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Page 12, 30th November 1979
Page 12, 30th November 1979 — Full in the panting heart of Brighton
Religion / Belief
Organisations: Second Vatican Council, Anglican Church, Church of the Resurrection, Established Church, Catholic Church, Stanford, Hanovarian court
People: Maria Fitzherbert, Roman Catholics, Constance Kent, Robert Bogan, John Fisher, Thomas More, Hayden
Locations: Rome, Brighton, Wellington
Family: A Community Of Faith
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C.t.s. Congress At Brighton What The Workman Said
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"i Respectfully Salute You
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Brighton's Tale Of Two Bishops
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Full in the panting heart of Brighton
Keywords: Church Architecture, Catholic Liturgy, Grade I Listed Buildings In East Sussex, Brighton And Hove, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Altar, Rood Screen, Maria Fitzherbert, Roman Rite, St Michael's Church, Brighton, St Paul's Church, Brighton, Religion / Belief
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YOU can have the city of Rome if you leave me Bright on . Brighton has the advantage of a doubtlessly bracing sea front. Otherwise there are certain points of similarity. Both have a lot of pillars and pilasters.
Both are handsome. Both are eccentric. Both are vastly entertaining. Rome has the Via Veneto; Brighton has Hove. Both are plagued with mean crime though there is so much to do in Brighton that the delinquency of youth cannot here be blamed on their being nothing for them to do in the evening. Both are crowded with churches and both are specialised religious centres, that at Brighton being once known as the Brighton and South Coast Religion after the railway line that once served It.
This is a particularly ritualistic form of Anglican worship that has adopted the more baroque forms of the Roman liturgy. They were also the people who restored to the Anglican Church its care for the poor and the uninfluential and they brought splendour to slums and sent many a lonely woman back to her bed-sit on Sunday having touched her with glory. It is a most graceless thing for a Catholic to laugh at or resent them for emulating our customs and polities.
Brighton has a peculiar history. At about 1800 there was only one church. What there was were proprietory chapels. These were frankly clerical investments. An ordained clergyman would open a private chapel and charge pew rents and subscriptions and if he were a good preacher he became a fairly expensive form of Sunday entertainment — for the well-todo. Some of them even excluded the liveried servants of the rich.
Then along came the Wagner family. I urn told that they came over as hatters to the Hanovarian court and became immensely rich.
With a boost from the Duke of Wellington, three generations of them became vicars of or in Brighton. They started as "middle stump" Anglicans and ended, in the Revd Arthur Douglas Wagner, in changing, the ecclesiastical landscape of Brighton.
Only a hundred years ago the taint of popery was genuinely and popularly hated and some of the Catholicisers got into fearful trouble. A few even went to prison for breaking the laws about church practice. A. D: Wagner's worst experience was probably that with Constance Kent in 1865. At the age of 16 she murdered her halfbrother who was four. She was tried and for want of evidence was discharged.
She came under Father Wagner's influence and
confessed that she had killed. He told her that she was bound to inform the civil authorities. He took her to Bow Street. She was tried. She got penal servitude for life.
Ile refused to give evidence at her trial under the seal of confession. It was regarded as a clear case of a Papist sort of corruption of the innocent.
A. D. Wagner was stoned, set upon by rogues, and had his windows byoken. More than that it beearne known that Miss Kent had tried to give him £1,000 for his causes. Wisely he had refused and he survived.
Spangled lace and tiers of angels
Ills FATHER made him priest-in-charge of St. Paul's in Brighton. This was a new gothic church opened in 1848. Archdeacon Manning, at the time a favourite for the highest promotion in the Established Church, preached on the occasion. Later he poped and was made Cardinal. A. D. Wagner took it over in 1850.
Unless you are in the know, you might pass it by. It has been hemmed in by the worst excesses of the Brighton planners and is loomed at by a multi-storey car park. Though it has few resident parishoners, it flourishes. And you can see why.
Basically it is decent, bare gothic revival. But they have flung a great rood screen across it and beyond it at the end of a long choir. there is a rich high altar, looking mysterious and splendid behind wrought iron gates.
Here they obey almost all the rules of the Second Vatican Council. They have built a new free standing altar in front of the rood screen. It is on a massive scale at the top of steps. It has
gorgeous fronials and an antique French communion rail all around it.
Two side altars have precious painted reredos. There is more spangled lace than you might find on our altars. There is a Victorian masterpiece of a lectern made up of tiers of brass angels with the last and highest of them in the act of incensing.
The tiny thurible used to be a working model but some sneak thief nicked it. They have, like everyone else, to keep the church locked unless there is someone there.
In summer it is a minor tourist attraction its well as a place of prayer. There are stained glass windows to SS Thomas More and John Fisher in the porch. They can turn out a full choir and orchestra which do Mozart and Hayden rather than Stanford in A.
I was staying withthe vicar and slipped in for his early Eucharist. I am always vividly aware of the apparent discourtesy of one's non-participation — but rules are rules, or most of them are.
It was a week day, eight o'clock in the morning and there were about eight people and a server at the side altar.
Only here and there was a phrase just very slightly different.
Fr. Milburn — I will not use the inverted commas — wore a maniple, which many of you have never heard of.
Someone bothered to come to the back of the church to give me the kiss of peace, which I returned. I heard no cocks crowing but felt the prickling of a social conscience at my ritual stuffiness to a most civilised and busy vicar who had treated me with a more than Roman hospitality.
Another Brighton church is St. Bartholemew's. From the same stable. This is not Gothic but sort of Early Roman basilica. It is vast. It towers in brick red over the town like a stranded ark and it is said to have been built to the measurements of the Ark. No wonder Noah got so much inside.
It used to be famous for its liturgy which was accompanied by a large choir and orchestra — with drums. It has a silver fronted altar. It has a huge bakiehino over the High Altar of almost Petrine proportions. .1-he confessionals look like off shoots of the Royal Pavilion.
It used to be packed. especially in the late 20s, when without support from bishops. the tide seemed to be turning in the Anglo-Catholic favour.
Here you could hardly see for the incense which was sometimes whirled around in cartwheels. This is not to be recommended. It sometimes makes the charcoal burst into flames and would never be allowed by Fire Prevention °Myers. The clergy Wore birettas and the congregation left to the tune of sonic morceau like the Grand March from Aida.
The Brighton city planners — whose speciality is killing geese that lay golden eggs — were appalled by the height of this church which caused a down draught that made local chimneys smoke. D. A. Wagner bought the affected houses and cut their rents and there were no more complaints.
But they refused permission for a similar church. So this. the Church of the Resurrection, was largely excavated. Entrance was by a grand staircase going down. But the damp won in the end and when last I read of it, it was a meat freezing depot.
So there are more things to
Brighton than two piers, an aquarium, a mad palace, a still glorious water front and a rather raffish reputation.
The three rings of Mrs Fitzherbert
ONE of the Catholic churches in Brighton is of overwhelming interest. St John the Baptist's is elegantly built in the style of a temple, a massive one. It has a pillared porch which opens onto what was once a great, gentlemanly room where you could as well have held a hunt ball as attended Mass.
It was the first Catholic church built in Brighton after the Reformation and was consecrated by a real bishop in 1835. lt is older than that,
Though secluded, it is not humble, In the late 19th Century, they added an extraordinary and completely contradictory, threeatsled sanctuary on to the end. It sounds odd. The result is Spectacular. There is the plain great chamber and then at the end there is this explosion of aisles and altars and colours and arcades.
To make this they had to remove a statue of the church's patron, the Baptist, baptising Christ. It stands now, very cool and calm in an 'alcove.
There is a wild choir loft of enchanting oddnes.s and, all in all, it is one of the pleasantest of our churches in England.
When I went in, a group of about twenty were sitting in three rows murmuring Lauds which are now the morning prayers of the church. Roughly it consists of three psalms, scripture readings, the Benedictus and some in The priests of the parish used to do it regularly among themselves and then the laity asked if they could join in and sometimes there are rows of them. old and young. priests and nuns and they know the drill! It's not the least bit theatrical and is as natural as prayer. I'd never seen it before anywhere.
There was a minor tumult in the sacristy where innumerable taw boys were getting ready to prepare for the main Mass of the day (still a week day). They hehaved like rabbits lolloping round a burrow and seemed as happy as a load of Larries.
But it was not for this that I had come to this magnificent Church. There is a small square stone in
the centre or the aisle that announced it covered the vault of Maria Fitzherbert.
On the wall of the nave is a rather clumsy memorial carving of a handsome and commanding woman, large, not fat, kneeling in prayer. Her left hand hangs by her side and on it are three wedding rings.
She was thrice married, the last time to the Prince Regent. She was one of the fine flowers of the recusancy and she was largely responsible for the building of this church.
Whenever I have to or choose to write about Mrs Fitzherbert, which is often, I always get at least one fact wrong. 1r you care about this honourable woman or arc interested in this extraordinary royal marriage, Father Robert Bogan has written a most exact account of the legal and the canonical background to this love between a sad and vulgar roue and a good woman of the politically and legally wrong faith. It's called Three Wedding Rings.
It will cost you a quid, including postage from the church shop across the road. This is called Bernadette's, Bristol Road, Brighton, Sussex. But go and see the place anyway. It is one of Brighton's many and more sober delights.
A bastion against nuns
I see that the town planning committee of Bournemouth has rejected the application of some unruly gaggle of nuns to buy a small hotel and turn it into a convent with a public chapel attached.
The estate agent who acted in the sale of the hotel said, "-I-he nuns are very disappointed. The planning committee felt that people turning up for Mass at six o'clock in the morning and slamming ear doors would upset people living nearby." There are moments of reassurement when one knows that there is nothing basically wrung with England. As long as there are planning committees like this to watch over our interests, England will remain itself.
The people of Southbourne Road in Bournemouth can now sleep sale and secure in their beds o'nights, knowing that the planning committee with its great grey wings outstretched is hovering over their morals and mental health.
For who indeed wants a pack of rovidy nuns in a hitherto respectable street? And those hordes, literally hordes, of people going to the six am. Mass every day, some of them Irish, all with those clangorous car doors for which Catholics arc notorious, shouting to each other in the dawn darkness unsuitable greetings.
But its worse than that, The Order concerned is that of the Hand Maids of the Sacred Heart and if there are any real hand maids going. Bournemouth has need of them in her basement kitchens. ns.
T of the religious excesses that will disturb Southbourne Road! F.verytime a nun dies — the Verdi Requiem and who can sleep through that or watch the wrestling on the box?
There may be the alien scent of incense caught in the laurel bushes. And the nuns are unlikely to justify themselves by boosting trade as much as an hotel. Also they may dress funny. And goodness knows what their family backgrounds are.
I am not at all bigotted. I believe that when members of planning committees die they all become Roman Catholics.
They had to do their duty and, by George, they've done it. Whether or no they have since changed their minds, I cannot say. I somehow did not want to telephone them.
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Sketchnotes: Sadhna Prasad
by Sonaksha Iyengar
She never coloured leaves green, mountains brown and skies blue because that’s not how she saw them in her head. Sadhna Prasad, illustrator and visual designer enjoys using abstract images to communicate. “It’s easier because I don’t want people to know everything about me,” she says, confessing that the abstractness helps her navigate through her thoughts with honesty.
After a two-year foundation course from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore and a program in animation at DSK International Campus, Pune she decided to leave; she noticed the lack of style in her work, which became a constant worry. So she chose to do a Master of Arts in Illustration from Camberwell College of Arts, London.
The first time she saw a call for the Adobe x Colossal – The World’s Biggest Student Art Show application, she decided it was too ambitious. After repeatedly stumbling upon the posters, she decided to go ahead and send her application. Many Skype interviews and weeks of wait later, she was shortlisted to have her ‘Unique Perspective of the World’ painted on a wall in Brooklyn, New York. She chirped, “They liked my outlook of the world and the way I brought playfulness into a serious topic, so I didn’t have to change much about my style of expression.”
Sadhna’s art combines the brightest shades of the colour wheel with repetitive geometry and seemingly strange characters that display an uncanny familiarity with oneself. “I usually start with blocks of colour, trying to see what works, and then draw the silhouettes, layering them,” she says about the process of her illustrations.
Talking about the messages in her art, she says, “I was researching stereotypes for a project in London and it’s so difficult to change the perspective of a person without being preachy.” Sadhna experiences the world through the complexity of colours and intends to influence existing stereotypes through the ideas she subtly synthesizes in her work.
“People don’t get offended because it’s happening in a parallel world, but they are still able to relate to some elements, which at least starts a conversation,” she says mentioning her graduation project, The Wayback that follows a girl’s journey to find her missing doll.
Currently working as a visual designer and illustrator for Ajay Shah Design Studio and Rubberband Products, Sadhna’s journey on The Roadtrip Experience Project helped her understand the kind of work she wanted to do after returning from London.
“I went on the trip without reading up on any of the places because I wanted to work on projects about the people and places as I saw them,” she excitedly talks about her recent adventure. The project that aims to bring together wanderers and artists, to unlearn and collaborate, helped Sadhna become more confident about her work.
“I met these people who were just so comfortable about what they do and seeing them so secure about it made me realise that it’s not about the perfection,” she says. Many painted walls, sketchbooks and postcard collaborations later, Sadhna intends to continue dwelling on merging various forms of art to create an eventful experience with her work.
With a newfound love for collaborations and a rekindled enthusiasm to work on her pet project of a narrative mural on a road trip from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Sadhna Prasad has always been an ardent admirer of uncertainty. “I don’t want to know everything. I just want to be busy,” she says.
Colours as her weapons and dreamy worlds mingled with memories as companions, visit her website or Behance profile to view more of her work.
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The Biggest Challenge for Mobile Ads? Showing That They Work.
April 15, 2013 at 4:01 pm PT
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: We’re shifting from desktop computing to a mobile world.
Cool for phone sales (see Apple and Samsung)! Not so cool, however, for ad sales execs, who have spent the past two decades trying to sell Web real estate to advertisers. Now they’ve got to figure out how to sell that space on even smaller screens.
Enter Google’s Jason Spero and Millennial Media’s Mollie Spilman, two of the people charged with figuring out how to usher in (read: sell) a new era of online advertising.
The biggest problem? Helping advertisers see when their mobile ads are actually working.
“Until you can show [that tracking connection], they’re not going to pay as much for it,” Google’s Spero said at our D: Dive Into Mobile conference. “We’re investing heavily in helping people track the value.”
It’s obviously not a Google-only problem. Others, especially Facebook and Twitter, are trying to figure out ways to tie things like tweets and shares directly to consumer activity, and to show just how far something like a promoted tweet really goes for an advertiser willing to shell out a hundred grand on it.
It’s also likely the reason that advertisers aren’t willing to spend as much on a mobile ad compared to, say, a desktop ad or traditional media ads in print or on TV.
“Sometimes [advertiser activity] is coming from this test sort of mentality,” Spilman said.
Ever the optimists, Spilman and Spero are confident that things are looking up. “It’s becoming more mainstream and mandatory that mobile is part of the marketing budget or media spend,” Spilman said.
The best way to build on that, Spero said, is ultimately to make the tools to figure out if it’s actually working better over time.
“We have a responsibility that our customers can attribute the maximum amount of what they’re buying … and to make that scalable,” Spero said.
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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik
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Journalist and Copywriter
Track Review: Many Rooms – ‘Which Is To Say, Everything’
February 2, 2018 July 19, 2018 Eliza Spencer
Music Insight, February 2018
‘Which Is To Say, Everything’ is the first single from Many Rooms, the project of Houston-based artist Brianna Hunt. Her debut album, There Is A Presence Here, follows her 2015 EP, Hollow Body.
Hunt’s airy vocals seem almost distant as she reflects on life, death and being. Straining to hear her among the pulsating beat that soars and unravels to its own fading end, listeners are found more in the experience of the song than its lyrical understanding.
The muffled, lo-fi guitar is both scant and vulnerable, diverging from the song’s structure to convey a sense of disassociation experienced by Hunt herself.
At once grand and painfully sparse, a deep weight is felt throughout the track. Unsettling and beautiful, “Which Is To Say, Everything” conjures memories of late nights considering our place in the world and the indiscernible will to keep going even when “death sounds somewhat sweet.”
Reminiscent of Keaton Henson, Julien Baker and Bon Iver, There Is A Presence Here looks to be a haunting dive into darkness, and will release on April 13 through Other People Records.
In the meantime, you can listen to ‘Which Is To Say, Everything’ below.
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Eliza is a Sydney-based freelance journalist, copywriter and photographer dabbling in marketing and social media management.
Shamelessly addicted to strong coffees and always finding an excuse to be by the ocean, she is a local news reporter for the Sydney Sentinel and Communications Coordinator for Opportunity International Australia.
Copyright © Eliza Spencer
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Error bounds in approximating n-time differentiable functions of self-adjoint operators in Hilbert spaces via a Taylor's type expansion
Silvestru Sever Dragomir
Mathematics, School of Engineering & Science, Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne, Australia
On utilizing the spectral representation of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert
spaces, some error bounds in approximating $n$-time differentiable functions
of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert Spaces via a Taylor's type expansion are
given.
Selfadjoint operators
Functions of Selfadjoint operators
Spectral representation
Inequalities for selfadjoint operators
47-XX Operator theory
Receive Date: 22 November 2010
Revise Date: 27 April 2011
Accept Date: 27 April 2011
Dragomir, S. (2012). Error bounds in approximating n-time differentiable functions of self-adjoint operators in Hilbert spaces via a Taylor's type expansion. Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, 38(3), 827-842.
Silvestru Sever Dragomir. "Error bounds in approximating n-time differentiable functions of self-adjoint operators in Hilbert spaces via a Taylor's type expansion". Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, 38, 3, 2012, 827-842.
Dragomir, S. (2012). 'Error bounds in approximating n-time differentiable functions of self-adjoint operators in Hilbert spaces via a Taylor's type expansion', Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, 38(3), pp. 827-842.
Dragomir, S. Error bounds in approximating n-time differentiable functions of self-adjoint operators in Hilbert spaces via a Taylor's type expansion. Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, 2012; 38(3): 827-842.
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By GEOFF MOSHER
PHILADELPHIA – The Eagles have another new starter on defense who they hope shores up one of the team’s glaring weakness.
Dimitri Patterson has been promoted from reserve cornerback to starter in place of Ellis Hobbs, who was demoted from his right cornerback spot after an abysmal outing going into the bye against Tennessee. Titans receiver Kenny Britt hauled in 225 receiving yards and three touchdowns, mostly covered by Hobbs.
Patterson, a fifth-year pro in his second season with the Eagles, will start opposite Pro Bowl left cornerback Asante Samuel against Peyton Manning and the Colts on Sunday.
“I know what I’m up against,” Patterson said. “I know what I’m going into. I feel like I’ll be prepared.”
It’ll be the first career starter for Patterson, who was signed by the Redskins in 2005 as an undrafted free agent, was out of football in 2006 and played two more seasons in Kansas City before joining the Eagles.
Patterson said he was informed of his promotion Monday morning, when the team reconvened after being given the bye week off. He was one of the team’s best special teams players, leading the unit with 120 production points, and had seen some occasional snaps in the defense. He picked off Alex Smith the Eagles’ 27-24 win over San Francisco for his second career interception, first as an Eagle.
“Every opportunity is for the future so we’re just going to see,” he said.
Patterson is the third reserve on defense to earn a starting job, following in the footsteps of left defensive end Juqua Parker and strong-side linebacker Moise Fokou. Parker usurped upstart rookie Brandon Graham and Fokou supplanted Akeem Jordan.
* Wide receiver DeSean Jackson said he was a limited participant in practice and would be a game-tine decision Sunday against the Colts.
* Quarterback Michael Vick said he’s 100 percent healthy now and ready to start pain-free. Left tackle Jason Peters was a full participant in practice after having knee surgery two weeks ago.
* Tight end Brent Celek said the nagging wrist injury is finally behind him and he vowed to have a breakout second half.
About Geoff Mosher
Geoff Mosher was born in Queens and lived in Queens, Long Island, Queens again and then Connecticut before attending Penn State University (We are!!! ...) and graduating in 1998. He got his first pro sportswriting gig at The Courier News in Bridgewater, N.J., where he covered minor-league baseball [The Somerset Patriots], the Nets and high school sports before moving onto The News Journal staff to cover the Phillies, which he did for all of three months before switching to the Eagles beat.
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1 MAY 24, 2012 Privacy Impact Assessment matters management system Contact Point: Claire Stapleton Chief Privacy Officer 1700 G Street, NW Washington, DC
2 DOCUMENT PURPOSE The Privacy Impact Assessment or PIA provides the public with information about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau s ( CFPB or Bureau ) collection and use of personally identifiable information ( PII ). PII is any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual s identity 1 like a name, address, Social Security number, or place and date of birth. The CFPB uses PIAs to document that the PII it collects is used, secured, and destroyed in a way that protects each individual s privacy. Each PIA is broken out into sections that reflect the CFPB s Privacy Principles. The CFPB s Privacy Principles are a set of nine rules the CFPB follows when it collects or uses PII. OVERVIEW PROJECT / SYSTEM NAME: Matters Management System PROJECT/SYSTEM INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT: Federal Employees Contractors Consultants The Public PROJECT/SYSTEM INCLUDES: Name and other biographic information (e.g. date of birth) Contact Information (address, zip code, telephone number, address) Social Security number (SSN) or other identifier Financial Information User and Online Information Third Party Information Other Information (including biometric information and health or medical information) The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act ), Public Law No , Title X, established the CFPB. The CFPB administers, enforces, and implements federal consumer financial protection laws and, among other powers, has authority to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices when obtaining consumer financial products or services. In carrying out its responsibilities, the CFPB will be involved in numerous legal and regulatory issues (collectively referred to as matters ) including: Investigations 1 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum 07-16, Safeguarding Against and Responding to the Breach of Personally Identifiable Information, May 22, 2007, (OMB M-07-16) defines PII as information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as his or her name, social security number, biometric records, etc., alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother s maiden name, etc. 2 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
3 Enforcement actions Supervision and related regulatory actions Litigation Rulemakings Other related law enforcement and regulatory projects To effectively manage its matters, and the associated activities of each, the CFPB has developed the Matters Management System (the MMS ). The MMS allows the Bureau to: Create a central searchable repository of information relating each matter; Organize and distribute information about each matter to those with a bona-fide need to know, including the progression of each matter; Track deadlines for each matter, including synchronization with an employee s electronic calendar; Report on administrative and statistical information about each matter, such as which CFPB employees are associated with each matter, the type of matter, etc.; and Develop and record plans for conducting matters, including identifying personnel resources necessary to conduct each matter. The system only records and tracks key historical, procedural, and statistical details (as outlined above) about the conduct and progress of matters. The MMS is not a document management system the system provides links to, but does not itself maintain copies of any of the files, documents or other content related to a particular matter, such as public comments, legal filings, correspondence, consumer complaints, whistleblower complaints and tips, or other documents compiled or generated in a matter. The information in the MMS about each matter varies slightly, depending on the nature of the particular matter being tracked and reported by the system. A general list of data fields included in the system is provided below in Section 3. Each matter tracked by the system is designated with a unique matter number created by the system. The CFPB will roll-out the MMS in a series of phases, including a pilot phase, with full deployment anticipated by the end of Users will be allowed to use the system for case management while simultaneously providing feedback to the LawBase vendor for customization and other needs in the full deployment phase. As part of the roll-out, users will conduct continuous testing of the system. The CFPB will update this PIA accordingly if substantial changes impacting the privacy of individuals are made as the result of user feedback during the roll-out. The CFPB has also published two System of Records Notices ( SORNs ) which give notice of the information maintained and processed in the MMS: CFPB.004 Enforcement Database and CFPB.018 Litigation Files. 3 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
4 SECTION 1.0 Purpose of Collection The CFPB will state the purpose and legal authority for collecting PII. 1.1 Why is the information being collected? The CFPB collects and maintains PII in the MMS to record, track, and report administrative and statistical information about matters. 1.2 What legal authority and/or agreements allow the information to be collected? Public Law , Title X, Sections 1011, 1012, 1021, and 1054 codified at 12 U.S.C. 5491, 5492, 5511, and 5564 provide authority for the collection of information in this system. 1.3 Is the information searchable by a personal identifier like a name or Social Security number? If so, what Privacy Act System of Records Notice(s) apply/applies to the information being collected? Yes. Information in the MMS is searchable by PII, including, but not limited to: Individual name(s) Address or location information (e.g. zip code, city, state) Phone Numbers Filing, case, or matter number (including identifying numbers of formal actions) 2 The MMS has a search capability that allows for retrieval by search term or by a string of search terms or by using a series of filters to search within specific fields. In general, records within the MMS are organized by a matter name, generally related to an institution which is the subject of an investigation, a party in litigation, a project name, a rulemaking, or a whistleblower complainant. Most matters are retrieved by the matter name and not by individual PII. The CFPB SORNs CFPB.004 Enforcement Database and CFPB.018 Litigation Files document the collection of information that populates this system. 2 Records may also be retrieved by a combination of any of these fields. This list is not exhaustive. 4 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
5 1.4 Is there a records retention schedule that has been approved by the National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA ) for the information system(s)? Explain how long and for what reason the information is retained. The CFPB maintains computer and paper records indefinitely until NARA approves the CFPB s records disposition schedule. Records that fall under a general records schedule will be disposed of according to the applicable schedule. 1.5 Are there any forms or surveys that are associated with the collection of the information that would be covered by the Paperwork Reduction Act ( PRA )? No. The MMS does not use a form subject to PRA requirements to collect information for the system. 1.6 Are there any privacy risks for this system that relate to the purpose of the collection? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There are no identifiable risks associated with the purpose of this system. SECTION 2.0 Openness and Transparency The CFPB will be open and transparent. We should tell individuals about the PII we collect and how we will protect it, use it, and share it. We will provide an easy way for individuals to learn about what is happening to their PII. 2.1 Will individuals be given notice prior to the collection of personal information about them? If not, please explain. When the CFPB collects PII about individuals who are involved in CFPB matters, it may collect such information directly from those individuals or it may collect such information from an entity that is the subject of research, an investigation or an enforcement action, or from third parties, including existing federal databases and other agencies responsible for related regulatory functions. In these latter cases, individuals may not receive actual notice of information collection. However, this PIA and the associated SORNs, CFPB.004 Enforcement Database and CFPB.018 Litigation Files, provide constructive notice of the CFPB s information collection practices. 2.2 Will individuals be given notice prior to their information being shared? If not, please explain. In most cases, the Bureau will not provide actual notice to individuals prior to sharing MMS information that pertains to them. However, the CFPB has provided constructive notice of how it will share information stored in the MMS in its SORNs, CFPB.004 Enforcement Database, CFPB.018 Litigation Files and through this PIA. 5 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
6 2.3 Are there any privacy risks for this system that relate to openness, and transparency? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? No. There are no identifiable risks related to openness and transparency for this system. SECTION 3.0 Data Minimization The CFPB will limit the collection of PII to what is needed to accomplish the stated purpose for its collection. The CFPB should keep PII only as long as needed to fulfill that purpose. 3.1 Whose information is included in the system? The MMS contains PII about those individuals who are or have been associated with CFPB investigations, enforcement actions, litigation in which the Bureau is or has been involved, related supervisory activities, rulemakings, and special projects. This may include: CFPB staff such as, but not limited to: o Attorneys o Administrative law judges o Officials o Managers o Paralegals Non-CFPB individuals such as, but not limited to: o Defendants o Opposing counsel o Intervening parties o Consumers whose complaints are included as part of an investigation o Whistleblowers o Individuals who comment on rulemakings o Federal and state employees related to a CFPB matter More information about the categories of individuals included in this system is available in the associated SORNs for the system. 3.2 What PII will the system include? For each Bureau matter, the system collects some or all of the following information about non-cfpb parties who are involved in or associated with the particular matter: First and last name Title Organization, company or affiliation name 6 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
7 Contact information (business or personal), including mailing address, phone number, fax number and address Additionally, for each Bureau matter, the system may collect information about CFPB employees (e.g. attorneys, administrative law judges, officials, managers, etc.) involved in or associated with a particular matter including: First and last name Title Information about an individual s relationship to a case, including scheduling, role, etc. Source documents related to a matter are not stored in the MMS. However, cases within the system may be directly linked to a shared document repository for referential materials. Thus, the system does not contain large amounts of PII and very little, if any, sensitive PII. 3.3 Why is the collection and use of the PII necessary to the project or system? Various laws and regulations require or permit the Bureau to conduct investigations, take enforcement actions, represent itself in litigation, perform rulemakings (including collecting and retaining public commentary), and carry out special projects. The system allows staff and managers to research both current and historical matters, to develop and record plans for conducting the matters, to identify the personnel resources used to conduct those matters, and to provide a historical record of actions and deliberations as they occur. 3.4 Will the system aggregate previously unavailable data about the individual or create new data about the individual? If so, how will this data be maintained and used? The system does not aggregate data nor create new data about individuals. 3.5 What controls exist to protect the consolidated data and prevent unauthorized access? The system does not consolidate or aggregate any data, nor create new data about individuals. 3.6 Will the system monitor the public? The system does not monitor the public. 3.7 Will the system monitor CFPB employees or contractors? The system will audit CFPB employees or contractors with regards to their actions (i.e. uploading information, modifying or deleting information) in the system, and in relation to their workflow associated with a particular matter. For example, the MMS has a function which allows individuals to schedule meetings and other events associated with a matter and tie that directly to the individual CFPB employee assigned to that particular matter. The system can 7 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
8 also produce reports about time spent by an employee on a particular matter or set of issues or matters. 3.8 What kinds of reports can be produced on individuals? Will the data included in the reports produced be made anonymous? The CFPB may generate reports from the MMS that identify matters related to specific CFPB staff, the subject of the matter, or the matter type. Such reports include lists of names and contact information of individuals involved in a matter and CFPB employees. In addition, such reports may include sensitive non-identifying information about the status of a matter. The Bureau distributes reports derived from MMS internally only to employees with a bona fide need for such reports to carry out their assigned job responsibilities. Externally, the Bureau discloses reports on a limited basis, as required or necessary, to other state and federal government agency employees whose job functions allow them to review reports generated about a CFPB matter. Section 4.2 of this PIA and the related SORNs, outline the ways the CFPB may share information from this system with other federal and state agencies. 3.9 Are there any privacy risks for this system that relate to data minimization? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There are no identifiable risks associated with data minimization for this system. SECTION 4.0 Limits on Uses and Sharing of Information The CFPB will publish a notice about how we plan to use and share the PII that we collect from you. We will only share your PII in ways that are compatible with the notice or as stated in the Privacy Act. 4.1 Is the information in the project limited to only the information that is needed to carry out the purpose of the collection? Yes, information included in the MMS is limited to that which is necessary for: Managing and maintaining a record of current and historical matters; Developing and recording plans for working on various matters; Identifying the personnel resources used to work on those matters; and Providing a historical record of actions and deliberations as they occur. 8 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
9 4.2 Will the CFPB share any of the information with other individuals, Federal and/or state agencies, or private sector organizations? If so, how will the CFPB share the information? While the MMS will not directly connect to or share information with systems outside of the CFPB, reports generated by the system about matters may be shared with other individuals within the CFPB and at other federal and state agencies, as well as non-cfpb individuals associated with a particular matter, if such sharing is warranted. Such sharing will only occur through secure channels, such as encrypted . The CFPB has outlined the ways in which information from the MMS may be shared under the Routine Uses section of the related SORNs, CFPB.004 Enforcement Database and CFPB.018 Litigation Files. 4.3 Is the information collected directly from the individual or is it taken from another source? As discussed in Section 2.1, the CFPB collects data for the MMS from various sources, including individuals included in the system. However, most of the data is collected from entities that are the subject of a matter or from other third parties like state and federal agencies. 4.4 Will the project interact with other systems, whether within the CFPB or outside of the CFPB? If so, how? As discussed in section 4.2, the MMS will not connect to or interact with other systems outside of the CFPB. Within the CFPB, the system will connect to the Bureau s shared network drive in order to access documents and other files associated with a particular matter. This connection exists because the MMS does not serve as a document repository or document management system for documents associated with matters in the system. The system will also connect to the Bureau s server for the purposes of calendar and synchronization, and to the Bureau s Staff Directory for managing CFPB staff contact information. 4.5 Are there any privacy risks for this project that relate to use limitation? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There are no risks associated with use limitation for this system. SECTION 5.0 Data Quality and Integrity The CFPB will make reasonable efforts to ensure that all PII it maintains is accurate, relevant, timely, and complete. 9 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
10 5.1 How will the information collected be verified for accuracy and completeness? Information collected in the system is verified for accuracy and completeness only to the extent necessary for accurately recording, tracking and reporting administrative and statistical information about CFPB matters. This includes confirming the name of internal and external individuals associated with each matter, confirming dates associated with each matter, and confirming actions associated with each matter. Supplemental information about each matter contained in source and supporting documentation is not verified for accuracy within this system as the system does not store these documents or the PII contained within them. 5.2 Are there any privacy risks for individuals whose information is collected or used by the project that relate to data quality and integrity? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There are no identifiable risks associated with data quality and integrity for this system. SECTION 6.0 Security The CFPB must protect PII from loss, unauthorized access or use, destruction, modification, or unintended or inappropriate disclosure. 6.1 Who will have access to the data in the project? What is the authorization process for access to the project? For general users of the system, the Bureau restricts access to the MMS to employees who have a bona fide need for such access to carry out their assigned job responsibilities mainly Enforcement and General Counsel attorneys, their supervisors and assistants working on matters in the MMS. Limited members of the Office of Fair Lending and Supervision teams are also granted access with regards to matters which they are involved in. Access is driven by role-based permissions relevant to an employee s association with a matter and position within the CFPB, with users receiving the least minimum privilege needed. The system limits the ability of individual staff not assigned to a particular matter to see detailed information about that matter. Individuals granted access to a particular matter may also have permission to write to that particular matter. Access is granted through a user request form and governed by policy and procedures for determining what, if any, level of access should be granted to an individual user. Users are required to complete mandatory privacy and security training (Bureau-wide) and additional training on use of the MMS before being granted access to the system. Users must also complete the user agreement outlining their roles and responsibilities in using the system and the information contained within it. MMS is an application based on the LawBase Commercial Off-the-Shelf Product, is a clientbased executable application, and is hosted in the Terremark environment. The MMS s placement within the Terremark environment provides an additional level of security. The CFPB grants access only to authorized personnel who have been issued non-transferrable 10 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
11 access codes and passwords, which are verified at login to the Bureau s Terremark hosted General Support System ( GSS ). The MMS application is installed locally only on the machines of individuals granted permission to the system and accounts are authenticated through Active Directory (AD) and managed by a system administrator. Given that CFPB has a limited number of licenses, system administrators will control which users have a need to have the executable program installed on their workstations. This layer of control, in addition to credential authentication through AD, will limit the number of individuals that have access to the application. System administrators are considered privileged users and as such will have access to all data in the system, including PII, for the purposes of controlling, monitoring, and other administrative functions. 6.2 Has the CFPB completed a system security plan for the information system(s) supporting the project? The CFPB has completed a system security plan for the Terremark hosted GSS, which the MMS resides on. The system was issued an Authority to Operate ( ATO ) at the Moderate level by CFPB. The ATO was signed on September 30, MMS has undergone a security review including a review of documentation provided by the vendor, and interviews with technical representatives. 6.3 How will the system be secured? The CFPB issues authorized personnel non-transferrable access codes and passwords to approved users of the system. Users are required to complete training and complete the user agreement before being granted access to the system. MMS is a client-based executable application that needs to be installed on a user s workstation prior to gaining access to the system, and licenses are limited. The system stores login/authentication credentials but encrypts them. Section 6.1 has more information about how users are granted access to the system. The MMS system inherits many security controls from the underlying GSS it resides on. A detailed security assessment was performed on the MMS in line with applicable federal mandates. Additionally, as part of the phased roll-out of the system, users will engage in testing of the system s functions, including user access controls. 6.4 Are there mechanisms in place to identify security breaches? If so, what are they? The CFPB relies on the Treasury Department s directives related to security and privacy incidents. The CFPB is developing supplemental interim incident-reporting materials, and, upon moving onto its own network infrastructure, will issue new directives related to security and privacy incidents. 11 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
12 6.5 Are there any privacy risks for this system that relate to security? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There is a risk that unauthorized individuals may gain access to the information in the MMS. The CFPB has mitigated this risk by only granting access to the system to authorized users who, based on their need to know, will be restricted to the minimal amount of data required or appropriate to carry out their assigned job responsibilities. Access is terminated or reduced as necessary should the user no longer have a need to know the information, change job functions, is terminated or resigns. Additionally, there is a risk that changes to data in the system may not be able to be audited at the individual user level. LawBase, the commercially available off-the-shelf product being used for the MMS provides auditing functionality at the system level, meaning that when changes are made to the data housed in the database on which the MMS is built (and which houses the data in the system), the database only tracks that a user made such changes, but does not account for which user made the change. The CFPB has mitigated this risk by limiting access to the system through the access controls outlined above and in Section 6.1 and 6.3. Additionally, as stated earlier, the MMS does not serve as a document repository for the referential documents and other files about a matter (such as an investigation). Rather, these files, which may contain large amounts of PII and sensitive PII, are stored on the shared drive, rather than in the MMS. Changes to these documents and associated files can be audited independently of changes to data in the MMS. SECTION 7.0 Individual Participation The CFPB will give individuals, in most cases, the ability to access their PII, and allow them to correct or amend their PII if it is inaccurate. 7.1 What opportunities are available for individuals to consent to uses, decline to provide information, or opt out of the project? If no opportunities are available to consent, decline or opt out, please explain. In general, individuals do not have opportunities to opt out or decline to provide information to the MMS. Most of the data collected by the MMS related to employees or customers of companies which are the subject of a matter is provided by a company pursuant to applicable laws and regulations rather than directly from customers or employees. Additionally, data collected about CFPB employees is related to their access and use of the system and is collected through use of the system. Other data, such as the data related to regulations or whistleblower complaints is collected directly from individuals who may choose to limit the amount of data they provide to the CFPB. 7.2 What procedures will allow individuals to access their information? The CFPB offers a means through the Privacy Act for individuals to access, amend, or correct, their records at their request. Information about Privacy Act requests is available in the 12 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
13 associated SORNs for the system, and at It is important to note that some information in the MMS may not be able to be accessed or changed if doing so would impact the CFPB s ability to enforce consumer financial law or if doing so would harm a pending investigation, enforcement action or similar matter in the system. 7.3 Can individuals amend information about themselves in the system? If so, how? The CFPB provides a means through the Privacy Act of amending or correcting your information in the MMS, which is described above in Section Are there any privacy risks for this system that relate to individual participation? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There are no risks associated with individual participation for this system. SECTION 8.0 Awareness and Training The CFPB will train all personnel about the proper treatment of PII. 8.1 Describe what privacy training is provided to users, either generally or specifically relevant to the project. The CFPB offers privacy and security training to all employees of the CFPB, including contractors who handle PII on behalf of the CFPB. Additionally, those with access to the MMS receive training for use of the system before they are granted access. Users are also required to sign a user agreement outlining their roles and responsibilities related to accessing the system and the information contained within. 8.2 Are there any privacy risks for this system that relate to awareness and training? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There are no risks associated with awareness and training for this system. SECTION 9.0 Accountability and Auditing The CFPB is accountable for complying with these principles. We will regularly check that we are meeting the requirements and take appropriate action if we are not doing so. 9.1 How does the system ensure that the information is used in accordance with the stated practices in this PIA? The CFPB has limited access to the MMS to those Bureau employees with a clearly defined business need to know the information and has employed role-based access controls in the system. The CFPB provides all employees with appropriate privacy and security training to ensure information is used and secured appropriately. Employees granted access to the MMS 13 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
14 area provided additional training on proper use of the system and must sign a user agreement outlining their roles and responsibilities related to the accessing and using the system and the information within. The MMS does not connect to other information systems outside or inside of the CFPB, with the exception of connections to the Bureau s client for calendaring and ing functions, and to the Bureau s shared network drive, which serves as a document repository for the system. The system is limited in its capability to collect PII as fields are generally limited to non-identifying information about the progress (historical or current) or management of a matter of the Bureau. Supporting or source documents associated with a matter that contain PII are not stored within the system. 9.2 Are there any privacy risks for this system that relate to accountability and auditing? If so, how will the CFPB mitigate these risks? There are no identifiable risks for the MMS related to accountability and auditing. 14 Privacy Impact Assessment Matters Management System May 24, 2012
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Vancouver Film School Visited Our Institute
Position:Update-Vancouver Film School Visited Our Institute
News time:2020-10-15 11:28:26
On October 12, Mr. Jerry, Director of China Office of Vancouver Film School, visited our Institute.
Mr. Jerry visited our Institute's History Museum and Animation Museum first, learned about our Institute's history and institute-running characteristics, he praised the works exhibited in the museum, and highly recognized the works of our students!
Mr. Jerry visited our Institute's museum
Subsequently, Miao Luxi, Deputy Dean of International Cooperation and Development Center, Li Zhengshun, Director of The International Expert Management Office, Song Shanshan, Director of The General and Information Management Office held cooperation talks with the visiting representative of Vancouver Film School. The contents about teachers and students exchange, experts invitation were talked in detail on the meeting, our Institute’s characteristics of "Integration of Education, Research and Industry" has the same meaning with Vancouver Film School’s "Learning by Doing" theory, no matter from professional compatibility, or educational philosophy, both sides have something in common, which determines the future will have more cooperation opportunities.
Representative of JAI took a photo with Mr. Jerry
This meeting not only deepened the friendship between our Institute and Vancouver Film School, but also promoted more cooperative projects between the two schools. In the future, both sides will continue to deepen cooperation, explore diversified cooperation projects, and jointly develop a more abundant exchange and learning platform for teachers and students of the two schools!
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About Vancouver Film School:
The Vancouver Film School (VFS) is Canada's leading professional art School specializing in the design of film, television, animation and digital media. Founded in 1987, the school has eight downtown campuses. It has more than 260 teachers, more than 90 industry senior tutors, 100% of teachers have industry experience, 85% of teachers are active in the industry front line. According to the 2015 World Top Film Schools Rankings released by QS, the Vancouver Film School is the leader in film and television education in Canada and one of the best film schools in the region.
Major related to our Institute:
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The LEGO T29 Heavy Tank Series and Derivatives Project
Started by Neyo Wargear, Sep 30 2020 09:08 AM
#1 Neyo Wargear
Neyo Wargear
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Posted 30 September 2020 - 09:08 AM
Greetings SSLFer's,
I think it is about time I start a new project and hopefully finish this one unlike the M50 Ontos TD and T1 Cunningham LT series.
Based on the title I will be creating the T29 Heavy Tank series and its derivatives, meaning the T30 and T34 Heavy Tanks. I plan on creating first the T29, then the T29E3, T30, T30E1, and T34. They all use the same chassis so it shouldn't be difficult to pump them out. As for the T29E3 and T30E1, they had slightly different turrets than the T29 and T30 respectively. The main difference between the T29, T30, and T34 is armament.
Again, 1/35th scale to match all my other models.
Actual to 1/35th scale:
Length, Gun Forward: 455.5in=13in=43 studs
Length, Without Gun: 299.6in=8.6in=28 studs
Width: 149.7in=4.3in=14 studs
Height: 126.9in=3.6in=12 studs
Reference Photo:
There is only one for the T29 HT, since almost all photos are of a T29E3 HT which will be made promptly after I finish the T29 HT.
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Omnius mille passus expeditio, omnis fossa bellum.
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
- General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Posted 30 September 2020 - 01:09 PM
Work time: 2 hours
Total work time: 2 hours
Not much for 2 hours of work since Studio 2.0 can be a bastard to work with and myself for making semi-working suspension.
Work time: 1 hour
Work time: 0.5 hours
Total work time: 4.5 hours
Work time: 0.75 hours
Total work time: 5.25 hours
Work time: 1.583 hours
Total work time: 8.163 hours or 8 hours and 10 minutes.
Play features: All five hatches open and close, gun elevates and depresses, turret has 360 degree rotation, and semi-working suspension.
I will do a writeup after the renders finish.
#10 Neyo Wargear
Due to the emergence of the German Tiger I heavy tank, the US Army designed the M26 Pershing medium tank. It was redesignated as a heavy tank strictly for morale, but did not rectify the problem that worsened in 1944. Heavier and stronger German AFVs were appearing in 1944 and the M26 Pershing was not equipped to deal with these greater threats. In OCM 25117 on 14 September 1944 recommended for development and manufacture of four pilots for a new heavy tank. Two were designated as T29 heavy tank armed with a T5E1 105mm Gun while the other two were the T7 155mm Gun armed T30 heavy tank. OCM 26825 of 1 March 1945 suggested procuring 1,200 T29 heavy tanks. It would be powered by the new Ford GAC, V-12, liquid-cooled engine (770hp at 2800rpm) paired with the new General Motors CD-850-1 cross drive transmission (a single unit combining transmission, brakes, and steering gear).
The hull-mounted MG was a M1919A4 .30in cal. The T5E1 105mm Gun had two coaxial M2 .50in cal HMGs in the gun mantlet with a pedestal mount on the turret roof for an additional M2 .50in HMG for anti-aircraft use. The T5E1 105mm Gun when firing the T32 AP achieved a muzzle velocity of 3000ft/s, the T29E3 HVAP a maximum of 3700ft/s, and the T30E1 HE only 2500ft/s.
Procurement of the T29 heavy tank was approved 12 April 1945, but order reduced to 1152 units. In that same month four additional T29 pilots were approved, but one would be armed with the T53 120mm Gun and designated as the T34 heavy tank. Pressed Steel Car Company, Inc. managed to finish one T29 and partially finish another by the end of WW2. All material was transferred to the Detroit Arsenal with ten more pilots completed for post-war development programs that would provide invaluable information for the entirety of the Cold War.
Width: 149.7in
Height: 126.9in
Crew: 6 (Commander, Gunner, Loader x2, Driver, Co-Driver)
Weight: 141,500lb
Armor: 0.5in-7.0in
Primary Armament: T5E1 105mm Gun (63 rounds) ((6rpm))
Coaxial Armament: M2 0.50in HMG x2 (2420 rounds)
Bow Armament: M1919A4 0.3in MG (2500 rounds)\
Engine: Ford GAC, V-12, Liquid-cooled
Max Speed: 22mph
Range: 100 miles
T29E3 Heavy Tank
FINISHED PRODUCT:
Heavy Tank T29 Number 8 was given a T31E1 rangefinder and T93E2 telescope. With these changes it was redesignated as the T29E3 Heavy Tank. The T31E1 rangefinder is a steroscopic sight that helped the commander find the range of a target, freeing up the gunner to track the target. The rangefinder was connected to the gunner's sight via flexible shafting, but would constantly get twisted and backlashed. While the steroscopic sight failed in reliability, it showed the necessity of such a device. It improved spotting capability and range and for sensing bursts. The steroscopic sight also proved they were mandatory for hitting a target from over 1000 yards with the first round.
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T30 Heavy Tank
I discovered a cheaper and far better barrel design, the previous design used on both the T29 and T29E3 HTs cost $21 alone. Only a single coaxial M2 0.50in cal HMG, different muffler and exhaust system, and different engine deck, different rear hull details.
The first T30 heavy tank arrived at Aberdeen (Maryland) Proving Ground in April 1948 and the second in July. They replaced the Ford GAC V-12 Water-cooled engine with a Continental AV-1790-3 which achieved 810hp at 2800rpm. The objective of the T30 HT test program was to evaluate the new engine paired with the CD-850 cross drive transmission. The T7 155mm Gun had a low muzzle velocity since it utilized chemical rounds such as HE and HEAT which don't depend on velocity for power. The T7 155mm Gun fired two piece ammunition, the HE shell weighs 95 pounds while the propellant charge weighed 40 pounds, total weight 135 pounds.
Length: 429in
Primary Armament: T7 155mm Gun (34 rounds) ((2rpm))
Bow Armament: M1919A4 0.3in MG (2500 rounds)
Engine: Continental AV-1790-3, V-12, Air-cooled
Edited by Neyo Wargear, 19 October 2020 - 01:06 PM.
OCM 31668 on 24 July 1947 authorized the installation of an experimental cartridge case ejecting mechanism and a drive mechanism for indexing the mount for loading and returning the weapon to its previous location in a T30 Heavy Tank. These additions caused this T30 HT to be re-designated as the T30E1 Heavy Tank. The mechanisms installed took up space where the Tank Commander would normally sit and thus the cupola and his seat was raised above the loading tray which was in between in his legs. A hatch was installed in the turret rear for spent cartridge cases to be ejected.
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Wanting greater firepower in American tanks, the Ordnance Department in early 1945 looked to converting a 120mm antiaircraft gun into an anti-armor capability. 120mm Gun T53 and had a muzzle velocity of 3150ft/s with a 50lb solid shot and 4100ft/s with HVAP (Hypervelocity Armor Piercing). 17 May 1945, OCM 27662 recommended that two of the T30 Heavy Tanks be armed with a 120mm gun and re-designated as Heavy Tank T34. This action was approved on 31 May [1945].
The T29, T30, and T34 heavy tanks were all going to be equipped with a Ford GAC engine, but after V-J Day the T30 HT was going to test the Continental AV-1790 engine. 7 November 1946, OCM 31202 recommended the T34 pilots should also use the Continental engine instead of a modified Allison V-1710 aircraft engine.
The T34 Heavy Tank's T53 120mm Gun required 4 inches of solid steel to be welded onto the rear of the turret as a counterweight. The T53 120mm Gun used two-piece ammunition and the total round weighed 100lb. Each piece weighed 50lb and required two loaders.
Testing of the T34 Heavy Tank occurred both at Aberdeen Proving Ground and Fort Knox that test firing caused dangerous amounts of smoke and carbon monoxide within the turret. Flarebacks also hospitalized at least two men at Fort Knox and several others lost their eyebrows and hair there and at Aberdeen. The flarebacks were caused by unburnt powder gases in the gun tube being sucked back into the turret due to the cartridge case being ejected from the cannon breech. The flash resulted from the hot gases mixing with the oxygen in the turret. To prevent flarebacks, a bore scavenging system was installed and this caused bore excavators to become standard on American tank guns.
Primary Armament: T53 120mm Gun (34 rounds) ((5rpm))
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T29 HT V2
T29E3 HT V2
Changed the barrel to match the ones on the T30, T30E1, and T34 HTs. Should reduce the price of these two models by $21.
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Firepower of the American Colossi.
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Overview of cleaning validation white paper
Direct Swabbing and
Surface Recovery with Ion
Trap Mobility Spectrometry
By Derek Brand, Mei Guo, Dr. Ralf Wottrich and Tim Wortley
Ion Trap Mobility Spectrometry has been The FDA's "Guide to Inspections Validation of discussed as a fast and specific technique for Cleaning Processes" discusses the sampling the analysis of samples for cleaning validation methods applied to the cleaning process—rinse and verification in the pharmaceutical industry. and swab (direct) sampling—as well as the This study presents data on the use of this analytical methods necessary to measure the technology for "direct swabbing," or directly samples taken. Specifically, these sampling and sampling and analyzing the equipment of analytical methods need to be challenged and a interest. Recovery results from stainless steel "recovery" that describes the effectiveness of surfaces for two different compounds, the sampling/analytical combination needs to cefuroxime sodium and pseudoephedrine HCl, "show that contaminants can be removed from are presented. At-line analysis has the the equipment surface and at what level, i.e. potential of greatly improving the efficiency of 50% recovery, 90% recovery, etc." analyzing cleaning results and improving equipment turnaround. The guide also discusses cleaning limits, and while it purposefully stays away from tangential description, it puts forth that the limits for a particular compound and process must be Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) and Ion Trap "practical, achievable, and verifiable" and that Mobility Spectrometry (ITMS) are built on the the analytical method used to measure them principle of measuring the drift velocity of ions needs to have the requisite level of sensitivity as they are propelled through a "drift gas" at for these measurements. ambient pressure via the force of an electric field.chnology has been in use for The determination of carryover limits for a over 30 years, primarily applied in detecting particular compound has been described using trace amounts of narcotics and explosives both the maximum allowable dose carried over to and is found at most airports as part of their security screening procedures. data such as LD50 values (the amount/dose of a substance that produces death in half of the This technology has more recently been animals tested).
applied to the pharmaceutical industry, mainly limits referred to in the present study are the focusing on applications involving cleaning maximum allowable amount of residue on the validation or verification. While the technology equipment surface as opposed to the limit in the has been re specific applications subsequent product or the limit in an analytical describedd data to date focused on results generated from extracted solutions rather than from the direct sampling The wide range of potential carryover limits in of a surface of interest. pharmaceutical cleaning challenges the analytical methods used to measure the limits, regardless The act of taking a sample directly from the of whether the method used is a direct swabbing surface of equipment has been termed "direct method or one that relies on extraction and swabbing," in that the sample is analyzed dilution. The analytical method needs to have the directly instead of including the intermediate appropriate dynamic range to measure the extraction step. Similar to the use of ITMS in substance at its cleaning limit with an appropriate security applications, the advantage of direct linear range that ensures the ability to effectively swabbing is that it allows the user of the differentiate a passing result from a failure.
instrumentation to generate results without the need to send samples back to an analytical In this series of experiments, we demonstrate the laboratory. Additionally, the portability of ability to recover the residues of two compounds commercially available ITMS instrumentation from stainless steel surfaces and analyze the allows the testing to be completed at-line. results directly using ITMS. One of the substances selected is cefuroxime in the drift gas; and gas flow settings were sodium, classified as a β-lactam antibiotic with 250cc/minute in both the sample and detector typically very low carryover limits due to potentially severe allergic reactionsanaphylactic shockme cases of For the pseudoephedrine testing, the desorber ingestion. The second compound is and detector temperatures were 249°C and pseudoephedrine HCl, a common 205°C, respectively. Scan time was set to180 decongestant with cleaning limits significantly seconds with five samples acquired per second. higher than cefuroxime sodium.
No dopant was present in the drift gas shows the chemical structures of these (atmospheric air). Gas flow settings were molecules.
500cc/minute in the sample flow chamber and 250cc/minute on the detector flow. The goals of this experiment are to demonstrate that ITMS can be used in a direct The swabs used were a specialized polyimide swabbing capacity to generate acceptable material manufactured for use with the Kaye recovery levels across a wide range of Validator ITMS. Stainless steel (316) coupons carryover limits. with a #7 finish (GlobePharma) were used during the swab recovery studies. Further details on the methodology used during the experiment are provided in the results section. Results and Discussion
This experimentation included analysis of compounds to determine their time of flight (TOF), generation of calibration curves and determination of the linear ranges, and finally measurements off of samples taken directly from the steel coupons in order to determine our recovery percentage. As ITMS uses the time of flight as a metric of identifying a molecule, the first stage of our experimentation was to determine the time of flight for both cefuroxime Figure 1. Molecular structures of cefuroxime and pseudoephedrine. sodium (top) and pseudoephedrine HCl (bottom). The molecular weights of these compounds are 446.4 and 201.7, respectively. Determining Time of Flight In order to determine the quantitative response of Materials and Methods
the system, it is important to determine the time of flight (TOF) for the molecule in question. The This experiment used the Kaye Validator® instrument used for this study has the ability to ITMS for sample measurement. Samples were collect data for both positive and negative ions prepared using USP-grade cefuroxime sodium within a single measurement. This brings several and pseudoephedrine, with dilutions being potential advantages—among them the ability to prepared in methanol. detect multiple ion species regardless of the charge on the "preferred" ion state in a single Instrument settings for the cefuroxime testing scan (a "single mode" instrument would require were: desorber and detector temperatures of two separate measurements). 249°C and 205°C, respectively, with a scan time of 60 seconds (15 samples acquired per Additionally, as there is no need to switch second, integrated over the full scan time). NH modes in the instrumentation, the Validator and dichloromethane were present as a dopant ITMS eliminates re-equilibration time associated with switching modes, shortening For the remainder of the analysis, cefuroxime the amount of time necessary to develop a was identified as a positive ion with a time of method for a particular substance. flight of 7.790 +/-0.04ms; pseudoephedrine was identified as a positive ion with a time of Using samples of the pure API dissolved in flight of 5.885ms +/- 0.04ms. No instances of methanol, aliquots were spiked directly onto a peak potentially associated with the main the swabs used in the instrument, the swabs cefuroxime ion or pseudoephedrine ion were analyzed, and the resulting peaks were occurred outside these windows of detection. recorded. In addition, measurements were taken on (A) swabs without any substance Determining Quantitative Response present, (B) swabs that were spiked with After determining the time of flight for each 100µl of methanol and allowed to dry, and (C) API, the quantitative instrument response for with the instrument having no swab inserted, each compound and the linear range were in order to account for our background peaks. determined. The carryover limits for Finally, we took a very small sample of the dry cefuroxime and pseudoephedrine used in this API powder swiped directly onto the swab. experimentation are 1µg and 20µg per 25cm2, This would highlight any differences seen due respectively. Figure 3 shows the instrument to interactions with the solvent. response curve for both cefuroxime and pseudoephedrine. The parameters of the The time of flight for cefuroxime sodium was instrumentation were adjusted in order to determined to be a positive ion complex at establish the appropriate linear range for each 7.790ms, with the time of flight for compound (described previously). pseudoephedrine determined to be a positive ion complex at 5.885ms. Representative plasmagrams (similar to a chromatogram in HPLC) with locations of the representative API The cefuroxime measurements encompass peaks as well as the locations of the drift gas sample amounts between 250ng and 3µg. As peak and common fragments in the the instrument was able to give a repeatable cefuroxime data are shown in Figure 2. response at 250ng that can be used for quantification, and cefuroxime was detectable at sample amounts lower than 250ng, for the purposes of this experiment 250ng is considered the limit of quantification (LOQ) and it is assumed that the limit of detection (LOD) is below 250ng. For the purposes of this experiment, the linear s udoephedrine Dat range is considered to be between 500ng and 1.5µg, values corresponding to 50% and 150% of the carryover limit, respectively. This (+) Pseudoephedrine HCl ion is a greater tolerance than called for normally, as cefuroxime's low carryover limits appropriate a wider window of measurement. Additionally, 500ng is twice the value of the limit of quantification and more than twice the Figure 2. Plasmagram of cefuroxime (top) and level of the limit of detection. The R2 value for p seudoephedrine (bottom) measurements. Positive the linear range of this calibration curve is ion data is shown, indicating the primary ion complex, drift gas and fragments. ar Range: 0.5 – 1.5 Linear Range: 10 – 25 Figure 3. Quantitative response of cefuroxime sodium (top) and pseudoephedrine HCl (bottom) in the ITMS instrume nt. Data shown is average value at each sample amount with error bars representing one standard deviation from the mean. R2 values were determined using a scatter plot encompassing all of the data in the linear range. For the purposes of recovery, the spiked Pseudoephedrine Data samples represent 100% recovery for the API. The pseudoephedrine measurements This was validated with two sets of encompass sample amounts between 5µg measurements: (1) measuring for any residual and 25µg. The limits of detection and cefuroxime on traps containing 1.5µg and 3µg quantification with these instrument settings after they had been sampled for the are well below 5µg, and the lower bound of calibration curve; and (2) measuring a sample the linear range (10µg) is therefore greater of five glass fiber traps coated with than twice the amount of both the LOD and polytetrafluoroethelylene (PTFE) that were LOQ. The linear range of 10-25µg placed underneath the sample traps as they encompasses more than +/-25% of the were spiked with cefuroxime. Both sets of carryover limit of 20µg. Again, the R2 value for measurements failed to show any presence of residual cefuroxime. the linear range of this calibration curve is swabbing commenced with overlapping >0.95, and the tests mentioned above for vertical strokes across the surface. The validating 100% recovery of the spiked swabber performed eight strokes in a vertical samples were performed as described motion, followed by eight overlapping strokes in a horizontal motion. Figure 4 shows these motions, as well as the use of the PTFE Measurements of swabs after they had been sampled produced no trace of pseudoephedrine. Measurement of the PTFE After swabbing, the traps were allowed to dry traps placed underneath the 20µg sample and were measured with the ITMS system. yielded trace amounts (under 100 instrument The areas for the API peaks were recorded counts, representing under 100ng of and the amount of API present determined pseudoephedrine) in two out of five samples. through the equation generated by the linear As this represents less than 0.4% of the total fits of the data shown in Figure 3. Table 1 sample, the spiked samples are considered to shows the calculated recovery percentages be representative of 100% recovery for this Swab Recovery Swabbing was performed on 316 stainless Cefuroxime Recovery Data
steel coupons with a #7 finish, in an area of Amount on Coupon (n)
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25cm2. Aliquots of each sample were spiked 1.5 Micrograms (n = 7) onto the coupons and allowed to dry before 1 Microgram (n = 11) swabbing. Material used for swabbing is a 500 Nanograms (n = 7) specialized polyimide material developed for Average Swab Recovery use with the Kaye Validator ITMS instrument. Swab Recovery RSD% The swabs have a specific "sampling area" that comprises the area of the swab that is Pseudoephedrine Recovery Data
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15 Micrograms (n = 8) 13.34 Micrograms This area was wet with 200µl of methanol 20 Micrograms (n = 8) 17.07 Micrograms and, using a PTFE barrier between the Average Swab Recovery swabber's finger and the swabbing material, Swab Recovery RSD% the trap was applied to the surface and Table 1. Recovery data for cefuroxime and pseudoephedrine Pressure with finger or Figure 4. Swabbing motion on the steel coupons (left), where strokes are initiated in a vertical direction and are then followed by strokes in a horizontal direction. Diagram (right) shows the use of a PTFE barrier to prevent contamination in between the trap and the sampler. Conclusions
Eiceman, GA and Karpas, Z. Ion Mobility These data show a recovery percentage of Spectrometry. 2005. Taylor and Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL greater than 65% and strong repeatability, 2 Parmeter, JE, and Eiceman, GA. Trace Detection of with an RSD of 17.4% for cefuroxime and a Narcotics Using a Preconcentrator/Ion Mobility recovery percentage of greater than 87% for Spectrometer System. NIJ Report 602-00. April 2001. 3 pseudoephedrine with an RSD of below 15%. Brand, D. Li, X, Wortley, T. Ion Trap Mobility Additionally, the recovery percentages at Spectrometry – Reducing Downtime in Cleaning Validation and Verification. varying levels of sample for this experiment www.Pharmamanufacturing.com. February 2006 are consistent. These data demonstrate the 4 Munden, R et al. IMS Limit Test Improves Cleaning desired result of this experimentation, namely Verification and Method Development. Pharmaceutical that it is possible to repeatably generate Technology Europe. October 2002 5 Peterson, DE, et al. Ion Mobility Spectrometry for acceptable recovery of residues and measure Determination of Active Drug in Blinded Dosage Forms. the samples directly using ITMS. AAPS. February 2005 pp18 - 19 6 FDA. Guide to Inspections of Validation of Cleaning While this experiment shows the feasibility of Processes. July 1993 the technique, the method itself has the LeBlanc, D. Establishing Scientifically Justified Acceptance Criteria for Cleaning Validation of Finished potential to be improved so that higher Drug Products. Pharmaceutical Technology, Volume 22 recoveries are possible. Potential alterations (10). October 1998. in the pressure and speed of the swabbing, LeBlanc, DA. Setting Dose Limits Without Dosing the orientation or the "leading edge" used with Information. www.cleaningvalidation.com, Cleaning Memos, May 2001 each swabbing stroke, and the amount of 9 Kramer, et al. Conversion Factors Estimating solvent used could lead to higher recovery Indicative Chronic No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Levels from Short-Term Toxicity Data. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharemacology. Volume 23. pp249 – 255. 1996 This study demonstrates the feasibility of Swartz, ME, Krull, IS. Analytical Method Development and Validation. 1997. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York using the Kaye Validator ITMS for the direct 11 Romano A, et al. Immediate hypersensitivity to sampling of equipment in the pharmaceutical cephalosporins. Allergy (57) Supplement 72. pp52-57. industry. While cleaning validation and verification of equipment involves increased Rossi S (Ed.) 2004. Australian Medicines Handbook 2004. Adelaide, Australia. ISBN 0-9578521-4-2. layers of complexity—one of them being the 13 Cleaning limits provided in private communications different types of surfaces that are likely to be encountered during cleaning—the Validator ITMS demonstrates the ability to produce acceptable levels of recovery and repeatability with a technique that is far faster than the Mr. Brand, Ms. Guo, Dr. Wottrich and Mr. Wortley are technology currently used by most of the members of GE Sensing's pharmaceutical and technology groups. Correspondence relating to this article should be directed to Given the high costs associated with manufacturing in pharmaceuticals, as well as the push for greater process understanding through PAT, the implementation of ITMS as a fast, specific analytical technology for at-line measurements has the potential to deliver substantial improvements in cleaning analysis and monitoring efficiency.
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When India’s anti-infiltration grid rattled the Pakistanis
Published January 7, 2021 | By admin
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In 2020, scores of terrorists from Pakistan attempted infiltration bids into India.
However just 44 managed to infiltrate in 2020, when compared to the 141 in 2019, officials said. Rattled by the anti-infiltration grid that blocked several key routes, Pakistan carried 5,100 ceasefire violation, which was the highest since the 2003 truce. “There are 300 to 415 terrorists in various launching pads in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (PoK) along the LoC ready to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir to disturb peace and normalcy by engineering violence,” an official said.
“Pakistani agencies are using tunnels to push in armed terrorists, weapons, ammunition and explosive material in J&K.
“They are also using drones to ferry and drop weapons and explosive material into border areas in Jammu and Kashmir along with narcotics to finance terrorism,” an official said.
This year, they are also trying to infiltrate terrorists into J&K even during the months of heavy snowfall.
“In December last year, terrorists infiltrated into Poonch despite heavy snowfall but were neutralized,” an official said.
A group of four JeM terrorists entered Samba via a tunnel and were neutralized after a truck carrying them to Kashmir was intercepted on the highway at Nagrota in Jammu in November last year, they said.
Weapons and explosives besides narcotics were being dropped at seven places along the borderline with Pakistan in 2020, the officials said.
Security agencies identified over 20 entry routes along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir and put in place multi-tier security to thwart any attempt by Pakistan to infiltrate armed terrorists.
“Over 20 infiltration routes have been identified and the security grid has been strengthened to prevent the entry of armed terrorists,” another official said.
Apart from the first-tier of security of the Army and the BSF, village defence committees (VDCs) along the LoC and the international border (IB) have been activated, police checkpoints have come up and patrolling done in the hinterland around the border, they said.
Ahead of the DDC polls, the ISI had sent a large number of terrorists close to border and was making attempts to aide their infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir. Their specific brief was to disrupt the elections and target the local leaders. However, the Indian security forces who were on very high alert managed to foil these attempts being made by the ISI backed terrorists.
Intelligence Bureau officials tell OneIndia that the ISI continues to make attempts to help infiltrate the large number of terrorists.
The IB officer also said that the Pakistan Rangers and the Border Action Team are trying to help the terrorists infiltrate into India. Last year there were an unprecedented number of ceasefire violations by Pakistan. The Pakistan Army had been providing cover fire in a bid to help the terrorists enter India.
However, the infiltration attempts were largely foiled by the Indian security agencies.
In November, the BSF intensified patrolling along the International Border with Pakistan in the Samba and Rajouri sectors of Jammu and Kashmir.Following an order by the Director-General of the BSF, Rakesh Asthana, the forces began patrolling the above mentioned areas with an objective of unearthing more cross-border tunnels like the one used by the four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, who were killed on November 19.
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A Homeric Tale
On the 25th anniversary of the Simpsons season 6 episode 12, “Homer the Great,” we pay homage to one of the best, and certainly the funniest, send-ups of Freemasonry ever to hit the airwaves.
A Beautiful Experiment: Public Schools Month at 100
Learn more about the Masons of California’s century-long support of public education, and about the present and future of those efforts, in the latest issue of California Freemason magazine.
For more than 60 years, California Masons have called the California Masonic Memorial Temple on San Francisco’s Nob Hill their home. At long last, it’s also their lodge.
California masons responded to the #bluelodgechallenge, highlighting acts of everyday charity that are transforming their communities.
Meet American Canyon Lodge No 875, California’s youngest Masonic lodge—both in terms of its members and in terms of its charter, presented November 17, 2019.
He’ll Never Ride Alone Again
Last summer, Long Beach Lodge No. 327 member Dave Romero hit upon a fun idea to give back to his favorite charities: a 550-mile fundraising bike ride from Long Beach to the California Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco.
Annual Report 2019: The Future is Bright
Learn about the overview of the present and very bright future of the fraternity, from the charitable work being done in lodges up and down California to exciting developments on the campuses of the Masonic Homes of California to expanded relief operations launching in the Central Valley.
R.I.P. Finally
How did a 19th century Masonic tombstone from Piedmont find its way to the side of the road in Stanislaus County, 100 miles away? That’s exactly what members of Oak Summit Lodge No. 112 set out to discover—and to lay a long-lost brother to rest.
Golden Revival
Up and down California’s Gold Country, lodges are tapping into their unique history to chart their way into the future. Read more in the latest issue of California Freemason.
Striking Gold: Masonry in the Mother Lode Now
Learn about the new sound coming out of Auburn’s Eureka No. 16, a legendary Nevada County gearhead, and the curious case of a lost Masonic headstone in the latest issue of California Freemason Magazine, this month dedicated to the foothill lodges of California’s Mother Lode.
In the wake of the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed his entire hometown of Paradise, Nate Smith—member of Table Mountain Masonic Lodge No. 124—turned to music as an artistic outlet—and found the big break he’d been searching for.
The Pin Code
Every fall, as the Grand Master prepares for the busy year ahead, he’s faced with the task of articulating the theme which will both guide his administration and define its legacy. And it needs to fit on a lapel pin.
Secrets of the Cloth: The Mystery of Masonic Folk Arts
Whether it’s through floor cloths, jewelry, woodwork, or aprons, learn about the stories Masons have been telling through these precious objects of interest. Learn more in the newest issue of California Freemason, Crafting their Legacy.
Whether in underground caves or quarries, Masons have been known to meet in some unusual places. Learn more about how these underground meeting spaces elevated the lodge experience.
Take the #BlueLodgeChallenge
Whether your lodge is funding generous scholarships for local students or clearing trash from the roads or beach, we want the world to know about it with #bluelodgechallenge.
The Forever Pace
For most of the past year, Loren Newman ––member of Prometheus Lodge No. 851–– had a set morning routine: Wake up at 5 a.m. and get ready for an early jog… up and down a 1,000-foot-high mountain… five times.
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Armin Houshmandi, a master Mason with Golden Rule Lodge No. 479 and the founder of the riding association the Seekers of Light, puts it this way: “The asphalt is unforgiving and physics are unforgiving, and you have to learn to work within the rules and laws of life… Where do you really do that, aside from Masonry?”
Read the Newest Issue of California Freemason!
The July/August issue of California Freemason magazine is now available on our newly redesigned online edition: californiafreemason.org!
Symbols of Femininity
On aprons and teapots, in the first degrees and the virtues and lessons of Freemasonry, feminine symbols are threaded into the very fabric of Freemasonry.
Of Their Free Will and Accord
Freemasonry’s relationship with women evolved during its long history. How has this relationship changed over time, and why are separate streams of Masonry likely to continue?
The Flame Within a Heart
The Order of DeMolay supports young men in building character and leadership skills that serve them for a lifetime. Its close friendship and enduring values provide vital support, cultivate deep understanding, and nurture emotional intelligence at a pivotal point in life.
Generations Connected
Two Senior DeMolays cross a generational divide and find commonalities through their experience in DeMolay International.
Mentorship is Meaningful
Adult mentors of our youth orders find that not only is mentorship helping the kids thrive and build important skills, it’s also fulfilling for the mentors themselves. Watch this brief video featuring Masons who mentor DeMolay chapters at their lodges.
Coming Together to Give Back
In the 2017-2018 fraternal year, 18 lodges pledged – as Pace Setter donors – to the Let’s Write the Future campaign between $100,000 and $300,000. Learn why three lodges chose to write a better future for California communities.
Save the date and be sure to RSVP for the Grand Lodge Officer Reception of Sean Matucca! Follow the link to RSVP.
For Our Children. For Our Future.
California masons’ partnership with raising a reader has brought crucial literacy training to nearly 600 classrooms – and we’re not close to done yet!
At Orange Grove Lodge No. 293 in Southern California, fraternity, and family are deeply intertwined with Freemasonry. Learn more about what inspires these brothers and their fun-filled Masonic experience – from luaus to support for California public schools.
Welcome Grand Master Wright!
Last Sunday, October 21, Most Worshipful Brother Stuart A. Wright was installed as grand master of Masons in California. We look forward to a year of growth and prosperity under his leadership, inspired by his theme: “Freemasonry… the difference is you.”
Commemorating a Masonic Monument
Earlier this summer, Grand Master Galloway joined the Masons of King David’s Lodge No. 209 for a ceremonial resealing of the Dorn Pyramid, a 23-foot tall granite mausoleum originally constructed in 1905. Robert Sachs, master of King David’s Lodge, shares the history and rumors of the Dorn Pyramid.
A Big Spark
Raven’s Rock Lodge, since it’s opened its doors on June 10, 2017, has been producing local events that revolve around education and the arts, aiming to lift the community while staying true to Masonic tenets and traditions.
Wonders of Masonic America
If you’ve been seeking an excuse to see the country, there’s no better time than the present. The lens of Freemasonry offers a fascinating perspective!
Masons4Mitts: Baseball Is Back!
Dust off those gloves and get ready to knock one out of the park for your team: The 2018 Masons4Mitts season is now underway!
Help Us Celebrate #MasonicDads!
California Freemason is launching a new hashtag campaign, #MasonicDad, to correspond with our July/August issue, which will focus on the theme of “Freemasonry and Fatherhood.” To participate, show us what Masonic fatherhood means to you!
A Tradition of Scholarship
The 2018 Symposium – taking place June 9 in San Francisco and June 10 in Long Beach – will explore the fraternity’s whirlwind arrival in California, and the daring brothers who led the way.
Of a Divine and Moral Nature
The term “sacred geometry” can be somewhat intimidating: How might geometry be sacred, one might wonder. And, how does Masonry fit in?
California Freemason: Sacred Geometry
In Masonic philosophy, sacred geometry reveals ephemeral spiritual realities and personal truths through tangible architectural forms. From its roots in classical philosophy to contemporary applications, sacred geometry’s contemplation oftentimes leads to revelation.
Why I Became a Mason
For Past Grand Master John L. Cooper III, the promise of Freemasonry inspired a life devoted to its craft.
The Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry
One of the most interesting – and sometimes confusing – aspects of Freemasonry is its varied rituals and rites. To study them is to understand the fraternity’s wild creative streak and its ability to adapt to diverse social and cultural trends.
Mozart’s Masonic Magic Flute
Learn about this Masonic masterpiece from one of our fraternity’s great scholars.
A Spectacular Occasion
Masons from around the world gathered at the Royal Albert Hall for the United Grand Lodge of England’s tercentenary celebration. They celebrated the history and future of Freemasonry.
California Freemason: The Prospect Issue
Read about members throughout California whose Masonic experience brought them exactly what they were seeking: brotherhood, friendship, and the path to a more meaningful life.
The Masonic Hand of Charity
From the beginning, fraternal relief was both innovative and practical.
California Freemason: Into the Future
This year marks the 300th anniversary of our great fraternity! Join California Freemason in exploring the history of Freemasonry – from today’s brotherhood to what might be possible in the future as society continues to evolve.
AMERICAN MASONS WHO SHAPED THE WORLD
In the mid- to late- 20th century, our country’s Masons led the way for lasting change.
New Video: We Make a Profound Impact!
A new video created by the California Masonic Foundation offers an inspiring perspective of our Masonic quest to live a meaningful life.
July/August California Freemason: 1941-Today
This year marks the 300th anniversary of our great fraternity! Join California Freemason in exploring the next chapter in the history of Freemasonry – from World War II to today’s brotherhood.
July Is Support Our Veterans Month
Grand Master Heisner has declared July 2017 to be Support Our Veterans Month in California. Read his proclamation now.
300th Anniversay Gala and Banquet
Join your brothers and toast to Freemasonry during an unforgettable night at the 300th Anniversary Gala!
From Enlightenment to Revolution
Freemasonry’s fledgling years had an enduring impact on the future of Western civilization. Read the latest California Freemason feature now.
June Is Masonic Homes Month
Masonic Homes Month is the perfect opportunity to recognize the remarkable accomplishments of Masonic relief in California. Follow these helpful tips for starting a celebration of your own.
CALLED FROM LABOR
In November 1910, San Francisco’s California Lodge No. 1 held its 61st annual banquet and ball. The program, which included remarks by several lodge members, as well as music, was accompanied by a mouth-watering four-course meal. Each guest received a printed program and menu card listing the courses. Presented in French, the menu suggests a high level of elegance.
Around the Masonic Table
For hundreds of years, sharing meals with brothers has been a treasured Masonic tradition. In the newest issue of California Freemason, we delve deeply into this practice – from the beginning of the fraternity to today’s traditions. Join us for a trip around the world from Masonic tables to toasts and beyond!
The First and Most Important Care of Leadership
As Masons, we have made the choice to join a group of like-minded individuals to assist in our personal growth and improvement. Many of us have chosen to become leaders within this fraternity, as we find this aspect of the craft to be fulfilling.
Get Ready for Public Schools Month!
A priority of the 2020 Fraternity Plan is to make a positive impact on society. When public schools get the support they need, that impact is made not only in classrooms, but in the future of each student. Here are some ways you and your lodge can make a difference. Donate to the California Masonic […]
Celebrate Youth Orders Month
Throughout our state, young men and women turn to DeMolay, Job’s Daughters, and Rainbow for Girls for a unique environment of brotherhood and sisterhood. There, they transform from timid youths into confident leaders. They learn respect, patriotism, tolerance, and reverence. They form friendships that last a lifetime. To recognize our Masonic youth and to encourage […]
Freemasons have been active in California even since before it was officially a state, and many notable artifacts from every age are available online to interested Masonic scholars. Kick off a research project or ignite your inner history buff by exploring the collections of the Henry Wilson Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry. CLICK HERE […]
Freemasonry Set Free
DECIPHERING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PRINCE HALL MASONRY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. By Tyler Ash For nearly 200 years, the Underground Railroad has been an elusive, almost mythical aspect of American history, shaping the way we view the cultural and sociopolitical landscapes of the American psyche during the 1800s. A key question continues to elude historians: […]
Masons of California Annual Report
In 2016, California Masons led the way on many different fronts for our fraternity — and now we are looking forward to our future. Read the 2016 Annual Report to learn more about statewide initiatives that will come to fruition in the coming year, and discover how you can apply the lessons and successes of […]
Acacia Creek Receives National Distinction
At Acacia Creek’s founding, its board members set out to create a different kind of retirement community: One that would unite Masons and non-Masons alike in a shared culture of respect, community, and enthusiasm for life. One where the desire to “age successfully” — to establish continued growth and learning as an integral part of […]
A New look at the mythology of The Travelling Man
In addition to the symbolism attached to architectural tools, Freemasonry is built upon stories and legends. And, no story is more intriguing than the one about the “traveling man” – the stonemason who traveled from work site to work site in search of a job. We have little direct evidence of how traveling stonemasons did […]
Welcoming California’s Newest Lodges
On September 16, 2016, the fraternity celebrated the institution of Regius University, U.D. in Fresno. This was followed by the institution of Benicia’s Carquinez Lodge, U.D., on September 23, and that of The Downtown Masonic Lodge, U.D. in Los Angeles on September 30. Between 75 and 100 brothers attended each celebration. It’s the beginning of […]
The Modern Masonic Maker
Since the beginning, Freemasonry has captured the minds and hearts of some of the most imaginative men of each generation. Though far removed from the stonemasons who envisioned and built Europe’s grand cathedrals, the desire to create something new, beautiful, and impactful carries through to present day. In this issue of California Freemason, Mark Frauenfelder […]
An Early California Leader, and a Mason
The Henry Wilson Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry has among its archives an 1857 petition for the Royal Arch degrees of John Bidwell. Shown here, with punctuation added for clarity, the certificate reads: To the M.W. High Priest, King, Scribe, and Companions of Washington R.A. Chapter No. 13: The petition of the subscriber respectfully […]
Brothers Across the Pond
In 2014, Bro. Mark Rosen of America Lodge No. 3368 in England visited Pasadena Masonic Lodge No 272. Rosen had grown up in Pasadena and settled in England after moving there for an Air Force assignment. Since moving to England, he had been married, started a successful business, and become a Mason. During his visit […]
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by Melissa Patterson — Jun 6, 2012
For decades, our culture has forced us into thinking that you must be thin before you step foot on the sand in anything but a one-piece. It’s an unspoken rule. Big girls don’t wear bikinis. For many plus-size women this sad notion has taken all of the fun out of shopping for swimwear. As hard as we try, it is a struggle to feel sexy in the flirty skirted suits, modest full coverage and concealing miracle suits. So, what is a plus-size girl to do when she is sick of accompanying her size two friends to the beach in a frumpy wallpaper-patterned one-piece and has just about had it with the “beach-ready body” stereotypes? The answer is simple. Don’t let others dictate what you wear. As daring as it may seem, rock a bikini!
Most plus-size girls would rather go to war then wear a bikini, but designers are now making it easy to dive into a two-piece. No matter what the shape or size is, every body type is a “bikini body” but it is all about finding the right bikini for your body. The plus-size community is slowly but surely embracing this idea and has affectionately renamed the bikini a “fatkini.” A fatkini is essentially a bikini that was designed specifically with a full figured girl in mind. The fatkini is catching on quick, not only as a new trend but also as an opportunity for plus-size girls to embrace their curves and reveal a suppressed confidence.
This summer, shameful bodies are breaking out of their shells. There is a new babe on the beach and a different kind of diva chilling pool side. She is fearless, striking and designers are targeting that girl. Award winning contemporary plus-size designer Monif Clarke of Monif C. hit the mark with her “Sao Paulo” High-Waisted Plus Size Bikini. Monif encouraged her customers to splurge on one of her two-piece swimsuits in an Essence.com interview. “There are beautiful plus-size women going on vacations with their husbands and girlfriends, going on cruises, and more,” Clarke said. She continued, “It makes me feel great that these women can go out in a swimsuit without a big bulky t-shirt on and still feel comfortable.”
You can make anything look good if you feel good in it and when you feel good about yourself it doesn’t matter what others think. “I can’t tell you how freeing it is to just have fun without worrying about what other people think, said plus-size fashion blogger, Gabi Gregg. Gregg has been an influential leader in the fatkini movement.
In her Fatkini 2012 post on GabiFresh.com, she wore a black and white stripe vintage-inspired bikini from Simplybe and compliments poured in on her blog for days. Some of her readers even called her inspiring. So inspiring, Gregg recently appeared on The Today Show to talk about the new fatkini phenomenon. Although her confidence was applauded, in the same breath she was criticized for promoting obesity and an unhealthy lifestyle. Gregg quickly fired back explaining that she measures her health by her happiness and not by the numbers on the scale. She encouraged a healthy lifestyle by eating correctly and staying active but can’t stress enough how important it is to “be happy in the bodies we have right now.”
In a recent SHAPE magazine survey, a whopping 82 percent of women feel pressured to shape up and slim down for bikini season. 60 percent actually diet for the warm summer season. Why not live in the moment and celebrate our bodies for once. It is so refreshing to see that most designers and clothing companies are expanding their designing minds and creating their very own versions of the fatkini. Lane Bryant, Torrid and Everything But Water are on the list of places you can find the right bikini for your body type. Once you have found the perfect two-piece to suit your body, transform that every day bikini into a golden mome
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I’m down for fatkinis mainly b’cuz I like full figured women. But although I’m into them I am always thrown off, looking away in slight distaste, when I see a big girl in a bikini. I don’t fully understand but I figure it’s still a major taboo. But that is the case for any woman outside the “woman” ideal, which is white, no muscle defition but toned, brown hair, brown eyes. Again, I love all shapes but we’ll, I mean our culture, will never get over its hate for perceived overweightness
“In a recent SHAPE magazine survey, a whopping 82 percent of women feel pressured to shape up and slim down for bikini season.”
I am a part of that 82% and I don’t think that’s such a bad thing…at least not for me. I have slacked off on exercise and healthy eating habits for the last 2 months. The summer season is just the motivation I need to clock in more hours at the gym and be mindful of what I’m eating. Our motivations may differ but within reason there’s nothing wrong with wanting to look good or drop a few pounds.
@Tia: @Tia:
There is a difference between wanting to get more active/healthy for summer and not doing anything because you don’t have a “bikini body.”
The biggest problem is, so many people focus on getting bikini ready, that once that time is over, they drop all of the healthy habits for the rest of the year.
The point is, focus on improving your healthy: no matter what the scale says or where it ends up. And don’t put life on pause because of the number on the scale or your shirt.
Tonnya
The most popular workout/fitness dvd company is called BeachBody. It’s not rocket science. It’s profitable to sell fear of rejection
Kalhu
I love that their is a move towards letting women of all shapes and sizes bask in the summer-wear glory. More power to us right! ; D
The question I’d love to see answered is, why must people wear bikinis?
I do love this but the thing that still bothers me about these photos is how airbrushed they are, when you see a slim woman she generally looks okay because of lack of cellulite etc. which these women probably have, its this wobbly factor I think that makes women so scared of wearing bikinis in public, well it is for me anyway, I’m only 19 and am a UK size 10 but have terrible cellulite, so would never wear a swimsuit let alone a bikini in public!
Kudos to the designer for creating beautiful and fashionable swimwear for larger women, I just wish the images were more realistic.
This seems like a really awesome idea. But I don’t like wearing anything with the name fat in it. So CURVINI would be a much better name. I’m a size 10 and I’ve never been able to wear a bikini before so this would make me feel so confident and sexy to wear.
I had this thought when I was on a cruise earlier this month. Im pregnant, but swore to wear a bikini on my cruises I didn’t want to be guilted into wearing a one piece. So as I sat out on the lido deck people watching, I saw women of all shapes and sizes: some in bikini’s many in one pieces. As I went to pee numerous times because the baby likes dancing in my bladder I thought to myself, all women should wear a bikini…its a hell of a lot easier to pee in a bikini than it is in a one piece. One piece-urination is primitive and barbaric. And I wished that big women wore them more. Disregard everyone else and enjoy that sun and wind on your skin. Pee with freedom and in partial nudity…not full! Who cares? Small, in shape women have the wiggles too. Be free and have fun!!! I sure did. And I’m an 8/10 normally and in pregnancy with cellulite, back fat, and jiggly arms. =0)
Petite Diva
@Trish: I love your point of view. I will refer to this comment every-time I feel insecure about my body!
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Author Fri Apr 18 2014
How Some Chicagoans Remember Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez via Twitter
Everyone from People Magazine to NPR has been posting on their twitter accounts the passing of renowned Columbian author Gabriel Gracia Marquez who died yesterday, April 17, 2014 at the age of 87 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Marquez was best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Marquez has been called one of the world's significant authors of the 20th century and one of the most popular Spanish-language authors since Cervantes.
See how Chicagoans are honoring his life and work via their Twitter accounts.
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— John Wawrzaszek
Events Thu Jan 30 2014
The Best 90 Seconds You'll Ever Spend
Imagine a short film, a minute and a half long, wherein little kids reenact their favorite children’s books. Now imagine watching a multitude of these shorts, back-to-back-to-back. Kind of triggers your ‘awww’ reflex doesn’t it?
Well such a festival isn’t hypothetical; it exists. It’s called the 90-Second Newbery Festival, and through it founder and The Order of Odd-Fish author James Kennedy challenges children to re-create Newbery-award-winning books within strict time constraints. The festival, which is only now entering its third year, has been a massive success, drawing in hundreds of submissions from around the world, all of which James watches and posts on his blog.
Even from its initial inception the concept was a hit. After losing the Newbery to Neil Gaiman in 2009, Kennedy was “embittered”. “I really wanted to win the Newbery. I really felt, in my heart of hearts, that I really deserved it [Author’s sarcasm].” After staging a fake battle with a friend dressed as Gaiman—including a series of physical challenges and ending with Kennedy’s own sacrifice at the altar of Newbery—Gaiman took notice, and took to social media about the whole spectacle. Then, when Kennedy posted the first Newbery adaptation, a 90-second A Wrinkle in Time, the concept exploded in popularity— and Neil Gaiman re-tweeting the video didn’t hurt.
After sitting down with Kennedy to discuss the upcoming festival on February 1st, it became apparent that this event is not just in it for the awww’s. “When you adapt a piece of literature, you take ownership of it,” he says of the 90-second challenge. By encouraging kids to not only read Newbery award winning books carefully, but also to pick and choose key narrative moments, they will inevitably develop opinions about that literature.
— Miden Wood / Comments (1)
On the Web Mon Dec 30 2013
The U.S. Department of Labor's 'Online Book Club' About Work in America
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Studs Terkel's Working. Alex Kotlowitz's The Other Side of the River. These are books and authors that not only shaped the story of work and class in Chicago, but the entire nation. To celebrate it's centennial, and to remind folks that we're a nation of workers (with the words to prove it), the U.S. Department of Labor has selected these and dozens more titles for an interactive, web-based project called Books That Shaped Work in America.
Planned in conjunction with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, the selections include fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's books (Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?, anyone?), and were chosen by U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez, as well as eight former secretaries of labor from both Democratic and Republican administrations, department staff, civil rights leaders, critics, authors, media personalities and staff from the Library of Congress.
And now you're invited to participate in what Perez calls "an online book club where people from all walks of life can share books that informed them about occupations and careers, molded their views about work and helped elevate the discourse about work, workers and workplaces."
Have an idea? You can add your book via this handy form. But before you do, we'd love to hear which books influenced your ideas about work. Add a title to the comments!
— Lara Levitan / Comments (1)
On the Web Tue Oct 29 2013
All Write Already! Interviews Junot Diaz
Since September 2012, All Write Already has covered local book events and news with their signature down-to-earth style. Hosts Karen Shimmin and Willy Nast have interviewed such Chicago wordsmiths like Christine Sneed, Samantha Irby, and M. Molly Backes. Their latest episode, however, might be its most star-powered yet. Pulitzer-prize winning author Junot Diaz, in town for the Chicago Humanities Festival, stopped by the All Write Already! studio for a lively discussion on topics ranging from Atari to heartbreak. Diaz covers a lot of ground in the thirty minute interview including writing as an extreme sport, his current work-in-progress, the lack of diversity in the publishing industry, and the problem with producing writers instead of readers. He also partakes in one of our city's oldest pastimes: complaining about Chicago-style politics. "What strikes you is how proud people are of being Chicagoans and how that pride is not matched by its elites. If it was up to the politicians, they would sell this city cheap...," said Diaz. "No city that I've been to more explicitly renders the judgment of how awful its leadership is." At the same time, Diaz admires our robust cultural scene. "I met so many people doing such fascinating stuff. That was incredibly cheering."
