following consolidation of the powder by hot extrusion, 1200 K compressive properties were measured in air. Within the range of strain rates examined, 10−3 to 10−9 s−1, the strength of the N-enriched NiAl was greater than that of a simple 15 µm grain size polycrystalline, binary NiAl alloy. For the most part the overall improvement in strength is ascribed to the fine grain size of the N-doped NiAl rather than the alloy chemistry; however, the alloy displayed a complex behavior exhibiting both weakening effects as well as strengthening ones. NiAl-Base Composite Containing High Volume Fraction of Aln Particulate for Advanced Engines Mohan G. Hebsur, J. D. Whittenberger, C. E. Lowell, A. Garg Cryomilling of prealloyed NiAl containing 53 at. % AJ was carried out to achieve high nitrogen levels. The consolidation of cryomilled powder by extrusion or hot pressing/hot isostatic pressing resulted in a fully dense NiAl-base composite containing 30 vol. % of inhomogeneously distributed, nanosized AlN particulate. The NiAl-30AlN composite exhibited the highest compression yield strengths at all temperatures between 300 and 1300 K as compared with other compositions of NiAl-AlN composite. The NiAl-30AlN specimens tested under compressive creep loading between 1300 and 1500 K also exhibited the highest creep resistance with very little surface oxidation indicating also their superior elevated temperature oxidation resistance. In the high stress exponent regime, the strength is proportional to the square root of the AlN content and in the low stress exponent regime, the influence of AlN content on strength appears to be less dramatic. The specific creep strength of this material at 1300 K is superior to a first generation Ni-base single crystal superalloy. The improvements in elevated temperature creep strength and oxidation resistance have been achieved without sacrificing the room temperature fracture toughness of the NiAl-base material. Based on its attractive combination of properties, the NiAl-30AlN composite is a potential candidate for advanced engine applications. The Stability of B2 Compounds in Ti-Modified Nb-Al Alloys J. Shyue, D-H. Hou, S.C. Johnson, M. Aindow, H.L. Fraser Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1992, 243 It has been found that additions of Ti to Nb3Al results in the formation of phases with the B2 crystal structure in as-cast samples. The microstructure and phase stability of two alloys, namely Nb-15Al-10Ti and Nb-15Al-40Ti (in at.%), have been studied. Heat-treatment of the Nb-15Al-10Ti alloy at 1100°C results in the precipitation of an A15 phase in the B2 matrix. A particular orientation relationship exists between the two phases. Heat-treatment above 1600°C results in the dissolution of the second phase. The ALCHEMI technique has been employed to assess qualitatively the distribution of atom types over the two sublattices of the B2 compound. Fracture During High Temperature Deformation of A Ti-44A1-3V-7.5v/o TiB2 XD™ Composite D. Zhao, J. J. Valencia, K. G. Anand, S. J. Wolff Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1992, 1069 High temperature compression workability tests have been performed on a Ti-44a/oA1-3a/oV- 7.5v/oTiB2 XD™ composite over a range of temperatures (1273 to 1473 K), strain rates (10−3 to 10 s−1), and interrupted strains. Three types of specimen configurations were used in the tests. Fracture caused by secondary tensile stress at the surface of the specimens was investigated in terms of crack initiation and propagation. The fractured specimens were analyzed using both optical and SEM microscopy. Cracks started at the equator of the specimens and propagated into the specimens through their longitudinal axis. The fracture mode varied with temperature and strain rate. At the lowest temperature (1273 K) and the lower strain rate (0.1 s−1), the fracture was transgranular with a crack arrester type. At the lowest and intermediate temperatures (1273 and 1373 K) and the highest strain rate (10 s−1), intergranular cracks were observed. At the highest temperature (1473 K) and the highest strain rate (10 s−1), transgranular failures with delamination and crack divider types were observed. Extrusion Textures in NiAl and Reaction Milled NiAl/AlN Composites T. R. Bieler, R. D. Noebe, J. D. Whittenberger, M. J. Luton Extrusion textures in monolithic NiAl and an NiAl/AlN particle composite are compared. The NiAl has a generally increasing grain size with extrusion temperature, and a corresponding transition from <110> to <111> fiber texture. The results suggests that <110> is more closely related to the deformation texture, while the <111> is a recrystallization orientation formed by preferential growth. The composite exhibits <311> fiber texture, and this is consistent with slip in <100> directions. The effect of the AlN particles is to prevent the orientation changes observed in the monolithic NiAl during recrystallization. Effects of Strain Rate and Prestraining on Tensile Behavior of Duplex Gamma Titanium Aluminides D. S. Shih, D. S. Schwartz, J. E. O'Neal The effects of strain rate and prestraining on tensile behavior of two-phase (γ+α2) titanium aluminides at 20 and 730°C have been investigated. At 20°C the elongation remains at about 1.4% as the strain rate increases from 5ȕ10−5 to 5ȕ10−2 s−1 and it drops to nearly zero at 5ȕ10−1s−1. At 730°C ( i.e.above DBTT) the plastic strain is about 13% when tested at 5ȕ10−5s−1, while it reduces significantly to less than 3% at 5ȕ10−4 and 5ȕ10−2 s−1. Again, the elongation is about zero at the highest strain rate tested, 5ȕ10−1 s−1. Regardless of the strain rate, fracture by an intergranular mode of the primary equiaxed γ appears to increasingly dominate as temperature changes from 20 to 730°C. Introduction of prior plastic deformation by prestraining beyond yielding at 945°C obviously increases the 20°C yield stress, however, with little influence on ductility. Transmission electron microscopy reveals that a number of dislocation loops are produced during prestraining. These loops are generally immobile resulting in the observed increase of flow stress and unchanged ductility. Hip Synthesis of Two-Phase MO-TI-SI Alloys D. S. Schwartz, R. J. Lederich, D. A. Deuser The possibility of producing novel microstructures in MoSi2 materials was examined by HIP reacting MoSi2 and Ti powders at 1400°C/207MPa to produce a two-phase MoSi2-based alloy. The HIP reaction produced MoSi2 + hexagonal (Mo0.42, Ti0.58)5Si3- The (Mo0,42.Ti0.58)5Si3 was composed of 0.5µm diam., equiaxed grains, and the average MoSi2 grain size was reduced by the reaction. Preliminary compression testing showed no loss of strength compared to single-phase MoSi2, and two-phase specimens were compressible to 24% strain without any cracking. The (Mo0.42,Ti058)5Si3 phase appeared to be plastically undeformable even at 1400°C. Microstructure/Property Relations in Ain and Al2O3 Particulate Strengthened NiAl. M. G. Hebsur, J. D. Whittenberger, R. M. Dickerson, B. J. M. Aikin The primary objective of this investigation was to confirm previous results on AIN particulate strengthened NiAI (J. Mater. Res 5, 271(1990)) produced by cryomilling and to determine if cryomilling modified to produce NiAI containing fine Al2O3 particles would also yield a material with equally attractive strength levels. Compression tests conducted on NiAI-AIN at a strain rate of 1.2 × 10−4 s−1 between 300-1300 K and as a function of strain rate at 1300 K indicated that its strength was comparable to previously produced material. While the NiAl-Al2O3 material was stronger than unreinforced NiAI at lower temperatures, at 1300 K it exhibited strength levels commensurate with fine grain sized NiAI. At all test temperatures and strain rates NiAI-AIN exhibited higher strengths compared to either NiAI-AI2O3 or unreinforced NiAI. Energy of Planar Faults as a Function of Composition in Binary and Ternary Tial Alloys C. Woodward, J. M. MacLaren, D. M. Dimiduk Establishing the chemical dependence of thermally activated processes which govern plasticity in intermetallic alloys requires that the dislocation dissociation reactions be determined as a function of composition. A major parameter governing such reactions is the relative fault stability as a function of composition. Here the results of first principles electronic structure calculations, using the layer Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method, are reported for planar faults in γ TiAl at various compositions. The influence of dilute substitutional impurities on the fault energies is treated using the coherent potential approximation. The variation of fault energies as a function of binary composition (TixAl1−x where 52≤x≤49) and the addition of transition metals (Cr, Mn and Nb at 2% concentration) are presented. The influence of this chemical dependence on the stability of <101] super-dislocations is discussed, along with expected trends in the flow stress behavior. Phase Stability of MoSi2 with Cr Additions P. S. Frankwicz, J. H. Perepezko, D. L. Anton The phase stability of MoSi2 with Cr additions has been investigated in order to explore the issues of ternary solubility and structural stability of MoSi2- The solidification microstructure of MoSi2-rich alloys, along the MoSi2-CrSi2 ternary section, displays a two phase mixture of primary MoSi2 (C11b) and intercellular ternary CrSi2 (C40). The development of the phase equilbria between the C11b and C40 disilicides, as observed in this system, is characteristic of a broad class of intersilicide reactions involving MoSi2. The issues of chemical reactivity and structural stability of MoSi2 composite designs underscores the importance of phase equilibria investigations. The solubility of Cr in annealed MoSi2 was observed to be on the order of 3 atomic percent. Past studies demonstrated that Ti and Ta have limited solution in MoSi2; the minor solubility of Cr in MoSi2 corroborates the trend of limited solubility of transition metals in the MoSi2 (C11b) structure. The relatively small changes in the lattice parameters of MoSi2 with Cr additions point to an inability of the C11b disilicide structure to accommodate the lattice perturbation resulting from solute atoms. The observations of this investigation suggest that the phase stability of MoSi2 is primarily controlled by geometrical factors. Segregation to and Phase Transition at Σ5 (310)/[001] Tilt Grain Boundaries in Ni3−xAl1+x Alloys R. Najafabadi, D. J. Srolovitz The free energy simulation method and EAM type potentials are employed to study segregation to the Σ5 (310)/[001] tilt grain boundary and its free energy in ordered Ni3−xAl1+x alloys. For 300K≤T≤900K, there is weak Al and Ni segregation to the grain boundary in the stoichiometric and Ni-rich (76.6 at. %) alloys, respectively. In the Al-rich (73.5 at. %) alloy, however, there is strong Al segregation. Al segregation induces the formation of a thin, orderedx AlNi layer at the boundary. The width of this layer grows as the temperature is decreased to approximately 6 Å at 300K. The grain boundary segregation decreases the grain boundary free energy by less than 10% in the stoichiometric and Ni-rich alloys, and by 30% in the Al-rich alloys, respectively. These results suggest a new model to explain the observed brittleness of grain boundaries in polycrystalline Ni3Al. In this model, the brittleness of Ni3Al alloys is attributed to the formation of an intrinsically brittle, thin AlNi layer at grain boundaries. This brittle layer can be removed by increasing the grain boundary Ni content - either by changing the alloy composition or due to cosegregation with B. Evidence of Inherent Ductility in Single Crystal NiAl J. E. Hack, J. M. Brzeski, R. Darolia, R. D. Field The ductility and fracture toughness of single crystal NiAl have been studied as functions of thermal treatments at moderate and high temperatures. The data indicate that fast cooling through the temperature range 400°C - 20°C results in a material with a tensile elongation of 7% and a fracture toughness in the range of 13 -17 MPam1/2. It is concluded that prior reports of brittle behavior in single crystal NiAl may be a result of strain-age embrittlement, similar to that observed in mild steels. The data strongly suggest that ductility and toughness in NiAl are more strongly dependent upon mobile dislocation density rather than on the inherent mobility of dislocations in the ordered lattice. Similar behavior may also be possible in other intermetallic compounds. Effects of Elevated Temperature Hydrogen Exposure on the Microstructure of α 2- and γ-Based Titanium Aluminide Alloys D. S. Schwartz, R. J. Lederich, W. B. Yelon, Y.-Y. Tang, S. M. L. Sastry Ti-25Al, Ti-25Al-10Nb-2V, and Ti-25Al-10Nb-3V-1Mo (at. %) α2-based alloys, and Ti-48Al and Ti-52Al γ-based alloys were exposed to gaseous hydrogen at elevated temperatures. A novel ternary hydride was observed in Ti-25Al and Ti-25Al-10Nb-3V-1Mo, identified as Ti3AlH. A highly faulted ternary hydride was seen in two phase α2 + γ Ti-48Al which did not have the crystal structure or chemistry of any known Ti- or Ti-Al-hydride. Very fine, oriented, needle-shaped hydrides were observed in single-phase γ Ti-52Al. Microstructure Evolution and Texture Development in Hot-Rolled Super α2 Titanium Aluminide C. J. Yu, D. Zhao, J. J. Valencia, P. K. Chaudhury Textural and microstructural changes in super α2 titanium aluminide (Ti-14Al-20Nb-3.2V-2Mo in wt%) subjected to hot-rolling process were investigated. X-ray pole figure measurements on sheet specimens were conducted to quantify the crystallographic texture development during the hot-rolling process. Results show strong texture development in both the α2and β phases. High temperature compression tests at various strain rates were conducted on specimens taken from hot-rolled plates, and the microstructural changes induced by the deformation were examined using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Results indicated that deformation at low strain rates retains the hot rolled microstructure with elongated and strongly aligned α2 phase. At higher strain rates, the characteristic α2 phase appears to break down into equiaxed and/or recrystallized grains during deformation. Furthermore, results are correlated between the macroscopic orientations of texture components and the local orientations of α2 phase. Ductile-to-Brittle Transition in MoSi2 S. R. Srinivasan, R. B. Schwarz, J. D. Embury We have studied the mechanical behavior of two fine grained MoSi2 alloys containing 0.61 at% (0.19 wt%) and 0.29 at% (0.09 wt%) oxygen, respectively. By preparing these alloys in almost identical fashion, their only difference was their oxygen content. The mechanical behavior was studied by four-point flexure tests in unnotched specimens between 800°C and 1400°C. We interpret the mechanical behavior data in terms of Davidenkov diagrams which describe the dependence of the apparent ductile-to-brittle transition temperature on the SiO2 content in the alloys. Intermetallic/Metallic Polyphase In-Situ Composites D. R. Johnson, S. M. Joslin, B. F. Oliver, R. D. Noebe, J. D. Whittenberger Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011, 87 To evaluate various in-situ reinforcement schemes, a computer controlled containerless directional solidification system has been used to produce NiAl-based polyphase composites containing up to two intermetallic phases and at least one ductile phase. Systems evaluated include Ni-Al-Cr, Ni-Al-Mo, Ni-Al-V ternary systems that form NiAl/α-refractory metal eutectics and a three phase eutectic in the Ni-Al-Cr-Nb system. Initial screening of these in-situ composites has included morphological characterization, four point bend testing, temperature dependent yield strength evaluation and compressive creep testing. Occasional growth defects termed “banding” currently interrupt the continuity of these composite structures and limit the attainment of optimum properties. However, both the creep strength and toughness of NiAl were improved by in-situ reinforcement. Compression, Bend, and Tension Studies on Forged Al67Ti25Cr8 and Al66Ti25Mn9 L12 Compounds K.S. Kumar, S. A. Brown, J.D. Whittenberger Cast, homogenized, and isothermally forged aluminum-rich L12 compounds Al87Ti25Cr8 and Al66Ti25Mn9 were tested in compression as a function of temperature and as a function of strain rate at elevated temperatures (1000K and 1100K). Three-point bend specimens were tested as a function of temperature in the range 300K to 873K. Strain gages glued on the tensile side of the ambient and 473K specimens enabled direct strain measurements. A number of “buttonhead” tensile specimens were electro-discharge machined, fine polished, and tested between ambient and 1073K for yield strength and ductility as a function of temperature. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) examination of fracture surfaces from both the bend and tensile specimens revealed a gradual transition from transgranular cleavage to intergranular failure with increasing temperature.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line84
__label__wiki	0.938403	0.938403	In Tulsa, fears that Trump rally may worsen racial unrest, spread of coronavirus Jun 18, 2020 covid19 By Jarrett Renshaw and Ernest Scheyder TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – When President Donald Trump takes the stage at his first rally in three months on Saturday night, the scene in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be familiar: a large venue filled with ardent supporters wearing “Keep America Great” hats and T-shirts. But outside the 19,199-seat arena is a country reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic, an economic collapse and a wave of protests over police brutality and racial injustice, a trio of crises that have dented his support just months before the Nov. 3 election. Trump’s campaign advisers believe the rally is a way to rejuvenate his base and display the enthusiasm behind his re-election bid, at a time when a string of national and state opinion polls have shown Trump falling behind his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. But even some Republican allies worry that his divisive rhetoric and unapologetic appeal to his conservative base may appear increasingly out of step with changing public opinion in the aftermath of last month’s killing of George Floyd, a black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis. “His style and message won’t change, but the world has. I don’t know if he can get to places that people now care about,” said Amy Koch, a Republican strategist based in Minnesota, a battleground state Trump narrowly lost in 2016 and aims to flip this year. In Tulsa, officials said they were worried the rally would set the stage for potential clashes between Trump supporters and protesters who may try to crash the event to argue the Republican president has failed to address racial injustice or police brutality against African Americans. Trump has positioned himself as a “law-and-order” president and advocated a militarized response to the protests, calling on states to crack down on the unrest. Residents have also been rattled by the prospect of a large, indoor gathering – the biggest such event in the United States since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, at a time when Oklahoma, along with other states, has reported a new spike in COVID-19 cases. “Ultimately, the president doesn’t ask for permission before he” goes places, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican, said during a briefing on Wednesday. “So we found out that the president was coming, so we are going to make sure it’s the best and the safe as possible.” Stitt, who is expected to introduce the president at the rally, said he will visit the White House on Thursday after he gets tested for the virus. Trump initially decided to hold the Tulsa rally on Friday, June 19, the holiday known as Juneteenth that marks the end of U.S. slavery in 1865. In an unusual move, Trump rescheduled it to Saturday, June 20, after public backlash over the plan to hold a rally on Juneteenth in a city known for one of the nation’s bloodiest race massacres, in 1921. Alicia Andrews, chairwoman of Oklahoma’s Democratic Party, said her phone had been ringing off the hook from supporters inquiring about potential anti-Trump events. The change in the date did nothing to dampen enthusiasm among supporters who want to protest against Trump, she said. Andrews said there would be many such events but that they were in the planning stages. Any event would be outside and not at the arena, she added. The prospect of clashes worries officials such as Tulsa City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper. “I fear for my community,” said Hall-Harper, whose husband is a police officer. A group of city residents and business owners sought a temporary injunction against the company that manages the arena, arguing the rally posed a “deadly risk” to the community, according to a lawsuit filed in Tulsa County. A judge denied the request on Tuesday, court records showed. ONE MILLION TICKETS The campaign said more than 1 million people had signed up for tickets for the rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa. It is the first event the arena will have held in months. “It’s clear the campaign wants this event to be huge and people are working hard to avoid any problems,” one Trump adviser said, requesting anonymity to speak freely. “For all practical purposes, this is the restart of the Trump 2020 campaign.” But health officials fear such a large crowd in a closed venue – particularly if there is not widespread usage of masks – could become a “superspreader” for the virus, which has infected more than 2.1 million people in the United States and killed more than 116,000, the most of any country. More than a dozen black community leaders, activists and ministers who spoke to Reuters this week said they feared in particular for the arena workers, most of whom are elderly African Americans, a demographic that public health experts warn is extremely susceptible to the virus. “The president’s rally here just seems to make the threat of coronavirus even more real and frightening from my perspective,” said the Rev. Ray Owens of Tulsa’s Metropolitan Baptist Church. Trump’s advisers have argued the recent huge protests in U.S. cities make it harder for liberals to criticize him for holding a rally. The campaign plans to hand out masks and hand sanitizer to attendees before they enter the arena, although they will not be required to maintain social distancing or wear masks. Attendees must sign a waiver that they will not sue Trump or the campaign if they contract the virus. “We have not seen this many people gather in one place in a long time, so it’s hard to predict. 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__label__cc	0.628702	0.371298	I bought myself a 2005 Lotus Elise for my 35th birthday (December 23, 2005). I've always wanted an exotic car. I never expected to be able to afford a new one. (Click on the picture to see more pictures.) The Elise has several things going for it that convinced me: Relatively inexpensive Relatively inexpensive to maintain Looks exotic Fun to drive Dealer test-drive going 100 mph There aren't a lot of options to choose on an Elise. I went with a metallic grey paint, the touring package, and an anti-chip paint coating. The touring package consists of power windows, leather seats, sound dampening, carpet (approximately 2.5 square feet), and MP3 functionality on the CD player. It adds 22 pounds to the weight of the car. This car is all about performance and driving. It sounds fast, it looks fast and exotic, and it handles great. It's extremely fun to drive. Top speed is 150 mph. I doubt that I'll ever get it that fast, but I'll have a lot of fun trying. The official 0-60 rating is 4.9 seconds. Engine: 1.796 L, inline 4 cylinder (manufactured by Toyota) Engine power: 190 hp, 138 ft-lb torque Engine valves: DOHC, 16-valve VVTLi (2nd set of valves opens at 6000 rpm) Redline: 8000 rpm Chassis: epoxy-bonded aluminum alloy Brakes: 4 anti-lock disc brakes Tires: 16-inch front, 17-inch rear Weight: 2011 lb Width: 1.719 m (5' 8") (excluding mirrors) Length: 3.785 m (12' 5") Height: 1.117 m (3' 8") Wheelbase: 2.300 m (90.55") Ground clearance: 135 mm (5.3") Fuel efficiency: 23/27 mpg (I'm getting about 24-26) VIN: SCCPC11145HL34817 The Elise is cheaper than all but the low-end Corvette (if you get the 'Vette with no options). It's cheaper than a Porsche Boxster S, and about the same as a "regular" Boxster. It's faster off the line than all of those. High-end Porsche 911 models would kick its butt though, as will the Corvette ZO6. The Elise holds the Motortrend record for slalom speed, besting even Ferraris. That's really its forte – handling curves. The car sits very low to the ground. I look up at Geo Metros and Mini Coopers. Sitting inside the car feels a lot like being in an MG. Here's what Edmunds has to say about the (2006) Elise: With its quick reflexes, remarkable grip and laser-sharp steering, the Elise delivers a truly unique driving experience, but perhaps the most appealing aspect of this astonishing automobile is a base price well below $50,000. That makes the most fun exotic car out there the most affordable exotic car out there. If you want the purest, most focused driving experience you can buy, the Elise is the ticket. WeatherShield cover (grey) from Sector 111. Cup holders from Sector 111. Did you really buy this? Yes. I bought it new from the dealer. How much did it cost? Less than you might think. About the same as a low-end Corvette, or a Porsche Boxster. What's the best thing about the car? 1. The power burst at 6000 rpm when the 2nd set of valves kick in. 2. The attention it attracts. What's the worst thing about the car? 1. It's so small, and hard to get in and out of. 2. Not much in the way of creature comforts. Sure, given safe conditions. I'd love to get it on the track and really let loose. Can I ride in it? Sure. Just buy me lunch, or dinner, or a beer or something. Can I drive it? No. I'm not ready for that yet. My brother will be the first person I let drive it. Plus, it's quite a bit different than driving a "regular" car. Do you have a garage? No. I live in an apartment. I keep it under a cover most of the time. Why didn't you wait to buy it? Because I can afford it now, and to wait would mean missing out on enjoying it while I'm young enough to still really enjoy it. Plus, I did wait until now to buy it. And I waited until there was no longer a waiting list (and a premium above list price). How fast is it? Fast! You really have to experience it to understand. Where did you buy it? There's only 1 dealer in town (listed below). The next 3 closest dealers are in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Denver. What's the fastest you've driven it? I've taken it up to 120 mph in 4th gear, which was at the red-line. It's a crazy feeling to be going 120 miles an hour, and knowing you've got 2 more gears to go. How many of these are there? The dealer said he sells about 60 a year. Maybe 10 of those stay in the St. Louis area. I've only seen 2 others on the roads. The Elise has only been sold in the US since 2004. About 2500 are imported each year. I'm not sure how many are sold world-wide. Annoyances It's very difficult to get in and out of, especially with the roof on. The radio reception is horrible. The trunk seems to leak a bit when it rains. You can feel the road a lot more than in the test-drive model. Pot-holes are really rough! The pedals are a bit too small and close together. The alarm remote doesn't work from more than a few feet away. They expected me to "take it easy" for the first 600 miles. I'll be making (large) payments for 5 years. Midrivers Lotus and Pre-Owned Super Center 5160 N. Service Road St. Peters, MO 63376 Salesman: Steve Brown Service Manager: Mike Belpulsi Spanky N The Gang 2035 Ashby @ Lackland Overland, MO 63134 $12.50 for a hand wash Open Monday-Saturday 7-7, Sunday 9-5 Maintenance Journal 2005-12-23 Purchased with 17 miles on the odometer. 2005-12-26 Car alarm woke me up at 5:00 AM. I think I must have left the "dome" light on, causing the battery to drain down and set the alarm off. I had to go outside to stop the alarm. The car started just fine later. 2005-12-26 Read through the entire owner's manual. 2005-12-26 Couldn't get the gear-shift to shift into reverse. Was able to coast backwards in neutral. Took me some serious fiddling to get the reverse gate to open. I've had some similar difficulty with it since, but usually get it to open eventually. 2005-12-26 First fuel stop @ 200 miles: 183 mi / 7.627 gal = 24.0 mpg. 2005-12-28 Almost got my first ticket. I was playing cat and mouse with a Mustang. He was keeping up with me. We'd slow down to 50, then up to 80, then slow down when we caught up with traffic. When we caught up with traffic, an unmarked cop car behind me flashed his lights. Luckily, he already had someone in the passenger seat and someone in the back. 2005-12-28 Got leather driving gloves from Laura. 2005-12-29 Purchased weather-proof cover and cup-holders from Sector111. 2005-12-31 Removed driver-side sun visor. It's only 3 inches tall, and doesn't block the sun much. It was doing a good job of blocking my view of stop lights though. 2006-01-03 Drove car to work for the first time. 2006-01-03 Hit a pothole and/or curb on way into my apartment complex. Thought I'd busted something it sounded so loud, but I couldn't find any damage. The service tech said the wishbone is scraped up pretty bad, but unless the tires start to wear irregularly, it's OK. 2006-01-04 First ticket: 59 in a 40 on Lindbergh at Adie, right near my apartment on the way home from work. 2006-01-04 Fuel stop @ 418 miles: 218.5 miles / 8.783 gal = 24.9 mpg. 2006-01-06 Received the weather-proof cover and cup-holders from Sector111. Installed one of the cup-holders. It's a little odd, but works OK. Put the cover on over-night. It fits quite nicely. 2006-01-07 Raced a Porsche 911 Carrera. We both looked at each other and nodded that the other had a very nice car. He was able to pretty much hold his own against me. 2006-01-08 Fuel stop. (About 25.5 mpg.) 2006-01-08 Drove about 100 miles with the top down. (It reached 71 degrees outside!) 2006-01-24 Paid (a lot of!) sales tax, and got car licensed. 2006-02-12 Took her in for her 1000-mile check-up. Also getting the anti-chip coating applied. And the passenger seat fixed – the leather came unglued from the front bottom. 2006-02-17 Picked up from dealer after check-up. 2006-07-30 Saw 2 Lotuses on I-44: a late-model yellow Esprit going the other way, on the way down to a float trip, and a 2006 light grey Elise on the way back. 2006-08-01 Lost my first "race". A BMW (a 5-series, I think) was able to sneak through and leave me caught behind heavy traffic. 2006-08-08 Saw a late-model Aston-Martin in Chesterfield. Not sure if it was a Vantage, a Vanquish, or a DB9. 2006-08-13 Lost another "race". A Suzuki motorcycle bested me in accelerating from about 80 to 120. I was able to nearly keep up though. 2006-08-24 Ran out of gas. Actually, the guage was showing 2 (digital) notches still. The car had made it to the parking spot just fine, but would not start when I was ready to leave. Almost all American cars will have gas below "empty"; seems odd to run out above "empty". I was not on any significant incline. Figure out how to get better radio reception. Buy driving shoes. Buy radar detector. (Valentine 1, perhaps, or Cobra 9300.) Also need to figure out how best to mount it. See if there's any way to get a smoother ride. (Perhaps Lotus "uprated dampers".) Consider a better catalytic converter, like the Larini Sports Cat ($750, +6hp). Consider a Larini Sports Exhaust ($750, +4hp, -10lb) Consider a spoiler wing. I like the Forced Fed wing ($950) because it attaches to the chassis. I like the Gut Sport Wing ($1200, +9lb) because it requires minimal modification and puts the down-force on a large portion of the rear clamshell. Last modified: %2006/%10/%05 %16:%Oct	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line86
__label__wiki	0.514771	0.514771	Boston-Based Fintech Startup Airfox Acquired by Brazilian Retail Giant Via Varejo Scaling banQi’s accessible financial services to reach millions of underbanked customers in Latin America BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Boston-based fintech startup Airfox is joining Via Varejo, the largest retailer in Brazil serving 60 million customers through popular nationwide retail chains Casas Bahia and PontoFrio. Publicly held Via Varejo is acquiring Airfox for an undisclosed amount. Airfox will continue to serve as a fintech innovation hub out of its current Boston-based headquarters, leveraging Via Varejo infrastructure to accelerate its mission of bringing more accessible financial services to the underbanked in Latin America. Under the leadership of co-founder Victor Santos, Airfox has assembled an incredible collection of experienced financial and mobile industry veterans across offices spanning two continents. The Airfox team built and launched its free banQi digital “neobank” banking app in strategic partnership with Via Varejo in September 2018. banQi’s streamlined mobile platform extends transparent, no-cost digital transaction capabilities and access to banking services through thousands of Via Varejo retail locations in neighborhoods throughout Brazil with features for buying goods, paying bills, topping up cell phones, recharging public transit cards, and more. Designed to serve Brazil’s enormous population of consumers lacking traditional bank accounts or access to credit, banQi was named Best Consumer Bank and Best Mobile App in Brazil in World Finance Magazine’s 2019 Digital Banking Awards. Airfox was also honored as a finalist in the 2020 SXSW Innovation Awards and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards. The company secured strategic partnerships with major companies such as MasterCard in 2019 and banQi has experienced rapid and impressive growth, further escalated by current pandemic conditions and consumer need for digital solutions that support physical distancing. “In the first quarter of this year, we achieved a 100% increase in new banQi accounts,” said Andre Calabro, financial director of Via Varejo. “We marked 1 million downloads of the banQi app, and saw a 300% increase in use of bill payments and 117% increase in use for Casas Bahia CDC carnês, which are in-store loans used to purchase large-ticket items like furniture, electronics, and appliances.” Via Varejo issues hundreds of thousands of new CDCs each month. Andre Calabro will take on the mantle of Airfox and banQi CEO as Victor Santos transitions to his new role as Chief Strategy Officer, where he will spearhead product, corporate strategy, and engineering. The acquisition will speed further banQi integration into Via Varejo store operations and distribution channels, and support continuing financial technology innovation from Airfox’s Boston development team. “I’m incredibly proud of what Airfox has accomplished so quickly and forever grateful to our ingenious and dedicated team members for all their hard work,” said Santos. “With Via Varejo’s support, we’ll continue to lead the charge in leveraging today’s technology for tomorrow’s solutions and securing greater financial inclusion for all.” Airfox is currently hiring for several roles in both Boston and in São Paulo. The tech hub will continue towards its goal to become a household name in consumer tech companies in Boston after relocating from Silicon Valley to Boston in 2016. About Airfox Founded in 2016, Airfox’s mission is to accelerate financial inclusion. Under the brand name banQi, Airfox developed an affordable, easy-to-use, transparent, and empathic digital financial services hub for underserved Brazilians and their families to manage, save, and build their wealth and financial life. Unlike incumbent banks and other fintechs, banQi is a neobank that provides users with a complete digital banking experience and a physical network of branches in Via Varejo’s trusted retail locations. Users are able to create a free mobile bank account in minutes. To learn more, visit www.airfox.com. About Via Varejo With more than 60 years of history and tradition in the consumer electronics and furniture markets, Via Varejo operates iconic brands for Brazilian consumers through retail chains Casas Bahia, Pontofrio, and Bartira. With nearly 1,000 physical and virtual stores, 26 distribution centers, and a database of more than 60 million Brazilians consumers, Via Varejo’s 50 thousand employees are motivated by the recognition that everything they do, every day, contributes to accomplishing the dreams of all the people they serve. For more information, visit ri.viavarejo.com.br/en/. Pal Hollywood airfox@sterlingpr.com Previous PAC-MAN, the Original Video Game Super Star, Celebrates His 40th Birthday Today Next Inseego Corp. to Present at the Cowen and Company 48th Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line95
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__label__cc	0.514352	0.485648	Anfield Road - Liverpool FC Forum » Football and lesser sports » Liverpool FC, football, sport » Author Topic: Season 2014/15 (Read 301138 times) Too old to be a I hate defending Re: Season 2014/15 Quote from: Ageing Stick Insect on April 20, 2015, 05:38:45 PM I don't know much about those 3. But if you try an experiment and it doesn't work then it's a bit daft to try the same thing again. Minimum requirement? Someone who has managed a team who have won either World Cup, CL, domestic league or domestic cup in that order. The first two might cost a fair bit but would act as a magnet for potential buys. if we go for another similar to Brendan then we have to pay a lot in wages to attract them and even then they may not come. Sanchez being the prime example. LFC does not have the attraction of London or CL football. So we're in the same position as Man City 6 years ago and they had to pay silly money to top players. Under FFP that's no longer an option. It has to be a high profile manager. Are you able to say why Rafa or Ancelotti wouldn't be considered? Some good points there, Ray. It's about the impression and the message that we as a club send out. Like you say, the Mancs tried experience but no winning track record in the hope he would develop in a 'winning environment' (though it pains me to say it, it's still the truth) into a trophy winning manager. It failed, and common sense prevailed. Whilst the shortlist of who fits the criteria, is/would be available, interested and not mind that we're not in London, is a very short list, it shouldn't stop us aiming in that direction. With FFP, the longer we stay out of the top four, or only dip in and out occasionally, the more we will be cast adrift of other clubs like Chelsea, both Mancs and Arsenal. We're playing catch up with the stadium, but whilst we don't need the size of the Mancs' ground, we'd be ahead of City in capacity, and close the chasm that exists at the moment between us and Arsenal, Chelsea, who have the London pricing luxury, and Arsenal have the addition of the increased capacity. However, as Wenger has shown, whilst the stadium and income from it is in the construction stage(s), we need the know how to get us into and stay in the top four and at least have that revenue. There's no shortcuts or guarantees, but you can maximise or at least increase the possibility in your favour. The experiment of the transfer committee + manager has failed. Whether Rodgers has a poor eye for a player, or indeed a good eye but a minority position when it came to final selection, we don't know, but what we do know is that the combined inputs of Dalglish, Comolli, Rodgers and the transfer committee, whoever the constituent personnel has been at any time, has seen a lot of money spent with a very poor return in either value or success on the pitch. Are FSG prepared to appoint someone, who like Van Gaal has done, will go 'toe to toe' with the board, if needs be and show them the errors in their thinking and model, and have either the clout or persuasive powers to get the things through that need to change at the club. Do FSG have the desire to 'be educated' or are egos and misplaced pride getting in the way of us getting ourselves on the right track, and not the 'road to nowhere'. Don't make the same mistake twice, there's plenty of new ones to choose from. Those who choose to preach would do well to take note of their own sermons. Quote from: Edward224 on April 20, 2015, 07:37:26 PM So when I think along those lines I think of Klopp, AVB, De Boer, Rudi Garcia, Laudrup, Howe, Klinsmann, Bielsa. I don't think of Benitez, Ancelotti, Deschamps, Allegri, O'Neill, Bilic, Simeone, Hiddink. I'd switch Bielsa and Simeone. So Marcello Lippi or Giovanni Trapattoni it is then. barticus Personally i think the whole 'transfer committee is separate' is a blind. When Bodgers wins games it's down to his genius. When they lose, he blames the players. The same comes down to the transfer committee, sounds like casting blame on others. All of our recent transfers have been guided by the media and the agents. Both will whore themselves out for the next bright young thing. Resulting in players who are nowhere near the standard and yet demanding the same wages as Suarez et al. The whole concept of the young player turning world pro is such a dangerous path. Because let's face it, how many have we seen fail in our time. Even the likes of Walcott, Shaun Wright Phillips etc were promoted as the best thing since sliced bread and none have really come to the fore. The idea of NOT getting an experienced manager in, means that Liverpool will be forever top ten. Experienced managers trawl the continent and beyond to get that diamond in the rough... In the end an experienced manager will save you money, he doesn't need to be a good coach, he doesn't need to mould a player and enhance him... An experienced manager sees a player who will fit perfectly into a team. An experienced manager will buy that player and he will not have to be adaptable, or play in multiple positions. That player will play in the position that he is comfortable in. He won't have to hesitate on playing that ball because he knows the other player will be there. Such is balance. Such is team building. An experienced manager will pluck a youngster or a 30 year old veteran out of the morass of players and know that he can do that job. An experienced manager will buy two of each position and if one fails to step up to the mark, he'll be gone in the next transfer mind. At the end of the day, an experienced manager WILL ATTRACT THE BEST PLAYERS. At the end of the day, an experienced manger WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Why waste countless millions on an untried manager who buys untried players at that level, bought for the sole reason to make up the numbers, but with no thought of how they will fit into the team balance? Enough now. This is serious stuff. Another gamble will fail, we need a sure win. And that can only be achieved with a manager who has taken a team, rebuilt and crafted it in order to win. Those managers are rare but there are two or three out there, who will fancy the job. Liverpool is one of the biggest names in World football. We don't want a manager who talks us down and acts like he's doing us a favour to take us on. Mourinho and Van Gaal saw that they could build and transform, that they did is a testament to them. To ignore that type of experienced manager and accept second best, is to do so at our peril. « Last Edit: April 20, 2015, 11:50:48 PM by barticus » Ben Smith of the BBC: At this stage, I'm told that Liverpool's American owners have no plans to sack Brendan Rodgers. There is, of course, disappointment at the manner of the defeat at Wembley but also a recognition that some 12 months ago, Liverpool were within spitting distance of the Premier League title. Their faith was tested in late November, but having coming through that difficult period, he is still their man. There is no question that FSG admire Jurgen Klopp, but at this stage have no plans to make a change. One thing worth remembering - Rodgers' current deal would mean that even if FSG were to lose faith in their manager, it could cost as much as £10m to sack him. And the same again to hire a replacement. the dude abides that rug really tied the room together it will cost ten million quid to sack Rodgers. so our owners won't be doing that. and anyway, what's all the hulabaloo about, we are now plodding along nicely at the level they envisage for us. In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was, in me, an invincible summer. There’s no next time. It’s now or never. reports today suggest Klopp wants the Anfield job. the bookies have cut his odds to 4-1 to take over. Must say that he is only my third choice. There are a lot of unknowns with Klopp, and what he would bring to the premiership. Ben Smith and Tony Barrett are both extremely reliable. Unless we implode in the next 6 games Brendan will be here next season. Quote from: the dude abides on April 21, 2015, 11:24:56 AM It just seems to me that all the indicators point to the wheels coming off the Rodgers stewardship some time next season. A sizable number of the fanbase have at least flirted with the idea of him not being the manager anymore. This brings huge pressure before a ball has even been kicked next season. The current crop of players aren't stupid and one wonders about the health of the dressing room. Particularly if the gaffer looks weak. Our performance this season, particularly in Europe, is also unlikely to see us as the primary destination for ambitious players with talent this Summer. Our perennial rivals Chelsea & United have consolidated their positions, which makes a season such as last season less likely. Essentially the issue is now credibility of the man in the dugout. I think the word they use is lame duck. So while there could be an argument right at this moment that things are not sufficiently bad to change the manager, the factors I've mentioned suggest it will be likely in the not too distant future. My argument would be better for everyone to nip it in the bud now before that word so beloved of the media rears it's ugly head "crisis". 10 million is peanuts compared with the likely damage resulting in the fall out of a mid-season meltdown. My argument would be that we've learnt a little bit more about winning the PL in the modern era during the Rodgers tenure. Now it's time to get serious or risk irrelevance. Quote from: the dude abides on April 21, 2015, 02:45:29 PM Exactly, dude. Even if it does cost 10 mil to get rid, that's no more than say an Aspas. The last thing we want is him spending another 100 million or so on young promising attacking footballers who flatter to deceive, while ignoring the defence for the 4th year and bringing no balance to the team in general. I don't think I could hack another season of the false messiah! It's only when you see a mosquito landing on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve a problem without using violence.! Quote from: Gurdeep on April 21, 2015, 03:48:17 PM Agreed. Defensively weak as usual, found out by the big clubs. Maybe FSG are doing a Mike Ashley? Happy in Liverpool's mediocrity, waiting to sell up a fattened calf. Ageing Stick Insect Quote from: Tes on April 20, 2015, 10:31:37 PM Well, for a long while it didn't work as LVG's team had accrued the same number of points as Moyes'. They just seemed to click just at the wrong time. What we don't know is if any of the managers suggested might be interested in LFC. I always remember Mourinho saying many years ago that Liverpool interested him. I'm sure there are others. It's still a huge club regarding fan base and history. Agreed although LVG is only at Man U for another 2 seasons. City are in turmoil with an ageing squad and Arsene is getting older by the day. Yes, the problem is we can't charge London prices as Merseyside couldn't take it. But players still want premium wages. The only way to improve income is with sponsorship and the club do seem pretty good at that. There's no doubt FSG are wise business men. Far more about them than David Moores (bless him) or H&G or even Arab owners. I don't believe they want to do everything on the cheap. The new stand is being built and any naming rights won't affect the ground or the Kop. That would have been the easy option but they had too much respect for the club and fans. All we know for sure is the committee of 3 including Rogers will be given a good grilling at season's end and something will have to change. They're not fools but neither do they employ knee-jerk reactions. The end of season is the right time to review the season. Rogers has already said he is looking for experienced players, not more youth or those near the end of their careers. They might also recruit different scouts. That committee is under a lot of scrutiny. Only they will know that. It seems doubtful Rogers will be sacked in the summer. All we can hope for is we get some decent players in and Brendan learns from his mistakes and doesn't make the same ones again. There's no doubt FSG are wise business men. I'm sure Randy Lerner is a wise business man. What we require at the club are a team of wise football men below the owners that run the club. The buck stops with the manager. The season IS over. Can you provide evidence that the owners aren't fools in the sphere of football? We've had Rodgers for 3 years and basically gone around in a circle - calling time on his reign would not be a knee-jerk reaction. Rodgers is just singing from a new hymn sheet now. Again, the buck stops with the manager. All we can hope for is we get some decent players in and Brendan learns from his mistakes and doesn't make the same ones again. That seems to be a very weak mandate to hand the footballing leader of a multi-million pound enterprise who is extremely generously rewarded in terms of his pay packet. Learns from his mistakes?? Maybe Tim Sherwood could give him some tips. Quote from: Ed on April 21, 2015, 10:35:15 PM Can you name those men? I don't know the names of those who are responsible for those decisions. But I agree they need to be intelligent and football-wise. The buck stops with the manager. The season IS over. The buck stops with the manager for team performances. How many poor performances are tolerated are dependent on several factors such as player availability. It's not Rogers fault Sturridge has been injured for so long. He did transform our defensive resilience. Does he not deserve credit for that? I see Porto conceded 6 tonight. Does that thrashing mean their manager should be sacked? And as long as it's mathematically possible for us to get 4th the season is not over. Can you provide evidence that the owners aren't fools in the sphere of football? We've had Rodgers for 3 years and basically gone around in a circle - calling time on his reign would not be a knee-jerk Owners don't need to be football experts. The Glazers know nothing about football. Neither does Abramovic or Sheikh watsisname with City. It's their money and their call. If you can't affect a decision just live with it. Sherwood couldn't have been that clever because he was sacked by Spurs. Let's see how the next few years pan out for him. Let's remember FSG know far more about Rogers than anyone here. Without the full facts we're guessing on many things. © 2004-2015 Anfield Road. All forum posts are the responsibility of the respective poster.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line105
__label__wiki	0.782801	0.782801	ABSOLUTE FOLLY IN THE FINANCE MINISTRY - Print This Post There is no better test of the maxim that absolute power corrupts absolutely than Russia’s Finance Ministry. Take the silver tax of May 1999, for example, and its predecessor in absolute folly, the silver edict of France’s King Louis XIV of May 1709. At that time, Louis’ treasury was empty and his armies and administration impoverished. The desperation was finding expression each night in Paris, where statues of the king were defiled and lampooned. The Duchesse de Gramont conceived the idea of ingratiating herself in court by making a public offer of donating her silver dinner service to be melted down for the treasury, and used to fund the army’s expenses. The controller-general understood the folly of the idea. But the number of courtiers seeking the king’s favor was so great, the Mint was struck by an avalanche of table silver -too much, in fact, for Louis to have time to read and remember all of the names on the lists of the ambitious donors. Within weeks, the French nobility started to eat off porcelain, thereby starting the fashion for Moustiers, the uniquely French source of porcelain in Provence. And that, in turn, started the destruction of the southern forests, from which Provence did not recover until very recently. But that’s another story. It didn’t take Louis long to realize the nobles were cheating. The Duchesse de Gramont herself was discovered to have kept her good silver hidden under lock and key after donating all her old plates. The king then announced the silver idea had been colossally stupid, and he was sorry he had ever agreed to it. To the historian of the time, the Due de Saint-Simon, the silver episode was worth telling as an illustration of how badly the kingdom was managed. If Europe’s greatest despot took just three months to realize his mistake, it has taken the Russian Finance Ministry more than three years. Even now, it refuses to yield to the consensus in the mining and banking communities that, as with the gold tax the government abandoned on Jan. 1, the measure to tax silver has failed to collect significant revenues. A decision by Cabinet ministers to recommend the abolition of the silver tax was made on July 8. A final decision will be made next month, In the meantime, officials at the Finance Ministry continue to refuse requests to disclose how much revenue the gold and silver taxes have generated for the treasury since their introduction. According to figures provided by the Central Bank and confirmed by Russia’s commercial banks, virtually all the gold exported from Russia has avoided payment of the 5 percent tax because it has been transferred to Belarus, which is linked in a duty-free customs union with Russia. Silver trading has also been channeled through Belarus to avoid payment of the 6.5 percent export tax. The government classifies production of silver, but not gold, as a state secret, and it is thus difficult to obtain precise estimates of the annual production and export volume. According to the World Silver Survey of the Silver Institute in London, Russian production of silver was 628 metric tons in 2000 and 624 tons in 2001. This makes Russia the lOth-largest silver producer in the world, narrowly following Kazakstan, but well behind leaders Mexico (2,824 tons) and Peru (2,674 tons). Moscow bank and mining sources believe that most Russian silver is exported. According to Russian customs data, 462 tons of silver were exported last year. But just 61 tons were shipped directly abroad without passing through Belarus; this is the volume that was charged the Finance Ministry tax. At the prevailing price of silver, the shipments would have been worth about $9.6 million. Accordingly, the tax payable on that would have been $624,626.28. It’s likely the paperwork to process such a minuscule amount would have cost more than the revenue collected. But the Finance Ministry will admit nothing. Like the Duchesse de Gramont, there is no accounting for greed fired by ambition for power. The Finance Ministry has been the only duchy the Kremlin has ignored in President Vladimir Putin’s two-year effort to bring the government apparatus under control. 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__label__wiki	0.825931	0.825931	An Interview With Cadmus RP Logs » RP Log Archives » An Interview With Cadmus Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen head to Cadmus Labs' Hell's Gate facility to see what they're up to. Note: Cadmus NPCs emitted by Wonder Woman, who does not otherwise appear in this scene. Cadmus Labs - Hell's Gate Facility Cadmus Labs facility at the edge of Hell's Gate is juxtaposition of cutting-edge high-tech and temporary make-do. There's no intention that the lab will be here 'forever', but it certainly intends to stand as long as there's a threat to Metropolis from Hell's Gate. It has highly secure areas where hazardous research is performed, and more open areas where business is done. The facilities are largely non-descript, however, with alphanumeric identifiers on rooms instead of proper names and titles. Further, the place is full of installed surveillance equipment and security checkpoints. No one's walking in here easily without proper authorization and credentials. NPCs: Jimmy Olsen, Dr. Kavita Rao, Dr. Charles Andreas, Major Thomas Lutwig Justice League: Out Of The Mists Cadmus Labs. Hell's Gate, Metropolis. It's a secure facility, not often open to the public or, perhaps especially, reporters. However, today, Daily Planet ace Clark Kent is expected. So, those staff that matter have been told to be on their best behaviour and security has been told to be nice, but firm. The appointment is set with Dr. Kavita Rao, head of the research effort. But, there's no doubt others will be sitting in as well. Cadmus isn't leaving much to chance, if they can avoid it. An unremarkable brown Toyota pulls up alongside the building. It idles in place for about a minute as some sort of exchange occurs within before the driver's side door opens. From the rear-passenger side a young red-haired man dressed in jeans and a button up shirt emerges before reaching in and removing a bag of recording equipment. Concurrent with this the rear-driver's side door opens but there is something of a struggle as the man attempts to exit without removing his seat-belt. Then he does exit. He appears overweight and dressed in an off-the-rack brown department store suit that seems a half-size too big. When they enter the man in the suit does so first and then holds the door for the video journalist carrying the equipment. When they reach the security check-point Clark Kent smiles while working his wallet from his back trouser pocket, "Clark Kent and James Olsen to see Doctor Rao." Olsen loads the bag onto the scanner and then produces his own wallet. A thorough search reveals nothing you would not expect a journalist and photographer to have with them. The pair are told in no uncertain terms that they're to leave their recording equipment, whether visual or audio, entirely packed and deactivated until they reach where they're going. And even then, it can be surmised, there will likely be restrictions. But, perhaps they'll cross that bridge when they come to it. They are then escorted to a non-descript lab environment with an attached office. The office is spare and doesn't particularly suggest a lot of personal investment by whomever works in it. So, it's reasonable to surmise the office isn't Rao's usual workplace. Same with the lab, really. It's set up more as a visual backdrop or controlled demonstration than a regular working facility. There's no question Cadmus intends to control the spin. Within seconds of Clark and Olsen's arrival in the facility, a trio of people arrive — two men and a woman. The woman is evidently Dr. Rao, if one were to guess. Of the two men, one is obviously a scientist, his expression a trifle on the arrogant side. The second has military baring, his posture straight and his haircut high and tight. He doesn't look like a man with a great sense of humour, but he could probably open tin cans with his teeth. "Gentlemen," Dr. Rao says warmly, extending a brown hand towards them — Clark then Olsen. "It's so nice to meet you. I am Dr. Kavita Rao. This is my assistant Dr. Charles Andreas and our chief of security, Major Thomas Lutdwig. I see you found us alright." When they arrive Kent stands near the window that overlooks the laboratory. His hands are in his pants pockets and lingers with hunched stooping posture that seems to betray some ever-present discomfort for any unfamiliar situation. Olsen has put the bag of equipment upon the ground and kneels at its side. "Maybe just the camera, Jimmy." Kent had just finished saying when they hear someone at the door. Kent's stooping posture becomes barely straighter as he turns around. He seems the affable sort as he comes forward and takes her hand with a grip that presupposes neither strength nor impudence, "I," he falters, "We really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you." He says and at the introduction of the other two he offers his hand, "Yes. The GPS led us straight here." Jimmy shakes the doctor's hand but waits to see what sort-of reaction an overeager Kent gets from the fellow with the stern countenance before putting himself out, "Doc," he says to Lutdwig, "I thought maybe just some still shots of anything you show us," nodding to the lab, "I usually do an audio recording the interview too - for Clark." He shrugs his shoulders, "I don't see a need to get anyone's faces in anything. Unless you were /wanting/ to be famous." Olsen says with a wry humor. Both Andreas and Ludtwig do reciprocate Clark's gesture. Both grips are firm in that way confident men tend to be, but neither is out to crush anyone else's bones. It seems they can both be polite when necessary. Andreas does arch a cool brow at Olsen's comments; Ludtwig scowls a little. But Rao simply laughs lightly. "Of course," she tells the videographer. "We've nothing to hide here." Her smile turns a trifle rueful. "At least, not in this part of the facility. We do have classified areas, you understand, that are under government restriction." That shouldn't come as a surprise. She gestures, however, to a table that's been set up with half-a-dozen not horribly-uncomfortable chairs. Not quite a boardroom setup, but certainly decent for a corporate meeting, nonetheless. Or an interview. "Please, have a seat and we'll get right to it. What would you like me to tell you?" Clark Kent sheepishly rubs the tension from the back of his neck as scowls are passed Olsen's way. He looks about to say something with Rao smooths things over and so he just lets it drop. "Okay, thanks." Jimmy says and then retrieves a camera and recorder from the bag. As others might move to sit he continues to stand but becomes otherwise unobtrusive in role. Clark Kent sits at the table his elbows upon the arms of the chair and posture slightly forward so that there is a slight curl to his spine as he addresses Rao, "Well, can you tell me about your mission as a result of the Terragin attack? Several governments have contracted with CADMUS to assist in clean-up and researching those affected. What's your mission? Does it vary from county to country?" Rao takes a seat opposite Clark, while the two men flank her. Adreas looks about to speak, but Rao is smooth in cutting in just half a second or so before him. "I can't really speak for what happens outside this facility," she says. "I don't have much in the way of information about Cadmus Labs' national or international programs beyond the same press junkets you get." She offers a rueful smile at that, but resists the urge to add a sympathetic chuckle to it, wanting to keep Andreas from interrupting still. "Our facility here, however, is tasked with helping to find out as much as we can about the Terrigen mutagenic process with the goal of eventually being able to reverse it. Hundreds, possibly thousands of Americans have been affected by this and the government believes it is important we do everything we can to help the victims of the mist resume normal lives as quickly as possible. I certainly agree with that mission, myself, which is why I'm proud to head the research we're doing here." Clark Kent's spine seems to curve a bit more as the other men flank her giving the vague impression of a turtle. When she deflects his question, there is a furrow above the rim of his glasses. "What sort-of mutations are you seeing?" He asks her, "I've heard stories that range from simple physical mutations, to more complex terminal illness - such as cancer, to the demonstration of umm," he searches for his next word, "Superhuman powers? Is it accurate at all the compare Terragin effects to the emergence of the X-Gene?" "Have you discovered any pattern to the mutations? Like those with a dormant X-Gene are affected more profoundly than someone like yo—" a beat, "Jimmy or me." Andreas again looks to inhale a breath, and Lutdwig sits there with a distinct scowl, but Rao gives the other scientist a quelling look before she continues. "It's not entirely inaccurate to compare the Terrigen effects to the X-Gene, the results are largely the same in that, yes, they cause serious mutations in human beings that can range in effect from physical deformity to unnatural abilities and even death. However, the mechanics are quite a bit different. The x-gene is a naturally occurring variation in the human genome, unique in its broad application of affect. Although it's not popular to say so, the fact is that people who possess the x-gene are simply manifesting a variation of the natural human state — albeit a typically problematic one. It's no different, in many ways, to many other genetic mutation syndromes found in medicine." Andreas snirks some at that. Rao ignores him. "Terrigenic mutations, however, appear to be far similar in nature to a retroviral inclusion, wherein external DNA changes are introduced to an organism from an external secondary source." She gives another smile. "In essence, X-Gene manifestations are built-in mutations that could happen to anyone with the right activated gene sequence from birth. Terrigenic mutations are imposed on the body from outside — which is why a high number of victims die. Effectively, their immune systems are overwhelmed and simply can't fight back effectively." When Rao begins to talk Kent's focus wavers after a moment and he gives a directed look to the recorder Jimmy setup on the table earlier - as if momentarily afraid that he may not have the opportunity to hear this again later. When he has google or a university professor or someone available to help him parse this out. It is recording, thankfully. Looking back at Rao he squints a bit thinking through what she's said now that his panic over the recorder has passed, "So it's a bit like being born with a genetic predisposition for lung cancer or being exposed to harmful chemicals that would then cause lung cancer?" "If that's the case," Clark scratches his forehead while thinking, "Golly, is it even possible to reverse a mutation like that on in human being? It", Kent stops scratching and then looks to Rao, "Wow." He states and you can almost see something click in his brain, "A controlled catalyst for mutation. That could be, revolutionary." He hesitates, "Is that..?" the point of your research but his voice trails off. "That's a good analogy," Rao agrees. "We're essentially trying to cure that cancer." She follows his train of thought, her own expression becoming thoughtful. Andreas' expression, however, starts shifting towards hostile and Lutwig leans back casually and examines both reporters closely. "We're not sure whether or not it's possible to reverse it or not," Raoe admits. "That's a lot of what we're working on. So far, we've not had that much luck in that regard." She shakes her head. "Our research, at this point, is entirely focussed on understanding the catalyst, as you put it, so that we can stop it — and hopefully reverse it. We do believe it's possible. But, we're still working on the how." Could her research be weaponized? Well, yes. Yes, it could. But, she lives with the understanding that's true of most scientific research. Certainly, that doesn't seem her intent — any more than cancer should be weaponized. Andreas breaks in, his smile sharp. "The government is very clear on our mandate," he says, a hint of that natural arrogance in his tone. "And we're certainly not going to gainsay them." Lutdwig smiles faintly at the comment, but otherwise continues to study the men across the table. Truthfully, beyond his seemingly natural awkwardness Kent does not seem off put by the fact that it could be weaponized. There's a chance the journalist has not thought that far into this but the idea of altering genomes to cure debilitating disease is - exactly as he said 'extraordinary'. Andrea's break in gets Kent's attention and he reaches to the side of his glasses, adjusting them, for the movement of his head, "Oh," he says looking from Rao to Andreas for a moment and then locks eyes with Andreas, "What was that mandate?" He asks, taking his opportunity to include someone else in this interview as the interject. Immediately after asking the question he tenses and politely looks away from a presumed stare down. "To analyze and cure the terrigenic mutations," Andreas says, not quite sneering. But, he's unimpressed with this reporter's display of intelligence — such as it is. Andreas is telling the truth, although it may not be the whole truth. Rao, however, doesn't gainsay him. "What the government chooses to do with the research once we're done, isn't our concern." Rao does react to that. "Our research," she says sternly, "is being conducted and disseminated to our partners with the utmost care and discretion," she insists. "There is no reason whatsoever to be concerned with its misuse. We're all on the same team here." It sounds much like she's trying to remind Andreas of that fact. Clark Kent seems to hesitate at the lack of concern, "Still," the reporter says more aloud to himself than trying to cast aspirations on the ethics of others, "you have to be careful what you hand to whom. Given the full scope of all of your possible partnerships," his voice firms slightly, "which you said you are not informed of.. There has to be some concern that you're going to hand both a match and a powder keg to someone who doesn't know not to put them together in a public place." "The Terragin crisis was world-wide. It just makes me wonder what information sharing agreements are in place with all of your partners," he looks up at Andreas then, "Major. I trust the United States but I'm not as ready to say North Korea or Iran is as culpable. Just based off AP wire. I, I don't want to seem dramatic but," Kent's brow knots as he looks at Rao, "Those Terragin canisters were all over the world. Isn't that a lot like completing atomic research and passing it out to nations who might be sitting on weapons grade material because someone just dropped it in their back yard and their worried about the effects it may have caused on their citizens?" Lutwig speaks up, "The government isn't sharing the research with North Korea, Iran, Iraq, or any of our enemies. No one's that stupid." Even Andreas barks something of a laugh at that. Rao, however, straightens to assert her authority over both men and says evenly, "We have little control over with whom the government chooses to share our research. That said, this is an American funded initiative looking specifically at the effect on American people. I am not aware of any international partnerships, at this time. The simple reality, however, is that once the government has the research, it will do with it what it deems best. We must always hope that it chooses to act with the best interests of Americans at heart. I will tell you, however, that if I did discover our research was being used for unethical purposes, I would certainly reconsider my involvement with the project." She eyes both men beside her. "Currently, however," she says, her tone serious, "I am satisfied the research falls within acceptable ethical boundaries. We are not, for instance, performing experiments directly on human beings. Nor do we plan to without proper application to the appropriate authorities." Clark Kent shifts nervously as they laugh at him briefly inspecting his fingers as he runs back over the line of questioning in his head, "Oh. Sorry," he apologizes, "Earlier I didn't think we were clear about what nations were involved. Don't have much information about the international agreements, I thought." He exhales and then looks and says, sincerely, "Sorry," for the second time "Okay," he says to Rao when she states no human research is occurring, "You know. As part of this story I met an activist." Now he's looking at the three of them, "She said there were cocoons or pods. With people in them? What she described made me think of something out of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers." "According to them CADMUS personnel were putting them on trucks and moving them onto the island," onto Hell's Gate, he means, "Are those people, are they still alive? And if you're not experimenting on curing them - what are you doing with them?" "Jimmy, did we-" Olsen has already pulled another recorder out of the bag and is fiddling with it, "The pictures? They're right here, Mr. Kent." Lutdwig frowns openly, now, shifting in his chair so he's sitting straighter, resisting leaning forward — barely. Even Andreas narrows his eyes, attention darting between the pictures Olsen is apparently fishing out. Rao, however, nods, her face still fairly relaxed. "We have brought some of the pods from the mist fields into our facility," she admits. "It is necessary in order to gain some of the information we need. Most of the cocoons, at this point, remain dormant. We use x-ray and sonographic technology to see inside, to gain some sense of what is happening within. On occasion, when the cocoons do 'hatch', for lack of a better term, we keep the extant material and study it. The victims of the cocoons are not at this facility, but have been moved elsewhere — generally to care facilities better equipped to help them learn to manage their new condition. They are being provided every support to enable them to regain productive, full lives." When Clark takes possession of the recorder its displaying a single still image. The image of a pod. When Rao gives her explanation he just sets it on the table opposite the audio recorder without bothering to make them look at all of the images. When she says 'do hatch' his eyes widen for a second as if mentally recalling the drama from the old film he mentioned earlier, "Golly.." Then he composes himself asking, "What care facilities?" Clark adds, "I think that understanding the care is an important piece of understanding the entire crisis." In an attempt to make it clear he's not trying to verify what they're saying but just wants to continue the article. As Clark says this Jimmy sidles up behind Kent and reaches to take the device with the pictures. The photojournalist perhaps having better sense with materials that may wind up published at some point. "May I?" Lutdwig says, placing a large hand over Olsen's and over the secondary recorder. "I'd like to see the photos." Even if Rao doesn't seem overly interested in them. "I don't have a list of the care facilities," Rao admits. "But, I am sure one of our people can get you that information." So, they're not shutting down that avenue of questioning, per se. It's just not something she can speak authoritatively about. James Olsen seems about to protest. "It's okay, Jimmy," Clark says with a wave of his hand the reporter's authority seemingly a bit negligent. "Sure," the younger man then says and slides his hand out from under Lutdwig's. "Doctor," Clark Kent checks his watch, "I think the time you've given us is about up. I appreciate your willingness to do this." Sliding backward in his chair he puts his palms on the table and stands. There is that bit of back-and-forth where they shake hands again. Jimmy eventually recovers his recorder while Clark takes the audio one. For the next few moments Olsen begins putting the equipment in the bag while Clark's appreciation of the interview becomes almost obsequious. Then Olsen stands patiently for a few minutes and then tries to extract them all from Kent's good nature by saying, "Mr. Kent, the recorder." "Oh, right!" Clark says, "Sorry Jimmy." He starts across the room with his awkward plodding movements and rather than hand the photojournalist the piece of equipment he reaches to put it in the bag himself. "Clark, wait," Jimmy half-pulls away so it's not just tossed in atop everything, "I have to put it in the ca—" Predictably, to anyone who has worked with him for any length of time, Clark Kent attempting to walk hand-off something sensitive and overcome resistance in an unfamiliar room is a recipe that can lead to.. Clark half-stumbles and in his attempt to right himself grabs hold of the equipment bag. He lunges forward a step and then crashed upon the floor spilling the equipment which had not been fully stowed. Sending a half-dozen devices skittering across the conference room. Some split open spilling batteries and bulbs, others flicker on. Kent essentially face plants.. In the moment things begin bouncing around and activating time seems to freeze. Kal-El's perception slides beyond the physical pull of gravity. He can feel himself falling but simultaneously mimes a milquetoast's attempt to not hit his face and scans the entire complex within his field of perception. The outside is doubtlessly protected from Metropolis's hero but what of its inside? He hits the ground, rolls with an injured moan, and then turns his head so he can see the rest of it. Miming that he's trying to shake his rattled head. Layers peel backward except those concealed by lead or ultra-dense refractory particles. Then Jimmy is there, and Clark gives him a hand. "Golly, Jimmy. I'm sorry." And fights to struggles to stand. Nearly pulling Olsen over for his bulk. "Mr. Kent, it's okay," Olsen says with some exasperation, "I've got it." Then begins to repack things. Clark looks sheepishly at the assembled, "I'm okay.." The unfortunate reality is that Cadmus Labs is built in the middle of Metropolis — the home of Superman. And very few organizations actually know more about the Man of Steel and his people than Cadmus. Which means there's precious little to be found with the x-ray scan. Of course, that in itself is informative: They really don't want anyone snooping around. Especially Kryptonian heroes. Paranoid, much? Lutdwig snorts some at Kent's clumsiness. He obviously has little respect for the hapless reporter, though he's not outright rude. "Careful!" Andreas barks in a disapproving tone, as one might to a disobedient child. Meanwhile, however, Rao steps forward to try to steady the man. Not that it matters, since he collects himself soon enough. "Are you alright, Mr. Kent?" At his apparent affirmative, she smiles. "It was a pleasure to meet you. If you have any more questions, do let me know. I'm sure someone can find an answer for you." That said, she steps back and lets Lutdwig do the job of escorting the pair back outside to their waiting vehicle. He's definitely a 'don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out' sorta guy. Not sad to see the two men go. When are security types at top secret laboratories anything other than asses, anyway? That's life in the fast lane. _2017_januaryjl-mistssupermanwonder_woman	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line127
__label__wiki	0.805982	0.805982	To Have a Choice RP Logs » RP Log Archives » To Have a Choice Prompted by Jessica Jones, Red Robin stops by to deliver some data to Bucky and Jane… and to feel responsible for things in a way both find quite unnecessary. NPCs: None. Mentions: Zatanna Zatara, Jessica Jones Nadryv As night descends over New York, one of its Brooklyn brownstones wraps up a late dinner. "Don't think I don't know what you're doing," calls Jane from the living room, collecting plates from the table — from what looks like a meal set to the seranade of movies streaming over her opened laptop (mental note: actually buy a television that is going to get some legitimate use.) If there's any question where her arched words are directed, they come followed by a flat-eyed glance she aims toward the front room's sprawling window, something that opens up access to the apartment's fire escape. Jane's spent many a night out there, serenading her telescope — which hasn't got any use lately, she's avoiding that, avoiding those sorts of things, reasons, reasons — but now seems to have gained another frequent flyer. There's a man up on there, taking a solitary break after eating, and she's positive he's using that to smoke. "Just one," appends Jane through the cracked-open window, exasperated enough to concede, "all right?" She collects the rest of the tableware and walks away, turning a corner into her home's tiny kitchen. She shoulders on the light switch. It's a cramped, galley thing, as claustrophobic as the rest of her one-bedroom, manageable only do to her recent, we're-ignoring-latent-trauma-by-cleaning compulsion, and Jane takes refuge at the sink. She is supposed to be washing their dinner plates, but instead she gets lost, staring at the way the warm water plays over her hands. Her eyes ring with chronic insomnia. Sleeplessness has a way of yielding a person, letting them get lost in strange little things like that, like the way Jane watches tap water run. Suspicious silence greets Jane's call at first. Suspicious, possibly guilty silence. Then a shadow on the fire escape moves, light from streetlamps glancing off the steel and titanium of its left arm. Bucky leans down and peers in the window, disgruntled. His right hand is out of sight, though a curl of smoke eventually betrays him. "You know this is the worst thing so far about this century," he complains. "Not only do I just get one, I gotta go outside for it." He notably doesn't /argue/, though, just leaning back up and casting his gaze back out over the street. He's not particularly keeping watch, not expecting any kind of trouble: just gazing absently out over the quietness of Brooklyn at night, still unable to quite get his mind around the way it's changed since he was a child. He's not quite fully relaxed, either, however. The window is open, half an ear on Jane as she moves about in the kitchen. It's a guarantee that Jane Foster's apartment is under surveillance. There's no way that an organisation as suspicious as SHIELD would /not/ be keeping an eye on things at some level, especially after everything that had happened under Ozone Park. Especially after the astrophysicist had endured such a trial. Especially when she had the Winter Soldier with her. Who knows, there might even be other interests keeping an eye on them now, but carefully, not wanting to provoke the man who had for so long been the monster under so many people's beds. But abruptly, whatever surveillance equipment was pointed at that tiny apartment in Brooklyn returns… Nothing. Static. White noise. Thermographic bloom. For a brief window of time, the apartment might as well not exist. As though someone had reached down and planted a wall around it. Which, in a manner of speaking, is exactly what had happened. Nothing much would seem different from /inside/ the apartment, unless someone tried making a phone call. Outside, shadows shift, as they so often do. The old steel of the fire escape creaks, the winter winds whisper between the brownstones, February's chill always feeling more hollow, more unforgiving than January's. And then, there's a knock on the door. "I know the perfect cheese to pair with your whine," Jane calls back to the voice on the fire escape, hers drier than desert sand. She's always loved that line. Her father used to use it on her /all the time/. But she doesn't give James Barnes any more sass, not much more than a brief, private smile and her approving silence, more than aware he's not arguing. She'll get him to quit those damn things soon enough. She goes back to the safety and sanity of just cleaning things. And that's where she is, attention broken off some deep, already-forgotten reverie, when Jane turns her eyes toward the knock on her front door. She's gotten a lot of those lately. And most people usually /text/. Jane turns off the sink and dries her hands, stepping free from the kitchen. Her eyes turn back on the cracked-open window, back to the source of the cold draft. "Door," she says, even though she's positive Bucky has heard — hears everything, literally everything — but still wants to do her part keeping him informed. Especially with how… overcautious he gets. Overcautious she gets too, these days, Jane's finding. It's a rush of anxiety she feels, but even then, it's not enough to compel her to do something completely indignifying like ask Bucky to open the door, or just straight fail to do so herself. She takes a quick step toward the front foyer, reaching for the deadbolt. "Who is it?" she calls, through the door, even during the process of unlatching its locks, multitasking ths process with a quick gesture to brush her dark hair back behind her ear. It opens to reveal her apartment, small and Brownstone-old and homey, and Jane Foster at the forefront of it, dressed down rather simply in jeans and some plaid button-down, the sleeves rolled to her elbows. Tired-eyed and slight, she still looks a world's difference away to the memory of that trembling, broken thing, a machine locked around her head. Jane's rejoinder has Bucky rolling his eyes, but he doesn't reply. He just leans back and returns to smoking his one rationed cigarette, determined to spend a good while actually enjoying it if it's all he's going to be allotted. Which is, of course, why a sudden knock sounds on the door. Bucky cuts a glance in the window, looking at the little device Jane made for him long ago— a device to detect trackers, to read the frequencies on which they broadcast. It's been perpetually lit up, in a constant warning state about all the SHIELD surveillance pointed at the apartment. It's dark now. Just that is enough to transform him, the image of comfortable mundanity dripping off him like the lie it now is. The Winter Soldier is something Bucky Barnes can now never escape, an indelible part of him as much as the prosthetic grafted in place of his left arm, and that persona returns to him in part at this unexpected turn of events. The monster under the bed is officially provoked. Jane moves to answer the door like a normal person, calling out. James Barnes says nothing. He just slides back in the window in one silent motion, moving up to where he can cover Jane from any potential angle, his right hand slipping his sidearm free of its holster. In the hallway stands a shadow, tall and lean. He should've died in Lernaea, when he deliberately and unhesitatingly sacrificed himself to protect Zatanna Zatara from the drones, the weapons that functioned as the immune system of that 'perfect world'. If the magician had been a heartbeat slower in working her miracle, one of those who came back with her into the real world would've been nothing more than chewed up meat and bone and kevlar and leather and nomex. Of course, when you're trained by the Dark Knight, cheating death is just one of those things that happens. Black cowl, with featureless white eyes. Black cape left to drape around him like a shroud, though on his chest is his logo, the golden silhouette of a bird's head. The only thing human there is his lower face, his mouth bared by the cut of the cowl. The mouth moves, the shadow speaks. "Hello, Doctor Foster," the Red Robin says, his voice shrouded by an electronic device at his throat, pitching it deeper, giving it a curious, inhuman blurring. "You're looking much better than the last time I saw you. Jessica Jones asked me to bring you something. May I come in?" The Batman would never be so polite. But, well, he's not the Batman. Jane jumps. Not in surprise, not truly, but more in the absolute incongruity of just seeing — seeing /that/ standing against all the day-to-day mundane of her apartment. Cowl. Cape. A warped, flanged voice that doesn't even sound human. Hand still on the handle of the door, she half-steps backward, taking a surrepititious glance back over her shoulder: Jane's first thought is James Barnes, and that she hopes, hopes, hopes, the utter strangeness of a costumed person at her doorstep isn't going to inspire potshots. Or that rifle of his that's bigger than /her/. She doesn't recognize Red Robin, hasn't truly had a formal introduction, and her memory of — that night — She's trying really hard not to remember, is the thing. Her uncertainty is palpable, caution and tension without anything there to inspire a full reaction, and in a way trying to refuse doing that as not to inspire something worse from the supersoldier occupying her fire escape. So Jane holds there, mouth pressed together, eyes watchful, for a moment unsure — until Red Robin speaks her name and mentions Jessica. She runs through recent memory. It really helps sometimes to have that eidetic brain. "Red?" she asks. "I think that's what Jessica called you? You're Red?" He says she's looking better, and Jane's expression twists into the in-between of five different emotions, before settling on 'self-conscious', eyes averting a moment. Means he was there. Probably saw her too. Can he come in? "I — sure," she babbles, eloquent as ever, opening wider the door. Only the fact that the outfit is familiar keeps the Winter Soldier— out of immediate eyeshot, with an angle on the door— from firing the sidearm he has trained at Red Robin's center of mass when the door opens. For the second time in a week, he finds himself hastily lowering his weapon before he kills a benign(?) home visitor. "People need to call ahead if they don't wanna get shot," he grouses as he steps into line of sight, holstering his weapon, though in reality there is probably no question of any actual accidental murder happening. Bucky is just, in his new and recovered incarnation, much too careful. His hand moves to the small of Jane's back, sensing her uncertainty. It's a touch meant to reassure and calm her that he is here, and that this kid— despite his appearance— is a known quantity. For given values of known, anyway. Jane agrees to let him in either way, and Bucky steps aside as she does. "Glad to see you got out fine," he says. "I would have checked earlier, but." A gesture encapsulates the whole cape, secret identity, reclusiveness thing. "Asked Zatanna, at least, though of course she wasn't gonna divulge too much." "Don't worry, Sergeant Barnes," Red Robin says, a note of almost… Amusement in that modulated voice. "People have been pointing guns at me since I was fourteen years old, I'm used to it by now." That's not really true. Nobody is ever /really/ used to having a gun pointed at them. There's something about it that bypasses rational thought, when you're looking into the darkness of that barrel. Like you're staring into the abyss. But repeated experience does engender a kind of familiarity, and rather than primal terror he instead experiences something more useful. Something that can motivate, rather than throttling the mind or stealing strength and speed from the limbs. Of course, he acts as though he knew that the Winter Soldier was right there, pointing his sidearm from just out of sight. Maybe he did. "Thank you," he says politely when he's invited in, stopping to wipe his boots off before he actually enters Jane's apartment, his cape still hanging around him as he steps, the memory material barely moving. There's something else there that probably only Bucky would notice: His booted feet don't really make any /noise/, each step carefully placed through training that has ground these behaviours into his bones, into his DNA, into his soul. But if it's the legacy of the Bat that makes him so quiet, it might be the influence of the butler that makes him act more like a gentleman than a vigilante, at the moment. "It's Red Robin, though people do seem to like to stick with Red. I can't blame them, Robin is someone else." And certainly never him. The two identities couldn't be more separate. Bucky's concern gets an unreadable look from the costumed crimefighter - though given the full cowl and the hidden eyes, most of his looks are unreadable - and a long silence before he speaks. The issue of Zatanna is a thorny and complicated one, especially when you add in what the Winter Soldier was compelled to do to her… But Red Robin has no reason to hold that against Bucky Barnes, does he? He has no close connection to the Princess of Prestidigitation, especially not one that's closer than it should be from his direction. To him, the magician is just an acquaintance and a sometime ally, someone he rescued from a serial killer, and who has repaid the favour since. So then… "Miss Zatara has a natural affinity for secrets, like most stage magicians. A remarkable young woman." He leaves it at that. No point in thinking about things that won't happen. Eventually, a hand emerges from the cape, the fabric slipping away to reveal a black glove and an armguard with the same fins as the Batman's, and past that the sleeve of his suit is indeed red, like the name suggests. In his hand is a plain-looking USB drive, which he holds out to Jane. "Miss Jones asked me to give you the information I was able to obtain about the devices your captors were using to control people," he explains. "She thinks it might help you to regain some sense of control, if you know. I can't say that I agree, but I'm deferring to her expertise on the matter. The sample I was able to analyse was…" In a corpse. "…Not in the best condition, but there was still some interesting data to be had. It's your choice if you want to study it, Doctor Foster. You're just as free to erase the data, or destroy the drive." The touch to the small of her back both animates and grounds Jane, and she glances up reflexively, her eyes softening, her gaze yielding, to Bucky Barnes' face. It is a moment's glance, just a hitch in her expression, but Jane Foster speaks wordless tomes. If there was no evidence in the world to suggest a man exists beneath the ice and permafrost of the Winter Soldier, no story and honours of a lost, fallen soldier, she offers her own inside the pinch of her eyes. He centers her. And she looks at him as if he were her only place of safety in the way of things, obvious love in her dark eyes. She politely shuts the door after Red Robin, bearings somewhat regained, in the back of her mind realizing it's the first honest-to-goodness caped hero at her door. There Jane lapses into a brief but listening silence, as the two men exchange greetings over — over what no one will say outside. Over what neither she particularly wants to mention either, though the implication remains — glad you got out after /all the torture happened/. Red Robin he announces himself, or at least his costumed identity. "Red sounds fine to me too," Jane offers, partial to Jessica's moniker. "And call me Jane." She doesn't feel like much of a Dr. Anything as of late. Especially in regard to the lapse on her word that she's… not resuming. Not all that willing to touch with the impetus she used to have. They speak familiar names, and she's quiet — she's really just trying to get over the cowl and cape standing there in the front room of her apartment — and Jane only animates when Red proffers a hand. In it is a drive. Question immediately opens up the features of her face. She glances up, still struggling to meet what… what stands for /eyes/ on Red Robin's get-up, too used to pupils and irises and human facial expressions to gain meaning behind spoken word, but Jane receives little — nothing really, save for what he deigns to tell her aloud. Jessica apparently wanted him to give her some information. As Red speaks, little by little Jane's face transforms from question to bemusement to… something like affront. She looks away, sinkingly self-conscious, the body language of someone trying to compose themself, trying to focus through some unwanted emotion — two people had a conversation about her sense of control? Jessica and a total stranger? About what would help it? She feels like a mental patient. Pulling herself together, Jane makes the quiet decision to reach forward and take it. She looks down at the inoffensive little thing in her hand. "Thanks," is all she says, voice bleak. James Barnes doesn't look as shocked as he might at the news Red Robin has been facing down guns since he was fourteen. In the era from which he comes, boys were signing up to die for their country as early as sixteen— and he's sure there were many more, even younger, who lied even more egregiously for the chance to serve. He takes it as a matter of course, along with the way Red acts as if he knew Bucky was there. You'd have to be an idiot, after all, not to assume that the Winter Soldier would be waiting for you if you came to a place he had made his abode. Bucky's attention is more drawn by other things— the soundless way the young man moves, the obvious familiar markers of the Batman that hang about this young protege's dress and demeanor… and the many subtle ways in which they are different. Bucky says nothing about that short segue about the name of Robin. He just touches Jane bracingly, his hand to the small of her back, grounding her when he senses her growing too nervous. She turns a look up at him, and he glances down to exchange a brief moment of eye contact. The way she gazes at him softens his own eyes for half a second, her trust answered with a tacit promise that so long as he's around, she need not be nervous. That promise quickly receives a test. James can feel Jane tighten up beside him as Red clinically relates what he's here for— and the conversation that spurred him to bring the USB drive here tonight. The comfortable amiability of Bucky Barnes frosts slightly at her slight affront and discomfort, the Winter Soldier showing a few of its icicle fangs. This might be something to speak to Jessica about, as well. Later. "I'm sure she will do with it what she sees fit," he says, neutral. By the reaction, Red Robin gets the idea that his original assessment was right. Though maybe not for the right reason. "Hn," the caped and cowled young man vocalises, recognising at least most of the emotions Jane is displaying, and the way it carries over to Bucky. It's the sort of interplay that someone in a persistent vegetative state would notice, let alone one of the former apprentices of the World's Greatest Detective. Her affront is his, and his responses change accordingly. It's fascinating to watch, but of course Jane Foster /isn't/ a mental patient, and he isn't here to try and analyse other people's relationships. He /is/ here because Jessica Jones asked him to give the astrophysicist something to occupy her mind, and because… Slowly, that hand now freed of its tiny burden reaches up to the side of Red Robin's own throat, lightly, briefly depressing something underneath the collar of his cowl; there's a faint sound, almost but not quite a click. When he speaks again, it's in a human voice. "I'm sorry, Do… Jane," he corrects himself. It's not his normal speaking voice, of course - that would be an unconscionable lapse of security. It's pitched down still, almost the 'Batman Voice', with more gravel in it than the years have rightly given him. "You should know that Miss Jones asked me to give you this because she's worried about you. I think she worries about everyone, despite that gruff exterior. And I know I can come across as…" Cold. Distant. Inhuman. "…Aloof, clinical. If I can say anything in my defense about that, it's a natural consequence of the job." He is, otherwise, schooled to nearly perfect stillness, no fidgets, nothing remotely resembling casual human body language. Just calm composure. It's easy to do, once you know the tricks, the way to push any pesky human emotions you don't want to deal with away into a little corner of your mind. Of course, they're always still /there/. "And… I wanted to apologise you for not being faster. I'm sure you've heard enough of it already, but…" Now, a gesture; a slow roll of his shoulders, almost a shrug, shifting his cape. "That applies to you as well, Sergeant Barnes. I wish we could've helped both of you sooner." Eyes turned, Jane feels the world narrow to the thunderous beat of her own blood inside her ears. People talking about her regaining a sense of control. She's mortified enough to want to fall in between the planks of her hardwood floor. With less social consciousness, she would be tempted to crawl off to her bedroom to hide under her duvet and make sure no one in the world could ever see her again. She has a sense of control, doesn't she? She didn't think she ever lost it. She's doing so well, and smiling, and laughing, and not thinking of it, and she can't sleep much really, but all she's been doing is exerting control, being in control — does it all look fake? Does it mean she has none? Are people /pitying/ her? As Bucky Barnes prickles and goes cold at her side, Jane Foster just glances away, uneasy, looking a little sick around the edges. Everyone's thinking of her as a mental patient, aren't they. So tunnelled into her dreary thoughts, it takes the transparent change in Red Robin's voice to earn her eyes, a little surprised at the change, but in a way, relieved to hear it shape into something more decidedly human. It's difficult for her to interface with that costume meant to eradicate all traces of humanity in its wearer — to kill the man and be the symbol in his place. He speaks to her, and even despite her reserve, Jane decides to listen — listen to his explanation, and how he apologizes. "Listen, I…" she begins to say, then blows out a breath, reaching up to rub briefly at her face. Jane leans into Bucky's closest arm. "I get it. I'm a private person, and a lot of people saw me in a way that… it's something I try not to think about too much." She winces visibly. "And when people are having conversations out there about what I can and can't handle, it's hard. I'm indebted to you all, for what you did for James, for me. I'm just — " — absolutely hating the idea that other people were having conversations about me. About what my apparent therapy should be, when I haven't even decided it yet for myself, Jane thinks, but cannot find the words to say. She just gestures vaguely with her hands, because apparently that will just explain it magically for everyone. "I don't think you should apologize for that," she says of Red's assuming of guilt that they weren't there in time. That doesn't feel right, no load or burden anyone should take. "No one should. A lot of people came together and helped. I hope you realize how much that means to me." She looks down briefly, trying to summon up some sort of eloquence. Wanting so badly to be viewed as anything but someone's failure, or guilt, or worse — damaged goods. "I'm a lot stronger than I look," Jane promises, with a glance of her dark-shadowed eyes. "James is even stronger than that." Those hints of the Winter Soldier recede again when Red Robin, in turn, makes a concession towards his own humanity. That voice modulator turns off— Bucky can clearly hear the sound of something switching— and the young man makes an apology. He explains that Jessica asked for the information to be handed over because she was worried about Jane. Bucky doesn't look quite convinced out of a conversation with Jessica, but he seems to at least mollify slightly. "The intentions were good," he allows. Jane leans against him and tries to explain how she feels about it all— why she's reacting as she is. He looks down at her, mute, wanting to speak up and help explain, but recognizing ultimately it is for her to say. For her to decide. All he does, ultimately, is keep that hand at the small of her back— edging it around, actually, to take her waist in a more concrete and supportive hold. Then Red wants to apologize for not being faster. "There's nothing to apologize for in that regard," he eventually agrees. "For me in particular… none of you were even born when the first wrongs were done to me. It's pointless to feel much of anything about things that are decades dead. Least of all responsibility." 'I'm a private person.' Red Robin's mouth pulls into a wry, maybe even self-deprecating grin at that; one of those rare actual human expressions on the visible part of his face, in that getup. He doesn't /say/ anything about it, but of course he's the one swathed head to toe in an armored costume, with a strict secret identity, and all. "You are," the cowled young man agrees, with a short nod. "I didn't have any doubt of that." That she's doing as well as she seems to be at all is frankly a miracle, given what he's seen torture and brainwashing do to people in the past. Perhaps it can be chalked up to a good support network, even if she's avoided becoming anybody's mental patient so far. Certainly, having Bucky around as someone who understands very intimately what she was put through could make for an excellent coping mechanism. Or it could go the other way, for the both of them. "You're both making good points," the vigilante adds. "But you don't get into my line of work because you have a realistic view of your own responsibilities." He might not be broken in the way that the Batman was, that the original Boy Wonder might've been if it hadn't been for the Dark Knight's influence… But isn't that the whole point of it? The costume, the theatrics, the attempt to be something larger than life? To create order out of cruelty and happenstance, to suffer in the act of preventing others from suffering. If you take everything else away, the costumes, the training, the gadgets, if you get down to the core of it, Red Robin - like his mentor - is just someone who doesn't want anyone else to die, or hurt. "Still… I think I understand. I don't like it when people worry about me, either. Though I can't speak for anyone else, going forward I'll just have faith that you're both coping." It's not like anyone could really expect anything else, at this point. For her part, Jane keeps sneaking not-so-discreet, constant glances down at the USB drive in her hand. Weighing it as something far heavier than the insignificance it is, there in her palm, a quiet promise to offer a lot of evidence to questions she's been wanting to ask — questions she's been avoiding. Questions she knows she cannot avoid forever. She slides it into the pocket of her jeans, not discarded, not forgotten — but there. A decision she knows she needs to make. Just not right now. Jane feels Bucky's hand shift on her, taking her waist, and her body yields to the touch, appreciative, acknowledging. There is no doubt, if just to look at her, that he is definitely one of her coping mechanisms — if not the chief of them. Someone who understands well enough to know… know what to do, such as what he does right now, support that does not override any of the semi-flustered, ineloquent things she wants to say, but support that proves itself to be solidly there. She leans a silent thank-you into his side. Her dark eyes lift, watching Red Robin, a searching way to them — not as much prying as just looking for the outliers of humanity around all the disguise of his cowl. Jane listens quietly to all of his words. He doesn't seem ready to discard any of his own, lingering guilt, and the explanation earns from her the ghost of a smile. "Either way, thank you," she says again, with more feeling into the words this time than before. "For giving that to me. It means a lot. Just having the choice." Jane's decision to look at the data. Jane's choice. Jane's control over the trajectory of her own life. It does go both ways. There are certainly many times when it is useful for them to have gone through the same thing— one to a much greater degree than the other, admittedly, but still similar— but there are also certainly many times it's much more useful for them to have had very different life experiences and approaches to things otherwise, and for one to be significantly less damaged than the other. Too much reminder of what you went through, yourself, can sometimes be quite deleterious to actual coping. Now, Red allows they have good points, but then basically tells them a job requirement for him is to not have any actual logic. At least, that's how it sounds to Bucky, and it lifts his brows in obvious skepticism accordingly. "I've found over the course of my life that it's better to be very realistic about what you're responsible for or not," he says slowly. "Sounds grand at first to feel like you can be responsible for everything, up until you've seen a lot of good men die around you for absolutely no reason other than dumb bad luck." He lapses into silence for Jane to speak. It does mean a lot, she says, to at least have the choice. That he can agree with, and that softens the edge off his tired, bitter recollections. "Yeah. Thanks for bringing it by. And everything else." Maybe selectively applied logic. Red Robin /is/ a detective, after all, someone whose mind is geared towards following lines of inquiry and solving problems and puzzles. On the other hand, he also swings around cities without anything even remotely approaching a superpower, and spends quite a lot of his free time fighting ninja armies and psychotic clowns. And, these days, evil wizards. If he was sensible, he'd stay at home. Let the metahumans and super soldiers and magic users handle it. "You'd be surprised how far unrealistic expectations can get you in life, Sergeant Barnes." Especially when those unrealistic expectations /don't/ include your probable life span. He knows he's been beating the odds surviving as long as he has. Making it to college graduation will be a small miracle. Making it to thirty gets increasingly into the realm of astronomical odds. Yet, Red Robin says that fairly casually, trying to embrace some of his foster brother's more devil-may-care attitude. He can't be grimly serious all the time. Jane's thanks seem more sincere, this time, and that cowled face watches her inscrutably for a long, slow moment. Choice, that's really what's at the heart of this, isn't it? That she be allowed to make her own decision, after having been so nearly deprived of ever being able to make another one, ever again. "I just did what I thought was right," he says, as a blanket response to the thanks from both Jane and Bucky. But as always, he wanted to do more. Faster. That's always the expectation he imposes on himself, to be better, more thorough, to think further ahead. Nothing will ever be enough. "Anyway, your fans will probably be getting antsy by now, I should leave and shut off the jammer." He didn't really feel like having his comings and goings observed, and having had no idea where the conversation might go, he felt it was prudent to avoid anyone else prying into sensitive affairs. "Just in case either of you need to contact me…" He is suddenly, as though by magic, holding a plain business card. It just has a phone number on it. Also it wasn't really magic, just sleight of hand. But a certain theatricality is part of the job. Leaving the card with the two of them, Red Robin moves for the door, with every intention of just letting himself out. It's only once he's gone for a few minutes that the curious series of technical failures hiding what's going on inside of Jane Foster's apartment finally abate. _2017dr._jane_foster_februarynadryvred_robinthe_winter_soldier	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line128
__label__cc	0.584023	0.415977	Range town mergers could protect jobs, services November 8, 2013 by Aaron Brown 5 Comments One of the under-reported outcomes of last Tuesday’s off-year local elections was the overwhelming vote by the northern Minnesota communities of Carlton and Thomson to merge. In local media, this was portrayed as the simple matter of tiny Thomson’s overworked mayor and staff. In practice, however, these towns are providing a blueprint for many small towns in this region for continued local services amid shrinking population and budgets. Iron Range cities, in particular, should be paying attention. Range town mergers could save jobs, services, and money — all of which are slipping away as the region readjusts to the 21st century. In the deal approved Tuesday, Thomson retains its identity. It is essentially a recognized “neighborhood” within Carlton, which was already its economic and geographic big brother. Residents there get city services the same as Carlton residents, without having to pay more in taxes, which it would have had to do to keep services on its own. Across the Mesabi Iron Range, small cities are facing a slow-moving glacier of crisis. The population of Range towns has dropped anywhere from 20-50 percent since 1980. Costs of services and supplies have caused many beloved parts of Range life to end — hacked library hours, limited recreation offerings, and, of course, higher taxes, despite the offset from Iron Range mining tax revenue. Some small towns have cut their police force in favor of county sheriff protection. Everybody and their brother is trying to figure out how to keep small fire departments alive. So, what if? What if some of the nearby towns merged, or formed collective authorities to govern otherwise distinct towns? The seeds are planted. Towns on the western Range, in Itasca County, are planning shared fire services. Discussions have expanded to possibly include more than that. Think about all the nearby towns on the Range. Bovey and Coleraine. Taconite, Marble and Calumet. Nashwauk and Keewatin. Hibbing, Chisholm and Buhl. The Quad Cities of Virginia, Eveleth, Gilbert and Mt. Iron. Biwabik, Aurora and Hoyt Lakes. The list goes on. Small regional police and fire services could provide similar protection with one administrative office — without having to subjugate to the county. Parks and Rec could provide more programming by cross-planning and promoting across nearby small towns. It’s no coincidence that the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board has added language to its local grant process to reward communities for working together. While the iron mines are running hot, as they are now, it would behoove Range towns quite specifically to set aside the old, untenable parochial attitudes. It’s a simple proposition. If you think about the services provided to citizens, rather than the political situation of the moment, better solutions would come through cooperation. Like Carlton and Thomson, you could do this now in a way that benefits residents, rather than later after scorched-earth budget cuts and crisis. Filed Under: Iron Range Tagged With: Bovey, Calumet, Coleraine, Marble, Taconite Jeremiah Johnson says I think another thing to do that could save money and resources on the Iron Range would be merging school districts. Because of the small size of schools you could cut down on administration costs by merging the districts. Robert Lindgren says Mergers, whether corporate, city or school districts, save money…and possibly services, they don’t save jobs. Eliminating jobs and becoming more productive is the objective. When you state “save jobs” as the first benefit you’re patronizing to your base Aaron. You’re on the right track but you can’t have your cake and eat It too. Government is not a place that should create jobs. The private sector should. Merging would cost jobs but it would keep needed services active and going. Saving money and cutting down government costs will hopefully lead to the lowering of taxes that will put more money into the private sector to create more jobs. I’m all for merging. You speak the truth Jeremiah. We’ll prevail in the long run but in the meantime, keep spreading the word.. Dan Anderson says But— Are they going to change the name to Carl Thompson? The true story of Minnesota Nice July 7, 2019 By Aaron Brown 5 Comments Grandpa has something to tell Grandma October 2, 2016 By Aaron Brown 6 Comments Junkyard Politics in Northern Minnesota May 19, 2016 By Aaron Brown 7 Comments	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line145
__label__wiki	0.959747	0.959747	Al Coe – “Young Black King” (Video) JonFromJersey, 01.22.19 @ 12:29pm EST News Al Coe, Music Video, Young Black King In a critical time like now, it’s important for artists and those who are tapped into the culture to use their platforms to invoke change, no matter how big or... T.K. Other Realm – “Run Away” Ft. Beejus (Video) JonFromJersey, 10.04.18 @ 9:37am EDT Music Videos Beejus, Music Video, Run Away, T.K. Other Realm CA Musician T.K. Other Realm connects with fellow Cali native for the official music video to their latest collab, “Run Away”. In this visual, T.K. opens up about his longest... TXYLOR – DOA (Music Video) JonFromJersey, 05.03.18 @ 10:21am EDT Music Videos DOA, Music Video, TXYLOR TXYLOR is an artist from Kansas City, Missouri with a knack for crafting heavy-handed raps with gut-punching authenticity. His new video for “DOA” captures his tenacious spirit and delivery with... Rico Love Presents.. TXS & Her New Music Video, “Do Good” Music Videos Do Good, Music Video, Rico Love, TXS When it comes to urban music, certain contributors to the culture are always mentioned. Rico Love is one of them. Love has written and produced hit records for Usher, Nelly,... J.Lately – “On It” (Music Video) JonFromJersey, 01.15.18 @ 7:44am EST Music Videos J.Lately, Music Video, On It J.Lately distinguishes himself as an emcee with his soulful style unique ability to put everyday life into a relatable perspective. His music possesses the rare ability to make you contemplate... Freddie Gibbs – “NO PRBLMS FREESTYLE” Corey G, 03.15.17 @ 1:34pm EDT Music Videos , Singles Freddie Gibbs, Music Video, Rap Freddie Gibbs rarely gets the credit he deserves but I feel that’s going to change soon. After fighting rape charges and since being released from jail, Gibbs has dropped some... What It Do – “Run It Up” (Official Video) Music Videos Music Video, Run It Up, What It Do Today we are treated to a new release from Philadelphia artist What It Do. The charismatic rapper shares a new visual titled, “Run It Up.” The catchy trap anthem is... Kevin Abstract- Echo [VIDEO] Drew Morgan, 12.01.15 @ 7:13pm EST Music Videos , Videos Brockhampton, Echo, Kevin Abstract, Music Video, new, They Shoot Horses Kevin Abstract, the artist at the helm of Brockhampton, released his new track and the video for it yesterday. The track, titled Echo, is a reflective song, written at the... Lish – 40 Acres & A Jeweler (NewSickMusic Premiere) Bryan Montesano, 11.09.15 @ 11:29am EST Music Videos , Singles Hip-Hop, Lish, Music Video, New Music, Premiere Making her NewSickMusic debut, hip hop artist Lish is ready to premiere her brand new single and music video “40 Acres & A Jeweler”. Taken off of her upcoming EP ‘Melanated’, which was executive... Luke-O “It’s Almost Scary How It’s Automatic” (NewSickMusic Premiere) Bryan Montesano, 11.02.15 @ 9:43am EST Music Videos Hip-Hop, Luke-O, Music Video, Premiere Making his NewSickMusic debut, Southwest PA hip-hop artist, Luke-O is ready to premiere the brand new 412 Films directed music video for his latest single “It’s Almost Scary How It’s Automatic”. This brand...