You can listen to this and all other episodes on iTunes, Stitcher, or the All Write Already! website.
— Ines Bellina
On the Web Wed Oct 16 2013
Find Your New Favorite Local Bookstore
Those who love books must also, by the rule of logic, love bookstores. And Chicago has some of the best independent bookstores in the country, at least as far as I'm concerned. It looks like I'm not the only one -- there is, in fact, a Tumblr account dedicated entirely to becoming "a comprehensive list of experiences at the 100+ small and independent bookstores in the city of Chicago."
Be still, my heart.
Bookstores of Chicago has pictures, information and comprehensive reviews of what one might expect in each of these bookstores. And the most recent review is one of my personal faves: Logan Square's terrific speculative fiction and punk rock bookstore Bucket O' Blood Books and Records. So find yourself a new bookstore, and read more books!
Photo courtesy of bookstoresofchicago.tumblr.com
— Eden Robins / Comments (1)
Author Mon Oct 07 2013
Papa Hemingway's Famous Burgers
The late-season warmth means it might just be possible to squeeze in one last barbecue or two... why not make it a literary barbecue? In addition to his harem of six-toed cats and the honor of being born in Oak Park, the other thing Ernest Hemingway is known for, apparently, is his special hamburger (that and some books, or so I hear).
Food writer and self-proclaimed Hemingway acolyte Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan went in search of the famous recipe when she found out that 2000 digitized documents from Hemingway's time in Cuba had been donated to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library -- not his scholarly or literary musings, no, but things like passport copies, good driver discounts, and household recipes. Some might call these documents insignificant, but Tan was determined to unearth the Hemingway hamburger, and unearth (and make) she did.
The article in the Paris Review is a great read and includes the recipe. Why not give it a shot, and while you're at it, pair with Sylvia Plath's famous tomato soup cake?
Photo via Chicagoist
— Eden Robins
On the Web Fri Aug 30 2013
Keith Ecker Glimpses the Future of Live Lit in Chicago
"We've got a great tradition of storytelling rooted [in Chicago], thanks to the likes of Studs and Ira and Royko and many others. But one thing that I know is on a lot of people's minds right now is where do we go from here? Now that we have created this "community" of storytelling, what do we do with it? And what do we do with the form so that it doesn't stagnate?"
So writes Guts & Glory co-host and Essay Fiesta co-founder founder Keith Ecker on his personal blog. For a look into current and future Chicago projects that are challenging, expanding, or redefining the future of live lit in our city, read on.
— Lara Levitan
Author Mon Aug 26 2013
Breaking into Live Lit: An Amateur's Guide
If you regularly attend live lit events in Chicago, you've probably considered contributing your own work at least once. Maybe you've been lurking in the back of the audience for years, longing to join in. Maybe you're an aspiring writer with no performance experience. Maybe you're a fan of a particular series, but just have no clue how to get involved.
If you fall into any of these categories, this guide is for you. No matter your level of experience or expertise, you can break into Chicago's live lit scene. All it takes is a little persistent effort and an intelligent use of your time. Here are some pointers.
Step #1: Find a "Home"
There are many, many live literary events in Chicago spanning a variety of topics, settings, and audiences. If you're new to the scene, it's tempting to adopt a scatter-shot approach, applying willy-nilly to any and every show you can think of. But if you're a new writer/performer, cool your jets. Focus on shows that are amenable to your own style and topics of interest.
Do you like to write personal creative essays? Story Club, Essay Fiesta, or This Much is True might be the place for you. Do you prefer to tell a story off the cuff, free of notes? Go for The Moth or Do Not Submit. Do you prefer nonfiction that covers current events or pop culture? The Paper Machete is your bag. Do you have a gritty, explicit tale to tell? Guts & Glory or The Sunday Night Sex Show are your spots. Choosing an appropriate setting for your work is absolutely essential.
Step #2: Become a Regular
Establish a rapport with the show (or shows) you'd like to submit to. Each show is its own microcosm within the live lit community, and to become a member of that community you must show your face. Hang around and chat with contributors after the show, or send the show's organizers a nice email or Facebook post.
Attend a show multiple times before submitting your work to its hosts. This will improve your chances in two ways. First, it will allow your to learn the show's unique style, and second, it will convince the show's hosts that you are a thoughtful, decent member of the live lit community (and not a foaming psychopath)-- both of which will vastly improve your odds.
Step #3: Learn the House Style
Every live lit series has its own unique style, and the only way to master the style is to attend regularly and pay close attention. Before submitting work to a series, ask yourself the following: How long is the average piece? Do contributions ever contain explicit content? Do contributors use the first person, or is it more journalistic? Do readers use notes or do they speak extemporaneously? Is work laugh-a-minute, or more subdued and serious? How irreverent are the stories? How conversational are they?
Once you have a good sense of a series' style (and what distinguishes it from other shows), you are ready to start writing. As you write your piece, never lose track of the desired tone, length, and style. The ideal submission should be a perfect amalgam of the show's overall sensibility and your own unique voice.
Step #4: Find the Appropriate Submission Channel
Live lit shows accept new work in a variety of ways. Make sure you play by a show's particular rules so you don't irritate the hosts and organizers with emails or in-person queries that don't follow the standard procedure. Usually you can find the appropriate submissions method on the series' website or on their social media pages.
Some shows, like Do Not Submit, Story Club, and The Moth run on an open-mic basis, in which case the only way to participate is to show up early, put your name in, and wait for the opportunity to share. Other shows, like Essay Fiesta, Fictlicious, and Write Club accept online submissions. In some cases, shows have dedicated open mic nights that are distinct from the main show, but give new writers the opportunity to try out material and eventually snag a spot at the main event. For example, The Paper Machete, runs an open-mic writing group the first Wednesday of every month that occasionally feeds new writers into the main show.
Step #5: Be Not Afraid!
Even if you carefully study the show you are submitting to, attend it often, schmooze with the hosts, and craft a piece you are utterly happy with, you might face disappointment. Before you swear off live lit entirely, remember that work is rejected for all kinds of reasons. Maybe your story wasn't appropriate for the venue or the event. Maybe the hosts have a big backlog of performers on their schedule. Maybe you're close to the appropriate style or tone, but haven't quite perfected it.
A rejection does not mean that your writing is terrible or that the hosts dislike you. Try again! Almost no one gets a story into a show the first time they try. Learning to respond to criticism or rejection is a crucial stage of development as a writer or a performer.
Anecdote in point: Earlier this summer, I sent a few samples to Karen and Willy at Essay Fiesta. At first they gave me the kindest, most encouraging rejection ever. The pieces I sent just weren't right, but they were close, and I was encouraged to submit again. I spent more time editing some other work and attending Essay Fiesta, then I submitted two more pieces a few months later and got into the show. I'm sure most writers have had similar experiences with live lit shows (or lit mags). Tenacity and sensitivity to criticism can really pay off in both cases!
Step #6: Do it! Now!
There you have it! You now have the tools to begin a foray into live lit. Actually, you probably had all of these tools before you even clicked on this piece. If you're an avid attendee of lit events in Chicago, you already know a great deal about what works and what doesn't in live storytelling. So use your knowledge, write a piece, and take it out on the town.
Photo of Larry Kerns at This Much is True by Jill Howe is courtesy of the This Much is True website.
Photo of JH Palmer at a recent Story Club event by Jill Howe courtesy of Story Club's website.
Do Not Submit postcard image is courtesy of Do Not Submit's website.
— Erika Price / Comments (3)
On the Web Thu Jul 11 2013
What is the Business of Literature?
Richard Nash (former runner of Soft Skull Press, now a consultant/guru of sorts for Publishing At Large), has written an illuminating essay called "What is the Business of Literature?"
In the essay, Nash projects broad, provocative, conceptual contemplations across the history of one the strangest industries known to modern man: publishing. Among many revelations, Nash points us to how the invention of copyright law helped to rein in an otherwise unwieldy proliferation of texts; and how it, thus, helped to move control of the literature market into certain hands.
Nash's thinking should be at the forefront of many a small, formally ambitious publisher (of which Chicago has many) confused about how to proceed as the cost and means of dissemination are made ever easier in the hyper-digital age; as the public's love for text objects is reconsidered, and as productive, distributive, curatorial, and community models of literature must be thought of anew.
Read the essay here.
— John Wilmes
Author Mon Jun 17 2013
In Case You Missed It: Alan Sepinwall on the Golden Age of Television
Last weekend, Alan Sepinwall made an appearance at Printer’s Row LitFest to discuss his recent self-published book, The Revolution Was Televised. The book, an in-depth analysis of the recent evolution of small-screen entertainment, analyzes the factors that culminated to produce a higher standard of television entertainment. Such shows include “Oz,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “The Sopranos” and “Mad Men,” to name a few.
When it comes to television analysis, Sepinwall is certainly a reliable source. Stemming from his days writing “NYPD Blue” reviews out of a dorm room, he is credited with having created something of a revolution himself, having pioneered a paradigm shift towards more informed viewership. Where before TV critics were primarily expected to review pilots and finales, now, following Sepinwall’s style, reviewers pick apart episodes for trends, symbolism, references, and make predictions regarding the weeks to follow. This more in-depth analysis owes a great deal of its influence to the groundswell of fan communities fostered by the rise of the internet.
Though one can certainly argue that the internet played a major role in this revolution, Sepinwall argues that the golden age of television began even before the onset of internet fandom, beginning in the late 1990s.
“Everyone had cable in their homes, and everyone had more and more channels, and that was A) splintering the audience, and B) these channels needed original programming and started doing it, HBO first and foremost among them. And so HBO started doing things like ‘Oz’ and ‘Sex and the City’ and most importantly ‘The Sopranos’ and they showed that A) you can get a pretty big audience doing this, and B) you can break all sorts of traditional storytelling rules that we had to this point held sacrosanct. And people will watch this.”
— Miden Wood
Events Thu Jun 13 2013
Chicago Live! Encourages Chicagoans to 'Explore the City'
Living in a city, it’s sometimes easy to let an exciting event slip by unnoticed. I had heard of the TribunePress variety show Chicago Live! in passing, but it was mentally categorized in the column entitled “Should Go to That One of These Days.” Now, having attended the program firsthand at Printer’s Row Litfest, it has rightfully relocated to the “Must-See” list.*
With features ranging from live jazz to Second City sketches to political interviews, it’s hard to pinpoint which quality of Chicago Live! proved so engaging. Perhaps it was the nimble fingers of blues guitarist John Primer, or the refreshing candor on the part of interviewed Chicago Aldermen. Perhaps it was the wry musings of MC Rick Kogan, or his intermittent reminders to “keep in mind that it’s free” (thanks to sponsorship by Nielsen). So free in fact that you can watch a webcast of the whole show here!
Books Mon Jun 10 2013
Anobium Press Seeks Writers for Two New Projects
Anobium, an alternative Chicago-based press, is seeking writers to participate in two upcoming projects that explore the potential of creative collaboration. The first of these projects, based in Chicago though open to writers worldwide, is Middle Ground. The collaborative project is dedicated to the exploration of space, our experience of environments both virtual and actual, and the way in which such spaces inform the written word.
Anobium Editor Benjamin van Loon describes the process in his own words: “So you have a location: Middle Inlet, Wisconsin. Writer 1 will write up to 500 words about Middle Inlet, and then he/she will move onto a different ‘location,’ where 500-some words have already been written by a different writer. At the same time, a different writer will be visiting Middle Inlet, Wisconsin, adding up to 500 more words to Writer 1’s original text. Make sense? So for Middle Ground, we have a target of 15 participants, which means 15 locations. It would be impossible for all writers to visit all places, so each writer will be visiting five places, such that at the end of the project, each text written about each place will be around 2,500 words, compiled by five people. It’s like we’re all taking turns.
“The best analogy I have is this. Let’s say we’re on a tour bus. We stop at a roadside bathroom somewhere, and each of us has a big, fat permanent marker. Bathroom User 1 uses the stall, and in his/her boredom, writes ‘SLAYER RULES’ on the bathroom wall. Bathroom User 2 uses the stall next, and in his/her boredom, adds ‘THE UNDERWORLD’ to BU1’s graffiti. Bathroom User 3 uses the stall next, and he/she is kind of a prude, so he/she strikes through ‘S̶L̶A̶Y̶E̶R̶ ̶R̶U̶L̶E̶S̶ ̶T̶H̶E̶ ̶U̶N̶D̶E̶R̶W̶O̶R̶L̶D̶’ and writes ‘Stop drawing on bathroom walls.’ And so on and so forth.”
The second project, which will be based in New York, is Rescriptions II. A reincarnation of a previous project, Rescriptions is dedicated to the revival of lost stories through the injection of fresh perspectives. The process is simple: each writer brings to the group an old, tired story; one that doesn’t seem to be working. That story is handed to a second writer, whose task is to enhance and embellish the story’s strengths. After Writer 2 has tweaked the piece, it is passed along to Writer 3, Writer 4, Writer 5 and so on. By project’s end, the once-washed-up story is alive with the varied styles of a multi-minded author.
I had the opportunity to ask Mr. van Loon a few questions about both projects, and gain insight on the value of collaboration, the importance of place, and why you should get involved.
Author Thu May 30 2013
A Book-Club-Approved Book Club
Ever been in the middle of your latest read and wondered, “What was the author thinking when they wrote that?” Well, now ShelfPleasure.com provides you with the rare opportunity to ask the author yourself! Shelf Pleasure invites you to join them in reading this month’s book club selection, The Year of the Gadfly, where they will be joined by the author, Jennifer Miller. Miller will be popping into the book club forum to discuss her debut novel through July 10th, when she will conclude the book club with a live chat at 6 pm E.T. (RSVP to the chat here.)
It is Miller’s personal goal to set the world record for most book clubs visited by an author in one month. Help her reach that record by visiting the Shelf Pleasure forum and following the “Summer 2013 Book Club” conversation thread.
Shelf Pleasure co-founder Kristen Weber says of Miller’s involvement with the site, “We are so excited to introduce our audience to Jennifer, and we know they will love The Year of the Gadfly as much as we did. This unique format will allow our site visitors to connect with Jennifer so that in addition to sharing insights and opinions with other readers, they can actually obtain insight directly from the author. We are honored that she agreed to participate and give our audience this special experience.”
Interview Thu May 30 2013
A Look at Chicago Literati, a New Online Outlet for All Things Literary
The city's literary community welcomes a new addition with Chicago Literati, part of Tribune Media's ChicagoNow blogger union. Chicago Literati captures the essence of the lit scene with book reviews, live reading reviews, event postings, reading lists, creative nonfiction essays, and even a bit of fiction and poetry every now and again. The site began last November as an independent project of recent Columbia College Chicago fiction writing graduate Abby Sheaffer. As acting editor-in-chief, Sheaffer wears many hats to maintain the site. She writes articles, reviews content, edits submissions, and solicits new contributors.
"I really work hard to make Chicago Literati feel like a community," says Sheaffer. "I think the greatest part of the Chicago literary community is the sense of family and how open everyone is to expression."
A community is building around the site's growing content. This includes the dedicated staff Sheaffer has amassed. "They're all so unique and talented," she says.
Many are students or recent graduates who are looking for a place to share their work. Even as young writers they are tackling subjects that apply to writers at most any level of experience. A recent post discussed how writers combat writers block.
Author Tue May 28 2013
Author Rebecca Makkai featured on local podcast
Chicago author Rebecca Makkai is the latest guest on All Write Already!, a locally-produced podcast that promises to be literary "without being all huffy about it."
Makkai is among the ranks of Chicago writers making waves beyond the local scene. Her 2011 debut, The Borrower, tells the story of a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading who take to the road. The book won all kinds of recognition, including a Booklist Top Ten Debut. All Write Already! hosts Karen Shimmin and Willy Nast interview Makkai about selling short stories, stealing from Nabokov, and what reading to nine-year-old boys taught her about writing.
Listen in and you may get a chance to share prospective title ideas for Makkai's as-yet-untitled second novel, due out in summer 2014 from Viking/Penguin. New episodes of All Write Already! are published on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month.
Author Mon May 20 2013
Parenthood is Scary
“I won’t lie to you. Before your kid is born, you aren’t expecting it to be pretty. You know the birth will be a little messy. But it’s fairly shocking when the doctor holds up your baby and it looks like a prop from one of those horror flicks that gets called a ‘cult’ flick because 42 fat dipshits on the internet like it a lot. The baby was covered in blood, head to toe, screaming. Screaming, I assume, for a shower.”
According to his first blog, Father Knows Shit, this is how, one day in 2006, Drew Magary became a father. And then proceeded to document said fatherhood in accounts both heartfelt and unflinchingly sassy*.
Though that blog has since been put on permanent hiatus, Magary’s parental musings took no such break. Rather—somewhere amidst two other books and extensive work as a writer for GQ and Deadspin—they’ve accumulated and make up his latest work, Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood.
When it comes to honest accounts of parenthood, Magary is fearless. He is the parent brave enough to admit that, yes, being a father is hard. Yes, your baby’s crying will be just as annoying as every other baby’s crying. Yes, the pressure put on parents is enormous, and spanking is pretty weird for everyone involved. It is that very candor that allows Magary’s work to be both eye-opening and entertaining.
This Thursday, May 23, at 7 pm the father himself will be stopping into the Book Cellar (4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave.) to share some pearls of parental wisdom from his new book. Whether you are a parent, a babysitter, or have just seen a baby before in passing, Magary’s work is brimming with wit, and definitely worth a listen.
*”Sassy”, you may think, is a flippant or sarcastic choice here. But read any one of Magary’s GQ articles and you’ll find it’s the only word astute in assessing his deft mockery talents. I revere his sass. He is a SassMaster.
On the Web Wed Mar 27 2013
Library Debt Got You Down?
If you owe the city a pretty penny in library fines, it might behoove you to enter the Tribune's Library Amnesty contest in honor of its literary insert's one-year anniversary. Five winners will get $100 towards library fines as well as a one-year digital subscription to the Printers Row Journal, which regularly goes for $29.
The final stretch for entries is upon us with just a few days before the April 1 deadline. Entering is simple; just email your explanation of 50 words or less to printersrow@tribune.com, including the phrase "Library Amnesty" in the subject line. Be sure to let them know how much you owe and at which libraries you're in the red.
The cost-benefit analysis seems promising, so why not give it a shot?
— Claire Glass
On the Web Sat Jan 26 2013
Volunteer "Man-hunt"
Open Books carries out a variety of volunteer-driven literacy programs in Chicago Public Schools and in its bookstore all the time. As an organization, Open Books reaches everyone from infants through high school seniors, and maintains strong relationships with the passionate volunteer base that fuels the work. Currently, the store is searching for male role models to support its daytime literacy/mentorship program, understanding the power that a male mentor can have in a young person's life, as well as, to address the lower number of male volunteers on regular rotation.
Open Books always accepting applications for new female volunteers too!!
— Emily Thornton
On the Web Fri Jan 25 2013
Kathleen Rooney on Nickelodeon Memories, Poetry, and Weldon Kees
Back in November, I reviewed Rose Metal Press founder, Katheleen Rooney's, Robinson Alone, a novel in poems commemorating the life of poet Weldon Kees. Rooney brings Kees back through Robinson, a character of his own making, who featured prominently in Kees's most famous poems.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book as well as this interview with Rooney by James Reidel, Kees's biographer and author of Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), conducted for the Poetry Foundation.
Reidel and Rooney discuss Kees's relationship to Robinson, the Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and the way incompleteness and imperfection bring us together. Rooney says in one response:
In an interview at the end of her memoir The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch says, "I've never met anyone who hasn't fucked up in their life a time or two. Royally. I'm pretty sure that's what keeps us connected to one another," and I'm inclined to agree. In much the same way, I suppose, that incompleteness engages the imagination, imperfection and fallibility make people more human, more like individuals we'd actually want to know. Perfect, or perfectly successful, people are not so interesting, not so instructive.
Read the whole interview here.
(Photo by Beth Rooney.)
Chicago Zine Fest to Be Your BFF
The Chicago Zine Fest is one of many wonderfully free cultural offerings available to Chicago's reading public. This year's fest is scheduled for March 8 and 9 and will involve much of the programming repeat attendees have seen in the past like panels, workshops, trades, storytelling, readings, skill sharing, and more.
Zine Fest is requesting donations to ensure that things remain as free and dynamic as ever for 2013. There are about 33 hours left on the funding site, so if you're feeling inspired this is the time to make your move. Gifts for all donators are detailed on the fundraiser page and include zines, totes, prints, and even a free tattoo.
On the Web Tue Dec 25 2012
Best Books 2012: According Some Other People
Many of us have a brand new stack of books to add to our shelves, carefully selected, or in some cases, re-gifted, by well meaning relatives. Whatever the case may be for you, we hope you're getting a couple of minutes to get started.
If your holiday bounty is devoid of at least a few page turners, here are a few best of lists to spend your Chanukah gelt on:
NPR has a whole collection of lists from romance to young adult reading that never gets old, no matter how hold you are.
The New York Times kept things simple with a concise top ten list.
The Chicago Public Library is in the mix with best books for teens out this year.
Staff at The New Yorker weighed in too, with favorites for each writer.
Stay tuned for Book Club's Best Of list!!!
On the Web Fri Dec 07 2012
Words Chicago Forgot from Fifth Star Press
The first stirrings of Fifth Star Press began in 2010, when founders Jason Stauter and Ian Morris, longtime editor of TriQuarterly Review, got to thinking there might be a place for contemporary and republished works of fiction among Chicago's many small press publications.
The house didn't release its first book, The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter, until September 2012, but has quite a few projects in store.
Fifth Star's most recent project, out last week, is the first in a series releases of little known Chicago fiction; Diversey, by MacKinlay Kantor, was published in the Chicagoan Magazine in 1928. Fifth Star provides a brief synopsis on its website:
"A saga of love and betrayal in the age of Prohibition. The novel traces the intersecting lives of three young residents of a boarding house on Chicago's North Side."
The next installment in this series of revisited works is a collection of fiction by novelist and storywriter Henry Blake Fuller. Keep an eye out for this release in 2013.
On the Web Mon Nov 26 2012
For All of the Unbecoming Skeletons
D.T. Max's biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, bares unbecoming skeletons, according to Ryan Bloom of The American Prospect. Some of those darker stories, though, are indicative of the relatable parts of Wallace through which the late writer tried to communicate at the end of his life.
According to Bloom's November 26 piece, the biography makes apparent Wallace's "quest to connect with other minds, to make people feel less alone," and says that his time growing up in Champaign, Illinois may have informed his later writing. Bloom writes that "it was in the Midwest that Wallace grew up amid strips of modest homes, ever-present neighbors, packs of kids on bikes, and endless fields of soy and corn, absorbing the value of community and normalcy."
Books Tue Oct 23 2012
Indie Publisher Announces New E-Book Series
Brooklyn-based Akashic Books--whose tagline is "reverse-gentrification of the literary world"-- announces the next installment of the new Akashic Digits Series: an e-collection of extended excerpts from Chicago's own Joe Meno, author of Office Girl.
You can download the Joe Meno Digit for free and read selections from Meno titles Office Girl, Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, Demons in the Spring, and Tender as Hellfire on your Kindles or other major e-readers. And through October 28 you can download each title for the reduced price of $4.99 from Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader Store, or iTunes. Kindle also has Hairstyles for $2.99 until the end of the month.
The Digits Series is Akashic's monthly, themed e-book promotion that features selections from Akashic's titles, with exclusive links to digital and print editions. Other Digits include the Historical Digit, including excerpts from Cervantes Street by Jaime Manrique, and the Jamaican Digit, including excerpts from Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer.
On the Web Mon Oct 01 2012
More Reasons to Support Local Writers
This article, published by Forbes earlier this summer, discusses the fact that creative careers, hard to come by as they are, weed out lower and middle income writers for the simple fact that they don't have the luxury of building a resume of unpaid internships. There's also the obstacle of supporting one's self as a freelancer without some sort of disposable income to pick up the rent checks and other such necessities of survival.
Alexandra Kimball's article from around the same time, published by Random House Canada, talks about the writer's well timed and completely unanticipated inheritance, which keeps her afloat while she writes.
All this considered, here are some lovely local endeavors, moving forward thanks to the sacrifices and grit of some seriously determined creative types in Chicago. However they manage to swing it, we support them:
MAKE Magazine's next issue is coming out and will be available for purchase soon. In the mean time, check out the fabulous online book reviews.
Damask Press is trying to raise money for its next chapbook with three days to go on its Kickstarter.
Rose Metal Press released a new book, The Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, in September.
Guild Literary is hosting a series of October events at the Hairpin Gallery called Unnatural Spaces where poetry meets the stage to look at the ways urban living impacts the natural environment.
And there's more. So much more!!
On the Web Wed Aug 08 2012
Never Bare Your Soul To An Empty Room Again
At least that's the idea. This week sees the launch of the new social media platform Togather, a "fansource" site for authors. Authors post their availability for readings and fans can request an author reading in their town and essentially make it happen with enough interest.
Togather was co-founded by authors Andrew Kessler and Aaron Shapiro. "Our goal is to make being an author a viable career and democratize the market for speakers," Kessler said in an official press release. "Book tours and speaking gigs are time-consuming and costly to arrange, yet they make a real impact in terms of book sales and audience reach. Togather allows authors to put the planning of these events in the hands of their fans, engage their platform in a meaningful way and never speak to an empty room."
Membership is free. Authors interested in joining must have an invitation code (that's how new it is), but can request one at the website.
— Rebecca Hyland
Have You Heard?: The Black Chicago Renaissance
A couple of weeks ago WBEZ aired a broadcast discussing the little known Black Chicago Renaissance in time for the publication of a new anthology on the subject, simply titled, The Black Chicago Renaissance.
The book, published under the University of Illinois Press, address the onslaught of cultural material produced by black Chicagoans in the 1930s, the quality and quantity of which is on par with that seen in Harlem in the 1920s. The essays, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr., explore the unique social and economic circumstances that defined Chicago at this point in history as they influenced artistic expression among Black Chicagoans.
The broadcast features Erik Gellman, an associate professor of history at Roosevelt University, and Lionel Kimble, an associate professor of history at Chicago State University. They're also co-directors of "Renaissance in Black Metropolis: Chicago, 1930-1950." Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, and Heather Ireland Robinson, Executive Director of the South Side Community Art Center also offer insights on the broadcast.
— Claire Glass / Comments (1)
On the Web Wed Jul 25 2012
My Undateable Bookshelf
The Huffington Post recently published a list of 9 Books that Make You Undateable. This article screamed out to me because I'm single woman who loves to read -- and in fact I write about books and dating.
On my completed and read list was only The Great Gatsby and Confederacy of Dunces, which should only declare me 2/9 undateable. I read The Great Gatsby in high school American Literature, so does that really count? Yes, I am quite embarrassed to confess I have not read On the Road or Anna Karenina (I blame my public schooling). Recalling how my college boyfriend was obsessed with Atlas Shrugged, I do see how that could have been a red flag waving to me. Our relationship did not work out -- "Enough said," as the Huffington Post points out.
— Melinda McIntire
On the Web Fri Jul 20 2012
Edith Wharton's Erotica is No Joke
The Rumpus covered this juicy tid bit a couple of weeks ago, and generously included some quotations. Perhaps for those who found 50 Shades, riddled as it is with its grammatical errors--or so I'm told--a bit underwhelming, Wharton's stint in erotica will prove more fascinating.
(Photo Credit to 50 Watts via Creative Commons)
New Food Writing
Chicago is a food city, as much as it is a literary destination and lately, those local interests have popped up in tandem. Three new food publications are helping to define this particular unity:
More about experiences surrounding food than food itself, Graze Magazine, came out with Issue 1 in April. It's one to keep your eye on, deftly fusing literary interest with the colorful language of food. The mag has also already managed to organize two events that rival those coordinated by well established publications. Most recently, it put together a conversation with local food writers that featured the likes of Martha Bayne, moderator and creator of Soup and Bread, Louisa Chu of WBEZ, Steve Dolinsky from ABC7, Modern Baking magazine's Maggie Hennessy, Ed Marszewski of the beloved Maria's Packaged Goods and Community Center, Heather Sperling from Tasting Table, Time Out Chicago writer David Tamarkin, and Julia Thiel of the Chicago Reader. It's safe to assume the magazine will not stop there.
There's The Snackpot, too, which brings together consistently funny snack reviews that discuss matters ranging from the orange tinted to all-natural fare, and well drawn personal essays. Jacob Daneman is managing editor and Keith Ecker of Essay Fiesta fame had a major role in getting Snackpot going, plus he has a running column.
There's also Mash Tun Journal, which focuses on craft beer and the community that produces it. Like The Snackpot and Graze, Mash Tun is as much concerned with the way craft beer enriches lifestyles and possesses its own aesthetic values, as it is with the elixirs themselves. The journal is available at Quimby's and Maria's Packaged Goods and Community Bar (owned by journal editor Ed Marszewski).
Book Club Tue Jun 05 2012
Literary Lives in Chicago's Neighborhoods
ChicagoPublishes promotes Chicago's publishing scene with articles and events, has a relatively new and profoundly exciting regular feature that might be coming to a neighborhood near you. The From the Neighborhoods section spotlights a different Chicago neighborhood on most weeks, and tends to focus on those less obvious literary destinations as much as possible. The features offer as much about the literary scene in a given neighborhood as possible, and often offer bits of history fascinating local history.
Neighborhoods already covered include Albany Park, Chatham, Oak Park, and a literary look at Chicago's Cemeteries. If you feel there's a dearth of activity in your community, look out for a segment on your turf; it might bring some surprises to light. If you're familiar with little known or under celebrated literary haunts around the corner, the writers at ChicagoPublishes happily accept suggestions. Just email the staff at info@chicagopublishes.com.
Book Club Mon May 21 2012
Self Published Authors: See Yourself on the Shelf
With giants like Houghton Mifflin Harcourt declaring bankruptcy, and so many others going the way of eBooks, it's no surprise that indie booksellers are working to sharpen the process for getting self published authors on their shelves. After all, self publishing these days means less and less about a book's quality.
The American Booksellers Association wrote on the subject last month. Check out this excerpt about one book seller's plan:
One of Watermark's programs simply offers a little coveted shelf space. "No questions asked, we'll take five copies of a book on consignment," said Sarah Bagby, owner of Watermark Books and Cafe in Wichita, Kansas. The terms are 60/40, and the store keeps the books on the shelves for 90 days. "If they sell, we'll get back to the author right away and reorder. If they don't, the author needs to pick up their books." Staff reconciles the section every month. Contracts for the authors are kept at the cash wrap, and staff is trained on the programs that Watermark offers.
Read the entire article for more details.
Book Club Fri Apr 20 2012
That Old Book Smell Explained...By Science!
It's never occurred to me to ask why old books smell like old books. I associate that lovely, musty, and somewhat addictive smell with age and therefore seek little more explanation. The logic stands; they're old, so they smell. Apparently, however, there is a deeply scientific explanation for the scent, and it has to do with the reactions that take place amongst the many chemicals used in the book making process.
This article from the Atlantic , which includes an informative video, brought to us by AbeBooks, explains the reactions with some (fairly goofy) pop-up graphics.
I suspect that Anthony Grafton, covered in Book Club last week, might have something to say about the powerful sensory reaction that the scent of an old book, or an entire shop full of them, can conjure. The E-book surely has some appeal, but pleasantly olfactive it is not.
Miscellaneous Wed Apr 11 2012
Are Book Tours Useful?
What's the value in a book tour? I have no idea. I've never gone on tour, nor have I written a book for that matter, but I do love to go to readings. That much I know. The Hairpin, one of my favoriate blogs, published a rather large article asking 9 writers, publicists, and event organizers the same question.
According to my experience as a listener at such events, author readings succeed insofar as they almost always motivate me to buy the book if I have some cash in my pocket. And if I don't, I borrow some from my boyfriend and repay him by asking him to help me put up shelves because my books no longer fit in my bookcases.
News Thu Apr 05 2012
University of Chicago To Publish 2008 Self-Published Book
What's the motivation to self-publish? I'd always thought there was a stigma to going this route. I thought the general opinion was that it was kind of like going to the prom without a date, that self-publishers "haven't accepted that their book isn't well-written [and] haven't developed the critical skills necessary to recognise in which ways their work is lacking" (OK, so that's just an anonymous "working writer" on an internet forum).
It seems that perception has been changing in the last few years, though. Why? Well, obviously, most unknown writers' odds of getting picked up by a major publisher are a long shot, particularly in an economy where publishing houses are forced to cut expenses to stay competitive, according to the New York Times. Self-publishing has definitely grown in popularity in the last few years. Kevin Weiss, president and chief executive of Author Solutions (which owns, among others, iUniverse, AuthorHouse and Xlibris) told the New York Times they published 26,000 new books in 2011, as compared to 13,000 in 2007. In the same article, Brittany Turner of CreateSpace (the self-publishing arm of Amazon.com) reported an 80% increase in books published between 2009 and 2010. As for proof of quality, self-publishers have gone on to become best-sellers and some have gone on to get picked up by traditional publishers, such as Louise Voss and Mark Edwards, whose expertly self-marketed book Catch Your Death went on to snag a six-figure advance from HarperFiction, according to the marketing website expertmessagegroup.com.
The latest self to traditional publishing Cinderella story is Sergio De La Pava's A Naked Singularity, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in May. Levi Stahl, promotions director for U. of C. Press told mediabistro.com "I read a review in the Quarterly Conversation that said the novel was the best [the reviewer] had read all year, maybe the best of the decade. ...I discovered...it was brilliant, and it was a shame that no publisher had signed it. I started rattling cages here at Chicago to convince people we should publish the book. Without cheap digital publishing technology, the book would never have existed; without the Web, I would never have heard about it."
Truthiness In Creative Nonfiction
John Cook of Gawker takes on the Mike Daisey scandal (the author whose story was retracted from This American Life) by playing devil's advocate with the work of David Sedaris and David Foster Wallace:
If the false parts are essential to making the whole thing work, then the whole thing doesn't really work. Shave those little cheats out of the "narrative," and Wallace's artful accounts of neurosis in the heart of consumer culture lose their edge. Sedaris' escapades become commonplace. And Daisey's indignation becomes sanctimony. And if the false parts aren't essential -- why are they there?
Read more on Gawker.
Interview Sun Mar 11 2012
Love in the Stacks
Open Books is more than just a bookstore, for many reasons. Here's one reason, which you may not expect: this winter, two separate marriage proposals have taken place among the stacks.
Kevin Elliott, the bookstore's manager, talked with Gapers Block about what makes Open Books a great proposal venue.
Why do you think Open Books is a great place for proposals?
It's a home to true book lovers, and there is an inherent romanticism in books--they can take your mind and imagination to very personal and intimate places. We aren't a store with dusty stacks and piles. There are cozy couches in the lounge, vibrant colors, and soft lighting that all work together to create an intimate setting that really draws people to the store. When you walk into the store, you immediately feel this sense of joy, awe, and comfort, the same feeling you get when you're around your significant other.
When you get engaged, you're getting ready to begin a new chapter with the person you love. You may not know what's next, but you are excited to find out. That, mixed with the magical atmosphere of our bookstore, definitely makes for an intimate, symbolic place for engagement.
— Ruthie Kott
News Mon Mar 05 2012
Book Banned from Apple iBooks Over Content
Seth Godin's e-Book Stop Selling Dreams was recently rejected by Apple iBooks. The offending content in question? Links to recommended books - on amazon.com.
"I think there's nothing much wrong with merchants and vendors working hard with exclusives and deals to increase market share," Godin said. "When it comes to a content screen, though, I get nervous, particularly when the device is part of the store. Once you are reading your books on a device that is hooked into a store, the person curating the store has a great deal more power than a local bookseller ever did." Read more here.
Godin is a marketing specialist and public speaker who launched the websites Yoyodyne (later purchased by Yahoo) and Squidoo. He describes Stop Stealing Dreams as a "30,000 word manifesto" on the state of modern education. He is not charging for the book and offers several options to download it for free.
On the Web Mon Feb 13 2012
Don't Know What To Get Your Valentine?
Try a heartfelt love poem. These poems range in topic from classic and romantic to erotic and break-up. You're sure to find something to please your Valentine!
— Emily Wong
Miscellaneous Mon Jan 23 2012
Poetry Celebrates Its Centennial
100 years ago, Harriet Munroe founded Poetry in Chicago (above: first issue of Poetry, October 1912, courtesy of Poetry magazine). Since then, the magazine has come out with an issue every month, publishing some of the greats (E.E. Cummings, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop...just to name a few) as well as fresh, new voices. Check out what Poetry has been up to all these years, look through the archives, and plan your year around the many Poetry centennial events!
On the Web Thu Jan 05 2012
Fred Sasaki Talks Turkey
Er...poetry... Sasaki, the associate editor of Poetry magazine and founder of the Printers Ball, sits down with the Chicago Reader to talk about his literary journey.
Playboy Editor on Print
Leopold 'Lee' Froehlich, editor of Playboy, talks with the Chicago Reader about his history at the magazine, journalism, and the print vs. digital debate.
— Rose Lannin
On the Web Sun Dec 25 2011
In the spirit of the season, and of book clubs everywhere, enjoy these unique "Christmas trees." Happy Holidays from Gapers Block Book Club!
On the Web Tue Nov 22 2011
Stuff yourself with some Thanksgiving poems.
On the Web Thu Nov 10 2011
It's That Time Again
November means National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! Last year, we gave you Wired's tips on how to go about it. This year, we give you mental_floss' list of well-known novels that were all written in a month or less. Get inspired!
Curl up with a Good Book on a Rainy Day
Or rearrange your collection...
Trick or Chapbook
This October 31 isn't just Halloween, it's also the deadline for submissions to Ink Well Magazine and Ledge Poetry and Fiction's Poetry Chapbook competition. For Ink Well's fifth volume, they're giving you an "Obsession/Compulsion" theme, and they're accepting pretty much any medium you can think of. For Ledge Poetry and Fiction's contest, sacrifice $18 for the reading fee--because the winner will receive, not only 25 copies of his/her chapbook, but $1000! Click here for more info on Ink Well submissions and here for Ledge Poetry's contest guidelines.
Let's Go To The Hop (Oh, Baby)
From now 'til midnight on October 31, check out the Coffin Hop Horror Web Tour. The site serves as a meet 'n greet/virtual open house for hungry young horror writing talent and their url links. Plus, each "coffin" you "hop" has a contest with prizes; the more site links you visit, the more chances you have to win.
On the Web Thu Sep 29 2011
Get Gorey-er
Can't get enough of the strange and macabre illustrations of Chicago native Edward Gorey? Author and Gorey-collaborator Peter F. Neumeyer is publishing a book of his correspondence with the artist. Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer is a collection of typewritten letters, illustrated envelopes, postcards, and illustrations exchanged between the two. The book also serves as a memoir, focusing on the friendship that developed between the two artists. Check out some of the illustrations here.
— Veronica Bond
On the Web Wed Sep 28 2011
Best Guest Speaker Ever!
Have you ever wished Ray Bradbury could be the guest speaker in your writing class? (I personally couldn't imagine anything better.) Well, you may not be able to get him into your classroom, but you can watch this hour-long video of his 2001 keynote address for the Six Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea. He is humorous, direct, honest, and, as always, a complete inspiration. [via]
On the Web Fri Sep 23 2011
All About Roger
Powell's talks to Roger Ebert about his new memoir Life Itself. The book follows Ebert's childhood, career, and battle with cancer to present a full portrait of what life is like for him now. Read the interview to find out why Ebert structured the book the way he did, how social media allows him to keep in touch, and his secrets to reviewing and interviewing.
On the Web Mon Sep 19 2011
Photographer By Day, Comic Book Blogger by Night
Local photographer Megan Byrd is the creator of Comic Book Candy, where she reviews X-men (and occasionally other) titles, issue by issue, interspersed with updates about stores and events.
News Wed Sep 14 2011
In July, we reported that the Poetry Foundation and HBO were nominated for an Emmy for their production of A Child's Garden of Poetry. Well, now we're pleased to announce that A Child's Garden of Poetry is the winner of the 2011 Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Children's Program. Congrats to all involved!
On the Web Tue Sep 06 2011
All-Time Best Nonfiction
Interested in expanding your knowledge and reading a few highly acclaimed nonfiction books? You could do worse than visit Time Magazine's list of All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books. You'll find some notable Chicagoans on there, from Richard Wright's Black Boy to Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father to Studs Terkel's Working.
Miscellaneous Tue Sep 06 2011
U of I Chicago Makes the Grade
In a ranking of the top 15 Creative Writing Doctoral Programs of 2012, the University of Illinois at Chicago comes in at #6! Click here to see more details.
Miscellaneous Fri Sep 02 2011
Zach Dodson: Our Chicago Literary Guide
Poets&Writers asked publishers, editors, authors, etc. all over the United States to give them a literary tour of their city. Chicago's guide is none other than cofounder of Featherproof Books, Zach Dodson. Take a look at where he tells you to go, and what he tells you to see!
Like Pop-Up Video, for Twitter
Dan Sinker's publication of his faux-Rahm Emanuel mayoral quest is slated for release on September 13. If you can't wait that long to read a dated Twitter feed in book form, Simon and Schuster has an excerpt up now:
Some mornings coffee is like standing underneath a tw*t-rainbow while f***ing a thousand puppies in the mouth. 08:22:32 AM
The first, and most graphic, of @MayorEmanuel's many coffee Tweets. Over the course of the feed, @MayorEmanuel would tweet about coffee another 69 times. Some of this was character logic: he's passionate about everything, so why not coffee too? Some of it was to help spread the account around Twitter: people would pass the coffee Tweets around rapid-fire. And part of it was that I really, really like coffee.
Wow. Coffee. That is so interesting. [via]
Miscellaneous Thu Sep 01 2011
Chicago Newspapers Since 1960
Wanna know what Chicago papers have been in print for over 50 years? Check out Stanford University's new interactive map that shows what papers have been published where throughout history.
Man vs. Machine at Mansueto
Can the robots at the University of Chicago's Mansueto Library really find a book faster than a person going about it the old-fashioned way? Find out who prevails below:
(Okay, it's no surprise who wins, but with robots you don't get to have fun interactions with librarians! That seems like a loss to me.)
On the Web Mon Aug 22 2011
The Significance of the Salamander: Discuss
Speaking of Ray Bradbury, the Guardian's online book club has chosen Fahrenheit 451 for their first read. If you've never read it, or never had the chance to discuss it with others, now would be a good time to pick it up. The club will reconvene on September 5 to start discussing Montag, the seashell, and how little has changed in the half-century since the book was published.
News Fri Aug 19 2011
YoYoMagazine Publishes At Zero: Part II
YoYoMagazine is an online journal of art, narrative, and poetry made up of artist, professor and writer Rebecca Keller, artist and educator Amber Ginsburg, and editor and writer Kristin Ginger. Their newest issue, At Zero: Part II, is available right now, with accompanying audio content.
Hiawatha Review: Stories and Songs from Chicago to Milwaukee and Back Again
Those that travel by train will catch the origins of Hiawatha Review's name -- the zine covers music, art and literature in Chicago and its city neighbor, Milwaukee. They're currently looking for readers and writers.
News Mon Aug 01 2011
The New Kids in School
Welcome a couple of Chicago's new literary endeavors...
1) Anobium: As described by Editor-in-Chief Benjamin van Loon, "Anobium is an answer to Reality. It's an experiment." Check out Chicago Publishes interview with van Loon here and then take a look at Anobium for yourself.
2) Grow Books: Started by Alyson Beaton, Grow Books features eco-friendly books for kids. Learn a little about Grow Books from Beaton here and then see what the publisher has to offer!
On the Web Tue Jul 26 2011
Poems While You Surf
If you missed the Poems While You Wait booth at Wicker Park Fest last weekend, the good people behind it promise to have most, if not all, of the sun-soaked verse online by the end of July. Click here for the results.
On the Web Mon Jul 25 2011
Online Auction Benefits Young Chicago Authors
If you love fanfiction, spending money and Young Chicago Authors, a crafty YCA alum has set up a site for auctioning off original commissioned writings and is donating the proceeds to Young Chicago Authors. Typical wares include Dr. Who, Hawaii Five-O, Glee and Veronica Mars fanfiction (mmm...Veronica and Logan...). Offer said to run until August 16. Click here for more info.
Ojikutu in Newcity
Newcity talks to University of Chicago and DePaul faculty Bayo Ojikutu on writing routines, what he would be doing if he weren't a writer, and what book he wish he'd written. On the best place to get inspired in the city, Ojikutu says, "The Green Line ride in its entirety, from 63rd/Cottage (nearest our home), through Washington Park, Bronzeville, the 'Near' South Side, turning at the Loop bound through the West Side, before ending in Oak Park...Stay on these trains in this city, end-to-end, north-to-west, south-to-east, ride with eyes open, there and back again, and you will see things for what they are. Blinking and shining and flinching and blue and bruised and blitzed and sagging and brilliant and swinging low and ever bombastic." Ojikutu is author of 47th St. Black and Freeburning.
Miscellaneous Mon Jul 18 2011
Slammin' Good Deal
Today's Real Deal (courtesy of the Chicago Reader) gives you 50% off tickets to the Chicago Slam Works Extravaganza at the Metro, happening 7/30.
Book Club Sun Jul 17 2011
I Am a Writer
Chicago writers talk about their experiences giving back to the community in the Neighborhood Writing Alliance's aptly titled I Am a Writer video. Watch the footage of Alex Kotlowitz, Laura Washington, and David Barr (among others), here.
— Megan E. Doherty
Bookworms Tweeting
We're on Twitter, and more content-rich than ever -- in addition to the Twitter-only odds and ends we post from time to time, the @GBBookClub parses posts from our section on Gapers Block. Perfect for those of you who prefer your literary updates in under 140 characters. Follow us!
Hotchner on Hemingway's Suicide
Fifty years after Ernest Hemingway's suicide, author and friend AE Hotchner (Papa Hemingway and Hemingway and His World) is suggesting that a contributing factor to the author's death was his knowledge of being watched by J. Edgar Hoover. Previously dismissed as paranoia, Hotchner writes in the New York Times that he "regretfully misjudged" Hemingway's fear of the FBI. Hotchner recounts his final days with his friend in this chilling essay:
This man, who had stood his ground against charging water buffaloes, who had flown missions over Germany, who had refused to accept the prevailing style of writing but, enduring rejection and poverty, had insisted on writing in his own unique way, this man, my deepest friend, was afraid -- afraid that the F.B.I. was after him, that his body was disintegrating, that his friends had turned on him, that living was no longer an option...In the years since, I have tried to reconcile Ernest's fear of the F.B.I., which I regretfully misjudged, with the reality of the F.B.I. file. I now believe he truly sensed the surveillance, and that it substantially contributed to his anguish and his suicide.
I was in Rome the day he died.
Dwell on Independents
Here at the Book Club we're big proponents of the independent bookstore and Dwell magazine's map of indies across the country comes at a perfect time for like-minded folks who want to know where they can browse good stores in their vacation destinations. The list is being compiled through the help of reader comments, so if you're a regular customer of a great independent, make sure to enter your rave review for the sake of this summer's spate of Chicago visitors. Already on the map are Open Books, Myopic, Women & Children First, the Book Cellar, and the Seminary Co-op.
— Veronica Bond / Comments (1)
Miscellaneous Thu Jun 30 2011
Last Books of Westinghouse
This amazing and more than somewhat melancholy shot from Flickr user eholubow captures the books that were left behind when the West Side's Westinghouse Career Academy was shut down in 2008.
Miscellaneous Mon Jun 27 2011
The Reader Recommends...
Robbie Q. Telfer as the Best Local Poet! Telfer is the Young Chicago Authors Performances Director. Check out some of his work here. Congrats also to runners-up Kevin Coval and Thax Douglas.
On the Web Wed Jun 22 2011
How to Donate to the Newberry Library Book Fair
The fabulous Newberry Library Book Fair is only a little over a month away. Here you'll get to browse several rooms filled with tons of used books, many of them for mere dollars or even cents. Do you find yourself with too much books on your shelves as it is? Consider donating some of them for the other Fair attendees to peruse. Just make sure to check out the FAQ review first (full list here...and remember to take your kittens out of your books before handing them over).
On the Web Thu Jun 16 2011
Eggers on Wrigley
Over at Grantland, the ESPN-related site, Lake Forest native Dave Eggers waxes poetic about the experience of watching the Cubs, both in his youth at Wrigley Field and now at one of the rooftop seating areas across the street:
I grew up with the Cubs, and I don't remember the possibility of winning ever being high among the reasons we went to Wrigley. We went because the park was ragged and crumbling and lived-in, beautiful in an almost accidental way. The low brick wall behind home plate implied a game being played at the local elementary school. The ivy in the outfield hinted that the building was so old that nature was reclaiming it. We went for these reasons, and we went because the weather at Wrigley was always better there than anywhere else in Chicago. We went because you could pay $10 to park in someone's driveway and $1 to use their bathroom after the game. Speaking of too much beer being drunk from cheap plastic cups, there was Harry Caray, too.
Discuss Goon Squad with GoodReaders
Interested in joining a book group but not able to commit to regular, physical meetings? GoodReads is starting their own book club and the first selection is Chicago native Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit From the Goon Squad. Check out the author's welcome message and then start discussing your thoughts on the book with other online readers.
Interested a picking up a little fiction? The New Yorker's summer fiction issue is on stands now and includes pieces by local authors Aleksandar Hemon, George Saunders, and Jennifer Egan. Some pieces are available for free online and others require a subscription for access.
Newcity Lit 50
Newcity's Lit 50 2011 is up now. The list breaks down all of the authors, publishers, and people in organizations doing great things for literature in Chicago. Amongst the honorees this year are Mary Dempsey, Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, Stacy Ratner, Founder and Executive Director of Open Books, Zach Dodson and Jonathan Messinger, Co-Founders of Featherproof Books, and Suzy Takacs, owner of the fabulous Book Cellar.
Miscellaneous Wed Jun 08 2011
Calm Before the Mob
Remember the flash mob at Printers Row? Here's a quick shot of them prepping for the main event [thanks, Fred Nachman].
Miscellaneous Tue May 31 2011
You Should Be in YA Pictures
Margo Rowder is currently revisiting a Young Adult dystopian manuscript called Thirty Decibels, and she needs Chicago teen actors for its trailer.
On the Web Fri May 13 2011
Sometimes a Title Is All You Need
Ever wish the title of a book would tell you everything you need to know about the story inside? Better Book Titles offers just that: a succinct description of the plot in the title alone. You'll find some local favorites, such as the much revered Texas Public Schools Suck (aka Fahrenheit 451) and Chicago: Home of the Worst Dads Since 1893 (aka Jimmy Corrigan), among many others.
On the Web Wed May 11 2011
Chicago's Brothel Makes News!
The Chicago Poetry Brothel, which consists of poetry whores, burlesque dancers, and musicians, is featured in an Associated Press video essay. Susan Yount, brothel madam and Columbia College MFA student, and Kathleen Rooney, poet/writer and Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at DePaul, are interviewed. Check out the video on Yahoo! news.
On the Web Tue May 10 2011
Take a Book to the Beach!
CBSChicago.com has its picks for must-have beach reads. And guess who's top on the list? Chicago's Wendy McClure with her latest, The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie. Pick up a copy and get ready to hit the shore!
Ebert: "At the Library"?
Roger Ebert asks "Does anyone want to be 'well-read?'" After coming across a list of, what some would label classic, authors in an issue of The New Republic, Ebert writes that he felt a sinking feeling wondering who, indeed, is still reading them. However, what starts as a longing for more attention to the classics becomes a heart-warming ode to the importance of all reading:
My only goal is to enjoy reading. I learn that the average American teenager spends 17 minutes a weekend in voluntary reading. Surely that statistic is wrong. Do they mean reading of "serious" novels? I would certainly count science fiction, graphic novels, vampires, Harry Potter, newspapers, magazines, blogs--anything. Just to read for yourself for pleasure is the point. Dickens will come later, Henry James perhaps never.
At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.
A wonderful argument for reckless reading behavior, if I ever heard one.
In a related story you may have missed, Roger Ebert was also granted his wish to win the New Yorker's caption contest. Take a look at his win and some past entries.
New(-ish) Silverstein
Riffing on the posthumous publishing trend, College Humor offers up a look into some new (made up) Shel Silverstein works. If you're one of the many whose memories off The Giving Tree aren't as fond as others, you might like this revision, The Giving Tree Gives Up:
The tree decided, "You know what? F*ck this kid. What's he bringing to the table? All of them, really. Ungrateful sh*ts. I'm an award-winning playwright and lyricist. I wrote 'A Boy Named Sue'! Did you even know that? I feel like nobody knows that." That was all still the tree talking, by the way.
Not so giving after all, that tree. A real posthumous, Every Thing On It, will be available in September, but I kind of want to hear more from this tree with the chip its shoulder. [via]
Miscellaneous Mon May 02 2011
Color Chicago proud: Adam Levin is one of the finalists in the Indie Booksellers Choice Awards, for his debut novel, The Instructions. Booksellers are voting now, and the winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on May 23. Check out the other finalists here.
Miscellaneous Fri Apr 29 2011
It May Not Be Chicago...
But Illinois has a student finalist in the Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, DC. Watch Morgan Joyce Williams, from Springfield, in the finals via live webcast tonight from 7 to 9pm!
On the Web Mon Apr 25 2011
A Portrait of the Comic Artist
Locally based journal The Point offers up a review of Chris Ware's latest work, volume 20 of The ACME Novelty Library, which was released last November. Much more than a review, the article delves into the reasons why Ware's work resonates with so many readers and how much of an influence he's had over the genre. Writes Tim Peters, the article's author, on the intense appeal of Ware's work:
Even if much of what's going on in Ware's stories is ugly or sad, the visual style of his pages and books is just the opposite--beautiful and precious, ornate and overwhelming...if a young aspiring creative person wants to work in a personal, intimate medium these days--one that is fighting for its place in society the way only a young medium can fight for its place, one that isn't steadily and decadently and exhaustedly folding in on itself (prose fiction, poetry, painting, sculpture), one that could really speak to these twenty-first-century times in which we live--then that person should think: comics. He will find no better reference for the possibilities and potential of the form than Chris Ware and his ACME Novelty Library.
News Mon Apr 18 2011
Anobium punctatum
Or in other words, the bookworm. And the inspiration for Chicago's latest lit journal: Anobium. Started by Chicago editors Benjamin van Loon and Mary J. Levine, the journal embraces the "strange, surreal and exceptional." Check out Literary Chicago's interview with van Loon. And make sure to mark on your calendar that Anobium's first issue arrives in July!
On the Web Thu Apr 14 2011
"Like" New Yorker, Read Franzen
More for those of you who are interested in the posthumous David Foster Wallace publication (or if you just really like Jonathan Franzen's writing [I know I do]): the New Yorker is offering the opportunity for you to read one of their subscriber-only pieces online. Franzen's essay, "Farther Away," is about his solo journey to an island in the South Pacific where he took with him a copy of Robinson Crusoe and, to help himself mourn his friend's passing, a box containing some of Wallace's ashes. If you're interested in reading the piece, which the Book Bench calls "gorgeous" and "haunting," all you have to do is "like" the New Yorker's Facebook page and this normally off-limits material will become available to you.
Awards Wed Apr 13 2011
Who Says Poetry Doesn't Pay?
David Ferry has been awarded the Poetry Foundation's 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which means $100,000 in his pocket...
Miscellaneous Mon Apr 11 2011
Cat Comics
Happy Monday. Take a break from lolcats and check out Hey Pais, a sweet pictorial journal about the adventures of Paisley, the cat of local comicker Sara B.
On the Web Tue Apr 05 2011
Goon Squad Wins ToB
Chicago-born Jennifer Egan won the Tournament of Books over at The Morning News with A Visit from the Goon Squad. Her competitor in the last round? None other than Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. If you're interested in learning more about the book, this review in the Guardian provides a nice summary and, if you head over to the New Yorker's Book Bench, you can read some quotes from the author's recent reading, dinner, and discussion appearance as part of the "Eat, Drink, and Be Literary" series.
Says ToB judge Michele Filgate on her vote for Egan: "There's no comparison. Egan's novel is innovative and playful, while simultaneously smart and captivating. I was fascinated by the way she played around with point of view. While Franzen wrote a somewhat predictable though solid novel, Egan wins for her vibrant prose and style."
Miscellaneous Tue Apr 05 2011
You Can't Get away from Poetry
The Poetry Foundation's Poetry Everywhere is starting its fourth season with Garrison Keillor. With Keillor as the narrator, this edition of Poetry Everywhere will offer short films with various poetic voices (including the likes of Galway Kinnell, Kwame Dawes, and Rita Dove) on public television as well as the web.
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On the Web Fri Apr 01 2011
Fill Your Shelves With Chicago History For A Song
Chicago-centric publisher Lake Claremont Press is having a sale on returned books. All Lake Claremont titles "foster and reveal Chicago's special identity by sharing what's distinctive about our city's history, culture, geography, built environment, spirit, people, and lore." Their titles include Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City, Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies, and Rule 53: Capturing Hippies, Spies, Politicians, and Murderers in an American Courtroom. As for which titles are on sale, you'll have to roll up your sleeves and dig through the (virtual) bins.
Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers Coda with Robert Rodi
I recently spoke with Chicago writer Robert Rodi about the recent adaptation of his graphic novel Lokiinto the four part viral miniseries Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers. While more widely known as a prolific novelist, Rodi certainly is no slouch when it comes to producing poignant and engaging comics. Here is what he had to say about comics, the characters and what it felt like to have one of his favorite works translated into a different medium.
What drew you into comics in the first place? Have you always been a fan since childhood or were you introduced to them later?
I've been attracted to comics since before I could read. I love the sensual beauty of ink on paper, and I love serial fiction too, so comic books drew me in on both counts. It's been a love affair ever since--with, as in most love affairs, occasional breakups and emotional reconciliations.
Are you a fan of Thor?
Yes, big fan. Given all the pages I've written featuring him, it would be kind of perverse if I weren't.
What past or present Thor stories have affected you or at least piqued your interest in the character?
I loved the Stan & Jack era, especially when they brought in Hercules; and Walt Simonson's run, with Beta Ray Bill and the frog of thunder.
Explain the genesis behind your graphic novel with Esad Ribic. How did the two of you meet? Were you approached by Marvel or did you pitch it?
Axel Alonso approached me. I'd worked with him at Vertigo on Codename: Knockout, and when he moved to Marvel I was eager to follow him--he's a great editor. So I kept pestering him for work. Eventually Loki came along and he gave me a shot at it, which was a leap of faith because I hadn't done anything like it before--I mean, Codename: Knockout was a sex-and-spy farce; Loki was epic super-hero fantasy. No one else would've let me near it. But Axel's an excellent judge of talent.
When writing the comic, what influenced you? What did you put into this comic to make it stand apart from other tales?
I was influenced by the Shakespeare plays, mainly, because the villains are always more interesting than the heroes--more complex, more conflicted, more multi-layered. Think of Mabeth, Iago, Edmund. I thought Loki could easily be made to fit in that mold; I mean, what if he's not evil incarnate? What if he's got motivation, a point of view--what if he's essentially human, like you or me?
I was actually the second writer Axel offered the series to; the first had come up with a standard Loki-tries-to-topple-Asgard story, and Axel wanted something different--something new. So I decided to take Loki-topples-Asgard as my starting point; we've never seen Loki win before, so that would have to show him in a new and revelatory light. Also, the phrase "Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it" came to mind. Loki wins, Loki rules Asgard--is Loki finally happy? Very, very far from it. And that forces him to look deep inside and ask himself, why not?
What do you find provocative about Loki as a character?
He's the trickster god, who graduated to god of evil. He's ambitious that way, he's driven. Gods usually aren't; they're static--that's the whole point of them. They represent universal constants, unalterable states of being. But Loki is always shifting, warping, changing. These days he's a pre-pubescent boy. You see what I mean.
Did you have any input when it came time for your comic to be adapted into a serialized animated film?
No, it all happened very quietly and secretly; I wasn't told till most of the first two episodes were in the can. One of the more pleasant shocks of my life, let me tell you. When I heard the book was being turned into a "motion comic," I expected something like the pan-and-scan method used by the old Marvel cartoons in the Sixties. When I went to the Marvel offices and Ruwan Jayatilleke showed me the footage, my jaw hit the floor. Esad's artwork doesn't just move, it lives; it has weight and texture and breath and...integrity, is the word I'm looking for. This isn't a motion comic, it's a motion picture. God knows how they did it. But there's nothing I could have contributed, beyond the source material. Everything's flawless...the voice actors, the score, every last thing is just a slam dunk.
— James Orbesen / Comments (2)
On the Web Thu Mar 31 2011
Talking Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers with Ruwan Jayatilleke
In anticipation for the upcoming Thor movie, Marvel Knights Animation is releasing a four part viral miniseries called Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers, based off local Chicago scribe Robert Rodi's graphic novel. The first installment was launched on March 28th to iTunes, Xbox Live and PSN, with each additional installment following shortly thereafter. I had a chance to talk with producer Ruwan Jayatilleke about the genesis of the project and how one of comics' most infamous villains is simply misunderstood by his peers.
What led you to pick this particular Thor story to work with?
Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers found me. When I started at Marvel several years ago. Editor-in-chief Axel Alonso (Executive Editor then) dropped a bundle of books that he edited under the Marvel Knights banner. Within that bounty of outrageous nerdery was the gem created by Robert Rodi and Esad Ribic. And I just kept re-reading the story year after year and obsessing over how great it is.
Miscellaneous Mon Mar 28 2011
Poetry Cram 11
In just a few short days, it will be the beginning of National Poetry Month. Celebrate it right by submitting your poems to Poetry Cram 11 -- they're still accepting submissions! Check out the important guidelines, as well as more information on Poetry Cram, here. Deadline to submit is April 11. Issues of Poetry Cram 11 will be given away for free on April 30, 7-9pm, at the National Poetry Month Cram at Café Ballou (939 N. Western Ave). Cram poets will read, and there will be an open mic -- so those of you who may not get your work accepted, you still have a chance to share it.
Miscellaneous Tue Mar 22 2011
Philadelphia vs. Chicago: Superhero Smackdown
Check out this Flickr set capturing one girl's quest to battle the best-dressed superheroes of C2E2.
Goon Squad on Top
If you've been following the Tournament of Books, you'll have noted that Chicago-born Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad has won against Paul Murray's Skippy Dies. Says judge Anthony Doerr, who loved both books but admits to having more of a personal reaction at this particular point in his life to one over the other:
In short, Egan's book is a terrific feat of ventriloquism, composed of 13 short stories that seesaw back and forth through time and interconnect multiple characters, particularly the lives of a music producer named Bennie and his assistant, Sasha...By the time I got through the book's penultimate chapter, a breathtaking short story told entirely through PowerPoint slides, there were tears in my eyes...If Jennifer Egan writes a book about time overwhelming characters and turning them into parents, a reader like me, who feels himself being overwhelmed by time and being turned into a parent, will plug into it in a certain way...But--and only because I'm in the absurd position of saying one very good book is better than another very good book--I'll say that A Visit From the Goon Squad was a slightly more relevant book for this particular reader at this particular moment.
Doerr isn't the only one who loved Egan's work. The novel was named the winner in the fiction category for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is now on the longlist for the Orange Prize.
Miscellaneous Wed Mar 16 2011
In Baconfest Chicago's Poetry Contest! Baconfest Chicago takes place in April this year, with lots of exhibiting restaurants and bacon-related products (Bakon Vodka anyone?) and events, including a poetry contest. It's been narrowed down to six finalists. Check out the poems and then vote for your favorite here! (Polls close this Friday at 1pm.)
On the Web Tue Mar 15 2011
Books Reborn in The Age of E-Readers
Former Chicagoan Brian Dettmer recently caught the attention of the Telegraph UK with his artworks celebrating books as physical objects. "The age of information in physical form is waning," Dettmer says on his website. "As intangible routes thrive with quicker fluidity, material and history are being lost, slipping and eroding into the ether. Through meticulous excavation or concise alteration I edit or dissect communicative objects or systems such as books, maps, tapes and other media. The medium's role transforms. Its content is recontextualized and new meanings or interpretations emerge." In other words, old encyclopedias that had been collecting dust are transformed into caterpillar like creatures and elaborate dioramas in his hands. Pretty cool; check it out.
ToB Authors Donate to First Book
Speaking of Tournament of Books, Tournament commentator and Book Club selection author Kevin Guilfoile and former Tournament judge and local author Jonathan Eig are taking this opportunity to do some literary good. For the month of March, Kevin will donate $2 to First Book for every sold copy of his new novel, The Thousand, and Jonathan will do the same for his new book, Get Capone. First Book is a national non-profit organization that provides access to new books for children who are in need. Do them a double by clicking on title links above and find the closest independent bookstore where you can pick up your copies.
Franzen Wins First Round
You're keeping up with The Morning News's annual Tournament of Books, right? Yesterday Chicago native and Book Club selection author Jonathan Franzen won his first round with Freedom against Teddy Wayne's Kapitoil. Says judge Sarah Manguso:
Postmodernism seems to have let the blood out of half of the bad contemporary American novels, and sentiment masquerades as depth of feeling in the other half--in a naughty moment, Patty and Walter's son refers to the latter sort of book's reliance on "descriptions of rooms and plantings." Franzen gets away with that crack, though, for what Freedom attempts is more ambitious than mere sentiment or mere intellection. It asks us to empathize with its lily-white characters, despite their Volvos and organic gardens and upper-body workouts, despite their chosen confinement in such banal surroundings. And since the book manages to render suburban St. Paul a viable setting for the full range of human emotional experience, I felt its characters' pains and joys. With firm control of its dense and rigorous sentences, Freedom hits all its marks. Despite erratic pacing and an endpoint that seems somewhat arbitrary--why not 300 more pages, or 300 less?--the book satisfies its worthy ambitions.
Stay tuned to read the judges' commentaries on the other contestants, including fellow Chicago native Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, and find out who wins the tournament on April 1.
On the Web Fri Feb 25 2011
What Are You Reading This Weekend?
Name drop a classic, confess a guilty pleasure, or lurk for ideas at ChiTribBooks.
Top 10 Poets
Know a great Chicago poet? Nominate him/her for Dean Rader's list of ten best poets in history. He'll take your nomination into consideration, and then post his list on SFGate.com. Flood him with Chicago greats!
— Emily Wong / Comments (1)
On the Web Thu Feb 17 2011
"Thanks" from Unabridged
Amidst all the Borders bankruptcy hubbub, Unabridged Bookstore in Lakeview takes a moment to thank their loyal customers:
While the loss of jobs to Chicago, and to the United States, is saddening, we feel this is a direct result of a book-retailer business model that just does not work.
We want to thank you, our loyal customers, patrons, and conversationalists for realizing there is an immense value in supporting a local independent bookstore.
On the Web Tue Feb 08 2011
Bringing Poetry to the People
The Poetry Foundation and the University of Utah Press have collaborated to publish Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities, an e-book filled with renowned poets and community leaders talking about how they brought poetry to diverse areas. People interested in infusing poetry into their own communities will also find tips on how to do so, along with program ideas and tried-and-true methods. Download a free copy of the e-book here.
On the Web Wed Feb 02 2011
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs wants to know what Chicagoans have to say about their creative practices. From February 4 to 25, they'll be conducting an online survey to learn more about Chicago's creatives. Go here when the survey goes live on February 4 to give your input!
News Tue Feb 01 2011
New Policies for Ebook Apps
You may have heard that earlier this week, Apple rejected Sony's Reader iPhone app from the App Store, enforcing a rule that, technically, has been there since the Store's beginnings: developers have to offer you the option to purchase content through Apple, not just a third party. This has caused a flurry of opinion and controversy -- to get a better scope of opinions, see comments at the bottom of the article, and/or do some research online.
Miscellaneous Thu Jan 27 2011
Crime Story
Local police officer Martin Preib discusses The Wagon and Other Stories from the City, the dark, funny, and altogether interesting stories of his time on the force.
Miscellaneous Wed Jan 19 2011
The Day of Your Birth Was Important!
Duh -- you were born. But it was also important for tons of authors who got their books on the NYT best seller list on that day. Check out which books share your day here!
Miscellaneous Fri Jan 14 2011
Ever Wonder Why...
Tuesday is the big day for book, CD, and DVD releases? Publishing Insider has the answers!
Strange Stories for All
Small Beer Press, who put out Chicago native Jennifer Stevenson's Trash Sex Magic (described as ""to Chicago what The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is to Pittsburgh and A Winter's Tale is to New York -- a winning, touching, open-eyed love letter "), is offering free downloadable books by acclaimed dark fantasy author Kelly Link, myths of mothers-exploring Maureen F. McHugh, and more.
Miscellaneous Tue Jan 04 2011
Nearly Titled
Fiesta became The Sun Also Rises (and actually, Fiesta was used for foreign editions). 1984 was almost The Last Man in Europe. Find out more famous titles that could have been.
On the Web Mon Jan 03 2011
In a World Full of Leaks...
...We have a new one: Haikuleaks, where sentences from Wikileaks become haikus. What won't they think of next?!
Their Loss
For many aspiring writers, the rejection letter is a familiar slip of paper. Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, George Orwell, and many luminaries were no exception.
Miscellaneous Sat Jan 01 2011
Holy Matrimony, Batman!
I wasn't the kind of little girl that dreamed about my wedding day, but I have to say, these comic book-style wedding invitations by Chicago graphic designer afavorite might have made me swoon a little.
Miscellaneous Fri Dec 31 2010
Sports, History Collide in Winnemac Park
C. Max Magee, co-editor of the upcoming The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, reflects in essay form about baseball, Steve Albini, and the changing nature of the park at Leavitt and Argyle.
Book Talks at the Public Library
As the new year grows closer, think of years past with this nice vintage reprint of what Book Club might have been in 1940.
Miscellaneous Thu Dec 30 2010
...all year round, with these locally created, upcycled book wreaths.
Miscellaneous Wed Dec 29 2010
The Newberry's First Year-End Picks
It's not just another list, it's their opening list: Newberry curators and other expert staff name their best books of 2010.
Miscellaneous Tue Dec 28 2010
(More) Stories of the Year
Another list: the Chicago Reader recounts this year's contributions to their fiction issue.
Miscellaneous Mon Dec 27 2010
Planning Your New Year's Resolutions?
Maybe these poems will help...
On the Web Sat Dec 25 2010
We're sure YOU will love all the books you receive as gifts...
On the Web Wed Dec 22 2010
The 17 Most Important Poetry Books...
...of fall 2010. Take a look at the selections!
Hemingway's Birthplace for Cheap
No, it's not for sale. But as of 5:30pm, you have just over six hours left to buy a one-year family membership to the Ernest Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, courtesy of Groupon, for $30. Check out the writer's birth home and learn about the first 20 years of his life -- I've never been to the museum, but it's possible there will be some photos of the A Farewell to Arms scribe as a toddler dressed in drag.
The Poetry Foundation Brings You Winter
With the snow and the cold and the storms, it must be winter! Check out these poems to get you in a wintry kind of mood.
Miscellaneous Sat Dec 11 2010
Reading About Eating
Street food and punch and metal (including Kuma's sous chef), oh my: the Reader presents "Top Ten Books for Cooks".
The Reader Wants YOU
...to learn about William S. Burroughs. Today's Reader Real Deal is a $7.50 admission to William S. Burroughs: A Man Within at the Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport Ave). If you purchase the deal, you print the voucher and get your very own, special reserved seat at the Jan 21, 2011 premiere at 8pm. And that's not all! You also get a place at the Q&A session with director Yony Leyser and Ed M. Koziarski, who did a piece on the movie for the Chicago Reader. PLUS a free small box of popcorn. Scoop up the deal NOW!
On the Web Thu Dec 09 2010
Fear No Art Chicago Podcast Interview With David Sedaris
WTTW's Fear No Art Chicago announces their first podcast interview. First subject is David Sedaris, discussing his years living in Chicago, his advice for young authors and his newest book Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, which brings animals and illustrations to his signature sardonic style. The L.A. Times said "the animals have given Sedaris' humor some new teeth: Tiny and sharp, and sometimes even ready to draw blood." An amazon.com reviewer said "it's like a children's book for kids who drink..."
Chicago & Slam Poetry
Alizah Salario delves into the origination of slam poetry in Chicago (Marc Smith, the Green Mill, the Uptown Poetry Slam) and beyond (Def Poetry Jam) -- and poses the question: What has commercialization done to slam poetry? Read all about it here!
Poetweet
Oh, the innate lyricism of Twitter posts.
Against Amazon
Seminary Co-op bookseller Jeff Waxman provides a news archive highlighting criticism of the online shopping giant.
Located in the heart of Pilsen at 1443 W. 18th St, Libreria Giron carries many of the same titles as other bookstores, but their selections are in Spanish. Here, owner Juan Giron explains how this unites the surrounding community.
A for Effort?
Missed Corrections critiques posts on Craigslist's Missed Connections, editing them for grammar, spelling, and clarity. The mind behind it seems to be based out of Philadelphia, but there are definitely a few here that could use their "pretentious academic" touch.
— Rose Lannin / Comments (1)
On the Web Wed Nov 17 2010
Beasting It in Chicago
Our fair city (well, a less-fair part of our fair city) gets a visit from Kebrouac in On the Bro'd, a retelling of the classic road-trip tale from the point of view of (wait for it) a fine gentleman.
On the Web Fri Nov 12 2010
CMOS is Written By...Humans?
The Chicago Manual of Style -- the I-swear-to-use-the-serial-comma-so-help-me-University-of-Chicago-Press bible for editors and writers and "everyone who works with words" -- doesn't just appear on shelves and on the internet in its pure form. It is actually written by real-live human beings, who gather in meeting rooms and debate whether blog names should be italicized or in quotes. (If I sound glib, I don't mean to -- I am honestly in awe of these editors.) Carol Fisher Saller, the "Subversive Copy Editor" and an editor of the CMOS, now in its 16th edition, has posted a list of "outtakes" from those debates, which the editor and grammar nerd in me finds wonderful. Below are my favorites:
"I agree with everyone else that it looks sufficiently ugly as is."
"I'm going to take some notes, as if we were saying important things."
"Please stop using spreadsheet as a verb. Are you gonna spreadsheet that?"
"I'm sorry, there are errors in the error messages."
"If you want to try talking the designer into using Times New Roman, be my guest, buddy."
"When you really think about it, what is an en dash good for?"
"That phrase is inherently nonprecise."
"You mean to tell me you looked at the spacing around all the apostrophes?"
Cheer Up, Emo Kid
Are writers more depressed than the general population? An excerpt from Sam Twyford-Moore's article "Don't Get Me Down: Reading and Writing Depression" at therumpus.net (read the whole thing here):
"Alice W. Flaherty states in The Midnight Disease that writers are ten times more likely to be manic-depressive than the rest of the population, and poets are a staggering forty times more likely. The overriding concern then becomes a variation on the classic chicken-or-the-egg: Does the act of writing invite mental illness, or does writing come from some need to cope with it? It's not as clear-cut as one or the other, but if it were solely the former, who would go into it willingly?"
Zeitgeist Jamming
Jim DeRogatis asks "Would Kerouac tweet?"
Who Doesn't Like Roger Ebert?
Journalist Larry Fahey takes on a local legend. "Ebert is, at heart...the kind of critic that sees movies as products, like cell phones or refrigerators or spatulas." Say what? Join the comment pile-on at therumpus.net.
— Rebecca Hyland / Comments (3)
Miscellaneous Fri Oct 08 2010
The fine people over at Lit Drift have a great thing going where they give you a published indie title at no charge. If that wasn't cool enough, this week's book is local author Lindsay Hunter's Daddy's. Even if you didn't get a chance to go to the Featherproof Books-sponsored event, you've still got a chance to be a winner.
On the Web Fri Oct 01 2010
Studs Terkel on the Human Voice
StoryCorps, that wonderful, large-scale oral-history project that records Americans sharing their life stories, has animated a video of oral historian Studs Terkel -- one of StoryCorps's inspirations -- speaking about the human voice in 2005.
The Human Voice from StoryCorps on Vimeo.
Miscellaneous Mon Sep 13 2010
What Do Cafeteria, Egghead, and Jazz Have in Common?
The words all originated in our fair city, according to Chicago magazine. We would have no way to describe Jim Abbott without Chicago author Finley Peter Dunne. What would we call those tall, sky-sweeping buildings if it weren't for an 1888 article in the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper? And apparently, "tho" did not originate from lazy teenagers who wanted to type txt msgs faster: the Chicago Tribune spelled "though" that way between 1934 and 1975.
Bookslut Marks 100th Issue
Formerly Chicago-based book review site bookslut.com celebrates its 100th issue with a letter from the editor in correspondence form.
On the Web Sun Sep 05 2010
Bradbury Redux
Sam Weller authored the critically acclaimed Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews. Missed his talk, or just share his love? The Columbia College professor details his passion on his website, a repository of photos, interviews, and literary context.
Inside The Bricklayer
Retired FBI agent Paul Lindsay has written a debut novel (under the pen name Noah Boyd), The Bricklayer, is about a (surprise) former FBI agent working as a bricklayer who gets called back into the force to work on a case. Click on the link for a peek at the first 73 pages.
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Miscellaneous Wed Sep 01 2010
SHARKFORUM
No, this blog is not about Jaws and his buddies. In Sharkforum, The Sharkpack covers everything from art and film to humor and politics. Check out the literature section, where Simone Muench does "Poetry of the Week."
I Write Like Vladimir Nabokov
It's true. At least that's what this program told me when I submitted this entry. Of course, it also said Margaret Atwood writes like Stephen King. Who do you write like? Click here and claim your spurious literary bragging rights.
On the Web Thu Aug 26 2010
Misleading Book Cover?
Jonathan Franzen's new book, Freedom -- "a masterpiece of American fiction," according to the New York Times -- may or may not be about genetically engineered songbirds. (Thanks, Utne Reader.)
On a F*cking Mission
On Monday, writer Amy Krouse Rosenthal started a new mission for the readers of her blog, Mission Amy K.R (hosted by vocalo.org/WBEZ): the F*ck It list. She invites people to share a list of activities that they wouldn't ever want to do again -- basically, the opposite of a bucket list.
I think commenter Pam Wolff (aka Evil Ferret) and I would get along really well, based on her list:
F*ck political correctness. Just say what you mean. Like we can't tell anyway.
F*ck not being able to write f*ck in a blog for adults. Seriously.
F*ck idiots who don't know the difference between their, there, and they're. Ditto for the morons who can't keep its and it's straight. Most of all, f*uck the brainless wonders who think it is acceptable to use an apostrophe + s to make a word plural.
F*ck Fox News.
F*ch people who think that, because they dislike something, it is bad or wrong.
F*ck people who let their kids scream in stores and don't say anything.
F*ck people who take up 3-5 seats on the bus/train with their non-folding strollers or shopping carts.
F*ck wearing a bra.
Although, I must say I can't abide by the last one.
The blog also includes a few special-guest F*ck It lists, including ones from Amy Dickinson and Torey Malatia (who, when we asked him what he thinks about women's summer wardrobes, he said, "F*ck wearing a bra").
Authors rarely talk about the strange headspace they inhabit between the time a book's been fully edited and the day it is published. Rosencrans Baldwin set out to change all that, keeping a diary for five months before the August 12 release of his debut novel, You Lost Me There.
The anxiety is palpable. Maybe he should cut down on the Diet Coke.
"He has written the press release in third-person..."
I receive dozens of press releases a day at my job, so I got a laugh out of this mock release from author and senior editor of Booklist Online Keir Graff, to promote his fourth novel, The Price of Liberty. Highlights:
Misspellings and grammatical errors throughout are should contributing to this effect.
As is customary, key information has been set in boldface.
"For my fourth novel, I wanted to try something different," Graff quotes himself as saying.
The Price of Liberty's launch party will be Thursday, September 9, 5:30-7:30pm. After Words Books, 23 E. Illinois St., 312-464-1110.
Aleksandar Hemon on Man's Inhumanity to Man
FiveBooks promises to make you an instant expert on any field--classical music, global security, chick lit--by reading five books an author recommends on that subject. Aleksandar Hemon, author of Nowhere Man and The Lazarus Project, recommends works on "Man's Inhumanity to Man," choosing texts based on their ability to complicate any emotional response, including empathy or moral superiority, to the horrors going on in the book. Two are about the Holocaust, one is about the Soviet Red Cavalry, the fourth is about scalp-hunters in Southwestern American territories, and the last is about slavery in the States. It's too easy to claim that the perpetrators are mad, says Hemon. In fact, the inhumanity is often planned, "a rational system, an economic system in which all participated in various ways."
Help Local "Literary Little Guys" Concisely Magazine
You have nine days left to support Chicago literary publication Concisely Magazine via kickstarter.com. Help raise $300 to publish issue #4: a pledge of $10 gets you the next print issue, a collection of eight stories each under 500 words (with absolutely no advertisements), and a plethora of genuine thank yous. Spare $20 and you'll receive a full year's subscription or 4 issues. As of today, the "little guys" have met just over 50% of their goal. So help if you can, all you literary philanthropists. See? It takes less than 100 words to ask!
— Amy Ganser
"Is There a Stigma to Not Having a Car?"
Carless in Chicago author Jason Rothstein was interviewed on
Chicago Tonight last week.
Borders is for Wusses
"No, they didn't serve coffee. Who the hell needed it?" In this video on the Chicago Underground Library's blog, one Chicagoan who stopped at the CUL's Printer's Row 2010 tent recalls her favorite bookstore, now closed: the Stars Our Destination, lined wall-to-wall with science-fiction and mystery books.
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TriQuarterly's Latest
TriQuarterly, Northwestern University's literary journal, just released its latest issue -- its first in the publication's new online-only form. Among other works, it includes a short piece by Book Club-featured author Joe Meno.
— Andrew Huff
New Chris Ware Anthology
The heady, intricate comic art of Oak Park resident Chris Ware gets a thorough exploration in the new anthology The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking. Co-editor David Ball talked with NPR about the book Monday. Don't forget Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth is the Gapers Block Book Club pick for June and meets at The Book Cellar, 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave., Monday, June 14, at 7:30pm.
On the Web Mon May 17 2010
Librarians on IM
No longer do you have to leave your house to get help from a reference librarian -- or even wait a few minutes for an e-mail response. The University of Chicago Libraries now offer immediate reference help via (OMG!) instant message.
Events Wed Apr 28 2010
Author James Kennedy's Apr. 17 Dome of Doom party started off calmly enough with a gallery show, featuring fan art inspired by Kennedy's 2008 book The Order of Odd-Fish (the May Gapers Block Book Club selection).
But the event later transformed into a costumed dance-off -- those brave enough to enter the PVC-pipe Dome of Doom as dance-fighters got in for free. See Time Out Chicago for a photo gallery.
If you missed the insanity, there's a possibility that there will be a repeat next year. If Chicago theater group Collaboraction -- who helped organize the event -- has its way, says Kennedy, "I think it will become an annual thing (though not always Order of Odd-Fish themed). They've even kept the Dome!"
Photo courtesy jameskennedy.com, and thanks to designer Erick Delgado for photo resizing.
On the Web Sat Apr 24 2010
Pick Up The Fuzz On Podcast
Hear author and Chicago policeman Martin Preib read from his new book
The Wagon and Other Stories from the City on podcast at The Chicago Blog, blog of the University of Chicago Press. The Wagon is set for release in May. The Chicago Reader says of The Wagon: "One thing's for sure: Preib isn't a cop moonlighting as a writer. He's a writer who happens to work as a cop."
One Book, Lots of Chicago
Wednesday night's Colm Tóibín talk was way full, to the point of overflow. Thanks to the tip from reader Julie at Publish Chicago.
On the Web Wed Apr 21 2010
Sex Advice from Tiger
Golf lessons with Tiger Woods would likely cost thousands -- or $13.59 -- but Debby Herbenick, Time Out Chicago sex columnist, gives away Tiger's lessons on getting hot 'n' heavy for free. Author of the 2009 book Because It Feels Good: A Woman's Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction (Rodale Books), Herbenick draws advice from "celebrity sexperts" in a four-part CheekyChicago series (Tiger is the first).
Miscellaneous Sun Apr 18 2010
C2E2 in Pictures
Steampunk and X-Force and Watchmen, oh my: check out some photos from Chicago's newest comic book convention.
Miscellaneous Fri Mar 26 2010
Drinking and Reading
The Chicago Bar Project lets you know where to get your book and beer on.
Miscellaneous Thu Mar 18 2010
Princess Puffytail, the Fairy Pirate
An ad popped up on the Chicago/Creative Gigs page on Craigslist this week:
Need immediate unpublished children's stories appealing to ages 2-6, preferably with a princess, pirate, fairy or rabbit theme. Will pay generous royalties. Must have own illustrations. Call immediately 312.XXX.XXXX
Whoever posted it probably didn't expect a response incorporating all four themes in one awe-inspiring package. Leave it to Lunchbreath.
Reader Fiction 2009
In need of a little more fiction, circa 2009? The Reader's annual fiction issue is now online, featuring stories by Stephen Markley, Natalie Edwards and Robert Cass. If you find yourself in need of some more reads, you can always check out the Reader's archive which houses their fiction issues dating back to 2000.
Newcity's Top 5
Newcity has listed their Top 5 books of 2009, but instead of including books from all over the globe, they've also set aside two lists specifically for local reads. I wouldn't necessarily agree with all of their picks, but the local nod is always a nice thing.
The Unnamed Preview
The Unnamed, Book Club selection author Joshua Ferris's upcoming novel, is getting some heavy pre-publication press. Catch a glimpse of the new work in this lengthy excerpt in Granta:
Coffee and a powdered doughnut sat on his desk, the morning offering. He might have thought to get something more substantial but he didn't care to interrupt the flow of work. Night after night, he sat at this desk just as a sphere of oil sits suspended in dark vinegar - everything blotted out but his own source of light. To save on energy costs, Troyer, Barr and Atkins LLP had installed motion sensors on the overhead lights. From six in the morning until ten at night, the lights burned continuously; after ten, the sensors took over. He worked past ten most nights, and most nights found him sufficiently absorbed in something that required only the turn of a page or the click of a mouse - too little activity for the sensors to register. The lights frequently switched off on him. He'd look up, surprised again - not just by the darkened office. By his re-entry into the physical world. Self-awareness. Himself as something more than mind thinking. He'd have to stand, a little amused by the crude technology, and wave his arms around, jump up and down, walk over and fan the door, sometimes all three, before the lights would return.
That was happiness.
Publishing's 4th Darkest Day
As we celebrate the anniversary of Rod Blagojevich's arrest, take a moment to laugh while reading GalleyCat's list of the "worst moments in publishing in 2009." In at #4: Blago's book deal.
Today in Hemon News
Chicago's own Aleksandar Hemon is the editor of this year's Best European Fiction anthology and was recently interviewed in the New York Times books blog about the process. Here's Hemon on how his work on the anthology reminded him about some major differences between American and European fiction writing:
Q. What was the biggest surprise for you, editing the collection?
A. It was less of a surprise than a reminder: how unabashedly comfortable many of the writers are to engage with literary forms that would be perceived as experimental or avant-garde here. In turn, I was reminded how deeply conservative contemporary American literature is in terms of form. And that conservative bent is a recent development, I believe. The European form flexibility is not a consequence of some snotty, elitist aesthetic but rather of the fact that there are many stories to be told and many traditions to draw from.
In other Hemon news, over at Booklist Daniel Kraus takes the trailer for Hemon's The Lazarus Project to task, finding that it doesn't so much make him want to read the book as it makes him want to go back and read fellow Booklist writer Donna Seaman's review of it.
What Vonnegut Left
Pop Matters examines where an author's "previously unpublished" posthumous works come from, those of Kurt Vonnegut in his recent Look at the Birdie in this case:
Vonnegut was no hack, but he needed to make a living, and so he became a staple of these publications (in good company that included the likes of Louis L'Amour and Elmore Leonard, among others). In a 1951 letter included in this book, Vonnegut observes: " . . . of course, if you appear in the Atlantic or Harper's or the New Yorker, by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. This is poor competition for the fat checks from the slicks. For want of anything more tempting, I'll stick with money."
Get Educated for Less
The University of Chicago Press is currently in the midst of their annual sale which can now be taken advantage of online. You can get scores of award-winning, scholarly and general interest books for up to 85% off the original price by entering promo code AD9256 when you check out. Learn more about William Blake with William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s, get schooled on A Natural History of the Chicago Region or indulge the thinker in you with Creative Understanding. The sale will run through February 26, or until stock is depleted.
Joshua Ferris on The Corrections
As is customary this time of year, publications are coming out with their "best of" lists, but with this year bringing the end of the decade near, there have been a slew of "best books of the decade lists" on which our current Book Club selection, The Corrections, features prominently. Back in September The Millions placed the book at #1 on their Best of the Millennium list (to some disagreement to their readers). Here, the Guardian reviews all those publishing smash hits and past Book Club selection author Joshua Ferris discusses what makes The Corrections so great:
It was merciless, it was skewering, the family at its heart full of bicker, betrayal, and many other varieties of familial sport - but the artist assembling and synthesising it all for the pleasure of the reader was possessed, thank God, of a voracious emotional intelligence, capable of mollifying all that was ugly and unlikable in his individual characters with empathy and humour. Oh, it's compulsive reading! The copy I have is a hardback containing 568 pages, and not one of them flags. The sentences are rollicking flickers of genius, one brilliant-dense paragraph meeting another, narratives vectoring into the outlandish and the unexpected while remaining ever committed to the realist's agenda. We might have forgotten, by the time the book landed, that a literary doorstopper of the first order of seriousness could also be unabashed entertainment. More likely Franzen simply knew that all comedy is deadly serious, and that the fraudulent online sale of post-Soviet Lithuania, for example, or a stolen salmon fillet sliding down the hero's underpants, was the low-brow fallout, the comic carryover, of a writer dividing the sadness of a declining family by the sadness of a declining culture. The book was a howl: against greed, against selfishness, against the axiom of American happiness, finally against the tyranny of family holidays.
Find out what else Johsua Ferris has been reading in his contribution to The Millions's Year in Reading.
Why We Need a Hall of Fame
Over at The Week Behind, Donald G. Evans discusses why Chicago needs a Literary Hall of Fame, writing "Saying nice things about Chicago's literary heroes should be a civic responsibility warmly and naturally embraced, big sloppy kisses rather than gratuitous cheek pecks on the way out the door. Like with any loved one, you want to show your appreciation, express love and gratitude, and in ways small and big cherish what you have." One of the major forces behind the project to create our Literary Hall of Fame, Evans recounts other promoters of Chicago literature, giving the Book Club a nice mention, in effort to show the vibrant literary community that already exists here. Where Evans feels having a Hall of Fame could do most good is to bring attention to such works on a greater scale, not just in the minds of the already literary conscious but in the greater Chicago community, if not the world. It is a lofty goal, indeed, but one that I can certainly stand behind. Find out more about the burgeoning Chicago Literary Hall of Fame on its facebook page.
Julia Keller Interview
Claire Zulkey interviews Tribune critic Julia Keller about her new young adult novel, Back Home, and her non-fiction book, Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun that Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It. Says Keller on how she came to choose Gatling as a subject:
I came across his life story in the course of research on another topic, was astonished to find there was no major biography, and set to work. Gatling was a brilliant inventor and a thoughtful individual, a man who embodied the American Dream as it was manifested in the 19th Century: One worked hard, dreamed big, and one's fortunes rose or fell according to one's own talents and efforts -- not charity, not handouts, not shortcuts or good PR. The Gatling Gun represented an intellectual shift as well as a change in armaments. For the first time, one could kill an enemy en masse, not one at a time. The Gatling ushered in a period of terrible destructiveness -- but also signaled to the world that the United States was a new world force to be reckoned with. And it all began in the mind of a man with no formal education, no training, a farmer's son who stepped forth into the world in the 1840s, determined to make his mark. And did.
AV Club Interviews Steven D. Levitt
The Onion AV Club interviews Superfreakonomics author and University of Chicago professor Steven D. Levitt, questioning him on the book's controversial chapter on global warming and taking him to task on other claims, such as the effects of terrorism and the size of Indian men's, um, body parts. Says Levitt in answer to the first topic:
Our chapter does not deny the existence of global warming. What we do is, we say that the current solution people are proposing is one that involves reducing carbon emissions dramatically. The problem with that solution is, it's incredibly expensive. The economists who have looked at it think it will cost trillions of dollars in reduced economic output to accomplish it. Also, it requires everyone in the world to get together and suddenly become allies and friends to try and change their behavior, to moderate how much they produce. And even if we do it, because carbon dioxide stays in the air for so long, it will take 50 years to really feel the benefits, or even know if we are getting benefits. So we take a very different approach, which says, "Let's just say the earth got too hot and we wanted to make it cooler, would reducing carbon emissions be the right way to go?" And we think the answer is no.
(Academic) Fun for Everyone
I could do this all day and not stop laughing--it's the Make Your Own Academic Sentence tool from the University of Chicago. Pick four hoity-toity sounding phrases and the tool will work them into a sentence for you. Here's mine: "The epistemology of consumption fuctions as the conceptual frame for the legitmation of agency." Hilarious, no? Why didn't this exist when I was writing papers there? This could have saved me a lot of work! [via]
Do You Like Free Books?
Yeah, of course you do. The University of Chicago Press has just announced that they will begin offering one free e-book each month, starting today. This month's book of choice is the 2,000-some-year-old The Birthday Book by Roman scholar Censorinus. As described by the London Review of Books, The Birthday Book "distills the wisdom of several strains of philosophy, extracting whatever seems to have any bearing on births, days and birthdays: theories of the origin of the human species, the formation of the individual foetus, the principles of astrology, the ages of man, the nature of time, eons, centuries, years, months, days and hours." In other words, a nice, light read for your daily commute. (Oh, come on. This is the U of C. Did you really think it would be something you can buy at the airport?) Check back in December to see which gem of academia will be offered up gratis next.
Adam Langer Good for Book Clubs
Adam Langer, author of our own July 2005 selection Crossing California, gets some love in Booklist's Book Group blog where Neil Hollands calls him an author "who more people should be reading." Hollands gives a brief description of each of Langer's novels and his recent father-focused memoir, saying that his work is "easy to access, full of laughter, but worthy of careful examination as well." Having included Langer's work in our own Book Club, I wholeheartedly agree.
NaNoWriMo in the Chi
National Novel Writing Month is upon us again and ChiWriMo, the Chicago chapter of the month-long novel writing spree, has got you covered with write-ins scheduled throughout the city every day of the month. If you can't make it to the write-ins in person, fret not as the website's online forums provide plenty of support at your convenience and their resources give much needed direction for the gigantic task. At the end of the month, head over to the Open Books space at 213 W. Institute Pl. for a 14 hour writing frenzy, complete with baked goods. Good luck to all of our local aspiring novelists this month!
Dave Eggers on The Wild Things, an Excerpt & a Review
Over at the Guardian, Dave Eggers talks about novelizing a children's classic, how his version of The Wild Things diverges from the film adaptation and his love for Maurice Sendak:
So the book, I thought, would be a place where I could explore these and other ideas, and where I could bend the story toward my own interests a bit (the movie is much more Spike's than mine). Along the way the novel diverged significantly from the movie, and from Maurice's book, but all three share a basic outline - boy is confused about a home and world out of control, boy acts out, boy leaves home and becomes king of a herd of sentient beasts. And all three benefit from the pure, uncompromised vision of childhood that Maurice Sendak espoused and put on paper, again and again, in a stunning body of work that becomes more impressive and singular with every passing decade. He is the greatest living writer and illustrator of books for or about children, period, bar none, end of discussion. He also has a dog named Herman.
Continue reading the article for an excerpt from Eggers's novel and go here for the Guardian's analytical and thought-provoking review of the book.
Interesting Newberry Donations
Speaking of getting freaky, do you ever stop to wonder just how much those Newberry librarians go through to bring you an awesome book fair each year? What kinds of crazy reads they're forced to sort into one of their numerous categories? And how many of them are sex guides? Here, a librarian describes some favorite donations: "One is still in print, and can be purchased as a book alone, or in a deluxe set with book, video, and tube of massage oil. I have read the book and I have watched the video...[a]nd I can tell you something about sex you may not have known. People who have sex have very large hands, and they always spread them out flat right HERE, at waist level, whether it's a still photo or a scene in the video. Oh, and people having sex always stand, sit, or loll at a side angle to a camera, so their hands can stay just HERE. Sex, apparently, is a matter of getting really close and then holding your hands out flat just HERE." My question is, who's donating these kinds books? And why? Perhaps I don't want to know.
On the Web Thu Oct 22 2009
57th Street Top Five
Granta continues their coverage of all things Chicago by asking 57th Street Books about their top five Chicago reads. Some famous names are on that list and two of the reads have been past Book Club selections.
Dusting Off the Oldies
Booklist's Book Group blog directs us to Shelf Renewal, a blog by two Chicago-area librarians dedicated to shining a light on not-so-new books instead of giving more attention to upcoming books that are already getting plenty of publicity. Blog posts so far include a list of books centered around eating habits, dysfunctional families and, inspired by the show Glee, high school novels. Part of the blog's goal is to help other librarians recommend good reads to their patrons, but for readers in general, the blog looks like it will certainly do well to branch out into lesser known books on topics of their interest. (After all, do we really need to know another person's opinion on the latest Dan Brown?) I look forward to seeing which books the pair dig up in future posts.
Quimby's Top Five
Not only is Granta giving our city love with their all-Chicago issue, but they're also shining the spotlight on local bookstores by asking them for their top five Chicago reads. This week it's Quimby's. Check back each week to find out a new store's favorite Chicago-related books.
Saved by the Bell or For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Today in Silly Quizzes, can you tell the difference between Behind the Bell, Dustin Diamond's Saved by the Bell tell-all memoir, and Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls? Or, more importantly, would you admit it if you couldn't?
Most Expensive Halloween Costume Ever
File this one under "Um...okay...": In anticipation of the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers Where the Wild Things Are adaptation, Opening Ceremony has a number of Wild Things inspired costumes that you can purchase just in time for Halloween. If you have an extra $600 lying around. (If I had an extra $600 to spend expressly on Halloween, I would spend it on Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I would pile them in my living room, then climb onto one of my bookshelves to dive into them, à la Scrooge McDuck and his golden coins. But I digress.) Assuming you do have that kind of cash, you'd probably want to get more than one wear out of your costume and the AV Club has some great ideas on where such apparel might be appropriate.
(Seriously, that guy looks ridiculous, but doesn't he also look toasty? Imagine wearing that on a mid-February morning at the El station. You'd be the envy of CTA riders everywhere.)
Win a Copy of Zeitoun
Boing Boing is holding a poetry contest, the prize for which is a copy of Dave Eggers's Zeitoun. All you have to do is compose a haiku on why you deserve to win and enter it in the comments section of the post. The contest ends on Saturday, but there are already over 200 posts so get crackin'!
Some of my favorites so far:
I choose to spend time
remembering what went wrong
to prevent repeat.
Some books rot on shelves,
but were made for many reads.
We practice sharing
I like Dave Eggers
Cute girls see this on my shelf
(Kind of true, #224. Kind of true.)
The Ballads of Ballads of Suburbia
Interested in which songs inspired Stephanie Kuehnert when she was writing Ballads of Suburbia? The author provides a soundtrack for her book as part of Largehearted Boy's Book Notes series. Not surprisingly there's some Johnny Cash on the list (his music plays somewhat of a role in the novel) and the combination of songs serves as a good look into how music helped shape the stories of a bunch of punk suburban kids.
Words Are Great
Banning books is hard work. Deciding which books to keep is difficult when you can find something to disagree with in so many of them. Just ask these puppets from the American Library Association:
On a serious note though, this map shows how pervasive book censorship continues to be. Keep in mind that this shows only book bans and challenges that have been reported; many more surely slip quietly past the news radar. Banned Books Week starts tomorrow and with it we are reminded to take a moment to be grateful for our undeniable right to read.
2006 NBA Winner: The Echo Maker
The National Book Awards remembers Richard Powers's The Echo Maker, our September Book Club selection.
Um...perhaps Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, has some sort of memory issues as well. According to his description of the book, the protagonist is named "Jack"*: "He has what? Capgras syndrome, identified by Joseph Capgras in 1923. And this precipitates not only one but two family dramas, and a questioning of not only of how the mind works but what effect do changes in any natural environment have on the individual and that individual's place in the human ecology. The book's readers believe Karin is his sister, but the protagonist Jack does not. He thinks that for some reason 'an actress' has been brought in to play his sister. And even a dog that resembles his own has been found to visit him at the rehab facility. And we as readers believe he is Jack's dog even though Jack does not. They bring in the neuroscientist Weber, who resembles Oliver Sacks--at least to me, but that would make him a sort of imposter (or he may be related in some way to Ernst Weber, the psychophysicist). As much as he tries to help Jack, he ends up damaging his own marriage. He tries to decipher the case and ends up recognizing (and I use that word advisedly) his own alienation from his wife back east. I mean, this is a man who, when he writes case studies, in order to protect the patient's identity, makes up names for them. So they become imposters in their own cases. And then he develops a fascination for Jack's rehab aide, so he becomes an imposter in his previous life. And then you remember that none of these people are real, so they are all imposters, puppets, with Richard Powers the grand puppenmeister convincing you of their reality."
*Mark Schluter, not Jack, is the man afflicted with Capgras in this story.
As of Sunday, the National Book Foundation finished their salute to past winners and voting is now open for the best National Book Awards Fiction. The shortlist includes John Cheever, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Thomas Pynchon and University of Chicago visiting professor Ralph Ellison. Cast your vote here and your email address will be entered to a win two tickets to the 60th National Book Awards ceremony on November 18.
Hemon & Dybek Talk Chicago
Stuart Dybek will be at the Harold Washington Library tonight to discuss his contribution to Granta, but if you can't make it to his talk, here's a video of him with Aleksandar Hemon discussing "the energy and inspiration of their home town."
1995 & 2000 NBA Winners: Sabbath's Theater & In America
This past week, the National Book Awards remembered two past winners with ties to the University of Chicago.
Says Ed Portor, contributor to this year's Best American New Voices anthology, on the 1995 winner, Philip Roth's Sabbath Theater: "Underneath all the sex and bad behavior, Sabbath's Theater is an investigation of grief--inconsolable, unsupportable grief, for the dead, and for oneself. The scene that I can never get out of my head (and I'm not alone in this) is that of Sabbath masturbating on the fresh grave of his lover Drenka, and then finding out to his horror that he's not alone in the practice. It's an outrageous scene, but its porno-slapstick is infused with terrible pain."
On Susan Sontag's In America, the 2000 winner, Columbia University graduate Elizabeth Yale has this to say: "In America is the story of a woman--a diva--and of the idea that we create ourselves by rebelling against our fate. But of the idealistic immigrants in Sontag's story, it is ultimately only the actress--the paragon of mutability--who truly achieves this self-actualized transformation. For the others, shades of their former selves inexorably seep through. The actress, practiced in performance, can achieve what the rest of us cannot because her life transpires on the stage. Maryna or Marina, the diva has no singular self; she transforms with each rise and fall of the curtain, her identity a costume she dons before every performance. The experience of reading In America is of having an intimate, visceral encounter with an actress in possession of this transformative power, of being seduced by her elusive charisma, and ultimately of being eluded by her."
Questions for Audrey?
Goodreads is interviewing Audrey Niffenegger for their October newsletter and they're soliciting questions from fans. If you have a question for the author about her writing or about writing or, as they say, life in general, post it on the Goodreads page and maybe yours will be selected.
Audrey Niffenegger in Granta
Today Granta brings us a new short story by Audrey Niffenegger:
The night sky was orange then. There was no real Chicago night in the early 1980s; what with the light pollution and the sprawl, the city threw up a massive unhealthy glow. The streets were bathed in artificial light, safe-light yellow as though motorists might need to develop film while driving. Nothing had been gentrified yet, the aluminium-sided houses stood blank and sullen in unbroken rows along glass-strewn sidewalks. Darkness pooled in the alleys and collected under the el. It was a good decade in which to get mugged.
An Impolite Interview with Shel Silverstein
You have got to read this hilarious, rediscovered interview with Shel Silverstein in a 1961 issue of The Realist.
Shel on having a beard:
I just have the beard because I think I look better with it, and I feel better with it. It makes me look older; I don't know if that's good or bad. But it's not done out of any rebellion or anything. It's not done, I hope, to attract attention. So finally, now, when people ask, I look sort of sad and I say, "It covers the scar." It's a very romantic thing to say, isn't it? But, you know, one thing it is, it's a good conversation-starter. People who might want to talk to you normally, a stranger, and who can't - you know, people are pretty shy and reserved, mostly - they don't want to take a chance on being cut down by somebody, so they might not come up to you without an excuse; whereas, if you've got some lemon meringue pie on your shoulder, or if your fly's open, they've got an excuse to talk to you. They can say, you know, "Your fly's open," or "You've got some lemon meringue pie on your shoulder."
Roger Ebert in Granta
More from Granta, this time from Roger Ebert on the personalities to be found in the past in a North Ave. bar, telling Neil Steinberg, "you had to be there":
O'Rourke's was our stage, and we displayed our personas there nightly. It was a shabby street-corner tavern on a dicey stretch of North Avenue, a block after Chicago's Old Town stopped being a tourist haven. In its early days it was heated by a wood-burning pot-bellied stove, and ice formed on the insides of the windows. One night a kid from the street barged in, whacked a customer in the front booth with a baseball bat, and ran out again. When a roomer who lived upstairs died, his body was not discovered until maggots started to drop through the ceiling and on to the bar. A man nobody knew was shot dead one night behind the building. From the day it opened on December 30, 1966 until the day I stopped drinking in 1979, I drank there more or less every night when I was in town. So did a lot of people.
An Off Year Soundtrack
Largehearted Boy turns its focus to Claire Zulkey who provides a soundtrack to her young adult novel, An Off Year. The listing is shorter than most, but there are definitely some, um, interesting choices on there.
The Plausibility of Book People
Many of the futuristic things Ray Bradbury has written about have come to be true (iPod, anyone?), but have you ever wondered about the plausibility of a colony of book people, as written in Fahrenheit 451? The Guardian asks several people, most of whom believe memorizing and reciting entire books could be done with sufficient practice. I have to go with the last entry, though, and admit that I too find it difficult to remember basic plots of the books I've read, let alone every word of them. I might not last so long in that colony.
Stephen Elliott's Book Notes
Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries is the latest book to get the Book Notes treatment over at Largehearted Boy. The pieces that compose the soundtrack to the book are, um, interesting..."embarrassing" is the word Elliott uses, but you'll have to judge for yourself.
Niffenegger Book Trailer
Audrey Niffenegger talks about her upcoming novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, cemeteries, the theme of loss and her choice of London as a setting:
When Algren & de Beauvoir Meet
Have you ever wondered what the first meeting between Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir was like? The Reader gives us a sneak peek from a new biography of Jean-Paul Sartre and de Beauvoir.
The Monster Variations Soundtrack
Daniel Kraus, who gave an intriguing reading along with his Brothers Delacorte at the Book Cellar last night, talks to Largehearted Boy about his debut novel, The Monster Variations, and provides a soundtrack for the read. With a list of pieces that starts with Iron and Wine and ends with the Who's the Boss? theme song, you can't help wanting to know just a little bit more about this dark young adult story. I know I do.
Limited Edition Chris Ware Shirt
As reported on the main page, for today only you can get a limited edition t-shirt with a Chris Ware designed print. Proceeds of the shirt benefit 826Michigan, one of the sister organizations of our own 826CHI.
Shel Gets High
Obviously we can't have a YouTube video of Shel Silverstein reading his own work, but we can have a video of Silverstein's buddy Larry Moyers reading one of his poems. The poem is titled, "The Perfect High," and, as you might infer, is a bit different from the kid-friendly Shel we grew up with:
You can also read the text of the poem here. [via]
Dan Chaon Book Trailer & Interview
The Millions does double duty by pointing us to a book trailer for Dan Chaon's new novel, Await Your Reply, and giving us a really in-depth interview with the author. Says Chaon of the books he loves and the audience for whom he writes:
As a writer, I feel like I'm always in conversation with the books that I've read. Occasionally, an interviewer will ask: "Who are you writing for? Who is your audience?" And in many ways the answer is that I'm writing for those authors I've loved, and the books I've loved. If you're an avid reader, and a book gets under your skin, it can affect you as intensely as a real human relationship, it lingers with you for your whole life, and there is always this desire to re-experience that amazing sense of connection you get from "your books." I understand completely why people want to write fan fiction. To me, I guess, all fiction is fan fiction at a certain level, just as it always has an element of identity theft.
On the Web Tue Aug 25 2009
Jennifer Sampson's comment in this post reminds me that registration is currently open for the Newberry Library's Fall Seminars. Explore the themes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, take an academic stab at The Graphic Novel, learn more about Writing and Selling a Novel, brush up on your Food Writing skills or take Jennifer's own class and learn How to Read Like a Victorian. Registration for all classes can be done online; classes start in September and October. (Thanks, Jennifer!)
Reading in Public
Jacket Copy brings attention to the Reading in Public project taking place in San Luis Obispo. The purpose of the project is to celebrate reading by way of performance in public places, similar to Open Books's Get Caught Reading that took place earlier this year. There is an accompanying Flickr group where people all over the world can submit pictures of people reading in public, but I'm dismayed to see that there is yet to be anything tagged Chicago. Surely we're just as publically literary as any other city, right? Submit your pictures to the group and make our presence known!
Audrey Niffenegger on The Moonstone
Audrey Niffenegger has written a nice piece for the Guardian on her love of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, giving us an idea of what and how she reads:
It would be delightful to be able to read a book as its original readers did, to have the impact of the experience without knowing what would come after. Wilkie Collins's masterpiece, The Moonstone, must have seemed especially strange and new to its first readers. It was the first detective novel written in English. There are whole sections of bookstores, vast swaths of ISBNs devoted to The Moonstone's progeny. I happened to read it after the Sherlock Holmes stories, after Dracula, after Lord Peter Wimsey and Nero Wolfe and Philip Marlowe. But its first audience read it as a serial in Charles Dickens's weekly magazine All the Year Round. I suppose we could recreate this experience by reading one chapter each week and firmly putting the book away in the intervals, but I am much too impatient for that, myself.
Dan Chaon on Literature & Genre
Northwestern grad Dan Chaon has never blogged before, but gives it a shot in effort to discuss his latest book, Await Your Reply. In the process, he discusses some of the fantasy and thriller reads that influenced him as a kid, how those grew to help him appreciate character-driven works and why the difference between "genre" and "literary" fiction can be so confusing. [via]
The New Yorker's books blog holds a weekly covers contest and Book Club members might have a slight advantage identifying at least one of this week's covers:
If you know all four, email them at bookbench[at]gmail[dot]com to win a prize.
UPDATE: The answers.
The Time Traveler's Wife: Movie & Possible TV Show
After unexpectedly seeing The Time Traveler's Wife this weekend (I was really planning on waiting until the DVD release, but found myself at the theater with a friend trying to decide on a movie for the afternoon), I find this review of the movie fitting: Not Bad. Which is to say, not as horrible as I was expecting it to be, but not great either. It was a passable, bare-bones version of a fantastic book, told in a far more linear manner, which I don't think was necessarily beneficial. Having said that, I'm forced to think back on my lit theory class where we learned that one of the bases of feminist theory is the idea that men tell stories linearly - going down a straight line until they come to a point, not unlike certain parts of their bodies - while women tell stories circularly - going around and around (think of Mrs. Dalloway for a prime example). I'm not much of a proponent of that particular theory, but it strikes me that it does seem applicable here, what with the book written in a circular manner by a woman and the movie directed in a linear manner by a man. In a story about time travel, the circularity is just more interesting. I won't review the movie in depth (I'll let our movie columnist Steve do that here, where he hits nicely on its faults and attributes), but I will say that, unlike Steve, I was emotionally touched. Ridiculously so. I have never cried during a movie while watching it in the theater (and only once before in front of another person at all), but halfway through I remembered exactly what was going to happen and how it was going to happen and I must admit that I shed some tears. I really think that had much more to do with having read the book, but in any case, that movie is freakin' sad. And while it's not nearly as great as its progenitor, it's not bad either.
In other news, the novel may be appearing as a TV show in the not too distant future.
Hearing Hemon
Looking to catch to some Aleksandar Hemon today? You've got two opportunities to do so: you can listen to NPR's interview with Hemon about his latest short story collection, Love and Obstacles, and read an excerpt from one of the stories, then you can head over to the Guardian and listen to Hemon reading from the first story in the book, "Stairway to Heaven."
The Wild Things Excerpt
To brighten up your Monday afternoon, I present to you (actually, the New Yorker presents to you) an interview with Dave Eggers and an excerpt of The Wild Things:
Max knew that a bunk bed was the perfect structure to use when building an indoor fort. First of all, bunk beds have a roof, and a roof is essential if you're going to have an observation tower. And you need an observation tower if you're going to spot invading armies before they breach your walls and overtake your kingdom. Anyone without a bunk bed would have a much harder time maintaining a security perimeter, and if you can't do that you don't stand a chance.
Furry Wild Things
Jacket Copy offers a look at the furry cover of Dave Eggers's upcoming The Wild Things, the novelized version of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. The verdict on the book's appearance? "[M]atted. And kind of creepy." Kind of true, but I also can't wait to get my hands on one. Literally.
WWBOR?
Or, What Would Barack Obama Read? The Daily Beast collects all of the books that the President has been seen with since the campaign, saying that the list reveals a "predilection for presidential profiles, a weakness for explain-it-all bestsellers, and the occasional hankering for literary fiction." Some homeland notables on his shelf: What is the What by Dave Eggers and Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan.
Also, the New York Times looks at how Obama is influencing pop culture creation and consumption.
What Makes a Jewish Writer?
I've never considered how being Jewish and a writer makes one a "Jewish writer," but it seems that Adam Langer, author of our July 2005 selection Crossing California, is asked about that very thing and is forced to wonder what that really means:
You'll offer that you were born Jewish and you've been a writer for eons, so sure, you're a Jewish writer by definition, but that's just one fact of your life. Like you're five-foot-eight or you moved out of Chicago but still enjoy double cheese dogs from Wolfy's Red Hots.
If you're feeling erudite, you'll quote Saul Bellow, an author you don't enjoy as much as people sometimes assume: "I'm well aware of being Jewish and also of being American and of being a writer. But I'm also a hockey fan, a fact which nobody ever mentions."
You'll say when you were a kid, you liked hockey too.
The rest of Langer's essay at Tablet Magazine reads as a great and amusing contemplation not just on the Jewish-ness of a writer who happens to be Jewish, but on the assumption of racial and ethnic stereotypes on the artist.
Wendy's Love of Laura
Book Club selection author (and FoBC) Wendy McClure (I'm Not the New Me) has been travelling throughout the Midwest for work on a new book about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her childhood obsession with the Little House books. Salon wonders how our culture became obsessed with Wilder's stories yet remained almost ignorant of her ambitious daughter Rose Wilder Lane. (As someone who read all the Little House books as a kid, I must admit I know nothing of Laura's daughter either.) Wendy tells Salon:
The popular conception of Laura is that she was a naturally talented late bloomer with pure intentions to simply write down her memories -- the kind of writer a lot of people think they want to be (or even think women should be). Rose, though, is the 'other' kind of writer -- ambitious, constantly concerned with money and career stuff, often ghostwriting or cranking out stuff that she wasn't proud of, so there's a pervasive belief that she was just too hard-edged to have had anything to do with the Little House books. But she did.
On her site, Wendy invites all to share their memories and experiences of Laura Ingalls Wilder with her, from the books, the actual homes and even the TV show. And if you've never seen any of Laura's homes, check out Wendy's flickr stream of her enviable research excursions.
Her Fearful Symmetry Early Review
Rebecca of The Book Lady's Blog was graced with an advance copy of Audrey Niffenegger's forthcoming novel Her Fearful Symmetry. Her immediate opinions? Yes, it does live up to the hype and it has all the great things we loved about The Time Traveler's Wife while going in a completely different direction. Color me excited.
Meanwhile, I remain trepedatious about the upcoming Time Traveler's Wife film and these articles, one saying the movie isn't science fiction but an "epic love story" and the other explaining why it was necessary to change the ending in the film, do little to calm my reservations. Sure, the story is about love, but generally "epic love story" translates to "cheese" in the movies and there's nothing I hate in movies more than cheesy, ridiculous, maudlin love. Also, I hate unnecessary ending changes, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to dislike this movie. (I also suspect that the director's insistence that this is a love story and not science fiction is in effort to draw in the female audience, which irks me because that assumes that females aren't interested in science fiction and are only interested in love. But that's another rant for another day.)
Anne Elizabeth Moore Talks to Bitch
Anne Elizabeth Moore, series editor of the Best American Comics and former GB Sky in Five columnist, talks to Bitch Magazine's Pages Turned blog about the influence of Julie Doucet's Dirty Plotte comic books. Says Moore of the comics:
These were the things Dirty Plotte was about: the isolation of being a driven female creative; the jealousy in personal relationships that come out of that; the ever-present push from the outside to be maternal and nurturing, but the absolute interior knowledge that that is not your way; and the incredibly shifting sense of gender that a strong, smart woman must feel in order to move about in the world. These were all very important themes, and they still resonate with me when I get into frustrating situations.
Amazon Customers Tag Blagojevich
The Washington Post reports that Amazon customers are tagging Rod Blagojevich's forthcoming book, The Governor derisively. Tags include "moron," "delusional," "crook" and "weasel," among others. My favorite? "Captain Hair." (I wonder if the underwear would be on the outside of the tights for that superhero costume...) Read the whole list of tags here and do Chicago proud by adding your own!
Dave Eggers - "A Fork Brought Along"
The Guardian's summer short story special issue is up and Dave Eggers has one of his, titled "A Fork Brought Along," included:
Edward has long been a successful man, a gentle and happy man liked by most everyone, but now he has a fork in his pocket. Blessed by good health and vast family, married 40 years, with five children, 11 grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren on the way, Edward has considered himself lucky to be enjoying his retirement and twilight years without care or controversy. But now he is at a wedding reception, and he has a fork in his pocket, and this is threatening to undo everything. He first noticed it a second ago, when he put his hands in his pockets, looking for a mint, and instead found the sharp prongs of the fork. He quickly pulled his hand away, smarting from the pain. And then it dawned on him: there was a fork in his pocket.
A Life in Books
Robert Duffer of the Chicago Examiner posted a lovely little piece on the significance of moving and reorganizing one's books. The categories into which Duffer divides his books will be familiar to any bibliophile faced with gathering his or her collection and deciding what will go where on the shelves in the new digs. There are those books you keep because they meant something to you at some point, even if you're not sure you'd be able to read them again with the same zest; those books you keep because you conquered them and want proof of your feat; those books you keep because you're hoping that someday you will like them (when, too, will I read East of Eden? Before or after I reread Jane Eyre?)...etc., etc. Duffer's post is a wonderfully thoughtful look at one's life in books.
Wendy McClure's Past & Present
Wendy McClure, author of our November 2005 selection I'm Not the New Me, writes for Penguin about the inhumanity of having your book analyzed by an introductory English college class and the perils of writing in the present tense. On the first subject, I can't even imagine, given how I'm prone to doling out harsh criticism myself in English classes (though I hope it's thoughtful harsh criticism I'm doling out and not simply ragging on the marginal), having my own book deconstructed by a group of first years. I think I'd run away and hide, so kudos to Wendy for having the guts to read what the kids wrote about her. And on the second subject...what a perfectly sweet ending to her ongoing story.
1971 NBA Winner: Mr. Sammler's Planet
The National Book Awards remembers their 1971 winner, and the third and final win for Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet.
Says Craig Morgan Teicher, poet and member of the board of the National Book Critics Circle: "It's impossible not to see a bit of oneself in Artur Sammler, a Holocaust survivor living out the end of his life--he's in his 70s when we meet him--uptown in New York City, where the subways are intolerable and the buses only a bit better, until a confrontation with a pickpocket makes the buses impossible as well.He lives with his grown daughter, an eccentric, irresponsible, unmarried woman, and tries to find what good he can in a world that has more than proved its evil.
"It's impossible, too, not to recognize how alone Sammler is, and how his aloneness is something we all have in common. A book like this--and it's a narrow shelf indeed that can hold it and its small company--may be the only way we can share that deep solitude."
Open Books Blogathon Recaps
Open Books stayed up all night on Saturday, blogging every half hour to raise money for their Buddies program. They didn't make their goal of $2,500 in sponsorships, however you can always donate to their literacy causes here. Here are some of the highly amusing literary classics Mad Libs you may have missed:
The First Post, featuring A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of SCISSORS, it was the worst of CAPES, it was the age of FRUIT FLIES, it was the age of PRETZELS, it was the epoch of ROLLER SKATES, it was the epoch of THIMBLES, it was the season of KITES, it was the season of PUNCHING BAGS, it was the spring of NEEDLES, it was the winter of CLOTHESPINS, we had SOCCER BALLS before us, we had CUPS before us, we were all going direct to ZANZIBAR, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present TEACHER, that some of its POINTY authorities RAN on its being CRIED, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
11:34am, featuring The Hound of the Baskervilles: "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very GROTESQUE in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was BROKEN all night, was seated at the breakfast SPIKE."
2:32pm, featuring Jane Eyre: "There was no possibility of taking a PARAKEET that day. We had been CONVULSING, indeed, in the FUZZY PANTIES an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no BATHTUB, HARMONIZING early) the cold winter FLYING BUTTRESS had brought with it QTIPS so sombre, and a NINJA so BOISTEROUS, that further out-door CEMENTING was now out of the question."
4:32pm, featuring Dracula: "3 May. Bistritz. --SLEPT Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, POURING at Vienna early next morning; should have CLIMBED at 6:46, but COBB SALAD was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a SNARKY COCONUT, from the glimpse which I got of it from the LAMP and the little I could BITE through the MANATEES."
10:30pm, featuring Don Quixote: "In a village of La Mancha, the COCKPIT of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those GRIZZLY BEARS that keep a PAGODA in the lance-rack, an UNSINKABLE buckler, a FIERY GRAVEROBBER, and a BOTTLE for FISHING."
The Penultimate Post, featuring Ulysses: "FRIED, plump Buck Mulligan came from the LESBIAN, BRUSHING a KITTY of lather on which a PIGEON and a CASE lay crossed."
Check out their blog to read the rest of the Mad Libs and learn more about Open Books's programs. And if you've ever wondered why programs such as this and other literacy organizations are so important to our city, take a look at these harrowing statistics.
1968 NBA Winner: The Eighth Day
University of Chicago faculty member Thornton Wilder was awarded the National Book Award in 1969 for his novel The Eighth Day.
Here, the National Book Foundation's Executive Director, Harold Augenbraum, remembers the honored work: "Without revealing too much, I will tell you--as Wilder does in the first chapter, with that wonderfully American literary structure of historifying in which the writer relates the most exciting event first and then fades back into the past and then rushes past the first event toward the narrative's events that come afterwards--though everything, of course, is still in the past, you're made to feel as if you are reading about the future--faceless riders from Coaltown, including a cloudy-faced minister, rescue the murderer, Ashley. Is he a murderer? Read it and you tell me."
Thoughts on Native Son
Lydia Kiesling of The Millions writes about her first failed and second successful attempts at reading Richard Wright's Native Son, the Book Club's September 2008 selection. She writes that she quit the novel early on the first time around because she felt "dispirited" and didn't want to read about the horrible acts Bigger Thomas commits with Mary Dalton's body after having accidentally murdered her. She later felt like a fraud at her ability to read other violent novels while letting this classic work offend her. Having successfully made it through the book the second time around, she realized that part of her discomfort stemmed from the fact that:
...Native Son is not a novel that wants to hold anybody's hand. Native Son does not want to tuck you into bed at night and reassure you that you are with it. Wright, starting as he did with a hugely unlovable character, dares you to face certain realities. Namely, that discussions of oppression are infinitely more comfortable when members of the oppressed race in question are doing things like passively resisting, writing monumental novels, and being elected president by a majority of the country so that one can say "My goodness, we've come a long way!" But that's stupid. The reason that institutionalized racism is despicable is because it takes away humanity. Obviously it makes the oppressor ugly; but it can make its victims ugly too. Ugliness breeds ugliness. Why should a book about something ugly be made palatable so that I, a white lady, can feel uplifted?
That's as true of an assessment of the book as I can imagine. The book does not want to hold your hand. It is not about reassuring you that racism and oppression is past us, but forcing you to understand how horribly present it is, both in Wright's time and today. What's shocking about this novel, which the Book Club members at that meeting commented on and which I realize each time I read the book, is that it is just as relevant today as it was the more-than-half a century ago that it was written.
Kiesling points out another irony -- that of reading the book during the hubbub surrounding the racially toned arrest of African-American scholar and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. My, what a long way we've come, indeed.
Wright Reads
Want to know more about Frank Lloyd Wright, both the truth and the fiction? Booklist's Book Group blogger Neil Hollands, having spent some time in the city for the ALA conference, was inspired to find out more about one of our most notable architects. Here are his recommendations for anyone wishing to read up on Wright.
Excitement over Generosity
American Fiction Notes is excited to read Richard Power's Generosity: An Enhancement, one of the status galleys of the year. Here he points to a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign literay journal that produced short films on Powers's novels, all except for one featuring the author's own narration. Be sure to check out the beautifully done video for The Echo Maker, the Book Club's September selection. Also of note -- the final video in the series features Audrey Niffenegger talking about her visual art.
The Postmodern Canon
Jacket Copy ponders what makes a book postmodern, then lists the 61 essential postmodern reads, annotating each title with the attributes it contains, such as "author is a character", "comments on its own bookishness" and "more than 1,000 pages." The list includes Chicago-related authors Philip K. Dick, Dave Eggers (no postmodern list would be complete without good ol' Dave), Aleksandar Hemon, Philip Roth and Kurt Vonnegut.
James Kennedy Strips Neil Gaiman of Newbery Award
Okay, not the real Neil Gaiman, per se. Fueling his ongoing "feud" with the award-winning author, local author James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish) donned pirate garb, complete with missing tooth, to challenge a faux-Gaiman at the American Library Association Conference. James forgoes the usual conference speech to assert himself as the rightful winner of the Newbery Award he lost to Gaiman earlier this year. Insanity - complete with grown men rolling around on the ground, the Cube of Trials and human sacrifice - ensues. The results, as you might imagine if you've ever seen James in action, must be seen to be believed. The video below is just the beginning of the Kennedy-Gaiman Challenge; find the rest of the hilarious scuffle on James's website.
HBO Gets Reading
Two of our past Book Club selections will soon come to a television set near you (provided you have HBO): Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End as a movie and Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex as a series. Mentioned in the Gawker-related post below, this New York Entertainment post confirms it with Ferris himself. Meanwhile, The Millions wonders feverishly how Middlesex will translate to the small screen: "How will they pace it? How many seasons?...What of Lina, and Jimmy Zizmo, and Marius Wyxzewizard Challouehliczilczese Grimes? Who will play the Obscure Object? Will she have freckles and heavy thighs? Who will play Apollonian Calliope? And then Dionysian Calliope? And who will play Cal?" I'm curious about the Middlesex series, myself. Done right it could be as amazing a contribution to TV as it is to literature. Done wrong, well, that would just be heartbreaking.
1953 & 1954 NBA Winners: Invisible Man & The Adventures of Augie March
In their continuing celebration of their past 77 winners, the National Book Award blog offers thoughts on the 1953 winner, University of Chicago visiting professor Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and the 1954 winner, Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March.
Writes Charles Johnson, past National Book Award winner and chair of the National Book Awards Fiction Panel, on the continuing relevance of Invisible Man: "As our understanding of liberty, equality, and this nation's ideals grows and evolves, our experience of Invisible Man deepens, achieving ever greater subtlety, nuance, and prescience...While black Americans are certainly more 'visible' today, especially after Barack Obama became this nation's first African American president, it is nevertheless true that so many other groups--- Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, new African immigrants to America, and native Americans to name just a few---can make a case for still being 'invisible' men and women in contemporary America. Well might they argue that 'on the lower frequencies,' Invisible Man speaks to their daily, lived experience."
On The Adventures of Augie March, The Paris Review editor National Rich says of Bellow's prose : "The Adventures of Augie March is for me the great creation myth of twentieth century American literature. It marks the emergence of a new literary hero, the working-class Jewish quester; a new novelistic form, one based entirely on character instead of, and even to the expense of, plot; and most significantly, a new language. An urban Jewish Midwestern argot that is both vividly realistic yet completely of Bellow's own invention. It is a language that one must learn by immersion, as in a Berlitz course. Some readers complain that the first forty or fifty pages are slow. The truth is that it takes time to get used to the arrhythmic canter and the slingshot energy of Bellow's prose."
The Three Little...Architects? UnBeige reports that Steven Guarnaccia has rewritten The Three Little Pigs, basing the main characters on Frank Gehry, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron" is being adapted for a film titled 2081. Watch the trailer here.
The Book Bench directs us to an interview with Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida in Interview Magazine about their joint screenplay for Away We Go.
Been wondering what's in Barack Obama's Blackberry? UK imprint Sphere offers some postulations.
The U of C Press susses out reactions to Twitterature while commenters at the Guardian are oh so tired of hearing about it.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Newberry...
...since reading The Time Traveler's Wife. With the success of Audrey Niffenegger's novel, the good people at the Newberry Library seem to have gotten a lot of questions about what in the story is fact and what is fiction. Here they offer some answers to some of the more pressing questions posed by the book, like "Does the Newberry really own a book bound in human skin?" (The answer is...um...not definitively "no.")
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The Vatican in panic after the condemnation of Cardinal Pell
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Rome, December 12, 2018 – A sudden emergency announcement was made earlier today by Vatican spokesmen Greg Burke, after a Melbourne court convicted the now former Vatican finance chief, Cardinal George Pell, of sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s when he was Archbishop of Melbourne. After more than three days of deliberations, the court handed down a guilty verdict Tuesday by a unanimous consent of the jury. If the verdict is confirmed, it will be the highest-ranking condemnation of a Church official for a crime of sexual abuse.
Pope Francis had to frantically reorganize the group of cardinals advising him on how to reform the Vatican bureaucracy, conveniently removing Cardinal George Pell and another prelate under scrutiny for sexual abuse and cover-up, and a third who has now retired. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke announced the move today in a special briefing, saying that Francis wrote to the three prelates individually in October, “thanking them for the work they have done over these past five years.” The three removals leave the Council of Cardinals with six members. Burke said the naming of replacement members “is not foreseen at this moment.”
Pell took a leave from his role as the head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy in June 2017, after Australian police announced they would be pursuing charges against him for historic sexual abuse of minors. Asked about the status of Pell’s Vatican job at the briefing, Burke responded:
” The Holy See has the utmost respect for Australian judicial authorities. We are aware that there is a suppression order in place by the court and we respect that order.”
Of course, Pell strenuously denies the allegations made against him. Most of the specifics of the accusations are still unknown, as the trial has been kept under strict secrecy after a judge conveniently placed a gag order on all press coverage. The order, which still remains in place, was reportedly granted to “prevent a real and substantial risk of prejudice to the proper administration of justice.” Now, however, several Australian media outlets have reported that Pell has been found guilty of all charges and the Vatican pedophile lobby is moving fast to avoid being exposed.
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One thought on “The Vatican in panic after the condemnation of Cardinal Pell”
charles allan says:
Finding financial irregularities means the vatican moved quickly to condemn Pell as guilty whereas
finding nothing would have led to cover up like the rest of the truly guilty such as McCarrick etc.
This makes one suspicious of the verdict .
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A Guide to Fishermen Training Programs
Photo by David Hay Jones
Commercial fishing is a culturally and economically important industry in coastal regions across the United States. During the past 30 years, the average age of commercial fishermen has increased substantially. This trend is commonly referred to as the “greying of the fleet” and is attributed to a substantial decrease in the number of new commercial fishermen entering the industry. Fishermen training programs can provide the infrastructure needed to encourage new entrants into this sector, including training and matching entrants with captains. However, no comprehensive lists of these programs previously existed. Therefore, we sought to collect information on existing commercial fishermen training programs across the U.S. Given the increased popularity of recreational fishing, aquaculture, and stewardship, we also included information on these types of training programs. We first performed a Google search to identify existing programs. Then, we entered program information into an online database, contacted program organizers to obtain additional information and insight, and mapped program locations. We identified a total of 27 programs. Program activity spans from 1981 to present, but 56 percent of programs were created in the last 5 years. The number of commercial versus recreational programs is relatively equal, and six programs are intended for both sectors. Programs are located in most of the coastal and Great Lakes states. Specifically, 36 percent of programs are located along the Atlantic Coast, 25 percent along the Gulf Coast or in the Caribbean, 14 percent in the Great Lakes, 14 percent in Alaska, and 11 percent along the continental U.S. Pacific Coast. Currently, no training programs exist in New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. Our findings illustrate that while a wide variety of fishermen training programs exist, additional efforts are still needed in specific regions.
This list of programs is current as of August 1, 2020.
A map is provided as a visual aid in identifying the location(s) of each program. The program locations are color-coded based on type: blue = saltwater, violet = freshwater, and green = aquaculture. Some portions of the map have been removed because we found no existing programs in those regions.
The guide provides detailed information for each program. The guide is organized into national and state categories, where national programs are found together and the states are organized in alphabetical order. The program names are color-coded by type: blue = saltwater, violet = freshwater, green = aquaculture, and gray = saltwater and aquaculture. The gray category represents the Marine Resource Education Program (MREP), which is neither solely saltwater nor aquaculture, but both. (NOTE: Instructions on the color-coded titles apply only to the printed version of this publication; see the PDF linked to this page.) Note that MREP is not represented on the map. Appendix 1 contains insights and suggestions from program organizers for people intending to create fishermen training programs.
Map of Fishermen Training Programs in the United States
Map by Emily Seubert
Marine Resource Education Program
Mission Statement/Goal: “By fishermen, for fishermen” — A fishermen-lead program where the goal is to empower fishermen with a better understanding of how, when, and where to engage in fisheries management effectively
Funding Source(s): Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Location(s): Varies by region — Maine and Maryland (Greater Atlantic), Florida (Southeast), Oregon (West Coast), Puerto Rico (Caribbean), and Maine and Louisiana (Aquaculture)
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Organizer(s) Name(s): Lauren O’Brien
Organizer(s) Contact Info: lobrien@gmri.org
Year Range Running: 2003 to present
Prerequisites: The program accepts fishermen first but is open to everyone.
Age Range of Participants: 18+
Average Number of Participants per Course: 30
Duration (Classroom and Field): Three-day sequenced workshops (attendance is not required for all workshops)
Commercial/Recreational: Commercial and recreational
Unique Features: There are multiple programs across the United States and Caribbean, where each is individualized for its region: Greater Atlantic, Southeast, West Coast, Caribbean, and aquaculture. The program was founded by fishermen and is led by a steering committee in each region made up of fishermen who have previously participated in the workshops.
https://www.gmri.org/projects/marine-resource-education-program-mrep/
National Shellfish Initiative
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide overarching guidelines, goals, and strategic plans for the state to maximize the economic, environmental, and social benefits of shellfish resources, built with input from shellfish stakeholders across the state
Funding Source(s): National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, NOAA, and additional funds that vary by location
Location(s): Massachusetts, California, Oregon, Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Connecticut, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Washington
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): The Nature Conservancy, NOAA Fisheries, and some that vary by location: the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance, the Massachusetts Aquaculture Association, and others
Organizer(s) Name(s): Scott Soares (Massachusetts)
Organizer(s) Contact Info: scott@massshellfishinitiative.org
Prerequisites: N/A
Average Number of Participants per Course: Varies by state
Duration (Classroom and Field): Varies by state
Commercial/Recreational: Intended for commercial but can be taken for recreational purposes
Unique Features: There are multiple locations with this program in place.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/content/national-shellfish-initiative
Oyster Farming Fundamentals Course
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide students with the practical training needed to successfully operate an off-bottom oyster farm
Funding Source(s): Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
Location(s): Auburn Shellfish Laboratory (Dauphin Island, Alabama)
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, Auburn Shellfish Laboratory, and Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Organizer(s) Name(s): Bill Walton
Organizer(s) Contact Info: billwalton@auburn.edu
Year Range Running: 2015 to 2018
Prerequisites: Applicants must be at least 18 and submit an application by March. Applicants must reside in Hancock, Harrison, or Jackson Counties of Mississippi or in southern Alabama, or they must attend Alma Bryant High School in southern Alabama. Applicants must obtain valid seafood permits and driver’s licenses.
Age Range of Participants: Juniors/seniors at Alma Bryant High School or 18+
Average Number of Participants per Course: 15 to 25
Duration (Classroom and Field): Five Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon
Commercial/Recreational: Commercial
Cost: $250, but starting a farm could exceed $25,000
Unique Features: Students receive 10,000 oyster seeds to begin their own farm and receive access to Grand Bay Oyster Park for a year.
https://www.disl.org/about/news/oyster-farming-fundamentals-enrolling-now-for-summer-session
Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide networking and skill building for new entrants in managing modern commercial fishing businesses
Funding Source(s): Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program
Location(s): Alaska
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Alaska Sea Grant and University of Alaska
Organizer(s) Name(s): Sunny Rice
Organizer(s) Contact Info: sunny.rice@alaska.edu
Duration (Classroom and Field): 3 days
Cost: Non-Alaskan commercial fishermen, $200 ($225 for later registration); Alaskan commercial fishermen, $150 ($175 for later registration)
Unique Features: The program offers a free drill conductor class for commercial fishermen.
https://alaskaseagrant.org/events/alaska-young-fishermens-summit/
Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy
Mission Statement/Goal: Prepares young local leaders by equipping them with the knowledge, values, and skills necessary to be conservation advocates in their communities and to link visitors to the salmon and trout conservation issues in the region
Funding Source(s): NOAA Fisheries, Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC), Alaska Fly Fishers, and more (see Resources section below)
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): NOAA Fisheries and University of Alaska Bristol Bay Campus
Organizer(s) Name(s): Nelli Williams
Organizer(s) Contact Info: nwilliams@tu.org
Prerequisites: The program is reserved for, but not limited to, Bristol Bay residents and BBNC shareholders and descendants.
Age Range of Participants: 14 to 24
Duration (Classroom and Field): 1 week
Commercial/Recreational: Recreational
Cost: Free for students; sponsors pay for the academy
Unique Features: The graduates are qualified for introductory jobs (local lodges, tourism-based businesses, etc.) but can also participate in an apprenticeship program instead of being immediately hired.
https://bristolbayriveracademy.org/history/
https://bristolbayriveracademy.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bbraguidebook-e-2012.pdf
Deckhand Apprenticeship
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide young adults with the experiences needed to become deckhands and safely participate in commercial fisheries
Funding Source(s): Alaska Sea Grant and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Location(s): Dillingham, Alaska
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association
Organizer(s) Name(s): Tara Racine
Organizer(s) Contact Info: alfa.outreach@gmail.com
Duration (Classroom and Field): Varies depending on the fishing season (could be 4 to 12 months)
Cost: $20 application fee; selected apprentices receive a stipend (apprentices must cover their own travel, room/board, and insurance costs)
Unique Features: Apprentices receive paid on-the-job training, and each apprentice can choose between the available trainings (for example, longlines, gillnetting, trawl, or seine).
http://www.alfafish.org/crewtraining
FishBiz Project
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide financial and business tools to Alaskan fishermen through free online resources
Funding Source(s): Alaska Sea Grant
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
Organizer(s) Name(s): UAF or Sunny Rice
Organizer(s) Contact Info: UAF-fishbiz@alaska.edu or sunny.rice@alaska.edu
Frequency: Online; can be taken at any point
Average Number of Participants per Course: No limit
Duration (Classroom and Field): All online and at own pace
Commercial/Recreational: Intended for commercial, but any businessperson can participate
Unique Features: The website has steps for starting, growing, and managing a business, as well as planning for the fishermen’s future.
http://fishbiz.seagrant.uaf.edu/
Young Fishing Fellows Program
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide valuable learning, leadership, and career-building skills with opportunities in fisheries management and policy, seafood business, seafood marketing, and fisheries
Funding Source(s): Alaska Fishermen’s Network and some that vary by year: Copper River/Prince William Sound Marketing Association, Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Homer Charter Association, Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association, North Pacific Fisheries Association, Alaska Fishermen’s Network, Catch 49, and others
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Alaska Fishermen’s Network
Organizer(s) Name(s): Jamie O’Connor
Organizer(s) Contact Info: jamie@akmarine.org
Prerequisites: Any Alaskan resident can participate, but priority goes to those who are under 40, have at least 3 years of experience, and are active crew members or skippers or permit/quota holders.
Average Number of Participants per Course: Depends on how many hosts (captains or companies willing to take on a fellow) sign up per year (six in 2020)
Duration (Classroom and Field): 4 to 12 months
Cost: Free; fellows are paid a stipend
Unique Features: Fellows must cohost one or two outreach events; current and former participants are on the steering committee.
https://www.akyoungfishermen.org/young-fishing-fellows
California Commercial Fishing Apprenticeship Program
Mission Statement/Goal: To make California commercial fisheries more resilient by training fishermen as they enter fisheries, thereby supporting economically, ecologically and socially sustainable fisheries
Funding Source(s): California Sea Grant, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, NOAA, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation
Location(s): San Diego, California (hopes to extend to Santa Barbara and Eureka)
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): University of California, San Diego
Organizer(s) Name(s): Theresa Talley
Organizer(s) Contact Info: tstalley@ucsd.edu
Frequency: Annual to biannual
Prerequisites: Applicants must acquire a licensed commercial fisherman sponsor, obtain a high school diploma or equivalent, pass a swim test, observe on one commercial fishing trip, and be approved of at-sea fitness.
Average Number of Participants per Course: Five
Duration (Classroom and Field): 6 to 12 months consisting of 100 hours of training; then, paired with a veteran fisherman for 1,000 hours of paid on-the-job training
Cost: $500 to $1000
Unique Features: Most of the program is paid on-the-job training with a paired veteran fishing crew.
https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/sites/default/files/CCFAP%20Manual%201st%20Edition.pdf
Florida Friendly Fishing Guide Certification
Mission Statement/Goal: To work with fishing guides to enhance the preservation of Florida’s fisheries through sustainable boating and fishing techniques and to provide a richer fishing experience for the clients through the fishing guides’ angling expertise and environmental stewardship
Funding Source(s): Florida Sea Grant, CaddyCan, Sport Fish Restoration, and University of Florida
Location(s): Florida
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Organizer(s) Name(s): Savanna Barry
Organizer(s) Contact Info: savanna.barry@ufl.edu
Frequency: Fully online; can be taken at any point
Prerequisites: These vary depending on course type but include a captain’s license, USCG safety requirements, vessel registration, etc.
Average Number of Participants per Course: No limit (web-based)
Duration (Classroom and Field): 4 hours (20- to 30-minute increments)
Unique Features: The program is fully online and helps current Florida fishermen’s small and local businesses.
https://www.flseagrant.org/florida-friendly-fishing-guide-certification/
Sharks Aquaculture Life Training (SALT)
Mission Statement/Goal: To work with juniors and seniors at Cedar Key High School so they can become certified in industrial aquaculture upon graduation. This course provides them with business, aquaculture, and other related skills needed for the industry.
Funding Source(s): Florida Aquaculture Association
Location(s): Cedar Key, Florida
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Cedar Key Aquaculture Association, Cedar Key High School, Migrant Education Program, Florida Aquaculture Association, and University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension
Organizer(s) Name(s): University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension
Organizer(s) Contact Info: 352-543-5057; LNST@ufl.edu
Prerequisites: Applicants must work for 300 hours on an aquaculture farm, take the Florida Aquaculture Association Industry certification test, take safety skills courses, and pass background checks.
Age Range of Participants: Juniors and seniors at Cedar Key High School
Average Number of Participants per Course: Four to six students
Duration (Classroom and Field): 2 years
Unique Features: The program requires 300 work hours on an aquaculture farm, is designed for high school students, and permits the students to run their own clam farm.
https://sites.google.com/levyk12.org/salt/home
Basic Commercial Fisherman Program
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide students at McIntosh County Academy with courses on how to be a successful fisherman
Funding Source(s): Georgia Sea Grant
Location(s): McIntosh, Georgia
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): University of Georgia Marine Extension, Georgia Sea Grant, Coastal Pines Technical College (Dual Enrollment), and McIntosh County Academy
Organizer(s) Name(s): Bryan Fluech
Organizer(s) Contact Info: fluech@uga.edu
Prerequisites: Applicants must currently be enrolled in McIntosh County Academy in Georgia and achieve passing placement scores in reading, English, and mathematics.
Average Number of Participants per Course: N/A
Duration (Classroom and Field): 12 credit hours total
Cost: Coastal Pines tuition costs
Unique Features: The program was specifically created for high school students.
http://iq2prod1.smartcatalogiq.com/en/Catalogs/Coastal-Pines-Technical-College/2019-2020/Catalog-Student-Handbook/Programs-of-Study1/Basic_Commercial_Fisherman_BT41/Basic_Commercial_Fisherman_BCF1_Technical_Certificate_of_Credit
Education and Training — Lake Michigan Fisheries Workshops
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide information on research, fish populations, food webs, and the environmental components of Lake Michigan to local anglers within Illinois and Indiana
Funding Source(s): Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
Location(s): Illinois and Indiana
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Purdue University Extension, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Illinois Natural History Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and others (see Resources section)
Organizer(s) Name(s): Mitchell Zischke
Organizer(s) Contact Info: mzischke@purdue.edu
Frequency: Multiple workshops throughout the fall and spring
Prerequisites: Applicants must obtain a fishing license for Illinois or Indiana.
Duration (Classroom and Field): 1 day
Unique Features: The workshops are offered at convenient times and locations for fishermen (out of season, nighttime, near docks, etc.).
https://iiseagrant.org/work/fisheries/education-training/
Louisiana Fisheries Forward Summit
Mission Statement/Goal: To help fishermen understand the “science” of fishing, business trends, new technologies and equipment, and regulatory rules and policies that lead to financial success
Funding Source(s): Louisiana Seafood, Louisiana Shrimp Task Force, Louisiana Crab Task Force, and Louisiana’s Seafood Future
Location(s): Louisiana
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Louisiana Sea Grant, Louisiana State University AgCenter, and the Department of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries
Organizer(s) Name(s): Thomas Hymel
Organizer(s) Contact Info: Thymel@agctr.lsu.edu
Frequency: Every 2 years
Prerequisites: Applicants must be interested in fisheries.
Average Number of Participants per Course: 100
Commercial/Recreational: Both
Unique Features: The program offers information about a variety of subjects: commercial fishing, crabbing, shrimping, business, seafood, etc.
https://www.lafisheriesforward.org/
Maine’s Lobster Apprentice Program “FISH SAFE”
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide Maine’s lobster commercial fishermen with the safety training required by the U.S. Coast Guard and any extra safety skills needed to safely operate as a commercial fisheries vessel and crew
Funding Source(s): Maine Department of Marine Resources
Location(s): Maine
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): NOAA Fisheries and Maine Department of Marine Resources
Organizer(s) Name(s): Ann Backus
Organizer(s) Contact Info: abackus@hsph.harvard.edu
Prerequisites: Applicants must meet the eligibility for the lobster license (LD 1503).
Age Range of Participants: 15+ can enroll on the wait list but cannot actually participate until 18+
Duration (Classroom and Field): 1,000 hours over 200 days stretched out over 2 years
Unique Features: Fishermen must follow specific rules and regulations that vary by fishing zone.
https://www.maine.gov/dmr/science-research/species/lobster/limitedentry.html
Cape Cod Fishermen Training Program
Mission Statement/Goal: A fishing program that is driven by the community’s needs and is meant to be the place to start a fishing career by providing professional certifications through training from respected, knowledgeable captains and certified trainers
Funding Source(s): Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance
Location(s): Massachusetts
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance
Organizer(s) Name(s): Amanda Cousart
Organizer(s) Contact Info: Amanda@capecodfishermen.org
Duration (Classroom and Field): Two sessions per course (January-February and February-March)
Unique Features: The program provides professional certifications to be used in any maritime career, not just by captains.
https://capecodfishermen.org/item/fishermen-s-training-program
Fundamentals of Shellfish Farming
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide the knowledge needed to operate a productive shellfish farm
Funding Source(s): Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension of Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Location(s): Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Woods Hole Sea Grant and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Organizer(s) Name(s): Abigail Archer
Organizer(s) Contact Info: aarcher@barnstablecounty.org
Prerequisites: Applicants must be interested in starting/learning about shellfish farms.
Duration (Classroom and Field): 8 weeks
Unique Features: Certification is awarded upon completion of an exam with a score of 80+. It is issued by the Southeastern Massachusetts Aquaculture Center (SEMAC).
https://seagrant.whoi.edu/fundamentals-of-shellfish-farming/
Project FISH
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide fishing education and skills to interested adults and youths from Michigan
Funding Source(s): Great Lakes Fisheries Trust
Location(s): Michigan
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Project F.I.S.H. Partners
Organizer(s) Name(s): Mark Stephens
Organizer(s) Contact Info: infor@projectfish.org or steph143@msu.edu
Frequency: Multiple workshops throughout the year
Prerequisites: Applicants must be interested in learning about the Great Lakes fisheries.
Age Range of Participants: Children and adults
Duration (Classroom and Field): Weekends or 3-hour sessions
Unique Features: This is a mentor-based, community-supported program.
http://www.projectfish.org/index.html
Off-Bottom Oyster Farming Fundamentals Course
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide oyster farmers in Mississippi with a foundation of knowledge to start and/or improve their oyster farm operation
Funding Source(s): Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and RESTORE-Act Project
Location(s): Bolton Building, Biloxi, Mississippi
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Mississippi Department of Marine Resources
Organizer(s) Name(s): Jason Rider
Organizer(s) Contact Info: jason.rider@dmr.ms.gov
Prerequisites: Applicants must complete the application by March; reside in Hancock, Harrison, or Jackson Counties; be 18 or older; have a valid boat registration; have a valid Mississippi driver’s license; and attend the information session. Priority goes to applicants with commercial seafood licenses.
Unique Features: Applicants receive 10,000 oyster seeds and access to Deer Island Oyster Park for 1 year.
https://dmr.ms.gov/oboa-training-program/
Fishermen Invested in Science, Healthy Ecosystems and Sustainability (FISHES)
Mission Statement/Goal: To extend practical, science-based information to fishermen in an easy to digest format. Graduates of the course should have an understanding of how fisheries management and fisheries science work in tandem.
Funding Source(s): Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and Mississippi State University
Location(s): Biloxi, Mississippi
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and Mississippi State University
Organizer(s) Name(s): Marcus Drymon
Organizer(s) Contact Info: marcus.drymon@msstate.edu
Frequency: Annual (anticipated)
Year Range Running: 2021 (anticipated) onward
Prerequisites: Applicants must be involved in commercial and/or recreational fishing and interested in learning more about fisheries management, fisheries science, and sustainability.
Average Number of Participants per Course: To be determined
Duration (Classroom and Field): To be determined
Cost: To be determined
Unique Features: This course is designed to illustrate the union of fisheries management and fisheries science using specific examples from Mississippi and Alabama.
https://coastal.msstate.edu/fisheries-fishes
Introductory Fisheries Science for Stakeholders (IFISSH)
Mission Statement/Goal: To educate stakeholders of New Jersey’s marine fisheries on the science, management, and responsible stewardship of fishery resources so that they are better prepared to make progress on, and get involved with, issues impacting their industry
Funding Source(s): Alampi Fund from the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Location(s): New Jersey
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Organizer(s) Name(s): Doug Zemeckis
Organizer(s) Contact Info: zemeckis@njaes.rutgers.edu
Duration (Classroom and Field): 8 to 10 weeks
Unique Features: The program takes a hybrid approach and is offered as a “night school” to increase attendance.
https://ocean.njaes.rutgers.edu/marine/IFISSH.html
https://joe.org/joe/2020february/iw4.php
Introductory North Carolina Marine Fisheries Management for Fishermen
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide saltwater anglers in North Carolina with an introduction to fisheries science and management
Funding Source(s): North Carolina Sea Grant
Location(s): North Carolina
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): North Carolina Division of Marine Resources and North Carolina Sea Grant
Organizer(s) Name(s): Scott Baker and Mary Beth Barrow
Organizer(s) Contact Info: msbaker@ncsu.edu and mebarrow@ncsu.edu
Prerequisites: Applicants must be saltwater anglers.
Average Number of Participants per Course: 60 (20 in person, 40 virtual)
Duration (Classroom and Field): Three Tuesday nights for 2 hours
Unique Features: The program offers a webinar format to allow for more participants (e.g., people located out-of-state).
https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/10/Fisheries-Mgmt-Flyer.pdf
Lake Erie Sport Fishing Course
Mission Statement/Goal: To give participants detailed information and background in technical concepts used by anglers.
Funding Source(s): Ohio Sea Grant
Location(s): Stone Lab at Ohio State University
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Stone Lab, NOAA Fisheries, Ohio State University, and Ohio Sea Grant
Organizer(s) Name(s): Tory Gabriel
Organizer(s) Contact Info: gabriel.78@osu.edu
Prerequisites: Applicants must obtain an Ohio fishing license and complete a 1-year high school biology course.
Age Range of Participants: High school and older
Average Number of Participants per Course: Four to 12
Duration (Classroom and Field): 1 week with lectures and fishing field trips
Cost: For Ohio residents, the course is $596, and room and board is $500; for non-Ohio Residents, course $1,847, room and board $500. Alternatively, the course can be taken as a workshop for no credits at a cost of $425.
Unique Features: The program is offered as a college course to upper level high school students, college students, or those who are interested, but it is also offered as a workshop (a more in-depth experience than the listed workshop).
https://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/education/stonelab/courses/3rpec/lake-erie-sport-fishing
Lake Erie Sport Fishing Workshop
Mission Statement/Goal: To give participants a background in technical concepts used by anglers, with a focus on the fishing experience
Frequency: Multiple workshops throughout the year for the sport fishing seasons
Prerequisites: Applicants must be high school graduates and possess an Ohio fishing license.
Average Number of Participants per Course: Four to 12 (tends to receive fewer participants than the course)
Cost: Workshop is $325, and room and board is $125
Unique Features: It focuses mostly fishing experiences with fewer lectures than the course due to shorter time limit.
https://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/education/stonelab/courses/n68c6/lake-erie-sport-fishing-workshop
Ohio Charter Captain Conference
Mission Statement/Goal: To gather Ohio charter captains to educate them in changing rules and regulations, new fishing techniques, business lessons, and more
Prerequisites: The program is open to the public but is meant for charter captains and their businesses; all participants must complete preregistration.
Average Number of Participants per Course: About 150 captains per year, plus their families and the interested general public (attendance by public and families is not monitored closely)
Unique Features: Four captains win the cost of their Ohio Lake Erie Fishing Guide License as a door prize.
https://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/news/calendar/2020/03/14/poyzz/charter-captains-conference
Applied Shellfish Farming Course
Mission Statement/Goal: To teach both aspiring shellfish farmers and aquaculture professionals the ins-and-outs of commercially growing oysters, quahogs, scallops, and mussels
Funding Source(s): Roger Williams University
Location(s): Bristol, Rhode Island
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): Roger Williams University
Organizer(s) Name(s): Dale Leavitt
Organizer(s) Contact Info: dleavitt@rwu.edu
Prerequisites: Applicants must have a desire to start a shellfish farm.
Duration (Classroom and Field): 15 evening lectures over 4 months
Commercial/Recreational: Commercial but can be recreational
Cost: $100 for the whole course; drop-in basis is $10 per class meeting
Unique Features: The program is offered in-person or online; aspects of the program are required for the Recreational Aquaculture Permit.
https://appliedshellfishfarming.org/
https://appliedshellfishfarming.org/applied-shellfish-farming-course/
Commercial Fisherman Apprenticeship Program
Mission Statement/Goal: To provide a crew training program designed and offered by the East Farm Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island.
Funding Source(s): University of Rhode Island
Location(s): Point Judith and Kingston, Rhode Island
Organizing/Coordinating Group(s): East Farm Commercial Fisheries Center, the University of Rhode Island Fisheries Center, U.S. Coast Guard, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, local fishermen, and shoreside fisheries
Organizer(s) Name(s): Shaye Rooney (assistant director)
Organizer(s) Contact Info: shayerooney@cfcri.org
Prerequisites: Applicants must be at least 18, have a driver’s license, pass background and drug tests, and commit to 4 weeks.
Duration (Classroom and Field): 4 weeks (3 days at sea)
Cost: Free; apprentices receive a $1,000 stipend
Unique Features: Students get to select two types of fishing experiences for their 3 days at sea (gillnetting, lobster/ fish pots, trawling, scalloping, or rod and reel). Upon completion, there is a commitment from vessels to hire each student as a crew member.
https://www.cfcri.org/apprenticeship.html
Appendix 1: Tips and Tricks from Program Organizers
National Shellfish Initiative: Prioritize communication to keep the public, fishermen, seafood businesses, and fisheries management interested and supportive.
FishBiz: Consider marketing to be an important factor, especially if a program will have an online presence.
California Commercial Fishing Apprenticeship Program: Ensure the fishermen will sponsor the apprentice; work with the fishermen to create the relationships; generate marketing funding and extra funds to act as incentives for fishermen involvement; and create the program to be adaptive.
Florida Friendly Fishing Guide Certification: Implement more marketing funds to promote the program.
Cape Cod Fishermen Training Program: Get started sooner; it took about 2 years to get this program running.
Introductory Fisheries Science for Stakeholders (IFISSH): Allow for Q&A during course meetings; offer field trips.
Introductory North Carolina Marine Fisheries Management for Fishermen: Offer a hybrid format or recordings to reach more anglers.
Lake Erie Sport Fishing Course: Invest in taking trips on a fishing vessel, rather than a research vessel, to create the most realistic experience possible for the students.
Lake Erie Sport Fishing Workshop: Try to offer the course during major fishing seasons (large sport-fishing seasons).
Ohio Charter Captain Conference: Ask the captains to take a survey after the conference so they can provide feedback on how the conference went and what they would like to see next year.
Applied Shellfish Farming Course: Offer online and in-person formats to broaden the reach to both national and international students; bring in guest speakers if possible.
Sea Grant publication number: MASGP-20-047
Publication 3527 (POD-9-20)
By Kindall Calhoun, Extension Apprentice, School of Human Sciences; Amanda Jefferson, Extension Associate I, Marine Fisheries Ecology Program, and Marine Fisheries Specialist, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium; and J. Marcus Drymon, PhD, Assistant Extension Professor, Marine Fisheries Ecology Program, and Marine Fisheries Specialist, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.
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Are You Older Than a Fish?
2021 Mississippi Tide Tables
Protecting Your Property and the Environment: A Homeowner's Guide to Living Shorelines in Alabama
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Mississippi MarketMaker
Vol. 11 No. 1 / Economic Impacts of the Global Covid-19 Pandemic on U.S. Shellfish Retail Prices
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Vol. 10 No. 9 / U.S. Tilapia Consumption, Production, Imports, and Prices
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How Sweet It Is: Shelley Miller
by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 13, 2010
Shelley Miller, "Cargo," sugar mural, 2009. Courtesy the artist.
Shelley Miller creates exquisite, intricate artworks out of sugar. In 2009, her mural installation, Cargo, won the People’s Choice award at Montreal’s Mois de la Photo (Montreal’s biennale for contemporary photography). A collaboration between the artist and the Darling Foundry (a factory turned art center), the mural captured the public’s imagination. Referencing the azulejo ceramic tile tradition of Spanish and Portuguese cultures (and their colonies), Miller painted a scene of ships in a harbor using edible blue paint on white sugar tiles, then affixing the tiles to the wall with icing (the process for which she shared on her project blog). The beauty and power of the precise work, beyond its historical references to colonialism, was seeing it evolve over time. The audience witnessed the colors fade and run, the tiles crack and disintegrate. Throughout Miller’s installations, time, both past and present, takes center stage.
Shelley Miller, "Cargo (detail)," sugar mural, 2009. Courtesy the artist.
Trained at the Alberta College of Art and Design and Concordia University, the Saskatchewan native has worked in multiple media ranging from sand to marble, but she always returns to sugar. The self-taught confectioner quickly left behind her early feminist days of wedding cakes at art school, continued her playful, tongue-in-cheek jab at Kant’s Critique of Taste, and began exploring ideas of decoration, covering objects and furniture with delicately-patterned sugar before moving out of domestic spaces into more public realms.
Shelley Miller, "Pipe Dreams," cake icing applied to exterior wall, 2001. Courtesy the artist.
Ultimately, Miller’s longing for, and curiosity about, history led her to move to Montreal and to travel to India and Brazil. Traveling to India on a 6-month Commonwealth Arts & Craft Award in 2001, the Montreal-based sculptor found herself totally immersed in the local arts communities and she mainly worked with local materials during her multiple residencies. While she had worked with sugar before her travels, Miller’s work shifted as multiple Indian artists commented on the waste, since she used an edible material that they considered a luxury item. Upon her return, Miller shifted her focus from saccharine decoration to commentary on consumption, waste, desire, and cycles of guilt, culminating in the project Sumptuous Still Lives (2003), a series of decadent cake installations modeled in the style of Dutch still-life paintings.
Shelley Miller, "Le Rêve (1/3)," cake and icing, 2003. Courtesy the artist.
In 2004, the Sacatar Fellowship brought Miller to Brazil where she continued to explore the logistics of desire, masterfully sculpting designer handbags out of sand (in a series entitled Summer Collection [2004-2006]) and letting them weather with the elements. She also further explored her oeuvre involving sugar. The sculptor immersed herself in the history of Brazil, so steeped in the history of sugar, itself intertwined with colonial narratives. In covering weathered exterior surfaces with meticulous, decorative sugar tiles, Miller created a poignant contrast and tapped into the long history of Brazil’s first economy. It is at this moment that her work with azulejos first began. Ships, symbols of patriotic pride and conquest, and decorated crumbling walls hinted at a darker side of the colonial past.
Shelley Miller, "Summer Collection Triptych," sand sculpture, 2004-2006.
Shelley Miller, "Summer Collection," sand sculpture, 2004-2006.
While the Montreal-based artist possesses a very considered and delicate process, for her, the art begins after the installation has been mounted. It is the unpredictable ephemerality and erosion of the installations that is the work itself. In a way, her art’s relationship with current time echoes the medium’s reference to history. The multiplicity of temporalities, combined with a fragile time- and weather-based aesthetic, make for poignantly captivating work.
While Shelley continues to work with sugar, her artwork always deepening in meaning and complexity, she is currently conceiving a number of public art projects (created as part of Quebec’s law proscribing that 1% of budgets for publicly funded buildings be allocated to public art). Although the more permanent nature of these installations may seem to belie the sculptor’s history of ephemeral works, the works of art are stimulating Miller to continue to engage ideas of time, history, and context.
Local boys picking at and tasting sugar tiles. Shelley Miller, "Sugar Coating: Brazil," documenting photo, 2006. Courtesy the artist.
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Open Enrollment | The ITP Class of 2011
by Antonius Wiriadjaja | May 18, 2011
When I read Nicole Caruth’s write-up of Miriam Simun’s Lady Cheese Shop last week, I screamed, “she stole my blog post!” Simun was a fellow student of my program until a week ago, when she presented her thesis and secured her graduation from our program. My work area at school was across from hers this past semester and I got to watch as her projects developed. At times she used my desk without my knowledge, but she was very considerate of cleaning up any curdled and sticky messes.
I had been meaning to blog about Simun’s work but I was clearly too slow. I’m not taking any more chances. Here is a selection of the finest work of the recent graduates of Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Best of all, their thesis presentations are available for viewing here.
Hana Marie Newman: 8
Hana Marie Newman’s 8 is a portable and fashion-friendly personalized air unit. It consists of a hand-blown oxygen mask, oxygen tank, and harness. Wearing the piece is akin to choosing to solely drink imported bottled water over more readily available and eco-friendly tap water.
Hana Marie Newman, "8," 2011. Modeled by Yasmin Bilbeisi. Photo by Rick Wray. Courtesy the artist.
Newman’s dress draws attention with its futuristic design and clearly points out the irrationality of our disposable culture. “I didn’t want to criticize directly and instead exposed the absurdity by becoming a champion of Personal Air Units,” she explained. Though 8 is beautiful, I truly hope I won’t find one in my size on my next shopping trip.
Benji Canning-Pareira: Halien
On the other end of the consumer spectrum, Benji Canning-Pereira embraces advertising culture and utilizes a viable product as a vehicle for discussion. His hair gel, Halien, includes a thermochromic solution that allows the user to change hair color by applying heat.
Benji Canning-Pereira, "Halien," 2011. Courtesy the artist.
Beneath its tongue-in-cheek gimmicky packaging, Halien is a deeply rooted exploration of identity. Canning-Pereira used the product daily for months, embodied the personalities he associated with his different hairstyles and explored how his appearance would affect how people treat him. “A product is always about selling something,” he explains. “Our bodies and appearances are a brand within themselves.”
Arturo Vidich: Body Island
It has been a good year for Arturo Vidich. His nonprofit arts collaborative, Culture Push, has been receiving well-deserved significant acknowledgment. He got to dance intimately with a goat carcass on a dusty mattress for Ishmael Houston-Jones’s reconstruction of the seminal work THEM. And he completed his thesis project, Body Island.
Arturo Vidich, "Body Island," 2011. Courtesy the artist.
In Body Island, a performer and ten rats are placed within a closed structure while three camera feeds of the interaction were projected to the audience, who were free to roam the space. The footage was edited in the style of wildlife documentary, treating the human body as a landscape. Vidich spent over a year planning for the project and is continuing his work on it. The next stage will be a 4-channel video installation of the recorded footage.
Patricia Adler: Oculus
Patricia Adler’s installations are always satisfyingly succinct, but her latest piece, Oculus, takes the cake. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, when viewers look inside Oculus, an extreme state of either ecstasy or misery is projected onto a diorama. Their viewpoint shapes their reality. Heaven or hell is in the eye of the beholder.
Patricia Adler, "Oculus," 2011. Courtesy the artist.
My favorite part of Adler’s process are her mature self-editing decisions. Her research led her to hack a PlayStation Eye and an infrared camera, but using them would would have drawn attention away from the piece and more towards the technology. Instead she stuck with the basics — potentiometers attached to the eyepiece and customized software. This considerate choice made it less a technical masterpiece and more like magic.
Sofy Yuditskaya: Durations in Difference of the Eternal Return
I first met Sofy Yuditskaya while she was editing footage in a cosmonaut’s helmet. It helps her concentrate, she explained. Yuditskaya’s latest work, Durations in Difference of the Eternal Return, is an interactive installation consisting of a webcam and projector hanging above a table painted with chalk board paint.
Sofy Yuditskaya, "Difference of Duration in the Eternal Return," 2011. Courtesy the artist.
Viewers are invited to inscribe upon the table and their actions get projected and replayed directly on the site of their occurrence, in essence sampling the past and revealing the narrative arcs embedded.
Minette Lee Mangahas: Sonic Physiognomy
How does a person’s face sound? Minette Mangahas explores this question with Sonic Physiognomy, an installation wherein participants have their faces scanned and translated into a series of chimes and harmonies depending on their facial topographies.
Mangahas’s sonic portraiture appropriates the science of facial recognition from the politics of surveillance to a project which produces natural and ephemeral music. The face scanner is made mostly out of corrugated cardboard and is a collaboration with architect Adam Brillhart. The programming is created with the assistance of light artist Matt Richard.
Minette Lee Mangahas, "Sonic Physiognomy," 2011. Courtesy the artist.
Andrea Wolf: Little Memories
Andrea Wolf is a Brooklyn based artist who trawls flea markets and estate sales for found footage to include them in her video installations. She creates new narratives and exposes our need to inscribe time and memory onto objects and images.
Andrea Wolf, "Little Memories," 2011. Courtesy the artist.
Little Memories is a collection of tiny video sculptures and small-scale projections placed on walls and corners. The viewer often “finds” them rather than have them explicitly displayed as installations, playing with the notion of nostalgia and creating intimate souvenirs.
Melissa F Clarke: Untitled Antarctica
There is a dark elegance in all of Melissa F Clarke’s work, so I was excited when I heard she was taking on the romantic connotations of Antarctica for her Master’s thesis. Her series of multimedia pieces, Untitled Antarctica, include prints, video sculptures, and a sound piece.
Melissa F Clarke, "Untitled Antarctica," 2011. Courtesy the artist.
One of the sculptures is made out of carefully arranged sheets of broken glass, evoking the shapes and topographies of glaciers and ice gouges. The other is a series of sloping geometric additions to existing walls. Two videos are projected onto the sculptures, one which iterates through seismic profiles compiled by geophysicists and another through the scientific rendering of an ice gouge and 3D topographies. Clarke composed the sound based on bathymetry (the study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors) data, and synced it to the videos. Beyond its aesthetic pleasantries, Clarke’s work reveals Antarctica as a spectacle and exposes our fascination with the unknown and the uncharted.
As I reviewed the many great projects my fellow ITP students produced, I realize we flocked here to look behind the wizard’s curtain and build new tools for our work. But this creates a taxonomic problem: what exactly is ITP? It’s too art school for the tech world and yet it’s not regarded an art institute by curators and artists. Nor does it define itself as so. Despite being housed in the Tisch School of Performing Arts, the program provides a Master’s in Professional Studies.
We live in a world where the MFA is the new MBA. Graduate school is a place and time of development, no matter the student’s role — an artist, a coder, or a even a blogger. Sometimes it’s our responsibility to make our own tools, but we must remember that tools are to be used, not displayed. I am proud of the pocket knife I have built for myself so far, but I am more than eager to see what will come out of my final year, when I get to whittle out all the unnecessary chips from the raw materials my graduate education has afforded me.
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Into the Mire
A weekly web fiction serial. Updates Wednesdays NZT.
Start Reading at Chapter 1
Author Update – A minor formatting change and bonus update
Hi all! This is an incredibly short blog post just to note that I’ve changed the formatting slightly in all dream sequences and flashback chapters. This is more for backend purposes so it will be easier to give them custom formatting when Vol 1 is finished and I compile the ebooks, but I wanted to warn you. If you use a screen reader or other accessibility software and it interrupts your reading process, please let me know because there are options I can tweak and it’s no big deal to tweak them.
And since I’m talking flashbacks, I couldn’t help but post a bonus update.
Thank you so much for your comments on chapters and for your continued support. Writing this serial and getting to post updates has become a favourite part of my week.
I hope you continue to enjoy the story!
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Nothing in the Academy had prepared him for this.
Adalgis was no pampered nobleboy. Despite his upbringing and despite what barracks chatter would have the grunts believe, he had experienced hardship. But everything in the Inland Army had to be a cock-waving contest. Which, if considered on a philosophical level, made a certain degree of sense. War was the ultimate cock-waving contest, wasn’t it.
Their unit was in the process of clearing a village, long-abandoned by the look of things. Overgrown fields. The Narlanders had dug up what they could eat and moved on. Locals never came back. Some recent tracks according to Sergeant Chou. Scavengers, possibly. It was the fifth such village in as many days.
Adal directed his team to sweep the remaining structures, and when that turned up nothing, he directed them to take a short break. In the central clearing, what may have passed for a trading square in happier times, a squat stone-ringed well promised fresh water. After a hard day’s recon, a sip of well-cool water sounded like Adal’s idea of paradise.
Yet the smell that greeted him when he bent over the well sent bile and his meager lunch threatening at the back of his throat.
Something wasn’t right.
“Roan, Chou,” he called. “One of you have a torch?”
The ring of stones gaped like an abyss. It likely only went down a couple hundred feet, but without a light, who was to say.
All eager for a drink, the rest of the Fourth Recce crowded around him. He wasn’t the only one to comment on the smell.
Corporal Roan produced a torch, and Adal struck flint to light it. He leaned down, thrusting the oily rags as far into the dark as he could, and what stared back robbed him of his breath.
From the gape of the well, sunken-eyed corpses peered up at him, their mouths and eyesockets thick with writhing grubs. Bodies were heaped there in the dark, no sense of ceremony to the way these dead had been disposed of. Men, women, children, all thrown together in a limp, lifeless pile. Though some did not appear to have been lifeless when they were dumped: ragged-tipped fingers, their nails flaked off, still clung to the slick stone walls.
The face closest to his own had only just begun to slough, sunken cheeks and lips peeled too far back begging silently upward for hope that never came. When he could next breathe, he caught a lungful of the smell.
His scream rang off the wellstones.
Reeling backward, lunch returning with a vengeance as he spewed all over his officers’ boots, Adal steadied himself against the well. But touching it, Gods, touching it just disgusted him further. He bent double, hands on his knees, retching.
The torch fell from his shaking fingers and caught a small drift of dry grass alight. Riss Chou stomped over and crushed it out, grinding her bootheel on the ground. She must have been watching over his shoulder, because a crack had appeared in her staunch exterior. She too looked on the verge of throwing up.
A bolt sliced through the air inches from Adal’s face, splintering into fragments as it impacted the well. Splinters bit into his cheek.
Another bolt buried itself in Roan’s throat, and he went down screaming, hand to his neck.
“Ambush!” Adal yelled, as if that weren’t obvious. “Take cover!”
He rushed to Roan, kneeling. The young man–still so young his face was flecked with acne–gurgled horribly, trying to dislodge the projectile from his airway. For all the good it would do. It wasn’t the bolt that was choking him; it was his own blood.
“Come, lad, sit up,” Adal urged him, a hand to his shoulder. Roan, wheezing crazily, grabbed at the offered hand and pulled at him, a high-pitched keening bubbling half from his mouth and half from his ruptured neck.
Adal tried to steady himself, yanked off balance by the panicking soldier dying at his feet. More arrows were coming, along with a scattered blast of buckshot that tore chunks off scenery and body alike. He hunched over Roan, angling his shoulders to shield the man as best he could with his own mass. Arrows alone might have been bandits. But if they had firearms, chances are this was Narlish Army. A setup? How had he walked right into–
“Lieutenant get fucking down!”
He turned toward the voice as if in a dream. Private Bissett crouched against the frame of a dilapidated building, beckoning him.
He’d waltzed them right into this mess. They were never going to reach Gaspard in time if–
A body slammed into his own, freeing him from Roan’s bloodied grasp.
Adal tried to protest, but someone shouted leave him in his face and it was all he could do not to whimper yes ma’am and then Sergeant Chou, Riss Chou, the hardass, she was dragging him behind the well and out of the line of fire, pushing herself against him, slapping a hand over his stammering mouth.
“Lieutenant, shut your face and listen to me.” Eyes boring into his like daggers. “We can’t do anything for Roan or the people in the well.”
He knew it was true but he didn’t want to say it. It felt like a personal failure on his part.
“Aren’t consciences daft,” he croaked, eyes welling with tears. She snarled and grabbed him harder by the jaw. Her grip was enough to grind his teeth together.
“I can get you out of this,” she hissed. “But you are relinquishing command of this unit to me before you get us all fucking killed.”
They billeted in the next village over, also abandoned. It didn’t feel far enough away.
Riss, true to her word, had gotten them out of it. She and a couple of the lighter-footed scouts successfully flanked the gunners and the crossbowman, drove them into the waiting arms of Adal and Bissett. It was swift and precise and nothing Adal would have been able to accomplish on his own.
Nobody was in a talking mood. Roan’s ribbons weighed heavy in his pocket, like they were lead instead of gold. He and Riss would pin them on Bissett later. He’d earned them. But not now.
Everyone retreated to their own private silences and grief.
Adal staked out the backroom of their chosen billet, a semi-private space with a brick fireplace and a disused altar. He peeled the mostly-melted nubs of a few candles off the altar table, tucked them into the fireplace, and lit them.
“That’s about three different kinds of bad luck, Lieutenant.”
Riss’ broad-shouldered frame filled the doorless doorway. She leaned against the wood, gazing down at him, her expression tough to read.
“No smoke on patrol, yes yes, I know.” Adal had no excuses. He simply couldn’t bear to spend the night in the dark, not after what he’d seen.
“Chimney should eat the worst of it. Won’t do the same for the vengeful spirits whose worship you’re fuckin’ up, but hey.”
“I’ll leave an offering in the morning, perhaps.” The last thing on his mind was someone else’s provincial hearth god or pissy ancestors.
Riss slid down the doorway until she was cross-legged on the floor. She made herself at home beside his bedroll, not asking permission. Not that he’d have withheld it after what she did. Envy flashed in him like lightning, there and gone. She always looked so comfortable, like she belonged everywhere she chose to plant her ass by virtue of simply choosing to sit there. Adal wondered what it was like to move through the world like that. To not constantly wonder whether one was out of place.
“Come to lay down the rules of the new command?” He meant it as a joke. Mostly. It came out more bitter than he intended.
Riss’ eyebrows knit together.
“No, uh.” She looked surprised he’d even suggest such a thing. “I wanted to see how you were feeling. And to apologize.”
How he was feeling?
“Not the best,” he admitted.
“Yeah, no shit.” She drummed her fingertips on a knee. For once, she seemed mildly agitated. The nervous motion was unlike her. For all their time together in the Fourth Recce–and it had been half a season now–she’d never shown a lick of anxiety.
“I’ll survive.” Adal lifted a hint of a smile. He meant it, too. The day had veered sharply from horror to dismay to embarrassment, but it was far from the worst he’d ever suffered.
“With me looking out for you? You sure will.” Her eyes narrowed. A joke?
Seconds ticked by. Adal turned his head and watched the tiny flames of the candles dance. Riss hadn’t left yet. He wasn’t sure why. He was a little nervous about asking. They’d shared no bad blood, but they weren’t exactly close.
“Permission to speak freely, sir?”
He choked back a full-on guffaw.
“You’re practically sitting on my pillow, Sergeant. Permission by this point is implied.”
Riss unwrapped something from her belt with a crinkle of wax paper. It was a small bar of chocolate impressed with a four-point seal. Amaveloro’s, a luxury trader out of Medao. Contraband goods if caught in the hands of someone wearing their uniform.
“I swiped this off one of the dead Narlies,” she said, snapping the bar in two. “Promise.”
Adal took the chocolate, dumbfounded. It was dark and smooth, leaning more toward bitter than sweet. He took slow, nibbling bites, savoring it. With the blockade in place, who knew when he’d get the chance to savor northern chocolate again.
“It was a dumb, dumb thing you did back there,” said Riss. Ah, so the chocolate was to soften the blow. Adal puffed out his chest a little and prepared to take his licks. A lecture from his Sergeant was a predictable finale to a day like this.
He didn’t disagree with her that he’d chosen poorly.
“Nothing you could have done could have saved him. And you know that. And I think you knew it then too.” Oh. She was talking about Roan. Adal remained silent while she continued.
“Roan and I came up through Selection together.” A pause. “When I saw him go down, I duck-and-covered. It was the practical thing to do. You went to him instead.”
Adal’s stomach tightened. He didn’t know what she wanted him to say. He didn’t know what he wanted to say. It had been reflex. Some insane, impractical part of him had thought Roan stood a chance.
“I was tough on you. Tougher than I should have been. You have every right to discipline me for saying what I did.”
“It wasn’t incorrect,” Adal said, atonal. “The unit would likely fare better under your command.”
Riss could scout circles around most of them. Gaspard Marcinen had his eye on her. She was destined for bigger and better things–and wetter, quieter work–than most of the Fourth. They were lucky to have her as long as they had.
“It was out of line.” Riss leaned back into his field of vision, her short fringe falling into her eyes.
“What do you want, Sergeant? Want me to whip you or reprimand you in earshot of the others?”
That got a laugh out of her.
“No, sir.” Her expression took on a more serious cast, her lips tight. “But… I want to help you. Like you tried to help Roan. The Academy spits out a lot of brass who only care about earning jewelry for their lapels. And a lot of sadists with short man syndrome who’d have had my hide for what I said to you. You aren’t either of those.”
They were scouts, sure, but the parts of him the Academy had hammered smooth still rang with her insults. Yet she wasn’t wrong. He knew both those types. But it was terribly impolite to say all that.
Wearily, Adal sized her up. Still waters ran deep, he supposed. There was more to her than he’d assumed.
After the day they’d had, he was too tired to remind her of decorum.
“Thank you,” he said instead.
The Army made compatriots out of strangers. And friends out of the most unlikely people.
“We can look out for one another,” Riss said, like he’d already signed some blood pact.
“I believe that’s the goal already,” he deadpanned. “Keep one another alive. Ideally the whole unit.”