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line147
__label__cc	0.609533	0.390467	Home Landscape-scale applications of 1080 pesticide benefit North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) and New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) in Tongariro Forest, New Zealand Landscape-scale applications of 1080 pesticide benefit North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) and New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) in Tongariro Forest, New Zealand Title Landscape-scale applications of 1080 pesticide benefit North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) and New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) in Tongariro Forest, New Zealand Authors Robertson, HA, Guillotel, J, Lawson, T, Sutton, N Journal Notornis Pagination 1-15 Type of Article Full article Keywords 1080 pesticide, brown kiwi, chick survival, nesting success, New Zealand fantail, pest control, population dynamics Data on the effects of aerial 1080 operations on non-target bird species in New Zealand are scarce and largely limited to short-term colour-banding or radio-tracking studies, or standardised call counts. During a 22-year study in Tongariro Forest, all 142 radio-tagged North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) survived 4 landscape-scale (20,000 ha) aerial broadcast 1080 operations targeting brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) and rats (Rattus spp.). Furthermore, both kiwi chick survival to 6 months old and New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) nesting success were significantly higher in the first 2 breeding seasons following the use of 1080 poison than in subsequent years of the 5-year cycle. We observed several episodes of ferret (Mustela furo) killing multiple adult kiwi, particularly in the last half of the 1080 cycle. Population modelling showed that a 5-year 1080 operation cycle resulted in population gains for 2 years, followed by declines in the remaining 3 years that largely negated these benefits. Our data thus support the shift to a 3-year 1080 operation cycle which will more likely result in this kiwi population growing at close to the 2% per year target set by the 2018–2028 Kiwi Recovery Plan. Full article 851.03 KB	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line150
__label__wiki	0.521758	0.521758	Surface energy of metal containing amorphous carbon films deposited by filtered cathodic vacuum arc Zhang, P., Tay, Beng Kang, Yu, G. Q., Lau, S. P. and Fu, Yong Qing (2004) Surface energy of metal containing amorphous carbon films deposited by filtered cathodic vacuum arc. Diamond and Related Materials, 13 (3). pp. 459-464. ISSN 0925 9635 Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-9635(03)00570-3 Metal containing amorphous carbon (a-C:Me) films including a-C:Al, a-C:Ti, a-C:Ni, a-C:Si were prepared by the filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) technique with metal-carbon (5 at.% metal) composite targets. The substrate bias ranging from floating to 1000 V was applied. The wettability of the films was examined using the VCA Optima system from AST Products, Inc. Three types of liquid with different polarities were used to study the surface energy changes of the films. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to analyze the composition and chemical state of the films. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was employed to characterize the morphology and roughness of the films. The contact angle of the a-C:Me films remains relatively constant with different substrate bias. The Al containing films show the highest contact angle with water, which reaches as high as 101°. The Si containing films show the lowest contact angle approximately 64°. The contact angles of Ni and Ti containing films are approximately 80°, 97°, respectively. The harmonic-mean method was used to calculate the polar and depressive component of the surface energy. The absorption of oxygen on the surface plays an important role on the polar component of the a-C:Me films. The formation of AlO and TiO bonds is responsible for their lower polar component. The metal state Ni results in higher polar component. However, the SiO bond is contributed to the high polar component of a-C:Si films. As all films are atomic scale smooth, the RMS roughness is below 0.5 nm, the roughness does not have obvious effect on the surface energy. Metal containing amorphous carbon; Filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA); Wettability; Surface energy; Substrate bias F200 Materials Science	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line153
__label__cc	0.517017	0.482983	THE BENIN MONARCH SETS UP A “ROYAL PALACE TASK FORCE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING’ Timothy Olayemi Following the visit of the Swedish ambassador to Nigeria His Royal Majesty, OMO N’OBA N’EDO, UKU AKPOLOKPOLO, EWUARE II, the Oba of Benin has set up a task force for fighting human trafficking and irregular migration. A meeting was held in Benin between the Swedish ambassador, His Excellency Michael Carl Grans, the executive office of the Oba Ewuare II foundation Mrs Ifueko Aideyan Okoro, executive members’ of the National agency for the prohibition of trafficking in persons (NAPTIP) and some palace representatives. It was a very intensive meeting that involved ruling drastic measures and designing strategic methods to fighting human trafficking and irregular migration, Mrs. Ifueko Aideyan Okoro gave the team a run down on the progress made so far by the Oba Ewuare II foundation and also asked for a strong collaboration between all parties present as most of the foundation’s major projects is been funded by His Majesty the Oba of the Benin although some national and international donors also assist through grants donations. The foundation which ran a skill acquisition training in 2019 and also gave out monthly stipends to the Libya returnees and to also some of the victims of human trafficking and irregular migration. “we’ve organized workshops subsequently to train these people, some have been able to grow up things for themselves with the stipends the foundation gave them” Although there is little the foundation can do by itself hence the need for a collaboration between all parties present. His excellency Michael Carl Grans the Swedish ambassador was very pleased to be part of the frontiers in the fight against human trafficking and irregular migration, he gave accounts of how the embassy gave out scholarship grants to some Nigerian students although they declined the offer he however pleaded for a sensitization to the Benin people about studying opportunities that present itself in Sweden. Mrs. Ifueko Aideyan Okoro however responded to the ambassador’s observation with a shock and promised to do a proper research as to why anyone will decline such a juicy offer, on the other hand she suggested a synergy between Nigeria citizens in Sweden to always pay a visit back home to help also in the fight and also learn more about their cultural heritage. FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE OF PRINCE IDUBOWA EWUARE THE FIGHT AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS A BATTLE WE ARE WINNING AT – HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, OMO N’OBA N’EDO UKU AKPOLOKPOLOR, EWUARE II BENIN MONARCH TASKS NEW ARMY BRIGADE COMMANDER ON MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY HRM OBA EWUARE II The purpose of this website is to effectively engage and reach out to the people locally and globally, profile and promote the rich culture and heritage of the Bini kingdom, as well as to administer justice to all in a prompt, transparent and more efficient manner THE BENIN TRADITIONAL COUNCIL The Kingdom of Benin is home to one of the oldest civilization in Sub-Saharan Africa, It is home to the Edo people, a people of unparalleled creativity and ingenuity. It’s a place that has witnessed the birth of some of the greatest monarchs to ever walked the area called Nigeria. AUTOMATED DISPUTE RESOLUTION SYSTEM The Automated Dispute Resolution System will be a platform for the people to get direct access to the Oba of Benin and The Benin Traditional Council (BTC) on contentious issues in the Benin Kingdom. Oba Ewuare II Foundation A non-profit organisation focused on upholding and reviving the cultural dignity of the Edo people 47-49 Dawson Street, Iyaro, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria T: +234 (0)818 099 1844 E: obaewuare2foundation@gmail.com E: info@obaewuare2foundation.org	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line155
__label__wiki	0.699943	0.699943	audience laid and eccentric shows became a member can become inflexible Eurosong without best to escape memories formations have their own asked to listen absolutely musical cradle Rammstein in Russia replaced RADIO TAPOK “Children, attention! Hush, laugh. I am the voice of darkness, I am created by pain. And he brought something for everybody from the chest by tearing it out with blood,… Lyubov Kazarnovskaya. “Hot soprano” Russian Opera How to start listening to classical music to learn how to understand it Pyotr Tchaikovsky about the opera The concept of musical style What to listen to in the autumn blues They were the first to play jazz. Jazz Age of Oleg Lundstrem Igor Oistrakh: violin genius gene Nikon Zhila: “We did not sing only in Antarctica and in Africa” Music by Alexei Rybnikov Vyacheslav Butusov: “Recently I discovered Turgenev for myself” Vyacheslav Butusov is not afraid to take risks. An architect by training, he realized that his real vocation is music. Then, at the peak of popularity, he disbanded a group… Yuri Bashmet. “Viola is a violinist with a dark past” Yuri Bashmet is a world-famous artist, an outstanding violist, conductor and teacher. "Kultura.RF" asked him about music lessons, motivation, favorite songs and the subtleties of the profession of a musician.… « Why do rock bands from zero change their sound drastically? NARKOMFIN conducted the first audit » New trends: what “Dirty Molly” and “kitty, kitty” bribed the youth Kurt Cobain said: “Art, which has a long-term value, cannot be appreciated by the majority, only a small percentage will show understanding and appreciate it.” In part, he was mistaken, because every decade had his idols, many of whom fell in love with millions, and at the same time their music became a real classic. So, in the 1990s, young people adored and imitated Kurt Cobain himself, while in the early 1990s everyone was ill with Marilyn Manson. Recently, however, the tastes of the public have changed a lot, and new heroes have puzzled many listeners who grew up in the old school. What is wrong with them, and why do they still gather thousands of rooms? New trends: what “Dirty Molly” and “kitty-kitty” were bought by young people Photo: www.instagram.com/dropbled It’s no secret that rock music has a huge number of trends from classic rock and roll to death metal, and it was she who spawned many subcultures, such as hippies, metallers, punks, goths, emo. All of these formations have their own distinctive features, like the work of artists inspiring them, but today the fact that many young people consider rock music is in fact drawn to the genre of rock by the ears and has nothing to do with it. Yet the main distinguishing feature of this style is its complicated structures and rhythms. What will happen if you disassemble the compositions of many modern “HYIP” teams? Take, for example, the now-popular Dirty Molly Group. In all of their songs, they use four simple chords, vocals, which are also famous for real rock, here, rather, they resemble a recitative extended through Auto-Tune, all the texts repeat the same themes – parties and drugs. The situation is similar with the music and lyrics of one of the most fashionable kis-kis groups today, which is actively gaining momentum in social networks. Of course, in the songs of many venerable rock musicians slip uncomplicated orchestrations and even vulgar texts, but more often they only dilute the rest of their work. Maybe the reason for the appearance of characters who call themselves new rock heroes is in a strange form of protest. If earlier musicians were protesting against the socio-political system, now, it seems, they are beginning to protest against each other. In the wake of the popularity of rap music, the level of development of which in Russia is also debated, groups began to appear, claiming that they are representatives of the new rock, in contrast with the notorious rappers. At the same time, they are absolutely self-confident: for example, the soloist of the already mentioned “Forward Molly” group, Kirill Pale, declares that he is engaged in “high art”. And not the fact that this is self-irony. What is actually the phenomenon of the popularity of such groups? Assumptions may be several. Perhaps the fact is that everything new is well forgotten old: music in the style of “give me back my 2007” (the year is conditionally chosen – prim.avt.), Eccentric behavior and the lyrics is the behavior of legendary rock singers such as the Sex Pistols at one time or, more specifically, the Rammstein. In addition, not only performers, but also listeners, chase after fashion: many young people choose such “favorite music” to be in trend. Typical teenage psychology is to look cool, to be “not like everyone else,” but at the same time in the most “progressive” get-together. It is under the motto “not like everyone else!” Fans of such groups march: they say, peers listen to Face, and we will listen to “Send Molly”. Is there a big difference? Honore de Balzac said: “To have taste is more than to have a mind.” Of course, it makes no sense to fall into moralizing, and time will tell who will go down in history and who will be a one-day hero, but perhaps the problem of this very taste is still more relevant today than ever. 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__label__cc	0.607854	0.392146	USAID FRONTLINES: From Famine to Feast in Brazil I thought in this time of gratitude that you would enjoy reading a story of a nation's turnaround to abundance from famine..... Have a safe and bountiful holiday . Pati Darak Posted by Pati Darak at 12:44 PM No comments: Hurricane Irene - Friday PM Update What to expect Friday night - Saturday morning: Crystal Coast (Morehead City-Atlantic Beach-Emerald Isle) Hurricane force winds possible after midnight and into Saturday morning 6-10" of rain possible with localized higher amounts Storm surge up to 10 feet possible resulting in a worst case of 4-6feet inudation about sea level in the surge zone Inland from the Crystal Coast (New Bern - Havelock - Newport) Hurricane force wind gusts possible after midnight and into Saturday morning 6-8" of rain possible leading to some flooding Onslow County (Jacksonville) Hurricane force wind gusts 4-6 foot storm surge along the coast 6-8" of rain possible Cape Fear region and coast (Wilmington - Wrightsville Beach - Brunswick Co.) Tropical storm force winds will continue into the early morning with a hurricane force gust not out of the question along the coastal areas I-95 corridor (Johnston County - Wilson - Goldsboro) Wind gusts up to 60mph possible 3-6" of rain with localized higher amounts possible Triangle and Sandhills (Raleigh -Durham - Chapel Hill - Fayetteville) Wind gusts up to 40 to 50 mph possible 1-2" of rain with some higher amounts in the eastern parts of this area and lower amounts to the west Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest updates through the night and day Lee Ringer News 14 Carolina Meteorologist www.facebook.com/LeeRingerNews14 www.twitter.com/LeeRingerNews14 Posted by Lee Ringer at 5:47 PM No comments: Hurricane Irene - Wednesday Update Hurricane Irene strengthened into a category 3 hurricane Wednesday morning and appears to be tracking toward the U.S. East Coast. The storm should take a more northwest and eventually more northerly turn steering the storm just east of Florida and toward North Carolina's Outer Banks. The latest forecast track has shifted to the east compared to earlier in the week. Here's a look at some of the latest computer model forecasts from Wednesday -- There are now several models showing Irene's center passing just east of the Outer Banks. Keep in mind Irene is a large storm and even if the storm's center passes just east of the Outer Banks much of coastal North Carolina will still be impacted by the storm. Tropical storm force winds (40mph+) extend up to 200 miles from the storm's center. A track directly over the Outer Banks as a strong category 2 or category 3 storm would not only bring damaging winds and flooding rains to that area, but it would create overwash from the ocean and sounds. A track just to the east may not be quite as devastating but would still produce hurricane force winds (75mph+) along the Outer Banks along with heavy rain and some overwash. Gusts up to 100mph cannot be ruled out especially near Hatteras. Based on the latest forecast track, here's what we expect for other areas in North Carolina: Crystal Coast (Atlantic Beach, Emerald Isle, Morehead City) Outer rain bands from Irene arrive Friday. Rain, which could be heavy at times, will continue Friday night and into Saturday. Tropical storm force winds are possible Friday night and Saturday. Wind gusts up to 60 to 65mph possible. Could see a higher gust at Cape Lookout. Wilmington, Jacksonville, and the Cape Fear Coast (Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Oak Island, Holden Beach, Ocean Isle) Outer rain bands from Irene arrive Friday. Rain will continue Friday night into Saturday. Heavy downpours are possible at times. Tropical storm force winds are possible Friday night and Saturday. Gusts up to 50mph possible. Wilson and Goldsboro Scattered showers and a few storms are possible Friday afternoon and Saturday. Sustained winds 10-25mph expected with on occasional gust up to 30 or 35mph possible Saturday. Triangle and Sandhills (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill and Fayetteville) Minimal impacts from Irene Scattered showers and storms are possible Friday afternoon with some rain possible Saturday. However, some locations may see very little if any rain. Sustained winds: 10-20mph with an occasional higher gust. Irene will quickly move away from the North Carolina coast late Saturday night and early Sunday. The storm will quickly accelerate up the east coast and could track over or near Long Island, New York as a hurricane Sunday. All of the expected mentioned in this post could change if there is a change in the forecast track. A jog just a little to the west or to the east could change the expected impact in your area. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina and Weather on the Ones for the latest information. Posted by Lee Ringer at 12:38 PM No comments: Hurricane Irene -- Monday AM Update Hurricane Irene is strengthening this morning as it pulls away from Puerto Rico. It appears the storm will brush past the Dominican Republic and Haiti over the next day. As the center of the storm tracks just to the north of Hispaniola, it will not likely be impacted by the mountainous terrain of that island. Often when storms track directly over Hispaniola, they weaken. This is not likely to happen with Irene. With the storm staying just north of the island, it is expected to maintain its strength or continue to strengthen. As the storm tracks over the Bahamas and just east of Florida, conditions may be favorable for rapid strengthening from mid to late week. This morning's forecast from the National Hurricane Center has Irene as a strong category 2 storm by the end of the week. That is a conservative forecast, and Irene could certainly be stronger. Coastal residents should always prepare for a storm that is at least one category stronger than forecast. It is still much too early to make a call on an exact location for landfall for the storm in the southeastern US. A look at the computer models posted below shows uncertainty from Florida to here in North Carolina. It does appear the storm could make landfall somewhere from Florida to the Outer Banks. Even if Irene makes landfall around Georgia or southern South Carolina, the remnants of the storm could still track over North Carolina this weekend. A lot could and likely will change with Irene's forecast over the coming days. There is still plenty of time to monitor the latest forecasts. Everyone in the Carolinas should have their preparedness plan and be ready to act later this week if necessary. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina and news14.com for updates. You can tune in for our tropical updates at :21 and :51 after the hour. www.twitter.com/LeeRinger14 Posted by Lee Ringer at 9:34 AM 2 comments: Trouble Brewing in the Tropics? We're watching two areas in the the tropics today. The first disturbance located in the Caribbean south of Cuba is becoming better organized this morning and could become our next tropical depression or tropical storm later today or tomorrow. Most models take that system toward Central America. The disturbance that is of more interest to our area is way out in the Atlantic - just under 900 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. While we don't expect any development of that disturbance today, conditions should become favorable for development as it moves to the west over the coming days. Some computer models, including the GFS shown below, forecast this becoming a tropical system and tracking toward the U.S. by late next week. We should note this is just one run of one computer model, but the GFS has been fairly consistent over the last couple of days showing this storm approaching the U.S. As expected, with this more than a week away, it has not been consistent with exactly where the storm would go. A lot will likely change with its forecast over the coming days. No one should take this forecast and say a hurricane will definitely threaten the U.S. next week. It is just a note to pay attention to the tropics over the coming days. We'll keep you posted with our tropical updates at :21 after the hour. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina. Posted by Lee Ringer at 9:25 AM No comments: A Break from the Heat? It has been a very hot summer in the Carolinas including several days at or above 100. There are now signs we'll get a break from the extreme heat into much of next week. The extended outlook for the next 6 to 10 days from the Climate Prediction Center has near to below normal temperatures for most of the east coast including North Carolina. We average highs in the upper 80s to near 90 through mid-August. At an early glance, I would anticipate highs in the mid and upper 80s for much of next week with morning lows in the 60s. That sure beats the upper 90s to near 100! Of course, errors in forecasting grow with time, so this long range forecast is not a guarantee. It is nice to say for now that we may get through next week with highs below 90! The news isn't so good for the central U.S. where the summer has been even hotter than here. The above normal temperatures will likely continue there next week. Much of Texas including Dallas should continue their streak of 100+ degree days. Will Emily Redevelop? Tropical Storm Emily fell apart Thursday afternoon as it was tracking over Haiti. What remains of the system is just a disorganized area of low pressure that is tracking toward the Bahamas. While we don't expect the storm to redevelop today, some redevelopment is possible Saturday. The National Hurricane Center says there is a 60% chance it could become a tropical depression or tropical storm again. Even if Emily redevelops, the storm is expected to stay offshore... The only impacts in North Carolina would be the danger of rip currents at our beaches. Scattered afternoon storms are still possible this weekend, but those are unrelated to what is now the remnants of Emily. For the latest on the tropics, tune in for our tropical updates at :21 after the hour on News 14 Carolina. Tropical Storm Emily - Thursday AM Update Not a lot has changed with the thinking on the forecast for Tropical Storm Emily. As of this morning, the storm was just on the south side of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Emily has been nearly stationary for a while but is expected to move to the west-northwest to the northwest later today. That will take the storm across parts of Haiti and eastern Cuba tonight through early tomorrow. It could weaken some as it interacts with land and some wind shear. Emily should track over the Bahamas into the weekend where conditions will be favorable for strengthening. The storm is then expected to turn to the north and eventually to the northeast Sunday. A few models still show the storm tracking toward the Gulf of Mexico, but that appears to be an unlikely scenario at this time. Emily could become a category 1 hurricane as it tracks just of the Carolina coast. On this track, it will stay far enough offshore that even locations along the immediate coast will not see rain from the storm. Scattered afternoon thunderstorms are possible this weekend, but are not related to Emily. The only impact from the storm in North Carolina may be from rough surf and dangerous rip currents. We still must watch Emily carefully, if the storm were to track just a little closer to the coast, the forecast could still change significantly. Stay tuned to our tropical updates at :21 and :51 after the hour on News 14 Carolina for the latest. Posted by Lee Ringer at 10:03 AM 1 comment: Tropical Storm Emily - Wednesday AM Update There have not been any big changes in Tropical Storm Emily since Tuesday evening. As of the 8am update from the National Hurricane Center, the storm still has sustained winds around 50mph and is expected to pass near or over the Dominican Republic and Haiti late today and tonight. Hispaniola is a mountainous island, which should weaken the storm. There are some cases where a storm falls apart all together, but most models do not show that happening at this time. It will be important to monitor how well Emily stays together after passing over Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Once it emerges over the Bahamas late Thursday and Friday, conditions will be favorable for strengthening. In fact, several models now show Emily becoming a hurricane off the southeast coast this weekend. The next tricky part of the forecast becomes the track Emily takes and how close it comes to the coast. Most models now turn Emily to the northeast Sunday taking it off the Carolina coast, but not all of the models agree just how far offshore the storm will track. At this time, I do not anticipate any impacts from Emily in central North Carolina including the Triangle and Sandhills. Impacts along the coast will all depend on the exact track. A track close to the coast would bring rain and wind. If the storm stays farther offshore, the only impacts would be rough surf and rip currents. As with any tropical system, the track and intensity forecast could change over the coming days changing the forecast impacts on our area. If you have beach plans this weekend, I would not cancel them yet, just stay alert to the latest forecast. Scattered afternoon storms unrelated to Emily are still possible this weekend. Be sure to stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest forecast. We'll have tropical updates at :21 and :51 after the hour through the week. Tracking Emily - Tuesday Morning Update Tropical Storm Emily formed Monday evening and, so far, has maintained its strength as a minimal tropical storm with sustained winds of 40mph. It will likely be tough for the storm to strengthen all that much over the next couple of days. It may encounter shear and dry air that could limit strengthening today, and then it will track over or close to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The island of Hispaniola is a mountainous region that sometimes rips apart tropical systems. Emily will likely at least weaken as it tracks over or close to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The official forecast track from the National Hurricane Center brings Emily over the Bahamas around the end of the week where it could strengthen as it tracks close to the southeast coast of the U.S. this weekend. It's important to note there is uncertainty with the track and intensity forecast late this week and this weekend. While most models keep the storm just off the southeast coast, a few others actually take the system into the Gulf of Mexico. There are even a couple models that weaken Emily all together. It is much too early to make a call if Emily will threaten North Carolina. Everyone from the Florida Gulf coast to the coast of the Carolinas should watch for the latest updates on Emily. Here in North Carolina, tune in for our tropical updates at :21 after the hour for the latest forecast. Tracking Bret Tropical Storm Bret developed this weekend near the Bahamas, but it is not expected to be a threat to the east coast. The storm will track off the Carolina coast through Wednesday when it should take a more easterly turn. This will take the storm into the cooler waters of the northern Atlantic where Bret will weaken late in the week. At this point, coastal North Carolina could use the soaking rains from a weak tropical system to help alleviate extreme drought conditions. Unfortunately, Bret will stay far enough offshore that no rain is expected from the storm along the coast. The storm will kick up rough surf and create dangerous rip currents for beach goers through midweek. For the latest forecast on Bret and more on the tropics, be sure to tune in for our tropical updates at :21 after the hour. Enjoy the Weekend Weather; Extreme Heat Returns Next Week Today is off to the great start with the coolest morning in a month! The low dropped to 60 at the Raleigh -Durham Airport this morning - just 2 degrees away from the record low for the date. Wilmington tied the record low with 64. This comes just days after record highs. Unfortunately, the cooler summer weather won't stick around for too long. A heat wave will be building across the central U.S. from this weekend through early next week and will then build east around mid to late next week. Some computer model forecasts show Wednesday through Friday next week could be just as hot or even hotter that the middle of this week when Raleigh hit 100 on Tuesday and Wilmington hit 102 on Wednesday. The heat index peaked between 105 and 109 both days in much of our area. The long range heat index forecast for next Thursday (July 21) shows the heat index could get as high as 110 to 115! Keep in mind this is still several days away, but there are clear indications that the oppressive heat and humidity will return next week. Exactly how hot is still somewhat uncertain at this point. We'll keep you posted through the weekend and next week with our latest Weather on the Ones forecasts. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina. News 14 Carolina Your Guide to Stormfest 2011 - Raleigh If you're a weather enthusiast, don't miss Stormfest 2011 Saturday, June 18 from 9am until 5pm at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. This free event is a great opportunity for adults and children to learn more about the hurricane season and the recent severe weather in North Carolina. News 14 Carolina's Weather on the Ones team will be there along with other groups including the National Weather Service, Red Cross, SKYWARN, American Radio Emergency Services, State Medical Assistance Team, Urban Search and Rescue, State Veterinary Emergency Response, Wake County Emergency Management, Highway Patrol, National Guard, NC Baptist Men, WakeMed, Rex Healthcare, and local fire departments. Stop by the News 14 Carolina/Weather on the Ones booth to pick up our severe weather safety guide plus other freebies we have to give away! You may also be interested in talks that will be given through the day at Stormfest. Here's a schedule of events -- 9:45am - Story time for kids - Windows on the World room 10:30am - Ask the Experts panel discussion with Lee Ringer and other local meteorologists - main auditorium 11:00am - What You Need to Know about Family Prepareness with the Red Cross - Windows on the World room 11:30am - Weather Whys for Kids with Pati Darak - Blue classroom (3rd floor) 12noon - Storm Chasing - Vortex II project with NC State University - Windows on the World room 12:30pm - North Carolina hurricane history with author Jay Barnes - main auditorium 1:15pm - Weather Whys for Kids with Joshua McKinney - Blue classroom (3rd floor) 2:30pm - Ask the Experts panel discussion with Gary Stephenson and other local meteorologists - main auditorium 3:30pm - What You Need to Know about Family Preparedness with the Red Cross - Windows on the World room Posted by Lee Ringer at 9:07 AM 1 comment: Stormfest 2011 - Wilmington We're hoping to see you this Saturday at Wilmington's Stormfest 2011! Stormfest will be held from 10am until 4pm at the Cape Fear Museum. Admission to the museum is free for this special event! Stop by anytime from 10am until 4pm to learn more about our recent active severe weather season and the upcoming hurricane season. Chief meteorologist Gary Stephenson and meteorologist Lee Ringer will be on hand. Stop by our booth to pick up our new weather safety guide along with other freebies from News 14 Carolina and Time Warner Cable. Other Stormfest participants include the Wilmington National Weather Service Office, the American Red Cross, New Hanover County Emergency Management, Pender County Emergency Management, the New Hanover County Library, the US Coast Guard, and other local TV stations. Here are just some of the special events taking place during Stormfest: 10:30am to Noon - SkyWarn Storm Spotter Training with Josh Weiss of the Wilmington National Weather Service Noon to 1:00pm - Ask the Expert: Meteorologists - Ask your weather questions to a panel of local TV meteorologists including News 14 Carolina's chief meteorologist Gary Stephenson 1pm to 2pm - Ask the Expert: Emergency Managers 2pm to 3pm - Hurricane Hazel: What if it Happened Today? Door prizes will be given away through the day! Parking for Stormfest is available at the Cape Fear Musuem. Additional parking is available at Jengo's Playhouse on the corner of Princess and 9th Street, at Norris, Kuske, and Tunstall Consulting Engineering on 9th Street, and at W.K. Dickson. Raleigh's Stormfest will be head Saturday, June 18 at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. More details to come... Thursday's Storm Threat Today we're watching a potent spring storm system marching across Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky. A severe weather outbreak is expected through the day in that part of the country with tornadoes likely. That same storm system will move across the Carolinas late Wednesday night through Thursday. The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of central and eastern North Carolina under a slight risk for severe weather Thursday - A line of storms is expected to move through the Triad and Charlotte areas early Thursday morning possibly before daybreak. The storms will approach the Triangle and Sandhills from the morning commute through midday and then move across eastern North Carolina from late morning through afternoon. The greatest threat from any strong storms will come from damaging straight line winds, but a few isolated tornadoes cannot be ruled out. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina. We'll keep you updated with the latest forecast. Strong Storms Possible Late Wednesday Night into Thursday A potent storm system is moving across the southeastern US today and could bring strong storms to the Carolinas late tonight and tomorrow. Early this morning severe storms have been marching across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The rain and storms will be slow to move into our part of North Carolina leaving most of the daytime hours Wednesday with not much more than a few sprinkles or light showers. Widespread rain will likely move into central and eastern North Carolina tonight. A few strong storms will be possible at that time. The threat for severe weather should mainly start around 10pm for the Triangle and Sandhills and continue through the overnight hours. The threat should come more toward early morning for coastal North Carolina but could start before daybreak. There is a slight chance that a few overnight storms may produce an isolated tornado. This is especially dangerous because of the overnight timing. Many people will be asleep and will not be aware of any warnings. Be sure to have a NOAA Weather Radio in standby mode tonight to alert you to any warnings in your area. Over 80% of tornado deaths in North Carolina occur at night. Showers and storms will continue off and on through the day Thursday. The severe threat will come more from damaging wind gusts from any strong storms during the daytime. The rain and storms should come to an end by late afternoon and evening. Rainfall amounts should range between 1 and 2 inches across much of our area. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for updates. We'll be here around the clock for the latest information through the day and night. More Rain Needed Monday evening's showers and thunderstorms some much needed rain to the region, but more is needed. Here's a look rainfall from Monday - Raleigh (NCSU): 1.10" Fayetteville: 0.80" Durham: 0.79" Wilmington: 0.77" Clayton: 0.75" Rocky Mount-Wilson: 0.74" Chapel Hill: 0.71" Cherry Point: 0.65" Jacksonville: 0.65" Raleigh-Durham Airport: 0.62" Goldsboro: 0.63" Whiteville: 0.63" Beaufort: 0.60" Oak Island: 0.54" Kure Beach: 0.47" Even with Monday's rain, the rainfall deficit stands at 3.84" since January 1 and 4.50" since December 1 at the Raleigh-Durham Airport. As noted in the above drought map, coastal North Carolina is not currently experiencing drought conditions like central parts of the state. The rainfall deficit for Wilmington since January 1 now stands at just 1.02" The recent dry conditions are concerning because the time period of October through April is critical to recharge water levels in lakes, rivers, and ground water. Ground water levels have been especially low in parts of central North Carolina. Dry weather is in the forecast through the rest of the week. However, it appears rain will return Sunday. Amounts are still uncertain at this time, and is often the case heading into the spring months, we'll have to watch for strong storms. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest forecasts. Chance for Storms Monday Evening Today is starting unusually warm for the final day of February. Morning temperatures in the 60s should return to near 80 in many spots by afternoon. RDU should break its record high of 80 for the date. Wilmington should fall just shy of its record of 85 this afternoon. This warm air is building in ahead of an approaching storm system that has already produced severe storms early this morning in parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. Some of these storms could move our way through the late afternoon and evening hours. Before the storms arrive, look for windy weather through the afternoon. Winds will be sustained from the southwest at 15 to 25 mph but could gust up to 40mph at times. A Wind Advisory is in effect through the afternoon for the Triangle and Sandhills. Look for showers and strong storms to move across the mountains this afternoon. It appears the storms may lose some of their intensity east of the mountains, but a few strong storms are still possible here by evening. The greatest threat from any strong storms will come from damaging winds. The storms should move east of the Triangle and Sandhills by around midnight and will be moving off the coast by around 2-3am. This system will certainly not provide a drought busting soaking rain that is needed in many parts of our region. Rainfall totals should range from between 0.1" and 0.3". Slightly higher totals are possible in stronger storms. Cooler and dry weather will move in for tomorrow. After tonight, our next chance for rain isn't expected until the weekend. Are We Done with Winter Weather? After what has been an active and cold winter, a prolonged warm up is ahead for next week! Highs will likely reach the 60s for much of the week with 70s possible by late week. There are signs that the warm weather will stick around for much of the rest of February. The 6-10 day and 8-14 day temperature outlooks from the Climate Prediction Center both show warmer than warmer temperatures for the Carolinas -- Even though an early taste of spring is on the way, we can't say that we are totally done with the bitter cold of winter. After all, cold weather is not unheard of in North Carolina during March. We also can't say we are done with snow for the season. There are several examples of snow across the state during the month of March. In fact, it has snowed across much of North Carolina during the first two days of March the last two years: Even larger snows have occurred later in March including an 8" snowfall just east of Raleigh March 24-25, 1983. One of the largest snowfalls on record for northeastern North Carolina occurred March 1-2, 1981. That storm produced over 2 feet of snow in the northeast corner of the state, nearly a foot in parts of the Triangle, and over a foot just inland from the Crystal Coast. The forecast for March 2011 is uncertain at this time. We'll wait and see if the cold returns. In the meantime, enjoy the spring-like temperatures over the next week or two! Snow Chances for Early Thursday Morning Light snow will spread into central North Carolina late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning. The precipitation may start during that time as light rain closer to the coast. Much of eastern North Carolina will transition to snow through the early morning hours. Some accumulation is possible with the best chance for snow accumulations east and southeast of Raleigh. Across the Triangle, look for a trace (not even a dusting) to 1". Near I-95 from Fayetteville to Wilson and Goldsboro, 1-3" of snow is possible, but the higher end of that range may come just east of those areas. The highest snow totals may come from near Jacksonville Havelock, and Morehead City to Greenville and Elizabeth City where 2-5" is possible. Along the southeast coast near Wilmington, temperatures may hover just above freezing, so little to no accumulation is expected especially along the immediate southeast coast. Any snow will end from the west to the east through the morning. The snow may taper off as early as around daybreak in the Triangle to late morning and midday along the coast. Skies will clear in the Triangle and Sandhills by afternoon with some limited sun by afternoon at the coast. Temperatures should warm to at least the low 40s in the afternoon. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest updates. Posted by Lee Ringer at 10:14 AM No comments: Light Snow Possible Thursday Morning Low pressure off the Carolina coast late Wednesday night into Thursday morning may produce light snow in parts of our area. Precipitation totals look light at this time with the best chance of any accumulation coming near I-95 and locations to the east to the coast. This area including Fayetteville, Wilson, Goldsboro, Morehead City, and Wilmington could see anywhere from just a dusting to up to 2 inches in some spots. Closer to the Triangle any snowfall should be light enough to where little to no accumulation is expected, although just a dusting cannot be ruled out. Temperatures early Thursday morning will drop to just below freezing around the Triangle and Sandhills to near freezing along the coast but should warm to at least the low 40s Thursday afternoon. Any snow should end by mid-morning across eastern North Carolina. A change in the expected track and strength in low pressure off our coast could change our current forecast. Stay tuned to Weather on the Ones on News 14 Carolina for updates. What We are Watching This Week This week should be an interesting week of weather in North Carolina. It starts with low pressure tracking from near the Gulf coast this morning to off the Carolina coast later today and tonight. That will bring rain to the coast by this afternoon. The rain should spread inland through late afternoon and evening. Coastal areas should see about 1" of rain with lower amounts inland. The Triangle and Sandhills may see less than 0.25" with the possibility that areas in the northwest Triangle may not see much in the way of measurable rain. Clearing is expected by early Tuesday morning. Somewhat cooler weather returns for Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll watch another area of low pressure develop near the Gulf coast Wednesday and track off the Carolina coast by Thursday. Computer models have shown a lot of variability in the track and strength of this low in their forecasts since late last week. Some snow is possible in parts of the state late Wednesday night into Thursday, but amounts and locations of snowfall will all be determined by the track of the low. Models have been trending toward lighter amounts of precipitation. It is really too early to make any definite calls on the Thursday forecast. We'll have to continue to watch model trends and should have a better handle on Thursday's forecast by tomorrow and Wednesday. For those of you tired of the cold winter weather, a warm up is on the way starting this weekend. Friday looks chilly, but temperatures should steadily warm through the weekend. Much of next week could feature temperatures above normal for a change. Needed Rain The new drought monitor released Thursday upgraded parts of central North Carolina to a severe drought. Fortunately, much needed rainfall will fall through today, tonight, and into early Saturday. Coastal North Carolina is the only part of the state that is not considered to be at least "abnormally dry." The coast will see the most rain with this storm system with 1 to 2 inches of rain possible. Central North Carolina including the Triangle and Sandhills should see between 0.5" and 1" with localized amounts over an inch around Fayetteville and east of the Triangle. Today's rain certainly is a cold rain with temperatures holding in the 30s through the day around the Triangle and highs only in the mid 40s along the coast. Milder weather is ahead for the weekend as the rain ends. Highs should return to the 50s for Saturday and Sunday. More rain chances are coming up next week. A few light showers are possible late Monday or early Tuesday, but the better rain chances look to come late Wednesday into Thursday. Computer models are showing a lot of uncertainty for the forecast from Wednesday into Thursday. It appears low pressure will track from near the Gulf coast to the Carolinas. At this point, it looks like the precipitation would be mainly rain for the Triangle and the Sandhills to the coast, but we'll have to watch the track of that system closely over the coming days. Should We Trust the Groundhog's Forecast? Happy Groundhog Day! It's the one day of year that many people listen to the weather forecast of a rodent. There are many different groundhogs making their predictions across the country today, but the best known groundhog is Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania. Phil made his prediction around sunrise this morning when he did not see his shadow. According to folklore, that means an early spring. Punxsutawney Phil does not have a very good track record though with an accuracy rate of only 39%. North Carolina's own groundhog, Sir Walter Wally has a better track record than Phil. He will make his forecast at noon today in Raleigh. It has been a cloudy start to Groundhog Day in Raleigh, but the clouds should break some around midday. Sir Walter Wally may just see his shadow predicting six more weeks of winter. What do the long range forecasts from meteorologists say about the rest of winter? The February forecast from the Climate Prediction Center shows equal chances of above normal and below normal temperatures in the Carolinas. While we have had a few warmer days in the last week, it will not stay warm. Below normal afternoon highs will return to the Carolinas tomorrow and Friday. After a few days into early next week of near to above normal temperatures, colder weather looks to return around the middle of next week. It is tough to say if the cold winter weather we have experienced so far this winter will stick around for the next six weeks. It's best to take long range forecasts with a grain of salt anyway -- whether that forecast is from a groundhog or a human meteorologist. You may remember the long range forecast for this winter was for warmer than average temperatures and drier than normal conditions. That warmer part of that forecast has certainly not worked out. The drier forecast has been more accurate. Since December, Raleigh-Durham is 3.43" behind in rainfall. Wilmington was about 2" behind for January. Mainly Rain for Tuesday into Wednesday Low pressure is still set to track from near the Gulf coast today to near the Carolina coast tonight and tomorrow. This will spread mostly rain across North Carolina by this afternoon and this evening. Rain will continue into the night when a few thunderstorms are possible along the immediate coast. Occasional rain showers are expected through Wednesday. The rain will change to a heavy wet snow for the North Carolina mountains by Wednesday morning. Areas east of the mountains stand very little chance to see accumulating snow. As the precipitation ends, the northwest Piedmont (northwest of Raleigh and the Triangle) may see a quick burst of snow. If the snow comes down heavy enough, a quick dusting on grassy surfaces is possible in the late afternoon from Greensboro to Roxboro to Oxford and Henderson. There is just a slight chance the Triangle may see a little snow mix in with the rain as the precipitation ends Wednesday afternoon and evening, but that chance appears very small right now. The rain will be a welcome sight especially in central North Carolina where moderate drought conditions are building across the region. However, rain totals in the central parts of the state may not be as high as first thought yesterday... It now appears the Triangle and Sandhills will see between 0.5" and 1" of rain while coastal locations could see between 1-2" with locally higher amounts. Check in with Weather on the Ones on News 14 Carolina for updates on the forecast! Rain by Late Tuesday; What about Wednesday? Low pressure tracking from near the Gulf coast to near the Carolina coast (or just inland from the Carolina coast) will bring mainly rain to our part of North Carolina for Tuesday into Wednesday. Ever since last week, there was a lot of uncertainty on whether or not this storm would produce snow. While this storm will produce mainly rain in our area, there is still the possibility for a change to some snow around the Triangle to the north and west before ending Wednesday afternoon or evening. Look for rain to spread across the the Sandhills and coastal areas through Tuesday afternoon with the rain reaching the Triangle by late afternoon and evening. A few light showers are possible in eastern North Carolina mainly near the coast Monday night and early Tuesday morning associated with a coastal front, but the higher rain chance will come by late day Tuesday and Tuesday night. Precipitation will continue through Tuesday night as all rain across the region. A few thunderstorms may develop right along the coast late Tuesday and Wednesday. Rain showers will continue into Wednesday. Locations south and east of Raleigh should see the precipitation end by late afternoon and evening as rain. From the Triangle to the north and west, it is possible the rain could change to snow for ending. A narrow band of heavy wet snow may fall for a couple to a few hours with the passage of an upper level low pressure system. The better chance for this may come just north and west of the Triangle. A slight change in the track in the upper level low could bring some accumulating snow over the Triangle late Wednesday or take it northwest of the Triangle. By tomorrow, we should have a better idea on what areas may see a change over to snow, but we may not be fully certain until the upper low is actually tracking over the Carolinas Wednesday. The best chance to see accumulating snow Wednesday in North Carolina will be in the higher elevations of the mountains. Fortunately, this system will bring some much needed rain to our area. Much of central and eastern North Carolina should see between 1-2" of rain with some locally heavier amounts possible near the coast. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest updates on the forecast. Is More Winter Weather on the Way? - Sunday AM Update The Crystal Coast and parts of the Outer Banks were surprised with the amount of snow they received yesterday. Beaufort, Emerald Isle, and Havelock all reported 7" of snow! Locations along the southeast coast saw much less snow with only 0.1" reported in Wilmington. Now our attention turns to the storm system expected to impact North Carolina Tuesday into Wednesday. While there is still uncertainty with this storm, it does appear precipitation will start as rain Tuesday for the Triangle and Sandhills and continue as rain into Tuesday night. By early Wednesday. the rain could change to snow for areas just north and west of the Triangle. The Triangle could be very close to the fine line between an area that will see all rain and the area that could change over to snow. Heavy snow is possible during this time period in the North Carolina mountains and foothills. Coastal areas can expect all rain for Tuesday into Wednesday. Keep in mind the track and strength of low pressure that will move from the the Gulf Coast to near the Carolina coast will ultimately determine the type and amount of precipitation. A slight change in this track could easily create a big change in the forecast. Just a cold rain is certainly a possibility for much of our area, but a change over to snow is also still a possibility in some locations. We should have better handle on the forecast by Monday. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest in our Weather on the Ones updates. Coastal Snow - Saturday Just a quick update for Saturday evening... heavier snow than expected set up along the Crystal Coast and Outer Banks of North Carolina this afternoon. As of this posting just before 6pm, we had reports of as much as 7" of snow in Havelock and Emerald Isle and 5" in Morehead City. The snow will taper off along the Crystal Coast into the evening. For more on the latest weather conditions and forecast, check in with Weather on the Ones on News 14 Carolina. Today's snow along the Crystal Coast just points out how difficult winter weather forecasting is in North Carolina. Low pressure has stayed right off the coast with the precipitation just grazing the coast. However that precipitation just grazing the coast has been enough to produce up to 7" of snow so far in some spots! Is More Winter Weather on the Way? - Saturday AM Update Parts of the immediate North Carolina coastline should see some light snow today with the best chance coming during the afternoon and evening. As we have discussed here on the blog over the last couple of days, most of the precipitation with this low pressure should stay offshore. However, some precipitation may just graze the coast and that precipitation should fall as snow. Snowfall amounts should be relatively light with anywhere from a trace to 2" possible close to the immediate coast. I would expect the lighter end of that range along the Cape Fear coast (Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender Counties) with perhaps the higher end of that range along coastal Onslow County, Carteret County, and the southern Outer Banks. Then our attention turns to next week when several computer models have advertised a winter storm impacting parts of North Carolina from Tuesday into Wednesday. The exact track of this low pressure will determine what parts of the state will see snow and what parts will see rain. Coastal areas will more than likely see mainly rain out of this storm, but the Triangle and Sandhills could fall very close to the rain/snow line. It is still too early to say with any certainty if the Triangle and Sandhills would see mainly snow, mainly rain, or a mix of the two. This morning's hazardous weather outlook from Raleigh's National Weather Service Forecast Office has a good summary of what is possible during that time period: THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN. ..SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM MAY AFFECT PORTIONS OF OUR REGION TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. A STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT OUR REGION EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE TRACK AND STRENGTH OF THE STORM WILL DETERMINE THE PREDOMINATE PRECIPITATION TYPE FOR OUR REGION. THE CURRENT FORECAST IS FOR A STORM TRACK FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO NORTHEAST ALONG THE CAROLINA COAST TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS WOULD BRING THE THREAT OF A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TO WESTERN AND POSSIBLY CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... INCLUDING MUCH OF THE PIEDMONT. IF THIS TRACK DEVIATES MORE INLAND... THEN LESS OF A WINTER STORM IMPACT CAN BE EXPECTED WITH MORE RAIN INTO THE PIEDMONT. DETAILS OF THE TRACK AND STRENGTH OF THE STORM CONTINUE TO VARY. IT WILL LIKELY BE MONDAY BEFORE THE FORECAST CAN BE FINE TUNED. STAY TUNED THIS WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK FOR DETAILS ON A POTENTIAL WINTER STORM TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. We'll keep you posted with the latest forecast with our Weather on the Ones updates on News 14 Carolina! Is More Winter Weather on the Way? - Friday AM Update Computer models appear to be in better agreement this morning that low pressure will track up the Carolina coast during the early to middle part of next week bringing snow and rain to North Carolina. Some areas will see just rain, others will see all snow, and other may see a mix of snow to rain to snow. Since we are still several days away, it is still much too early to make a call on what locations in the state could see significant snow and what areas would see just a cold rain. Based on the latest model data this morning, the Triangle would fall very close to the rain/snow line with significant snows possible to the west especially in the foothills and mountains. However, that all depends on the exact track of the low pressure. If the track changes more to the east, more significant snow would be possible toward the Triangle and even the Sandhills. At the same time, a more inland or westerly track would mean just rain for those areas. It appears the coast would mainly see just rain. I caution that all of this is subject to change. Nailing down the exact track of low pressure that hasn't even developed yet is pretty much impossible at this point. We are still several days away and the models don't fully have a handle on how this storm system will evolve. Keep an eye on the forecast especially for Tuesday, Tuesday night, and Wednesday. On another note, before we get to next week, low pressure will develop off the southeast coast Saturday. It should stay far enough offshore that any precipitation with that low will be out to sea. There is just a slight chance that the southern Outer Banks and Crystal Coast could see a few flurries or light snow showers Saturday evening. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest forecast! Is More Winter Weather on the Way? It has been quite the winter so far in the Carolinas, and we're only about half way through the season! After a brief warm up during the middle of this week, colder temperatures will return for the weekend, and the chance for winter precipitation could return by early next week. Before we get to next week though, we'll have to keep an eye on low pressure that will develop off the southeast coast Saturday. This low should stay far enough offshore to keep most precipitation offshore. However, it is possible that the low tracks a little closer to the coast spreading snow flurries or light snow showers across coastal areas late Saturday afternoon or Saturday evening. The Triangle and Sandhills will stay dry with no precipitation over the weekend. Then our attention turns to Monday into Tuesday of next week. Cold air will be in place over central North Carolina as low pressure tracks from near the Gulf coast to off the Carolina coast. Since this is still several days away, details with this system are still very uncertain and computer models are not in full agreement with exactly how this weather system will set up. It does appear precipitation will start by late Monday across the Sandhills and Triangle as some type of winter precipitation - either snow or a wintry mix. The precipitation may change to a cold rain into Tuesday in the Sandhills. The Triangle may be right on the dividing line between an area that sees mainly winter precipitation and an area that changes to a cold rain. At this time, it appears coastal areas would mainly just see rain showers. Precipitation amounts are uncertain at this point, so it's too early to say if this will just be a nuisance event or a more significant event. As with the past winter systems this season, details in the forecast should become clearer over the coming days. Stay tuned for our Weather on the Ones updates for the latest! January 10-11, 2011 Snowfall Snowfall totals from Monday-Tuesday, January 10-11, 2010: Hampstead: 7.0" Laurinburg: 7.0" Rocky Point: 6.0" Whiteville: 5.5" Lumberton: 5.0" Fayetteville: 5.0" Raeford: 5.0" Southern Pines: 5.0" Elizabethtown: 5.0" Burgaw: 4.0" Kenansville: 4.0" Havelock: 4.0" Topsail Beach: 4.0" Wilmington: 3.8" Vander: 3.5" Morehead City: 3.0" Anderson Creek: 2.2" Atlantic Beach: 1.5" New Bern: 1.5" Hillsborough: 1.1" Louisburg: 1.0" Mount Olive: 1.0" Newton Grove: 1.0" Roxboro: 1.0" Sanford: 1.0" Siler City: 1.0" Wrightsville Beach: 1.0" Creedmoor: 0.5" Durham: 0.5" Burlington: 0.5" Chapel Hill: 0.2" Raleigh: 0.2" Wilson: Trace Ice Accumulation from January 10-11, 2010: Holly Springs: 0.2" Louisburg: 0.15" Southern Pines: 0.15" Oxford: 0.1" Wilson: 0.1" Tracking Winter Weather -- Sunday Morning Update A storm system will track across the southeast into the new week spreading snow and ice across parts of the southeast including North Carolina. The details of the storm are becoming more clear for North Carolina, and it does not appear this will be a repeat of the post-Christmas snow. While some snow is possible with this storm, sleet and freezing rain could be the bigger issue for our region. Light snow is expected to spread into parts of the state near Charlotte and the NC/SC border around daybreak Monday. Because of dry air across much of central North Carolina, it will take a while for the precipitation to track north. Light snow will eventually spread from the southwest to northeast through Monday afternoon. By Monday evening, that precipitation will change to more of a wintry mix. Based on the latest weather data, here's my thinking of what different regions of our coverage area can expect: Light snow will spread across the Triangle Monday afternoon or evening before changing to sleet then freezing rain or freezing drizzle Monday night. Precipitation will taper off Tuesday morning to around midday Tuesday. Around 1-2" of snow is possible before the change over to an icy mix. These accumulations will be slightly higher southwest of Raleigh and lower northeast of Raleigh. The snow accumulation will depend on the start time of the precipitation in the area. A later start time would mean less snow and an earlier start time would mean more snow accumulation. On top of any snow accumulation, 0.1" to 0.25" of ice accumulation is possible. This will create dangerous travel conditions Monday night and Tuesday morning. If ice accumulation reaches 0.25" or higher, look for power outages. Light snow will spread across the Sandhills Monday morning and will then change to an icy mix by late Monday afternoon or evening. Snow accumulations of 1-4" is possible with the higher totals west of Fayetteville. Ice accumulation up to 0.25" is possible. Look for dangerous travel conditions developing Monday afternoon and continuing through Tuesday. If ice accumulation reaches 0.25" or higher, power outages will become a problem. Wilson/Goldsboro Some light snow is possible by late Monday afternoon or evening. Snow accumulation of a trace to an inch is possible. Any light snow will change to sleet and then freezing rain Monday evening and Monday night before ending Tuesday morning to around midday Tuesday. Ice accumulation of 0.1" to 0.25" is possible. Look for dangerous travel conditions Monday night and Tuesday morning. Coastal viewing area Light snow or a wintry mix will spread toward the southeast coast by late morning to early afternoon Monday. The precipitation will slowly build to the north through the afternoon and evening. A changeover to rain is expected by Monday evening. Most locations along the immediate coast will likely not see any accumulation as those locations will likely see mainly a cold rain. Areas inland from the coast across Columbus, Bladen, and Duplin County could see a dusting to 1" of snow/sleet accumulation with a light glazing of ice before changing to rain Monday night. Keep in mind a change in track or intensity of this storm system could change the weather expected in your area. Winter weather forecasting is difficult in North Carolina, and changes in the forecast are still possible. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for the latest Weather on the Ones updates. Snow for Friday Night, More Snow and Ice for Early Next Week Lots of winter weather to talk about today! I'll start with a disturbance that will produce a band of snow across central North Carolina tonight. This disturbance will create heavier accumulations in the mountains, but a band of a dusting to 2" is possible across the Piedmont to northeastern North Carolina. This includes areas around the Triangle. Tonight's snow could begin as early as late afternoon. If that happens, the precipitation would start as light rain then mix with and change to snow. Accumulations would likely be mainly on grassy surfaces but some slush may build up on roads. Locations south of the Triangle near Fayetteville can look for mainly a light rain possibly mixed with some snow as the precipitation ends. Little to no accumulation is expected in the Fayetteville area. Most of the precipitation should taper off around midnight give or take an hour or two. Temperatures will hover in the mid 30s as the precipitation falls and then fall below freezing as the precipitation ends. Lows in the upper 20s to near 30 are expected by daybreak Saturday morning in the Triangle and Sandhills. This could create issues with black ice Saturday morning even in areas that see mainly a light rain. For our coastal viewers, tonight's band of precipitation will mainly miss our area to the north and northwest. A few light sprinkles cannot be ruled out late tonight. This weekend our attention then turns to the potential for a more significant winter weather system for Monday through Tuesday of next week.... Low pressure along the Gulf coast Sunday night and Monday morning will track to off the North Carolina coast by Tuesday morning. Cold air will be in place across North Carolina as precipitation spreads across the state Monday afternoon. This looks to begin as snow in the Triangle and Sandhills, but I am growing more concerned that the snow will change to sleet and freezing rain Monday night or early Tuesday morning. If that happens, it appears there would be enough icing for significant travel problems and power outages. Keep in mind that is just one scenario with this system at this point. The forecast remains even more uncertain for early next week in coastal North Carolina. Precipitation looks certain with some rain, but that rain may change to a wintry mix for a period of time. Since we are still a few days away, a lot could still change with the forecast for next week. It is still too early to speculate on too many specifics about this storm. Through the weekend, we should have a better idea on how all of this will come together. Check in with Weather on the Ones on News 14 Carolina through the weekend for the latest. A Winter Storm for Early Next Week? We're watching the potential for a winter storm to impact the Carolinas early next week. Computer forecast models have been somewhat consistent showing low pressure tracking from near the Gulf coast to off the Carolina coast. The exact timing is still uncertain at this point, but from Monday into Tuesday appears to be the time period this storm system would affect our area. Cold air would be in place for much of our area at that time supporting the chance for wintry precipitation. Since we are still several days away from early next week, I would caution that it is too early to forecast any details with this storm. Some models are forecasting accumulating snow across much of North Carolina with some indications of sleet and freezing rain causing problems in a narrow band across the state. Locations closer to the coast may see more of a cold rain. Again, this is all very preliminary at this point and the forecast will likely change some between now and next week. Stay tuned to News 14 Carolina for updates through the rest of the week and the weekend. Cold January? The first couple days of 2011 were much milder than most of December as temperatures reached the 60s in most of our area. Wilmington even hit 70 on New Years Day. For most of this week, temperatures will return closer to normal for the first week of January, but even colder weather could be on the way by next week. Most long range indications show colder weather moving in for the upcoming weekend with colder than normal weather sticking around for much of next week. The 6 to 10 day temperature outlook shows colder than normal weather for much of the US -- The long range outlook for January now also calls for a colder than normal January for the Carolinas... Will January be just as cold or colder than our very cold December? Only time will tell, but it does appear this winter will not be warmer than normal as previously forecast in the fall. Gary Stephenson Joshua McKinney Enjoy the Weekend Weather; Extreme Heat Returns Ne... Strong Storms Possible Late Wednesday Night into T... Is More Winter Weather on the Way? - Saturday AM ... Is More Winter Weather on the Way? - Friday AM Up... Snow for Friday Night, More Snow and Ice for Early... 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__label__cc	0.583086	0.416914	This page uses cookies and similar technologies so that we can provide you with the best user experience and collect user data. Accessing the page without changing your browser settings means cookies will be saved locally on your device. You can always change the settings in your browser options. Programme Tickets News Press Room Multimedia Curatorial text Information about festival Concept About festival Festival records Festival publications Partners Cooperation Organizers Contact Festival's Archive Sacrum Profanum Archive Programme Tickets News Press Room Multimedia About festival More Home Artists Contemporary Ensemble Musical Co-operative Contemporary Ensemble Musical Co-operative In 2014 a group of Cracovian musicians performing together, among others, in the European Workshop for Contemporary Music project participated in a programme for young ensembles at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Music in Darmstadt. It was then when the idea was born to continue this fruitful co-operation in the form of a permanent band. The common ground was a desire to explore contemporary music expressed in all genres, created in different periods and diverse musical cultures. In addition, the goal was to perform such music in a way as to allow both the performers and listeners to develop. „We want to reinterpret the already discovered and well entrenched music, to discover the one that is still to be unveiled, and to co-create new up-to-date music. We play chamber music in a broad sense: from a solo performance to a sinfonietta. We strive to unite our personalities in new whole by working according to the principles of equal partnership and inspiring each other. Hence our name: Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble (Contemporary Ensemble Musical Co-operative)”. Spółdzielnia is a collection of artistic individuals. Each of us also runs their own artistic activity and has accomplished significant achievements in the field of musical art. As part of our individual activity, we give concerts as soloists, form chamber ensembles, perform in symphony orchestras. However, this activity is not confined to merely performance. Some of us are active in the field of education, deal with composition, music production and organisation of artistic events. Each member of the ensemble collects invaluable individual experiences connected with different branches of contemporary, classical, old, entertainment and ethnic music. Thanks to this versatility of the musicians, we are open to innovative ideas and artistic solutions. Individuality, diversity and freshness are our priorities in selecting a repertoire, while in regard to the act of performing, we value understanding of musical and aesthetic ideas, as well as openness and musicality backed by a technical workshop. We also try to animate the creation of new compositions. As members of the European Workshop for Contemporary Music, we had an honour to share the stage with musicians representing Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Garage. We also owe much to the conductor of the EWCM, Rüdiger Bohn. Over the course of more than a year of independent activity of the ensemble, three of its members – Barbara Borowicz, Gabriela Biel and Bartosz Sałdan – collaborated with Helmut Lachenmann on the performance of his Trio Fluido during the Brand New Music Festival in Katowice. Among the most important festivals in which Spółdzielnia has taken part are the Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, Audio Art, Musica Moderna, aXes – New Music Triduum. At the 2016 Warsaw Autumn, we had a Polish premiere of the stage version of the opera Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino, co-produced by the Warsaw Chamber Opera. Spółdzielnia Muzyczna is one of the first ensembles of contemporary music in Poland. We want to work and develop in a multidimensional way. For this reason, the concert programmes have been varied from the very beginning: they included Polish and foreign music, solo and chamber music, composers who belong both to the older generation and the youngest one, as well as the music which is not usually performed by artists in our country. A kind of catalyst was a concert in December 2015, entirely dedicated to the multimedia works of Piotr Peszat. Compositions from the border of music and performance, involving multi-instrumental or post-instrumental skills at the same level as acting opened up a completely new perspective to Spółdzielnia. This unique experience is extremely important to us and undoubtedly influences the direction of our further development and the creation of more recognisable identity of Spółdzielnia Muzyczna. Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble: Barbara Mglej, violin Paulina Woś-Gucik, violin Gabriela Biel, viola Jakub Gucik, cello Martyna Zakrzewska, piano, midi Bartosz Sałdan, drums Aleksander Wnuk, drums Małgorzata Mikulska, flute Barbara Borowicz, clarinet Mateusz Kras, clarinet Wiktor Krzak, bassoon Mateusz Rusowicz, trumpet, conductor Michał Lazar, guitar Piotr Peszat, composition, multimedia All days passes: Sacrum Profanum Buy a festival pass NEWSLETTER_SUCCESS STAY_UPDATED SUBSCRIBE_NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE_TO_RECIEVE_MONTHLY_UPDATES NEWSLETTER_AGREE1 NEWSLETTER_RODO_INFO Programme Artists Tickets News © KFO 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line174
__label__cc	0.571991	0.428009	Search 5,055 Benefit Account Manager jobs now available on Indeed.com, the world's largest job site. Based on 37 salaries posted anonymously by U Haul Account Manager employees in California. San Jose, California $197,130 CompAnalyst Account Manager:: LOGIN: User Name: Password : Login: I forgot my password Jr Account Manager, Channel Account Manager, Account Supervisor, Salary estimation for Account Management Manager at companies like : Full-time, temporary, and part-time jobs. Eureka, CA. Learn about salaries, benefits, salary satisfaction and where you could earn the most. Based on 38 salaries posted anonymously by At And T Account Manager employees in California. The average salary for a Account Manager is $62,748 in San Diego, CA. We including average salaries for jobs related to Key Account Manager positions. Salaries estimates are based on 1,137 salaries submitted anonymously to Glassdoor by Account Manager employees in San Diego, CA. 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Account Manager job description. Search and apply for the latest Associate account manager jobs in California. Search and apply for the latest Operations account manager jobs in Irvine, CA. Recommended Part-time Jobs during Coronavirus Outbreak, Intern-to-Hire Associate Sustainability Account Manager, GreenCitizen - The average account manager salary in Oakland, California is $110,829 or an equivalent hourly rate of $53. Average Account Manager Salary By Location. City of Industry, CA, Enterprise Account Manager - Spectrum Enterprise, SPECTRUM - Find the right position and build your career. Occupation: Account Manager Industry: Information Technology Age: 27 Location: Los Angeles, CA My Salary: $80,000 (My salary is $62,500 + commission. As of Sep 28, 2020, the average annual pay for an Account Manager in California is $50,195 a year. We including average salaries for jobs related to Service Account Manager positions. 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__label__wiki	0.522197	0.522197	Celebrate Deaf Communities: Booklist by Rebecca \| Dec 11, 2020 \| Educators, Parents \| 2 comments The deaf community has a rich culture. However, their language and experiences are still not fully understood. They have in the past have been called Dummy, Dumb, Disabled, and so much more. Throughout the years, however, thousands of deaf activists have pushed for equal rights. They brought Closed-Captioning in television & media, interpreters for national conversations, brought data that American Sign Language (ASL) is a foreign language due its word structure, visual order, syntax, and meanings. Today it has been distinguished that there is even Black ASL To celebrate the deaf community, we are highlighting books about deaf culture. Also, each year, December 3-December 10th, is celebrated as Clerc-Gallaudet Week. This week is to remember the partnership that Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet formed to establish a leading ASL school and university. Below are fictional books about children’s and teens living with or living as a deaf individual. Secret Signs Along the Underground Railroad, by Anita Riggio A mother and her deaf son hide slaves on their farm. When a slave catcher is suspicious, he threatens them. Quickly, the deaf son plans to outwit the slave catcher so he can give a message to a woman in an Indigo shawl. The William Hoy Story, by Nancy Churnin William Hoy was a deaf baseball player who played for Chicago White Stockings (Chicago White Sox) from 1890-1901. Because William Hoy was deaf his family and society determined his future. However, Hoy was determined to play ball. At first, other players and officials discriminated against him. Later on, Hoy gave the Umpire signs so he knew when to bat or if there was a strike. Remarkably signs in baseball are currently used. With the noise of the players and audience it is easier to sign than speak. We can thank William Hoy for his determination, grit, and passion for baseball. Moses Sees A Play, by Issac Millman 1 out of the 4 Moses themed books is about a deaf boy named Moses. In this story, Moses befriends a boy named Manuel. Moses teaches Manuel signs and learns how deaf actors perform. The Deaf Musicians, by Pete Seeger and Paul Dubois Jacobs A musician loses his hearing and has to find another way to celebrate his musical gifts. He befriends other deaf musician during his ASL studies. Lee and his new deaf band members performed for audiences in the subway. Helen’s Big World, The Life of Helen Keller, by Doreen Rappaport Helen Keller had a mind that amazed the world. She was born hearing, but due to an illness lost her hearing & sight as a baby. This story shares her story and how her life-long teacher, Annie taught her how to read and write. Annie showed Helen the beauties of this world and the injustices. The Sound of Silence, Growing up Hearing With Deaf Parents, by Myron Uhlberg An intermediary is a person who translates for the other. Myron describes his experiences of being an intermediary for his deaf parents. Dad Jackie, and Me, by Myron Uhlberg It is the summer of 1947 where Jackie Robinson is playing with an all-white professional baseball league. Uhlberg’s father is ecstatic because his father experienced discrimination, oppression, and being underestimate his entire life just for being deaf. Uhlberg’s father saw Robinson as his hero. Though this story was fictitious, Uhlberg’s father was proud to see a Black man play with white players. You Don’t Know Everything Jilly P, by Alex Gino New big sister Jillian has a new baby sister. When her parents discover that their baby Emma is deaf, they are upset. The doctors take action on creating hearing aids and even recommending a Cochlear Implant. However, when Jillian pushes back and asks if they will be learning sign language, they dismiss it. Her parents want to give Emma the chance to live amongst Hearing individuals. Jillian pushes back on her parents wishes though. To cope, she befriends a deaf teen named Derek. Derek explains what she is doing right and wrong when it comes to deaf culture. Eventually Jilly discovers that she has much more to learn than doing to “save” Emma. Derek is a friend who gives knowledge raw that makes Jilly think and step back. El Deafo, by Cece Bell An autobiographical graphic novel where Cece became Deaf at the age of 4 after becoming sick with Meningitis. In the 1970s deafness was still a growing research field. So Cece had to wear hearing aids accompanied by a box to hear sounds. At the start, she was taught to read lips and not sign language. When it was time for Kindergarten all of the children noticed her hearing box that she carried around her neck. She felt uncomfortable and alone many times. When she became more comfortable with her hearing aid, Bell named herself “El Deafo.” She also personified herself as “El Deafo” to visualize how to handle so called friends and classmates who treated her unfairly. By the time she reached Middle School Bell became a strong girl who was embracing her deafness. You can learn more about Bell’s story here. Feathers, by Jacqueline Woodson Novel set in 1971 where Frannie deals with race, living on the “other side” of the highway, faith, and her older brother Sean’s deafness. Frannie’s brother wants to connect with hearing people so he can be in a different world. Frannie also grapples with the new boy called “Jesus Boy.” He looks white and is the only “white” student in their school, but he affirms he is not white. Woodson tells a story of an adolescent girl who learns about the ways of the world. Impossible Music, by Sean Williams Simon is a teen who became deaf due to having a stroke. When he could hear, he relished music and was even thinking about studying music at the university. With his deafness, Simon pushes back. He does not want to learn sign language, dislikes his deaf education, and even wishes his hearing came back. The author goes back and forth when Simon recently became deaf and in the present tense on being deaf. Through it all, Simon is determined to make a sound, and he creates an experience that can be seen by deaf people and hearing. Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte Mary lives in a deaf community where hearing and deaf people sign. Their island is connected to the Wampanoag people who live next to them. This book is in the time period where black people were considered the lowest class, then Irishmen, and then the English freedmen. What is important is that Mary’s community did not see deafness as a disability but as a way of culture and communication. The story shifts when a man named Andrew Noble visits her community. He researches why the community in Martha’s Vineyard thrives compared to others. Wonderstruck, A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick Rose is deaf living in the 1920s where deaf people were taught to lip read and not encouraged to sign. Ben lives in the 1970s. He is struck by lightning and ends up becoming deaf. In both of their discoveries, Rose and Ben run out of their communities to discover who they are. Ben’s story is told through text and Rose’s story is told through visuals. This story connects their stories at the end where each character discovers who they are. 메리트카지노 on December 30, 2020 at 5:23 am It is really a nice and helpful piece of information. I’m glad that you shared this helpful info with us. lamp on December 31, 2020 at 6:52 pm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line186
__label__cc	0.556937	0.443063	Read The Last Flight Online Authors: Julie Clark The Last Flight (9 page) We'd met at an off Broadway play two years after I'd graduated from college. He sat in the seat next to mine and struck up a conversation before the curtain rose. I'd recognized him immediately, but nothing prepared me for how charismatic and funny he was in person. Thirteen years my senior and well over six feet, Rory had light brown hair streaked with gold, and blue eyes that seemed to pierce straight through me. And when I was under his gaze, the whole world faded away. At intermission, he bought me a drink and told me about an art program the Cook Family Foundation was bringing to inner-city schools. These are the things that made him three-dimensional and more than just a face I recognized from the pages of magazines. His passion for education. The fire he had to make the world a better place. At the end of the show, he asked for my number. I'd kept my distance at first. Older men like Roryâwith their money, privilege, and connectionsâwere not my speed. I didn't have the cultural knowledge or the wardrobe. But he'd been subtly persistent, calling to ask my advice when the foundation hit a wall with an organization they wanted for their arts education initiative, or inviting me to a show at one of their project schools. I was lured in by his vision of philanthropy, of how he wanted to use his family's money to better the lives of others. All of that impressed me, but I fell in love with Rory's vulnerability, the way he'd strived and failed to hold his mother's attention. “As a young boy, it was hard not to resent her long absences, the months she spent in DC,” he'd told me once. “The constant campaigningâfor herself, or for othersâand the causes that would consume her. But now I can see why it was so important. The impact she had on people's lives. I still get stopped in the street by people wanting to tell me how much they loved her. How something she did years ago still affects them now.” But that kind of legacy always has a price. Whether he liked it or not, Rory was defined by his mother. When you Googled Rory Cook, she always popped up too. Images of her with a young Rory, on vacation or the campaign trail. Rory at age thirteen, scowling in the background at one of his mother's political rallies, all elbows and pimples and one eye squinted shut. And hundreds of images of Rory doing the bidding of the Cook Family Foundation, his mother's dying gift to the world. People loved Rory because of who he almost was. And he'd spent his entire adult life trying to step out from behind her long shadow. I click off the CNN home page and toggle over to take a look at Rory's inbox, careful not to open anything that isn't already read. He has at least fifty folders on the left-hand side, one for each of the organizations the foundation contributes to Buried in that long list is one labeled . I click on it and scan the condolence emails. Hundreds of them, page after page, from family friends, Senate colleagues of his mother's. People who have worked with the foundation, quick to offer their sympathy. Let us know if there's anything you need I open an email Bruce sent to Danielle several hours after the initial reports emerged about the crash, but before I'd been publicly named as one of the victims. He'd cc'd Rory. The subject line reads I'm already drafting the statement and should have it ready well before any scheduled press conferences. Danielle, please handle the staff in New York. They are not to speak to anyone. Remind them that they all have active non-disclosure agreements. Another folder, , is filled with mostly unread notifications. Every time Rory's name appears online, he gets an email about it. Danielle also gets them in her inbox, because it's her job to sort through them and brief Rory on anything important he might have missed. My mind leaps back to last week, Danielle and I on our way home from a Friends of the Library event, me staring out the window at the slushy streets of Manhattan while Danielle flipped through that day's alerts. “A fluff piece in ,” she said, almost to herself. “Trash.” I turned to see her deleting the alerts, one after the other, only opening the ones from major media outlets. She caught my eye and said, “We're going to need to hire an intern for this once the campaign starts. Hundreds a day are going to turn into thousands.” Now I scan the long list of unread notifications in the wake of the crash and smirk. Too bad, Danielle. I click over to the Doc. Blank. At the top it now reads Last edit made by Bruce Corcoran 36 hours ago I take a sip of Diet Coke, the carbonation tickling my nose. No one would ever imagine I wasn't on that plane. The sun is fully up now, and I study the room. The hardwood floor is covered with a deep red area rug, which contrasts beautifully with walls painted a warm shade of yellow that reminds me of the color of my mother's living room, and in this moment, I feel protected, like a hibernating bear. While the world races on without me, I'm tucked up here, invisible, waiting until it's safe to emerge again. I ease open the top drawer of Eva's desk, curious. I'm living in her house. Wearing her clothes. I'm going to have to use her nameâat least for a little while. It would help to know who she was. I start tentatively at first, as if I'm afraid if I move things around too much, someone will know I was here. Most of what I find is genericâfaded receipts I can't read. A few dried-out pens, a couple pads of paper from local real estate agents. As I begin to grow more comfortable, I reach my hand to the back, sliding the jumble of pushpins, paper clips, and a tiny blue flashlight to the front, trying to peer beneath the mess to the person who threw these items into the drawer, believing she'd have time to sort them out. Two hours later, I sit on the floor of the office, papers strewn around me. I've emptied the desk and gone through everything in it. Bank statements. Paid utility and cable bills. All of them in Eva's name. I'd found a box in the closet containing files with more important documents. Her car registration. Her social security card. But I'm struck by what's missing. No marriage license. No insurance paperwork you'd expect after a long illness and a death. What had been nagging me about Eva's house yesterday returns, this time in sharp focus. There aren't any personal touches. No photographs or sentimental pieces anywhere. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone other than Eva lived here. For someone who couldn't bear to face all the belongings of a deceased and beloved husband, there are zero reminders of him to have left behind. I work hard to find explanations for what's missing. Maybe her husband had bad credit and all the bills had to be in her name. Maybe everything related to him is boxed up in the garage, too painful to even have inside the house. But these feel flimsy, half-color fabrications that are simply not true. I pull out the last file in the box and open it. It's escrow paperwork for an all-cash purchase of this side of the duplex, dated two years ago. At the top, her name only. Eva Marie James . And underneath it, the box next to is checked. I can still hear her voice in my mind, the way she spoke of her husband. High school sweethearts. Together for eighteen years. The emotion in her voice when she described her decision to help him die, the way it broke, the tears in her eyes. She lied. She fucking . About all of it. Six Months before the Crash Ten minutes before her scheduled meeting with Brittany, Eva parked her car in a lot at the outer edge of Tilden Park, rather than driving into the interior. She preferred to walk in and out, arrive and leave silently. Tucking the package into her coat pocket, she turned toward a path that would take her to a tiny clearing where she used to come and study, a lifetime ago. The full trees cast a dappled shade on the path, yet a cool wind kicked up from the bay, despite it being the last month of summer. Even though the sky above was clear, Eva caught glimpses of San Francisco Bay in the distance, of the marine layer gathering over the Pacific, and knew in a few hours that would change. She shoved her hands deep into the pockets of her favorite coatâarmy green with several zippered pocketsâand felt the outline of the pills through their wrapping paper. The trees that surrounded Eva were old friends. She recognized them individually, the shape of their trunks and the reach of their branches. She tried to place herself back in time, coming here after classes were over, spreading her books across the picnic table or on the grass if the weather was warm. Sometimes Eva caught flashes of that girl, like images from a passing train. Glimpses into a different life, with a regular job and friends, and she'd feel unsettled for days. When she arrived at the clearing, she was relieved to see she was alone. The scarred wooden picnic table still stood beneath a giant oak tree, a concrete trash can chained to it. She wandered over to the table and sat on it, checking the time again, the familiar location drawing her mind back in time. Fish ran the drug underworld in Berkeley and Oakland, and Dex worked for him. “Most drug dealers get picked up quickly,” Dex had warned her at the very beginning. He'd taken her to lunch at a waterfront restaurant in Sausalito, so he could explain what she'd be doing. Across the bay, San Francisco had been swathed in a deep fog, only the tops of the tallest buildings visible. She'd thought of St. Joseph's and the nuns who'd raised her, buried under the fog and the assumption that Eva was still enrolled in school, still on track to graduate with full honors in chemistry, instead of where she wasâthree days post expulsion, sleeping in Dex's spare bedroom and getting a crash course on drug selling and distribution. Eva tore her eyes away and focused back on Dex. “What you make has a very specific market,” Dex continued. “You will only sell to people referred to you by me. This is how you'll stay safe.” “I'm confused,” Eva had said. “Am I making or selling?” Dex folded his hands on top of the table. They'd finished eating, and the server had tucked the check next to Dex's water glass and then disappeared. “Historically, Fish has struggled to keep good chemists for long. They always think they can do better on their own and then things get complicated. So we're going to try something different with you,” he'd said. “You will produce three hundred pills a week. As compensation for this work, you will keep half and Fish will let you sell them yourself, keeping one hundred percent of those profits.” “Who will I sell them to?” she'd asked, suddenly uncomfortable, imagining herself face-to-face with strung-out addicts. People who might grow violent. People like her mother. Dex smiled. “You will provide an important service to a very specific clienteleâstudents, professors, and athletes. Five pills should sell for about two hundred dollars,” Dex had told her. “You can clear $300,000 per year, easy.” He smiled at her stunned expression. “This only works if you follow the rules,” he'd warned. “If we hear you're branching out, or selling to addicts, you put everything and everyone at risk. Understand?” She'd nodded and cast an anxious glance toward the entrance. “What about Fish? I thought he'd be here today.” Dex laughed and shook his head. “God, you're green. I forget you don't know how any of this works. If you do your job well, you'll never meet Fish.” She must have looked confused, because he clarified. “Fish keeps things compartmentalized. It's how he protects himself. If any one person knew too much, they'd become a targetâof either a competitor or the police. I'll be your handler, and I'll make sure you stay safe.” Dex dropped several twenty-dollar bills onto the table and stood. Their meal was over. “If you do as I tell you, you'll have a nice life. It's safe as long as you follow the rules.” “Don't you worry about getting caught?” “Despite what you might see on TV, the police only know the ones they catch, and they only catch the dumb ones. But Fish isn't dumb. He's not in this for power. He's a businessman who thinks about long-term gains. And that means growing slowly, being selective about his clients as well as the people who work for him.” She'd been eager to get started. It had sounded so simple. And the system worked. The only hard part was being on campus among her peers, having to live alongside the life she'd just lost. Walking past her dorm where the same people still lived. The chemistry building where her classes went on without her. The stadium where Wade continued to shine, and one year later, the graduation ceremony that should have been hers. It was as if she'd stepped through some kind of barrier, where she could watch her old life still unfold, unseen. But as the years passed, the students grew younger and soon campus was populated by all new people. The loss had faded, as all losses did, replaced by something harder. Stronger. She could see now what she couldn't see then. All choices had consequences. It was what you did with those consequences that mattered. Eva's gaze tracked down the small service road that wound its way through the hundreds of acres that comprised Tilden Park. Something about this meeting felt off, and her instincts, finely tuned after so many years, were pinging. She'd give Brittany ten more minutes and then leave. Return to her car and drive home, closing the door and forgetting about this woman. Eva worked hard to stay sharp. To not grow complacent and careless. Despite how mundane the work could sometimes feelâthe endless hours in the lab, the quick handoffs with Dex or a clientâthis job was dangerous. Early onâit must have been some time in her first yearâDex had woken her, just before dawn, a quiet knocking on her door. “Come with me,” he'd said, and she'd pulled her coat from the hook, following him across the deserted campus, the pathways still lit by lamps. They'd walked west without talking, past the track stadium, restaurants and bars closed and shuttered at that predawn hour. She'd seen the flashing emergency lights from a block away. Police, ambulance, yellow crime-scene tape cordoning off the sidewalk outside a cheap motor court motel, forcing them to cross the street. Dex had put his arm around her and pulled her close, as if they were a couple making their way home after a late night out. They'd slowed as they drew near, and Eva could make out a body, a puddle of blood seeping out from under it, a shoeless foot, the white sock practically glowing. “Why are we here? Do you know that guy?” “Yeah,” he'd said, his voice rough. “Danny. He supplied Fish with harder stuff. Coke. Heroin.” Dex pulled her along, and they rounded the corner, the flashing red and blue lights still staining the backs of her eyelids. “What happened to him?” “I don't know,” Dex had told her. “Like you, I only see what I'm allowed to see. But if I had to guess, he was either double-dealingâworking for one of Fish's competitorsâor he fucked up somehow, got snagged by police.” He paused. “That's the thing about Fish. He's not going to spend a lot of time asking questions. He's just going to fix the problem.” Eva couldn't erase the image from her mind, the twisted form of the body, the sheer volume of blood, more than she'd ever imagined, a black-red shade that only appeared in nightmares. Dex had dropped his arm from around her, and cold morning air chilled the place where it had rested. “Fish is a strong ally, but a ruthless enemy. He will not hesitate to eliminate anyone who betrays him. Maybe it was a mistake to have brought you here, but I needed you to see for yourself what will happen if you cross him.” Eva had swallowed hard. Up until that point, she'd fooled herself into believing this job had been no different from any otherâmostly routine, maybe a little dangerous in some abstract way. But Dex had insulated her from the worst of it. Until that morning. “Full transparency,” Dex had warned, as they walked back up her street, the night sky finally shifting to a pale gray. He deposited her on the porch and disappeared, making her wonder if she'd dreamt it all. Eva was just about to hop off the picnic table and head back to her car when a Mercedes SUV pulled up at the curb, a polished woman behind the wheel. In the back, Eva could make out a child's car seat, thankfully empty. The license plate read FUNMOM1 . Her lingering unease intensified, and she took a deep breath, reminding herself she was in control of the situation and could walk away at any time. She watched as the woman got out of the car. “Thanks for meeting me!” she called. Her clothes were expensive casual. Chanel sunglasses tipped up on her head. Knee-high UGG boots, worn over designer jeans. This was not Eva's typical ramen-fed student. Up close, Eva could see the woman's red-rimmed eyes, how her skin looked tired and stretched, though her makeup was flawless, and another tingle of apprehension zipped through her. “Sorry I'm late. I had to wait for the sitter to show up.” She held out her hand for Eva to shake. “I'm Brittany.” Eva let it hang there, keeping her own hands in her pockets, and Brittany finally let it fall to her side as she began digging through her purse as if she'd just remembered why she'd come. “I was hoping I could buy more than what we'd talked about. I know I asked for five pills, but I really need ten.” She pulled a wad of cash out of her purse and held it out to Eva. “That's four hundred instead of two.” “I only brought five with me,” Eva said, not taking the money. Brittany shook her head, as if that were a minor detail. “I'd be happy to meet you again tomorrow. Same place, if that suits you.” The marine layer from over the bay finally rolled in, skirting over the sun, casting gray shadows and dimming the light. Wind kicked up, causing Eva to pull her coat tighter. Brittany looked over her shoulder and then lowered her voice, although they were the only ones around.Â “We're leaving on Saturday for a trip,” she continued. “We won't be back until next month. I just want to make sure I'm not caught short.” Eva's body tensed. This woman drove a fancy car, wore expensive clothes, and had a big diamond on her finger. It was one thing to need the pills to push through a difficult task. This woman seemed to need pharmaceutical help to navigate her daily life. But Eva's resistance felt more personal, bubbling up from her darkest corners, surprising her with its heat. This was a woman like her mother. “I don't think I can help you,” Eva said. “At least let me buy what you brought,” Brittany said, her words loud, tearing through the empty clearing. “Please.” Eva's gaze snagged on several scabs dotting the backs of Brittany's hands, picked red and raw by nervous fingers. Brittany thrummed with manic energy, and Eva only wanted to leave. “We're done here,” Eva said. “Wait,” Brittany said, reaching out for Eva's arm. “Tell me what I can do to change your mind.” Eva yanked her arm back and turned to walk away. “Come on,” Brittany cajoled from behind her. “It's why we're here. You make the sale and get your money. I get what I need, and we both win.” “I don't know what you're talking about,” Eva called over her shoulder. “You must have me confused with someone else.” Then she strode toward the hiking trail that wound through the trees and down the hill to the lot where she parked her car. Â As she passed the SUV, she looked in the window. The back seat was littered with Cheerios, an empty sippy cup, and a pink hair ribbon. Eva slowed for a moment, wondering what that child's life was like, living with a mother who begged for enough pills to be strung out for weeks. She wondered if her own mother had been like Brittany, buying drugs in a deserted park while Eva was stuck at home with a sitter. Beneath it all, she hated herself for the fleeting whisper of jealousy that this little girl still got to know her mother while Eva had not. As she moved into the woods, Eva heard Brittany yelling obscenities after her. Then she heard the slam of a car door and the engine rev, before tires squealed away from the curb. She looked over her shoulder and saw the car swerve, skidding against the curb as it careened around a bend in the road. Eva held her breath, bracing for the sound of impact that didn't come, then hurried back to her own car. Eva saw her again, at the gas station directly across from the park exit, as she waited at a red light. That same SUV, and Brittany leaning out of her open window, talking to a man who stood next to a low sedan with tinted windows and government plates. Brittany handed the man a slip of paper, which he tucked into the pocket of his sport coat. The light turned green, and still Eva stared, her unease from earlier crashing back into her, quickly morphing into a dark panic. Behind her, someone honked, jolting her attention back to the road, forcing her to drive forward. As she drew nearer, she tried to capture as many details as she could. The man's short brown hair and mirrored sunglasses. The outline of a holster beneath his sport coat. And as she drove away, she wondered what Brittany had just put into play. At home, Eva pulled her car into the small garage at the side of the house and closed the door, locking it with the padlock. She was desperate to get inside and call Dex, but her new neighbor was sitting on the front step, as if she was waiting for her. “Shit,” she muttered under her breath. Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan What the Cat Saw by Carolyn Hart Hot Button by Kylie Logan Bittersweet Magic by Nina Croft Sleeping Tigers by Holly Robinson The Best Laid Plans by Lynn Schnurnberger Mechanical by Bruno Flexer Wolf Tales III by Kate Douglas Complete Works of Emile Zola by Émile Zola A Flight of Arrows by Lori Benton	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line187
__label__cc	0.646722	0.353278	News: byron cherry jr obituary Under contract a three year contract with Warner Brothers, Byron went on to do numerous shows such as Murder She Wrote, In The Heat Of The Night, Vietnam WAR stories { A Mini Series) and various TV commercials and guest spots on numerous talk shows, and was the spokesperson for the American Cancer Society.Byron now lives in California with his beautiful wife, Krista, and their two kids. Before landing the role of Coy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard in May 1982, Byron Cherry worked as a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines. Also an additional 2 volunteers within fifty miles. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. If a new volunteer signs up in your requested photo location, they may see your existing request and take the photo. Cherry and Mayer both made their debuts on Dukes in September 1982. 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Byron continues to travel year round with the world famous General Lee Dodge Charger making appearances both nationally and abroad at Car Shows, Charity Benefits and Various Concerts and Events.Just like he did in Hazzard County, Byron is still "straightening the curves and flattening the hills" of his home town in his own General Lee. She approached him and asked him to audition for the commercial. Plese check the I'm not a robot checkbox.'. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. This account has been disabled. to access obituaries anytime & get sponsored web search update on your new tab. If you have questions, please contact support@findagrave.com. Your password must be at least 8 characters, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Byron also received his Black Belt in Karate soon after college. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Official Sites. A system error has occurred. Markus James, Other Works Byron Cherry (born April 17, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actor. Are you sure you want to cancel the installation? He got the part! Here is Frank J. Cherry Jr.’s obituary. He also has been known to autograph various car parts on fan owned General Lees. Browse and search all obituaries recently posted on OBITUARe.com. Byron was a loving son, sibling, uncle and friend. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. Byron Wight Cherry: Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Bio (1) Byron was raised in Atlanta, GA, and graduated from North Side High School in the 70's. He was also a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. After winning a scholarship to East Tennessee State University he played football as a running back with his big brother, Nat. 72767514, citing Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by IWPP Custodial Account (contributor 48586138) . We have a volunteer within ten miles of your requested photo location. Publicity Listings This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. Please note: You are asking volunteers to find and take a photo of the headstone. He travels with his own photos to autograph, as well as his own hats and specially made "Coy Duke" t-shirts and tank tops in assorted sizes to fit men, women and children of all ages. Please try again later. He was told that he had "the look" that she needed for this scene and all he needed to do was to look for the beautiful blonde, sit next to her and kiss her. Byron loved animals and enjoyed cooking. Frank J. Cherry Jr. Obituary. 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One day while walking by the student center he was approached by a casting agent working on a TV commercial. [August 2005], View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Favourite Actors and Actresses IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, Liste des acteurs et actrices trépassés et vivants qui trônent éternellement la gloire au delà de toute imagination. We have set your language to GREAT NEWS! This was the break Byron had been dreaming of. He portrayed Coy Duke, one of the new Duke Boys, in the 1982–1983 season of The Dukes of Hazzard for the first 19 episodes of season 5. 