“You know what I mean.” She eased back to her feet, straightened her coat. “I’m a conscript. I didn’t volunteer for this crap. So you’d better believe I’m getting more out of this war than simply staying alive.”
Adal hadn’t ever thought of it that way, but she had a point.
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Posted on September 30, 2018 August 9, 2020 by Casey LucasPosted in Chapters3 Comments
Once, when Calay Maunet was young, before he was even Calay Maunet, he came down with a fever. For five days and nights he alternated between shivering and sweating, vacillated between exhausted and manic. He spent his days in the blurred barrier between asleep and awake. Snatches of consciousness were hazy, their edges ill-defined. He couldn’t ever be certain if he was fully alert.
After Geetsha blew apart, and in the heavy darkness that followed, he awoke in a similar way.
He opened his eyes to a writhing sky.
Dawn had come while he was asleep. It was a stormy dawn, the sky choked with thick and ominous clouds. Woven through the clouds were dark, tapered tentacles, darker still than the storm overhead, and they curled and twitched like the feelers of the jellies that sometimes washed up on the Vasa shores. Like they belonged to a dead thing stirred into motion by some unseen current.
None of it made sense.
When he tried to move, he found he couldn’t.
Then the pain hit him, far away at first, but slowly sharpening into focus as seconds passed. His body felt tired, weighted down. He could breathe, but he sensed a slippery, disconcerting not-rightness in his abdomen. When he tried to lift his head, he found he didn’t have the strength to raise it all the way.
Fragments returned: Geetsha, the living thorns, Vosk. Then stranger splinters: dreams of peculiar red beetles, the rumble of distant wagon wheels.
That’s right. Calay had been shot.
Well he must have lived through that, then. Which was fortunate, as he had enough blood on him to return his body to an unharmed state, provided he could reach it and manipulate it in the proper way. Struggling to lift his left hand, he felt down toward his belt, reaching, groping.
When he tried to lift his right hand, he encountered a strange resistance. A resistance that made him uneasy, because it wasn’t the sluggish delayed response of an injured limb. Something had him physically trapped in place. This new worry took precedence in his mind, and he gave his hand a little tug, trying to slip it out from under whatever had landed atop it.
Pain, sharp and barbed, licked immediately up his fingers and arm. A pain so intense and sudden that it drove a startled, strangled yelp out of him. He twitched and thrashed, and every motion seemed to invite further agony. It felt like trying to pull fishhooks from his skin, yet every time he tried to pull away they dug in deeper.
Shivering, whimpering, he turned his head. He grit his teeth until the spasms in his throat stopped. He schooled himself into silence.
He saw that there were no tentacles in the sky. What he was seeing were the roots of the crawling tree closing over his face. He’d fallen right into it. Which meant that the pain he felt whenever he moved his arm must be…
Calay bit back a fresh round of screaming. Hissing, whining, desperate, he attempted to shift his center mass away from the tree while moving his arm as little as possible. Further pain–this pain a deep, punching ache–jolted him through the middle. Warm wet spilled down his sides. He tried not to pay attention to the fishhook sensation, the little pulls and tugs he felt on his skin. Tried not to imagine it as the mouths of dozens of tiny leeches all burrowing in at once. Tried not to think about how he could not die like this.
Where was Gaz? Where were the others? Fuck’s sake, why wasn’t someone helping him?
Something must have happened to Vosk, or else the man would have marched up and put one in his head to finish him off. Vosk wanted him silent, not mortally wounded. With Geetsha dead–if she’d even been alive to begin with–Calay alone knew that Vosk had tried to kill the survivor. And Geetsha’s cryptic last words hinted at a reason why.
But none of that mattered if a tree fucking ate him.
His left hand’s fingers closed around a vial in his belt. He tried to calm himself, tried to think through his options, tried to keep a lid on the panic.
Remember what happened the last time you lost control.
Most days, Calay actively suppressed the memory of his last few weeks in Vasile. It was still too fresh, too raw. But he conjured a specific memory now: that kicked-dog sensation of being dragged to the Vasa dungeons, begging Gaz not to intervene, to let it happen, because he’d gotten himself into this mess and he wasn’t about to let his friends get killed on his account.
None of that would have happened if he’d kept a level head.
A cold shiver swept over him like a tide. The fishhooks felt further away. Not a good sign.
Focus. Come on. Two major concerns: the gut shot and the tree. Which was it best to tend to first? If he closed the wound in his stomach, he could focus on freeing himself. Hack his arm off if he had to. He wasn’t sure he had enough blood on him to fix that, hadn’t ever tested his magick to that extreme a degree, but if it was his only option, he’d take it in an instant over being absorbed slowly into a tree.
His thoughts slurred. He grounded himself in what he could feel: his left hand’s fingers held a vial. Vial. The vial was blood. He needed blood to patch himself up. Two vials would be better. He grabbed for both, lifted them to his mouth, bit through the waxy seals.
Hesitation. What if the others see? They saw him get shot. If they saw him un-shot things would get messy. But messy is a preferable outcome to dead. Things were already messy. Hesitation. He wondered if they’d turn on Gaz, too. Gaz can look out for himself.
He made the decision. With shaking, bloodstained fingers, he tore open the top few buttons of his shirt.
Calay turned his head, spat wax, and poured. Two vials of blood, harvested from the unwilling bodies of Vasa guards who’d crossed him, spilt down his chest. He sloppily sketched the seven-pronged character of su upon his skin, and as soon as his finger traced the final line, warmth surged through his body from the inside out. It hit him like a slap; his teeth snapped shut on his tongue. That pain was a drop in the bucket.
The strange stretching heat of a wound healing from within still unsettled him. The warming sensation grew hotter, and as broken skin and viscera knit back together, the heat rocketed up to near-unbearable levels. Tears stinging at the corners of his eyes, Calay held his breath and let the magick run its course. He’d never felt it burn so hot for so long now, but then again, he’d never had to clean up a wound this messy before, at least not on his own body.
Somewhere far away, the poor bastard who’d ‘donated’ this blood would share his searing red-hot agony. Splitting the pain between two bodies was the only thing that made it bearable.
Something deep in his core clicked and cracked; he felt a grinding sensation shimmy its way up his spine, a part of which must have been blown askew. As ribs and vertebrae burrowed back into place, he reflexively reached for his torso with both hands, and then his right arm sang out in fresh misery that put the burning in his guts to shame. The fishhooks seized him by the skin and the magick of su immediately tried to counteract, but something wasn’t working right. Above him, the tree shuddered, then its roots tightened their grasp around both Calay and the other body held in their tangles.
He recalled Vosk’s words, recalled the horrifying sight of the horse encased in the tree trunk. If Vosk hadn’t been lying about that too, then the tree was already melding with him. Any magick he worked on himself would–
Oh shit oh shit oh shit, had he just healed the tree?
Rolling onto his side as best he could, not even taking a moment to marvel at his newly-repaired torso, Calay groped for a blade. He had to cut himself loose, even if it meant taking off the entire arm.
When he blinked, a strange vision glittered before his eyes: sunlight sparkling on water. He heard laughter, faint and far away. His heart ached, a bone-deep nostalgia, and he couldn’t pinpoint why.
Across the clearing, bodies began to stir. Groaning quietly, Torcha rubbed at her head, groping for her rifle. He caught a glimpse of open eyes through the tangle of her hair.
Calay smelled salt now. He heard gulls. He could tell to some extent that the phantom smells and sounds must be hallucinations, as he couldn’t see anything that would have caused them. But that didn’t make any of it less real.
He would deal with Torcha when he was free, depending on what she’d seen.
Fumbling one-handed, he managed to unsheath one of the punch-daggers from his belt. He grit his teeth. The inside of his mouth still tasted like blood. He thought back to the slow, steady patience he’d shown in the city dungeons. He had the willpower to do this. Except this time, he’d have more in common with the screaming, wriggling rat that he’d trapped, down to the part where it had tried to gnaw off one of its own legs in its frantic rush to escape.
Thick, oily smoke belched up into the sky, blotting out the skyline. Stomach sinking, Gaz rounded the corner, already knowing what he’d find. He’d spotted the first plumes from the market, and he knew the streets like the back of his hand.
Someone had torched the squat. Lawmen, rival gang, some idiot puffing cigs and falling asleep, who even knew.
Standing in the middle of the alley, hands in his pockets, Gaz watched his home go up in flames.
The squat was far from the only home he’d ever known. It had been shelter for the last few months. Kitta, the landlord, gave him occasional work. He menaced in doorways when tenants didn’t pay up, then menaced a few stalls in the bazaar when Kitta wanted protection money. He hadn’t had to hurt anyone yet. Which was a relief, because he wasn’t sure he could. Gaz balanced on that precarious edge between child and adult, a boy in a teen’s body, larger in frame than his ambitions and his courage.
A soft, pathetic cough croaked out from the debris. Hunched near a collapsed lean-to, a young girl sat in the dirt, a smear of ash across her brow. Her oily hair, days unwashed, clung to her face and stuck up in the back.
Gaz didn’t recognize her. How long had she been sitting there? Had she crawled out from inside?
The kid turned her big, wet peepers onto him and just stared. She didn’t cry. She coughed sometimes. The two of them stood in a silent stalemate.
“Are… do your folks live here?” he asked, quiet.
He couldn’t pinpoint how old she was. It was tough, with slum kids. They were always too skinny, stunted, looked younger than they were. She could have been two or she could have been a malnourished six. Gaz didn’t grow up around kids. What age did kids even start to talk, anyway?
The girl said nothing. He shuffled a little closer. Instead of flinching and skittering off, she just watched him, head turning marginally.
He crept closer until he loomed over her, staring down at her greasy little head. She had sores, he could see now, little pustules on her skin. Some sort of disease. They festered, uncared-for, red at the edges, weeping from beneath the few rags that wrapped her bony body.
“Oh man,” he said, looking around the alley, wide-eyed. “We should… find your ma.”
But he knew there wasn’t any ma coming. Nobody who lived around here had parents. At least not parents who birthed them. At the rate healthy babies could fetch at the slavers’ stalls, there was no need to bring up extra mouths to feed in this part of town. And bluntly, she didn’t look like anyone loved her enough to keep her around on purpose.
Still, what if? If she had parents, he wouldn’t want to cross them.
He stood there in the alley beside the silent, staring girl until the squat was a heap of coals. No one came for her.
“We oughta… we oughta get you to the clinic,” he said at last, tiptoeing that last bit closer as though his words might frighten her. Maybe she didn’t speak northern.
He found a half-rotted grain sack in the midden and wrapped the child in it. She didn’t complain. Binding her up tightly, Gaz checked that none of her exposed skin touched his as he lifted her up in his arms.
“Sorry,” he said, though he doubted she’d never suffered worse indignities. “You’re sick and stuff.”
He didn’t want to get any ick on him.
So he carried her through the alleys, keeping to the quiet side-streets. For her part, she said and did nothing, limp and listless in his arms, weighing no more than his bag of protection coin and assorted bribes. Bribes that Kitta wouldn’t be collecting now, as she was either dead or driven underground. The leg of meat, the jars of preserves, the money, the jewelry–it was all his now.
So he could afford to take the girl to the Indigents’ Clinic. And it was the right thing to do.
He dropped her off, then mumbled something to the old man about having to run some errands. He didn’t want to hang around. It was embarrassing, showing up on the fringes of the middle-city all shoeless and smelling like he did.
Gaz spent a portion of his newly-acquired wealth on a pair of sandals and two full hours at the midtown public baths. For one of those hours, he simply lounged in the warm water, staring wide-eyed as attendants carried jug after jug of the stuff in. All that water, and it never ran cold.
But then, freshly bathed, he couldn’t bear to put his old tunic and breeches on. They smelled like shit.
So he nicked a pair that looked about his size off a peg in the antechamber. People who used the public baths could afford new pairs of pants.
A shirt was trickier. Not many folks had shoulders as broad as his. So in the end he bought that too. Spent sixteen australs on it. Sixteen! It wasn’t anything fancy, just tightly-woven sailcloth. But it would last for ages if he tended it.
And as he walked back into the clinic, looking to see what had happened to the kid, it felt nice to not smell like garbage anymore.
Gaz hated the Indigents’ Clinic. Not because it reminded him that he’d grown up in the piss-pot of the city, but because sickness and deformity gave him the heebies. He kept to himself, peeking across the rows of beds. The poor treated in this place weren’t afforded any privacy, beds stacked eight to a row in a large open bay. The whole place stank in a different way to the slums.
The little girl was curled up on a bed in the far corner, her face reeking of strong-smelling salve. It glistened wetly on her pale cheeks, and she slept a hard and medicated sleep. Adrift on an adult-sized mattress, she looked impossibly tiny.
“This your kid?”
The source of the voice was a short, slender boy with close-cropped flaxen hair. Well, he was short by Gaz standards. He was probably average human height. Neatly dressed in a slate-grey linen smock, he wore gloves and a bandolier dotted with surgical instruments–long tweezers, scissors, a magnifying glass, a spool of thread.
He looked a little young to be carrying all that around.
“Yep,” said Gaz, finally answering the question. Then it occurred to him the medic might have meant your kid as in your kid, so he suddenly shook his head.
“I mean she’s my kid like I brought her here. But she’s not my kid like my-kid my kid.”
A strangely-delayed smile spread across the blond boy’s mouth, like he was amused by something very private that only had halfway to do with anything Gaz had said.
“So she’s not your kid, but you brought her here. Funny.” He spoke softly, amusedly, again like something about this whole situation was hilarious.
The medic tottered off, tending to the other patients without further word.
Gaz pulled up a stool and sank down by the girl’s bedside, unsure of what else to do with himself. He had no squat to go back to. He had a purse full of coin he didn’t know how to spend. If he ventured back into the alleys, someone would nick it off him for sure. And probably his sandals, too. But he didn’t know how you got a room in midtown. Were there squats in places like this? Rooms you could rent by the night?
He puzzled through his dilemma one wandering thought at a time. For the first time in his life, Gaz had nowhere to be and no pressing needs. No threat to his person in the form of violence, starvation, or a master who’d wonder where the hells he’d got to.
So he spent his hours at the girl’s bedside, waiting to see if she’d wake up. He fished a jar of jam out of his satchel and sucked little mouthfuls of it off his finger. Good jam. Plum jam.
He had a jam-hand crammed in his mouth when that medic boy reappeared, finding his way to Gaz’s side. The street outside had gone dark. Gaz hadn’t noticed.
“You’re still here.”
Gaz wasn’t sure what to say. That hadn’t been a question.
“Yep,” he said, popping the lid back on the jam. Street kid reflex: he didn’t plan on sharing, so hide the food away.
“Funny,” said the medic.
“Everything’s funny to you.”
The medic efficiently undressed the bed beside the girl’s, stripping it of its bloodstained sheets. He folded the cloth in his arms, smirking at Gaz while he did it.
“Not everything. Just you.”
Gaz flipped him a rude hand gesture, starting to wonder what the fuck this guy’s problem was. And the boy slipped off again, tidying bedclothes in all the unoccupied cots and checking on those who slept in the occupied ones.
Gaz didn’t know what else to do, so he stayed there. Around him, relatives filtered in and out of the clinic, checking in on patients and sometimes leaving with them. A man came in holding a badly-crushed hand, twisted fingers swollen and broken and leaking blood. The young medic seemed to be something of an assistant in the place, directing some people to the scruffy old guy who worked in the back room and taking care of others himself. Gaz half-watched, interested by virtue of there being nothing else going on.
Sometimes, the girl seemed close to waking. She mumbled incoherently a few times, then finally spoke up clear enough that Gaz could hear. She was asking for a drink.
“Hey,” said Gaz the next time the young medic wandered by. “She’s asking for a glass of water.”
The boy glanced down, nodded a little, and said that was a good sign. Then he flitted off into the bowels of the building where Gaz couldn’t see him.
When the medic returned, he was carrying a small wooden tray. Upon it were two tall clay cups of water, a heap of sliced bread, and a small chunk of cheese. He set it on the foot of the unoccupied cot beside Gaz’s stool.
“Here you go,” he said, perfunctory. “Thought it might go well with your jam.”
Gaz’s mouth watered. He explored the contents of the tray while the medic tried to coax the little girl into drinking. He had moderate success. She hiccuped and laid back down.
“Still still here,” Gaz said, pulling the jam jar out of his satchel.
“I’m not kicking you out.”
Plunking the jar onto the tray with the rest of the foodstuffs, Gaz offered an introduction.
“I’m Gaz,” he said.
“Calay,” said the medic. His smile was odd and quick, like he wasn’t used to doing it or was expecting something to go wrong.
“So you help run this place?”
Gaz smeared jam on a slice of rich, fibrous brown bread. It was still soft on the inside, still fresh, thin-crusted. He was careful not to appear too eager, although he’d only had bread this nice maybe twice in his life.
“I do.” Calay sliced cheese with a thin horn-hilted knife, offering Gaz a small wedge. “I’m the apprentice here. I work for Mr. Linten.”
It was amazing, the type of conversations you could have when you had clean shoes and a clean shirt. A physician’s apprentice, that was the sort of person who normally crossed the street when they saw Gaz coming. He was so learned for someone so young. So well-spoken. And he had a real job you had to know stuff to do.
“It’s good that you guys do this,” Gaz said. He was on uneven footing, conversationally. What did people like this talk about?
“It is,” agreed Calay. He seemed to use one word for every five Gaz used.
Gaz ate slower than he wanted to, taking small bites and actually chewing them. He ate like Kitta did when she met with her business colleagues. Sometimes Gaz watched the door during those kinds of meetings, and while the conversations were always insufferably boring, they usually fed him after.
The bread crumbled on his tongue, intensely flavorful and dark. The sweet jam and the soft, sweet cheese combined for a truly pleasurable eating experience. Gaz, despite his best efforts to not inhale it, didn’t actually speak again until he’d finished the slice.
“Thanks,” he said, licking crumbs off his thumb.
Calay’s slim shoulders lifted in a modest shrug. “It’s nothing,” he said. Then he pursed his mouth, regarding Gaz with a subtle tilt of his chin. He leaned back on the cot, relaxing slightly. The bloodstained mattress didn’t seem to bother him at all. Which Gaz supposed made sense, given how many hours a day he probably spent in the clinic.
“So why are you still here?” he finally asked. He looked at Gaz like Gaz was a puzzle with a missing piece.
Gaz was easily swayed by food, and not the type to lie unless a situation really warranted. So he just told the truth.
“I guess I don’t really have anywhere else to go?” He sipped his water, then gave a shrug of his own. It was enough of an answer.
“You live on the streets?” Calay kept up the questions, although Gaz didn’t feel pressured or interrogated. He asked like he was just curious.
“Sort of. But not really. I lived in a tenement. But it burned down.”
“Ah. Over on the Eastside?”
Built on a series of hills, Vasile was a place that made it easy to gauge where folk came from. The further west you lived, the better off you were. The far eastern neighborhoods were crumbling slums, no longer maintained by the city and left to the likes of folks like Kitta.
“Yeah,” said Gaz. “Blackbricks.”
Calay nodded near-imperceptibly, like he was actually familiar with the neighborhood. Gaz thought that unlikely.
“So where do you plan to go when we close up?” With a slender, spidery hand, he gestured to the darkness beyond the windows. “We’re not open all night, I’m afraid.”
Gaz chewed the inside of his cheek. He reached for another slice of cheese, layering it atop bread with jam for grout.
“Dunno,” he admitted. “I’ll figure out something.”
The answer earned him a quiet laugh. Then, after laughing, Calay hesitated. He cleared his throat a little, then glanced toward the short staircase that led up into the backrooms.
“I might be able to help you with that,” he said after a moment. Gaz blinked.
“How?” he asked. “You have a spare bed somewhere?”
Calay pursed his lips. “Sort of,” he said. “We’ve had some break-ins here the last few years. Mostly people looking for drugs or supplies. You’re a big fellow, and having a doorman would likely deter criminal activity. You probably wouldn’t even have to tangle with any of them.”
Well that was a line of work Gaz was familiar with.
“I’ve done that before,” he said. “Even the tangling part.” Although only in self-defense.
“Let me talk to my boss,” said Calay. “You can have the last of this. I’ll finish up my rounds and speak to Mr. Linten.”
Gaz sucked in a breath through his nose and tried not to hold it. A strange nervousness fluttered in his stomach. He felt like he had to be on his best behavior. The clean shirt and shoes had really done it. Maybe this was his big break. His ticket to… well he wasn’t sure what it was a ticket to. Better things than what he’d had. He was so unfamiliar with the wider city, beyond what little he could glimpse from the right vantage points, up on a roof or a hill or whatnot.
Maybe he’d finally get to see it all.
“Hey,” he said, as Calay stood. “Thank you.”
Calay smiled that quick, short-lived smile again, then told Gaz he’d try his best. Gaz got the feeling this kid was smart. That when he tried, he got what he wanted.
Author Update – Cover art has arrived and bonus chapter coming tomorrow!
I don’t write on the blog here terribly often as I let the story speak for itself, but I wanted to say hello to the recent spike in new readers. It’s great to see the story gaining traction and I enjoy reading all your comments. Since Mire is a labour of love, it’s encouraging and motivating to see such nice feedback.
I’d also like to reveal an INCREDIBLY BITCHIN’ ‘cover’ art done by George of Cotronis and Sons Illustration. There’s a Riss and a Calay variant, and they are so cool my heart basically stops every time I look at them.
I’ll be re-tooling the website some to incorporate the new art over the next few days, so don’t be alarmed if you notice any sudden changes.
I wanted to share a little bit about my upcoming plans for the series, since I’ve had some free time to do a lot of juicy outlining lately. I do intend for Mire to be ongoing after Adventure #1 continues. As well as the continued adventures of Riss & Co. as their mercenary reputation grows and their clients grow stranger, there are also volumes planned for party backstories.
I’ve completed outlines thus far for the following books:
1. The story of Gaspard Marcinen’s journey from death row to the Inland Army, and how he grew to become one of its most notorious figureheads.
2. Calay’s rise to power in the Vasa underworld, culminating in the betrayal that led to his arrest and eventual outing as a sorcerer.
3. The formation of the mercenary company as told through a series of letters between Adalgis as he recuperated from his war wounds and Riss while she was still serving on the southern front.
4. The actual Adventure #2, which involves a legendary outlaw being chased across the continent by a murderous postal worker, and how they both attempt to enlist the help of our favourite mercenaries to take the other out.
I’m so thrilled with the response this story has generated online. Thank you sincerely to each and every one of you who has read, commented, voted on TopWebFiction, left a review, or just shared the link with friends and family. It’s great to see people are enjoying reading this story as much as I’m enjoying writing it.
To celebrate how jazzed I am about the cover art, I’ll be releasing an extra bonus chapter tomorrow. 🙂
Posted on September 22, 2018 September 22, 2018 by Casey LucasPosted in Blog1 Comment
Rocking like a ship on rough seas, nuts and bolts barely holding it together, the wagon shuddered down the road. Torcha had them racing along at a breakneck, dangerous pace, but Riss didn’t care.
“Can we go any faster?” she screamed through the door toward the piloting chamber.
“Not if we want to control where we’re going!”
Sprawled across Riss’ lap, Gaspard choked. His labored breath came in gasps and wheezes, dark blood flecking his silver-grey beard. His lone eye rolled upward, still alert, still watching her. She glanced away, not quite able to look him in the face.
The wagon impacted something in the road, likely just a small rock, but at the speed they were going, it sent a shiver of impact through the entire wooden frame. The wheels held fast. Gaspard erupted into coughing.
“Don’t worry,” Riss said, unsure whether he could even hear her over the ruckus. “We’re almost there.”
She tightened her grip on the compress wadded against Gaspard’s chest. The splintered shaft of a crossbow bolt protruded from the blood-soaked fabric squished wetly in her fingers. Riss knew better than to try to move or withdraw it, so she stemmed the bleeding as best she could, tearing fresh strips from both her cloak and his when the cloth soaked through.
A shotgun blast thundered through the air and the shutters of the wagon’s back window blew into pieces, lending Riss a sliver of the view outside: snow-burdened evergreens and patches of bluebird sky.
Another shot. Chunks of the wooden frame exploded away, showering Riss and Gaspard with splinters. She angled forward, shielding him as best she could with her shoulder.
“Sounds like they have more than just a crossbow,” he wheezed in her ear.
“Yeah, yeah.” Riss growled, voice acidic with self-loathing. “I fucked up. I know.”
Before Gaspard could argue with her–which he’d do, she knew it, even in his injured state–Riss twisted again and hammered her fist against the driver’ s partition.
“Torcha! Get back here or get up top! They’re blowing the back of the wagon off!”
Torcha hollered something indistinguishable. Riss couldn’t hear over the rumble of wheels on dirt. Then louder thumping, someone moving around on the wagon’s roof. Adal or Renato could take over driving; they needed Torcha’s eye. If she could pick the shooters off, or their horses, it would buy them enough time…
“Riss.”
Gaspard hiked in air through his teeth, dragging bloodied fingers down her arm.
“Just hang in there,” she murmured without looking, eyes on the open window. It was useless, pleading at him. Words like that never worked. Not on the battlefield, not in infirmaries, not anywhere.
“Riss.” Gaspard’s voice, even whittled away to a croak, had an iron backbone to it. She looked down this time.
“Get the fuck out there and help your crew.”
“They’ll be fine.” She dared a glance down at his face and regretted it. The full, stern weight of his dark stare was on her now, his brows drawn. His expression was one of intense pain tempered with a restrained disapproval. Without saying a word, his eye said to her, after all this, you choose to disobey me now?
“I’m not saying they won’t.” He grunted and used an elbow to lever himself into a sitting position. Fresh, hot blood gushed through Riss’ fingers. “I’m saying…”
He paused, smothered a cough.
“I’m saying you can’t help me.”
The words stung. Riss worked her mouth in silence, then shifted so that she rested in a kneel on the wagon’s wooden floor. All around them, strapped-down cargo quivered against the ropes that held it down. Another shake, another forceful impact as they careened over an obstacle in the road.
“I’ll be fine,” he rasped. “If they blast the ass-end of the wagon off to shoot me again, you’ll have–” Another wheeze. “–bigger problems than mourning me.”
He was right. Riss wasn’t any kind of sawbones. If they got into town in time, if they managed to get into town at all without getting blown completely to fuck, that would be the time to talk medical attention.
Until then, there was nothing she could do. Yet she still didn’t want to leave him.
She squeezed his shoulder once, fingers digging in, reluctant to let go. She told him to keep applying pressure, then slid the partition into the wagon’s cab open. It was more of a window than a door, but Riss could wiggle through. Kicking and twisting, she fell in a heap of leather onto the piloting chamber floor.
As she landed, the coachman let out a yelp of surprise, clenching the reins even tighter. Renato sat on the bench beside him, leaned around the wall, pistol in hand.
“They both up top?” asked Riss, of Torcha and Adal. The coachman nodded, barely looking aside at her as he struggled to keep up the pace.
“I won’t let ‘em flank us,” Renato called. “Get up there!”
Up front, with so many layers of hard timber between herself and the gunshots, without Gaspard bleeding out in her lap, Riss felt calmer. She could hear herself think.
Hauling hand-over-hand, she climbed up onto the roof of the wagon, knuckling down near Torcha and Adal’s feet. They were both laid out along the rooftop, taking pot shots at the riders who pursued them. Just as Riss arrived, one of Adal’s shots struck home: a horse stumbled and fell, red spraying from its leg.
Riss couldn’t shoot for shit. Not like those two. So she made herself useful in other ways: hurriedly reloading their rifles while they rotated to the pistols at their belts, all three of them clinging on for dear life.
The wagon rolled to a juddering halt, limping into the yard, its team panting. The horses twitched their necks and threw their heads, muscle spasm visible below their hides. Riss climbed down from the roof as the coachman bellowed for water.
All around them the wagonyard bustled, porters loading and unloading other coaches.
Riss’ heart gradually slowed. As it did, a sudden exhaustion sapped her. She felt spent, as if she’d run down the mountain herself on foot. Beneath her boots, the ground seemed to shudder and buck as though she were still in motion.
Walking around to the rear doors, she grabbed the nearest porter by the arm.
“You,” she said, barely glancing down at the boy, who couldn’t have been out of his teens. “Send into town for a physician.”
She shoved him away without waiting for acknowledgment. The blood spilled down the front of her leathers said enough.
Heaving the lockbar up, she stepped aside as the door and loading plank fell backward into position. Buckshot and hard traveling had bitten whole chunks out of the wagon’s backside, but the important parts appeared intact, for all Riss cared. She gave the wagon itself only a cursory look on her way inside.
She twisted past a row of crates, still lashed to the cargo hold’s walls by some miracle, and crouched.
Gaspard lay right where she’d left him, back propped up on a rucksack, fingers clutching the compress to his gut.
The second she set eyes upon him, she knew.
Riss had seen a lot of people die. She’d seen people die in shitty, war-torn tent hospitals. She’d seen people die by her own hand, when she stood over them on the battlefield and slit their throats to make it quick. She’d held her soldiers while they cried for their husbands and wives and begged for painkillers that had run out months ago.
She couldn’t take a single step closer to his body. It was as though the same sharp, soul-deep magnetism that drew people to Gaspard in life repelled her in death.
Riss walked to the cargo hold doors, then sat down on the loading ramp.
The bastard. The absolute bastard. He’d known. He had known it was about to happen and he’d sent her off so she wouldn’t be there. Like a wounded family pet crawling off under the deck to die alone, so its masters wouldn’t be troubled.
Adal found her there later, still staring into space, the blood spilt down her jerkin yet to dry. She had no idea how much time had passed. The medic arrived; Adal waved him curtly away. He knew, then. She heard Ren and Torcha barking orders at someone, but the words mattered so little that her brain didn’t retain them.
Adal sat down next to her, but a good foot away. Like she’d acquired the same repellent aura that drove her away from Gaspard’s cooling corpse.
“Don’t.”
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For all his caution, for all his magickal possibilities, the bullet caught Calay just below the navel and blew a hole straight through his back. He crumpled, felt the force of the wound before the pain. He tried to breathe and found his lungs were intact. Coughing, sputtering, he gripped his abdomen and fumbled for his belt.
He could sketch that wound away. He just needed the vial. Any of the vials. It didn’t matter whose blood he used, just so long as it wasn’t his own.
Groping sluggishly, he found his hands responded with a worrying slowness.
All around him, he heard bodies hit the ground. The sound of full-grown men and women tumbling into the soft, muddy earth.
He turned his head just in time to see Vosk fall to his knees, then faceplant into the dirt, his still-smoking pistol falling from his grip. A snarl built upon Calay’s mouth, but a thought held him back: he didn’t have much time. If this was it, he wasn’t going to waste his last breath cursing that bastard.
Movement to his other side: the man caught in the tree’s roots–nearly excised with Calay’s help–also fell limp.
Twisting onto his stomach, vision blurring crazily, Calay tried to rise to a kneel. Something slippery nudged at his fingers. He didn’t look down, well aware of what that meant. Slapping a hand into place, he held his entrails in. With every passing second, his own body felt further and further away from the rest of the world.
Someone was yelling. Was it his name they were yelling?
And why was it snowing?
He took in a short, pained breath and it had the odd, gritty texture of dusty air from a room long-undisturbed. Like he’d just walked into a tomb.
Before everything greyed out, he caught a glimpse of Gaz crawling toward him. He lifted a foot, tried to walk, but his knees weren’t behaving. Stumbling, he pitched forward into the twisted roots of the great crawling tree. It accepted him with open, inhuman arms.
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Geetsha didn’t bleed. Riss didn’t know how to describe it. The girl came apart in a shower of white powder, as if Vosk’s shot had penetrated a bag of flour rather than a living person.
Drifting like ash from a forest fire, flakes of white scattered down all along the clearing. One landed on Riss’ machete. She lifted the blade toward her face and touched the substance, marveling at it as it flaked away into smaller pieces, disintegrating at her touch.
“What the fuck,” whispered Torcha. Then she sneezed.
Riss glanced over, saw Torcha wiping an ashen smear off her face. Flaky bits of Geetsha rained down on all of them, and then the world went blurry. Riss blinked. Torcha staggered. The barrel of her rifle wavered.
Vosk stared at the spot where Geetsha had been standing, aghast, his face dusted white. Her clothing, blown apart by the force of the powdery explosion, settled in shreds on the ground. His features stricken, Vosk gagged, turning aside.
When he turned, he spotted Calay, still crouched near the tree. He’d partially freed the man trapped in the roots, and he froze like a cornered animal when Vosk’s attention centered on him.
“Don’t do it,” Calay murmured. White flakes drifted down into his eyes and he blinked, coughing.
In that moment of distraction, Vosk drew his other pistol and shot Calay in the stomach.
He fell like a normal man, clutching his midsection as blood erupted from his back.
No no no. Everything was spiraling out of control. Riss had to put a stop to this, or at least slow it all down somehow, before anyone else got hurt. She tried to call out to Vosk, but her tongue felt swollen and useless against her teeth.
Riss took a step forward, or rather tried. Her body wasn’t behaving. A tingling sensation started in her feet and hands, then spread up her limbs.
“Tuh…Tor…”
She tried to say Torcha’s name. Tried to ask if she was all right. Torcha’s rifle tumbled with a muted thunk to the ash-dotted earth. She collapsed atop it.
Riss’ legs buckled. Somewhere, Adal said her name, but her peripheral vision was a haze of grey.
She hit the ground hard, unconscious before she got there.
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Riss snapped awake. She sensed a presence hovering over her face, and by instinct she threw an elbow toward it. Fingers closed around her wrist.
“Shh,” Adal whispered in her ear. She relaxed her fingers. He relaxed his.
In the dead of night, lit only by half-spent coals, Adal and Gaz crouched near her bedroll. Something was wrong. She was fully awake in seconds.
“Vosk and Calay are gone,” Gaz whispered. Adal edged off to rouse Torcha.
“Gone as in eaten, or–”
“Gone as in Calay told me he thought Vosk was up to something and was going to check it out. It’s been a few minutes now and he hasn’t come back.”
Riss grunted. She considered reprimanding the sellsword for letting that happen, but no point in it now. If anything happened to Calay, Gaz’s guilt would be punishment enough. Riss instructed Gaz to tie the moas’ leads to something, and in under a minute she and Torcha were fully awake and armored up. This particular journey, Riss had opted to sleep with her boots on. Looks like it was paying off.
A moment later, Adal’s voice, low and cautious: “Geetsha’s gone, too.”’
Well, shit. Again, that suspicion reared its head. Geetsha sure managed to disappear a lot during convenient moments.
By gesture more than words, she led the four of them down the trail. Adal held up a lantern, kept it mostly-hooded to lend them a scrap of an advantage. But Riss knew they’d be easily spotted regardless. Whether it was Vosk threatening Calay as Gaz seemed to think, or something jointly trying to absorb both the men, their light would give them away to the threat. She somehow doubted Geetsha had attacked them, but she tried to remind herself that at this point it was foolish to rule out anything.
They descended the slope and found their path was gone. The colorful filaments were still woven through the thorns, but the thorns themselves were so thickly overgrown across the trail that firelight from the other side barely peeked through.
She slid a look aside to Adal, whose mouth had narrowed. He ticked his head side to side, a tiny disbelieving shake. She wasn’t going crazy, then; this had definitely been their way through.
“Fan out,” she whispered through her teeth. “Not too far apart from one another. Look for gaps.”
The wall of thorns proved impassable. Unnaturally so. They converged back where they started a few moments later, everyone signaling in the negative. No dice.
From the other side of the thorns, a male voice suddenly shrieked in agony.
At the scream, Gaz stiffened and turned toward the wall of thorns.
“We’re going through,” he informed Riss, calm as anything, as if he were commenting on the time of day.
Riss grabbed her gloves from her belt and yanked them on, then tugged up her hood in hopes to shield her face against the thorny debris. She drew her machete and got to work. Torcha likewise covered her face, as did Adal. Gaz just started hacking away, swinging his axe in broad arcs that sent thorned branches flying every which way.
They plowed through in seconds. Riss felt the bite of a few thorns on her skin and against her clothes, but she wasn’t concerned. Leave it to the medic, she thought. Once we’re sure we still have one.
The fire in the clearing still burned, flames feeble, coals glowing. It stood between Riss and the strange trio of Geetsha, Vosk, and Calay.
Riss knew a stand-off when she saw one. Vosk held Geetsha at gunpoint. Calay stood not far away, crouched down near the roots of the great, slumped tree. Another scream. One of Calay’s hands worked down in the roots where Riss couldn’t see.
He was cutting the survivor free. Riss could only imagine what collateral damage that was doing to his body.
“Stay back, all of you!” yelled Vosk. “She isn’t human!”
He held up a palm to Riss and the others, all the while keeping an eye on Geetsha.
“Harlan,” said Geetsha, her voice calm. “You are making a mistake.”
A soft, feminine grunt of effort sounded out as Torcha unshouldered her heavy rifle. She looked at Riss aside, patted the stock of it.
“Aim me, boss,” she said.
Riss held up a hand, stalling her for the time being. Geetsha had stirred up intrigue and suspicion long enough. It was time to get to the bottom of what was wrong with her. Vosk hadn’t exactly found a diplomatic way to force the discussion, but at least they’d finally be clearing the air.
“Everybody calm down.” Riss lifted her voice, pitched it across the clearing. She addressed them like soldiers: short, curt.
“She fucking moved the thorns,” Vosk hissed, his eyes thin slices in the firelight. “She’s some kind of sorcerer!”
The word turned Riss’ sweat cold. ‘Witch’ was a common enough epithet in these parts of the lowlands. Every dust mote-sized village on the map had local healers and apothecaries, herbalists who worked folk “remedies” and shriveled old augurs who promised to read your tea leaves and tell the future. To the uneducated who believed in such things, it was all varying degrees of witchery.
Sorcerer, though. That meant something different.
Riss signaled to Torcha with a twist of her hand. Torcha didn’t have to be told twice. She took a knee and levelled her rifle at Geetsha.
“Geetsha,” Riss started. “I think it’s time we had a talk. You haven’t been entirely honest with us.”
There was no way around it. This confrontation had been brewing for some time. Now Riss just had to hope that if the deception begat violence, it would be the kind of violence a slug through the skull could actually solve. If Vosk was correct and Geetsha possessed some sort of sorcerous power…
Riss had heard stories. She’d never been at a sorcerer’s mercy before. But magick, real magick, the type that didn’t come from old biddies boiling chicken bones to divine your future husband, it could bring whole platoons to their knees.
“There are things I haven’t told you,” Geetsha freely admitted. She never raised her voice. And she didn’t sound the slightest bit alarmed, despite the multiple guns pinning her in place.
“How about you tell us now?” asked Riss, to keep her talking.
“There are more important things to discuss.” Geetsha then turned her eyes from Vosk to Riss and back again. In the firelight, she seemed even paler than usual. Ashen, even.
“Harlan,” Geetsha asked once her attention returned fully to Vosk. “What did you do with the cloth-men?”
Vosk visibly startled. He took a step away from Geetsha, then for some reason spun to face Calay. For a half-second, the barrel of his pistol levelled on Calay, as if to warn him back.
“The who?” Vosk whipped back around to face Geetsha.
Riss had heard a lot of men lie under duress. Vosk was nowhere near among the more talented.
“I already know,” said Geetsha. “Say it for their benefit.” She took a single step toward Vosk, who merely watched her, transfixed.
This was going to end badly. Riss could already tell. She had to intervene.
“Vosk!” Riss called over. “Back down. Torcha’s got a rifle on her. Just stand down! Geetsha, hands up and hold still!”
Geetsha stopped moving. She lifted her palms, loose sleeves dangling down her thin, childlike wrists. She turned her head fractionally toward Riss.
Vosk took the opening. He steadied his hand and fired, blowing Geetsha’s face apart from mere feet away.
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The clacking, quivering thorns writhed like a sea of snakes. They formed a solid, sharp-limbed wall, encircling the clearing. A tiny aperture appeared not far from Vosk. Then it widened. Densely-choked brambles untwisted as the bushes themselves wriggled free of one another, allowing a short figure in a ragged green cloak to step through the barrier.
Geetsha’s skin seemed to glow in the firelight, an iridescent blue-green. Calay wasn’t certain if this was the magick augmenting his eyes–or something else.
Vosk spooked and startled, twisting so that he leveled his pistol at the woman. She stepped calmly toward them, then stopped when he jabbed the muzzle toward her, as if mere bullets could ward off something that had just peeled the cover of the marsh away around them.
Calay was a man who always had a plan. He’d planned to strike Vosk with a short spell, something to render him unconscious, then bash him once upside the temple. But now he found his boots frozen on the spot.
He didn’t trust Vosk, but did he trust their strangely-glowing swamp guide even less?
Geetsha stared at the pistol in Vosk’s hand like she was unsure what it even was. She tilted her head, bone-white bangs falling into her eyes. With his enhanced vision, Calay noticed details about her that he hadn’t seen before. Or perhaps they hadn’t been there before. It was impossible to tell. Her skin had a strange texture in the shimmery light: powdery almost, like a layer of dust had at one point settled over her skin and never been dislodged.
She addressed Vosk in a curious whisper, voice showing no trace of fear.
“You are threatening one of them, Harlan.” At the usage of his first name, Vosk jerked as if he’d been struck.
Calay decided this fight wasn’t for him. He wasn’t about to get caught in the middle of whatever this fucking was. Trusting that Vosk was fully distracted, he spun and darted toward the path. Fuck saving the survivor. Fuck eavesdropping on whatever Geetsha was confronting Vosk about. Self-preservation came first, and hanging around to find out what happened wasn’t going to help him preserve his own skin.
Thick, snakelike brambles blocked his path. When they’d parted to allow Geetsha through, they’d closed off his initial pathway through the thorns. Calay felt the blood drain from his face. For the first time in many years, real animal fear–the type he couldn’t logic his way out of–surged through his stomach.
Come on, Gaz, he thought, trying to stifle his panic. Notice I’m missing.
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GALLERY: Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross
Over 200 people gathered on Sunday afternoon at the Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross at Kilaben Bay.
Brooke Robinson PUBLISHED April 09, 2019
Walking the Stations of the Cross before Easter has been a tradition in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle for over 50 years.
This year, various diocesan groups and four schools (St Pius X, Adamstown, St Paul’s Rutherford, St Joseph’s Charlestown, and St Joseph’s Aberdeen) acted out each station accompanied by reflections.
Traditionally, the scriptural way of the cross has been used, but this year St Oscar Romero Way of the Cross, written by Fumiaki Tosu, was chosen. Romero’s life was lived courageously, as he risked everything to follow Jesus. At each station of the cross, reflections from Romero’s homilies and public addresses mirrored the journey that Jesus took.
Bishop Bill said, “Having some of those words of Oscar Romero at each of the stations made us able to see that Jesus, like Romero, was suffering the lot that is there for those who stand with the poor, or the oppressed or the outcast and confront the ruling voices of their worlds. Romero’s words helped us reflect on Jesus, and Jesus’ sufferings help us reflect on the world around us.”
Taking time to reflect in moments such as the Way of the Cross, ideally leads to action. For Bishop Bill, the treatment of asylum seekers and the homeless came to mind.
“Here in Newcastle and around the Hunter we have got what seems to be a growing number of people who are homeless, which in many cases points to them being poor and unable to access important services,” Bishop Bill said.
“On a broader level we need to look at the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers who are vulnerable because, they are not us,” Bishop Bill said.
Participant Kate Lloyd spoke of the importance of gathering as Christians.
“It was great for the community to come together in the lead up to Easter and reflect on what Jesus went through. It was also wonderful to see so many schools and parishes take part, standing together in harmony,” Kate said.
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Apparently most blogs also contain a gratuitous “About Me” section. Since this feature “came with the frame,” I decided to populate it. The gist: I’m a 39-year-old writer from Livonia, Michigan. I’m married to Steve, and we have two dogs and zero children. I work for Plante Moran, one of the largest accounting, tax, and management-consulting firms in the nation.
In case that’s insufficient, I decided to answer a few of the questions from the Proust Questionnaire and “Inside the Actors Studio.” If anyone else feels like taking it and posting it to one of my blog comments, I’d love to read your responses.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, friends, and food.
What is your greatest fear?
Death. Failure is a close second.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Discomfort with technology
What trait do you most deplore in others?
What is your favorite word?
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (just kidding). There are so many words I love…mellifluous, gallimaufry, tchotchke, cornucopia, veritable (preferably preceding “cornucopia”) J
What is your least favorite word?
Again, lots: utilize, moist, turgid, cache, slang such as “Imma” or “amaze-balls”
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Awesome, Really? F-
What sound or noise do you love?
Waves crashing on a beach
What sound or noise do you hate?
Children throwing tantrums
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
It’s not so much that I’d want to attempt another profession but that I’d like to attempt it in a different industry. (I’ve always wanted to write for Rolling Stone.)
What profession would you not like to do?
Anything in the medical profession
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US Blamed Venezuelan President for Burning AID Trucks. Wrong.
“They tried a false flag operation, that supposedly the people of Venezuela had burned a truck carrying rotten food — no, no, no — it was they themselves”
By Common Dreams. Published 3-10-2019
Aid trucks burn on Venezuelan-Colombia border, February 23, 2019. Media around the world got it wrong. The Panama Post headline: “Police forces loyal to Maduro burnt trucks with humanitarian aid; The dictatorship’s repressive authorities allowed three trucks of humanitarian aid to cross the border, only to set them on fire once they were over the bridge.” (Twitter)
On February 23, a caravan of large cargo trucks was crossing a bridge from Colombia into Venezuela delivering food and other aid when they dramatically went up in flames. US officials seized upon the event as evidence of a “sick tyrant” stopping food from getting to hungry people:
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted:
We denounce Maduro’s refusal to let humanitarian assistance reach #Venezuela. What kind of a sick tyrant stops food from getting to hungry people? The images of burning trucks filled with aid are sickening. pic.twitter.com/bJ1Qsxkgx8
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) February 24, 2019
National Security Advisor John Bolton tweeted:
Masked thugs, civilians killed by live rounds, and the burning of trucks carrying badly-needed food and medicine. This has been Maduro’s response to peaceful efforts to help Venezuelans. Countries that still recognize Maduro should take note of what they are endorsing. pic.twitter.com/KlSebd2M5a
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) February 23, 2019
Senator Marco Rubio tweeted:
Each of the trucks burned by Maduro carried 20 tons of food & medicine. This is a crime & if international law means anything he must pay a high price for this. #23FAyudaHumanitaria https://t.co/IrGzrOUX09
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 23, 2019
The US State Department released a propaganda video:
Now is the time to act in support of the Venezuelan people and to get vital, desperately needed humanitarian assistance to them. LET THE AID INTO #Venezuela. #EstamosUnidosVE pic.twitter.com/Mo5MoiqO7m
— Kimberly Breier (@WHAAsstSecty) February 24, 2019
Vice President Mike Pence tweeted:
The tyrant in Caracas danced as his henchmen murdered civilians & burned food & medicine heading to Venezuelans. Saturday was tragic for the families of those killed & suffering Venezuelans. But it was just 1 more day in Venezuela’s journey from tyranny to freedom. Maduro must go pic.twitter.com/E1GQyvIbs8
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) February 25, 2019
The New York Times is reporting Sunday that the fire was actually started by supporters of oppostion leader Juan Guiado.
“Unpublished footage obtained by The New York Times and previously released tapes — including footage released by the Colombian government, which has blamed Mr. Maduro for the fire — allowed for a reconstruction of the incident. It suggests that a Molotov cocktail thrown by an antigovernment protester was the most likely trigger for the blaze. At one point, a homemade bomb made from a bottle is hurled toward the police, who were blocking a bridge connecting Colombia and Venezuela to prevent the aid trucks from getting through. But the rag used to light the Molotov cocktail separates from the bottle, flying toward the aid truck instead. Half a minute later, that truck is in flames. The same protester can be seen 20 minutes earlier, in a different video, hitting another truck with a Molotov cocktail, without setting it on fire.”
The Times also reported:
Many of Mr. Maduro’s critics claim that he ordered medication set on fire during the border standoff — even though many of his people have died of medicine shortages in hospitals. Yet the claim about a shipment of medicine, too, appears to be unsubstantiated, according to videos and interviews. The United States Agency for International Development, the principal supplier of the aid at the bridge, did not list medicine among its donations.
“They tried a false flag operation, that supposedly the people of Venezuela had burned a truck carrying rotten food — no, no, no — it was they themselves, it was the criminals of Iván Duque,” Mr. Maduro told a crowd, referring to Colombia’s president.
Here is the NY Times video:
This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Demonstrations & Protests, Economics, Elections, Energy, Government, Health Care, Human Rights, International Agreements, Military and tagged Agency for International Development, Civil Rights, Colombia, Corruption, Democracy, Department of State, Economics, Elections, Health Care, Human rights, humanitarian aid, International Agreements, John Bolton, Juan Guaido, Marco Rubio, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Nicolas Maduro, Oil, Protests, regime change, Venezuela on March 11, 2019 by ew.
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ew came of age during the winddown to the Vietnam War, and like many other Americans, as soon there wasn't an issue that didn't affect him personally, he became indifferent. This gradually changed during the Reagan and Bush I years, continued through the Clinton years and finally came to a head with the passage of the Patriot Act in 2001. He works as a freelance consultant/tester for various music hardware and software companies, and lives in Minnesota.
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Pittonkatonk Hosts May Day Brass BBQ and Festival
pittonkatonk April 6, 2015 Events, Music
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PITTSBURGH – Pittonkatonk announces plans for its annual May Day Brass BBQ and festival, which will take place on Saturday May 2nd from 2:00 – 8:00 pm at the Vietnam Veterans Pavilion in Schenley Park. Pittonkatonk is an all-ages community-supported brass music festival and picnic where audiences and performers break down the traditional barriers between stage and dance floor. Now in its second year, Pittonkatonk uses the unifying medium of brass music to bring together diverse communities, from high school marching bands to traditional Balkan brass bands and hip hop/jazz ensembles.
This year’s festival will bring in famed national acts including What Cheer? Brigade (Providence), Pitchblak Brass Band (New York City), Black Bear Combo (Chicago) and Detroit Party Marching Band (Detroit); local acts Beauty Slap, May Day Marching Band, Col. Eagleburger’s Goodtime Highstepping Band and Slide Worldwide Brass Band; as well as collaborative performances with local high school marching bands including University Prep (Hill District). The festival will also include a giant community barbeque, and family-friendly activities courtesy of Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s Makeshop and other local community organizations.
In advance of the festival, Pittonkatonk will also hold a supplemental 3-day educational program between featured festival band What Cheer? Brigade (Providence) and the University Prep Junior and Senior High Marching Bands (Hill District). The intensive workshop will highlight the band’s role from a historical perspective, provide insights of the business of touring/working as a full time musician, and focus on the role of a community band in creating positive change and social justice. The partnership will culminate in a collaborative performance at the May 2nd festival.
With a focus on community, Pittonkatonk juxtaposes different types of music, cultures, and backgrounds to bring together a unique mix of people who might not otherwise convene at a show. Unique to Pittonkatonk, musicians and audiences engage on a social level, blurring the lines between performer and the spectator and creating a barrier-free experience for all to live, learn, celebrate, and dance. Last year’s Pittonkatonk event and affiliate programs reached 700 people, and the organizers hope to continue to make Pittonkatonk a May Day weekend tradition.
All ages are welcome. Although there is no required admission charge, the event is fully community-supported and monetary donations and/or pot-luck style food donations are strongly suggested. An IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign is also in effect until May 4 and backers are greatly appreciated. For more information visit www.pittonkatonk.com or email pittonkatonk@gmail.com.
Pittonkatonk was co-founded by Pete Spynda (of “Pandemic” fame) and Rich Randall (of the Listening Spaces Project). For 10 years, Pandemic has hosted monthly global music dance parties that celebrate both traditional folk and contemporary dance music from around the world and brings new and innovative artists, musicians, and DJs to Pittsburgh. The Listening Spaces Project explores and promotes music at the community-level for positive social change and development. Together, along with a team of community volunteers, these two entities make up Pittonkatonk – where brass music of all styles, including Balkan, New Orleans Jazz, Symphonic, and street/protest/punk bands can come together to perform.
Pittonkatonk Website: www.pittonkatonk.com
Indiegogo Campaign: www.indiegogo.com/projects/pittonkatonk-2015-a-pittsburgh-may-day-brass-bbq
Facebook Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/736736263113518/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/pittonkatonk
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Youtube do dia: #Justpray
Submitted by rickeyre on November 24, 2015 - 2:39pm
The sixty-second rendition of The Lord's Prayer that the Church of England wanted to play in British cinemas before screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens this Christmas. Digital Cinema Media, the company that handles most cinema advertising in the UK, has refused to accept the video on the basis that it "may offend" some people.
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Paul Keating speaks at Redfern on Human Rights Day 1992
Submitted by rickeyre on December 10, 2012 - 2:00pm
December 10: Human Rights Day. The anniversary of the date in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted.
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Late-career masterpieces. This week, John Laws
Submitted by rickeyre on October 3, 2012 - 3:41pm
I like promoting on these pages the efforts of elderly artistes in the aftermath of their prime. Today, I present to you Mister John Laws, star of 2SM and syndicated radio stations across New South Wales, interviewed on ABC's 7.30 last night by Leigh Sales with regard to his former stablemate and adversary (often all at once) Belford Parrott.
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London Day Two: Go fourth
Submitted by rickeyre on July 30, 2012 - 3:24pm
Just like any true Weapons of Mass Destruction, Australia's proved to be non-existent.
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Youtube do dia: Balldogs
Submitted by rickeyre on April 2, 2012 - 1:55pm
Over and above all the usual tiresome attempts at April Foolery, this two-minute video from the England and Wales Cricket Board is one of my favourites this year (along with 8-bit Google Maps). An "innovation" almost plausible enough that it wouldn't surprise me if the IPL tried to adapt it for real.
Here's the ECB's accompanying statement on the balldogs innovation, post-edited to partly wimp out of the April Fool's joke.
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Youtube do dia: I move that so much of standing orders be suspended so that...
And you thought Federal Parliament in Canberra was unruly? During debate in South Korea's parliament yesterday over a Free Trade Agreement with the US, an opposition member threw a canister of tear gas in the chamber. Despite this, a vote in favour of the FTA was carried 151 votes to seven. This report from Agence France-Presse does not indicate how the gas wielding politician voted (or, indeed, if he got the chance to.)
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Youtube do dia: Twitter reinterpreted for ukelele
Submitted by rickeyre on August 2, 2011 - 12:03am
Here, from March this year at no less than the 3rd Annual Shorty Awards, is Amanda Palmer's ukelele medley of the Most Amusing Tweets of the year
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Youtube do dia: The Ship Song
An array of Australia's finest and a few overseas friends cover Nick Cave's extraordinary The Ship Song in this video, part of a forthcoming documentary about, and filmed in, the Sydney Opera House.
Much more of The Ship Song Project on Youtube.
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Youtube do dia: I'm only talking to Gladys
Submitted by rickeyre on March 27, 2011 - 7:47pm
It didn't take long for this moment, late in the evening of the ABC's NSW election telecast last night, to become a Twitter meme. Premier-elect Barry O'Farrell hauled before the cameras at the Liberal Party victory party for a quick interview, only to tell anchorman Kerry O'Brien that he only wanted to talk to telecast panellist, and his future transport minister, Gladys Berejiklian.
As was confirmed later, no snub of Red Kerry was intended in the frenetic atmosphere of the Parramatta Leagues Club.
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Youtube do dia: KK Closer to Fine
Submitted by rickeyre on March 23, 2011 - 11:31am
Almost by definition, election campaigns have their bizarre moments - although Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell seem to have re-written the manual over the past couple of years.
But I doubt that I'll see anything more bizarre from the current NSW state election than the jam session on Kristina Keneally's campaign bus last Friday.
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CALL: The ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
November 26, 2013 to March 26, 2014 – virtual Call for PapersSpecial Issue of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on BEHAVIOR UNDERSTANDING FOR ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENTMain submission deadline: March 26th, 2014AIMS AND SCOPETec… Organized by ACM | Type: publication
Grants for Media Art 2014 of the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
December 15, 2013 to February 16, 2014 – Katharinenstraße 23 D-26121 Oldenburg, Germany CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Application deadline: February 16, 2014 The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three Grants for Media Art 2014 of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (10,000 € each). The grant f… Organized by | Type: call for proposal
European Media Artists in Residence Exchange with Australia Canada
December 15, 2013 to February 12, 2014 – Australia, Canada, England, Germany, France and the Netherlands Move On: European Media Artists in Residence Exchange with Australia Canada (EMARE AUS CDN) 2014-2015 The European Media Art Network in partnership with the Goethe Institute and oversea partners in… Organized by | Type: residency
CALL For PROJECTS: McLaren Wall to Wall
December 26, 2013 to February 19, 2014 – Montreal, PQ, Canada Call for projects: Creators, celebrate McLaren's heritage right in the heart of Montreal! First Prize: 25,000 Canadian dollars Second Prizes: 3 x 5000 dollars each Norman McLaren is one of the most r… Organized by Josée Bolduc | Type: competition, public, art, event
ATTEND: Figure Ground Game, An Architecturalists Show
January 17, 2014 at 10am to March 2, 2014 at 6pm – SCI-ARC Gallery Architecture: Stephen Turk, John Yurchyk, Paul Adair, and Ryan Docken Painting: Fabian Marcaccio (NY), Maurice Clifford (Atlanta)Sculpture: Beverly Stephens Organized by Jeffrey Kipnis + Stephen Turk | Type: gallery, exhibition
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January 25, 2014 to March 10, 2014 – Asturias, Spain LABoral and the collection olorVISUAL, Barcelona, have announced the Production Grant olorVISUAL, an anual call which aims to award a production residency programme to a European artist under 40, for… Organized by | Type: call
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January 25, 2014 to February 15, 2014 – CA Empiricism and intuition are not mutually exclusive. The goal of Scientific Delirium Madness–-a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (I… Organized by | Type: call
CALL: (book chapters) New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds
January 26, 2014 to February 28, 2014 – virtual Proposals Submission Deadline: February 28, 2014Full Chapters Due: June 30, 2014 For release in the Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities (ASNOC) Book Series. The Advances in Social Ne… Organized by Dr. Denise Doyle, University of Wolverhampton, UK | Type: publishing, opportunity
CALl: ArtsIT 2014
January 27, 2014 to February 28, 2014 – Istanbul, Turkey November 10–12, 2014 Istanbul, Turkey The ArtsIT 2014 exhibition aims at presenting innovative and cutting-edge artworks, design projects and performances that exploit IT technologies. The exhibitio… Organized by TBA | Type: conference, exhibition
Art on Paper 2014 – Call for Submissions
February 1, 2014 to March 28, 2014 – 500 Tate St, Greensboro, NC 27412 Art on Paper is a biennial exhibition that presents a broad range of contemporary art in which the use of paper, either as a surface or material, is a primary consideration. Art on Paper 2014 will in… Organized by | Type: call for work
ATTEND: Japan Media Arts Festival
February 4, 2014 to February 16, 2014 – The National Art Center, (Roppongi, Tokyo), Japan The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of MediaArts (=Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works in the four divisions of Art, Entertainment,Animation, and Manga, as well as pro… Organized by Chair, AOYAGI Masanori [Commissioner for Cultural Affairs], | Type: festival, exhibiton
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Only nine days left for a chance to win a visit from Ryan Winfield!
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Children in war
The forgotten children
Children in war zone
Children injured or killed in Donbas
Putins victims are children
We have a plan to invite CHILDREN
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220,000 children at risk
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10 facts you should know about russian military aggression against Ukraine
NATOs General Secretary spoke in the Council
Let me tell you a well-kept secret
Russia’s illegal annexation in 2014 of Crimea
The forgotten Europian war
Meeting with Ukrainan World Congress
Visit at the National Museum “Holodomor Victims Memorial”
Meeting with the Norwegian embassy
Meeting with Liv Signe Navarsete
Meeting with Ambassador of Norway
Donate securely
The history of Ukrainian prisoner of war
Hanna Anni Koljada - the Ukrainian forced labour
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Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Phase II of the National Holodomor Museum
Secret Photos of Holodomor
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To you, the world leader
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Usually they ask for presents. But the last few times, they’ve simply asked for peace.
When the war between russian and the government in Kyiv broke out in the winter of 2014, the schools in East Ukraine found themselves on the front line: targeted by rockets and occupied by armed forces, they have also served as a temporary shelter for residents and a refuge for those displaced by the conflict.
More than 250,000 children and adolescents live in this region and in loyalist territory. Nearly 55,000 of them live in direct proximity to the extremely volatile 470-kilometre “contact line” that runs between the territories, where incidents of violence continue to occur almost daily despite ceasefire agreements.
The first two years of the conflict were the most difficult. The years 2014 and 2015 saw intense fighting that damaged buildings and roads and forced thousands of people to flee. The land remains visibly scarred and littered with landmines and other explosive devices. After being suspended for several weeks, classes eventually resumed; but in 2018, this generation of children growing up in wartime has had to learn to live with trauma and danger that are never far away. Keeping schools safe is a big challenge because parents must overcome their fears of danger so as not to deprive children of their right to education.
Every time a siren sounded during the school day in Popasna, the students knew that they had to get to the basement of the building as quickly as possible, to a shelter constructed during the Soviet era for the event of a nuclear attack. Many have traumatic memories from that time.
With death toll of more than 13,000 and a disastrous impact on the local economy, the war has also severely impacted families. Poverty in the area has increased by 72 per cent. “The problems affecting low-income families have increased significantly with the conflict. In the territories no longer controlled by the government, the majority of vulnerable children depend on humanitarian aid. And the country remains relatively poor,” says Zietek.
According to UN estimates, more than 3.4 million people in the region rely on humanitarian assistance to meet the basic needs of food and medical care.
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine says that 23 children have been injured or killed in the war in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, in 2018 alone. "The OSCE SMM is saddened by the news that three children were killed and two injured this weekend in eastern Ukraine. At least 23 kids already injured/killed in 2018 alone. Children continue to be the victims of the ongoing conflict," the OSCE SMM tweeted on October 1.
In 2016, against all odds, the Donetsk region rose significantly in national school rankings. “I don’t think that it will be a lost generation. Attitudes are changing very quickly. The young people that I’ve met are intelligent, educated and patriotic. They will be the leaders of tomorrow. But we can’t forget the children on the other side. We have to maintain exchanges and contacts between schoolchildren,” adds Oksenchuk.
She emotionally recalls an event for St. Nicholas’ Day (the equivalent of Father Christmas bringing gifts in December) where thousands of children wrote letters to St. Nicholas. “Usually they ask for presents. But the last few times, they’ve simply asked for peace.”
(Photo above: Reuters)
The responsibility belongs to the world leaders
We welcome our leaders to sit down and talk what is best for all our children. It is yours and mine children and grandchildren and you have the responsebility to make peace. That the only thing they ask for, also for christmas. Then we all know what to do. Sit down and make peace. The children are small good people !
Welcome to the S2PU PeaceConference 2020
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© 2018 Support to the people of Ukraine
We are an Ukraine-Nordic Non-Profit and independent organization. We work for positive changes and development in Ukraine
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DaaS & FlexASM 12c - Charles Kim & Nitin Vengurlekar
The co-founders of Viscosity NA will join us this month to start our year off with a double-header, two presentations in one meeting. Long-time friend of SOUG and Oracle Ace Director, Charles Kim, will start us off with his spin on Database as a Service. This is not your typical DaaS speech we've all heard before from Oracle. Charles calls it "Zero to Complete DBaaS in 1 Hour". Learn the secrets of the trade to provisioning database-as-a-service. This detailed technical session will teach advanced techniques for enterprise RAC and non-RAC database deployments. Save days and even weeks of deploy time by attending this session. There is no reason why you should not be able to deploy a fully patched RAC environment from bare metal Linux and create a RAC database in less than one hour. Anyone deploying RAC or even non-RAC will learn the secret sauce and knowledge of how to properly deploy mission critical systems that is repeatable and consistent. Learn to deploy a fully patched (11.2.0.3 with PSU 8 or 12.1 with PSU x) two node RAC in less than one hour. Learn how to automate database builds and to leverage golden image databases. We can't forget about rapid deployment of Oracle 12c Pluggable Databases. Learn how to deploy pluggable databases (PDB) and to migrate PDBs and significantly increase your database consolidation density. The details of adding nodes to an existing clusters and removing nodes from the cluster will also be disseminated.
Nitin will step in for the second session of the evening to discuss ASM. When Automatic Storage Management (ASM) was introduced in 10gR1, it was simply marketed as the volume manager for the Oracle database. With significant changes for 12c, ASM has now grown into a core component of not only the Oracle Clusterware stack, but also engineered systems such as Exadata and ODA. This session will cover some of key management and high availability features introduced in 12c ASM. Attendees will get a great glimpse of these advancements, the history behind the new features, and why these features are a necessary part of the future of ASM. Key topics/areas to be covered:
A. History of ASM
1. 10g and 10gR2
3. 12c
B. 12c ASM -Manageability features
1. Understand the existing problems
2. What problems were solved
C. 12c ASM - High availability features
Charles Kim is the co-founder/President of Viscosity North America and an Oracle ACE Director, VMware vExpert, an Oracle Certified DBA, and a Certified RAC Expert. Charles specializes in Exadata, RAC, and Virtualization (VMware and Oracle VM) and authored three books: Oracle Database 11g New Features for DBA and Developers, Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs and Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook. Charles is the current Vice President and Vendor Liaison of the Cloud Computing SIG for the IOUG. Charles holds certifications in Oracle, VMware, Red Hat Linux, and Microsoft and has over 22 years of Oracle experience on mission and business critical databases.
Nitin Vengurlekar is the co-founder/CTO of Viscosity North America and a recognized expert in virtualization, Oracle Engineered Systems, Private Database Cloud, and RAC implementations. Prior to joining Viscosity, Nitin worked for Oracle for more than seventeen years, mostly in the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group, with main emphasis on ASM and storage, and was a Database Cloud Architect/Evangelist in Oracle�s Cloud Strategy Group. Nitin is a well-known Oracle technologist and speaker in the areas of Oracle Storage, high availability, Oracle RAC, and private database cloud. He is the author of Database Cloud Storage, Oracle Automatic Storage Management and the Data Guard Handbook, and has written many papers on storage, database internals, database tuning, and served as a contributor to Oracle d
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Cement And Concrete
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Romany Herbal Remedies
Posted on January 2, 2016 by admin • 0 Comments
In these days of mass conformity many people see the beauty spots of the countryside only from the windows of motor coaches with possibly a description of them given over a microphone by a bored driver or courier.
Quickly the scene has gone, and another takes its place. If the passengers do emerge from their mobile cage it is either for a meal or to shuffle slowly around some building of historic interest.
Perhaps you will congratulate yourself on not being a part of the herd to that extent. You may say that you go off in your own car, where you will, stopping when it suits you.
Yet when you stop, do you get out, or do you sit in the car munching sandwiches and drinking coffee? If you do get out, do you ever go far enough away to lose sight of your precious vehicle?
I am not attempting to denigrate the pleasures of a ride into the country, but rather to pose the question of whether you really enjoy your outings as much as you might.
The apparently easy way out is the curse of modern living; its pathetic result is the regular trail to the doctor’s waiting-room, or at least the uneasy feeling of never being quite fit. A nervous state of health can be observed in any public place, from the cafe where women steadily eat their way through sickly-looking confections in between conversations about putting on weight, to the public houses where men can be seen furthering the ruin of their internal organs in a smoke-filled atmosphere.
Today there are only a handful of people left who have managed to escape the excesses and ills of twentieth-century Britain. They are the Romanies, who with sturdy independence have survived centuries of oppression throughout the world since they first came out of ancient India to pursue their endless pilgrimage, never inventing, only perpetuating, living with and utilizing the great inexhaustible powers of Nature.
It has been my privilege to travel extensively with Romany families, and to have formed lifelong friendships among this most mysterious of all the races on earth. With a typical lack of predictability, they have shared with me the secrets passed down for centuries, have even adopted me as a ‘brother’, and bestowed upon me the title of ‘Berengro’.
Some of this knowledge I am allowed to divulge. May it bring lasting benefit to readers here who choose to follow the Romany way to health.
James Crabb, in his book The Gipsies’ Advocate published in 1831, said: ‘These inhabitants of the field and forest, the lane and the moor, are not without a knowledge of the medicinal qualities of certain herbs. In all slight disorders they have recourse to these remedies. They are not subject to the numerous disorders and fevers common in large towns’.
A survey by scholars in Germany about 1850 reported that Die Zigeuner or Gypsies of that country were all in remarkably good health. There was not one physically maimed or crippled. Not only did it occur to the Gelehrten that the perfect health and fine physical condition of the Zigeuner was due to their devotion to outdoor life, but that they also had some guarded secret knowledge of herbal medicine which was also responsible for their well-being. Many German peasants today still place much more confidence in the medical knowledge of the Gypsy than in that of ‘Herr Doktor’. (Report after Grellmann, 1788.)
Even today, in the small towns and villages of Roumania, the medicinal knowledge of Gypsy women is held in far greater esteem than that of the village doctors.
According to Frank Cuttriss in his Romany Life the Gypsy ‘lives a healthy, open-air life, with sun, wind and rain as his closest companions, taking no anxious thought for the morrow, with the result that he is seldom seriously unwell or unfit’. (Romany Life, published 1915.)
Story of the Romany
THEY arrived in England before the end of the twelfth century, those strange, despised outcasts whom we call Gypsies. Even the name is a false one, being a corruption of Egyptian. The wanderers had no real race title. Since, like many Orientals, the Gypsies have a talent for saying that which pleases the listener, rather than that which is true, it was a long time before anyone realised that they originated elsewhere than the regions of the Nile.
In England an Act of repression was passed in the first of many such measures. The Act forbade the entry of Gypsies into the realm.
There followed four hundred years of varying fortunes for the English Gypsies. Just to be a Gypsy was a hanging matter. Thirteen were hanged in Suffolk alone during Cromwell’s uneasy dictatorship. Deportation became common. Gypsies were sent to penal servitude in Jamaica, Barbados, Virginia and, later, to Australia.
In Germany, although Gypsies were hunted down like animals, as a change from wild game, one man showed an interest in them as human beings. He was a philologist called Grellmann who collected words used by them whenever he could overhear them speaking in their own tongue rather than that of their country of adoption. He found that most of their language, as well as its grammatical construction, was identical with that spoken in the Surat district of North-West India.
True, the Gypsies, never averse to casual borrowing, had incorporated words from other tongues into their language. Yet even today words of Sanskrit root far outnumber other words, and the unanimous conclusion remains that the Gypsies spread from India long ago.
The origin of gypsy migration is one of the great mysteries of history. It is very strange that a race of people should have infiltrated from one continent to another for almost four hundred years before anyone became actively interested where they had come from. And there must have been a time when the Gypsies themselves knew specifically where they had their origins. What dark past could they have been so cautiously hiding?
Few people have suffered for so long, under harsher laws, down the centuries, yet the Gypsies have survived with spirits unbroken. Still the happiest, most light-hearted people in the world, they have danced and sung and played in all circumstances. To the soberest communities they have brought their magic heritage of gaiety, colour and rhythm. Freedom is their life, and life their freedom.
Those who wish to snatch an hour’s respite from the pathetic trap of civilization in which we live have created a pitiful imitation of gypsy life. Travel, caravan holidays, even picnics by the car, all a dim resurgence of the instinct which the Gypsies have never lost.
Yet in England today, the Gypsy is regarded as a social problem. The persecution of the dark race is now less physical in intent, though often uncomfortable in a way few house-dwellers can appreciate. It is no joke to be curtly ‘moved on’ at midnight, when the children are asleep. Small wonder that a loose, illiterate community with only a persistent word-of-mouth history should regard its neighbours with some distrust. Gypsy women are the main custodians of the folk-lore of the race, which they memorise as children and eventually pass on, often with embellishments for the sake of dramatic effect.
Gypsies have a magnificent disregard for time sequences, which is difficult to conceive for those who keep diaries, are surrounded by clocks, and to whom the factory siren or the timetable have the urgency of an imperative summons.
What has happened to the Gypsies today? The horse fairs have all but died out, crafts and occupations such as basket making, wood carving, china mending and umbrella faking have no place in a world of mass production. In spite of a faculty for survival, activities become more curtailed and wandering more restricted with every passing year.
Some harassed local authorities, tired of repeated complaints about unsightliness and various depredations are compelling ‘Gypsies’ to move into allotted council houses. But within a matter of weeks these houses are reduced to squalid slums, and complaints are rolling in again.
The mistake made by these authorities is that which authorities usually make wherever they are concerning themselves with the ‘Gypsy problem’. Genuine Gypsies take to the road, leaving the rest to their council houses. The new council tenants are often previously evicted slum-dwellers and miscellaneous erstwhile travellers, but certainly not Gypsies. The do-gooders, with their slightly sinister hopes of mass conformity, have made the common error of assuming that anyone who lives in a ramshackle bus or railway coach is thereby a Gypsy.
Now that the problem is attracting parliamentary attention, here is the solution proposed by the Gypsies themselves. Those among the van dwellers to whom the life is not essentially natural should be re-housed. The question of discrimination thus raised can easily be solved by the Gypsies, for they are familiar with the distinctions of the road-traveller.
For the Gypsies, they should then be allowed the official use of intelligently determined sites throughout the country, and pay for the privilege of camping on them. It must be emphasized that the Gypsies should be permitted to travel from site to site. They must not be compelled to remain in one place, as this would only result in the creation of fresh problems.
With monotonous regularity down the years, from the Arab rulers of the sixth century to Hitler in our own, the epitaph of the Romany race has been written. But the Gypsy is still here, though you see him infrequently. And his own legend says that when the Gypsies find their way back to India they will be travelling amidst the ruins of the world.
A nomad cannot accumulate a weight of property and remain a nomad. Possession spells loss of freedom. Gypsies live for the day and take freedom for granted until it is threatened. Their strength lies in their conviction that freedom of movement is life.
It may be that the Gypsies are right, and that the Gorgio has lost more than he can ever gain.
You may say that you live in houses, warm in winter and cool in summer. That if you are ill a doctor will cure you.
He will reply that he lives in wagons and tents winter and summer. That he does not know the diseases you know, and does not need a doctor until he is compelled to live in a house.
Thousands of years of living in surroundings which contradict their own manner of life has influenced the Romanies but little. Certainly they have adapted themselves to surroundings. Yet the changes they have made have been according to their own processes, and have been from within.
With the spread of the much-vaunted modern progress, a word which really means movement, but which is constantly equated with improvement, much of the herbal knowledge of the past is scoffed at by some scientists. They conveniently ignore the fact that most of their own concoctions are derived from the same plants and are no more efficient.
Herbalists never cure one disease by creating another, as science frequently does. The action of herbs is slow and gentle. Too slow perhaps at times for those immersed in the tide-race of over civilization. Most herbal remedies are pleasant in taste, in contradiction to the idea that medicine must be nasty.
The ancient Chinese had a saying to the effect that the degeneracy of a nation always began when that nation allowed its bread to be made outside the home, inferring that when such an important matter was left to commercial profit, the article was bound to become inferior.
The same might be said of much of our foodstuff and drink, and perhaps also of many of our habits and customs, so greatly are we under the sway of the mass vulgarity of the twentieth century.
To regard the earth and its fruits as something to be beaten back and destroyed is alien to the heritage of man. Let us hope that urbanization and unnatural living is not to be the legacy we bequeath to future generations. The countryside is not just somewhere to motor through at weekends, it is the source of all life.
Let us respect Nature, with the wisdom of the past and the hope of the future.
This is known to the Gypsies as inflammation of the bowels, and I once saw an acute case treated in the following manner by Mireli Gray on a Kentish camping site:
The patient was a boy of about eight years of age. All night long he had been groaning with pain until at dawn his distraught parents hammered on the door of ‘Aunt Mireli’s’ wagon.
Knowing of my interest in her treatments, the old Romany ‘Chi’ called me to assist her. When we arrived, the boy had been sick and was lying in the bottom bunk of his parents’ wagon. His pulse was rapid, and I guessed his temperature to be over a hundred. He complained of tenderness to the right of, and below the navel. Aunt Mireli instructed the boy’s father to get a fire going in the wagon stove.
Then when the oven was hot she took from it a calico bag filled with rock salt and placed it over the affected part.
She continued this treatment, frequently changing the bags of hot salt. Leaving me to heat more bags and keep on replacing them, she then made up an infusion of elder flower water.
This she made in the same way as one would make tea, using 1 oz. elder flowers in a pint of hot water. Then she added 1 oz. oil of peppermint, stirred it well into the mixture, and gave the boy frequent doses in a small wineglass.
After a good rest the lad was as fit as ever he had been. Mireli Gray assured me that she had used this method successfully many times, and that it was a treatment of particular use in remote encampments when it would not be possible to reach a doctor, even if medical aid of the professional kind was desired.
Having seen the treatment successfully used, I have no reason to doubt her.
The possible causes of asthma are many, and some cases are due to what are now called allergies. A sufferer may unknowingly be affected by emanations from the fur of cats or dogs, or may be sensitive to certain proteins in foods, such as the white of eggs.
Other people have a neurotic tendency to the complaint, mental tensions through overwork causing an attack of frightening shortness of breath.
If the cause is not discovered and dealt with, the unfortunate victim may in time develop emphysema of the lungs and in its train chronic bronchitis.
The foregoing refers to bronchial asthma, which is the commonest type. There are other kinds such as cardiac asthma due to heart disease, and renal asthma due to kidney disease, but it is the bronchial asthma I am dealing with here.
Again it was old Mireli Gray who was the ‘Mullah-mush-engro’, or doctor. The patient was Piramus Vincent, a young man of twenty-seven, and the only true Romany I ever knew to get asthma. As he was an expert horse coper, even among experts, and spent most of his time with the animals, I suspected horse dandruff as the cause of his trouble. He woke up one morning to find it very hard to breathe. While he struggled into his clothes the difficulty increased. Much alarmed, his wife Lendi rushed across to fetch Mireli Gray. When we arrived, it was to find poor Piramus sitting on the seat-locker of his travelling home, arms rigid in front of him and his hands clenched around the brass rail of the little chest of drawers opposite. His head was thrown back, his face pale and covered in sweat, while his breathing was laboured and wheezing.
First of all Mireli told Lendi to make a cup of strong coffee. Piramus managed to drink it and found it beneficial.
His breathing gradually became easier and he began to cough. Aunt Mireli then sent me to her wagon to fetch some leaves. These were leaves from the sweet chestnut tree, and she boiled 1 oz. of them in 1 1 pts. of water for 10 minutes. Next she strained off the water and when it had cooled a little she added $ oz. honey and 1 oz. glycerine.
She gave Piramus a small wine glass full and told him to take the same dose first thing on rising and again after his last meal of the day.
Two weeks later he was completely cured and he has never been troubled with asthma since.
An infusion made from thyme, either fresh or dried, is excellent for asthma sufferers, or for any complaint involving difficulty in breathing, such as whooping cough, or chest troubles.
For bladder disorders boil 1 oz. parsley piert for 1 minute in 1 pt. water.
Strain and take a wineglassful twice a day.
Another remedy is to boil 1 oz. couch grass root in 1 pt. water for 5 minutes. Strain off the liquid and take a wineglassful six times a day.
To maintain the circulation of the blood to all parts of the body it is necessary that the pressure in the arteries should be kept at a high enough level. The amount of blood in vessels affects the pressure, but the main factors governing it are the action of the heart and the amount of resistance given by the smaller arteries, which contract or dilate as the pressure needs to be raised or lowered.
Blood pressure rises as people grow older, according to their past or present habits in life. If the pressure is too high giddiness and other symptoms arise, and the dangers are apoplexy or cerebral haemorrhage, or thrombosis or stroke. The terms for serious disorder caused by embolism are numerous enough, but it is difficult to make many people realise that they increase the risk of a heart attack by over-eating and by overindulgence generally.
More exercise, sensible diet, less alcohol—the warnings are familiar to us all.
To assist in correcting your blood pressure boil 1 oz. chopped-up stinging nettle in 1 pt. water for 5 minutes.
Strain off the liquid and boil it again before bottling. Take a small wineglassful three times a day.
BLOOD PURIFICATION
To cleanse the blood there is nothing better than dandelion leaves, Choose fresh young leaves, wash them well and eat them as you like, in sandwiches or chopped in a salad.
Nasturtium leaves are also very good for the blood. A mixture of nasturtium and dandelion leaves make an interesting addition to the usual ordinary salad.
Another excellent health giver is the common cabbage. The fresh leaves are good or you can get the juice by boiling a cabbage in very little water. The drained-off water can then be mixed with honey in the same way as the cure given under the heading Hoarseness:
Raw tomatoes without any additions are also blood-purifiers, but should not be eaten by anyone with a tendency to gout.
Turnip tops are yet another wholesome purifier, especially in the spring time.
An old remedy for impurities in the blood is to boil 1 oz. burdock root in 1 pt. water for 5 minutes. Strain oiT and take a tablespoonful of the liquid twice a day. It may be taken more frequently if the case is severe.
For people who cannot get much exercise, a tea made from a sprig of groundsel is first class. The infusion should be made in the same way as that given for camomile flowers under Indigestion. Cage birds are very fond of groundsel because they do not get enough exercise, and they instinctively recognize the properties in the herb.
This excellent remedy for the blood is both a laxative and a tonic. It will clear up eczema.
Take 1 oz. of each of these ingredients: yellow dock, burdock root, and sarsaparilla. Boil them together in 3 qts. of water for 20 minutes. Strain off and add J lb. sugar.
Take a wineglassful three or four times a day.
Boils are a result of internal diseased matter seeking an outlet through the skin. If the power of resistance of an area of skin is weakened a boil may appear. Chronic diseases such as diabetes and Bright’s disease often result in a general weakening of the skin and this sometimes happens, too, during recuperation from various fevers. All these conditions can produce boils.
In a healthy person, however, a boil commonly appears when an area of skin has been irritated by friction, such as by the wearing of a tight collar. A boil and its surrounding area must be kept clean.
Take some leaves of the herb cuckoo-pint, bruise them and apply regularly to the boil until it is healed.
The pain from a boil can be relieved by dipping alder leaves in hot water and applying to the site of the eruption.
1 lb. primrose leaves put in a pan with half that quantity of the flowers, both simmered with pig’s lard, will produce a most useful ointment for the treatment of burns. Strain off the leaves and the flowers and allow the lard to cool for use. This ointment is also good for ulcers and festering cuts. :
Another and equally good treatment for burns is an application of equal parts of linseed oil and lime-water.
CATARRH
A severe cold in the head could be described as acute nasal catarrh. It is the inflammation of the mucous surface of the lining of the nose, producing the discharge with which we are all familiar, the ‘running nose’. When there is little or no discharge, as when a cold is clearing up, catarrh can still be present in a dry form.
On one occasion we were camping by the side of a country lane, intending to move on early the next morning. However, a police patrol car pulled up at about 1 a.m. and we were ordered to leave at once. This entailed rising from warm beds, catching and harnessing the horses, and driving through the rest of the night.
The result for the three families with whom I was travelling was much annoyance, loss of sleep, and fractiousness from the disturbed children.
On top of this, for me, was a severe cold, with catarrh.
Aunt Mireli came to my aid with horse chestnut tree leaves, thoroughly dried and then steeped in a solution of 1 oz. saltpetre to J pt. warm water. The leaves were dried again, rubbed into a powder and I had to burn them on a tin plate and inhale the fumes.
This I did for the two nights after we were moved on and each morning, following Mireli’s instructions, I would sniff up my nose a little of a solution of rock salt in water at 1 oz. to 1 pt. water.
The treatment effected a very quick cure.
A chilblain is a local inflammation of the skin and the tissues immediately under it. As those who are prone to chilblains know, they occur on the toes, the fingers, the ears, and the nose.
Caused by cold, the first symptom is an itching, burning sensation. Then the affected part swells and becomes red and the skin is stretched and shiny.
I have rarely seen a Romany troubled by this complaint, chiefly because they are used to an active outdoor life in all weathers. Another reason, I think, is that I have yet to see a hot water bottle in a gypsy wagon.
This cure was passed on to me by Mireli Gray after she had been out ‘calling’ one afternoon. She told me that one young woman had brought from her some cleverly-made artificial roses, which Mireli had painstakingly carved out of turnips dyed with cochineal.
The woman had kindly invited the old Romany chi in for a cup of tea, it being a frosty day. Mireli had noticed chilblains on her fingers, and the woman told her that she suffered from them during every cold spell.
Mireli gave her the following cure:— 2 pt. of water in which parsnips have been boiled without salt. Mix into the liquid 1 tbs. powdered alum. Stir it well, then bathe the affected part in the solution for a good 20 minutes. Let the solution dry without rinsing it off. Keep the rest of the solution for further use until the chilblains are quite gone.
We later learned that the young woman had been successful in getting rid of her complaints, so when she bought the artificial flowers she had really got her money’s worth.
A good remedy for unbroken chilblains is to dip a raw peeled onion in salt and then rub it on the swelling.
For broken chilblains wash a turnip but do not peel it. Put it into the oven and bake it until soft. Then cut it in half and lay a piece on the chilblain, as hot as you can bear it. Afterwards dress the chilblain with a soft rag with Vaseline on it.
The perspiration necessary to drive out a cold can be induced in the following way:
Cut up a lemon and place the pieces in a basin. Boil 1 pt. milk and pour it over the lemon. The milk will curdle; it should then be strained off and the curds thrown away. Put the clear liquid into a saucepan and heat it, adding honey to taste. The resulting mixture should be drunk as hot as possible on going to bed.
Another cold recipe is to put 1 tbs. black currant jam into a jug with a slice or two of lemon. Add 1 pt. boiling water and stir well. Leave it to settle. This can be taken hot or cold.
The nettle infusion given under Sore throat or chest will also cure a cold, as will the camomile tea given for indigestion. A good hot brew of mugwort tea will also get rid of a cold.
Any of these preparations should be taken before getting into bed. All of them will act as a preventative as well as a cure.
Pain due to irregular and violent contractions of various muscular tissues within the body is described as colic. The commonest form is that arising from irregular contraction of the bowel, and this can be due to various causes, such as indigestible food, chill, or constipation.
It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between pain caused by inflammation such as appendicitis, and that due to mere colic; so that unless the colic is clearly due to indigestible food and responds to the following simple remedies, it is well to call in a doctor.
Boiled pumpkin pips well pounded will give a good medicine for colic. Strain off the water.
An infusion of elder flowers or leaves is also a certain remedy for colic.
I make no apology for including this very common complaint, as if it is not properly treated it can become the forerunner of more serious complaints and troubles such as piles, congestion of the womb, colic and indigestion. The absorption of poisons produced by constipation also causes considerable physical and mental depression.
Frequently the causes of constipation are an over-refined diet and lack of exercise. It follows therefore that a rational approach to one’s diet is necessary, and at least some coarse, natural food should be included. Wholemeal bread is always better than white bread because it contains bran.
Other desirable foods are fruit in general, but in particular raw apples, figs, and prunes; and vegetables, especially cabbage, tomatoes, and any containing a large residue. Honey, marmalade, treacle and porridge are all good. Spinach boiled to a pulp in its own moisture is a good, easily digested laxative, especially for elderly people, but only fresh spinach should be used. It can be mixed in almost any diet.
Some people when affected give themselves a powerful purge, usually one of a number of advertised patents. This is wrong, for this method is followed by an intense reaction on the bowels, causing further constipation, and a vicious circle is set up.
The remedies given here were given to me by Mireli Gray, and by Sylvanus Boswell, one of the ‘Derbyshire Boswells’, a family famous for their knowledge of herbal medicines:
Boil together in 1 pt. water 1 oz. jalap root and a piece of aloes no bigger than a pea. After 10 minutes of boiling, strain off the water but be sure to mash up the root to get all the moisture out of it. Drink a wineglassful of the liquid, morning and night.
This remedy is particularly good for children as they enjoy it as a food rather than as a medicine. The ingredients are ½ lb. stoned raisins, 1 lb. figs cut up into small pieces, 1 lb. brown sugar, and 1 oz. senna leaves.
Put these into a pan, add 1 pt. water, and stir thoroughly. Then stand the pan in a larger one with cold water in it and boil for 2 or 3 hours. See that the small pan is closely covered.
When you have finished boiling, pour out on to a buttered plate and flatten the mixture to form a thick cake. Leave to cool, then cut into pieces about 1 in. square, and store in a closed tin for use as needed.
One square of the cake is the usual dose, but two or three may be taken at once without them doing any harm.
Put 3 handfuls of blackthorn blossoms into a jar, cover them with cold water and stand the jar in a pan of boiling water for 2 hours. Strain the liquid off and drink a teacupful each morning for at least three mornings. Wait for three or four days and repeat the treatment if necessary.
This is a safe and painless laxative quite suitable for children.
This useful remedy is made by taking a dozen senna pods and putting them into a saucepan with a peppercorn, a piece of mace, a piece of whole ginger, about a quarter of a nutmeg, and a clove. Add 1 qt. boiling water, then simmer slowly till the water is reduced to 1 pt. Strain off the water and add honey to taste. Bottle the mixture and take a wineglassful as required.
COOLING THE SYSTEM
In hot weather a healthful and cooling drink can be made by infusing a few flowers of the meadow sweet. Allow it to get cold before drinking it.
Another good drink when perspiring, or during hot weather, is a tea made of oatmeal. Boil 2 tbs. coarse oatmeal in 1 qt. water for 1 hour, adding more water as the first boils away. Strain and pour into a jug in which is the juice from 2 lemons and the grated rind of 1 lemon. Add sugar or honey to taste and allow to cool before drinking.
Oatmeal and barley water used to be well-known drinks for men doing hard physical work, such as farm labourers and firemen in the stokeholds of coal-burning ships.
As everyone knows, corns are produced on the feet by pressure from tight shoes or boots.
So if this cause is removed, so will be the painful effect.
Kenza Boswell once told me a rather interesting way to get rid of corns. The method was to obtain a pearl button and put it in an egg cup and cover it with lemon juice. In about three days the acid had dissolved the button if the egg cup had been covered, and what remained was a thick creamy mixture. This was painted on the corn or corns. When dried it formed a protection from the pressure and could be left on for a couple of days. Then the foot was soaked in hot water, and the covering would come away, bringing the corn with it.
The only objection to this cure is that it becomes increasingly difficult to get mother-of-pearl buttons. As you may have neither the time nor the patience to chip out the inner lining of an oyster shell, here is another remedy for corns:
Gather some young ivy leaves, place them in a small jar and cover them with vinegar. Leave them for at least a day, then fix one of the leaves over the corn. Repeat this each day, using a fresh leaf each time. The relief of pain is truly marvellous, and is almost instantaneous.