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__label__wiki	0.551304	0.551304	17, Triq Hal Saflieni Paola info@spaceforgrowthclinic.com Mon - Fri 9:00AM - 7:00PM \| Sat 9:00AM - 12:00PM Space For Growth Clinic Malta Mind Heart Body Soul Geometry in Psychology & Psychotherapy – The Drama Triangle by Dr.Moira Borg MD Gestalt Psychotherapist In geometry, the triangle is a plane figure with three straight sides and three angles. Outside our mathematics textbook the triangle symbolises ancient wisdom, mysticness, the Holy Trinity, the number 3 and the sacred feminine and masculine energies. In psychology , the triangle is found as a concept in situations where three people, or aspects of them thereof, are involved in a relational struggle or entanglement. Such a concept in psychology was first introduced in 1968 by Stephen Karpman MD, a student of Eric Berne, father of Transactional Analysis. Karpman described three individual aspects that emerge in such conflicts namely the Persecutor or Abuser, the Victim and the Rescuer and showed how these triangulate in a dynamic which he named the drama triangle. In drama, be it in the theatre, a movie or a book, the most classic conflict is between these three entities usually with the victim being rescued by the hero. Unlike in drama however, the victim in Karpman’s triangle is not seen with pity nor the hero or rescuer with awe or adulation. On the other hand, they are seen as internal aspects of an individual which then reflect the way he/she interacts with others where there is a dynamic of abuse. Abuse of any sort is an unnatural relational process where healthy contact and thus growth and development is not allowed and thus an individual is faced with the primitive choice to defend him/herself either through ‘fight or flight’. Those who choose to ‘fight’ endorse power as a defense mechanism while those who choose ‘flight’ give up that power in favour of helplessness thus making sure that no blame is placed at their doorstep. The hero or rescuer denies either polar position and opts to protect the victim from the persecutor not out of concern for the former but in a frantic attempt ‘to look good’. The basic affect that drives this dynamic is the shame, pain and despair that an abused individual tries to avoid. No individual is stuck in one aspect but moves from one aspect to another depending on the particular abusive situation. For example a wife and mother could be a victim of her husband’s abuse, in turn being abusive to her own children, usually to avoid further abuse from her husband, but being ‘nice’ to her neighbour or colleague in times of need to show what a good person she is. Walking out of the triangle and thus out of abuse dynamics is a tough challenge as it means that the individual will have to redefine his/her way of being in the world both in the way he/she perceives him/herself and subsequently in the way he/she interacts with others. Self perception also colours the choice of individuals one surrounds him/herself with and this then shapes the individual’s experiences. The first step in this long and painful journey is the decision to say STOP to the abuse and to take responsibility and care of oneself likewise reclaiming the authority once relinquished to the abuser. It is this first experience in owning one’s power that subsequently forms the bridge towards freedom of being. Therapy, support groups, friends and family can be of major support in healing the shame experiences that were born out of the first abusive experiences and likewise open the path to self-knowledge, self-care and ultimately self-love that is from the drama to the winner triangle. September 7, 2017 By Moira BorgPsychopathology Psychotherapy Sociology The Unacknowledged Entity Behind Human Rights – ResponsibilityLiving with an Abusive Parent – Therapeutic Work with a Young Girl	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line192
__label__wiki	0.716077	0.716077	The Incredible Hulk S1 E11: Earthquakes Happen "I realized that I had the opportunity of doing a series in the genre of the 'creature films' of the Forties that featured Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Jekyll and Hyde. But all those characters were evil - and the Hulk was not evil. He is the personification of anger. He is anger brought to a physical sense." -Bill Bixby, The Hulk #10 Magazine (August 1978)- One could imagine master of disaster Irwin Allen would have enjoyed this particular slice of episodic television delivered by The Incredible Hulk in the form of Season One, Episode 11, Earthquakes Happen. Stock footage is utilized from the film Earthquake (1974) which, surprisingly, Irwin Allen had no hand in. The disaster master loved his stock footage too. Though the success of his The Poseidon Adventure (1972) reignited interest in making the film Earthquake happen. David Banner continues his fugitive-like existence by slipping into a nuclear research facility to utilize its gamma radiation equipment when an unexpected earthquake occurs turning the drama into a full on struggle for survival. A meltdown is imminent and while this is no HBO's Chernobyl (2019; an incredible mini-series worthy your time), the drama does keep the intensity on for 1970s disaster era excitement. Think of another disaster episode like Fire In Space (E14) for the original Battlestar Galactica (1978-79). Disasters were indeed the fashion du jour in the 1970s and Earthquakes Happen delivers its own Hulk-styled dramatic thrills within the disaster concept. Oops! Missed painting that foot. David Banner flashes back to the Pilot as he prepares an attempt to revisit his molecular problem. The Blu-Ray offering delivers a minor, but still noticeable improvement over the DVD release, but is by no means perfect. Some scenes are dramatically improved while others are marginally improved. Still, the comparison with our last DVD review (E10 Life And Death) prior to this entry and you can note a marked difference in quality from the images. The flashback sequence found in this episode from the Pilot will likely have Musings Of A Sci-Fi Fanatic revisit the Pilot on Blu-Ray just prior to launching into Season Two. Full confession, this writer and Bill Bixby fan spent a large portion of the weekend I wrote this watching Bill Bixby in The Courtship Of Eddie's Father (Season One) and for me that series is endlessly entertaining thanks to the actor's comedic and dramatic timing in the series and some smashingly good dramatic writing complemented by then outstanding child actor Brandon Cruz and the lovely, immensely charming support of Miyoshi Umeki. Creator/director/actor James Komack and Kristina Holland are along for good measure in support. It is simply a perfect series. The Incredible Hulk is heavier and Bixby is a dramatically compelling actor that continues to carry the day during much lengthier episodes (50 minutes) in that lead role when those episodes can sometimes feel a touch too long. The Courtship Of Eddie's Father (1969-1972) delivered tightly written 26 minute nuggets of character drama that still hold up today. Remarkably The Incredible Hulk despite aspects of the show that clearly date the series squarely in the 1970s continues to deliver a quality TV show that this writer enjoys even if it doesn't shake things up in the mighty manner TV is allowed to do today. The rules were different and The Incredible Hulk played by them. Still it was fortunate to have a top tier actor and production team behind it that allows the show to live on as a Bixby classic. Writer: Jim Tisdale/ Migdia Varela. Director: Harvey Laidman. Hulk Transformation #1: Earthquakes happen triggering Banner's first transformation. Hulk Transformation #2: Hot steam from a water pipe as seconds count triggers Banner's second transformation. You may remember actress Sherry Jackson from a host of TV programs including What Are Little Girls Made Of? (S1 E7) from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) and The Space Croppers (S1 E25) for Lost In Space (1966). Labels: Hulk The Incredible, Hulk The Incredible S1 Rutger Hauer: On Blade Runner "I felt that we had gotten a film with more layers than we were ever thinking of. I knew right away that this was a very different and special movie. Life is how you look at it, and Blade Runner decided to look at it in a poetic but dark way and, at the same time, with a lot of wit. It was not consumer-ready crap and it was not a fast-paced, science-fiction thriller. Instead, it was thoughtful and slow moving, and it challenged audiences to enter its world. This is a great movie---one that is beautiful, dark, wicked, poetic, exotic and beautiful." -Rutger Hauer, All Those Moments: Stories Of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, And Blade Runners (p129-130, 135)- Labels: Blade Runner, Sci-Fi Non-Fiction Rutger Hauer (1944-2019) "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...all those moments will be lost in time." An absolutely essential component that is the science fiction masterpiece classic Blade Runner (1982), this writer and fan is saddened at the loss of the wonderful performer that was Rutger Hauer (1944-2019). Hauer will be forever immortalized through film especially in his role as Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. I just adore his performance in that film. Love him for it. In his book All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (2007) Hauer noted he incorporated many of his own lines especially written for the final scene of that wonderful picture that he memorialized in the falling rain. "I want more life father." As a young person this writer enjoyed many of his films and some of my favorites included: Nighthawks (1981; opposite Sylvester Stallone), Blade Runner (1982; opposite Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah and Edward James Olmos among many), The Osterman Weekend (1983; opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's final film), Flesh + Blood (1985; another film with Paul Verhoeven; opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh), Ladyhawke (1985; opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick), The Hitcher (1986; opposite C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh), Wanted: Dead Or Alive (1987; opposite Gene Simmons) and Split Second (1992). And there were so many more including Batman Begins (2005) among others. The titles in red are essentials on Blu-Ray for my required Hauer fix. What a memorable performer that got his start in several Dutch films by Paul Verhoeven including Turkish Delight (1973), which I would still like to see released to this day. He later received a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in Escape From Sobibor (1987). He was one of the greats to me with many moments sure never to be lost in time as long as his great works live on in film. Your time to die was too soon. Hauer was 75. Labels: Remembered The Gamera Vs. Barugon "Gamera has revived. Barugon has met his master." Writer Stuart Galbraith IV wrote in his book Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Films that Frankenstein Conquers The World (1965) was "one of Toho's best and last monster movies to revolve around interesting human characters" (p.111). Perhaps I've something of a Showa era bias when it comes to the kaiju eiga picture, because part of me agrees with the overall sentiment of that statement. There is something about the more contemporary kaiju pictures, in relative terms (1980s forward), that seems to lack for me in human terms, not that they don't work for others. Never mind that this writer also has something of a built-in predisposition toward the suit design and production work on Godzilla from the 1950s through the 1970s. Take Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). This film feels (or doesn't) simply devoid of humanity in general, never mind a single interesting human character. While I don't agree with Galbraith that the wondrous Frankenstein Conquers The World, starring Nick Adams and Kumi Mizuno, was the pinnacle of character writing in those pictures, that film was a fine example of combining character with the spectacle of the kaiju eiga fantasy component we all wait with baited breath for each time we see such a film. Even Gareth Edwards' American reinterpretation of Godzilla (2014) felt empty in the character department for me despite being populated by a good number of them. The Showa pictures somehow find a way to at least create some interesting human drama within their films that keep the stories interesting outside of the monster mashes. Human frailty, foibles, greed are often our undoing and those little skirmishes underneath the might legs of great creatures makes for some interesting viewing. Here greed is the root of all evil. These Showa pictures may not be perfect I know, but there is indeed an inherent charm in them that remains. Toho did it often and well beyond Frankenstein Conquers The World. Monster Zero (1965), also starring Adams and Mizuno would continue that trend of dramatic quality. Other Godzilla pictures continued to satisfy that balance. Beyond Toho, Daiei pictures jumped into the game and created its own beloved giant monster that same year in the form of a fire-breathing turtle Gamera. Gamera The Giant Monster (1965) was also blessed with its own dramatic components which served the film well and established a generally winning formula for Daiei. Gamera, the would be, eventual guardian of the universe (despite his own penchant for death and destruction not unlike Godzilla) would have a soft spot for children saving them before all others. The creature would become beloved perhaps my a smaller fan set than Godzilla but still beloved. Director Noriaki Yuasa held Gamera dear to his heart and would direct seven of the eight Showa era Gamera films. Those films averaged around the 80 minute range. Only Gamera Vs. Barugon (also known as War Of The Monsters) (1966) would see the director sidelined leaving it in the hands of director Shigeo Tanaka whilst Yuasa but was assigned Special Effects director/supervisor. This would be the longest film in the franchise for that era clocking it at 100 minutes. And yet it wasn't just about those special effects, which are unmercifully criticized, but yet remain glorious. It was as much the character moments that made these Showa era pictures infinitely re-watchable. Today's kaiju pictures often seems to be about---just sit there and wait for those effects. Gamera Vs. Barugon does a splendid job of luring us into the foibles of humanity as we anticipate the return of Gamera on screen since the terrapin's film debut. This is achieved through an odd bit of destruction in the opening. The film also launches what would become a memorable array of strange and fascinatingly varied monster life forms that would comprise Gamera's rogue's gallery. Barugon is first introduced to us in the form of a stolen opal from an island. But that island's secret is no gem. And like any good egg-birthed creature in horror it grows. Before long it is stomping and terrorizing the streets of Kobe, Japan. Kobe beef cows beware. But in a rare kaiju moment we even get a dramatic shot of the creature sleeping. How's that for monster character moments? Barugon is an impressive looking creation with a striking hiss of a growl to send shivers down the spines of children in the 1960s. It persistently moves and sways like a large dog leaving carnage in its wake. Equipped with an amphibian-like tongue that uses a vapor that can freeze anything it touches within an instant Barugon is a mighty impressive beast as monster creations go. Nevermind that the creature is smart and senses danger. It's back spines will light and it can implement a devastating rainbow ray (you may miss it but the creature is from the Valley Of Rainbows---see picture), the heat of which draws Gamera to the creature like a moth to a flame. There really is a lot to enjoy here which is why it's so surprising it receives so many critical knocks from such kaiju fan critics like Galbraith. Some have knocked such ventures comparing it to the work of the legendary Eiji Tsuburaya, but this easily holds its own as a top notch creature feature affair in the effects department. There's nothing disappointing about it. And before long its fire versus ice. It's Gamera versus Barugon in a monster stomping smackdown. Truth be told, Gamera Vs. Barugon is actually Barugon's show. He's the star of this one as monsters go. A failed island heist creates a weave of betrayal that ends quite beautifully in irony. The most evil of would be jewel thieves inevitably dies in the creature's very clutches. Though minimal in appearances its in the giant terrapin Gamera's hands to save the day. Thankfully Barugon is a sparkling diamond of monster creations. Simple, yet beautifully realized with an array of nifty weapons. Gamera is sidelined for most of the picture apart from a brief appearance at the beginning, middle and end. The opening essentially informs us of what happened to the creature at the end of Gamera The Giant Monster providing some continuity. It also illustrates Gamera's affection for heat establishing how the creatures are drawn to one another. The middle sees Gamera gore Barugon briefly but is ultimately frozen by Barugon's freezing vapor tongue. And finally, the epic finale proves Gamera was down but not out. Regarding those fantastic and unexpected scenes of gore, Gamera lashes out at Barugon at one point with its claws and punctures Barugon in the face. Purple blood gushes from the wounds and pours forth. This singular moment reminded me how it seems the earlier Showa pictures were unabashed in displaying graphic monster violence for the kiddies. This approach in Gamera saw its influence on future Toho Godzilla pictures in this way. So Gamera Vs. Barugon is a great first example of genuine monster blood gushers amidst the monster combat. I miss that. Who says the Gamera films weren't influential in their own right? Toho was still taking notice. Stuart Galbraith IV doesn't seem to have a very high opinion of my favorite turtle. He wrote a fairly downbeat review of the turtle in his review of the Gammera The Invincible in his aforementioned book. He dubs that the "wrinkly" Gamera is adorned with a pair of "oversized, useless tusks" (p.113). Apparently Galbraith really wasn't paying attention as Gamera gores Barugon with his two useless tusks and literally drags him to his demise. That's the kind of useless you want in a monster battle. The writer certainly had the entire catalogue of Gamera's films to draw from before writing that review. Galbraith had to have missed just how useless those were as they literally snare the creature, drag him to the water and put an end to Barugon's terrifying reign. It's also noted by Donald Glut that the tusks "come dangerously close to impaling the eyes every time Gamera shuts his mouth." But they don't do they? I believe there is a biological design in play here. Sometimes I think the kaiju fan writers project more unfair criticism on these pictures than they actually deserve simply based upon a long standing perceived reputation. Galbraith seems to randomly apply logic in some kaiju applications perhaps due to a built-in bias for one monster over another. This is after all Japanese fantasy. Galbraith takes issue with the flying turtle declaring it adds "nothing to the story." It couldn't be further from the truth as the character's mythology grows. "What happened to its head and limbs?" he wonders. Really? Are we going to apply that kind of rigid logic code here to Gamera? How does Godzilla fly? or dance? How are there two-inch sized girls singing in Mothra (1961)? The list could go on. This is inherent to the Japanese pictures. Logic often flies out the window a bit with fantasy. He admits "a gigantic prehistoric turtle isn't a bad idea for a monster" but once again bemoans why the creature stands instead of crawls on all fours. Actually, again, it does both. It's one of the beautiful things about Gamera. As for Gamera's enemies, Galbraith levels "Gamera would face creatures even more outlandish than itself" declaring Daiei's "monster menagerie never followed even the most basic rules of zoology." Ouch! Seriously? Has he seen Godzilla Vs. Megalon? I mean, save for maybe Zigra (again opinions being relative) this is an impressive cast of monster characters. All, including Zigra, are fantastical in a good way, not at all the "disappointment" he calls them in comparison to Toho's lot. Isn't creative and imaginative what we connected with as kids? The Gamera series never disappoints long-standing fans in this way. Some writers are unfairly critical of the franchise. Galbraith just didn't see the Gamera pictures that many of us enjoyed in our youth. His summation proves this. "The Gamera movies are slow-moving, slow-witted and almost unwatchable, little more than expanded kiddie shows" (p.115). Rarely have I found the kaiju pictures to be particularly intellectual across the spectrum and this criticism is particularly ferocious. Despite the fact this entry has no children and is played pretty straight still doesn't work for Galbraith. He called the film a "dull mess" in his publication. He takes issue with Gamera's return to Earth in the beginning as bridging material to the first film. He calls the return "for no good reason (perhaps revenge?)." I'd say revenge is a good reason for a monster or maybe no reason at all. Thus, Gamera is a real punching bag for some. But it's a monster and a reasonably smart one. Galbraith levels all sorts of oddly problematic questions toward this fantasy feature, the same questions that could be targeted at a hundred other Toho pictures. He sees problems with Barugon's tongue and the "killer rainbow" feature of the beast mixed with the "Treasure Of Sierra Madre" plotting. He has problems with the special effects as "cheap and uninspired" and blows holes across the film some of which are entirely unfair and unwarranted. I just couldn't disagree more with Galbraith's incessant needling of this film and don't see the flaws that he sees and it's unfortunate Gamera is something of a whipping monster for critics like him to all things Toho. Ah well, Gamera has always been forced to play second fiddle to Godzilla and never getting his due. Writers like Galbraith (a good writer) continue that trend calling Gamera Vs. Barugon "100 minutes of sheer boredom," "dull" and "ludicrous" in Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! (p.182), but I would implore you to enjoy these first two features starring Gamera to judge for yourself. It's much better than critics like Galbraith say. See for yourself. In fact, sometimes I simply don't understand why these writers are even writing about Japanese fantasy film given the knives they have out for them. It makes as much sense as some fantasy films and this is a very good one. Tanaka's Gamera Vs. Baragon may just be the Godzilla Vs. Hedora (1971) of the Gamera franchise. Whereby Noriaki Yuasa was the primary director for the Gamera franchise not unlike Ishiro Honda was to Godzila, Tanaka delivers his own personal Yoshimitsu Banno-like stamp. This writer has always been partial to the great turtle monster, Gamera, over Godzilla (as much as I love the big G), but I'm likely in the minority and that's just fine with me. There's as much subtext to Gamera Vs. Barugon as just about any Godzilla picture. The ripple effect of people's fears of atomic annihilation are felt within the film as they wait for the military to decide upon a solution to stopping the creature potentially having an impact on their own fates. The creature's rainbow might suggest a pot of gold or a diamond in this case at the end of that beautiful rainbow effect, but at the end of the day the jaws of a great creature awakened by man's greed awaits in the form of Barugon. On the surface we have a wonderfully creative kaiju picture where humanity is tasked with trying to stop a monster unleashed, find its weaknesses (Barugon is paralyzed by rain and water) and without the help of Gamera, whom it also sees as a foe at this point merely disabled by the great Barugon. Underneath it all we have a morality play about being careful with what you wish for and the dark consequences of greed. Humans jockey for power amidst the rabble and once again we have another intriguing entry within the kaiju genre. We also have a film that essentially plays Gamera as neutral (likely the influence of director Tanaka). Gamera saves Japan through its own need for survival against what is clearly a mortal enemy. Perhaps Gamera as savior setting the stage for a perception transition for the great terrapin. Seeing Gamera vs. Barugon again only underscored my affection for the Gamera film series and the kaiju fantasy escape. It may not be the fastest paced picture (see a Marvel film if you want that) but it is a credible and sometimes thrilling Showa era film that deserves more credit than it gets. Musings Of A Sci-Fi Fanatic will continue to be a major online proponent of one of the greats in kaiju eiga. Writer: Niisan Takahashi. Director: Shigeo Tanaka. Labels: Creature Double Feature, Gamera, Gamera Showa, Kaiju Eiga Lost In Space S1 E6: Welcome Stranger Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot Gerry Anderson: On Making Science Fiction Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea S1 E7: Turn Back T... Battle Of The Planets E20: Magnetic Attraction Martin Caidin: On American Patriotism	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line196
__label__cc	0.581513	0.418487	DEFENDING RACHEL CORRIE AGAINST SLOPPY ISRAELI PROPAGANDA What follows is an article by a Mr. Praut which I found the other day in THE JEWISH PRESS America's Newspaper of Jewish News. I do not advise visiting the site and do not provide the URL because the two times I visited ,my PC flashed that it carried a virus. After Mr. Plaut finishes spewing, he then publishes a letter he recently sent to the parents of Rachel Corrie. To both parts, I must admit tossing in my $.02 of Snippits and Snappits was quite a pleasure and almost too easy to make it fun. So many holes to pick away at! A blogger's delight. At the end, I publish a summary of the weapons possessed by Israel and Palestine at the time of the Gazan Holocaust. I am so sure Mr. Praut would have difficulties with calling this senseless slaughter a "Holocaust" as well!) The city of Haifa is still recovering from the trauma of the summer of 2006, when it, along with the rest of northern Israel, was targeted by thousands of Katyusha rockets, fired from southern Lebanon by Hizbullah terrorists. Haifa has also been targeted by several suicide bombers who carried out mass murders against civilians in buses and restaurants. That is quite a few years ago, Sir. How long will it take the Palestinians, especially in Gaza, to recover their Trauma? Now Haifa is about to become the victim of yet another indignity. It is to be the scene for a legal assault by the parents of Rachel Corrie. Rachel Corrie, you may recall, was a clueless American-flag-burning undergraduate from Evergreen State College in Washington. Urged on by her radical professors, she decided to join the missions organized by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She and her comrades were sent off to the "occupied territories" to assist Palestinian terrorist groups. ISM openly endorses Palestinian "armed struggle" against Israel ~ which in realistic terms means terrorism against Jews. It was the goal of Corrie and her friends to stop Israeli anti-terror operations ~ an act that by its very implication would have made it easier for Hamas and its clones to murder Israeli civilians. Ah, yes, Hamas may not be angels, but as you have seen, until now they have been no match for the superior arms and bullying capability of the Israeli war machine. And perhaps it is not so much "against Jews" as "for justice to the Palestinians"? It took many years of confiscation and wars that Hamas was finally elected because the people were desperate for relief from Israeli barbarianism. Members of ISM are foolishly allowed by the Israeli government to enter the country, where they often serve as human shields for terrorists. In at least one case, weapons hidden on behalf of terrorists were discovered in ISM offices. In another notorious example of collaboration, two British Muslim terrorists blew up the Mike's Place bar in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2003, killing three Israelis and wounding 50. The terrorists had just before this been hosted by ISM members and they pretended to be in the country to lay wreaths on the grave of ~ who else? ~ Rachel Corrie. Rachel spoke to them from the grave! She inspired them and even directed their actions promising them a spot in Paradise if they succeeded. Amazing, just amazing. It is all her fault for being dead. Shortly before that attack, on March 16, 2003, young Rachel was part of a group of ISM activists who were attempting to prevent an Israeli earth-mover from demolishing a home sitting atop a Hamas smuggling tunnel in Rafiah. Corrie knelt down in front of the Israeli military bulldozer. The driver insists he would have stopped had she been visible. Maybe he would have, maybe he wouldn't. However, only he and God know the truth although onlookers swear she was visible and, from the photos I have thoroughly investigated, in her neon orange vest, waving and jumping up and down at him, she was visible. You must realize also that your army very very rarely penalizes your soldiers for their actions. The columnist Dennis Prager wrote: " grieve for Rachel Corrie's parents, but spare us the hagiography. Rachel Corrie died fighting for the International Solidarity Movement dedicated, in its own words, to 'armed struggle' against Israel. She ended up being a useful idiot for, and one more victim of, Palestinian terror." She chose her actions, as an adult should be allowed. How much choice did the babies of Gaza have as they were bombed sleeping in their beds at night? Corrie died after being taken away for care in a Palestinian medical facility, possibly from medical incompetence. Ok, blame the Palestinians because they are not such well trained doctors and Israelis? Or not smart enough to save her? But never mind, it was not Israel's fault so you just keep tossing blame around, Sir. Her behavior that day in Gaza resembled that of a teenager playing chicken with vehicles on the New Jersey Turnpike in the dark. Corrie has since become a sort of Mother Teresa for the radical left and apologists for Islamofascism. She is the martyr saint of the pro-terror lobby and is even celebrated by Klansman David Duke. Slam, slam, slam, slam, a woman who cannot defend herself with a line just meant to derogate not educate. Almost all Palestinians just want to live normal lives at this point. Is that so terribly Islamofascist? I am, I suppose, one of the 'pro-terror lobby" and an apologist for Islamofascist" because I believe running over women with tractors, blowing up women, children and men is wrong? Yes, was it not your beloved Sharon who bragged and encouraged his men to go for women, children, men, in that order? When Reuters reported that Gaza Palestinians "honored" Rachel after her death in a "symbolic funeral" by flying U.S. flags, the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto wryly remarked that if Corrie were still alive, she'd no doubt have burned those flags. Conjecture, conjecture, conjecture. Pfft this means nothing but more spewing of hatred from Mr. Plaut. The woman is dead, how do you know what she would do? Corrie's death quickly became the focus of an anti-Israel propaganda passion play titled "My Name is Rachel Corrie," which has been staged in London and other cities. Attempts to stage it in New York City at the New York Theatre Workshop failed in the face of public opposition, but it later ran for a while at the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. We know who runs NYC and it is not someone with much of an open mind, is it? NYC is a Jewish-run city and home of the Hassidim and other extremely Orthodox Jew. After seeing Max Blumenthal's tape at the "support Israel" demonstration last January 11, 2009, we know just how Jewish New Yorkers think. We also know freedom of speech is not a Talmudic virtue. Since Corrie's death, her parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, have traveled the planet as a two-person anti-Israel propaganda SWAT team. Not content with mourning their daughter's tragic death, which resulted from her own foolhardiness, the Corries have devoted themselves to demonizing Israel and supporting Israel's enemies. They made a special pilgrimage to Yasir Arafat in September 2003 to present him with a large poster of their "martyred" daughter. I do believe Israel needs no assistance in demonizing herself. She is doing a positively stellar job all by herself ~ Dubai and stolen faked passports, the Gaza holocaust, the treatment of natives by the Settlers, being the centre of trafficked stolen body parts, shall I go on? Naw, doing a fine job all by herself. You are certainly helping entrench your country onto the pillar reserved for the winner in the "demon of the millenium" category. The Corries blame Israel for their daughter's death. But as Israel's Ynetnews service reported, "An IDF investigation determined that the soldiers were not to blame and said the driver of the bulldozer had not seen her and did not intentionally run her over. The army accused Corrie and the International Solidarity Movement of 'illegal, irresponsible and dangerous' behavior. We have covered this ground previously, Sir. Do you repeat yourself for a reason? To convince yourself of your righteousness? Nevertheless, the Corries run the Rachel Corrie Foundation, which disseminates anti-Israel political propaganda. And they share their daughter's enthusiasm for Hamas "resistance." Conjecture, conjecture, conjecture. We need facts not fabrications. The Corries claim Rachel was just an innocent peace protester, doing nothing more than showing her concern for the human rights of Palestinian civilians. But even the ferociously anti-Israel British newspaper the Guardian confirmed (February 23, 2010) that Corrie was serving as a human shield for terrorists. The Corries are now suing the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces in Israeli court. They and their Arab lawyer, Hussein Abu Hussein, a radical activist (involved in the movement for a world boycott of Israel), filed a civil suit in Haifa court and the first hearing is scheduled for March 10. How DARE they hire an AYRAB lawyer! Once again I imagine that is Rachel coming from the grave again? And gosh, is she responsible for the international boycott? As for the boycott, you are thrice a fool to go there, Sir. Jews began using the boycott as a weapon of war many centuries ago and have never ceased. To them it is a high art form and this you cannot deny. WW2 was largely the result of starving Germany through an international boycott that drove them to desperation while the German Jews lived, if you will pardon the expression, "high off the hog" and ostentatiously let it be known. Boycott is one of the top Jewish weapons in business affairs as has been admitted by many so, please, don't go there because you come off as a fool. The Corries are also suing the Caterpillar company because it sold the bulldozer to Israel that injured their daughter. They are trying to get terror supporters from around the world to boycott the Caterpillar company for the crime of selling bulldozers, some of which are used to fight terror, to Israel. Corrie supporters regularly show up at Caterpillar stockholder meetings to demand that it boycott Israel. "Fight terror" includes bulldozing homes with people sometimes warned, sometimes sleeping, and flattening olive groves, orchards, destroying the land? Does it include leaving the wheelchairs of the lame inside those houses? Get over it! Caterpillar is selling tanked up machines to kill and destroy Palestinian life as a weapon of war. These are hardly your every day caterpillar used for making roads in peaceful countries! Do you know how whining and weak you sound, Sir? Ironically, the Corries were themselves briefly kidnapped in Gaza by Hamas terrorists in January 2006, when they were in town to show the local jihadis. The Jerusalem Post, the British Daily Telegraph and other media outlets reported the incident. Here's how MSNBC described it: Palestinian gunmen burst into a Rafah house early Wednesday and tried to kidnap the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 as she protested the impending demolition of a house in the southern Gaza town, according to a witness. The five gunmen appeared to be affiliated with the Fatah movement, according to Samir Nasrallah, the Corries' host. The gunmen eventually relented after being told who their targets were, he said. According to the Telegraph, "The gunmen wanted to kidnap the couple as bargaining chips to secure the release of a militia leader, Alaa al-Hams, arrested on suspicion of ordering the kidnap of the British human rights activist Kate Burton and her parents." The Corries later issued a statement in which they denied they had been kidnapped at all. They had just been hosted at gunpoint. But the simple truth is that the Corries were released once the terrorists realized they were a far more valuable asset for Hamas if they were running around free. Now, now, now. Another misinterpretation of things. Hamas and Fatah are NOT allies. Sir, you should know that Fatah runs the West Bank and Hamas runs the Gaza Strip and there is great hatred between the two. Fatah is run by an Israeli and American patsy Mahmoud Abbas. It is highly unlikely that this was planned by Hamas. That might have been a marvelous opportunity for the Corries to learn firsthand just what Palestinian terrorism is all about and just why Israel needs to fight terrorism with a variety of means at its disposal, including bulldozers. But it wasn't to be. The Corries went right on churning out their anti-Israel propaganda, much of it carried on anti-Semitic and pro-jihad websites. Don't you wish you and your hatred had such access to those outlets. And speaking of propaganda. Have you watched Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land, Sir? What the Corries do is as a pinprick compared to the sledgehammer of Jewish media. Meanwhile, ISM has a track record of using Israeli courts whenever one of its human shields gets injured or arrested. In one well publicized case, an ISM volunteer named Tom Hurndall from the UK was injured in the head while he was serving as a human shield for terrorists engaged in a firefight with IDF troops. It turned out Hurndall was shot by an Israeli Bedouin Arab soldier (a fact the anti-Israel British media ignored in their coverage of the case). The heroic Bedouin was returning fire at Hamas terrorists shooting at Israelis. Hurndall's family sued Israel in Israeli court. So did Orange County ISM activist and lawyer Radhika Sainath. Now let me see if I understand this. The soldier who shot Hurndall was was in the Israeli military doing his duty for what he believed in, who happens to be Bedouin. What does this have to do with anything pertinent? He was a soldier doing his duty, not acting as a Bedouin Arab but as an Israeli soldier. What am I missing here? I eagerly await your take on what happened to Tristan Anderrson last year. And now the Corries are coming to Haifa to continue their daughter's war of aggression against Israel. They are suing Israel as a way to try to revise in court the facts surrounding their daughter's death. I am hoping some Im Tirtzu students show up with photos of all the Jewish women named Rachel who were murdered by the terrorists the Corries support. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. But this is still irrelevant to your argument, Sir. Now, in Gaza last winter, it was almost 1500 slaughtered as compared to 14, three of whom were "friendly fire"? I have covered almost every point brought up in the following letter from this misguided Israeli patriot. He may be educated but he is not smart. Nor does he have a jolt of understanding for anything not wearing the Star of David. In the name of the embattled citizens of Haifa, I would like to offer the Corries an appropriate welcome to our city, in the form of the following letter: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Corrie, You are coming to our lovely town to sue Israel, claiming that your daughter was "killed by an Israeli bulldozer." But you neglect to mention the circumstances under which she was so killed (nor the fact that she died from her injuries while under Palestinian medical care). You have stated, "She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organization, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells." Homes and wells, huh? Your sneering tone indicates your argumentative stance Mr. Praut. There is nothing quite so fulfilling as picking on the dead, is there? I suppose it is not so bad as organ theft, but either way, this argumentative tone is typical of any self-righteous Zionist. And last time I looked, they were all self-righteous. Rachel cannot defend herself, the PERFECT Zionist target! Well, she was not. Rachel was trying to prevent the demolition of tunnels used to smuggle weapons for Palestinian terrorists seeking to murder Jewish civilians. ISM openly endorses Palestinian "armed struggle" against Jewish children and civilians and openly collaborates with terrorists. It has hidden wanted terrorists and their weapons in its offices. It is an accomplice in murder. Lying is not the best way to drum up sympathy for your daughter. Perhaps the Israeli leaders might learn that lesson, Sir. There is not an honest word slips out of their mouths ~ ever. And it is true, this loses sympathy for Israel on a great level that is snowballing as I respond to your allegations. By the way, open the borders or let the people in that open prison have the things necessary for life. Little things like food, building materials, access to livestock, medical supplies, jam and toilet paper, and there would be no need for those damned tunnels! Israel CREATES the problem and then blames the vicims and passes that blame on to any who support them. You say your daughter died trying to protect an "innocent house." Again, this is not the truth. That "innocent house" was camouflage for a not-so-innocent terrorist smuggling tunnel, and the residents of that innocent house knew all about the tunnel. Your daughter was in a war zone as a belligerent, on behalf of a movement of Arab fascists seeking to destroy Israel and murder as many Jews as possible. Your daughter died while interfering with an anti-terror operation carried out by soldiers in a land in which she had no business being at all. Zionism = Communism. Who is responsible for the bloody enforcement of Communism on the Russian people? Who has changed history as it happened to hide this fact? Yet who supported and bankrolled this horror in which easily 70 000 white Christians were starved and/or massacred? Who hides behind the term "Zionism" when in all actuality, it is the very same political force? What "religion" were Marx, Tolstoy and Lenin? What political dogma is supported by the Houses of Schiff, Rothschild, Morgan, et al? So please do not use the term "comrade" as a slur against Rachel Corrie unless you can prove the above mentioned facts to be in error. You demand that we feel your pain at the loss of your daughter, yet your daughter conscripted herself as an accomplice for those seeking to murder children. You feel no pain for the scores of martyrs in my own city of Haifa murdered by those same terrorists. You speak as if Israel is innocent of such atrocities. I support no one in attacking children, but you are quite wrong if this is your belief. Just to clarify things for you, a quote from your great man of peace, Ariel Sharon to prove the falseness of your claims. "I don’t know something called international Principles. I vow that I will burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child are more dangerous than the man because the Palestinian child’s existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I’ve killed 750 Palestinians (In Rafah in 1956).I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian woman is but a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do." Oh, my! Just to drive home my point, I include this quote by the beloved American rabbi Friedman of the Chabad Lubavitch fanatical sect so politically prominent around the globe: A similar feeling is expressed in June 2009, by US Hasidic Rabbi Manis Friedman, who encouraged Israelis to kill Palestinian “men, women and children.” “I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries, and don't shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)" IS THAT WHY THEY SAY THE ISRAELI ARMY IS "THE MOST MORAL" ON THE PLANET, MR. PLAUT? Your daughter put herself in harm's way by challenging a large bulldozer and positioning herself where the operator could not see her. You know quite well that the bulldozer operator was not seeking to harm her. Again more conjecture. An individual is the only one to say what they really know. All else unless shared, is conjecture. This is the case for all human beings. You have written, "We had not understood the devastating nature of the Palestinians' situation." Of course, you have never expressed any interest in the devastating nature of the Jews' situation. The Jews have been battling Arab fascism and genocidal terrorism for a hundred years, before, during, and after the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews. Your daughter was helping those who perpetrate Nazi-like atrocities against randomly selected Jews. GENOCIDAL TERRORISM! OH MY GOLLY! The Jews have been hard at work in this area for a very very long time. Whether you realize it or not, your ancestors were heavily involved in the genocide of indigenous people all around the globe as they were "discovered" by explorers paid to do so by the large banking cabals of the time. More currently, let us not forget the Russian people under the Red Terror, the German holocaust supported by Britain and American Jewish President Ike Eisenhower in which 70 000 surrendered German officers were plopped into a field, denied food, water, toilet facilities, shelter, to die of exposure. And you blame others of genocide? We shan't even touch on the Zionist opening salvos to so many towns and villages left flattened with only the ripped raped bodies of the dead to inhabit them. Or should we dare to mention the holocaust of Gaza as genocide? Oh of course we knew the Holocaust would enter this argument at some point! And the number so slaughtered. Well as a Canadian I am not supposed to argue with your "facts" and "irrefutable truths" but Ernst Zundel is a hero of mine, so you know what I think of that. If the Zionists had not come into Palestine and begun messing with demographics, the original Jewish families and Palestinian people would still be living in the harmony they had shared for the past thousands of years! Sir, you are so out-gunned when it comes to these "slurs" you throw out so casually at one who is unable to speak out. You smugly praise the propaganda play about your daughter, which ignored all the other Rachels ~ the Jewish victims of terror in Israel who were murdered by genocidal terrorists. You repeat yourself. Your daughter, and apparently you as well, never had any understanding of the Middle East conflict. The Middle East conflict is not about the right to self-determination of Palestinian Arabs, but rather about the right to self-determination of Israeli Jews. Tell the truth, Sir. Israel was built by the Rothschilds to instill instability in the Arab world as part of their long term agenda of war leading to their NWO, establishment of the Noahide Laws internationally. You know, the coming of the anti Christ and all that satanic jazz. Israel land was stolen from the Palestinian people who had tended it lovingly for thousands of years. Your claims make it sound like God involved Himself in a real estate deal with the "chosen ones of Lucifer". You had been gone for a long time. But my, let a Palestinian be kept from his farmland for a few years due to road, fences, blockades and Israel is only too swift to claim the land from him.. And face it, that is what it is all about ~ the land. For a century the Arabs have attempted to block any expression of Jewish self-determination, using violence, armed aggression, and terrorism. The Arabs today control 22 countries and territory nearly twice the size of the United States. They refuse to share even a fraction of one percent of the Middle East with Jews, even in a territory smaller than New Jersey. Now the Palestinians are ALL 22 Arab countries? My lord you certainly do know how to play with words to confuse the unaware and "stupid goyim" don't you?! Poor little Israel surrounded by all those big bad bullies who have been where they are since time began against one little hornet under the saddle known as Israel. The Arab countries invented the Palestinian people and their "plight" as a propaganda ploy in imitation of the German campaign on behalf of Sudeten self-determination in the 1930s. Just as the struggle for "Sudeten liberation" was nothing more than a fig leaf for the German aggression aimed at annihilating Czechoslovakia, so the struggle for "Palestinian liberation" is nothing more than cover for a jihad to destroy Israel and its population. To this there is only one worthy response. Sticking out my tongue and making a raspberry at you. This charge of yours justifies the things done to the Arabs surrounding you? All your massacres justify what? The list of massacres is relentless and ongoing. So what is your point here? Whatever you want to call them, the Palestinians do not deserve what you do to them. The whole world sees and notices. Your write, "Clearly, our daughter has become a positive symbol for people." I am afraid you are mistaken. Your daughter has become a symbol for dangerous foolhardiness. She essentially committed suicide as an empty gesture to assist murderers and terrorists. You want the world to mourn for your daughter, who died while working with monsters out to murder. Yawns at repitition, harping and conjecture. You are becoming boring, Sir. On the pages of anti-Semitic propaganda web magazines you denounce Israel, but you do not have a single word of sympathy for the families of the thousands of innocent Israeli victims of the terrorists with whom your daughter chose to ally herself. On behalf of the citizens of Haifa, all of whom your daughter's Hamas friends are trying to murder, I remain, Steven Plaut Who elected you to speak on behalf of ALL of the citizens of Haifa? Rather a grandiose claim Mr. Plaut. I wager you are assuming this and are missing the Jews who actually have a heart and compassion. Two things, you seem to be short on. I am wondering how you would feel if this were your child being written about. You would be dramatizing in quite a different direction! Not that I would wish such a thing on any child or any parent. Just to educate you, Mr. Plaut, below is a comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians in the last Gazan Holocaust. Do not cringe at that expression. The original meaning of Holocaust means "burnt offerings to the gods (or Lucifer)" and the Gazans were burnt most efficiently. Institute for Middle East Understanding Mr. Praut, please stop kvetching for a moment, look at the following charts and then, with a straight face, tell me this. By standing up to Israel, did not Ms. Corrie see something you perhaps missed? Genocide is genocide and anyone with the, if you will pardon me, the chutzpah to stand up against the extremely advantaged state assassins is truly a hero. I imagine you might take the following assessment of the Palestinians to be more than accurate and just more propaganda, Mr. Praut? HOW DARE THEY? Certainly much more of a challenge with all those weapons than attacking a dead person by a letter or a speech, mmm? Not much chutzpah to perform the latter. 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THE FALL OF GREECE ~ YES, IT IS A CAPITALIST PLOT WHOSE WORLD ARE WE REALLY LIVING IN? DOG POET: UNHOLY WARS AND THE DISINFO AGE GENTILES NEED TO READ THIS! AND THINK ABOUT IT. HATE LETTER ~ WELCOME TO HAIFA MR. AND MRS. CORRIE THE TRANSHUMANIST AND POLICE STATE AGENDA IN POP M... MEET THE ISRAELI CITIZEN ~ WAR CRAZY PEOPLE ISMAIL SHAMMOUT PAINTS A PALESTINIAN STORY GERMANY'S INDUCED INSANITY ERNST ZUNDEL IS A HERO!!!! ANOTHER FAKE HATE CRIME ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS ANONYMOUS LETTER #2: NOTE OF A... TWO MUSLIM WOMEN REFUSE "NAKED" BODY SCAN ANGELS DON'T PLAY THIS HAARP ANGELS STILL DON'T PLAY THIS HAARP. AMERICAN FEMINISM AND THE RISE OF COMMUNISM TODAY I did a huge post on art and the effects of ... DUBAI ASSASSINATION #11: TWO DUBAI MURDER SUSPECTS... WEAPONIZING MOZART DUBAI ASSASSINATION #14: HAMAS OPERATIVE DRUGGED, ... DUBAI ASSASSINATION #13: DUBAI CALLS FOR NETANYAHU...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line200
__label__cc	0.744761	0.255239	Memories of Christchurch as Earthquake Devastates! by ThatTravelGuy \| Feb 22, 2011 \| Travel \| 0 comments Nature seems to be rebelling against us these days! At least 65 people have been killed in this most recent earthquake which just hit Christchurch in New Zealand. At a 6.3-magnitude this is a serious quake leaving dramatic damage in its wake. This South Island city has never experienced anything like this. Buildings have fallen and there are still dozens trapped under collapsed buildings. From inside the Pyne Gould Guinness building screams have been heard from inside the wreckage. Prime Minister John Key said: “We may be witnessing New Zealand’s darkest day.” Much of the public transport systems, and especially the airport where tourists would normally be arriviing daily is closed. A state of emergency has been declared. A warning is out by the New Zealand Tourist Board asking people to avoid all non-essential travel to Christchurch, underscoring that the rest of the country is not affected by the earthquake. When you have travelled to a destination and have fond memories of it, news of a devastation like this is particularly impactful. My trip was during my tenure as national president of ACTA Canada. We had established a warm interactive relationship with the travel agency association and I was asked to speak at their national conference. The beauty of the city, the warmth of the people, and the chance to tour the most beautiful countryside left an indelible impression. I felt so at hope. The people were like Canadians, proud and welcoming and wanting to show you everything and take you everywhere. Their hospitalitly was far and beyond what was required or expected. I made some close friends who fly to Canada for our next conference, bringing with them loads of fine New Zealand wine to prove their point that the New Zealand wines were as high quality as those anywhere. I hope they are all right…and I hope they are all able to recover soon with no more lives lost. Buildings can be replaced, but the smile and graciousness of a ordinary citizen host cannot. Nature seems to know few friends when it choses to get angry. Perhaps it can take into consideration the quality of the people there and stand back this time. Memories of Rio de Janeiro On the Way Home…With Memories. Disney World…Poignant Memories.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line204
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Brill, 2019 Titolo: Concepts of Normativity: Kant or Hegel? Serie: Critical Studies in German Idealism, Volume 24 Autore: Christian Krijnen (Ed.) Casa editrice: Brill Formato: Hardback €143.00 $172.00 Pagine: x, 260 Reviewed by: Andrew James Komasinski (Hokkaido University of Education) Despite facing almost immediate criticism from Hegel, Kant’s view of normativity has greatly influenced contemporary value theory. This volume is the fruit of a 2017 conference at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam by the same name that sought to bring the two conflicting accounts into dialogue (1). There are three general points worth making before addressing the articles themselves. First, the articles in this volume use diverse sigla. Some articles, such as Christian Hoffman’s, refer to the Elements of the Philosophy of Right as PR and other articles, such as Jiří Chotaš’s, refer to it as RpH (9, 164). The Phenomenology of Spirit similarly receives the sigla PhG from Arthur Kok, Christian Schmidt, and Alberto L. Siani whereas Martin Bunte and Tereza Matějčková inter alia use PS (47, 147, 244, 62, 199). Similar article by article variation occurs with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason with Martin Bunte using CPR but Paul Cobben using KdrV (66, 27). While each article is internally consistent, this and rehearsal of the same parts of Hegel make the book feels more like a collection than a whole. For consistency’s sake, I will use PR, PhG, CPR, along with EPS for Encyclopedia of the Philosophical System and Religion for Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Reason Alone consistently in this review. Second, different authors took different approaches to the use of German. Some authors use the German directly for the major parts of PR: Abstrakt Recht, Moralität, and Sittlichkeit; others translate them as Abstract Right, Morality, and, Ethical Life (Battistoni at 121, 124; Chotaš at 164). I will consistently use the English throughout. For terms such as Bildung where the translation choices are substantive, this is more understandable. Hoffman glosses it as “education” and then uses “education” after that (4,12). Krijnen supplies the possible translation “education of the understanding and applicable skills” but generally sticks to Bildung (115-117). Siani does the same (250). Chotaš and Zabel call it development (171, 181). These differences between articles will not impede specialists but make it challenging to read the work as a united whole. Third, the title of the volume suggests proponents of both Kant and Hegel, but true to its origin at a conference from a network called “Hegel’s Relevance,” most authors are more sympathetic to Hegel than to Kant (1). Some contributions write as if Hegel’s critiques of Kant were definitive and Hegel’s positions decisive. Having more full-throated defenses of Kantian’s normativity and more engagement between the two as competing contemporary interpretations would have strengthened the volume. Nevertheless, the volume contributes importantly to our understanding of ethics and social philosophy in Hegel and German Idealism. Being at Home with Oneself in the Whole—Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom as Actuality, Christian Hoffman Christian Hoffman’s article provides an excellent introduction to the relation between Bildung and holism in Hegel and how this differentiates him from Kant. Hoffman traces Hegel’s attempt to accomplish monistically and holistically what Kant tried to achieve dualistically for reason and freedom. (9-10, 13). Hoffman identifies Bildung “education” in PhG, as both breaking the natural harmony and building “a new and more differentiated form of the whole” (12). Hoffman also highlights the senses in which Hegel’s unity is active rather than a static thing (14). Turning to the system in the EPS and the PR, Hoffman first emphasizes how this holistic process is not just knowing but self-knowing (14-17). Hoffman joins to this sense in which Hegel’s holistic account refers to a common realm of shared freedom (19-22). Finally, Hoffman notes the relation between the Hegelian holism and its Aristotelian ancestry (inter alia 22-23). Hoffman addresses Kant’s idea of normativity as a dualistic account Hegel incorporates insights from but then supersedes. Hegel’s Radicalization of Kant’s Copernican Turn: the Internal Unity of the Natural and the Moral Law, Paul Cobben Paul Cobben’s article progresses from problematic Humean impressions to dualistic Kantian intuitions to Hegel’s monistic resolution. First, Cobben develops how Kant’s intuitions solve the Humean predicament where impressions are both external and mind. Kant solves this problem in his apparatus of manifolds, imagination, and categories, which makes impressions mental and things-in-themselves external (27). Through this, Kant equates propositional and material truth when material truth is mediated by the Kantian apparatus (27-31). Cobben, following Gadamer, reads PhG’s first chapter as tracing out the Kantian account but rejecting its account of material truth (31-33). Cobben remarks that Hegel has demonstrated “The apperception of the Perception cannot justify how the manifold of intuitions can be connected into an objective material truth” (34). Unfortunately, the arguments substantiating this claim and the claims about Hegel’s “first truth of the understanding” and “second truth of the understanding” were truncated and hard to follow (34-35). Cobben believes that understanding requires attending to the subject as conscious (36). Cobben sees PhG’s account of desire’s inability to achieve unity with its object, because it continues to want precisely what it is not as culminating in the realization that the perceived world that individual consciousness finds itself in is not merely its own but rather a shared world (38-39). Cobben joins to this an interpretation of the lord/bondsman dialectic which understands it as involving the death of individual consciousness and its sublimation into institutional consciousness (40-42). Cobben’s final claim is that Kant’s solution fails and that Hegel develops an account that culminates in the resolution of the lord/bondsman dialectic (43). Most of the second half seemed like it would benefit from more engagement with contemporary defenses of understanding along Kantian lines and other interpretations of the lord/bondsman dialectics. The Religion of the God-Man: Hegel’s Account of Revealed Religion in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Arthur Kok Arthur Kok’s article is a welcome addition to the discussion of Hegel’s concept of God and its relation to Kant’s religion. Kok’s article also looks at Kant’s dualism and Hegel’s attempt to overcome it in PhG, insofar as Kant’s moral philosophy required a religion with a God as the projected lawgiver of reason to realize the good (46-47). Kok identifies this argument in PhG both specifically and within Spirit’s dialectical search for an adequate relation between freedom and moral duty (47-48). This activity culminates in the realization that the source of moral value in religion is Spirit moving in the community (49). Here, more interaction with Kant’s Religion could have explained why Kok believes Kant’s account of the rational community as the arbiter of moral value is inadequate. Kok also locates a similar dynamic in Hegel’s account of revealed religion, i.e. Christianity, situating it as the dialectical outcome of an unhappy consciousness where freedom sees the inadequacy of an external law (50-53). This leads to the incarnation as the simultaneous “activity of the Self that results in the appearance of the Self without the Self becoming something other than itself” and thus resolves this tension in religion by (1) being “both distinct and non-distinct from those who identify him as the God-man,” (2) representing “the self-realization of spirit,” and (3) establishing “the presence of the divine in this world” to overcome suffering (55). Kok then articulates this as Hegel’s answer to the problem of evil where human activity can free itself from evil (56). Joined to the resurrection (and ascension), Hegel makes community that remembers the God-man the true reconciliation of spirit in ethics (57). The Reality of Value as a Problem of Kantian Ethics, Martin Bunte Martin Bunte’s article looks at Hegel’s formalism objection against Kant’s ethics from PhG 257 (A.V. Miller pagination) and the problem of testing but not giving laws (62). Bunte believes Kant’s ethics suffers from a tautology because the a priori nature of Kant’s ethics interacts with the autonomy of the will to produce moral laws that are “conceivable only under the reservation of the heteronomy of what is willed” (63). Bunte explains his version of the objection in a single sentence: “If freedom as spontaneity or autonomy is to be the essential reason for the determination of will, then it must be able to refer to rules or laws from the position of legislator” (64). Bunte argues that a successful Kantian defense against this objection must also achieve a unity for practical reason like the one for theoretical reason (65). Since the two domains are both domains of reason, Bunte notes that they must both find their origins in the spontaneity of the will as the “unconditioned condition” (65). Bunte illustrates this with the categories of the understanding in the realm of theoretical reason (66). Bunte analogizes that Kantian practical reason must be premised on the idea that the moral self gives itself its rules (66). Bunte here distinguishes the analogical cases by arguing that reason’s theoretical use refers to the laws of nature but that its practical use must refer to laws of freedom, which means laws that it must give itself (67). While Bunte largely thinks that Hegel’s critique rings true, he believes Kant succeeds in answering one part of Hegel’s objection: the moral imperative is something the self commands to itself as a demand of reason and that he develops such an account in Religion (70). Bunte believes both that the formalism objection applies to Kant and succeeds convinced the formalism objection succeeds. There is a large amount of literature on this that finds things murkier: there is disagreement as to both what the objection is, to whether it misses the mark, and to whether Kantians have resources to resist or overcome it (See for instance Hoy 1989, Freyenhagen 2012, and Stern 2012). Foundations of Normativity, Max Gottschlich Unlike many articles in this volume, Max Gottschlich’s article focused on identifying which logic is best for normativity: “formal logic” which he identifies with pre-Kantian order of being thinking (74-75), “transcendental logic” which he identifies with Kant (75-81), or “dialectical logic” which he identifies with Hegel (81-86). Gottschlich dismisses formal logic as often used but not useful for considering normativity, because it cannot capture the paradox of determiner and determined. Transcendental logic, in contrast, focuses on the paradox of determiner and determined and identifies the limits of what can be said and is naturally reflexive (76). In Kant, this accomplishes “self-fulfilling self-relation” (77, emphasis in original). Through this, Gottschlich states that transcendental logic identifies the role of values and norms in “settings” (77). Gottschlich mentions in passing that he thinks the formalism objection is wrong (in opposition to several articles in this volume), that Kant and Hegel agree that value must begin in reason, and that Hegel’s true objection is to the absolute form, rather than developmental growth, that births duties (80). Gottschlich sees dialectical logic’s acceptance of contradiction as its genius (82). In a clearer formulation, the point is that “the self only maintains itself by losing itself” – in other words when it recognizes its mediation as dynamic act rather than absolute (84). Gottschlich then turns to how norms are produced in the Hegelian account (86). While Kant and Hegel both make goal-setting a sign of rationality, Gottschlich sees Hegel’s version as more advanced because it abstracts from the abstracting in the execution of a “concrete universal” (86-87). Gottschlich next looks at poiesis (production) where Kant’s form is too abstract to derive anything but an abstract universal (90). Only in Hegel, he maintains, can we find subjectivity (a subjectivity beyond the self) as the goal (91). At many points, Hegel’s critiques seemed to be accepted uncritically and would have benefited from more interaction with defenses of the Kantian approaches. Hegel über die logischen Grundlagen der Sittlichkeit, Klaus Vieweg Klaus Vieweg’s article was the singular contribution in German to this volume. Vieweg highlights the important role of civil society in PR often overlooked since it is only one step before right’s ultimate form in the state. After rehearsing PR’s Morality as a critique of Kant and a demonstration of its self-inadequacy (95-96), Vieweg focuses on Ethical Life as “eines logisch fundierten Systems der allgemeinen Willensbestimmungen konzipiert, als das Objektive der Freiheit” (97). In this domain, it is not the objective that dominates like a yoke but reason as a cozier hearth that determines things based on both objective and subjective will (97-98). Vieweg focuses on the role of civil society and how it helps us understand modern society. Viewing identifies civil society as setting living a good life as the goal in a domain where consciousness has been brought under the concept (98-99). This is true freedom insofar as thinking has itself as its end. While Vieweg notes the work of Dieter Henrich on Hegel’s Lecture on the State as Three Ends, he argues that civil society’s importance has not been sufficiently mined in PR (99). Vieweg sees reflection and necessity as the distinctive marks of civil society that separate it from the family’s role as the natural end of humanity and the state’s self-substantial unity (100). Vieweg argues that this logic occurs in triadic form throughout these three forms of Ethical Life but in different sequences (101). For Vieweg, what unifies all of the forms Ethical Life is that they all will the concept not only subjectively but in recognition of its objectivity (103; PR §142A). In this way, they are self-developing ends. They advance over the freedom of persons in abstract right, the freedom of moral subjects in Morality, and become the freedom of ethical subjects (103). Through this, they find themselves unified in a moral community (103). How is Practical Philosophy Speculatively Possible?, Christian Krijnen Christian Krijnen’s article identifies both Kant and Hegel as contributors to a complete account of normativity. Krijnen argues that post-Kantian attempts in German Idealism to better ground the unity of practical and theoretical reason all lead to the centrality of freedom and the construction of value-laden reality (106-107). Krijnen believes the Kantian approach succumbs to a formalism objection that Hegel avoids this by understanding “self-formation as self-knowledge in the fashion of a self-realization of the concept” (107). At the same time, Krijnen argues that Hegel’s solution eviscerates practical philosophy by thematizing it as the “speculative doctrine of the idea” rather than engage it practically (108). Thus, Krijnen holds that Hegel does achieve a unity in the form of free Spirit but that this unity sublates practical philosophy and demeans it as an inadequate form of knowledge (109). Returning to Kant’s architectonic, Hegel is not describing what “ought to be” in practical philosophy (110). In Kant’s picture, the free will needs to realize the rational object of its freedom, which it experiences as an ought (111). In contrast, Hegel’s Ethical Life focuses on the actuality of freedom rather than an ought: “The point for Hegel here is that we only have concrete, not mere abstract duties only in the realm of Sittlichkeit” (112). Krijnen’s positive task is to establish a speculative practical philosophy despite Hegel’s failure to provide one (112). He begins by noting that Kant makes moral agents the originators of their actions (through the bifurcation of the world into the deterministic theoretical realm and the free practical realm), and this for Hegel is only true in the realm of subjective Spirit – not objective Spirit (112-113). Krijnen notes that abstract oughts operate as givens for Hegel and thus remain inadequate, which makes them inadequate for the living good that Hegel demands of the sphere of action (113-114). Krijnen thinks an answer can be found in Bildung in the family and civil society (114-115). Krijnen then differentiates his view from those of Vieweg and Cobben. Krijnen thinks that Vieweg is wrong to think Hegel does not need a “canon of duties,” because Hegel does not abandon Morality’s truth but brings into Ethical Life (116). For Cobben, Krijnen notes the degree to which both treat Bildung but argues that the solutions Cobben notes are problems of integrating practical philosophy into Hegel rather than irremediable deficits in Hegel’s philosophy (117). The Normative Function of the Right of Objectivity in Hegel’s Theory of Imputation, Giulia Battistoni Giulia Battistoni presents a deeply technical argument about imputation in the Morality section of PR. Battistoni first maintains that Hegel’s critique of Kant identified with PR §135 shows Kant unable to “derive particular and concrete duties from the determination of duty as formal correspondence with itself” and requires evaluating both the “consequences of actions” and “the social context” (121). While Ethical Life merges objective and subjective concerns of right, Battistoni sees Morality as the locus where imputation attributes subjective right to a moral subject (121-122). In Morality, the moral subject experiences the good as an ought, which interestingly creates the problem of making this “both the true good and a mere opinion” where actions are good if they are born of good intention (123). To understand imputation in this context, Battistoni draws a parallel with Hegel’s two notions of nature (128). First nature is externality which can take the form of a natural world which stands in opposition to the subject as a determination separate from will (124). Second nature is the habituation and internalization of the social order of right (127). Battistoni locates the lower sense in Abstract Right and the higher sense in Morality, especially PR §119A’s claim that external deeds are categorized as we impute motives to the moral subjects involved (132). Freedom from Kant to Hegel, Christian Schmidt Christian Schmidt’s article differs from many of the other critiques in defending Hegel against a contemporary critique. Schmidt tests whether Louis Althusser’s critique of German Idealism applies to Hegel and through this differentiates Kant and Hegel on freedom. Schmidt looks at why Althusser calls Hegel an empiricist by highlighting how Hegel mines the real by dividing the empirical and the essence of things to get to their essences (142). As Schmidt points out, this largely echoes Hegel’s critique of Kant where the empirical becomes merely material fodder for the categories to peel off (142). In contrast, Hegel sees understanding as a synthesis of sensuous manifold and mental activity (143). While knowing this, Althusser still things Hegel is guilty of the same bifurcation. Schmidt spends the rest of the article looking specifically at freedom in Kant and Hegel as “a property of rational beings and moral (or political, or social) agents that is not detachable” and the critique of this analysis in Foucault and Althusser (144-145). Schmidt first explains how reason and understanding are the self-activity of subjects that separate them from animals (145). Despite the receptive components of understanding, Kant believes moral agents are free (146). Schmidt characterizes Kant’s account as “highly abstract … purified from all social and political meaning” (146). On this basis, Schmidt believes Althusser stands justified in his critique of Kant (147). Hegel’s subject, like Kant’s, is a break in the causal chain (147-148). At the same time, Hegelian freedom is the restriction of “dull-witted emotions and raw impulses” (LPWH 103-104) that only finds itself in the state (148). In Hegel, freedom is a byproduct of people pursuing desire since this constructs and restructures the rules of society (148-149). This merges with spontaneity insofar as individuals collide with the established order (151). Thus, Hegel presents a unified idea of freedom where freedom is “the concretization of spontaneity” (152). For this reason, Schmidt rejects Althusser’s critique of Hegel. Justification of the State: Kant and Hegel, Jiří Chotaš Jiří Chotaš contrasts Kant and Hegel’s justifications of the state. Chotaš reads Kant as like Hobbes building the state from a state of nature where people “are at each other’s mercy” who produce by nature a civil union with a “general united will” that expresses itself in the ruler, the judge, and most importantly the legislator which cooperate for the benefit of the citizens (158-161). While Hegel shared Kant’s idea that “freedom creates human substance,” Hegel also examined how it was realized, Hegel believed Kant erred by basing this union on “an arbitrary will of individuals” who sought to establish it for property and contracts (164). In contrast, Hegel believed the State was the natural home of people and argued for this in PR, his “scientific proof of the concept of the state” (164). Chotaš summarizes the stages of Ethical Life. First, Chotaš looks at family, focusing on how marriage links non-related people around love and common interest rather than as Kant supposed contract (166). Second, civil society arises through the division of labor (167). To this, Hegel joins the Polizei who secure “external order” in matters as diverse as public health and bridge-building (168). Chotaš identifies these attributes as giving civil society the status of being “‘an external state’ as well as ‘a state of necessity’ (PR §183)” (168). Here, corporations protect their members like an extended family and provide “the second ethical root of the state” (169). Third and finally, the state itself functions as the culmination of the ethical ideal actualizing itself in customs (169) and replicating the family as “a human community with its own spirit and will” but through “political virtue” rather than feeling (169-170). The state also takes on attributes of civil society, by transforming people’s ends and unifying them as a whole (170). Chotaš then distinguishes Hegel’s state from Kant’s. He begins by noting that for Hegel, peoples and their constitutions are mirrors (171). He notes that both believe constitutional change should happen through constitutional procedures (171). He notes that Hegel also has three powers but they differ: “the legislative power, the executive power, and the princely power or monarchy” (171). For Hegel, the most important of these is the sovereign (PR §273, 279R) but remains under the constitution (171-172). Chotaš also describes the Hegelian legislature: upper house of landed gentry by birth and lower house by election (172). Chotaš’s article could have demonstrated further differences by addressing Kant’s Religion and contemporary defenses of Kant’s state. Hegel’s Republican Penal Philosophy: an Attempt at a Contemporary Reconstruction, Benno Zabel Benno Zabel focuses on the republican nature of Hegel’s penal philosophy, situating it in an account of PR (182-183). Zabel identifies crime in Hegel as “(performative) self-contradiction” (184). Zabel explains using PR §95 that in crime, a criminal violates freedom (184-185). This must be met with cancellation (185). As Zabel points out, Hegel believes crime only applies to actions (185). Zabel identifies three practical functions in Hegel’s conception of punishment: “the dimension of the (formal) recognition of status, the dimension of the institutionalized procedure and the dimension of social communication” (186). Recognition of status begins with the “effective power of sanctions” (186). This also brings to the fore the standing of the victim as a member of a moral community (186). Crime, for Hegel, is resistance to “the common normative basis” and must be met so that crime does not appear as valid (187). Turning to institutionalized procedure, Zabel contends that Hegel sees punishment as part and parcel of a legal procedure (187). Thus, it simultaneously refers to the separation of powers (187). In other words, the counter-coercion of punishment must occur on “a universally recognized basis” in accepted criminal law (188). As Zabel notes, for Hegel, contra Foucault, these procedures are precisely the prevention of despotism (188). Textually, Zabel supports this from the “administration of justice” (189). Finally, Zabel points out how punishment communicates for Hegel (191). Zabel explains that “punishment can be considered only as retaliation (Wiedervergeltung), that is, as (symbolic) restoration of the order of freedom” (191). Zabel notes that Hegel is not limited to mere retribution, however, and can help in “the general prevention of crime and betterment of the individual” as punishment becomes “a visible part of society” (191). In this way, punishment communicates. Zabel disagrees with Cooper’s Abstract Right only reading (1971) and other interpretations that isolate punishment from the larger context of Hegel’s PR. Zabel thus argues for a punishment plus account of Hegel’s penal philosophy in line with Brooks (2012) and Komasinski (2018) and others. History as the Progress in the (Un)Consciousness of Freedom?, Tereza Matějčková Matějčková’s article contrasts the destructive Enlightenment that felled governments and challenged religions with a Hegelian concept of freedom where freedom invigorates institutions (196-197). Kant occupies a middle where the limits of knowledge lead to “respect and toleration of others” (198). Hegel extends this by making actions reflexive and incorporating a social reality in the “I that is We and We that is I” (199 quoting PhG 110). On this reading, normativity becomes an internal feature of freedom such that Absolute Spirit’s achievement is to recognize that “that its own thinking has been conditioned by a plurality of other spirits or subjects” (200). This particular characterization of absolute Spirit could have been expanded and defended textually. Matějčková uses PhG’s lengthy phrenology critique to highlight how this involves a re-appropriation of the physical contra dualistic approaches that deny the skull-bone any part in Spirit. For Hegel, in contrast, it is a part but just one part and highlights the Hegelian idea that the inner is the outer and the outer the inner (203-205). For Hegel, all of the upheavals of history are part of “the progress of the consciousness of freedom” (206). In the realm of history, this amounts to a recognition that nature by itself has no history, because nature is not for itself (207). Only by the addition of human freedom and spontaneity can something new arise (207). In Hegel’s history, world-historical people function precisely by using freedom to overturn existing structure (208). In the process, they appeal to the people (209). Joined to its dynamism is the terminus of history (210). This end is one where freedom is being achieved through equal checks and balances in the institutions (210). Matějčková maintains that contra Popper, Hegel’s philosophical system develops institutions that enable people to have personal freedoms (211). This article covers a lot of ground and makes interesting arguments that would be clearer if they were set in contrast to others writing on similar topics in Hegel such as Adrian Peperzak’s Modern Freedom (2001). Is There Any Philosophy of History?, Jean-François Kervégan Kervégan contrasts philosophy of history in Kant and Hegel against the backdrop of the arguments between enlightenment and anti-enlightenment thought (219-220). Kervégan first notes Voltaire’s coining of the term in 1765 and its audacity for mixing two heretofore distinct areas of knowledge as a history of human spirit (217-218). Kervégan believes Kant lacks a proper philosophy of history, because the Kant texts generally categorized do not deal with a “system of rational knowledge via concepts” (220). Kervégan suggests that Kant’s historical works even when they present a “history of freedom” are still just histories rather than a proper philosophy of history, because philosophy proper is metaphysics in nature and freedom and “historical considerations do not belong to it” (226). Conversely, Kervégan identifies the history of philosophy as central to Hegel’s philosophy (226). Given Hegel’s dialectical philosophy, Spirit is always working towards an adequate understanding of itself including its history (227). Philosophy thinks in the present and thinks the rational as actual and the actual as rational (228). This has the consequence of making history present to itself. In other words, the object of Hegel’s philosophy of Spirit is history, and Spirit is also the one doing the study (229). “Freedom in the European Sense”: Hegel on Action, Heroes, and Europe’s Philosophical Groundwork, Alberto L. Siani Siani argues that Hegel and Europe are intertwined terms with Hegel’s insight being that institutions should mirror the freedom of people (235-236). Siani quotes Hegel’s linkage of Europe and freedom: “It is especially this subjective or moral freedom that is called freedom in the European sense” in the Morality section of the encyclopedia (EPS, §503R, 224) (236). Siani explicates this through PR’s Morality section emphasizing Hegel’s critique which Siani articulate as follows: “morality has to state the difference between subject and object in order to affirm the freedom of the former, but if this difference is absolutized, subjective freedom can never bridge the gap to objectivity, and hence becomes utterly ineffective and empty” (241). This is, of course, overcome for Hegel in Ethical Life in which subjective freedom bridges the gap. Classically, the individual is free qua an identity rather than an abstraction (243). Modern freedom requires that tragedy intervene and make this freedom open (243). Siani then provides an extended consideration of Antigone and the role of heroes in the transformation of freedom (243-248). As this is the third chapter in this volume to articulate a version of Hegel’s critique of Morality, it would help to understand how the different interpretations contrast with each other and differentiate themselves from common interpretations and defenses against the objection from Kantian scholars. Brooks, Thom. 2012. “Hegel and the Unified Theory of Punishment.” In Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, edited by Thom Brooks, 103–23. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Cooper, David E. 1971. “Hegel’s Theory of Punishment.” In Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives, edited by Z.A. Pelczynski, 151–67. London: Cambridge University Press. Freyenhagen, Fabian. 2012. “The Empty Formalism Objection Revisited: §135R and Recent Kantian Responses.” In Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, by Thom Brooks, 43–72. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Hoy, David Couzens. 1989. “Hegel’s Critique of Kantian Morality.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (2): 207–32. Komasinski, Andrew. 2018. “Hegel’s Complete Views on Crime and Punishment.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4 (4): 525–44. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.35. Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor. 2001. Modern Freedom: Hegel’s Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy. Studies in German Idealism, v. 1. Dordrecht ; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Stern, Robert. 2012. “On Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Ethics: Beyond the Empty Formalism Objection.” In Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, edited by Thom Brooks, 73–99. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Scritto il 20 febbraio 2020 20 febbraio 2020 Autore Andrew James KomasinskiCategorie RecensioniTag Ethics, Freedom, German Philosophy, Hegel, Kant, Normativity, Philosophy of History, Religion, Sittlichkeit, Social Philosophy, StateLascia un commento su Christian Krijnen (Ed.): Concepts of Normativity: Kant or Hegel? Brill, 2019 Edmund Husserl: Normativité et déconstruction, Vrin, 2020 Titolo: Normativité et déconstruction: Digression dans les Leçons sur l’éthique de 1920 Serie: Bibliothèque des Textes Philosophiques Autore: Edmund Husserl. Présentation et traduction de Marie-Hélène Desmeules et Julien Farges Casa editrice: Vrin Scritto il 30 gennaio 2020 2 febbraio 2020 Autore Phenomenological ReviewsCategorie PublicationsTag Deconstruction, Edmund Husserl, Ethics, Normativity, PhenomenologyLascia un commento su Edmund Husserl: Normativité et déconstruction, Vrin, 2020 Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, Irene McMullin (Eds.): Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology Titolo: Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology Serie: Routledge Research in Phenomenology Autore: Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, Irene McMullin (Eds.) Casa editrice: Routledge Formato: Hardback £120.00 Reviewed by: Veronica Cibotaru (Universite Paris-Sorbonne / Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal) The purpose of Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology is to study the way in which phenomenology addresses the multiple connections between normativity and meaning. The content of the book is based on a fundamental presupposition, namely, that the structure of meaning is normative. This thesis is grounded on the phenomenological studies started by Husserl and in this spirit the book explores from different points of view the structure of meaning and its conditions of possibility. Since the authors of this book attribute this thesis directly to the views of Steven Crowell, all the articles present themselves as an explicit dialogue with Crowell’s work, to wit, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (2001), and Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (2013). The book includes then an afterword with Crowell’s with his comments and replies. For this review, I focus on the direct objections to Crowell’s philosophical positions and his attempts at answering them. For doing so, I follow the order proposed by the editors of the book. The book is divided into five sections: (1) “Normativity, Meaning and the Limits of Phenomenology”, (2) “Sources of Normativity”, (3) “Normativity and Nature”, (4) “Attuned Agency”, and (5) “Epistemic Normativity”. At the beginning of each section in this review, I offer a brief summary of the main ideas in each section of the book and then a brief commentary on each single chapter. I. Normativity, Meaning, and the Limits of Phenomenology This section is focused on the link between the question of normativity and that of meaning as it is addressed in phenomenology. Thus, normativity of meaning appears to be one of the main questions of phenomenology. However, several questions remain open which the following articles try to solve. First of all, the concept of norm can be understood in different ways and opens thus the question to the possibility of different normative structures for different meaningful experiences. This question is raised by Sara Heinämaa in her article which opens this section. A second question is raised by Leslie MacAvoy regarding the legitimacy of considering the structure of meaning as fundamentally normative, arguing that this would go against Husserl’s virulent critique of psychologism. She thus distinguishes the validity of meaning from its eventual manifestation for us as an ought or as a claim. The third one is raised by Zahavi, Cerbone, and Kavka. They challenge the idea in itself that the normativity of meaning is one of the main concerns of phenomenology. Thus, some realms such as metaphysics (Zahavi), epistemology (Cerbone), or philosophy of religion (Kavka) seem to be out of reach for the phenomenological method understood as a “metaphysically-neutral reflective analysis of the normative space of meaning” (Burch, Marsh & McMullin, 2). Constitutive, Prescriptive, Technical, or Ideal? On the Ambiguity of the Term “Norm”, Sara Heinämaa The starting point of this article is the claim that all intentionality, from a phenomenological point of view, has a normative structure, because all intentionality can be fulfilled or disappointed. Thus, every intentional object is a norm that can be fulfilled or disappointed. Heinämaa calls this type of norm a “standard”. However, following Husserl’s distinction between interested perception and thing-appearances, she shows that the intentional object as norm can have a second meaning, which is an unachievable goal and thus also an optimum. Indeed, thing-appearances can never be fully given to us in all their richness. This polysemy of the notion of norm leads Heinämaa to analyze its different meanings by drawing on the work of the logician and philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright Norm and Action: A Logical Enquiry (1963). Wright himself takes over a distinction which he finds in the works of Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann, namely that between norm as actuality, which is at stake for what Husserl calls practical intentionality, and norm as ideality, which is essential for axiological intentionality. This distinction corresponds to Scheler’s distinctions between “Tunsollen” and “Seinsollen” and between “normative ought” (normatives Sollen) and “ideal ought” (ideales Sollen). The normativity of doing, which is a “normative ought”, is based on the concept of rule-following while the normativity of being, which is a “ideal ought” is based on the concept of seeking to achieve something. Both types of normativity should be kept strictly distinguished. Thus, although both types of normativity are goal-oriented, ideal norms “are not motivational causes for our actions but are conditions that define ways of being” (Heinämaa, 20). Heinämaa applies this distinction to the question of the normativity of intentionality by arguing, against Crowell, that both Heidegger and Husserl, share the idea that norms of actions but also of thinking are founded in ideal norms. Thus, one of the roles of phenomenology is “to illuminate the fundamental role that ideal principles of being have in both epistemic and practical normativity” (Heinämaa, 23-24). Steven Crowell insists, however, on the fact that the concept of ideales Sollen is not a proper “ought” but a “should” in order to preserve the clear distinction between normative and theoretical disciplines. 2. The Space of Meaning, Phenomenology, and the Normative Turn, Leslie MacAvoy The leading question of this article concerns the proper object of phenomenology: is it meaning or normativity? First, Leslie MacAvoy shows how phenomenology, in its concern with meaning, takes over the neo-Kantian question of validity (Geltung). The neo-Kantians understand the validity of a logical law in terms of normativity, contrary to Husserl and Heidegger, and this explains the concern of this article. Husserl argues in the Logical Investigations that logical laws are not normative because they are not prescriptive, and consequently that they are not practical rules but theoretical laws. Although these laws have normative power for our thought, normativity is not part of their content. In that way, what is opposed to the law of nature is not, contrary to what neo-Kantians thought, a normative law, but an ideal law. Therefore, contrary to Neo-Kantianism, phenomenology distinguishes validity from normativity. According to a phenomenological criticism, “the phenomenological critique of the neo-Kantian notion of validity as normativity transforms the space of validity into a space of meaning” (MacAvoy, 41). What is thus at stake are not the laws that “hold” but the intelligible structures of content. According to MacAvoy those structures are a priori and it is due to them that sense or meaning presents to us as valid. Here MacAvoy refers to Heidegger’s theory of the fore-structures of meaning as a model to understand this a priori, but she concludes, nevertheless, that phenomenology should investigate the sense of this a priori with more depth. All in all, while MacAvoy agrees with Crowell’s claim that phenomenology opens us the “space of meaning”, against Crowell’s Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger, she disagrees with the idea that this space is normative. 3. Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics, Another Look, Dan Zahavi Zahavi’s concern in this article is the role of metaphysics in Husserl’s transcendental (and not early) phenomenology. Is his transcendental phenomenology metaphysically committed or does the epoché on the contrary entail metaphysical neutrality? By developing his argument, Zahavi critically assesses Crowell’s claim that Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology is metaphysically neutral. Crowell’s argument is that phenomenology is not interested into metaphysics but into “understanding the sense of reality and objectivity” (Zahavi, 50). To this argument Zahavi presents two counterarguments. First of all, the fact that phenomenology is not primarily interested into metaphysics does not entail the fact that it does not have metaphysically implications. Secondly, Zahavi puts forward texts of Husserl where he explicitly claims the metaphysical commitment of phenomenology. In the Cartesian Meditations Husserl states that “phenomenology indeed excludes every naïve metaphysics that operates with absurd things in themselves, but does not exclude metaphysics as such” (Husserl 1950, 38-39). In order to understand the meaning of this metaphysical commitment of phenomenology, Zahavi distinguishes between three definitions of metaphysics: (1) “a theoretical investigation of the fundamental building blocks, of the basic “stuff” of reality” (Zahavi, 51); (2) “a philosophical engagement with question of facticity, birth, death, fate immortality, the existence of God, etc.” (Zahavi, 52); (3) “a fundamental reflection on and concern with the status and being of reality. Is reality mind-dependent or not, and if yes, in what manner?” (ibid). Zahavi further argues, that it is the second and most of all the third definition of metaphysics that is of interest for Husserl’s phenomenology. Zahavi’s argument, drawing on an argument presented already by Fink in an article from 1939, “The Problem of the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl”, is that transcendental phenomenology does not investigate the structures and meaning of a mental realm, but of the “real world” and of its modes of givenness (Zahavi, 59). Similarly, Fink insists on the distinction between the psychological noema and the transcendental noema, which is “being itself” (Fink 1981, 117). The distinction between noema and the object itself is not valid anymore within the transcendental attitude, but makes sense only within the psychological one. To Crowell’s argument that Husserl is not dealing with being or reality itself but with its meaning for us, Zahavi answers that transcendental phenomenology entails a metaphysical claim about the existence of consciousness. However, the question remains open regarding the metaphysical commitment to the existence of a being which is independent from our consciousness, and this question is raised for example in Quentin Meillassoux’ book After Finitude, in which the author claims that phenomenology is unable to think being itself, independent from its correlation to consciousness. Of course, one could argue that Husserl dismisses this question, which he identifies as the Kantian question about things in themselves, as being absurd. However, perhaps we should investigate more why this question is considered being absurd by Husserl: is it not precisely because, according to him, it makes no sense to consider a being without presupposing a consciousness for whom this being has a meaning? There is, according to me, something very intriguing about this argument, in that it cannot be classified neither as metaphysical, since it does not claim that being is ontologically dependent on our consciousness, nor as semantically epistemic, since it does not claim that there is something as a neutral being which is then given to us through meaning. It would be interesting to, first, identify what type of argument Husserl actually uses here in order to deepen the question regarding the metaphysical commitment of phenomenology. Opposing Zahavi’s argument, Crowell maintains his position concerning the metaphysical neutrality of phenomenology, which is guaranteed, following him, by the distinction between the existence of some entities, which is mind-independent, and the access to their reality, which is possible only for a conscience. Accordingly, however, this distinction still leaves the question unanswered concerning the metaphysical status of this reality to which we have access, since it still does not say how far this reality, as we have access to it, is mind-dependent. 4. Ground, Background, and Rough Ground, Dreyfus, Wittgenstein, and Phenomenology, David R. Cerbone The aim of this article is to challenge Dreyfus’ interpretation of Heidegger’s concept of background as the understanding of being. According to Dreyfus, there is something as a background for our understanding which is there and that we can reach. Or, Cerbone argues for a deflationary sense of background which entails that there is no something as an ultimate background for our understanding, but always a changing and indeterminate background that we can never reach as such. Every time we try to explicate this background we always remain in his space. Thus, this background has an “illusory depth” (Cerbone, 76), since we can never get at its bottom. In order to argue this, the author is drawing on Wittgenstein’s concept of explanation of the Philosophical Investigations. According to Wittgenstein, there is no absolute explanation of the background of the understanding, for example of the meaning of a word, but it is always relative to one specific situation and to the specific knowledge of our interlocutor. In that sense, explanations respond to a specific question or problem. They end when they fulfill that purpose. This reassessing of the concept of background opens according to Cerbone the possibility to reassess the idea of phenomenology as infinite task. Indeed, the infinite task of phenomenology is not that of explicating the background of every understanding but that of addressing “the ongoing ethical challenge of making sense of and to one another” (ibid). Steven Crowell objects however that Cerbone’s argument “seems to conflate the transcendental project of clarifying meaning with the mundane project of explaining some meaning by making the background explicit” (Crowell, 336). Crowell further argues that this argument makes it impossible to determine what is the world, since it is a category. Categories however are not explicated by ““digging deeper” into some specific horizon … but by phenomenological reflection on the eidetic structure of being-in-the-world” (Crowell, 337). 5. Inauthentic Theologizing and Phenomenological Method, Martin Kavka This article examines the possibility of an authentic phenomenology of religion, which would be based on the authentic thinking of God. Martin Kavka understands here the concept of authentic thinking in the Husserlian sense in the way it is presented in the Logical Investigations, i.e. as the fulfillment of claims made in statements through the intuition of states of affairs. Drawing on Heidegger’s analysis of Husserl’s concept of categorial intuition, from his 1963 essay “My Way to Phenomenology”, Kavka comes to the conclusion that an authentic phenomenology of the ‘inapparent’ must be possible, since categorial intuition is the intuition of an inapparent, i.e. a senseless, being. However, Kavka does not consider that God could be the object of such a phenomenology, as it is for instance in the case of Marion’s phenomenology of revelation, since religious figures such as Jesus are not fully dissimilar from the horizon of human expectations. The criterion of the phenomenon of revelation according to Marion lies precisely in its radical heterogeneity “to any conceptual scheme and horizon” (Kavka, 93); and since we could argue here that Jesus cannot precisely be simply identified to God, the question of Marion’s revelations is left open to possibility. Following the question which Heidegger inquires in On Being and Time, Kavka asks himself what is the ground of meaning, and implicitly, if this ground can be considered as being God. He argues, following Hannah Arendt, that in any case God cannot be considered as commanding to our consciousness since this would “not lead Dasein back to itself and its own-most potentiality-for-Being” (Kavka, 90). Indeed Dasein cannot be ruled by any predetermined norm but can only respond to the call of normativity by responding for norms and making them its own. Finally Kavka endorses Crowell’s horizontal analysis of discourse[1] in order to explain the primacy of alterity in Levinas’ sense, suggesting perhaps that such an analysis could also be of use for an authentic phenomenology of God, but most of all, for a critical philosophy of religion. Steven Crowell argues however that a theological phenomenology would not be a phenomenology anymore since it would go beyond the “askesis of transcendental phenomenology” (Crowell, 352) due to which phenomenological investigations cannot but remain the realm of the evidence. Ending on a Kantian note, Crowell writes: “We are finite creatures, and so meaning is finite. We can grasp the world as it is, though never as a whole; and if there is anything beyond that, it is a matter for faith, not philosophy” (ibid). II. Sources of Normativity This section explores the sources of normativity both from a phenomenological and from an analytical point of view. John Drummond argues, from a Husserlian perspective, that these sources lie in the teleological structure of intentionality, whereas Inga Römer highlights, from a Levinasian approach the role of the other. Finally, Irene McMullin is arguing for the plurality of these sources (first-, second-, and third-personal) highlighting an unexpected feature of normativity: gratitude. Intentionality and (Moral) Normativity, John Drummond In this article John Drummond argues against Crowell’s Heideggerian approach of the sources of normativity as being pre-intentional, For John Drummond, the intentionality is a “’basic’ notion” (Drummond, 102) which can ground by itself normativity. First of all, against Crowell’s reading of Husserl according to which the pre-intentional flow of consciousness constitutes intentional acts, the author argues that this flow is also intentional but is structured by a type of intentionality which Husserl calls in On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time horizontal intentionality (Langsintentionalität), which has the specificity of not being oriented towards an object, contrary to the transverse intentionality (Querintentionalität). Thus, “intentionality … belongs primarily to mind ‘as a whole’” (Drummond, 105), whereby mind has first of all the meaning of a gerund: “mind is ‘minding’ things” (ibid). Secondly, Drummond highlights the fact that mind pertains to a person, i.e. to a concrete social, historical, embodied subject, which is for him equivalent, just as for Crowell, to the transcendental ego. Thus normativity has to be understood as the telos of the intentional experiences of a personal subject, which is aiming to truthfulness. This truthfulness presupposes that the person is responsible for acting and leading his/her life in the light of this telos. The author concludes that this telos governs our lives as individuals and communities. My question would be however: what allows the author to be so sure about the universality of this telos? Could we thus say that truthfulness is still the goal of a totalitarian society for instance? Steven Crowell objects to Drummond’s argument that horizontal intentionality, although it belongs to the ground of reason, is not however “governed by a telos of reason” (Crowell, 338). He argues instead, along with Heidegger, that what clarifies intentionality is the categorial structure of “care”. Thus it is in this structure of care that normativity is ultimately grounded. 2. The Sources of Practical Normativity Reconsidered – With Kant and Levinas, Inga Römer Just as Steven Crowell showed that there is a “line of continuity” (Römer, 120) between the phenomenology of Heidegger of Being and Time and the philosophy of Kant, Inga Römer argues in this article that there exists such a line of continuity between Levinas’ phenomenology and the thought of Kant. First of all, she shows how Levinas’ reading of Kant evolves, from a very critical one (until the 1960s) to a positive one, especially regarding the second Critique, from the 1970s. Thus Levinas starts to consider Kantian philosophy of pure practical reason as a “philosophy of the sense beyond being, a sense that is essentially ethical” (Römer, 123). At the same time, Levinas transforms Kant’s idea of pure practical reason by anchoring pure practical reason in the desire for the infinite, by grounding the autonomy of the self in the ethically signifying call of the Other and finally by reinterpreting Kant’s idea of pure practical reason as an anarchic reason. This anarchic reason involves a tension between the claim of the Other and the claim of the third, and thus a “pure disturbance, confusion, restlessness, and refusal of synthesis.” (Römer, 125) Secondly, Römer considers in details and criticizes Korsgaard’s and Crowell’s arguments for grounding ethics in a first-personal perspective, by arguing that Levinas’ perspective is more convincing because “it is impossible to generate ethical rationality within myself … without falling into a sort of ethical self-conceit” (Römer, 132) which would make us unable to feel obliged towards the Other. Perhaps it would have been interesting to develop this concept of “self-conceit” since it is essential for the author’s argument. Thirdly, Römer shows how Levinas’ thought is closer to the argument of the second Critique than to that of the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, because it is also based on the idea that ethical rationality, as a mere fact, institutes my autonomy. Levinas and the later Kant thus agree on one essential point: “it is impossible to generate ethical rationality by starting with my very own freedom and then extending it towards others” (Römer, 134). An important distinction remains however between these two thinkers, according to the author: contrary to Kant, ethical significance remains, following Levinas, threatened by nihilism, especially nowadays. Steven Crowell answers to Römer’s critique by arguing that Levinas’s thought encounters the same problem as that of Heidegger, namely that the identity of the addresser of the call remains enigmatic and leads to metaphysics. On the contrary, the concept of categorial answerability for reasons, does not require metaphysics. 3. Resoluteness and Gratitude for the Good, Irene McMullin In this article Irene McMullin’s aim is to understand deeper the original Heideggerian concept of resoluteness, which allows the agent to overcome Angst in order to act in a norm-responsive way. More precisely, she studies the affective dimension of resoluteness by studying what Heidegger calls “readiness for anxiety”. One of the main claims of this article is that this readiness is not a merely negative experience, because it implies also gratitude, which is “an essential affective component of resoluteness” (McMullin, 137). First of all, McMullin nuances Heidegger’s idea according to which there are mainly two sources of normativity: the public conventions of the das Man and our private norms. She argues indeed that there is a third normativity source, which are second-person claims. She, then, insists on the importance of readiness for anxiety, which she interprets as a latent state of anxiety through which the Dasein takes into account the plural sources of normativity. This readiness is an affect and not a project, since the world matters to me through it. Finally the author insists on the dimension of joy which is essential for this readiness, since I experience gratitude when I consider the possibility of losing everything (for example a child), but which has not yet realized itself. We experience, thus, gratitude for the meaning of our life, because precisely we become conscious, through readiness for anxiety, of the contingency of this meaning. Thus, “gratitude is the orientation that responds to grace – meaning a manifestation of goodness over which we have no power, but to which we find ourselves gratefully indebted” (McMullin, 150). I remain however with one pending question: is it still possible to experience this gratitude when all meaning is lost, when we do not experience anymore the world as “overflowing with meanings that we do not create or control”? (ibid). Or is the absolute loss of meaning a necessary possibility following from the characterization of the meaning of our lives as being precisely contingent? Steven Crowell deduces from McMullin’s argument the interesting idea that “the phenomenological focus on meaning prior to reason does not lead to nihilism, then, but to fröhliche Wissenschaft” (Crowell, 342). III. Normativity and Nature This section investigates the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism, reinterpreted respectively as the relationship between the “space of meaning” and the “space of causes”, according to the expression used by Steven Crowell in his work Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths toward Transcendental Phenomenology. All authors of this section aim to bridge the gap between the natural and the normative realm whether by showing that there is no essential distinction between human and nonhuman animal “selves”, by arguing for a “relaxed naturalism” or by showing that human intentionality can be understood as a natural phenomenon. On Being a Human Self, Mark Okrent Mark Okrent investigates in this article what constitutes the human self. He first examines the classical answers to this question, from Descartes to Kant, by showing finally that Kantian answer is problematic for two reasons: it is not able to explain why a human agent could have a specific reason to act; it has a restricted view on rationality, reducing it to its deductive aspect. Korsgaard’s concept of “practical identity” can offer a response to the second problem. One of the essential dimensions of this practical identity is the overcoming of a passive dimension that we share with other nonhuman agents, i.e. the goal of self-maintenance.[2] Thus, being a human agent entails overcoming the passive dimension that we share with nonhuman agents in order to become normative agents. However, according to Okrent, Korsgaard is not able to explain for which reasons one should adopt a certain practical identity. Secondly, Okrent examines Heidegger’s idea according to which one does not represent oneself a certain practical identity in order to act according to it, since it could offer an answer to the problem mentioned above. However, this idea is unable, according to Okrent, to make clear how a certain identity is one’s own achievement. Crowell’s answer to this objection is that no practical identity is merely given to us, even when we are not in the mood of anxiety, but that we have on the contrary to strive constantly to achieve this identity. Thus, if animals respond instinctively to their identity, human beings inhabit an indefinite identity to whose norms they try to respond. However, as Okrent mentions it, recent animal studies have shown, that animal identities are not merely instinctive, but can evolve in function of environmental conditions. Okrent attributes however another possible meaning to the concept of trying to achieve an identity which Crowell uses: it does not mean to “alter” it “in the direction of greater success”, but also to “justify” it with reasons (Okrent, 173). However, this interpretation is confronted with the aporia of the Wittgensteinian regress, which thus puts into question Crowell’s argument for the radical difference between human and animal identity as agents. Steven Crowell responds to Okrent’s argument by arguing that it involves a deep pragmatic “reconstruction” of Heidegger’s text and that it would be thus more “elegant” to leave aside pragmatism (Crowell 344). 2. Normativity with a Human Face: Placing Intentional Norms and Intentional Agents Back in Nature, Glenda Satne and Bernardo Ainbinder The aim of this article is to prolong McDowell’s attempt to replace norms in nature in order to avoid Sellar’s and Davidson’s separation of the space of causes from that of reasons, to which belongs, according to Sellar, intentionality. Crowell considers however that McDowell lacks the necessary phenomenological account of perception, in order to show that perception belongs to the space of norms, without being conceptual, and thus in order to achieve empiricism. In order to achieve this project, Satne and Ainbinder argue that it is essential to place intentional agents in nature, even if Crowell denies the possibility of an account of rationality in natural terms. According to the authors, Husserlian genetic phenomenology can provide us with a method in order to describe this, because it can show how our normative capacities emerge from more basic capacities that we share with children and animals, and thus with other nature beings. They posit thus themselves against Crowell’s view according to which there is a radical gap between human intentionality, which is the proper intentionality and animal intentionality, or against Davidson’s view according to which we lack the proper vocabulary in order to describe the mental states of other animals. This is what allows them to give an evolutionary account for human intentionality. In order to achieve this project, Satne and Ainbinder criticize what they call the uniformity thesis according to which intentionality is “the exclusive province of semantic content” (Satne & Ainbinder, 188). This requires showing how a phenomenological understanding of “life” allows to pluralize the “forms of life” and thus to pluralize intentionality. For this aim, the authors broaden the concept of nature so that it can include consciousness and so also intentionality. However, one question remains open: how is it possible, according to the authors’ projects, to reunite intentionality with the realm of nature understood in its mere biological sense, and thus with the neurological part which could correspond to intentionality? Steven Crowell presents an objection to the argument presented in this article by advancing that it presupposes the use of genetic phenomenology and thus “a construction that transcends the kind of Evidenz to which transcendental phenomenology is committed” (Crowell 346-347). 3. World-Articulating Animals, Joseph Rouse The aim of this article is to reunite, against Crowell’s and Heidegger’s views, our biological animality with our intentionality and normative accountability. Both Crowell and Heidegger insist on the incommensurability between animal environment and the openness to the world of the Dasein which creates a radical difference between animals and human beings. That is why it is not possible according to Crowell to ground normativity nor intentionality on the basis of “organismic teleology” (Rouse, 206). What allows us to attribute intelligibility to other animal forms of life is precisely the “transcendentally constituted space of meaning and reasons” (ibid). In order to reject this argument, Rouse is arguing for a non-dualistic conception of normativity and nature. He thus proposes an “ecological-developmental conception of biological normativity” (Rouse, 207). which accounts for the development of normativity through social practices inside of which human beings grow up and live. These practices presuppose the essential interdependence of human being’s actions that is based on a mutual accountability of human being’s performances. Their normativity reside in this accountability and not in specific norms which would govern these practices. This normativity without norms of social practices constitutes the specificity of human normativity, because it is two-dimensional: “whereas other organisms develop and evolve in ways whose only measure is whether life and lineage continue, our discursively articulated practices and their encompassing way of life introduce tradeoffs between whether they continue and what they ‘are’” (Rouse, 210). A question remains however unanswered: on the basis of which arguments can we be so sure that our normativity presupposes a biological dimension which urges us to continue life and is thus two-dimensional? What allows us to argue that the evolutionary development of our normativity did not on the contrary suppress this dimension? Crowell’s reply to Rouse’ criticism is that he does not take the dualism between nature and normativity in a metaphysical but only in a methodological sense, since phenomenology is metaphysically neutral. Further, Crowell’s argues that we are led to deduce from Rouse’ account the problematic idea that phenomenological categories are contingent. IV. Attuned Agency This section investigates the affective dimension of normativity. The first article challenges the view that we are not responsible for our moods, while the second one nuances from a phenomenological point of view the traditional description of akrasia and its relationship to conscience. Finally, the third article investigates how normativity is intricate in the experience of erotic love. Moods as active, Joseph K. Schear The aim of this article is to challenge the idea that moods are a mere expression of our passivity, by arguing that they are on the contrary “an expression of agency for which we are answerable” (Schear, 217). Here, Schear criticizes the classical interpretation of Heidegger’s concept of Befindlichkeit (as that of Dreyfus or Mulhall for example) as manifesting the “passive” dimension of our being-in-the world. The objective of Schear is radical, since he does not simply try to show that we can act on our moods, but that the fact in itself of being in a mood is already an expression of our agency, and thus of our responsibility. First of all, the author elucidates the concept of being active as “being responsive to reasons” (Schear, 222). The fact that we can ask someone why he is in a certain mood displays already a piece of evidence for the fact that moods are active. We are thus expecting answerability for our moods. The author distinguishes this answerability from moral responsibility. Answerability means here rather the possible “demand for intelligibility” (Schear, 225). Finally, this demand for intelligibility is not a demand for rationality, since what is at stake, is not asking for a reason which justifies the mood, but for “an account that makes manifest, that expresses, the shape or tenor of one’s situation as it shows from one’s perspective” (Schear, 228). The author seems however to presuppose that someone has enough self-knowledge in order to answer this demand for intelligibility. However, it can happen that someone does not know oneself why he/she feels in a special mood (this can be the case for example when someone suffers from depression or anxiety) or that he /she does not understand rightly what makes him /her feel in a special mood. I can thus think that I am anxious because of my work whereas what makes me actually anxious is a certain heavy perfume I wear. Consequently, this understanding would not be immediately obvious to me, but would require an exercise of critical self-reflection. 2. Against our Better Judgment, Matthew Burch The scope of this article is to show that what is usually called akrasia, meaning the fact of acting against our own judgment, regroups actually two distinct phenomena that Burch describes from a phenomenological point of view. He thus defines the first phenomenon as “intention-shift: action taken freely and intentionally against my explicit plan (or future intention) and with a clear conscience” (Burch, 233) and the second phenomenon as akrasia in its proper sense, or more precisely: “action taken freely and intentionally against my explicit plan (or future intention) and accompanied by some self-critical emotion (e.g. guilt, shame, self-directed anger) or a mixture of such emotions” (ibid). The fundamental difference between these two phenomena lies in the negative, self-critical feeling that accompanies the second phenomena. Remarkably, both phenomena presuppose the free and intentional action, against the classical understanding of akrasia, which interprets it as a “conflict between rational judgment and irrational desire” (Burch 240). Burch shows on the contrary that what is at stake is a conflict between two interests, that he understands as being self-reflexive and normative. This conflict is understood by the author as a shift from a specific interest to another one, due to “affective and circumstantial changes” (Burch 242). According to the author, our interests are self-reflexive, because they concern ourselves. In the case of the intention-shift there is no betrayal of ourselves but only of our “prior plan” (Burch, 243) contrary to the akrasia in its proper sense. Thus, in this second case, shifting to another interest means also betraying another interest (e.g. being faithful to my partner), and thus betraying myself. The author seems to presuppose that in the case of akrasia there is an asymmetry between two interests, which presupposes that satisfying one interest can lead to a feeling of self-betrayal (e.g. when I cheat on my partner), while this is not the case for the another interest (e.g. meeting other erotic partners than my wife/husband). Could we however think that this second type of interest can also lead to a feeling of self-betrayal when it is not satisfied? 3. Everyday Eros: Toward a Phenomenology of Erotic Inception, Jack Marsh This article focuses on the phenomenological account of the earliest stage of erotic experience, that Marsh calls erotic inception. The author distinguishes several moments inside of erotic inception. The first moment is what he calls the standing-out-among, when the other catches suddenly our eye through a particular detail. The second moment is the stepping-out-from, when I step out toward this other who caught my eye. Through this second moment the other as potential erotic partner steps into my world. According to the author, this second moment is a modification of the Heideggerian concept of “world-entry” (Welteingang). The author deepens then the understanding of this concept as applied to erotic inception, by deepening its Heideggerian description as upswing (Überschwingende). Marsh characterizes this upswing as an “ ‘oscillation’ between my possibilities and my facticity, my abilities and limits, my possible futures and actual past” (Marsh 260) and thus as an “excess of possibility” (ibid) or as “an expansive opening upon the world that is empowering and enriching” (Marsh, 261). This expansive opening upon the world leads finally to a world-modification that characterizes the unfolding couple. However, the excess of possibilities that characterize erotic inception contains also the possibility of its own demise, or as the author puts it, of the “We-death” (Marsh, 264). One question remains however open for me: what place does the author attribute to normativity inside the erotic inception? Could we thus say that the experience of erotic inception is characterized by certain norms, like for example the norm of what it is to be an erotic partner, and that each of us can be called to transform these norms through one’s own experience? V. Epistemic Normativity This final section investigates the specific modality of normativity involved in our epistemic practices. The first article challenges the view itself that normativity is involved in knowledge acquisition, while the second article analyzes how norms are intricate in our perceptual experience. Finally, the last article investigates the link between the natural and the transcendental attitude from a phenomenological point of view. Normativity and Knowledge, Walter Hopp In this article Walter Hopp deepens Crowell’s view according to which intentionality can be exercised only inside of a “context of practices” (Hopp, 271). Thus, “the world is not the intentional correlate of a transcendental ego, but the environment of the embodied and socialized human person” (ibid). Hopp argues that this idea could have two possible interpretations: either intentionality can be carried out only by persons who act conform to a context of practices and thus of norms, or intentionality is constitutively normative. Hopp is arguing for the first interpretation, by advancing that if intentionality were constitutively normative, then this would be the case for knowledge as well. He aims to show in this article that knowledge is not precisely constitutively normative, and so nor intentionality. Hopp’s argument is based on Husserl’s theory of normative science from the Logical Investigations. A normative science according to Husserl is always based on one or several non-normative, theoretical sciences, like for instance medicine that is based on biology, chemistry, etc. Consequently, sciences that do no rest on other non-normative disciplines, like for example logic, cannot be normative. Non-normative scientific propositions can however endorse the role of norms, without being normative in their content. Hopp applies this argument to epistemology, by showing that its content does not indicate what we ought to believe but what can be hold as being true; or, truth can endorse the role of a norm but is not normative by its content. Here, Hopp specifies Crowell’s characterization of truth as a “normative notion” (Crowell 2013, 239) which is, according to him, ambiguous. The author is thus arguing clearly for a clear distinction between ethics and epistemology against Terence Cuneo for example.[3] Nevertheless, Husserl defines noetics as the “theory of norms of knowledge” (Husserl 2008, 132) whereas evidence as self-givenness is characterized by him as the “ultimate norm … that lends sense to knowledge” (Husserl 1999, 45). Here however Hopp uses Husserl’s own criterion of normative science by asking on which non-normative discipline Husserl’s most fundamental concepts of his epistemology, i.e. truth and evidence do rest, in order to show that these concepts do not have normative content. This allows Hopp to define epistemology as an ideal science in the Husserlian sense. Steven Crowell agrees with Hopp’s argument, but he points to the fact Husserl’s analysis of truth cannot be reduced to the Logical Investigations, which are essential for Hopp’s argument. According to Crowell, there is however a sense of normativity in Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology which “eludes Husserl’s distinction between normative and theoretical disciplines” (Crowell, 332) because transcendental phenomenology is not considered as an explanatory theory but as a method of clarification. 2. Appearance, Judgment, and Norms, Charles Siewert The aim of this paper is to argue, by using the phenomenological approach, that our perceptual experiences are “subject to norms of its own” (Siewert 290). In order to show this, Siewert starts by analyzing the case of visual agnosia, by arguing that it does not involve a deficit of visual appearance but rather of capacity of recognition. Visual appearance is thus conceptually distinct from visual recognition, or recognitional appearance, which is on its turn distinct from judgment. Indeed, I can withhold judgment when I recognize two persons as looking the same, i.e. when I recognize that they look alike but in two different tokens. Visual recognitions “take thing as” (Siewert, 299) whereas judgments “represent things to be” (ibid). Contrary to Travis, Siewert does distinguish however altogether visual experience from accuracy, and thus does not attribute accuracy exclusively to judgment. Thus, I can accurately recognize a sign as an arrow, while it actually represents an alligator. In this case I made a “creative use of the appearance” (Siewert, 301). Siewert draws here a parallel with the Kantian scheme, since just as the scheme makes both theoretical judgment and aesthetic imagination possible, the recognitional appearance can support both a judgment and a creative use. On the basis of this distinction between visual recognitional experience and judging experience, the author argues that these two types of experiences are governed by two different kinds of normativity. He agrees on this point with Susanna Siegel, but not on the specific form of normativity that characterizes visual recognition. Indeed, Siewert identifies visual recognition with a “looking-as-act” (Siewert, 303) which he understands as the active experience of looking, contrary to the “looking-as-appearance”, and which thus can be done well or badly, or which can be improved. Perceptual experiences can be thus subject to normative assessment because visual recognitions can be an activity. 3. Husserl’s and Heidegger’s Transcendental Projects, Dermot Moran In this article Dermot Moran aims at understanding the meaning of phenomenology as transcendental philosophy. Inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s essay “The Philosopher and His Shadow”, he investigates how the transcendental and the natural attitude are intertwined and how the idea of such an intertwining relates to Husserl’s and Heidegger’s phenomenology. Based on a very detailed studied of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s texts, Moran shows first how Husserl’s view on the natural and transcendental attitude evolves from the Ideas I until the Crisis, as well as how Heidegger criticizes the Husserlian concept of natural attitude, which according to him is a comportment (Verhalten) and not an attitude as such. At the same time, the author points to ambiguous points in Husserl’s thought, like the relationship between the natural attitude and naturalism, which leads to the reification of the world. Despite this ambiguity, Husserl is clear on the distinction between transcendental and natural attitude, which is relative to the first attitude as the only absolute attitude, because of its “self-awareness and self-grounding character” (Moran, 313). One can become aware of the natural attitude as such only through a “shift in the ego’s mode of inspectio sui” (Moran, 314) which is the transcendental reduction though which we can adopt the transcendental attitude. Thus one of the key roles of transcendental phenomenology is that of allowing us “to investigate attitudes” (ibid) such as the theoretical attitude which masks the original position of the transcendental subject. Moran further reflects on the meaning of transcendental phenomenology with the aid of Merleau-Ponty’s reading of Husserl’s texts according to which the natural and the transcendental attitudes are deeply intertwined. This reading could explain why Husserl calls in the § 49 of the Ideas II the transcendental attitude as being natural. Merleau-Ponty finds such an intertwining in Husserl’s idea of a passive pregiveness of the world which underlies all intentional acts and which is not the object of act intentionality but of what Husserl calls in Formal and Transcendental Logic fungierende Intentionalität and that Merleau-Ponty translates in the Phenomenology of Perception as operative intentionality (intentionnalité opérante), a concept which is equivalent according to Merleau-Ponty with the Heideggerian concept of transcendence. Moran identifies this operative intentionality with what Husserl calls, also in § 94 of Formal and Transcendental Logic living intentionality. He further reflects on this concept of living intentionality, by arguing, based on a thorough study of Husserl’s texts, that the task of transcendental phenomenology is to aim towards a living not in the world but within the life of consciousness, which Moran interprets, following Husserl’s expression in Formal and Transcendental Logic as the realm of our internality (Innerlichkeit), a concept for which Moran discerns a Heideggerian resonance. Only transcendental reduction, and the transcendental attitude it leads to, can give us access to this internality, and not the natural reflection that is proper to the natural attitude. Thus, “the aim of transcendental phenomenology” is “to uncover this life of functioning consciousness underlying the natural attitude” (Crowell, 320). In conclusion, this book allows us to have a renewed reading of one of the main problems of phenomenology, i.e. the problem of meaning. Particularly, the problem of meaning is treated in the light of the question of normativity. At the same time it links in multiple ways the phenomenological question of meaning with various contemporary compelling questions like that of naturalism. This makes this book particularly interesting. Yet, the question of meaning is unfortunately not always on the foreground, leaving sometimes the task of making the explicit link between the problem of meaning and the content of the articles to the reader. Perhaps however it is a mere consequence of the richness of its various perspectives on this topic. Crowell, Steven. 2002. “Authentic Thinking and Phenomenological Method.” In: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 2: 23-37 Crowell, Steven. 2013. Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cuneo, Terence. 2007. The Normative Web. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fink, Eugen. 1981. “The Problem of the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl.” Translated by R.M. Harlan. In: Apriori and World: European Contributions to Husserlian Phenomenology, edited by W. McKenna, R.M. Harlan, and L.E. Winters, 21-55. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Husserl, Edmund. 1950. Cartesianische Meditationen und Pariser Vorträge. Edited by S. Strasser, Husserliana 1. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Husserl, Edmund. 2008. Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07. Translated by Claire Ortiz Hill. Dordrecht: Springer. Husserl, Edmund. 1999. The Idea of Phenomenology. Translated by Lee Hardy. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [1] Steven Crowell, 2002. [2] See Christine Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 and also Christine Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [3] Cuneo 2007. Cuneo is arguing that just as there are no “moral facts”, there are no “epistemic facts” either. (113) Scritto il 20 novembre 2019 20 novembre 2019 Autore Veronica CibotaruCategorie RecensioniTag Intentionality, Meaning, Metaphysics, Normativity, PhenomenologyLascia un commento su Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, Irene McMullin (Eds.): Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology Reviewed by: Steven DeLay (Old Member, Christ Church, University of Oxford) On one common telling of the history, phenomenology originates as a philosophical movement incubated in professional jealousy, personal rivalry, and intrigue. If someone as Emmanuel Falque has called the recent work among phenomenologists in France a “loving struggle,” the same cannot be said for phenomenology’s earliest beginnings in Germany. Surrounded initially by a burgeoning cadre of students whom he hoped would be heirs to a research program united in its philosophical vision, Edmund Husserl, father of transcendental phenomenology, instead found his aspirations increasingly disappointed as the years passed. As he was to remark in a note towards the end of his career, the general sentiment of his time, one against which he never ceased to struggle, took a dismissively dim view of the systemiticity he so favored: “Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science—the dream is over” (Husserl 1970, 389). At the end of his life, he stood alone in his unflagging zeal for the cause of philosophy as science. One after another, Husserl’s former disciples with rare exception had deserted that vision of phenomenology and its future. Among the most notable of those to go their own way rather than following Husserl’s was Heidegger of course, who, beginning with 1927’s publication of Being and Time, broke publically with his mentor’s view of philosophy as a rigorous science, abandoning phenomenology as a science of trancendental consciousness for fundamental ontology’s Seinsfrage. Expansive and sometimes rather convoluted, the details of this acriminous yet vibrant phenomenological milieu’s institutional reception (first across Europe then on to the Anglophone world and beyond) is far too complex to summarize here fully. Entire books have been written on such matters. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that there has for many decades existed a tendency on the part of commentators to reinforce the feud between Husserl and Heidegger. Rather than looking for any deep common ground between their philosophies, focus instead has been payed to highlighting the differences thought to separate them. This is particularly true in the North American context. For instance, when Hubert Dreyfus upon developing his criticisms of Artificial Intelligence at MIT brought Heidegger’s philosophy to students at Berkeley (William Blattner, Taylor Carman, John Haugeland, Sean Kelly, Iain Thomson, and Mark Wrathall among them), his presentation of phenomenology, which became a commonplace in many publishing circles, relegated Husserl to a piñata for Heidegger. From the 1970s on, Dreyfus’s reading dominated considerable portions of the Anglophone phenomenology world as orthodoxy. The picture it presented was tidy. Husserl was the antiquated cartesian who had underestimated the importance of matters like embodiment and intersubjectivity, while Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, representatives of a so-called “existential phenomenology,” were pioneers whose innovative emphasis on being-in-the-world freed phenomenology from the history of philosophy’s misleading assumptions. In the rush to accentuate what it believed makes Heidegger’s philosophy captivating, Husserl unfairly became something of a footnote to the story, a sort of hors d’oeuvre before the main philosophical dish. A notable exception to this trend is Dan Zahavi, whose work has done bright things to vindicate the continued importance of Husserl’s legacy. But perhaps the one who above all is responsible for snatching Husserl from the jaws of misunderstanding is Steven G. Crowell, who, in books as Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths towards Transcendental Phenomenology (Northwestern: 2001) and Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (Cambridge: 2013) as well as in numerous essays has developed an iconoclastic and sophisticated account of the relation between Husserl and Heidegger. Crowell’s position is one which maintains, against Dreyfus and much of the received wisdom in Anglophone Heidegger studies, that in fact Husserl and Heidegger are collaborators in the shared undertaking of what Crowell himself characterizes as transcendental phenomenology’s distinctive project: namely, its preoccupation with the normative structure of intentional meaning (Sinn). Thus, at stake in the collection of essays contained in Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology is the very status of phenomenological philosophy as Crowell proposes it be understood, as a transcendental “clarification of meaning” (Crowell, 336). Naturally, continual reference throughout is made to the interface between Husserl and Heidegger, but not, note well, for the purposes of mere exegesis, but instead as a wellspring of inspiration for a philosophical legacy whose unique approach to phenomenology is animating the continued work of thinkers carrying on its tradition. Many of the essays are accordingly not the typical kind of banal laudatory pieces one is accustomed to finding in a Festschrift. For, in paying homage to Crowell’s vision of transcendental phenomenology, they aim to return to the “things themselves,” precisely as Crowell himself has for many years urged others to do. In short, this is an excellent volume whose aim is not so much to read Husserl and Heidegger, but to think with, and, where necessary, against them. This transcendental approach—or, a “critique of meaning”—is exemplified in Crowell’s own contribution to the volume. In an “Afterword” that closes the discussion by answering the essays preceding it, Crowell begins his response by noting how the grand language Husserl himself frequently employed when trying to convey the discovery of transcendental phenomenology’s significance may lead to some puzzlement. As Crowell recognizes, Husserl’s personal enthusiasm at first could seem a touch overstated. With his turn to transcendental phenomenology, Husserl increasingly spoke of his work in the most exalted terms. He was Moses taking the first tentative steps toward the “promised land” whose riches he would not exhaust had he the years allotted Methuselah (Husserl 1989, 429); he was the explorer of “the trackless wilderness of a new continent” (1989, 422) where “no meaningful question” is left “unanswered” (Husserl 1970a, 168); he was Saul on the way to Damascus, the discovery of phenomenology affecting him like a “religious conversion” (Husserl 1970a, 137); he was the redeemer of “the secret yearning of all modern philosophy” (Husserl 1983, 142). What could motivate such language? (Crowell, 329). According to Crowell, Husserl’s exuberance becomes understandable when the latter’s fundamental philosophical insight is appreciated properly. Husserl’s phenomenological breakthrough, says Crowell, lies not so much in the thesis that “intentionality is the mark of the mental” (as Franz Brentano had noted already), but rather in its distinctive concern with (to borrow the Heideggerian phrase) a kind of “ontological difference”: philosophy is seen to thematize not entities, but meaning. Further, the focus is not just on meaning but specifically the fact that such meaning is normative: “Phenomenology’s promise land, meaning, has a normative structure” (Crowell, 330). Hence, for Crowell, modern philosophy’s transcendental turn (as represented by Husserlian phenomenology) is at once a “normative turn” (MacAvoy, 29). It is in this context that the phenomenological reduction should be understood. “[T]his method,” says Crowell, “requires askesis, suspending worldly commitments. I ‘put out of action the general positing which belongs to the essence of the natural attitude’ and ‘make no use’ of any science that depends on it (Husserl 1983, 61) so as to thematize the inconspicuous phenomenon of meaning, where the world and everything in it is available to us as it in truth is. This askesis characterizes all phenomenological philosophy” (Crowell, 329). With this “reduction” to meaning, a new field of inquiry opens, one Husserl in works like Cartesian Meditations characterizes as “an infinite realm of being of a new kind, as the sphere of a new kind of experience: transcendental experience” (Husserl 1973, 66). And as Crowell contends, it is this reduction to meaning that unifies those thinkers belonging to the tradition of transcendental phenomenology. Moreover, it is the normative approach’s distinctive clarification of meaning that holds out the promise for re-establishing today the kind of research program Husserl had sought for his own. An approach calling for collaborative effort, not only does it promote the open exchange of ideas through critical argument, it does so while always remaining oriented by a methodological commitment to phenomenological Evidenz, the distinctive warrant of what shows itself intuitively in first-person self-givenness. Husserl insists that phenomenology is not a “system” deriving from the head of a single “genius” (Husserl 1965, 75), but a communal practice, a “research program” in the loose sense that analytic philosophy might be considered one. What unites this program—including Heidegger, Sartre, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and even Derrida—is a “reduction” from our ordinary concern with entities, beings, the “world,” to the meaning at issue in such concern. Of course, these and other practitioners interrogate both the reduction and the meaning it brings into view, and so we who take up the promise of phenomenology must assess, by our own lights, the legitimacy of such “heresies,” revisions, and revolutions. And while criticism of arguments is always in place, assessing the legitimacy of phenomenological claims finally requires Evidenz, what one can warrant for oneself in the intuitive self-givenness of the “things themselves.” As a kind of empiricism, phenomenology embraces the responsibility of first-person experience (Crowell, 330-31). However, if transcendental phenomenology’s concern is meaning, and such meaning in turn concerns the normative, what is a norm? As Crowell recounts, a form of that question has long vexed philosophy’s effort to comprehend the realm of “ideality”: it led Plato to his theory of Forms, just as it later motivated nineteenth-century thinkers including Emil Lask and Hermann Lotze to their respective accounts of Geltung (validity), of a “third realm” where the “categories” in question do not exist, but rather “hold” or “obtain.” Accordingly, the basic question concering the ontological status of the ideal (or normative) serves as the volume’s point of departure with Sara Heinämaa’s essay, “Constitutive, Prescriptive, Technical or Ideal? On the Ambiguity of the Term ‘Norm.” In contemporary phenomenology, as Heinämaa says, “the terms ‘norm’ and ‘normative’ are used in several contexts. One dominant argument is that the structure of intentionality is teleological and as such normative” (Heinämaa, 9). Using the examples of being a teacher or a soldier, Heinämaa highlights a difference between two norms. Following a distinction originating in Max Scheler, she notes how there is Tunsollen (“normative ought”), which “implies the concept of rule-following” (Heinämaa, 20) exhibited in customs or social habits. On the other hand, there is Seinsollen (“ideal ought”), a kind of “ideal principle” supplying a constitutive norm involving a “striving for something” (Ibid.) Ideal principles, as Heinämaa observes, “have a constitutive and enabling character: they are not motivational causes for our actions but are conditions that define ways of being” (Ibid.). Crowell further underscores this distinction when, in his reply, he observes that the ideal principles Heinämaa mentions are equivalent to what he means by the term “practical identity” or what Heidegger called a “for-the-sake-of-which” or “ability-to-be” (Seinkönnen); the norm at issue involves a way of understanding oneself, a standard of success or failure exemplified in a felt sensitivity to what is best (or good) given what one is trying to be. Whether we consider being a teacher or a solider, the general point, says Crowell, is that “knowing is something we do in a way possible only for a being who can be guided by a Seinsollen or ideal norm, a ‘minded’ being” (Crowell, 334). Drawing a point that later will become important in the context of Crowell’s understanding of transcendental phenomenology’s relation to metaphysics, he states how, as our knowledge of such ideals is always existential, so it therefore is unsettled and fundamentally unspecifiable. That is just what it means for them to be at issue or at stake in Heidegger’s sense: “Because the ideal that guides what I am trying to be cannot be grounded in truth (fulfillment through Evidenz), it cannot be the topic of a purely theoretical discipline” (Crowell, 333). In doing whatever it is in terms of what one in turn is striving to be, the very ideal of the practical identity itself is at stake, insofar as one’s doing what one does is to work out its meaning, of what it means to live up to it (or not). This is what makes the ideal a measure, and, in the relevant sense, accordingly normative. Leslie MacAvoy’s essay “The Space of Meaning, Phenomenology, and the Normative Turn,” further clarifies Crowell’s position regarding the normative before going on to criticize the claim that such normativity is imperative to the constitution of meaning. Explaining how the normative turn situates the topic of meaning and validity in relation to the practical norms “for what one ought to do or be” (MacAvoy, 29), she recounts how such an approach thereby characterizes the space of meaning’s purported normativity “in terms of the experience of obligation or binding force” (Ibid.). This normative claim said to underpin meaning, as Crowell has explained elsewhere, amounts to the existential or ontological commitment explaining intentionality and reason: in acting as I do, I always already am implicitly responsible for taking over those “factic grounds” as my reasons. According to MacAvoy, however, phenomenology’s concern with meaning does not entail that such normativity truly plays the role in the formation of meaning that Crowell has argued it does: “While there is a normativity to meaning, it does not consist in the understanding of normativity that has to do with a binding force or claim” (Ibid.). In effect, MacAvoy claims that the phenomenological thesis about the logical, categorial “space of meaning” does not extend to the domain of normativity, as Crowell understands that domain. The binding force of the “ought” does not “capture the normativity of meaning” (MacAvoy, 33). In summarizing the three aspects of Crowell’s characterization of the normative,[1] MacAvoy notes how, for the former, “the norms for whether something can be something are established relative to the norms for doing something” (MacAvoy, 35). By now this will sound familiar. For as Heinämaa had made clear earlier, the very skills and practices in terms of which a thing shows up as what it is are themselves grounded in a practical identity (an “ideal principle”) itself said to be assessible in terms of success or failure. Hence, as MacAvoy says, on the view Crowell defends and which Heinämaa summarizes, the space of meaning bottoms out “in a norm for being a certain type of agent” (Ibid.). This raises the question of the practical identity’s validity, of how such an ideal can be binding, that is to say, of how it can exert a “normative force.” Her main objection is that Crowell’s answer to that question reintroduces the specter of psychologism. Just as psychologism in logic distorts the validity of logic’s content, so interpreting the space of meaning as normative does too, she says. In summarizing MacAvoy’s objection to his position, Crowell writes, “If the normative turn means that phenomenology is a normative discipline, it cannot be fundamental since, on Husserl’s view, all normative disciplines presuppose a theoretical discipline that rationally grounds their prescriptions” (Crowell, 331). If transcendental phenomenology is to be a rigorous science as Husserl envisioned, this appears to entail that it cannot take the normative turn Crowell implies it should, since if it did, so the argument continues, to do so would be to undermine phenomenology’s very claim to theoretical fundamentality to which Husserl took it to be entitled. Before unpacking Crowell’s answer to this concern, it is necessary to further explicate the charge. To do so, we turn to the question of logic. For if MacAvoy is skeptical as to whether meaning’s categorality is best understood in terms of the bindingness characterizing the existential commitment of practical identity, Walter Hopp’s later essay “Normativity and Knowledge” likewise questions whether the theoretic domain of ideal truth and its connection to knowledge can be understood normatively.[2] Husserl’s phenomenological approach certainly agrees with neo-Kantianism that logical laws cannot be understood empirically, as if they are mere descriptions of how our minds happen to think. The laws of logic are necessary, and hence they are irreducible to descriptive generalizations. And yet at the same time, as Hopp says, for Husserl the laws of logic are not primarily prescriptive judgments regarding how we ought to think, but instead objective in their ideal content and therefore theoretical. Owing to their objective validity, logical laws do have regulative implications for how we ought to think. But that is not their essence. Validity is not the same as normativity. These disputes concerning the connection between normativity and meaning implicate a more general one that will recur throughout the volume: namely, concern over the relation between transcendental phenomenology and metaphysics. Taking up this metaphilosophical question in “Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics: Another Look,” Dan Zahavi asks, “Did [Husserl’s] turn to transcendental philosophy, did his endorsement of transcendental idealism, entail some kind of metaphysical commitment, as was certainly believed by his realist adversaries, or did Husserl’s employment of the epoché and phenomenological reduction on the contrary entail a suspension of metaphysical commitments?” (Zahavi, 47). In Zahavi’s estimation, Husserl’s transcendental turn does not entail the mode of metaphysical neutrality that Crowell contends. As Zahavi concedes, this admittedly is not the dominant view: “Many interpreters have taken Husserl’s methodology, his employment of the epoché and the reduction, to involve an abstention of positings, a bracketing of questions related to existence and being, and have for that very reason also denied that phenomenology has metaphysical implications” (Zahavi, 51). Call this widespread reading the “quietist” one. Popular though it is, Zahavi claims that it cannot be correct. Were it true, he suggests, we would be unable to explain why, for instance, Husserl rejected the Kantian Ding an sich and phenomenalism, and why he would obviously have rejected contemporary eliminativism about experience. Even more basically, Zahavi finds the quietist interpretation of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology as “[running] counter to Husserl’s ambitions” (Zahavi, 50): transcendental phenomenology, says Husserl, as Zahavi notes, is such that there is “no conceivable problem of being at all, that could not be arrived at by transcendental phenomenology at some point along its way” (Ibid.). If transcendental phenomenology’s reduction to meaning involves the kind of radical askesis Crowell maintains, how could Husserl have seen it as being equal to the task of answering every philosophical question we might have? In support of his thesis, Zahavi produces a striking passage from the Cartesian Meditations: “Finally, lest any misunderstanding arise, I would point out that, as already stated, phenomenology indeed excludes every naïve metaphysics that operates with absurd things in themselves, but does not exclude metaphysics as such” (Ibid.) Now as Zahavi acknowledges, passages as these are decisive only to the extent that we clarify the term “metaphysics,” which notoriously is ambiguous. He proposes at least three senses it can mean in Husserl: first, a theoretical investigation of fundamental reality (Zahavi, 51); second, philosophical engagement with questions as “facticity, birth, death, fate, immortality, and the existence of God” (Zahavi, 52); third, reflection on the status of “being and reality” (Ibid.). But here, the crucial caveat Crowell rightly mentions in reply must be noted: although Husserl claims that so-called metaphysical questions retain their sense, that is so only “insofar as they have possible sense in the first place” (Zahavi, 51). Accordingly, then, the task becomes one of determining the limits of sense, of what is open to phenomenological Evidenz, and what is not. If Crowell on one front must defend his conception of radical askesis from the charge that it neglects the metaphysical implications of phenomenology, he must also on the other face challenges from a series of articles by Mark Okrent, Glenda Satne and Bernado Ainbinder, and Joseph Rouse, which, taken together, aim to undermine the transcendental thesis that meaning and normativity are irreducible to nature. As for Okrent, he levels two objections, the first of which, amounting to a reformulated version of the infamous “decisionist objection” to Heidegger’s conception of Angst, Crowell dispatches quickly. As for the second, it contends that there is no way of truly understanding the human mode of being-oneself as a normative achievement whose form is different from “our animal cousins” (Okrent, 173). But as Crowell responds, even if one grants that animals do in some relevant sense act in accord with norms, they do not act in light of them—not only do they lack language so as to be answerable to others for their actions as we are for ours, they also are unable to measure themselves in a non-representational way that is responsive to an intelligible sense of what is best. Even in the simplest forms of perception, the domain of sens sauvage Charles Siewert calls “recognitional appearance,” there is an element of normativity at work marking the experience as distinctively human. In seeing as we do, experience as Siewert notes is “as much in the service of imagination as of judgment, and integral to the activity of looking, which is subject to norms of its own” (Siewert, 290). That this distinctively human richness to experience is lacking in other creatures is evident in that, just as they do not dwell in a “world” wherein things are inflected by the claim of a “good beyond being” (a claim concerning how things ought to be), so they only inhabit an “environment,” a surrounding in which beings are what they are, and nothing more. Satne’s and Ainbinder’s proposal—to “put agents back into nature”—which in turn aims to rehabilitate a “relaxed naturalism,” accordingly takes issue with this conclusion. Contrary to Crowell’s transcendental approach, the aim is to ground normativity in the contingent features of life “shared with other animals.” Joseph Rouse’s essay which contends for a “radical naturalism” joins the cause, seeking to explain our normative capacities in terms of our biology. In defending what he sees as a methodological gap between transcendental phenomenology and empirical science, Crowell reverts to a powerful strategy: according to him, these kinds of attempts to naturalize meaning and normativity require a construction—in this case, “life” —that “transcends the kind of Evidenz to which transcendental phenomenology is committed” (Crowell, 347). Further, because such accounts make use of empirical beings, they are “ontic” and therefore metaphysical in precisely the sense Crowell’s notion of reductive askesis forbids. Presuming Crowell is correct that transcendental phenomenology establishes why nature cannot explain normativity and thereby fails to ground meaning, what then is the source of normativity? In reply, here one might to choose follow Husserl’s path as John Drummond does, maintaining that intentionality as such (and hence normativity along with it) is governed by a rational telos. As he says, “Husserl believed that in all three rational domains—the theoretical, the axiological, and the practical—the aim of experiential life is the same: to live a life of intuitive evidence, to live the life of a truthful, rational agent” (Drummond, 110). Just as intentionality is structured by the norm of intuitive fulfilment, so we are beings whose form of life involves a kind of rational self-responsibility that remains inexplicable on naturalistic terms. Drummond’s essay concludes by stressing what he takes to be a great merit of his account’s view of self-responsible convictions, namely its easy ability to also account for moral—or ethical—normativity. The issue of practical normativity with which Drummond’s contribution ends is taken up through the lens of Levinas’s relation to Kant in the volume’s next essay, Inga Römer’s “The Sources of Practical Normativity Reconsidered—With Kant and Levinas.” Contrary to what a reading limited only to Levinas’s early thinking may suggest, Levinas finds Kant’s philosophy of practical reason congenial to his own mission of exploring the ethical implications of a good beyond being. As Römer comments, Kant’s notion of disinclination can be seen as a relative to what Levinas himself characterizes as the an-archic and rational desire for the infinite. To see the two’s similarities, however, is not to deny their important differences. Römer lists three, the most significant perhaps of which is that, while it is not entirely misleading to name Levinas’s thinking “a philosophy of heteronomy,” there is a sense in which the self becomes truly autonomous due to “the signifying call of the Other” (Römer, 123). After further unpacking the Kantian position through an analysis of Christine Korsgaard’s notion of practical normativity, Römer then recounts Crowell’s Heideggerian criticism of it, finally to formulate an objection against Crowell’s view of reason-giving as constitutive of the second-personal ethical stance. The concern is that a trace of egoism still remains: “Even if I am required to give an account of my reasons to others, does such an account not tend toward a certain ethical self-conceit? If I am the ultimate source of measure, even if I need to defend this measure with respect to others in order to not contradict myself by taking my reasons to be private ones, does this view not place the self at the center of ethics?” (Römer, 131). Concern that the Heideggerian approach to practical normativity cannot eliminate all residue of self-conceit is well-founded. But while Römer takes Levinas’s own approach to avoid such a pitfall, one may wonder whether it does. When she remarks, for example, that in Levinas’s view there is “no God beyond ethical significance that would be the source of ethical normativity” (Römer, 126), does not the threat of self-conceit arise once again? Even if the asymmetry said to define one’s encounter with the other suffices to annihilate a kind of egoism, does it purge the least trace of it? For the total annihilation of self-love Levinas claims to be seeking, one might argue that only an encounter before God is truly sufficient. Returning to the question of meaning’s source left hanging in the debate between Drummond and Crowell, Irene McMullin for her own part leans towards a view closer to the latter’s own, preferring a Heideggerian approach in which both meaning and the normative are said to be ungrounded—ultimately, says McMullin, there is no forthcoming answer as to how we find ourselves immersed in a meaningful world. We simply do, and that we find ourselves so situated is a reason for gratitude. Thus, as she says, although “resolute Dasein” experiences the “dizzying, disorienting sense of panicked terror” (McMullin, 149) accompanying the felt realization of meaning’s groundlessness, that realization is followed by another, the “incredible sense of relief and gratitude”(Ibid.) that there is any meaning at all, however ungrounded and contingent it is. This gratitude in turn resolves us to “love better, to strive more fully, to treat the goods in our lives more tenderly” (McMullin, 150). If McMullin’s analysis of the role of receptivity in resoluteness is a welcome corrective to the tendency to see authenticity in overly heroic or active terms, Joseph K. Schear’s essay, “Moods as Active,” does well to correct for an error arising from the opposing tendency of viewing moods as purely passive. Not only are moods an expression of agency, says Schear, they are structured normatively insofar as they are responsive to intelligible interrogation (by others and ourselves). As he notes, it is far from committing a category mistake for someone to ask of us why we are feeling as we are. Interrogating a mood is fair game. While we cannot choose our moods as we choose to make up our minds about what to believe, neither are moods always experiences in which we are just passive. Against a consensus that sees moods as “closer to sensations than judgments” (Schear, 220), he notes that moods do not arrive like “a hurricane, or the fog” (Ibid.). They are episodes in which we may intervene. A mood is an item we can manage, whether by trying to escape it through replacing it with another one, distracting ourselves from it, or by conspiring with it so as to feed and prolong it. However, ultimately the kind of agency interesting Schear is not the preceding kind of “agency over our moods” (Schear, 221), but the expression of agency in it. This second sense of agency is present in moods, he argues, precisely to the extent that we are able to answer intelligibly to the mood-question: “Why are you anxious?” or “Why are you joyful?” Such answerability, so he concludes, is due to being in a mood’s involving one’s living it out as a “responsive orientation to one’s situation.” In a contribution complementing Schear’s well, Matthew Burch in “Against our Better Judgment” explores the phenomenon of akrasia. There is much to be said for this very rich and thoughtful selection, but perhaps most noteworthy is its phenomenological clarification of the notion of “interest,” a middle category between brute desire and explicit judgment or commitment. Interests, hence, are meaningful affections, “things we care about” and things “in which we have a stake” (Burch, 233). Though Burch goes on to develop the notion of interest into a wider account of how a Heideggerian conception of authenticity answers to how norms bind us, with an eye toward concluding the review, here I should like to take Burch’s discussion in a slightly different direction: what is our interest in doing phenomenology? What exactly calls us to it, and what guides and sustains its commitment? To answer these questions is to return to Crowell’s understanding of phenomenological philosophy’s role in the task of clarifying meaning—here, specifically the task becomes making sense of the very one who philosophizes in the way its normative turn proscribes. As has become clear in assessing Crowell’s response to his critics, the notion of askesis is the cornerstone to his approach. According to him, the reduction to meaning entails that transcendental phenomenology neither demands (Heidegger) nor entails (Husserl) a metaphysics to complete itself. Thus, his own position parts ways with both Husserl and Heidegger. As he observes in his concluding essay, as the question of transcendental phenomenology’s relation to metaphysics “constitutes the horizon of transcendental phenomenology, so I will conclude by considering it under three closely related headings: naturalism, metaphysics, and theology” (Crowell, 345). Taking the measure of things (we ourselves above all not excepted) in its distinctive fashion, Crowell’s notion of transcendental phenomenology is a philosophy of enigma. What can be intuited in the light of Evidenz is clear and distinct, while anything beyond is consigned to antinomy. The situation accordingly comes to one of deciding how to understand where transcendental phenomenology draws the limits of intuitable meaning. Where precisely does the threshold lie? And what about the meaning, if any, lying beyond the threshold separating what is given in genuine first-person evidence from what is not? Is such meaning to be set to the side, or must not it somehow be integrated into the existence of the one who encounters it? If it must be integrated, how is that task of existential incorporation to be coordinated in terms of the norm of reductive askesis which, qua phenomenologist, entails bracketing such meaning? There looms, so it would seem, a fissure in the being of the one thinking phenomenologically. To begin with, as just noted, there is the difficulty of deciding what does (and thus does not) lie within the bounds of intelligibility. To decide with Crowell that we ought to refrain from taking a phenomenological stand on anything beyond the intuitable is a mark of intellecutal humility, to be sure. Nobody should deny that it is advisable to suspend judgment when things are sufficiently ambiguous. Yet such a suggestion remains formalistic; it cannot resolve how we are to apply it. How, then, are we to determine when not making a commitment in the face of the meaning at issue is truly the humble and rationally reponsible thing to do? To be confident in a given situation that we are doing what humility dictates implies that we are entitled in judging that what before us seems less than self-evident is in fact as obscure as it appears. How, however, are we to know that we are correct, that we are justified in that stance? It is not an uncommon experience in life to come to learn that something we initially thought was unclear actually was not; the unclarity resided in our vision and not the thing. It is was not that the thing was veiled, just that we were failing to see. Hence, while it is good to be duly skeptical of claims that make genuiniely ungrounded claims of metaphysical speculative excess (“Everything is illusion, for we are in a quantum simulation!”), we should be mindful that determining when that is so can itself be fraught; something could in principle be grounded in evidence even if, or when, it does not yet seem so to us. Anyone who is honest will admit that there are reasons for thinking that the judgments we reach based on what we believe is humility can turn out instead to have been motivated by a subtle pride or stubborness. It is important to note, for instance, that this strand of epistemic humility is for all its virtues only partial; it essentially is an intellectual askesis. Or more exactly, insofar as it is it supposed to be an effort of epistemic self-discipline, it begins to undermine its own spirit of modesty the moment it slips into more than that by coming to resemble more so a general posture toward the whole of existence. When that happens, one important norm governing our trafficking in meaning is elevated to something instead approaching an absolute. And it is not difficult to see how, in doing so, it can propel the one who treats it in that way along his own path of error and blindness. This becomes more apparent when we consider another of humility’s aspects: namely, humility’s willingness to yield to things by accepting something for what it is, thereby submitting to the disclosed. Crowell’s reductive askesis, along with its norm of epistemic humility, arguably threatens to imperil an authentic encounter with meaning so interesting it if absolutized to trump all else. A commitment to the norm of truth-seeking, for example, may at times require passing beyond what presently appears to be grounded in evidence. Life presents us with these situations constantly. We resolve the indeterminateness by commiting to a course of judgment or action despite the ambiguity. Just as the meaning of some situations becomes clear only in retrospect years later or in an unanticipated flash of insight, so some truths become evident after a period in which they had not been. To refuse to commit to taking a stand on something that remains less than intuitively clear means what might have crystalized never will. If, then, humility is not synthesized with other considerations (including trust, hope, patience, wisdom, or courage), it threatens to constrict rather than expand meaning. Insofar as the reductive askesis of Crowell’s position ends with enigma, it has been my suggestion that such enigma potentially implicates more than what that methodological stance admits. Meaning by its nature implicates our having to take a stand on what lies on the margins of intentionality, what at any moment makes itself felt as an unspecifiable more. To ignore this surplus of sense in the name of a humility that does not take a stand on what it sees as undecidable is to neglect precisely what puts our existence at stake and at risk in the first place. The respective imperatives of the transcendental (epistemic askesis) and the ontological (existential commitment) appear to be tugging in opposite directions. As a philosophy of meaning, transcendental philosophy can attempt to delimit the things whose meaning we are said to be justified in taking a stand on philosophically. In refusing to take a stand on what it considers the metaphysical, however, this gesture of refusal only implicates the omnipresence of that something more—that excess—with which we all must grapple existentially. Thus, while we may have reached the limits of what a certain mode of intuitive thought can decrypt, it does not follow that it has thereby established the bounds of the meaningful as such. Could not more remain to be given? Here a detail concerning the earlier debate between Zahavi and Crowell over transcendental phenomenology’s relation to metaphysics will be recalled. Zahavi mentions that, taken in its second sense, metaphysics for Husserl deals with matters of birth, death, fate, immortality, and the existence of God. Do these metaphysical questions have a possible sense? What is their relation to transcendental phenomenology, as Crowell understands it? For his own part, Crowell states that while a “phenomenology of faith” is possible, it does not disrupt any of the essential metholodological commitments of transcendental phenomenology. For Crowell, that means rejecting a traditional commonplace according to which revelation is said to complete what reason cannot. Whatever room it leaves for faith, it must not interfere with the autonomy of a presuppositionless phenomenological reason. This expulsion of faith from the project of transcendental phenomenology is, in a way, simply a specific application of the general reduction from entities to meaning. As Crowell says, “Transcendental phenomenology is not concerned with entities at all” (Crowell, 337). But if transcendental phenomenology is not concerned with entities, what about the entities that we ourselves are? How does the normative turn handle la question du sujet? Because such an approach seemingly comes up lacking, it calls for another inquiry to accomplish what it cannot. Transcendental phenomenology, after all, can trace the general contours of existence, telling us that we should live a self-responsible existence in light of the rational norm of evidence. It can clarify what it most generally means to be in the space of meaning. But it cannot decide where the limits between sense and nonsense lie in a given case, nor what precisely living up to the norm of evidence entails in any or every particular instance. We can reflect on the general normative structures of existence and how those structures make an encounter with entities possible, yet ultimately life still must be lived. For Crowell, perhaps much of what we take at a first-order level to be meaningful is not. Or at least the meaning in question falls short of Evidenz, in the transcendental sense. The things we take ourselves to know, on closer inspection, really are a matter of antinomy. This would be true for the theological, for in giving a name to what it takes to have addressed it, it does so without sufficient evidence. As Martin Kavka says in characterizing banal theologizing, “This argument entails the claim that the problem with any and all theologization of phenomenology is that theology determines” (Kavka, 92). Or as Crowell puts it, by trying to give a name to the anonymous claim that has addressed it, such a response crosses into antinomy. Antinomy is also the figure which best describes the third horizon of transcendental phenomenology, the “theological turn,” in which phenomenology abandons reductive askesis to posit a prior condition of correlation, variously called “event,” Erscheinung als solches, “givenness,” “phenomenality,” or “revelation” (Crowell, 349). Where, then, does this leave man’s search for meaning, and the question of his destiny? Concluding with a provocative but basic question does well to underscore the exigency of the methodological situation’s existential import. What, in short, are we to make phenomenologically of the claim that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? Does the claim fall within phenomenology’s remit? Outside it? Is it essential to phenomenology’s venerable aim of putting oneself in question, or orthogonal to that attempt? Is to affirm such a claim consistent (or not) with the promise of meaning, as Crowell understands that promise? One must make the decision to leap—or not. Either way, a decision is made. Seen strictly from the perspective of a transcendental critique of meaning, what faith claims to see—namely, that because Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, he is the absolute measure by which our own individual existences are to be measured—probably will be viewed as an affirmation having succumbed to “metaphysical” tempation. It views faith as epistemic folly. But assuming this is what a transcendental phenomenology’s critique of meaning entails, why not then see it as a reductio of that position? To succeed in its aim of clarifying meaning, cannot it be suggested that transcendental phenomenology must be understood not as deeming what faith sees as inscrutable, but rather as itself calling for it?[3] To rest content with phenomenological askesis is to leave ourselves in a state of unnecessary indeterminateness. As it does not countenance the mysteries of God, so for it the enigmas of human existence find no solution.[4] It is thus left to face a potential incoherence of its own approach. The latent incoherence is manifest methodologically insofar as it fails to make intelligble what could be made so were it to complement its vision with what its own commitment to the imperative of self-givenness implicates. By not doing so, it ends in a failure of sense-making. For this reason, arguably it can be considered a failure relative to its own internal aim of trying to clarify meaning. The lack of success is most evident when seeing its inability to make adequate sense of ourselves. We are finite creatures, and so meaning is finite. We can grasp the world as it is, though never as a whole; and if there is anything beyond that, it is a matter of faith, not philosophy. A phenomenology of faith is certainly possible, but transcendental phenomenology cannot be said to be exceeded by something that escapes it and yet grounds it, such that a “theological”—or “naturalistic” or “speculative” or “metaphysical”—turn is required. One who nevertheless wishes to make such a turn must show why it does not end in antinomy, the “euthanasia of pure reason” (Kant 1998, 460). Take your pick: deus sive natura; mereological universalism or nihilism; “neutral monism”; panpsychism; flesh, life, desire. In the face of antinomy, the askesis of transcendental phenomenology is not egoism but modesty, not a “theory of everything” but a clarification of what matters. Its claim on our “ultimate philosophical self-responsibility” (Husserl) is irrevocable if we are committed to having evidence for what we say. Just this defines the normative turn from entities to meaning, the promised land, “the secret yearning of all modern philosophy” (Crowell, 352). By addressing the “question of the subject” in a way that entails no answer is ever forthcoming, reductive askesis renders the need for putting ourselves into question otiose, even futile. The misunderstanding at work in its approach to the entities that we ourselves are is seen precisely in its failing to live up to its own impulse to truly make sense of our existence. Here, in short, would be a philosophy concerned with explicating the meaning of things while simultaneously failing to ground its own existence in any firm meaning. If, in fact, there ultimately was no true meaning to existence because there were no answers to life’s ultimate questions, why then should a philosophy about meaning try to make sense of that meaning? To be sure, doing so could still serve as an idle pursuit perhaps, as a way for those so inclined to pass the time. But philosophy must be more than intellectual tiddlywinks. For were it not more than that, what reasons do others have for caring about what such a philosophy says? Philosophy would not just lose its exigency, but its universality too. In the last analysis, any philosophy of meaning stifling the yearning for the absolute does so on pain of compromising the coherence of its express aim. In restless pursuit of a meaning it cannot find, its is a critique of meaning that renders human existence as if it ultimately had none. Reaching only a mirage of the true promised land, as with Dathan it dies in the wilderness. Husserl, Edmund. Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology. Translated by Dorion Cairns. The Hague: Martin Nijhoff, 1973. Husserl, Edmund. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. Translated and introduction by David Carr. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970. [1] With Crowell, MacAvoy notes, first, the distinction originating in Husserl’s Phenomenology as Rigorous Science between the empirical and transcendental (that is, between the natural and normative); transcendental consciousness, MacAvoy explains, is governed by a lawfulness other than the causality of the psychical and physical. Second, and relatedly, the intentional experience of an object involves a command over its “implications,” the inner and outer horizons of sense in terms of which the object itself can be taken as what it is, the paradigmatic example being the perceptual object, since, say, in perceiving a cube, I must “co-intend” its sides that are not directly seen but are nevertheless implicated. Perceptual intentionality accordingly has a “motivational” logic: If I were to move here, then the cube’s other sides should come into view. [2] In this way, Hopp’s essay follows in the footsteps of his mentor, the late Dallas Willard, whose early works on Husserl’s view of logic, ideality, and the possibility of knowledge remain exemplary. See, for example, Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge: A Study in Husserl’s Philosophy (Ohio University Press, 1984). [3] For a comprehensive analysis of God’s role in Husserl’s transcendental philosophy, see Emmanuel Housset’s Husserl et l’idée de Dieu (Paris: Cerf, 2010). For a critical appraisal of Husserl’s attempt to incorporate God into his transcendental approach, see John Drummond’s draft paper, “Phenomenology, Ontology, Metaphysics,” The Boston Phenomenology Circle, Accessed September 18, 2019. [4] If this language is recognizably Blondelian, it is because Maurice Blondel’s own thought systematically explored the reciprocal interface between reason and revelation, philosophy and faith. For an explanation of how philosophy’s concern over the enigma of existence implicates a fulfillment in the mysteries of God, see Jean Lacroix’s short study Maurice Blondel: An Introduction to His Philosophy, trans. John C. Guiness (Sheed and Ward: New York, 1968), 64-66. Scritto il 17 ottobre 2019 17 ottobre 2019 Autore Steven DeLayCategorie RecensioniTag Intentional Norms, Intentionality, Metaphysics, Normativity, Norms, Phenomenological Method, WittgensteinLascia un commento su Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, Irene McMullin (Eds.): Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology Matthias Schloßberger: Phänomenologie der Normativität, Schwabe Verlag, 2019 Titolo: Phänomenologie der Normativität: Entwurf einer materialen Anthropologie im Anschluss an Max Scheler und Helmuth Plessner Autore: Matthias Schloßberger Casa editrice: Schwabe Verlag Formato: Paperback 54.00 CHF Scritto il 19 settembre 2019 19 settembre 2019 Autore Phenomenological ReviewsCategorie PublicationsTag Anthropology, Helmuth Plessner, Max Scheler, Normativity, PhenomenologyLascia un commento su Matthias Schloßberger: Phänomenologie der Normativität, Schwabe Verlag, 2019 Christian Krijnen (Ed.): Concepts of Normativity: Kant or Hegel?, Brill, 2019 Serie: Critical Studies in German Idealism, Volume: 24 Formato: Hardback €143.00 USD $172.00 Scritto il 11 settembre 2019 11 settembre 2019 Autore Phenomenological ReviewsCategorie Publications, UncategorizedTag Freedom, Hegel, Kant, Normativity, Practical Philosophy, Religion, SittlichkeitLascia un commento su Christian Krijnen (Ed.): Concepts of Normativity: Kant or Hegel?, Brill, 2019 Antonio Cimino, Cees Leijenhorst (Eds.): Phenomenology and Experience: New Perspectives Titolo: Phenomenology and Experience: New Perspectives Serie: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Volume: 18 Autore: Antonio Cimino, Cees Leijenhorst (Eds.) Formato: Hardback €135.00, $162.00 Reviewed by: Heath Williams (Sun Yat-sen University) A series of variegated contributions to the development of the concept of experience. Thought provoking and refreshingly interesting, with some exceedingly high-quality scholarship. There is scant space here to do justice to all the topics, so I’ll touch on a few highlights and critique one low-point. Emmanuel Alloa: What is Diaphenomenology? A Sketch Alloa argues that we ought to take a nuanced understanding of the notion of returning to the things themselves; just because Husserl states he can return to things themselves and therefore operate only within the realm of pure experience which is given to us in intuition, this shouldn’t be taken to mean that phenomenology has immediate access to the pure unadulterated stuff that experience is made of, nor should we assume that this stuff originates from consciousness. Alloa argues that phenomenology ought to be diaphenomenology: which rests on the core claims that what appears in experience (the phenomena) always “appears through [dia] something else” (12); diaphenomenology is, purportedly, the terminus of the development of phenomenology. Alloa observes an aporia which begins from the observation that, for Husserl, the things themselves are given in intuition via a direct relation to an individual. Alloa then points out that such individuals, however, always appear as more than what they are because they are meant. “When something appears, it appears as something, and this appearing as something is what gives the appearance its very meaning” (17). For Husserl, the structuring function of intentionality allows experience to go beyond the perceptually given sense data and intend a meaningful object. Even though things are given directly, consciousness must do some of the work to allow individuals to appear ‘directly’ (i.e. be meant) in the first place. Alloa argues that, to account for how this is possible, Husserl’s analysis that begins with the things themselves inevitably ends up granting consciousness and the ego a wider role in the bestowal of sense than a phenomenological analysis allows. Alloa argues that every way through the reduction leads to the same antimony between mediacy and appearance. The way through the lifeworld brings us only to the backdrop on which things appear, the way through the lived body leads only to that via which I experience the world. Thus, Alloa arrives at his central conclusion: “While Husserlian phenomenology sets off as an exclusion of all mediations, the very return to the things themselves forces him to take mediations into account” (24). Alloa’s analysis suggests an inevitability about this conclusion. What is meaningful can only appear in a medium which can allow sense to be bestowed on it, a medium itself stripped of meaning. Thus, Alloa argues that we ought to adopt a diaphenomenological perspective which examines the mediums through which things appear. This article presents a precise capitulation of a very important position within the landscape of contemporary phenomenology. It explains how Alloa’s position develops as a response to Husserl’s as much as via a reading of Merleau-Ponty (in Alloa 2017). But of course, one can ask what one asks of any reading of Husserl: which Husserl are you criticising? Alloa’s article explains how to avoid some of the pitfalls of the path taken by the transcendental and egological Husserl of Ideas 1 and Cartesian Meditations, yet many of Alloa’s suggestions concerning the development of a phenomenology of sensory medium would not contradict the Husserl of Ideas 2 (wherein we find the concrete analysis of sensation) and particularly Husserl’s suggestion, found in Ideas 3, that we ought to develop a somatological science. I found myself wondering whether these Husserlian works weren’t more in line with the method that Alloa is proposing. This essay is mainly a theoretical piece which suggests how we might avoid the pitfalls of a particular path of analysis by practicing another, and in this regard the case is clear and compelling. However, it is very difficult to assess Alloa’s proposal without seeing exactly how the project of diaphenomenology might be put to practice in some concrete analyses, and how these analyses might differ from non-diaphenomenological ones. Perhaps I am asking to ‘brutish’ a question, and one that belies a lack of imagination or comprehension, but I struggled to understand how a standard Husserlian analysis would differ, precisely, from the sort of analyses Alloa has in mind. What exactly does it mean to focus on the medium through which something appears instead of the thing itself, especially given that Alloa insists that the latter amounts to the former anyway? A couple of examples wouldn’t go astray, but perhaps they are forthcoming in future works (his or others); I certainly hope so, as the last thing phenomenology needs is another theoretical banknote which is never cashed out in small change. Bernardo Ainbinder: Transcendental Experience Ainbinder begins by pointing out that transcendental conditions cannot be experienced (or else they would lie within the empirical field), and so the adherence to the principle of all principles conflicts with phenomenology’s transcendental aspirations. Ainbinder proposes that a solution is that the transcendental be considered “the multi-layered network of norms that govern our evidentiary practices” (33). Points out that Husserl thought that normativity governed even our perceptual experiences, considering the noema an organising principle which governs object perception. We might, for example, fear that we are mistaken about the colour of an object. Under such circumstances, we might put our glasses on to view it better, view it under better light, or from different angles. We may conclude that the object is not as we thought, that it is orange instead of red. However, the colour of the object itself in this scenario serves as a sort of objective standard–an optimum. This optimum is judged against my physical state (my sore eyes) and the state of the world (the lighting and my position). Thus, the noema is a landmark that facilitates perceptual normativity. This “normative network is the essential structure of experience” (37); it determines what is the case, what only seems to be the case, and on what basis we may correctly make judgements about the world. Thus, the analysis of everyday experience reveals the transcendental conditions of that experience. This is a hallmark characteristic of phenomenology’s transcendentalism: we do not ask transcendental questions “in order to arrive at a better understanding of the world… but rather to find legitimation for the pretences involved in such experience” (38). It also reveals that, the question isn’t how we can impose ‘oughts’ upon a neutral sensory experience, but how experience itself is already riddled with oughts–already normative through and through. Thus, truth or ‘evidence’ is a transcendental ground towards which all experience tends. Truth is the “basis for any assessment” based in experience (41). This leads to Husserl’s idiomatic epistemological approach to practical and ethical life: “the disclosure of truth is to be seen as a part of an overall conception of rationality as an ideal for human life” (42). Thus, experience is normative, and this provides an ethical demand to behave rationally in our practical lives, but because experience and normativity are dialectical, rationality is tendentious, iterative, open to revision, and a matter of exercising our autonomy and freedom to look more closely (sometimes literally) and revise our beliefs. So, we can access the transcendental field when “we make the rules that govern our processes of revising our position-takings in the future course of our experience explicit” (43). The final question concerns just how claims about this field might be justified. Ainbinder shows that it is because the course of practical and ethical experience challenges not only what exists in the world but our own so-called ‘rational credentials’ as perceivers that we gravitate towards a transcendental inquiry into the conditions of truth. Ainbinder certainly explains why we are motivated toward transcendental inquiry, and that such an inquiry could never be satisfied via empirical investigation alone, but not sure if he has answered whether such an inquiry can be justified. How could we possibly judge whether such an account was correct? Surely, if truth is that into which we inquire, we would now need some account of the meta-criterion of the correctness of this inquiry, one which, if non-circular, doesn’t refer to truth as ground or standard. It is these sorts of ‘problems of the criterion’ that have motivated anti-foundationalism and anti-transcendentalism in the analytic and pragmatic traditions. Lorenzo Girardi: Experience and Unity in Husserl’s Solution to the Crisis This work demonstrates an expertise in the Crisis, Husserl’s overarching project, and secondary Husserlian literature. Girardi provides a lucid overview of Husserl’s two crises: 1) The idealisation of the lifeworld by the natural sciences. 2) The loss of the capability of the human sciences (and philosophy) to provide a rational basis for culture and society. Girardi shows that Husserl’s solution to both problems lies in the metaphysical ideal of a perfectly ordered, rational, and complete system of science. This ideal runs into conflict with the conception of the lifeworld, which is not exclusively nor even preeminently a perceptual world of spatial things but also cultural. However, the cultural lifeworld is too pluralistic to ever found Husserl’s rational ideal. The only all-pervasive and common notion that might found an ideal rational science is the pregiven lifeworld as backdrop or horizon for all experience. This shift from situated cultural world to universal horizon is realised via an incessant and progressive “double move of critique and rationalisation” (89). So, Husserl’s ideal of completed science progresses via critique from individual cultural worlds towards a unified and hence singular conception of the world. But, as Girardi points out, this ideal belies a kind of intellectual chauvinism: after all, there “might be equally different, equally rational ways the world can take shape without these ways converging on each other” (90). Girardi argues that Husserl’s unificationism shows that he has made a category mistake and confused the lifeworld as horizon, which would by definition imply an open endedness, with the lifeworld as an object, which could at least in principle be brought to a (unified) state of completion (91). Objects are poles of identity which have an internal horizon; a lawlike givenness dictated by a correspondence with an object. The external horizon (the world), on the other hand, has no such object to determine it and this has no guarantee of ultimate coherence; it “operates according to a potential infinity” (93). Thus, in confusing external and internal horizonality, Husserl attributes a potential unity to the latter which is not within its nature to afford. So, realising a universal science seems impossible. Girardi ends with the rather startling suggestion that for Husserl the possibility of realising a purely rational science is a matter of faith which is justifiable only from the perspective of practical reason; it is the sort of faith that there are practical reasons for holding. Girardi hits on the fact that there is an optimistic rationalism in Husserl’s philosophy which can’t ever really be grounded. For Husserl, this optimism was a matter of faith which prevented the encroachment of the sort of philosophical hopelessness and meaninglessness that pervades, for example, the anti-rationalist philosophy of Nietzsche or the existential philosophy of Sartre. Genki Uemura & Alessandro Salice: Motives in Experience: Pfänder, Geiger, and Stein This article aims to delineate three theories of motivation. This topic is certainly interesting and important. Unfortunately, much of the analysis in this article was confusing at key points and would’ve benefited from another round of review. One of the strong parts of the article is the exposition of Pfänder’s account, the first stage of which is mentally noticing, in an interrogatory way, a stimulus (i.e. the cold of a room). Secondly, receiving an answer or demand to our interrogation: we know what we want to do in response to the stimulus (which may or may not convert to decision to act yet). Finally, I respond or rely on the answer and move into decision and action, and therefore develop a motive. The demand the cold air provided as a response to my interrogation of a stimulus becomes a motive as I rely on it and make the decision to leave the room. It is, thus, this ‘relying on’ that distinguishes motives from other inclinations that may arise yet are never acted on. Importantly, for Pfänder, the motive itself is not an act of consciousness but ‘out there,’ in the world (the demand made by chill in the air), which becomes a motive when treated in a certain attitude (reliance). Uemura and Salice then attempt to show the difficulties Pfänder has, given his schema, in accounting for cases of ill-motivation. This section was unclear–I was left confused over how the authors were using the terms ‘grounds,’ ‘reasons,’ and ‘motives.’ Uemura and Salice talk about the example where we feel the chill of the air, register our desire to leave, but do not act on it. They dismiss the possibility that this amounts to a case of ill-motivation because “there is a sense in which the decision [not to leave the room] is motivated anyway. Being a decision, it must have a reason that grounds it” (136). I was left a little baffled at exactly what assumptions were informing this excerpt: are reasons, grounds, and motives thought of as largely synonymous here? Is the claim that Pfänder thinks they are synonymous? Clearer is the point that, in the case where we don’t leave the room, the reason for staying “must be something numerically distinct of the demand from the perceived chill in order for there to be a discrepancy between them” (136). So, if Pfänder wants to identify motives with things out there in the world, then he “makes not room for the possibility of a discrepancy between the reason for a decision and the demand” (136). Even though Pfänder does allow for the possibility that the difference in question here might be relying-on the demand, such relying-on is a mental act (not a state of affairs in the world), and thus, if this is the explanation for ill-motivation, the ontological status of the motive becomes called into question (136). This, from what I could reconstruct, is the point. The paper then moves on to discuss Geiger, for whom not only volitions but also emotions are motivated. In Geiger’s analysis, we can distinguish between the emotion (joy), the object of the emotion (a new car), and the motive for the emotion (now I can drive to work). The motivation for the emotion (the reason why we feel joy) is thus the experience of a possible state of affairs in which the object of the emotion is related. For Geiger, the possible state of affairs itself constitutes not the motivation but the grounds of the motivation. The object of the motive (the grounds) and the experience of possibly realising them can thus be pulled apart, which explains cases of ill-motivation. So, three key shifts are made from Pfänder to Geiger. Firstly, we have moved from an extra- to an inter-mental phenomenon. Secondly, because of this we have been more clearly been able to distinguish between (objective) grounds and (mental) motives. Thirdly, we have moved from the sphere of action to other experiences. Stein expands the concept of motivation so that any aspect of experience that results from another experience can be called a motivation. For Stein there are rational, perceptual, and volitional forms of motivation. Thus, both Husserl and Stein want to use the term ‘motivation’ in a much wider sense than is found in Pfänder and Geiger. For Stein, motivations are the contents of our mental acts, or, intentional objects. Specifically, it is the relationship amongst contents of acts that constitutes the motivational relation. A motivates B if A is a content of a mental state that gives rise to B. We can deem Stein’s position noematic, Pfänder’s objective, and Geiger’s noetic. One of the unclear passages in Uemura and Salice’s essay concerned the voluntary nature of motivation, given Stein’s radical expansion of this concept to cover a wider variety of phenomena. For example, according to Stein, perceptions motivate apperceptions (i.e., the front side of an object motivates my apperception of its non-presented third side). However, we can hardly call such a motivation voluntary, as it is not something we have a choice over, and it occurs automatically. The authors write that, to solve this problem, Stein expands the definition of what free action consists in beyond the scope of decisions. However, they then say that “free acts include not only deciding but also asserting, lying and other acts we perform spontaneously” (144). I found this passage most puzzling; what exactly is spontaneous about these acts? Perhaps we might sort of lie or say something off the cuff but we definitely sometimes plan and decide to perform such actions in a contrived way. No explanation is given as to why we might classify these acts as spontaneous in the first place, and thus how classifying them as free serves to solve Stein’s problem. Moreover, in this explanation, the authors seem to be targeting the wrong class of phenomena; the problem Stein has is that, if she thinks motivation is voluntary, how to account for perceptual motivations (like apperceptions) not motivations for our speech acts; the latter are uncontroversially voluntary. The discussion of how these different conceptions of motivation map onto the present debate is one of the most useful aspects of the paper. However, I don’t think the claimed correspondence between Davidson and Geiger is totally correct. For Davidson, it is not mental states qua mental states which are the reason for action, but that a certain position (desiring) is taken on a mental object of a specific sort. A “belief and a desire explain an action only if the contents of the belief and desire entail that there is something desirable about the action… This entailment marks a normative element, a primitive aspect of rationality” (Davidson 1987, 116). Thus, Davidson’s theory could be deemed a noematic account of reasons, in that it is the relationships amongst the intentional objects of our mental states that introduces normativity and accounts for why they count as reasons for acting. In this sense he is as close to Stein as he is to Geiger. Alloa, E. 2017. Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty: Fordham University Press. Davidson, Donald. 1987. “Problems in the explanation of action.” In Metaphysics and Morality, edited by Philip Pettit, Richard Sylvan and J. Norman. Blackwell. Scritto il 27 giugno 2019 27 giugno 2019 Autore Heath WilliamsCategorie RecensioniTag embodiment, experience, Husserl, Normativity, Painting, Phenomenology, Transcendental ExperienceLascia un commento su Antonio Cimino, Cees Leijenhorst (Eds.): Phenomenology and Experience: New Perspectives Matthias Fritsch: Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice Titolo: Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice Autore: Matthias Fritsch Casa editrice: Stanford University Press Formato: Paperback $27.95 Reviewed by: Christopher Black (Texas A&M University) Taking Turns With the Earth offers to the reader a rich and incisive analysis of intergenerational justice, especially as it relates to issues pertaining to the environment. With intergenerational ethics being relevant to so many issues that we face today, this book offers a timely theoretical analysis of the nature of our obligations to non-contemporary others. This book makes clear that the theoretical nature of obligations to future generations is fraught and contested terrain, and Fritsch spends a sizable amount of time early in the text outlining the major ontological problems and methods in intergenerational justice (IGJ), of which there are multitudes. At times, especially in the early expository sections, so much theoretical matter is covered in such close succession that it becomes theoretically dense. The multifarious forms of epistemic problems, interaction problems, world-constitution issues, and nonexistence challenges, and the various responses to each problem almost blur together into one mass. But if taken slowly and deliberately, this expository portion is tremendously helpful towards understanding the state of the IGJ literature. Within this section, too, certain portions – such as the discussion of the nonidentity problem (34) and the challenges it raises to common moral concepts such as autonomy and personhood – raise especially powerful challenges to IGJ in general, but also ones that Fritsch ably responds to. Only after this expository portion do we get to Fritsch’s original contributions to the topic, which include his major claim and two models of intergenerational justice that follow from it. He responds to the epistemic and ontological problems associated with intergenerational justice by promoting a social ontology that is attuned to what he calls the “ineluctability” of normativity, and which deals directly with “the relations among subjectivity, time, and generations.” Fritsch identifies a basis of normativity which he thinks need be recognized for an ontological account of IGJ to be adequately normatively sensitive. Specifically, he claims that both natality and mortality, or the fact that we are always already living in the time of birth and death, should be considered constitutive of moral subjectivity. Moral subjectivity is a term which he thinks contains both moral status (being a legitimate object of moral concern) and moral agency (the capacity to freely choose a course of action). This moral subjectivity-constituting view of birth and death – which he expands upon further in chapter two – foregrounds the two models of IGJ which he introduces in chapters three and four, respectively. The first model of IGJ that Fritsch proposes is indirect reciprocity, which he elaborates further into his idea of asymmetrical reciprocity. This model is meant to capture the role that indebtedness to previous others plays in giving to future others. The model is exemplified as follows: “A gives to B who ‘returns’ the gift to C (so for example, from past to future via the present.” (11) The second model of IGJ – which is outlined in chapter 4 – is the idea of “taking turns.” Fritsch argues this model is more appropriate for holistic or quasi-holistic objects (such as the earth or nature) because such holistic objects cannot be divided up and distributed like a cake. Whereas reciprocity depends upon substitutability, taking turns does not depends upon this principle. Thus, the latter model is better equipped to deal with holistic, intergenerational, indivisible “objects” in a way that the former is not. Now that I have quickly outlined the general structure of book I will undertake a more detailed summary, with an eye towards identifying the way of thinking about IGJ (i.e. the presentist view) that Taking Turns With the Earth resists, and then I will summarize the alternatives models to the presentist view that Fritsch offers in this book. Following that I will offer a few comments about the strengths and weakness of this book. The book starts out quickly with a series of salvos directed towards a certain set of people whom Fritsch refers to as “presentists.” Presentists are those who exist as if they gave “birth to themselves.” Such people believe themselves to be self-standing individuals that are ontologically unrelated to past or future generations. Consequently, and critically, Fritsch (with continual reference to Stephen Gardiner) claims that because of this ontological short-sightedness presentists are subject to a form of “moral corruption.” Such corruption, it seems, is derived from a lack of social-ontological self-awareness, and results in a lack of care or adequate moral concern for noncontempories (both past and future, but especially future). Presentists’ lack of moral concern for noncontempories reveals itself most clearly on issues relating to the climate and non-renewable energy use. It is certainly true that conversations about these topics often reveal that there are many people who simply do not care about the welfare of individuals who will live, say, three or more generations down the line. (This is the concept of “non-overlapping future people” illustrated on page 21.) The general nature of Fritsch’s indictment of presentism is compelling, and his concerns about intergeneration ethics are well warranted, but I think that it would be helpful if his idea of moral corruption (3) were given more explication, especially as many who participate in “presentist” practices (heavy dependence on fossil fuels by driving daily, for example) probably do so unreflectively or out of sense of perceived necessity. Fritsch’ concept of moral corruption seems to imply a moral quality more active and malicious than this, though. Instead, however, the indictment of moral corruption is given as just so. Fritsch then argues that recently certain issues that are intergenerationally relevant, such as climate change, have come nearer to the center of public consciousness, and in doing so have made the topic of intergenerational justice more approachable. Notwithstanding these shifts in public approachability, he argues that there is still a prevailing – or at least a significant – mythology of the temporally and historically isolated individual alive today, and he sets it as his task to debunk the myth of this kind of individualism in this book. In the introductory section he seems to come very close to claiming that those who hold to ideals such as individuality or autonomy, or perhaps even those who even believe that individuals exist at all, do not have the capacity to have care-filled relationship with contemporary or noncontemporary others. Surely it is the case that our identities are significantly extended through past and future, but it also seems that individuals are the kinds of being – and perhaps the only kinds of beings – that are capable of the capacity to care, be they a dog, a frog, or a friend. Crowds can’t care, only the individuals in them, at least if we are talking about the kind of care that can turn into moral corruption, not the kind of synergetic “care” that a superorganism (i.e. an ant colony or a coral reef) might be said to have for itself. But, to be clear, it seems that the idea of individuality that he is resisting is an idea of something like the liberal or the neo-liberal self, not an idea of selfhood like Heidegger’s authentic Dasein or Levinas’ other-constituted moral subject, and in the overarching scheme of this book this interpretation seems more sensible. Indeed, later in the book Fritsch uses Heidegger’s “being-towards-death” as a stepping-stone (45/46) to get towards Levinas’ modified, intergenerationalized interpretation of self: being-for-beyond-my death (l’être-pour-au-delà-da-ma-mort). (67) Upholding an intergenerational idea of self is critical to moving beyond a presentistic idea of self and, if Fritsch is right about presentism leading to moral corruption, then eschewing a presentistic idea of selfhood should lead us towards a better ontological alternative. As the title of Chapter 1.4 states: “Ontological Problems Call for Ontological Approaches.” To make the ontological adjustments that Fritsch argues that we need, the argument of the book turns towards an engagement with Levinas. Fritsch specifically engages with the intersections of time, normativity, and sociality that can be found in Levinas’ thought. Levinas offers a way of thinking about death, temporality, sociality, and normativity in a way that is helpful to Fritsch’ project of re-orienting IGJ. Fritsch seems to rely most heavily on Levinas’ thinking about temporality, and for good reason, because – as will soon be shown – this section adds strength to this book’s argument. Fritsch demonstrates that for Levinas death is not an isolating, individualizing event – as the existentialist pathos of Heidegger would have us believe – but that it is instead an inherently interpersonal, historical event. Levinas agrees with Heidegger that meaning and agency depend of death, but contra Heidegger Levinas maintains that one’s own death is always inaccessible, and that it is only known in and through the experience of others. For Levinas death is ever futural and never calculable; because of this, it is possible to psychically murder someone, but it is impossible to morally annihilate someone. (76) Moral traces, vestiges, and memories of the moral other remain in a meaningful order beyond their physical death – even if the body is dead, there is no total annihilation of the other. Levinas’ argument that a meaningful order exists beyond one’s death and his claim that death is a fundamentally interpersonal event, paired with Levinas’ assessment that our being is always already existing between the “immemorial past” and the infinite future, leads Fritsch towards his development of a model of ethical responsibility based upon Levinas’ idea of fecundity (fecondité). Taking adequate precautions (86-91), Fritsch uses fecundity to argue that fecundity makes manifest the claim that relations with future people are not an afterthought but, instead, should be thought of as the exemplification of ethics in general. (88) It is the natal-mortal exposure to one’s child that both opens one up to a meaningful sense of time beyond one’s own life-span, but which also simultaneously hearkens back to the past, to previous generations – to those that gave birth to the parents, and the parents’ parents, and so on. At this nexus – in the fecund sense of time between birth and death – moral subjectivity emerges. This fecund nexus demonstrates to us phenomenologically the kind of temporal being that we are, and also simultaneously infuses both the past and the future with ineluctable moral significance. At this point, after having argued that we are the kinds of beings that exist as being-for-beyond-my-death and also always in relation to the past, Fritsch begins to turn the argument towards his reciprocity based model of IGJ, which is the first of the two models he proposes in this book. Section 2.5 (“Intergenerational Reciprocities,” 91) introduces the language of reciprocity by stating: “If subjectivity can give birth to a fecund future only by owing to previous others, then its moral-ontological historicity can be captured by a Janus-faced form of reciprocity that refers both backward and forward.” Despite the wordiness of this passage – a regular trait in this book – the introduction of this concept is well-timed, and through its phenomenological descriptions this section does well to set up the normative argument for indirect reciprocity that Fritsch will soon move to. But before doing this, and immediately after introducing the idea of reciprocity, Fritsch invokes Butler’s theory of cohabitation – a theory which argues that Levinas’ distinction between my life and the lives of others is too strong – to gain support in order to help him begin his theory of indirect (or asymmetrical) reciprocity. This interpretive reworking and clarification is needed because Levinas himself held a strongly negative view of the concept of reciprocity (92), and this caveat does well to demonstrate that Fritsch is well aware of the limitations of using Levinas to support his model of reciprocity. After introducing the basic idea of reciprocity in view of the ontological-normative claim that we exist fundamentally as past and future oriented (and constituted) beings, Fritsch expands the concept of reciprocity beyond its traditional mutualistic usage and argues that a tripartite understanding of reciprocity would better serve our ethical purposes. That is, if we are to understand ourselves, ethically speaking, in terms of the concept of fecundity. This tripartite usage of the concept of reciprocity a distinguishing factor that makes Fritsch’s model of indirect (asymmetrical) reciprocity distinctive. Indirect reciprocity is called “indirect” because the person that what I may owe is not limited exclusively to the person from whom I initially received something, but also to others. Traditional mutualistic ideas of reciprocity depend on the assumption that morally relevant parties will exist in a shared space of time and that the perspectives of morally relevant parties can be simply reversed. They also depend upon the idea that the person who deserves reciprocity is the same person as the one who gave the first gift of exchange in the first place. However, Levinasian temporality and fecundity reveals this basic notion of reciprocity to be incomprehensive. Indirect reciprocity is a sense of reciprocity that cannot be distilled into a traditional form of simple, direct, presentist exchange, but instead extends beyond it. (94) This model of reciprocity calls for “giving back” to the future what is received from the past, even though the recipients of the gift are not the same as those who gave the gift in the first place. Soon after these clarifications – and roughly halfway through the book – Fritsch introduces two major figures in the book: Derrida and Marcel Mauss. Fritsch uses this middle portion to expound further on the idea of indirect reciprocity. He makes the case that because we are indebted to others from the past this should play a role in our giving to others in the future, even if the “gift” we give to future others is dramatically asymmetrical or altruistic. Because of this second part, Fritsch argues that the notion of indirect reciprocity should be expanded into what he calls asymmetrical reciprocity. (107) Derrida’s critique of Levinas and The Gift by French sociologist Marcel Mauss figure heavily into this portion. There are two critical elements to asymmetrical reciprocity that make it asymmetrical, and they form the bedrock of this distinctive way of thinking about IGJ. The traditional formulation of indirect reciprocity states that “(past) A gives to (present) B who ‘returns’ the gift to (future) C.” (108) Fritsch argues that this should be traditional formulation should be elaborated into asymmetrical reciprocity first because “if A’s gift is co-constitutive of B (i.e., is part of what allows B to be B), then B cannot ever fully repay the debt; full appropriation would amount to full self-annulment. Thus, the gift remains inappropriable, excessive, and asymmetrical for B, who therefore must free herself from the debt in some way.” (108) According to this argument one cannot fully repay a debt to the original donor without in some way substantially undermining or annulling their identity; the gift, and by extension the repayment, are inextricable from both the donor and the recipient. (Shades of the nonidentity problem appear here.) The debt can only be repaid – in some way, shape, or form – to future others; other others than those who first gave the gift. The second element of asymmetrical reciprocity takes into consideration the excessive, overflowing characterr of this sort of debt. Since this form of debt can never be fully returned to the original donor, this form of debt is always outstanding. Thus, those in the present are always in the process of “giving back” to the future. Thus, in this idea of continual future-oriented obligations constituting our normative being, we can see how this theory of asymmetrical reciprocity links up with Levinas’ of being as being-for-beyond-my-death. Marcel Mauss is invoked in order to give a concrete sociocultural example of this sort of asymmetrical reciprocity standing at the center of a community’s ethos. Also Mauss is presumably used to suggest that since this sort of gift-receiving-and-giving can be witnessed in certain archaic cultures, then perhaps it can be used as a model of intergenerational relations for our modern world. In the cultures that Mauss studied the donor is not separable from the thing given, but also at the same time the donor is not taken to be the sole owner of the gift. Instead the gift is understood to come from the clan, tribe, traditions, and ancestors. The recipient receives some of the donor’s spirit (in Maori hau or mana), and this spirit co-constitutes both donor and recipient. The obligation to reciprocate originates in the fact that in accepting the gift the recipient assimilates into themselves something that is fundamentally inassimilable (the mysterious elemental spirit of the gift), and thus it necessarily overflows them. Because it overflows, it cannot but be passed on to future others, and in being passed on to the future it is in a sense returning to its own past. This idea, as we can see, in many ways parallels the Levinasian structure of fecundity. An ontological claim (that the gift itself is unassimilable) leads to a moral claim (that one should not try to make it theirs alone, but ought to pass it on.) An example of this kind of gift would be food, for the food in one’s mouth – at least the kind of food that the cultures Mauss studies would eat – bespeaks the presence of ancestors; it would not come about without the gift inheritance of food-related gifts like tilled land, knowledge about farming, hunting, fishing, and so forth. (112) To account for the “return obligation,” that is, the obligation to pass the gift on, the gift is said to be imbued with an active spirit that wishes to return to its origin – to its clan, tribe, tradition, or ancestors. This model of socio-economy stands in marked contrast to the utility-maximizing agency that comprised the bedrock of Hobbes’ society, and indeed “the gift” offers an alternative model for the basis of the social contract. For Mauss the foundation of society (at least in the one’s he reports on) is the gift that comes from the past and demands to be “returned” to future others. Derrida is brought in to serve as a check on Mauss. Derrida warns against Mauss’ “Rousseauist schema” which attempts to find an absolute bedrock of normativity in some far-off archaic origin. Both Derrida and Mauss agree that there is an element of the “unpossessable” in the gift, but Derrida rejects Mauss’ foundationalism, and resists the idea that a singular normative origin can be found. Fritsch agrees that there is an issue with this sort of Rousseauism in Mauss – and that there is an issue in trying to identify a point of origin in normative life – but does not think it is sufficiently troublesome to motivate us to overlook the role that gifts play in intergenerational relations. They allow us an opportunity to see a normativity that binds past generations to future generations, and thus are relevant to helping understand the nature of intergeneration normativity. Fritsch spends the rest of this chapter outlining more of Derrida’s thoughts about reciprocity and the gift, and defends his view against a variety of potential critiques. He responds to the claim that asymmetrical reciprocity blurs the boundary between gift and exchange, and between private life and the world commerce, by suggesting (via Given Time) that this challenge – and challenges like this – presume the existence of utility-maximizing agents on the one hand, and the family one the other, whereas such a substantial distinction cannot be made. (152). The nuanced section on asymmetrical reciprocity nicely leads into the introduction of the second and final model of IGJ that Fritsch introduces: Turn-Taking. While asymmetrical reciprocity is meant to show how the indebtedness to previous generations plays a role in our obligation to give to (and to care about the welfare of) future people, even if the gift is asymmetrical or altruistic, taking turns is meant to provide a model for intergenerational sharing of things that cannot be returned partially or incompletely. That is, taking turns is concerned with holistic or quasi-holistic “objects” of sharing, such as the earth or nature. Fritsch argues that there are three merits to the turn-taking model of IGJ. First, turn-taking demonstrates that there are ways other than the reciprocity of the gift that, normatively speaking, take into account the ontological presence of the dead and the unborn in our lives. Secondly, turn-taking is better with respect to quasi-holistic and holistic object in a way that reciprocity is not, because reciprocity implies owing to the future an “equivalent among substitutables” and needs a “common metric to calculate such equivalents.” (155) Reciprocity is inadequate when discussing holistic objects such as the natural environment, the earth, or nature, because substitutability is not a principle that can easily applied to such totalizing entities. However, turn-taking can account for how to treat such holistic objects. Finally, taking turns better treats questions of intergenerational justice as inherently political questions. By citing Aristotle’s Politics Fritsch argues that this is so because a fundamental model of justice relies on the sharing of nonsubstitutable political offices. Turn-taking, Fritsch argues, is the model that free equals ought to take when attempting to share an object that is not divisible like a cake. (155) Fritsch notes this this basic idea of taking turns has received hardly any attention in the IGJ literature, and – in a very general way – this is surprising since this idea can be applied to a wide range of things, from political offices to the earth itself. It is a model that provides a helpful way of thinking about IGJ in the context of holistic, indivisible, intergenerational objects, and for this reason it is a needed (and a very helpful) contribution to this book. In a method not unlike that one found in the portion on asymmetrical reciprocity, which relied on the temporality of the “time of life and death” to reconceive of past-present-future obligations, in this chapter on turn-taking Fritsch invokes Derrida to deconstruct (“depresentify”) presentism, and to reconceptualize life as a matter of “lifedeath,” or even as “lifedeathbirth.” (161) This is meant to aid in understanding the ontologically connected, co-constitutive nature of the relation between living and nonliving generations. After a few more forays through Derrida and Aristotle, Fritsch turns towards clarifying precisely what he means by turn-taking by laying out his model of “double turn-taking.” It has two components in its most general formulation: T1 and T2. T1 is the turning of the self back towards itself over time. “Given the noncoincidence of time, no identity is simply given. Any self must, from the beginning, seek to return to itself, promising itself to its future self.” The second part of the turn is T2, which takes into account the differential contexts that the self passes through, but which are always constitutive of the self in the first place. This is the turn toward the other: “To affirm oneself as oneself is to affirm the context without which one could not be what one is, and that means to welcome unconditionally the future to-come as an alterity within itself.” (167) This two-step model of turn-taking can be applied specifically to intergenerational relations, but also to environment issues. For the former, intergenerational relations, the attempted self-return would take place in and through birth from previous generations, and the turn towards the other takes place insofar as we turn towards the next generation. For the latter, the environment, the attempted self-return takes place by the consumption of biospherical resources, and the turn towards the other is the turn towards the earth upon death and also through life’s continuous exchange with nature. (173) In summary of this discussion of double turn-taking Fritsch says “saying yes to turn-taking means accepting that I receive power from previous others and will leave it to others.” (173) In general the idea of turn-taking being an appropriate model for intergenerational sharing of holistic objects seems good and well-justified, however the level of theoretical detail and distinction-adding in this chapter seems unnecessary, and at times it seems to obfuscate the main point of turn-taking rather than clarifying it. This general critique mentioned in the previous paragraph applies throughout this book. In this book, as hopefully I have able to show in this review, there are many excellent, lucid, and compelling sections. The early section on ontological problems in IGJ, the middle section on Levinas and fecundity, and the following section on Mauss and asymmetrical reciprocity were each particularly clear, well-argued, and engaging. However, these rich and rewarding veins of thought are often buried beneath mounds of distinctions, caveats, and repetitions. Sometimes it gets hard to dig through, because the essential matter of the main argument is not always separated from additional theoretical matter. Moreover, the book tends to go on a bit longer than needed and to lose steam at the end. Chapter four – the section which introduces turn-taking as a model of IGJ – gives way to a chapter five. This final chapter, while fascinating if standing on its own, seems primarily to turn around and rehash ideas previously covered in a way that is not terribly helpful to the overall experience of the book. This chapter concerns itself with life as lifedeath and the terrestrial claim over the corpse, both ideas which were previously covered. At this point I only have a few tiny, almost trifling critiques. First, there is a slight tendency to introduce very complex issues and then to simply say “I will not be able to discuss these interpretations here.” (115, for example) This leads to bit of expectation disappointment. Secondly, there is also a slight tendency to compile lists of “ists” and isms,” sometimes almost seemingly for its own sake. (212, for example.) This is certainly not a big deal, but just