You may have to continue this treatment for from two weeks to a month, but even the hardest corn will come completely away in time, and you will have no pain at all during the treatment.
Since prevention is always preferable to cure, here is a method of prevention given to me by my dear friend Nat Lee, who never had foot trouble of any kind, and although he was unsure of his age, he was at least eighty when he died:— 4 oz. tallow, 1 oz. powdered sulphur, 1 fl. oz. olive oil. Melt them all together, and stir well while cooling.
Rub a little on the feet in the mornings or before a long walk. No corns will ever appear.
COUGHS:
Agrimony, 1 oz. per 1 pt. boiling water as described in the remedy for Diarrhoea, is a very good cough cure and will reduce a high temperature quickly if taken by the tablespoonful three or four times a day.
Tea made from the leaves of the coltsfoot is also beneficial for a cough.
Also an infusion of the leaves of the eyebright will relieve a cough. 4. A popular Romany cough and bronchial remedy is: 2 oz. coltsfoot leaves, 1 oz. hyssop, 1 oz. of black horehound, 1 oz. lump ginger. Put them all into 2 qt. water and boil down to 1 qt. Strain and press the herbs. When the liquid is cold it can be taken as desired.
Another good cough cure is made from: 1 lemon, 2 oz. honey, -1 oz. black liquorice, and J pt. white vinegar. Put the vinegar and the chopped-up liquorice into a basin. Place this in a hot oven and stir it until all the liquorice is quite dissolved, or alternatively it can be boiled in a saucepan over a slow heat on the stove.
Add the honey, and when the mixture is cooling add the juice of the lemon.
Take a teaspoonful as necessary.
If some ripe black cherries are stewed in very little water, then strained to remove stones and skin they can, with other ingredients, give an excellent relief for coughs. The other ingredients are honey and lemon juice added to the cherry pulp to make it of the consistency of cream.
A leaspoonful should be taken as required.
Put a handful of coltsfoot leaves into 1 qt. water and simmer until reduced to 1 pt. Strain off into a jug with a sliced lemon in it. Add honey to taste.
Take a wineglassful three times a day.
Minor cuts can be healed quickly by an application of asphodel. A small quantity of this plant is placed in butter and the butter is then melted down to a salve. This should not be used on deep wounds.
Take a handful of the herb frogbit, wash it very thoroughly and put it in a jar with 4 lb. clarified lard. Stand the jar in a pan of water and simmer for two hours, stirring often.
The resulting ointment is a fine healer of all cuts and bruises, both major and superficial. It can also be used on spots and broken pimples.
Although most of the treatments and herbs described here are good for that run-down feeling, a specific tonic is made by taking a handful of wood sage and putting it into a jug and then pouring 1 pt. boiling water over it. Cover the jug with a cloth and leave it for 24 hours. Drink a wine-glassful first thing in the morning before eating and another three days later.
The water is not strained off from the jug, and so the infusion becomes steadily stronger.
All Romanies swear by this tonic and Daiena Lee insisted that the three-day interval must be observed for the best effect. 1 oz. hops, dried or fresh, can be infused by adding 1 pt. boiling water. Cover closely and leave it until cold and do not strain it.
A wineglassful three times a day an hour before meals will provide a wonderful appetizer and general tonic.
The commonest cause of diarrhoea is the presence of some irritating substance in the bowel. In such cases the first thing to do is to get rid of it by making the bowels act more vigorously than ever. If, however, the condition is caused by a disease of the bowel wall, then any purgative would make the condition worse in every way. It is therefore very important to be sure of the cause before attempting treatment.
Ordinary diarrhoea, however, is a symptom rather than a disease, and is usually accompanied by a colicky pain.
For the complaint Mireli Gray had two cures, the first one to be used for what might be called a relaxed bowel condition rather than diarrhoea, and the second one for the more acute kind.
Infuse the herb agrimony as if making tea, 1 oz. of the herb to 1 pt. boiling water. A tablespoonful three times a day, usually for two days, will work wonders.
Boil 1 oz. rhubarb root for 5 minutes in 1 pt. water. A small dose of this is usually sufficient to cure diarrhoea, but more can be taken, as it is a safe aperient.
The above remedies are for an urgent cure, but another excellent mixture, which is also a wine, can be made from blackberries. This is not only a cure for diarrhoea, but also a preventative for colds and chills, if taken hot. This is the method: ½ gal. blackberries in a preserving pan with 3 tbs. water. Keep stirring it over a low flame until it is a soft pulp.
Squeeze it through a muslin bag. When all the juice is obtained, put it into the pan again, 1 qt. juice to 1 lb. sugar. Fasten into a piece of muslin 1 tbs. allspice, 1 tbs. cloves, 1 tbs. nutmeg broken up small but not grated, and 1 tbs. cinnamon.
Boil this muslin bag of spices with the juice for 20 minutes, stirring often. Remove the spices and add a wineglassful of brandy or rum.
Bottle the mixture when cool enough, and seal tightly. The dose is half a wine glass for a child, and a full one for an adult.
A tea made of strawberry leaves can help in cases of diarrhoea.
This is really a symptom, not a disease. Known medically as oedema, it is an accumulation of a watery fluid in the tissues and cavities of the body. This fluid is always present in tissues and is derived from the blood, but in cases of dropsy the fluid is greatly increased. A common cause is obstruction of the veins, and a tight garter can produce dropsy in a limb. There are more serious causes too, such as cirrhosis of the liver, or a generally feeble circulation can bring it about.
This remedy, as well as being a remedy for dropsy. is also a good kidney tonic:
Boil 1 oz. broom in 1 pt. water for 10 minutes. Strain off and take a tablespoon-ful three times a day.
This rather alarming sounding word simple means indigestion. It is often caused by overindulgence in food, or by insufficiently chewing one’s food. It can also be caused by too much rich food, and too much condiment, alcohol, or tobacco. If a person does not take enough exercise, this can lead to chronic constipation and, in turn, to dyspepsia.
I have noticed that indigestion usually only occurs among Romanies when they have been hurriedly moved on and, in consequence, have not had time to properly digest a meal.
It can also occur in young girls with a tendency to anaemia, and Daiena Lee gave the following cure to her daughter Lavaina at a time when the wasgirl ‘growing too fast’. It was simply an infusion of sage, made like tea, using about 1 oz. sage to 1 pt. boiling water.
This provides excellent enrichment of the blood, and is very good for liver troubles because it cleanses the system.
To cure the ordinary cases of indigestion this treatment given to me by my tutor Mireli Gray cannot be bettered: take 1 oz. dried wormwood and pour 1 pt boiling water over it. Let it stand for 6 hours, then strain off into a bottle.
A wineglassful of this twice a day will improve your digestion, and you will be surprised how well and strong you feel in two or three days.
Another first-class way to get rid of digestive troubles is to make a hop sherry, which is very simple. Just add 1 oz. of either dried or fresh hops to 1 pt. sherry, and seal the bottle for at least two months. A wine glass of this before a main meal will give you a wonderful tonic.
Yet another remedy is to boil 1 oz. quassia chips in 1 qt. water for about 6 minutes. A table-spoonful of the liquor after each meal will soon cure you.
EAR TROUBLES
Many times I have been asked to prescribe for or to treat Ear Troubles. This I flatly refuse to do. Always see your doctor if you have such trouble, as it may be a dangerous form of sepsis which can lead to facial paralysis or to a spreading from the antrum into the small spaces of the mastoid cells.
The human ear is a very delicate organ and a blow on it can cause permanent damage and may even affect the brain. For this reason I hate to read of in books or to see in a play, someone having their ears boxed, since it may lead the unthinking to imagine this is a harmless form of punishment.
I know of no Romany who would attempt to treat anything other than a simple earache due to an accumulation of wax. This is done by dropping into the ear a little warm olive oil or almond oil.
On no account must any instrument be inserted, or hairpins or matchsticks or the like be used. This is dangerous.
Anyone suffering from ear trouble should be kept warm until a doctor can see the patient. If a child has introduced a foreign body such as a bead or a pea into his ear, a little oil may be dropped in to ease the pain until the doctor arrives, but nothing else should be done.
Do not attempt to syringe out the ear.
I hope the foregoing has been sufficient warning of the dangers of unskilled tampering with the ear.
In the interests of truth I must tell you that there is no herbal remedy or useful home treatment for ear troubles.
When an embrocation is needed for anything from sprains to muscular aches, a most effective mixture can be made up in the following way: 2 tbs. olive oil, 1 tsp. Eucalyptus oil, 6 tbs. turpentine, 1 egg, 10 tbs. vinegar.
This is an excellent liniment. The method of preparation is to put the ingredients into a large bottle and shake vigorously before use.
Another good liniment is made with % pt. household ammonia and pt. turpentine in a quart bottle. Add to this 2 new laid eggs well beaten and with their shells included and finely crushed. Then put in 1 pt. vinegar. Do not cork the bottle at once or it will burst, but leave it until the next day, when it can be corked. The mixture will become creamy and it can then be used on strains, bruises and sprains as needed.
As everyone knows, the human eye, like the ear, is a very delicate organ, and the eyes should be protected and cared for at all times. Only once have I known a Romany who wore glasses, and it may be no coincidence that he was also one of the few who could read. It is only fair to add, however, that he was aged well over 60 before he required glasses.
For inflamed eyes, cold, strong tea is a useful eye-wash, relieving congestion of the lining membrane. This is an astringent recommended not only by the Romanies but also by more than one doctor of my acquaintance. The diluted tannin is the secret.
Bluestone is another good eye-wash and strengthener, used as follows. Place enough to cover a sixpence in an 8-oz. bottle. Fill the bottle with water which has previously been boiled. Shake up the bottle until the bluestone is dissolved. Be sure not to make this too strong a solution, or it will make the eyes smart.
Both the above treatments can be used for inflamed eyes and to wash away grit. An ordinary eye-bath is the best method of application.
For inflamed eyelids and red or sore eyes, here is a good ointment given to me by my dear old friend
Nat Lee, a wise and beloved chief of his clan, and father-in-law of Daiena Lee.
One ounce purified coconut oil, ½ oz. pure lard, -4- oz. red mercuric oxide. Warm these ingredients and mix them well. Apply to the eyelids when cool.
As a beauty hint for the ladies mutton fat perhaps does not sound very elegant, but the Romany chis use it lightly on their eyebrows to improve them. Do not use it anywhere else on the face.
To strengthen and relieve tired eyes, two pieces of the peel of an apple bandaged over the eyelids for the night will bring wonderful results. I always use this remedy whenever I experience eyestrain, and the feeling in the morning after this treatment is marvellous. Make sure the apple is fresh and place the inner side of the peel over the eyes.
For this irritating complaint, here is the remedy given to me by old Nat Lee, the most knowledgeable Romany of them all.
Take 1 oz. Caraway seeds and bruise them well, then soak them in 1 pt. cold water for 6 or 7 hours. A teaspoonful of this liquid will give relief.
For a more serious case which was accompanied by headache, Nat administered clove tea. This was made by putting 3 cloves into a cup and pouring boiling water over them until the cup was half-full. The cup was then covered by the saucer for a few minutes. The mixture should be sipped slowly.
The herb fennel is an excellent aid to digestion, and cannot be too highly recommended. First-class chefs use a fennel sauce with salmon for this reason. Wash the herb, and chop it up and sprinkle it over the food. You will find that you will never have stomach upsets.
An infusion made from either dried or fresh mint leaves is also good for flatulence. 1 tsp. in a teacup with a 1 tsp. ground ginger is enough. Nearly fill the cup with boiling water, cover for a few minutes, then add a pinch of bicarbonate of soda, and sip while the mixture is hot.
One ounce of spearmint boiled in 1 pt. water for 2 or 3 minutes will relieve flatulence and feelings of sickness. Take a tablespoonful whenever necessary.
FOOT-SORENESS
I have already given cures for chilblains and for corns, but here is a simple remedy for blistered or tired feet which is much in use among Romanies.
Bind alder leaves around the feet under the stockings, and this will ease them miraculously.
If nothing else is available, rubbing the feet with vinegar will harden them and prevent soreness.
I have met Romanies who bathe their feet in goat’s milk, and who swear by this as a cure-all for soreness.
Gastritis is the medical term for inflammation of the lining of the stomach. The usual causes are either overloading the stomach by eating too much, or the intake of food that is beginning to go bad. The complaint can also be brought about by an excess of alcohol. In short, gastritis is the result of the milder forms of poisoning.
The initial symptoms are dullness, depression and headache. Soon nausea is felt, culminating in vomiting. Frequently the breath is unpleasant and the tongue coated.
Nat Lee, that ‘gozvero’ or wise old Romany swore by the following cure: boil 1 oz. oak bark in 1 qt. water until the water is the colour of whisky. Take a wineglassful after each meal.
This painful complaint, once known as podagra, is caused by the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and tissues.
It is not very often found among Romanies because they are well aware of several effective cures for the condition. Daiena Lee gave me this cure:
A handful of white horehound leaves, and a handful of black horehound leaves. Boil these together in 1 qt. water, adding more water as the first boils away. Strain the mixture then boil it up again, this time adding a piece of ginger about as big as your thumb. Drink a wineglassful of the liquid three times a day.
Another excellent remedy, although it can take several weeks to work, is to slice up a carrot, put the slices in a ½ -pt. jar of cold water. Place the jar in a pan of boiling water and let it simmer for 1 hour or more. Strain off the carrot liquid and allow it to cool. Take half the liquid at bedtime and drink the rest in the morning. Repeat this treatment every day until you are cured.
GUMBOILS
Gumboils or other painful swellings in the mouth can be treated in the following way: take 1 dried fig, put it in a saucer and cover it with milk. Place another saucer over the top, and put into the oven. Leave for 20 minutes, by which time the fig should have absorbed the milk and swollen up.
From the middle of the fig cut a slice and place it on the painful area, as hot as can be borne. Repeat the treatment for as long as necessary.
Another relief for gumboils and for ulcers in the mouth is to make tea of the dried leaves of the blackberry bush or bramble bush and use it as a mouth wash.
A few pieces of willow bark boiled in a pan of water is the headache cure of most
Romanies. It is their salicylic acid, the ingredient found in most patent remedies.
For nervous headaches the flowery tops of rosemary made into a tea with boiling water are needed. Taken every day, this infusion is good for anyone, but is particularly useful for female complaints.
For anyone wanting a supply of nerve tonic, a wine can be made from chopped-up sprigs of rosemary, flowers, leaves and all. Put these into a bottle, about half-filling it. Add 4- pt. sherry, cork well, and leave for a week. The liquid can then be drained off for use as desired.
A tea made from a few dried lime flowers will cure a headache in about half an hour. The flowers can be dried on a tin in a cool oven. Leave them to dry for 1 hour or more.
The infusion should be taken hot. It is then best to lie down for half an hour, after which the cure will be complete and lasting.
For a severe headache put a pinch of dried marjoram into a teacup. Half fill it with boiling water, cover it with a saucer to allow it to draw, and drink while hot.
This is caused by tension in the vocal cords, often resulting in laryngitis. Of the many people I have met in different parts of the world, I know of none with so many cures for this complaint as the Romanies. Since all of the cures are equally effective, the three given here should suffice for any case.
This is an excellent remedy, as it is also a cure for other difficulties in breathing and for coughs. Take a good-sized turnip, wash it well but do not peel it. Next cut a piece from the bottom so that it will stand upright. Then cut the turnip downwards into 4 equal slices. Get a deep dish or a soup plate, and fit the turnip together again to stand up in the dish, having first put a layer of demerara sugar or of honey between the slices.
When the turnip has been left standing for a couple of hours, you will find in the bottom of the dish a thick syrup formed from turnip juice and the sugar or honey. This can be taken a spoonful at a time.
Boil 1 oz. blackcurrant leaves in 1 pt. water. Strain off and bottle, and take a tablespoonful two or three times a day.
Obtain the juice of a cabbage by boiling it in very little water. Mix a little honey with the juice and take as desired. This is also good for asthma sufferers.
Although I have already dealt with this under the heading of dyspepsia, I have included it here under the more commonly used name, in case anyone has looked it up for immediate relief.
This further remedy is an excellent one, contributed by Esmerelda Price, a Romany woman greatly respected in north Lincolnshire, both in her own community and outside it.
Boil 1 oz. mandrake root in 1 pt. water for 5 minutes. Take a teaspoonful of the liquid five or six times a day. This is also very good for the complexion.
As well as being a remedy for indigestion, this is another that will do wonders for the skin and complexion.
If a tea is made by putting a few Camomile flowers into a cup, then infused by boiling water and covered by a saucer for a few minutes, you will find that you have a pleasant drink which will do you a great deal of good. It will very quickly relieve that form of indigestion commonly called ‘stitch’. Drunk regularly, say every morning, Camomile tea will clear up many troubles, especially those caused by liver disorders. Taken hot on going to bed, it will produce perspiration to cure a cold.
Apricot marmalade is a pleasant cure for indigestion, as well as being a good natural item for eating at any time. I took this recipe for it from Daiena Lee. 4 lb. ripe apricots put in a preserving pan over a slow fire. Add water to prevent burning. This may not be necessary if the fruit is extremely ripe.
Bring to the boil and simmer for a few minutes. Then strain through a colander, beating well and keeping back the skin and stones. Put the pulp back into the pan with 2 1 lb. sugar. Add to this 6 apricot kernels taken from the stones, but blanche them first by putting them into hot water, then remove the skins and cut them into pieces.
Cook the whole mixture slowly, stirring it with a wooden spoon. When it has become a jelly put it into jars for use.
In view of the frequency of epidemics of influenza, its debilitating effects, and the possible complications, the disease must be considered a redoubtable one.
Whenever an epidemic is raging through the country, it is the practice of my Romany friends to take 15 drops of essence of cinnamon on a lump of sugar, as a good preventative. This appears to be quite effective.
Another useful preventative, much used by Kent Romanies, is that of 1 oz. formalin and 4 oz. ordinary eau-de-Cologne mixed together in a bottle and well shaken. This is rubbed between the palms of the hands and then breathed in through the nose as an inhalant. Jim Vincent, a likeable and popular member of a well-known Kentish clan, always swore that no germs could exist near this mixture. He used it regularly and was apparently quite impervious to colds and ‘flu.
Many years ago, when I was travelling in what was then called Palestine, I noticed that workers in orange groves were remarkably free from ailments such as influenza. The orange pickers assured me that the fruit they handled was responsible for this, and that even when the country was swept by the disease they remained immune.
From personal experience I know that eating two or three oranges a day will give one the same immunity.
Insomnia can be caused by a number of things and should disappear with the treatment of the symptoms in cases of fever or disease. But for the common, simple kinds due to worry or over-excitement, the following methods are better than any tablets or pills.
The pillow stuffed with hops is well known. It is particularly favoured in Kent, and merely working in the hop fields will ensure a good, healthy, refreshing sleep, as I know from experience.
If the sleeplessness is complicated by difficulty in breathing, try a pine pillow. Obtain the wood shavings from freshly-cut deal and stuff a pillow slip with them. It is cheap, effective, and quite comfortable to sleep on. The shavings need to be renewed fairly often.
Take several flowers of the cowslip and infuse as if making tea. Let it stand for about 5 minutes and drink it just before going to bed. Milk can be added if desired. A tiny pinch of isinglass added to the cowslip tea will rest a weary brain.
Some people find that a leaf or two of lettuce eaten shortly before bedtime gives them a sound sleep.
ITCH
Pruritus, to give it its medical term, is due to irritation of the termination of the sensory nerves. The possible causes are very numerous. Certain clothing materials affect some people. Chemical substances in contact with the skin are a common cause of itching in this scientific age. Even excessive use of certain soaps can irritate.
There are also internal diseases and abnormal states of the blood which can give rise to itching such as diabetes, gout, jaundice, and chronic constipation. Drug-taking is another cause.
For cases where the itching has proved to be a symptom of eczema, the juice of the bilberry applied directly to the skin is often marvellous in its results.
Parasitic complaints such as scabies will respond to the following treatment: 2 oz. lard and 2 oz. mercury mixed very well together until the lard is darkened by the mercury. Wash the affected part of the body with hot water and apply the ointment. The best time for the treatment is just before going to bed.
A fine remedy for skin complaints is to cut a slice or two from a raw parsnip and place them in a cup, then pour boiling milk over them. Leave for a little while, and then stir thoroughly. Drink the milk while it is hot.
Even just the laying on the affected part of a slice of parsnip will cure many skin complaints.
Frequently known as ‘yellow jaundice’ because of its characteristic discoloration of the skin and whites of the eyes. This complaint is not in itself a disease, but merely a symptom of a variety of conditons. All the following treatments are good for jaundice:
Dandelion leaves well washed and eaten in sandwiches of thin brown bread and butter are a first-class blood tonic.
A tea made from the juice of the herb mousear is another efficient cure for jaundice. In some parts of the country this herb is known as hawkweed.
Yet another method for the treatment of jaundice is the use of asparagus in the following way: the root should be washed and sliced, then boiled for 1 hour. The liquid is to be taken by the cupful, three times a day.
Nat Lee always tried to include endives or one of the cresses in salads, because he regarded them as an absolute cure for skin troubles. The endive in particular, he maintained, would cure jaundice.
For very severe cases, Mireli Gray prescribed 1 oz. barberry bark to be boiled in 1 pt. water for 20 minutes, and the resultant liquor to be taken by the tablespoonful four times a day.
KIDNEY TROUBLES
Here again, these may be due to a number of causes, but in the great majority of cases any of the following remedies will be useful, and in any event will do nothing but good.
This remedy, given to me by one of the Lincolnshire Boswells is good for dropsy as well as for kidney complaints: boil 1 oz. of the herb broom for 10 minutes in 1 pt. water. The dose is one tablespoonful three times a day.
Boil 1 oz. Cranesbill root in 14- pt. water for 20 minutes, which should reduce the amount of water to about 1 pint. Take a small wineglassful of the liquid twice a day. 2 oz. burdock root boiled in 4 pt. water until the water is reduced to 1 qt. makes an extremely good remedy for kidney ailments. Drink the liquid as required.
A weak infusion of the berries of the barberry is also good for kidney trouble.
It is very beneficial to drink the water in which leeks have been boiled. It is also good of course for sufferers from kidney disorders to eat leeks.
All Romanies believe that a small raw potato sewn in a little bag and carried about the person is a certain preventative of rheumatic disorders such as lumbago.
It may be that the reader will dismiss this as sheer nonsensical superstition. However, of all the hundreds of ‘travellers’ I have known, I have only ever met one who was afflicted in this way.
Poor Lucy Smith attributed her rheumatism to a curse which she had invoked, and thus gave me the material for a story entitled How Lucy was Bewitched, published in a well-known magazine.
But for those who regard themselves as being free from superstition, the following advice is well worth taking:
Celery is the great remedy for lumbago and kindred complaints such as sciatica and rheumatism. Allied to an almost meatless diet it will work wonders. Do not take sugar, and eat as much vegetables and fruit as you can. Fish can be taken, and a little poultry occasionally.
The chief part of the diet is celery, which must be taken in one form or another every day. If fresh celery is unobtainable, then take celery seed. The seed should be stewed in milk, then strained, and the liquid taken three times a day between meals.
Fresh celery should be boiled in milk and the milk allowed to cool for drinking.
The longer you have had your complaint, the longer will the cure take, but even the most chronic cases will show improvement if you persist with the treatment.
This common fever occurs about every two years as an epidemic. One attack usually gives immunity for life, though contrary to general belief, this is not always so.
The only remedy I have ever heard of among the Romanies is this one which Nat Lee successfully used on his grandson Dinki:
A tea made from saffron will induce the necessary perspiration in the early stages to throw off the fever.
This intolerable pain is that which travels along the course of a nerve when no structural changes can be observed, even with a microscope.
Mireli Gray had an absolute cure for this condition: a dressing of horseradish scrapings held to the site of the pain will draw it away.
Another remedy, supplied by Daiena Lee, is to boil 1 oz. of the herb ladies’ slipper root in 1 pt. water for 10 minutes. Strain off the liquid. One wineglassful should be enough to offset the attack.
This distressing complaint is all too common, but I have yet to meet a Romany who did not believe that a sprig of the herb pilewort carried in the pocket would give a complete cure.
However, for those not possessing such faith, the following method will be found useful:
An infusion of the herb drunk four times a day, about a wineglassful at a time. Like so many other herbs, pilewort should be infused in the same way as tea.
For an external ointment, here is an excellent mixture: 4 oz. pure unsalted lard, 4 or 5 ground ivy leaves, 1 oz. Plantain leaves. Boil all together for 10 minutes, pressing the leaves well into the lard.
Strain off for use when cool.
QUINSY
This old-fashioned name is that given to what is really a suppurative form of tonsillitis. The only Romany cure for this I have been able to find is this one given to me by ‘Auntie’ Queenation, a remarkable old character who knew much but would reveal little:—
Boil the herb cudweed in 1 pt. water for 1 minute. A tablespoonful of the liquid should be taken twice a day.
The liquid can be used as a gargle at any time, and will prevent throat troubles.
Although one cure for rheumatism has been given dealing with lumbago, here is another which I once heard Nat Lee give to a farmer who had kindly allowed us to spend a few nights in one of his fields in Norfolk:
Boil 1 oz. dandelion root in 1 1 pt. water for 20 minutes, which should reduce the water to about 1 pt. Strain off and cool, and take a wineglassful twice a day.
Another remedy, this time one of Mireli Gray’s, is to take a handful of hops and pour boiling water over them until they are quite soaked, then place the hops in muslin to keep them together, and lay them on the affected part. This simple poultice is excellent for long-standing pain in stiffened joints.
An equally simple treatment for rheumatic pain is one similar to that described for neuralgia, only in this case the horseradish is used without being scraped. Just peel the root of a horseradish, cut it into slices and rub them on the affected parts.
Yet another simple application is that of dried marjoram placed in a muslin bag and heated in the oven, then put on the area of pain.
An infusion of the leaves or flowers, or of the crushed seeds of burdock will also relieve rheumatism.
The first of these methods will cure rheumatism if it is caught in time, but the other external methods are good ways of relieving pains in the joints for chronic cases.
The herb rue is first class in its properties for relieving sciatic pains. The green leaves of the herb are beaten and bruised, then laid on the site of the pain.
Teni Lee, youngest and seventh son of old Nat, gave me this cure for sciatica. Make a tea of the herb ragwort, in proportions of 1 oz. to 1 pt. water. The dose is a wineglassful three times a day.
SORE THROAT OR CHEST
Make an infusion of the herb self-heal as if making tea, one pint of water to 1 oz. of the herb. Drink the liquid very slowly, a wineglassful two or three times a day.
The crushed root of the herb avens will provide another cure for a sore throat if a little is placed in boiling water for a few minutes. The liquid is drunk cool.
A raspberry vinegar made by putting a quart of fresh raspberries in a basin is good for sore throats and chests. Pour on a pint of vinegar and cover well. Let it stand for 3 days, stirring it each day. Strain through a flannel bag and add to the liquor 1 lb. loaf sugar to each pint. Then boil for 10 minutes, removing the scum which rises to the top. When cold, bottle and cork well. Best taken from a spoon and sipped slowly.
If nettle leaves are boiled down, and honey added to the water to make a syrup, a teaspoonful will clear the throat and heal the chest.
Take 3 dried figs, split them open, and put them into a saucepan with 2 pt. water and 1 oz. liquorice root. Simmer to about 1 pt., strain off the liquid and bottle it. This will provide you with a most effective gargle for a sore throat.
Perhaps the best infusion of all for chest and throat trouble is linseed tea made in the following way: put 2 tbs. of whole linseeds into 1 qt. water and simmer slowly for about 70 minutes. Strain off the liquid and add the juice of two lemons and sugar or honey to sweeten to individual taste.
The Romany women tell me that this drink is also helpful for expectant mothers, and claim that drunk daily during the last few months of pregnancy it will ensure an easy confinement, especially if three raspberry leaves are added to the simmering linseed.
An excellent way of drawing out splinters in the flesh is by filling a narrow-necked bottle with hot water and emptying it again when the glass is as hot as possible. The neck of the bottle is then tightly placed over the splinter, and as the bottle cools down a vacuum is created which sucks the splinter to the surface.
Be careful to handle the bottle with a cloth, and not to get it so hot that it cracks or breaks.
A very strong decoction of camomile flowers, infused by pouring a little boiling water over them and then allowing time for it to draw, will relieve the pain and stiffness caused by a sprain. Apply externally while hot.
The juice of the pimpernel is an excellent remedy for bee and wasp stings, and other insect bites.
This ailment is caused by a fungus which grows on a mucous membrane. It is commonest in children, although it can occur in a debilitated person of any age.
The treatment here is one supplied by Daiena Lee, who had used it on her own children, Dinki and Lavaina.
Biborate of soda, commonly known as Borax, should be mixed with honey and applied to the patches. This will clear up the fungus.
I have known many Romanies who relieve an aching tooth by going to the chemist for a small bottle of oil of cloves and then applying a drop of this to the tooth. This is, however, an expensive method, as the oil is dear.
A much cheaper means of relief can be found by using the juice of a white beetroot.
Sage tea, used hot as a mouth wash may also be effective.
It must be remembered that these methods can only relieve and not cure, and in the final resort one must visit the dentist for a permanent cure of the trouble.
As an occasional teeth vvhitener, lemon juice is excellent. It should not be used too often however, as it is acid.
Strawberry juice will also whiten teeth.
ULCERS (External)
For ulcers on the skin I cannot give a better remedy than this one passed on to me by Nat Lee: chop up some leaves of the herb fluellin and mix them with pure lard, making an excellent ointment.
Raspberry leaf tea is a good preparation for cleaning external ulcers and sores.
The elderly Romany lady known as Auntie Queenation always amused me by her insistence in calling this complaint ‘various veins’. Whatever her lack of knowledge may have been of English usage, there was little she did not know of natural remedies.
She gave me the following cure, and although I was never able to see it in action, my faith in Auntie Queenation as a wise woman is boundless, for I witnessed several of her other successful cures.
When a vein becomes knotty and dilated, it is said to be varicose. This usually occurs in the lower leg.
Auntie Queenation’s cure consisted of applying cider vinegar to the affected veins night and morning. This, she told me, would eventually reduce them if the treatment was carried out faithfully for a few weeks.
The rest of the treatment was to drink apple cider vinegar in water two or three times a day, and to observe a sensible natural diet.
Dandelion juice is the surest cure for warts. Squeeze a leaf and a drop of the milky secretion will appear. Apply this to the wart and continue this treatment for as long as is necessary. Eventually the wart will turn black. If you carry on this treatment, you will suddenly realize to your surprise that the wart has gone, leaving no trace.
Apple juice can be used as an alternative cure by rubbing the wart with a slice of freshly-cut apple and leaving the juice to dry on.
Juice of an elderberry leaf may also be used, or that of chickweed. The greater celandine and the houseleek may also be utilized in the same way, but the best juice of them all is that of the dandelion.
One’s own morning spittle can be used on warts and it will remove them in time. But the process is a long one and the method must be applied on waking, before food or drink is taken.
A word on prevention of warts. The water in which eggs have been boiled can cause warts. Such water should always be thrown away and not left standing about. Warts can also be picked up if the skin is scratched on the walls of farm buildings such as cattle byres, stables and so forth.
As a final warning, warts should never be cut or pricked, except under medical supervision.
Medically known as pertussis, whooping cough can be cured by boiling 1 oz. of the herb mousear, or hawkweed as some call it, in 1 pt. water for 3 or 4 minutes. Strain off the water and drink a wineglassful four times a day with a spoonful of brown sugar added.
This is a wonderful tonic.
Almost as good is an infusion of dried thyme.
A pinch of this in a teacup will suffice. Half fill the cup with boiling water, cover with a saucer for a while, then take a few sips each time the cough is troublesome.
Yet another remedy is that of the turnip cure given already under the heading of hoarseness.
For whooping cough in an adult the following remedy is useful: a horseradish should be scraped until you have half a teacup full. Add vinegar but do not cover the scrapings. Have just enough vinegar to soak the horseradish when it is pressed down. Leave the mixture for 24 hours, pressing the scrapings down from time to time.
After the 24 hours are up add a tablespoonful of glycerine and mix well into the concoction.
Take half a teaspoonful in a wine glass of hot water.
Similar to the turnip cure for whooping cough and hoarseness, is a medicine made by scooping out the insides of several large radishes and filling the cavities with black treacle. Leave standing for two days and then take a teaspoonful of the liquor three times a day.
Radish leaves are also good in salads.
WORMS OR FLUKE
All fresh vegetables used in salads, such as watercress should be very thoroughly washed. Wild watercress in particular should be carefully prepared, as the eggs of trematodes, or flukes, can be swallowed on them, resulting in the parasitic complaint known as worms.
A brew made from the roots of the male fern, of 1 oz. in 1- pt. water, boiled up and strained, will give a mixture that will eradicate worms. No food should be taken for a few hours before going to bed, and in the morning a wineglassful of the liquid should be taken.
A boiling of elder bark and elder flowers, prepared and taken in the same way as above will also provide a cure.
An infusion of the leaves or flowers of the bindweed also expels worms.
Nat Lee once told me of a rather unusual way of expelling worms. The method was to pour hot water over peach leaves and then to lay them on the stomach. Nat stated that this simple poultice was remarkably effective.
On no account must any peach leaf preparation be taken internally, for the leaves contain the poison prussic acid.
ONE of the saddest things about modern life is its increasing urbanization. Contemporary economic historians are now of the opinion that the Industrial Revolution cannot really be set within specific dates as it is still going on, feeding as it were, upon its own momentum.
Many people suffer from an unconscious feeling of anxiety or depression, owing to the conflict within between the values of the old order of rural living and the increasing pace of scientific events.
Even townspeople are frequently aware of the lack of natural conditions in their daily lives. Some forty years ago the chief illnesses and complaints were of the digestive system, whereas now they are usually of the nervous system.
Trained herbalists are much less common today, and since large areas of the countryside are subjected to spraying and to so many other direct and indirect forms of pollution it is often very difficult to find required herbs.
When found, it is not always possible to tell whether or not the herbs are safe to use, because of these factors. Therefore the most practical and enjoyable way of providing yourself with useful herbs is to grow them yourself, assuming that you are fortunate enough to possess a garden.
It will not be possible to grow them all, as some of them are imported from very different climates, and some, such as liquorice and horseradish are not practical within the confines of an average garden.
It is a good idea to surround your garden by a hedge which is in itself a good herbal source, and which in any case is far more natural and beautiful than the brick wall, or worse, the wire fence. The choice of hedging is a personal one, but blackthorn is popular and can provide you with sloes as well as flowers. Or you may prefer a bay hedge, an evergreen which will provide aromatic leaves which are useful in cooking.
The value of freshly-gathered produce from your own garden cannot be over-emphasized. So here, in alphabetical order, are some suggestions for your own herb garden, omitting those herbs previously mentioned.
BALM (Melissa Officinalis):
Can be raised from seeds or cuttings in April or May. It does best in a light soil. The leaves have a lemon fragrance and make refreshing tea. Much honey is contained in the flowers. It is useful in the kitchen for stuffings. A perennial, balm grows to about 2 ft. The finely chopped leaves, fresh or dried, can be used instead of mint for sauce, made in the same way.
BASIL (Sweet) (Ocymum Basilicum):
Also raised from seed, basil should be planted towards the end of May. It needs a well-drained, sunny bed. The leaves are used for flavouring soups and stews, sausages, and tomato dishes.
BERGAMOT (Monarch Didyma):
Best obtained as rooted cuttings. Bergamot is a weak plant and must be kept free of weeds. Its perfume is most refreshing, and a tea of its leaves is as good as anything that can be bought.
BORAGE (Borago Officinalis):
This hardy annual should be sown in April and allowed plenty of space. Sprigs of borage put in fruit drinks or in wine impart a delicious flavour, and makes the drinks cooling. It is a member of the forget-me-not family and grows to about 1 ft. 6 in.
CHIVES (Allium Schoenoprasum):
Can be raised from seed and later on clumps may be divided to increase the stock. The young shoots can be chopped to make a delicious addition to soups and salads and egg dishes. Chives belong to the onion family. It is best grown in moist ground.
SAVORY (Summer) (Satureia Hortensis):
This is an annual sown in April. The herb can be used in stuffings, in soups, and also cooked with broad beans.
Winter savory is similar in flavour and can be used for the same purposes.
TARRAGON (Artemisia Dracunculus):
A perennial growing to about 4 ft., the chief use of tarragon is for making vinegar. It is a good flavouring for pickles and sauces. A few leaves can be added to salads.
I hope that these brief notes will encourage those of my readers with gardens to an interest in the study and practical application of herbal lore.
Now a word about the drying of herbs. Most herbs can be used either fresh or dried. As a rule, herbs to be dried should be gathered on a dry day when plants are well developed, and just before they flower. Rinse the cut plants in cold water, shake them thoroughly and tie them in small bunches. Large bunches tend to go mouldy in the middle. Hang in a dry, airy place. When the bunches are quite dry and crisp, remove the leaves from the stems and rub them through a fine sieve. Store them in airtight jars, as full as possible, in a dark place.
What are known in culinary parlance as ‘fines heroes’ are a mixture of equal quantities of chopped fresh parsley, chervil, chives, and sometimes tarragon. These are sprinkled on omelettes, scrambled eggs, and salads. ‘Mixed herbs’ usually means sage, parsley, marjoram, and thyme, with other additions if desired. They are used for flavouring meat or fish dishes, or for stuffings.
A ‘Bouquet garni’ comprises two or three stalks of parsley, a sprig of thyme and marjoram, ana a bay leaf. These are tied together with thread and added to foods being cooked in stock or water. If dried, the herbs are tied in a muslin bag. They are removed before the food is served.
Some Herb Wines
THE usefulness of herbs is not confined to remedies for illness and to culinary purposes. Many wines can be made from them also, and quite simply.
Here are a few recipes which may stimulate an interest in this fascinating subject of natural living. The beauty of making these natural wines is that there are really no definite rules. Country people and the Romanies have always experimented, being familiar with the ingredients they have used. Before tea-drinking became general, home-made drinks were a necessity to the poor, and even the rich who could afford imported wines by no means despised some of the excellent products of the farm cottagers.
One interesting aspect concerning what have been called ‘country wines’ is that a genuine herbal drink will never give one a hangover. The hangover is something that science gives. I do not make this statement in order to encourage over-indulgence, but to show that home made wine is, properly regarded, a valuable addition to the sadly depleted modern diet, being wholesome, and an innocent art of our forefathers.
It should be remembered, however, that some of the wines are potent, and that there is no excuse for over-indulgence in them any more than over- indulgence in anything else. They should not be given freely to children, or be taken incautiously.
Most of these wines can be made quite cheaply, at a cost of at most about two shillings a bottle. The equipment needed is an earthenware bowl big enough to hold at least 1 1 gal. liquid, such as a bread puncheon with a wide top. Also needed is some muslin for straining, a 1-gal. glass jar, a large wooden spoon, some new corks, a length of rubber tubing for siphoning and, of course, a supply of bottles.
All the equipment must be kept scrupulously clean and it is most important never to ferment wine in anything but glass, wood, or earthenware containers.
Ordinary enamelled kitchen saucepans can be used for boiling.
Wine will not ferment in a cold place. Add the yeast when the liquid is at blood heat, and keep it in a temperature of about 60 degrees F. Always cover fermenting wine to prevent microbes from entering it which may cause it to go vinegary.
When filling your glass jar you can top it with a cork, but better still is to use a special trap. These cost three or four shillings and will allow gas to escape without letting air in.
It is possible to make good wines using baker’s yeast—which must be fresh—or you can use dried live yeast. This will keep for months and has about twice the strength of fresh yeast, so if you use this, use only half the given recipe quantity. The best way of using baker’s yeast is to spread it on a lightly-toasted slice of thick bread. This should be allowed to float on the surface of the wine. There are special yeast preparations sold for boosting fermentation, but you can use instead the juice and thin rind of two lemons.
It is best for the beginner to stick to stated recipes until such time as he feels experienced enough to make his own experiments.
Nature produces its own fermentations, and treating the ingredients with respect and patience will give you good results in proper proportion. ‘Scientific’ methods of distilling, chemical fermentation and too-violent clarification really upset the natural balance of ingredients and produce the commercial drinks with a ‘kick’.
Home-made wine is light and pleasant to the palate and without the sharp taste of spirits, and also without the more disagreeable aspects of commercially produced drinks. Home-made drinks are also more satisfying, and therefore less likely to be taken to excess.
From antiquity until the end of the nineteenth century, most of the beer and wines consumed by the people of Europe were made at home. In Britain beer was brewed every quarter by the cottagers, and usually once a month in the rich houses. As the herbs came into season, the different wines were made. Brewing was an art taught to every girl, as much a part of her domestic education as bread-making, cookery, and needlecraft. Many men were also adept. Ale houses and inns kept high standards because the majority of people were natural connoisseurs, knowing as much about brewing as the proprietors. Home-made beers and wines were highly esteemed for their medicinal properties, which were well understood. Drinking to a person’s health was a reality, as well as being part of rural hospitality.
The heroic era of the fast clipper ships brought a change in the habits of most people, for tea was made accessible to practically all, since most of these fast ships were engaged in the tea trade.
Where the family of Jane Austen had written letters to each other frequently referring to the state of their wines such as mead, red-currant, and so on, and where George Eliot and Thackeray were able to write into their novels accounts of rural hospitality, there now came a trend towards the new fashion for drinking tea.
The far-sighted railed against it, William Cobbett called it poison, and the Religious Tract Society denounced it. The need for teetotalism came much later with the great spread of commercial breweries. Tea, regarded by its opponents as a menace, won the day, and in direct line of descendancy from the victory of the foreign weed we have snack bars, milk bars, tea parties, public houses, canteens, and licensing statutes of increasing complexity.
And so today the custodians of the real heritage of home-made wines and other drinks are those people in the remoter countryside, who are regarded as old-fashioned or reactionary, and Romanies, who instinctively prefer that which can be naturally produced to that which can be bought.
BALM WINE:
Take 2 qt. balm leaves into your earthenware dish. Then boil together 1 gal. water, 2 lb. sugar, the juice and rind of 1 lemon and the well-beaten white of 1 egg. Skim well and strain the liquid on to the balm leaves, stirring well until cool.
Next put in a piece of toast that has been spread with yeast and leave it to work for three days, then strain the liquid through muslin into jar or cask, keeping well filled.
The liquid will then hiss slightly for about an hour. Bung closely when the hissing stops, as this indicates the end of the ‘working’.
The wine will be ready for bottling in three months, and is an excellent remedy for nervous disorders, for this herb is of the same family as the ‘balm of Gilead’ of Biblical fame.
BEETROOT WINE:
Boil 4 lb. beetroot in 1 gal. water until it is tender, strain off the liquid and add 4 lb. sugar, stirring until quite dissolved.
When the liquid is cool add 1 lb wheat and 1 oz. yeast on toast to float. Ferment for fourteen days, then strain off and bottle.
The original boiled beetroot can be covered with vinegar and eaten. It need not be thrown out.
CAMOMILE WINE:
For this take 1 qt. camomile leaves and 1 pt. wormwood leaves carefully picked from their stalks. Put them into an earthenware dish and bruise them together. Add 1 oz. camomile flowers and 1 oz. of rosemary leaves. Boil 2 gal. water with 6 lb. clear honey in it, and then pour the boiling liquid over the leaves. Cover the dish closely and leave for 4 days.
After that warm the liquid to a good fermenting temperature and stir in 1 oz. of yeast and allow it another 4 days.
Strain off the liquid into a cask and add 1 oz. dissolved isinglass. Quite fill the cask and when the liquid stops hissing, bung it closely.
Keep for nine months before bottling, and seal the corks. Some people add brandy to make a very strong wine, but if this is done the healing properties are lost.
Unadulterated camomile wine is very good for the digestive system as it cleans the stomach and normalizes the temperature. It is slightly bitter, but very strengthening.
COWSLIP WINE:
Boil 3 lb. sugar in 1 gal. of water for 1 hour, skimming the water. Grate the rind of 2 oranges and 1 lemon, and put into a big pan with the juice of all three fruits. While the sugar water is boiling pour it into the pan too, stirring well.
When the liquid is cool but not cold add 4 qt. fresh cowslip flowers. Next add 2 tbs. of brewer’s yeast. Stir very thoroughly, cover with a cloth, and leave standing for 48 hours.
Put the mixture into the fementing cask, stop it up and leave for two months.
After the two months are up, draw off the liquid, strain it, and bottle. Leave for at least a month before drinking, but the longer it is left, the better it will be.
This is a wine which is a good nerve tonic and gives refreshing sleep. For anyone, including children, suffering from a feverish cold, a glass of it added to hot water and drunk in bed will bring about a cure.
DANDELION WINE:
The ingredients for dandelion wine are: 1 gal. dandelion flower petals, 1 orange, 1 lemon, 3 lb. sugar, 1 oz. of well-bruised ginger root, and 1 oz. yeast on toast.
First wash the dandelion petals well and cover them with boiling water. Allow them to stand for 3 days, stirring often and squeezing the flowers.
Strain off and add to the liquid the thin rind of the lemon and orange as well as the fruit sliced up. Boil for 1 hour in 1 gal. water and allow to cool.
Spread the yeast on toast and float it in the liquid. Ferment for 6 days and then put it into your glass jar. It can be bottled after it has cleared.
Dandelion wine is good for the liver and the digestive system generally.
ELDERBERRY WINE:
This will give you a wine which tastes like port. Pick 2 qt. elderberries, wash them, and boil in 1 gal. water for 15 minutes.
Strain off the liquid and add 3 lb. sugar and 8 oz. raisins to it. Simmer gently for 20 minutes. Allow the mixture to cool then add 1 oz. yeast on toast. Cover well, leaving to ferment for fourteen days.
Strain and bottle, corking lightly until fermentation stops, then bung tightly and keep for twelve months.
Taken hot with honey, elderberry wine is a good cold cure.
ELDER FLOWER WINE: 1. Take 1 pt. elder flowers and put into 1 gal. water and simmer for 15 minutes. Put into a bowl and add 3 ½ lb. sugar, 8 oz. raisins, and 3 sliced lemons. Stir the sugar until dissolved and when the water is lukewarm sprinkle 1 oz. yeast on to the liquid. Allow to ferment for fourteen days, then strain carefully into a jar. Do not disturb the sediment at the bottom, leave for a while. and then bottle.
ELDER FLOWER WINE: 2. Another wine can be made from elder flowers in the following way:—
Add 2 1 pt. elder flowers to 1 gal. boiling water and boil for 20 minutes. Put in 2 lb. honey and 1 lb. sugar and the rinds and juice of 2 lemons and 2 oranges.
Boil again for another 20 minutes and when cool add 1 oz. yeast. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours and then strain into cask or jar. Keep for at least six months.
Elder flower wine has the same qualities as the elderberry.
HOREHOUND AND WORMWOOD BEER:
Boil together for 2 hours in 10 pt. water 1 oz. hore-hound, 1 oz. wormwood, 1 oz. hops, 8 oz. malt. Let the water only simmer after it has come to the boil.
After the 2 hours strain off the liquid into an earthenware vessel. Add 2 oz. brown sugar and 1 oz. yeast. Cover for 24 hours.
Skim and bottle the liquid. Put the corks in lightly, and tighten them up some 12 hours later.
The beer will be ready for drinking in a matter of a week but will increase in strength the longer you leave it.
This is a good general tonic.
PARSNIP WINE:
Clean 4 lb. parsnips, cut them up and boil in 1 gal. of water until tender, then strain. Add 3 lb. sugar, 1 oz. of lump ginger, 1 oz. dried hop flowers to the liquid, and boil for 5 minutes.
Put the mixture into the fermenting bowl and add to it the juice and rind of 1 lemon and 8 oz. chopped unstoned raisins. Allow this to cool before putting in 1 oz. yeast on toast and 8 oz. wheat. Ferment for fourteen days, then skim and bottle. Keep for twelve months before drinking.
This is very good for the skin and system generally.
POTATO WINE:
Put 1 lb. wheat, 1 lb. raisins, and 1 lb. chopped potatoes into an earthenware bowl, add 4 lb. sugar and cover with 1 gal. warm water. Add 1 oz. yeast and leave to ferment for three weeks. Then strain off and bottle.
This is a good wine for beginners to try as it is simple and relatively quick to make. The result is a fine golden wine.
RAISIN WINE:
Choose large, sound raisins— 10 lb. are needed, and 1 lb. sugar. Chop the raisins finely and pour 1 gal. boiling water on them. Strain off the liquid and squeeze the remainder from the fruit. Leave the liquor to stand for twelve hours, then add the sugar and leave it to ferment.
When fermenting has stopped, pour the liquid into a cask, bung tightly and leave for three months. Then put into another cask and leave it for ten months before bottling. Wait another year before drinking.
This is a simply-made wine but takes a long time to mature.
TONIC STOUT:
Add 1 oz. dried stinging nettles, 1 oz. hops, and 8 oz. black (burnt) malt to 10 pt. water. Bring to the boil and then add ½ oz. black liquorice and 2 unpeeled potatoes. The potatoes should be of medium size and perforated by a fork before being added to the mixture. Simmer gently until about 8 pt. liquid remains.
Strain into the earthenware dish and stir in 2 oz. brown sugar and 1 oz. of yeast. It is best to have mixed the sugar and yeast in a cupful of the cooled liquid beforehand. Leave covered for 24 hours, then bottle in the same way as described for horehound and wormwood beer.
WHEAT WINE:
Place into a bowl 1 lb. wheat and 1 lb. finely-chopped potatoes (old ones will serve) with 2 lb. chopped sultanas, 4 lb. sugar, and the juice and rind of two grapefruits. Pour on to them 1 gal. hot water and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
When the water is lukewarm sprinkle 1 oz. of yeast into it and leave to ferment for three weeks.
Strain off into a gallon jar. Leave for six months, then bottle.
Never use anything except earthenware, glass, enamelled, and wooden utensils. On no account must fermenting take place in a metal container, or anything of metal be used in preparation.
Home-made wines can be produced quite freely provided they are not sold. This applies equally to private sale and to giving wine for subsequent re-sale, even for charity. Anyone wishing to make wine for sale must first seek advice from the customs and excise office.
Distilled spirits can never be made without a licence.
The majority of wines will clear easily. Vegetable wines take longer to clear than do flower wines. Some fruit wines may remain cloudy, but can be cleared by putting in the shells of 2 fresh eggs to 1 gal. liquid.
One of the reasons for making these wines is that it is a way of fixing the nutritive and medicinal properties of herbs and fruits so that they can be enjoyed when the fresh plant or fruit is not available. Properly made and properly taken they can give superior health and vitality.
What is called ‘blood heat’ in wine making means when the temperature of the liquid is neither hot nor cold to the hand.
Refined sugar is unwholesome when taken ordinarily because it has a lack of natural properties other than sweetness. When used in wine making the balance is somewhat restored by fruits and natural plant sugar. Fortunately, most wines can be made by using other sweeteners such as honey, malt, and raisins. If honey is used [it should be ‘clear’ honey. If only cloudy honey is available it should be boiled with water first, and then skimmed to clarify it. This is not necessary with clear honey because the skimming after preparation of the wine will rid the mixture of impurities.
Today it is beyond the power of most of us to obtain really good water. Therefore tap water, filtered, chlorinated, denatured as it is, has to be used. Before our misguided reformers got busy, the best water was water from a fresh spring, with river water second best. Most rivers are now so polluted that it is no longer safe to use the water, and fewer people are able to find natural springs as so many have either been filled in, diverted, polluted, or built over. The principle still remains, that the better the water, the better the wine. If you can get good water, use it and value it.
Introducing yeast into your wine can be done in several ways, and it is a matter of preference. What is most important is the temperature of the liquid when the yeast is put in. The yeast works best at a temperature between 50 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. If the liquid is too hot it will kill the yeast, and if too cold the yeast will remain inactive. But once it is working well it will produce its own heat to perpetuate unless the mixture is left in a cold place.
General Information on Herbal Remedies
THIS general information on every main ingredient mentioned in the treatments and the wines, is to explain each item so that the reader may find out something about the constituents of the remedies and herbal wines.
Most of these ingredients can be obtained from the greengrocer, the herbalist, or from the health food stores.
The enthusiast can, if he wishes, collect the herbs himself in the countryside, though great care should be taken in doing so. Beware of the dangers of crop-sprayed land. Children in particular should not be allowed to eat plant leaves or other parts, unless they have first been verified as being harmless. Fields, woods, hedgerows, and other places which have been chemically sprayed or treated should be avoided.
The ingredients have been listed alphabetically, and the Latin names provided where appropriate.
AGRIMONY (Agrimonia Eupatoria):
This herb has pointed, dark green leaves. The flowers have five yellow petals and grow off the main stem on long spikes. Agrimony grows both in hedgerow and meadow, to about 1 ft. in height, and blooms throughout the summer.
ALDER (Glutinosa Alnus):
Do not confuse Alder with elder. The elder grows into a large tree, while the alder grows to only about 30 ft. in height as a tree. Usually found growing by streams or brooks, it bears rough, oval-shaped leaves, and two kinds of catkins in which are the male and female flowers.
ALLSPICE:
A fragrant spice made from the berries of a tree which grows in Central America and the West Indies. So named because its smell is like that of a combination of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
ALMOND:
The bitter variety of almond oil must be used carefully as it contains prussic acid, which is a poison. So do keep it away from children. Sweet almond oil is safe and has no ill effects, being the oil I have recommended for use in ear troubles. Almond flavouring used for cakes and custards is the bitter variety. Used with common sense it produces a delicious culinary result. A laurel leaf may be utilised in the same way, but it also contains prussic acid.
Almond trees grow in England, bearing white, pink, or red flowers. They bloom in the spring. The tree is ornamental and rarely grows to more than 10 ft. high.
ALOES:
An evergreen plant, this is native to South Africa, although it thrives in greenhouses in Britain. It has thick, fleshy leaves and bears many tubular flowers. Bitter aloes, properly a drug, is obtained from the dried juice of the leaves. An oil is distilled from the wood of the aloes.
ALUM:
Is a mineral substance, being the crystallized double sulphate of aluminium and potassium. It is obtained from many chemical sources including bauxite, ammonia, silver, sodium, as well as the original alunite. What are known as alum shales are to be found in England. Alum has several commercial uses, but in medicine it is a caustic and astringent.
AMMONIA:
This is produced commercially as a by-product of coal gas.
APPLE(Pyrus Malus):
The tree or bush bearing this popular fruit flourishes in Britain. Perhaps the most widely-eaten fruit in the western world, it is particularly suited to the health needs of Nordic peoples, and its value cannot be overstressed.
APPLE CIDER VINEGAR:
No home should be without this sovereign cure-all. Taken twice a day, it will promote health more than anything else, with the possible exception of honey. If you find it too bitter to take on its own, then add honey in equal proportions and then add warm water.
APRICOT:
A fruit tree of the order of Rosaceae, it was introduced into England from Asia in the seventeenth century.
ASPARAGUS (genus of Liliaceae):
This plant grows wild in most parts of Europe. Medically useful for the substance it contains, called aspargine, which is valuable as a diuretic, and for its action on the urinary organs. Asparagus can be boiled as a soup, used as a sauce, or simply as a vegetable.
ASPHODEL (Asphodelus Albus):
This is the white Asphodel which grows to a height of about three feet. It has a beautiful white flower, the flowers standing in spikes on top of the three divisions of the stalk. The flowers are streaked with purple on their tops with yellow threads in the middle.
The root is the part used in medicine.
AVENS (Geum Urbanum):
Also known as wood avens and herb bennett. The plant is found abundantly in woods, copses, and shady hedgebanks.
The flowering stem reaches 3 ft. in height, bearing solitary bright yellow flowers from June to August.
BARBERRY (Berberis Vulgaris):
A shrub having yellow flowers which give way to acid red berries. It grows in hedgerows to about 5 ft.
BARLEY (Hordeum Sativum):
This is believed to be the first cereal ever cultivated by man. There are various sub-species used for different purposes such as malting, breadmaking, and distilling.
BEETROOT (Chenopodiaceae):
Beetroot or beet is the name of two kinds of plant, one with a red, sweet root used as a vegetable, and the other with a white root, used for making sugar and commonly referred to as sugar beet.
BICARBONATE OF SODA:
A salt in which two equivalents of carbonic acid combine with one equivalent of base. An antacid and stomachic.
BILBERRY (Vaccinium Myrtillus):
A bush with many angular branches, and green-tinged rosy flowers which produce the dark blue edible berry. It is also known as whortleberry.
BINDWEED (Convolvulus Arvensis):
The lesser bindweed is a weed found growing in fields and pastures. It has delicate pink or near-white flowers from June to September. Its leaves are spear-shaped and alternate.
BLACKBERRY (Rubus Fruticosus):
Commonly known as the bramble. This well-known prickly herb produces a delicate and delicious fruit which is useful in cases of diarrhoea, because of its binding action upon the bowels. This is why pies are tra-tionally eaten mixed with apple, to offset this action.
BLACKCURRANT (Ribes Nigra):
The small, black, juicy fruit.
BLACKTHORN (Prunus Spinosa); This shrub, so commonly used for hedges, produces its white blossoms in March or April before the leaves appear. Its dark purple fruit is the sloe, which is a species of wild plum.
BLUESTONE:
This is a sulphate of copper crystal having a caustic effect. For this reason, too strong a solution should not be used, especially for the eyes.
BORAX (Biborate of Soda):
This useful gargle is a white, crystalline salt. It comes from the borax lakes in California, or from preparations of boracic acid from Tuscany.
BRAN:
Is from the outer husk of corn when it is ground.
Old brandy containing the least alcohol is best as a medicine. The finest comes from Cognac, in Charente, France.
Considering that bread is a dietary staple food for so much of the world, it is astonishing how careless people can be about it. Millions of unthinking people buy natureless white flour products, and disregard the healthful properties of wholemeal bread.
BROOM (Cytisus Scoparius):
Grows to about 4 ft. in Britain and has dark green, spraying foliage. It bears bright yellow flowers which resemble those of the gorse bush. Like gorse, broom is found on heaths and moors.
BURDOCK (Arctium Lappa):
Burdock has large leaves like those of rhubarb. Its flowers are small and of a mauve-pinkish colour. When these turn to fruit they form burrs which cling to the clothing. It grows to a height of 4 or 5 ft.
CABBAGE (Capum Brassica):
Common garden vegetable that it is, the medicinal properties of the cabbage are largely ignored. This is a pity, for as one old Romany said to me: ‘It holds the secret of long life’.
CAMOMILE (Anthemis Nobilis):
Camomile is sometimes spelt Chamomile. This is a strongly-scented herb which has yellow flowers or florets and a white ray. Some people seem to confuse camomile with calomel. But calomel is a drug, being a sub-chloride of mercury.
CAMPHOR (Cinnamomum Camphor a):
Grows in south-east Asia, notably Formosa, China, and Japan. What we know of as camphor is a hydrocarbon distilled from the wood of the tree. Another, slightly different camphor, known as Borneo or Sumatra camphor, is found in great crystallised blocks in the wood of a giant tree in the forests of those countries.
CARAWAY (Carum Carui):
This biennial wild plant has leaves rather like those of the carrot. The seeds are really those tiny fruits so well known in cooking and confectionery.
CARROT (Daucus Carota):
This root crop needs no elaboration to my readers, except to say that like cabbage its virtues should not be neglected.
CELERY (Apium Graveolens):
Though considered as a popular table vegetable, celery is in reality a herb. Even among people with little or no knowledge of herbalism, celery is respected for its value in combating rheumatic disorders.
CHERRY:
The cherry tree is of the rose order. There are several varieties, the best for eating purposes being the white-heart cherries. The cherry grows well in Kent, but its fruit is also imported from France and Belgium.
CHICK.WEED (Arenaria):
Sometimes called stitch-wort. There are several varieties of this weed, all well known to the cage bird fancier as a food for his pets.
CINNAMON (Cinnamomum):
Spice made from the bark of the Ceylon laurel.
CLOVES (Eugenia Carophyllata):
Another aromatic spice, being the dried bud of an evergreen shrub growing in the East and West Indies.
COCONUT (Cocos Nucifera):
The product of this economically important tree requires no elaboration.
COFFEE:
It is well known that coffee is a stimulant, due to its alkaloid constituent called caffeine. This caffeine is similar in its effect to that of theine, which is the active principle of tea. Coffee quickens the mental faculties and removes drowsiness. If it is drunk to excess, however, it can cause indigestion. insomnia, and various nervous symptoms.
COLTSFOOT (Tussilago Farfara):
Once called coughwort, this plant was used in ancient Greece .for respiratory ailments. It shows bright yellow flowers in March, and can be found in or near woods. Sometimes it is mistaken for the dandelion.
COUCH GRASS (Agropyrum Repens):
The stems of this grass will grow to four feet. It is regarded as a troublesome weed on arable land. Animals, especially cats, are aware of its health-giving properties, and will seek it out.
COWSLIP (Primula Veris):
A herb belonging to the primrose order. It has stalked, drooping flowers with buff-yellow funnel-shaped corolla. These distinguish it from the yellow primrose.
CRANESBILL (Geranium Dissection):
Of the geranium family, its flowers are bluish-purple, with five petals. The seeds grow in a sharp pod resembling a bird’s bill.
CRESOL:
Is obtained from coal tar, being a light brown liquid much used as an antiseptic and disinfectant. It is a component of lysol.
CUCKOO PINT (Arum Maculatum):
Sometimes called Wake Robin, this wild flower has arrow-shaped leaves, often marked with black or dull purple spots. When the leaves wither in autumn, their place is taken by a spike of scarlet berries. The leaves and berries are poisonous if eaten, but the leaf may be safely used in the treatment described for boils.
CUDWEED (Gnaphalium Sylvaticum):
This is a dense, cottony herb with narrow leaves and small flower heads. The flower heads are enclosed by chaff-coloured scales which persist.
DANDELION (Taraxacum Officinale):
This well-known wild flower has been used as a food as well as for medicinal purposes for centuries. Our own English word for it comes from the old French ‘dent-de-lion’, or lion’s tooth. This derives from the sharp points around the leaves. An excellent coffee is made from the root, which is suitable for those with heart troubles. Dandelion leaves are still eaten in salads in many parts of Europe as a matter of course.
DEMERARA SUGAR:
Demerara is the name of the river which rises in the highlands of Guyana and enters the sea at Georgetown. It is also the name of a district between this river and the Berbice River. The soft brown sugar called Demerara was first produced there.
Sugar is a valuable food and a source of energy. There is a tendency, however, to take too much, and an excess is responsible for indigestion and obesity. A long period of over-eating, especially of carbohydrates, the sweet class of which are the sugars, can result in diabetes mellitus, or sugar diabetes.
White sugar should be avoided. The best sugars for health are unrefined, such as Demerara, and its by-product, molasses.
Honey is a natural invert sugar, and contains the best mixture of dextrose and laevulose. Dextrose sugar is also present in all fruits.
DOCK (Rumex):
There are a dozen native species, including bitter, fiddle, yellow, water, and the sour dock or sorrel.
EAU-DE-COLOGNE:
A spirituous preparation containing oils of rosemary, citron, orange, bergamot, neroli, and geranium. It has been produced since about 1700, and is very useful in the sick room for freshening purposes.
ELDER (Sambucus Nigra):
A small tree or shrub seen growing in hedgerows. Its leaves are toothed and are five to a stem. Flowers appear in May and June and are creamy-white.
The purple-black berries, like the flowers, are used in home-made wines. Romanies have a great respect for the elder, and there is not any part of it that they do not use for some purpose or other.
ENDIVE (Intypbum):
This herb is a kind of chicory, having curly pale leaves. It has similar properties to those of watercress.
EUCALYPTUS (Eucalyptus Globulus):
A distillate of the fresh leaves of the Australian blue gum tree, the oil of the eucalyptus acts as an antiseptic, a disinfectant, and a deodorant.
EYEBRIGHT (Euphrasia Officinalis):
This is a little annual herb found in meadows about 6 in. high. It blooms from May to September with small whitish flowers having a speck of yellow.
FENNEL (Foeniculum Vulgare):
A fern-like perennial, this is a favourite of chefs for fish sauces and flavourings. Fennel is a beautiful plant with its golden flowers, and the Romans swore by it as an aid to digestion. It grows in unpromising rocky places, and also near the sea. Grazing animals are instinctively fond of it, and it has many veterinary uses.
FIG (Ficus Carica):
Dried figs are always good to eat and, like other fruits, are better for children than sweets. Some people cannot cope with the hard skins of figs, however, and some find that they cause them indigestion. The skins can be discarded if necessary, or the figs may be softened by boiling them in milk.
This word as loosely applied to all sea creatures is what is meant here by fish. Any fresh sea food is good for you, and the value of it has been known to man for almost as long as man has existed. Fish food is particularly good for the Nordic type of human being. Edible freshwater fish are good too, although not as good for you as those from the sea.
FLUELLIN (Veronica Officinalis):
There are two varieties of this weed that grows at the edges of cornfields. They both have long creepers lying along the ground. They have hairy leaves and small flowers. One variety bears a yellow and purple flower, while the other bears a white flower. Both have small black seeds. Fluellin is sometimes called speedwell.
FORMALIN:
This deodorant and disinfectant is a 40 per cent solution of formaldehyde in water. Formaldehyde is a gas produced by passing vapour of methyl alcohol over red hot copper. I have known people to use formalin as a food preservative, but this is not to be recommended, as it is noxious when used for this purpose. Be careful not to overdo the quantity when using it for any reason.
FROGBIT (Hydrocharis Morsus Ranae):
This small, floating aquatic herb has kidney-shaped leaves, their undersides of a reddish colour. The bulbs sink to the bottom of ponds in the autumn, then rise to the surface again in spring to throw out leaves. It has white flowers.
GINGER (Zingibar Officinale):
Rootstock of a perennial reed-like herb, ginger has been known as a spice from antiquity. Grown throughout the tropics, the best varieties come from Jamaica and from China.
GLYCERINE (Trihydric Alcohol):
This thick, colourless liquid is much used in pharmaceutical preparations. Glycerine is obtained from fats.
GRAPEFRUIT (Citrus Decumand):
This fruit of an Asian evergreen tree was once called a shaddock. It is now much cultivated in California as its slightly acid taste has proved to make a pleasant beginning to a meal.
GREATER CELANDINE (Chelidonium Majus):
Growing to 2, and even 3 ft. in height, this herb of the poppy order can be found near houses, on the side of the road, or on waste ground. It has bright yellow flowers with four petals to each one. The leaves are long, being green on top and grey underneath. The yellow juice is almost as good as that of the dandelion for the treatment of warts.
GROUNDSEL (Scnecio Vulgaris):
Groundsel is a common herbaceous plant to be found everywhere in Britain. Its small yellow flowers are succeeded by white, fluffy seed heads. The leaves are alternate and deeply cut, with irregularly toothed lobes.
GROUND IVY (Nepeta Hederacea):
This trailing flower is very abundant in the grass at the bottom of hedgerows. It is one of the earliest flowers to appear in spring. The purple-blue flowers are in sets of three to six. Ground ivy has no relationship to the real ivy. It is also called ale hoof because it was once used in brewing for its tonic qualities.
HAWKWEED:
See Mousear.
HONEY:
There was a time in Britain when sugar was an imported luxury available only to the wealthy. In those days honey was generally used as a sweetener. Such are our topsy-turvy economics and advertising pressures, that today sugar is a commonplace and honey is bought mainly by the health-conscious. Fortunately there are several varieties on sale, from orange flower honey to honey collected from un-sprayed jungle trees, and one can select a personal choice. Do not buy blended honey as this is often mixed with sugar. The constituents of pure honey are given under Demerara sugar.
HOPS (Humulus Lupulus):
Female catkins of the hop plant, hops are chiefly used for flavouring beer. The plant is a perennial climbing herb with twining stems, bearing flowers in green, scaly cones. After flowering the hops develop small yellow glands secreting the special principle of the herb.
HOREHOUND (black) (Ballota Nigra):
The black horehound is also known as madweed, and sometimes as gypsy wort. It grows to 1 to 2 ft. high and has downy and wrinkled leaves. Its flowers are purple.
HOREHOUND (white) (Marrubium Vulgare):
Sometimes called madweed, like the black horehound. Its branches are covered with white down. The leaves are on stalks, and are very wrinkled. Flowering in summer and autumn, the white horehound has small, greyish-white flowers in dense clusters.
HORSE CHESTNUT (Aesculus Hippocastanum):
Schoolboys know this tree well as the one which provides them with ‘conkers’, the word being a corruption of conquerors. Introduced into England for ornamental purposes in the 1600’s, the horse chestnut is indeed beautiful with its dense and spreading foliage, symmetrically proportionate to its height of about a hundred feet. The flowers are pink and white, and beloved by pollinating bees.
HORSERADISH (Cochlearia Armoracia):
The pungent root of this herb provides the well-known condiment, and the oil extracted from horseradish is an antidote to scurvy. The root of the herb is very powerful and will spread and push through almost any obstacle, so horseradish is not popular in the garden.
HOUSELEEK (Sempervivum Tectorum):
A familiar succulent herb in the countryside, houseleek grows on cottage roofs and walls in rosettes of fleshy leaves with pink flowers. It has no affinity with the leek proper.
HYSSOP (Hyssopus Officinalis):
This small aromatic plant is a native of the Mediterranean shores. It has blue flowers and lance-like leaves.
ISINGLASS:
This whitish, gelatinous substance is obtained from the air bladders of certain kinds of fish, notably the sturgeon. It is used for clarifying liquor, and in cookery.
IVY (Hedera Helix):
This common evergreen climber can be found on walls and trees. The yellow-green flowers appear in September and October and are succeeded by small yellow or black berries.
JALAP (Ipomaea):
Imported from Jalapa in Mexico, this purgative drug is obtained from the resin of the tuberous roots of the plant. Jalap is well known to the medical profession in the treatment for dropsy.
LADIES SLIPPER (Lotus Corniculatu):
A pasture and downs flower, ladies slipper is also known as bird’s foot trefoil. It has trailing branches and its flowers are in spreading heads of from three to ten, bright yellow in colour, tinted with red. From June to October the fields are made bright with the ladies slipper.
LARD (Adeps Praeparatus):
The fat or lard of pigs is used as the basis for ointments, but to prevent it from becoming rancid 3 per cent of benzoin is usually added, when the lard becomes, in medical parlance, Adeps Benzoatus.
LEEK (Allium Porrum):
A well-known hardy biennial, this bulbous herb is the national emblem of Wales.
LEMON (Citrus Medica):
Large quantities of lemons are imported into Britain from the Mediter- ranean and South Africa. The rind is used for candied peel and the juice is well known in cookery and in medicine.
The virtues of lemon juice as a slimming agent are familiar to women. The juice is best taken first thing, in hot water and without sugar. Lemon juice run on the hands will keep them soft. Two halves of lemon peel boiled with the clothes make an excellent bleach and also keeps clothing free of soap scum. Discoloured elbows will revert to a normal colour if the elbows are placed in halves of lemon peel for a while.
Another use for lemon peel is to remove the smell of grease from a pan. Rub the pan with the inside of half the peel, and it will soon be clean and fresh.
LIME (Tilia Europaea):
The lime tree or linden has clustered yellowish-white flowers and heart-shaped leaves. It was introduced into England in Tudor days. The wood is white and fairly soft.
LIMEWATER:
Oxide of calcium broken down into slaked lime, or calcium hydroxide is soluble in water, forming the solution known as limewater.
LINSEED (Linum Usitatissimum):
Linseed oil is made from ripened and dried flax seeds.
LIQUORICE (Glycyrrhiza):
Liquorice comes from the long, woody roots of a perennial Mediterranean herb. English liquorice growing is declining owing to difficulty of finding labour to dig the root. Most of it is imported from Italy and Spain.
This spice is prepared from the fleshy outer covering of the nutmeg.
MALE FERN (Dryopteris Filixmas):
Flowerless plants or perennial herbs of which there are some fifty varieties in Britain.
MALT:
Is a name given to partially germinated grain of various cereals, but it is chiefly barley that is meant.
MANDRAKE (Mandragora):
This genus of perennial herbs of the potato order has long been associated with magic and witchcraft. It is a stemless plant with thick, fleshy roots. The forked growth of these roots simulates the lower limbs of a human being. The mandrake is mentioned in the Bible in Genesis XXX. It grows mainly around the Mediterranean.
MARJORAM (Origanum Vulgare):
Wild marjoram grows at the edges of woods, to about a height of 2 ft. It has purple flowers and oval-shaped toothed leaves.
MARMALADE:
This preserve was originally made from quinces, but it is now usually made from Seville oranges. The best marmalade for health, however, is one made from apricots.
MEADOW-SWEET (Spiraea Ulmaria):
This flower is also known as bridewort and queen of the meadows. It is found in wet meadows and on the banks of streams and rivers, flowering from June to August. The flowers are small and yellowish-white in colour, and though they do not produce nectar they attract insects by their sweet smell. Meadow-sweet is a useful ingredient in herb beers.
MERCURY (Hydrargyrum):
Sometimes called quicksilver, this metallic element is extensively used in medicine. It is extracted from the sulphide cinnabar. Too frequent application of mercurial ointments can cause dermatitis, as these antiseptic solutions are extremely poisonous.
MILK:
The young of all mammals depend on milk for their entire subsistence at the earliest period of life. Milk contains, therefore, all the ingredients of a diet. These include proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts. vitamins, and water. It should be remembered, however, that the milk of different animals varies in the proportions of these substances, so that the milk of one animal does not necessarily suit another. The milk from cows is usually best for most adult humans, but it has to be modified for infants.
MINT (Mentha Spicata):
There are numerous varieties of this herb, but the spicata is the one usually found in gardens. All the fourteen varieties native to Britain have a similar characteristic flavour. Since the time of ancient Greece, mint has been known as a blood tonic.
MOUSEAR (Hieracium Pilosella):
Also known as hawkweed, this common weed is found on lawns, its runners spreading out with the leaves in little rosettes close to the ground. The flowers are of a lemon colour.
MUGWORT:
See Wormwood.
MUTTON FAT:
Animal fat consists of a mixture of three fats, olein, palmitin, and stearin. The proportionate constituents in mutton fat make it useful in winter for chapped hands. Keep it away from your lips as it can cause unwanted hair to grow on the lower part of the face.
NASTURTIUM (Nasturtium Officinale):
This is the perennial aquatic herb popularly called watercress. It is found all over Britain wherever there is fresh water. The main stem may be nearly 1 in. thick and up to 2 ft. long. Floating on the water, this stem roots from its lower side. From May to October the Nasturtium bears small white flowers. The long narrow leaves are heart-shaped, growing in pairs, with one larger odd leaf at the end of each branch or midrib. The name nasturtium is also given to a South American flower of the geranium order.
NETTLE (Urtica Dioica):
This is the stinging nettle, dark green and growing to 4 ft. The male and female flowers, green in colour, are carried on the same plant and in clusters. Much of the chlorophyll on the market in various products is from the nettle, which is a rich source. Nettles should not be neglected as a vegetable, for when boiled they are as good as spinach in every way.
NUTMEG (Myristica Fragrans):
The well-known nutmeg is the seed-kernel from the fleshy fruit of a bushy evergreen tree which grows in Malaya, Indonesia, and the West Indies. Although a popular spice, too much nutmeg should not be taken at once, as a large dose acts as a poison. Normally used, the nutmeg is harmless.
OATS (Avena Sativa):
Like barley, this is another cereal grass cultivated in ancient times. Kiln-dried, they become the basis for porridge and other breakfast cereals such as rolled oats and oat flakes.
OAK (Quercus Robur):
One of the most common trees in the countryside, the oak sometimes grows to nearly 120 ft. high. Oak trees are noted for living to a great age, a thousand years being not unusual. Its leaves are rounded and irregular. The groups of acorns are on stalks on the common oak, but not on the Durmast oak, which is a similar species found growing on lighter soil.
OLIVE (Olea Europaea):
This small evergreen tree flourishes in the Mediterranean area, and also grows in Australia, South Africa and in California. The oil extracted from the ripe berries is much used in Middle Eastern diets, often replacing butter and animal fats. It is also much used for medical purposes in all parts of the world.
ONION (Allium Cepa):
This well-known vegetable is a herb of the lily order.
ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium):
Another evergreen, the orange tree has spread in cultivation to many countries since its origins in the Indo-Chinese peninsula. The Arabs introduced it into Asia Minor, and later took it to Spain. All the varieties of the fruit are valuable for their content of mineral salts and vitamins A, B, and especially C.
PARSLEY P1ERT (Alchemilla Arvensis):
Once known as parsley breakstone because of it being used to dissolve stones in the kidneys, this herb grows to some 6 in. It has large leaves with toothed lobes and small green flowers.
PARSNIP (Peucedanum Sativum):
The parsnip has been cultivated since Roman times. It is palatable and nutritious, and contains sugar. Its long white tapering root is an excellent food.
PEACH (Prunus Persica):
Fruit tree of the rose order. Most market supplies of the fruit are grown in France, Delaware and California.
PEPPERCORN:
This is the dried, round berry of black pepper. The usual table condiment called pepper is simply the berries ground into powder. Black pepper is made from the whole berry; white pepper is produced by removing the skin of the berry first, by soaking the berry in water and then rubbing it off.
PEPPERMINT (Mentha Piperita):
A perennial European herb, this can be found growing wild in
Britain. Related to mint, as previously described, the pepper variety is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. Peppermint has the characteristic creeping rootstock of the other mints, and coarse-toothed leaves.
PILEWORT (Ranunculus Ficaria):
A herb of the buttercup family, pilewort is also known as the lesser celandine. It is found all over Britain. The brilliant yellow star-like flowers appear in spring and bloom to the middle of May.
PIMPERNEL (Anagallis Arvensis):
Known also as the scarlet pimpernel this flower is common in gardens, fields, and on waste ground. The scarlet flowers appear singly on very long slender stalks from the axils of the leaves, during the months from May to November. The leaves are stalkless and oval in shape.
The petals close every day at about 2 p.m. If they are closed before that time it is a certain sign that rain is on the way.
PINE (Pinus Sylvestris):
There are two main species of this evergreen tree which are well known in Britain. The pinus sylvestris or Scots pine averages 100 ft. in height. Pines differ from firs in having the needle-shaped leaves clustered in twos and fives.
The other well-known variety of pine is the stone pine, in Latin, Pinus Pinea. It has a more squat appearance due to its wider spread of branches, which sometimes exceeds its height.
PLANTAIN (Plantago Major):
A common herb having very broad leaves on short stalks. The flowers are on tall spikes and are purple in colour. It is also called ripple grass, way bread, and lamb’s tongue.
PORRIDGE:
Oatmeal porridge is the best kind for health. Oats were known to have been cultivated in the Bronze Age.
POTATO (Solatium Tuberosum):
It may surprise readers to know that this well-known food is a tuber of a herb of the nightshade order. It was grown by the ancient Incas, and reached sixteenth-century Spain from Peru.
POULTRY:
Used here as the collective name for all domestic fowls such as ducks, geese, turkeys, and chickens.
PRIMROSE (Primula Vulgaris):
Abundant in open woods and in hedgerows. The primrose flowers during April and May. Its flowers are on long, slender stalks of a pinkish colour.
PRUNE (Prunus Domestical This dried plum has highly nutritive qualities. Perhaps the best prunes are those from plums grown in the Loire valley, sometimes called French plums.
PUMPKIN (Cucurbita Pepo):
This herb of the gourd order was first introduced into England in Tudor days.
QUASSIA (Quassia Amara):
A bitter wood, quassia is regularly used in medicine. Originally from Surinam, but there is now a West Indian substitute bitter wood, Picraena Excelsa, generally known as Jamaica Quassia.
The infused chips, as well as having tonic properties can also be used in place of hops when brewing beer.
RADISH (Raphanus Sativus):
A common garden herb which can be eaten raw or cooked. Some people find them difficult to digest when raw, and boiling slowly for an hour or so in salted water will make them palatable.
RAGWORT (Senecio Jacobea):
Found in neglected places and by roadsides, ragwort is a tough, ubiquitous herb. With an erect branching leafy stem, its name is justified by its broken-up leaves in toothed lobes. The bright yellow flowers, about an inch across, appear from June to October, although in the far south they may even be seen at Christmas time. The stem grows from 1 to 4 ft.
RAISIN (Vitis Vinifera):
The raisin is the dried ripe fruit of certain white varieties of grape. There are sub-varieties of raisins such as the Malaga, muscatel, pudding, Elemes, and seedless sultanas. They all contain the same nutritional value, however, and vary only in taste according to where they were grown and how they were dried.
RASPBERRY (Rubus Idaeus):
This perennial can be found in woods and on heaths, flowering from June till August.
RED MERCURIC OXIDE:
All oxides are compounds formed by the combination of an element with oxygen. Many of the metallic elements form oxides.
RHUBARB (Rheum):
Although the stalks of this herbaceous plant are edible, the leaves are poisonous to many people, and are best left severely alone. The rhizome, or root, contains a substance resembling cathartic acid. This gives it the value of a purgative which is followed by a binding action.
ROSEMARY (Rosmarinus Officinalis):
This hardy evergreen perennial shrub grows between 2 and 3 ft. in height. Oil of rosemary is extracted from its fragrant green leaves. The small, violet flowers appear in early summer. Used sparingly, the finely-chopped leaves add a delicious flavour to salads, soup, and stew.
RUE (Ruta Graveolens):
Also known as the herb of grace, and the poor man’s heal-all. Grows best in soil containing lime. It is a small shrub of south European origin. The leaves are serrated and of a dull, bluish-green. The flowers are of a greenish-yellow colour. Rue is very hardy and was popular in Elizabethan gardens. It will grow to 2 ft. in height.
This spirit is distilled from cane sugar molasses fermented by yeast. Some inferior grades are made from cane juice and sometimes from beet molasses. Jamaica, Demerara, and Martinique are the chief places for the manufacture of rum.
SAFFRON (Crocus Sativu):
A perennial herb growing in both Europe and Asia. The leaves are rather like grass, and it bears purple flowers. One of the many herbs used in cooking as well as in medicine.
SAGE (Salvia Officinalis):
Well known as a stuffing to accompany rich or greasy dishes, sage is an excellent aid to digestion. It will grow in almost any soil, but likes plenty of sun. For drying, sage should be gathered at the end of June. It bears purple flowers and has oblong leaves.
SALT (Sodium Chloride):
This mineral deposit occurs throughout nature, in the sea, in rock form, and in brine springs. The rock salt of Britain is found in the Triassic beds of Cheshire and the neighbouring counties. Although salt is essential to diet, many people take far too much of it as a seasoning.
It should be possible to get sufficient intake from vegetable sources, without having recourse to the salt cellar.
SALTPETRE (Potassium Nitrate):
An elemental metal belonging to the alkaline group, saltpetre is a normal constituent of the body. Too much, however, like sodium, is depressing to the heart and the nervous system.
SARSAPARILLA (Smilax Officinalis):
Sarsaparilla contains a bitter principle known as parillin, and some starch. It comes from Central America.
SELF-HEAL (Prunella Vulgaris):
Found abundantly in damp pastures, this herb is a perennial with a creeping root and flowering branches. The stem is square and the stalked leaves are long, oval-shaped, and with toothed margins. The flowers are mostly purple, but sometimes crimson or white. Its flowering period is July to September.
SENNA (Cahassia Acutifolia):
A tropical herb, senna is well-known as a laxative. The pods are used for a mild purgative, and the dried leaves for a stronger one.
Several Spanish white wines are called sherry, the pale, dry varieties being the Manzanilla sherries, and the sweet kinds being Amontillado. Other varieties are the Vino Fino, Montilla, and Olorosa. The best comes from Jerez or Xeres, in the region of Cadiz.
SPINACH (Spinacia):
An edible herb which is still a popular table vegetable. The great virtue of spinach is the fact that it is easily digested and its action is gentle upon the system. Quite harmless too as a colouring agent in such things as jellies, and this is something which cannot be said of all colouring matter.
STRAWBERRY (Fragaria Vesca):
A native of Britain, rightly valued for its delicious fruit.
SULPHUR:
The old name for sulphur is brimstone, and it is found as incrustations in volcanic rock, or in crystal form in clay. A non-metallic element, its uses in medicine are internally as a laxative, and externally for numerous skin diseases. Care must be taken when using sulphur, as the drug is an irritant to the skin. Sulphur candles can be used for fumigation of infected rooms.
SULTANAS:
See Raisin.
SWEET CHESTNUT (Castanea Saliva):
Sometimes called the Spanish chestnut. Like so many other things, it is believed to have been introduced into Britain by the Romans. The tree averages 100 ft. in height and is identifiable by the spiralling upward effect of the bark. An attractive aspect of this tree is the edible nut it produces.
TALLOW (Excaecaria Sebifera):
A Chinese tree, the seeds of which are covered with a grease from which candles can be made. There is another tallow tree grown in Africa, Pentadesma Butyracea, producing a similar grease.
Most tallow used in Europe, however, is that obtained from the broken-down fat of such animals as sheep.
TEA (Thea Sinensis):
Of the Camellia genus of plants, tea has been known for many centuries in China, but only came to England about the year 1645. Since Britain is the largest consumer of tea in the world, the merits of the beverage need not be enlarged upon here.
Too much tea, especially strong or over-infused tea, can result in nervous disorders, insomnia, dyspepsia, and constipation.
THYME (Thymus Serpyllum):
Wild thyme is a delightfully fragrant herb. Its flowers are of a rosy-purple colour, and the leaves are small and stalked. The plant is usually found on high pasture land from June to September.
TOMATO (Lycopersicum Esculentum):
The fruit of the tomato plant is very rich in vitamins A, B, and C. Tomatoes also contain a most useful amount of sulphur. People who suffer from gout should not eat tomatoes.
TREACLE:
Is made from molasses, which substance is a by-product of sugar refining. It has considerable food value.
TURNIP (Brassica Campestus):
The white turnip is grown for the table, and both leaves and roots can be used. The golden turnip, or swede, is grown as cattle food, especially for winter feeding. It is also eaten by humans, being quite suitable, and also keeping longer than the white variety.
TURPENTINE:
Oil of turpentine is distilled from a resin obtained from various pine trees. It helps to relieve pains in muscles and joints, and is useful rubbed on the chest for bronchitic discomfort.
VASELINE:
This is the proprietary name for a brand of soft paraffin. It forms the basis of many ointments.
VINEGAR (Acetic acid):
In Britain this is usually made from malted barley.
WATERCRESS:
See Nasturtium.
WHEAT (Triticum Sativum):
This is considered to be the most important cereal food of temperate climates, and after rice is the most widely-used grain.
WHITE BEETROOT:
That variety of beet usually called sugar beet.
WILLOW:
The name given to any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, many species being found in the northern hemisphere. The tree is known for its strong, pliant branches. The leaves are long, and the flowers are borne on catkins which appear before the leaves.
WOOD SAGE (Teucrium Scorodonia):
Before flowering, this might be mistaken for the ordinary sage. But wood sage bears yellow flowers in sprays. It can be found in woods from July to September.
WORMWOOD (Artemisia Absinthium):
A herb bearing many drooping dingy yellow flowers during August and September. It grows to about 3 ft. in height. This plant has a long history, being regarded by the ancient Greeks as sacred to Artemis, or Diana. It is well known in Japanese herbal lore, and was used by the Aztecs in religious rites.
Another species, mugwort (Artemisia Vulgaris) is found on roadsides and waste spaces, being a perennial, aromatic herb. It has a red, rough stem from 2 to 4 ft. high. The flower heads are small and gathered into short woolly spikes, containing reddish-yellow flowers. Mugwort flowers from June to September.
YEAST:
This is the minute fungi of the saccharo-myces. With sugar, yeast forms an enzyme called zymase which promotes fermentation.
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How to Cultivate Herbs
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HERBS As any good cook will soon tell you, even with all these vegetables in our gardens, there are some vital ingredients missing – herbs. These plants and shrubs take up little space and are invaluable in the kitchen for flavouring food. There is room in every garden to grow a few herbs – they… Continue Reading
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HERBS Herbs have been used as much for their healing powers as their flavours at least since 2500 BC, when the earliest detailed information was recorded in China. Growing herbs Make a herb bed in your garden, or grow herbs in pots on your windowsill. Grow thoSee that you will use most frequently in the… Continue Reading
Herbs For The Self Sufficient Garden
Basil (Sweet Basil) In Britain this herb (Ocimum basilicum) from the tropical areas of Africa and Asia, is treated as a half-hardy annual. Seed may be sown in boxes in gentle heat during late March or in April for plants to set out in the garden in early June. Alternatively, sow seeds in very shallow… Continue Reading
How To Grow Sage
The word ‘sage’ is an Anglo-Gallic corruption of the Latin ‘salvia’ which is derived from salvere meaning to be well or to be in good health. This indicates how highly the Romans thought of sage. Our ancestors thought likewise and we inherit from them the ditty ‘Eat Sage in May and live for aye’. Common… Continue Reading
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How To Grow Thyme
Thyme along with sage, parsley and mint is one of the very few, very well known herbs but most people know it as one of the ingredients of proprietary mixtures rather than as a garden plant. Thyme has been used as a food flavouring for at least 2,000 years. It was also a noted medicinal… Continue Reading
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Growing Mint
Man has made use of mint as a flavouring in food since time immemorial and a mention is made of this useful herb in the gospels of both Luke and Matthew. The Ancient Greeks used mint as a scent. The Romans added it to their baths. In Britain, where having a bath is more or… Continue Reading
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It is a pleasure for the housewife to walk out of the kitchen door to pick sprigs of mint and parsley as and when these herbs are required. Herb growing remains as simple as that in some gardens. But for many gardeners there is a special fascination about herbs and the collection increases until part… Continue Reading
Setting Up A Herb Garden
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Herbs fascinate me. I find romance in their histories and take delight in their names. Think, for example, of Rosemary: Ros-marinus, from the Latin ros, dew, and marinus, the sea. The common rosemary, R. officinalis, was most probably introduced to Britain in Roman times and has been widely grown here ever since as a culinary… Continue Reading
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Utopian Slumps
Thomas Jeppe
By engaging multiple aesthetic traditions of art production and workmanship, Thomas Jeppe’s work meets an expression of desire at the intersection of cultural exchange. He explores domestic and theatrical space to investigate the notion of the exhibition as showroom, constructing enviroments where the familiar is used as a path to the strange. His sculptural and two-dimensional practice pivots around the fundamental questions of: What is work? What is pleasure? And how can one negotiate the disparity between artist and craftsman, critic and devotee?