worth noting. If the preponderance of critique that I offer about this book is in the form of writing critique, and anodyne critique at that, then that speaks to the strength of this book as a strong work philosophical scholarship. Philosophically, I only suggested a concern about Fritsch’s use of “moral corruption” (which I mentioned in my 4th paragraph), and a concern about the idea of “self” that Fritsch is employing (which I mentioned in my 5th paragraph). This book is tremendously well-researched and takes pains to be sure that no theoretical stone goes unturned. Appropriate sources are consulted at appropriate times, and the limitations of claims are clearly articulated. More importantly, this book addresses a pressing ethical issue in our world today. What do we owe to future others, especially in view of our growing knowledge about climate issues? If Fritsch is right, then we owe a lot, and certainly much more than many people take the time to consider that we do. And we owe this to the future because of who, how, and, perhaps most importantly shown by this book, where we are. Taking Turns With the Earth offers a vast reservoir of theoretical material to help us re-conceptualize the nature of our ontological and normative relation to both past and future noncontempories, and it demands that we pay attention to our status as interpersonal beings always living in the time of life and death. In doing so it calls for us to develop our ethical self-understanding, and this call is not just thrown out haphazardly. Instead, this call is motivated and supported by astute philosophical argumentation. Scritto il 17 aprile 2019 17 aprile 2019 Autore Christopher BlackCategorie RecensioniTag Deconstruction, Earth, Justice, Normativity, Phenomenology, PoststructuralismLascia un commento su Matthias Fritsch: Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice Ondřej Švec, Jakub Čapek (Eds.): Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology Titolo: Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology Autore: Ondřej Švec, Jakub Čapek (Eds.) Formato: Hardback £88 Reviewed by: Jonathan Lewis (Dublin City University) This volume seeks to provide a critical analysis of pragmatic themes within the phenomenological tradition. Although the volume is overwhelmingly geared towards presenting critiques of some of the most authoritative pragmatic readings of Martin Heidegger – readings by Hubert Dreyfus, John Haugeland, Mark Okrent and Richard Rorty – a handful of the fourteen chapters expand the discussion of the pragmatic dimension of the history of phenomenology by engaging with the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Max Scheler and Jan Patočka. Although the contributors do well to explain their ideas, useful appropriation of the volume will require a working knowledge of the developments in twentieth-century pragmatism and phenomenology, their basic features as philosophical enterprises and, most importantly, the central tenets of Heidegger (in particular), Merleau-Ponty and Husserl. I will now outline what I see to be the primary claims of some of the collected papers (unfortunately, there are too many to be discussed with the level of detail required), linking those claims to the aims of the volume as a whole and providing some modest comments of my own. For the editors, there are several characteristics of pragmatism: According to pragmatists, ‘intentionality is, in the first and fundamental sense, a practical coping with our surrounding world’; According to pragmatists, ‘language structures derive their meaning from their embeddedness in shared, practical activities’; According to pragmatists, ‘truth is to be understood in relation to social and historically contingent practices’; Pragmatism maintains ‘the primacy of practical over theoretical understanding’; Pragmatism criticises ‘the representationalist account of perception’; According to pragmatists, ‘the social dimension of human existence’ is prior to an individualised conception and manifestation of agency. Although the editors and contributors do not explain whether these are necessary and sufficient conditions for a pragmatist reading of the phenomenological tradition (after all, the notion of necessary and sufficient conditions cannot be easily reconciled (if at all) with pragmatist and phenomenological approaches to philosophical method), whether by adhering to just one of these conditions makes one a pragmatist or whether these conditions are fundamentally interrelated, we may claim (in no particular order) that pragmatists tend to subscribe to one or more of the following (indeed, individual contributors touch upon some of these themes): ‘Subject naturalism’ (whereby naturalism should be understood as ‘naturalism without representationalism’) is either prior to or a rejection of ‘object naturalism’ (Price 2013); The representationalist order of explanation, which, broadly speaking, presupposes the non-deflationary structure of identification between representations and states of affairs, is a misleading explanatory model from ontological, linguistic, experiential and epistemological points of view; The notion that something is ‘given’ in experience, that is, that there is something existing ‘out there’ – in reality but independent of our minds – to which our claims, beliefs, justifications, theories and meanings should correspond, is a myth; Semantics does not come before pragmatics – notions such as reference and truth are not explanatorily basic and cannot account for inference; Metaphysics tends to be deflationary in the sense that the contents of our concepts lay claim to how the world is; In addition to the fact that the sense of a word, term, proposition, sentence, belief, fact, value or theory is how it is used in actual practices, semantic notions of truth, reference and meaning are to be understood in terms of social norms; Judgments that concern normative statuses, fact-stating talk and objectivity-claims are to be understood in, and gain validity from, the realm of giving and asking for reasons. The revival of pragmatism during the latter half of the twentieth century and a renewed focus on exploring the nature and origins of normativity in other areas of philosophy has coincided with an increasing body of literature dedicated to exploring some of these pragmatic themes in various canonical texts in the history of Western philosophy, particularly those of Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. That said, the majority of today’s most prominent pragmatists draw inspiration from their immediate predecessors. In terms of Anglo-American pragmatism, for example, references are almost always made to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilfrid Sellars (who, in turn, engaged extensively with the work of Kant), W. V. O. Quine, Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. Indeed, when pragmatists engage more broadly with the history of philosophy (as is the case with Robert Brandom, for example), the focus tends to be on the work of Kant and Hegel. Consequently, in the context of twentieth-century pragmatism, Rorty and Hubert Dreyfus were peculiarities in the sense that they were two of the first self-professed pragmatists (in English-speaking academic circles) to explore the pragmatic dimension of phenomenological traditions of Western philosophy. Through their correspondence, the pragmatic interpretation of the history of phenomenology, and of Heidegger in particular, began in earnest. It is not altogether surprising, therefore, that Rorty and Dreyfus’ respective interpretations are, perhaps, the paradigmatic pragmatist readings of Heidegger and a driving force behind pragmatic appropriations of other well-known phenomenologists, specifically, Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. In terms of Heidegger exegesis, not only have they inspired equally famous readings by Haugeland and Okrent, the interpretations of Rorty and Dreyfus, as this volume testifies, continue to demand critical engagement from Heidegger scholars. It is apt, therefore, that the book begins with an essay by Okrent – an implicit focal point for the majority of the discussions and criticisms that follow in the other chapters. Along with Okrent’s introduction to some of the most important features of a normalised pragmatic reading of Heidegger, part one of the volume is made up of chapters dedicated to elaborating the pragmatic dimension of the history of phenomenology. Part two critically engages with extant pragmatic readings of the phenomenological tradition and addresses some of the issues that emerge through pragmatic engagements with texts by non-canonical authors such as Scheler and Patočka. The final section contains four contributions that attempt to advance the debates in the history of phenomenology through new perspectives. After the editors’ introduction, Okrent begins by outlining two features of normative pragmatism – a position he attributes to Heidegger and one that is also affirmed by certain figures in the current Anglo-American pragmatist movement, specifically, Robert Brandom. For Okrent, normative pragmatism is, firstly, committed to the idea that an object’s nonnormative, factual properties are ‘possible only if there is some respect in which it is appropriate to respond to certain situations or to certain entities in certain ways’ (p. 23). Secondly, après Wittgenstein, normative pragmatism is committed to the claim that it is correct to respond to certain situations or to certain entities in certain ways primarily due to ‘the norms implicit in behaviour rather than with following explicit rules’ (ibid.). To speak about appropriate responses to objects, whereby appropriateness is measured according to the norms of social practices, is to think of objects as tools or equipment. According to pragmatist readings of Heidegger, tools are not primarily conceived in terms of their hermetically-sealed physical make-up in space-time. Rather, tools are understood, initially, in terms of what they are used for – the practical contexts and instrumental ends that will be fulfilled through their use. Furthermore, whether tools are used ‘correctly’ comes down to whether they are appropriated according to the norms of tool-use derived from social practices. The key point is that both Okrent and Heidegger view linguistic phenomena as tools. In accordance with the two theses attributed to normative pragmatism, Okrent states that ‘to grasp an entity as merely present, then, an agent must grasp it as essentially a possible object of an assertion. But to grasp something as an object of an assertion is to use the appropriate group of assertions as they are to be used within one’s community’ (p. 26). It follows that an object’s nonnormative properties are ‘simply invisible to an agent if she can’t use assertions to make claims about that entity’ (ibid.). Okrent’s chapter is a response to criticisms that Brandom has levelled against Dreyfus, Haugeland and Okrent and their respective interpretations of Heidegger. In laying out the central tenets of normative pragmatism, Okrent highlights the similarities between Brandom’s reading of Heidegger and his own. However, disagreements emerge over their respective conceptions of intentionality. According to Brandom, Okrent, Dreyfus and Haugeland adopt a ‘layer-cake’ model, according to which our meaningful, norm-governed, practical responses to certain objects in certain ways is, in a sense, pre-predicative and nonconceptual and, therefore, distinct from (but also the basis of) the propositional articulations we make concerning such objects and our engagements with their nonnormative properties. In other words, the view that Okrent supports, and that Brandom believes is based on a misinterpretation of Heidegger, claims that ‘there are two layers to Dasein’s intentionality, the nonlinguistic skilful coping involved in the utilisation of equipment as tools that are essential to Dasein as Dasein and the linguistic, assertoric intentionality that intends substances as substances and is not essential for Dasein as Dasein’ (p. 29). Okrent goes on to defend the layer-cake model of intentionality on the basis that, for Heidegger, not all interpretations of entities as what they are involves assertion. In terms of defending his interpretation of Heidegger as a layer-cake theorist in the face of Brandom’s reading, Okrent is convincing. That said, in terms of defending the layer-cake model of intentionality against Brandom’s claim that intentionality does not contain a nonconceptual component – that all experience can be understood in terms of the space of reasons – he is less successful. The other contributions in this volume do far better justice at demonstrating some of the problems with Okrent’s account than I can here. However, what I will say (paraphrasing the main issue in the Dreyfus-McDowell debates) is that although one can claim that propositions, assertions, sentences and theories are embodied, and even originate in our practical activities, that does not mean that our absorbed involvements that grasp the world as what it is are fundamentally and distinctly nonconceptual. Indeed, Brandom’s starting point is to conceive the world ‘as a collection of facts, not of things; there is nothing that exists outside of the realm of the conceptual’ (Brandom 2000: 357). On that basis, he has presented a whole system of normative pragmatics and inferential semantics to support his non-representationalist metaphysical project. Whether we agree with him or not, it follows that Brandom has the means to defend the view that even those interpretations, repairs and improvements of tools and equipment that seemingly operate outside of the bounds of general acceptability, and that Okrent takes to be nonlinguistic, are predicated upon a (at least implicitly) conceptual understanding of intentionality. In other words, our perceptions and skilful copings are permeated with the as-structure of interpretation that fundamentally understands seeing something as something in discursive terms (regardless of whether those concepts are made explicit in discursive practices). The theme of layer-cake interpretations of both pragmatism and intentionality and the question of the dependency of skilful coping on conceptual meaning are taken up again in Carl Sachs’ contribution. The starting point for Sachs is the debate between Dreyfus and John McDowell regarding the relationship between rationality and absorbed coping and the consequences of this relationship for understanding intelligibility and intentionality. Like Brandom and McDowell, Sachs recognises the problems inherent in the layer-cake model of nonconceptual skilful coping – a distinct kind of intelligibility with its own internal logic. He also acknowledges McDowell’s claim that layer-cake pragmatists make the mistake ‘in thinking both that rationality consists of detached reflection and that rationality is the enemy of absorbed coping’ (p. 96). Unlike Dreyfus, Okrent and Haugeland, both Brandom and McDowell argue that rationality should not be construed as detached contemplation. Furthermore, intentionality is fundamentally conceptual. However, as Sachs observes, the problem with claiming that conceptuality permeates all of our skilful copings is that intentionality tends to be treated as only ‘“thinly” embodied’ (p.94). Through the work of Joseph Rouse, and by confronting the question of how absorbed, embodied coping can fit within the space of giving and asking for reasons, Sachs provides a convincing and highly innovative critique not only of layer-cake interpretations of the phenomenological tradition, but of approaches to contemporary pragmatism that do not pay sufficient phenomenological attention to the embodied dimension of intelligibility. Undermining Dreyfus’ distinction between the ‘space of reasons’ and the ‘space of motivations’, Rouse follows McDowell (and Brandom) in, firstly, rejecting the view that rationality is found in detached contemplation and, secondly, claiming that discursive practices are embodied. Where Sachs sees McDowell as paying only lip service to an embodied conception of rationality, Rouse uses developments in evolutionary theory to naturalise the space of reasons and, by implication, our norm-governed engagements with the world. Having arrived at the claim that discursive practices are conceived as ‘highly modified and specialised forms of embodied coping’ (p. 96), Sachs builds on Rouse’s account by defending a distinction between sapient intentionality and sentient intentionality in order to demonstrate that ‘McDowell is (mostly) right about sapience and that Dreyfus is (mostly) right about sentience’ (p. 88). Whereas Okrent and Sachs’ respective contributions tackle the Dreyfusian tradition of Heidegger scholarship, Andreas Beinsteiner provides a critical assessment of Rorty’s engagement with the pragmatic dimension of Heidegger’s thought. The focus is on Rorty’s purely language-oriented interpretation of the ‘history of Being’. According to Beinsteiner, even though Rorty agrees with Heidegger’s claim that our vocabularies and practices are contingent, Rorty’s criticism of Heidegger’s ‘narrative of decline’, which is characterised by a lack of recognition regarding the contingent nature of both meaning and language, is problematic. For Beinsteiner, the issue Rorty has with the idea that contemporary Western society, when compared with previous epochs, is less able to grasp the contingency of language rests upon Rorty’s two conflicting versions of pragmatism – instrumental pragmatism and poetic pragmatism. According to Beinsteiner, when Rorty argues for social hope as opposed to decline, he has seemingly failed to acknowledge the contingency of his own language and has, as a result, fallen into the trap that instrumental and poetic pragmatism disclose in different ways. Ultimately, Rorty is trapped within his linguistic conception of intelligibility, one that, he believes his instrumental conception of language has some sovereignty over, when, in fact, according to Beinsteiner, our conception of meaningfulness not only precedes the purposes of our language, it grants Rorty’s language with the purpose of instrumentality in the first place. In the remainder of the chapter, and in the face of what he sees as Rorty’s linguistic treatment of meaningfulness, Beinsteiner offers a challenge to Rorty’s critique of the narrative of decline by demonstrating technology’s ability to guide our understanding of intelligibility. One of the problems with Beinsteiner’s critique is that Rorty is clearly aware of the dangers of becoming trapped in non-contingent conceptions of one’s language and understanding of meaningfulness. Rorty acknowledges that we can and, indeed, must aim for as much intersubjective agreement as possible by opening ourselves up to other cultures and their associated languages. As he explains, ‘alternative cultures are not to be thought of on the model of alternative geometries’; ‘alternative geometries are irreconcilable because they have axiomatic structures, and contradictory axioms. They are designed to be irreconcilable. Cultures are not so designed, and do not have axiomatic structures’ (Rorty 1991, 30). Consequently, by engaging with different cultures, it is at least a possibility that our language and conception of intelligibility can be destabilised and transcended. However, Heidegger claims that exposure to other cultures through media technology will fail to transform our conceptions of language and meaningfulness. As is evident from Beinsteiner’s contribution, Heidegger’s claim rests upon a one-sided interpretation of technology, one that is justified by criteria located in his own ‘final vocabulary’. This raises a problem, one that is emphasised when Beinsteiner makes claims regarding the pragmatic dimension of technology that coincide with Heidegger’s narrative of decline (even though Beinsteiner states that his point ‘is not to defend a supposed Heideggerian pessimism against Rorty’s optimism’ (p. 64)). A critic would likely argue that if Beinsteiner wishes to argue for the contingency of language and meaning and, thereby, avoid falling prey to the criticisms he levels at Rorty, he needs some criteria for judging the ‘primordiality due to new media and communication technologies’ (p. 64). Indeed, in order to avoid the charge that he is trapped within Heidegger’s vocabulary, such criteria would need to come from elsewhere. Unfortunately, a comprehensive and justified account of such criteria is noticeably absent in both the work of Heidegger and Beinsteiner’s contribution. Returning to the Dreyfusian tradition of Heidegger scholarship, Tucker McKinney’s contribution addresses a long-standing problem with layer-cake approaches to pragmatism; specifically, the issue of whether and how (what Okrent calls) ‘the nonlinguistic skilful coping involved in the utilisation of equipment as tools that are essential to Dasein as Dasein’ (p. 29) can be reconciled with self-conscious inquiry and the resulting ‘first-personal knowledge of one’s activity’ (p. 71). In the face of traditional approaches to philosophy of mind that interpret self-consciousness in terms of self-representing contemplation, which he acknowledges is a form of self-consciousness that Heidegger criticises, McKinney sees Heidegger as advancing a conception of positional self-awareness ‘as an action-guiding practical knowledge of what to do to sustain one’s being in the world, realised in our affective lives’ (ibid.). Whereas typical pragmatist readings of Heidegger claim that our nonconceptual and non-representational ability to skilfully and habitually cope with the world means that the capacity to represent (the world and our representations of the world) through concepts is both merely derivative and something we can identify or attribute to ourselves only after our unselfconscious practical activities, McKinney defends the view that, according to Heidegger, ‘our engagements with entities are permeated with a sense of our own agency, our own active and participatory engagement with objects’ (p. 78). In the face of problematic normalised and normalising pragmatic readings of Heidegger, many will welcome McKinney’s contribution. Whether it provides ‘a new ontology of self-possessed activity’ is questionable. Indeed, the approach shares some affinities with Hegel’s account of self-consciousness, Wittgenstein’s conception of private language and (more obviously) Habermas’ work on the relationship between self-awareness, affectivity and intersubjective communicative action. The basis for divergence stems from McKinney’s focus on ‘attunement’ [Befindlichkeit], which he translates as ‘findingess’ but can also be interpreted as ‘affectivity’ (Crowell 2013) and ‘state-of-mind’ (Braver 2014), and its concrete manifestation as ‘mood’ or, more literally, ‘tuning’ [Stimmung] (such as when the sound of a musical instrument changes depending on how it is tuned).[1] At a very basic level, Heidegger describes moods as ‘fleeting experiences that “colour” one’s whole “psychical condition”’ (GA 2, p. 450). From a phenomenological point of view that McKinney adopts in his discussion of the concept of fear, moods influence how things are meaningfully encountered in the ways they are during my practical engagements. On the basis of moods, my activities express an understanding of my own agency (p. 83). Furthermore, and this is matter that McKinney does not discuss (but Heidegger does), it is an existential-ontological condition of my capacity to interpret the world that I, myself, must be affectively attuned. Without attunement, any act of skilful coping would not present itself to me as intelligible. Consequently, in terms of a phenomenological reading of the concept of mood and ontological considerations of attunement, there is, as McKinney recognises, scope to innovatively extend non-Cartesian debates regarding the nature of self-consciousness. Turning to part two of volume, in which the contributors focus specifically on the phenomenological dimension of the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Scheler and Patočka, Jakub Čapek’s contribution exemplifies some of exegetical challenges that face traditional pragmatist readings of the phenomenological canon. On the basis of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of ‘perceptual faith’, which describes ‘how our involvement in the world precedes and sustains all perceptions, the true and the false’ (p. 141), Čapek argues that although Dreyfus and Charles Taylor’s pragmatic readings do not address ‘perceptual faith’ directly, their understanding of objects as mere correlates of our practical involvements, which Čapek sees as a consequence of the ‘primacy of the practical’ in pragmatism, generates a restricted interpretation of Merleau-Ponty’s account of perceptual experience. Čapek acknowledges that Merleau-Ponty does in fact claim that perception is an engaged, interested and skilful activity that allows us to cope with the world (in contrast with the interpretation of perception as an intermediary in a two-step, realist epistemological model, whereby passive receptions of something like sense data are synthesised as representations of external objects). However, that does not mean that the objects we perceive can be completely reduced to the meanings we accord them in our practical dealings. Even though Merleau-Ponty claims that our ontological commitments are embodied to the degree that an object is, as Čapek says, ‘a correlate of the body’, it is a feature of phenomenologically-oriented ontology that an object transcends ‘action-relevant predicates’ such that it is irreducible ‘to all that makes it a familiar part of our surroundings and of our activities’ (p. 152). In the sense that the ontology of things is dependent upon embodied perception to the degree that ‘in perception, we are directed to the things themselves, not through their appearances but to things themselves as they appear’ (p. 147), Čapek draws upon Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the transcendent dimension of ontology to argue that the latter’s account of ‘perceptual faith’ leaves room for an ‘interrogative, non-practical or disinterested’ dimension to perception (p. 143). The only downsides to Čapek’s chapter are that he provides neither an in-depth account of the meaning of ‘the interrogative mode’ of perception (minimal references are made to perception as ‘transcend[ing] things’ and affirming ‘more things than are grasped in it’ (p. 154)) nor a discussion of how specifically pragmatic interpretations of the history of phenomenology could be revised in light of such a phenomenologically-oriented conception of disinterested perception. This is indicative of the limitations of the volume in general. Specifically, because the majority of the contributions employ interpretations of texts in the history of phenomenology to either elaborate upon or challenge more paradigmatic readings, there is little room for exploring the implications of such scholarship for debates at the forefront of contemporary phenomenology and pragmatism. Bearing in mind the limitations imposed on the volume due to the purely hermeneutical approach taken by the majority of the authors, it should be said that James Mensch does offer interpretations of Aristotle, William James, Heidegger, Patočka, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas in his contribution. But these readings are for illustrative purposes only, employed to elaborate upon the respective natures of pragmatic and theoretical attitudes in philosophy and their relationships to broader concepts of objective truth and freedom. For Mensch, what defines the pragmatic attitude is not only (as Čapek highlights in his contribution) the treatment of objects and their properties as mere correlates of practical involvements, but, more specifically, the reduction of an object’s essence to instrumentality – ‘its function as a means for the accomplishment of my projects’ (p. 191). The pragmatic attitude is seen as particularly problematic for the philosopher ‘who seeks simply to understand’ (p. 194) as it results in a performative contradiction. Conversely, the theoretical attitude deals with the ‘objectivity’ of phenomena ‘in terms of the evidence we have for what we believe about them’ (p. 195), evidence that can transcend our means-ends understanding of objects. Mensch goes on to explain the relationships between the respective ontological commitments that arise from the pragmatic attitude and the theoretical attitude in terms of the concept of freedom. Following Heidegger, Mensch recognises that there are many possibilities for the intelligibility of objects and their properties, and it is up to the philosopher to choose which possibility to actualise. In short, for Mensch, freedom is an ontological condition on the basis of which philosophers choose to adopt a theoretical attitude that suspends their pragmatic concerns in order to inquire into the ‘intrinsic sense’ of objects qua their objectivity. Furthermore, whereas the pragmatic attitude does not allow the object to ‘transcend the [pragmatic] conventions that govern our speaking’ (p. 199), the ‘intrinsic sense’ of an object does make room for such transcendence because (due to the fact that it is conceptually constituted and predicated upon intersubjective agreement) we can recognise the alterity of other objectivity claims that call my claims into question. Indeed, Mensch states that it is the alterity of the ‘Other’ that makes both philosophical freedom and a theoretical inquiry into the ‘intrinsic sense’ of things possible. Critics would likely argue that Mensch’s distinction between pragmatic attitudes and theoretical attitudes is altogether too simplistic, resulting in an argument that is explanatorily weak. Indeed, due to the reification of pragmatic and theoretical attitudes, it would be difficult to abstract any genuine pragmatic (let alone broader metaphilosophical) concerns without being charged of straw-man-building. For example, contemporary Anglo-American pragmatists would challenge the claim that the pragmatic attitude purely apprehends the essence of objects in terms of its instrumentality. For example, as Beinsteiner observes earlier in the volume, Rorty advocated both instrumental and world-disclosing dimensions of pragmatism. In addition, as already mentioned, Brandom is a pragmatist, one that, simultaneously, adopts a theoretical attitude in order to inquire into Mensch’s conception of the ‘intrinsic sense’ of objects. Brandom is clear that not only do the contents of our concepts lay claim to how the world is, the meaning of our concepts is derived from the reasoning practices and inferential processes of discursive practitioners in the space of giving and asking for reasons. Furthermore, Brandom is also aware that freedom plays a pivotal role in the realm of contestable objectivity-claims. He argues that judgment, in terms of committing oneself to deploying concepts and, simultaneously, taking responsibility for the integration of the objectivity-claims and their associated conceptual contents with others that serve as reasons for or against them, is a ‘positive freedom’ (Brandom 2009, 59). I do not have the space to expand further. Suffice it to say, however, that Brandom’s inferential semantics and normative pragmatics articulates a number (if not all) of the themes that Mensch attributes to the theoretical attitude. If Mensch’s characterisation of the pragmatic attitude is representative of a concrete approach in pragmatism, then perhaps one could claim that it only holds for layer-cake readings of Heidegger. Even then, however, the likes of Dreyfus and Okrent are careful to explain the fact that what Mensch apprehends as the theoretical attitude is dependent upon, and, ultimately, derives from, our shared, practical involvements in a world that is constituted by the activities of others, rather than something we can ‘choose’ to adopt completely outside of our practical copings and activities (a choice, based on Mensch’s account, without any causal repercussions and considerations and no rational constraint or motivation). Furthermore, whereas Mensch claims that the ontological condition of the ‘Other’ allows us to disclose a theoretical alternative to the pragmatically-apprehended world, the Dreyfusian tradition is well aware that we, as a skilful and absorbed copers, are ‘being-with’ [Mitsein], in the sense that when we encounter something as both meaningful and as what it is, it discloses to us those ‘others’ that also find the same thing meaningful in the same ways. To stress the importance of the ‘Other’ for the conditions of the theoretical attitude in particular, as Mensch does, is to severely misinterpret or (worse still) ignore the concept of the ‘Other’ in layer-cake pragmatism. This begs the question that if what Mensch defines as the pragmatic attitude does not successfully capture the complexities that surround layer-cake approaches to pragmatism, let alone contemporary pragmatism in general, then why should pragmatically-oriented philosophers take Mensch seriously? Furthermore, why should they care? Perhaps one could argue that Mensch’s chapter is a lesson in what can happen when not enough attention is paid by phenomenologists to developments in pragmatism, just as this volume as a whole discloses the problems that arise from pragmatic interpretations of the history of phenomenology. Does the volume as a whole succeed in meeting its aims? If the aim of the volume is to offer a ‘complex analysis of the pragmatic theses that are present in the works of leading phenomenological authors’, then (despite the proclivity for Heidegger at the expense of other central figures from phenomenological tradition, including those that are still alive and still researching), I would say ‘yes’. However, as the volume is oriented towards the relationship between pragmatism and phenomenology through interpretations of canonical works in the history of Western philosophy, there is very little meaningful discussion of the theoretical implications of the dialogue for either current phenomenologically-oriented philosophical research or the pragmatic dimensions of contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science and ethics. In this sense, the title of the volume is misleading and perhaps should be taken as ‘pragmatic perspectives in the history of phenomenology’. Nevertheless, there are some excellent papers here that not only articulate the pragmatic turn in the history of phenomenology, but offer much-needed insight into the problems associated with long-standing pragmatic interpretations of the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Husserl. Brandom, R. (2000) ‘Facts, Norms and Normative Facts: A Reply to Habermas’, European Journal of Philosophy 8 (3): 356-74. Brandom, R. (2009) Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas, Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Braver, L. (2014) Heidegger, Cambridge: Polity Press. Crowell, S. (2013) Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heidegger, M. (1977) Gesamtausgabe, GA 2: Sein und Zeit, ed. F. von Herrmann, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann. Price, H. (2013) Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rorty, R. (1991) Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [1] Sachs also addresses the concept of attunement when he argues that affordances and solicitations (traditionally distinctive of embodied coping) should also be contextualised within the space of reasons. Scritto il 3 gennaio 2018 20 gennaio 2018 Autore Jonathan LewisCategorie Recensioni, Volume 3 (2017)Tag Consciousness, Heidegger, Husserl, Intentionality, Merleau-Ponty, Normativity, Phenomenology, PragmatismLascia un commento su Ondřej Švec, Jakub Čapek (Eds.): Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology Sacha Golob, Titolo: Heidegger on Concepts, Freedom and Normativity Serie: Modern European Philosophy Autore: Sacha Golob Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press Formato: Paperback £19.99 Scritto il 4 novembre 2016 15 novembre 2016 Autore Phenomenological ReviewsCategorie [:en]Newsletter[:], PublicationsTag Authenticity, Freedom, Heidegger, Intentionality, Kant, Normativity, PlatoLascia un commento su Sacha Golob,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line213
__label__cc	0.678382	0.321618	Treasures of the Reconstituted Wunderkammer From where we live in southeast England it's ridiculously easy to get over to Amsterdam for a long weekend and we recently did just that. Finally, we got to see the remodeled Rijksmuseum - but one of of my best memories, the wunderkammer of strange and beautiful craft objects jammed together like in a Golden Age Dutch grandee's show-off room, was gone, its inhabitants scattered to more period-appropriate settings around the museum. Bah, I say, the best feature of the Rijks is the way it combines arts with crafts, so in one room you'll have Rembrandts on the walls, and some inlaid tables in the middle, with equal recognition of the skill in both. For the benefit of all, through assiduous note-taking on a museum map, I have reconstituted and aggrandized the wunderkammer as a d20 table of those items of treasure most likely to excite the eye of the bounding venturer and to bear subtle enchantments. 1. Bronze figurine of a snake, eating a frog while crushing a mouse, and in turn being bitten by a lizard. 2. Painted oaken carving meant to be suspended from ceiling, of a woman holding a noble coat of arms, with two antlers jutting out behind her like legs or tails. 3. Silver chain of linked quadrangular pieces, each embossed with a civic motif, and a silver bird pendant from the whole; the prize for winning a yearly shooting contest in a company of militia. 4. A book, an illustrated genealogy of 55 noted lords and ladies of the day, each personage depicted in full color with their coat of arms and a few words about their achievements. 5. A bronze aquamanile in the form of a standing, roaring lion, ridden and bitten by a smaller dragon that forms the jug's handle. 6. A "nut" carved of boxwood, a small sphere no more than three fingers' width with a tiny Ecce Homo crowd scene carved within. 7. A ceremonial shield made from a single elk antler, a bordure carved around the edges, and the stump of the antler carved into a knotted boss. 8. A ring fitted with a mechanical flintlock, that can always make a spark without fumbling for flint and steel. 9. A piece torn form the greatcoat of a military hero, in a wooden presentation box inscribed with the hero's name and valorous means of death. Its authenticity may be ascertained by comparing it to one of the many other such pieces in circulation. 10. A silver miniature, no more than thumb's length, of a slaughtered pig splayed on a butcher's frame. 11. Cup made from a nautilus shell, with gold stem and fittings giving it the neck and legs of an ostrich. 12. A diaphanorama; that is, a series of overlaid painted glass panes mounted in a wooden case, and when light is shone through theme a scene is revealed in three dimensions; in this case, the night sack of an ancient city by barbarians, backlit by a roaring palace on fire. 13. A set of twenty painted glass roundels, intended for projection through a "magic lantern" device of candle and lenses, depicting celebrated dwarfs and dwarves of some twenty years ago. 14. A folding harpsichord, small to begin with, with two sections of keyboard and strings that close like the halves of a book. 15. Rosewood case like a miniature chest of drawers, with some twenty very flat drawers, each of which contains three or four historically significant coins, each in its own compartment. 16. Set of four terracotta caryatids, two representing Remorse with hands covering face, two representing Penance with hands tied behind back. 17. Meter-square model of a tropical marketplace, with diverse and colorful stands, entertainers and spectators, all rendered in wood, metal and dried bread dough. Very fragile to transport. 18. Military helmet, allegedly intimidating in a very different cultural context, with two gold leaf vanes like rabbit ears each one over a cubit long, protruding at 45 degree angles from the crown. 19. Stone statue of a goddess, her garment in danger of removal by a pesky monkey, her body marked here and there with nail and tooth indentations from a recent assignation. 20. Chess set that most will consider to be in poor taste, created in ceramic by the followers of a recently overthrown and near-universally despised would-be world emperor, with pieces showing his troops advancing in triumph and the enemy nations facing them in trepidation, and the names of his enemies inlaid around the edge of the board. Of interest chiefly to covert sympathizers and collectors with a long view of history. Posted by Roger G-S at 12:49 2 comments: Labels: History, rijksmuseum, tables, treasure An M. R. James Christmas: Dead Man's Eyes By chance, Michael Bukowski of Yog-Blogsoth has reached a stopping point in illustrating the creatures of H. P. Lovecraft's imagination and is now tackling the creations of an author much admired by Lovecraft - the teller of Christmas ghost stories, Montague Rhodes James (here's his very different take on the monster I statted up as the sack custodian). I was inspired by this to read through some of James' less well known stories - all available here, in the spirit of Christmas scares. Largely, there's a reason why the stories in his first collection are better known. The later tales for the most part are still soaked in that wry humor and English antiquarian charm, but require more moving parts, more apparitions and forebodings, to deliver increasingly anticlimactic shocks. James keeps challenging himself to come up with new ideas for scares, but many of these misfire (the haunted curtain pattern in The Diary of Mr. Poynter, for one). One of these weird ideas that does work shows up in A View From a Hill (spoilers, perforce, follow). The dark secret to be discovered is that of an amateur antiquarian, Baxter, who dabbled in sorcery the better to show up his more learned peers. Two of his artifacts bear special interest for gaming. The first is a little mask ... Lawrence was up in the bedroom one day, and picked up a little mask covered with black velvet, and put it on in fun and went to look at himself in the glass. He hadn’t time for a proper look, for old Baxter shouted out to him from the bed: “Put it down, you fool! Do you want to look through a dead man’s eyes?” and it startled him so that he did put it down, and then he asked Baxter what he meant. And Baxter insisted on him handing it over, and said the man he bought it from was dead, or some such nonsense. But Lawrence felt it as he handed it over, and he declared he was sure it was made out of the front of a skull. The second mystery is a strangely heavy, hand-made pair of binoculars that our protagonist borrows. Gazing through them at an opposite hill, he sees a church and a gallows that had not stood for hundreds of years. As it turns out, this artifact results from one of Baxter's more advanced spells. Their optics are filled with the gelatin of boiled bones from beneath the gallows, which allow their user to "look through a dead man's eyes" in an altogether more modern and convenient manner. Dead Man's Eyes Be it mask, spyglass, or a more modern contrivance, this necromantic item is created with some part of a single dead being's body, and the spells speak with the dead, monster summoning of a level appropriate to the being, wizard eye, bestow curse, and magic jar, as well as 5000 gp of materials. When complete, it has the effect of showing a scene looked upon as the dead being might have experienced it, with typical or memorable activities of the day. (This power proved very useful to Baxter, as he could rifle the countryside for finds undreamed of by his contemporaries.) However, after the first use, there is a 1% cumulative chance that each further look through the device will bring the attention of the device's spirit, who will then attempt to possess the user and drive him or her to ruin or suicide. Scary Christmas to all, and to all a long night! Labels: fiction, ghost, horror, literature, magic items Here's a game that has given me more entertainment than it really has a right to. This is Tales of the Arabian Nights, the 2009 Z-Man Games remake of a 1985 West End Games production. It's a board game, but the real engine is a huge Book of Tales with over 2000 numbered paragraphs. You roam a map representing the Old World as seen from the caliph's Baghdad, playing one of the Arabian Nights characters (Sindbad, Ali Baba, Scheherazade, etc.) Every turn you pull a card from the encounter deck, roll a die on a table to see what you get (anything from a House Fire to a Vengeful Efreet), and choose an action to take appropriate to the type of encounter (anything from Grovel to Court). The player on your right checks a matrix and reads out a paragraph number, which the player on your left looks up in the big book and reads out loud. This paragraph sets out the situation, and may give better or worse results according to what skills your character has. Goodies you may get include Destiny Points and Story Points (which help you win the game), fabulous treasures, or improved skills. Balancing these out are the infamous "status" cards that some paragraphs hand out. Among other things, statuses can leave you cursed, turned into an animal, sex changed, diseased, or more ambiguously married (you get point benefits but have to stick close to your family's city). The version I have is the 2009 remake, which hugely improved the graphics and doubled the number of paragraphs in the by now enormous Book of Tales, but did little else to streamline the game design. Indeed, a number of design choices still seem odd or not well thought out, with the quirks and complexity of the 1985 design mentality. Some encounter cards have different results for the second or third time through the encounter deck, but in my experience games often end without ever having to reshuffle it. Although the 2009 version makes official the 1985 version's "quest" variant with a deck of quest cards, these take on the role of directing play across the board, so that the city encounter cards, which give bonuses on reaching a particular city, now seem like an unnecessary afterthought. And the rule for dealing with the "expert" level of skills, in which the book reader has to scan the adjacent paragraphs for uses of that skill and switch to them, is still clunky. All the same, I think the game has to be defended against one of the major criticisms you see on Boardgamegeek and elsewhere, which is that it's a random rollercoaster ride that doesn't reward strategy. I think this is actually a psychological effect, where the game is designed so that action choices don't always lead to the logical consequence or skill opportunity, so that even though the majority of outcomes have some logic to them, the ones that don't stick out in the memory and lead to the perception of the game as meaningless. But the alternative is to have a game where the Rob action always leads to a use of Stealth and Stealing, and so on, which is also not fun. More to the point, this game is a litmus test. If you are able to enjoy taking part in a picaresque story full of reversals and randomness, Tales will be highly rewarding, and filled with "wow" moments like gaining fabulous treasures, visiting mysterious and climactic Places of Power, and those times when the random story elements come together in a coincidental, funny way - for example, when you just can't stop having encounters with that seductive efreeteh and her jealous efreet boyfriend. The replay value, too, is higher than I expected, having played it four times in the past few months. The sheer number of paragraphs, the random elements that interfere between an action choice and the outcome work in its favor. So does the Poisson-like distribution of events - so that many common events tend to recur, like house fires and hunchbacked beggars, but the truly special things like Places of Power are much rarer. This is the principle used in most encounter tables to balance meaning and surprise in a world, and its use in Tales means that the game is not entirely guilty of presenting a complete random carnival of events. Finally, Tales is unique in design in the game world, in spite of the suitability of its basic concept for a more convention sword-and-sorcery picaresque. Does the requirement to have a hundreds-of-pages paragraph book scare off designers? The Dying Earth world, I think, would be particularly ripe for such treatment. Labels: arabian nights, boardgaming, math, review Hey, It's Metafilter So I got aggregated. So, yeah .... It's the home of the fantasy heartbreaker that has attained self-awareness. D&D is fundamentally uncool. Viva Quijote! Labels: media Near Orientalism World For today, I'll post this cliche setting encounter table. Next post, I'll talk about the game that partly inspired it. Labels: arabian nights, encounters, genres, tables So having just dropped the 52 Pages it's time to take stock. First, I did an outline of the Next 52 ("Next" is intentional, my hearties), that is, the "Expert" sequel covering character levels 4-6, what I think those levels should be up to, as well as stuff for use in expert starting campaigns. A few topics might look familiar but the rest will be brand new to me. Red pages are completed (Bard and Dilettante appeared before on the blog.) But this aside, I have a number of other projects that are about half or more finished and I really should get out the door. "Ultimate Wilderness": The Next 52 wilderness rules are the stripped down version of this, also colorfully graphic but aimed more at a detailed, in depth building of hexcrawls and impromptu encounter adventures. It is pretty much an account of what I do to stock a blank district the players are turning toward. It is all basically a set of instructions for using my big encounter tables with silhouettes. Readiness: 75-80%. "36 Pages": This is my series of d20 tables for setting ideas, organized by cliche. Slowly grinding along. Readiness: 60%. "Manden Gouge, Book 1": All right so the percentage completion of the full ambitions of this megadungeon is miniscule. Tone it down to the ambition of producing a first book, on the caves and the upper works and shallow cellars of the great castle, Karthew's Legacy (something like 120-150 encounter areas), and we can say this is about 40% done. "The Baroque 52": A wild hair I really shouldn't start on. But you know I will. Each of these 52 pages will contain 36 table entries in a TINY font, giving a "baroque" option for that topic in the 52PP. So where the 52 has "common equipment" the B52 will have 36 weird things that you might find in a village with their uses. Where it has "henchmen" the B52 will have 36 unusual abilities and drawbacks of henchmen. The idea is to flip the script on the generic, stylized, streamlined presentation and give free reign to the other side that led to Pergamino Barocco. So as you see, this New Year I will have no shortage of resolutions and might even make some of them come true ... Labels: preview, writing Download: 52 Pages 1.0 It's here. All 52 Pages. Download link on the right (or here if you're lazy). I even cleaned up the treasure table so it has a little more breathing room and an example. Devil on the cover makes it Old School. At the end, all I can say is that there are many rulebooks out there for this kind of stuff, but none like this. Enjoy. Posted by Roger G-S at 00:55 19 comments: Labels: downloads, one page rules She Wields the Powers of Narrativism Work on my megadungeon project proceeds at a snail's pace but with frequent rewards. Here's my favorite NPC from a group of scheming remnants trapped in the upper works, Castle Amber-style. Thelma, the Perpetual Student. Age: 31. Level 3 Wizard (Narrativist), 5 HP. INT++, CON-, CHA- Portrait: Jeff Preston Thelma wandered here from her studies at a great and advanced academy, having heard about the strange situation in the castle from some visitors who managed to escape. As a philosopher she became a convert to Narrativism, the idea that almost everyone in the world is a secondary character in an elaborate fiction, with memories whose fallibility and vagueness betrays their false nature. The Narrativist obsession is to identify point-of-view characters, people whose experience seems too vivid and fortunate to be true, and who may in fact assist in making contact with the Author through self-referential and meta-textual occurrences. Thelma thinks that Myrseau may be one such character, and is certain that she herself is but a secondary character, who will cease to exist once she leaves the fiction’s main setting, the Castle. Of course, Thelma is ultimately correct, although wrong in the particulars. The characters she seeks belong to the players, and with enough exposure to their fortunes and ambitions, Thelma will eventually realize that the work she is in is not a novel, but a game. This may even lead her to develop a Narrativist heresy: that there is a Game Master who responds to the free will of multiple, self-narrating characters rather than ordaining their fates. On making this realization, she will decide to leave the castle, and never be heard from again, her meta-textual work done. Thelma is an aloof and enigmatic character who sometimes gives the impression of being as detached from the concerns and intrigues of the Remnants as the players are. She once thought Imogen was the point of view character, but having seen her grow through adolescence, pities her as an obvious inversion of the fictional ingénue trope. Her philosophy gives her a certain ability similar to knowledge magic, with the following “spells” that she may cast, silently and without gesture, once each per day: hear internal monologue (ESP); interpret symbolism (Know Alignment); foreshadowing (Detect Evil); predict plot (Augury). Labels: megadungeons, NPCs, social adventure, storyline Sharktopus and Piranhaconda Shark Week on RRR! Who needs a Fiend Folio or Monster Manual II when you have these man-ennobling, straight-from-Syfy, straight-to-DVD chimerae courtesy of Roger Corman? These, of course, are the two best before you start delving into the slum section of portmanteau hell, with the likes of MANSQUITO and MERMANTULA (would have fit right in to MMII, aquatic version of the Drider, don'tcha know). SHARKTOPUS HD: 11+11 AC: 6 [13] MV: Swim 15, drag on land (tentacles) 6 Attack: Bite d8+5 with swallow whole, up to 4 tentacles d4 and hold The ecology of this creature ... oh, who am I fooling. It's the modern equivalent of those "WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH" men's magazine covers from the 1950s. It comes from the id, a shadow-puppet cast to validate extreme measures. Like you, dear two-fisted reader, it attempts to breed with blondes, more or less symbolically. If a tentacle hits and does 4 damage, it ensnares you and the tentacle has to be attacked separately and killed to let go (4 HP with edged weapon, maximum of 4 damage against tentacle counted against monster's HP). If the bite attack hits and rolls 6+ on d8, Speed/wand/DEX save to avoid being swallowed whole (take d8 acid damage/round, you can do damage each round with sharp weapon, freeing self after doing 1/2 the monster's HP in damage). PIRANHACONDA HD: 5+5 AC: 4 [15]; 1 point of armor is defense (AC is 1 worse if attacked unawares) MV: Swim 12, slither on land 9 Attack: Bite d10, constrict for d6/turn This fish-headed semi-aquatic snake makes its constrict attack without counting armor bonus, and once constricting will not stop crushing and biting until you or it are dead. It is tragically misunderstood; drinking hard, on the outs with its wife, and three days short of retirement. Things can go the other way, too. Hey Corman, interested in "OWLBEAR"? "WOLF-IN-SHEEP'S-CLOTHING"? Posted by Roger G-S at 02:02 No comments: Labels: bad, films, monsters, preposterawesome Convention Game Sharkpocalypse The Dragonmeet session was a lot of fun. I've found that a good formula for a one-shot game is to make sure that you have some sort of ticking bomb, relentless final guardian, or monsterpocalypse at the end of a fairly short adventure. Without the slow build that a campaign gives, you do well to build fun off the cheap heat, with CLIMAX written in broad strokes and bright colors. With that in mind, I framed the original one-page adventure by Daniel O' Donnell thus: the Crown Prince of Crime in the town of Ushralec hired the party to sack the Fane of Drowned Men, sacred to the demon-gods Dagon and Charybdis, ostensibly because of a grudge he had long held before recently coming to power. There were some very subtle clues to his ultimate intent - through a crack in the door, Alinor the sea elf saw some minions of crime pouring barrels of salt water into a big vat, tapping the floor below in some sort of code and receiving taps from below in turn. The Crown Prince's audience room, also, had been stripped of all furniture and valuables. Anyway, heedless of this, the party -- a rogue, a brawling sailor, a prophet of hoary Nodens, the sea elf, a somewhat out-of-place dwarf, and of course Gnaro the multidimensional gnome -- set off in a longboat at high tide to make a beeline for the back end of the shrine. Through incredible luck and bad rolls by the defenders they were not spotted by any of the people doing business at the front of the shrine or on the causeway. Floating right over the deep-submerged tethered zombies, they were soon on the roof, interrupting a treasure donation ritual with arrows, spears and a Sleep spell cast through a grating. After the high priest fought back with a successful hold person, the fight soon moved to the front of the shrine, where the sea elf cast a net to trap some of the defenders. The high priest, escaping the net, backed into the rogue's waiting stab around the corner, and having been the target of much of the previous damage, soon expired, cursing his fate to die on land. Meanwhile, some of the surviving acolytes inside the shrine had wakened their sleeping companions and were ready to defend the doorway. But the resourceful sea elf had meantime clad himself in the high priest's sharkskin robe and triple-shark-mouth tiara, and using a Disguise spell, convinced the acolytes that he had sent these invaders to test them and that they had all better surrender. The one acolyte who had saved and disbelieved the disguise was bludgeoned to death by the others at the orders of the fake high-priest. That out of the way, the explorers noticed a dark line on the horizon and an ominous rushing sound. The sailor recognized it as a tsunami and estimated that they had little more than an hour before it hit. Looting the fane, which consisted of a few cabins of a shipwreck atop a rocky islet pierced by a well, they came away with the jewelry of a nobleman preserved in a cask of sherry and some valuable books. But the same high tide that had eased their passage over the drowned zombies now filled up the well and access to the passages below, filled with the donations of the faithful. Gnaro threw some gnomish sausage into the water and quickly attracted one of the guardian seawolves, who provided enough deterrent for the party to gather up their spoils and head for the hills. A wise move, for when the tidal wave hit it was ridden by a giant sharktopus, unholy spawn of Dagon and Charybdis. In the aftermath of the disaster, the party heard some strange stories circulating. Merchants and jewelers who had rushed back to their strongholds in the city, ahead of anyone else, had found emptied cellars and strongrooms they thought secure, their broken doors not wholly convincing as tsunami damage. Could the party have been set up to trigger the wrath of Dagon, God of Tides, King of Watery Death, as part of some larger, astoundingly callous caper? Best not to think about it, or the treasures you left behind in the passages underneath the Fane ... In the afternoon we played a fun, short scenario in Paolo's Cthonic Codex world, with themes of goats, moss, and a ghost dragon whose fossilized ribcage was a bridge in a canyon. The AFG system is about as simple as it gets and I recommend it for anyone who wants to prioritize ideas and creativity over rules and process, plus it has one of the coolest magic systems out there. Paolo and I then played in a demo of Lords of War, a card-battling game with simple rules but very deep strategic play. Dragonmeet lives up to the second part of its compound. It is a great place to meet people with all kinds of ad-hoc gaming going on, and you tend to run into a lot of people you know from the gaming scene if you have lived in Southeast England for a while. This time it continued till 11 with open gaming, which was a great improvement, even though I had to get dinner with some old L5R cronies and run off to catch the last train. Labels: conventions, dragonmeet, one page dungeon, one-shots, play report, sharktopus This coming Saturday I'll be at Dragonmeet 2013 in London, running the below adventure in the morning and most likely playing in Paolo's game in the afternoon. Dragonmeet is a very enjoyable one-day convention with more punch than you'd think, in terms of attendant luminaries. The adventure will be run in 52 Pages rules and is basically an adaptation (with some twists) of a recent One Page Dungeon Contest winner, so if you're coming down, don't delve into the spoilers... And yes, I am continuing the tradition of prog-rock/metal influence after last year's Heart of the Sunrise. Oh, one more thing. Here's part of the town map I'm using, adapted from one of Dyson Logos' creations. Labels: conventions, dragonmeet, events, Maps Strong Magic Cursed I forget where in the multitudinous blogoland, but someone posted a comment to the effect that high-level characters in Lamentations of the Flame Princess (think basic D&D with player character power dialed a bit down) don't do well in high-level AD&D modules made for more souped-up characters.That may be so - and is doubly true of my own 52 Pages rules where you can't come in with 4 magic missiles and 2 fireballs prepared at the same time. I mean, great. The less overwhelming your high-level characters, the more you approach the ideal where big scary monsters are actually a threat to them rather than resorting to blind-tiger gimmicks ("you wake up naked and bereft in an anti-magic zone") or stupid dumb munchkin armies of 4 beholders and 20 frost giants, etc. The fewer bonuses pile up on them, the less you feel you need to compensate in an eternal treadmill of armor class and hit bonuses. Now, another assumption of high-level AD&D, that grittier referees may balk at, is the ubiquity of magic items. A 7th level character in AD&D is likely to be tricked out in at least +2 everything, or a couple of wands and many lesser items if a spellcaster. One answer to this, of course, is the low-magic campaign where items are rare. The answer I prefer is "keep Fantasia weird" and filled with magic, but balance strong magic - most +2 and definitely all +3 and above - with the cosmic revenge of the universe on tools that so defiantly flout its laws - with the karmic debt paid for owning a sword that cleaves bronze like butter - with, quite simply, the human energy cost of a stick that shoots death. Something's got to pay somewhere. (In effect - a shallower and broader implementation of the 1st edition AD&D "random drawback" approach to artifact-level magic.) 30 Random Drawbacks for Magic Weapons and Armor (d20, -5 at +2, +5 for each plus above +2) "Armor" here includes shields. 0 or less: No drawback 1: -3 to a random saving throw. 2: -1 to all saving throws. 3: Accentuates your worst personality traits. -2 Charisma 4: Constant whispering sound makes it hard to concentrate. -2 Intelligence 5: Estranges you from God and nature. -2 Wisdom 6: Exhausting to wield. -1 Strength if an armor, -1 Constitution if a weapon. 7: Makes unexpected, clumsy, confining moves. -1 Dexterity. 8: Take 1 hp damage when you equip it. 9: Take 1 hp damage when you un-equip it. 10: If you die while wielding/wearing it, you rise immediately as an undead creature of hit dice appropriate to your level, and attack the party immediately. 11: Has minuses instead of pluses when fighting one creature type (reptiles, undead, humans, etc.) 12: Animals are unfriendly to you while carrying it. 13: +1 of its enchantment vanishes for the day when you hit (weapon) or are hit (armor) on a natural 13. 14: You need to eat five times as much on any day you use it in combat. 15: While wielding or wearing it, unintelligent enemies attack you by choice. 16: When you are aware of an enemy, you have +3 move to go towards them, and -3 to go away. 17: To enjoy its magical benefit, requires you to forswear your religion and follow an obscure, nearly-dead god, wearing its symbol and following its strange customs. 18: Can't heal HP while you're carrying/wearing it. 19: Glows visibly when enemies are near, within 60'... but only if you already know they're near. 20: Jealous ... drops from your grasp if you're carrying another weapon (weapon), falls off your body if you're carrying any other magic item (armor). 21: Each time you do (weapon) or take (armor) 8 or more HP of damage in one blow, you lose 1 HP. 22: Fogs your vision, you can only see 30' in dim light. 23: Makes an audible screaming sound when it hits (weapon) or when you are hit (armor). 24: Only has its magical powers each day if exposed to the rays of the dawn. 25: You must rest and not attack one round out of five while wielding or wearing the item. 26: You lose the ability to speak while wielding/wearing it. 27: Gives -1 to hit (if armor) or 1 worse armor class (if weapon). 28: You hit your nearby friends (weapon) or your nearby friends hit you (armor) on a natural to hit roll of 3. 29: Any NPC's who see it and are able to wield/wear it must save (Will/WIS/spell) or become covetous and scheme to take it from you. 30: Powerful wizard/demon/undead creature thinks the item is theirs and begins pursuing you d4 weeks after you acquire the item. Labels: balance, design, high levels, magic items, tables Wandering Monsters, Theory and Practice In theory: The Dungeon Master keeps careful track of time as the party explores the dungeon, minute by minute, and at prescribed intervals he or she rolls dice for wandering monsters. In practice: The Dungeon Master rolls for wandering monsters when he or she remembers that wandering monsters are supposed to be rolled for. This usually happens at a time when the party is dithering, arguing, meandering, or otherwise failing to entertain the Dungeon Master. This also happens when the party resorts to noisy, obvious solutions to a problem. Also applies to torches, lanterns, rations, &c. Labels: DMing, encounters, monsters Damn Halfling Birthday Present It's my birthday today but I have a present for you, Bilbo Baggins style. I finished the last of the 52 Pages. There will follow a phase of tidying and editing and then the final pdf will be released on the world. Click to blow it up This one's the sample adventure - text a little condensed but I had to respect the artistic vision. I meant it to show a good intro-level adventure, nothing too idiosyncratic, but with some interesting hooks, clues, and challenges. Of possible interest - I de-cliched the last two encounters, originally it was the mirror that possessed you but I switched the function, so now the demon jumps out of the mirror while the dead guy possesses you. Those damn halflings! Labels: adventure, example, one page rules One Page GM Advice Here is page 52 of the 52 pages. (Page 51 still needs to be finished, the sample adventure, but we are almost there folks.) Anything obvious I left out? Posted by Roger G-S at 08:49 1 comment: Labels: advice, DMing, one page rules What Rough Bestiary: Agricola's De Animantibus Subterraneis Patrick Stuart is the one to blame for invoking it, and Humza Kazmi for completing the summoning, on G+ recently. So now we have Georgius Agricola's underground monster manual for entertainment. Basilisk vs. weasel There is the usual medieval bestiary nonsense about how bears lick their cubs into shape because Ovid said so, foxes fish with their tails, weasels kill basilisks, and also some choice bits: Killer hamster: "It seems angry and caustic to a degree that if an unprotected horseman were to pursue it, it is accustomed to leap up and seize on the face of the horse, and if someone were to capture it, it is accustomed to hold on by biting." [109] Haemorrhoid snake: unfortunate name for "a snake whose bite was said to cause bleeding from all over the body" [117] Fire toad: "On the other hand, the poisonous frog, which our miners call by their own word puriphrunos (fire toad) because of the color of fire which is on it, hides continuously among rocks as if buried and interred... In this way they appear in solid rocks, although there are no holes to be seen." [119] Six types of demons: "In fact, Psellus, when he classified the number of demons into six types, says that this kind is worse than the others, because the material of its skin is thicker." [121] (Psellus' classification, found here, is into Igneous, Aerial, Earthly, Aqueous, Subterranean and Lucifugus - a whole topic unto itself.) Hobgoblins: "For they passionately ridicule joy; and they seem to do many things, but do nothing completely." They appear as old men clad in the manner of miners, 3/4 as tall as a dwarf, and were enslaved by the Swedish. [121-122] The use of these creatures is left as an exercise to the reader. Labels: demons, medieval, monsters Hiero and D&D Inspired by Appendix N fever, I recently picked up and read Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey (1973), which I'd never read before -although I soon realized that as a teenager I'd read some of its derivative works, like the nearer-future World Enough, And Time, and the farther-future Dark Is The Sun. For Lanier wrote the original post-apocalyptic, mutant-fauna, ancient-artifacts, psychic-powers fantasy, in which a heroic priest-mentalist and his psi-sensitive moose steed wander across the Great Lakes region millennia after the nuclear holocaust, gathering a band of unlikely allies to fight a cabal of evil psychic sorcerers. Naturally, it has been noticed that Gamma World was pretty much an attempt to go gaming in this setting. What isn't recognized so much is how Lanier's universe also influenced the constitution of D&D from the supplements onward (although some are hip). Specifically, once you take out the mythical, natural and Tolkienesque creatures from the D&D wilderness tables, what you're left with is a mix of giant-sized animals, animal-men, and oddball mutant creatures. That's pretty much my "WEIRD" table when I tried to sift wilderness monsters into six different genres, and that's pretty much what Hiero finds, day in, day out, in his journey. The ancient ruins, the long distances between tiny points of civilization, all can be laid down to Tolkien; but the roll-four-times-a-day, teeming encounter-fest of D&D, that's Lanier. Artifacts, too. There's a scene in Hiero's Journey that has to have inspired the artifact examination rules in Gamma World, where Hiero finds a strange device on the body of an evil sorcerer, and tries to find out what it does, at the end going as far as to prop it up and jab at its last button with an eight-foot stick. But this kind of procedure also describes D&D magic items. Unlike the heroes of folklore or fantasy, who come into fairly straightforward items as gifts or treasure trove, the heroes of D&D, like the far-future explorers of the ruins, have to contend with a relic of the ancients being possibly cursed. The artifacts section in the Dungeon Master's Guide even suggests creating random benefits and drawbacks. So, when your adventurers gingerly try out that new potion or necklace, they're acting more post-apocalyptic than fantasy -- acting out of wariness, rather than awe. And then there's psionics, and perhaps only an obsession with Hiero and the Deryni novels can explain why Gary mixed mental powers with magic in both editions he had his hands on. It's pretty clear that the D&D psionic combat system draws on Hiero's many mental duels with evil forces, which describe different modes of attack and defense. Very present in the novel, too, is the central balancing idea for D&D psionics - while characters can luck into these amazing powers essentially for free, using them opens you up to attention from a whole new range of unwholesome entities. Finally, one thing the illustration reminds me of: like Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea series and, a little later, Samuel R. Delany's Neveryon stories, Hiero's Journey is very much a post-Civil Rights movement fantasy, where North America has mainly been repopulated by ethnic minorities, and pale people are barbaric and seldom seen. A reminder, perhaps, that the old school had a more progressive streak to it - think M.A.R. Barker's Tekumel, based on non-European cultures - before all the cliches about Scottish dwarves and the like sunk in. Labels: appendix N, artifacts, fantasy, gygax, literature, monsters, psionics, science fiction Advanced Readings in Dungeons and Dragons This has been going on for some time without the OSR seeming to take notice ... but Tor books is deep into an appreciation of the Appendix N works from the 1st edition DM Guide, courtesy of Tim Callahan and/or Mordecai Knode. So far they've hit most of the right switches - correctly placed Vance between Clark Ashton Smith and Gene Wolfe (but missing the Planet of Adventure entirely), nailed down Derleth succinctly as an author and influence on D&D, and dug up hidden gold from obscurities like Fredric Brown. Labels: appendix N, critique, literature The Dead Hand of Graph Paper Making your map conform exactly to the dimensions of an 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet of graph paper is a pure convenience for the referee. You think it helps the players in mapping, too? I can point to any number of 3 or 4 sheet maps my players have made simply because they did not start mapping at the exact spot in the graph paper that would make their map fit. And giving that spot away is giving away too much information - robbing your players of the mystery experience. As, eventually, they will be cheated of that experience when the grand design all comes together, the edges of the underworld resolve themselves, and they realize that lo, they have been living in a jar of Tang. Intimations of quadrangular cosmic order For an alternate inspirations here are some real world cave mapping contest winners that Patrick Stuart turned up on G+. It's only a pity that the highest resolution available is not very high, so that we can't clearly see the feature markings and labels. But the dungeonability of the Cold Sink Cave map is clear from both the overhead and side angles... Only about 1/5 of a long, twisty, branching cave. as is the magnificent side profile of the Merlin cave... I have recently been working on a project that starts with a cave complex map. Looking at it now, I realize that it addresses my frustrations with the graph-paper format of early modules and the topography of places like Stonehell. Not every corner is filled, true, but my map is still more compact and passage/chamber oriented than the actual cave examples, which is maybe a concession to the explorers' own map. Although I can't deny its traditionalist charm, the flat rectangle is only barely admissible as architecture and frankly implausible as natural topography. Some doubt that exact mapping is useful or desirable; I'm not one of those. Having the world come to life on graph and hex paper is part of the exploration experience in the traditional game that I wouldn't give up for anything. But the quad-rules rectangle should feel like a window into a world with its own existence - not a prison for a plan of an artificial playground. Labels: adventure design, caves, Maps, realism Every once in a while a commenter will remind me that, yeah, I am slowly eking out a series of genre/environment cliche d20 tables and it wouldn't be too hard to get the next one going. Ideas for these come over a few days and then, there you have it. Labels: fantasy, genres, tables Sample Setting in 32 Encounters This is page number 50 of the 52 pages. It's a slightly less-than-generic medieval town-to-village-to-dungeon of the kind I describe on this other page. Page 51 will be the sample dungeon. I wish I could put an example of play in as well but I think page 52 will have to be more general GM advice. What's important with these encounters is to make most of them lively - to work implicit action into that short one-line description. One last-minute feature I thought of: instead of d8, roll d10 or d12, and on a result of 9 of higher roll 2d8 and have the party walk in on an encounter between those two. Another idea: give each area a "boss" that is encountered instead of the first encounter that would be a repeat. It might be a tripping druid in the woods, a shy wererat in the village, the river god's daughter on the river, or the Baron in town. This means the setting has the feel of slow discovery as the characters settle in it. Labels: example, one page rules, settings, settlements, wilderness Two-word Setting Seeds Here's a simple idea inspired by noisms' observation that having a basic idea about your setting is key to improvisation. I would add that at the same time, you have to come up with ideas that fit the setting but stay fresh, because the imagination under pressure reverts to mediocrity. So how do you turn the stale into the fresh, without veering off the deep and and having encounters with toasters and snuffleupagi? One answer is to take the elements of your familiar setting and combine them in new ways. Let's say your party has decided to flip the bird to your carefully prepared plans, and heads to a village of adventure you haven't prepared, in hex 2049, the genre being medieval European fantasy. You quickly fill the hexes around with the first ideas that come off the top of your head, in adjective-noun format. Then to your dismay you realize they're all old-hat cliches: So, just switch the adjectives across the middle, and you're left with this set of encounters that really crackles and challenges: This works with as few as two cliches - if the party goes off the track and has to choose, make it a choice between frost giants and Skull Castle. Oh, I mean skull giants and Frost Castle. Better now. Labels: creativity, encounters, improvisation A Cellar By Any Other Name They found a DUNGEON. Would this story have gone semi-viral under any other name? Not a basement, mind you, a dungeon. Would a secret cellar or crawlspace be "amazing"? And by that hoary name, older by any reason than the Victorian building, they invoke all that goes with it - torture and skeletons and exploration and adventure. Even if there's no sign of hobgoblins, only hooligans. The steam-tunnel legends that circulated in the early days of the roleplaying hobby betray the desire to transform the surplus space of industrial civilization into something haunted, magical. Even though this photo essayist doesn't descend into full confabulation as does the Ted the Caver website, you can hardly fault someone for wishing to open that trapdoor and hear the grunting of pig-headed mutants far, far below ... or the scurrying of rats, down the twisting stair to a bone-littered cavern, millennia of cannibal rites and madness. Labels: architecture, dungeons Kicking the Cleric Out of the Niche Here and here are Talysman's posts where he hates "niche protection." It's a question of who-can-do-what in a role-playing game. I agree that the rules should be based on a view of what characters can do that has its own integrity, not manufactured to create some outcome at the player level. And yet - especially when it comes to magic - there's such a variety of plausible ways of doing things that we can't help but choose among systems. In that case, why not choose wisely? As I argued a while ago, a good game will strike a balance between making a given skill set useful while not making it strictly necessary. One example: the cleric. Many experienced players, depending on their D&D-like system, consider the cleric to be an indispensable member of the group. Let's look at the most extreme version of this, in AD&D, where it is easy to get a cleric who starts with two first level spells(1 bonus spell due to 15+ wisdom), almost always Cure Light Wounds. So you get a slightly less effective fighter with one less hit point on average, worse attack and limited weapons, BUT: Average HP restored from those two Cure Light Wounds: 9 Average HP of a first level fighter: 5.5 That's right, a character who not only fights in their own right, not only turns undead and can do miscellaneous other things with spells, but provides a force multiplier in the course of play (assuming damage is not taken in huge lots) equal to almost two fighters. The decision in OD&D and B/X to not give clerics ANY spells until 2nd level in hindsight seems reasonable, although Labyrinth Lord climbs down from this with 1 spell at 1st level and so on. Even without bonus spells this is still a pretty nice force multiplier, that lags behind the fighter's hit dice at middle levels but perks up with the ability to cure serious wounds and raise dead at higher. The choice, still, is not ideal; between a game where clerics have to prove their gumption by spending their first level as a sucky fighter who can turn undead, and a game where clerics are seen as mandatory to the point where people will play them even though they don't really want to. I've seen first-hand in my gaming group the dismay with which players face the prospect of adventuring without a cleric (my 52 pages version has a healing power that likewise is a pretty big force multiplier). The obvious fix is to do what I did with wizards to stop the "sleep/magic missile" fixation; allow only one example of each spell to be cast a day. Because my system lets spells become available at every character level, I could even give a very minor healing spell at cleric character level 1 and the Cure Light Wounds equivalent only at cleric character level 2. This might be the last major change to the 52 Pages, but I think it achieves the goal of letting clerics feel useful at Level 1, but not indispensable at higher levels. Hell, I might even give them their at-will turning back. Labels: classes, clerics, design, spells Famous Teleportation Mishaps How does teleportation work, exactly? That is, you are in one place, and then another; presumably, the air rushes in to fill the space after you are gone; but what happens to the stuff in the space you now enter? Two possibilities. One, you somehow mingle with what you teleport into; the basis of both versions of The Fly, and of the nightmare scenario where you end up immediately dead after teleporting into a wall. The other, which I prefer, is that you displace whatever you are teleporting into. Still leads to a sad and lonely death if you teleport into solid matter, but much more forgiving otherwise. Of course, nothing says fantasy has to be consistent. Indeed, I'd think our intuitive approach to magical teleportation is a mix of the two ideas. We like the gruesome consequences of teleporting halfway into a floor or ending up as a Brundlefly, but don't consider the consequences of mingling for normal teleportation, where your whole system would be pumped with a nitrogen - oxygen - CO2 mixture that probably would give rise to some version of the bends. Summoning sickness, anyone? Displacement, likewise, has some interesting side effects if applied consistently. For example, any wizard's district or magical academy where teleporting is practiced constantly would probably have an abundance of the hallmarks of slightly off teleports: footprints in the floor where a teleport went slightly too low, or in some cases craters where a wizard had to be dug out of solid rock. One of the better dead ends in a dungeon might be one where, using detect magic, somebody dug their way to the entombed corpse of a way-off wizard to rob him for his enchanted loot. All that's left is the indentation of his body, maybe a skeleton, and a cursed item for the unwary .... Call it pedantry if you like - but it's the good kind of pedantry, where working out the details of a consistent world leads not to "this can't happen" or "this is more boring" but "wow, really, that happens?" Finally, for some reason, fantasy teleportation doesn't seem to arouse the same worries about scrambling matter that sci-fi* teleportation does, at least if game rules are anything to go on. Maybe it's because we have an implicit model of magic as working off some idea of Platonic forms - a kind of object-oriented programming, if you will. Thus, the danger in a spell that changes the "location" attribute of "you" is not that you will be changed, but that you will end up where you don't want to be. By contrast, sci-fi teleportation works in a molecular physics of reality where it's much more clear that you will have to be disassembled and reassembled, monad by monad, giving rise to all sorts of philosophical dilemmas and wacky mishaps. * Is the last person who viscerally hates this term finally dead? Labels: Magic, science, science fiction, teleportation Clever Rules Fade Away After a languid summer I'm ready to enter the home stretch and put the final touches on my 52 Pages house rules. Scrap Princess' review reminded me that there is always a gap between the clever system you think up at home and what actually goes down at the table. Indeed, I had some stuff in there that bore little resemblance to the way I actually play, like the "encounter start" matrix that was my substitute for surprise rolls. So I managed to boil it down to be more like guidelines than rules, and more like what I'll actually do in play - figure out the surprise status by common sense, with maybe a roll for alertness if I'm unsure of the disposition of the defenders. Likewise for my magical treasure table, which caused some puzzlement when it first came out. I decided to make it more straightforward and more geared toward low levels - appropriately for the "Basic" style levels 1-3 focus in the 52 Pages. I might make the main treasure table more straightforward too. Finally, I had an insight about combat where I could get it down to fewer phases if I realized that combat should go with the most urgent stuff first - not in the order that you might think things happen. So, melee first and disengaging, then shoot, magic and move, and miscellaneous stuff at the end of the round. To handle the weird gamesmanship and panzerbush situations that might arise I allowed "overwatch" to happen so you can shoot the charging guy at close range while he is charging you. In a surprise situation, by the way, you can move first then melee. Oh and yeah, I got rid of the grid. I still play that way but I'm pretty happy with a system that looks more spacious on the page and asks people to think about the dimensions of the fight rather than necessarily making them plot it all out. And I've made a start on the example campaign, dungeon, and play session that round out the last four pages. So some of that soon, I'm hoping. Labels: Combat, design, magic items, one page rules, surprise, treasure The Mississippi Sea As Joe Bloch has observed, the Greyhawk map has a lot of interesting coastline, unlike boring maps like Middle Earth. This is, perhaps, just a conscious design decision made by Gary Gygax as he transitioned his Greyhawk campaign from the map of North America to an actual commercial product. In place of a big chunk of land in the Flanaess' equivalent of the US South and Midwest, we have a great two-armed sea. Great maps by Anne B Meyer. Could be this a homage to the great inland sea that spread over the Midwest in Cretaceous times? Perhaps, but only indirectly. In fact, the sea was far to the west of the present-day Great Lakes. Still, the idea of a North American inland sea would have been known in the 60's from archeology. Its receding phase as the Pierre Sea, shown below in a map by Ron Blakeley, presents an intriguing profile in the spirit of the Greyhawk map. A geographically closer influence, perhaps, is the idea that the Mississippi Plain which stretches up to southern Illinois, surrounded by hills and bluffs on every side, is in danger of becoming submerged. Although mass media often focus on the possibility that California might drown or become an island from the activity of the San Andreas Fault, another equally severe seismic zone is located along the Mississippi. The New Madrid earthquakes in 1811-1812 were the strongest and most extensive recorded in North America. Perhaps on the basis of this anxiety, a series of psychics since at least 1983 have produced remarkably similar-looking visionary maps of the future North America with huge inundations of California and the Mississippi Valley, often connecting the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico. A risen Atlantis, accounting for sea level rises elsewhere, is optional. A handy compilation of these is provided by a diligent poster on the David Icke forums, although the bloom somewhat goes off these prophecies when you notice that they were all predicted for different dates ranging from 1994 to 2012. Although a little late to have influenced Greyhawk, Gygax had avowedly read up on Theosophy and may have come across the 1940's cataclysmic geographical prophecies of the psychic Edgar Cayce, who attributed his "future map" with a marine Mississippi to a coming pole shift: Of course, geological facts make the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys the most low-lying parts of the Midwest, so it is no great stretch to imagine them as the basis for a more watery continent. Indeed, extreme global warming scenarios also put Chicago - the location for Greyhawk in the early campaign - in a position to trade between lakes and sea, with the Ozarks standing in for the Pomarj peninsula: Conspiracy believers, however, generally reject global warming and see the coming Mississippi Sea as the plot of a purposefully evil government, with levee demolitions, sinkholes and FEMA preparations all pointing to the cataclysm, in which a polar shift may or may not be involved. Thus we stand in the 21st Century. Anyway! All of this suggests a slightly different look to the North American Greyhawk map. Greyhawk and Dyvers reclaim their positions as Chicago and Milwaukee, respectively, and some combination of seismic activity and sea level rise produces this geography, on a scale of 125 miles to the hex: The three cities of the Greyhawk campaign, here, are a buffer between the proud kingdom of Acrondy and the plains realms to the west, while also profiting from north-south trade in raw materials from the woods and mines of the Lakes region. Ashland, from the etymology of Nashville, is a secretive realm ruled by druids and bards, where something real bad happened to blast the mountains in the east. The Four Winds kingdom is a nod to the etymology of Kansas, while Acrondy is a breakaway state from the declining Great Kingdom over the mountains. And somewhere in Manitoba, Iuz weaves his plots ... Labels: campaign, Greyhawk, gygax, North America, settings North American Greyhawk The clearest sign that Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk was based on an earlier campaign that used a map of North America is the Lake Superior/Nyr Dyv resemblance. Recently, I decided to develop a little more the small campaign world that had grown up around the university gaming society's forays into the Castle of the Mad Archmage. Player-named, a village named Linton and a town named Burwell coexisted with the "Grey City" (Greyhawk with numbers filed off). I wanted the world to have the same feel, looking like a slightly different derivation of Gygax's North America campaign with an homage as transparent as the "Mad Archmage" dungeon itself. Southern Wisconsin, then, is the new location of the Grey City, and it sits in the hills at the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi. Except that, using the same translation gimmick as the Atlas of True Names, it is now at the Great Grand River and the Redley (red-lay). It benefits from brisk river trade between the realms of Blackmoor up the river, the lands of Ernst to the east, and the cities downriver. Lake Superior: Lake of Unknown depths Lake Michigan: Lake of Fog (undoubtedly sorcerous) Site of Chicago: Ruins of the Stinking City Lake Geneva: Shrine of St. Cuthbert and the location of many pilgrimages and conclaves. But what about points south? Well, that is where the real craziness comes in. Get ready for psychic visions, conspiratoids, and Cretaceous hijinks as ... the Bay gets Woolly, next time on Roles, Rules and Rolls! Labels: campaign, castle of the mad archmage, Greyhawk, gygax, Maps, North America 52 Pages Tutorial Character Sheet One of my first old school things to get attention was the Old School Players character sheet which had all the rules for rolling up a character on it. Last weekend I was getting some new players started and thought it would be a good idea to work up an overlay for the existing 52 Pages sheet that would kind of simulate this experience. It ended up as three pieces of paper that you would cut various sized holes in, with instructions for filling in the parts of the sheet that were visible through the holes at he time. This was clever but proved a little unwieldy in practice; I probably should have made the overlays a different color than the sheet. Anyway, this gave me the idea to just go back to the old ways and produce a character sheet with the instructions on it. After some simplifications and "ask the GM" handwaving I managed to fit things onto two sides of a piece of paper (European A4, so North Americans may want to do some resizing). Blogger is being funny about updating the links section on the right so here is the link to the shared doc. Enjoy! Labels: character sheet, new players, one page rules, tutorial Irony and Gamer Uncool The second great coping mechanism to stave off the Fundamental Uncoolness of D&D is irony. Forget hipster mustaches and Alanis, this sense of irony is closer to the literary sense, or the kind of "romantic irony" discussed by such writers as Schlegel. Ironic literature is conscious of the ways in which it is art and not reality. One way to handle this, then, is joking about the gap between a lofty representation and its base material. As soon as literature became aware of itself, it became aware of this rift, with the earliest expression being Don Quijote. I keep coming back to Cervantes because the Quijote staked out an early and commanding position at the tangled cloverleaf intersection of fiction, fandom, fantasy and moral panic. In spite of the increasingly baroque proliferation of fantasism in popular culture across the past fifty years, nobody has even tried to wrest an American Quijote out of the rich source material - wielding a bat'leth, perhaps, and defying a couple of gangbangers. Perhaps it's because the new Quijotes have a posse, a Facebook group, a con. They no longer tower in solitude over the Castilian plain, and whereas before the curate and Sancho Panza might have staged an intervention, nowadays they just shrug and go to watch The Big Bang Theory. Three ways irony can enter a game, and reduce the self-consciousness of becoming one's character ... 1. At its least threatening, gamer irony-lite mixes the fantasy world with references from outside. Every dwarf named Shakira, every Holy Grail gag, every "joke" dungeon level tries to water down the FUDD in the same way that National Lampoon undercut the earnestness of Tolkien with Bored of the Rings. Some of these jokes have become so reflexive that they have themselves become uncool, contaminated with the residue of gamer earnestness - see Holy Grail, above. 2. At the same time more sophisticated and more nerdy, there's ironic distance to be had in the discrepancy between the fantasy world of the game and the rules used to simulate it. Two of the most successful RPG comic strips have played with this concept - Knights of the Dinner Table showing what a group of rules-lawyering players look like, Order of the Stick showing what a fantasy world looks like when awareness and semi-awareness of the rules absurdities pops through. These jokes require the most inside knowledge to pull off, but they also work against absorption in the game by showing the artifice by which it's upheld. 3. It's also an old source of ironic amusement to hold an unflattering mirror up to the self-same daydreamer, from Quijote to Walter Mitty. The ironizer of roleplaying has the same strategy at hand, but almost always it's the other guy who inhabits an unflattering reality in contrast to the high-flown fantasy world. Thus we get the alpha-nerd stance, with its one-two of "We know enough about this game ... to make fun of the losers who play it." As self-hating and hypocritical as this attitude is, there's no shortage of it around, as witnessed by Fear of Girls, Zero Charisma, and so on. A particular twist of the knife is to interpret role-playing as inadequacy compensation, so the weakling plays a barbarian, the socially challenged plays a smooth lover man and so on. I should also mention the rare times when irony works in favor of fictional immersion - the irony when game play fails to fulfill the expectations of fiction. The villain makes her first appearance ... and the heroes manage to find a way to kill her dead then and there. The quest of the long lost McGuffin ... turns out to have been a false rumor all along.All the same, somehow, this kind of irony also works against the self-inflicted stigma of immersion because it makes the players feel like they are taking part in something real and messy and mature, not something out of storybook land. Next, finally: Being immersed and staying cool. Labels: cool, humor, irony, nerds, RPGs, satire Turning the Fantasy Party to Superheroes We now pause our discussion of coolness in D&D for a word from our Joesky sponsor. In the fantasy adventuring party, some of them fight and others have spells. In the superhero party, everyone fights and everyone has one "spell." (Except Batman.) (And Doctor Strange.) Superknight by John Staub. This suggests a "medieval mutants" campaign using the standard rules of your D&D-oid system, but there are no clerics or wizards. Instead, everyone is a fighter or thief (or a scholar, with stats as a wizard and gaining experience twice as quickly). All PCs and major villains get a mutant power that is a (d6: 1-3, cleric, 4-6, wizard) spell, level determined by the minimum of 2d6. You get an additional, thematically related spell at every odd level. If the power's level is: Greater than twice your level: Using it knocks you out for 1 hour. Greater than your level: You can only use it once a day. Equal to your level: You can use it twice per day. Lower than your level: You can use it three times a day Lower than half your level: You can use it at will. Also, this looks good for a psionics system in a standard fantasy campaign, with an appropriate XP tax on the lucky psionicist. Labels: characters, classes, fantasy, spells, superheroes It's Not Uncool, It's Normal! One of the ways to deny the fundamental uncoolness of D&D is to strenuously insist that it's cool. This fuels a perennial struggle to find ways to bend role-playing games into this fiction. And this struggle has gotten harder over time. I mean, there was a brief time at the start, before it got out in the mass media, when they could make like D&D was some kind of edgy activity that all the beautiful people were doing - something like Fletcher Pratt's or Norman Bel Geddes' chic Manhattan wargames: And then ... nope, nope, nope... Floundering ever since the stigma descended on roleplaying games in the 1980's, two escape routes have generally been tried. One is to fight against the shallower definition of "uncool," to try and purge away the fantasy content from a role-playing game. "This game is cool because it's about real things" - or about socially acceptable forms of escapism, anyway. At this task, roleplaying murder mysteries succeed; roleplaying games about rock bands fail (because only 11 year olds imagine themselves as members of a cool rock band); and some other attempts just merit a stunned silence. Even in the art of roleplaying games we can see the struggle between the desire to go full-on socially uncool and pimp out your game like the ultimate stoner van or Manowar album cover, or to be "mature" and "restrained" and bring it in like a Blue Note sleeve. DCC RPG, in other words, versus Old School Hack or mine own 52 Pages. This may even apply to game mechanics, wherein lengthy tables and baroque calculations represent a certain disregard for the novice, while stripped-down and simple play holds out the hope that you might get Aunt Tillie to play with you yet. The second escape route is to accept the fantasy scenario but to deny the truly "uncool" thing about roleplaying, the immersion and identification with character. So, we get the comparisons to chess or to improvisational theater. The former implies that it's just a game of strategy played with funny pieces, the latter implies that all the play-acting is not self-indulgent or self-threatening but done with professional control for an enraptured audience. "We're storytelling!" No you're not. You're collaborating on a story through role-taking and the closest normal-people analogy is when a bunch of drama show writers get together in a room and work out what happens next ... but each of them takes on a part from the show ... and these parts continue year on year ... Really, the only truthful answer is: "There is nothing else like it." Labels: aesthetics, cool, design, normality, RPGs, style There's Cool, And Then There's Cool When I say D&D is fundamentally uncool, what do I mean anyway? The word "cool" has shifted around so much that it's hard to know. It needs explanation. A key text here is Robert Farris Thompson's article An Aesthetic of the Cool, from 1973, the journal African Arts. What is cool to the Gola of Liberia? Thompson quotes Warren D'Azevedo: Ability to be nonchalant at the right moment ... to reveal no emotion in situations where emotion and sentimentality are acceptable - in other words, to act as if one's mind were in another world. You may protest that transportation through fiction, fandom or gaming is just that, putting one's mind in another world, but this misses the point. Cool implies that the other world is a calmer, less emotional place. To travel to another world in order to excite the passions is the opposite of cool. "Coolness" by Thompson's definition is a poised posture, a place without conflict. By removing expression outward, you remove the possibility of interruption or ridicule inward. Other writers on the aesthetics of cool among African Americans and its general percolation out to the world culture - such Mintz, Billson, and Pountain & Robins - have remarked on its potential as resistance. For Black men in America, cool has been a way to negate the clownish features laid on them by racist iconography, to mentally check out from an environment unresponsive to their dignity and needs. The appropriation of cool, in the service of musical and other aesthetic trends, is laid forth in Pountain & Robins' 2000 book, auguring in the hipster era. Ultimately for them, cool is a "permanent state of private rebellion," a state that vanishes once it calls attention to its own coolness. This reminds us that D&D is "uncool" in a more superficial sense, that of the well-known American high school hierarchy with its "cool kids" and "uncool kids." But in any high school there are two kinds of cool kids. You have the popular kids who show their passions for socially approved costumes, games, and fields of expertise like cheerleading, school spirit and sports. Another kind, though, set their sights outside the high school walls. They are cool toward school but this form of resistance masks their passions, aimed elsewhere: alternative cinema, drama, music, art. In high school and college I played RPGs almost as much with a set of punk rockers as with the more overtly enthusiastic nerd crew. They were socially uncool and yet - in the anthropological sense - truly cool. In McLuhan's well-known distinction, roleplaying is one of the hottest of media, requiring hard mental and imaginative work to achieve the immersion that is its goal. Contrast this to "cool" media like television which ask for only open eyes. People who grow self-conscious or dissatisfied about roleplaying's hotness reach for the bottle of cool to cut it down. By a nice coincidence, I recently returned to the RPG Site forum after some days absence to find an argument brewing, relevant to all these points. The initiating question was whether anyone enjoys playing RPGs in costume. As I pointed out last post, this activity is the quintessence of the FUDD (Fundamental Uncoolness of D&D) and so not surprisingly sparked off heated protestations. Many posters spoke of their desire not to look like even more a geek than they already were, under the watchful eyes of sarcastic co-workers or Bible Belt society. But in an age of ubiquitous popularity of the Lord of the Rings films or Game of Thrones show, the uncool thing is not liking fantasy, but liking it in ... that way. That hot, immersive way that puts you at risk of disappearing entirely into the fantasy world, of regressing into childhood. That play-acting, masquerading, feasting and wassailing that Puritans have always sought to ban, that sensible people indulge in only at certain times of the year and in certain cities of the nation. Bad enough you read the books instead of consuming media (getting hotter ... look what happened to poor Quijote). Bad enough you play a game where you take the role of a character (getting hotter ... look what happened to poor Black Leaf). But to run around wearing the costumes? To unselfconsciously declaim in a funny accent, your lineage as a noble dwarf? You're hot as hell and most people can't take the heat. They have to turn up the cool - in one of several ways. Next: "We're Normal, Honest!" 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__label__wiki	0.689616	0.689616	BLA claims responsibility of attacks in Turbat, Nushki, and Mastung Source: Social.Media Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) Sarmachars (fighters) today targeted convoys of Pakistan Army in IED blasts in 2 different cities of Balochistan; Turbat and Noshki and carried out a grenade attack on a stall set up for 14 August in Mastung city. The BLA claims responsibility for all three attacks. BLA Sarmachars targeted a Pakistani army convoy in the Apsar area of Turbat this morning in an IED attack when they were heading towards the Abdarak camp. The IED attack severely damaged the forces’ vehicle, as a result of which multiple enemy soldiers were killed and wounded. After the attack, the occupying army personnel opened indiscriminate firing on the nearby Baloch population. Meanwhile, the enemy army captured a young Baloch named Muhammad Hayat in front of his mother and sister and shot him dead after ruthlessly torturing him. It has always been the MO of the Pakistani army when they are defeated by Baloch fighters; they take revenge in the form of butchering the innocent Baloch citizens. In another attack today in Noshki, Balochistan, our fighters targeted a convoy of Pakistani troops when they were heading out from their main camp to the city. The IED attack badly damaged a forces’ vehicle, which resulted in killing and injuring several forces’ personnel. Whereas in the third attack today, Baloch fighters targeted a stall set up for 14 August in Mastung city. The attack was carried out with a hand grenade bomb, as a result, the stall was completely destroyed. This attack is a continuation of BLA’s attacks on events and stalls of August 14. These attacks will continue with more intensity. Baloch people should stay away from any such stall or any event (held at the behest of the occupying army) to protect themselves from any possible loss of life and property. Jeeyand Baloch - spokesperson Baloch Liberation Army Belt and Road Initiative: Top Developments Belt and Road Initiative: What They're Saying BLA claims responsibility of attacks in Turbat, Nu... CPEC dogged by corruption, security concerns despi... Aware of threats to CPEC, enhancing security measu...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line217
__label__cc	0.643856	0.356144	22 New YALit in Stores 6/14-6/20 Plus Win #scandal by Sarah Ockler, Blazed by Jason Myers, and Summer of Yesterday by Gaby Triana Hi, everyone, Here we are with another roundup of books coming out this week. We've got three great giveaways and some wonderful author interviews--plus of course last week's winners. Don't forget to stop by every Monday for more giveaways and another round-up. And please, tell us what you're excited about this week! What are you reading? What can't you wait to get your hands on? The ladies of AYAP, Martina, Alyssa, Jan, Clara, and Lisa #Scandal by Sarah Ockler Released 6/17/2014 Lucy’s learned some important lessons from tabloid darling Jayla Heart’s all-too-public blunders: Avoid the spotlight, don’t feed the Internet trolls, and keep your secrets secret. The policy has served Lucy well all through high school, so when her best friend Ellie gets sick before prom and begs her to step in as Cole’s date, she accepts with a smile, silencing about ten different reservations. Like the one where she’d rather stay home shredding online zombies. And the one where she hates playing dress-up. And especially the one where she’s been secretly in love with Cole since the dawn of time. When Cole surprises her at the after party with a kiss under the stars, it’s everything Lucy has ever dreamed of… and the biggest BFF deal-breaker ever. Despite Cole’s lingering sweetness, Lucy knows they’ll have to ’fess up to Ellie. But before they get the chance, Lucy’s own Facebook profile mysteriously explodes with compromising pics of her and Cole, along with tons of other students’ party indiscretions. Tagged. Liked. And furiously viral. By Monday morning, Lucy’s been branded a slut, a backstabber, and a narc, mired in a tabloid-worthy scandal just weeks before graduation. Lucy’s been battling undead masses online long enough to know there’s only one way to survive a disaster of this magnitude: Stand up and fight. Game plan? Uncover and expose the Facebook hacker, win back her best friend’s trust, and graduate with a clean slate. There’s just one snag—Cole. Turns out Lucy’s not the only one who’s been harboring unrequited love... Purchase #Scandal at Amazon Purchase #Scandal at IndieBound View #Scandal on Goodreads Blazed by Jason Myers Jamie uncovers life-changing secrets from his past when he’s sent to live with a father he’s never met in this gritty novel from the author of Exit Here. and Run the Game. Jamie is invincible when he is high. His anger, his isolation, his mom’s manic mood swings—nothing can shatter his glass castle. But one brutal night upends everything, leaving his mom broken and Jamie betrayed. Sent to live with a father he’s never met, Jamie is determined to hate the man he blames for his mother’s ruin. And he blocks out the pain with drugs, fierce music, and sweet, sweet Dominique. Except the more time Jamie spends at his dad’s, the more his mother’s scathing stories start to unravel. Who is he supposed to believe? And how much will he have to sacrifice to uncover the truth? Purchase Blazed at Amazon Purchase Blazed at IndieBound View Blazed on Goodreads Summer of Yesterday by Gaby Triana Back to the Future meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Haley’s summer vacation takes a turn for the retro in this totally rad romantic fantasy. Summer officially sucks. Thanks to a stupid seizure she had a few months earlier, Haley’s stuck going on vacation with her dad and his new family to Disney’s Fort Wilderness instead of enjoying the last session of summer camp back home with her friends. Fort Wilderness holds lots of childhood memories for her father, but surely nothing for Haley. But then a new seizure triggers something she’s never before experienced—time travel—and she ends up in River Country, the campground’s long-abandoned water park, during its heyday. The year? 1982. And there—with its amusing fashion, “oldies” music, and primitive technology—she runs into familiar faces: teenage Dad and Mom before they’d even met. Somehow, Haley must find her way back to the twenty-first century before her present-day parents anguish over her disappearance, a difficult feat now that she’s met Jason, one of the park’s summer residents and employees, who takes the strangely dressed stowaway under his wing. Seizures aside, Haley’s used to controlling her life, and she has no idea how to deal with this dilemma. How can she be falling for a boy whose future she can’t share? Purchase Summer of Yesterday at Amazon Purchase Summer of Yesterday at IndieBound View Summer of Yesterday on Goodreads On The Road To Find Out by Rachel Toor WINNER: Rabiah Rowther A funny, uplifting debut about running, romance—and dealing with college rejection and other hurdles On New Year’s Day, Alice Davis goes for a run. Her first ever. It’s painful and embarrassing, but so was getting denied by the only college she cares about. Alice knows she has to stop sitting around and complaining to her best friend, Jenni, and her pet rat, Walter, about what a loser she is. But what doesn’t know is that by taking those first steps out the door, she is setting off down a road filled with new challenges—including vicious side stitches, chafing in unmentionable places, and race-paced first love—and strengthening herself to endure when the going suddenly gets tougher than she ever imagined. Author Question: What is your favorite thing about On The Road To Find Out? My favorite thing about On the Road to Find Out might be that my editor and I refer to it as OTRTFO. If you say all those initials out loud and fast, it kind of sounds like a melody. But my other favorite thing is that one of my funniest, smartest, sweetest characters (IMHO) is the size of a hot dog bun. I thought I was going to write a novel about running for all the people who love to run and for the many more who hate it and think they can’t do it. (They’re wrong, wrong, wrong, do you hear me? Wrong!) I ended up writing about college admissions, first love, and—keep an open mind here, people—why rats make the world’s best pets. If you read this book and you don’t love Walter the rat as much as Alice and I do, well, I’ve failed as an author. But if you have loved a rat, please write and tell me that. Rat lovers unite! Purchase On The Road To Find Out at Amazon Purchase On The Road To Find Out at IndieBound View On The Road To Find Out on Goodreads The Strange Maid by Tessa Gratton WINNER: Tammy George Fans of Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, and Maggie Stiefvater will embrace the richly drawn, Norse-influenced alternate world of the United States of Asgard, where cell phones, rock bands, and evangelical preachers coexist with dragon slaying, rune casting, and sword training in schools. Where the president runs the country alongside a council of Valkyries, gods walk the red carpet with Hollywood starlets, and the U.S. military has a special battalion dedicated to eradicating Rocky Mountain trolls. Signy Valborn was seven years old when she climbed the New World Tree and met Odin Alfather, who declared that if she could solve a single riddle, he would make her one of his Valkyrie. For ten years Signy has trained in the arts of war, politics, and leadership, never dreaming that a Greater Mountain Troll might hold the answer to the riddle, but that’s exactly what Ned the Spiritless promises her. A mysterious troll hunter who talks in riddles and ancient poetry, Ned is a hard man to trust. Unfortunately, Signy is running out of time. Accompanied by an outcast berserker named Soren Bearstar, she and Ned take off across the ice sheets of Canadia to hunt the mother of trolls and claim Signy’s destiny. Author Question: What is your favorite thing about The Strange Maid? THAT I FINISHED WRITING IT. Haha, just kidding. Sort of. My real favorite thing is that I was able to write a story about an angry, unlikable girl who turns herself into a passionate hero because of her anger and un-likeability. In a moment of grief and fury, Signy dedicates herself to Odin Alfather the god of war, madness, and poetry, and to truly follow him, she has to embrace all those things, and discover how they relate to each other and to her own heart. She has to learn to use herself as a weapon, and fight passionately for what she thinks is right. It was HARD to write, but taught me a lot about myself as a writer and also what I, too, want to be like to other people. I’ve never been so angry at a character, or loved one so much. Purchase The Strange Maid at Amazon Purchase The Strange Maid at IndieBound View The Strange Maid on Goodreads Dark Metropolis by Jaclyn Dolamore Disney-Hyperion Cabaret meets Cassandra Clare-a haunting magical thriller set in a riveting 1930s-esque world. Sixteen-year-old Thea Holder's mother is cursed with a spell that's driving her mad, and whenever they touch, Thea is chilled by the magic, too. With no one else to contribute, Thea must make a living for both of them in a sinister city, where danger lurks and greed rules. Thea spends her nights waitressing at the decadent Telephone Club attending to the glitzy clientele. But when her best friend, Nan, vanishes, Thea is compelled to find her. She meets Freddy, a young, magnetic patron at the club, and he agrees to help her uncover the city's secrets-even while he hides secrets of his own. Together, they find a whole new side of the city. Unrest is brewing behind closed doors as whispers of a gruesome magic spread. And if they're not careful, the heartless masterminds behind the growing disappearances will be after them, too. Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare, this is a chilling thriller with a touch of magic where the dead don't always seem to stay that way. Author Question: What is your favorite thing about Dark Metropolis? Probably the creepy parts! My previous three books were lighter in tone and it was really fun to write some scenes where I even unsettled myself. If they made a movie of this book, I'd be closing my eyes for some of it.. Purchase Dark Metropolis at Amazon Purchase Dark Metropolis at IndieBound View Dark Metropolis on Goodreads I Am The Mission by Allen Zadoff He was the perfect assassin. No name. No past. No remorse. Perfect, that is, until he began to ask questions and challenge his orders. Now The Program is worried that their valuable soldier has become a liability. And so Boy Nobody is given a new mission. A test of sorts. A chance to prove his loyalty. His objective: Take out Eugene Moore, the owner of an extremist military training camp for teenagers. It sounds like a simple task, but a previous operative couldn't do it. He lost the mission and is presumed dead. Now Boy Nobody is confident he can finish the job. Quickly. But when things go awry, Boy Nobody finds himself lost in a mission where nothing is as it seems: not The Program, his allegiances, nor the truth. The riveting second book in Allen Zadoff's Boy Nobody series delivers heart-pounding action and a shocking new twist that makes Boy Nobody question everything he has believed. Author Question: What is your favorite thing about I Am The Mission? Reading thrillers has always been a secret pleasure for me, so the fact that I’m writing a thriller series is kind of a dream come true. And delivering the second book of The Unknown Assassin series is especially exciting because I’ve never written a series before. I AM THE MISSION is bigger and badder than the first book. It’s a combination of action, thrills, romance, and danger. We go deeper into the mind of the teen assassin who is the anti-hero of the series, and we learn more about his relationship to The Program, the ultra-secret organization that controls him. The Unknown Assassin series is combination of a fast-paced action thriller and coming-of-age story. So it’s important to me that the hero is challenged in new ways—by his missions, the emotions he’s feeling, his relationships with women, and ultimately by his parents, who in this case happen to be his commanders in The Program. I AM THE MISSION explore the theme of loyalty versus self-determination. What happens when you begin to doubt your mission and lose faith in the people you’ve trusted to guide you in the world? If you read the first book, I AM THE WEAPON (formerly Boy Nobody), then you know the assassin is searching for his real father, unsure whether he is alive or dead. That search continues in I AM THE MISSION, as the assassin gets tantalizingly close to uncovering the secret. Purchase I Am The Mission at Amazon Purchase I Am The Mission at IndieBound View I Am The Mission on Goodreads 17 First Kisses by Rachael Allen Signed Paperback Giveaway No matter how many boys Claire kisses, she can’t seem to find a decent boyfriend. Someone who wouldn’t rather date her gorgeous best friend, Megan. Someone who won’t freak out when he learns about the tragedy her family still hasn’t recovered from. Someone whose kisses can carry her away from her backwoods town for one fleeting moment. Until Claire meets Luke. But Megan is falling for Luke, too, and if there’s one thing Claire knows for sure, it’s that Megan’s pretty much irresistible. With true love and best friendship on the line, Claire suddenly has everything to lose. And what she learns—about her crush, her friends, and most of all herself—makes the choices even harder. In her moving debut, Rachael Allen brilliantly captures the complexities of friendship, the struggles of self-discovery, and the difficulties of trying to find love in high school. Fans of Sarah Ockler, Susane Colasanti, and Stephanie Perkins will fall head over heels for this addictive, heartfelt, and often hilarious modern love story. Author Question: What is your favorite thing about 17 First Kisses? The female friendships. I love reading contemporary books with an emphasis on female relationships, whether it’s mother-daughter, sisters, or BFFs. My MC, Claire, and her best friend, Megan, are fiercely supportive and protective of each other even though there’s a competitiveness between them, particularly with guys. These girls are flawed characters, and neither of them is a model friend, but I love that about them. Girls need to know that if a friendship has a strong core, you can get in a fight or make a mistake, and it doesn’t mean the friendship is over. You can change and grow together instead of apart. Claire and Megan have the kind of friendship that’s worth figuring things out about themselves and each other. Instead of hating each other, they work to fix things. And if part of that reconciliation takes the form of stealing your ex-boyfriend’s clothes while he’s skinny dipping, well, so be it :) Purchase 17 First Kisses at Amazon Purchase 17 First Kisses at IndieBound View 17 First Kisses on Goodreads by Sarah Tregay Katherine Tegen Books When the picture tells the story… Senior year is almost over, and Jamie Peterson has a big problem. Not college—that’s all set. Not prom—he’ll find a date somehow. No, it’s the worst problem of all: he’s fallen for his best friend. Purchase Fan Art at Amazon Purchase Fan Art at IndieBound View Fan Art on Goodreads Great post: New YALit in Stores 6/14-6/20 Plus Win #scandal by Sarah Ockler, Blazed by Jason Myers, and Summer of Yesterday by Gaby TrianaTweet this! Posted by Martina Boone at 6:00 AM Labels: YA Giveaway Winners Christina R. June 16, 2014 at 8:23 AM SArah Ockler is awesome!! Thank you so very much :) Tammy June 16, 2014 at 9:00 AM #scandal does sound great, with so many people on social media these days this is sure to happen. Thank you! Marie June 16, 2014 at 9:08 AM Thanks so much for the giveaway! #Scandal is one of my top reads for this summer! Great giveaway Vivien June 16, 2014 at 10:53 AM Oooo another book by Sarah Ockler!! I cannot wait :D Dark Metropolis sounds fantastic as well!! Mei June 16, 2014 at 11:00 AM Awesome Giveaway!! Thank You! S.A. Larsenッ June 16, 2014 at 11:35 AM I try to share these 'Mondays' as often as I can. You have not disappointed. Thanks! Alex J. Cavanaugh June 16, 2014 at 2:49 PM Like the cover for Dark Metropolis! Nice June releases! Thanks! Yvonne June 16, 2014 at 3:31 PM I didn't see it listed so I just wanted to mention that Graduation Day (The Testing #3) by Joelle Charbonneau is also scheduled for release June 17th. Natalie Aguirre June 16, 2014 at 6:28 PM Awesome covers.Dark Metropolis sounds good. Another brilliant giveaway Rosi June 16, 2014 at 7:04 PM Congrats to the winners. #scandal and Blazed and 17 First Kisses are all going on my TBR list. Thanks for a chance to win. Dark Metropolis looks awesome! Hi, my name is Yvonne and I'm a cover junkie....I'd read Dark Metropolis by Jaclyn Dolamore just because it has such a beautiful cover. bn100 June 18, 2014 at 8:09 PM A couple look interesting C. June 20, 2014 at 8:19 PM thank you for the giveaway! i'm really interested in #scandal :D Amanda June 21, 2014 at 7:08 PM I'm excited for #Scandal Ali June 21, 2014 at 8:12 PM Zandalee June 22, 2014 at 12:28 AM Dark Metropolis by Jaclyn Dolamore sounds really good! 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__label__wiki	0.711116	0.711116	Transition, Accomplished At the close of the American bishops' most consequential plenary since Dallas, the noon hour struck in Baltimore today, and with it -- in a moment as historic as it was devoid of fanfare or ceremony -- the leadership of the Stateside bench officially passed into the hands of the newly-elected president, the archbishop of New York. And so, as this unprecedented three-year "experiment" begins, lest anyone missed it in real-time, here below (via the Telecare feed) is fullvideo of Archbishop Timothy Dolan's inaugural press conference moments after his election, joined by the bench's freshly-chosen Vice-President, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville.... ...and even earlier, the Gotham prelate's first TV interview immediately following the vote: For the record, while Dolan said in the first of the above sessions that he lost the vice-presidency "by one vote" in 2007, the difference then was actually 22 votes -- 128-106. This time, 128 was again the winning total... albeit with a smaller margin of victory (17 votes) -- and, of course, the result flipped. We'll revisit the calculus that created the sea-change in greater depth soon. For now, though, suffice it to say that much of the "seismic swing" arguably owed itself to the 42 bishops' worth of "new blood" named to the bench since Kicanas-Dolan I; comprising a full sixth of the electorate, the first-time voters largely replaced veteran prelates who lost their suffrage on their respective retirements. Meanwhile, on a long-frame note, recalling the beginnings of the nation's church in the same city where this week's astonishing "coup" took place, here from the archives, a 2008 lecture (text) given by the new president (then the archbishop of Milwaukee) on the father of American Catholicism -- the nation's founding bishop, Maryland's John Carroll: ...and all that said, away we go. The bench's first meeting led by the new Chief will come at mid-June in Seattle, where Archbishop-elect Peter Sartain will be installed on 1 December. "Faithfully, But Not Slavishly": Amid Questions, B... With the Fall Classic still ongoing, more to come ... In Vote's Wake, Kicanas Gets "Relief" Notes on a "Timquake" The Winners' Circle In Bishops' Shocker, TIM WINS! Day Two: Election Time Gentlemen, start your engines.... Good morning fr... "As Great a Challenge as the Reformation": The Bis... "Dear Brother Bishops": The Chief's Farewell	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line233
__label__wiki	0.98014	0.98014	Find sources: "Imagine Entertainment" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Current logo as of 2020. Imagine Films Entertainment November 1985; 35 years ago (1985-11) Brian Grazer 150 South El Camino Drive, Brian Grazer (Chairman) Ron Howard (Chairman) Michael Rosenberg (Co-Chairman) Feature films, TV series Imagine Features Imagine Television Studios Imagine Documentaries Imagine Kids+Family Jax Media imagine-entertainment.com Imagine Entertainment (formerly Imagine Films Entertainment and also known simply as Imagine) is an American film and television production company founded in November 1985 by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer. Co-founders Ron Howard and Brian Grazer at a Tribeca Film Festival panel on A Beautiful Mind 2.1 Imagine Films Entertainment 2.2 Imagine Entertainment 3 Filmography 3.1 Feature-film division 3.1.1 Theatrical films 3.1.1.1 1980s 3.1.2 Direct-to video films 3.2 Future 3.3 Television division 3.3.1 Television productions Brian Grazer and Ron Howard met in 1982 on Night Shift, with Howard directing and Grazer co-producing. They followed it up by working on 1984's Splash.[1] Logo from 1985 until 2020. The company was originally founded in November 1985, following the success of the motion picture Splash. The company went public the following year. At first, the company set a deal with Tri-Star Pictures to produce feature films and television shows. Imagine granted Tri-Star the right of first refusal to syndicate their off-network shows produced by Imagine. Its offering was sold to Allen & Co. for 1,667,000 units for common stock and warrant it to purchase additional one-third of its stock. The net proceeds were used for development and production of theatrical films, television series, mini-series and made for television movies, although "the company does not presently intend to develop game shows or daytime soap operas." Imagine however has its prospectus having negotiations with Paramount Television for a commitment with ABC for a half-hour pilot and five episodes based on the comedy film Gung Ho.[2] Later the same year, Imagine had a five-year deal with Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. and it was able to develop projects for the channels Showtime and The Movie Channel. The agreement will kick-off with 1989 pay television availabilities and include pay-per view exhibition rights to all Imagine-produced films and about 30 motion pictures and "an unspecified number of original products" are also covered by the agreement. "Long-form dramas" or series may be developed as part of the original material to be developed and aired exclusively on Showtime, adding that it may also acquire the syndication rights to these films and original products.[3][4] On July 29, 1987, Tri-Star Pictures and Imagine Films Entertainment announced the termination of obligations by Imagine to offer Tri-Star distribution rights for all of its television programming and feature films. Imagine, which has received more than $1.7 million from Tri-Star, will make a $1.3 million payment to Tri-Star, the companies said and advances from Tri-Star will be eliminated. The companies said they "intend to work together on a project-by-project basis" and that projects already in development won't be affected. Imagine said the modified agreement "provides it with the flexibility to pursue certain financing and distribution opportunities which were not anticipated when the companies entered the original agreement."[5] On December 1, 1987, the company sealed a production and distribution deal with Universal Pictures via a "long-term multiple picture agreement" that they distributed Imagine's films for three to five films a year and the agreement "contemplates the possibility" that Universal acquired a 20% share in Imagine[6][1] and it will conclude through November 1992 for financing 50% of 30 films. Imagine had an IPO in 1986 at $8 for a package of one share and one warrant. Shares rose to $19.25 before falling in the stock market crash in 1987 to $2.25. In the summer of next year, Imagine struck a deal with MCA TV to handle distribution of its television material. MCA and Imagine will have a joint television venture which MCA has the exclusive network and home video distribution rights. Imagine retains domestic distribution rights for now and is banking on those rights becoming more valuable in the future as its theatrical and television programs gain exposure. Imagine's television division will focus on half-hour comedies, whereas MCA will focus one-hour programs for the networks.[7][8] In the September of 1988, Robert Harris who was employee of MCA, and president of Universal Television Group joined the company as president of motion pictures and television. Harris said the studio is also taking original feature cable projects with Showtime, HBO, TNT, USA and MTV Network (which includes Nickelodeon and VH-1, in addition to projects with on-air networks)[8] On May 29, 1989, Imagine and Central Independent Television signed a deal to make TV movies for the worldwide business. The new joint venture will produce between four to six TV movies and mini-series a year. MCA who owns about 20% of Imagine and has worldwide distribution rights to its TV series as well as to its long-form programs on a project-by-project basis will also have first consideration on international distribution rights to the joint venture's programs. Imagine and Central retain rights in the U.S. and UK, respectively. [The Imagine-Central joint venture is separate from MCA's own ongoing exploration of a joint venture with a European company for Europe-based long-form co-production. The company is in discussions with two or three potential partners, but a deal is not expected soon.] Its projects must have U.S. and UK presales to go forward, although the venture will seek U.S. buyers going beyond the three big commercial networks to include Fox, as well as cable networks TNT, USA Network, Showtime and HBO. The deal also allows for theatrical distribution, although such co-productions are not in the planning now.[9] Imagine and Second City signed a joint venture deal in May 1989. In the September of 1989, Imagine is entering syndication production business and signed a long-term co-production deal with Second City Entertainment, for a late night talk/comedy strip that was distributed by MCA TV. It will use the ready talent pool of Second City comedians. The result is My Talk Show, which aired in the 1990-91 season.[8] As HA!: The Comedy Network is ready to air in 1990, they stuck deals with Imagine Films Entertainment, for series featuring the Second City Repertory Company, as well as MTM Enterprises.[10] In 1991, Imagine Films Entertainment shut down its original Imagine Television division, and terminating its exclusive production partnership with MCA, Inc., and it will lay off 30 of its 80 employees of its company. It came when the series My Talk Show, and Paernthood flopped. Andrew Suskind, Joyce Brotman, Todd Bergesen, Richard Pierson, Judy Ranam and Lisa Bloom left the company.[11] By May 1992, 48% of the stock was public traded and worth $9.375. The duo agreed to a new six picture deal with Universal while concurrently offering $9 a share to buy the company's public outstanding share to start a new company with its assets. If not, they planned to leave the company at their contract expiration in November to start the new company anyway. Universal was providing the cash for a buyout of an equity stake in the new company.[4] In early 1997, Imagine Entertainment reopened its television division, signed a deal with Walt Disney Television for the development of TV series, which would expire at the end of 2000. It's movie contract remained with Universal. It boosted up their access to Disney's TV production slate. Imagine was exclusive for development and production of TV projects, including half-hour comedy series, one-hour dramas, motion pictures for TV and miniseries.[12][13] They hired Tony Krantz to be co-chairman of its television division, and it will share a stake in the television division with its founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, while overseeing the TV division's day-to-day operations.[14] In 2000, the partnership teamed up with 20th Century Fox for development of TV series, an agreement set to expire at the end of 2016.[1] In 2011, the company had three weak box office performers with The Dilemma, Cowboys & Aliens and Tower Heist. Because of their weak financial pact renewal with Universal in January 2012, Imagine laid off 5 employees, including production executive Jeremy Steckler.[15] This also moves Imagine from exclusive to a first-look deal. By 2013, Imagine was considering other funding methods for the company's films including crowdfunding for a Friday Night Lights movie.[16] In November 2013, Michael Rosenberg was promoted to co-chairman followed in December 2013, with Erica Huggins being promoted to his previous position as president.[17] Industry insiders indicated in late January 2016 that a deal with Raine Group was in the works that would have Raine become a partner of the production company while contributing $100 million.[1] In 2017, Imagine had made a six-picture deal with Warner Bros. and Australian visual effects/animation studio Animal Logic to develop, finance, and produce six animated/live-action films.[18] [19] In 2018, Imagine acquired a controlling stake in Jax Media.[20] In December 2019, Imagine Entertainment CEO Rich Battista left the company after only less than 4 months since being appointed in late August.[21] In June 2020, Imagine Entertainment made a substantial investment in Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions. Gibney formed the New York-based Jigsaw in 2012, and directed and produced Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, and Citizen K.[22] Feature-film division The feature-film division has participated in over sixty productions and is associated with Universal Pictures,[23] which has distributed many of Imagine's productions, some with other studios. Erica Huggins was hired as senior vice president of motion picture production and was elevated to executive vice president in 2006, and later to co-president of production in 2010.[17] 1987 Like Father Like Son Tri-Star Pictures only film produced under a production pact with Tri-Star Pictures; first film 1988 Willow Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Lucasfilm Ltd. Vibes Columbia Pictures Clean and Sober Warner Bros. Pictures 1989 The 'Burbs Universal Pictures first film under a production pact with Universal Pictures [4] Parenthood [1] 1990 Cry-Baby Universal Pictures Opportunity Knocks with Brad Grey Productions and Meledandri-Gordon Company; international distribution by Carolco Pictures Kindergarten Cop [4] Problem Child with Robert Simonds Productions [4] 1991 The Doors Tri-Star Pictures with Carolco Pictures Closet Land Universal Pictures Backdraft with Trilogy Entertainment Group Problem Child 2 with Robert Simonds Productions My Girl Columbia Pictures 1992 Far and Away Universal Pictures [4] Boomerang Paramount Pictures with Eddie Murphy Productions 1993 CB4 Universal Pictures Cop and a Half For Love or Money 1994 My Girl 2 Columbia Pictures Greedy Universal Pictures The Cowboy Way 1995 Apollo 13 1996 Sgt. Bilko The Nutty Professor [15] Ransom Buena Vista Pictures with Touchstone Pictures The Chamber Universal Pictures with Davis Entertainment 1997 Liar Liar Inventing the Abbotts 20th Century Fox 1998 Mercury Rising Universal Pictures 1999 EDtv 2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Universal Pictures 2001 A Beautiful Mind with DreamWorks Pictures [1] 2002 Undercover Brother Blue Crush Stealing Harvard Sony Pictures Releasing with Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios 8 Mile Universal Pictures with Mikona Productions GmbH & Co. KG [15] 2003 Intolerable Cruelty with Mike Zoss Productions The Missing Sony Pictures Releasing with Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios The Cat in the Hat Universal Pictures with DreamWorks Pictures 2004 The Alamo Buena Vista Pictures with Touchstone Pictures Friday Night Lights Universal Pictures [1] 2005 Inside Deep Throat with HBO Documentary Films and World of Wonder Cinderella Man with Buena Vista International, Touchstone Pictures, Miramax Films and Parkway Productions Flightplan Buena Vista Pictures with Touchstone Pictures Fun with Dick and Jane Sony Pictures Releasing with Columbia Pictures and JC 23 Entertainment 2006 Curious George Universal Pictures with Universal Animation Studios Inside Man with 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks [1] The Da Vinci Code Sony Pictures Releasing with Columbia Pictures and Skylark Productions 2007 American Gangster Universal Pictures with Relativity Media and Scott Free Productions 2008 Changeling with Relativity Media and Malpaso Productions Frost/Nixon with StudioCanal and Working Title Films 2009 Angels & Demons Sony Pictures Releasing with Columbia Pictures and Skylark Productions 2010 Robin Hood Universal Pictures with Relativity Media and Scott Free Productions 2011 The Dilemma with Spyglass Entertainment and Wild West Picture Show Productions [15] Take Me Home Tonight Relativity Media with Rogue Cowboys & Aliens Universal Pictures with DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, K/O Paper Products, Fairview Entertainment and Platinum Studios; international distribution by Paramount Pictures [15] Restless Sony Pictures Classics with Columbia Pictures Tower Heist Universal Pictures with Relativity Media [15] J. Edgar Warner Bros. Pictures with Malpaso Productions and Wintergreen Productions 2012 Katy Perry: Part of Me Paramount Pictures with AEG Live, EMI Music, Perry Productions, Pulse Films, Magical Elves Productions, Splinter Films, MTV Films and Insurge Pictures 2013 Rush Universal Pictures independently financed; with Exclusive Media, Cross Creek Pictures, Working Title Films and Revolution Films 2014 Get on Up with Jagged Films and Wyolah Films The Good Lie Warner Bros. Pictures with Alcon Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment and Black Label Media 2015 In the Heart of the Sea with Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, COTT Productions, Enelmar Productions A.I.E., Roth Films, Spring Creek Pictures and Kia Jam [1] 2016 Pelé: Birth of a Legend IFC Films with Seine Pictures Inferno Sony Pictures Releasing with Columbia Pictures, LStar Capital, LSG Productions and Mid Atlantic Films 2017 Lowriders Universal Pictures with BH Tilt and Telemundo The Dark Tower Sony Pictures Releasing with Columbia Pictures, Weed Road Pictures and MRC American Made Universal Pictures with Cross Creek Pictures, Hercules Film Fund, Quadrant Pictures and Vendian Entertainment 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures with Lucasfilm [24] The Spy Who Dumped Me Lionsgate with Bron Studios [25] 2019 Pavarotti CBS Films with PolyGram Entertainment, Decca Records and White Horse Pictures July 31, 2020 Rebuilding Paradise National Geographic Documentary Films [26] TBA Julia Sony Pictures Classics [27] The Shrinking of Treehorn Paramount Pictures [28] new Friday Night Lights film Universal Pictures [29] Fear Universal Pictures [30] Direct-to video films 2009 Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! Universal Studios Home Entertainment with Universal Animation Studios 2015 Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle Universal Pictures Home Entertainment with Universal 1440 Entertainment and Universal Animation Studios 2016 Kindergarten Cop 2 with Universal 1440 Entertainment and Where's Arnold Productions [1] 2017 Cop and a Half: New Recruit with Universal 1440 Entertainment, Everywhere Studios and 50 Degrees North Productions 2019 Backdraft 2 with Universal 1440 Entertainment, Rafaella Productions, Nexus Factory, uMedia and Title Media Undercover Brother 2 with Universal 1440 Entertainment and Hal Lieberman Company 2020 Dads AppleTV+ [31] 2020 Hillybilly Elegy Netflix 2020 John Bronco TBA Tick, Tick... Boom! Netflix with 5000 Broadway Productions [32] Television division Its television division, Imagine Television Studios has participated in at least twenty productions and is associated with 20th Century Fox Television. Television productions Network/Channel 1986–1987 Gung Ho ABC with Paramount Television and Four Way Productions 1987–1988 Ohara with Warner Bros. Television and M'ass Production 1987 Take Five CBS with TriStar Television and Empire City Presentations 1989 Knight & Daye NBC 1990–1991 Parenthood My Talk Show Syndication with Second City Entertainment and MCA TV 1997–1998 Hiller and Diller ABC with Touchstone Television 1998 From the Earth to the Moon HBO 1998–2000 Sports Night ABC with Touchstone Television 1998–2002 Felicity The WB 1999–2001 The PJs FOX/The WB with The Murphy Company, Will Vinton Studios, and Touchstone Television 2000 Wonderland ABC/The 101 Network with Touchstone Television Rat Bastard UPN Pilot 2001 The Beast ABC with Touchstone Television 2001–10 24[1] FOX with Real Time Productions, Teakwood Lane Productions, and 20th Century Fox Television 2003 Miss Match NBC with Darren Star Productions and 20th Century Fox Television 2013–present Arrested Development[16] FOX/Netflix with The Hurwitz Company and 20th Century Fox Television 2004 The Big House ABC with 20th Century Fox Television 2004–05 Quintuplets FOX with Mark Reisman Productions and 20th Century Fox Television 2005 The Inside with Reamworks and 20th Century Fox Television 2006 Saved TNT with Sarabande Productions and Fox 21 2018–present Curious George PBS Kids/Peacock with WGBH-TV and Universal Animation Studios 2006 Treasure Hunters NBC with Magical Elves, Inc. and Madison Road Entertainment 2006–08 Shark CBS with Deforestation Services and 20th Century Fox Television 2006–11 Friday Night Lights[16] NBC with Film 44 and Universal Media Studios 2008 24: Redemption FOX with Teakwood Lane Productions and 20th Century Fox Television 2009–11 Lie to Me with Pagoda Pictures, Samuel Baum Productions, MiddKid Productions, and 20th Century Fox Television 2010–15 Parenthood NBC with True Jack Productions, Universal Media Studios, and Universal Television 2011 Friends with Benefits with Big Kid Pictures, Pickle Films, and 20th Century Fox Television The Playboy Club with Alta Loma Entertainment, Storyland Entertainment, and 20th Century Fox Television 2012 The 84th Academy Awards[33] ABC with The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Great Escape TNT with Profiles Television Productions, The Hochberg Ebersol Company, and Fox Television Studios 2013 How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) ABC with Hot Lava Girl Productions and 20th Century Fox Television 2014 Those Who Kill A&E/Lifetime Movie Network with One Two One Three Pictures, Miso Film, and Fox 21 24: Live Another Day FOX with Teakwood Lane Productions and 20th Century Fox Television Gang Related with Chris Morgan Productions, Skeeter Rosenbaum Productions, and 20th Century Fox Television 2015–2020 Empire[1] with Lee Daniels Entertainment, Danny Strong Productions, Little Chicken Inc., and 20th Century Fox Television 2015 The Bastard Executioner FX with Sutter Ink, FX Productions, and Fox 21 Television Studios 2017 24: Legacy FOX with Coto/Katz Productions, Teakwood Lane Productions and 20th Century Fox Television[34] Shots Fired with Undisputed Cinema and 20th Century Fox Television 2017–present Genius National Geographic Channel with Paperboy Productions, OddLot Entertainment, EUE/Sokolow and Fox 21 Television Studios 2019 Why Women Kill CBS All Access with CBS Television Studios 2019-present The Conners ABC with Jax Media, Mohawk Productions and Sara + Tom 2020 68 Whiskey Paramount Network with CBS Television Studios, yes Studio and Little City Filthy Rich FOX with Wyolah Films and Fox Entertainment The Astronauts[35][36] Nickelodeon with UnMovies and Nickelodeon Productions TBA The Tiny Chef Show[37] with Nickelodeon Productions and Tiny Chef Productions Untitled Music Comedy[38] Amazon Prime Video with Amazon Studios Untitled Willow sequel series[39] Disney+ with Lucasfilm and MGM Television ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Rainey, James (January 28, 2016). 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__label__wiki	0.951013	0.951013	Destination Reports Tools & Tech Gayraud joins Coral International Chahnaz Gayraud has joined Coral Internat-ional Hotels, Resorts & Spas as the general manager of the newly opened Coral Boutique Hotel Apartments and Coral Boutique Villas, Al Barsha. Prior to her new role, Gayraud has had the opportunity to work in some of the finest hotels in Paris, Monte Carlo, Santa Barbara (USA), Arizona (USA) and Bangalore. Narasimhan assumes new role G Narasimhan has been named managing director, business dev-elopment, for South Asia and the Indian Ocean for Six Senses Resorts & Spas. He takes charge from his previous position as the group finance director. Narsimhan joined the company in 1993 as financial controller, then moving to finance director before becoming group finance director. Lobo joins Grand Regency Doha John Horald Lobo has been been appointed as the new director of finance at the Grand Regency Hotel, Doha in Qatar. Lobo brings with him 17 years of experience in the finance department. Lobo’s experience spans over various five-star hotel groups including the Rotana Group, UAE, the Ramada Hotel, Dubai and the Le Meridian, UAE. Mövenpick Hotels welcomes new staff New at the Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts prew-opening office for the four new hotels in Dubai is Lee-Anna Nussbaumer (left), who joins as director of human resources and training. Her expertise includes the Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi. Also overseeing the same properties as financial account-ant is Bikash Chatterjee, who was previously with the Oberoi Group. Gulf Air appoints new manager Gulf Air's former PR manager, Hisham Abu Alfateh has been promoted to manager, sports marketing and sponsorship after a 12-month stint at the airline's UK sales office. He joined Gulf Air's corporate affairs department as public relations manager in 2004 and moved to the company's UK regional sales and marketing team as key accounts manager in 2006. Emirates Palace welcomes Sjoedin Norwegian national and expert hotelier Arild Sjoedin has been appointed at the Emirates Palace as the new hotel manager, following a two and a half year stretch as general manager of the Kempinski Hotel Bel Air in Binz, Germany. Sjoedin also sits on the Board of a number of prestigious travel and hospitality-related organization. Elmanawaty at Four Seasons Ashraf Elmanawaty has been appointed director of marketing at the Four Seasons Hotel Alexandria. He moves to Alexandria from Four Seasons Sharm El Sheikh where, he was in-charge of the marketing department. Prior to joining Four Seasons, he held several management and executive positions in sales and marketing with InterContinental Hotels. Neifer joins Le Meridien Abu Dhabi Klaus Niefer has been appointed as director of operations at the Le Méridien Abu Dhabi. Niefer is a qualified chef and has worked as executive assistant manager of food and beverage at the Regent Shanghai and as executive assistant manager of InterContinental Hotel Sydney. He has held assignments with Grand Hyatt's and Park Hyatt's in Asia and Australia. New Chef at Al Murooj Rotana The Al Murooj Rotana Hotel & Suites recently welcomed Burton Kingsley George (left) as its new pastry chef. He has been associated with chains such as the Sheraton, Safir and the Fairmont. Kamal Kashyap has been appointed as revenue manager at the hotel, moving from a position as revenue manager at the ITC Hotel Maurya Sheraton & Towers, New Delhi. New GM at Dhow Palace Hotel The recently opened Dhow Palace Hotel Dubai, has appointed Samier Aziz as general manager. Aziz has been general manager at various properties of international chains such as the Ramada, Sheraton, Pearl Continental, Avari and Marriott. He has a certificate from the Hospitality Management Faculty of the Hogere Hotel School in The Hague, Netherlands. Allegri moves to Sharm El Sheikh Luca Allegri has been appointed general manager of Four Seasons Resort Sharm El Sheikh. Allegri takes charge from the Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza where he was hotel manager. His previous assignments include assistant to French chef Alain Ducasse at the Monte Carol Hotel, Monaco and marketing manager with Orient Express Hotel, Italy. New staff at Sheraton Dubai Creek The Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel & Towers has appointed two new staff, Mohamed Iqbal Kasmani (left), as the director of finance, and Tinka Tzolova as the director of housekeeping. Kasmani was previously deputy director of finance at the Sheraton Doha, Qatar. Tzolova joined the Sheraton Dubai Creek after a one-and-a-half-year stint with Le Royal Meridien Abu Dhabi. New faces at the Renaissance Dubai Rashmi Chittal (left) is the new PR and mar-comms manager for the Renaissance Dubai Hotel. She was earlier in charge of PR and marketing for the Radisson SAS Hotel in Dubai Media City during its pre-opening. Jon Michael E Sumaguing has joined the hotel as systems manager. He has experience in hotels such as the Doha Marriott and the Riyadh Marriott. Hogan appointed at Etihad Airways Etihad Airways has announced the appoin-tment of James Hogan as CEO. Hogan was earlier president and chief executive of Gulf Air. During his four-year tenure he successfully redefined and restr-uctured the airline. Hogan is joined at Etihad by James Rigney who takes on the position of vice president finance. Hilton HHonors Gets a New Face Hilton International has recently appointed Hanim Fisher as its regional manager of the Hilton HHonors programme for the Middle East. After a three-year stint working in New Zealand for the Air New Zealand Group, Fisher relocated to Bahrain in 2003 where she joined Gulf Air as partnership and marketing manager before moving to Hilton. Unverdi is cluster general manager Justin moves to Bahrain M Hotel hires new lead leisure sales Radisson Blu appoints sales head Monavon joins Doha hotel Chef Hanna Dib joins Bab Al Qasr Preferred Hotels recruits director Ferret to lead Small Luxury Hotels Georges joins Jumeirah Messilah Dusit Bahrain gets new GM H Hotel makes senior appointments Fairmont Dubai picks new director Narayanan joins St Regis Abu Dhabi JA brings Cunningham on board The rise of vacation rental New team at Millennium & Copthorne, Middle East and Africa Fehlbier joins as general manager An eventful year as one billion travel Demand for e-commerce surges as Arabs get Internet savvy The changing face of functional living The road to a better tomorrow... 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__label__wiki	0.66762	0.66762	Daily Gossip Lindsay Lohan is Not Pregnant Lucienne Molnar August 2, 2016 6:59 pm January 1, 2017 0 1055 Despite the rumors that have been on lately, Lindsay Lohan is not set to become a mom. So, a close friend of the actress dismissed some new rumors indicating that she was pregnant. Lindsay’s friend, Hofit Golan, also revealed that the star is doing fine and she is just taking a pause from fiancé Egor Tarabasov. Hofit has been spending time with Lindsay in Italy, where the two friends have been on vacation. Hofit told US Weekly that Lindsay is one of her closest friends and an amazing person. “We’ve been doing acupuncture, massage, stretching, drinking lots of green juice, exploring caves, fishing, swimming, just doing normal things,” she said. “Lindsay and I have known each other for years and she’s a very close friend, she’s loyal and an amazing person. It’s unfortunate that other people in her life, I’m not going to name names, are confirming she’s pregnant, which she’s not,” Hofit went on to explain. Lindsay and Hofit continue their vacation in Sardinia, Italy, and it seems that Lindsay is having a good time although only a couple of days ago she claimed that her boyfriend had cheated on her. Lindsay was actually the one who started off the pregnancy rumors by sharing on her social media account that she was set to welcome a child. The star later deleted the posts. Soon after, Lindsay was spotted smoking and drinking on a yacht during her vacation. Well, if the pregnancy rumors have been dismissed, we might say the same thing about the speculation on Lindsay’s relationship with Egor. Hofit claimed that the two have not separated, but they are only on a break. “This vacation is amazing, it’s not a single girls’ getaway or a post-breakup vacation. Lindsay is taking a pause in her relationship and joined my friends and I on holiday,” she said. Hofit went on to add that like all relationships, the romance between Lindsay and Egor also has its ups and downs. “They are going through personal matters, but it doesn’t mean they’ve broken up for good. Lindsay just needed a pause,” Hofit concluded, adding that Lindsay was really sorry for the messages she shared on social media. Previous ArticleHeath Ledger’s Father Talks about Son’s DeathNext ArticleMary J. Blige and Kendu Isaacs are Getting Divorced Lucienne Molnar Lucienne Molnar is our editor in charge with managing the celebrity and fashion sections of DailyGossip. She currently lives in Seattle and has a lot of experience in the fashion industry, most of it accumulated while working as a part time model for a few popular internet clothing stores.Lucienne is a passionate writer dreaming to create her own fashion line someday.You can get in touch with her at Lucienne.Molnar@dailygossip.org The Best Books to Read in 2020: How Many Of Them Have You Read So Far? By Life Coach Mara0 3856 Paris Hilton Has Lost Her Engagement Ring By John Colston0 22295 Are Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston Getting Back Together? Chris Evans and Jenny Slate Have Separated Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux not on Speaking Terms Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson to Get Married Selena Gomez talks about Negative Comments regarding her body Jennifer Aniston Feels Good after Justin Theroux Separation Kendall Jenner Says She is not Gay Kris Jenner talks about Rumors regarding Kylie and Tyga © 2017 DailyGossip.org	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line252
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__label__cc	0.727522	0.272478	Become a Supporter of Denton 100 Club The Hundred Club of Denton, Inc. operates on the generosity of the its community partners. The Hundred Club does not have paid staff, so your donations are immediately available to the officers in time of need. Our Chief Level Sponsors ($1000 & Up) DATCU Credit Union Denton Municipal Electric Don and Beverly Clark Love's Truck Stop Peterbilt of Denton PointBank Solutions of North Texas Texas Health Presbyterian Work Environmental Systems Our Captain Level Sponsors ($750) Riprocks Lucky Lou's Lieutenant Level Sponsors ($500) Lieutenant Level Sergeant Level Sponsors ($250) Our Individual Level Sponsors ($100) Individual Levels In 1997, City of Denton Police Chief Michael Jez commissioned Officer Derik Hartsfield to work on a project of getting the public more involved with the police department and City of Denton Police Officers. It was important to the Chief that the public support and promote the local City of Denton Police Department and its officers. In an effort to do that, Officer Derik Hartsfield contacted local attorney Gregory J. Sawko to assist and they worked on putting together a non-profit organization to promote the department and its officers. Based upon multiple months of research, Mr. Sawko and Officer Hartsfield determined that forming a recognized police support organization club would be the best method to accomplish Chief Jez’s plan. As such, on April 23, 1997, The Hundred Club of Denton Texas, Inc. was formed. The initial board of directors of the Hundred Club of Denton Texas, Inc. were, Gregory J. Sawko, Harry Hall (Denton Area Teachers Credit Union) and Troy LaGrone (President of Ben E. Keith Corporation). Since its founding, The Hundred Club of Denton, Texas has helped support Denton Police Officers in time of need or crisis and remains a viable support organization true to its original statement of purpose. We are a recognized 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, and your contributions are tax-deductible. PO Box 50882 Denton, TX 76206-0882	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line255
__label__wiki	0.964366	0.964366	Cobalis cobalis.com Anti-vax myth fuels fear behind Minnesota measles outbreak Health officials in Minnesota are scrambling to contain a measles outbreak that has sickened primarily Somali-American children. Officials have identified 34 cases as of Wednesday, and they’re worried there will be more. In Minnesota, the vast majority of children under age 2 get vaccinated against measles. But state health officials say about 6 out of 10 Somali-American 2-year-olds have not had the vaccine. As the outbreak spreads, that statistic worries health officials, including Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. “It is a highly concentrated number of unvaccinated people,” he says. “It is a potential kind of gas-and-match situation.” Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that causes a rash and fever. It can be deadly, but the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says two doses of vaccine are about 97 percent effective at heading off the disease. The Minnesota Department of Health says the outbreak began in Hennepin County, home to Minneapolis and the heart of the nation’s Somali-American community. The hub for that population is the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, adjacent to downtown Minneapolis. There are numerous Somali businesses, including more than a dozen jammed, open-air-style, into a worn-looking building called the Riverside Mall. Battling pseudoscience: Sprawling from stall to stall are brightly colored clothes and other textiles, along with small home furnishings. Most of the Somali-Americans shopping here recently wanted nothing to do with a reporter’s questions. But Khadra Abdulle offered thoughts. “I heard it, but I haven’t seen it. I don’t know anybody who has that problem right now,” she says. She was quick to name the fear that’s working against the measles vaccine among Somali-Americans. “They believe it causes autism,” Abdulle says. Somali community leaders are in lockstep with the Minnesota Department of Health, trying to knock down the pseudoscience behind the myth that vaccines can lead to autism. But others are not, even as the outbreak spreads. A weekend meeting in Minneapolis organized by anti-vaccine groups attracted dozens of Somali-Americans. Some shouted down physicians, including pediatrician Stacene Maroushek, who showed up to try to convince them vaccinations are critical to their community. “We know if there’s less than a certain rate of vaccine, the virus is much more likely to spread,” she said. “That’s a scientific fact.” Kristen Ehresmann, the infectious-disease division director at the Minnesota Department of Health, describes the Minnesota measles outbreak as a “public health nightmare” — a lot of unvaccinated people living in densely populated neighborhoods, mixed with a tremendously contagious disease. Ehresmann says she’s beyond frustrated with forces working against efforts to contain the outbreak: “I’ll be honest. It makes me very angry.” But Ehresmann says the desire to get the truth out is mobilizing public health officials. “We’ve had people on Somali TV, Somali radio. We’ve participated in chat rooms. The commissioner met with imams to talk to them about how we can work with the faith community to do outreach,” she says. Repeating history: In 2000, the United States declared it had eliminated measles from the country because of a strong vaccination program. So measles is no longer native to the U.S. But as vaccination rates have eroded in some areas, it can spread quickly if a sick traveler brings it in. In 2014, there were 667 cases in the U.S., including a large outbreak among Amish communities in Ohio. In 2015, there were 188 cases, including some linked to California’s Disneyland amusement park. Vaccination is critical to keep people from contracting the virus if they are exposed to it. Almost 30 years ago, measles sickened 460 people in Minnesota, and three children died in that outbreak. The University of Minnesota’s Osterholm served as the state epidemiologist at the time, and he says those deaths still haunt him. He’s worried it could happen again. “I think we could surely see a major increase in the number of cases beyond what we have now,” he says. “With that comes the increasing likelihood someone will die.” This article was originally published on Anti-vax myth fuels fear behind Minnesota measles outbreak Lead found in fidget spinners is no idle threat, experts say Virtual doctor visits may not reduce healthcare spending Medical ‘home’ programs offer coordinated care for autistic people December 16, 2020 General practitioners urgently need autism training December 16, 2020 Study offers toothy look at environmental risk for autism December 16, 2020 Study identifies predictors of early death among autistic people December 16, 2020 Taking meds during pregnancy brings autism risk, benefits December 16, 2020 Cobalis 2021 @ All rights reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line256
__label__cc	0.56747	0.43253	Published on ConservativeHQ.com (http://www.conservativehq.com) Home > Assault on America, Day 560: Listless GOP on verge of letting Dems change American history Assault on America, Day 560: Listless GOP on verge of letting Dems change American history #BlackLives Matter [1] 2016 election [2] 2020 campaign [3] Bernie Sanders [5] CHAZ [6] CHOP [7] Conservatives [8] defund the police [9] Democrats [10] Donald Trump [11] Drain the swamp [12] Elizabeth Warren [13] Establishment Republicans [14] George Floyd [15] Hillary Clinton [16] Joe Biden [17] Kellyanne Conway [18] Mike Pence [19] monument defacing [20] police brutality [21] police reform [22] Republicans [23] riots [24] Tim Scott [25] Trump administration [26] violence [27] Jeffrey A. Rendall \| 7/15/2020 A Trump loss in November might not be the end of his political career, and it’s not because he’d refuse to leave the White House It’s happened a lot lately -- liberals gleefully making hay over a Trump loss in November’s presidential election and then hysterically predicting the electorally deposed president would refuse to leave office. The triumphant Joe Biden would then call on his minions to storm the White House gates and battle Trump-loyal police and military men committed to preserving the power and position of their leader. It’s a nightmare scenario keeping many a Democrat wide awake at night. One can only chuckle at the notion. If liberals are set on being so ridiculous, maybe they deserve to lose a little sleep, no? [28] But would a November loss truly mean the end of Trump-ism in America? Pundits would jubilantly declare it so, but reality might suggest otherwise. In a piece titled, “A loss in November doesn't necessarily mean Trump won't be president again,” J.T. Young wrote at The Washington Examiner [29], “Recent poll numbers have not been promising for Trump. Gallup’s latest results showed his approval rating down to 38%, which is 11 points below his Gallup personal high in early May. Considering his improbable 2016 win, in which he lost the popular vote but handily won the electoral vote by virtually sweeping all the close contests, Trump has little margin for error. “These factors have raised hopes in establishment Republican circles that Trump could be bounced from the White House and their lives. To paraphrase Gerald Ford, their long national nightmare would be over, and the party would be returned to their control. “The problem is that the Republican establishment is thinking as establishments always do: conventionally. If there is one thing that Trump is not, and never will be, it is conventional. So, projecting forward on a conventional trajectory, even following a 2020 defeat, is a major mistake. Trump easily could return in 2024 and retain his de facto party leader position in the interim.” I admit, this is one possibility I hadn’t considered up to this point, primarily because I thought -- and still think -- Trump will be reelected in November. Political conditions appear a bit shaky right now but it doesn’t mean things won’t be remarkably different a little less than four months from now. American political attention spans aren’t exactly the longest and what happened last week, literally and figuratively, doesn’t usually matter a lick to the average person visiting the voting booth on Election Day. Trump still has many things in his favor. First and foremost, the economy seems to be recovering in the manner the president forecasted earlier this year at the outset of the Chinese Communist Party (or Wuhan, if you prefer) virus lockdowns and closures. It’s an odd thing to drive down the street and see businesses with signs indicating “Masks required” and “Open for limited indoor seating,” but crafty and adaptable entrepreneurial folks have found a way to make it work. The wave of anticipated permanent closures has not materialized, at least as far as I can tell. I’m also seeing a number of “We’re hiring” signs in storefronts as well as near-full parking lots at retail outlets. Who would’ve thought? The tourist sites that are open are well attended. Of course, with the recent spike in COVID-19 positive cases (largely due to the widespread and irresponsible “protests”, looting and rioting), many governors are threatening to delay or reverse the reopening trend. Such endeavors to stall the economy will only serve to heighten the already considerable angst Americans feel against the clueless political class. And since the decisions will be handed down at the state and local levels, Trump won’t get the blame. Trump has taken a major amount of flak for his purportedly (according to the pundits) slow reaction to the pandemic and for not “taking it seriously” as the occasion called for. The president didn’t help himself recently by claiming (paraphrasing) “99 percent of cases are totally harmless,” which brought out the full force of anger and cynicism from the scientists, Democrats, the media and never-satisfied professional nitpickers. Most if not all people I know are taking the coronavirus situation seriously. The president is too. Critics who suggest Trump isn’t doing his part by refusing to wear a mask in public or failing to toe the “sky is falling everywhere and we must shutter everything and hide inside until the magic vaccine is developed and released” line are mistaken. The administration is still working with state and local leaders to ensure their needs are met for equipment, etc. It’s work that’s already been done even if the panic isn’t yet licked. The media’s repeated attempts to paint a gloomy portrait of the Trump group’s response will wear on people after a while. We’re already seeing it. Second, the campaign season is just beginning to heat up. With Democrat nominee-to-be Joe Biden starting to emerge a bit more often from his basement hideout, he’s fulfilling the prophesies of political observers who surmised Biden couldn’t keep from putting his foot in his mouth at every opportunity. Grampa Joe did so late last week when he introduced (plagiarized?) his economic agenda, which sounded suspiciously like Trump’s America First populist platform. Further, Biden’s already exhibiting signs of beginning to crack under the weight of keeping his increasingly demanding leftist base happy while still trying to appeal to the all-important centrist independent voter who values America, doesn’t want the police defunded and thinks government is responsible for ensuring that sign-waving screamers and anarchist thugs aren’t everywhere at all times. Grampa Joe said he “absolutely” backs proposals to shift resources away from police departments to be devoted to high-minded liberal causes that Democrats have touted for decades. In the wake of COVID-19 and the George Floyd riots, I doubt there would be much public appetite for dumping hundreds of billions more into welfare programs. Responsible citizens are already bone-weary of paying people not to work, especially when many of those receiving the largesse are devoting their government paid vacations to harassing people who just want to be left alone. If the gutless Republican leadership doesn’t cave on the next “relief” bill, there will be real discussions about what the next step should be. Third, Trump will settle on a winning political pitch in the fall and stop shooting himself in the foot in the process. It’s hard to remember now, but the GOP nominee became much more disciplined under the tutelage of managers Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon for the final three months of the 2016 campaign prior to November 8th. Expect to see Trump tighten up his message -- and his act -- when the leaves turn and summer heat becomes temperate fall. There isn’t anything Trump hates more than losing. Certainly he’ll be open to listening to the moderating voices (concerning his tweets and other personality issues) around him if it means his poll numbers will rise and with them, the prospects of winning a second term. The last thing the New York real estate developer and reality TV celebrity wants to be remembered for is not being reelected, and worse yet, losing to an idiot like Joe Biden. Lastly, there’s a good argument that the Democrats peaked too soon -- way too soon. There is simply no feasible scenario where Biden increases his support from now until November. Therefore, all he can do is go down. Surveys reveal that voters’ enthusiasm for Biden is pretty darn low by historical standards. Ask yourself: Are people more likely to get excited for a President Joe -- or less likely? Therefore, Trump will probably never have to contemplate lengthening his political career beyond 2024, but if he lost… It's Trump’s Republican Party now; he’ll leave the scene when he darn well feels like it In his piece (linked to above), George W. Bush OMB director of communications, J.T. Young, argued that Trump could very easily come back to run for the GOP nomination in 2024, should he choose to try it. Young indicated that age won’t be a factor since Trump, in four years, will be the same age as Biden is now, and if the political whiners don’t think Joe’s too old… well, put two and two together. Young also asserts that Biden would almost assuredly run for reelection, and why wouldn’t he? It's hard enough to fathom doddering Joe taking the oath of office next January, what would make it impossible to believe he’ll refuse to give up power after one term? Would the Democrat establishment allow a leftist upstart to depose Grampa Joe when he didn’t consent to go? There’s precedent for the second-place finisher in presidential elections coming back and running again, including a former president (Grover Cleveland) who actually won a second term four years after he’d completed his first. Most in the defeated fraternity conclude there was a reason why they lost and don’t try to make a revival. But Trump is different. Trump would never go quietly into the night. If anything, his Twitter presence would increase. Imagine the avalanche of commentary from the former chief executive. The media will go crazy. Polls show Trump remains hugely popular with Republicans and there’s no reason to predict his favor would erode because the establishment and incredibly arduous circumstances combined to defeat him in the final year of his otherwise successful first term. There just isn’t another GOPer who could come in and replicate Trump’s following -- again, if he chose to run. His family would likely encourage him to come back, since it’s pretty clear if he loses, it was due to the dark powers arrayed against him, including those within his own party. One final reason: the Republican establishment couldn’t hope to field a candidate who could beat Trump in the primaries. Three-plus years out from the start of the 2024 campaign, it seems the blue bloods would consolidate behind someone like former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, but the grassroots wouldn’t go for it. Haley’s politically correct turn for the worst of late (her treatment of the Black Lives Matter riots) won’t help her either. The phenomenon that is the political career of Donald Trump still has plenty of legs. The sooner the GOP higher-ups realize it, the better off they’ll be. Cowardly Republican congressional leadership erodes confidence in the party -- again As indicated above, there’re still plenty of days, weeks and months between now and November’s election, but time is running out on Republican leaders to recognize the writing on the wall and start aggressively representing conservatives’ point-of-view before the party faithful give up hope. If not now, when? If not us, who? Rachel Bovard wrote at American Greatness [30], “[C]onservatism as both a way of life and a political movement is in crisis. And there has been none of the self-reflection, humility, or behavioral changes that should accompany the obvious failures that have led us to this point. Instead, we get furious justifications, condescending dismissals, navel-gazing about the economic theories of comparative advantage. Or worse, blanket apathy. “After years of our conservative institutions and leaders telling us ‘they have it in hand,’ the last month has unmasked their claim as mistaken at best, and willfully exaggerated, at worst. Apathy and self-righteous justifications will be met by apathy and disgust by the voters in November. The only thing that can begin to bring this movement back to relevance is an intellectually humble reevaluation of how D.C. conservatism lost its ability to create a clear and coherent way forward for those who seek its leadership. But there is precious little time for the ship to begin righting itself. That work must begin in earnest—and begin immediately. “D.C.’s conservative movement needs a gut check, and they need one fast.” Ratings-leading Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been advancing a similar message for months now. While Americans watched with jaws agape as mobs of goons marched, yelled profanity, looted businesses, assaulted law enforcement officers, took over police precincts and burned buildings, Republicans leaders in Washington largely kept to themselves, seemingly terrified of the political fallout from speaking up or even being targeted by the lawless malcontents. Someone needs to step up. Grassroots conservatives are watching. Instead of wasting time by throwing in with leftist non-issues like renaming military bases, why aren’t Republicans taking a page from Trump’s book and vigorously defending American culture and history? What are they afraid of? Is this who we elected? A loss in November’s election might not spell the conclusion of Donald Trump’s time as president -- he could run again in four years -- but the country will be a very different place in 2024 if Republicans don’t stand up now, support their candidate and enthusiastically champion America’s cause. Democrats never rest; the GOP is too often caught napping. 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__label__cc	0.534046	0.465954	Glutton meaning in hindi glutton meaning in hindi Hindi Meaning. ’ ‘Disease was often thought to be due to moral failings, and specifically, excesses: too much anger, jealousy, gluttony, or sex, either in an individual, or in the population. Translate Comelona to Spanish online and download now our free translation software to use at any time. Search meanings in Urdu to get the better understanding of the context. GOPAL (गोपाल): Hindi myth name composed of the Sanskrit elements go "cow" and pala "protector," hence "cow protector. English definition of Glutton. The wolverine's questionable reputation as an insatiable glutton (reflected in the Latin genus name Gulo) may be in part due to a false etymology. Glutton. \| Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples In Proverbs 23:21, "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty" (following zole bhasar, "squanderers of flesh," the Revised Version (British and American) "gluttonous eaters of flesh"), "glutton" in the usual sense is intended; "a man gluttonous," "a gluttonous man" (the Revised Version) (phagos, "an eater," "a glutton") was a term Gluttonous meaning in Bengali - ঔদরিকত; পেটুক; \| English – Bangla & English (E2B) Online Dictionary. It could be a topographic name for ‘someone living in a deep depression in South Germany. 3 One Word Substitution with Hindi Meaning (C)1. "Glutton" (from glut, to swallow greedily) is the translation of zolel from zalal, "to shake or pour out," "to be lavish, a squanderer. gluttons translation in English-Telugu dictionary. ’ Proverbs 23:21 predicts, "For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty. Usage: He led me to his room. Here are the 14 best gluten-free flours. Tamil Meaning of Guffaw Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the TAMIL language with its free online services. - Glossary शब्दावली, शब्द संग्रह (7) One who eats too much- Glutton पेटू, खाऊ A detailed list of jumbled words are compiled here. ” Preface to Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words. noun. A long list of words with their meaning. ; How unique is the name Gulch? Out of 6,028,151 records in the U. Meaning: Diminutive of the name “Alfred” which means counselor. Hindi meaning of guzzler guzzler /noun/ खाऊ; पियक्कड़; शराबी; शराबखोर; मद्यप; पेटू; लोलुपता से खाने-पीने वाला; बहुभोजी; अपव्ययी; धन उड़ाने व Fun Facts about the name Glutton. This area requires a good vocabulary to solve the questions well. 5. & f. " Usage of Hunger: 1: quell my hunger 2: This kind of entertainment is from hunger . Meaning in English:Feeding on grass. , glutton, from M. 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Discover the biblical and dictionary definitions as well as the theologic consequences of gluttony. Art And Science Dealing With A Language Eminent (adj) (of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere; 'one of the world's most eminent statisticians'. Meaning in English:One who is well versed in the science of female ailments. Last edited on Aug 02 2010. Glutton definition, a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously. lead = प्रभावित करना[होना] Jan 17, 2020 · One Word Substitute for various English words with Hindi meaning for which makes it easy to learn that are asked in afcat cds nda bank ssc railway written exam. The first step in teaching generosity to your child is by giving him a name meaning generous. Apr 14, 2015 · Video shows what pelican means. Derived from Norman origin, Saffer comes from ‘saffre’, meaning ‘glutton’ in French. " In Deuteronomy 21:20 , "This our son . Bookmark this website for future visits. ’ 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon. " this - to try to bring unity and harmony into the scattered thoughts of our general culture, to trace them to their primary assumptions and follow them into their ultimate consequences, to connect them all together, to remodel, curtail or amplify them, so as to remove their apparent contradictions, and to combine them in the unity of an harmonious view of things, and especially to investigate Alphabetical lists of English idioms with their meaning and an example. Idiom example: Idioms, as in the example below, are commonly used in everyday conversation by English and should be avoided in formal exchanges. Jun 29, 2019 · Gluttony is the sin of overindulgence and excessive greed for food. Petu - Matlab in English. drum is the same as our “drummer”. 'Glutton', 'gourmand', 'gourmandizer' and 'trencherman' are definitions in English. Find more Hindi words at wordhippo. en See what was to be done in ancient Israel in a case of rebellion, gluttony, and drunkenness: “In case a man happens to have a son who is stubborn and rebellious, he not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they have corrected him but he will not listen to them, his father and his mother must also take hold Glutton definition is - one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking. Apr 23, 2011 · Guilty pleasure is a psychological feeling and it happens when something makes you feel good and gives you pleasure but on the other hand, makes you feel guilty. Noun guga (pl. This lead to a period of unrest involving everything from riots to suicides. Above figures might not indicate the deposition takes place after the court order, the subsequent printed transcript. Scarica gratis il tuo strumento di traduzione. Human translations with examples: glutton, bhukkad meaning. Alternate meaning: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. A gloomy looking man, ekaruvadu, duhkhincucunduvadu. The correct meaning of Glutton in Hindi is पेटू. 4 One Word Substitution with Hindi Meaning (D)1. What does glutton for punishment mean? Information and translations of glutton for punishment in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Definition of glutton for punishment in the Definitions. Gluten is a group of seed storage proteins found in certain cereal grains. Commonly, gluttons blame a thyroid problem or claim it is a disease, thereby relinquishing responsibility. Glutton Meaning in Hindi: Find the definition of Glutton in Hindi. 6 One Word … May 14, 2018 · Politicians championing Hindi chose to do the exact opposite of use English. ’ 35 But wisdom is proved right by all her children. Gluttony Meaning in Hindi is पेटूपन. One who is sued by the plaintiff. Meaning one fond of good eating is from 1758. The synonyms and antonyms of Gluttony are listed below. This page provides translation and definition of gulch in Hindi language along with grammar, synonyms and antonyms. In each episode, the Nerd reviews a terrible video game and rants about it using profane language. 4 letter words made by unscrambling the letters in amazoning According to Christian tradition the seven deadly sins are: envy, gluttony, greed or avarice, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath. Separate and Safe: Likewise, as a cook you need to think about cross-contamination if you are trying to make gluten free food in a common kitchen. net dictionary. Glutton meaning in Bengali - পেটুক; ঔদরিক; অতিলোভী ব্যক্তি; \| English – Bangla & English (E2B) Online Dictionary. Or, create dough using vital wheat The Glutton Bowl was a two-hour Fox Network eating special in 2002 sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Fr. Prophylactic definition, defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug. There are several ways to come up with nicknames for a guy, but for some reason, physical attributes remain the most popular source of nicknames. The Glutton and the Drunkard Download audio file One of the saddest things I see going on around the world is people going through the motions of religion, doing all the things they think they need to do to please God, without ever getting to know Him. Glutton is a noun according to parts of speech. - 512c. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Glutton was not present. , gluttonous, of uncertain origin. Jul 15, 2015 · 4. Categories V Words Tags telugu word vapu KAMAKSHI f Hinduism, Indian, Hindi From Sanskrit काम meaning "love, desire" and अक्षि meaning "eye". He was introduced in the Races of Stone supplemental book. Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich (Proverbs 10:4). Petu Meaning in English. The meaning of yin yang is illustrated through the duality of nature. But some gluttonous landlords keep piling rental increases onto their plates. English definition of Glutton : a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess Hindi words for glutton include खाऊ, पेटू, किताबी कीड़ा, भक्षक, भुक्खड़, ग्लटन and ठूँसकर खानेवाला. Note that I show only the food-related meaning. Art And Science Dealing With A Language Buzzard: गिद्ध, शिकरा, श्येनक, बाज की किस्म, Among birds of prey, buzzards and hawks of the genus Buteo are an extremely successful group that is widely distributed, being absent only in Australia, Anta See the meaning of the word kaho at Rekhta urdu dictionary. Beast Of Burden meaning in Urdu: بوجھ ڈالنا کا جانور - meaning, Definition Synonyms at English to Urdu dictionary gives you the best and accurate Urdu translation and meanings of Beast Of Burden, Meaning. There's nothing to English. 9. 'Sonnet 1' by William Shakespeare serves to introduce many of the themes which will echo through the rest of the collection. One who owes money to another. Called one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony is characterized by a limitless appetite for food and drink and overindulgence to the point where one is no longer eating just to live, but rather living to eat. Mar 30, 2017 - A short series of food-related words as shared daily on my Facebook page. Learn these English one word substitute and score good marks in English easily. Ideally a separate kitchen is a must if you have Celiac Disease or at least use separate bowls, pans, knives and chopping boards. The initial product, imported from Japan in 1969 was a very salty seasoning, the color of soy sauce, sold in a small glass jar or plastic pouch, to be used as a seasoning for brown rice. Gluttony is a noun by form. Humanistic suggests people are greater than the sum of their parts and takes into account emotions, thoughts, creativity, self-esteem, compassion, empathy, and so on, as driving forces behind May 30, 2018 · A variety of healthy, gluten-free alternatives to regular or wheat flour exist for those who avoid gluten. com, a free online English tamil Picture dictionary. (ba3d ma šaab wadduuh ik-kuttaab. Glutton ka matalab hindi me kya hai (Glutton का हिंदी में मतलब). How to use glutton in a sentence. . Above get definition and English Jul 25, 2020 · 1000 Most Important One Word Substitution With Hindi Meaning (A to Z) SSCResult. There are total 5 words in English that can be used for Hindi word 'पेटू'. खाऊ. 982 0 0% To use abusive language for a Muslim who does not openly indulge in evil acts. "gluttony" മലയാള വ്യാഖ്യാനം, അര്‍ഥം. Death-blow Meaning in Hindi: प्रार् लेे िाला अघाि Meaning in English:a stroke with a hand or weapon that causes death. Perfect prep for Twelfth Night quizzes and tests you might have in school. You are right and wrong about some things you are right about not feeding the poor But you are wrong to say that’s The only the sin that it causes It mentions to take care of your body 4 insta temple of the Holy Spirit it even talks about health in The Bible it is a sin because it leads you down to death eventually physically death that it is and that’s why black me is also a sin and wyant One wonders how doctors reacted to the transformation of restaurants from outlets for bland, healthful fare to centres of gastronomy and gluttony. It conatins accurate other and similar related words for foodie in English. Gluten free diet meaning in Hindi : Get meaning and translation of Gluten free diet in Hindi language with grammar,antonyms,synonyms and sentence usages. Jan 05, 2021 · Glutton definition: If you think that someone eats too much and is greedy, you can say they are a glutton . For my name ideas, I focused on creating names that appeal to customer values using words like: Taste, Flavor, Fresh or Fast. cot definition: 1. Ideas from Craig. Lead Meaning in Hindi (हिंदी में मतलब) lead = मार्ग दिखाना. Know answer of question : what is meaning of Gluten free diet in Hindi? Gluten free diet ka matalab hindi me kya hai (Gluten free diet का हिंदी में मतलब ). Get the meaning of Greed in Tamil with Usage, Synonyms, Antonyms & Pronunciation. a small bed for a baby or young child with high bars around the sides so that the child cannot…. (Proverbs 13:18). It is written as Vikretā in Roman. See more words with the same meaning: acronyms (list of). glutton From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English glutton glut‧ton / ˈɡlʌtn / noun [ countable ] 1 EAT someone who eats too much 2 → a glutton for punishment — gluttonous adjective Examples from the Corpus glutton • We had salmon to start, followed by a glutton 's dessert of crème br ûleé. A fickle-tongued man, vakcapalyamugalavadu. Alistair Origin: Gaelic Meaning: Defender of men. It simply means that a sentence has to be replaced with a single word. The meaning of the word "seitan" has undergone a gradual evolution. ’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds. You can find a list and meanings of the seven deadly sins below. 1. In the Hindi television series Draupadi (2001), Vindu Dara Singh played the character. Dr. To ascertain the exact meaning of the words and phraseology of the originals of the Holy Scriptures is of great importance, particularly those which have a variety of meanings in English. This makes the skin build up into bumpy red patches covered with white scales Another word for small. Glutton meaning in Hindi (हिन्दी मे मीनिंग) is पेटू. In order to solve the jumbled word you can either take the hint by seeing Hindi meaning or after solving you can learn Hindi meaning. A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana. Amain Among oning. Wheat gluten Meaning in Hindi: Find the definition of Wheat gluten in Hindi. glutton meaning has been search 1715 (one thousand seven hundred and fifteen) times till 11/29/2020. ’ 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. glutton synonyms, glutton pronunciation, glutton translation, English dictionary definition of glutton. Mar 13, 2019 · While gluttony may seem to be a more trivial transgression than the others grouped in the “Seven Deadly Sins,” there is a reason this sin makes the list. glu·ten (glo͞ot′n) n. There can be two or more than two meaningful words of one jumbled word. There are plenty of popular and stylish names with less-than-appealing meanings, which would suggest that most parents either don’t care or aren’t aware of the negative connotations. A glutton, a greedy person. Mar 06, 2019 · Though often thought of as a single compound, gluten is a collective term that refers to many different types of proteins (prolamins) found in wheat, barley, rye, and triticale (a cross between طفيل t̤ufail dim. Derived from the s. Human translations with examples: glutton, isthappa, annadhanam, dhokebaaz l, kab tak me aau. "Look at that BOB. click for more sentences of gluttonous Jan 16, 2018 · "Only vocabulary" is a video Series in which you learn 7 new words daily from The Hindu Newspaper & other newspapers with pictures, synonyms, antonyms, Hindi meaning, unique remember tricks and Hindi English. A retort A glutton. The ancients believed that the contents of a comedo were the remains of a gluttonous worm. use of pukka, meaning genuine, and in itself derived from the Hindi pakka, meaning thorough or substantial. Nov 16, 2020 · Move over, tofu—wheat gluten is another vegetarian-friendly source of protein that can make a tasty addition to your snacks and meals. Scotland - solan goose; Bryan Nelson, The Gannet It is well known that young gannets or gugas are not only highly edible but their fat has remarkable curative properties. He amassed a gluttonous 379 total bases, scoring 141 runs. One word Substitution is one of the integral parts of english vocabulary, which is very important to crack SSC Competitive exams. This creates balance and harmony in all forms of life. ” 5 letter words made by unscrambling the letters in amazoning. This is a reference page for glutton verb forms in present, past and participle tenses. com! Glutton ka matalab hindi me kya hai (Glutton का हिंदी में मतलब). It’s almost as though Justin Bieber and his team are trying their best to put Justin Bieber back to the spot where he was when he released a number one song, i. The name means ‘defender of mankind’. whichbe commented on the word slubberdegullion. gugas). If you need nicknames for fat guys, you have come to the right place. A person who eats or consumes immoderate ‘Inuit did have the concept of gluttony, but an Inuit glutton was instead marked by the tendency to withhold food from others. GLUTTON MEANING IN ENGLISH; What Is the Sin of Gluttony? What is Gluten,How it looks ग्लूटेन क्या होता है कैसा दिखता है Kunal Kapur \| Gluten Free Intolerance 🔴#118 Meaning of Glutton with picture Tricks n Hindi meaning \|\| Examiner's most Jan 04, 2021 · glutton definition: 1. on Sep 21 2008. English, whatever its other merits, has as many disparaging words as one would possibly desire. (adj) (of a positive quality) present to a notable degree; 'the book's scholarship and eminent readability' Eminent (एमिनेंट / एमीनेंट / एमिनेन्ट) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning) प्रख्यात meaning – Onomatopoeia: • English cock-a-doodle-doo and Finnish kukkokiekuu • English gobble gobble and Turkish glu-glu – English gl and the concept of sight: • glare, glint, gleam, glitter, glossy, glance, glimpse but there is also • gladiator, glucose, glory, glutton, globe, etc. Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch. Glutton meaning Seven Deadly Sins - Gluttony. 19. OneIndia Hindi Dictionary offers the meaning of Glutton in hindi with pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, adjective and more related words in Hindi. late 15c. There are no meanings for ' A_glutton ' in our English-Hindi Dictionary, please suggest if you know the meaning Click Here Gluttony definition is - excess in eating or drinking. This page shows gulch meaning in Hindi with gulch definition,translation and usage. ), s. Although, strictly speaking, "gluten" pertains only to wheat proteins, in the medical literature this term is used to refer to the combination of prolamin and glutelin proteins naturally occurring in all grains that have been demonstrated capable of triggering celiac disease. ] [Written also dizard, and disard. Graminivorous. Gluttony is also one of the seven deadly sins. a person who regularly eats and drinks more than is needed 2. a fat woman. In Hindi television series Mahabharat (1988) and Mahabharat Katha (1997), Praveen Kumar portrayed the character. You must be joking! tum zaroor mazaaq kar rahe ho (Urdu Meaning) 20. gourmet). a go (at someone or something) a going concern; a gold mine; a golden age; a golden boy; a golden calf; a golden handshake; a golden hello; a golden key can open any door; a golden opportunity; a golden touch; a goldfish bowl; a gone coon; a goner; a gong show; a good; a good Aug 20, 2020 · This Norwegian habitational name is derived from seater, which in turn comes from Old Norse ‘setr’, meaning ‘farm’. a person who regularly eats and…. CLUB! Dec 18, 2018 · One Word Substitution Definition (Paribhasha): Jab hum Anek shabdon ke liye ek shabd ka paryog karte hai use one word substitution kehte hai hindi bhasha me hum anek shabdo ko bolne ke bajai ek hi word me apni puri baat rakh sakte hai jese आज्ञा का पालन करने वाला na bolkar hum sidhe आज्ञाकारी bol dete hai yeh one word substitution ka ek A country ruled by two country : Condominium: A dramatic performance : Masque: A lady’s purse : Reticule: A man of odd habits : Eccentric: A man who dances to the tunes of his wife Jan 04, 2021 · The Angry Video Game Nerd is an Internet series based on a fictional character, the "Nerd", created and portrayed by James D. in: This article on One Word Substitution in Hindi PDF A to Z Download is prepared for SSC Examinations. This type of animal is useless and also a liability to its owner. It'll make for a great conversation starter with your friends and family. Acronym for "Big Ol' Bitch. Gilbert K Chesterton Quote Gluttony Is A Great Fault But . (42) उसे कुछ कम खाना चाहिए - He should eat a little less. In particular, Sonnet 1 (as well as many of the other sonnets) includes references to the love the writer holds for an unnamed young man. It is the words aelf (elf) and raed (counsel) compounded meaning ‘wise counsel’. A filthy, slobbering person. The special, which was co-executive produced by Nash Entertainment and IFOCE co-founder Richard Shea, featured Mark Thompson and IFOCE co-founder George Shea as hosts/color commentators. You can complete the list of synonyms of in one word given by the english thesaurus dictionary with other english dictionaries. Glutton. Carries a scepter and lance on a horse Adramelech Chancellor and President of The High Council of Devils Sep 13, 2017 · తిండిబోతు. The online etymology dictionary is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms. Mera ye matlab naheen tha (Urdu Meaning) 21. In Russian, where the emphasis falls on the word is important. 4: Despite being outnumbered and suffering hunger and disease 5: Many died from hunger 6: By extension , Face scrawny, starving mine face, the mine of a person who seems miserable and tormented hunger 7: Catiline had trained to suffer fatigue A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Isaiah 55:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! How to say gluttony in English? Pronunciation of gluttony with 1 audio pronunciation, 10 synonyms, 2 meanings, 15 translations, 15 sentences and more for gluttony. SEARCH Voracious, Cormorant, Glutton, Edacious. Learn more. Tamil Meaning of Glutton Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the TAMIL language with its free online services. [Obs. See more words with the same meaning: overweight, obese, fat person. I didn't mean that. " Another word for glutton. slubberdegullion: A contemptible creature; a base, foul wretch. Alternative meanings may exist. Jan 16, 2018 · "Only vocabulary" is a video Series in which you learn 7 new words daily from The Hindu Newspaper & other newspapers with pictures, synonyms, antonyms, Hindi meaning, unique remember tricks and Meaning in Hindi: खि ाक तिा Meaning in English:Place where many people have died in accident 54. S. : At this time, pepper and spices made their entrance, along with meat-eating, Bacchanalian orgies, gluttony, vomitoriums and the gladiatorial displays of cruelty. Contextual translation of "bhukkad" into English. In a work called English Gamer Tudor Tracts, we hear that a “drum…. Here is meaning of Petu in English. Jun 12, 2018 · Word Meaning With Annotation Drum and the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife : probably refer to the players, rather than the instruments, i. lead = मार्ग मिलना. See 4 authoritative translations of Glutton in Spanish with example sentences and audio pronunciations. Psalms 78:18 - And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. We have provided meaning in Hindi also. To make squares disappear and save space for other squares you have to assemble English words (left, right, up, down) from the falling squares. A glutton for punishment - a person who willingly undertakes a task knowing it will be making their life harder. One Who Turns One's Thoughts Outwards. What does ulitan mean in English? If you want to learn ulitan in English, you will find the translation here, along with other translations from Cebuano to English. 5 One Word Substitution with Hindi Meaning (E)1. How to use gluttony in a sentence. " Psalms 106:14 also refers to the Israelites who "lusted exceedingly. Meaning in English:An excessively greedy Get the meaning of Intended in Tamil with Usage, Synonyms, Antonyms & Pronunciation. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Gulch was not present. 6 One Word … Alphabetical lists of English idioms with their meaning and an example. In the Hindi television series Shri Krishna (1993), Mahendra Ghule portrayed the character. We’re sure the name will add an instant grace, style, and taste to your child’s personality. jw2019 tl Subalit kahit na hindi matakaw ang isang taong mataba sa diwa na pagiging salabusab sa pagkain, kailangang ikapit niya nang lalong dibdiban ang payo ng Diyos. force a term to be included by preceding it with a + sign; force a term to be excluded by preceding it Dizzard meaning : A blockhead. The mixture of proteins, including gliadins and glutelins, found in wheat grains, which are not soluble in water and which give wheat dough its Meaning in english in one word. ’ 34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. Lead meaning in Hindi Lead is a english word. Gluttony Meaning in Hindi: Find the definition of Gluttony in Hindi. Apart from grave accusations like adultery or sodomy it is also Haraam to use abusive language for a Muslim who does not openly indulge in evil acts. A companion, a humble follower; a parasite; a glutton; one who uninvited accompanies one of the guests to a feast, one who sponges (in this sense said to be derived from Tufail, a poet of Kūfā, who was noted as a feast-hunter); cause, means, instrumentality, intervention (syn. The writer dwells on beauty, virtue, self-consumption, and the passing of human life through time. 55. Find conjugation of glutton. Find foodie synonyms list of more than 9 words on Pasttenses thesaurus. In every dog pack, there is an alpha male who is considered to be the leader. Test your knowledge on all of Twelfth Night. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags (Proverbs 23:21). A business name that lets your customer know what solutions you provide or the core values your business hold is a great way to make your business appear trustworthy and relevant. Feb 16, 2019 · Why It Is Not A Crime To Turn Into A Glutton In The Streets Of Kolkata Sandeep Das Updated: Feb 16, 2019, 10:00 IST One of the privileges of my job is the relentless back-breaking travel across Proverbs 23:21 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags. It is professional enough to satisfy academic standards, but accessible enough to be used by anyone. See more. Rachel is a glutton for punishment, always burning the midnight-oil) but is also commonly used to refer to people who keep Japanese Meaning 食べ物, 食品, フード, 食物, 食料, 飯, 召し上がり物, 兵粮, 兵糧, ジ,ニ any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue / What is fed upon / the things we eat to keep us alive / any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in Lead meaning in Hindi Lead is a english word. You can get more than one meaning for one word in gluttony translation in English-Tagalog dictionary. Each square carries a letter. The very fulness of the work, however, detracts somewhat from its value for a student commencing the study of Hindi, and thus there is room for a Grammar of less pretentious (5) 'Awah, meaning "greatly to desire," long after, with undue emphasis, with evil spirit though not perhaps with impure thought. Oct 12, 2014 · The second meaning of life according to Hinduism is Artha, which refers to the pursuit of wealth and prosperity in one’s life. v. 4. guga (English)Origin & history Scottish Gaelic. Jul 11, 2018 · Meaning in Hindi: स्त्री रोग विशेषज्ञ. Malayalam meaning and translation of the word "gluttony" Define glutton. Kellogg's " Grammar of the Hindi Language " is the standard work on the subject and occupies a position of unquestioned supremacy. m. (haak iš (n. The Glutton is the gnomish deity of disaster and greed. 8. What does kakai mean in English? If you want to learn kakai in English, you will find the translation here, along with other translations from Maori to English. (haak iš Today Panchang 2020 - Check out Hindu Tithi Panchang, Aaj ka Panchang 2020, today Panchang in Hindi, Hindu Panchang Calendar & more Some More Interesting Hindi Sentences With English Meaning - (41) तुम पेटू हो - You are a glutton. 3. Jun 30, 2020 · Fast forward to present day, after spending over four years creating content, The Glutton and The Owl is a success in its own right with about 200,000 followers on Instagram and about 70,000 If you have a little devil running around, consider some of these names for fun. Like the word “Autobiography” can be used in place of the sentence “The life story of a man written by himself”. Viewing and they were subpoenaed meaning and other evidence in bengali with someone familiar with such a comment! Governing procedure in both sides must steer clear of you. This is a set of words from Telugu language that literally refers to a bull/ox which consumes a lot of food and water but works rarely being lazy. The less common name for the animal in Norwegian , fjellfross , meaning "mountain cat", is thought to have worked its way into German as Vielfraß , [70] which means "glutton" (literally "devours much"). It is in her daily ritual of rushing from home to school and back in which she seems to find meaning and comfort. Meaning : the meaning is anything from the name's write-up that is surrounded by "double quotes" separate search terms with spaces; search for an exact phrase by surrounding it with double quotes; this field understands simple boolean logic. 2 One Word Substitution with Hindi Meaning (B)1. The site has become a favorite resource of teachers of reading, spelling, and English as a second language. Since an amendment to this Act in 1967 permitting the continued use of English until a suitable resolution could be found, English has been a de facto lingua franca of India ever since. n. Ex: The writer discusses the designation of Jesus as a 'glutton and a drunkard'. The Glutton is usually depicted as a massive, ravenous badger or wolverine. com, a free online English hindi Picture dictionary. Got birth and followed principles in a particular caste but telling he is not god. Jan 09, 2020 · SSC CHSL; English; Jan 09, 2020; Daily Quiz . When uninterrupted, these natural occurrences signify the perfection of chi energy completed by its two halves, female (yin) and male (yang). Friday, 13/05/16 Thursday, 12/05/16 Wednesday, 11/05/16 Tuesday, 10/05/16 Monday, 09/05/16 Friday, 06/05/16 Thursday, 05/05/16 Wednesday, 04/05/16 Tuesday, 03/05/16 Monday, 02/05/16 Friday, 29/04/16 Thursday, 28/04/16 Wednesday Out of 6,028,151 records in the U. Extrovert. Answer of question : what is meaning of gulch in Hindi dictionary? gulch ka matalab hindi me janiye (gulch का MEANING GENDER; Aabis: aabis has the meaning of lucky, it also means grim-faced, fierce-faced, the Boy named aabis seems to be fortunate, meeting with good success: Boy: Urdu: Islam: Aadijay (आदिजय) The First Victory ; Success; Boy: Hindi,Indian: Hindu: Aailayah: aailayah means the one who is off to success, going up ascending: Girl BEAST meaning in hindi, BEAST pictures, BEAST pronunciation, BEAST translation,BEAST definition are included in the result of BEAST meaning in hindi at kitkatwords. Oct 13, 2009 · Your id would want to devour them, your superego would feel bad (glutton), and your ego would have to balance the two out and only have one or two. a glutton for punishment; a glutton for punishment, work, etc. " The ninth, when we are gluttonous while calling ourselves Christians. Not connected with GOURMET (Cf. . Mind your business! apne kaam se kaam rakho (Urdu Meanig) 19. Nov 23, 2020 · 40 Good Names With Bad Meanings. “I thought about the word 'profile' and what a weird double meaning it had. She is considered to be an incarnation of Parvati. How Popular is the name Gulch? As a last name Gulch was the 132,206 th most popular name in 2010. ’ Gluttony definition, excessive eating and drinking. We say we're looking at a person's profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a profile on someone, and we assume it's the whole them we're seeing. ) Meaning: After his hair when white, he went to school. 1 One Word Substitution with Hindi Meaning (A)1. is a glutton, and a drunkard," the word may mean a squanderer or prodigal; the English Revised Version has "a riotous liver. 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Importantly, one must stay within the bounds of dharma while pursuing this wealth and prosperity (i. This is the name of a Hindu fertility goddess. ) = glutton ; gourmand. It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year. Alex: Alex is derived out of the name ‘Alexander’. DEMON NAMES VAMPIRE NAMES Demon Names with A Name Meaning Abaddon King of the Locusts in Hell Abigor Commands sixty legions of devils. Help all the animals attain the aim! Description: The happiest zoo game!Endangered animals from all around the globe need your assist!Travel to distant locations by land, air, and sea. Tamil meaning of Glutton is as below Lettris is a curious tetris-clone game where all the bricks have the same square shape but different content. Sentence usage examples & English to Hindi translation (word meaning). 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Pronunciation of glutton with 1 audio pronunciation, 18 synonyms, 2 meanings, 12 translations, 1 sentence and more for glutton. wasīla; z̤arīʻa en But even if a fat person is not a glutton in the sense of being a voracious eater, he (or she) may need to apply more seriously God’s counsel. Ex: Louis was such a gourmand, that he would eat at a sitting four platefuls of different soups, a whole pheasant, a partridge, a plateful of salad. Jul 25, 2020 · 1000 Most Important One Word Substitution With Hindi Meaning (A to Z) SSCResult. One word Substitution is one of the integral parts of vocabulary. You have searched the English word glutton meaning in Spanish glotón. Meaning in Hindi: घास खानेवाला. English mein konsi mushkil baat hai (Urdu Meanig) 17. Gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins, is the sin associated with an unhealthy indulgence in material delights, usually food. Usage: The trail of blood on the road led the police to the criminal. Meaning of glutton for punishment. Traduzione Inglese del termine glutton&. To help you narrow down the search, MomJunction has selected some of the most beautiful names meaning generous. (noun) habitual greed or excess in eating; “she said plumpness was a sign of gluttony in most cases” Gluttony (ग्लटनी) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning) Jan 21, 2019 · NEWS: Hindi News India News in Hindi Breaking News in Hindi Delhi News Pfizer Vaccine Effect Bank Holidays Jan 2021 Priyanka Gandhi Gold Price Today China Vaccine Budget 2021 Jio Farmers Connection बजट 2021 किसान आंदोलन Tej Pratap yadav Here, you can check Glutton translation in both Urdu and Roman Urdu language. novels with good fighting scene and 0h, 22m ago in Im Looking For: Kumo desu ga nani ka? Which chapters? 0h, 37m ago in Im Looking For Jan 04, 2010 · Java is a general purpose, high-level programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Submitted by Evelyn R. 3: An estimated 46% of the deportees died from hunger and disease. The Glutton figures prominently in the bedtime stories gnomes tell naughty children -- "Go to sleep or The Glutton will get you!" 1000 Most Important One Word Substitution With Hindi MeaningContents1 1000 Most Important One Word Substitution With Hindi Meaning1. Above get definition and English Jul 22, 2020 · Meaning: Repetition can teach even a donkey. Find more ways to say small, along with related words, antonyms and example phrases at Thesaurus. The gourmand is one whose chief pleasure is eating; but… Год выпуска: 1921. ] [Dizzard, 7] [Dizz, 4] [a ‘Glutton that I am, though, I was disappointed to find just four small slithers of meat atop a sculpted mountain of the red stuff. ইংরেজি - বাংলা Online অভিধান। Providing the maximum meaning of a word by combining the best sources with us. What Is Psoriasis? Psoriasis is a skin disorder that causes skin cells to multiply up to 10 times faster than normal. ‘Intermediates who want to build their confidence and technique on a big network of connected pistes should look elsewhere, but for sybarites, party people and adrenaline freaks, it's the place to be. tindipotu. We hope this will help you in learning languages. Meaning in Hindi: पेटू. " GUARIN : French form of Germanic Warin , meaning "cover, shelter. In the Bible, gluttony is closely linked with the sins of drunkenness, idolatry, lavishness, rebellion, disobedience, laziness, and wastefulness (Deuteronomy 21:20). gourmant glutton, originally an adj. However, я плáчу – in which the emphasis is on the first syllable – means “I'm crying”. Gluten-free products have increased in popularity in recent years, but with so many “-free” products on the market, it can be hard to know how “free” a product really is, unless there is gulch meaning in Hindi : Get detailed meaning of gulch in Hindi language. 2. 6 based on 11 Reviews "Regarder Les Bienfaits du Ganoderma !!!" Read hottest manga releases online - free daily updates official! Release your inner otaku with high quality manga at MANGA. of t̤ifl, q. Conclusion: Intentions Meaning Justin Bieber I repeat, even though the music video of the song is addressing a very serious issue, the lyrics of the song just don’t feel like it. com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. g. The name gradually came to refer to any wheat gluten seasoned with soy sauce. Trying to work with Peta on a matchmaking business that Peta uses mostly for her own purposes, Maria Worth has come to hate her old friend, a noise vulgar glutton who sucks and chomps and chews with relish. OneIndia Hindi Dictionary offers the meaning of Wheat gluten in hindi with pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, adjective and more related words in Hindi. Alan: Alan is a popular Irish name. Find the correct meaning and Hindi pronunciation of the word inmate in easy language. Published on Jan 09, 2021 See more words with the same meaning: to take advantage of, cheat, trick. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Inmate was not present. We did all the research for you and compiled this huge list of male demon names including 500 male supernatural entities, what they do, where they originate, appearance, and features. (Urdu Meaning) 16. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. For example, я плачу – in which emphasis is on the second syllable – means “I’m paying”. Proverbs 24:33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh. was shot in both legs. 1 Corinthians 10:31 - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon. I like this idiom as it is predominately used as compliment to someone hard working, taking on big task (e. A glutton is a person who eats an extreme amount of food and following this is either unable to move or runs directly to the toilet to vomit. one must not step outside moral and ethical grounds in order to do so). Weird things about the name Glutton: The name spelled backwards is Nottulg. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you're only seeing half the face Fun Facts about the name Gulch. Meaning: Alfie: Alfie, short for Alfred, comes from the old English word ‘Elfred’. Subpoenaed Meaning In Bengali. هاك الشبل من ذاك الأسد. gluttonous in a sentence - Use "gluttonous" in a sentence 1. It is spelled as [gluht-n]. 500 Male Demon Names (So Far) Male Demon Names List. This is a lie and hypocritical, misrepresenting God. Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline, but he who regards reproof will be honored. Glutton meaning in Hindi (हिन्दी मे मीनिंग) is खाउ. Jan 02, 2020 · Contextual translation of "annadhanam for english word" into English. Alternate version: Practice makes perfect. A word’s stress pattern can drastically alter its meaning. —a great eater, a glutton; one who takes or receives (bribes): World of Hindi language and Hindi English. Rolfe. BEAST meaning in tamil, BEAST pictures, BEAST pronunciation, BEAST translation,BEAST definition are included in the result of BEAST meaning in tamil at kitkatwords. It is written as Peṭūpan in Roman Hindi. 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__label__cc	0.630326	0.369674	Click here to visit the donation page \| View all sponsors Interesting Car & Driver Article from 84 Interesting Car & Driver Article from 84 by DKcustoms Last post by : hyperv6 on 05-28-2015 07:47 AM DKcustoms From: Central NY http://www.caranddriver.com...ived-comparison-test Mostly disappointing for the Fiero, but they did review an 84 4 cyl after all Raydar From: Carrollton GA. Out in the... country. Very good, if not dead accurate. I still remember reading about these cars when they were new. The ones that I remembered (mostly the Camaro and Corvette - and the SVO, now that I think about it) were exactly as I remembered and/or expected. Everyone in the test hated the Camaro's automatic tranny. Over the years, I learned to hate GM automatics. They were almost never in the gear that you wanted them to be, and any kind of shift (automatic, or manually selected) took so long to happen that whatever was going on, on the road, was ancient history by the time that it finally did. This was true, as recently as the 4T60E in my Caddy swap. Potential hijack, re: slushboxes... I'll go off on a tangent, and state that the 4T45E (go figure) auto tranny in my G6 is probably the best automatic I've ever driven. I'm sure it has everything to do with the programming. It probably has a lot to do with why I like the car so much. (The 6T70(?) in my mother-in-law's CTS is right up there, too.) Progress isn't always bad, and is frequently good. I'll stop there. But yeah... The Z28 was tuned to handle, right out of the box. So was the Corvette - especially the Z51 - at the cost of having your vertebrae shattered when running over anything rougher than painted crosswalk lines. [This message has been edited by Raydar (edited 05-22-2015).] Tuna Helper From: Ft Wayne, IN, USA, Earth There is a car and driver video on YouTube where they compare it against a Toyota MR2. hyperv6 From: Clinton, OH, USA The Fiero read is accurate. While our car Is fun to drive it is not a Lemans winner as it has many faults too. If I had to auto cross this afternoon I would take my HHR SS to run before the Fiero. But to be fair too the Camaro and Corvettes while better handling here were far from todays standards. American suspension tuning has come a long way in the last decade and we are now seeing world class cars done the right way and then you add in the technology it just takes it to the next level. A well tuned car will feel slow while going fast and my Fiero feels fast when going slow. You can drive It to high limits but you really have to work to do it. A well tuned car is easy to drive at or near the limit. But with that said the Fiero I feel because of the work you have to put in is a much more fun drive as you have to earn It even on a back country road. Todays cars are to the point to be rewarding to where you have to work with the car you are generally restricted to a race track as the limits are so high few people ever get to where they can enjoy them. These cars can make an average person Mario Andretti but they will never know that at the limit feel as it is so high. jscott1 From: Houston, TX , USA 1984 was probably the lowest point in American car history. Even the Camaro and Firebird were rocking the iron duke... which by today's standards is a boat anchor. If the 84 had at least had the V6 and the 88 suspension it would have been off to a much better start. By 88 it would have had the DOHC V6 and an even better suspension. But that obviously didn't happen. The Fiero's problems are a small example of what was wrong with the old GM... under so much cost cutting pressure that they cut corners. Here was the game plan: 1) Introduce a half baked car and sell on looks alone 2) after a year or two introduce a better engine that it should have had all along 3) after a couple more years give it better handling and upgrade the interior.. a little bit but not too much 4) when sales start to sag, give the body a minor refresh but don't spend any money to fix the underlying issues 5) when sales continue to slide, cancel the car and blame the market for being saturated, (despite the fact that other manufactures sell the same type car in droves). Originally posted by jscott1: I agree with the old GM culture as the problem but the list is not really all the true facts. GM never wanted this car and neither did Chevy. Pontiac hid and channeled the limited fund as well as they could. Pontiac wanted a sports car and sold this as an economy car. Pontiac put the car in a plant able to build a quarter million cars a year and yet they put a limited sale 2 seat car there. They decided to over build the line till the GM 80 program came in and picked up the additional production. Pontiac failed to have a back up plan as the GM80 was killed and left the car in a plant with nothing else to fill out production. This gave Chevy and all the enemies of the car at GM what they needed to kill it. Pontiac had hope to nurse the car along and provide the upgrades as they could afford them. At this time Pontiac was dying fast and they were desperate. At this time Pontiac had been considered for the axe but they held off when the Grand Am sales took off. Many of these sales were attributed to the Fiero bring people into the show room along with the new TA. In the end Old took a dive and they got the axe first. The Fiero is a car that really should not have happened at GM with the way they worked then. A lot of people stuck their necks out and to be honest I think many never expected it to last more than 5 years anyways. They knew this was a long shot and took a lot of chances but they wanted to put attention on Pontiac and rebuild their image. To be honest the Fiero did the job well as it garnered much attention and helped revive a brand that could easily have been gone buy 1990 had it not been for this attention and the increase of sales of the other models that rode that attention wave. I have spent time with some of the folks who worked this progam and go the stories that never made the papers. Fred can back this up as he has spoken to even more people than I. The Fiero program was a great example of the best and the worst of GM culture. Some really smart people took a risk and tried to be innovative in ways no one else had. All the while that other parts of GM attacked this program like white blood cells attack a infection. If this car had been done today this would be a different story but when this happened GM was in a lot more trouble than we ever knew at the time and it only got worse as time went on. Bob Lutz was the first person to come in and try to change the culture and today Mary Barra and others continue what he started and we are now seeing the results. Originally posted by hyperv6: ...Bob Lutz was the first person to come in and try to change the culture and today Mary Barra and others continue what he started and we are now seeing the results. Admittedly, I haven't kept up with this as much as some, but I really like what I've heard from Ms. Barra. She was kind of thrown to the wolves with the whole "ignition switch recall" cluster-fest, and seems to have acquitted herself nicely. Even Peter DeLorenzo (of AutoExtremist.com) was very critical at first. Now it seems like he's willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. High praise indeed, coming from him. (He still hates Sergio Marchionne, with a passion.) sricka01 From: Frisco, TX When watching the Motorweek videos from 82 - 88, they started out with praise and even complimented the suspension (except for the Charles Atlas comment). Then each year it was almost like the cool thing to hate on the car with each progressive year even though it basically the same suspension in the car year over year. Then the 88, seemed like that wasn't even good enough. Next time watch the video and see how they went downhill in ratings. I would think it would have been poor from beginning to end. But watch how they rag on the entire Fiero from 2nd year on. Did all the initial good perceptions somehow disappear without merit? Yeah my observations were generic across the board for the old GM. Could apply to many cars. All manufacturers have to make a business decision about what features to have in at launch but it seems old GM brought more half baked cars to market than most. With respect to the Fiero, expectations were high at launch. People didn't immediately complain about the suspension and the handling, but it was basically the same from 84 to 87. That's the problem. The disappointment did grow because by 87 it was very outdated. The 88 was too little too late as the Motorweek video even said. [This message has been edited by jscott1 (edited 05-26-2015).] The whole deal was a project of compromise and infighting at GM and Pontiac. While many just want to blame GM for the failure Pontiac also too many high odds risks and they did not pay off for long term survival. But on the other hand I think Pontiac was desperate and was willing to take the chance to generate a lot of publicity that did help even in the cars short life. I remember back in the day the Fiero was in every magazine every month for many years from 1980-1988. I really believe they went for it at Pontiac and if the car lived long fine if not it did its job saving Pontiac for another 25 years. GM on the other had no idea of what to so with Pontiac and Chevy just saw them as lost sales. That is no way to run a division. Originally posted by Raydar: I was not a Mary fan at first. I though Mark Ruess should have gotten the job but I soon realized that she was the right person in the right job. She handled this better than anyone at GM would have handled this for the last 70 years. Also with her handling the issues Mark is the real product person and it has left him free to do what has been needed product wise and has her full support. From: Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA Like the Miata? MR2? I'd have to look them up but they're typically a drop in the bucket compared to the enormous sales of the first-year Fiero. That's probably part of the problem - I wonder how many potential '85-'88 Fiero buyers took a pass on the improved engine, body style and suspension because they already had an '84 in the driveway they were still making payments on. I think by 1988 especially, the ship had sailed already for a big-selling 2-seat car. Gas prices came back down (especially in 1987) and Americans were swarming to the dealers to buy 4-door SUVs. From that point forward, a 2-seater was destined to be nothing more than a niche market. From: Southern MN Fiero really turned out better than by all rights it should have for all that it was up against in GM. Originally posted by css9450: Your version of history doesn't sync up with mine or reality. First year Fiero sales did exceed everyone's expectations, but the Miata, which debuted in the summer of 1989 as a 1990 model went on to become the best selling 2 seater of all time, (940,000 as of 2014). The first generation alone sold over 400,000 from 1989 to 1997. Which is the same time frame that Pontiac and yourself are saying the market was saturated. A better Fiero, especially a convertible model, could have had a large chunk of those sales. Yes, the two seater market has always been a niche...trying to make it a mainstream car with over 100,000 sales per year was a doomed strategy, but to say the two seater market was saturated was disproven by Miata sales. But the fact that a lot of the market bought into the 84's 137,000 or so, yes they would have been ripe for a new and improved Fiero in 89/90 but of course that never happened. But it chaps me the wrong way when people blame the market for Fieros' issues. The general public would have bought into an improved Fiero, it just never came. My version of history places most of the "blame" for the end of Fiero production on the rising popularity of the SUV, but I might be alone in that belief since I've never seen it repeated by anyone else. I guess it all comes down to what we think a "reasonable" sales figure for the new Fiero would be. Competing with the brand-new Miata... Would it sell 15K a year, year after year, or 30K, or more? Sadly we'll never know. SUVs did increase in popularity during this time, but it was a related event... lowering gas prices, that probably was the biggest problem the Fiero faced. If gas prices had stayed high then a weak 4 banger Fiero would have been an attractive commuter car and sell in the large numbers GM needed to be profitable. The Fiero attempted to make the switch to a low volume sports car, but as Hyperv6 has pointed out the Fiero plant was not designed to be profitable in small numbers. So falling gas prices more than anything doomed the Fiero. That has been the secret to the Miata's long life is not to over sell the car. They average between 12K-20K per years in the USA and have added global sales that make it worth their while. Pontiac over sold the car in the first two years because they had to in order to get the plant they needed to build it. Then they put all their chips on the GM 80 Car to pick up the extra production as they settled the Fiero to the 20K sales range that is normal for a 2 seat car. The plain simple fact is the two seat car segment is a low volume limited sales area no matter the name. To sell a cheap one is tricky as you make so little profit that is generally is not worth while once sales settle in. This is why even popular cars like the MR2, 300 and RX7 are no longer with us. As one guy from the Fiero program said to me the 2 seat car segment is a 5-7 year cycle for many and that is about it as it is difficult to replace and justify spending more money for limited profits on limited sales. The Miata and the Vette are the two real acceptation to this rule. The Vette has been an Icon and GM has been able to make money but the icon status has still saved its butt several times. The Miata has been sold in a smart way and globalized to where it has made money. But even the most recent one has had trouble when it needed to be replaced. The development cost nearly killed it. Unless Mazda finds a way to share the development cost this one may be in its last gen. That or Mazda gets bought out by VW or the like. Key differences here is the Miata was global sales and the Fiero was North American sales. In America the Miata over the years averages between 12K-20K sales per year and the limited sales and the limited editions keep the people coming back. It also was a car that appealed to men and more so female buyers to they have a larger interest group. The ease to drive and drop top opened the market up no pun intended. In this segment you have to keep them coming back for more. With the Fiero so may bought the car that wanted it in the first two years it limited the numbers later on. The added GT helped but when the GM 80 was not there the expected sales numbers were not enough to keep the plant at acceptable capacity and this is all the Corvette people and Chevy people needed to point out. Chevy really did fear a cheaper faster Fiero as the Corvette while it gets some consideration still has to make profit and still has to make a business case with each and every new model. A drop in sales over what they have seen would have killed it in this era or made their job even more difficult. The SUV had nothing to do with this. We are looking at a segment where this was a niche model not a mass production model. The Fiero for many was a 3rd car but the SUV was the family daily truckster. You are alone in this belief as it is not accurate. That is why no one else has ever brought this into the conversation. Anyone can live with a SUV if you can afford the gas but not everyone can live only with a 2 seater car. One trip to Home Depot with the kids will answer that one. The two seat car segment for the most part is a very limited sales segment. If you make one cheaper it becomes even more difficult to sell and still make a profit of business case to build. But look around most sports cars that last are 4 passenger GT types even if the back seat is good for children or amputees. Also they are roadsters or have a roadster option. While the space frame made a neat selling point it limited the addition of a factory roadster and that really hurt. In the last years GM did look into doing a factory roadster but it was too little too late. [This message has been edited by hyperv6 (edited 05-28-2015).]