Jeppe graduated from a BA in Cultural Studies, Curtin University, 2004; a BA in Cultural Studies (Honours), The University of Melbourne, 2005; a Graduate Certificate in Visual Art from the Victorian College of the Arts, 2009 and a Master of Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts, 2011. Solo and joint exhibitions include Compass Trouble, Curro y Poncho, Mexico, 2014; Abstract Journalism, 032c Workshop, Berlin, 2014; Driving Fast Nowhere, Polansky Gallery, Prague, 2014; Spring Revue, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2014; Untitled, Curro y Poncho, Miami, 2013; Primavera, curated by Robert Cook, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2013; Sydney Contemporary, with Caleb Shea, Utopian Slumps, 2013; Seaside Vernacular, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2013; EP, with Max Brand, Austin, Texas, 2013; ASIATISCHE ADLERNASE, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg, 2012; Boon at the Hand of Circumstance, DB Project, Sydney, 2012; Nature of Submission, Museum of Natural Mystery, Perth, 2012; ACAPONETA 1891, Curro Y Poncho, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2012; Exercise in Sophistication, with Caleb Shea, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2011; Idiot’s Promenade, VCA Master Exhibition, Melbourne, 2011; Heinous Armani, with Gian Manik, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, 2011; Cirrhosis By The Sea, Family Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011; The People’s Poet, with Thomas Baldischwyler, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg, 2010; Take The Edge Off, Black and Blue Gallery, Sydney, 2009; and The Height of Elegance, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2009. Selected group exhibitions include L.A. Contemporary, Curro Y Poncho, Los Angeles, 2013; NADA Art Fair, Curro Y Poncho, Miami, 2012; NADA Art Fair, Curro Y Poncho, Miami, 2011; REMIX, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2011; Explaining Colours to the Blind, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, 2011; INDEX, Hamburg Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 2010; Applied Phlebotinum, curated by Andrew Tetzlaff and Julian White, Upstairs at the Napier, Melbourne, 2010 and The Corridor to Success, The Composing Rooms, London, 2010.
Jeppe was recipient of the VCA Masters Nellie Castan Award in 2011. His work is held in the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Artbank collections, as well as private collections in Australia and overseas.
Picture Movement
Seaside Vernacular
Exercise In Sophistication
Public art management and art consulting
info@utopianslumps.com
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NARMS source details
Blainville H. M. D. de. (1828-1830). Malacozoaires ou Animaux Mollusques. [in] Faune Française. Levrault, Paris 320 p., 48 pl. [livr. 18 (29 Nov. 1828), p. 1-80; livr. 20 (7 March 1829), p. 81-170; livr. 23 (1 Aug. 1829), p. 171-240; livr. 28 (3 July 1830), p. 241-320].
Blainville H. M. D. de
Malacozoaires ou Animaux Mollusques. [in] <i>Faune Fran�aise</i>. Levrault, Paris 320 p., 48 pl. [livr. 18 (29 Nov. 1828), p. 1-80; livr. 20 (7 March 1829), p. 81-170; livr. 23 (1 Aug. 1829), p. 171-240; livr. 28 (3 July 1830), p. 241-320].
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78700
Dates after Sherborn & Woodward, 1901, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, 8: 493; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29980555
Taxa (19)
Buccinum tritonium Blainville, 1826 accepted as Nassarius pygmaeus (Lamarck, 1822) accepted as Tritia pygmaea (Lamarck, 1822) accepted as Tritia varicosa (W. Turton, 1825) (original description)
Bulla blainvilliana Récluz, 1843 accepted as Atys blainvillianus (Récluz, 1843) (additional source)
Cerithium conicum Blainville, 1829 accepted as Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829) (original description)
Loligo sagitta Blainville, 1828 accepted as Todarodes sagittatus (Lamarck, 1798) (original description)
Loligo sepiola Blainville, 1828 accepted as Sepiola rondeletii Leach, 1817 (original description)
Mangelia wareni Piani, 1980 accepted as Bela costulata (Risso, 1826) accepted as Mangelia costulata Risso, 1826 (additional source)
Murex alucoides Blainville, 1829 accepted as Coralliophila squamosa (Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838) accepted as Hirtomurex squamosus (Bivona e Bernardi, 1838) (original description)
Murex scalaroides Blainville, 1829 accepted as Dermomurex scalaroides (Blainville, 1829) (original description)
Octopus pictus Blainville, 1826 (original description)
Pleurotoma costulata (Risso, 1826) accepted as Mangelia costulata Risso, 1826 (basis of record)
Pleurotoma elegans Blainville, 1829 accepted as Raphitoma cordieri (Payraudeau, 1826) (original description)
Pleurotoma muricoidea Blainville, 1829 accepted as Raphitoma linearis (Montagu, 1803) accepted as Cyrillia linearis (Montagu, 1803) (original description)
Purpura buccinoidea Blainville, 1829 accepted as Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) (original description)
Triton reticulatum Blainville, 1829 accepted as Cumia reticulata (Blainville, 1829) (original description)
Trochus elegans Blainville, 1830 accepted as Jujubinus exasperatus (Pennant, 1777) (original description)
Trochus hyacinthinus Blainville, 1830 accepted as Calliostoma laugieri (Payraudeau, 1826) (original description)
Trochus inflatus Blainville, 1830 accepted as Gibbula cineraria (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Steromphala cineraria (Linnaeus, 1758) (original description)
Trochus michaudi Blainville, 1830 accepted as Gibbula philberti (Récluz, 1843) (original description)
Trochus seriopunctatus Blainville, 1830 accepted as Calliostoma laugieri (Payraudeau, 1826) (original description)
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HIS HOLINESS SANGHANAYAKA SUDDHANANDA MAHATHERA MET WITH HIS HOLINESS THE 17TH GYALWANG KARMAPA, OGYEN TRINLEY DORJE IN THE TIBETAN LOSAR YEAR 2144
March 8, 2017 0 Comment triratna
A six member delegation headed by His Holiness Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero, the 28th Sanghanayaka of Bangladesh Bouddha Bhikkhu Mahasabha and President of Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha participated in the Grand Garchen Losar Feast – 2144 on the invitation of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje 2017 held at the Monlam Pavilion, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India on 26 February, 2017.
His Holiness Sanghanayaka resolved to offer some of Atisha’s ashes to His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje so that a connection could be made with Tibet. He created a golden replica of the original stupa and placed some of the ashes inside a slightly curved cup with a dome-shaped cover. He also brought with him the precious text to show to the Karmapa. The Karmapa was also offered a thangka of the three deities of long life—Amitayus, White Tara, and Ushnisha Vijaya—and the Karmapa in turn offered the Sanghanaya a magnificent statue of the Buddha.
It is mentioned here that In 1963, a three member Buddhist delegation headed by His Holiness the 24th Mahasanghanayaka Visuddhananda Mahathera the then President of Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha had travelled to China and arranged to bring some remains and hand-written manuscripts of ATISHA DIPANKARA. He again had travelled to China to retrieve precious Buddhist objects in 1978, which included a bronze statue of Atisha, a stupa with the precious ashes of Atisha and a very old Tibetan text of his biography in the form of a supplication, composed by Dromtönpa (1004-1064), his chief disciple and founder of the famous Kadampa lineage. The text is titled, “A Supplication to Jowo Je Palden Atisha Presenting His Life Story”. His Holiness the 28th Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero, one of the many prolific disciples of the towering and illuminating personalities of Bangladesh Buddhist Communities His Holiness the 24th Mahasanghanayaka Visuddhananda Mahathero, was associated with the said two delegations to China. A 3-day long 1000th Birth Anniversary of Atisha Dipankara Sreejnan was held on 23 February 1983 at Dhammarajika Buddhist Monastery, Atisha Dipankara Road, Sabujbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh which was inaugurated by H M Ershad, the then President of Bangladesh. The Atisha Dipankara’s Ash Relics and hand-written manuscripts are presently preserved at Dhammarajika Buddhist Monastery, Atisha Dipankara Road, Sabujbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha since 1978 has been vigorously working for keeping the name of ATISHA DIPANKARA ever-memorable in the world. For this and in view of memorizing him, The Atisha Dipankara Memorial Complex & Relics Stupa is going to be constructed in his birth place at Vajrayogini, Munshiganj, Bangladesh. Moreover, there is a plan to construct Atisha Dipankara Multipurpose Project in which accommodation, library, ritual facilities and a University shall also be incorporated in the said place of this great saint. Further note that the Atisha Memorial Stupa has been completed in the end of 2016 and it was inaugurated by Most Ven. Chun Yi, Vice President, The Buddhist Association of China 2017. Subsequently (13th January, 2017) The Government of the People’s of Republic of Bangladesh has kindly consented the 16 private Universities of which one is THE ATISHA DIPANKAR INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (His Holiness Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathera is the patron of the University).
Gratitude to fb friend Karma Doljang for taking information of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje’s photos and information on the Losar Feas
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BEATLES 'Reunion Anthology': 1970-Now
Art by Tym Stevens.
BEATLESQUE SONGS
BEATLESQUE Solo Songs!
Roll up for the 'BEATLES Reunion' Anthology;
a playlist of over 100 Beatlesque Solo (+ family) songs simulating a fantasy Reunion, as if the band had continued from 1970 to today.
"The Magical Mystery Tour is waiting
to take you away..."
Shortcut link:
• 1) MUSIC PLAYER
• 2) Songs list
• 3) Reunion essay
Hear the whole BEATLESQUE Songs series:
• 1963-esque
• 'REUNION' 1970-Now
Music Player:
BEATLES 'Reunion' Anthology
Spotify playlist title=
BEATLES Anthology 4: 'REUNION' 1970-Now This is a Spotify player. Join up for free here.
Over 150 songs and 10 hours worth
of alternative Beatles sounds!
August 8, 1969.
BEATLESQUE
A Fantasy Reunion Anthology
and Family
George + John '71; Ringo + Paul '73;
John + Paul '74; Ringo + John '76.
• "Love", John Lennon ('70)
• "All Things Must Pass", George Harrison ('70)
• "Maybe I'm Amazed", Paul McCartney ('70)
• "Coochy Coochy", Ringo Starr ('70)
• "My Sweet Lord", George Harrison ('70)
• "Instant Karma", John Lennon ('70)
• "Singalong Junk", Paul McCartney ('70)
• "Look At Me", John Lennon ('70)
• "Every Night", Paul McCartney ('70)
• "Well Well Well", John Lennon ('70)
• "Isn't It A Pity", George Harrison ('70)
• "Early 1970", Ringo Starr (w/ George) ('71)
• "Imagine", John Lennon ('71)
• "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", Paul + Linda McCartney ('71)
• "Mrs. Lennon", Yoko Ono ('71)
• "Oh My Love", John Lennon (w/ George) ('71)
• "Back Seat Of My Car", Paul + Linda McCartney ('71)
• "Jealous Guy" (instr.), John Lennon ('71)
• "It Don't Come Easy", Ringo Starr ('71)
• "Long Haired Lady", Paul + Linda McCartney ('71)
• "Gimme Some Truth", John Lennon ('71)
• "Too Many People", Percy Thrillington ('71)
• "Bangla Desh", George Harrison ('71)
• "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", John Lennon ('71)
• "When The Wind Is Blowing", Wings ('71)
• "Back Off Boogaloo", Ringo Starr (w/ George) ('72)
• "New York City", John Lennon ('72)
• "Best Friend", Paul McCartney & Wings ('72)
• "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)", John Lennon ('73)
• "I'm The Greatest", Ringo Starr (w/ John + George) ('73)
• "Live And Let Die", Paul McCartney & Wings ('73)
• "Meat City", John Lennon ('73)
• "Death Of Samantha", Yoko Ono ('73)
• "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)", George Harrison ('73)
• "Photograph", Ringo Starr (w/ George) ('73)
• "Hi Hi Hi", Paul McCartney & Wings ('73)
• "Approximately Infinite Universe", Yoko Ono ('73)
• "You Are Here", John Lennon ('73)
• "Six O'Clock", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) ('73)
• "Band On The Run", Paul McCartney & Wings ('74)
• "#9 Dream", John Lennon ('74)
• "The Beatle Suite", George Martin ('74)
• "Let Me Roll It", Paul McCartney & Wings ('74)
• "Steel And Glass", John Lennon ('74)
• "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five", Paul McCartney & Wings ('74)
• "Goodnight Vienna", Ringo Starr (w/ John) ('74)
• "Dark Horse", George Harrison ('74)
• "Scared", John Lennon ('74)
• "Soily", Wings ('75)
• "Move Over Ms L", John Lennon ('75)
• "Venus And Mars (Reprise)", Wings ('75)
• "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)", George Harrison ('75)
• "You Can't Catch Me", John Lennon ('75)
• "Love In Song", Wings ('75)
• "I'll Still Love You", Ringo Starr ('76)
• "Let 'Em In", Wings ('76)
• "Beware My Love" (live), Wings ('76)
• "It's In What You Value", George Harrison ('76)
• "I'm Carrying", Wings ('78)
• "Don't Let It Bring You Down", Wings ('78)
• "Now And Then", John Lennon ('78)
• "Winter Rose/Love Awake", Wings ('79)
• "Blow Away", George Harrison ('79)
• "India India", John Lennon (c.'79-'80)
• "Here Comes The Moon", George Harrison ('79)
• "Old Siam, Sir", Wings ('79)
PG+R, Clapton's wedding '79;
GR+P, Ringo's wedding '81;
GR + Yoko, Sean, Julian -Grammy Awards '88
(photo: Bob Gruen).
• "I'm Losing You", John Lennon ('80)
• "On The Way", Paul McCartney ('80)
• "Woman", John Lennon ('80)
• "Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him", Yoko Ono + John Lennon ('80)
• "Wrack My Brain", Ringo Starr (w/ George) ('80)
• "One Of These Days", Paul McCartney ('80)
• "Grow Old With Me", John Lennon ('80)
• "All Those Years Ago", George Harrison (w/ Paul + Ringo) ('81)
• "Here Today", Paul McCartney ('82)*
• "Circles", George Harrison ('82)
• "Tug Of War", Paul McCartney ('82)*
• "Wanderlust", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) ('82)*
• "Pipes Of Peace", Paul McCartney ('83)*
• "Valotte", Julian Lennon ('84)
• "However Absurd", Paul McCartney ('86)
• "When We Was Fab", George Harrison ('87)
• "Johnny B. Goode" (live), Chuck Berry + Julian Lennon ('87)
• "Lucille", Paul McCartney ('88)
• "Handle Me With Care", Traveling Wilburys ('88)
• "Sunday Morning", Julian Lennon ('89)
• "My Brave Face" demo, Paul McCartney + Elvis Costello ('89)
• "Cheer Down", George Harrison ('89)
• "Don't Be Careless Love" demo, Paul McCartney + Elvis Costello ('89)
• "Veronica", Elvis Costello (w/ Paul) ('89)
*(Produced by George Martin.)
Reunion sessions '94 and '95;
Ringo, Paul, George, + George Martin.
• "New Blue Moon", Traveling Wilburys ('90)
• "Saltwater", Julian Lennon ('91)
• "Roll Over Beethoven" (live), George Harrison ('91)
• "Weight Of The World", Ringo Starr ('92)
• "Hope Of Deliverance", Paul McCartney ('93)
• "Strawberries, Oceans, Ships, Forest", The Fireman ('93)
• "Free As A Bird", The Beatles ('95)
• "Real Love", The Beatles ('96)
• "Beautiful Night", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) ('97)*
• "Great Day", Paul McCartney ('97)
• "Looking For You", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) (rec. '97)
• "Glory Tales. Trionfale", Paul McCartney + LSO ('97)
• "Really Love You", Paul McCartney (w/ Ringo) ('97)
• "King Of Broken Hearts", Ringo Starr (w/ George) ('98)
• "Vertical Man", Ringo Starr ('98)
• "La De Da", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) ('98)
• "I Don't Wanna Know", Julian Lennon ('98)
• "Watercolour Guitars", The Fireman ('98)
• "Queue", Sean Ono Lennon ('98)
• "Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On", Ringo Starr ('99)
• "Somedays", Paul McCartney ('99)
*(Orchestration by George Martin.)
Paul Ringo + George '01;
Cirque du Soleil's LOVE '06.
• "Plastic Beetle", Paul McCartney ('00)
• "Horse To The Water", George Harrison + Jools Holland ('01)
• "Riding Into Jaipur", Paul McCartney ('01)
• "Rising Sun", George Harrison ('02)
• "Marwa Blues", George Harrison ('02)
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (live), McCartney/Starr/Clapton ('02)
• "Something" (live), Paul McCartney ('03)
• "Instant Amnesia", Ringo Starr ('03)
• "Elizabeth Reigns", Ringo Starr ('03)
• "Jenny Wren", Paul McCartney ('05)
• "English Tea", Paul McCartney ('05)
• "Don't Hang Up", Ringo Starr ('05)
• "Truly", thenewno2 ('06)
• "Parachute", Sean Ono Lennon ('06)
• "Spectacle", Sean Ono Lennon ('06)
• "Gimme Some Truth", Jakob Dylan + Dhani Harrison ('07)
• "Mr Bellamy", Paul McCartney ('07)
• "Nod Your Head", Paul McCartney ('07)
• "Another John Doe", thenewno2 ('08)
• "For Love", Ringo Starr ('08)
• "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight", The Fireman ('08)
• "A Day In The Life/ Give Peace A Chance" (live), Paul McCartney ('09)
Ringo + Paul '14.
• "Walk With You", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) ('10)
• "The World Was Made For Men", The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger ('10)
• "Father's Son", Fistful Of Mercy ('10)
• "Invisible", Julian Lennon ('11)
• "Disconnected", Julian Lennon ('11)
• "Live A Lie", thenewno2 ('11)
• "Cut Me Some Slack", Paul McCartney + Nirvana ('12)
• "Anthem", Ringo Starr ('12)
• "All That You Wanted", Matt Backer + Julian Lennon ('12)
• "Bluebell", James McCartney ('13)
• "Make It Home", thenewno2 ('13)
• "Rain In England", Tony Mortimer + Julian Lennon ('13)
• "New", Paul McCartney ('13)
• "Hosanna", Paul McCartney ('13)
• "Devil You Know", The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger ('14)
• "Bubbles Burst", The Claypool Lennon Delirium ('16)
• "Alice", James McCartney ('16)
• "Never Know", Dhani Harrison ('17)
• "Give More Love", Ringo Starr ('17)
• "Despite Repeated Warnings", Paul McCartney ('18)
• "Do It Now", Paul McCartney ('18)
• "Grow Old With Me", Ringo Starr (w/ Paul) ('19)
• "In A Hurry", Paul McCartney ('19)
JOHN PAUL GEORGE RINGO
The archaic narrative is that The Beatles were a beautiful romance that ended with a bitter divorce. But conflict narratives are agitprop for tabloid hacks, and the true story is that their love resolved all pain across time, for themselves and their supporters.
The apex of this is in the real Reunion songs "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love".
By themselves they are lovely songs with resonant grace, which is all they need be. Larger, they are also metaphors of redemptive alchemy; at their heart is a haunting ache now transformed into elegant psalms for the ages, full of redemption and resolve from shared experience. Any failure by some to appreciate this is simply that. These wonderful hymns are Love and they are thus loved.
The Beatles were unable to actually get back together as a quartet because of fate. In one regard, this Reunion Playlist is a hopeful fantasy of what songs they might have recorded as a band over the years.
In another light, each of these songs exist because each soul never lost the person they had been.
Their personal paths weren't a denial of their past, but a fulfillment of their diverse possibilities. And along the way, facets of their original core continued "shimmering, glimmering". Even solo, they consistently made particularly Beatlesque songs in the same general spark or specific sound as they had together.
The real re-union of The Beatles was in spirit across time.
Their bond of mutual love was borne out in song, in an arc that resolved grief, anger, and disappointment into humility, kinship, and respect. Gradually they became comfortable with their full identity and their fellowship again. Because of this, whether made solo, or by duets, or trios, or family, each of these actually is a real Beatles song. This player is really about their reunification of spirit, as a brotherhood, a family, a happy legacy.
We were blessed to have had the band, and we've been rewarded with the family songs that have continued to come since then.
LENNON McCARTNEY HARRISON STARKEY
The Beatles were The Beatles, until they weren't.
They became four individuals who expanded their merit on their own. Along the way they fought, flirted, and gradually reconciled with each other and with their legacy. This player charts that parallel journey of the four souls with reverence.
Their sons aren't The Beatles and aren't supposed to be.
They are five individuals who continually prove their own merits in their unique ways. Along their own paths, they have occasionally channeled the sonic spirit of their fathers -as they have as much right to do as all the other musicians who did- and those moments are included here just for fun and family.
But Julian Lennon, Sean Ono Lennon, James McCartney, Dhani Harrison, and Zak Starkey are their own selves, and we respect them best by letting them be.
Follow your hearts, have fun, create progress, reunite the world.
George, Julian, + Ringo '85;
Sean, Yoko, + Ringo; Dhani + Paul;
Julian + Sean; Julian + Dhani;
Sean + Dhani; Sean + James;
Dhani + James; James + Zak.
"And in the end, the love you take
is equal to the love you make."
© Research, Art, and Essay by Tym Stevens
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• 2) The Influences
1) BEATLESQUE Songs:
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LET IT BE guests:
Father John Misty; Weyes Blood;
Elliott Smith; Lenny Kravitz.
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Featuring:The Who! Aretha! Simon & Garfunkel!
Donny Hathaway! Traffic! Bowie!
Badfinger! Black Sabbath! ELO! Faces!
Elton! Al Green! Raspberries! America!
Dennis Wilson! The Rutles! World Party!
Replacements! U2! Ramones!
Pogues! Smithereens! Crowded House!
Lenny Kravitz! Jayhawks! Rembrandts!
Sloan! Oasis! Aimee Mann! Cardigans!
Chris von Sneidern! Myracle Brah! Vines!
White Stripes! Guided By Voices! LEO!
Lucky Jim! Tracy Bonham! Jason Falkner!
Alice Smith! Arctic Monkeys! Adele!
Alabama Shakes! The Autumn Defence!
Libertines! Fistful Of Mercy! Tobias Jesso!
Beck! Portugal, The Man! Mikal Cronin!
• The BEATLES song plays first (shown here in blue).
• It is followed by Clones and Cousins, often bracketed at the beginning and end by Cover versions. Then the next Beatles song repeats the cycle.
• A Clone is a song directly imitating the song. A Cousin is within the same sonic spirit as the original.
• The Beatles' songs are in order of their release; the matching songs are listed sequentially in the order of their own release, i.e., 1970, 1972, 1993, 2004, 2008, etc.
• And the Playlist finishes with the two Reunion songs, "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love".
The Playlist matches each of these songs to its children, in this order...
BEATLES Releases: 1970
• LET IT BE (May 1970):
• "Two Of Us"
• "Dig A Pony"
• "Across The Universe"
• "I Me Mine"
• "Dig It"
• "Let It Be"
• "Maggie Mae"
• "I've Got A Feeling"
• "One After 909"
• "The Long And Winding Road"
• "For You Blue"
• "Get Back"
BEATLES Releases: 1990s
The Reunion Songs
• "Free As A Bird" (Dec 1995)
• "Real Love" (March 1996)
OUTRO:• "The Beatle Suite", George Martin (1974)
How Their Influence Never Ends
LET IT BE (1970)
• The LET IT BE album
is the last album, although it isn't.
• Recorded in early 1969, the back-to-basics GET BACK sessions fell apart, and the majesterial ABBEY ROAD followed as their true cohesive swan song.
• Phil Spector (some say over-)produced this compilation as the band dissolved in May 1970, creating an unintended coda.
• Never meant to be The Grand Finale, the album nonetheless retains much of the rootsy jam spirit of its intent, while still being lifted to glory by John's spectral "Across The Universe" (from '68) and Paul's "Let It Be" and "Long And Winding Road".
• George debuts his slide Blues style, Ringo keeps their egos on time, and MVP Billy Preston suffuses Soul and camraderie with his keys.
• Viewed initially as the hangover to the honeymoon of their career, with the healing passage of time the rawness of its Blues belts, Boogie jams, and Piano hymns earned appreciation, and presaged similar raw and tense classics from EXILE ON MAIN STREET to 3rd/SISTER LOVERS, from TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT to SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS, from TUSK to THE WALL, from SANDINISTA to IN UTERO.
Leads To:
▶ Boogie Rock, Blues Rock, Piano Rock, Gospel Rock, Pub Rock, Roots Rock, Americana, Alt Country, Lo Fi, Indie Folk, Freak Folk.
▶ Rock docs, Behind-The-Scenes, 'Behind The Music', Rock Biofilms.
Beyond time, place, or genre, musical artists have continuously made specific homages reflecting the 1970 sounds of The Beatles.
(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)
Rolling Stones; Dennis Wilson; Lenny Kravitz.
• ROCK
The ragged glory of this final album had profound impact on subsequent works by The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Hollies, Traffic, The Beach Boys with Dennis Wilson, King Crimson, Spirit, Black Sabbath, The Next Morning, Linda Hoyle, Pacific Gas And Electric, Faces, Derek And The Dominos, Pappo's Blues (Argentina), Elton John, Suzi Quatro, Gene Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, and Alabama Shakes.
The Slovenian band Laibach made the Industrial tribute record LET IT BE, re-interpreting all of this album.
• SOUL
Its Gospel anthems and soulful Blues earned amens from artists as varied as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Edwin Starr, Wilson Pickett, The Chambers Brothers, The Staple Singers, Billy Preston, King Curtis, Donny Hathaway, Doris Troy, The Staple Singers, The Fifth Dimension, Bill Withers, Al Green, Boney M, The Streets, and Childhood.
Billy Preston; The Jayhawks; Lucky Jim.
• FOLK
Singer Songwriter then became the vanguard of personal expression in the early-'70s, from Simon And Garfunkel, Jackie De Shannon, Bread, and America, onward to Indie Folkers like Jeffrey Gaines, The Jayhawks, and Wilco.
• BALLAD
The piano anthem.
"A Day In The Life" > "Hey Jude" > "Let It Be" > "Long And Winding Road" > "Imagine" > "Maybe I'm Amazed" =
board balladeers like Jimmy Webb, Lô Borges (Brazil), Billy Joel, Lucky Jim, Alela Diane, Father John Misty, Tobias Jesso Jr, and Weyes Blood.
The Aerovons; Fistful Of Mercy; The Autumn Defense.
• HEIRS
The baton was now handed off to their lineage, transported and transformed across time by The Aerovons, Badfinger, Sleepy Hollow, Electric Light Orchestra, The Rutles, The Toms, The Smithereens, Crowded House with the Finn Brothers, The Rembrandts, Chris von Sneidern, The Grays with Jason Falkner, Oasis with Liam Gallagher, Elliott Smith, Sloan, Cotton Mather, Cloud Eleven, Swag, Myracle Brah, The Strypes (Ireland), Beady Eye, Three Hour Tour, Dr. Dog, Pugwash, The Autumn Defense, and Yorick van Norden.
• FAM
The love you made gets equaled by the love your children relay, as conveyed here by Julian Lennon and by Fistful of Mercy with Dhani Harrison.
• BEAT POP
The pulse still pumped through a diaspora of cousins, like Les Bel Canto (Canada), The Raspberries, Derrek and Lon Van Eaton, Prix, Dave Edmunds, The Times, The Young Fresh Fellows, Teenage Fanclub, The Rembrandts, Supergrass, Velvet Crush, Fastball, Vinyl Kings, The Singles, and Cirrone (Italy).
The Replacements; U2; Paul Weller.
• GARAGE
Its DIY edge and raw gumption energized apostates like Ramones, The Tearaways, Električni Orgazam (Serbia), The Replacements*, The White Stripes, Barrence Whitfield, and The Gurus.
*(who brashly made an album also called LET IT BE)
• PSYCHE
The infinite rung through opened minds for thirdsightseers like Love, Velvet Underground, Kula Shaker, of Montreal, The Apples In Stereo, Dungen (Sweden), Echobrain, Ko And The Knockouts, Sitcom Neighbor, Fay Hallam, Cupid's Carnival, Turn Me On Dead Man, The Proper Ornaments, HOLY, Mikal Cronin, and Cupid's Carnival.
• INDIE
Raw, true, sundry.
Enter the Independents: David Bowie, U2, Eurythmics, Elliot Easton, World Party, The Pogues, Love And Rockets, The Bats (New Zealand), Aimee Mann, Ween, Mercury Rev, Ride, Paul Weller, Beck, Guided By Voices, Blur, The Cardigans, Inger Lorre, Chocolate Genius, Tracy Bonham, Hooverphonic, Rita Lee (Brazil), Los Fabulosos Cadillacs (Argentina), Coldplay, Regina Spektor, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Portugal The Man, and L.E.O..
"I'd like to say thank you
on behalf of the group and ourselves,
and I hope we passed the audition."
• The REUNION songs
are the coda to The Beatles that the band deserved in 1970.
• Note to naysayers: the final period Beatles recording, "I Me Mine" (Jan 1970), was by George, Paul, and Ringo. And many other classic songs had only 3 or 2 or even 1 member on them.
• Truly, "Let It Be" had turned into a elegant elegy for the band, as they sounded in 1969.
• The understated (and deeply unappreciated) grace of "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" is how they integrate the solo hallmarks that followed through 1970 and 1971: John and Paul's solo piano anthems, George's slide guitar, and hearing all of four them sing in verse turns.
They would've made these songs then, and they came back and they did.
• The songs are hauntingly beautiful and rank with the best efforts they ever did. They were made by family as a gift to us with love, and they are wonderful.
Thank you, brothers, for everything.
By 1970, THE BEATLES had left us a canon unsurpassed, and the challenge to step up.
And as time passed, the responses have never stopped...
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BEATLESQUE Songs: 1969-esque
1969-esque
We all live in a YELLOW SUBMARINE:
The Mops; XTC;
Komeda; Olivia Tremor Control.
ABBEY ROAD LP Cover homages:
Booker T And The MGs; Pink Floyd;
The Damned; Sleater Kinney.
Graphic Novel, by Bill Morrison.
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Featuring:Booker T & MGs! Pink Floyd! Bonzo Dog!
CCR! Aretha! The Move! Marvin Gaye!
Temptations! Rolling Stones! Fanny!
Badfinger! Neil Young! Alice Cooper!
Zeppelin! Emitt Rhodes! King Crimson!
Eddie Hazel! 10cc! Thin Lizzy! Queen!
Patti Smith! Elvis Costello! The Slits!
Dead Boys! XTC! Squeeze! Talking Heads!
Soft Boys! Spongetones! Let's Active!
Melvins! Stone Roses! Tori Amos! Beck!
Nirvana! Primal Scream! Supergrass!
Garbage! Olivia Tremor Control! Oasis!
Radiohead! Fastball! White Stripes!
Sam Phillips! Earlimart! Buffalo Daughter!
The Raconteurs! Duke Spirit! El Goodo!
Deerhoof! The Clientele! Tame Impala!
Nicole Atkins! Linus Of Hollywood!
Lawrence Arabia! Smith Westerns!
• The Beatles' songs are in order of their release; the matching songs are listed sequentially in the order of their own release, i.e., 1966, 1968, 1978, 1987, etc.
• (If another acts' song inspired theirs, it is placed right before it: e.g., The Merseys, The Band, James Taylor, Mason Williams, Beethoven, Fleetwood Mac.)
• Because The Beatles finished each year with a Christmas flexidisc for their UK Fan Club, each Music Player ends with Holiday songs done in their style.
• YELLOW SUBMARINE (Jan 1969):
(Film: July 1968, Album: Jan 1969)• "Yellow Submarine"
More "Yellow Submarine" on the 1966-esque Playlist.• "Only A Northern Song"
• "All Together Now"
• "Hey Bulldog"
• "It's All Too Much"
• "All You Need Is Love"
More "All You Need Is Love" on the 1967-esque Playlist.+ George Martin's orchestral score
• GET BACK Sessions woodshedded songs (Jan 1969):
"Teddy Boy", "Suzy Parker", "Because I Know You Love Me So", "Taking A Trip To Carolina", "Fancy My Chances With You", "Woman Don't You Cry For Me", "Beautiful Girl", "Paul's Piano Intro", "Watching Rainbows"
• "Let It Be/ You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" (March 1969)
• "Get Back/ Don't Let Me Down" (April 1969)
More "Let It Be" and "Get Back" on the 1970-esque Playlist.• "The Ballad Of John And Yoko/ Old Brown Shoe" (May 1969)
• "Give Peace a Chance/ Cold Turkey",
• "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)",
•• Songs written for other artists:
"Come And Get It", "Goodbye"
• ABBEY ROAD (Sept 1969):
• "Come Together"
• "Something"
• "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
• "Oh! Darling"
• "Octopus's Garden"
• "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
• "Here Comes The Sun"
• "Because"
• "You Never Give Me Your Money"
• "Sun King"
• "Mean Mr Mustard"
• "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window"
• "Golden Slumbers"
• "Carry That Weight"
• "The End"
• (+ "Her Majesty"
• Christmas flexi
The Playlists will follow the original British release of singles and albums in sequence.
• The YELLOW SUBMARINE album,
like MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, is the other postscript to SGT. PEPPER.
• Compiled mainly from 1967 recordings, it provides a lysergic chaser to the recent stark sobriety of THE WHITE ALBUM.
• A contract obligation for the band, the animated film exploded unexpectedly in popular culture because of its signature Pop Art graphics, and rejuvenated their popularity among a new wave of young.
• The combo of John and Paul's flip fun with George's murky heaviosity creates a heady kids album/kiddy heads album enjoyable for its own frivolity.
▶ Baroque Pop, Raga Rock, PostPunk, Paisley Underground, Neo Psyche, Indie Pop.
▶ Milton Glaser/Peter Max graphics, Midnight Movies, Cult films.
Rolling Stones; The Kinks;
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
• PEERS / All Together Now
The Beatles inspired and were inspired by the Blues and Popcraft of their compatriots: British bands like The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Hollies, Fleetwood Mac, and The Bonzo Dog Band; and American acts like The Turtles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Three Dog Night.
Booker T And The MG's; George Benson; Marvin Gaye.
• SOUL / You Got To Be Free
Their love of Soul was returned across time by Soul, Funk, and HipHop artists like James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Gladys Knight And The Pips, Edwin Starr, Booker T And The MG's, Willie Bobo, Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Brook Benton, Billy Preston, Joe Cocker, Ike And Tina Turner, George Benson, Shirley Scott, Syl Johnson, War, The Persuasions, Bloodstone, The Brothers Johnson, Parliament, Eddie Hazel, PM Dawn, Kindred The Family Soul, Soulive, André 3000, Curtis Harding, and Osaka Monaurail.
Their early love of Jamaican musics was reciprocated in kind by Marcia Griffiths, Toots And The Maytals, The Israelites, Harry J Allstars, and Peter Tosh.
Simon And Garfunkel; Neil Young; Weyes Blood.
• FOLK / You Know I Believe And How
Their moves paralleled the expressions of Folk and Roots artists over time like Gene Clark, The Band, James Taylor, Simon And Garfunkel, Neil Young, America, Jeffrey Gaines, The Jayhawks, Wilco, Sam Phillips, and Ron Sexsmith;
with Country acts like Chet Atkins + Jerry Reed amd The Sweet Remains;
and with piano balladeers like Carole King, Randy Newman, Eddie Hardin, Tori Amos, and Weyes Blood.
• WORLD / Because The World Is Round, It Turns Me On
They wanted Love for the world, and the globe gave it back, in fine work by Les Sextans (Canada), Les Bel Canto (Canada), Les Intrigantes (Canada), Tages (Sweden), The Invaders (South Africa), The Flame (South Africa), Los Brincos (Spain), and Liverpool (Brazil).
The Move; Badfinger; Quilt.
• HEIRS / All Good Children Go To Heaven
They parented a lineage of artists who retained that luminosity in their own outlooks:
The Move, Badfinger, Harry Nilsson, Gerry Rafferty, Emitt Rhodes, Sleepy Hollow, Electric Light Orchestra, The Rutles, and Cheap Trick '70s;
Squeeze, The Spongetones, The Bangles, and The Smithereens '80s;
Chris von Sneidern, Oasis with Noel and Liam Gallagher, The Grays, Sloan, Elliott Smith, The Badge, Myracle Brah, and The Clientele '90s;
Velvet Crush, Swag, The Coral, Spoon, Robbers On High Street, Dr. Dog, and Pugwash '00s;
El Goodo, The Lovetones, Lawrence Arabia, Quilt, Jack Bartlett, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Yorick van Norden '10s.
• IDOLS / And I Will Sing A Lullaby
They kindled their elders like Sarah Vaughan, Vince Guaraldi, The Jazz Crusaders, and Peggy Lee.
• FAM / Sun Kings
Their best creations surveyed their own horizons, with some heartfelt callbacks to their parents in work by The Claypool Lennon Delirium and The GOASTT (The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger) with Sean Ono Lennon, and Fistful of Mercy with Dhani Harrison.
ABBEY ROAD (1969)
• The ABBEY ROAD album
is the true full-power finale of The Beatles.
• After trying to go to basics with the halted GET BACK project, it's a return to full production and a shift from solo demos to group interplay again.
• If THE WHITE ALBUM is the other bracket to RUBBER SOUL, this is the true bookend to SGT. PEPPER.
• Its warm, intricate production infuses a song cycle of Folk glow, contusion Blues, maniacal Pop, gutbucket Soul, Piano hymns, luminous madrigals, emerging Prog Rock, and prescient Moog electronics.
• John brings in his new Punk attack style, Ringo has jolly fun, Paul fuses it all together with grand virtuosity, and George blindsides them all with two of the best love songs ever made.
• The impossibly iconic cover shows our heroes walking from Abbey Road studios into the crossroads of the future.
▶ College Rock/FM, ‘20s/’30s Revival, '50s Revival, Classic Rock, Piano Rock, Boogie Rock, Electronic Rock, Soft Rock, Hard Rock, Punk, Grunge, Indie pop.
▶ Studio wizardry, headphone rock, FM stations, The Standard.
• NEW BEAT / Some Kind Of Innocence Is Measured Out In Years
Their Beat Music with 1969 sunshine remained perennial in the spirit of artists like The Grip Weeds, Push Kings, Frank Lee Sprague, The Redwalls, Filhos da Judith (Brazil), Groovy Uncle, and Miles Kane.
10cc; The Posies; Supergrass.
• POWER POP / We Would Sing And Dance Around
They motivated Pop artists to inflect some adult wisdom in their teen spirit, such as The Raspberries, 10cc, Dwight Twilley, The Motors, The Vapors, Utopia with Todd Rundgren, Peter Case, The Posies, The Young Fresh Fellows, Supergrass, Fountains Of Wayne, Fastball, The Badge, Kaiser Chiefs, The Young Veins, and Richard Swift.
• GARAGE / Killer Diller
Their noize blasts and snark were the lead-up to upstarts like Patti Smith, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Dead Boys, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Public Image Ltd., The Laughing Dogs, Nina Hagen, The Replacements, 60 Ft Dolls, The White Stripes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Caesars, and The Gurus (Spain).
The Damned; Let's Active; Tara Busch.
• PSYCHE / Sail Me On A Silver Sun
Their angel chorales, non sequitur cheek, and hypnotic distortion divinated flocks of lobestrobers like Pink Floyd with David Gilmour, Velvet Underground, Love, The Idle Race, and Caravan '60s;
The Soft Boys, The Dukes Of Stratosphear, Let's Active, The Dream Academy, and The Stone Roses '80s;
Jellyfish, Ocean Colour Scene, Kula Shaker, Santos Dumont (Chile), of Montreal, and The Olivia Tremor Control '90s;
Circulatory System, The Morning Benders, Super Furry Animals, Echobrain, Earlimart, Nicole Atkins, Tara Busch '00s;
Elf Power, The Green Pajamas, Turn Me On Dead Man, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tame Impala, Kegawa No Maries (Japan), The Kissaten (Japan), Mikal Cronin, New Electric Ride, Cupid's Carnival, Vanishing Twin, and HOLY '10s.
• INDIE / By The Banks Of Her Own Lagoon
They opened up the latitude and attitude for Independent artists to explore their own errant spaces, like Alex Chilton, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, Talking Heads, Jane Kennaway, The Glove, Tears For Fears, Love And Rockets, Yo La Tengo, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Paul Weller, Suede, Beck, Sleeper, Radiohead, Garbage, Blur, The Cardigans, Butter 08, Cornershop, Rooney, The Vines, Papas Fritas, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, Girls, Florence And The Machine, Elbow, The Duke Spirit, Arctic Monkeys, Dum Dum Girls, Animal Collective, TECLA, The Besnard Lakes, Low, Beachwood Sparks, Smith Westerns, Banda de Turistas (Argentina), Tashaki Miyaki, and Toro y Moi.
• ICONOCLASTS / Pataphysical Science
They, singlular and together, were noize and assemblage and shizoid and fearless, hence Yoko Ono, William S. Fischer, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Negativland, Ween, Buffalo Daughter, Deerhoof, and White Denim.
Fanny; Pink Floyd; Elton John.
• ROCK / The Love That's Shining All Around You
They turned epic Rock into a malleable Art form, sculpted ever since by Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Chicago, Fanny, Eric Clapton, Elton John, T. Rex, New York Dolls, Humble Pie, Flied Egg, Velvert Turner Group, Aerosmith, Leslie West, Thin Lizzy, Angel, Queen, Bad Company, Be Bop Deluxe, King's X, Lenny Kravitz, Living Colour with Corey Glover, Jane's Addiction, Coroner, Type O Negative, Melvins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell, Skunk Anansie, Silverchair, Jet, Black Joe Lewis, and The Raconteurs.
In 1969, THE BEATLES fractured in turmoil and yet reconvened for final glory.
And as their sounds expanded, so did all the responses across time...
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‘The Shape of Water’ Dildo: We Just Spoke With the Creator of the Amphibian Man-Inspired Sex Toy
Whether or not “The Shape of Water” wins the Best Picture trophy at the Oscars next month, it’s already inspired a different kind of statuette. This one’s a dildo.
XenoCat Artifacts is selling a sex toy inspired by Amphibian Man — a.k.a. The Asset — in their Etsy shop. The 100 percent silicon dildo is essentially a mockup of what artist and co-owner Ere and her partner Ink believe the big-screen sea creature’s penis — alluded to but not seen in the film — would look like. Naturally, we had to talk to them all about it.
“I’ve been anticipating this movie for a while,” Ere, an assumed name for her unique line of work, told us on Thursday. “The shape, the character design are gorgeous — and I love [Guillermo] del Toro’s work.”
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The best part for a small business like theirs? The two-person team already had a mold that would work perfectly. Previously called “The Prince,” (no, not after the late singer, though the “Raspberry Beret” musician certainly inspired some sex toy play himself, may God rest his soul) the model boasts “ruffled, gill-like” ridges and a “wave” shape. Oh, it also has four piercings — a Prince Albert and a Jacob’s Ladder (if you know what those are). You go, Amphibian Man.
To adapt it for fans of the latest del Toro flick, Ere just had to do some color-matching. Remixed in blues and greens and blacks and re-titled “The Jewel of the Amazon,” the Asset toy sold out its original run of 20 in two days, Ere told TheWrap. That netted them about $2,000.
We’ll break those economics down for our readers. A non-custom “Shape of Water”-inspired toy runs $70 for a “medium” and $50 for a “small.” XenoCat customers can tack on $20 more for custom elements — like a different firmness, for example.
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And we know you’re wondering, so we asked: The medium dildo is 7 and-a-half inches in length, 7 inches of which are “insertable.” It has a 6-inch circumference around at its widest point. The small is 6 inches long, 5 inches of which are insertable. That one has a 4 and-a-half inch circumference.
Each toy contains body safe pigments and can be boiled to clean. They’re all handmade, and take about two and-a-half hours to create. See the finished product here:
Due to popular demand, Ere and Ink plan to make another limited run of 20 and post them to Etsy in time for next month’s Academy Awards. Yes, this is their full-time job.
Also Read:Ted Cruz’s War on Dildos: A Short Explainer
While she’s “got plans” for more movie and video game-inspired toys (maybe “Monster Hunter,” definitely not “Jurassic Park”) Ere’s also got her sights set on going Hollywood in another way.
A part-time prop-maker — she made a chest plate for a “Resident Evil” character — Ere would love to create masks and prosthetics on the side for movie sets, or for theater like Cirque de Soleil. But don’t worry, loyal XenoCat customers, her true joy will always lie in giving you pleasure.
“The money keeps bringing me back to the dildos,” Ere said.
https://www.thewrap.com/the-shape-of-water-dildo-amphibian-man-asset-movie/
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Reminder-This Tuesday-Nov 21-The Erotic Literary Salon-Live, Tonight- Diabolique Ball 21: Myths and Mysteries
Nov. 18 Blog, Events, Slideshow no comments
Tuesday another wonderful Erotic Literary Salon and Adult Sex-Ed, plus December 9, 11am-1pm the Erotic Literary Salon will be presenting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Please read the last blog for details.
TONIGHT: Annual Fundraiser – Tickets – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diabolique-ball-21-myths-and-mysteries-tickets-38228077208?aff=eac2
Diabolique Ball 21: Myths and Mysteries
Diabolique Ball is legal to drink, we turn 21 this year!
Our event is 21+ with ID for ticket holders that are dress code compliant (see below for rules of conduct and dress code). The dress code is mandatory.
This years Ball is benefitting Women’s Medicial Fund and Witnesses to Hunger. Our playstations and internal chairty fundraisers benefit TransFaith.
The event runs from 8pm to 1am with dungeon play ending at Midnight. Guests are welcome to remain after our event since Voyuer is open until 3am and you can continue to dance and show off your outfits with the general public.
DRESS CODE AND RULES:
Diabolique Ball Dress Code
Diabolique Ball is famous for its strict dress code of Fetish, Fantasy, and Formal. If you don’t arrive wearing the appropriate attire, our fabulous and fierce Fashion Police will require that you strip down to your intimates or you will be turned away at the door. The Fashion Police are the final authority on what is permitted in the event, so who you know will not get you in if you do not comply with the mandatory dress code.
There are three tiers to the Dress Code: Theme Specific (which changes yearly), Tried and True, and Never Permitted. A copy of the Dress Code can be found on the Diabolique website, posted at the event, or with Fashion Police volunteers. The Diabolique Foundation kindly asks all patrons to please consider matters of good taste when choosing your outfit so that all our guests can feel comfortable and have fun!
Not sure what to wear or want an official ruling before the event? Feel free to contact us at fashionpolice@diaboliquephilly.comfor suggestions and advice prior to show time!
Each year’s theme always lends itself to lots of costuming ideas, from the simple to the extravagant. It doesn’t have to be difficult to find clothing that meets our standards, especially if you shop at our sponsor stores PASSIONAL Boutique, Delicious Boutique, and/or Philadelphia AIDS Thrift.
Changing area and clothing check are available at the entrance to the Ball.
-Thongs, g-strings, jockstraps, loincloths, etc. but genitals must be covered at all times
-Pasties or electrical tape over nipples
-Formalwear including: tuxedos, gowns, Historical military dress uniforms— this is a “black tie” event. Suits are only permitted if for drag (Dress it up, or we dress you down. Consider yourselves warned!)
-Fetish wear including: latex, vinyl, leather, pleather, etc.
-Scene and club wear including: Goth, Cyber, Industrial, Vampire, Neo-Victorian, etc.
-Drag and other cross-dressing (Ladies wearing your mans suit does not count. Add a beard and balls and now we are talking! Gents we want RuPaul not Flip Wilson. Step it up for charity)
-Lingerie, corsets, fishnet, body stockings
-Saran wrap, fashion tape, bondage tape
-Adult Baby and other ageplay attire
-Full-body paint or makeup
-Bondage gear, straitjackets, etc.
-Human Pony tack, puppy accessories, fursuits, etc.
Never Permitted
-Exposed “female” nipples (PA Liquor Law regulations)
-Exposed genitals or anus
-Sneakers of any brand or color (black sneakers are not allowed!)
-Cotton tee shirts
-Athletic shorts or jerseys
-Baseball hats or caps
-Khakis
-Offensive And racist symbols (KKK, swastikas, etc.)
-Weapons of any kind, whether fake or real
-Jeans are NEVER permitted unless worn under chaps. (Do not try and argue about them being black, denim is denim!)
Questions? Please e-mail our Fashion Police Coordinator at fashionpolice@diaboliquephilly.com
Diabolique Ball Rules and Etiquette
PHOTO RULES:
-No PHOTOS allowed, this includes SELFIES, too. Refusal to follow this rule will result in being removed from the Ball and all images must be deleted. Our Ball is a safe environment for everyone’s privacy. Taking a photo at the Ball is considered to be a violation of CONSENT and an ASSAULT of ones privacy. (Staff have the right to inspect photographic devices if you take pictures. Staff will supervise picture deletion.)
-If you want a photo to remember the Ball, there are EVENT PHOTOGRAPHERS. They are the only ones permitted to take photos. If you want a selfie, take it at home.
-If you do not want your photo taken by anyone, including EVENT PHOTOGRAPHERS, we have special wrist bands for you to wear. Just ask at the entrance for one.
GENERAL RULES OF CONDUCT:
-Nipples and Genitals must be covered at ALL TIMES, this is a STATE LAW. Failure to comply will be governed at the discretion of the event staff and venue staff. Continued non-compliance will result in removal from the Ball.
-FOOTWEAR must be worn at all times on the the dance floor and in other common areas.
-All Firearms, Firearm Replicas, Sharp Weapons or Replica Weapons are BANNED from the Ball.
-Any object, substance, gas, or liquid illegal in the United States, the state of Pennsylvania, or the city of Philadelphia is ILLEGAL at this event, too.
-The Organizers and the Venue take no responsibility for any injury, damage, or loss sustained during the Ball
-All racist, homophobic, culturally insensitive images, signs, and/or clothing are BANNED from the Ball. The venue and event organizers reserve the right to determine if in violation.
-The Diabolique Ball and Venue expect all guests to behave in a reasonable and courteous manner. Frequent refusal to do so will result in removal from the Ball. The Ball Organizers and Venue reserve the right to determine if behavior is negatively impacting the event and event guests.
PLAY AND DUNGEON RULES OF CONDUCT:
-We reserve the right to declare any toy, implement, object, or practice as unwise or prohibited at the event.
-All play MUST be consensual.
-All Fire Play is prohibited due to fire codes of the venue.
-The Dungeon Monitors’ (DM) word is LAW and FINAL.
-Sex, oral sex, intercourse, and/or penetration is PROHIBITED, this is the law.
-Bodily fluids (blood, saliva, etc.) may not leave the body.
-If you are visibly intoxicated and/or impaired by any substance, you will not be allowed to engage in any play and/or scenes. If behavior is deemed negatively impacting other guests playing you will be asked to leave the space and possibly the Ball.
-Do not move the furniture or set up your own furniture.
-Do not interact with people who are in a scene unless they approach you first.
-Give people time to engage in aftercare after a scene before you interact with them.
-Please clean up after yourselves. Cleaning supplies are available.
-Do not monopolize the equipment.
-Do not walk through ongoing scenes.
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Sexual Fantasies-Survey, Reminder Tuesday-July 21-The Erotic Literary Salon-Live
Jul. 15 Blog, Events, Slideshow no comments
Olga Pérez, 2010 Grand Slam First Person Arts Slam winner will be the featured presenter. Meet her Carlito’s and you will never stop laughing.
Take part in a survey of sexual fantasies conducted by independent researcher Justin J. Lehmiller, Ph.D.:
Participation Requirement: Please note that you must be age 18 or older in order to participate in this study.
Purpose: To better understand the nature and origin of sexual fantasies today.
What you will do: If you decide to participate, you will complete one survey. You will be asked questions about your sexual fantasies, as well as your personality and your sexual history, attitudes, and functioning.
Time required: For most people, this survey will take less than 30 minutes to complete.
Risks: There are no known risks associated with participating in this study. However, you will be asked questions about potentially sensitive matters, including specific sexual fantasies you may have had before. Some people may find the content of some of these fantasies to be unusual or shocking.
Benefits: There are no personal benefits; however, you will have the opportunity to contribute to what is designed to be the largest survey study every of sexual fantasies, which will greatly enhance our knowledge of this important aspect of human sexuality. You will also have an opportunity to reflect upon your own fantasies.
Compensation: There is no direct compensation for participation; however, participants will have the option of entering a raffle to win an Amazon.com gift card at the end of the survey by supplying their email address. If you choose to provide your email address, it will be stored separately from your responses to the survey questions in order to ensure anonymity. Upon completion of data collection, a drawing will take place for one $100 gift card, four $50 gift cards, and eight $25 gift cards.
Confidentiality: All data will be collected anonymously. Data will be encrypted and stored in a secure on-line database. When research results are reported (which may be online or in other publications), responses will typically be aggregated (added together) and described in summary; however, individual fantasies will also be reported in conjunction with minimal demographic information (e.g., gender and sexual identity).
Participation and withdrawal: Your participation is completely voluntary, and you may refuse to participate without penalty or loss of benefit to which you may otherwise be entitled. You may quit at any time without penalty or loss of benefit to which you may otherwise be entitled.
To continue:
https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=161649
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Tonight-The Erotic Literary Salon-Live, VIRTUAL-REALITY PORN IS COMING, AND YOUR FANTASIES MAY NEVER BE THE SAME
Mar. 17 Blog, Events, Slideshow no comments
Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the Erotic Literary Salon, tonight in Philadelphia.
VIRTUAL-REALITY PORN IS COMING, AND YOUR FANTASIES MAY NEVER BE THE SAME by Peter Rubin
AS A KID, Ela Darling fell in love with the idea of virtual reality. This was the late ’90s, early 2000s; Johnny Mnemonic and the Nintendo Virtual Boy had already come and gone, and VR had moved from brain-busting sci-fi concept to schlocky punch line to faded cultural footnote. But still, Darling was an avid reader and D&D player, and the idea of getting lost in an immersive world—“making visual what I was already losing myself in books for,” as she puts it—was something she found not just exciting but romantic.
Not surprisingly for an active reader, Darling went on to get a master’s degree and become a librarian. Perhaps more surprisingly, she then stopped being a librarian and started acting in pornographic movies. (Yes, that means she officially became a sexy librarian. Fun fact: She has the Dewey decimal number for the Harry Potter books tattooed on her back.) And after a few years of bondage scenes, masturbation videos, and girl-on-girl movies, Darling attended the E3 videogame trade show and tried an early version of the Oculus Rift, the headset that jump-started the current VR revolution. “The first thing I think of when I hear of new technology,” she says, “is ‘How can I fuck with it?’ or ‘How can I let people watch me fucking on it?’ Usually there’s one or the other application if you think hard enough.” With Oculus, Darling didn’t have to think too hard at all; now, at 28, she’s busy forging a future as creative director (and star performer) of VRtube, a nascent online studio and distribution center for VR porn.
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It’s not just enterprising actresses who think this way. Call it Rule 34a: Whenever a new media technology appears on the horizon, someone pops into a comment thread to say, “I can’t wait to see what the porn industry is gonna do with this.” And indeed, from VCRs to CD-ROMs to streaming video, nearly every home entertainment platform of the past 40 years was either popularized or downright pioneered by companies that could help people watch other people getting freaky. It generally works out well for everyone: If half of all videotapes for sale in the US in the late ’70s hadn’t been X-rated, it might have taken VCRs a lot longer to reach critical mass in the early ’80s.
Yet no visual technology has ever been so perfectly suited to sexual applications as VR. Yes, video brought sexually explicit content from theaters into homes, but virtual reality promises to eclipse even that shift. Historically, we’ve found titillation at a remove. In erotic woodcuts, DVDs, even streaming webcam shows, there’s a frame—whether a book, a Polaroid border, or a screen—through which we experience whatever it is that turns us on. VR is more than just another iteration. It doesn’t just change the frame. VR erases it. It allows us to exist inside the environment. The NSFW possibilities are endless. Yes, we’re at the dawn of this thing, and all the easy points of reference—Star Trek’s holodeck, the Matrix, Community’s Dreamatorium—are years of refinement and R&D away. The real question is what we’ll do in Year One.
Here’s what we’re not going to do: pull a Lawnmower Man. That is, we’re not going to put on full-body haptic suits, climb into gyroscopes, and transform ourselves into shimmering posthuman forms that overcome our bodily shackles and merge with one another in a transcendent liquid singularity. A huge part of the reason VR has finally tipped into mainstream consciousness is that it’s lightweight and low-footprint: a headset display, some sort of input controller, and sound. Sure, the libidinally aspirational can shell out for omnidirectional treadmills and mo-cap harnesses to facilitate Peak Air-Hump. Japanese sex-toy company Tenga has even helped design a complicated prototype that syncs a virtual sex simulator with … well, you can imagine with what. But for the foreseeable future, VR will be aural and visual only; if localized tactile feedback is what you’re after, you’re gonna need to handle that yourself. (Good riddance, “teledildonics.” You’re the worst word ever, and you’ll be despised long after your passing.)
WITH VR, YOU’RE NOT WATCHING A SCENE ANYMORE.
YOU’RE INHABITING IT.
We’re also not going to lose ourselves in a panoply of CGI flesh calibrated to our every kink and whim. Not that people haven’t tried: The past two years of VR game development are littered with the husks of abandoned projects with names like Sinful Robot. The problem is, as their developers learned, creating a fluid 360-degree videogame is already difficult—and making it stereoscopic and photo-realistic complicates things exponentially. Players can handle the janky facial animations in an action game like Far Cry 4 because they’re secondary to the purpose of the game (i.e., Shoot Everything). Certainly, depictions of sex can be arousing at low fidelity, as erotic comic books and vast swaths of hentai anime suggest. But obliterate the proscenium the way VR does and suddenly those lossy signals lead straight to the uncanny valley, that very unsexy place where things look sorta real but not real at all. The vast majority of VR-capable “adult games” are Second Life–like knockoffs with graphics that look like waxy (and waxed) blow-up dolls. While a VR version of phone or FaceTime sex isn’t tenable yet—even if you could see each other, you’d have headsets on—the most promising avenue appears to be 360-degree 3-D video, like the kind some people are using to produce VR concert experiences or the projects showcased at Sundance’s New Frontiers program in January.
When Ela Darling and her collaborators filmed some test footage for the Oculus Rift, what they found wasn’t just titillating, but human.
Regardless, what we are going to do is find something virtually (sorry) unheard-of in pornography: intimacy. The thing that’s going to take us there is “presence,” that phenomenon that occurs when head-tracking latency, screen quality, and processing wizardry combine to trick your brain into thinking that you’re existing in a virtual space, rather than just watching a screen that extends past the edges of your vision. If your brain believes it, your body reacts in kind—with all the responses that come along with that.
So if you’re standing at the edge of a skyscraper in VR and you lean over the side, you experience vertigo. If you’re in a darkened corridor on an alien spaceship and you hear a rustle behind you, you freak the fuck out—full, heart-pounding fight-or-flight response. If you’re sitting in a musician’s apartment while he noodles on a piano, his dog sleeping behind you on the hardwood floor, you feel serene. (This isn’t speculation; I’ve done all those things in various VR environments—some CG, some video—and I’ve had all those reactions.)
The big question is whether sexual content in VR will induce the same reptile-brain response. Ela Darling would certainly like to know. She found like-minded colleagues last year when they posted on Reddit about wanting to make VR porn. They flew her from California to Maryland last April; in true tech startup fashion, they turned out to be 20-year-old college students. (“It was very Weird Science,” Darling says.) Nonetheless, they shot a test scene in their dorm room. Rather than invest in an array of pricey high-end Red cameras like many other fledgling VR video companies, they went decidedly DIY, taping together two GoPro cameras to create a stereoscopic 3-D image with a wide field of view on the cheap. (Again in true tech startup fashion, Darling initially wore an R2-D2 swimsuit.) After she flew back to LA, one of the students emailed her; he’d finished processing the test scene and was so blown away by the result that he wanted her to be a partner in the venture. “This is unlike any porn I’ve seen,” he wrote. “It’s like I’m watching an actual person.”
More great articles: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/vr-porn/
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Home Ethics Concussions
Could a Local District Attorney Undo Youth Football?
Photo: SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
Here is an undeniable fact. The football industry feels it is under siege because do-gooders think football is hazardous to the people playing the game. Yet despite more and more evidence that playing football can and is causing brain damage from brain injuries suffered on the field whether in a game or practice, football’s popularity is high and parents continue to sign their children up for the sports.
More colleges are putting teams on the field. Even though people running the football industry are feeling somewhat threatened, TV networks have invested billions into the NFL and college football, municipalities in Texas have spent tens of millions of dollars on high school football stadiums, corporate marketing partners want to be associated with football and cities are still chasing NFL teams by throwing money at owners or giving owners incredible tax breaks and tax incentives to relocate their teams.
But what does scare the people who run the football industry? Dr. Bennet Omalu, speaking at the New York Press Club on Monday night, had the answer.
Dr. Bennet Omalu, left, recently received the 2016 Dr. Ernst Jokl Sports Medicine Award from the
United States Sports Academy, the Academy’s highest award in sports medicine. Photo: United States Sports Academy
A local district attorney filing child abuse charges in the event of a catastrophic injury to a child in a football game or practice. That has not happened yet. There is no suggestion that is going to happen at any time in the near future because it is understood that sports does not necessarily have to adhere to normal legalities. The sports industry can legislate itself.
But can youth leagues and local school boards fight a district attorney? That could present an untenable situation for children’s sports leagues if a district attorney decides to move ahead with charges.
Dr. Omalu is not liked by the football industry. He discovered CTE in the brain of Mike Webster during an autopsy and that finding has sent shock waves throughout the football business. The youth football industry’s worst nightmare might be a prosecutor.
By Evan Weiner For The Politics Of Sports Business
This article was republished with permission from the original publisher, Evan Weiner.
***Editor’s note: Dr. Bennet Omalu of Sacramento, Calif., earned the 2016 Dr. Ernst Jokl Sports Medicine Award from the United States Sports Academy. Omalu, a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist, conducted the autopsy of Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster which led to his discovery of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, in football players.***
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The Go-Between Recap: #1
This is part of a recap of The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley, my literature text for this year. Its main purpose is to help me blow off steam and mock a book which is actually pretty good. Expect snark, complaints, and very very occasional analysis. Do not take seriously.
My copy starts with an introduction, which I'm going to use for homework. This introduction goes on for 28 pages, and then a chronology of events, also for homework, and then a list of books by Hartley (i.e. advertisement). Dear readers, a moment of silence for this dead tattooed tree.
(That last is from Tumblr; anyone have a link I can credit?)
We finally start with the famous first line:
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
I mean, wow. Never mind snarking, I love this sentence.
Then the MC, Leo, starts to describe a diary he's looking at. Lots of symbolic literary stuff. Leo is touchy about his memory. No, really. His memory. He doesn't want to look at the diary. But after a long paragraph of angst, he finally opens it; it's marked "for the year 1900".
Leo starts to think about Zodiac signs, which bear literary significance except guess what I wanted to read about? Leo's dark past, not his musings on the Zodiac, delusions he can perform magic, and a whole. paragraph. on. the. year. 1900. Seriously? What happened to shocking one-liners?
Leo then goes on to remember how he was bullied at school and used "blood magic" to vanquish them, hence gaining fame. Except he doesn't understand blood magic. But he's great at managing school, even though he was bullied and used blood magic to nearly kill the bullies. Really? Is Leo that deluded? I don't even think the magic is real.
Leo starts to converse with his past self, who reminds him of the incidents at Brandham Hall. He then looks at the combination lock of the box containing his diary: the password is LEO, his own name.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a crappy password?
Leo is invited to Brandham Hall for the summer holidays by Maudsley, a rich student whose first name he doesn't remember. (Within two pages, we're told it's Marcus. Way to go.) Marcus is impressed by Leo's magic, even though Leo is a complete jerk in using it. And we still haven't cleared up whether he's actually magical! (Spoiler alert: he isn't.)
After a few pages of rambling about "magic", we return to the invitation. And it says ... Leo is invited to Brandham Hall. Whew! Almost thought we'd get some new information there. (Okay, we found out Brandham Hall is in Norfolk. Informative.)
Leo doesn't want to go all of a sudden. Is this going under foreshadowing?
That's it for today: please do leave a comment whether you laughed to death, were shocked by my ridiculous comments, or simply awesome enough to make my day by saying hi :D And don't forget to subscribe for more random morbid insanity!
By Alyssa Carlier at October 25, 2014
Labels: recap, school sucks, the go-between
I like your blog :D
Alyssa Carlier 4 November 2014 at 21:32
Thanks so much, hope you enjoy future content as well!
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A Mother in Israel
Parenting and women's issues from a Jewish perspective.
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You are here: Home / Divorce / Free Tamar Epstein for International Agunah Day
Free Tamar Epstein for International Agunah Day
March 7, 2012 By Hannah Katsman
Today is the Taanit Esther, a fast day to commemorate the threat of extermination faced by Jews as described in the Megillah. But did you know that it’s also “International Agunah Day“?
According to Jewish law, a divorce becomes final when a man hands his wife a get, or a writ of divorce. Sometimes men withhold the get to punish or extort their wives. While the occasional wife refuses to grant a get, Jewish law is stricter about women remarrying. A woman who wants to end her marriage, but whose husband can’t or won’t provide a get, is known as an agunah, meaning “anchored.”
The agunah issue has made news in the United States. Aharon Friedman is a congressional committee aide for the prominent House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Michigan Republican Rep. Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican.
Aharon Friedman and his wife, Tamar Epstein, have been separated for four years and civilly divorced for two. Yet Friedman has not yet granted Epstein a get.
The Jewish community has been pressuring Friedman’s boss to make a statement condemning all forms of emotional abuse including Get refusal. So far, Camp’s response has been to disregard the case as “gossip” and to disable posting to his Facebook page.
You can help by signing a petition asking Camp to make a statement and asking your friends and family to do the same. Your effort can help free Tamar and put this issue to rest for both families.
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Filed Under: Divorce Tagged With: agunah, divorce, Jewish divorce
Thank you for the link, and thank you for giving us a simple Action – signing this particular petition. People often feel helpless – “but what can I, a lone individual, do to help?” You came up with a good response.
Cohen Laundry says
Thanks for posting this. I had no idea that today was “International Agunah Day. Coincidentally, I recently posted on the get. It’s very difficult from a secular perspective to understand why this particular halacha – the requirement of a get, is so difficult to change given the comunity wide recognition for its sometimes devastating effects. Haven’t halachas ever been revised in the past . . i.e. are Jews still halachically allowed to own slaves? Please excuse my ignorance – I’m just trying to understand the issue . . .
http://coinlaundryblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/question-what-i-dont-get-about-get.html
mother in israel says
Hi Cohen, Yes, halachot have been revised–although in the case of slaves it’s become more of an irrelevance. But the major problem is a lack of central leadership, even within Orthodoxy. If one rabbi is lenient and finds a way to get around the halacha, the children of the woman’s next marriage could have problems when they want to marry. In this way the most stringent keep things from changing, at least in the areas of marriage and conversion.
Thanks Hannah! That’s really interesting. Curious re: your thought on this: Just as the stringent make rules of exclusion based on leniency (e.g. non-Orthodox conversion), perhaps it would behoove the relatively less extreme to also set standards of exclusion based on extreme stringency. Is it not possible that some things go too far against human interests to be acceptable . . . . ?
Cohen, that is certainly one way to look at it.
Observer says
There are some real limitations on what can be changed, halachikly speaking. It’s generally not an issue of one Rov or another being too strict. In a case like this, Rabbinic action or opinion is just not relevant here.
EVERY Rav involved, across the spectrum agrees that he needs to give her a Get; the Beis Din ruled and he needs to get with the program. The problem is that in the US, there is simply NO halachik enforcement mechanism. Most of the(very few) secular “get” laws on the books can be sidestepped, and that even supposes that he is in a jurisdiction where these laws exist.
In Israel, the Beis Din does have more tools at hand. Not fool proof, but much more useful.
I just called rep. Camp’s office in Washington, D. C. (202) 225-3561 and left a message with his secretary about this issue.
Great idea, Lynne.
Zinedine says
I have signed the petition and ask my family to do the same. It is certainly a good cause!
Allan Katz says
The jewish community and the state can do a lot more to make it not very unpleasant to refuse to give a get. The problem is that crazy people are willing to suffer so others will suffer too.
Ms. Krieger says
I have a friend whose husband refused to give her a get. She eventually convinced several prominent Orthodox rabbis from the surrounding area to pressure him into it — but it was very unpleasant and took a long time. I do not know exactly how they pressured him into it, she does not like talking about it. The man cared very much about his public reputation, so I assume they threatened to ‘tell people’ including his employer etc.
Obviously Aharon Friedman doesn’t seem to care.
“In an interview with the Jewish Review about the issue of agunot, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the spiritual leader of the Efrat in the West Bank, was asked why some of the halachic proposals that would enable a rabbinic court to dissolve marriage contract even without the husband’s consent haven’t been accepted by the Orthodox community. His answer was pointed: “I think to a certain extent there is a lack of judicial courage in our time.”
Yet the Orthodox rabbis expect a non-Jewish congressman to be the one to exhibit courage, to fire or reprimand his employee for failing to adhere to the ruling of a religious court. The principle of the separation of church and state doesn’t apply here, I guess. And imagine the outcry that would result if Muslim imams, in an attempt to enforce the rulings of a sharia court, applied to their congressional representatives in such a public way for help.”
Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/152512/on-agunah-issue-pressure-rabbis-not-rep/#ixzz1p7U0TPdX
Sorry, this is foolishness.
Firstly, Rabbi Riskin is simply wrong about the reasons why the proposals have been rejected. Most of them are clearly not doable in any way, from a Halachik perspective – something which he knows quite well. His proposal is not ridiculous, but when you dig into it, it becomes clear that what he wants to do simply does not work. (And, some of the analysis I have seen have come from Rabbis who HAVE exhibited the courage to trey to do something “different” about the problem.)
The congressman does not need to “exhibit courage” to take action here; no on is asking him to do anything in the least bit illegal, nor anything that’s likely to hurt his ratings. And, no, separation of church and state does not apply here. If it did he would have said so.
The comparison to Sharia is odious (I think intentionally so.) Had the community tried pressuring the congressman to push his employee into something that could be easily seen as abusive, that would be one thing, but this is a different thing.
The Forward has an agenda. And, it’s not about the true benefit of women.
Aharon Friedman says
Originally the divorce laws were set up with the assumption that there would be a beit din which could levy civil and criminal penalties on recalcitrant husbands. In Israel the civil courts have taken on this function, and get refusers can be jailed, fined, or have other civil and criminal penalties applied. In the US and other countries such a thing is unfortunately not possible. It is clear that without the power of a beit din, the get process as it was originally envisioned is broken.
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Abdoulaye Wade's election bid poses risk to Senegal stability: US
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third mandate in next month's election, which has triggered a number of protests, could endanger his country's record of democracy and stability, the United States warned on Monday.
Local media and a resident in the northern town of Podor said two people were killed on Monday in the latest pocket of unrest since Senegal's top legal body said Wade could stand despite complaints it breached rules setting a two-term limit.
A policeman died when protesters hurled rocks, overturned cars and set fire to tyres in the streets of Dakar on Friday, when the decision was made public. Opposition appeals were rejected late on Sunday.
The warning was the strongest comment yet from Washington about the February 26 election in the only country in mainland West Africa to have never suffered a coup d'etat. Separately, France also issued concerns over the election process.
"We are concerned that the decision by President Wade to seek a third term ... could jeopardise the decades-long record that Senegal has built up on the continent for democracy, democratic development and political stability," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns told a teleconference.
"We hope very much that the political process will be a peaceful one and it will allow for the free active participation of all Senegalese," added Burns, who was speaking from the sidelines of an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Wade has chosen to stay in Senegal and not attend the summit, an event he has rarely missed in the past. Truckloads of police in riot gear have been deployed around his presidential palace, armed with teargas, grenade launchers and truncheons.
A woman who was headed to market and a 17-year-old student, were killed during the anti-Wade demonstration in Podor, according to local media and a resident contacted by Reuters in the town on the border with Mauritania.
A gendarmerie spokesman said the incident were under investigation.
"CONSTITUTIONAL COUP"
Hours before Burns' comments, Senegal's Constitutional Council rejected appeals to its decision to approve Wade's candidacy while throwing out the presidential bid of world music star Youssou N'Dour. It argued that N'Dour had not collected the 10,000 valid signatures needed to stand.
"France regrets that all political viewpoints cannot be represented," French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in Paris of the list of 14 approved candidates, which includes three ex-premiers and the Socialist party candidate.
Valero also raised concerns over the arrest on Saturday of Alioune Tine, a leader of the "M23" street protest movement.
"On principle we condemn any use of the justice system for political ends," he added.
The U.S. and French statements are a sign of the growing international concern over Senegal, where the 85-year-old Wade has ruled over the poor, mainly agricultural country with a mixed record since defeating rival Socialists in a 2000 vote.
Domestic critics say Wade has done little to tackle mass unemployment and the crumbling infrastructure in many Senegalese towns while he lavishes spending on grandiose projects such as a monument to "African Renaissance" which now towers over Dakar.
Wade, who was re-elected in 2007, said his first term cannot be counted in a two-term limit added to the constitution in 2001. The five judges of the Constitutional Council - all picked by him - agreed with that interpretation.
N'Dour condemned the ruling as a "constitutional coup d'etat", while other opposition leaders have threatened to make the country ungovernable. While Dakar was calm on Monday, M23 activists said they were planning new protests.
A centrist liberal who spent 26 years in opposition before he came to power, Wade has said he is confident of securing election in a single round.
Opponents fear his grip on state machinery gives him an advantage and that the poll will be neither free nor fair. The European Union has sent as 90-head election observer mission.
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Mother's Day in the United States is Sunday, May 14.
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1. Wide shot Russell Brand joins Mitch Winehouse at press conference
2. Mid shot Russell Brand at press conference
3. Wide shot press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Russell Brand/Actor, Comedian:
"I think when you're talking to young people about drugs and alcohol what's important is not to moralize about it, or say 'Don't do drugs' or futile, impotent messages that don't reach young people, I think it's important just to address the reasons why people drink and take drugs in the first place, whether they're young or old. I remember when I was a kid, the reason drugs first became attractive to me was because I felt kind of lonely and felt sad. Now I've had access to abstinence based recovery, I know that there's a solution to the initial emotional problem that led me to drink and take drugs in the first place. So that's what I think is great about the Amy Winehouse Foundation."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mitch Winehouse/Amy Winehouse's Father
"The event today, the Recovery Festival today, we announced the official launch of the Foundation and over the next 12 months we're in, we start with 50 schools, so we're building up slowly but we have 50 schools that we're going to be working with over the next year, working, again, as I say, talking to the parents, the teachers and the kids. Our people who are in recovery are delivering the shares" (sharing their own experiences) "and we believe that we have to do it slowly but surely, You know obviously there will be economies of scale and as we get bigger, everything else will get bigger as well but we won't rest until every child in secondary school is getting the information that they need to make the correct choices."
8. Wide shot Mitch Winehouse speaks to reporter
"When we were struggling with Amy's illness, I didn't have a clue, I didn't know what I was doing and a lot of the way that I would express myself would be shouting and screaming. Which doesn't help anybody. You know we have to give people the information, allow them to understand the consequences of their behaviour, and allow them to decide when they stop taking drugs and to stop drinking. They have to make that decision, parents can't make the decision for them."
10. Wide shot Mitch Winehouse speaks to reporter
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mitch Winehouse/Amy Winehouse's Father - on the forthcoming Camden Walk of Fame
"Yeah we're involved, it's going great, we have Amy's statue which is going to be unveiled in September, which we're working on at the moment so all of these things are exciting but of course Amy's not here. I wish we weren't doing the statue, I wish we weren't doing the schools educ - well I'm glad we're doing it, we should be doing the schools education project anyway, but I wish we weren't having to think about walks of fame and statues, and things like that, I wish she was here with us. But she's not, so we have to do the best that we can."
Mitch Winehouse recalled his struggle with his daughter Amy's addiction, at the launch of a charity initiative to raise awareness of the problem amoung young people.
Russell Brand, a friend of the late singer, joined her father at the launch, in London on Tuesday (12 MARCH 2013)
Launched through the charity foundation set up in the late singer's memory, The Amy Winehouse Foundation's Resilience Programme has been set up with treatment charity Addaction, and aims to tackle the root causes of drug and alcohol problems.
Brand opened up about his own history of substance abuse at the press conference, to illustrate his belief that a non-judemental approach is key to educating young people,
"I think when you're talking to young people about drugs and alcohol what's important is not to moralise about it, or say 'Don't do drugs' or futile impotent messages that don't reach young people, I think it's important just to address the reasons why people drink and take drugs in the first place, whether they're young or old," said the actor. "I remember when I was a kid, the reason drugs first became attractive to me was because I felt kind of lonely, I felt sad. Now I've had access to abstinence based recovery, I know that there's a solution to the initial emotional problem that led me to drink and take drugs in the first place. So that's what I think is great about the Amy Winehouse Foundation."
The Foundation and Addaction say the new drug and alcohol awareness programme for schools will roll out in ten places across England.
A trained team of recovering addicts, supported by professional workers, will share their own experiences to help young people better understand drug and alcohol misuse.
The focus will be on self-esteem, risky behavior and peer pressure.
Amy Winehouse died in July 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning.
Her father Mitch says working with the Foundation has helped him understand more about the disease of addiction.
"When we were struggling with Amy's illness, I didn't have a clue, I didn't know what I was doing and a lot of the way that I would express myself would be shouting and screaming. Which doesn't help anybody," he said. "You know we have to give people the information, allow them to understand the consequences of their behaviour, and allow them to decide when they stop taking drugs and to stop drinking. They have to make that decision, parents can't make the decision for them."
The late singer is now set to be posthumously honored a part of the new Camden Walk of Fame.
Due to be launched later this year by the London Borough of Camden, the Hollywood inspired Walk will feature discs honoring a range of music artists.
Winehouse confirms the idea has the family's backing - but he would rather be celebrating with a daughter still living.
"Yeah we're involved, it's going great, we have Amy's statue which is going to be unveiled in September, which we're working on at the moment so all of these things are exciting but of course Amy's not here," he said. "I wish we weren't having to think about walks of fame and statues, and things like that, I wish she was here with us. But she's not, so we have to do the best that we can."
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Home Porsche Porsche Panamera GTS Sport Turismo 2019 Review
Porsche Panamera GTS Sport Turismo 2019 Review
Porsche has added two extra sporty models to its Panamera range. With a powerful performance from the four-litre V8 biturbo engine (338 kW/460 hp), dynamic chassis systems including adaptive air suspension, and their own unique design elements and equipment, the Porsche Panamera GTS and Panamera GTS Sport Turismo harness a one-of-a-kind performance package. As you would expect from a factory GTS, the basic equipment package is extensive. For example, the Sport Design package with black exterior elements and large Alcantara surfaces in the interior is included as standard. What's more, Porsche has expanded its portfolio of comfort and assis-tance systems to include a head-up display with various configuration options for the entire Panamera range.
At the heart of both of the new Porsche Panamera GTS models is a four-litre V8 engine with 338 kW (460 hp) of output and maximum torque of 620 Nm, cultivating an emotional sound and driving experience when combined with the standard sports exhaust sys-tem. The biturbo engine, which features a gasoline particulate filter, outperforms its predecessor by 15 kW (20 hp) and 100 Nm, accelerating the Porsche Panamera GTS and Panamera GTS Sport Turismo from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.1 seconds as it works in con-junction with the standard Sport Chrono Package. The two models achieve a top speed of 292 and 289 km/h, respectively. There are no interruptions in tractive force as power is transmitted to the Porsche Traction Management (PTM) four-wheel drive system by the eight-speed PDK dual clutch gearbox. Their exceptional performance is achieved with moderate consumption of just 10.3 l/100 km (Sport Turismo: 10.6 l/100 km); it has a CO2 emission level of 235 g/km (Sport Turismo: 242 g/km).Designed to reflect the sporting prowess of the Panamera GTS models, the chassis systems are impressively dynamic. The adaptive air suspension with three-chamber technology is fitted as standard, which results in flexible control and a wide spring rate spread. The sports chassis in the two GTS models has been lowered by 10 mil-limetres, while the Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) function has been adapted for an even sportier setup. The result? Outstanding lateral dynamics. Large brakes (390 millimetres in diameter at the front, 365 millimetres at the rear) support the longitudinal dynamics.
When compared to the predecessor, the standard equipment of new Porsche Panamera GTS models has been significantly upgraded in a number of areas. The Sport Design package with a new front and rear aprons in black, and additional dark elements highlights the more athletic appearance. The GTS models are equipped with 20-inch Panamera Design wheels as standard. The interior features hallmark elements of black Alcantara and anodised aluminium. The standard equipment also includes a heated multifunction sports steering wheel with gear-change paddles and Alcantara trim and the Connect Plus module for a wide range of digital services. With the op-tional Interior GTS package, drivers can customise their vehicle with various design elements, such as a rev counter, designer seams, and GTS logos in the contrasting shades of Carmine Red or Crayon.
The GTS models offer all the same innovations as the second-generation Panamera range. These include the digital Porsche Advanced Cockpit, assistance systems such as Porsche InnoDrive including adaptive cruise control, and optional rear axle steering. The GTS also features one highlight that is new to the entire Panamera range - the head-up display. The display can be configured by the driver and pro-jects all relevant information directly into their direct line of sight in full colour.
As is tradition at Porsche, GTS stands for Gran Turismo Sport. Porsche's first road-approved sports car, the 904 Carrera GTS, was launched all the way back in 1963, bringing racing technology to the streets. This was followed by the 924 GTS and 928 GTS, which cultivated the concept throughout the 1980s and 90s. In 2007, the GTS celebrated its revival with the Carrera GTS. The first generation of the Panamera GTS followed in 2011, initially available as a sports saloon only. Now, the new Porsche Panamera GTS is also available as a Sports Turismo. With a large tailgate, low load-ing sill, increased luggage compartment volume and 4+1 seating configuration, the new GTS variant based on the models introduced in 2017 meets the highest of standards for everyday driving, while also delivering outstanding performance.
Eight-cylinder biturbo engine delivers dynamic power, efficiency and an emotional drive
The new Panamera GTS and new Panamera GTS Sport Turismo both benefit from the same V8 biturbo engine generation as the Panamera Turbo models. During the development phase, Porsche's engineers focused on ensuring maximum efficiency and exceptional performance. At speeds between 6,000 and 6,500 rpm, the four-litre engine in the new Porsche Panamera GTS models delivers peak output of 338 kW (460 hp), outperforming the 4.8-litre V8 engine in the predecessor by 20 hp. The maximum torque of 620 Nm - 100 Nm more than the previous model - is available at speeds between 1,800 and 4,500 rpm. The new eight-cylinder model accelerates the Panamera GTS and the Panamera GTS Sport Turismo from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.1 seconds thanks to the standard Sport Chrono Package. The saloon reaches a speed of 200 km/h in just 15.4 seconds; the Sport Turismo achieves the same in 15.6 seconds. The Gran Turismo reaches a top speed of 292 km/h while the Sport Turismo tops out at 289 km/h. Their exceptional performance is achieved with mod-erate consumption of just 10.3 l/100 km (Sport Turismo: 10.6 l/100 km); it has a CO2 emission level of 235 g/km (Sport Turismo: 242 g/km).
In view of the stricter particulate emissions limits set out in the new EU emissions standards for the European Union and other markets applying its standards, the launch of the new Porsche Panamera GTS models will see all vehicles for these markets fit-ted with a gasoline particulate filter, which will also be installed in all Panamera models from the new model year. They therefore comply with the Euro 6 d-Temp (EU6 BG) emission standard as well as C6b in China. The structure of this sealed ceramic filter is similar to the particulate filter for diesel engines, though with some adaptations needed to meet the requirements for petrol engines. The exhaust gases are fed through alternately sealed channels, forcing the gas to flow through the walls of the particulate filter. Particulate deposits are burned off in an automatic re-generation process.
In design terms, the eight-cylinder model is a V-engine installed longitudinally with a bank angle of 90 degrees. The four intake and exhaust camshafts can be adjusted by 50 degrees and are powered by a chain drive. The four-valve engine can reach a speed of up to 6,800 rpm and has a displacement of 3,996 cm3. The stand-out tech-nical feature of the V8 biturbo direct petrol injection model is its new central turbo layout with turbochargers located in the inner V, injectors in the centre of the com-bustion chamber, race track-compatible oil system, very low-wear coating on the cyl-inder liners and cylinder deactivation.
The standard sports exhaust system with its black twin tailpipes and specially tuned interaction between the engine and exhaust valve control gives the V8 engine its rich, distinctive sound.
Central turbo layout ensures powerful torque at low revs
The V8 engine in the new Panamera GTS models exhibits an incredible degree of agility, even at the higher end of the rev and power range. At the same time, the eight-cylinder unit is able to deliver maximum torque at low speeds. These drive characteristics are due primarily to the biturbo charging technology in the central turbo layout. Carefully designed twin-scroll turbochargers supply compressed air to the V8's combustion chambers. The two turbines rotate in opposite directions and deliver maximum torque, even at the lowest rev levels. The turbochargers achieve a maximum charge pressure of 0.8 bar. A compressor powered by the exhaust gas flow compresses the intake air for each turbocharger. To allow the engine to re-spond effectively, the process air runs through two separate branches. After flowing through the left and right intercoolers upstream from the V8, the process air from outside the vehicle passes through one throttle valve on each side into the left and right cylinder banks. The intercoolers significantly reduce the temperature of the process air once it has been heated during the compression process. This boosts the density of the air, increasing the oxygen content in the cylinder and improving efficiency as a result.
Central injectors
One key feature of all Panamera engines is the central location of the injectors and their high-pressure injection valves inside the combustion chamber. The V8 engine found in the new Panamera GTS models uses valves with seven nozzle holes. The individually aligned nozzles help to optimise combustion, thereby reducing emis-sions and increasing efficiency. And Porsche achieves this in every single operat-ing phase. Its engineers have used injectors to employ individual injection strategies while the engine is starting, while the catalytic converters are heating up, while the engine is warming up and while the engine is warm. Each cylinder bank is equipped with a high-pressure pump with a maximum injection pressure of 250 bar.
Exhaust gas after-treatment with catalytic converters in the inner V
The V8 engines are equipped with a dual-branch exhaust system with pre and main catalytic converters plus upstream and downstream silencers. In design terms, the eight-cylinder engine is similar to the central turbo layout in that its catalytic convert-ers are located in the inner V, close to the engine. This configuration ensures that the emission control system reaches the ideal operating temperature in a short space of time. Furthermore, catalytic converter heating is accelerated during the start-up phase by opening the turbocharger wastegate valve.
Iron alloy in the cylinder linings reduces wear and oil consumption
One of the V8 engine's highlights is the iron coating on the cylinder linings in the cast aluminium block. This significantly reduces internal friction, wear (even when using low-quality fuels), and oil consumption. During the production process, the surface of the cylinders is coated with an exceptionally durable, low-friction iron coating using an atmospheric plasma spray method. The coating is just 150 micro-metres thick. This iron alloy almost completely eliminates any lining wear at the re-versal point on the piston rings. The design of the lightweight cast pistons has been adapted in line with the new alloy. The piston rings have a chromium nitrite coating, which perfectly matches the iron coating When combined, all of the measures re-duce oil consumption by up to 50% compared to its predecessor.
Reliable oil supply, even on the race track
Every Porsche has to be able to hold its own out on the track. The new Porsche Panamera GTS models confidently master this challenge - partly thanks to their innovative oil system. Its layout ensures that even the most extreme lateral and longitudinal accel-eration forces can be balanced out. A key aspect of this system is the fact that the oil ducts are split into two separate supply branches - one for the engine and one for the cylinder heads. The supply openings in these ducts have been tailored to each component in the oil system. During the start-up phase, this has a positive impact on the time needed to build up pressure in the oil. The speed at which pressure is built up is also supported by a return valve in the oil pump. This valve makes sure that the large volume of oil in the inner V does not flow back into the oil sump and run emp-ty. The oil pressure itself is built up by a fully variable vane oil pump and can be regulated to the specific engine operating map via a valve. This control valve also comes with a built-in oil pressure limiter, which is automatically activated during the engine start-up phase and at low ambient temperatures. Depending on demand, an electronic switching valve located in the centre of the inner V also controls the map-controlled piston spray nozzles for cooling the pistons. This control function reduces churning losses and controls the amount of oil in circulation. As a result, the GTS models can even cope with the high longitudinal and lateral acceleration forces on the Nürburgring's famous Nordschleife.
Fitted as standard: Sport Chrono Package with Sport Response Button
Perfectly tailored to racetrack driving, the new Panamera GTS models are equipped with a standard Sport Chrono Package with Launch Control and mode switch, plus a Sport Response Button on the multifunction steering wheel. Thanks to its ergo-nomic position on the steering wheel, the rotary mode switch provides the driver with direct access to the four driving modes (Normal, Sport, Sport Plus and Individual). Sport Plus mode is ideal for the track. This mode adjusts the drivetrain so that it can deliver the ideal vehicle response and maximum acceleration. What's more, active chassis components - such as the adaptive air suspension, Porsche Active Sus-pension Management (PASM) and the optional Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport), Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus) and rear axle steer-ing - switch to a sportier mode for ultimate performance. The Sport Response Button is located in the middle of the mode switch. This button delivers the Panamera's maximum power potential for 20 seconds at the mere touch of a button. During this time, the engine response is more direct and spontaneous. The PDK also switches to an even more dynamic shifting map than in Sport Plus mode, immediately lower-ing the revs to a range between 3,000 and 6,000 rpm (unless the button is pressed in full-load operation). Gear changes take place very late.
Porsche eight-speed PDK for optimum comfort and maximum agility
Like all other Panamera models, the new GTS versions also come with an eight-speed dual clutch gearbox. In general terms, the eight-speed PDK allows for the ideal gear ratio spread and efficient fuel consumption, while still delivering optimum comfort and maximum agility. That is because the seventh and eighth gears are de-signed as rev-reducing overdrive gears. Maximum speed can be achieved in sixth gear. The Panamera's eight-speed PDK can change gear without interrupting the tractive power because the next gear ratio is essentially already waiting in the wings, ready to be activated within fractions of a second. The sporty yet exceptionally com-fortable gear shift patterns of the PDK are the perfect match for the dynamic charac-teristics of the new Porsche Panamera GTS models.
Active four-wheel drive with electronically controlled multi-plate clutch
The Panamera GTS and Panamera GTS Sport Turismo deliver power to the road via the Porsche Traction Management (PTM) function - an active four-wheel drive sys-tem with an electronically controlled, map-based multi-plate clutch. Depending on the driving situation, the multi-plate clutch spreads the engine's power between the front and rear axles to achieve optimum performance at all times. The PTM sensors continuously monitor the wheel speeds, the longitudinal and transverse accelera-tion forces, and the steering angle. The PTM delivers perfect performance, regard-less of whether the roads are dry, wet or covered in snow.
Chassis and chassis systems
As for the overall Panamera concept, the chassis in the new GTS models also com-bines the comfort of a luxury saloon with the performance of a sports car. However, it has been given an extra dynamic makeover to achieve the hallmark GTS response. The adaptive air suspension used in other Panamera derivatives is also installed as standard in the new GTS models. With its three-chamber technology, this suspen-sion system provides flexible control and good spring rate spread. The sports chas-sis in the two GTS models has been lowered by 10 millimetres as standard, while the Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) has been adapted for an even sportier setup, thereby delivering the performance expected from a GTS model. The result? Outstanding lateral dynamics.
Large brakes support the longitudinal dynamics. What's more, the integrated Por-sche 4D Chassis Control function analyses and synchronises all chassis systems in real time to ensure optimum vehicle response. The new Porsche Panamera GTS models can deliver an even more dynamic performance with innovative optional systems, such as Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) including Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus), Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB), and rear axle steering.
Adaptive air suspension with three-chamber technology fitted as standard
The Panamera GTS and Panamera GTS Sport Turismo are equipped with an adap-tive three-chamber air suspension as standard. This system has raised the bar, par-ticularly when it comes to comfort. The system is equipped with three air chambers per strut, each of which can be activated individually, thus providing a wide array of spring rates. For instance, drivers can set the chassis to a low basic spring rate, which ensures exceptional levels of comfort, because the spring rate can be elec-tronically adjusted in a fraction of second whenever needed - such as when accel-erating, braking or reducing rolling motion.
Made for an athlete: Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM)
The standard Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) system is an elec-tronic damping control function. The system responds to the road surface conditions and the current driving style, constantly adjusting the damping for each individual wheel accordingly. The dampers used in the new Porsche Panamera GTS models have been specifically refined for a sportier response, making sure the vehicles deliver the ex-pected performance and improving the vehicle's lateral dynamic characteristics. In general, drivers can choose from three driving modes: Normal, Sport or Sport Plus. So, how does PASM work? Sensors record the body and wheel movements gener-ated during fast acceleration, braking, fast cornering or driving on uneven road sur-faces. PASM sends the data it records to the Porsche 4D-Chassis Control function. The command centre calculates the current vehicle status and regulates the PASM's damper characteristic curves and the adaptive air suspension spring rates depending on the mode selected. Thanks to 4D Chassis Control, the control param-eters can of course be tailored to the other optional electronic chassis systems to deliver maximum performance.
A 48-volt system: PDCC Sport active roll stabilisation including PTV Plus
The optional Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) function with 48-volt technology optimises vehicle dynamics with its integrated electro-mechanical stabilisers. The system responds much quicker than systems with hydraulic actua-tors, stiffening the stabilisers to minimise roll in the body. In the Panamera, Porsche combines the PDCC Sport function with Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus). The electronically controlled rear-axle differential lock allows the driving torque to be spread variably between the rear wheels, while wheel-selective braking intervention generates additional steering torque on the rear axle. The result? An even more ag-ile steering response. What's more, PTV Plus noticeably improves traction while ac-celerating out of corners by locking the differential.
Rear axle steering improves lateral dynamics and longitudinal stability
The new Panamera GTS models can be equipped with optional rear axle steering. At low speeds up to around 50 km/h, the rear wheels steer - at a variable rate based on the vehicle speed - in the opposite direction to the front wheels up to a maximum steering angle of 2.8 degrees. This corresponds to virtual shortening of the wheel-base. The advantages of this include a more dynamic steering response in corners, significantly easier manoeuvring, and better parking in tight spots. At higher speeds, the rear wheels steer in the same direction as the front axle, again depending on the speed. The wheelbase is therefore virtually lengthened, thereby increasing stability, for example when changing lanes on the motorway. Rear axle steering allows for a more direct steering ratio on the front axle, so the steering response feels incredibly sporty. Rear axle steering also generally improves active safety, ride dynamics and comfort.
Porsche 4D Chassis Control
Porsche 4D Chassis Control is a central network of control systems. It analyses the current driving situation in all three dimensions (longitudinal, lateral and vertical dy-namics), calculating information on the vehicle status. It then shares this status with all chassis systems in standardised form in real time - adding a fourth dimension to chassis control. As a result, the systems provide an integrated response to the cur-rent driving situation. One example: When steering dynamically into a corner, the PASM electronic damper control, the adaptive air suspension, the rear axle steering, PTV Plus and PDCC Sport act as a unit to support the steering response and in-crease agility and stability. Porsche 4D Chassis Control sends a pulse to all chassis systems as soon as the driver starts to steer. This allows the systems to respond at an early stage and achieve maximum performance around corners.
Large brakes for top-class deceleration
The dimensions of the standard brake system - six-piston fixed callipers in the front, four-piston fixed callipers at the rear - have been increased to reflect the power of the new Panamera GTS models. The grey cast iron brakes with red brake callipers ensure top-class deceleration. The internally vented brake discs have a size of 390 x 38 millimetres on the front axle and 365 x 28 millimetres at the rear). The Porsche Panamera GTS models are also optionally available with the Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB), which has been tried and tested on the track.
Both GTS models are equipped as standard with 20-inch Panamera Design wheels with black painted finish. Size 275/40 ZR 20 tyres at the front and 315/35 ZR 20 tyres at the rear ensure optimum grip.
A powerful appearance and extensive equipment
The new GTS models underline their unique position as sports cars in the luxury saloon category with the especially sporty design their design and equipment. The Panamera GTS and Panamera GTS Sport Turismo are 5,053 millimetres long, 1,417 millimetres tall and 1,937 millimetres wide. A large wheelbase of 2,950 millimetres extends between the body's short overhangs. Both models are equipped as stand-ard with 20-inch Panamera Design wheels, painted in black with a silk gloss finish.
Standard Sport Design package with black highlights
At the front, the GTS models differ from the rest of the Panamera models due their new Sport Design front apron with a black spoiler lip. As standard, LED headlights, including Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS), four-point daytime running lights, cornering lights, headlight cleaning system and dynamic headlight range control ensure ideal visibility at night. Darkened LED matrix headlights including PDLS Plus with 84 individually activatable LEDs are available as an option. Sport Design side skirts with black paint finish visually lower the two GTS models, emphasising their performance-driven design. The side window strips are painted in high-gloss black as standard and the front doors feature GTS lettering. Black is also the domi-nant colour at the rear, where the Sport Design rear apron, "PORSCHE" logo and model designation all feature the corresponding paint finish. The two twin tailpipes in the standard sports exhaust system are also black. The three-dimensional tail lights with LED technology, integrated four-point brake lights and lighting strip fea-ture the distinctive GTS dark tint. The retractable rear spoiler is integrated seamlessly into the sports saloon's electric tailgate, which is fitted as standard. On the new Porsche Panamera GTS, the wing splits when extended to create a larger surface area. This also increases the downforce on the rear axle at higher speeds.
Inside, the Panamera combines a high standard of comfort, the sportiness typical for Porsche and an avant-garde design with a high degree of variability. The two GTS models also feature particularly sporty highlights and offer an extended range of standard equipment. The adaptive, electric 18-way sports seats with memory pack-age offer both the driver and front passenger good side support and plenty of com-fort. The centre seat panels come in Alcantara, which also covers the armrests on the doors, the sun visors, the headliner, and the A, B and C pillars. The standard equipment also includes a heated multifunction sports steering wheel with Alcanta-ra trim, gear-change paddles, and the mode switch for the Sport Chrono Package. GTS logos can be found on the door entry sills, rev counter and head restraints. The rev counter dial is also optionally available in Carmine Red or Crayon.
The interior can be further enhanced with the GTS interior package. This includes seat belts, embroidered lettering on the head restraints, and also decorative stitching on the seats and floor mats in the contrasting colours Carmine Red or Crayon.
Porsche Advanced Cockpit with standard online connectivity
One general feature found in the second-generation Porsche Panamera is the digi-tal display and operating concept - the standard Porsche Advanced Cockpit with touch-sensitive panels and customisable displays. Two seven-inch screens form the interactive cockpit. A 12.3-inch touchscreen in the centre console acts as the central operating and display element in the Porsche Communication Management (PCM) system including online navigation. The Infotainment system is easy and intuitive to use and can be adapted to suit personal tastes. Thanks to the pre-defined tiles, driv-ers have a quick and easy way to create their own home screen full of their preferred functions, such as their favourite radio stations, sat-nav destinations, telephone numbers or the sports exhaust activation function. An information widget can be added to the right-hand side of the full HD screen, providing users with access to other functions in the PCM. For instance, the interactive area in the middle of the screen can be used to display the sat-nav, while the right-hand side is used for the phone function. Up to six individual profiles can be configured. As well as a number of interior settings, these profiles contain preferred configurations for lights, driving programmes and assistance systems.
Users can connect their mobile phones or smartphones with the Connect Plus module. The Panamera is equipped with an LTE phone module and SIM card read-er. Thanks to the built-in SIM card, every Panamera can stay online all the time as standard if wished. Real-time traffic information is available for quick and reliable navigation, ensuring a speedy assessment of the current traffic situation and dy-namic route adjustment. A number of other Porsche Connect services are also available. For an in-depth overview of the Connect services available in each coun-try and vehicles, please see www.porsche.com/connect.
First head-up display in a Panamera
A range of standard or optional assistance systems ensure a safe and comfortable journey in the new Panamera GTS models. Proven systems such as the Lane Change Assist function and Lane Keeping Assist including traffic sign recognition are now joined by the first head-up display in a Panamera. This display system pro-jects all relevant vehicle information directly into the driver's line of sight in full col-our. Other highlights include the optional Porsche InnoDrive system and Night Vi-sion Assist. This new feature uses a thermal imaging camera to identify people and larger animals at a distance of up to 300 metres. It then uses colour-coded warnings in the cockpit to alert the driver. If the new LED matrix main headlights with 84 indi-vidually activatable LEDs on each side are on board, people located well outside the dipped beam range are briefly illuminated if they are located inside the calculated corridor, allowing the driver to respond earlier.
Relieving strain on the driver: Porsche InnoDrive and Traffic Jam Assist
The Porsche InnoDrive function including adaptive cruise control can also think ahead. Based on three-dimensional, high-resolution navigation data, the system calculates and activates the optimum acceleration and deceleration values as well as gear and coasting settings for the next three kilometres. Acting as an electronic co-pilot, it automatically takes into account corners, inclines and speed limits. Other vehicles and current speed limits are recorded by the radar- and video-based sensor system and then incorporated into the vehicle response. The range of assistance systems has also been expanded to cover situations where driving a Porsche is not all pleasure - traffic jams. The Traffic Jam Assist system supports the driver by inte-grated longitudinal and lateral guidance of the vehicle in traffic jams at speeds up to 60 km/h. Controlled by the ACC function, the vehicle is able to follow an identified queue of cars supported by the electro-mechanical steering function, which can easily be overridden at any time.
Head-up display with customisable options
Coinciding with the launch of the new GTS models, Porsche is also introducing an optional head-up display for all Panamera models. Already available in the Cay-enne, the system projects full-colour vehicle-relevant information directly into the driver's line of sight. The head-up display is discretely integrated into the dashboard directly in front of the windscreen. For the driver, the display appears around 2.3 me-tres in front of the vehicle, directly in their line of sight. The height, brightness and rotation of the head-up display can also be adjusted. Settings are configured in a separate menu directly in the Porsche Communication Management (PCM) system. Drivers can choose from a range of information to be projected onto the windscreen, such as sat-nav instructions, assistance system data, warnings and other events. The display area is split into six different sections.
Drivers can choose from four different presets, each of which display a range of ve-hicle information. The standard view primarily focuses on the activity and status of the assistance systems. The middle of the top line shows the same information as the instrument cluster display. The top-left of the display shows identified traffic signs that apply to the current route. The middle of the bottom line shows the current speed. If route guidance is active, navigation instructions appear on the right of the display. In Sport Chrono mode, additional information is added to the head-up dis-play. The middle of the top line shows the rev counter. If the Sport Response func-tion is active, the top-right corner shows the remaining function time. The gear dis-play appears at the bottom right. The left-hand side provides the driver with infor-mation about the lap time and lap number. The compact display strips back the in-formation in the display to the bare essentials. For instance, the top section only shows the current speed limit and navigation instructions. The bottom section dis-plays the current vehicle speed and assistance system status. If necessary, the driv-er can create a customised view for the display. This enables drivers to select from the individual display elements. User-specific displays are configured in the PCM.
In addition, situational information is displayed regardless of the selected preset. For instance, a large warning symbol appears if the vehicle is at risk of a collision. Sym-bols also appear to alert the driver if there is an incoming call or if voice control is activated. Since the display automatically switches between day and night, the dis-plays are easier to see at the corresponding time of day. Alternatively, the driver can change the display manually.
Extravagant design, adaptive roof spoiler and 4+1 seating concept
The new Panamera GTS is not just available as a standard sports saloon. For the first time ever, it is now also available as a Sport Turismo. In design terms, the GTS model offers all the benefits of the new Sport Turismo range and its avant-garde el-ements. The roof line has been raised in contrast to the sports saloon version, mak-ing it easier to get in and out at the rear while also increasing the headroom. The capacity of the luggage compartment benefits from the wide-opening tailgate with standard electric activation and the low loading sill at a height of just 622 millimetres. If the Sport Turismo is equipped with comfort access, a simple foot movement is all it takes to open or close the tailgate as the vehicle recognises authorised users via the remote key. Just like all Sport Turismo models, the Porsche Panamera GTS is equipped with a three-seater rear bench as standard. Since the two outer seats - as sporty and comfortable as you would expect from this series - are designed as individual seats, this results in a 2+1 configuration at the rear. Customers can also opt for two electri-cally adjustable individual seats for the rear. When loaded up to the top edge of the rear seats, the GTS Sport Turismo offers a stowage capacity of 520 litres. The three rear seat backrests can be folded down separately or together (ratio 40:20:40) and can be unlocked electrically from the luggage compartment. This configuration in-creases the loading volume to a maximum of 1,390 litres.
Porsche also offers an optional load compartment management solution for the Panamera Sport Turismo. The variable system is designed to safely transport objects of all shapes and sizes and includes two securing rails integrated into the luggage compartment floor, four lashing eyes, and a luggage compartment partition. A flexi-ble luggage compartment blind is included as standard.
If it is wished to charge a laptop on the way to an important meeting, this can be done using the optional 230 V socket in the luggage compartment.
Roof spoiler for up to 50 kilograms of extra downforce
The Panamera Sport Turismo's standard roof spoiler is unique in this vehicle cate-gory. Its angle can be adjusted to one of three settings depending on the driving sit-uation and selected driving mode. It can generate up to 50 kilograms of extra down-force on the rear axle. As part of the Porsche Active Aerodynamics (PAA) system, the spoiler is retracted at speeds up to 170 km/h and follows the rear sloping roof line at an angle of minus seven degrees. From speeds above 170 km/h, the roof spoiler automatically moves to the performance position at plus one degrees, in-creasing the ride stability and lateral dynamics. In the Sport and Sport Plus driving modes, the roof spoiler already moves into this position at speeds from 90 km/h. As an active support feature, the PAA automatically adjusts the spoiler angle to plus 26 degrees at speeds from 90 km/h if the optional panorama sliding roof is open. This balances out any turbulent air movement and reduces noise levels accordingly.
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CHAPTER III. LABOR AS THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF THE DOMAIN OF PROPERTY.
Nearly all the modern writers on jurisprudence, taking their cue from the economists, have abandoned the theory of first occupancy as a too dangerous one, and have adopted that which regards property as born of labor. In this they are deluded; they reason in a circle. To labor it is necessary to occupy, says M. Cousin. Consequently, I have added in my turn, all having an equal right of occupancy, to labor it is necessary to submit to equality. "The rich," exclaims Jean Jacques, "have the arrogance to say, `I built this wall; I earned this land by my labor.' Who set you the tasks? we may reply, and by what right do you demand payment from us for labor which we did not impose upon you?" All sophistry falls to the ground in the presence of this argument.
But the partisans of labor do not see that their system is an absolute contradiction of the Code, all the articles and provisions of which suppose property to be based upon the fact of first occupancy. If labor, through the appropriation which results from it, alone gives birth to property, the Civil Code lies, the charter is a falsehood, our whole social system is a violation of right. To this conclusion shall we come, at <85>the end of the discussion which is to occupy our attention in this chapter and the following one, both as to the right of labor and the fact of property. We shall see, on the one hand, our legislation in opposition to itself; and, on the other hand, our new jurisprudence in opposition both to its own principle and to our legislation.
I have asserted that the system which bases property upon labor implies, no less than that which bases it upon occupation, the equality of fortunes; and the reader must be impatient to learn how I propose to deduce this law of equality from the inequality of skill and faculties: directly his curiosity shall be satisfied. But it is proper that I should call his attention for a moment to this remarkable feature of the process; to wit, the substitution of labor for occupation as the principle of property; and that I should pass rapidly in review some of the prejudices to which proprietors are accustomed to appeal, which legislation has sanctioned, and which the system of labor completely overthrows.
Reader, were you ever present at the examination of a criminal? Have you watched his tricks, his turns, his evasions, his distinctions, his equivocations? Beaten, all his assertions overthrown, pursued like a fallow deer by the in exorable judge, tracked from hypothesis to hypothesis, -- he makes a statement, he corrects it, retracts it, contradicts it, he exhausts all the tricks of dialectics, more subtle, more ingenious a thousand times than he who invented the seventy-two forms of the syllogism. So acts the proprietor when called upon to defend his right. At first he refuses to reply, he exclaims, he threatens, he defies; then, forced to accept the discussion, he arms himself with chicanery, he surrounds himself with formidable artillery, -- crossing his fire, opposing one by one and all together occupation, possession, limitation, <86>covenants, immemorial custom, and universal consent. Conquered on this ground, the proprietor, like a wounded boar, turns on his pursuers. "I have done more than occupy," he cries with terrible emotion; "I have labored, produced, improved, transformed, created. This house, these fields, these trees are the work of my hands; I changed these brambles into a vineyard, and this bush into a fig-tree; and to-day I reap the harvest of my labors. I have enriched the soil with my sweat; I have paid those men who, had they not had the work which I gave them, would have died of hunger. No one shared with me the trouble and expense; no one shall share with me the benefits."
You have labored, proprietor! why then do you speak of original occupancy? What, were you not sure of your right, or did you hope to deceive men, and make justice an illusion? Make haste, then, to acquaint us with your mode of defence, for the judgment will be final; and you know it to be a question of restitution.
You have labored! but what is there in common between the labor which duty compels you to perform, and the appropriation of things in which there is a common interest? Do you not know that domain over the soil, like that over air and light, cannot be lost by prescription?
You have labored! have you never made others labor? Why, then, have they lost in laboring for you what you have gained in not laboring for them?
You have labored! very well; but let us see the results of your labor. We will count, weigh, and measure them. It will be the judgment of Balthasar; for I swear by balance, level, and square, that if you have appropriated another's labor in any way whatsoever, you shall restore it every stroke. <87>
Thus, the principle of occupation is abandoned; no longer is it said, "The land belongs to him who first gets possession of it. Property, forced into its first intrenchment, repudiates its old adage; justice, ashamed, retracts her maxims, and sorrow lowers her bandage over her blushing cheeks. And it was but yesterday that this progress in social philosophy began: fifty centuries required for the extirpation of a lie! During this lamentable period, how many usurpations have been sanctioned, how many invasions glorified, how many conquests celebrated! The absent dispossessed, the poor banished, the hungry excluded by wealth, which is so ready and bold in action! Jealousies and wars, incendiarism and bloodshed, among the nations! But henceforth, thanks to the age and its spirit, it is to be admitted that the earth is not a prize to be won in a race; in the absence of any other obstacle, there is a place for everybody under the sun. Each one may harness his goat to the bearn, drive his cattle to pasture, sow a corner of a field, and bake his bread by his own fireside.
But, no; each one cannot do these things. I hear it proclaimed on all sides, "Glory to labor and industry! to each according to his capacity; to each capacity according to its results!" And I see three-fourths of the human race again despoiled, the labor of a few being a scourge to the labor of the rest.
"The problem is solved," exclaims M. Hennequin. "Property, the daughter of labor, can be enjoyed at present and in the future only under the protection of the laws. It has its origin in natural law; it derives its power from civil law; and from the union of these two ideas, labor and protection, positive legislation results." . . .
Ah! the problem is solved! property is the daughter of labor! What, then, is the right of accession, and the right <88>of succession, and the right of donation, &c., if not the right to become a proprietor by simple occupancy? What are your laws concerning the age of majority, emancipation, guardianship, and interdiction, if not the various conditions by which he who is already a laborer gains or loses the right of occupancy; that is, property?
Being unable, at this time, to enter upon a detailed discussion of the Code, I shall content myself with examining the three arguments oftenest resorted to in support of property. 1. Appropriation, or the formation of property by possession; 2. The consent of mankind; 3. Prescription. I shall then inquire into the effects of labor upon the relative condition of the laborers and upon property. § 1.—The Land cannot be Appropriated.
"It would seem that lands capable of cultivation ought to be regarded as natural wealth, since they are not of human creation, but Nature's gratuitous gift to man; but inasmuch as this wealth is not fugitive, like the air and water, -- inasmuch as a field is a fixed and limited space which certain men have been able to appropriate, to the exclusion of all others who in their turn have consented to this appropriation, -- the land, which was a natural and gratuitous gift, has become social wealth, for the use of which we ought to pay."—Say: Political Economy.
Was I wrong in saying, at the beginning of this chapter, that the economists are the very worst authorities in matters of legislation and philosophy? It is the father of this class of men who clearly states the question, How can the supplies of Nature, the wealth created by Providence, become private property? and who replies by so gross an equivocation that we scarcely know which the author lacks, sense or honesty. What, I ask, has the fixed and solid nature of the earth to do with the right of appropriation? I can understand that a thing limited and stationary, like the land, offers greater <89>chances for appropriation than the water or the sunshine; that it is easier to exercise the right of domain over the soil than over the atmosphere: but we are not dealing with the difficulty of the thing, and Say confounds the right with the possibility. We do not ask why the earth has been appropriated to a greater extent than the sea and the air; we want to know by what right man has appropriated wealth which he did not create, and which Nature gave to him gratuitously.
Say, then, did not solve the question which he asked. But if he had solved it, if the explanation which he has given us were as satisfactory as it is illogical, we should know no better than before who has a right to exact payment for the use of the soil, of this wealth which is not man's handiwork. Who is entitled to the rent of the land? The producer of the land, without doubt. Who made the land? God. Then, proprietor, retire!
But the creator of the land does not sell it: he gives it; and, in giving it, he is no respecter of persons. Why, then, are some of his children regarded as legitimate, while others are treated as bastards? If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right?
Say gives us to understand that if the air and the water were not of a fugitive nature, they would have been appropriated. Let me observe in passing that this is more than an hypothesis; it is a reality. Men have appropriated the air and the water, I will not say as often as they could, but as often as they have been allowed to.
The Portuguese, having discovered the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, pretended to have the sole right to that route; and Grotius, consulted in regard to this matter by the Dutch who refused to recognize this right, wrote expressly <90>for this occasion his treatise on the "Freedom of the Seas," to prove that the sea is not liable to appropriation.
The right to hunt and fish used always to be confined to lords and proprietors; to-day it is leased by the government and communes to whoever can pay the license-fee and the rent. To regulate hunting and fishing is an excellent idea, but to make it a subject of sale is to create a monopoly of air and water.
What is a passport? A universal recommendation of the traveller's person; a certificate of security for himself and his property. The treasury, whose nature it is to spoil the best things, has made the passport a means of espionage and a tax. Is not this a sale of the right to travel?
Finally, it is permissible neither to draw water from a spring situated in another's grounds without the permission of the proprietor, because by the right of accession the spring belongs to the possessor of the soil, if there is no other claim; nor to pass a day on his premises without paying a tax; nor to look at a court, a garden, or an orchard, without the consent of the proprietor; nor to stroll in a park or an enclosure against the owner's will: every one is allowed to shut himself up and to fence himself in. All these prohibitions are so many positive interdictions, not only of the land, but of the air and water. We who belong to the proletaire class: property excommunicates us! Terra, et aqua, et aere, et igne interdicti sumus.
Men could not appropriate the most fixed of all the elements without appropriating the three others; since, by French and Roman law, property in the surface carries with it property from zenith to nadir—Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad cælum. Now, if the use of water, air, and fire excludes property, so does the use of the soil. This chain of <91>reasoning seems to have been presented by M. Ch. Comte, in his "Treatise on Property," chap. 5.
"If a man should be deprived of air for a few moments only, he would cease to exist, and a partial deprivation would cause him severe suffering; a partial or complete deprivation of food would produce like effects upon him though less suddenly; it would be the same, at least in certain climates! were he deprived of all clothing and shelter. . . . To sustain life, then, man needs continually to appropriate many different things. But these things do not exist in like proportions. Some, such as the light of the stars, the atmosphere of the earth, the water composing the seas and oceans, exist in such large quantities that men cannot perceive any sensible increase or diminution; each one can appropriate as much as his needs require without detracting from the enjoyment of others, without causing them the least harm. Things of this sort are, so to speak, the common property of the human race; the only duty imposed upon each individual in this regard is that of infringing not at all upon the rights of others."
Let us complete the argument of M. Ch. Comte. A man who should be prohibited from walking in the highways, from resting in the fields, from taking shelter in caves, from lighting fires, from picking berries, from gathering herbs and boiling them in a bit of baked clay, -- such a man could not live. Consequently the earth—like water, air, and light—is a primary object of necessity which each has a right to use freely, without infringing another's right. Why, then, is the earth appropriated? M. Ch. Comte's reply is a curious one. Say pretends that it is because it is not fugitive; M. Ch. Comte assures us that it is because it is not infinite. The land is limited in amount. Then, according to M. Ch. Comte, it ought to be appropriated. It would seem, on the contrary, that he ought to say, Then it ought not to be appropriated. Because, no matter how large a quantity of air or light any one appropriates, no one is damaged thereby; there always remains enough for all. With the soil, it is very different. <92>Lay hold who will, or who can, of the sun's rays, the passing breeze, or the sea's billows; he has my consent, and my pardon for his bad intentions. But let any living man dare to change his right of territorial possession into the right of property, and I will declare war upon him, and wage it to the death!
M. Ch. Comte's argument disproves his position. "Among the things necessary to the preservation of life," he says, "there are some which exist in such large quantities that they are inexhaustible; others which exist in lesser quantities, and can satisfy the wants of only a certain number of persons. The former are called common, the latter private."
This reasoning is not strictly logical. Water, air, and light are common things, not because they are inexhaustible, but because they are indispensable; and so indispensable that for that very reason Nature has created them in quantities almost infinite, in order that their plentifulness might prevent their appropriation. Likewise the land is indispensable to our existence, -- consequently a common thing, consequently insusceptible of appropriation; but land is much scarcer than the other elements, therefore its use must be regulated, not for the profit of a few, but in the interest and for the security of all. In a word, equality of rights is proved by equality of needs. Now, equality of rights, in the case of a commodity which is limited in amount, can be realized only by equality of possession. An agrarian law underlies M. Ch. Comte's arguments.
From whatever point we view this question of property—provided we go to the bottom of it—we reach equality. I will not insist farther on the distinction between things which can, and things which cannot, be appropriated. On this point, economists and legists talk worse than nonsense. The Civil Code, after having defined property, says nothing about sus<93>ceptibility of appropriation; and if it speaks of things which are in the market, it always does so without enumerating or describing them. However, light is not wanting. There are some few maxims such as these: Ad reges potestas omnium pertinet, ad singulos proprietas; Omnia rex imperio possidet, singula dominio. Social sovereignty opposed to private property! -- might not that be called a prophecy of equality, a republican oracle? Examples crowd upon us: once the possessions of the church, the estates of the crown, the fiefs of the nobility were inalienable and imprescriptible. If, instead of abolishing this privilege, the Constituent had extended it to every individual; if it had declared that the right of labor, like liberty, can never be forfeited, -- at that moment the revolution would have been consummated, and we could now devote ourselves to improvement in other directions. § 2.—Universal Consent no Justification of Property.
In the extract from Say, quoted above, it is not clear whether the author means to base the right of property on the stationary character of the soil, or on the consent which he thinks all men have granted to this appropriation. His language is such that it may mean either of these things, or both at once; which entitles us to assume that the author intended to say, "The right of property resulting originally from the exercise of the will, the stability of the soil permitted it to be applied to the land, and universal consent has since sanctioned this application."
However that may be, can men legitimate property by mutual consent? I say, no. Such a contract, though drafted by Grotius, Montesquieu, and J. J. Rousseau, though signed by the whole human race, would be null in the eyes of jus<94>tice, and an act to enforce it would be illegal. Man can no more give up labor than liberty. Now, to recognize the right of territorial property is to give up labor, since it is to relinquish the means of labor; it is to traffic in a natural right, and divest ourselves of manhood.
But I wish that this consent, of which so much is made, had been given, either tacitly or formally. What would have been the result? Evidently, the surrenders would have been reciprocal; no right would have been abandoned without the receipt of an equivalent in exchange. We thus come back to equality again, -- the sine qua non of appropriation; so that, after having justified property by universal consent, that is, by equality, we are obliged to justify the inequality of conditions by property. Never shall we extricate ourselves from this dilemma. Indeed, if, in the terms of the social compact, property has equality for its condition, at the moment when equality ceases to exist, the compact is broken and all property becomes usurpation. We gain nothing, then, by this pretended consent of mankind. § 3.—Prescription gives no Title to Property.
The right of property was the origin of evil on the earth, the first link in the long chain of crimes and misfortunes which the human race has endured since its birth. The delusion of prescription is the fatal charm thrown over the intellect, the death sentence breathed into the conscience, to arrest man's progress towards truth, and bolster up the worship of error.
The Code defines prescription thus: "The process of gaining and losing through the lapse of time." In applying this definition to ideas and beliefs, we may use the word prescription to denote the everlasting prejudice in favor of old super<95>stitions, whatever be their object; the opposition, often furious and bloody, with which new light has always been received, and which makes the sage a martyr. Not a principle, not a discovery, not a generous thought but has met, at its entrance into the world, with a formidable barrier of preconceived opinions, seeming like a conspiracy of all old prejudices. Prescriptions against reason, prescriptions against facts, prescriptions against every truth hitherto unknown, -- that is the sum and substance of the statu quo philosophy, the watchword of conservatives throughout the centuries.
When the evangelical reform was broached to the world, there was prescription in favor of violence, debauchery, and selfishness; when Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, and their disciples reconstructed philosophy and the sciences, there was prescription in favor of the Aristotelian philosophy; when our fathers of '89 demanded liberty and equality, there was prescription in favor of tyranny and privilege. "There always have been proprietors and there always will be:" it is with this profound utterance, the final effort of selfishness dying in its last ditch, that the friends of social inequality hope to repel the attacks of their adversaries; thinking undoubtedly that ideas, like property, can be lost by prescription.
Enlightened to-day by the triumphal march of science, taught by the most glorious successes to question our own opinions, we receive with favor and applause the observer of Nature, who, by a thousand experiments based upon the most profound analysis, pursues a new principle, a law hitherto undiscovered. We take care to repel no idea, no fact, under the pretext that abler men than ourselves lived in former days, who did not notice the same phenomena, nor grasp the same analogies. Why do we not preserve a like attitude towards political and philosophical questions? Why this <96>ridiculous mania for affirming that every thing has been said, which means that we know all about mental and moral science? Why is the proverb, There is nothing new under the sun, applied exclusively to metaphysical investigations?
Because we still study philosophy with the imagination, instead of by observation and method; because fancy and will are universally regarded as judges, in the place of arguments and facts, -- it has been impossible to this day to distinguish the charlatan from the philosopher, the savant from the impostor. Since the days of Solomon and Pythagoras, imagination has been exhausted in guessing out social and psychological laws; all systems have been proposed. Looked at in this light, it is probably true that every thing has been said; but it is no less true that every thing remains to be proved. In politics (to take only this branch of philosophy), in politics every one is governed in his choice of party by his passion and his interests; the mind is submitted to the impositions of the will, -- there is no knowledge, there is not even a shadow of certainty. In this way, general ignorance produces general tyranny; and while liberty of thought is written in the charter, slavery of thought, under the name of majority rule, is decreed by the charter.
In order to confine myself to the civil prescription of which the Code speaks, I shall refrain from beginning a discussion upon this worn-out objection brought forward by proprietors; it would be too tiresome and declamatory. Everybody knows that there are rights which cannot be prescribed; and, as for those things which can be gained through the lapse of time, no one is ignorant of the fact that prescription requires certain conditions, the omission of one of which renders it null. If it is true, for example, that the proprietor's possession has been civil, public, peaceable, and uninterrupted, it is <97>none the less true that it is not based on a just title; since the only titles which it can show—occupation and labor—prove as much for the proletaire who demands, as for the proprietor who defends. Further, this possession is dishonest, since it is founded on a violation of right, which prevents prescription, according to the saying of St. Paul—Nunquam in usucapionibus juris error possessori prodest. The violation of right lies either in the fact that the holder possesses as proprietor, while he should possess only as usufructuary; or in the fact that he has purchased a thing which no one had a right to transfer or sell.
Another reason why prescription cannot be adduced in favor of property (a reason borrowed from jurisprudence) is that the right to possess real estate is a part of a universal right which has never been totally destroyed even at the most critical periods; and the proletaire, in order to regain the power to exercise it fully, has only to prove that he has always exercised it in part. He, for example, who has the universal right to possess, give, exchange, loan, let, sell, transform, or destroy a thing, preserves the integrity of this right by the sole act of loaning, though he has never shown his authority in any other manner. Likewise we shall see that equality of possessions, equality of rights, liberty, will, personality, are so many identical expressions of one and the same idea, -- the right of preservation and development; in a word, the right of life, against which there can be no prescription until the human race has vanished from the face of the earth.
Finally, as to the time required for prescription, it would be superfluous to show that the right of property in general cannot be acquired by simple possession for ten, twenty, a hundred, a thousand, or one hundred thousand years; and that, so long as there exists a human head capable of under<98>standing and combating the right of property, this right will never be prescribed. For principles of jurisprudence and axioms of reason are different from accidental and contingent facts. One man's possession can prescribe against another man's possession; but just as the possessor cannot prescribe against himself, so reason has always the faculty of change and reformation. Past error is not binding on the future. Reason is always the same eternal force. The institution of property, the work of ignorant reason, may be abrogated by a more enlightened reason. Consequently, property cannot be established by prescription. This is so certain and so true, that on it rests the maxim that in the matter of prescription a violation of right goes for nothing.
But I should be recreant to my method, and the reader would have the right to accuse me of charlatanism and bad faith, if I had nothing further to advance concerning prescription. I showed, in the first place, that appropriation of land is illegal; and that, supposing it to be legal, it must be accompanied by equality of property. I have shown, in the second place, that universal consent proves nothing in favor of property; and that, if it proves any thing, it proves equality of property. I have yet to show that prescription, if admissible at all, presupposes equality of property.
This demonstration will be neither long nor difficult. I need only to call attention to the reasons why prescription was introduced.
"Prescription," says Dunod, "seems repugnant to natural equity, which permits no one either to deprive another of his possessions without his knowledge and consent, or to enrich himself at another's expense. But as it might often happen, in the absence of prescription, that one who had honestly earned would be ousted after long possession; and even that he who had received a thing from its rightful owner, or who had been legitimately relieved from all obligations, would, on losing his title, be <99>liable to be dispossessed or subjected again, -- the public welfare demanded that a term should be fixed, after the expiration of which no one should be allowed to disturb actual possessors, or reassert rights too long neglected. . . . The civil law, in regulating prescription, has aimed, then, only to perfect natural law, and to supplement the law of nations; and as it is founded on the public good, which should always be considered before individual welfare, -- bono publico usucapio introducta est, -- it should be regarded with favor, provided the conditions required by the law are fulfilled."
Toullier, in his "Civil Law," says: "In order that the question of proprietorship may not remain too long unsettled, and thereby injure the public welfare, disturbing the peace of families and the stability of social transactions, the law has fixed a time when all claims shall be cancelled, and possession shall regain its ancient prerogative through its transformation into property."
Cassiodorus said of property, that it was the only safe harbor in which to seek shelter from the tempests of chicanery and the gales of avarice—Hic unus inter humanas pro cellas portus, quem si homines fervida voluntate praeterierint; in undosis semper jurgiis errabunt.
Thus, in the opinion of the authors, prescription is a means of preserving public order; a restoration in certain cases of the original mode of acquiring property; a fiction of the civil law which derives all its force from the necessity of settling differences which otherwise would never end. For, as Grotius says, time has no power to produce effects; all things happen in time, but nothing is done by time. Prescription, or the right of acquisition through the lapse of time, is, therefore, a fiction of the law, conventionally adopted.
But all property necessarily originated in prescription, or, as the Latins say, in usucapion; that is, in continued possession. I ask, then, in the first place, how possession can become property by the lapse of time? Continue possession as long as you wish, continue it for years and for centuries,
[100] you never can give duration—which of itself creates nothing, changes nothing, modifies nothing—the power to change the usufructuary into a proprietor. Let the civil law secure against chance-comers the honest possessor who has held his position for many years, -- that only confirms a right already respected; and prescription, applied in this way, simply means that possession which has continued for twenty, thirty, or a hundred years shall be retained by the occupant. But when the law declares that the lapse of time changes possessor into proprietor, it supposes that a right can be created without a producing cause; it unwarrantably alters the character of the subject; it legislates on a matter not open to legislation; it exceeds its own powers. Public order and private security ask only that possession shall be protected. Why has the law created property? Prescription was simply security for the future; why has the law made it a matter of privilege?
Thus the origin of prescription is identical with that of property itself; and since the latter can legitimate itself only when accompanied by equality, prescription is but another of the thousand forms which the necessity of maintaining this precious equality has taken. And this is no vain induction, no far-fetched inference. The proof is written in all the codes.
And, indeed, if all nations, through their instinct of justice and their conservative nature, have recognized the utility and the necessity of prescription; and if their design has been to guard thereby the interests of the possessor, -- could they not do something for the absent citizen, separated from his family and his country by commerce, war, or captivity, and in no position to exercise his right of possession? No. Also, at the same time that prescription was introduced into the laws,
[101] it was admitted that property is preserved by intent alone, -- nudo animo. Now, if property is preserved by intent alone, if it can be lost only by the action of the proprietor, what can be the use of prescription? How does the law dare to presume that the proprietor, who preserves by intent alone, intended to abandon that which he has allowed to be prescribed? What lapse of time can warrant such a conjecture; and by what right does the law punish the absence of the proprietor by depriving him of his goods? What then! we found but a moment since that prescription and property were identical; and now we find that they are mutually destructive!
Grotius, who perceived this difficulty, replied so singularly that his words deserve to be quoted: Bene sperandum de hominibus, ac propterea non putandum eos hoc esse animo ut, rei caducae causa, hominem alterum velint in perpetuo peccato versari, quo d evitari saepe non poterit sine tali derelictione. "Where is the man," he says, "with so unchristian a soul that, for a trifle, he would perpetuate the trespass of a possessor, which would inevitably be the result if he did not consent to abandon his right?" By the Eternal! I am that man. Though a million proprietors should burn for it in hell, I lay the blame on them for depriving me of my portion of this world's goods. To this powerful consideration Grotius rejoins, that it is better to abandon a disputed right than to go to law, disturb the peace of nations, and stir up the flames of civil war. I accept, if you wish it, this argument, provided you indemnify me. But if this indemnity is refused me, what do I, a proletaire, care for the tranquillity and security of the rich? I care as little for public order as for the proprietor's safety. I ask to live a laborer; otherwise I will die a warrior.
Whichever way we turn, we shall come to the conclusion
[102] that prescription is a contradiction of property; or rather that prescription and property are two forms of the same principle, but two forms which serve to correct each other; and ancient and modern jurisprudence did not make the least of its blunders in pretending to reconcile them. Indeed, if we see in the institution of property only a desire to secure to each individual his share of the soil and his right to labor; in the distinction between naked property and possession only an asylum for absentees, orphans, and all who do not know, or cannot maintain, their rights; in prescription only a means, either of defence against unjust pretensions and encroachments, or of settlement of the differences caused by the removal of possessors, -- we shall recognize in these various forms of human justice the spontaneous efforts of the mind to come to the aid of the social instinct; we shall see in this protection of all rights the sentiment of equality, a constant levelling tendency. And, looking deeper, we shall find in the very exaggeration of these principles the confirmation of our doctrine; because, if equality of conditions and universal association are not soon realized, it will be owing to the obstacle thrown for the time in the way of the common sense of the people by the stupidity of legislators and judges; and also to the fact that, while society in its original state was illuminated with a flash of truth, the early speculations of its leaders could bring forth nothing but darkness.
After the first covenants, after the first draughts of laws and constitutions, which were the expression of man's primary needs, the legislator's duty was to reform the errors of legislation; to complete that which was defective; to harmonize, by superior definitions, those things which seemed to conflict. Instead of that, they halted at the literal meaning of the laws, content to play the subordinate part of commentators and
[103] scholiasts. Taking the inspirations of the human mind, at that time necessarily weak and faulty, for axioms of eternal and unquestionable truth, -- influenced by public opinion, enslaved by the popular religion, -- they have invariably started with the principle (following in this respect the example of the theologians) that that is infallibly true which has been admitted by all persons, in all places, and at all times—quod ab omnibus, quod ubique, quod semper; as if a general but spontaneous opinion was any thing more than an indication of the truth. Let us not be deceived: the opinion of all nations may serve to authenticate the perception of a fact, the vague sentiment of a law; it can teach us nothing about either fact or law. The consent of mankind is an indication of Nature; not, as Cicero says, a law of Nature. Under the indication is hidden the truth, which faith can believe, but only thought can know. Such has been the constant progress of the human mind in regard to physical phenomena and the creations of genius: how can it be otherwise with the facts of conscience and the rules of human conduct? § 4.—LABOR—That Labor has no Inherent Power to appropriate Natural Wealth.
We shall show by the maxims of political economy and law, that is, by the authorities recognized by property, --
1. That labor has no inherent power to appropriate natural wealth.
2. That, if we admit that labor has this power, we are led directly to equality of property, -- whatever the kind of labor, however scarce the product, or unequal the ability of the laborers.
3. That, in the order of justice, labor destroys property.
Following the example of our opponents, and that we may
[104] leave no obstacles in the path, let us examine the question in the strongest possible light.
M. Ch. Comte says, in his "Treatise on Property:" --
"France, considered as a nation, has a territory which is her own."
France, as an individuality, possesses a territory which she cultivates; it is not her property. Nations are related to each other as individuals are: they are commoners and workers; it is an abuse of language to call them proprietors. The right of use and abuse belongs no more to nations than to men; and the time will come when a war waged for the purpose of checking a nation in its abuse of the soil will be regarded as a holy war.
Thus, M. Ch. Comte—who undertakes to explain how property comes into existence, and who starts with the supposition that a nation is a proprietor—falls into that error known as begging the question; a mistake which vitiates his whole argument.
If the reader thinks it is pushing logic too far to question a nation's right of property in the territory which it possesses, I will simply remind him of the fact that at all ages the results of the fictitious right of national property have been pretensions to suzerainty, tributes, monarchical privileges, statute-labor, quotas of men and money, supplies of merchandise, &c.; ending finally in refusals to pay taxes, insurrections, wars, and depopulations.
"Scattered through this territory are extended tracts of land, which have not been converted into individual property. These lands, which consist mainly of forests, belong to the whole population, and the government, which receives the revenues, uses or ought to use them in the interest of all."
Ought to use is well said: a lie is avoided thereby.
"Let them be offered for sale. . . ."
Why offered for sale? Who has a right to sell them? Even were the nation proprietor, can the generation of to-day dispossess the generation of to-morrow? The nation, in its function of usufructuary, possesses them; the government rules, superintends, and protects them. If it also granted lands, it could grant only their use; it has no right to sell them or transfer them in any way whatever. Not being a proprietor, how can it transmit property?
"Suppose some industrious man buys a portion, a large swamp for example. This would be no usurpation, since the public would receive the exact value through the hands of the government, and would be as rich after the sale as before."
How ridiculous! What! because a prodigal, imprudent, incompetent official sells the State's possessions, while I, a ward of the State, -- I who have neither an advisory nor a deliberative voice in the State councils, -- while I am allowed to make no opposition to the sale, this sale is right and legal! The guardians of the nation waste its substance, and it has no redress! I have received, you tell me, through the hands of the government my share of the proceeds of the sale: but, in the first place, I did not wish to sell; and, had I wished to, I could not have sold. I had not the right. And then I do not see that I am benefited by the sale. My guardians have dressed up some soldiers, repaired an old fortress, erected in their pride some costly but worthless monument, -- then they have exploded some fireworks and set up a greased pole! What does all that amount to in comparison with my loss?
The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, "This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself." Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth,
[106] no one has a right to step, save the proprietor and his friends; which can benefit nobody, save the proprietor and his servants. Let these sales multiply, and soon the people—who have been neither able nor willing to sell, and who have received none of the proceeds of the sale—will have nowhere to rest, no place of shelter, no ground to till. They will die of hunger at the proprietor's door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, "So perish idlers and vagrants!"
To reconcile us to the proprietor's usurpation, M. Ch. Comte assumes the lands to be of little value at the time of sale.
"The importance of these usurpations should not be exaggerated: they should be measured by the number of men which the occupied land would support, and by the means which it would furnish them. It is evident, for instance, that if a piece of land which is worth to-day one thousand francs was worth only five centimes when it was usurped, we really lose only the value of five centimes. A square league of earth would be hardly sufficient to support a savage in distress; to-day it supplies one thousand persons with the means of existence. Nine hundred and ninety-nine parts of this land is the legitimate property of the possessors; only one-thousandth of the value has been usurped."
A peasant admitted one day, at confession, that he had destroyed a document which declared him a debtor to the amount of three hundred francs. Said the father confessor, "You must return these three hundred francs." "No," replied the peasant, "I will return a penny to pay for the paper."
M. Ch. Comte's logic resembles this peasant's honesty. The soil has not only an integrant and actual value, it has also a potential value, -- a value of the future, -- which depends on our ability to make it valuable, and to employ it in our work. Destroy a bill of exchange, a promissory note,
[107] an annuity deed, -- as a paper you destroy almost no value at all; but with this paper you destroy your title, and, in losing your title, you deprive yourself of your goods. Destroy the land, or, what is the same thing, sell it, -- you not only transfer one, two, or several crops, but you annihilate all the products that you could derive from it; you and your children and your children's children.
When M. Ch. Comte, the apostle of property and the eulogist of labor, supposes an alienation of the soil on the part of the government, we must not think that he does so without reason and for no purpose; it is a necessary part of his position. As he rejected the theory of occupancy, and as he knew, moreover, that labor could not constitute the right in the absence of a previous permission to occupy, he was obliged to connect this permission with the authority of the government, which means that property is based upon the sovereignty of the people; in other words, upon universal consent. This theory we have already considered.
To say that property is the daughter of labor, and then to give labor material on which to exercise itself, is, if I am not mistaken, to reason in a circle. Contradictions will result from it.
"A piece of land of a certain size produces food enough to supply a man for one day. If the possessor, through his labor, discovers some method of making it produce enough for two days, he doubles its value. This new value is his work, his creation: it is taken from nobody; it is his property."
I maintain that the possessor is paid for his trouble and industry in his doubled crop, but that he acquires no right to the land. "Let the laborer have the fruits of his labor." Very good; but I do not understand that property in products carries with it property in raw material. Does the skill of the
[108] fisherman, who on the same coast can catch more fish than his fellows, make him proprietor of the fishing-grounds? Can the expertness of a hunter ever be regarded as a property-title to a game-forest? The analogy is perfect, -- the industrious cultivator finds the reward of his industry in the abundancy and superiority of his crop. If he has made improvements in the soil, he has the possessor's right of preference. Never, under any circumstances, can he be allowed to claim a property-title to the soil which he cultivates, on the ground of his skill as a cultivator.
To change possession into property, something is needed besides labor, without which a man would cease to be proprietor as soon as he ceased to be a laborer. Now, the law bases property upon immemorial, unquestionable possession; that is, prescription. Labor is only the sensible sign, the physical act, by which occupation is manifested. If, then, the cultivator remains proprietor after he has ceased to labor and produce; if his possession, first conceded, then tolerated, finally becomes inalienable, -- it happens by permission of the civil law, and by virtue of the principle of occupancy. So true is this, that there is not a bill of sale, not a farm lease, not an annuity, but implies it. I will quote only one example.
How do we measure the value of land? By its product. If a piece of land yields one thousand francs, we say that at five per cent. it is worth twenty thousand francs; at four per cent. twenty-five thousand francs, &c.; which means, in other words, that in twenty or twenty-five years' time the purchaser would recover in full the amount originally paid for the land. If, then, after a certain length of time, the price of a piece of land has been wholly recovered, why does the purchaser continue to be proprietor? Because of the right of
[109] occupancy, in the absence of which every sale would be a redemption.
The theory of appropriation by labor is, then, a contradiction of the Code; and when the partisans of this theory pretend to explain the laws thereby, they contradict themselves.
"If men succeed in fertilizing land hitherto unproductive, or even death-producing, like certain swamps, they create thereby property in all its completeness."
What good does it do to magnify an expression, and play with equivocations, as if we expected to change the reality thereby? They create property in all its completeness. You mean that they create a productive capacity which formerly did not exist; but this capacity cannot be created without material to support it. The substance of the soil remains the same; only its qualities and modifications are changed. Man has created every thing—every thing save the material itself. Now, I maintain that this material he can only possess and use, on condition of permanent labor, -- granting, for the time being, his right of property in things which he has produced.
This, then, is the first point settled: property in product, if we grant so much, does not carry with it property in the means of production; that seems to me to need no further demonstration. There is no difference between the soldier who possesses his arms, the mason who possesses the materials committed to his care, the fisherman who possesses the water, the hunter who possesses the fields and forests, and the cultivator who possesses the lands: all, if you say so, are proprietors of their products—not one is proprietor of the means of production. The right to product is exclusive—jus in re; the right to means is common—jus ad rem.
[110] § 5.—That Labor leads to Equality of Property.
Admit, however, that labor gives a right of property in material. Why is not this principle universal? Why is the benefit of this pretended law confined to a few and denied to the mass of laborers? A philosopher, arguing that all animals sprang up formerly out of the earth warmed by the rays of the sun, almost like mushrooms, on being asked why the earth no longer yielded crops of that nature, replied: "Because it is old, and has lost its fertility." Has labor, once so fecund, likewise become sterile? Why does the tenant no longer acquire through his labor the land which was formerly acquired by the labor of the proprietor?
"Because," they say, "it is already appropriated." That is no answer. A farm yields fifty bushels per hectare; the skill and labor of the tenant double this product: the increase is created by the tenant. Suppose the owner, in a spirit of moderation rarely met with, does not go to the extent of absorbing this product by raising the rent, but allows the cultivator to enjoy the results of his labor; even then justice is not satisfied. The tenant, by improving the land, has imparted a new value to the property; he, therefore, has a right to a part of the property. If the farm was originally worth one hundred thousand francs, and if by the labor of the tenant its value has risen to one hundred and fifty thousand francs, the tenant, who produced this extra value, is the legitimate proprietor of one-third of the farm. M. Ch. Comte could not have pronounced this doctrine false, for it was he who said: --
"Men who increase the fertility of the earth are no less useful to their fellow-men, than if they should create new land."
Why, then, is not this rule applicable to the man who im
[111] proves the land, as well as to him who clears it? The labor of the former makes the land worth one; that of the latter makes it worth two: both create equal values. Why not accord to both equal property? I defy any one to refute this argument, without again falling back on the right of first occupancy.
"But," it will be said, "even if your wish should be granted, property would not be distributed much more evenly than now. Land does not go on increasing in value for ever; after two or three seasons it attains its maximum fertility. That which is added by the agricultural art results rather from the progress of science and the diffusion of knowledge, than from the skill of the cultivator. Consequently, the addition of a few laborers to the mass of proprietors would be no argument against property."
This discussion would, indeed, prove a well-nigh useless one, if our labors culminated in simply extending land-privilege and industrial monopoly; in emancipating only a few hundred laborers out of the millions of proletaires. But this also is a misconception of our real thought, and does but prove the general lack of intelligence and logic.
If the laborer, who adds to the value of a thing, has a right of property in it, he who maintains this value acquires the same right. For what is maintenance? It is incessant addition, -- continuous creation. What is it to cultivate? It is to give the soil its value every year; it is, by annually renewed creation, to prevent the diminution or destruction of the value of a piece of land. Admitting, then, that property is rational and legitimate, -- admitting that rent is equitable and just, -- I say that he who cultivates acquires property by as good a title as he who clears, or he who improves; and that every time a tenant pays his rent, he obtains a fraction of
[112] property in the land entrusted to his care, the denominator of which is equal to the proportion of rent paid. Unless you admit this, you fall into absolutism and tyranny; you recognize class privileges; you sanction slavery.
Whoever labors becomes a proprietor—this is an inevitable deduction from the acknowledged principles of political economy and jurisprudence. And when I say proprietor, I do not mean simply (as do our hypocritical economists) proprietor of his allowance, his salary, his wages, -- I mean proprietor of the value which he creates, and by which the master alone profits.
As all this relates to the theory of wages and of the distribution of products, -- and as this matter never has been even partially cleared up, -- I ask permission to insist on it: this discussion will not be useless to the work in hand. Many persons talk of admitting working-people to a share in the products and profits; but in their minds this participation is pure benevolence: they have never shown—perhaps never suspected—that it was a natural, necessary right, inherent in labor, and inseparable from the function of producer, even in the lowest forms of his work.
This is my proposition: The laborer retains, even after he has received his wages, a natural right of property in the thing which he has produced.
I again quote M. Ch. Comte: --
"Some laborers are employed in draining marshes, in cutting down trees and brushwood, -- in a word, in cleaning up the soil. They increase the value, they make the amount of property larger; they are paid for the value which they add in the form of food and daily wages: it then becomes the property of the capitalist."
The price is not sufficient: the labor of the workers has created a value; now this value is their property. But they
[113] have neither sold nor exchanged it; and you, capitalist, you have not earned it. That you should have a partial right to the whole, in return for the materials that you have furnished and the provisions that you have supplied, is perfectly just. You contributed to the production, you ought to share in the enjoyment. But your right does not annihilate that of the laborers, who, in spite of you, have been your colleagues in the work of production. Why do you talk of wages? The money with which you pay the wages of the laborers remunerates them for only a few years of the perpetual possession which they have abandoned to you. Wages is the cost of the daily maintenance and refreshment of the laborer. You are wrong in calling it the price of a sale. The workingman has sold nothing; he knows neither his right, nor the extent of the concession which he has made to you, nor the meaning of the contract which you pretend to have made with him. On his side, utter ignorance; on yours, error and surprise, not to say deceit and fraud.
Let us make this clearer by another and more striking example.
No one is ignorant of the difficulties that are met with in the conversion of untilled land into arable and productive land. These difficulties are so great, that usually an isolated man would perish before he could put the soil in a condition to yield him even the most meagre living. To that end are needed the united and combined efforts of society, and all the resources of industry. M. Ch. Comte quotes on this subject numerous and well-authenticated facts, little thinking that he is amassing testimony against his own system.
Let us suppose that a colony of twenty or thirty families establishes itself in a wild district, covered with underbrush and forests; and from which, by agreement, the natives con
[114] sent to withdraw. Each one of these families possesses a moderate but sufficient amount of capital, of such a nature as a colonist would be apt to choose, -- animals, seeds, tools, and a little money and food. The land having been divided, each one settles himself as comfortably as possible, and begins to clear away the portion allotted to him. But after a few weeks of fatigue, such as they never before have known, of inconceivable suffering, of ruinous and almost useless labor, our colonists begin to complain of their trade; their condition seems hard to them; they curse their sad existence.
Suddenly, one of the shrewdest among them kills a pig, cures a part of the meat; and, resolved to sacrifice the rest of his provisions, goes to find his companions in misery. "Friends," he begins in a very benevolent tone, "how much trouble it costs you to do a little work and live uncomfortably! A fortnight of labor has reduced you to your last extremity! . . . Let us make an arrangement by which you shall all profit. I offer you provisions and wine: you shall get so much every day; we will work together, and, zounds! my friends, we will be happy and contented!"
Would it be possible for empty stomachs to resist such an invitation? The hungriest of them follow the treacherous tempter. They go to work; the charm of society, emulation, joy, and mutual assistance double their strength; the work can be seen to advance. Singing and laughing, they subdue Nature. In a short time, the soil is thoroughly changed; the mellowed earth waits only for the seed. That done, the proprietor pays his laborers, who, on going away, return him their thanks, and grieve that the happy days which they have spent with him are over.
Others follow this example, always with the same success.
[115] Then, these installed, the rest disperse, -- each one returns to his grubbing. But, while grubbing, it is necessary to live. While they have been clearing away for their neighbor, they have done no clearing for themselves. One year's seed-time and harvest is already gone. They had calculated that in lending their labor they could not but gain, since they would save their own provisions; and, while living better, would get still more money. False calculation! they have created for another the means wherewith to produce, and have created nothing for themselves. The difficulties of clearing remain the same; their clothing wears out, their provisions give out; soon their purse becomes empty for the profit of the individual for whom they have worked, and who alone can furnish the provisions which they need, since he alone is in a position to produce them. Then, when the poor grubber has exhausted his resources, the man with the provisions (like the wolf in the fable, who scents his victim from afar) again comes forward. One he offers to employ again by the day; from another he offers to buy at a favorable price a piece of his bad land, which is not, and never can be, of any use to him: that is, he uses the labor of one man to cultivate the field of another for his own benefit. So that at the end of twenty years, of thirty individuals originally equal in point of wealth, five or six have become proprietors of the whole district, while the rest have been philanthropically dispossessed!
In this century of bourgeoisie morality, in which I have had the honor to be born, the moral sense is so debased that I should not be at all surprised if I were asked, by many a worthy proprietor, what I see in this that is unjust and illegitimate? Debased creature! galvanized corpse! how can I expect to convince you, if you cannot tell robbery when I
[116] show it to you? A man, by soft and insinuating words, discovers the secret of taxing others that he may establish himself; then, once enriched by their united efforts, he refuses, on the very conditions which he himself dictated, to advance the well-being of those who made his fortune for him: and you ask how such conduct is fraudulent! Under the pretext that he has paid his laborers, that he owes them nothing more, that he has nothing to gain by putting himself at the service of others, while his own occupations claim his attention, -- he refuses, I say, to aid others in getting a foothold, as he was aided in getting his own; and when, in the impotence of their isolation, these poor laborers are compelled to sell their birthright, he—this ungrateful proprietor, this knavish upstart—stands ready to put the finishing touch to their deprivation and their ruin. And you think that just? Take care! I read in your startled countenance the reproach of a guilty conscience, much more clearly than the innocent astonishment of involuntary ignorance.
"The capitalist," they say, "has paid the laborers their daily wages." To be accurate, it must be said that the capitalist has paid as many times one day's wage as he has employed laborers each day, -- which is not at all the same thing. For he has paid nothing for that immense power which results from the union and harmony of laborers, and the convergence and simultaneousness of their efforts. Two hundred grenadiers stood the obelisk of Luxor upon its base in a few hours; do you suppose that one man could have accomplished the same task in two hundred days? Nevertheless, on the books of the capitalist, the amount of wages paid would have been the same. Well, a desert to prepare for cultivation, a house to build, a factory to run, -- all these are obelisks to erect, mountains to move. The smallest fortune,
[117] the most insignificant establishment, the setting in motion of the lowest industry, demand the concurrence of so many different kinds of labor and skill, that one man could not possibly execute the whole of them. It is astonishing that the economists never have called attention to this fact. Strike a balance, then, between the capitalist's receipts and his payments.
The laborer needs a salary which will enable him to live while he works; for unless he consumes, he cannot produce. Whoever employs a man owes him maintenance and support, or wages enough to procure the same. That is the first thing to be done in all production. I admit, for the moment, that in this respect the capitalist has discharged his duty.
It is necessary that the laborer should find in his production, in addition to his present support, a guarantee of his future support; otherwise the source of production would dry up, and his productive capacity would become exhausted: in other words, the labor accomplished must give birth perpetually to new labor—such is the universal law of reproduction. In this way, the proprietor of a farm finds: 1. In his crops, means, not only of supporting himself and his family, but of maintaining and improving his capital, of feeding his live-stock—in a word, means of new labor and continual reproduction; 2. In his ownership of a productive agency, a permanent basis of cultivation and labor.
But he who lends his services, -- what is his basis of cultivation? The proprietor's presumed need of him, and the unwarranted supposition that he wishes to employ him. Just as the commoner once held his land by the munificence and condescension of the lord, so to-day the working-man holds his labor by the condescension and necessities of the master and proprietor: that is what is called possession by
[118] a precarious[1] title. But this precarious condition is an injustice, for it implies an inequality in the bargain. The laborer's wages exceed but little his running expenses, and do not assure him wages for to-morrow; while the capitalist finds in the instrument produced by the laborer a pledge of independence and security for the future.
Now, this reproductive leaven—this eternal germ of life, this preparation of the land and manufacture of implements for production—constitutes the debt of the capitalist to the producer, which he never pays; and it is this fraudulent denial which causes the poverty of the laborer, the luxury of idleness, and the inequality of conditions. This it is, above all other things, which has been so fitly named the exploitation of man by man.
One of three things must be done. Either the laborer must be given a portion of the product in addition to his wages; or the employer must render the laborer an equivalent in productive service; or else he must pledge himself to employ him for ever. Division of the product, reciprocity of service, or guarantee of perpetual labor, -- from the adoption of one of these courses the capitalist cannot escape. But it is evident that he cannot satisfy the second and third of these conditions—he can neither put himself at the service of the thousands of working-men, who, directly or indirectly, have aided him in establishing himself, nor employ them all for ever. He has no other course left him, then, but a division of the property. But if the property is divided, all conditions will be equal—there will be no more large capitalists or large proprietors.
[1] Precarious, from precor, "I pray;" because the act of concession expressly signified that the lord, in answer to the prayers of his men or slaves, had granted them permission to labor.
Consequently, when M. Ch. Comte—following out his hypothesis—shows us his capitalist acquiring one after another the products of his employees' labor, he sinks deeper and deeper into the mire; and, as his argument does not change, our reply of course remains the same.
"Other laborers are employed in building: some quarry the stone, others transport it, others cut it, and still others put it in place. Each of them adds a certain value to the material which passes through his hands; and this value, the product of his labor, is his property. He sells it, as fast as he creates it, to the proprietor of the building, who pays him for it in food and wages."
Divide et impera—divide, and you shall command; divide, and you shall grow rich; divide, and you shall deceive men, you shall daze their minds, you shall mock at justice! Separate laborers from each other, perhaps each one's daily wage exceeds the value of each individual's product; but that is not the question under consideration. A force of one thousand men working twenty days has been paid the same wages that one would be paid for working fifty-five years; but this force of one thousand has done in twenty days what a single man could not have accomplished, though he had labored for a million centuries. Is the exchange an equitable one? Once more, no; when you have paid all the individual forces, the collective force still remains to be paid. Consequently, there remains always a right of collective property which you have not acquired, and which you enjoy unjustly.
Admit that twenty days' wages suffice to feed, lodge, and clothe this multitude for twenty days: thrown out of employment at the end of that time, what will become of them, if, as fast as they create, they abandon their creations to the proprietors who will soon discharge them? While the proprietor, firm in his position (thanks to the aid of all the laborers),
[120] dwells in security, and fears no lack of labor or bread, the laborer's only dependence is upon the benevolence of this same proprietor, to whom he has sold and surrendered his liberty. If, then, the proprietor, shielding himself behind his comfort and his rights, refuses to employ the laborer, how can the laborer live? He has ploughed an excellent field, and cannot sow it; he has built an elegant and commodious house, and cannot live in it; he has produced all, and can enjoy nothing
Labor leads us to equality. Every step that we take brings us nearer to it; and if laborers had equal strength, diligence, and industry, clearly their fortunes would be equal also. Indeed, if, as is pretended, -- and as we have admitted, -- the laborer is proprietor of the value which he creates, it follows: --
1. That the laborer acquires at the expense of the idle proprietor;
2. That all production being necessarily collective, the laborer is entitled to a share of the products and profits commensurate with his labor;
3. That all accumulated capital being social property, no one can be its exclusive proprietor.
These inferences are unavoidable; these alone would suffice to revolutionize our whole economical system, and change our institutions and our laws. Why do the very persons, who laid down this principle, now refuse to be guided by it? Why do the Says, the Comtes, the Hennequins, and others—after having said that property is born of labor—seek to fix it by occupation and prescription?
But let us leave these sophists to their contradictions and blindness. The good sense of the people will do justice to their equivocations. Let us make haste to enlighten it, and
[121] show it the true path. Equality approaches; already between it and us but a short distance intervenes: to-morrow even this distance will have been traversed. § 6.—That in Society all Wages are Equal.
When the St. Simonians, the Fourierists, and, in general, all who in our day are connected with social economy and reform, inscribe upon their banner, --
"To each according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its results" (St. Simon);
"To each according to his capital, his labor, and his skill" (Fourier), -- they mean—although they do not say so in so many words—that the products of Nature procured by labor and industry are a reward, a palm, a crown offered to all kinds of preeminence and superiority. They regard the land as an immense arena in which prizes are contended for, -- no longer, it is true, with lances and swords, by force and by treachery; but by acquired wealth, by knowledge, talent, and by virtue itself. In a word, they mean—and everybody agrees with them—that the greatest capacity is entitled to the greatest reward; and, to use the mercantile phraseology, -- which has, at least, the merit of being straightforward, -- that salaries must be governed by capacity and its results.
The disciples of these two self-styled reformers cannot deny that such is their thought; for, in doing so, they would contradict their official interpretations, and would destroy the unity of their systems. Furthermore, such a denial on their part is not to be feared. The two sects glory in laying down as a principle inequality of conditions, -- reasoning from Nature, who, they say, intended the inequality of capacities. They boast only of one thing; namely, that their political system is so perfect, that the social inequalities always corre
spond with the natural inequalities. They no more trouble themselves to inquire whether inequality of conditions—I mean of salaries—is possible, than they do to fix a measure of capacity.[1]
"To each according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its results."
"To each according to his capital, his labor, and his skill."
Since the death of St. Simon and Fourier, not one among their numerous disciples has attempted to give to the public a scientific demonstration of this grand maxim; and I would wager a hundred to one that no Fourierist even suspects that this biform aphorism is susceptible of two interpretations.
This proposition, taken, as they say, in sensu obvio—in the sense usually attributed to it—is false, absurd, unjust, contradictory, hostile to liberty, friendly to tyranny, anti-social, and was unluckily framed under the express influence of the property idea.
And, first, capital must be crossed off the list of elements which are entitled to a reward. The Fourierists—as far as I have been able to learn from a few of their pamphlets—deny the right of occupancy, and recognize no basis of property save labor. Starting with a like premise, they would have seen—had they reasoned upon the matter—that capital is a
[1] In St. Simon's system, the St.-Simonian priest determines the capacity of each by virtue of his pontifical infallibility, in imitation of the Roman Church: in Fourier's, the ranks and merits are decided by vote, in imitation of the constitutional régime. Clearly, the great man is an object of ridicule to the reader; he did not mean to tell his secret.
source of production to its proprietor only by virtue of the right of occupancy, and that this production is therefore illegitimate. Indeed, if labor is the sole basis of property, I cease to be proprietor of my field as soon as I receive rent for it from another. This we have shown beyond all cavil. It is the same with all capital; so that to put capital in an enterprise, is, by the law's decision, to exchange it for an equivalent sum in products. I will not enter again upon this now useless discussion, since I propose, in the following chapter, to exhaust the subject of production by capital.
Thus, capital can be exchanged, but cannot be a source of income.
Labor and skill remain; or, as St. Simon puts it, results and capacities. I will examine them successively.
Should wages be governed by labor? In other words, is it just that he who does the most should get the most? I beg the reader to pay the closest attention to this point.
To solve the problem with one stroke, we have only to ask ourselves the following question: "Is labor a condition or a struggle? "The reply seems plain.
God said to man, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,"—that is, thou shalt produce thy own bread: with more or less ease, according to thy skill in directing and combining thy efforts, thou shalt labor. God did not say, "Thou shalt quarrel with thy neighbor for thy bread;" but, "Thou shalt labor by the side of thy neighbor, and ye shall dwell together in harmony." Let us develop the meaning of this law, the extreme simplicity of which renders it liable to misconstruction.
In labor, two things must be noticed and distinguished: association and available material.
In so far as laborers are associated, they are equal; and it
involves a contradiction to say that one should be paid more than another. For, as the product of one laborer can be paid for only in the product of another laborer, if the two products are unequal, the remainder—or the difference between the greater and the smaller—will not be acquired by society; and, therefore, not being exchanged, will not affect the equality of wages. There will result, it is true, in favor of the stronger laborer a natural inequality, but not a social inequality; no one having suffered by his strength and productive energy. In a word, society exchanges only equal products—that is, rewards no labor save that performed for her benefit; consequently, she pays all laborers equally: with what they produce outside of her sphere she has no more to do, than with the difference in their voices and their hair.
I seem to be positing the principle of inequality: the reverse of this is the truth. The total amount of labor which can be performed for society (that is, of labor susceptible of exchange), being, within a given space, as much greater as the laborers are more numerous, and as the task assigned to each is less in magnitude, -- it follows that natural inequality neutralizes itself in proportion as association extends, and as the quantity of consumable values produced thereby increases. So that in society the only thing which could bring back the inequality of labor would be the right of occupancy, -- the right of property.
Now, suppose that this daily social task consists in the ploughing, hoeing, or reaping of two square decameters, and that the average time required to accomplish it is seven hours: one laborer will finish it in six hours, another will require eight; the majority, however, will work seven. But provided each one furnishes the quantity of labor demanded of him, whatever be the time he employs, they are entitled to equal wages.
Shall the laborer who is capable of finishing his task in six hours have the right, on the ground of superior strength and activity, to usurp the task of the less skilful laborer, and thus rob him of his labor and bread? Who dares maintain such a proposition? He who finishes before the others may rest, if he chooses; he may devote himself to useful exercise and labors for the maintenance of his strength, and the culture of his mind, and the pleasure of his life. This he can do without injury to any one: but let him confine himself to services which affect him solely. Vigor, genius, diligence, and all the personal advantages which result therefrom, are the work of Nature and, to a certain extent, of the individual; society awards them the esteem which they merit: but the wages which it pays them is measured, not by their power, but by their production. Now, the product of each is limited by the right of all.
If the soil were infinite in extent, and the amount of available material were exhaustless, even then we could not accept this maxim, -- To each according to his labor. And why? Because society, I repeat, whatever be the number of its subjects, is forced to pay them all the same wages, since she pays them only in their own products. Only, on the hypothesis just made, inasmuch as the strong cannot be prevented from using all their advantages, the inconveniences of natural inequality would reappear in the very bosom of social equality. But the land, considering the productive power of its inhabitants and their ability to multiply, is very limited; further, by the immense variety of products and the extreme division of labor, the social task is made easy of accomplishment. Now, through this limitation of things producible, and through the ease of producing them, the law of absolute equality takes effect.
Yes, life is a struggle. But this struggle is not between man and man—it is between man and Nature; and it is each one's duty to take his share in it. If, in the struggle, the strong come to the aid of the weak, their kindness deserves praise and love; but their aid must be accepted as a free gift, -- not imposed by force, nor offered at a price. All have the same career before them, neither too long nor too difficult; whoever finishes it finds his reward at the end: it is not necessary to get there first.
In printing-offices, where the laborers usually work by the job, the compositor receives so much per thousand letters set; the pressman so much per thousand sheets printed. There, as elsewhere, inequalities of talent and skill are to be found. When there is no prospect of dull times (for printing and typesetting, like all other trades, sometimes come to a stand-still), every one is free to work his hardest, and exert his faculties to the utmost: he who does more gets more; he who does less gets less. When business slackens, compositors and pressmen divide up their labor; all monopolists are detested as no better than robbers or traitors.
There is a philosophy in the action of these printers, to which neither economists nor legists have ever risen. If our legislators had introduced into their codes the principle of distributive justice which governs printing-offices; if they had observed the popular instincts, -- not for the sake of servile imitation, but in order to reform and generalize them, -- long ere this liberty and equality would have been established on an immovable basis, and we should not now be disputing about the right of property and the necessity of social distinctions.
It has been calculated that if labor were equally shared by the whole number of able-bodied individuals, the average
working-day of each individual, in France, would not exceed five hours. This being so, how can we presume to talk of the inequality of laborers? It is the labor of Robert Macaire that causes inequality.
The principle, To each according to his labor, interpreted to mean, Who works most should receive most, is based, therefore, on two palpable errors: one, an error in economy, that in the labor of society tasks must necessarily be unequal; the other, an error in physics, that there is no limit to the amount of producible things.
"But," it will be said, "suppose there are some people who wish to perform only half of their task?" . . . Is that very embarrassing? Probably they are satisfied with half of their salary. Paid according to the labor that they had performed, of what could they complain? and what injury would they do to others? In this sense, it is fair to apply the maxim, -- To each according to his results. It is the law of equality itself.
Further, numerous difficulties, relative to the police system and the organization of industry, might be raised here. I will reply to them all with this one sentence, -- that they must all be solved by the principle of equality. Thus, some one might observe, "Here is a task which cannot be postponed without detriment to production. Ought society to suffer from the negligence of a few? and will she not venture—out of respect for the right of labor—to assure with her own hands the product which they refuse her? In such a case, to whom will the salary belong?"
To society; who will be allowed to perform the labor, either herself, or through her representatives, but always in such a way that the general equality shall never be violated, and that only the idler shall be punished for his idleness. Further, if
society may not use excessive severity towards her lazy members, she has a right, in self-defence, to guard against abuses.
But every industry needs—they will add—leaders, instructors, superintendents, &c. Will these be engaged in the general task? No; since their task is to lead, instruct, and superintend. But they must be chosen from the laborers by the laborers themselves, and must fulfil the conditions of eligibility. It is the same with all public functions, whether of administration or instruction.
Then, article first of the universal constitution will be: --
"The limited quantity of available material proves the necessity of dividing the labor among the whole number of laborers. The capacity, given to all, of accomplishing a social task, -- that is, an equal task, -- and the impossibility of paying one laborer save in the products of another, justify the equality of wages." § 7.—That Inequality of Powers is the Necessary Condition of Equality of Fortunes.
It is objected, -- and this objection constitutes the second part of the St. Simonian, and the third part of the Fourierstic, maxims, --
"That all kinds of labor cannot be executed with equal ease. Some require great superiority of skill and intelligence; and on this superiority is based the price. The artist, the savant, the poet, the statesman, are esteemed only because of their excellence; and this excellence destroys all similitude between them and other men: in the presence of these heights of science and genius the law of equality disappears. Now, if equality is not absolute, there is no equality. From the poet we descend to the novelist; from the sculptor to the stonecutter; from the architect to the mason; from the chemist
[129] to the cook, &c. Capacities are classified and subdivided into orders, genera, and species. The extremes of talent are connected by intermediate talents. Humanity is a vast hierarchy, in which the individual estimates himself by comparison, and fixes his price by the value placed upon his product by the public."
This objection always has seemed a formidable one. It is the stumbling-block of the economists, as well as of the defenders of equality. It has led the former into egregious blunders, and has caused the latter to utter incredible platitudes. Gracchus Babeuf wished all superiority to be stringently repressed, and even persecuted as a social calamity. To establish his communistic edifice, he lowered all citizens to the stature of the smallest. Ignorant eclectics have been known to object to the inequality of knowledge, and I should not be surprised if some one should yet rebel against the inequality of virtue. Aristotle was banished, Socrates drank the hemlock, Epaminondas was called to account, for having proved superior in intelligence and virtue to some dissolute and foolish demagogues. Such follies will be re-enacted, so long as the inequality of fortunes justifies a populace, blinded and oppressed by the wealthy, in fearing the elevation of new tyrants to power.
Nothing seems more unnatural than that which we examine too closely, and often nothing seems less like the truth than the truth itself. On the other hand, according to J. J. Rousseau, "it takes a great deal of philosophy to enable us to observe once what we see every day;" and, according to d'Alembert, "the ordinary truths of life make but little impression on men, unless their attention is especially called to them." The father of the school of economists (Say), from whom I borrow these two quotations, might have profited by them; but he
[130] who laughs at the blind should wear spectacles, and he who notices him is near-sighted.
Strange! that which has frightened so many minds is not, after all, an objection to equality—it is the very condition on which equality exists! . . .
Natural inequality the condition of equality of fortunes! . . . What a paradox! . . . I repeat my assertion, that no one may think I have blundered—inequality of powers is the sine qua non of equality of fortunes.
There are two things to be considered in society—functions and relations.
I. Functions. Every laborer is supposed to be capable of performing the task assigned to him; or, to use a common expression, "every workman must know his trade." The workman equal to his work, -- there is an equation between functionary and function.
In society, functions are not alike; there must be, then, different capacities. Further, -- certain functions demand greater intelligence and powers; then there are people of superior mind and talent. For the performance of work necessarily involves a workman: from the need springs the idea, and the idea makes the producer. We only know what our senses long for and our intelligence demands; we have no keen desire for things of which we cannot conceive, and the greater our powers of conception, the greater our capabilities of production.
Thus, functions arising from needs, needs from desires, and desires from spontaneous perception and imagination, the same intelligence which imagines can also produce; consequently, no labor is superior to the laborer. In a word, if the function calls out the functionary, it is because the functionary exists before the function.
Let us admire Nature's economy. With regard to these various needs which she has given us, and which the isolated man cannot satisfy unaided, Nature has granted to the race a power refused to the individual. This gives rise to the principle of the division of labor, -- a principle founded on the speciality of vocations.
The satisfaction of some needs demands of man continual creation; while others can, by the labor of a single individual, be satisfied for millions of men through thousands of centuries. For example, the need of clothing and food requires perpetual reproduction; while a knowledge of the system of the universe may be acquired for ever by two or three highly-gifted men. The perpetual current of rivers supports our commerce, and runs our machinery; but the sun, alone in the midst of space, gives light to the whole world. Nature, who might create Platos and Virgils, Newtons and Cuviers, as she creates husbandmen and shepherds, does not see fit to do so; choosing rather to proportion the rarity of genius to the duration of its products, and to balance the number of capacities by the competency of each one of them.
I do not inquire here whether the distance which separates one man from another, in point of talent and intelligence, arises from the deplorable condition of civilization, nor whether that which is now called the inequality of powers would be in an ideal society any thing more than a diversity of powers. I take the worst view of the matter; and, that I may not be accused of tergiversation and evasion of difficulties, I acknowledge all the inequalities that any one can desire.[1]
[1] I cannot conceive how any one dares to justify the inequality of conditions, by pointing to the base inclinations and propensities of certain men. Whence comes this shameful degradation of heart and mind to which so many fall victims, if not from the misery and abjection into which property plunges them?
Certain philosophers, in love with the levelling idea, maintain that all minds are equal, and that all differences are the result of education. I am no believer, I confess, in this doctrine; which, even if it were true, would lead to a result directly opposite to that desired. For, if capacities are equal, whatever be the degree of their power (as no one can be coerced), there are functions deemed coarse, low, and degrading, which deserve higher pay, -- a result no less repugnant to equality than to the principle, to each capacity according to its results. Give me, on the contrary, a society in which every kind of talent bears a proper numerical relation to the needs of the society, and which demands from each producer only that which his special function requires him to produce; and, without impairing in the least the hierarchy of functions, I will deduce the equality of fortunes.
This is my second point.
II. Relations. In considering the element of labor, I have shown that in the same class of productive services, the capacity to perform a social task being possessed by all, no inequality of reward can be based upon an inequality of individual powers. However, it is but fair to say that certain capacities seem quite incapable of certain services; so that, if human industry were entirely confined to one class of products, numerous incapacities would arise, and, consequently, the greatest social inequality. But every body sees, without any hint from me, that the variety of industries avoids this difficulty; so clear is this that I shall not stop to discuss it. We have only to prove, then, that functions are equal to each other; just as laborers, who perform the same function, are equal to each other. -- -- Property makes man a eunuch, and then reproaches him for being nothing but dry wood, a decaying tree.
Are you astonished that I refuse to genius, to knowledge, to courage, -- in a word, to all the excellences admired by the world, -- the homage of dignities, the distinctions of power and wealth? It is not I who refuse it: it is economy, it is justice, it is liberty. Liberty! for the first time in this discussion I appeal to her. Let her rise in her own defence, and achieve her victory.
Every transaction ending in an exchange of products or services may be designated as a commercial operation.
Whoever says commerce, says exchange of equal values; for, if the values are not equal, and the injured party perceives it, he will not consent to the exchange, and there will be no commerce.
Commerce exists only among free men. Transactions may be effected between other people by violence or fraud, but there is no commerce.
A free man is one who enjoys the use of his reason and his faculties; who is neither blinded by passion, nor hindered or driven by oppression, nor deceived by erroneous opinions.
So, in every exchange, there is a moral obligation that neither of the contracting parties shall gain at the expense of the other; that is, that, to be legitimate and true, commerce must be exempt from all inequality. This is the first condition of commerce. Its second condition is, that it be voluntary; that is, that the parties act freely and openly.
I define, then, commerce or exchange as an act of society.
The negro who sells his wife for a knife, his children for some bits of glass, and finally himself for a bottle of brandy, is not free. The dealer in human flesh, with whom he negotiates, is not his associate; he is his enemy.
The civilized laborer who bakes a loaf that he may eat a slice of bread, who builds a palace that he may sleep in a
[134] stable, who weaves rich fabrics that he may dress in rags, who produces every thing that he may dispense with every thing, -- is not free. His employer, not becoming his associate in the exchange of salaries or services which takes place between them, is his enemy.
The soldier who serves his country through fear instead of through love is not free; his comrades and his officers, the ministers or organs of military justice, are all his enemies.
The peasant who hires land, the manufacturer who borrows capital, the tax-payer who pays tolls, duties, patent and license fees, personal and property taxes, &c., and the deputy who votes for them, -- all act neither intelligently nor freely. Their enemies are the proprietors, the capitalists, the government.
Give men liberty, enlighten their minds that they may know the meaning of their contracts, and you will see the most perfect equality in exchanges without regard to superiority of talent and knowledge; and you will admit that in commercial affairs, that is, in the sphere of society, the word superiority is void of sense.
Let Homer sing his verse. I listen to this sublime genius in comparison with whom I, a simple herdsman, an humble farmer, am as nothing. What, indeed, -- if product is to be compared with product, -- are my cheeses and my beans in the presence of his "Iliad"? But, if Homer wishes to take from me all that I possess, and make me his slave in return for his inimitable poem, I will give up the pleasure of his lays, and dismiss him. I can do without his "Iliad," and wait, if necessary, for the "æneid." Homer cannot live twenty-four hours without my products. Let him accept, then, the little that I have to offer; and then his muse may instruct, encourage, and console me.
"What! do you say that such should be the condition of
[135] one who sings of gods and men? Alms, with the humiliation and suffering which they bring with them! -- what barbarous generosity!" . . . Do not get excited, I beg of you. Property makes of a poet either a Croesus or a beggar; only equality knows how to honor and to praise him. What is its duty? To regulate the right of the singer and the duty of the listener. Now, notice this point, which is a very important one in the solution of this question: both are free, the one to sell, the other to buy. Henceforth their respective pretensions go for nothing; and the estimate, whether fair or unfair, that they place, the one upon his verse, the other upon his liberality, can have no influence upon the conditions of the contract. We must no longer, in making our bargains, weigh talent; we must consider products only.
In order that the bard of Achilles may get his due reward, he must first make himself wanted: that done, the exchange of his verse for a fee of any kind, being a free act, must be at the same time a just act; that is, the poet's fee must be equal to his product. Now, what is the value of this product?
Let us suppose, in the first place, that this "Iliad"—this chef-d' oeuvre that is to be equitably rewarded—is really above price, that we do not know how to appraise it. If the public, who are free to purchase it, refuse to do so, it is clear that, the poem being unexchangeable, its intrinsic value will not be diminished; but that its exchangeable value, or its productive utility, will be reduced to zero, will be nothing at all. Then we must seek the amount of wages to be paid between infinity on the one hand and nothing on the other, at an equal distance from each, since all rights and liberties are entitled to equal respect; in other words, it is not the intrinsic value, but the relative value, of the thing sold that needs to be fixed. The question grows simpler: what is this rela
[136] tive value? To what reward does a poem like the "Iliad" entitle its author?
The first business of political economy, after fixing its definitions, was the solution of this problem; now, not only has it not been solved, but it has been declared insoluble. According to the economists, the relative or exchangeable value of things cannot be absolutely determined; it necessarily varies.
"The value of a thing," says Say, "is a positive quantity, but only for a given moment. It is its nature to perpetually vary, to change from one point to another. Nothing can fix it absolutely, because it is based on needs and means of production which vary with every moment. These variations complicate economical phenomena, and often render them very difficult of observation and solution. I know no remedy for this; it is not in our power to change the nature of things."
Elsewhere Say says, and repeats, that value being based on utility, and utility depending entirely on our needs, whims, customs, &c., value is as variable as opinion. Now, political economy being the science of values, of their production, distribution, exchange, and consumption, -- if exchangeable value cannot be absolutely determined, how is political economy possible? How can it be a science? How can two economists look each other in the face without laughing? How dare they insult metaphysicians and psychologists? What! that fool of a Descartes imagined that philosophy needed an immovable base—an aliquid inconcussum—on which the edifice of science might be built, and he was simple enough to search for it! And the Hermes of economy, Trismegistus Say, devoting half a volume to the amplification of that solemn text, political economy is a science, has the courage to affirm immediately afterwards that this science cannot determine its object, -- which is equivalent to saying that it is without a principle or foundation! He does not know, then,
[137] the illustrious Say, the nature of a science; or rather, he knows nothing of the subject which he discusses.
Say's example has borne its fruits. Political economy, as it exists at present, resembles ontology: discussing effects and causes, it knows nothing, explains nothing, decides nothing. The ideas honored with the name of economic laws are nothing more than a few trifling generalities, to which the economists thought to give an appearance of depth by clothing them in high-sounding words. As for the attempts that have been made by the economists to solve social problems, all that can be said of them is, that, if a glimmer of sense occasionally appears in their lucubrations, they immediately fall back into absurdity. For twenty-five years political economy, like a heavy fog, has weighed upon France, checking the efforts of the mind, and setting limits to liberty.
Has every creation of industry a venal, absolute, unchangeable, and consequently legitimate and true value? -- Yes.
Can every product of man be exchanged for some other product of man? -- Yes, again.
How many nails is a pair of shoes worth?
If we can solve this appalling problem, we shall have the key of the social system for which humanity has been searching for six thousand years. In the presence of this problem, the economist recoils confused; the peasant who can neither read nor write replies without hesitation: "As many as can be made in the same time, and with the same expense."
The absolute value of a thing, then, is its cost in time and expense. How much is a diamond worth which costs only the labor of picking it up? -- Nothing; it is not a product of man. How much will it be worth when cut and mounted? -- The time and expense which it has cost the laborer. Why, then, is it sold at so high a price? -- Because men are not
[138] free. Society must regulate the exchange and distribution of the rarest things, as it does that of the most common ones, in such a way that each may share in the enjoyment of them. What, then, is that value which is based upon opinion? -- Delusion, injustice, and robbery.
By this rule, it is easy to reconcile every body. If the mean term, which we are searching for, between an infinite value and no value at all is expressed in the case of every product, by the amount of time and expense which the product cost, a poem which has cost its author thirty years of labor and an outlay of ten thousand francs in journeys, books, &c., must be paid for by the ordinary wages received by a laborer during thirty years, plus ten thousand francs indemnity for expense incurred. Suppose the whole amount to be fifty thousand francs; if the society which gets the benefit of the production include a million of men, my share of the debt is five centimes.
This gives rise to a few observations.
1. The same product, at different times and in different places, may cost more or less of time and outlay; in this view, it is true that value is a variable quantity. But this variation is not that of the economists, who place in their list of the causes of the variation of values, not only the means of production, but taste, caprice, fashion, and opinion. In short, the true value of a thing is invariable in its algebraic expression, although it may vary in its monetary expression.
2. The price of every product in demand should be its cost in time and outlay—neither more nor less: every product not in demand is a loss to the producer—a commercial non-value.
3. The ignorance of the principle of evaluation, and the difficulty under many circumstances of applying it, is the
[139] source of commercial fraud, and one of the most potent causes of the inequality of fortunes.
4. To reward certain industries and pay for certain products, a society is needed which corresponds in size with the rarity of talents, the costliness of the products, and the variety of the arts and sciences. If, for example, a society of fifty farmers can support a schoolmaster, it requires one hundred for a shoemaker, one hundred and fifty for a blacksmith, two hundred for a tailor, &c. If the number of farmers rises to one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, &c., as fast as their number increases, that of the functionaries which are earliest required must increase in the same proportion; so that the highest functions become possible only in the most powerful societies.[1] That is the peculiar feature of capacities; the character of genius, the seal of its glory, cannot arise and develop itself, except in the bosom of a great nation. But this physiological condition, necessary to the existence of genius, adds nothing to its social rights: far from that, -- the delay in its appearance proves that, in economical and civil affairs, the loftiest intelligence must submit to the equality of possessions; an equality which is anterior to it, and of which it constitutes the crown.
This is severe on our pride, but it is an inexorable truth. And here psychology comes to the aid of social economy, giving us to understand that talent and material recompense have no common measure; that, in this respect, the condition of all producers is equal: consequently, that all comparison between them, and all distinction in fortunes, is impossible.
[1] How many citizens are needed to support a professor of philosophy? -- Thirty-five millions. How many for an economist? -- Two billions. And for a literary man, who is neither a savant, nor an artist, nor a philosopher, nor an economist, and who writes newspaper novels? -- None.