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line261
__label__wiki	0.677982	0.677982	Film Atlas (India): Emperor of the Mughals Title: Emperor of the Mughals / Mughal-e-Azam (1960) The year is 1568, and Emperor Akbar, greatest of the Mughal dynasty that ruled the Indian subcontinent for three centuries, makes a desert pilgrimage hoping for a male heir. His wish is granted in the form of Salim, though unfortunately he’s a born profligate. Akbar, seeing that ease and pleasure are spoiling his child, commands him to lead an army through 14 years of triumphant warfare. He returns a hardened general, with tasteful dabs of blood accenting his face. During the festivities celebrating his homecoming, prince Salim is presented with a breathtaking sculpture that turns out to be Anarkali, a modest court maid gifted in song and dance. Salim and Anarkali fall instantly in love, secretly passing poetry by floating lotuses down the palace pavilion’s fountain-fed private river. The jealous Bahar, an ambitious rival dancer, makes sure the affair is discovered by Akbar. The emperor is outraged by Salim’s intention to marry below his station and makes every attempt to hinder the couple, including chaining Anarkali in the dungeon. Salim respects the sovereignty of his esteemed father over a vast kingdom, but defends the freedom of his heart. Their relationship breaks down, leading to shouting matches, ultimatums and war. Tragedy ensues, but only after Salim and Anarkali are granted a few precious hours of happiness. Emperor of the Mughals is, if one adjusts for inflation, perhaps the most the successful Indian film ever made and certainly one of its most enduringly popular. It is emblematic of the Bollywood blockbuster model: a timeless obstacle-laden romance writ on a larger-than-life scale, big-name stars, lavish production values, memorable musical numbers and, of course, a three-hour running time. Director K. Asif overcame titanic production setbacks to get it made (shooting first began in 1946, fourteen years and a different cast away from the finished version), but the sheer visual splendor of Mughal-e-Azam shines through. It’s best enjoyed by sitting back and admiring the opulence: the flamboyant fabrics, faceted mirrors and filigreed jewelry. The soirees in gardens and clashes of armies. The gilt on everything from copulas to crowns. The romance is a flesh-and-blood extension of this theme with Salim and Anarkali part of the visual feast. Dilip Kumar (Salim) and Madhubala (Anarkali) have chemistry, charisma and commitment, even if their tragic love has little resemblance to a real-world relationship, and although scrupulously, even absurdly chaste (in accordance with industry censors), they know how to squeeze every drop of sensuality out of a glance, a gesture or a dance. The rest of the film admittedly doesn’t hold up quite as well, but it entertains. The acting and writing, for instance, are heavy-handed and overwrought, firmly in the tradition of grand historical epics. The emotions are presented only in their most intense varieties, which only makes them all the purer to savor. One can also find, behind all the pomp and bombast, interesting conflicts being grappled with: the barriers of caste and class, the primacy of love versus principles, the responsibility to rule versus the right to privacy, the limits of parental and government authority and every manifestation of loyalty put to test. It’s interesting to note that Akbar, as in history, is truly a great leader while his son mostly just wants schmooze with a hot girl, but one can’t help rooting for love. Bollywood is second only to Hollywood in terms of cinematic influence, and surpasses it in terms of film production and viewership. That said, I approach popular cinema (be it from the U.S., India, Nigeria or elsewhere) with a great deal of skepticism and, like many Western cinephiles, I find Bollywood films to be frequently hampered by their long runtimes, ubiquitous songs, limited themes and reliance on formulas, not to mention notoriously sloppy DVD releases (poor transfers, unsubtitled musical numbers, distracting watermarks) further aggravated by endemic piracy. But India is more than just the hindi-based Bollywood; there is also a ‘parallel’ cinema grounded in socially-conscious realism and artistic aspirations, fostered by internationally-regarded auteurs like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Bimal Roy, Shyam Benegal and Mani Kaul. I chose to write about a film firmly in the Bollywood tradition, but if musical spectacles aren’t your cup of tea try The Home and the World, Salaam Bombay, Subarnarekha, Mr. Shome, Our Daily Bread or Pather Panchali. My Favorites: The Home and the World The Lonely Wife Scorching Winds Court (2015) The Golden Thread / Subarnarekha Salaam Bombay! Emperor of the Mughals Mr. Shome Hero / Nayakan In Two Minds / Duvidha I'll Die for Mama / Deewaar A Day's Bread / Uski Roti Throw of the Dice The Pathetic Fallacy Major Directors: Shyam Benegal, Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor, Mani Kaul, Mehboob Khan, Mira Nair, Satyajit Ray, Ghatak Ritwik, Bimal Roy, Mrinal Sen Posted by FilmWalrus at 10:30 AM Labels: 1960s, Film Atlas, India, Musical, Review, Screenshots and Images Film Atlas (Madagascar): Souli Film Atlas (Macedonia): Before the Rain Film Atlas (Luxembourg): Little Secrets Film Atlas (Liberia): Johnny Mad Dog Film Atlas (Lebanon): Where Do We Go Now? 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__label__cc	0.69007	0.30993	Adult Height Increase with Baryta Carb? On the adult height increase website(or at least the old version), Baryta Carb(Barium Carbonate) is listed as a remedy for dwarfism. What effects does Barium Carbonate have that could relate to height increase(or adult height increase)? I couldn't find a lot about barium carbonate aside from it being toxic in large quantities. What information is there on Barium(Ba 2+)? Ba(2+)-induced action potentials in osteoblastic cells. "Trains of long-duration "action potentials" were induced by Ba2+ in osteoblast-like rat osteosarcoma cells (ROS 17/2.8), under current clamp and voltage clamp. Large depolarizing pulses were seen in microelectrode measurements at 37 degrees C following the addition of 10 or 20 mM Ba2+ to physiological bathing medium. Application of BAY K 8644 resulted in the onset of the pulses at earlier times and at more negative potentials. The pulses were blocked by nifedipine and Cd2+, but not by Ni2+. Large inward current pulses were seen in whole-cell patch technique voltage-clamp measurements at 37 degrees C in the presence of from 10 to 110 mM Ba2+ in the bathing medium. The current pulses were not seen at 22 degrees C in the presence of 110 mM Ba2+, but could be induced by BAY K 8644. These pulses were not blocked by TTX, but were blocked by nifedipine, Cd2+, Zn2+, Co2+, and by an increase in bathing [Ca2+]. The shape and frequency of the current pulses were the same as for voltage pulses under current clamp. A model that can explain these observations involves opening of L-type Ca2+ channels in a voltage-independent manner by cytosolic Ba2+ via a screening of Ca2+ from sites that produce either inactivation or a lower probability of opening in the activated state. There would be a closing of these channels at higher [Ba2+] as Ba2+ is forced onto these sites. A refractory period is also required to give repeated pulses of openings." Remember that the sodium-potassium pump may play a role in increasing chondrocetic hypertrophic volume. Barium may play a role in modulating cell volume. An increase in action potentials may increase the ability of chondrogenic and osteogeneic cells to respond to electromagnetic fields. Voltage-gated sodium and calcium currents in rat osteoblasts. "1. The whole-cell voltage-clamp mode of the patch-clamp technique was used to investigate the presence of voltage-gated inward currents in osteoblasts from newborn rat calvaria. 2. In K+-free solutions, three kinds of inward currents could be activated by depolarization: a voltage-gated Na+ current and two different types of Ca2+ currents. 3. The Na+ current was activated by depolarization above -40 mV in all the cells. It was reduced by half by 10 nM-TTX (tetrodotoxin). 4. In an isotonic Ba2+ external solution containing TTX, and with a Cs-EGTA internal solution buffered at pCa 8, depolarizing jumps induced both a transient Ba2+ current and a sustained Ba2+ current. The relative proportions of these two currents varied greatly among cells. 5. The transient and sustained Ba2+ currents differ with respect to their time course and their voltage dependence. 6. The depolarization-activated inward currents were also observed under more physiological conditions, in the presence of only 2 mM-external Ca2+ and with a K+ internal solution buffered at pCa 7. 7. A few records obtained in current clamp showed that it is possible to induce action potentials in osteoblasts." More evidence of Ba 2+ and electromagnetic fields affecting osteoblasts. Barium can increase the responsiveness to electromagnetic fields(action potential) which can have height increasing effects. Can low frequency electromagnetic field help cartilage tissue engineering? "To understand whether a low-frequency pulsed electromagnetic field (EMF) could help cartilage tissue repair in the scope of tissue engineering, we tested how EMF affected collagen gel properties and the behaviors of chondrocyte cells embedded in collagen constructs. Collagen gel and primary chondrocytes embedded in collagen were exposed to EMF for 24 h. Gel and cells that were not exposed to EMF served as controls. Collagen gel exposed to EMF was more hydrophobic and less susceptible to enzymatic degradation (both p < 0.05) than control. Three weeks after EMF exposure, chondrocytes showed higher proliferation and lower glycosaminoglycan (GAG) production (both p < 0.05) than control. By the end of the third week, aggrecan, type I, II, and X collagen mRNA expressions in the EMF group were 1.8 times higher (p < 0.05), except for type II collagen) than control. The increase in gene expression did not show up in aggrecan histological staining and type II and type X collagen immunohistochemical staining. Cells from both groups kept a normal polygonal shape through out the test period. Our results suggested that one-time EMF exposure could promote collagen-embedded chondrocytes proliferation and their gene expressions. It also promoted short-term (week 1) GAG production and lacuna formation. No apparent GAG and type II collagen production was seen in histological staining three weeks after the EMF exposure." Electromagnetic fields increase chondrocytic cellular proliferation. Barium increases the responsiveness to electromagnetic fields. Barium Carbonate can increase height by increasing chondrocyte cellular proliferation and barium carbonate may cure dwarfism if it is caused by low sensitivity to electromagnetic fields. Barium Carbonate is available for sale(also as Baryta Carb) such as here: Boiron Baryta Carbonica 200C 75 pellets . Watch out for toxicity. Too high levels of barium may also result in the closure of voltage channels. Barium is available in foods like hotdogs and fish. You should probably only take Barium if you have a low sensitivity to electromagnetic fields otherwise you should just make sure you have a source of Barium in your diet. Labels: Adult Height Increase site, Barium Carbonate, Baryta Carb Tyler do you think that using PEMF patches coupled with barium would increase the impact of the PEMF for everyone or only for those who did not respond well? Also I'm thinking that the key is going to be a combination of things...not just one. The compounds have to work with each other. I'm considering a six month trial (I'll document it) of a super combination...so far for sure I have the following - Sam-e (2000 mg daily coupled with folinic acid and B-vitamins) Glucosamine/Chondroitin (unsulfated) Creatine + Lots of Milk for IGF-1 increase PEMF (heal fast) with barium What else do you think I should add to the list? 5ft7inches GTF November 6, 2010 at 3:22 PM Hey, I was watching a movie, where they said that if you land in glass and it damages your Achilles heel, you get achondroplasia, causing adult acquired drarfism.. Tyler Christopher Davis November 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM I think you should just get enough Barium in your food. That should be enough as Barium is toxic in high amounts. Barium also lowers action potential in high amounts. As for using the PEMF heal fast patch use it around your epiphysis and articular cartilage. Let us know how it goes. Before +after pics please 5ft7: What was the movie? it was either american pie, or a movie where one of the wayans bros took a drug which made his senses 50x better i have also use this medicine for 3 months but i could not get any result.... ankitn ankitn February 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM what is the name of this medicine.... Super Growth Boosting with IGH-1 Boost Height with Insulin Boosting Height with GHenerate? Add some inches to your height with lactoferrin? Add inches to your height with Allantoin(or Comfrey)? I added another half inch of height thanks to LSJL Adding Height with Vitamin E‏? Lateral Synovial Joint Loading Illustrated Part II... Grow Taller with Ultrasound Does smoking stunt growth? Lateral Synovial Joint Loading Illustrated Part I:... Can Zinc make me taller? Can Osteochondroma increase bone length in adults ... Grow Taller with Low Intensity Light Therapy? Tricks for Growing Taller: How a 19 year old grew... Can you grow taller with Lithium Salts? 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__label__wiki	0.643785	0.643785	CS:GO ESL CS:GO (1005 viewers) QL nvc (25 viewers) GG stermyTV (33 viewers) Other DB threads How Diabotical Raped Quake CHampions (10) Two New Games from GD Studio (105) MY FIXES FOR RAYA AND PERILOUS MAPS (4) DIABOTICAL IS DEAD pt.5 (10) DIABOTICAL IS DEAD pt.3 (5) WHAT A SHAME for 2GD (22) PICKUPS from James 2GD (1) New DB thread Forums > Diabotical Forum Making a game fun for all skills (149 comments) ( Forum: DB) Posted by oreozz @ 10:18 CDT, 26 July 2012 - iMsg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons...am.svg.png This is a normal distribution. When things tend to be more common around one certain spot with the capability of going both directions whilst getting rarer and rarer, it's likely normal. Heights, weights, IQs, and video game elo systems should follow this type of curve. I'm using League of Legends to bring up a point of how skill is distributed across a game. Anyone who has played the game seriously knows that competence is a serious issue until you start playing with higher elo players. I'm going to use Riot's website to point out exactly how much of the population is "good" and why appealing to this tiny proportion of your userbase isn't a good idea if it comes to the sacrifice for the rest. Riot's website shows a ladder of everyone 1200 rated and higher. 1200 is your starting elo in league, which seems like a logical place for an average. For the sake of math we will go with this. http://competitive.na.leagueoflegends.com/lad...page=12590 Based on the site, there's 300k people that are 1200 and above. If 1200 is the midpoint, we can assume we're talking about 600000 players.. http://i.imgur.com/NXmQc.png I made the cutoff at 1700 to simplify calculating the amount of players since there's a normal dist property to figure this out. In reality I'm being generous, when I was an active league player 1700 was the top 200-300 players and around that area had some questionably terrible people floating around. The amount of people "not shit" is around 2% of 600000, or ~13000 players. People under 1200 are really, really bad. And this accounts for HALF of the people playing the game using the assumption of 1200 elo avg. Remember how I said 1200 was an assumption average to make the math easier? Well.. http://i.imgur.com/yz11j.png Since the actual avg elo is 900, the amount of really, really bad players under 1200 actually accounts for a number MUCH HIGHER than half of the playerbase. the 1700 elo+ players are even more rare amongst the now higher sample size. This accounts for ranked gaming accounts. It takes a sizable amount of time to be able to even play in these type of games.. http://i.imgur.com/DoTsv.png among 32mil accounts total, 17000 are NOT SHIT. Note: logical errors include that my ranked distribution analyzation only accounts for USA accounts while I include global total, a large amt of these accounts are dead, trolls, etc. so the number we're working with is a lot smaller, the math is rough and makes assumptions for sake of simplifying to avg user, etc. This distribution is based on a MASSIVELY popular game, and we should expect it to apply to any game we expect to be huge. If Reborn is to not be dead, the majority of the people playing it will suck. My point is catering to the game being fun for all skill levels is crucial. How do you do this? For a game like league, it means making sure things are balanced at all levels of play(this is common in starcraft as well), rather than just at elite levels. For FPS games, your arsenel is the exact same as your opponent's, so this isn't much of an issue. For a game like quake a big issue for people that suck is that even a small difference in skill is the difference between getting shit on and not getting shit on. it's not fun for the average player to get repeatedly killed. It's demoralizing as fuck. When making design decisions, find ways to make the game inherently LESS frustrating to lose, so that people will want to play more even after losing, rather than immediately quit. starcraft and league accomplish this by long amounts of buildup, with a relatively quick "o i lost" moment. when you're bad at those games, you don't even realize you're losing until you're 15mins into the game at which point you get shit on and move on to the next game. These long buildup periods also serve as a sideeffect great for spectators, the action slowly builds up rather than bombarding you, eventually finishing off right after a gamedeciding climax. Timelimit based games are annoying for someone who knows he's lost and BORING to spectate. People don't want to watch a match that's already been decided. There's no tension in waiting 5 minutes to end a game that ended due to great play from one player in the first half of the game. It's a waste of everyone's time and it needs to go. Either make the ruleset fraglimit based(seriously, it's not bad and would really make spectators foam at the mouth when people chain up kills and the tension buildup when someone is approaching fraglimit would be INSANE), or adapt a hooneymode style ruleset. Either style would maintain the "quake" feel while making the game more fun to play and more fun to watch for EVERYONE. Create interesting mechanics that give loser's advantage. I've talked about this on ESR before, but SF4's ultra system is one of the best implementations of this style. You get ultra for playing worse: You take more dmg, you get ultra meter. If you land an ultra you can easily reverse the tides of battle. Both players are aware and play their game around this. It sounds gross and noob, but it adds for excitement for spectators, gives a chance for shitty players a chance to get wins againt better players in lower skilled games, adds combat depth to high skill games, and so much more. Think of ways to apply mechanics like this because they are awesome. This is massive, I am throwing a lot of information I've thought about regarding the success and failures of games. I worry that 2GD may be too stubborn to sacrifice quake mechanics that MUST BE CHANGED in order for the game to be successful. Other thoughts: f2p for accessability, paid swag for creating your own "look" within the game to pay the bills approachable movement system(qw/pk are good choices) matchmaking so people arent getting shit on by people better than them don't listen to q3 conservatives. adapt to the demands of the market even if it means a slight sacrifice for us competitive few. It is a far better decision for the competitive few in the long run anyways. remember: ~98% of your playerbase IS GOING TO SUCK. make the game fun for them. << prev DB thread \|\| next DB thread >> << Comment #1 @ 10:24 CDT, 26 July 2012 >> By megaman3 + + + ' last season ended with %25 of players being above 1250 elo (one ranked win lol) and 0.2% platinum. You can google that if you want. Also LoL isn't the greatest example. SF4 is. Edited by megaman3 at 10:27 CDT, 26 July 2012 By oreozz ' - Reply to #1 my numbers weren't far off then. I used lol because it has openness with stats. I bring up a basic sf4 mechanic later in the post. By wotan competitive FPS is about challenge and competition... and it's this challenge and competition that makes it fun. It doesn't work the other way around, unless your idea of fun is something that isn't actually challenging at all. you can have both if you don't develop a bad game. By wotan - Reply to #6 well QL was the ideal game... it's just the devs didn't put enough effort into making newcomers stay long enough to become addicted... no ladders, crap matchmaking, only 4 tiers, an avalanche of cheaters and fake-acc tierslummers etc... In fact, they put in zero effort. platform wise... QL can be surpassed.. but gameplay-wise, I'm afraid id software hit the jackpot back in 1999 and all attempts at innovation to come up with an even better game will most likely be a futile endeavour... unless 2GD can pull off the game industry equivalent of a miracle. But right now, an FPS with more engaging gameplay than QL is inconceivable for me. Edited by wotan at 11:21 CDT, 26 July 2012 << Comment #10 @ 11:31 CDT, 26 July 2012 >> it is NOT ideal. tf2 contains none of these features, TF2 survives off of solely being a game approachable by any skill and contains NONE of the features you describe. You think q3/ql is the ideal game because you grew up with it. there are plenty of comparable duel games. An opinion is an opinion I guess, but I truly can't see how anyone could objectively consider q3 a better game than, say, qw. regardless of these opinions, the reality is that the game will have to be new, and people will have to adapt. or there's no point to even move to a different game. as long as it's enjoyable to play, what's the problem with this? It's like refusing to play a new zelda game because NOTHING will ever outdo ocarina of time in your opinion man, nothing. have an open mind, and a fun game will grow on you. By megaman3 + + + ' - Reply to #10 same thing cooloutac and other quake-only players/trolls don't get. By wotan - Reply to #10 I thought we were talking about competitive games? By oreozz ' - Reply to #15 tf2 gets more viewers for competitive events than quake does these days sf4 is the perfect sample in that aspect too because TF2 was marketed correctly... QL wasn't because TF2 was made to be appealing to newcomers... QL wasn't >because TF2 was made to be appealing to newcomers... QL wasn't I guess QL wasn't an ideal game >because TF2 was marketed correctly... QL wasn't if the game was fun to play itd get popular. see the millions still playing dota1. By annihiluzz : - Reply to #30 millions playing dota1? rotfl the developers have attempted to do estimations before. the map itself gets ~15+mil downloads, then you consider that in china they have a massive playerbase and that the majority of people playing there play only at lans meaning that each download accounts for more than 1 person.. dota is very big in foreigner markets because the game runs on wood computers and hits the core elements of being fun at any skill. rus, br, and china dota markets are big. 15mil downloads? maybe for all versions, with that i can agree latest versions. By yank3 - Reply to #27 ql couldn't be marketed "correctly" or efficient, cause quake is not appealing to newcomers. and i can't tell a point in time when it was. other than with lack of alternatives back around ~2000. features like proper ladders, "better" matchmaking, more tiers, etc.. wouldn't change anything. so i'm tempted to say, that id marketed it the lazy way, but correctly. "features like proper ladders, "better" matchmaking, more tiers, etc.. wouldn't change anything." Of course they would you fucking retard. those don't attract new players. No one is buying a game only because it has a ladder. What do you think will sell more yes, they would attract new players, in the sense that new players wouldn't play one game, get raped and never come back, instead opting to stay and try to improve there are dozens of things that could have been added to QL to make it more appealing to newcomers, such as coop against bots, enhanced tutorials, etc... more appealing to newcomers and marketing the game properly compliment each other: the more players that are not scared away means a larger playerbase, a larger playerbase means increased attention and easier matchmaking, more tiers, more engaging ladders, etc... in order to be a newcomer you have to play the game first. Having a ladder is not a selling point but rather a way to keep current players playing. since quakers are behind the times and away from the industry, what players want is having fun, and the most important part to achieve that is having a fun game in first place, not a ladder or good match making. QL is filled with "anti-fun" elements that scare players away before they play 2 matches. Furthermore just by looking at it (spectating) it doesn't seem like something fun. you can attract newcomers by having a decent marketing campaing, you can offer newcomers fun by having fun FREE2PLAY mods, and ladders and good matchmaking are just side-notes I'm mentioning that would have helped QL reach a wider audience ffs, I'm not saying their implementation would have had any drastic changes. It's not full of anti-fun elements... and it isn't anti-fun to spectate. You just have to meet one key requirement for both scenarios: C L O S E M A T C H E S Close matches are achieved with an adequate match-making system, a functional ladder, and a large playerbase. How do you get a large playerbase? You have a decent marketing campaing. Ad infinitum. They already had the name behind them, just like SC2 did. Id software just fucked up big time, the game itself is perfect. close matches matter the most not for newcomers but more for a bit more experienced people. What do you think is more appealing in-game for a first time player: getting stomped in bf3 (which everyone does at the beginning) or getting 40 frags in quake live ffa. I disagree, in my opinion, close matches are essential to keep players interested in a game like QL. The closer the matches, the higher the "keep-playing" rate, whether you win or lose. The biggest fail that comes to mind is the catch-22 fact that, with such a small playerbase, QL requires you to play 20 matches before it decides exactly which tier you belong in, IIRC. I've witnessed this first hand when I got my flatmate to try QL out... his first recommended match was a duel against someone who would have owned him 50:-5. I can only imagine how many new players went through with it, got their anus imploded, quit, and never logged in again. I don't understand these comparisons you keep drawing. All I'm trying to say is that if it's fun that keeps newcomers playing, then nothing beats having close matches, both for playing and spectating. Decent matchmaking plays a key role in this. > I can only imagine, how many new players went through with it. ye and with little to no success. it's not like quake is the only fps out there that requires skill. i've introduced a lot of people to quake and quakelive, which didn't get raped at the beginning, but still don't play anymore. why should they play? to improve or what? if the fun gets sucked out for whatever reason, people quit. no "feature" will change that by a large amount. end of the story. My core point is, the game itself is the perfect platform as the definitive competitive FPS of the century, but it fails first and foremost in making new players have as much fun as possible (premium freeze tag, first-game-rape-fests, unhelpful/unrewarding tutorials, only showing fragmovies when QL is offline, hello?) and secondly it's a fact that id could have done a LOT more, marketing wise. All these new mods they recently introduced should have been there since day 1, and the whole subscription system has been full of fail since day 1 too. Had these elements been done correctly from the beginning, as well as the 500 other things that the community has been requesting or raging about since 2009, I'm confident we would see double the amount of players that we do today. Enough for good matchmaking to work... and that's what's needed for the game to grow. Right now it's depending entirely on the old q3 playerbase to keep the game alive, and they are doing a fantastic job, organizing fantastic tournaments and creating quality content, but "growth" is practically inexistent afaik. yes, for me it is aswell the fps of the last century. but the features you mention wouldn't be a separation factor in terms of the uniqueness of quake. you even want to change the gameplay core (i.e. close matches). but that's not what quake is about. there are tons of examples for other media that share a similar destiny. movies, music, books, board games, etc.. nothing to really get crazy about or angry when I say close matches................................. i mean for newcomers..................... to have fun.............................. and keep playing............................................................. forget it ah misread, rest is rocksolid YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE no, you quake live is not perfect by any means. By current standards it's at most a 8/10 game. surely you mean graphic-wise or interface-wise... you can't say QL's highend gameplay is just 8/10... care to mention a 9/10 competitive FPS game? or even a competitive FPS 10/10 game? since gaming is not about genres but having fun, as a whole experience/product bf3, halo3, cod6 (cod4 too), and even tf2 destroy quake live, particularly for newcomers. You are viewing it as a sport but it isn't. Searching for reviews right now. Seems like no important websites did one lol Look just forget it for fucks sake. I'm talking about competitve FPS, everyone else is talking about having fun. bb There's no such a thing as a "competitive game". That defeats the concept completely, and that's why no one markets their games primarily as a sport (not even sc2 and cs) or something not to have fun or a great experience but just competing, and that includes quake live. Gaming is not about challenge and competition. That's just a niche practiced by 0.0000000000000000000000000001% of gamers. lol autoreply what I mean is that market doesn't exist, so it can't be compared like that. Some games have better potential than others (quake live and cs for example), but no one directly makes a game targeted to the 0.0000001% instead of to people seeking fun. for example every developer prefers having better graphics (eye candy) than 120fps. And I mean every single one. Quake Live has several "anti-fun" and frustrating gameplay elements, which are different than having bad matchmaking, lack of ladders and such. Simply bad game design (more like dated), as jamerio can explain to you, which makes it a not great game nowadays. Or lets put it this way. Do you think a random pub ctf match is more entertaining than a bf3 match? or placement match against crash vs. cod6's rio stage? or dayz against a deathmatch game? ye, better bb, mister. as if not half of your posts are about keeping new players by having fun... your key argument essentially is about having fun in a competition (close matches, don't get roflstomped, fun FREE2PLAYmods, fragmovies, free access). call it interesting or fun, whatever you like, it just depends on how good you are. like having a close match in a throwing shit at each other contest wider audience lmao. everyone that wanted to play quakelive, already did. there is no need for marketing other than maybe hold the current players. or do you really think with all the points you've mentioned like coop against bots :D there will be another reichskristallnacht of quake? ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER? DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT? i do not argue with lesser human gods, see #33 I'm talking in past tense. "they should have" "they fucked up" "it could have" "they didn't do this, that etc..." If you understood english, you would have realized I know it's already too late for QL. but you're talking about the current state of the game. which no other game will ever share this exact way (q3->ql transition; excellent gameplay; etc). there is no point in making a "how i would have managed it" type of bubble, especially if they are biased with features that are quakelive related (no ladder, poor matchmaking).. etc No, I'm talking about where id software fucked up. I don't really know what the fuck you're talking about though. yes, quote "wider audience lmao. everyone that wanted to play quakelive, already did." it's not like quake wasn't known before quake-live. so i see no fail of id software. and i stated that people just don't follow the "here is my game, try to get the best, dude" crap till they die. features don't get you nowehere, if the gameplay core just doesn't deliver more than that. i see no fail of id software. how should they manage a game that was around ~2007 obsolete as the great homuncules? give the playerbase an easy accessible version of their game with some more features (friendlist, clanshit, newish maps) and see what they'll do with it. << Comment #124 @ 08:43 CDT, 1 August 2012 >> By jal - Reply to #74 The fail of iD software was not making ETlive instead of QuakeLive ;) If you have a game which you know is appealing, why the hell do you choose to bet first on the one you know it isn't??? Edited by jal at 08:46 CDT, 1 August 2012 i am the sun By son1dow + + + - Reply to #20 TF2 hardly gets more views than Quake in it's current awful form despite having had a playerbase... I don't even know how many times bigger. tf2's competitive side has viewer issues for reasons far, far different than quake's. << Comment #102 @ 05:03 CDT, 27 July 2012 >> Everybody wants to blame it one weird issues rather than the general type of a game. Even CS players don't take TF2 seriously, that's its main problem rather than some weird viewer issues. Edited by son1dow at 05:03 CDT, 27 July 2012 By oreozz ' - Reply to #102 are you attempting to make a point? start by knowing what you're talking about. quake's viewership is low because nobody plays quake tf2's viewership is low because most of the people who play tf2 can't relate to the ruleset. It plays out much differently than normal tf2. who cares of other people's perspective of other people's games? quake players consider cs a joke, yet it's more competitive. same with dota -> lol. everyone thinks everyone else's game is shit. it's why you make such dumb posts all the time. Edited by oreozz at 18:07 CDT, 27 July 2012 By son1dow + + + - Reply to #105 Yeah, I bet those TF2 players play 30 man servers and get owned by unskilled Quakers playing the game for the first time because they're all competitive and interested in competitive gaming. The truth is that while Quake has an lots of oldschoolers in other games and is respected by anybody with a clue in the industry, TF2 is the opposite of that. That's common sense, even if it feels weird to your deluded mind. CS is a very bad game from a competitive design point. It facilitates randomness, rock paper scissors strat gameplay and so on. The design limits the amount of skillful decisions in-game and supports 'learned gameplay'. Top LoL players state that they've reached the mechanical skillcap, and the top team at the time, Moscow 5, stated that they're not afraid of millions of Asian players coming in with more mechanical talent, because the game doesn't support consistent skills gained with a deliberate practice. Same strategy bullshit as with CS, just void of any individual skill this time. Even more so, you yourself stated that almost the whole scene is garbage at the game, same case as with TF2, due to the game not being very competition based in nature. While I may not be an avid fan of Dota style gameplay in competition, but I have to conclude that the millions of Chinese players grinding out the original game for ten years in a much more competitive environment have to be more skilled than these LoL players. It seems to me that you're frustrated with skillful gameplay in general, and for this reason you keep ignoring important parts of gameplay that matter in competition and go around and support shitty esports games just because "every game must be equal, only playerbase matters". Guess what, monopoly is easier than chess, period. If you can't connect the dots and understand that at some point, some things are just not meant for competition, I don't think you're worthy of being listened to. Here's a tip: probably don't want to conclude that I'm "frustrated with skillful gameplay" when you're tier2 in quakelive. I'm IMMEASURABLY better than you at the game, but I don't even care. It's completely irrelevant that you blow, I just want you to stop bringing up skill in a situation where it certainly isn't your strong suit on top of it being irrelevant. The majority of quakers are bad, just like any other game. There's an entire community of tier2 retards that play duel, ca, ctf.. You LITERALLY are that bad player. The equivalent of the 32man pubber in tf2. You aren't going to attract them all to watch competitive play, the idea is that you get a small percentage. Quakelive tends to have a high proportion of their users as viewership, which is unusual and good except the game is dead. The rest of your post is "These games are bad and not competitive despite them being played more casually and competitively. I'm going to ignore how little sense that statement actually makes and call you bad. Only ELITE games with 17 players playing them should be played competitive, anything with an actual playerbase couldn't POSSIBLY be competitive." Also: The idea of sacrificing everything for the sake of causuals are your words, not mine. Holy shit your whole post is one huge straw man argument. There's this one line The majority of quakers are bad, just like any other game. There's an entire community of tier2 retards that play duel, ca, ctf.. You LITERALLY are that bad player. The equivalent of the 32man pubber in tf2. that isn't (but I disagree with), but really, apart from that, it seems like you didn't understand a thing I said. I was going to reply to your timelimit suggestions to explain why freeflow gameplay actually matters, but now that I see you're not even capable of basic reading skills, I won't keep bumping this thread. you're attempting to say "these games dont have as much mechanical skill!!" and I'm saying, "it doesn't matter, dork, because people actually play them." What part of that is hard to understand? You are trying to win an argument through calling stuff "bad", yet when the numbers are pointed out suddenly MY argument is bad and yours is good? go get an education. Did you want me to respond to your nonpoints about cs and league/dota? You clearly don't play any of these(i actually have played all three at competitive to high levels) games yet for some reason are talking about them. No, cs isn't random. The difference between league and dota are overstated. people in dota and league both still make massive mistakes game to game so any comment saying that everyone's peaked is retarded. Dota takes more skill for the most part because of hero depth, not because mechanics. Cool I didn't outright ignore your idiotic points. Better insult my reading comprehension because you haven't even had an argument to begin with. you aren't even at a skill level where your argument about gameplay has any credibility anyways. I'd love to hear your tier2 expertise on how timelimits matter at all. focus on getting good at a game before you make arguments about shit you can't even begin to understand please and thank you << Comment #144 @ 18:15 CDT, 25 September 2012 >> By foctis - Reply to #111 You're a dork. why do you even post d o r k stop it pls By malk_ - Reply to #9 It's not. For example, the timing in duel or TDM. I remember a stream (lvl^ with dis or nvc iirc) where they talked about this. It wouldn't change much in pro games if the armor timings were visible for every player. It's no skill, you either do it right or wrong. It's a memorization task in every aspect. It's an annoyance for new players (like playing a shortcut heavy strategy game and you have to learn the controls from the loading screen) and it doesn't add to the spectator experience ("remember, the players don't see the times, they do it in their HEADS. Like MAGIC. The timer is only there for us lesser beings. Because this is an ELITE game.") It's a major design flaw nowadays imo. They had the guts to change rg damage to 80, and I predict a smaller shitstorm if they set the item times visible for every player. timing is a skill but it's annoying. Some would say having items is a major design flaw, but that's what this genre is about and what we like the most about it. By dansen : - Reply to #13 dont know why im answering to you. but a nice timing compromise might be displaying armor count-downs on the ingame advertising screens for example. that way, advanced players don't need to actively look at that screen, but new players can see the times on certain points of the map. u no likee? dunno, I always thought the screens should be used for advertising. By thelawenforcer : - Reply to #16 or using item placeholders that indicate how much time left to spawn in some inexact way. By peterg \| - Reply to #13 I agree, once you reach a certain skill level items timing is done near flawlessly. When top players miss items it's usually due to fights, mind games, or being tactically forced away, etc and that's the interesting gameplay not memorizing timing. When you watch low skill players they forget items are even on the map at times having a timer and reminder for them is a good thing. Quake has a huge unnecessary learning curves before you can compete at a decent level. I'll use an example comparing Doom movement to Quake movement. In Doom you have SR40, SR50 and wall running. SR50 is the fastest way to move but even some top players don't use and do good. SR40 and wall running are easy as shit to learn and use. By comparison learning to bunny jump, strafe jump, etc in Quake is a nightmare that takes months of practice to become natural at. The game should be easy to compete in. Sure if you want to be the very best you should need to practice like crazy to eek out that extra 5% advantage but it shouldn't be a requirement. By w0nk0 - Reply to #13 im sorry just cos disrepute thinks so doesnt make it absolute truth not to be questioned by anybody. u try timing 3+ items at once while trying to play a close tdm game against highly skilled opponents and then tell me it isnt a skill. ffs. ps: show times for newer players below a certain skill level. that is fine. but for pro games - FUCK NO. it's an interesting idea, but changing a core skill arbitrarily seems like sloppy game design. maybe implement it as some kind of "easy mode"/"casual mode" as HoN/dota (easymode dota is actually more popular than normal dota!) I don't remember exactly but when Q3 was really popular in TDM/CTF didn't they have coaches who timed everything basically as a extra non-playing player? Only the top teams had this advantage too I think since bad teams wouldn't have a good coach if they had one at all. So the opposite of easy mode, the top teams had better timing! However the truth is it's not that hard to use 3rd party timers or even manual ones your desk or have someone else do it in mumble/whatever. I do agree there is a lot of skill to timing but I'm not sure it's really an interesting skill. I find it much more interesting if players always knew when an item spawn and come fight for it or make a decision about where to go instead of people picking up items without contention because they can time better. By cerb0z - Reply to #93 And on lans every team had a so called 'coordinator' who did timings and was telling players what to do. :p By peterg \| - Reply to #104 Even online OSP had a special coach mode where they could chat and spectate their own team only. By cerb0z - Reply to #106 With an awesome 4in1 view mode! By ia \| - Reply to #75 I think the focus on timing should be removed / altered. There's no question it's a skill but it's not really that interesting. I'd rather have quad spawn after every 50 frags or something. And in cpm, even if there were an armor timer in duel it would be pretty useless. By dansen : hoonymode! it's nice, i think fraglimit duel captures the quake feel more though. By rehepapp + + + ' - Reply to #8 How would that fraglimit system work? Timer + fraglimit (10 min and 10 frags)? Hooneymode is really fun. Avg. round lasted 1-3 minutes (longest was 5 min) in QL which is usually the part of 10 min duel which is the most interesting (with the final minute or so). Everyone knows the timings by heart during this period and they only have to account the potential delays in (so better players can play around with these while the worse players have their standard timings pretty much unchanged), and you can clearly see the after spawn opening sequences. If you get a frag then you can zoom it out from the game easily and analyse what happened there because it's a single frag - a single great move wont get lost in the game. If you want to implement the end game effect into it then make it fraglimit 2, but after the first frag you get timer running (example 1 min) during which the fragger can seal the game or the fragged can come back (or if the fragged one thinks that it's impossible he could simply /kill and go for a new round). Edited by rehepapp at 13:57 CDT, 26 July 2012 it's kind of arbitrary what time/fraglimit it should be. 10/10 sounds fine. hooney is nice, and I agree it's fun. either system are good ideas. I think people would miss spawn camping too much personally. By goodbye_world ' There was a time when gamers weren't spoiled by easy games. Reborn won't be a game for holding hands and reading bedtime stories, nor should it be. define easy. sc2 is approachable for lowskill players to enjoy and have fun and is played at higher levels than quake has ever seen. this is the exact attitude and advice that should be avoided unless you want to continue the circle of games like pk, q4, xonotic, warsaw. you already have ql/q3. wtf is the point of demanding a clone with no changes to make the game approachable and playable for an actual audience if you can just continue to play the game you already play? the ironic thing is that these same people will be the dumbfucks bitching that the game isn't close enough to their preferred duelgame when everything's said and done after whittling devs into changing their game more to their liking. cs promod is the greatest example of "hardcore" elitist mentality that you exemplify and it's absolutely toxic. By goodbye_world ' - Reply to #7 Every game is approachable by anyone and the experience is highly subjective. Quake 3 set the paradigm for fast-paced, competitive fps games and it was very successful. Quake Live was meant to be the reincarnation of that success on a grander scale, welcoming the casual gamer into a competitive environment. Maybe you didn't notice how dismally it failed? Ultimately, if it's a good game it will gain popularity. The high skill ceiling shouldn't deter people, but encourage them to improve. Catering to casuals is the worst idea imaginable for this type of game. Making it accessible for casuals and newbies alike is common sense and won't be ignored. Basically, you're arguing for the sake of it while never making any valid points. Edited by hello_world at 12:29 CDT, 26 July 2012 1. q3 set nothing. it sold worse than the first two, and just happened to be the latest quake game out during the first competitive gaming boom hence the fanboyism on this site. 2. it failed because the q3 mechanics are inherently unfun for avg players for reasons ive already explained 3. you are backpeddling and saying it will be accessible now and that this is obvious? what duel game are you playing where this methodology has ever been applied? there is literally no reason for anyone to make this assumption if you're looking at history. Your original point is "hur dur casuals are shit no compromise hardc0r3" essentially. and are you really going to argue that sc2 isn't in almost all cases the more approachable game than quake? have you even played both? By goodbye_world ' - Reply to #24 Wrong. Everything you said was wrong. I wash my hands of your ignorance. gop is calling SC2 is a lot more approachable and I still think a strong part of that is due to the single player modes. By w0nk0 - Reply to #7 the reason why sc2 is so approachable is because it has a huge population of active players compared to quake. if the player numbers were lower, the skill gaps would become much more visible. the other reason is most likely that not everyone cheeses you so you atleast get 5+ minutes of doing nothing but executing your initial build order, as opposed to quake where ur just raped over and over. hurts your ego. the solution isnt to make the core game easier by fucking about with gameplay elements. its to allow other more interesting modes for newer players. and the real trick is to do those modes in a way that they can slowly transition into competitive play. i didnt get into quake duel until like 2 years after i started the game. i had tons of fun playing defrag, ra3 and ctf. the awesome thing about those was that while they were fun in and of themselves, i actually learnt to be a better quake player while trying them out. my silver friend has no problem playing against a masters friend of mine because at low levels of play it doesn't even feel like you're losing.. until you lose. so you still get your 10 minutes of fun or whatever. tf2 has a radically different ruleset from normal playerbase ruleset, and it's the reason its competitive scene is so small relative to its playerbase. You want the avg player to relate and admire good play. By syncore + ' - Reply to #7 Once people understand this simple point (and developers can somehow implement competitive/casual balance correctly), we will not need time machines to go back to 2002. Until then, we'll continue to see circle-jerk communities with 150 players Edited by syncore at 18:39 CDT, 26 July 2012 By jal - Reply to #7 Plused by a Warsow (not saw :P) developer (well, ex, but still). I think that should add extra value to an argument talking about Warsow's mistakes. By son1dow + + + I was about to write why I don't really like any of your points... But fuck it, you're not very bright and very much so not worth it. Go play TF2 or something. aka you don't have an argument the point is, neither do you (and it's your thread) my argument is that the vast, vast majority of players aren't good at video games, and that therefore the focus of a game should be that it is fun, competitively viable, etc. for players of all skills rather than focused for perfect play among just the best. I provide numbers backing the miniscule size of competitive-level players. it's pretty clear for anyone that doesn't have downs. It's pretty clear to anyone who doesn't have downs that Quake has a certain unique feel and dynamic. You suggesting to remove integral parts of it is funny because what you seem not to realize is that it defeats the whole purpose of trying to make such a game. The correct way to build a deathmatch game is to build around the uniqueness that it has and do things that don't hamper the core gameplay. The idea 2GD seems to be basing around is a purely competitive game built to participate AND spectate in all levels, so I'm glad he's not following your path. LOL @ The timelimit paragraph also. That wouldn't even help new players, it's just your silly bias. And the TF2 comments... I don't even know what to say. I guess you're a firm believer in shitty esports games. Good for you, we're going to have more of them as more companies realize the marketing potential, but why would any Quake player go down to that level is beyond me. All in all, its apparent that you don't appreciate the learning and developing aspect of Quake, don't believe in fun to be had in Quake for new players and just want another TF2 or something. Some of your comments are just plain useless bias (the timelimit paragraph being a prime example), some of them are just counter-intuitive to what 2GD is trying to make and we want. This begs the question - what the hell do you want? To me it seems that all you're doing is showing off your frustration with Quake... But then, why not just go away? tf2 is not a great comparison. Yes it sold very well and it's quite fun to play for about the first 6 hours, but it sucks on the long run. it has a diehard community that seems to be sticking around.. what am I suggesting that is integral to quake that I ask to be removed? timelimits? how is making a game that's going to be a complete roll lasting 1min instead of 10min by using a fraglimit system not better for a new player? yes, that crucial deadtime everyone experiences at tournaments where the shoutcasters sit around talking about the weather is CRUCIAL ESPORTS and must never be changed. you're a joke. it's been shown over and over that no one wants a duel game as they currently are considering EVERY DUEL GAME CURRENTLY OUT IS DEAD. logically it seems like it might be a bad idea to base it off games with no one playing them.. I want a game that doesn't require all my friends to jump in and immediately be bombarded with "tricks" they need to learn like cpm22 stairjumps(and those sloppy rj on stair mechanics that cause people to fuck up 3 rjs up in a row...) and q3dm6 bridge to rails that take hours and hours to learn as a newcomer. I want maps that account for the fact that high samplesize accuracy testing weapons like lg are really bad weapons for newcomers, so that when designing maps, you should account for this by perhaps adding a second RL on the opposite side of the map so that the two players aren't struggling to find a weapon they can use to even up the game. I want a game approachable/fun/balanced for everyone and small considerations like this have nearly no effect on how the game would be played competitively and will increase the chances of someone bad enjoying the game. I don't want tf2. I like tf2, but it obviously isn't a depth-filled duel game. I am frustrated with quake, not because it was too hard for me, but because I know for most people that don't have a instinctive competitive drive they CANT learn the skillset required to make quake fun. they either don't care or aren't capable. theres an option. its called forfeit. u dont have to know strafejumping to play pub ca. so i suggest u tell ur friends that the mode they need to start with is not a duel. why dont u spend some time thinking about how you can make the transition for the new player easier WITHOUT changing the basic gameplay???? u seem to assume this is impossible. it isnt. forfeit is frowned upon in this community for some reason. even so, it makes for a less tense game with no real advantages out of some fake "fairness" argument. history says otherwise regarding keeping the game same and somehow magically making new players like it more why should pub ca players be interested in watching the best duel players play? how can they relate or find anything impressive if it demands a completely different skillset? By pet I was going to post this in another thread, but I think it fits here. I hope that 2GD is looking at other games that appeal to a more casual crowd for inspiration - specifically, Team Fortress and the Battlefield series. I think what these games do well is give players who don't have good aim or movement ways to contribute to their team. In Battlefield, you can drop health packs and ammo, revive teammates, and spot enemy players. You could also repair and drive vehicles, though we already know vehicles are out from what 2GD said in the Q&A. In Team Fortress, you can do a ton of stuff: as a medic, heal teammates and give them temporary invincibility or damage boost; as engineer, build sentry guns, dispensers, and teleporters; as pyro, set enemies on fire, put teammates out, and force enemies back; as spy, run around like an idiot and stab people in the back; and as heavy, stand around, get healed, and shoot things with a big gun. I'm not saying all of these are balanced or fair; in fact, a lot of them aren't. But I feel like these are the sort of things that attract casual players, and if similar but well-implemented mechanics were included in this game it could do a lot to draw in the mainstream crowd. They don't even have to be included in the more competitive modes or servers. Edited by pet at 12:39 CDT, 26 July 2012 This touches on another point we don't really know much about. Is this game going to be focused on duel, teamplay or both? Personally I prefer teamplay and QL has shown in NA that a game focused on duel doesn't build a community. Duel might be the easiest and most popular e-sport mode of play but I'm not sure it'll ever be the most popular for players to play. Unless I'm wrong every single popular FPS had been based on teamplay. By Xen_Crypt - Reply to #39 this was asked, if reborn was going to be focused on 1v1 or not. 2gd said it would be both, but it was still in the early stages or something of the sort i have bad memory but i do know the question was asked! XD Yeah, I actually remember that but until we can see/play Reborn all of this is still up for discussion. SC2 has various teamplay modes but they just don't seem to work competitively. ah gotcha. well i think since fox and 2gd are both old tdm players the team mode shouldn't be crap. hopefully xd By anon - Reply to #48 fazz is also old school tdmer \:@/ fazz is shootmania nooblet! By DaRkPaToU I think the most important way to a game "fun for all skills" from the beginner to the professional who has been playing for 6 years 8 hours a day is to have a great ladder and lobby system... while keeping all/almost all the hardcore elements. That is one of the reasons why SC2 is so popular among even new players, its because they can always find people of around their skill level with just one click. noobs should be able to play noobs. This works in QL too, just there isn't good matchmaking/many new players. Also I believe 2gd said he didn't want quake players to come in to reborn with 10 years of experience over others, so he is making the movement different enough that everyone is sorta new to it. By SIHdW3W : - Reply to #43 any quake veteran is gonna be decent at this game from the first day, im 99% sure of that. By wormed : - Reply to #112 I think any FPS game Quake veterans have a pretty distinct advantage. By StywoO : - Reply to #112 I hope that's not the case. 2GD seems keen on making sure the game is unique enough in terms of physics and weapons that Quake players will not have an enormous advantage when they start playing, which I think is the right idea, and with a little creativity, I don't think it would be hard to archive that. http://www.twitch.tv/thegdstudio/b/326106062?t=128m20s (the part where he talks about this) Edited by StywoO at 13:11 CDT, 30 July 2012 By SIHdW3W : - Reply to #115 I didn't say that quakers are gonna be the best at this game... but i do believe quakers are gonna master it sooner for obvious reasons By ffx : - Reply to #115 Anyone who got some duel experience in regards to timing, positioning and even aim will have certain advantages and an easier time. Heck even my cs experience helped me just because I had kinda good aim. Tho some learned things might hinder you and give u bad habits in a different game which might be an influence on higher skill levels. I agree, but I hope the game isn't an easy transition from Q3. For example I consider Q4 to be a pretty easy transition from Q3, but transitioning from Q3 to Q1 would be a lot harder. (If you haven't played it) I hope Reborn is at least as different from Q3 as Q1 is. it's a good feature, but remember that the players come and play if and only if they game is actually fun. even a skill balanced quake duel will come with games that are frustrating rolls. what do you mean by frustrating rolls? and do you really think that doesnt happen in other games? you don't feel like you're getting rolled in most other popular games, even if to anyone knowledgable you technically are. I felt like I sucked in tf2 after playing a round or two, so i dropped it. Everything is subjective and opinion, but in my experience what you are saying is not true at all. By Jamerio + + + + Street Fighter 4 series is the perfect game for this. its pretty advanced at the high level but basic enough for anyone to get into and be reasonably effective against all but the really good players. omfg agreeing with jamerio The sf4 series is simply flawless. I don't play the game enough to discuss it as a comparison.. How active is it on xbox live/ps network? watch a sf4 or marvel stream sometime. i watch evo, the viewership is high. I just wonder what the playerbase is like. By foctis https://www.esreality.com/post/2297163/n-a/#pid2297163 I probably should have posted that in this thread. I think a similar idea can apply to most of the technical skills in the game. By Anonymous (213.112.134.32) I was about to write something similar but you made all my points neatly. Thanks :) By StywoO : I like the idea of having a frag limit in a duel. If one player is twice as good as the other, the game should not go on for 10 minutes. I would still want a time limit as well though. It's very exciting when people only have 30 seconds to tie a game, and are forced to use their time wisely. Having both would also give commentators more things to talk about and more ways to build up the intensity of what people are watching. having both would be fine By Vium + I don't even.... A game should be balanced in a way so that 2 equal players/teams are able to win by outsmarting/having better technical abilities. Only player based skills should determine the outcome. The game itself should not favour a player/team that is performing bad. Get your head out your ass and accept that there will always be someone better than you, and stop making a socialistic feel-good-game that hugs you with teddy bears and cotton candy. No real sport is like this, real sport is just a "brutal" skill comparison. Like it should be. There are all sorts of mechanics in real sports that give losers advantage..? In most sports, who generally gets the ball after a goal is scored? regardless competitive gaming isnt as popular as sports and trying to force it through good competitive games that are boring for the avg player isn't going to make it happen faster. << Comment #128 @ 17:04 CDT, 9 September 2012 >> By Vium + - Reply to #118 its not an advantage. the winning team plays under the same restrictions. so void. any advantage is available to both teams...? By jal Nice read, man. I couldn't agree more with your conclusions. I'd like to point you here so you feel less alone ;) https://www.esreality.com/post/2293895/2gd-s-reborn/#pid2300083 it's a lemmings parade man, total shame if he drives the project in the direction of another 2k concurrent playerbase game.. openmindedness and adaptation are such rare qualities. I swear I'm dealing with 60 year old republicans whenever I deal with idiots on the internet over issues like this. By Anonymous (213.112.134.32) - Reply to #125 Im pretty sure the quake community is the most conservative ranking a bit above the 1.6 community. A common occurrence among extreme parties in many political systems is that they tend to split up instead of unite due to the lack of will to do compromises to reach bigger goals. This seems to apply to gamers too. By jal - Reply to #126 Conservative, talkative and opinionated. They're like Sarah Palin on scotch. By dissector - Reply to #126 conservative huh, have you listened to vods? the biggest shoutcastings stars sound like little boyz, and most say the want babyz from them, you point is mostly smashed By dissector By Horvi frag limit is not a good idea however frag difference (aka mercylimit) is. By thelawenforcer : I think your ideas are well intentioned, but clearly you are unable to let go of quake :-) Changing the time limit or using a fraglimit will not make any real difference as these are not the mechanics that are creating the 'rolls'. You can clearly see that ca is the most popular game type for ql at the moment: what does this game type do right and what does it do wrong? First thing, clearly people enjoy having all the weapons and some armor off the spawn. It means they can focus purely on the action or objective - ie get on with playing vs the other players. Often the action is easy to find - there are areas that will always see action at the beginning of a round. What does ca do less well? A random shoot fest has only so much depth and teamwork to it. Apply these lessons to a new standardized game mode that can be played in 1v1 and team and you'd be onto something imo. If there's any interest in the post, perhaps I could elaborate further on what it could look like. One thing that has to be realised though is that you'd be making a game for the wider audience out there and not the diehard Quakers here for whom the solution would be to force noobs to l2p at gunpoint rather than compromise with the mechanics. ca isnt popular either innovation while stayed close in spirit to original duel mechanics was my appeal for this site. even the changes I suggest are almost completely hated by everyone here. By thelawenforcer : - Reply to #137 relatively speaking, CA is popular. a small twist (fraglimit or frag difference) on the formula established with one of the first FPS games ever does not count as innovation. the fact is DM is not the only game in town anymore, and as it turns out, there are many alternatives that offer alot more fun. appealing to the ESR crowd is a pointless. like i said, their solution to the waning popularity of DM games is not to evolve and change with the times, but instead entrench themselves further, trying to apportion blame on other factors other than the game itself and saying 'if only we can force the noobs to play longer then they will see the beauty of DM' I hope 2GD chases the money and not the quake community plaudits, cos otherwise itll be a huge waste; of time, and more importantly to him and his backers i suspect, money. the "ca is the future of quake" argument is so 2009 anyways i wasnt saying CA was the future, but that there are lessons to be learnt from its relative success. the dynamic handicapping is definately an interesting idea but it feels a bit like a bandaid on a bulletwound ^^ By Angelnish I was about to write something similar but you made all my points neatly. Thanks. Good luck. By filo + + ' ... i just realized something about +back ... yes it is happening in games, we see it everyday. ...but the problem is not in the +back... the problem is in people not able to think/predict/lazy how to intercept an enemy at a diffrent point on the map... Its like: ... i see him, ... he is low, ... i need to make the kill... then he eats two rockets to the face, following the low hp guy into a tunnel :\| ... then its the guy that had 30hp fault, lal. I think that's more on mechanics. +back play is rewarded in QL because armor and health tick down. By megaman3 + + + ' - Reply to #142 more like rockets being gay By filo + + ' - Reply to #143 yes, so lets all +forward into 40% lg, ye? By teioh - Reply to #145 or just have much less splash on rockets	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line277
__label__cc	0.699	0.301	arthur conan doyle hound baskervilles essay imode presentation song sweetest love i do not go john donne summary bio story Creativity –the virtue of a man Fear Bird Nov 2, 2020 0 Creativity is producing and imaginative new ideas into reality. It is novel in style or properties. Creativity is measured by perceiving the world in new ways, finding hidden patterns, making connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and discover and not create. Development of creativity : The advancement of the modern concept of creativity begins in the Renaissance when creation began to be accredited as having originated from the abilities of the individual abilities and not God. It could be referred to as the leading intellectual movement of the time, called humanism, which developed a human-centric outlook on the world, valuing individuals intellect and achievement. From this philosophy arose the Renaissance, an individual who embodies the humanism’s principals in their ceaseless courtship of affairs. One of the most well-known and immensely recognized examples showed in the art of the creation of Leonardo da Vinci. Intelligence and creativity : The relation between creativity and intelligence are described in the theory of 4 Ps process, product, person, and place. In modern times, it is distributed in many theories like threshold theory, Certification theory, Interference theory. It is a common notion that “creativity ” originated in Western cultures through Christianity, as a grace of divine inspiration. Historian Daniel J. Boorstin said that the early Western conception of creativity was taken from Genesis. In Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a conduit for the divine, but from the “great men.” The creation of Leonardo da vinci Post-Enlightenment: In the 18th century and the Age of Enlightenment, mention of creativity, linked with the concept of imagination, became more frequent. In the writing of Thomas Hobbes, imagination was a key element of human cognition. Creativity had no existence as a concept until the 19th century. Albert and Runco argued that creativity emerged in the late 19th century with the increased interest in individual differences inspired by Drawanism’s arrival. Modern Time : In ” Art of Thought” published in 1926, Wallas presented the first time explained the creative process in five stages: (i) preparation (ii) incubation (iii) intimation (iv) illumination or insight (v) verification Four “C” model : James C. Kaufman and Beghetto invented a “four C” model on creativity: mini-c (“transformative learning of experiences, actions, and insights”). Little-c – a creative expression of an everyday problem. Pro-C – people who are professionally or vocationally creative though not necessarily imminent. Big-C – This model accommodates creativity models that stressed competence as an essential virtue and the historical transformation of a creative domain treated as the highest mark of creativity. Convergent and divergent thought: Convergent thinking aims at for a single, correct solution to one problem, whereas divergent thinking involves creating multiple answers to a set problem. Other researchers have occasionally used flexible thinking or fluid intelligence, roughly similar to (but not synonymous with) creativity. Intelligence creativity and IQ: In the London School of psychology, H. L. Hargreaves kept an address to the faculty in the year early 1927, which helped to popularize the study of creativity and to focus on scientific approaches of creativity. Statistical analysts tried to measure Fear Bird Movies-Popular Entertainer CRIME NEWS-an ethical probe Celebrity and the Red Carpet : Malis scripta euismod vis id, aperiri consectetuer consequuntur in est.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line279
__label__cc	0.626152	0.373848	Paolo Scalera's blog The decline of Valentino Rossi: “he who laughs last, laughs longest” Are you really sure Vale has accepted this situation? A sad decline in a satellite team? There is something about this story that doesn’t convince me… Submitted by Paolo Scalera on Fri, 31/01/2020 - 11:11 lin jarvis petro0nas yamaha Regarding the 'departure' of Valentino Rossi from the official Yamaha team, everyone has their own opinion, but we take for granted one thing that, perhaps, should not really be taken for granted: the quiet acceptance of this decision by the 9-time world champion. The fact that Valentino has had to put on a brave face mustn’t deceive. With the little knowledge that we have, the decision by Lin Jarvis - but of course the Yamaha board is right behind him - was one that can’t have gone down well with Rossi. It must have been a difficult one to suck up. Added to that the fact that in the Iwata manufacturer’s press release they wasted thousands of words to state the obvious: Rossi can do what he wants. There will always be a Yamaha for him… something which is damned obvious, but it doesn't mean anything. No details have emerged as to how they came up with this solution. What can be deduced is that Valentino had asked them to wait until after the first races, presumably up to the Mugello GP. The ideal place for any decision. If he were to retire or continue his adventure in MotoGP, just one word from Rossi would have been enough to obscure any other event in the media. Yamaha wanted to avoid being held hostage by its most famous rider And that's maybe what Yamaha wanted to avoid at all costs. In other words, to avoid everyone only speaking about this from now until May 31st. Pressure on the manufacturer, but also on the other riders, would probably be considered unacceptable. So instead, in this way it’s game over. Valentino is out and the hot potato now passes to the Petronas team which, however, in the intentions of the Malaysian oilman and also of Yamaha, should have been - as it is today in fact - the 'green' team. The one dedicated to young riders. It’s difficult to say how much Petronas likes this new role, even if Rossi's visibility is of course excellent for any deal. Not to mention that fact that even in this case Rossi would probably not be staying there for very long. How long? One year, probably, because we find it difficult to imagine the man from Pesaro continuing in an increasingly competitive MotoGP at over 43 years of age. Of course, everything depends on whether or not Vale has another below-par season this year. Because if this year he finishes ahead of Maverick Vinales, we want to see how Yamaha would deal with the situation. What does ‘there will always be a Yamaha for Rossi' mean? The point, then, is another and so far, it has not been talked about. What does 'there will always be a Yamaha for Rossi?’ mean? That he will receive updates and take part in development together with the factory team? We don't think so. Satellite teams have always been followed less, and development is managed by the factory team. Will Valentino Rossi, with his strong personality, ever accept all of this, even if it were for the sake of his brother Luca Marini, his possible teammate? We have our doubts, to be honest. And the words of Stefania Palma, his mum Stefy, ring clear: "He did the right thing to take his time, I am proud of him", gives the impression that it was a decision already taken, but not accepted. And so? Yamaha's phrase directed at the Phenom sounds something like: 'Valentino, as long as you want to race, there will always be a bike for you'. Not too different, in short, than the words Aprilia recently addressed to the almost 50-year-old Max Biaggi after the Sepang test. Of course, Yamaha could not have done otherwise, unless they abdicated their decision-making capacity. Since that fateful 2015, Valentino Rossi has only won 3 GPs, the last one at Assen in 2017, 47 races ago His last victory, if we want to call it that, dates back to 2015, the year he lost the title against Jorge Lorenzo. Or against Marquez? It’s still not very clear ... Since that fateful 2015, Valentino Rossi has only won 3 GPs, the last one at Assen in 2017, 47 races ago. Since then he has been runner-up in 2016, then 5th in 2017, 3rd in 2018 and 7th last year. Overall, he has been on the podium 23 times - 10 in 2016, 6 in 2017, 5 in 2018 and only 2 in the past year. We can think of many possible solutions to get out of this situation in which Valentino finds himself ... but none seems really viable to us. Those who believe that Vale has no solution other than go and keep the seat warm in the Yamaha Petronas camp before bringing his brother Luca Marini in to take the place of Franco Morbidelli are wrong, however. Isn’t he entitled to the dignity of being the one to communicate this move to one side? There is something about this story that doesn’t convince us. And of course, the first thing is that Vale has totally accepted the situation without batting an eyelid… Unless, of course, he has already decided to retire. Guareschi to Rossi: "Valentino, if you're having fun, keep racing.... Valentino Rossi positive for COVID-19: where he’d been these days Valentino Rossi heads for Misano: Payback Day for the Highlander Across the ranch, Valentino Rossi: "We’re finally back in action!" On track with Valentino Rossi: the auction collects over 9,000 euros Uccio: "Valentino Rossi didn't want to get in Yamaha’s way" Valentino Rossi: “Portimao? It looked more difficult seen on TV.” Yamaha will not replace Valentino Rossi in the Teruel GP at Aragon Valentino Rossi: “It’s challenging for me to be strong at Aragon” Valentino Rossi: “I’ll face the Valencia GP much more calmly” Valentino Rossi: an endless (racing) history VIDEO - Riding with Valentino Rossi to discover the Ranch	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line284
__label__cc	0.573036	0.426964	the adventure list From East Berlin, we moved for the last few weeks to a apartment in the trendy Friedrichshain neighborhood in West Berlin. Our first impression was that it is a more well-kept neighborhood with a lot more typical German-looking things about (at least compared to the Turkish part of town we had just come from). Out place was a nice loft overlooking a very overgrown but cute courtyard. This was taken as we were packing--though it's not like we're much neater than this usually. Our first day exploring the new neighborhood we came across an old cemetery. It was much like the parks, very overgrown but well kept, and beautiful. It was such a contrast to American cemeteries that are so mowed and trimmed and devoid of plant life. This cemetery was teeming with growth, making it fell like a very peaceful place to have your eternal rest. We also found a park by us where you could ride elephants - not real ones, but cement once. There are so many parks in Berlin, and not just sanctioned parks--there are a lot of open spaces where something used to be, but it's now gone, so it's just overgrown and you can use it like a park. The Germans seem to not prohibit things as much as we do. In the US, there would be a barbed wire fence around a vacant piece of land, making sure no one trespasses, but in in Germany it's just a de-facto park. More drinking in public In our neighborhood was a very popular bar/restaurant street, so we headed down there to see and be seen and catch a bite. We had been craving American food and Mexican food and this street was known for being quite international, so we ended up eating a burger one day and nachos another. At this point we had brats, kraut and strudel coming out of our ears so we felt like it was okay to depart from the German classics. The major road on the way to the restaurant street, and Alexander Platz in the distance. After a few days in the new place, we thought it was time to head out and see some more of the Berlin sights. We jumped on the subway, beer in hand because in Germany, drinking on the subways is allowed - so why wouldn't you. On the way, we passed by a park we had heard about. It was an old Nazi airport that after the war got turned into a park. And it looked like just that, an abandoned airport with people flying kites and riding their bikes. Got to love Germany. The airport park. As we walked from the subway to our first destination we walked past an intersting memorial that took up an entire city block. It was for all of the Jews who were killed during WWII and was quite somber (for obvious reason) but interesting. At first it looked like it was made on a hill but as we walked into it, we realized it was actually a depression and the stone pillars just got taller. So it actually became a kind of labyrinth that you could get lost in. It was a very intering place to walk around. One of the major tourist attractions is an arch in central Berlin. I'm not sure what it commemorates, but it is used in a lot of signage around town to show it's Berlin oriented. From there we walked through the giant park that occupies the center of Berlin. On our way we walked past a funny monument that shows the crazy history of the area. It is a Soviet Monument commemorating the Soviet troops who died taking Berlin away from the Germans at the end of WWII. In the 90's it was handed over to the Germans and for some reason, they haven't torn it down. It says a lot about the type of place Germany is today - tolerant. After seeing a bunch of naked sunbathing Germans in the park (just like public drinking, public nudity isn't a big deal) we headed to a Biergarten the was at the edge of the park for a little thirst quenching. That evening we had a traditional German meal on the banks of the river. It was a fantastic meal that was supposedly a Berlin specialty: cabbage stuffed with sausage. You can tell how much Andrew liked it by the look on his face. When not going out and about around the city, we did a lot of picnicking at the parks, it was just too nice out not to. Opening some champagne on the street. On the way to an afternoon picnic. Posted by at 11:17 AM Labels: berlin, where we live Sarah Hipple May 28, 2014 at 2:38 PM Love all the parks. The cemetery reminds me of Hobbiton. Maggie Hall May 28, 2014 at 10:46 PM Aren't they cool? We loved that it was all so overgrown--we both said that was the kind of cemetery we'd like to be buried in. Drive a scooter Learn more about the camera Eat bugs Get a tattoo (at least a henna one!) Start a public sing-along Stand on hallowed ground in each country Go to a foreign sporting event Drink snake whiskey Do some extreme-ish sport Shoot a gun Ride in a helicopter Take a meditation class Go sailing Meet a royal Get drunk with a Daoist Go to a major fashion show Play barefoot soccer with the natives Play basketball with the natives Party with a rock star/get drunk with someone famous Go to a stranger's wedding in a foreign country See a ghost Fly first class international Drink beer Lao Do karaoke Beat a Chinese person at ping pong Watch some of the Tour de France Go to a Thai boxing match Attend a Euro football game Be the only people on an island Visit mini stores in France, get Rackham miniature in its homeland adventure list anniversary bangkok bastille day belgium berlin brighton brussels bvi cats chicago china day in the life dead sea doctors drink drinks egypt eiffel tower family food friends funny holiday israel italy kuala lampur laos london morocco new orleans new york nottingham on the water paris picnic sailing shopping spain Stockholm taipei thailand tokyo tour de france transportation vampire diaries where we live wildlife work writing wudang mountains, day one From Xi'an we headed to a place Andrew had been excited about going since we decided we were going to China, the Wudang Mountains. They ... ao nang monkey trail Apparently we couldn't stay away from the beach for long, because from Krabi, we've moved to a beach town about twenty minutes away ... climbing to the golden summit at wudang mountain Our second day in the Wudang mountains we did the hike from Nanyan to the very top of the mountain and the monastery there called the Golden... meditation retreat at doi suthep temple One of the things we wanted to do while in Thailand was attend a meditation retreat. We were planning on visiting the famous Wat on the hill... the hippiest town in england For our last few days in England, we headed to the beach town of Brighton to stay in Maggie’s uncle's flat there. The flat is right... jolly ol' london cats of morocco <center><a href="http://www.its-adventure-time.com/"target=_blank"><img src="http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii500/MaggieEHall/BlogButton_zps839cfdd5.jpg"title="It's Adventure Time" /></a></center> Copyright Andrew and Maggie Hall 2016. 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__label__cc	0.675296	0.324704	Corneal and ocular residual astigmatism in school-age children Samira Heydarian1, Sara Sardari2, Zahra Heidari3, Abbas Ali Yekta4, Hadi Ostadimoghaddam5, Mehdi Khabazkhoob6 1 Department of Rehabilitation Science, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Noor Research Center for Ophthalmic Epidemiology, Noor Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Rehabilitation Science, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari; Noor Ophthalmology Research Center, Noor Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran 4 Department of Optometry, School of Paramedical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 5 Refractive Errors Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 6 Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mehdi Khabazkhoob Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran DOI: 10.4103/JOCO.JOCO_8_20 Purpose: To determine the distribution of residual and corneal astigmatism (CA) in children aged 6–18 years and their relationship with age, sex, spherical equivalent, and biometric parameters. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, multi-stage stratified cluster sampling was done to select students from Dezful, a city in Southwestern Iran. Examinations included the measurement of visual acuity with and without optical correction, refraction with and without cycloplegia, and biometry using the Biograph (Lenstar, Germany). The main outcomes in this report were corneal and residual astigmatism. The CA was measured by Biograph (difference between k1 and k2), and residual astigmatism was calculated using Alpine method. The power vector method was applied to analyze the data of astigmatism. Results: Of 864 students that were selected, 683 (79.1%) participated in the study. The mean residual and CA were -0.84 diopter (D) and -0.85 D, respectively. According to the results of J0 and J45 vectors, residual astigmatism was -0.33 D and 0.04 D, and CA was 0.38 D and 0.01 D, respectively. With-the-rule (WTR), against-the-rule (ATR), and oblique astigmatism were seen in 3.4%, 66.8%, and 4.5% of the children with residual astigmatism and 67.94%, 1.3%, and 1.5% of the children with CA. Residual astigmatism decreased with an increase in spherical refractive error, whereas CA increased with an increase in spherical refractive error. Conclusion: The results of the present study showed a high prevalence and amount of residual astigmatism with ATR pattern among the 6–18-year-old population and the compensatory effect of this type of astigmatism on CA that mostly followed a WTR pattern. Heydarian S Sardari S Heidari Z Yekta AA Ostadimoghaddam H Khabazkhoob M Corneal astigmatism Power vector analysis Residual astigmatism	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line292
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__label__cc	0.598322	0.401678	Last Words on Last Week’s Super Bowl Show Despite the storm of charges and counter-charges over this past week, I conclude that it isn’t racism, or prudery, to find yourself appalled at the Super Bowl halftime show last Sunday. You just have to be a decent human being. I know, I know. Lots of clever people are defending the Shakin’ Shakira and Jumpin’ J. Lo show with all sorts of pseudo-feminist claptrap. These two, we are told, are strong women making vital political points while being empoweredly body-positive, et cetera. And critics of this high-class burlesque supposedly are racist white Trump-supporting misogynists who insist on policing women’s bodies while hypocritically ignoring Adam Levine’s shucking off his shirt in last year’s show. Let’s just say this about that. First, there are regimes in the world today that really are policing women’s bodies. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran come readily to mind at one end of the scale. France and Quebec come to mind at the other. The Muslim-majority countries demand that women wear more, while the secularist governments insist that they wear less. All of these regimes truly police women’s bodies with…police. To equate those nightmares with mere disputes about how American women freely comport themselves in public serves only to divert our attention from real and significant abuse to honest disagreements about taste and propriety. Second, I can appreciate that many heterosexual women and gay men might revel in the undeniable beauty and athleticism and precision of the dance team. But speaking for all heterosexual men everywhere, what Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, and their female troupe were doing pretty obviously elicited a determinate reaction from such men. And that reaction was not, “My goodness gracious: What fierce, empowered, autonomous females those are there on the TV, assertively moving about like that. I respect them more than ever.” If you want further elucidation as to how straight men typically respond to such dance moves, ask your husband, father, brother, or son. Let’s get real, please. Third, yes, the show offered some political commentary on Puerto Rico’s vexed relationship with the United States. And the message was…uh, well, I’m not completely clear what it was, but I remember flags and spangles and Spanish. So no doubt the needle was decisively moved on the questions of Puerto Rican statehood and disaster relief and the significance of Latinx culture in the United States. Or maybe not. [For the rest, please click HERE.]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line297
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__label__cc	0.717128	0.282872	2012-05-19: Van Halen 05-19-2012: Van Halen Where: Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN Went with: Myself I knew it would be a good night when I pulled into the parking ramp and saw this: The dedication and delight that a Van Halen fan showed with this custom tape job mimicking the coolest guitar design ever was a good sign. I walked picked up my will-call ticket, and found my seat. I had just purchased my ticket the day before and it's become the BEST way to get tickets. For various reasons, Ticketmaster releases awesome seats after 4pm the day before the show. My seat was just 5 rows back from the stage, and 4 rows up...perfect viewing. Now, there was a glitch: Ticketmaster online only gave me 'best available', and that was section 118...nice seats on stage right...but Eddie stood on stage left (I knew that by looking at tour photos and videos...confirming the side I wanted to be on). I called ticketmaster, learned I could order by section over the phone, and got section 102...right in front of Eddie! The lights lowered, and the concert started with... Kool and the Gang! They were awesome! They had 11 guys on stage, and 3 were original members. They all played and sang great. At the end, when "Celebrate!" started, it was so fun to see all the rockers in the audience devil-horn saluting to a dance song :-) And then Van Halen started. Wow! Eddie and Alex (guitar, drums), were in top performing shape. Wolfgang (bass) was impressive as well. He did some bass tapping that was pretty cool. Part of me wished Michael Anthony was there, but I have a soft-spot watching Eddie and Wolfgang's father-son interaction. Very sweet. Both Eddie and Wolfgang did some impressive backup vocals as well. Diamond Dave? He was a great ringleader. Did he sing great? No. Did he keep the audience entertained? Yup. He even did a few kicks and Karate jumps. A most memorable moment was about 1/2 way through the show. They played "Dance the Night Away", and during the simmery interlude, Dave sang softly then they all came in to produce a fantastic 3-part harmony! Take a look at this video, and start at timestamp 2:04 Van Halen "Dance The Night Away" St.Paul, Mn Wonderful! It proved he could sing when he wanted (or maybe when softer tones were needed), so I honestly don't know why he didn't sing more during the show. Maybe he just wanted to peacock around the stage...which he did a lot :-) They played all the great songs: Ice Cream Man, Jump, Panama, and even a couple new songs that were really rockin. Eddie's guitar solo was simply fantastic. At the end of the show, it was almost like they wanted to pack as many songs into the show...but still get to bed at a reasonable hour :-)... ...David Lee Roth said "Here's our last song..." and sang it...then as they finished, he yelled "You want an encore!?!"...without leaving the stage or anything...very efficient! They then played "Jump!", and he clarified this was, in fact, the encore, by carrying around a 20 ft. "Finish Line" flag while confetti filled the air. No doubt they were done :-) Jump! Video I'm so glad I went. I don't think the music could have sounded any better, and while Diamond Dave was not at his singing prime, it was a joyous night. Posted by GregHint at 10:43 AM Labels: 2012, concerts Aftab Ahmed December 20, 2013 at 8:16 AM Very good example is usually toll no cost ticketmaster UK phone number. In america nearly every small business runs on the toll no cost number. As well as associated with easy for you to fathom.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line303
__label__cc	0.516262	0.483738	Hey Merrill - Are You Reading This? Hey boy that's Balwyn calling Get off the phone and get out of Balwyn From Skyhooks', "Balwyn Calling" For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. "Schnitzel the size six iPhones" http://yfrog.com/4fuxoj Jedro74 on Twitter, Nov 21 2009 Somewhere in Manhattan is a woman called Merrill, who doesn't get along with another woman whose name is Cheryl. They were both out at a restaurant dinner last night with a Jessie and a Susan and one other person - a man in his fifties. How do I know? Well it's not just me who knows. There must be at least forty other New Yorkers who know, or who knew earlier today. Most likely the others have forgotten. I only remember because I made a mental note of the names at the time. The time being around 9:35 a.m. today. The place - on an M15 bus in Manhattan. Our informant - a skinny, though I'm certain he'd use the adjective "trim", man in his late forties or early fifties, wearing jeans and an open necked shirt. Not too bald, but not well coiffed either. And certainly not shy. He was calling his therapist on his cell phone. Loudly. He needs a name. What shall I call him? "Phone-Man" will do. So there we all were, sitting on the M15 bus, most of us on our way to work. At 72nd Street Phone-Man got on. I didn't notice him at first because I was engaged in a discussion. The woman next to me had struck up one of those New York conversations which sound like the conversers have known each other for yonks. She was pointing out a couple two seats away and commenting on their argument-in-progress, which was getting louder by the minute. The male part of the couple had a big bulbous alcoholic nose and hadn't shaved this century. His companion looked normal enough, though perhaps it was only in comparison. Bulbous-Nose was carrying on like a pork chop, complaining that my neighbor had brushed his leg as she walked past him earlier. Mrs Bulbous-Nose was being reasonable and telling him to chill out. We were interrupted in our discussion about strange complaining people with bulbous noses by what at first seemed to be a rather loud soliloquy. It was coming from a man close to the front of the bus, on the opposite side. Was he practicing for a Broadway audition? We listened. Nope, turned out to be just another cell-phone New York monologue conversation. It was Phone-Man asking his therapist about his friends Cheryl and Merrill, explaining their conflict, though it seemed as though the therapist was not getting a chance to respond. How could Phone-Man modify Merril's behaviour and had he done the right thing by confiding later with Susan, who by the way was obviously smitten by Jessie and so hadn't been listening? The questions were endless. Every now and then Phone-Man would introduce another character. Susan sounded rather nice. Jessie was obviously a bit pushy. And Britney - well she sounded like a Britney. The monologue was sounding like one of those radio soaps they had in the olden days. "Blue Hills" or "Portia Faces Life". I looked around. I wasn't the only one distracted and annoyed. A Jehovah Witness put down her "Watchtower", obviously unable to concentrate. A schoolgirl gave up on drawing squiggly hearts on her French homework and stared ahead blankly. The twenty people reading "Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon" (it's a current New York Times' best seller), put their books down and turned to the cartoon sections of their Wall Street Journals. I turned to my neighbor and raised my eyebrows. She raised hers. "I'm going to say something to him," I said. "Good idea," she said. And then ... he was suddenly silent. Was the therapist at last getting a word in? Seemed so, as Phone-Man eventually said thank you and goodbye doctor. He then sat quietly with a satisfied grin on his face. It was almost time to get off. I sat for a while pondering how cell phones have taken over our lives, wondering about Merrill and Cheryl, and thinking how my own son now uses his iPod as a unit of measure. Where will it all end? The bus stopped at Sixtieth Street. My stop. As I walked past Phone-Man I turned to him and said, "I have to disagree with your doctor. I think that Cheryl was clearly in the wrong!" "Shhhhh, Don't tell her," he responded. I got off the bus shaking my head. If I didn't get annoyed by people who say, "Only in New York", I'd say "Only in New York". tj said... A snapshot, a soliloquy... a moment vicariously lived through the eyes of another All searching for a small town in Wisconsin. Through a Lens, Falsely The Alphabet Kids (Will the REAL Baby Boomers Plea... Bear Gully - A TJ Post The Baby Boomer's Daughter The Pink Glove A Thousand Autumn Leaves Pastrami on Rye Hello Darkness, My Old Friend Another Side of New York The Mean Girl Syndrome I Am Furious, Yellow In search of lost youth - and a photo Hunter-Gathering Blackberries	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line307
__label__cc	0.739437	0.260563	May 3 2015 We Live by the Sun Horoscopes General for Week Commencing: Monday 04 May 2015 Aries Monday 04 May 2015 Mar 21 - Apr 19 You've reached a week that comes disguised as a challenging week, yet where by the end of the week will reveal itself to be an opportune week in disguise. Even the financial tension created by not only a Full Moon in your financial sector on Monday but an opposition with both the Sun and Mars in the early days of the week will very quickly see this turn into a sense of motivation, adding fuel to the urgency that already surrounded Mars' last full week in your income sector. A bit of pressure at the right time is going to fuel your financial passions and fighting spirit, turning you into a financial warrior. Even the communication issues and challenges will turn into opportunities even before they begin easing off, with the potential for a communication and/or relationship breakthrough. Taurus Monday 04 May 2015 Apr 20 - May 20 There will be plenty to keep you motivated during Mars' last full week in your sign and without the pressure of Monday's Full Moon, knowing he's not returning until 2017 would have been enough to fuel your passions and fighting spirit. While your birthday month still has a few weeks left to run, with Venus and Mercury already gone and Mars leaving early next week, the job of defining what you want from the coming year, what excites you and is worth fighting for is all but done. This comes in a week that in the early days anyway will be dominated by a mix of personal and/or relationship and financial tension, yet as a result holds the potential for a communication and/or relationship breakthrough, while income, work and career forces come together to create the potential for a turnaround. Gemini Monday 04 May 2015 May 21 - Jun 21 A combination of a Full Moon in the early days of the week and the first opposition between Mercury in your sign and Saturn in your relationship sector in 28 years, is creating a mix of work, personal and/or relationship tension that could have you running for cover, thinking you've moved into one of the worst weeks of the year. Yet apart from a case of Mondayitis, by Friday on all fronts this will be turning into opportunities in disguise. Falling in your work sector just 4 days before Venus' return to your income sector on Friday is going to give work matters a push just days before the most lucrative months of 2015 kick off. Even personal and/or relationship tension is set to make way for an opportunity for a communication and/or relationship breakthrough and rebuilding. Cancer Monday 04 May 2015 Jun 22 - Jul 22 The Fun police show up this week, not so much to break the stranglehold that professional forces and life's other demands have had over you, but to give you permission to create a life that isn't all work and no play. This is something that the gods haven't been policing and with some real pressure to succeed over the recent months, spurred on by financial matters, chances are this has left little time for the fun things of life. Yet as a Full Moon in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on Monday, the last before Saturn returns next month to really police this, it is a wakeup call you need to heed. Yet there is no danger that this means you'll lose your professional or financial edge. Over the weekend grab a chance to take some guilt free time off. Leo Monday 04 May 2015 Jul 23 - Aug 22 The week gets off to a bumpy start, with Monday's Full Moon putting your home and professional lives into conflict and in the process creating some work/life balance pressure, just as an opposition between Mercury and Saturn pushes some buttons. If you were to judge the week by first impressions you might not like what you see, yet even the challenges in the early days of the week will have turned into opportunities. It turns out this will be the right pressure at the right time for with Mars in his last full week in your career sector and a stunning partnership between work and career forces building by midweek, this will very quickly turn into motivation, with a chance for a professional breakthrough. This is also a surprisingly good week for friendship and relationship building. Virgo Monday 04 May 2015 Aug 23 - Sep 22 Walking into the new week will see you walking into the middle of a cosmic confrontation, with the Moon and Sun at odds as they create Monday's Full Moon, just as an opposition with Mercury and Saturn is creating some real work/life balance tension. If you're going to judge a week by first impressions then from the get go you're going to have a bad feeling about this week, which happily is set to be proved wrong. For in every instance this is a blessing in disguise. With Venus in her final days in your career sector and Mercury in his first full week this is a chance to run a tighter ship ahead of income, work and career forces coming together in a spectacular way by midweek. The scene is set for a communication breakthrough and a chance to embrace a passion for adventure. Libra Monday 04 May 2015 Sep 23 - Oct 23 While Monday's Full Moon may create some financial tension, this is one time when it's the kind of tension you want, for it holds the potential for a breakthrough. It's a case of the wrong things coming together at the right time, with pressure between income and financial forces creating tension at the time, but the potential for a real breakthrough. With Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos in his final week in your financial sector this is going to fuel your financial passions and fighting spirit, while falling just 4 days before Venus' return to your career sector on Friday, a Full Moon in your income sector could bring the income breakthrough you've been waiting for. In the meantime, a sense of adventure is also fighting back and is starting to really challenge your excuses. Scorpio Monday 04 May 2015 Oct 24 - Nov 21 While the week may appear to get off to a bad start, with Monday's Full Moon bringing personal and/or relationship tensions to a head, just as an opposition between Mercury and Saturn is bringing financial tension to a head, on all fronts by midweek this will reveal itself as a blessing in disguise. With the Sun in his final weeks in your relationship sector and Mars leaving early next month, this will get everything out in the open, leaving you with a clear sense of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. By midweek an alliance with Pluto in your communication sector will turn this into an opportunity for a communication and/or relationship breakthrough. At the same time a smart head for money will turn financial tension into a chance to turn things around. Sagittarius Monday 04 May 2015 Nov 22 - Dec 21 While the week may get off to a lethargic start and you may fall victim to a case of Mondayitis, thanks to Monday's Full Moon in a reflective, intuitive and imaginative part of your chart, this is set to bring the right push at the right time. Moving into opposition with both the Sun and Mars in your work sector, this comes just as the warrior planet of the cosmos' last full week here until 2017 needs these kind of wakeup calls. By midweek a partnership between income and work forces will see you not only motivated, but thanks to the wakeup calls received you'll have a much better sense of what you're fighting for. Even personal and/or relationship tension will by midweek be revealing itself as an opportunity for a communication and/or relationship breakthrough. Capricorn Monday 04 May 2015 Dec 22 - Jan 19 There is not only a battle for your attention from work and playful forces this week, the fact that they are both under pressure is going to give them both a warrior like energy, unwilling to let you hide behind your excuses. As Mars spends his last full week in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart, pressure from Monday's Full Moon is likely to not only fire up your fighting spirit and your romantic and creative passions, but bring a new sense of urgency. Not due to return until 2017 and with work forces also demanding your attention, Mars is ready to fight to ensure this isn't at the expense of his romantic and creative passions. At the same time work pressure at the start of the week makes way for an auspicious week for income, work and career matters. Aquarius Monday 04 May 2015 Jan 20 - Feb 18 While Monday's Full Moon may bring any work/life balance tensions or issues to a head, this is a small price to pay for the chance this brings to finally break a professional drought, along with a timely opportunity to create the kind of balance you'll need in the future. For falling in your career sector just 4 days before Venus returns to your work sector on Friday and with major developments on both the work and career fronts over the coming weeks and months, where you're going having the right work/life balance is going to be essential. It's not until next month that major professional developments will reveal how game changing they are, by which time focus on home and family matters will be over. The time to find the right work/life balance is now. Pisces Monday 04 May 2015 Feb 19 - Mar 20 While the week doesn't get off to a good start for most, for you it's going to be slightly easier, but the challenges you do face come from the fact that you really can have it all. By their very nature a Full Moon, born from an opposition between the Sun and Moon will create pressure, but falling in an adventurous part of your chart Monday's Full Moon is more likely to create a severe case of Mondayitis as it unleashes a sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure that have the power to challenge your excuses. At the same time pressure between your home and professional lives may create some work/life balance tension, but it's only happening because of the extraordinary income, work and career forces developing. 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__label__cc	0.661204	0.338796	Ms Nintendique 64 Animal Crossing, cute games and More March 2, 2019 March 3, 2019 - Mayor Spencer Leave a comment Hello Kenton: Day 4 Did you guess Mermaid house because we are well on our way to the pastel dream that is the mermaid house. It was a pretty uneventful day in Kenton. I just collected some bells and paid down the loan, we are close to paying it off and unlocking the island. Mayor Spencer is also Moving in the real world this week so Kenton’s progress may be a little slower. I also spent a bunch of time plot resetting this new villager in place? Who do you think it could be. They are our first amiibo card villager…. so you can get attached to them. Come back tomorrow to find out who moved in. Mayor Spencer Filed Under: Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing New Leaf, Cute Games, Daily Blog Look at that beautiful Roof… do you know what series it is? I think I’ll leave you in suspense because tomorrow’s Fence really gives it away. Today was pretty chill, I spent time building funds to pay off my loan so we can unlock the island. I went over to The able sisters to see what they got… I picked up a nice seasonal dress. And went to talk to our soon to be BFF Sable. Then I went and Checked in with Lyle.. got sighted up for Happy Home Academy… stoked to get my tee from them… gotta work on my house! When home and put on my Fesivale dress and headdress. I feel like it balances out my weird flipped out hair.. I can’t wait for shampoodles. But then…. Disaster struck…. I don’t know if was my bright colored dress or my rusty bug catching skills… but…. BEES I got stung not once, not twice but three times today.. I was looking for bugs to get my watering can and just kept getting stung. After I checked on my flowers on the beach, I ran into Teddy. We had a chat about life in Kenton I dropped off fossils and fish at the museum. We’ve got a complete skeleton! I am usually really bad at the museum. But I don’t want it to hold up any unlocks so. See you tomorrow when we have a new villager and and our first amiibo villager picks out their plot. February 28, 2019 March 2, 2019 - Mayor Spencer Leave a comment Day 2 in Kenton was kinda of a big day. After paying the down payment my house was built.! So I go out to start my first full day as Mayor of Kenton…. and promptly… Fell into to a pitfall seed. UGH. So after I picked myself up and dust myself off I started working on connecting the rest of the town with the temporary path. Hey reader do you have a favorite texture you like to use for garden like paths? Let me know. I finished blocking out most of the town to stop animals from moving in where ever they pleased. I got very lucky this morning with the animal that moved in today. I’ll let you all meet them tomorrow when we go check in on their move. Flora and I had a late night chat on my way to drop off my last haul of re-tail. Day 2 of my time in Kenton was a lot of getting things ready for the adventures in town planning a head. Tomorrow you’ll get to see the style of house I’ve picked.. and who the new villagers is. Hello Kenton! : Final Animal Crossing New Leaf Town Hi friends! As Animal Crossing for Switch is coming to us this year. I thought it would be fun to give a big send off to the game that has been eating thru hundred hours of my life these last 4 years. Animal Crossing New Leaf is the first AC game that hooked me. I have been obsessed I have had 2 copies of the game. So the other day I decided to blow up my second town. It wasn’t very impressive. I kinda just let the town develop organically much like my first town, but i didn’t like the mix of animals. I already had an organic unplanned town in my first town. So yesterday I demolished my old town and began the process of planning Kenton. Kenton, is the neighborhood I lived in Portland. I just moved to Northern California so I thought it would be fitting to give this swan song town the same name. So first thing is first. I had to reset for about 20-30 minutes to get a town layout that I thought I could work with. But I really Like that Map. I like how easy it is going to be to create paths and little neighborhoods of villagers. I like that my house is off by its self. No one is gonna build there house right in front of me… I get to see and hear the waterfall. It’s pretty great. So after I had my house plot picked, Isabelle and I did the tree ceremony. I really dig the town tree. I love it in spring with it’s pink leaves. So before getting to work on setting up paths and laying out the town, I visited Teddy and played some piano. Then I went over and met Flora. I would say don’t get too attached to any of the villager. I am gonna be using amiibo cards to fill it with all my dream team of villagers. I did some fishing, and tree shaking and fossils digging before doing the rest of my errands. I ran over to the Museum to drop off some fossils. Man I wish being mayor was easy enough that I could take a nap in the afternoon. Next it was to Tom Nooks office and dropping down my 10,000 down payment on my house! Who wants to live a tent longer than they have to. Then I set out to start setting down paths. I went from re-tail over the bridge and linked the Town Hall. Took a moment to just taking the beauty and quiet of Kenton at night, before calling it a night and going to bed. Mayor Spencer. February 19, 2019 - Mayor Spencer Leave a comment Rune Factory 5: The Mythical Game Reappears JRPG fans have had their fair share of long delays between beloved franchises’ games. Final Fantasy fans spent a decade hoping and wishing for the release 2016’s Final Fantasy XV. Same for Kingdom Hearts fans, who just finished a 13-year wait when Kingdom Hearts 3 finally was released earlier this year. Part of loving games with complicated long stories is waiting for the long and rocky development cycles to be completed. But what if the game you long for was last actively talked about 7 years before. Before Studio closures and IP takeovers. Before a rebuilt team made another style game, and the game’s producer went off to make his own subsidiary studio. That’s the story of Rune Factory 5. Appearing out of nowhere, when the fandom had long ago abandoned hope that this game would ever arrive. This resurrection story is why I’d argue that Rune Factory 5 announcement is the biggest news to come from February’s Nintendo Direct. Nintendo can predictably be counted on to re-master and re-imagine old games for new consoles (especially Zelda games). Rune Factory 5 was necromancy pure and simple. The added bonus of getting a fully realized and remastered Rune Factory 4 is the cherry on top of this delicious and unexpected sundae. I’ll admit that even when RF4 Special was announced, the last thing I thought was that it was a confirmation of Rune Factory 5’s existence. I felt it — like so many remastered games before it — was a test balloon. Let’s go back to a time to before Stardew Valley took over the farm simulation genre and brought mainstream attention to the small cozy genre. Rune Factory 4 was released in Japan for 3DS in 2012. The game was beloved and sold well enough in its first few weeks that longtime series producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto felt confident to let the series fans know that Rune Factory 5 had been greenlit. Fans were thrilled. This excitement, however, would be short-lived. A few short weeks after the North American launch of Rune Factory 4, Neverland, the studio who owned the IP and made the game, filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations. Marvelous, the series publisher, picked up the IP and the team that made Rune Factory. Because of this, fans were admittedly shocked when the European Release of Rune Factory 4 was abruptly canceled. The region locked nature of the 3DS meant thousands of fans were stranded, with no way to play without buying a whole new North American or Japanese 3DS. Speculation of the series return flared up a few months later when the Rune Factory team teased they had a new game coming out. That game would not be the mythical Rune Factory 5. Instead, it was Lords of Magna: Maiden Heaven. The team wanted to stretch their legs, and instead of the dungeon crawling farming game we’ve come to love them for, they gave us a strategy and inn management game. Around this time, the team was also able to score a moral victory when Rune Factory 4 caught on in the west, leading to all physical copies of the game to be sold out for a period. Shortly after Lords of Magna’s announcement. XSEED, the localization company that has brought many Marvelous titles to the west, announced there would be an eShop exclusive version of Rune Factory 4 headed to Europe. A few months later, at the end of 2014, the XSEED team delivered Rune Factory 4 to Europe — well over a year after the North American release. This would be the last big news the Rune Factory fandom would have until February 2019. 2015 would see Hashimoto and XSEED bring Story of Seasons (the re-branded name of Harvest Moon) to North America after a successful Japanese launch in 2013, and Rune Factory fans would hold their breath and speculate that 2016 would be their year. Many Rune Factory fans I know (myself included) thought that Rune Factory 4 would be the series swan song when the logical time of Rune Factory 5 was filled with yet another Story of Seasons game. It’s now been four years of speculation, hope, and not understanding how a game that sold so well could be left this way. This isn’t a case where a series slowly sold less than the game before it: Rune Factory 4 topped 200,000 copies sold in Japan. And that was before Stardew Valley came and gave us a simplified easy to digest version of Rune Factory’s formula. I hope that Stardew’s success and the rise of Otomes on iOS give Rune Factory 4 Special and Rune Factory 5 a broader base of fans who love farming, romance, and raising monsters. Rune Factory 4 Special is coming out on Nintendo Switch in Japan on July 25th, 2019. It’s North American and European release is still slated as later in 2019. Rune Factory 5 is rumored to be coming to Japan as soon as 2020. Check back here for updates on Rune Factory 4 Special and 5. Filed Under: Uncategorized \| Tagged: Nintendo Switch, Rune Factory, Rune Factory 4 Special, Rune Factory 5 February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019 - Mayor Spencer Leave a comment Hello and Nintendo Direct Predictions. Welcome to Ms Nintendique 64, I’m Mayor Spencer. I am excited to finally launch a place where I can and hopefully you can talk about animal crossing and other cute and whimsical games. There will be all kinds of new about the upcoming Animal Crossing game for switch, video tutorials of cute crafts and maybe even some streaming of the new game or pocket camp. Be sure to catch up with me on Instagram Or on twitter for daily updates on my towns, and my camp. So I am launching this blog a day early I had planed to do a big wrap up of the Valentines Day Event in ACPC but there is a big tasty Nintendo Direct this afternoon (in like 45 minutes, we fly by the seat of our pants in this town) So Let’s make some last minute predictions. 1) Fire Emblem:Three House gets a Late Spring release I think we are very close to the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses I think people think this is a summer game but I wouldn’t be surprised if we got it in April or May. I am so excited to see what this game is gonna be, is it 3 games? Is it one game I loved the dueling family and the interwoven story telling of Fire Emblem:Fates. I played Birthright/Conquest/Revelation so quickly. So I am ready for hours and hours of Fire Emblem story and romancing. 2) FFVII is released during the direct. T There is a commercial floating around the internet where a man is playing FFVII on an airplane but that game is not out… so I think we see it drop in a get hyped moment 3) Pikmin collection. I think we see a port of pikmin 2 AND 3. We’ve been hearing that pikmin 4 is on it’s way and I think opening up this franchise to people who have missed it would be awesome. I’ve never played it but my boyfriend was obsessed with 3 when he got his wiiU. 4) Animal Crossing September release date I know I and all of the AC community wants a new Animal Crossing today. I think that they will likely launch the game in the same slot they put the spin off Happy Home Designer. 5) Mario 3d World or Windwaker port. I think we are gonna get most if not all of the Wii U greatest hits on the switch. It would be rad if we got one of these. I would be more stoked for a Windwaker 6) Style Savvy for Switch announced. OK Ok I know this is a long shot but a girl can freaking dream right? 7) Story of Seasons for switch shown and announced. This was a game that was teased at the beginning of the switch’s life. Also all of these games are on sale in the Japanese 3ds e-shop so let’s hope that points to one of them 8) Hopefully some VN/Otomes translations announced Unlikely we will hear any news until the anime conventions this spring and summer but again A GIRL CAN DREAM. 9. Super Mario Maker Port I hope that this game gets announced. I’m not sure what a sequel would look like so I think a port is more likely… maybe give us a more modern 3d art style. 10. 2d Zelda for holiday Seriously if there isn’t a 2d zelda game I want an update on WTF the 2d Zelda team has been up to since 2015 Triforce Heroes. 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__label__cc	0.676764	0.323236	musing + lyrics. • about • • features • • live reviews • • throwback thursday • • new music friday • • podcasts • new (and old) music friday #20: kesha, the killers, wolf alice, fickle friends despite denouncing the current state of pop music in my last post, there have been a couple of songs which are an exception. 1. the killers i briefly mentioned them in my last post, but i've been obsessed with their latest single, the man, which noisey have discussed more extensively here. the track retains the slightly 80s influence of both the band and brandon flowers' solo material, making it an instant hit in my book. while watching the video on youtube, i also came across shot at the night, and this has also been on repeat recently. this is pure power ballad realness with a euphoric chorus reminiscent of starship. i also rediscovered human and spaceman, which still Go Off nine (!!) years later. 2. brooke candy by far my most played song this last week, volcano, the latest single from the california native is an audio and visual dream. long time fans of brooke may have noted that both her sound and aesthetic have become slightly more toned down in recent years - perhaps due in part to her signing with sony, who as she mentions in this interview, she has since parted ways with. or maybe it's her collaboration with pop powerhouse sia, who she continued to work with on her new single. either way, it's safe to say she's come a long way since the release of das me, which upon watching back for the first time in years, i've realised actually contains a super empowering message for women. but if it's a club-ready banger you're after, volcano certainly delivers, though it still retains brooke's signature rapping style. 3. chloe howl the london-based singer first broke out in 2014 with her infectiously catchy singles rumour and disappointed before going quiet. it later emerged that she had left sony music in april 2015, delaying the release of her self-titled debut album. i wondered if i'd ever hear anything new from her, but my prayers were answered last month when she released magnetic, a slow-burning electro-pop number about trying to resist someone you know is no good for you, and hopefully her album will soon follow. 4. fickle friends i'm not actually sure how i found this band, but after seeing that one of my favourite artists shura had remixed one of their tracks, i knew they would be good, and i was proved right upon hearing their stupidly catchy tracks, hello hello, say no more, brooklyn, and my favourite, glue. last year, after two years of touring without a label, playing an impressive 53 festivals, the band signed to polydor and are currently recording their debut album. 5. kesha after an extensive legal battle with producer dr luke, kesha finally released her new single praying a few weeks ago. the song starts out quiet and unassuming but builds to a spectacular crescendo featuring a high note i didn't even know she was capable of. the video is a glitter lover's paradise, a stark contrast to the emotional nature of the lyrics; i challenge anyone to get through this video without crying. the future certainly looks brighter for kesha, and i'm sure her next album, whenever it arrives, will carry a similar sense of optimism. today she released another new track; woman is inspired by "donald trump's sexism". when i first heard it i feared we were in for joanne 2.0, but its country sound quickly gave way to a stomping beat and electrifying trumpet riff, and i;m now eagerly anticipating the release of rainbow on the 11th august. 6. wolf alice upon seeing matty healy tweet about this track, i instantly had to listen, and i wasn't disappointed. the second single from their upcoming album visions of a life, don't delete the kisses is another track that starts out small but carries on building to a heart-wrenching chorus, and i had to hold back tears the first time i heard it. but that was before i'd even seen the lyrics, which i struggled to make out upon first listen. after consulting genius, i was once again trying not to cry as they brought back feelings of loss and rejection i thought i'd left behind with my teenage crushes. the other day i saw one of these people while i was out, which perhaps intensified my feelings towards this song, which details singer ellie rowsell's potentially unrequited crush. what if it's not meant for me? she asks herself on the chorus, decidedly dejected, a feeling i know all too well. despite knowing that this particular crush was never going anywhere, when i saw them around town i was reminded of the second chorus; me and you were meant to be in love, so convinced was 17 year old me that somehow they would reciprocate my feelings of adoration. until someone declares their love for me via a moulin rouge-esque love song medley, i'll continue to play this song on repeat. this week's playlist is here. 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__label__cc	0.708175	0.291825	Classic Residency > Careers Our people are our greatest assets Our people make us different — energetic about supporting and challenging our clients in equal measure. We’re passionate about making a measurable impact in all we do. Our unique culture and approach deliver enduring results, true to each client’s specific situation. We’ll always do the right thing by our clients, our people and our communities. Project scheduling and management Company has a key role to play in unlocking the continent’s potential. The talent recruited and developed by businesses will play a major role in achieving economic independence. As a partner connecting top employers with exceptional people, you will lead the talent agenda with Global Career Company. Perform value engineering In an entrepreneurial environment, you take the lead in your own career, choosing to make an impact in one or more of our teams, and also across the wider business. Your work will make a difference you can see, to our candidates, clients, products and beyond. Which finance consulting services you provide? As well as the satisfaction of taking part in the African talent agenda, we offer competitive salaries, quick promotion pathways, and career development. We have a brilliant, international and multi-cultural team – see what they think about working with us. Personal impact, mentoring, and teamwork are just a few of share our clients’ aspirations, work to understand their reality, and align our incentives with their objectives — so they know we’re in this together. MARKET IMPACT ANALYST BUSINESS ANALYST ALPHA CAPTURE PORTFOLIO RESEARCH ANALYST Employees respond to appreciation at work, especially when it’s expressed through recognition of their efforts because it confirms their work is valued. A simple thank you goes a long way and will not only make your employees feel good, but will actually benefit your business in the process. Here’s how: It’s well-known that engaged staff are significantly more productive, working efficiently and proactively in order to do a good job. If efforts are likely to be praised and rewarded, then it makes sense that a member of staff will work harder to receive such employee recognition Recognizing an employee’s efforts demonstrates that the job they’re doing is valuable to the business. It sends the message that their hard work is worth rewarding and therefore must be important. This, in turn, makes the individual feel that they are making a difference. Project B1 Project A1 It has been a great memory and experience living at Classic Tower, Satdobato. The built quality, service responsiveness and the... Babu Krishna Maharjan Valued Customer, Classic Tower SMART ALARM SYSTEM SMARTPHONE ALERT SMART TV CONNECTION Dhapakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal +977 98510 44820 / 43965 / 22278 info@myclassicresidency.com Copyright © 2020. All Rights Reserved, Classic Residency. Website by TheSquare.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line316
__label__cc	0.641836	0.358164	Kerala is one of India's most acclaimed tourist destination and lagoons, spice plantations, Ayrvedic spas, Kahako Beaches in Kerala Most of India's finest beaches are in Kerala.For virtually its entire 600 km length, the Kerala coast is lined with sandy beaches, rocky promontories and coconut palms. Each year greater numbers of visitors arrive here in search of the ranquil, palm fringed beaches. This internationally renowned beach resort is a favorite's haunt of tourists since the 1930s. Kovalam consists of three adjacent crescent beaches. The southernmost, known as the Lighthouse Beach, is the most popular of the three. Kovalam offers accommodation to suit all budgets. Accessibility: 16km (1/2 hour) from Thiruvananthapuram. A quiet, secluded stetch of sand, the Papanasam beach in Varkala is known for its mineral sprigs and rocky cliff. The 2000 year old Sree Janardhana Swamy temple and the Nature Care Centre are the two main attractions here. Accessibilty; 40km (1 ½ hours) from Thiruvananthapuram. Cherai Beach This lovely beach bordering Vypeen Island is ideal for swimming. Dolphins are occasionally seen here. A typical Kerala village with paddy fields and coconut groves nearby is added attraction. This is where Vasco da Gama had landed in 194 AD. The legends woven around its historic origins and traditions cast a mystical spell on this beach. Kappad is also known for its Ayurvedics health holiday facilities. Accessibility: 14 km (1/2 hour) from Kozhikode. Muzhappilanged Beach Black rocks protect this long, clean beach from the currents of the deep, making itshallow water a swimmer's paradise. Perhaps this is Kerala's only drive-in beach where are you can drive down the entire length of 4km. Accessibility: 15km (1/2 hour) from Kannur and 8km from Thalasseri. Bekal Forts stands on a promontory between two long, classically beautiful palm fringed beaches. This is the largest, best preserved fort in Karala. The fort has been under the control of various powers including the Vijayanagar ingdom, Tipu Sultan and the British. The fort's commanding position offers breathtaking views across the bays to the north and south. Accessibility: 160km 4 hours) from Kozhkode). The backwaters of Kerala-meandering inland lakes networked by canals-stretch to over 900km. Boats trips across these tranquil stretches are an expensive unique to Kerala. Large Kettuvalloms (traditional country crafts over 60 ft. in length) have been converted into luxury houseboats for these ruises. One of the oldest ports of the Malabar Coast, Kollam was once the centre of the International space trade. North of Thiruvananthaouram, 30 f this historic town is covered by the renowed Ashtamudi Lake. The eight hour boat trip between Kollam and Alappuzha is the longest and most enchanting experience of Kerala' backwaters. Accessibility: 72 km (2 hour) from Thiruvananthapuram. Alappuha Also known as the Venice of the East, Alappuzha is famous fir its boat races, houseboat holidays, beaches, marne products and coir industry. A singular characteristic of these lands the region called Kuttaanad. The Granary of Kerala, Kuttanad is one of the few regions in the world where farming is done below sea level. Accessibility: 64km (2 hours) from Kochi. Just 1km from Kottayam, this is unique backwater destination situated on the bans of the Vembanad lake is considered the gateway to the backwaters of Kuttanad. The Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary is a favorite haunt of migratory birds from across the world which makes it a renowned bird watching centre. Kumarakom is also a centre for houseboat cruises. Accessibility: 88km (21/2 hours) from Kochi. The commercial and industrial capita of Kerala, Kochi has one of the finest natural harbors in the world. This city is home to the oldest synagogue in the Commonwealth as well as numerous old crunches and temples. Jew Town, the area around the synagogue is a centre of spice trade and curio shops. Ancient mariners from Arabia, China, Holland, Britain and Portugal have all left their mark on this beautiful island city. Half the fun of visiting Kochi is moving around on the local ferries. A conducted cruise through the winding waterways will take too to several quaint spots. Accessibility: Kochi is well connected to all the cities in India by excellent air, sea, road and rail networks. Unexplored, unspoilt, the backwaters of Kozhikode hold great promises of enchanting holiday option. Elathur, the Canoli Canal and the Kallai River are favorite destinations for boating. Kadalundi with its beautiful bird sanctuary is a charming site. Krapuzha, the venue of the Korapuzha Jalotsavam is fast becoming a popular water sport destination. Accessibility: Well connected to all the major cites in India by excellent air, road and rail networks. It is famous for beautiful beaches, backwater canals dance and Kalaripayatu martial art. Ayurvedic Rejuvenation Programmes Kerala offers two kinds of Ayurvedic health holiday options-Rejuvenate and Therapeutic. These packages are based on the time-tested, ancient Indian system of medicine, Ayurveda. Rejuvenation Programmes Rejuvenation therapy (Rasayana Chikitsa) Overall fitness (Panchakarma) Body immunization and longevity treatment (Kayakalpa Chikitsa) Body sudation (Sweda Karma) Meditation and Yoga Beauty Care Body slimming. Therapeutic Programmes Treatment for chronic headaches, insomnia, mental tension (Dhara) Treatment to alleviate osteoarthritis, leukemia etc. (Snehapanam Treatment for spondilosis, rheumatic diseases (Pizhichit) Treatment for diseases like hemiplegia, paralysis, obesity and certain rheumatic ailments (Udvarthanam) Treatment for muscular-skeletal ailments (Manna Chikitsa) Treatment for nasal ailments (Nasyani) Treatment for ear ailments (Karnapooranam) Preventing cataract and strengthening vision (Tharpanam). Treatment for wasting of muscles, rheumatism, sports injuries, pain in the joints, emaciation, certain skin diseases (Njavarakizhi) Treatment for ailments of the head, nose, mouth, throat, face etc.(Sirovasti) and so on. Hill Stations In Kerala Much of Kerala's exotic appeal is centered in the highland area of the Western Ghats. Rising to an average height of 1520m, the tropical forests of the Ghats house rich flora and fauna. Not to speak of expensive, loamy plantations of tea, coffee, rubber and fragrant cardamom. 1600m above sea level, Munnar is a lover's paradise and was the summer resort of the British Government in South India. Sprawling tea plantations, picture-oak towns, winding lanes and holiday facilities make this a popular hill station. Among the exotic flora, found in the forests and grasslands here is the Neelakurinji. This flower which bathes the hills in blue once every twelve years will bloom next in 2006 AD. Munnar also has the highest peak in South India-Anamudi, which towers over 2695m. Anamudi is an ideal spot for trekking. Accessibility: 130km (4 ½ hours) from Kochi. Peermede Situated 915m above sea level, Peermede is on the way to the Periyar Wildlife Sactuary. This pleasant hill station was once the summer retreat of the Maharajas of Travancore. Here you will find sprawling tea, coffee, cardamom, rubber and eucalyptus plantations side by side with natural grasslands and pine forests. Accessibility: 75km (2 ½ hours from Kottayam. Vythiri Tucked away at the north eastern tip of Kerala this quaint little hill station about 1300m above sea level is renowned for its coffee, tea, cardamom, pepper and rubber plantations. Mist capped mountains and breathtaking scenery dominate other tourist attractions here. Accessibility: 100km (5 hours) from Kozhiode. Ponmudi An Idyllic hill resort with narrow, winding pathways and cool, green, wooded environs, Ponmudi are located 915 meters above sea level. Well known for its beautiful mountain flowers, exotic butterflies, small rivulets and springs, this hill station also have excellent trekking trails. Accessibility: 61km (2 ½ hours) from Thiruvananthaouram. Palaruvi Waterfalls in Kerala Palaruvi which means 'milky stream' makes its way down the rocks, from a height of 300 ft. The Palaruvi woods are a beautiful picnic spot. The PWD inspection Bungalow ad the KTDC Motel offer comfortable accommodation. Accessibility: 75km from Kollam town. Athirappily Waterfalls In Kerala At the entrance to the Sholayar ranges, this 80 foot waterfall is a picnic spot. Accessibility: 78km (2 hours) from Kochi. Vahachal Waterfalls In Kerala Just a short drive from Athirapally, this picturesque spot is adjacent to dense green forest land and is a part of the Chalakudy River. Accessibility: 90km (2 ½ hours) from Kochi. Kerala Wildlife Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary Thekkady : Rolling hills, tea and cardamom plantations welcome you to Thekkady. One of the largest wildlife reserves in India, the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is more popular as a tiger reserve. A boat ride on the splendid Periyar Lake is the best way to experience the sanctuary. The greatest attraction here is the herds of wild elephants that come down to the lake to frolic in the waters. Tiger, Sambar, Bison, Spotted Deer, Leopard, Malabar Flying Squirrel, and Stripe-necked Mangoose and so on can also be spotted in the forest. Kumily, an important spice trade centre, lies in the periphery of the sanctuary. Accessibility: 190km (6 hours) from Kochi. The Eravikulam National Park, Munnar The Eravikulam National Park, Munnar : 17km from Munnar, this is home to an assortment of wildlife such as the Nilgiri Tahr, Nilgiri Langur, Sambar, Gaur and the Lion-tailed Macaque. Infact, more than half the world population of the Nilgiri Tahr-an endangered species-is found here. Accessibility: 142km (4 ½ hours) from Kochi. Kerala Fact Sheet Area: 38,863 sq.km, which is 1.27% od india's total land area and is located. At the Southwest tip of the india's man land. Weather : Tropical Summer : April-June (24-23 degree Celcius) Monsoon : July-September (22-27 degree Celcius) Winter : October-March (22-32 degree Celcius) High Season : December-May Capital of Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) Major Cities of Kerala : Thiruvanthapuram, Kochi (Ernakulam district) & Kozhikode (Calicut)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line317
__label__wiki	0.553193	0.553193	Andrew Hill - Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Philip's College Bachelor of Arts > International Volunteer: Amigos de las Americas Current Studies > International Volunteer: Corrymeela Peace Centre Study Abroad: The Hague, Netherlands Specialized Seminars, Lectures & Conferences Stanford University Fellow Teaching Experience > St. Philip's College, Texas 2013-Present > Northwest Vista College 2011-2013 > Evaluations: NVC Tarrant County College 2006-2010 > Evaluations: TCC University of Dallas 2006-2008 > Evaluations: UD St. Mary's University 1998-2005 > Evaluations: StMU Professional Positions > Associate Dean Service to the College St. Philip's College > Fulbright Scholars > 2019 Scholar-in-Residence > 2016 Scholar-in-Residence Philosophy Awards Website Ethics Bowl Team 2019 Summer Academy 2015 Study Abroad Northwest Vista College > International Education Committee > International Education Week 2012 Peace and Conflict Studies Committee > 2013 Peace and Conflict Studies Summer Workshop Exploring Humanitarian Law: American Red Cross Special Projects > Fall 2012: Presidential Debate Watch Program Fall 2012: Service Projects Spring 2012: "Doing Ethics" Brown-Bag Lunch Series Grants > Professional Presentations > Student Development > ASACCU Professional Development > Photos of SPC 2016 & 2019 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Institutional Awards for St. Philip's College 2016, Richard & Yvonne Naylor 2019, Derick & Dot Wilson Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program assists U.S. higher education institutions in expanding programs of academic exchange, by supporting non-U.S. scholars through grants for teaching at institutions that might not have a strong international component and/or serve minority audiences. Both the U.S. institution and the scholar grantee benefit from this experience. I was the "Principal Contact for Academic Arrangements for the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence," which means that I headed the large team that wrote the grant and coordinated the stay of our scholars. In 2016, St. Philip's College hosted Richard and Yvonne Naylor from the Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. In 2019, St. Philip's College hosted Derick and Dot Wilson from the Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. 2013 United States Institute of Peace Grant The grant supported the 2013 Peace and Conflict Studies Summer Workshop at St. Mary's University and Northwest Vista College. For four days in June 2013, students from St. Mary's University and Northwest Vista College participated in an experiential learning workshop about international peace and conflict transformation. The theme of this summer's workshop is drug related violence along the border of the United States and Mexico. There were expert speakers on the subject of the drug cartels, such as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Resident Agent in Charge of the border between San Diego and Tijuana, the busiest land border crossing in the world. There were also two speakers, Matthew Scrimgeour and Aaron Gordon, from the Corrymeela Peace & Reconciliation Centre in Northern Ireland. The speakers came to discuss how Northern Ireland moved from a conflict to a post-conflict society, even when many thought that the violence there was not simply intransigent, but actually unsolvable. The two discussed the role of the Corrymeela Centre before, during and after the thirty year period of violence from 1969 to the signing of the peace treaty on Good Friday of 1998. 2012 Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities & Arts Grant The grant supported the 2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers at the Corrymeela Peace Centre. 2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College & University Teachers Representing Corrymeela, I was an applicant with Dr. John Pinheiro of Aquinas College, and we wrote a successful application for a $56,000 Lilly Fellows Program Grant. The award funded "Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Theory and Practice" which was the courses we developed and delivered as the 2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers. The seminar was guided by Pádraig Ó Tuama, and held at the Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland during July 2012.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line325
__label__wiki	0.652463	0.652463	Figs in Wigs Figs in Wigs are an all-female, five-strong performance company making work that is a unique mix of theatre, dance and comedy. We asked member Alice Roots to tell us how dance has become such an important part of their mix and why they started using choreography to express themselves, although none of them have conventional dance training… Figs in Wigs are Rachel Gammon, Suzanna Hurst, Sarah Moore, Rachel Porter and Alice Roots. We use puns, fake fruit, and pop culture references to create dance pieces, theatre shows and pop songs that are refreshingly surreal, absurdly comic and always aware of their own theatricality. Beneath the deadpan mon obrows we seek to address big issues one sequin at a time, and although we might not change the world with glitter we’ll have fun trying. Imagine Kraftwerk meets Chicks on Speed at a fruit stall… and you’re nowhere close.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line326
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RAYELAN ALLAN BIORHYTHMS LOTTO PICKS RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENTS WHO'VE BEEN INTERVIEWED ON RUMOR MILL NEWS RADIO Kevin Courtois - Kcbjedi ______________ Dr Robin Falkov Melinda Pillsbury Hr1 Daneen Peterson Disclosure Hr1 in_PHI_nitti Jasmine Hr1 Tom Chittum Hr1 Kevin Courtois Dr Syberlux Gary Larrabee Hr1 Pravdaseeker Hr1 Tom Chittum Stewart Swerdlow Hr1 Janet Swerdlow Hr1 Dr. Robin Falkov Hr1 JANUARY 2009 ______________ Patriotlad Dr. Robin Falcov Find UFOs, The Apocalypse, New World Order, Political Analysis, Alternative Health, Armageddon, Conspiracies, Prophecies, Spirituality, Home Schooling, Home Mortgages and more, in: Rumor Mill News Reading Room, Current Archive String of Indictments by DOJ Point to Multiple Global Operations Posted By: RumorMail Date: Wednesday, 13-Jan-2021 05:52:18 www.rumormill.news/114836 Task force at the center, once headed by Bruce Ohr, now directed by Deputy AG Rosenstein By Jeff Carlson The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces program was established in 1982 as a means to combat increasingly organized drug traffickers. The OCDETF program is an unusually broad coalition that, as noted by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “brings together just about every federal law enforcement agency there is. It’s the Swiss Army knife of law enforcement.” The program’s strategy, which currently operates under the direction of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, aims to “focus federal drug resources on reducing the flow of illicit drugs and drug proceeds by identifying and targeting the major trafficking organizations, and eliminating the financial infrastructure of drug organizations.” In October 2017, Sessions announced that he was designating the international criminal gang MS-13 as a priority for the OCDETF. Sessions came under some criticism for his actions, with many noting that MS-13 didn’t represent a significant force in the drug-trafficking business. But Sessions himself acknowledged this, while at the same time, noting the strength of the program’s reach: “MS-13 sells drugs, but they are not primarily a drug-trafficking organization. I have ordered OCDETF to prioritize MS-13 not because of their drug trafficking—but because OCDETF is such a powerful weapon. “OCDETF is able to hit MS-13 from all angles.” Interestingly, until early January 2018, the OCDETF operated under the direction of Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr. On Dec. 7, 2017, Ohr was demoted and stripped of his title as associate deputy attorney general. A month later, on Jan. 8, 2018, it was reported by Fox News that Ohr had been removed as the head of the OCDETF, as well. Ohr was demoted and stripped of his responsibilities after it was learned that the FBI used Ohr as a conduit for unofficial information from former MI6 spy Christopher Steele—who authored the now-infamous dossier on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump—after Steele was formally terminated by the FBI. Ohr hadn’t informed his superiors of this ongoing relationship. It would later be learned that Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to produce the dossier. Hezbollah Investigation But Ohr’s troubles don’t end there. Fox News confirmed in January 2018 that Ohr, “as the head of OCDETF, was directly involved with Project Cassandra, the interagency investigation spearheaded by the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] that tracked a massive international drug and money-laundering scheme allegedly run by Hezbollah.” Project Cassandra was the subject of a lengthy, detailed, and highly critical Politico report, “The Secret Backstory of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook,” which examined how the Obama administration may have derailed a “campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.” Begun in 2008, after the DEA amassed evidence that Hezbollah was engaging in drugs and weapons trafficking, along with other crimes, the investigation traced its way to the “innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.” According to the Politico report, “Hezbollah’s network moved metric ton quantities of cocaine [to] launder drug proceeds on a global scale, and procure weapons and … explosives.” It was at this point that roadblocks began to appear: “As Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way. … When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests, and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.” The Politico article quoted Katherine Bauer, a former Treasury official in the Obama administration, who had testified to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs: “Under the Obama administration … these [Hezbollah-related] investigations were tamped down, for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.” Ohr’s demotion occurred on Dec. 7, 2017, following the release of that Politico report. Then, on Dec. 22, Sessions announced that the allegations in the Politico report would be reviewed: “While I am hopeful that there were no barriers constructed by the last administration to allowing DEA agents to fully bring all appropriate cases under Project Cassandra, this is a significant issue for the protection of Americans. We will review these matters and give full support to investigations of violent drug-trafficking organizations.” Then, just days after Ohr was removed as the head of the OCDETF in early January 2018, Sessions announced the creation of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team (HFNT): “HFNT prosecutors and investigators are tasked with investigating individuals and networks providing support to Hezbollah, and pursuing prosecutions in any appropriate cases. The HFNT will begin by assessing the evidence in existing investigations, including cases stemming from Project Cassandra, a law enforcement initiative targeting Hezbollah’s drug trafficking and related operations.” Sessions continued: “In an effort to protect Americans from both threats, the Justice Department will assemble leading investigators and prosecutors to ensure that all Project Cassandra investigations as well as other related investigations, whether past or present, are given the needed resources and attention to come to their proper resolution. The team will initiate prosecutions that will restrict the flow of money to foreign terrorist organizations as well as disrupt violent international drug-trafficking operations.” On Oct. 15, 2018, Sessions broadened OCDETF’s mandate, and in doing so, designated five different groups as the nation’s top transnational organized-crime threats (notably, Hezbollah made the list): • MS-13 • Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG • the Sinaloa Cartel • Clan del Golfo • Lebanese Hezbollah Sessions selected the five groups based on recommendations he received from the FBI, DEA, OCDETF, and the DOJ’s Criminal Division. Sessions singled out Hezbollah for additional focus in his discussion and specifically noted the previously created HFNT task force: “The subcommittee on Lebanese Hezbollah will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilan Graff of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. AUSA Graff is overseeing the prosecution of two alleged members of Hezbollah’s External Security Organization, the first such operatives to be charged with terrorism offenses in the United States. “This subcommittee will be led and staffed by members of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, which is a group I created in January. “This team is composed of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money-laundering prosecutors who are tasked with investigating individuals and networks providing support to Hezbollah.” As part of his announcement, Sessions also announced the formation of a “transnational organized crime task force of experienced prosecutors” tasked with coordinating the government’s efforts and developing plans to “take each of these groups off of our streets for good.” Rosenstein Takes Over Sessions had, to this point, been the man directing the OCDETF’s efforts. Concurrent with his Oct. 15th announcement, Sessions appointed Rosenstein to lead the new transnational task force and direct OCDETF’s actions. Working underneath Rosenstein are separate subcommittees for each of the target groups, each led by an experienced prosecutor. This was a major assignment, given the priority that President Donald Trump has given to the topic. It also appeared to indicate a shifting of responsibility as Sessions had previously been leading the prosecutorial effort on MS-13. Notably, the appointment occurred after Trump’s Oct. 8 affirmation of Rosenstein, following their meeting on Air Force One. Additionally, Rosenstein’s appointment hinted at a pre-planned succession occurring in the weeks prior to Sessions’s formal resignation, which occurred Nov. 7, 2018, following a request by the president. Targeting Mexican Drug Cartels much, much more on link RMN is an RA production. The only pay your RMN moderators receive comes from ads. 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__label__cc	0.626261	0.373739	Artists, the first meeting in Somerset The artists for this project were carefully curated to match each of the groups working about the Somerset Levels and Moors. Being both professional artists and Somerset community members, artists were invited to get together in Taunton in early December. Jon England, Deborah Westmancoat, Simon Ledson and Andrea Oke, together with Seila Fernández Arconada will be working together with each of the groups. Very briefly, I explain their connections with the theme of flooding as well as their particular selected periods of time. Jon England is allocated with the “Overview of the long term flood history of the Somerset Levels and Moors” for his interest into history and the importance of archives in his process, how they inform concepts and materiality of his works with special look at Somerset history. For more information about his practice click here. Deborah Westmancoat will be working with “Recent flooding in Somerset Levels and Moors (2013-14) as her practice looks specifically at site-specific waters, often flood, which she uses as material in her last body of work. For more information about her practice click here. Simon Ledson will be working with “Historical flooding in Somerset (last 100 years). Ledson has worked with representations of data in which his interest in water is an important part of his body of work in the last years, including representations of Somerset flooding. For more information about Simon Ledson’s practice click here. Andrea Oke is in the group ” Societal response to flooding in Somerset”, her last project “Levels” had an interest into how people were affected by the flooding in Somerset, looking at storytelling Oke transformed those local memories into sounds and drawings. For more information about her practice click here. Seila Fernández Arconada will work with “The future of the flooding in Somerset Levels and Moors”. Her current practice, including this project, looks at water with a particular perspective into the uncertain future caused by climate change. For more information about her practice click here.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line334
__label__wiki	0.983988	0.983988	PNG SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS TO GET TV RECEIVER PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (The National, Nov. 5) – Papua New Guinea Southern Highlands Governor Hami Yawari has committed K1 million (US$305,000) in the province's 2004 budget to enable all districts have access to television. Mr Yawari made the commitment at the commissioning of a new television signal receiver at Ialibu Station on Saturday. He told more than 5,000 people and singsing groups who gathered for the occasion that Tari, Nipa, Koroba, Magarima, Kutubu, Komo, Kagua and Erave districts all receive TV signals. "My government is willing to extend services to other districts in the province," he said. He said he does not want to be seen as favoring a district. He promised to have FM radio and mobile communications established. Mr Yawari arranged for the transmitter with a K120,000 commitment in June. EMTV's News and Current Affairs director John Eggins said the service would be educational for people in Ialibu. RAYTHEON PUSHES FOR GUAM WATER CONTRACT By Mark-Alexander Peiper HAGATNA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, Nov. 6) - Raytheon Technical Services Co. says it can repair the island's ailing infrastructure without having to immediately raise water rates. Raytheon officials recently presented their plan to privatize the Guam Waterworks Authority to the Consolidated Commission on Utilities. The contractor has been pushing for months to take over the long-troubled water agency, and recently told CCU members that it could bring the agency into compliance with federal drinking water and wastewater standards within five years. CCU Chairman Simon Sanchez said despite how good the Raytheon offer looks, the commission still wishes to see what other potential bidders can offer to ensure the island's ratepayers get the best deal. Barrigada resident EveMarie Malaca is one of many residents who has for years suffered from water pressure problems. She said she would like to see the utility privatized... TONGA PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT TROOPS IN SOLOMONS WELLINGTON, New Zealand (RNZI, Nov. 6) - The Prime Minister of Tonga is to visit his country’s military and police personnel currently deployed in Solomon Islands. Prince ‘Ulukalala Lavaka Ata will visit Tongans on Guadalcanal and Malu in the north of Malaita province. The three-day visit, which starts on November 11, comes after similar trips made by the Australian and New Zealand leaders. Sir Allan Kemakeza says the people of the Solomons appreciate Tonga’s support. Sir Allan says the goodwill visit is a welcome gesture. Radio New Zealand International: http://www.rnzi.com/ SOLOMON ISLAND SWINDLERS GET JAIL TERMS WELLINGTON, New Zealand (RNZI, Nov. 6) - Organizers of the Family Charity Fund pyramid scheme that swindled thousands of Solomon Islanders out of millions of dollars have received jail sentences of up to five years in jail. The director of the fund, Jean Maenu’u, received a sentence of five years, while Baddley Au was sentenced to serve five years and three months. Close associates Jack Akao and John Meke received three-year jail sentences and Honiara City Councilor Pat Tom received a jail term of two and a half years for his part in the administration of the scheme. A sixth defendant, Mike Hora, will appear in court on Friday. Magistrate Nick Makin also ordered the five defendants to pay a total of US$571,000 jointly in compensation to the court, to be paid out to victims of their actions. BELEAGUERED TIKOPIA ISLANDERS HUNGRY AGAIN MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, Nov. 6) - Authorities in Solomon Islands say thousands of people on the remote island of Tikopia are once again facing severe food shortages, and efforts are being made to send in relief supplies. The remote island, in the far southeast of the Solomons came to international attention late last year after it was hit by a cyclone that destroyed much of its food crops. Both Tikopia and Anuta were slammed by Cyclone Zoe last December. Winds of more than 200 miles per hour devasted both islands. The Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office says Tikopia was hit again in June, destroying much of new crops and is now in a desperate situation. Renewing an appeal for international assistance, the office says it is planning to send a shipload of supplies to the island from the capital, Honiara, at the weekend. Radio Australia: www.abc.... INDONESIA DEMANDS DEATH FOR ACEH REBEL MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, Nov. 6) - Indonesian prosecutors have for the first time demanded the death sentence for a leader of the Free Aceh Movement rebels, who have been the target of a six-month government offensive. Mustafa bin Ibrahim, 30, is the deputy GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka) commander for Muaradua subdistrict in North Aceh's Dewantara area. GAM is also known as the Aceh Sumatra National Liberation Front Ibrahim was caught along with his wife in the North Sumatran city of Medan on October 20 as they were preparing to flee to Malaysia. Prosecutors say the rebels committed various crimes that disrupted Aceh's security and economy. The military says more than 500 GAM rebels have already been sentenced since a campaign to wipe them out began on May 19. TWO COOK ISLAND MINISTERS RESIGN WELLINGTON, New Zealand (RNZI, Nov. 6) - Two members of the Cook Islands government have resigned. Deputy Prime Minister Terepai Maoate and Justice Minister Tangata Vavia resigned yesterday after Maoate tabled a motion of no confidence in the government. Earlier reports said the Prime Minister, Robert Woonton, had dumped the two after what he described as an attempted coup d’etat. The no confidence motion made little progress, with House Speaker, Sir Pupuke Robati suspending Parliament immediately after Maoate’s address. The Speaker recalled the house to continue the session less than two hours later. The session had begun with the swearing-in of former Member of Parliament Teina Bishop, whose resignation prompted a by-election in his Aitutaki constituency. Mr Bishop, who resigned as a protest against what he considered the government’s inadequate budget allocation for Aitutaki, was declared the new member after his nomination was the only... COURT ORDERS PNG INAUGURATION ON HOLD By Dominic Krau PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (The National, Nov. 5) – The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court yesterday ordered that next Thursday's scheduled swearing-in ceremony of Governor General-elect Sir Albert Kipalan in Parliament be put on hold. This is to allow the court to determine the substantive matters in the special reference brought by the Ombudsman Commission challenging the validity of Sir Albert's election. The Supreme Court granted an interim order to delay the swearing-in following an application by the Ombudsman Commission. The court ordered that the National Executive Council not nominate Sir Albert for appointment as Governor-General until the court determines the substantive merits of the proceedings. Chief Justice Sir Mari Kapi said these orders were subject to further orders by the court. The court is also expected to make a ruling on the standing of the plaintiffs, the Ombudsman Commission, Chief Ombudsman Ila Geno... PNG GOVERNMENT SPENDING UP 4.9 PERCENT By Brian Gomez PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (The National, Nov. 5) - Spending by the Somare-Marat Government in the first half of 2003 was 4.9 percent higher than the much-criticized spending under former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta in the same period last year. ANZ senior economist Bernie Shuttleworth disclosed this in his latest PNG Chartbook, his latest commentary on PNG's economic performance. Sir Mekere's pre-budget spending was widely reported to have caused the biggest budget blow out in this country's history with a perception that the current government has been forced to undertake severe budget cuts in the past year. While the "pre-election bloated" spending last year caused a severe blow out in the budget deficit, this has not occurred this year because government revenue rose by 22.2 percent, according to Mr Shuttleworth. As a result, he reported, "the budget deficit shrank to just K19 million from K210 million a year earlier... PNG PROCUREMENT AGENCIES UNDER REFORM By Yehiura Hriehwazi PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (The National, Nov. 5) - The National Parliament and the Papua New Guinea Defense Force supply and tender boards are to be abolished in a move aimed at stamping out corruption in the government departments. Treasurer Bart Philemon is moving swiftly to plug weaknesses in the government's procurement process, which he says is one of the major causes of corruption. He will abolish most of the national departments' supply and tenders boards and consolidate them into the main Central Supply and Tenders Board and restructure provincial tenders boards to operate under stringent rules of conduct. Other national tender boards to be abolished include that of the Gaming Board, the government's supply and tender board in Sydney and the Jackson's Airport Re-development project's board. Those that will remain unaffected are tender boards for Bougainville and Gazelle Restoration and Pharmaceutical Supplies.... Pacific Leaders Reaffirm Support For Fiji Roadmap THREE PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN HONIARA RIOT TRIAL NAURU’S âOUR AIRLINE’ TO RESUME NORFOLK ISLE SERVICE PNG GOVERNMENT GAGS PARLIAMENT ON ‘MOTIGATE’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line338
__label__cc	0.656443	0.343557	slideshare on creative writing best creative writing programs in europe http://fieldscdjrblog.com/research-paper-ready/ Porsche at the 2016 Detrit Auto Show While we’ve known — and written — about the upcoming 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo and Porsche 911 Turbo S, the 2017 Porsche Macan, and much awaited Mission E here at Porsche of Nashua, we’re revisiting all four as Porsche gives them their North American debut at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show. If it seems unusual that Porsche would effectively reintroduce the cars, each of which made appearances at auto shows as 2015 wound down, it shouldn’t. After all, as Porsche AG CEO Oliver Blume pointed out during the cars’ unveiling, the United States accounts for fully one third of worldwide sales of the Porsche 911, and Porsche cars remain popular here in New England and beyond. The 2017 Porsche Macan, first previewed in October 2015, promises a re-tuned twin turbo V6 that delivers 360 horsepower and borrows its Porsche Traction Management system and 7-speed PDK transmission from the Porsche Macan Turbo. Other tweaks and enhancements, from the suspension to the paint, are also in the offing, and the new Macan will begin shipping in just a couple of months. The Mission E borrows some of its tech and design from the ferocious Porsche 918, with a bit more taken from the Macan. Its lines are sinewy and gorgeous, and the advanced technology that underpins it promises to upend the electric car market. The upcoming 911 Porsche comes in two variants, the 911 Turbo and 911 Turbo S. The key word for both is “more.” Namely, more torque (540 and 553 lb. ft. respectively), more horsepower (540 and 580 horses) and more speed (no figures have been released yet, but a 2.5 second zero to sixty wouldn’t be a suprise in either case). The 2017 Porsche models won’t start arriving at Porsche of Nashua until later this year, with the exception of the Porsche Mission E, which is rumored to be slated for the 2019 model year; in that case, the company is taking the time to work out every last detail. After all, they have a reputation to uphold. If you’d like to see how they came by that reputation, visit our showroom at 170 Main Dunstable Rd in Nashua, New Hampshire. You can browse our new inventory, including the 2016 Porsche Cayenne, or see our full complement of used and Certified Pre-Owned Porsche vehicles. Questions or comments? Contact us today! 911 Porsche, Porsche Macan Porsche a “Blue Chip” Car, Says Bloomberg Hybrid 911 Coming From Porsche? New Porsche Models Near Manchester, NH Make a Purchase Right from Your Couch Near Nashua, NH Where Can I Find Porsche Repair Near Windham, NH? New Porsche Models Debut in LA Porsche Mission E in the News Driving Tips from Porsche of Nashua Porsche Financing Porsche History Porsche of Nashua Website Porsche Official Website	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line339
__label__wiki	0.693324	0.693324	Contact Substance • Share on Facebook • Add your own comment Heard the one about who has the 'shortest school day'? Corporate propaganda across the USA challenges teacher unions... Chicago teachers show unity at House of Delegates meeting Jim Vail - September 15, 2011 The monthly meeting of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates on September 14, 2011 showcased a unified teaching force which came out in a record number to express their solidarity with the union leadership in going to battle against an ambitious mayor who was elected on a corporate platform to destroy the union. CTU President Karen Lewis at the September 13, 2011 Chicago Tribune forum on education. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.“We did not promise we can win,” CTU vice president Jesse Sharkey told the delegates. “We just promised we would fight. And if we don’t fight, we don’t win.” Clearly the teachers — who filled the large Engineers Union Hall on S. Grove St. to a near record capacity — came to express their outrage at the mayor’s attempt to trash the teachers’ contract to quickly install his corporate agenda. That agenda appears to come straight from the top, where all around the country government leaders are telling urban public school teachers the same thing as in Chicago, ya all have the shortest school year. “In Washington state the union president told me we’re under siege, they say we have the shortest school day,” Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis told the delegates. “And then in Kansas, they also told the union they have the shortest school day.” Most suburban school districts have a similar school day as Chicago, and private schools have even shorter days, where parents are willing to pay $35,000 a year to ensure it, Sharkey said. “They have a playbook to destroy the union,” Lewis said. “It is the unions that have provided decent living standards for people to enter the middle class.” Lewis repeated to the delegates that the union does not want a longer day, but a better day for the teachers. The union pointed out that such a day should be modeled on the University of Chicago private lab school where Emanuel’s children, and President Obama’s before, attend. That would include more art and music and project learning, something the lab students get, but Chicago public school students do not. This is a hot point for the mayor, who according to the Sun Times, stopped an interview with NBC News earlier this year when the reporter asked him where he would send his children to school. According to the Sun Times, he then admonished the reporter for asking such a question (because the TV networks are not supposed to criticize the mayor’s corporate agenda, right?). The main item on the House of Delegates agenda was passing a budget that included a beefed-up organizing and research department, while cutting back on some of the outrageous perks and benefits of officers and field reps from the past. “We hired a research team to show merit pay doesn’t work, that we know more about teacher evaluations and to protect our contract,” Sharkey said, adding that 37 percent of the CTU budget goes toward contract enforcement. A couple of light-hearted objections to passing the budget came from two teachers affiliated with the UPC caucus, one who questioned money allocated to legislators, and the other who said they just need more time before voting on it. The vote passed in a clear majority of yeas versus nays. Onahan delegate, and veteran UPCer, Diane Blazak, rallied the teachers to visit their aldermen and express their outrage that the aldermen would fully support the resolution for a longer school day without expressing concerns from the teachers. (The URL for the Substance story on the City Council meeting is http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2587&section=Article). The aldermen voted 50 to 0 on September 8 in favor of the longer school day resolution. The CTU said there was clearly strong-arm tactics used by the mayor to ensure the unanimous vote, such as the infamous threat to cut off funding in wayward wards. Among other things, reliable sources told Substance that Rahm Emanuel's aides visited some aldermen and told them that they wouldn't get any renovations or school construction in their wards unless they voted in favor of the resolution. “When we visit the aldermen, we need to be prepared,” Blazek said. “I told mine that there are 750 teachers who live in the ward, and he never asked them about the vote.” Karen Lewis also reminded the delegates that the new law on school facilities (which was passed over the objections of Rahm Emanuel) requires that all facilities decisions follow a clear procedure. Some delegates also mentioned that the threats from the mayor against aldermen on September 8 would be a violation of the new facilities law if Emanuel attempted to carry them out. During the meeting, waiver votes were announced in which several schools voted against the longer school day, to loud applause. While currently the corporate media is pumping up the fact that now seven elementary schools have bucked the union and voted for a longer school day (no need for Rahm to cut off their interviews, right?), the fact is perhaps 100s of schools have said no. The union is currently compiling the data as delegates call in to say they voted no – either formally or informally – against waiving their contract rights and agreeing to a much longer school day (90 more minutes per day, and two extra weeks). A delegate from Steinmetz High School asked the union to publicize the fact that it could also be more dangerous for children to leave the schools at later hours when it starts getting dark. One northside delegate told Substance at the meeting that their principal feels like a pawn because of the pressure the Board of Education is putting on schools to vote for a longer school day (while CPS is denying this, saying teachers are themselves asking for a longer school day). Another southside delegate told the teachers that she heard Emanuel is trying to get pre-service teachers to sign a form that they would cross any future picket lines should the CTU decide to strike. “This is too far into the future,” Lewis said. “This is going to get dirty. We need to roll up our sleeves.” “How many of you remember when there were no prep periods," she added. "Everything in our contract we had to fight for. And they’ll take that all away if we don’t (fight to keep it).” By: Erin Jameson Longer Day for SPED Are all the IEPs in CPS going to have to be revised to reflect the longer day? That will take a very long time. 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__label__wiki	0.732684	0.732684	Dixon Wins Detroit INDYCAR Race Amidst Track Decay Photo Credit: Phillip G. Abbott/ LAT Photo USA (American Honda Motor Company) The race on the Belle Isle circuit was touted as a major deal with the open wheel racing series’ returning engine supplier Chevrolet sponsoring the ‘motor city’ event. The Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix was granted the special honour of being the race that followed the Indianapolis 500 on the 2012 IZOD INDYCAR Series calendar. With many minds still recalling the 96th race at the Brickyard fondly, the 2.07-mile street course in the state of Michigan one week later served as restart point for the 2012 open wheel racing season. In Saturday qualifying the #9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car of Scott Dixon broke the pole position dominance that Team Penske held throughout the 2012 season up to the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix. Only the three IZOD INDYCAR Series event of the season where Honda was able to make use of a more powerful turbocharger unit, the engine is coming off of a momentous Indy 500 win powering Dario Franchitti‘s Target Chip Ganassi entry. Will Power qualified 2nd quickest as the highest Team Penske car intent to allow their Chevy engines capture the Chevrolet-sponsored event. As cars took off through the warm-up laps of the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix, the 3rd place starting #98 Bryan Herta Autosport machine of Canadian driver Alex Tagliani would not start. This race was the second race of 2012 where the Bryan Herta Autosport team were utilizing Honda power rather than the Lotus engine they ran for the first 3 IZOD INDYCAR Series events of 2012. The #98 car was able to restart but lost its prime starting spot as the scheduled 90-lap street race were sent to green. Besides, Tagliani, there was also early race troubles for the #18 Dale Coyne Racing car piloted by Justin Wilson. On the first lap, Wilson slid and made side contact with concrete barrier out of a turn. While Justin Wilson remained in the race for 28 more laps, the Dale Coyne-owned car was retired based on mechanical issues pertaining to the crash damage finishing 22nd. James Jakes, Sebastian Bourdais and Rubens Barrichello were also early retirements from the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix by the time the race‘s first pit stops were taking place. From pole, Scott Dixon was having an opportune race leading all the early laps of the Detroit IZOD INDYCAR event up to the pit stop cycle. Thanks to a comfortable lead and other lead cars pitting, Dixon’s #9 car left his Target Chip Ganassi Racing pit crew still holding the race lead as he returned to competition. While passing wasn’t impossible on the Belle Isle track, the pace of leaders gave few teams an chance to challenge the New Zealand driver Dixon. There was also a number of accusations that 5th place starting EJ Viso’s slower race pace divided the field. An event composing of 40 laps of green flag racing, the 2012 Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix’s first caution resulted from two incidents on track caused by a deterioration of the race surface. While almost every driver on the course were realizing sizeable pieces of asphalt flying from the Belle Isle track, it wasn’t until the #27 GoDaddy.com car of James Hinchcliffe sailing hard into the tire barrier of turn 7 that a problem presented itself to everyone observing the spectacle. In addition to Hinchcliffe, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #15 car of Takuma Sato was also bit by a decaying track in turn 12. After retiring from his first 2012 IZOD INDYCAR Series race, James Hinchcliffe commented "It was like Russian Roulette and I just pulled the bullet." Photo Credit: INDYCAR/LAT USA Given a choice to run the race under caution to 45 and calling the event as official, the IZOD INDYCAR Series official elected instead to give track repairs an opportunity to patch up the sections of the Belle Isle street. More than 2 hours and 15 minutes of red flag to replace the defective parts of the Belle Isle track, the event would continue without further interruptions from the surface. The remaining IZOD INDYCAR drivers were sent back out on the course to receive green for a reduced race distance of 60 laps (turn from 90). There were two full course yellows the slowed the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix in the final 15-lap dash.. On lap 47, an incident involving Helio Castroneves spinning out on a slick turn 6 that also collected the #20 car of Ed Carpenter. The #67 car of Josef Newgarden had spun out during this caution after receiving contact from another car. The race’s final caution flew as a result of a turn-5 incident involving KV Racing Technology driver EJ Viso and the #26 car of Marco Andretti. The final caution period came at lap 52 giving the field one more chance to chase race leader Scott Dixon. The extended break in the 2012 Detroit Grand Prix did little to upset the rhythm of the leader Scott Dixon. Through the final 15 laps, the #9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car kept his teammate Dario Franchitti in his rearview mirrors on route to his first victory of 2012. A dominant performance where the New Zealand driver led flag-to-flag in the shortened Detroit race, Dixon’s first victory comes after finishing three times in the runner-up position in this year’s events. “If I could have gotten my gloves off I'd have chewed my nails for sure on those final laps. I'd like to give a lot of credit to everyone at INDYCAR and the Detroit staff for getting the track back in shape so we could race. The final 15 lap shoot-out was exciting for me - so I sure hope the fans liked it.” said Scott Dixon. Even a final chance 7 laps to go wasn’t enough for Dario Franchitti to follow-up his Indy 500 win with a victory on the streets of Belle Isle. Still a solid effort based on the start of the 2012 season, Franchitti in 4th place in IZOD INDYCAR Series overall driver points. In post-race, Dario Franchitti responded, "I thought in the first couple of laps I had a chance, but I couldn't, he was too quick. And with our car breaking the front wing early on, the more the run went on, the more understeer it got. But that's not to take anything away from the job Dixie did, and a 1-2 for Team Target after his brilliant qualifying and my abysmal one, we'll take it." Franchitti and the #10 car came from a 14th place starting spot to 2nd at the end of 60 laps. Aside from the two Target Chip Ganassi Racing cars powered by Honda engines, rookie driver for Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports Simon Pagenaud allowed the Japanese auto company to own the podium for the Chevrolet-sponsored Detroit street race. Chevrolet’s top finisher in the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix was Australian Will Power in 4th. Leading the overall driver points standing by 26 points over Scott Dixon, Power and the Team Penske group are starting to feel a much stronger challenge from old rival Target Chip Ganassi Racing as 2012 progresses. After a quiet but effective effort at Indianapolis that resulted in a 4th place finish in the 500-miler, Oriol Servia and the #22 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing team continues to impress with their new Bowtie engine at Detroit. With a 5th place result, Servia finished ahead of multiple car team Chevrolet contenders KV Racing Technology (Tony Kanaan in 6th) and Andretti Autosport (Ryan Hunter-Reay in 7th). Worthy of honourable mention, Alex Tagliani and the #98 Bryan Herta Autosport team didn’t give up after their early race setback. After starting deep in the field, Tagliani managed to break into the top-10 during the final race restart. The 10th place is the first top-10 for the former Lotus-powered entry in 2012. The only Lotus-engined car on the IZOD INDYCAR Series grid throughout the 2012 season, HVM Racing’s #78 car driven by Simona de Silvestro took a respectable 13th place from the Detroit event. On Saturday night, the 2012 IZOD INDYCAR Series will participate in their second oval race of the season at Texas Motor Speedway. 2012 IZOD INDYCAR Series Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand PrixRace Results Car # Driver Driver Nationality Race Team Engine Supplier 1 9 Scott Dixon New Zealand Target/Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 2 10 Dario Franchitti Scotland Target/Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 3 77 Simon Pagenaud France Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports Honda 4 12 Will Power Australia Team Penske Chevrolet 5 22 Oriol Servia Spain Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Chevrolet 6 11 Tony Kanaan Brazil KV Racing Technology Chevrolet 7 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay United States Andretti Autosport Chevrolet 8 83 Charlie Kimball United States Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 9 14 Mike Conway England AJ Foyt Enterprises Honda 10 98 Alex Tagliani Canada Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Honda 11 26 Marco Andretti United States Andretti Autosport Chevrolet 12 20 Ed Carpenter United States Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet 13 78 Simona de Silvestro Switzerland Lotus-HVM Racing Lotus 14 4 JR Hildebrand United States Panther Racing Chevrolet 15 67 Josef Newgarden United States Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Honda 16 2 Ryan Briscoe Australia Team Penske Chevrolet 17 3 Helio Castroneves Brazil Team Penske Chevrolet 18 5 EJ Viso Venezuela KV Racing Technology Chevrolet 19 38 Graham Rahal United States Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 20 15 Takuma Sato Japan Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 21 27 James Hinchcliffe Canada Andretti Autosport Chevrolet 22 18 Justin Wilson England Dale Coyne Racing Honda 23 19 James Jakes England Dale Coyne Racing Honda 24 7 Sebastien Bourdais France Dragon Racing Chevrolet 25 8 Rubens Barrichello Brazil KV Racing Technology Chevrolet Labels: 2012 indycar, 2012 izod indycar, dario franchitti, detroit gp, detroit grand prix, detroit indycar race, indycar izod, izod indycar, izod indycar series, scott dixon Alonso Feels at Home with European GP Win Vettel Takes Pole for European GP Fellows Returns to JR Motorsports for 2012 NASCAR ... Earnhardt Jr Rises at Michigan! Ends 143-Race Winl... Ryan Hunter-Reay Wins Milwaukee Mile Indyfest Ambrose Takes Michigan Cup Race Pole with 203.241 ... Franchitti Snags Pole for Milwaukee Indyfest Hybrid Audi R18 e-tron quattro Takes Pole for 2012... Wilson Whips INDYCAR Superteams with Texas Win No 2012 INDYCAR Race in China Oh Hamilton! McLaren Pilot wins 2012 Canadian Gran... NASCAR's Winning Race on the Internet Red Bull's Vettel Rallies to Canadian GP Pole Tagliani Tops Texas INDYCAR Qualifying for Firesto... Weekend Auto Racing Weather Forecast June 9-10, 2012 Canadian GP Undaunted by Off Track Mayhem on Day 1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line347
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__label__wiki	0.860359	0.860359	catl.: "This Shakin' House" (album review) catl. is one of Toronto's best kept secrets. Hopefully, with the release of their fourth album, This Shakin' House (out April 29th), the secret will be out beyond the 416. The record gets off to a raucous start. The duo rattle the walls with "Lamplight the Way", a song that sounds like a ragtag hillbilly Blues Explosion. The twang is dominant on the country blues number "Resistance Place" and the hand-jive inspired "Getaway Blues". The album closer, "Awake All Night (Song for Witness)", delivers some full-on honky tonking. The harmonica-heavy "FU Blues" is a down and dirty gritty boot-stomping statement. It's more of a party rock vibe on "Waiting List". The perfect balance between power and melody is struck on the hard-driving, hook-laden, piss and vinegar track "Save Myself". The lone miscue is "Dead Water Disco". It's a song that trundles along without much impact. It's about time that the rest of the world discovers what we know locally, that catl. deserve to be in the discussion of best bands to come out of Canada. catl. play the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on April 24th. Best tracks: "Save Myself", "Lamplight the Way" Track listing for This Shakin' House: Lamplight the Way Resistance Place Getaway Blues FU Blues Shakin' House Blues Save Myself Dead Water Disco Hold My Body Down Awake All Night (Song for Witness) It's all relative: album review, catl	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line351
__label__cc	0.699771	0.300229	Editor's Page Tube People Link Club Main Register Tube & Pipe Europe site USA: tubenet.org Global: tubenet.org.uk Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 23:24:04 ---- The fact: 42.844.000 visitors done. Roll-Kraft Names Vice President Roll-Kraft [Main Page] [Send your Press Release on-line] [Change/Delete this Press Release] [Previous] [Next] Company: Roll-Kraft, OH, United States Attn: Kevin Gehrisch Roll-Kraft is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Gehrisch to the position of Vice President. Roll-Kraft is an essential business, manufacturing custom tooling for the roll form and tube and pipe industry. Gehrisch will oversee all of the Roll-Kraft-owned companies in his new role and will be active in charting the growth path of the company. Gehrisch joined Roll-Kraft in 2010, and spent his early years as part of the maintenance department and then as a regrind engineer, where he learned the design process and how Roll-Kraft products are made. After graduating from Ohio University in 2012 with a degree in Finance, Gehrisch spent nearly 2 years traveling with Roll-Kraft's technical teams, meeting customers, and observing their applications. This led to a greater understanding of what is most important to customers and how critical the technical expertise is at Roll-Kraft. Gehrisch then moved into the sales department, where he was instrumental in understanding the market and setting new goals and standards, which would help grow the business further. By 2018, he became the Director of Operations, while still overseeing the sales operations. Using his knowledge of the market and knowing the customers' needs, Gehrisch, working with talented and motivated staff members at Roll-Kraft, developed efficiencies and standardizations to drive profitability, all with the goal of meeting customers' critical deadlines and providing on-time delivery and first-time performance. Today, Gehrisch is eager and excited to take what he has learned over the last 10 years and apply it to his new role to lead and charter the growth and profitability of the company going forward. Roll-Kraft has its headquarters in Mentor, Ohio, and maintains other facilities in Lombard, Illinois (Chicago Roll Company); Houston, Texas (Roll-Kraft Texas); and Ontario, Canada (Roll-Kraft Ltd.). Calls to the company's main line, (888) 953-9400 or (440) 205-3100, are greeted by a live operator who can assist callers in quickly reaching a technician, engineer, or sales staff, who can provide immediate assistance. The company's fax number is (440) 205-3110. Learn more about Roll-Kraft products and services by visiting www.roll-kraft.com. For easy and immediate contact with Roll-Kraft that transcends time zones and working hours, the website features an easy-to-use contact form.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line355
__label__wiki	0.823588	0.823588	1000mods p.p.c., Gradec, Avstrija Organizator: Soundportal In Concert 1000mods (GR) Having risen from smokey basements to packed arenas, children of the now-legendary Greek underground heavy rock scene of the mid 00’s, 1000mods can be considered no less than the most successful Greek rock band of the past decade. It was September of 2011, when “Super Van Vacation” paved the way. The debut full length album of the Greek heavy rock rollercoaster had it all: Heavy low-end guitars, laid-back groovy-as-fuck rhythm section and trippy vocal lines, resulting in what is now considered to be a classic for the European heavy rock scene, as well as a game-changer for Greek rock music which would never be the same again. Bands and fans came and go but 1000mods stood strong, following their dream, leading by example and inspiring an entire generation of musicians. Their second album, titled “Vultures” (2014), continued the “Super Van Vacation” legacy, consisting of some of the band’s most thick grooves to date, as well as the elements that would later be used as raw material for the creation of their unique personalized sound. A sacred pact was cast in stone: The Greek scene would take over and 1000mods would lead the way to it! Praised by fans, as well as by heavy traffic music media outlets around the globe, their third release “Repeated exposure to…” (2016) was considered by many as a masterpiece of the heavy rock scene, and is strongly rumored to be one of the albums that changed the face of European heavy rock music, once and for all. With an ever-growing fan base all around the globe, taking repeatedly European, US and Australian soil by force, due to their relentless touring schedule (having also participated in the biggest European rock & metal festivals), armed with dedication and non-stop commitment, the Greek rock quartet is fairly considered to be the new-found power of the European (some say “worldwide”) rock scene. Being extraordinarily explosive on stage and always delivering material of high quality on record, as far as both songwriting and sound production is concerned, it’s no surprise that 1000mods have managed to create a core of die-hard fans that only grows bigger day-by-day. …Year 2020 changes it all. Their highly anticipated fourth full length album “Youth of Dissent” produced by legend Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Mastodon, Isis, Soundgarden etc) breaks the spacetime continuum and achieves the impossible: 1000mods meet their childhood heroes, by performing a time travel to the glorious 90’s, when fused elements of punk rock and heavy metal, changed the face of music industry and lead to the legendary grunge rock explosion. Primitive, original and inspiring, the songwriting of their new release not only is their best to date, but also appears to be inevitably leading to their mighty breakthrough. 22. 4. 20201000mods predstavljajo novo skladbo / Novice 11. 7. 20191000mods konec oktobra odhajajo v studio / Novice 9. 1. 2018Roadtrip To Outta Space s pestro koncertno ponudbo / Novice 3. 4. 20201000mods v posluh ponujajo svežo skladbo / Novice 13. 6. 20181000mods kmalu na evropski turneji / Novice Snovalci slovenske metal scene: Bastian Doblekar Paranoida Kaj se je dogajalo na slovenski metal sceni leta 2020? (3. del)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line359
__label__cc	0.637543	0.362457	Biafra: Outrage as Kanu’s absence in court breaches proceedings [Full Details] •Compel Army to produce him Ejiofor tells court •Prosecution counsel ask court to revoke Kanu’s bail •Judge hands down 3 to-dos 1 options to Sen. Abaribe, other sureties says produce Kanu in court or give me his death certificate •Madubugwu, Nwawuisi enters plea for severance of trial from 1st defendant •Ishinwa’s trial can’t go on when the 1st defendant is missing— Judge tells lawyer By Chukwuemeka Chimerue and Chikwas Onu Ikpe \| Biafra Writers Correspondents Reporting from Abuja ABUJA - Trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu and four others, yesterday, took another dimension as his whereabouts posed a difficult puzzle for a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, to unravel. Following Kanu’s absence in court, the Prosecution counsel, Mr. Shuaibu Mogaji Labaran, moved a motion for the revocation of his bail which was opposed by Kanu’s defense counsel, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor. However, in a terse argument between Ejiofor and the presiding judge, Hon. Justice Binta Murtala Nyako, the following dialogue ensued: Barr. Ejiofor: I wonder why the Prosecutor will ask My Lord to revoke the bail granted the first defendant on the condition he just enumerated before you, Sir. I don’t know My Lord, whether his Lordship will take the one he just moved because we have a counter...(interrupts) Justice Nyako: Ejiofor, you know I don’t like grammar. What Mr. Labaran has just said is that the first defendant is not here and for the simple reason that he’s not here, that I should revoke his bail. Now it is my turn to ask you, where’s your client because I don’t like grammar? Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, the first defendant was on the 25th of April, granted bail by this Honourable Court and the matter was consequently adjourned to the 11th and 12th day of July, 2017 for hearing. This date My Lord, unfortunately, fell into the annual vacation period of the Court and before then, we’re served with a hearing notice adjourning the matter to 17th of October for hearing. My Lord, on the 4th day of September 2017, l led a team of other lawyers representing the first defendant on a pretrial Conference against the hearing of today. My Lord, he was ready to appear before you to stand for trial but My Lord, within these periods, the first defendant’s home was invaded the first time on 11th day of September, 2017, by Nigerian soldiers who said they were on whatever they classified as Operation Python Dance...(Labaran cuts in) Labaran: My Lord, I hope he’s not moving his counter-affidavit in response to our motion? Justice Nyako: No! (Ejiofor continued) Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, many people were wounded on this 11th day of September...(cuts in) Justice Nyako: Am not interested in that, am only interested in knowing why the first defendant is not here. Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, on the 14th day of September 2017, the first defendant’s home was invaded in the comfort of his bedroom. Justice Nyako: How did you know about that? Were you in his bedroom? Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, I spoke with him. Justice Nyako: Say what you know, please. Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, am sure about that, I know it very well. It is on our oath, Sir. Justice Nyako: When we get to that oath. Barr. Ejiofor: As court pleases. Justice Nyako: What I want to know is, where’s the first defendant, why is he not in court today? Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, that is what I was trying to explain to you. My Lord, his house was invaded and I cannot tell at this stage whether the first defendant is still alive or dead because the soldiers that went to his house, killed 28 persons, wounded many, took away some corpse...(interrupts) Justice Nyako: Listen, I want you to talk to me about what is the problem. Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, what am saying is before you, Sir. Justice Nyako: Where’s it? I have not seen it. Barr. Ejiofor: The suit is before you, Sir. Justice Nyako: You filed a suit, what suit is that? I don’t have it. Not this suit? Is it a suit I have mentioned? Barr. Ejiofor: No Sir. Justice Nyako: Then I don’t know about it until it has been mentioned in court. Justice Nyako: So, what you’re telling me is that you really don’t know where your client is? Barr. Ejiofor: Yes, I don’t know. What am saying My Lord, is that the soldiers that went to his house should be in a better position to tell My Lord where my client is today. Justice Nyako: No, am asking you. Barr. Ejiofor: I don’t know Sir. Justice Nyako: You must talk. Where’s he? Justice Nyako: That is it, you don't know where your client is? Barr. Ejiofor: In addition to that My Lord, they’re fully aware that my client’s matter is coming up today Sir, they’re fully aware. Justice Nyako: You do not know where your client is? Barr. Ejiofor: I don’t know Sir but what am saying is that the soldiers that went to his house should be held responsible since that day, we have not heard about him. Justice Nyako: Where’s your evidence? Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord, we’ve even filed a suit before you, Sir. Justice Nyako: Mr. Ejiofor, I said I did not know of a suit that I have not been taken up this morning. That is your problem because you filed it. It is not before me. Barr. Ejiofor: My Lord has given a date for the hearing of the suit. Justice Nyako: It is still not before me. Do you know it is not my job? Do you know your case? I don’t know about it until you report to Court and until I’ve taken cognizance of the case, I do not know about it. Okay, so, you don’t know where your client is? Barr. Ejiofor: Very well Sir. Justice Nyako: Where are the sureties? If you don’t know where your client is, it means the sureties will come and tell us or they also do not know where he is? At this juncture, a lawyer representing one of the sureties, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe(Abia South, PDP), Ogechi Ogbonna, Esq., said, “My Lord, speaking from the Bar, my client informed me that he doesn’t have information on the whereabouts of the first defendant since the military operations in Abia state and he has even filed an application pending before My Lord to be discharged. “My Lord, there is a challenge. It is not really the responsibility of the surety to produce the person taken on bail, he should not be accorded that responsibility. However, circumstances that had prevailed is making the performance of that duty impossible and very impracticable.” In her response, Justice Nyako stated that Sen. Abaribe must produce the first defendant in court and then ask for his severance or withdrawal of the suretyship otherwise, he risks the forfeiture of his bail bond. According to her; “It can only be discharged if he has produced him(Kanu) in court, that can be done only of the defendant is standing here. “Irrespective of what the situation on the ground is, he(Abaribe) remains the surety until the defendant appears in court and until he produces him, he cannot escape from the suretyship, otherwise, he forfeits his surety bond. Is he ready to do that? “Whatever motion you’ve filed still boils down to what I have asked you. It’s either he forfeits the surety until the defendant is here and he says 'I have produced him, I now want to watch my hands off him, let him look for another surety', which means his bail is no longer perfected, which means he is going back to the prison custody until he perfects the bail surety. That is scenario 1. “Scenario 2, 'I don’t know where he is, I cannot find him and I cannot guarantee when I’ll find him, please take my bail bond.' Or give me time to produce him, that’s scenario 3 for you.” The surety’s lawyer opted for option 3 to fetch and produce the first defendant(Nnamdi Kanu) in court during the next adjourned date. HEARING ON THE THIRD DEFENDANT Lawyer representing the third defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, Barrister Inalegwu Adoga prayed the court to grant request directing the Prisons authority to allow his client access to a hospital including a plea to dismiss his charges and also to separate his client’s trial from the rest of the defendants, citing he has stayed up to two years in detention. According to Adoga, “After his brief, I filed an application which should be looked at My Lord, especially on the application that he has to go to a hospital. That the Deputy Comptroller of Prisons services should order that he be taken to a hospital. “My Lord, we have also other four applications in court which among them, is to quash the charges. We also filed an application for a separate trial. They have spent two years already, in prison. “My Lord, another application is for the transfer of this matter. He briefed me that he wants his matter transferred in view of the prevailing circumstances to Umuahia because that is where his offence was allegedly committed.” However, in her reaction, the presiding judge asked, “What is wrong with him(Madubugwu), where is the medical report? There’s a clinic in the Prison. If the prison’s clinic is not capable of handling his ailment, then you write a report. I don’t want to take applications without evidence. “On the application to quash the remaining five-count charges, I have taken that before. I’m not quashing any charge and you see, you’re wasting my time. Listen, this goes to all of you as well, any application(s) you think you’re going to file that is going to stall this trial, I’m going to take it out and rule on it at the end of this trial, so you are not going to waste my time. “So, coming to your application, I’ve gone through all those charges as it affects these three defendants. Those five-count charges remain because I’ve read through those charges carefully and I did not see anything as to why I would quash it. I’ve even taken my glass prescriptions but am not going to say anything on it. “Now, even if you’ll have separate trials, I have to convert it to make it so. Again, the court has not said he can’t be tried in Umuahia. The law says he can be tried anywhere in the country. I’ve told you why these five applications are a waste of time.” HEARING ON THE FOURTH DEFENDANT Lawyer to the fourth defendant, David Nwawuisi, Barrister Maxwell Okpara, also asked the court to give orders directing the Prisons authority to allow his client have access to his private medical doctor, adding that he (Nwawuisi) had lost confidence on the capability and his safety in the hands of the Prisons medical experts. Like the third defendant, he also demanded the severance of his client’s trial from Kanu’s. He said, “My Lord, we have two motions before you for hearing. The first one is seeking the order of this Honourable Court directing the authority of Kuje prison to allow the fourth defendant has his own private medical doctor who also happens to be working in a government establishment, to have access to his medical record and health on the ground that he has lost the confidence on the medical team in Kuje prison based on their utterances. “The doctor has made several attempts but they said they can only do that on court order. It is only a tree that will hear they want to kill him and it stands, if you tell a human being that you’re going to kill him, he will run. So, the motion is ripe for hearing being filed on the 4th day of July 2017, which ought to have been taken before vacation. “My Lord, we also made another application that my client is ready to face his trial and the problem created by the complainant and the first defendant, cannot affect my client. So, if My Lord can separate my client, so that he faces his trial and also apply to the Attorney General or alternatively, My Lord, we have a pending motion for bail. “My Lord can admit my client to bail that anytime he’s required to present himself, he will come. My Lord, even without the motion, My Lord has inherent power to direct the authority of the Prisons to allow the fourth defendant have access to his private medical doctor to ascertain the particular ailment he’s suffering from. My Lord, let me keep the record straight, here in this country, many people have died in prison custody as a result of one thing or another...” Reacting to his prayers, the judge charged the Prison warders to take into consideration, the wellbeing of their prisoners adding that the Prisons are part of the judiciary. According to the judge, “I hope the Prison warders in this court are listening to me? The Prisons is an agency of the court not for agencies of government. Anybody who comes to prison is there because a court has ordered that the person stays there, either as awaiting trial or he has been convicted. So if you understand your role well, you’re actually an extended arm of the judiciary. So threatening the life of the 4th defendant is just bluffing. “However, people die in their homes. So, if somebody dies in Prison and there’s no suspicious move, or even if there’s, an autopsy would be conducted, if not, then the person has just died.” Okpara also complained bitterly in court on the unfortunate attitude of the Prison attendants who according to him, always compel him to disclose certain private information(s) whenever he comes to visit his client in Kuje Prisons. According to him, they usually ask him silly questions such as “Where am I living, how many children do I have, they almost asked me how I sleep with my wife. Other lawyers that are representing their clients in criminal charges do go to prison to see their clients but anytime I go to see mine, they begin to ask me questions. “I have brought up this matter before this court. I can’t see a reason why they should be asking me where am living, where is my village, where did I attend my primary school. What do they want to verify from a lawyer coming to see his client in prison?” In her response, the judge said, “I’ll tell you the truth. If I, go to prison today, they’ll ask me those questions. If the Prison authorities misbehave by allowing some people to get away with bloody murderers and not allowing some people to get away with it, it’s misbehaviour, it’s a bad behaviour. But if I go to Prisons today, those questions they asked you, they’ll ask me but I remember that I’ve made an order to be perfected in this very trial that they must allow you uninterrupted access to your client. Have they complied to that? If not, they’re on notice that they should comply, give you access to your rights...” Okpara also brought to the attention of the court concerning a pending application for his client’s bail, saying that the Prosecution is yet to file any counter-affidavit against the application. Justice Nyako retorted, “When did you file it? If you see the amount of applications I’ve received for this case alone, in fact, I cannot take them on my desk. That is why they’re on the floor. They’re as high as the desk. It’s even difficult for us to trace some of them. Only God knows how many files... I’m tired of this bail applications, if you had allowed this matter to go on, do you know we would have settled the matter?” “My Lord, this application was frustrated this morning. The first defendant and Complainant frustrated it at the detriment of my client, as for me, am ready to go on,” says Barrister Maxwell Okpara. “Exactly, you see this is the problem, some defendants are frustrating this case against the other defendants because if the first defendant is here, I would know what to do but in a criminal charge, we cannot conduct the trial in the absence of one of the defendants unless I have his death certificate. As far as am concerned, he (Kanu) is on bail and he’s not in the court,” Justice Nyako replied. BARRISTER EJIOFOR CALLS FOR CLARIFICATION, MAKES CASE AGAINST CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF Referring to the suit filed against the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Yusuf Buratai, to produce the IPOB leader in court, Ejiofor said: “My Lord, I want you to understand that the Federal government in the case of my client, is not a party to the suit. My Lord, the truth remains that we’re certainly going to be careful about making pronouncements that will most likely delay this trial. My Lord, we’re asking this Honourable Court to compel the Army Chief to produce my client in court...(cuts in) Justice Binta: Mr. Ejiofor sit down. Have I called up this case? Am I dealing with the case now? Even if it is coming up after this case, it is not still before me. I don’t know what your problem is. If you don’t want me to handle this case, I'll remove myself. I send you back to square one to start somewhere else. Barr. Ejiofor: Am just trying to make a clarification...(cuts in) Justice Nyako: No! You’re frustrating me. You’re getting on me, you’re getting on my nerves. You’re trying my patience. The case is not before me, I’ve told you that before, sit down. You’ve sued the Chief of Army Staff, Is he here? Have I called up the case? Is the case slated for hearing today? Then what’s your problem? Don’t bring your clarifications to my attention, am not interested. When the case comes up bring whatever application you want for hearing. What if I refuse to preside on that case? Please let us do the right thing. You’re the one bringing student lawyers to court and you’re teaching them bad things. Sometimes, I think you need to see the red side of my eyes. I think I’ve been bringing white glasses, I’ll be bringing coloured glasses. I have heard all you have said and am going to take them serially. HEARING ON THE FIFTH DEFENDANT The defense lawyer to the fifth defendant, Bright Chimezie Ishinwa, Barrister Chukwudi Igwe, announced appearance for his client who was recently drafted to join the rest of the defendants in the suit. The lawyer complained bitterly that he has not been able to see his client who was on a two-count charge of illegal importation of firearms and conspiracy to commit treasonable felony. He, however, asked the court to compel the Department of State Security Services, DSS, to produce his client in court for him to fully face his trial even after being acquitted and discharged by a Federal High Court in Akwa Ibom. He stated, “Your Lordship, it is important that I should give court this information. I said I was standing for the fifth defendant. My Lord, we were filed weeks an amended information which tends to bring in my client as a defendant in this suit. “I don’t know what the Prosecution has decided to do with this amended information. My client is still in custody of DSS even when the Federal High Court sitting in Akwa Ibom has ordered for his immediate release. This court, My Lord, is not a dumping ground. If they don’t want to move this application so that my client should be involved in this proceeding...”(Judge cuts in) “When Mr. Labaran brought this matter to court, he said he’s adding him to join the suit as a fifth defendant. It cannot go on because the first defendant is missing. Your client’s case is not before me unless they amended the charge, it is not before me. You’re all getting on my nerves. Sit down, as far as this case is concerned, let me tell you what to do. I don’t know why your client is not here.” JUSTICE NYAKO’S EPILOGUE “The first defendant is still absent. Am going to make an order, the surety should come and tell me why he’s not in court. Am not taking a decision of his bail absence because I want him to remember that the bail bond says you’re to produce him in court on every day his case is adjourned for trial. You see, when you take somebody on bail, he has become your world. You also monitor that he doesn’t breach his bail conditions, that is part of what you signed. “People just append their signature to bail conditions without actually knowing what they mean. They also give you a responsibility to ensure he does not breach his bail conditions. “His (Kanu) not been present in court today, is a breach of his bail conditions but am not going to take a decision because I need his sureties to come and show me why he’s not in court. “That also goes to Mr. Ogbonna’s client. I cannot take a decision on your client until the defendant is in court. He wants to remove himself from the bail, from being a surety but I cannot do that until the first defendant is in court. The alternative for him is to forfeit his bail bond.” FINAL JUDGMENT ON TUESDAY’S HEARING Her judgment goes as follows: “The first defendant is not in court, the sureties should come and show why he is not in court and why I should not issue a bench warrant against him. “The second surety, Senator Abaribe, will plead for the refuse for the excuse of the bail of his suretyship when the first defendant is produced or if he decides to forfeit his bail bond. “The Prisons authorities are hereby directed to allow the medical doctor of the fourth defendant have access to his prison records and for his treatments following laid down prison procedures and also extend same to the third defendant. “All other pending applications will be taken in the course of proceedings. This matter is hereby adjourned to the 20th of November, 2017, for continued hearing.” PUBLISHER: CHARLES OPANWA you can reach the publisher via [email protected] Detailed reporting. Well done Biafra Times reporters and Biafra Family writers. As Barrister Azubuike Anoliefo wrote, the FG led by Buhari and army chief - Burutai have frustrated the case and are contempt of the court. They invaded the defendant home without court order. They should produce Kanu and bring him to court -- dead or alive. Judge Binta Nyako must dismiss the case. The sureties have no case here... The FG led by Buhari is a lawless and corrupt one.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line367
__label__cc	0.686508	0.313492	Zillah Bell1 F, #342631, b. May 1990 Last Edited=21 Jul 2009 Zillah Bell was born in May 1990 at Northallerton, Yorkshire, EnglandG.1,2 She is the daughter of John Bell and Jane Diana Needham.3 [S3851] John Henley, "re: Bell Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 21 July 2009. Hereinafter cited as "re: Bell Family." Anna Eleonore von der Pfalz1 F, #342632, b. 4 January 1599, d. 10 October 1600 Anna Eleonore von der Pfalz was born on 4 January 1599 at Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1 She was the daughter of Friedrich IV Kurfürst von der Pfalz and Louise Juliana van Oranje-Nassau.1 She died on 10 October 1600 at age 1 at Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1 [S3380] Patricia Ruijzendaal, "re: Austrian Royalty," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 November 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Austrian Royalty." Ludwig Wilhelm von der Pfalz1 M, #342633, b. 5 August 1600, d. 10 October 1600 Ludwig Wilhelm von der Pfalz was born on 5 August 1600 at Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1 He was the son of Friedrich IV Kurfürst von der Pfalz and Louise Juliana van Oranje-Nassau.1 He died on 10 October 1600 at Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1 Ludwig Philipp von der Pfalz1 M, #342634, b. 23 November 1602, d. 6 January 1655 Last Edited=16 Apr 2009 Ludwig Philipp von der Pfalz was born on 23 November 1602 at Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1 He was the son of Friedrich IV Kurfürst von der Pfalz and Louise Juliana van Oranje-Nassau.1 He married Maria Eleonore Prinzessin von Brandenburg, daughter of Joachim Friedrich Kurfürst von Brandenburg and Eleonore von Hohenzollern, on 4 December 1631.1 He died on 6 January 1655 at age 52 at KrossenG.1 Children of Ludwig Philipp von der Pfalz and Maria Eleonore Prinzessin von Brandenburg Karl Friedrich von der Pfalz1 b. 1633, d. 1665 Gustav Ludwig von der Pfalz1 b. 1634, d. 1635 Karl Philipp von der Pfalz1 b. 1635, d. 1636 Ludwig Kasimir von der Pfalz1 b. 1636, d. 1652 Elisabeth Marie Charlotte von der Pfalz1 b. 23 Oct 1638, d. 22 May 1664 Ludwig Heinrich Moritz Pfalzgraf von Simmern-Kaiserslautern1 b. 11 Oct 1640, d. 3 Jan 1674 Luise Sophie Eleonore von der Pfalz1 b. 1642, d. 1643 Karl Friedrich von der Pfalz1 Karl Friedrich von der Pfalz was born in 1633.1 He was the son of Ludwig Philipp von der Pfalz and Maria Eleonore Prinzessin von Brandenburg.1 He died in 1665.1 Gustav Ludwig von der Pfalz1 Gustav Ludwig von der Pfalz was born in 1634.1 He was the son of Ludwig Philipp von der Pfalz and Maria Eleonore Prinzessin von Brandenburg.1 He died in 1635.1 Derek C. Thomson1 Derek C. Thomson was (an unknown value) at Invereighty House, Forfarshire, ScotlandG.1 Child of Derek C. Thomson Fiona Helen Thomson+2 Fiona Helen Thomson1 Fiona Helen Thomson is the daughter of Derek C. Thomson.2 She married David Boyce Combe, son of Commander Anthony Boyce Combe and Lady Mary Esther Constance Needham.1 She and David Boyce Combe were divorced in 1991.1 Her married name became Combe. Children of Fiona Helen Thomson and David Boyce Combe James Anthony Derek Combe2 b. 1987 Alexander Combe2 b. 1988 Annabel Combe2 b. 1989 James Anthony Derek Combe1 James Anthony Derek Combe was born in 1987.1 He is the son of David Boyce Combe and Fiona Helen Thomson.2 Alexander Combe1 Alexander Combe was born in 1988.1 He is the son of David Boyce Combe and Fiona Helen Thomson.2	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line369
__label__wiki	0.931387	0.931387	BREAKING NEWSTABC suspends liquor permits for 3 Houston clubs Chemist sues chemical plant over racial harassment claims By Jessica Willey BAYPORT, Texas (KTRK) -- As the country is split by racism, a chemist, who came to America for a better life, claims his co-workers were inspired by President Trump to make his life a living hell. Taye Falobi says his colleagues at the Bayport plant of Lubrizol, a multi-billion dollar chemical company headquartered in Ohio, humiliated him with photos, insults and even vandalism to his work clothing. In a lawsuit filed this week, Falobi is alleging the company knew about racially-based harassment and a hostile work environment and did nothing. Photographs of Falobi's coveralls with the messages, "Go s*** hole" and "Mak LZ Grt Again" as well a picture of monkeys, he says he found at his desk, are included in the lawsuit. His attorney believes the messages are inspired by Trump and were intended to intimidate. "No one has the right to reduce you because of your color, white, black or whatever. All companies should strive to make the workplace comfortable for everyone," said N. Lucy Chukwurah, Falobi's attorney. Falobi, who has worked for Lubrizol since 2015, says he filed an ethics complaint against a co-worker a few years ago. That led to phone calls to his lab. "How are y'all doing in the jungle. When are y'all going back to the jungle?" he recalled. Last summer, he says he found a picture of monkeys on his desk. Then in August, he says his work uniform was vandalized. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Nigeria. "I came here for a better life. If I wanted to go back to the jungle, I know where the airport is. I know how to do that," Falobi said. "I don't think anyone should have to put up with this at work." In response, a Lubrizol spokesperson released this statement: "Lubrizol is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion as critical pillars of our culture and company values. We expect all of our employees to treat each other with dignity and respect, and we take all employee concerns relative to diversity and inclusion very seriously. At this time we cannot comment further on pending litigation." Falobi says the situation has taken a toll on his health and marriage. The father of two young children, who's been on medical leave, is supposed to return to work next week. The lawsuit is seeking damages and monetary relief over $1 million. Follow Jessica Willey on Facebook and Twitter. la portepasadenaracismharassmentchemical plantpresident donald trumpworkplace TABC suspends liquor permits for 3 Houston clubs Looking back on deadly blast that rocked Houston 1 year ago Consumers seek insurance due to growing number of cyber attacks	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line375
__label__cc	0.534419	0.465581	Coronavirus Los Angeles 'Wall-to-wall with patients:' Local doctor issues plea to heed COVID warnings amid surge in cases As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across Southern California, one local doctor shared what he's seeing at hospitals and says the situation does not look good. During an interview with Eyewitness News, Dr. Anthony Cardillo, an ER specialist and the CEO of Mend Urgent Care in the Los Angeles area, said the day after Thanksgiving was one of the busiest days in terms of treating COVID positive patients. He issued a plea for the community to understand the severity of the situation and heed the warnings from public health officials. "We are dealing with a tremendous surge right now in COVID cases, and we need everyone's cooperation and understanding that this is not a political issue. We need everyone to understand this virus is starting to surge and we're going to have a real difficult winter if we're not careful. We are back-to-back, wall-to-wall with patients in all the facilities throughout Los Angeles dealing with this surge. So please, you're hearing straight from a doctor working on the front lines. Please be careful and mindful of what you're doing out there. Wear your mask constantly whenever you are encountering other people, and please do not go outside if you don't have to interact. Because, we are starting to see the surge we were all concerned about. So please, heed the warnings we are all giving." The United States on Friday surpassed 13 million coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins University, less than a week after the country passed the 12 million mark. Watch the video above for the full interview. health & fitnesslos angeleslos angeles countycoronavirus californiacoronaviruscovid 19 pandemiccoronavirus los angelescovid 19 LA County order opens vaccinations to residents 65 and older LAUSD pushes for its schools to become vaccination sites New COVID-19 variant detected in Southern California	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line376
__label__wiki	0.993499	0.993499	Chrissy Teigen says Holly Whitaker's book 'Quit Like a Woman' helped her become sober The cookbook author shared on Instagram last week that she is four months sober. ByGMA Teamvia Chrissy Teigen says Holly Whitaker’s ‘Quit Like a Woman’ helped her stop drinking The model and author shared last week that she is four weeks sober and why she decided to stop drinking beyond Dry January. Gotham/GC Images via Getty Images, FILE Nearly a week after Chrissy Teigen announced that she quit drinking, her sobriety inspired many online to follow and read the book that Teigen said she turned to, which helped in her decision to stop drinking for good. After Teigen shared a video on Instagram of herself singing and dancing, one fan commented, "I need whatever drugs you're on!" The cookbook author responded and shared she was four weeks sober. The following day, Teigen shared a photo of Holly Whitaker's book, "Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol," which she credited as one of the driving forces behind her decision to get sober. Dial Press The book cover of "Quit Like A Woman" by Holly Whitaker. From Mediterranean to keto, which diets ranked best for 2021 5 TikTok doctors share 5 tips to take control of your health in 2021 Expert tips to stay on track with your New Year's resolutions "I was done making an a-- of myself in front of people (I'm still embarrassed), tired of day drinking and feeling like s--- by 6, not being able to sleep," Teigen wrote in one of her Instagram stories, along with a photo of Whitaker's book. "I have been sober ever since and even if you can't see yourself doing it or just plain don't want to, it is still an incredible read." MORE: Chrissy Teigen says she's been sober for 4 weeks Whitaker's book, which has since sold out at major retailers, discusses the theory that society pressures women to drink. "Quit Like A Woman" author Holly Whitaker talks to "GMA" about tips for dry January. Now, with the start of a new year, many people similar to Teigen are committing to abstinence from alcohol. "I think it's going to change women's drinking forever," Whitaker told "Good Morning America" about Teigen's choice to open up about celebrating sobriety. "For a while women have been waking up to the negative impact alcohol has on them. This, though, is a bit of a tipping point. Someone with that much influence celebrating her sobriety instead of shaming herself about her drinking is a really big deal that's going to have a massive impact." Whitaker, who founded Tempest, Inc which is a modern recovery program to help people stop drinking, highlighted the pressures that she believes women face when it comes to the relationship with alcohol. "I think modern women have to be everything to everyone," she explained. "So we have this really impossible situation where we keep collecting things we're supposed to be and we're sold alcohol as this way to make it all work -- it's the way we're supposed to date, celebrate and relax. It's a neuro toxic carcinogenic addictive substance -- we have an impossible situation and we're sold a drug in order to make it work and we're made sick by it." She also emphasized the distinction between alcoholism and sobriety, that you don't have to be an alcoholic to decide to give up drinking. "We're really told you'll only quit drinking if you're drinking alcoholically. And so we wait and ask ourselves the question, 'Am I an alcoholic?' And if the answer is no, then we keep on drinking. We're not asking ourselves the wrong question," she said. Whitaker's top suggestion for anyone who is attempting "Dry January" is to remember "this is just an experiment -- if we go into this thinking we have to dominate it and be perfect at it we're missing the point of it." "My number one tip is to be extremely compassionate with ourselves. It's a hard thing to do, to not drink," she said. "When you mistakes, as you will, this is a chance to be compassionate and come back into it and not beat yourself up for it."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line377

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