In fact, every work coming from the hands of man—compared with the raw material of which it is composed—is beyond price. In this respect, the distance is as great between a pair of wooden shoes and the trunk of a walnut-tree, as between a statue by Scopas and a block of marble. The genius of the simplest mechanic exerts as much influence over the materials which he uses, as does the mind of a Newton over the inert spheres whose distances, volumes, and revolutions he calculates. You ask for talent and genius a corresponding degree of honor and reward. Fix for me the value of a wood-cutter's talent, and I will fix that of Homer. If any thing can reward intelligence, it is intelligence itself. That is what happens, when various classes of producers pay to each other a reciprocal tribute of admiration and praise. But if they contemplate an exchange of products with a view to satisfying mutual needs, this exchange must be effected in accordance with a system of economy which is indifferent to considerations of talent and genius, and whose laws are deduced, not from vague and meaningless admiration, but from a just balance between debit and credit; in short, from commercial accounts.
Now, that no one may imagine that the liberty of buying and selling is the sole basis of the equality of wages, and that society's sole protection against superiority of talent lies in a certain force of inertia which has nothing in common with right, I shall proceed to explain why all capacities are entitled to the same reward, and why a corresponding difference in wages would be an injustice. I shall prove that the obligation to stoop to the social level is inherent in talent; and on this very superiority of genius I will found the equality of fortunes. I have just given the negative argument in favor of rewarding all capacities alike; I will now give the direct and positive argument.
Listen, first, to the economist: it is always pleasant to see how he reasons, and how he understands justice. Without him, moreover, without his amusing blunders and his wonderful arguments, we should learn nothing. Equality, so odious to the economist, owes every thing to political economy.
"When the parents of a physician [the text says a lawyer, which is not so good an example] have expended on his education forty thousand francs, this sum may be regarded as so much capital invested in his head. It is therefore permissible to consider it as yielding an annual income of four thousand francs. If the physician earns thirty thousand, there remains an income of twenty-six thousand francs due to the personal talents given him by Nature. This natural capital, then, if we assume ten per cent. as the rate of interest, amounts to two hundred and sixty thousand francs; and the capital given him by his parents, in defraying the expenses of his education, to forty thousand francs. The union of these two kinds of capital constitutes his fortune."—Say: Complete Course, &c..
Say divides the fortune of the physician into two parts: one is composed of the capital which went to pay for his education, the other represents his personal talents. This division is just; it is in conformity with the nature of things; it is universally admitted; it serves as the major premise of that grand argument which establishes the inequality of capacities. I accept this premise without qualification; let us look at the consequences.
1. Say credits the physician with forty thousand francs, -- the cost of his education. This amount should be entered upon the debit side of the account. For, although this expense was incurred for him, it was not incurred by him. Then, instead of appropriating these forty thousand francs, the physician should add them to the price of his product, and repay them to those who are entitled to them. Notice, further, that Say speaks of income instead of reimbursement; reasoning on the false principle of the productivity of capital.
[142] The expense of educating a talent is a debt contracted by this talent. From the very fact of its existence, it becomes a debtor to an amount equal to the cost of its production. This is so true and simple that, if the education of some one child in a family has cost double or triple that of its brothers, the latter are entitled to a proportional amount of the property previous to its division. There is no difficulty about this in the case of guardianship, when the estate is administered in the name of the minors.
2. That which I have just said of the obligation incurred by talent of repaying the cost of its education does not embarrass the economist. The man of talent, he says, inheriting from his family, inherits among other things a claim to the forty thousand francs which his education costs; and he becomes, in consequence, its proprietor. But this is to abandon the right of talent, and to fall back upon the right of occupancy; which again calls up all the questions asked in Chapter II. What is the right of occupancy? what is inheritance? Is the right of succession a right of accumulation or only a right of choice? how did the physician's father get his fortune? was he a proprietor, or only a usufructuary? If he was rich, let him account for his wealth; if he was poor, how could he incur so large an expense? If he received aid, what right had he to use that aid to the disadvantage of his benefactors, &c.?
3. "There remains an income of twenty-six thousand francs due to the personal talents given him by Nature." (Say, -- as above quoted.) Reasoning from this premise, Say concludes that our physician's talent is equivalent to a capital of two hundred and sixty thousand francs. This skilful calculator mistakes a consequence for a principle. The talent must not be measured by the gain, but rather the gain by the talent; [143] for it may happen, that, notwithstanding his merit, the physician in question will gain nothing at all, in which case will it be necessary to conclude that his talent or fortune is equivalent to zero? To such a result, however, would Say's reasoning lead; a result which is clearly absurd.
Now, it is impossible to place a money value on any talent whatsoever, since talent and money have no common measure. On what plausible ground can it be maintained that a physician should be paid two, three, or a hundred times as much as a peasant? An unavoidable difficulty, which has never been solved save by avarice, necessity, and oppression. It is not thus that the right of talent should be determined. But how is it to be determined?
4. I say, first, that the physician must be treated with as much favor as any other producer, that he must not be placed below the level of others. This I will not stop to prove. But I add that neither must he be lifted above that level; because his talent is collective property for which he did not pay, and for which he is ever in debt.
Just as the creation of every instrument of production is the result of collective force, so also are a man's talent and knowledge the product of universal intelligence and of general knowledge slowly accumulated by a number of masters, and through the aid of many inferior industries. When the physician has paid for his teachers, his books, his diplomas, and all the other items of his educational expenses, he has no more paid for his talent than the capitalist pays for his house and land when he gives his employees their wages. The man of talent has contributed to the production in himself of a useful instrument. He has, then, a share in its possession; he is not its proprietor. There exist side by side in him a free laborer and an accumulated social capital. As a laborer, [144] he is charged with the use of an instrument, with the superintendence of a machine; namely, his capacity. As capital, he is not his own master; he uses himself, not for his own benefit, but for that of others.
Even if talent did not find in its own excellence a reward for the sacrifices which it costs, still would it be easier to find reasons for lowering its reward than for raising it above the common level. Every producer receives an education; every laborer is a talent, a capacity, -- that is, a piece of collective property. But all talents are not equally costly. It takes but few teachers, but few years, and but little study, to make a farmer or a mechanic: the generative effort and—if I may venture to use such language—the period of social gestation are proportional to the loftiness of the capacity. But while the physician, the poet, the artist, and the savant produce but little, and that slowly, the productions of the farmer are much less uncertain, and do not require so long a time. Whatever be then the capacity of a man, -- when this capacity is once created, -- it does not belong to him. Like the material fashioned by an industrious hand, it had the power of becoming, and society has given it being. Shall the vase say to the potter, "I am that I am, and I owe you nothing"?
The artist, the savant, and the poet find their just recompense in the permission that society gives them to devote themselves exclusively to science and to art: so that in reality they do not labor for themselves, but for society, which creates them, and requires of them no other duty. Society can, if need be, do without prose and verse, music and painting, and the knowledge of the movements of the moon and stars; but it cannot live a single day without food and shelter. [145]
Undoubtedly, man does not live by bread alone; he must, also (according to the Gospel), live by the word of God; that is, he must love the good and do it, know and admire the beautiful, and study the marvels of Nature. But in order to cultivate his mind, he must first take care of his body, -- the latter duty is as necessary as the former is noble. If it is glorious to charm and instruct men, it is honorable as well to feed them. When, then, society—faithful to the principle of the division of labor—intrusts a work of art or of science to one of its members, allowing him to abandon ordinary labor, it owes him an indemnity for all which it prevents him from producing industrially; but it owes him nothing more. If he should demand more, society should, by refusing his services, annihilate his pretensions. Forced, then, in order to live, to devote himself to labor repugnant to his nature, the man of genius would feel his weakness, and would live the most distasteful of lives.
They tell of a celebrated singer who demanded of the Empress of Russia (Catherine II.) twenty thousand roubles for his services: "That is more than I give my field-marshals," said Catherine. "Your majesty," replied the other, "has only to make singers of her field-marshals."
If France (more powerful than Catherine II.) should say to Mademoiselle Rachel, "You must act for one hundred louis, or else spin cotton;" to M. Duprez, "You must sing for two thousand four hundred francs, or else work in the vineyard,"—do you think that the actress Rachel, and the singer Duprez, would abandon the stage? If they did, they would be the first to repent it.
Mademoiselle Rachel receives, they say, sixty thousand francs annually from the Comédie-Française. For a talent like hers, it is a slight fee. Why not one hundred thousand [146] francs, two hundred thousand francs? Why! not a civil list? What meanness! Are we really guilty of chaffering with an artist like Mademoiselle Rachel?
It is said, in reply, that the managers of the theatre cannot give more without incurring a loss; that they admit the superior talent of their young associate; but that, in fixing her salary, they have been compelled to take the account of the company's receipts and expenses into consideration also.
That is just, but it only confirms what I have said; namely, that an artist's talent may be infinite, but that its mercenary claims are necessarily limited, -- on the one hand, by its usefulness to the society which rewards it; on the other, by the resources of this society: in other words, that the demand of the seller is balanced by the right of the buyer.
Mademoiselle Rachel, they say, brings to the treasury of the Théâtre-Français more than sixty thousand francs. I admit it; but then I blame the theatre. From whom does the Théâtre-Français take this money? From some curious people who are perfectly free. Yes; but the workingmen, the lessees, the tenants, those who borrow by pawning their possessions, from whom these curious people recover all that they pay to the theatre, -- are they free? And when the better part of their products are consumed by others at the play, do you assure me that their families are not in want? Until the French people, reflecting on the salaries paid to all artists, savants, and public functionaries, have plainly expressed their wish and judgment as to the matter, the salaries of Mademoiselle Rachel and all her fellow-artists will be a compulsory tax extorted by violence, to reward pride, and support libertinism.
It is because we are neither free nor sufficiently enlightened, that we submit to be cheated in our bargains; that the
[147] laborer pays the duties levied by the prestige of power and the selfishness of talent upon the curiosity of the idle, and that we are perpetually scandalized by these monstrous inequalities which are encouraged and applauded by public opinion.
The whole nation, and the nation only, pays its authors, its savants, its artists, its officials, whatever be the hands through which their salaries pass. On what basis should it pay them? On the basis of equality. I have proved it by estimating the value of talent. I shall confirm it in the following chapter, by proving the impossibility of all social inequality.
What have we shown so far? Things so simple that really they seem silly: --
That, as the traveller does not appropriate the route which he traverses, so the farmer does not appropriate the field which he sows;
That if, nevertheless, by reason of his industry, a laborer may appropriate the material which he employs, every employer of material becomes, by the same title, a proprietor;
That all capital, whether material or mental, being the result of collective labor, is, in consequence, collective property;
That the strong have no right to encroach upon the labor of the weak, nor the shrewd to take advantage of the credulity of the simple;
Finally, that no one can be forced to buy that which he does not want, still less to pay for that which he has not bought; and, consequently, that the exchangeable value of a product, being measured neither by the opinion of the buyer nor that of the seller, but by the amount of time and outlay which it has cost, the property of each always remains the same.
Are not these very simple truths? Well, as simple as they seem to you, reader, you shall yet see others which surpass them in dullness and simplicity. For our course is the reverse of that of the geometricians: with them, the farther they advance, the more difficult their problems become; we, on the contrary, after having commenced with the most abstruse propositions, shall end with the axioms.
But I must close this chapter with an exposition of one of those startling truths which never have been dreamed of by legists or economists. § 8.—That, from the Stand-point of Justice, Labor destroys Property.
This proposition is the logical result of the two preceding sections, which we have just summed up.
The isolated man can supply but a very small portion of his wants; all his power lies in association, and in the intelligent combination of universal effort. The division and co-operation of labor multiply the quantity and the variety of products; the individuality of functions improves their quality.
There is not a man, then, but lives upon the products of several thousand different industries; not a laborer but receives from society at large the things which he consumes, and, with these, the power to reproduce. Who, indeed, would venture the assertion, "I produce, by my own effort, all that I consume; I need the aid of no one else"? The farmer, whom the early economists regarded as the only real producer—the farmer, housed, furnished, clothed, fed, and assisted by the mason, the carpenter, the tailor, the miller, the baker, the butcher, the grocer, the blacksmith, &c., -- the farmer, I say, can he boast that he produces by his own unaided effort?
The various articles of consumption are given to each by
[149] all; consequently, the production of each involves the production of all. One product cannot exist without another; an isolated industry is an impossible thing. What would be the harvest of the farmer, if others did not manufacture for him barns, wagons, ploughs, clothes, &c.? Where would be the savant without the publisher; the printer without the typecaster and the machinist; and these, in their turn, without a multitude of other industries? . . . Let us not prolong this catalogue—so easy to extend—lest we be accused of uttering commonplaces. All industries are united by mutual relations in a single group; all productions do reciprocal service as means and end; all varieties of talent are but a series of changes from the inferior to the superior.
Now, this undisputed and indisputable fact of the general participation in every species of product makes all individual productions common; so that every product, coming from the hands of the producer, is mortgaged in advance by society. The producer himself is entitled to only that portion of his product, which is expressed by a fraction whose denominator is equal to the number of individuals of which society is composed. It is true that in return this same producer has a share in all the products of others, so that he has a claim upon all, just as all have a claim upon him; but is it not clear that this reciprocity of mortgages, far from authorizing property, destroys even possession? The laborer is not even possessor of his product; scarcely has he finished it, when society claims it.
"But," it will be answered, "even if that is so—even if the product does not belong to the producer—still society gives each laborer an equivalent for his product; and this equivalent, this salary, this reward, this allowance, becomes his property. Do you deny that this property is legitimate?
[150] And if the laborer, instead of consuming his entire wages, chooses to economize, -- who dare question his right to do so?"
The laborer is not even proprietor of the price of his labor, and cannot absolutely control its disposition. Let us not be blinded by a spurious justice. That which is given the laborer in exchange for his product is not given him as a reward for past labor, but to provide for and secure future labor. We consume before we produce. The laborer may say at the end of the day, "I have paid yesterday's expenses; to-morrow I shall pay those of today." At every moment of his life, the member of society is in debt; he dies with the debt unpaid: -- how is it possible for him to accumulate?
They talk of economy—it is the proprietor's hobby. Under a system of equality, all economy which does not aim at subsequent reproduction or enjoyment is impossible—why? Because the thing saved, since it cannot be converted into capital, has no object, and is without a final cause. This will be explained more fully in the next chapter.
To conclude: --
The laborer, in his relation to society, is a debtor who of necessity dies insolvent. The proprietor is an unfaithful guardian who denies the receipt of the deposit committed to his care, and wishes to be paid for his guardianship down to the last day.
Lest the principles just set forth may appear to certain readers too metaphysical, I shall reproduce them in a more concrete form, intelligible to the dullest brains, and pregnant with the most important consequences.
Hitherto, I have considered property as a power of exclusion; hereafter, I shall examine it as a power of invasion.
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Seething and Learning
Bradford City 0 Dagenham and Redbridge 2 At Valley Parade in League Two, 2007/2008
In which Michael sees a City team who had lost the game in the dressing room before kick off loose 2-0 at home.
The question before us, Dear Reader, is one of motivation as Bradford City lost 2-0 at Valley Parade to Dag and Red after a week of two impressive wins seemed to set up the play off charge for the Bantams.
80 minutes gone when Ben Strevens finished off a tidy move for the visitors taking advantage of Stuart McCall’s laudable efforts to play a fullbackless 3412 to try get back on level terms those play off ambitions seemed lost. In fact they probably were before kick off but confidence after wins and good performances can be as much an enemy at the start of a football match as the habitual losing pattern McCall found his team in earlier in the season.
With two fine wins this week on the back of a run stretching back to Boxing Day which has seem good results and good performances Valley Parade turned up expecting and hands were sat on – football supporters have this way of flipping between an attitude of dark pessimism and massive expectation at the recording of two wins – but more crucially the equivalent performances were put in on the field.
Bradford City emerged from the dressing room in the mistaken believe that the win would flow in following previous results and that – in essence – they did not have to put in the effort to claim victory. This game was lost in the dressing room at 14:59.
Bill Shankly would tell all is Liverpool sides of the 1970s were first tasked in a season with avoiding relegation understanding that every game in football had to be won over the course of 90 minutes and that domination in football comes from an ability to not assume those victories against any opposition.
There is a line between confident and arrogant; between thinking and expecting; and City were too far the wrong side of that line. Alex Rhodes is an easy to pick out offender as he hung on the last man waiting for the perfect pass that would free him for attacking play rather than playing with the endeavour that saw him achieve in recent games. Omar Daley showed the same entirely forgetting that it was his harrying and chasing that brought about his goal against Rotherham last week. Joe Colbeck could hold his head up and say that he put in the same effort to try get this win as he did previous but no doubts anyone else could.
The same cannot be said for Dag & Red who at one point had Scott Griffiths block three shots in a minute – one with his face – and showed the sort of work rate that deserved a victory. It is simple to say but very true: They wanted it more.
All of which sounds damning and the margin of error today was slight – Barry Conlon’s missed penalty at 1-0 could have seen City back in the game and go on to win – but this ability to keep a team focused while winning is one of the most difficult things in football and something that even the best managers the game has seen have to learn and get wrong.
The balance McCall must build is on the one hand he must let confidence grow and let his players think they are winning games because of their excellence and on the other hand he must break them down and remind them that they cannot expect to beat anyone without putting in the effort. It is a conversation that goes “You are the best footballers in the world and can beat anyone but if you don’t run yourselves around then you can’t beat anyone” and if I knew a good way of putting that to a bunch of men then I would be doing it and not writing about doing it.
So McCall faces the inconstancy of over confidence and looks to learn what he can as he did that caused by the lack of confidence earlier in the season. One thing that his rookie year in League Two will have done is provide a lot of learning experiences for the ginger one but it should be noted at this point with a quarter of the season to go that League Two in 2007/2008 is freakish.
Today of the twelve games played five were home wins and five away victories which continues that balance as being seventeen more away wins than home wins this season. It is a season in which – for whatever reason – it is more common that the away side picks up the victory than the home side does. To put that in context in the 120 years of English League Football over all divisions ever run it has never been the case that a season has finished with more away wins than home. Never happened before.
City and McCall’s problems are far more common. Over confidence, players putting in 75% thinking they can stroll to wins, feet off the ground and people not thinking that winning game three on a run requires less effort than winning game one did. Something to work on before any side is able to mount a promotion campaign.
Date Sunday March 2nd, 2008
This is a match report on Bradford City 0 Dagenham and Redbridge 2 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2007/2008
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Anyone who has ever lived in St. Louis knows about Nelly and the St. Lunatics. Their sound became widespread throughout the city in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Tracks like Country Grammar, EI, and Pimp Juice became instant classics. But what you may not know is the man behind their famous sound that went worldwide.
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DELUX: Thanks for doing this interview with me.
JAY-E: Oh no problem, thank you for taking the time to talk to me.
DELUX: You welcome. Ok so if you’re ready, let’s get started. For those who may not be familiar with who Jay-E is, tell our readers a little bit about yourself and how you came to be Jay-E—beat maker and producer.
JAY-E: Well I’ve been a music producer for I guess about 20 years for Nelly and the St. Lunatics. There have been so many St. Louis artists that I have produced, along with artists like Plies, Three 6 Mafia, Josh Stone, and so many others as well. I was born and raised in St. Louis.
DELUX: So how did you get into music?
JAY-E: Originally, I started DJing house parties in high school, then a friend of mine who was DJing at Saints asked me to come by to hang out and meet everybody. One day when I was hanging around he showed me the studio and I became so intrigued by it. I figured if I was going to be hanging around, I might as well start making records. Then it just so happens the St. Lunatics came by one day and heard a few of my beats—and dug them so we started working together. This was way before any of them took off and our first track which was Gimme What You Got.
DELUX: Every producer has their signature sound that they leave on a track. How would you describe yours?
JAY-E: I mean I’m all over the place [laughs]. I listen to a lot of soul, blues, rock-n-roll, hip-hop, and R&B. Basically, I kind of collaborate all those sound and genres into a track like a big gumbo and kind of make it my own. I didn’t really plan for to happen that way—it’s just kind of turned out like that since those sounds were my inspiration growing up as a kid. I just love music in general and it shows in my music.
DELUX: Okay what would you say is your favorite track to date that you have produced?
JAY-E: Umm produced, let’s see. Pimp Juice is definitely up there, EI, and Splurge are my favorites from Nelly that I have done. I’ve done so many that I am fan of, but definitely a lot of the tracks on my record—like this song with Keem called Better Days that I really love—and the In the City with Tef Poe is one of my favorites as well.
DELUX: That’s dope! Now you have this new project called In the City. Tell us a little bit about what inspired it, what made you pick these tracks and what made you decide to go with these artists?
JAY-E: You know I’ve always been a fan of an entourage of artists. Like I grew up really loving Wu-Tang, NWA, and stuff like that. I’ve always wanted to get St. Louis together and do a record, even way back in the day. I’m all about timing and I felt the timing was finally right to just go ahead and attack this goal of mine. I actually worked with so many more artists that didn’t make this record, which is why I titled it volume one. I anticipate on dropping volume two sometime later, but these were the ones I chose that I enjoyed and flowed really well from top to bottom.
It’s a very diverse album from trap music to classic hip-hop, to rock-n-roll, to punk on there. It’s just all over the place, but that’s how I’ve always wanted to do. I feel like it shows my musical history. I feel like I kind of have musical ADD [laughs]. I don’t like listening to the same genre all day—I bounce around like a shuffle mode.
DELUX: Is this something that you’ve always wanted to do? Are you excited about the show and album?
JAY-E: To be honest, I was making the album already, but I wasn’t planning on dropping it this year. I was kind of going with the flow with no real anticipation on a release date. We had already released the track with Tef Poe, Kyjuan and Murphy Lee, and it was going really well. However, when Red Bull Music approached me about this idea—I was like hell yeah let’s do it. After that, I went ahead and pushed myself to get it completed.
Red Bull really wanted to go all out for the city and get behind the album, so I was really happy about that and appreciated it.
DELUX: What can the audience expect from your show at the Pageant tonight?
JAY-E: Well first we have Mvstermind performing which Red Bull brought in. They titled it “The Mind of Jay E” because they wanted to have an artist who grew up listening to Country Grammar and my sound. He was really inspired as an artist by that. Then there is E-40 who I was inspired by growing up because I listened to a lot of him and the Clique. There’s also Tef Poe, KyJuan and Murph, along with some other surprise artists all on one stage. There should be around 14 artists and 12 groups performing in total.
DELUX: Are there any surprises in the show, or people not listed that we can expect to see?
JAY-E: Umm well there will be people popping up, but I can’t say 100 percent who. It will definitely be a star-studded show with people flying in—I’ll just say that.
DELUX: [laughs] Okay so basically anyone of your favorites could possibly, maybe pop up and be there?
JAY-E: Yeah, there definitely be some celebs in the house tonight for sure.
Jay E’s album “In the City” is available on streaming platforms, and his show “The Mind of Jay E” is tonight at the Pageant starting at 8pm. Be sure to check them out!
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List of Famous Castles
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Hear some of the most important facts about uses of castles in warfare during European Middle Ages:
First static fortifications for keeps and villages appeared around 3500BC in ancient Assyria. The oldest surviving fortified keep is Mandigak from 2500BC, located in south-east Afghanistan.
Castles were one of the most popular static defense structures of Middle Ages, with around 100 thousand of them being produced between 9th and 17th century in Europe.
City of Babylon was famed for his high city walls, reinforced towers, moats and ditches.
They provided great protection for the people inside of it, with only small regiment of soldier needed to maintain defenses. This was most obviously showcased in 1403, when only 37 archers managed to successfully defend English Caernarfon Castle against siege of Welsh and French troops.
Effective defensive range of average castle was only 400 meters, and that range did not change much even with the introduction of the gunpowder artillery. Because of that, castles were often built on the locations that enemy forces had to use in order to reach their other objectives.
Castles were not always manned by professional soldiers. Majority of early castles was manned by vassals of the lord who owned the castle, who brought professional army only in the times of war.
One of the most famous ancient fortifications, Masada in Israel, located on the extremely isolated rock plateau, was conquered in 73AD by Roman soldiers who created 100m high ramp that scaled west wall of the fortress.
Command structure of the medieval castle was Castle Constable, several knights who served as officers, and below them archers, bowmen and footmen.
Most popular siege weapons in our history were ballista’s, who were more powerful and accurate than any other available heavy weapons. They worked on the principle of crossbows, and were used since ancient Greece to the arrival of gunpowder.
Castle can be assaulted in two ways, direct attack that could be very costly, or to lay a siege in an attempt to starve out defenders. Sieges could last from days to years, depending how much resources is available to defenders.
Many sieges were broken by digging tunnels, which were used either to transport troops inside of castle (Castle Gaillard in 1204), or to deploy high powered bomb which destroyed castle walls (Fortress of Godesberg, 1589).
Some of the most famous ancient sieges were done by Alexander the Great. He used simple artillery and siege towers. Romans deployed catapults, ballistae, onagers and towers.
Many historians claim that Hannibal was unable to seriously attack Rome because he lacked ability to preform castle or city siege.
Mongols horse armies who conquered much of Europe and Asia took advantage of the lack of medical knowledge in Europe, and used catapults to thrown bodies of dead soldiers and civilian inside the walls of besieged cities. Because nobody knew how sickness was transmitted inside population, this military tactics greatly helped to spread black plague across Europe.
First successful castle defense tactic against Mongol armies was developed by the Chinese. They used gunpowder weapons, bombs and cannonballs.
Oldest depiction of siege weapons is around 4500 year old, and it comes from Ancient Egypt. It showed soldiers approaching city carrying with them high siege ladders.
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This article originally appeared in the EVA newsletter in 1999.
By Scott A. Rappe, AIA
Principal, Kuklinski+Rappe Architects
In a welcome gesture towards finding a mutually agreeable approach to saving St. Boniface, the Archdiocese of Chicago extended an invitation to Alderman Jesse Granato and five community representatives to tour the church on May 5, 1999. Several representatives of the Archdiocese, including Father Baldwin, Thomas Brennan and Gregory Veith joined the Alderman, representatives from the Eckardt Park community, respected preservation architects John Vinci and Ward Miller, and myself on the walk‑through.
We were prepared for the worst, having been warned of structural damage and being required to sign releases prior to entering the church. I am pleased to say that our worst fears were not realized. While weather, pigeons and the lack of an ongoing maintenance program have left their mark, the building has survived a decade of abandonment with little apparent irreversible damage.
Our first stop was the nave, an impressive multi‑story space in the form of a latin cross, with a shallow central dome. The dome is supported on large arches which span the width of the space and is adorned with a ornate, but peeling mural. Predictably, the plaster on the exterior walls (which was probably applied directly to the masonry) is showing signs of deterioration. In addition, a slender plaster colonnette (a decorative column applied to the structural piers to reduce their visual massiveness) has deteriorated and fallen to the floor. Suprisingly, with its original stained glass windows removed, the worship space is now light, airy and filled with promise.
Next we walked throught the main floor of the rectory, which has several formal spaces and parlors. They were very impressive, with natural oak woodwork, pocket doors, built‑in seating and bookcases and a beautiful roman‑brick fireplace. Some items, such as the mantle piece have been removed for salvage. The most striking space in the rectory is the stairway, which features several massive oak newel posts and ornate railings and is capped by a skylight in the form of the Star of David.
In search for the structural damage we were warned about, we descended to the basement area beneath the nave. Here, the heavy riveted lattice columns (similar to those seen on old bridges throughout the City) are visible standing on stone step footings, supporting the church above. The concrete floor structure of the nave is visible from beneath as well.
Our final destination was the school, where we finally saw the results of mixing water, weather and time with buildings: two collapsed classroom floors. Although unfortunate, the collapse demonstrates the enduring structural integrity of the complex, despite neglect. The wood floor joists acted precisely as they were designed to act in case of a fire or other catastrophe. When built, the ends of each joist were cut at an angle (‘fire cut’) to allow them to pull cleanly from the supporting masonry without toppling the walls above. This is exactly what has happened.
Ironically, the missing stained glass windows and degradation of the interior plaster decoration and murals may be a blessing in disguise. If these items were in better shape, they would severely limit the potential uses to which the building could be put and would certainly require a significant amount of money to restore. As John Vinci noted during the walk-through, of the $5 million spent on the restoration of Holy Family church, only one million was spent on remediating structural damage and making the building habitable again; the rest went to restoration of interior finishes.
The value of St. Boniface transcends the condition of its plaster and paint. It is a religioius, cultural and architectural landmark that conveys meaning to our community across ethnic, nationalistic, linguistic and even religious lines. Weather and neglect can erode plaster and mortar, but can never diminish the memory and meaning of such a magnificent edifice to our community. I have no doubt, that in its next life (if blessed with a stay of execution), St. Boniface is suited to continue to serve its community as a library, museum, community center, school or other institution as faithfully as its has served as a building for worship.
Labels: East Village History, Landmarks, St. Boniface
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Seneca Park Zoo and Monroe County officials Friday unveiled a viewing atrium — the latest addition to the new elephant habitat at the zoo. The $4.4 million exhibit, which opened to the public in April, is about five times larger than the elephants' former habitat and includes a 10,000-square-foot shelter that can house up to five elephants, and a 20,000-square-foot yard.
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Strange Hairy Humanoid In Argentina?
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Source: Inexplicata
Argentina: A Strange Creature Reported in Salta Province
Police in Rivadavia say it’s a sort of gorilla
A woman identified as Pascuala Alzogaray, who lives in El Divisadero in Rivadavia, in the middle of the Saltean “chaco”, rode her horse 25 kilometers in the middle of the night to request assistance from the police officers at the small community of La Union, since, as she claimed, all local ranchers are frightened by the recurring presence of a strange, hairy humanoid of considerable size.
Alzogaray claims having seen the creature and described it as a sort of gorilla, covered in hair, walking on two legs and with the aspect of “an accursed being.”
“Something must be done about it, it’s the Ucumar,” she told police officers at the barracks, located 500 miles north of the provincial capital.
Pascuala Alzogaray states that she saw the strange creature along with other members of her family, and that fear prompted them to leave the vicinity until the police do something.
Several websites have started disseminating the strange report of a hairy humanoid creature that’s been stalking insular farmers who live deep in the Argentinian north. A region rich in folklore and legends. One of those being that of the Ucumar, a short hairy humanoid with a protruding belly and large feet that has been stalking the region for centuries. It’s said that the creature lives in caves high up in the mountains.
Historian and writer Manuel Lizondo Borda wrote a fascinating passage in his book: Estudios de voces tucumanas: derivadas del quichua (Studies of voices Tucumanas: Derived from quichua):
“Llamábase así a un hombre casi bestial, feo, peludo, que vivía en los montes tucumanos, hace varios anos, y que ocupó mucho la atención pública hasta que fue preso por las autoridades: Se le atribuían raptos de muchachas. (Con este nombre se asustaba a los chicos, para quienes significaba algo así como el monstruo)” —Manuel Lizondo Borda
“As it is known, a man almost beast-like, ugly, hairy, that lived in the mountains tucumanos several years ago, and that occupied much the public attention until it was captured by the authorities: It’s blamed for the kidnapping of young girls. (The name [Ucumar] was used to scare unruly young males)”
That’s my translation of part of the text by Borda. The strange description falls in line with most urban legends of humanoid beings that kidnap young females. However, a more interesting find is that the word Ucumar –or better yet: jukumari– means ‘bear’ in the Quichua language.
Oddly enough, the description of the hairy humanoid creatures resembles that of a bear; short, stumpy, protruding belly, and large feet.
You see where I’m getting at here, right?
The Andean Bear, or “Spectacled bear“, is native to the mountainous stretch in northern Argentina and is quite possibly responsible for the eerie stories of a hairy humanoid that stalks the villagers.
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IDF soldiers (File photo)
Palestinian Authority/Gaza, September 4, 2018
Israel Foils Palestinian Prisoner Plot to Kidnap Soldier
The Israeli defense establishment on Saturday foiled a plot concocted by a Fatah officer in an Israeli jail, to engineer the abduction of a soldier who could subsequently be exchanged for his own release, said a Prison Services source on Monday.
The putative abduction was the brainchild of Mohammed Naifa, a Fatah official sentenced to 13 life terms for murdering 13 Israelis, said Yuval Biton, the deputy prisons commissioner, speaking at a counter-terrorism conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
Prisoners in that situation might try to orchestrate a kidnapping in order to gain their own freedom because there isn't any alternative way to get out, Biton said.
Information about Naifa's plan came to light on Saturday, following which special forces took steps to thwart it, Biton said.
Biton said the case just goes to show that the security prisoners persist in attempts to hurt Israel and conduct terror attacks, and to plan abductions.
"The prisoners are a microcosm of Palestinian society," he said: "Religious organizations versus secular Gaza organizations versus the residents of the West Bank, city-dwellers versus those in refugee camps and villages. Each of those groups lives in tension and seething hatred. There is an internal Palestinian rift that serves our interests. We are right in the seams and cracks between the organizations and our role is to widen the rifts. What unites the Palestinian people is a joint enemy."
Naifa, held at the Gilboa Prison, is one of the highest ranking Fatah figures in Israeli custody. He was arrested in November 2002, during the Second Intifada, and convicted of plotting – and sending people to perpetrate - the terrorist attack on Kibbutz Metzer, in which a mother and two children were killed; and an attack on the Moshav Hermesh, in which three Israeli women died.
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Engineering Alloys
Engineering Alloys Overview
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Members of the Engineering Alloys team are involved in large, often pan-university, collaborative research projects and other activities. Examples of these activities are described below.
Collaborative research projects
BIAM-Imperial Centre for Materials Characterisation, Processing and Modelling
The BIAM-Imperial Centre for Materials Characterisation, Processing and Modelling has a significant investment in world-class centre for research at Imperial College, hosted in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials. In Materials, we have a team focussed on understanding the fundamentals of deformation in nickel superalloys used in gas turbine engines.
Our bredth of interest in this spans not only traditional characterisation efforts (microscopy), but also includes innovations in the field of combining physically based modelling with full field strain measurement with electron backscatter diffraction and digitial image correlation.
Professor Fionn Dunne and Dr Ben Britton have research activities that are supported within this centre.
For more information, please see the BIAM centre website.
DARE (Designing Alloys for Resource Efficiency)
DARE (darealloys.org) is a £3.2m EPRSC collaborative programme between Sheffield, Kings College London, Cambridge and Imperial that aims to develop alloys for new manufacturing technologies such as additive manufacture and for supply chain compression and scrap recycling that enable a more efficient, less resource and CO2-intensive UK metals sector. The project partners span from Magnesium Elektron (Mg) to Timet, Safran, Alcoa, Firth Rixson and Rolls-Royce in the titanium sector, to VW, Siemens, Tata, Forge Masters and Arcelor Mittal in steels, all coming together to integrate process, alloy and business model design.
Rolls-Royce Nuclear UTC
Rolls-Royce plc have a significant investment in research activities within the UK, most notably through their series of University Technology Centres (UTCs). Imperial College hosts two such UTCs, one of which is lead by Professor Fionn Dunne as Director.
The Nuclear UTC considereds a wide scope of activities, for the Engineering Alloys team we are strongly linked in with a focus on mechanical performance and structure integritity assessment in the field of Nuclear Engineering. This overlaps with many of the interests of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering.
Professor Fionn Dunne and Drs Mark Wenman, Ben Britton and David Dye have research activities that fall under this umbrella.
For more information, please see the RR-UTC website.
Centre for Nuclear Engineering (CNE)
Metallurgy plays a significant role in structure engineering in the nuclear sector. Here we are interested in understanding the behaviour of metals to aid in design and lifetime prediction of keys structural components in nuclear applications, such as piping used in heat exchange and steam generation.
Drs Mark Wenman and Ben Britton have research activities that fall under this umbrella.
For more information please see the CNE Website.
Future Liquid Metal Engineering (LiME) research hub
The UK metal casting industry adds £2.6bn/yr to the UK economy, employs 30,000 people, produces 1.14 million tons of metal castings per year and underpins the competitive position of every sector of UK manufacturing. However, the industry faces severe challenges, including increasing energy and materials costs, tightening environmental regulations and a short supply of skilled people. The Future LiME Hub is addressing these challenges with a focus on harnessing recycled aluminium and magnesium alloys in high value automotive applications.
This £10M EPSRC sponsored manufacturing research hub (EP/M025632/1) is based at Brunel University with complementary expertise of academic spokes at Oxford, Leeds, Manchester and Imperial College London. The Imperial spoke is led by Dr Chris Gourlay.
For more information please see the Future LiME hub website (www.lime.ac.uk) Or the press release from EPSRC (https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/manufacturinghubs/)
MIDAS - Mechanistic understanding of Irradiation Damage in fuel Assemblies
MIDAS (Mechanistic understanding of Irradiation Damage in fuel Assemblies) is a £7million EPSRC sponsored programme grant (EP/S01702X/1) lead by the University of Manchester. The project involves close collaborations with Imperial College (Britton, Dunne, Wenman, Balint), University of Oxford and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.
A major part of a nuclear reactor is the fuel assembly - the structure that encapsulates the highly radioactive nuclear fuel. Therefore understanding the performance of the materials used to make these assemblies is critical for safe and efficient operation. The MIDAS team are investigating the performance of assembly materials when irradiated. By gaining a better understanding of these materials, more accurate safety cases can be made, which means that fuel assemblies can be used for longer periods without additional risk. Such knowledge will enable the UK to operate the next generation of reactors far more efficiently, significantly reducing the cost of nuclear power.
A second key theme of the project is to explore the use of zirconium alloys in critical components for future fusion reactors.
Shell Advanced Interfaces in Materials Science (AIMS) UTC
The Shell AIMs UTC is a focussed effort to understand the role of interfaces and microstructure on the performance of materials used in the oil & gas industry. This project is led by Professor Mary Ryan (in the Department of Materials) and extends over five years. Dr Ben Britton leads activities in structural metals and his team work on understanding the role of microstructure in hydrogen sulphide based failure of pipe-line steels [LINK TO JIM’s PROJECT], as well as stress relaxation cracking in metals used in pipe-lines. Fundamental understanding of these issues, using state-of-the-art characterisation techniques including electron microscopy, is essential to drive a step-change in our understanding of alloys which are currently deployed in service, as well as underpinning design decisions on the next generation of materials used in these demanding environments.
Strategic Partnership in Structural Metallic Systems for Gas Turbines
The Rolls Royce - EPSRC strategic partnership brings together researchers from Cambridge, Birmingham, Swansea, Sheffield, Manchester, Oxford and Imperial in an £8m programme to improve gas turbine materials. Imperial’s contribution to the programme focusses on the development of new Co-Ni superalloys for gas turbine discs, on which two patents have already been filed.
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Costa, for those who need water to breathe
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Better days coming, says Buhari
Dunio Mabushi 3:35 pm Edit
July 06, 2016 #TheNation
Better days are on the way, despite the economic downturn, President Muhammadu Buhari assured Nigerians yesterday.
Buhari, in an Eid-el-Fitri message he signed personally, said he was not unaware of the hardship Nigerians are going through. He praised them for their sacrifice.
He said: “I am not unaware of what Nigerians are going through and I want to use this medium to commend the amazing sacrifices of Nigerians in the face of the temporary economic and social challenges and also reassure Nigerians that my administration is working assiduously towards providing basic needs and other amenities.
“Let me also use this opportunity to reaffirm that we will not relent in the fight against corruption and we will ensure that all appropriate and legal measures are deployed to root out this malaise.
“I promise you all better days ahead even as we remain grateful for your unflinching support to our administration.
Happy Eid-El-Fitr celebration and May the Almighty Allah continue to bless our nation.
Eid Mubarak!.”
Buhari urged Nigerians who have the means to remember the millions who are suffering deprivation because of violence perpetrated by terrorists.
The President praised the Armed Forces and security agencies for the gains recorded in the fight against terrorists and the rescue of hostages in the Northeast.
He appealed for the support, understanding and patience of all Nigerians and our international partners as the government explores the fastest means to end the economic sabotage in the Niger Delta and amicably resolve the conflicts within the region.
On Eid-El-Fitr, he said: “I felicitate with all Nigerians, especially the Muslim Ummah, on the occasion of this year’s Eid-El-Fitr, which marks the completion of the Ramadan fast.
“I congratulate Muslims in Nigeria and around the world on the successful completion of this month-long spiritual journey of fasting, prayer and almsgiving in obedience to the Divine Command.
“I sincerely pray that the Almighty Allah will reward our sacrifices with increased blessing and a more prosperous future. On this happy occasion, it is my strong belief that all true followers of Islam have been rejuvenated on the true meaning and essence of life and through the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), we have learnt to imbibe the virtues of piety, sacrifice, love, self-denial and good conduct in our daily relationship with one another.
“As we celebrate another Eid-El-Fitr, I admonish all patriotic Nigerians to uphold these lessons and also appreciate the numerous material and human blessings God has endowed us with.”
He urged Nigerians to show gratitude, respect and tolerance to one other, irrespective of their religion, tribe, language and political leanings.
Also yesterday, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) urged Muslims to intensify prayers for unity and peaceful coexistence of Nigeria.
It urged the Niger-Delta Avengers (NDA) to stop attacks on oil facilities and embrace the proposed dialogue by the Federal Government.
The ACF, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim, said: “Destruction of oil pipeline installations and polluting the environment is not a solution to whatever perceived grievances the groups may have against the government and oil companies.
”The Holy month of Ramadan of 1437AH (2016AD) has come to an end with the sighting of Shawwal moon. The period of Ramadan was an opportunity for Muslims all over world to fast, pray, and devote themselves to the reading and teachings of the Holy Quran, practices and sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
“It was also an occasion where Muslims reaffirm their belief in the oneness of Almighty Allah (SWT) and commitment to the ideals of Islam. Muslims also prayed fervently for peace, unity and understanding among Nigerians, they also helped the less privileged and the poor in our midst in view of the prevailing economic hardship and other inequalities nationwide.
“ACF wishes the Muslim Ummah a peaceful and Happy Eid-el-Fitr celebration and equally urges Muslims to continue to devote themselves to prayers for unity and peaceful coexistence in view of the security, social, economic and many other challenges confronting Nigeria.
“ACF, in the spirit of Eid-el-FItr celebration, calls on the Niger Delta Avengers and other militant groups engaged in the destruction of oil and gas pipelines and other economic structures to lay down their arms and embrace the Federal Government’s offer of dialogue.
“Destroying oil pipe line installations and polluting the environment is not a solution to whatever perceived grievances the groups may have against the government/oil companies. Development and prosperity can only take place in an atmosphere of peace and understanding and not violence and destruction.” It said.
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Sun 'n' Fun trip to Florida, USA
Cdt Ella Castle was one of several cadets from 450 who visited the US earlier this year to help at the Sun 'n' Fun Airshow. She tells her story below...
From the 23rd of March until the 7th of April, myself and five other 450 cadets took part in the annual Sun N’ Fun international camp to Lakeland, Floria. We were a team of 45 cadets from Kent, Essex, London and Surrey wing that had signed up to volunteer at the air show at Lakeland international airport. Nothing could have possibly prepared me for the experience I was about to have; I honestly think I had the best time of my life!
The first week was very hard work, with many flights working for roughly 12 hours a day! This included air marshalling, crowd control, registration, and generally filling any roles that were needed around the airfield. For the first few days we set up camp and had time to adjust to the weather and our new surroundings, including a very unwanted guest… cockroaches! We were also visited by many different wildlife, such as recluse spiders, snakes and possums, Sgt Moffatt even shared a portaloo with a frog!
But by Monday we were hard at work, but our efforts were greatly rewarded by the locals, ranging from flights to Arcadia to visit RAF war graves in a variety of light aircraft thanks to local pilots, to both CWO Hillam and Stride gaining a flight in the B-25! There were also many trips in the first week,such as numerous trips to Walmart, and a once in a lifetime chance to witness Tampa Bay’s Air traffic control tower in full swing.
On the Wednesday morning, nine of us woke up at the far too early time of 4:30 to help assist set up the balloon’s for the launching that morning. It was a great experience, and in teams of 3 to 4 we managed to put up our very first hot air balloon! Unfortunately the wind speed was too high, so the balloons had to be packed up again very shortly. A number of people including myself also got chosen to go the “Splash in” at Lake Agnes, which was a day exclusively for sea planes. We had to ensure nobody got too close to the entry to the lake and “wing walk” on the hottest day of the trip! It was lovely being by the water and the whole group got highly rewarded for our effort’s with a flight in a Beaver, which was amazing!
We also met some truly amazing people, sharing the camp with students from the Aeronautical high school on the airbase, and the Civil Air Patroll (which is basically the American equivalent of the Air Cadets!). We all got invited to a lot of bbq’s and parties, many of which we all attended without haste! It was also both the CWO’s birthday’s during our stay in Floria, which included them being dragged onto stage with crowns and cakes! Some of us also got the chance to try our hand at a variety of different workshops on base, such as wielding, woodwork, fabric design and metal work, which were very time consuming, but great fun!
On the second week we visited main attractions, such as Kennedy, Busch Gardens and Universal, which were amazing as ever! On the Thursday we took a trip to Macdill Air Force base in Tampa Bay where we had a guided tour around the Air Traffic Control tower and a C-29, to be left to our own devices on the beach! Cwo Stride and I alongside four other cadets got chosen to go and meet some Special Forces Paratroopers on the base, which included re-packing parachutes to having a go on a $5000 simulator! We also managed to get two afternoons of shopping into our busy schedule, taking full advantage of military discounts!
Florida was my first ever camp away with the ATC and I am so grateful to have been given this special opportunity! I would recommend applying next year to anyone who has a passion for aviation and wants the opportunity to meet some amazing people, and have amazing opportunities!
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"It's not the gun itself that brought gun owners out in force against the dealer, just as they had done in March to a California dealer that also attempted to offer the gun for sale, but rather fear of the cascading effects such sales would have on further erosion of Second Amendment rights." ...
Gun Review: Taurus View (video available)
"When I visited Taurus a couple of years back, their head honcho Mark Kresser showed me the gun he carries. It was a Model 85 that he had the boys in the back modify ... His little wheelgun had a short barrel and a cut-down stock that gave him just enough real estate to grip and fire it. It also disappeared in his suit coat or pants pocket. That was the inspiration for the Taurus View . . ."
"Kresser�s gun, though, didn�t have the View�s most famous feature, the peek-a-boo side panel. In what will be seen, depending who you are, as either a brilliant marketing move or a ridiculous gimmick, the View gives anyone who wants to look a bird�s eye view of the revolver�s clockwork as it cycles via a Lexan plate on the gun�s right side." ...
A Welcome New Player In Gun Food: Gorilla Ammo
"When Kentucky Gun Co sent the Diamondback FS Nine for testing, I also requested to borrow an H&R Handi-Rifle in 300 Blackout (review in the works). Unfortunately, there�s nothing chambered in 300 BLK in my gun safe and I was fresh out of any ammo in the caliber from almost two years ago when I last shot it. A trip to two local gun shops left me empty-handed, but my local shooting range pulled through. They had a few boxes of Gorilla Ammo�s subsonic 300 BLK on hand and, while there was a slight tingle of recognition in my mind, I wasn�t actually sure if I�d heard of the brand before. They said it was really nice stuff so I bought two boxes . . ." ...
Does America�s Gun Control Debate Need a New Focus?
... "Seeing as how the Supreme Court has indicated a hesitancy to get involved at least for now, the discourse over gun control seems like even more of a strategic open door. What will walk through it? Different groups and different sides are suggesting new ways to go about modifying gun policy and technology in order to improve the state of American gun violence and safety, and some of them are worthy of note, even if they offer their own problems." ...
Moms group launches new gun control efforts; Capitol Hill Wednesday
... "Today�s event is the second annual 'Moms Take the Hill' lobbying effort. The idea behind the 'Gun Sense Voter' effort is to 'mobilize at least one million voters to go to the polls in November and vote for candidates with gun sense�'"
"There is little doubt that here in the Evergreen State, some of that energy will also be directed toward passage of Initiative 594, the 18-page gun control measure being pushed by the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility. The terms 'gun reform' and 'gun responsibility' are part of the growing list of phrases designed to confuse the public that what they�re really promoting is gun control." ...
Rise of the �Glocker Moms�: The NRA�s aggressive new push for women
"The theme of last month�s National Rifle Association annual meeting was an odd one: maternity."
"It was not an official theme in the way macho slogans ... have formally defined recent NRA congresses. But it was a thick running thread, one that signals the quickening of a broad shift underway across the gun rights movement, from the gun makers to the grassroots."
"Red schwag set the tone. At tables throughout the complex, NRA staffers handed out 'I�m an NRA MOM' buttons and t-shirts. At the building�s main entrance hung an enormous banner of a woman, looking a little pouty, next to a populist taunt of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently said he would spend big on behalf of the gun safety movement." ...
Not so smart
"SINCE January 1st 3,551 people have been killed by gun violence in America, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The victims include Endia Martin, a 14-year-old girl, who was shot in the back in Chicago last week after an argument with a former friend over a boy. The weapon that was used to kill Martin, a .38 special revolver, began as a legal gun, reports the Chicago Tribune, but somehow it made its way to into this adolescent tussle, turning a flare up between young girls into a deadly tragedy."
"Wouldn�t it be great if there was a way to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands? ... what if there was a way to build such safety measures into the guns themselves? ...." ...
The Single Most Important Fact about our Gun Culture
"�is 30,000 corpses each and every year. There are a lot of other secondary considerations. But that is, overwhelmingly, from a prolife perspective, the single most important fact."
"My views on our gun culture are fairly simple. It can be boiled down to this: the human tradition of the second amendment does not trump the divine revelation of the fifth commandment. That�s because, to repeat, the single most important fact of our gun culture is 30,000 corpses each year." ...
Submitter's Note: Removing the 17,500 yearly suicides from the corpse count means that "30,000 corpses each year" is actually 12,500.
Looking the issue from a pro-life perspective the single most important fact of our gun culture is the 24,000+ lives saved each year.
Daily Digest: Hurricane Parties Edition
"You carry a gun to church? Well, as I�ve said elsewhere, I think Tam said it best over on her blog: 'I don�t carry a gun 'to' anyplace; I just carry a gun.' A couple at the First United Methodist Church of Port St. Lucie, Florida (above) was accosted on a Saturday a couple weeks ago by a man brandishing a hunting knife. He demanded money, but when the victims told him there was no cash to get, he left instead with a cellphone and two laptops. Police instituted a search without result. Master Sgt. Frank Sabol of the PSLPD said, 'No injuries were reported because (the victims) complied with him and gave him what they had and he took off.' While the victims in this case were lucky . . ."
"I think that�s where the causality stops. ..." ...
IN: Craigslist Deal Results in Carjacking, Victim Pulls Gun (video available)
"A Craigslist deal went wrong resulted in the victim of a carjacking pulling a gun on the suspect and holding him at gunpoint on the side of the interstate."
"The owner of a Dodge Charger went to the home of a potential buyer, Marcus Forbes, who he found on Craiglist. The car�s owner took several friends with him, but they left after a time."
"At some point, Forbes asked if he could test drive the vehicle."
"During the test drive, the owner asked Forbes to return to his home several times, but these requests were ignored. Forbes then got onto the interstate and started traveling south."
"That�s when the owner drew his concealed handgun, got Forbes to pull the car over, and called police on the side of the highway." ...
AL: Homeowner Shoots Man Who Kicked in Door to Get to Ex-Wife Minutes After Police Warning (video story)
... "McClimans attempted to kick in the door of a home in Decatur, AL in an effort to get to his ex-wife."
"A male owner of the home shot McClimans twice in the chest as he entered the residence."
"The homeowner is identified as Jason Brown, the brother of McClimans� ex-wife."
"McClimans was issued a formal trespassing warning by police just minutes before the attempted home invasion." ...
NY: National Rifle Association backs Hanna for Congress in GOP primary with Tenney
"The National Rifle Association today endorsed U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna over Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney in their Republican primary for Congress, citing Hanna's strong support for gun rights and the Second Amendment."
"Both candidates sought the NRA endorsement, a significant development in a race where Tenney accused Hanna of being weak on his support for gun rights and opposition to the New York SAFE Act." ...
"The NRA had given both candidates its top 'A' rating for 'solidly pro-gun legislators,' but endorsed Hanna because of his 'consistent and proven voting record on Second Amendment issues' in the House of Representatives." ...
AZ: Gubernatorial hopeful tackles education, guns in local stop
"Primaries are still three months away, but Christine Jones, Republican candidate for governor, squeezed in time to lay the groundwork with prospective voters in Lake Havasu City on Tuesday."
"After speaking with the London Bridge Republican Women�s group, she ventured to the Southwest Firearms shop on North McCulloch Boulevard as part of a Second Amendment event."
"Jones believes that it is important to address the Second Amendment, not only to protect the rights of gun owners, but because it�s an issue many people are passionate about." ...
IA: Is Joni Ernst the Proven Conservative Her TV Ads Make Her Out to Be?
"Is it possible to be the anti-establishment candidate in a Republican primary for the U.S. Senate and be the choice of the Republican establishment in your state at the same time? By definition, this would seem impossible. Yet, State Senator Joni Ernst has managed to be the establishment backed, anti-establishment candidate in Iowa�s Republican U.S. Senate primary." ...
"Ernst is able to appeal to conservative voters that may currently prefer Clovis or Whitaker because she is largely unknown and undefined. The Republican primary is just 27 days away, and Ernst�s record, which includes votes in favor of higher taxes, remains unknown to most voters. ..." ...
IA: Gun-play in Campaign Ads: �Give Me a Shot� (video available)
"Guns on the street are one thing."
"Guns are firing in campaign ads, too."
"Not since Joe Manchin loaded his hunting rifle and unloaded it on a target for the voters of West Virginia has a candidate for the U.S. Senate given firearms such a prominent role in a campaign ad."
"Joni Ernst, an Iraq war veteran and front-runner in a crowded field for the Republican Senate nomination in Iowa, pledges to 'take aim at wasteful spending.' What�s more, says the narrator of the ad picturing Ernst at a firing range and then turning her handgun on the camera: 'Once she sets her sights on Obamacare, Joni�s gonna unload.'"
"'Give me a shot,' Ernst says to viewers in closing." ...
Hillary Clinton: Gun Laws Are 'Way Out of Balance'
"Hillary Clinton has mostly steered clear of contentious domestic political issues in recent years, but on Tuesday, she said gun laws need to be reined in."
"Speaking at a National Council for Behavioral Health conference outside of Washington, Clinton was asked about the role guns play in suicides. While Clinton said she supports Second Amendment rights, she added that there needs to be a proper trade-off between safety and freedom, and that things have swung too far toward the latter." ...
Submitter's Note: So Hill thinks we have to much freedom? Hardly a surprise that she thinks it; more of a surprise that she admits it.
NJ: NJ S993 (Magazine Capacity / Gun Ban Bill) Headed to State Senate
"'In a partisan vote of 3-2, the New Jersey Senate Law and Public Safety Committee today passed S993 out of committee,' the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs� presser laments. 'Despite impassioned testimony from gun owners and Second Amendment leaders who were in attendance.' Click here for bill�s text, which would restrict NJ gun owners to 10-round ammunition magazines and ban the sale of 'assault weapons' (list of firearms covered after the jump). 'The legislation now moves to the full Senate for a vote, which could come as soon as May 12.' ... If the bill lands on Republican Presidential hopeful Chris Christie�s desk, will he sign it? . . ." ...
FL: NRA vows to bring back gun-evacuation bill
"The National Rifle Association intends to push in 2015 for a measure that would allow people to carry concealed guns without licenses during emergency evacuations, after the bill died in the state Senate last week."
"In a letter to members of the NRA and Unified Sportsmen of Florida, lobbyist Marion Hammer blasted the Florida Sheriffs Association for its opposition to the bill (SB 296) and senators from both parties who worked to kill the measure." ...
NJ: Sabrin goes to bat for Second Amendment, gun owners before state Senate committee
"'We the people have the God-given right to defend ourselves,' U.S. Senate Candidate Murray Sabrin said to the state Senate�s Law and Public Safety Committee today, 'and no Legislature must take that away by limiting arbitrarily the number of cartridges in a magazine.'"
"Sabrin was testifying against Assembly-passed bill A2006 (in the Senate S993), which mandates a reduction from 15 to 10 the maximum number of rounds legally allowed in a magazine in New Jersey. The bill was passed out of the committee on a party-line vote of 3-2."
"Approximately 100 people attended the hearing, with those opposed to the bill outnumbering supporters roughly 10 to one." ...
Random Thoughts About the Supreme Court�s Refusal to Hear the NJ �Justifiable Need Case�
"Over on TTAG�s Facebook page, Marc Johnson writes; 'It should be noted the Supreme Court has handed down the most wide sweeping pro-2A Opinions in the history of the USA in the past few years. Often when they refuse to hear a case, it has nothing to do with the merits of the case itself, but with technicality issues that would render the case about some specific and non useful point, rather than the larger issue at hand.' Could be. The Supreme Court rarely explains its decision to hear or not hear a particular case. In this case, they offered no explanation. Regardless of their reasoning, yesterday�s decision has stirred-up strong feelings . . ." ...
Supreme Court places Second Amendment gun rights under house arrest
"Appellate courts in other circuits have come down on varying sides of the issue as to whether the Supreme Court�s gun-rights decisions of the last several years that established a personal right to bear arms were restricted to self-protection in one�s home (as Justice Scalia had framed the issue in District of Columbia v. Heller) or could spill into the streets and beyond. So far, at least, the Supreme Court is staying true to Scalia�s initial formulation that the Second Amendment is akin to a personal right of self-defense at home � meaning that gun safety laws regulating public use are not in immediate jeopardy." ...
With Drake gone, what�s next? 2nd Amendment scholars open up
"Following the decision this week by the Supreme Court not to act on the Drake case, Guns.com reached out to several Second Amendment experts to find out why the high court passed on this 'may-issue' case and what the gun community can expect in the future." ...
"Backed by the Second Amendment Foundation and spearheaded by attorney Alan Gura, [Drake] drew numerous supporters from across the gun community."
"Yet, despite having the blessing of various gun groups, dozens of congressmen, and no less than 19 state attorney generals, the Supreme Court elected not to hear the petition Friday."
"With little to go on as to why ... Guns.com asked several legal scholars well versed in the Second Amendment to comment." ...
NJ: New Jersey Second Amendment Society Suit Against The NJ State Police Continues
"As you may already know, the [NJ2AS] is engaged in litigation against the State of New Jersey Division of State Police in an effort to receive a copy of the 'New Jersey State Police Firearms Applicant Investigation Guide' (I know, try saying THAT three times fast)."
"Three years ago we began a quest to obtain a copy. It started out simply enough. We wrote to the then head of the NJSP Firearms Unit and asked for a copy. We were denied."
"For those of you who may be scratching your head and asking, 'Why on Nature�s Good Green Earth did we want such a thing', I will answer that many of the NJ municipalities were using the 'Guide' as an excuse for the unlawful practices of their police departments." ...
Operation Choke Point Targets Porn and Firearms, Potentially Violating the Constitution
"In Operation Choke Point, the Justice Department is targeting lawful industries with investigations designed to inflict economic pain and dramatically increase their paperwork burdens. That includes industries seemingly accorded constitutional protection against undue burdens, such as pornography (generally covered by the First Amendment), and firearms (protected by the Second Amendment). As Michael Patrick Leahy notes," ...
NJ: Kid shoots NJ police chief with officer�s own gun while parents paying taxes (follow-up)
"A child somehow managed to grab a New Jersey police chief�s service weapon Tuesday afternoon and shoot him in the leg."
"The child, described as a preteen, had gone with his parents to the tax collector�s office at the Bordentown Township Municipal Building when he fired the gun and shot Chief Frank Nucera in the leg."
"The 57-year-old Nucera, who also serves as town administrator, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries."
"Burlington County prosecutors said the child fired the gun accidentally, but they aren�t sure how he was able to get .45-caliber handgun out of the officer�s holster." ...
MS: Hinds deputy charged in death of basketball coach
"Jackson police say a 25-year-old man died Monday after a Hinds County deputy punched him at a basketball game Sunday morning in Jackson."
"Justin Griffin died Monday afternoon after a fight with an unnamed deputy who had been a referee for a game at the Mississippi Basketball and Athletics gym, said Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart. Stewart said Griffin died at the University of Mississippi Medical Center from blunt-force trauma to the head."
"Jackson Police Department spokeswoman Colendula Green tells WLBT-TV in Jackson (http://bit.ly/1mxLi1n) Joshua Adams, 37, has been charged with murder." ...
AZ: Ex-MCSO deputy arrested for having 'dangerous drugs'
"Phoenix police and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office peacefully ended a standoff with a former sheriff's deputy early Monday morning."
"The former deputy, Ramon 'Charley' Armendariz, 40, had barricaded himself into his residence ... on Sunday evening, but eventually walked out of his home just after 1 a.m. and was taken into custody and to a psychiatric unit for evaluation ..."
"According to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Mr. Armendariz has been under investigation since early Thursday morning ..." ...
"Detectives issued a search warrant late last week and carried away bags of evidence, according to neighbors. Deputies said they found methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia inside Armendariz's home." ...
NY: Nassau cop who shot unarmed cabbie in 2011 fired
"The Nassau County Police Department Monday fired officer Anthony DiLeonardo, who was off-duty and not in uniform when he shot a retreating, unarmed cabdriver in Huntington Station after a night of drinking with another cop, a department spokesman said."
"DiLeonardo's termination is effective immediately ... DiLeonardo, who was hired in November 2007, loses his pension and benefits as a result, a source said."
"DiLeonardo, who police internal affairs investigators found recklessly escalated a roadside dispute, was never suspended after the Feb. 27, 2011, incident in which he fired his service weapon five times at cabbie Thomas Moroughan. An internal affairs report said Moroughan was backing away in fear from the officer ..." ...
NY: NYPD cop acquitted for DWI sues arresting officer for $2M
"An NYPD detective who was busted for DWI after falling asleep at a red light has slapped the officers who arrested him with a $2 million lawsuit, claiming they lied about the incident so they could make the arrest." ...
"Sgt. Viet Cao reported that Oquendo was slumped over his steering wheel and that they had to bang on his car for several minutes to awaken him ..."
"But Oquendo claims Cao embellished his account � and that a surveillance tape of the incident proves it." ...
"'Mr. Cao has a history of providing false testimony in order to justify his arrests of innocent people,' said Oquendo�s lawyer, Frederick Brewington." ...
NJ: Bordentown police chief shot in leg inside municipal building, juvenile blamed
Submitted by: jac
"The Bordentown police chief was shot in the leg after his gun discharged inside the municipal building, officials say." ...
"The Burlington County Prosecutor's Office tells Action News that Police Chief Frank Nucera was struck in the leg after his department issued weapon discharged in the tax collector's office."
"A juvenile, the prosecutor's office says, caused the gun to fire." ...
KABA Note: So did this juvenile use telekinesis, sorcery or witchcraft to "cause the gun to fire".
NY: �Ghostbuster� cops keep raiding dead man�s home: suit
"He�s been dead for eight years, but try telling that to the NYPD."
"Cops have barged into James Jordan Sr.�s family home looking for him more than a dozen times since he died in 2006 � prompting his exasperated relatives to finally post his death certificate on the front door." ...
"But cops still routinely ransack the family�s Bushwick home ... demanding to see him � coming four times this year alone, Jordan said."
"The widow finally taped his death certificate to the door."
"'I wanted it to be the first thing they saw before they came into my home and flipped it upside down,' Jordan said. ..." ...
"Jordan said the NYPD�s visits leave their home a wreck."
"'They tell me to be quiet or they�ll lock me up,' she said. ..." ...
TX: Open Carry event at Texas Jack in the Box draws police response (video available)
"An open carry protest in a Fort Worth-area Jack in the Box last week ended with controversy, calls to local law enforcement, and a fracture inside a well-known Texas Second Amendment group."
"According to reports in the local media, a peaceful open-carry event ended up with more than a dozen officers on scene and the restaurant staff hiding inside the store�s walk-in freezer." ...
"'The truth is that not a single employee of Jack in the Box hid in a freezer nor did a single employee call 911 or the police,' OCT stated ..."
"'The 911 call was made by a couple in the restaurant,' explained OCT. 'We are working to ... find out where this information originated and expose those reporting false information to achieve their anti-gun agendas.'" ...
FL: Protecting ourselves against enemy of freedom
"I wish we could once and for all move beyond the confusion about the Second Amendment. But after reading Marie Cunha�s letter 'An easy fix' (Your Views, May 12), I believe clarity on this amendment is needed."
"The amendment begins with 'A well regulated Militia ...,' which, as George Mason stated during the Revolutionary War, is composed of every free man. At that time, there was no standing army, and everyone was responsible for protecting their family, home and country. Despite the creation of a standing Army, this responsibility has not changed." ...
FL: Gift from brilliant men (third letter)
"When the Founders codified and adopted the Bill of Rights they encoded into law those rights that were presumed to be basic. They thought them so important that they wanted no government ever to be able to deny them � as European governments often had. They purposely used language the common man and voter could easily understand."
"The 2008 Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller resoundingly affirmed that gun ownership was 'a pre-existing right' and that the amendment codified it 'unconnected with service in a militia.' It did, however, state the right was not 'unlimited' regarding types of weapons, purpose and manner of carry, etc." ...
FL: NRA and Florida Sheriffs Association Duke It Out Over Gun Evacuation Bill
"A new chapter in the battle between the [NRA] and the Florida Sheriffs Association developed on Tuesday, with a new email from former NRA president Marion Hammer cranking up the heat on the FSA over a bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Brandes ..."
"On Monday, an Associated Press story said Hammer sent a letter to NRA members and Unified Sportsmen of Florida claiming the FSA had 'declared war on the Second Amendment.' The comments drew criticism from the FSA, who said they were 'personally and professionally offended by her statements' over a gun bill that died in the 2014 legislative session. The bill would have allowed people to legally carry a firearm without a concealed weapons permit during a mandatory evacuation." ...
MI: Open carry firearms legal in schools
Submitted by: Corey Salo
"Traverse City Area Public Schools board members didn't know it was legal for someone with a concealed pistol license to openly carry a loaded firearm into a Michigan school until this year."
"The issue hadn't come up until Interlochen resident and Grand Traverse County Commission candidate Andy Marek attended a TCAPS board meeting in January with a gun holstered on his hip. His public comment had nothing to do with guns, but school board members noticed his firearm." ...
"Board president Kelly Hall said Marek's appearance raised concerns among board members. ... Administrators found that Marek was acting legally at the meeting, and it would also be legal for him to open carry inside a school." ...
IL: Gun Control Capitol of Chicago: 5 Dead, 31 Wounded in Less Than 4 Days (video available)
"I made the above video before this most recent weekend of violence was even announced in the gun control capital of Chicago, IL."
"According to media reports, from a period starting Friday afternoon and extending through the end of May 5th, 5 people were killed and 31 were injured in the Windy City."
"Fortunately, in recent months, we�ve seen the gun control situation in Chicago start to improve." ...
"The mainstream media continues to ignore the string of violence by criminals using firearms in a city that, at one point, had some of the strictest gun laws in the country." ...
QUOTES TO REMEMBER
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. � Thomas Paine, Thoughts on Defensive War (1775).
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Lemonade and Laughing Gas is Louise Orwin and Amy Lord.
We create multi-textured, hyper-theatrical, surprising experiences that make you feel alive.
We have a passion for creating these experiences in unusual, site-specific locations, from old BBC radio studios, to abandoned office blocks, disused pickle factories, regency ballrooms, old rave haunts, and even, sometimes, theatre spaces.
Our work focuses on blending together installation, performance, video and sound to create adventures and journeys that people can get lost in, whether that’s for escapism, stimulation or simply to remember what it means to be human.
We have a continuing enquiry into what it means to build temporary communities out of arts audiences, whether that’s with space, installation, or performative experiences that bring people together. We are constantly exploring themes of familiarity, looking at how this can be expanded upon (through our use of pop culture references) or whether that’s exploded entirely (by making the domestic strange). We like thinking about the uncanny a lot, and often enjoy gently pushing people outside of their comfort zones, in order to see the world anew. Recently we’ve been researching into how digital culture is changing us, how we see ourselves and each other, and the effect that has on intimacy. (See Tokyo Love Hotel and Unplugged).
We work in a multi-disciplinary fashion, letting our research interests mold the way we make work. Over the years we have created games nights, supper clubs, one off parties, installations, guided binaural headphone experiences, site specific adventures that took participants on a train to the seaside, outdoor treasure hunts, and much more. Our most recent large scale project was a love letter to David Lynch, and saw us build a whole fantasy slice of small town America in an abandoned office block in Farringdon. The project was inspired by Twin Peaks, ran for 3 months and saw 9000 guests through its doors. More on that here.
Our work has been featured in Vogue, Time Out, Evening Standard, Dazed and The Mirror to name a few. You can read some of our lovely press mentions here.
Lemonade and Laughing Gas was founded in 2012 and closed its doors in 2020, so that Amy and Louise could continue working on solo projects. This website now stands as an archive of their weird and wonderful journey together. Though they no longer collaborate under the guise of Lemonade and Laughing Gas, they continue to collaborate as solo artists.
To those of you who held hands with L&LG in some way over the years, thanks for being the best audiences, co-conspirators, dancing partners and everything else in between.
L&LG x
To find out more about each of their solo work or to get in touch, you can find them at the links below.
AMY LORD - The Joy Eclectic
LOUISE ORWIN
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Terrific Tinseltown Titles Are Available from Classicflix!
Tags: Ann Dvorak, Carole Landis, Classicflix, Claudette Colbert, Constance Bennett, Dan Duryea, Gary Cooper, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, Leslie Howard, Loretta Young, Natalie Wood, Orson Wells, Virginia Mayo, William Demarest
When did you first fall in love with the movies? If your answer was during the Golden Age of Hollywood, you will be more than interested in the releases of Classicflix. Focusing on “only the classics,” the company is bringing fan favorites from Hollywood’s heyday to home video. Here’s a random sampling of the selections that are currently available, all of which can be ordered here.
Out of the Blue (1947)
Zany comedy stars George Brent as Arthur Earthleigh, a milquetoast husband whose life is turned upside-down when boozy, free-spirited neighbor Olive Jensen (Ann Dvorak) passes out in his apartment while his domineering wife is away. Thinking she’s dead, Arthur deposits the unconscious Olive on the terrace of another neighbor, playboy artist David Galleo (Turhan Bey), who uses the opportunity to blackmail “murderer” Earthleigh. Carole Landis, Virginia Mayo also star.
Hilarious farce concerns a dizzy socialite (Billie Burke) with a penchant for hiring bums to help tend to her family’s needs. After an unshaven writer (Brian Aherne) shows up at her door asking to use the phone, she mistakenly believes him to be a tramp and gives him a job working as a servant. Quickly, her new employee uses his life skills to get the household in order as he falls for her eldest daughter (Constance Bennett). With Alan Mowbray, Ann Dvorak; based on the 1924 novel “The Dark Chapter” by E.J. Rath.
Sent by his Manhattan bank to uncover why its Hollywood studio is bleeding money, stuffy number cruncher Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) learns the industry ropes from Lester Plum (Joan Blondell), the savvy stand-in actress he takes on as an assistant. They maneuver around egotistical stars, a hard-drinking producer (Humphrey Bogart), and conniving moguls in this unsung inside satire gem helmed by Tay Garnett; Alan Mowbray, Jack Carson, Tully Marshall, Marla Shelton also star.
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
Scarred and disabled in battle in World War I, American soldier John Andrew MacDonald (Orson Welles) goes into hiding in Austria while his wife (Claudette Colbert), assuming her husband is dead, remarries factory owner Lawrence Hamilton (George Brent). Eventually, MacDonald is hired by Hamilton and returns to America to find his wife and the son he never knew. Moving melodrama also stars Richard Long and Natalie Wood (in her first credited screen role).
Along Came Jones (1945)
Upon entering a Western town, mild-mannered cowpoke Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) is mistaken for Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea), an ornery outlaw with a price on his head. Jones quickly wins the respect of the townsfolk, and the attention of Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young), the real crook’s gal who just wants to use the unsuspecting Jones to help Jarrad evade capture. But who is the comely cowgirl meant to ride off into the sunset with? William Demarest also stars in this funny sagebrusher, based on the book “Useless Cowboy” by Alan Le May.
For these and other long-demanded cinema treasures from Classicflix,
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Michael Myers – Halloween
The One:12 Collective Michael Myers Halloween figure features a film accurate sculpt and coveralls as well as an alternate head with affixed ghost sheet and glasses to recreate the infamous “mistaken identity” scene in the film. The figure also comes equipped with both bloody and clean knives as well as a light-up Jack O’ Lantern.
Two (2) head portraits.
Hand painted authentic detailing
Eight (8) interchangeable hands including
One (1) pair of fists (L&R)
One (1) pair of posing hands style #1 (L&R)
One (1) upward knife holding hand (R)
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Mezco Toys One: 12 Collective: Halloween Michael Myers Action Figure
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What The Horror News Network Website says about the ONE:12 Michael Myers Figure
Halloween fans have been begging for a screen-accurate Michael Myers action figure from the 1978 original film for years. Thankfully, Mezco Toyz has stepped up to deliver a premium collectible that’s incredibly detailed for its size. From the high-end packaging, to the incredible likeness of the portrait, to the bounty of accessories, this figure is sure to make any Halloween fan happy!
I’ve pretty much stopped collecting statues and action figures under 12″ years ago because the quality isn’t always there with the paint aps and the sculpts can be hit or miss. Frankly, there’s only so much area to work with on a small action figure, and fans can only reasonably expect so many details on such a format. However, Mezo is defying all expectations with their One:12 Collective offering of Michael Myers. It simply has details on it that even figures twice its size can be lacking. As I posed the figure and swapped out hands and accessories for these photographs, I was surprised at the tiny details my camera was able to pick up. The figure’s signature coveralls are painstakingly stitched to cover the body and fit like real clothes. This is an incredible feat for the format, and I’ve seen costumes like this look like garbage bags on similar figures. Mezco have always been interested in detailed clothing since the dawn of their Living Dead Dolls line, and their expertise in the format transfers over beautifully to this figure.
One thing that separates this high-end figure from a forgettable offering is its packaging and accessories. As I opened this figure’s box, I couldn’t help but feel like I was in for something special. Mezco uses lots of protective packaging to keep the figure and accessories safe, while still keeping the “mint in box” collector in mind, given the attractive organization of the extra pieces. For those whole like to open their toys, they include a branded clear plastic bag that’s meant to hold all of the accessories in one place. These little details show they’ve thought of everything, and they’ve really manufactured this product with the high-end collector in mind. The tombstone is made of hard polystone and it’s painted with accents to make it look like the real thing. The tiny jack-o-lantern looks just like it does in the iconic opening sequence of the movie, and the lights inside of it flicker in lifelike fashion. Even the stand is top-notch, offering a glossy sheen and a detailed print job on the logo and poster art.
Mezco spared no detail when it comes to the likeness of the figure, and it looks screen-accurate and detailed from no matter which angle you look at it. I was surprised at the quality of the head sculpt, and I found that it has the signature Michael Myers look from every side. This is no small accomplishment, as previous Michael Myers releases (and their respective movie sequels) have always had trouble capturing the essence of the original mask. I’m pleased to report that this isn’t the case for this new action figure. I would be interested in seeing if they could have pulled off a more natural look to the mask’s hair if they used some kind of material instead of making it a part of the plastic sculpt, but it honestly could have come off looking more fake than what we ended up getting with this release.
Mezco didn’t stop with the classic coveralls and the iconic pumpkin and tombstone… tucked away in the back of the box is a bed sheet and glasses so you can re-create Myers’ ghostly appearance in the middle of the film! Just like the main head sculpt, there are tons of hidden details on this accessory. Under the glasses are two eye holes, cut with precision and framing Michael’s eyeballs. It’s not every day that such a level of detail can be found on the eyes of a 6″ figure, but Mezco most certainly pulled it off in this release. On both heads, the shadows help pull off some very expressive looks to those stone-cold eyes.
Despite its small size, the Mezco Toyz One:12 Collective Michael Myers figure has a gravity and presence to it that makes it a really nice addition to any Halloween fan’s collection. I had fun trying all of the accessories and posing the figure for my photographs. The box’s imagery is very clean looking and it presents the figure nicely, but this is one that’s meant to be opened up to be fully enjoyed. Fortunately, the packaging is well-made and its easy to put everything back into place when you’re done tinkering around with it.
The One:12 Collective Michael Myers figure is already sold out on Mezco Toyz’s website, but you can still order one from one of their official dealers if you act quick! This Halloween, Michael Myers fans shouldn’t hesitate to treat themselves to an excellent reproduction of one of the trickiest likenesses ever to be captured in action figure format!
SOURCE: Horror News Network
What The Captain Toy Website says about the Michael Myers Halloween Figure
Overall Average Rating: 3 out of 4
It’s October, the month for spooky movies and scary tales. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and there are lots of great movies based on the celebration. Some, like Trick ‘R Treat (if you haven’t watched it, go do it now) fly under the radar, but the film who shares its name with the holiday is certainly no stranger to anyone.
Michael Myers is one of the most famous modern horror icons, and the original film was perhaps Carpenter’s finest, although you could make an argument for several others. Unlike the Jason and Freddy franchises, I don’t think any sequel has come close to the original in quality, although we have a new contender debuting this month. I’ll give it a shot, but it’s got big boots to fill.
Mezco has done their share of Myers collectibles, and now they’ve added him to their terrific One:12 Collective series of action figures. This guy just started to ship, and will run you around $80 depending on the retailer.
Packaging – ***
Nothing surprising here, but the packaging is sturdy and very collector friendly. No reason to damage anything, and the plastic trays inside the box hold the contents safely. There’s even a plastic sheath over the outer box to prevent rub marks and scratches during shipping. The white marks you see in the photo below are actually on this plastic covering, not the slip cover itself.
Sculpting – ***
We all know the story of Michael’s mask – it’s actually a simple Captain Kirk mask they picked up at a local store. It’s basic nature, with a white face, slick hair, and little definition, was the perfect cover up for Michael.
They’ve done a good job capturing the look here. Let’s first remember the scale – these figures are small. Michael stands just 6 1/2″ tall. The mask is sculpted as a separate piece (not removable) with eyes clearly visible underneath. The neck of the mask sticks out from the neck of the character, but if you look at old screen stills, this is actually pretty accurate. The slightly rough texture is also pretty accurate.
The head does seem about 10% or so too big for the body, however. This bugged me in just about every pose.
My other big issue is with the hair. The mask had this weird, lumpy, fake hair, and they’ve done a decent job recreating it in the sculpt. But there’s an ugly mold line right along the front of the hair, and it messes up an otherwise excellent portrait.
There’s technically a second portrait, this one permanently under the sheet. It’s not much of a sculpt, however, with only the eyes visible. It’s going to have more of an effect on the Accessories and Outfit scores.
Paint – ***1/2
Mezco is pushing the boundaries with the paint quality in a 1:12 scale with this series. This is another excellent example.
There’s not a ton of paint detail, however, due to the particular character design. The white mask looks good, and they’ve added depth and detail to the hair. The eyes hidden behind the mask (and under the sheet) are straight and clean, and smaller details like the lips and blood stains look great.
The eyebrows are a smidge wonky, but it’s fairly minor. The glasses over the sheet face could be a little cleaner too, but overall the paint work is well above average.
Articulation – ***
The underlying body works well, although there is some restrictions due to character design.
The neck doesn’t have a ton of tilt and lean, thanks to the edges of the mask. You can still get a little though, which adds some nice personality to poses.
The shoulders, elbows, and wrists were definitely tight, and you’ll want to make sure the elbows are aligned properly before you start cranking on them. You can get some good arm poses, but you’ll need to work with the joints a bit first.
The hips, knees, and ankles allow for short to medium stances, but the overalls limit the depth of the stances a bit. The sculpted boots look great, and the two piece design gives you plenty of rocker movement in the ankles.
The torso bends and turns too, but I found it a little tougher than I expected considering the basic costume. Overall the articulation is good, but I couldn’t get every pose I wanted.
Accessories – ***
He has a nice assortment of extras, although it’s not quite as much as we normally see with their $80 releases.
He has eight hands in total: he comes wearing a set of fists, and there’s a set of relaxed hands, splayed hands, and a set of knife holding hands to swap in. They pop on and off easily enough, and I had no fears of peg breakage.
His weapon of choice is a big kitchen blade. He has two versions – bloody and clean.
He has two larger accessories as well, including a light up Jack-O-Lantern. More on the light feature in the next section, but the sculpt, scale, and paint work are excellent. The design comes right from the movie, including the cut line from the mouth to the nose.
He also has the tombstone from his sister’s grave, done in a nice, heavy polystone. Again, scale is decent, and the sculpt and paint work are excellent.
He finishes up with a standard Mezco stand, which includes a foot peg and a larger, clear support rod.
Light Feature – ***1/2
The pumpkin lights up, flickering (yes, flickering!) as though a candle is inside.
The top of the pumpkin pops off, and inside is the switch and battery compartment. Two batteries are included. I don’t mind having the compartment hidden this way but it is a bit annoying to get at the buried switch.
The carved holes are backed with an orange plastic. This diffuses the light, giving it more of a glow. While the light isn’t super bright, you can still see it in normal lighting (see the photo below), and when the lights are off, it looks great. And yes, the bulb is designed to flicker!
Outfit – ***
The standard outfit is pretty basic – black t-shirt with coveralls. The sculpted boots are the best part, with a ton of detail and a great two piece design. But while the tailoring on the coveralls is great, they are fairly basic in design.
He comes with a second ‘outfit’ as well. You can pop off the standard masked head, and pop on a head permanently covered with the white bed sheet and wearing the glasses. While it’s a great idea, the starched folds and layers on the sheet are probably not the most realistic representation.
The edge of the sheet needed a hem too – it’s already unraveling at the edge.
Fun Factor – ***1/2
Even with a few nits, this is still a really fun figure. I need to come up with a couple victims for him to chase down on the shelf! He’s going to need a few friends too, like Freddy, Jason, and Leatherface…
Value – **1/2
Eighty bucks is the new normal for the One:12 line. I’m not loving the price increase, but it’s still within an average value range when they provide enough extras.
Things to Watch Out For –
Not much. Don’t squeeze the glasses when you’re attaching or removing the ‘ghost’ head. Otherwise you should be good to go.
Overall – ***
There have been plenty of Michael Myers figures over the years, and NECA has done a particularly good job with the license. But this is a character – and a concept – that’s perfect for the clothed One:12 series from Mezco. While I have a few nits with this guy, I’m overall very happy, and I really look forward to them continuing the modern horror theme with Freddy, Pinhead, Jason, and others.
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SOURCE: Captain Toy
What The Fwoosh Website says about the Mezco Halloween Figure
October, at long last. And soon, my favorite holiday will be here!
Thanksgiving, I mean. But, I know some of you guys are partial to Halloween. And that’s certainly true for my buddy FuzzyBlueDemon, who just got his hands on a much anticipated release- cult horror classic Michael Myers. Lets take a look:
If your live up North, there’s a refreshing chill in the air. With Halloween coming up fast, Mezco has released their take on Michael Myers just in time for the release of the latest installment to the franchise, hitting theaters in later this month. How will their latest dip into horror stack up against their typical superhero fare?
Fans of John Carpenter’s classic slasher know that toys based on The Shape are few and far between, so any new release is going to be highly anticipated. Though fairly simple, the black box with Halloween in white block lettering with an orange outline definitely catches the eye.
The make or break feature of Michael is his mask. Get that wrong, the rest is moot. Thankfully, Mezco has faithfully captured the details of the mask in the original film. Owing his likeness to a modified 70’s Captain Kirk mask, the distinctive shape of his cheeks and the droop of his mouth definitely evoke his on screen counterpoint. The hair feels a bit overly busy, but I concede sculpting hair stands in this scale is always tricky.
On to the rest of the figure, the big news is that he can move! Every previous Myers figure in this scale range from McFarlane, Neca and Mezco have all been glorified statues. The cloth coveralls allow him to be fully articulated without sacrificing the look of his outfit. They’ve gone with a fairly idealized version of the character here, with clean blue coveralls and a clean white mask. The fanboy in me would’ve liked to see a charcoal/green set of duds, a little fleshtone peaking through on his mask and a good but of weathering for both. But I completely understand, accurate or not, that a blue jumpsuit and a plain white mask is what most people picture when they think of the character.
He has a few very cool accessories. The jack-o’-lantern flickers like a candle with the flick of a switch, to awesome effect. He also includes a white sheet, draped over a second head to look like a cheap ghost costume. This piece features a nice set of glasses, permanently affixed, to convince Linda she was talking to her poor dead boyfriend, Bob. They also gave him full length jungle style combat boots. It’s an appreciated detail that’s easily overlooked, being mostly covered by his pant legs.
Inside the box, you’ll find:
– Fully articulated Michael Myers with cloth outfit
– 4 sets of hands
– 2 kitchen knives (1 bloody, 1 clean)
– Electronic flickering jack-o’-lantern with batteries
– Alternate head with ghost sheet and glasses attached
– Round base with Halloween movie logo and clear posing arm.
As for nits to pick, I’ve got a few. He’s on the Star Trek/Joker body, so he’s very slender. His outfit doesn’t seem perfectly tailored to this skinny torso, so you end up with the front pockets ending up almost in his armpits, rather than on his chest. That body also means single elbows and stiff shoulders. They get the job done, but a bit more range of motion would’ve been appreciated.
Another odd choice involved his hands. On this very clean figure, they decided he needed dirty fingernails. JUST the fingernails. So they just put a little blob of brown color on the tip of each finger. It just ends up looking like bad nail polish.
But the biggest disappointment, for me, is a very obvious mold line that runs right through the front edge of his hairline, directly above his forehead. I feel like, especially in a high end line like this, they should take special care to avoid anything to draw your attention away from an otherwise impressive sculpt.
Despite those few faults, I’m thrilled to have him! Here’s definitely got the look. Once you put him on your shelf, he’s got a presence to him. The figure can do pretty much everything you could want a Michael Myers figure to do, which is something fans of Halloween have been waiting a long time from. Pre-orders sold out from most of the typical sites, so if you’re on the fence, I’d make up your mind sooner rather than later. He’s not perfect, but I’d recommend him to anyone who wants a little supernatural stalker to keep the rest of your collection on it’s toes.
SOURCE: The Fwoosh
What The Toyark Website says about Mezco's Michael Myers ONE:12 Figure
Mezco’s One:12 Collective line of 6″ scale figures has seen a wide mix of licenses since its inception. While the majority of releases seem to focus on Marvel and DC Comics releases, they have been mixing in other genres for fans of the line. Horror themed releases have been a part of Mezco for as long as I can remember. From Cinema of Fear, to Vinyl Figures, to their long running Living Dead Doll line up, Mezco is one of a few mainstream companies that has consistently kept horror collectibles on the market. Their One:12 Collective line of figures has been slowly gaining more and more cult and horror licenses. From Frankenstein, to Evil Dead, to Friday the 13th and Dawn of the Dead, there’s a nice assortment of Horror figures in this fan favorite style.
One of the biggest surprises was when Mezco debuted their Halloween – Michael Myers Figure back at San Diego Comic-Con 2017. It had been some time since a classic style Michael Myers had been on the market, and horror fans were starved for anything they could get their hands on. The figure initially went up for pre-order on Halloween 2017, and has long since been sold out. The figure, though, has now been released and we have a full photo shoot and review. We picked up the figure from sponsor Dorkside Toys. See the photos and more after the jump.
Halloween – Michael Myers One:12 Collective Figure by Mezco Toyz
Great to see a classic version of The Shape
Strong head sculpt
Plenty of interchangeable hands
Good accessories
Included pumpkin lights up
Great articulation
Nicely scaled cloth outfit
The sheet ghost look is handled really well
Feels like it could have been a tad bit taller
The Michael Myers figure is packed in Mezco’s standard One:12 Collective packaging. The box features a cardboard slip cover that, when removed, showcases a large window to view the figure and accessories inside. The back of the slipcover details everything that is included with the release. Michael Myers sits on a plastic tray with no twist ties used. The figure can be placed back in for easy storage as needed. The figure includes multiple interchangeable hands, a knife, a bloody knife, a Judith Myers tombstone, a light up Pumpkin (with batteries included), a “Bob” Ghost sheet, and a figure stand.
Right out of the box, the first thing most fans are going to gravitate to is the head sculpt. As Michael Myers wears a classic rubber Halloween mask, it’s important for any company to have that look correct. Not only does it have to look like a mask, it has to look like a 1970’s William Shatner mask, something that not all companies have been able to achieve. Thankfully, Mezco knocked it out of the park in my opinion. The portrait is the highlight of the figure, and in film style lighting looks spot on to what I expected.The eyes are perfectly sunken in and easy to hide in shadows. The paint work on the head is excellent as well, with very subtle washes throughout, and nice transitional colors in the sculpted hair of the mask. Another nice paint touch can be seen in the hands of the figure, which have a very dirty look to them.
Michael Myers includes a nice assortment of film themed accessories. The numerous hands swap out very easily, and the small wrist joint never feels like it’s going to snap when changing out the hands. The gripping hands both hold the two knives without issue, and the various poses of the hands make them worthwhile inclusions. The included Pumpkin features a flickering LED light that mimics the opening titles of the movie. The light is fairly bright and looks great. The Judith Myers tombstone is surprisingly sold and fairly heavy for its size. The sculpt work there is impressive, with a nice heavy stone texture and sharp engravings. The accessory that really jumped out at me was the “Bob” Ghost sheet included here. Instead of being just a piece of fabric you throw over the figure, it actually has real thought put into it. For this, you remove the portrait and attach the sheet to the neck joint, as there is a socket and sculpted shape at the head of the sheet, and the glasses are affixed to that. It works great, and will keep the sheet perfectly in place if you choose to display him like that.
As someone more used to 7″ to 8″ scale horror figures, I still found myself impressed with the smaller Michael Myers. As part of the One:12 Collective, Michael Myers is meant to fit in with 1/12 scale (roughly 6″ tall) collectibles. However, the figure comes in just about 6.5″ tall, though he feels a bit smaller than he should. And while the smaller scale may be a problem for some collectors, the figure still packs quite a punch. The figure has about 30 points of articulation overall, with a fabric outfit covering all of the joints. The fabric outfit is particularly notable here, as Michael Myers wears a jumpsuit. As a single piece outfit, it covers all of the figures potential joints, giving it a really natural look as you pose it. The fabric itself is very thing, so it doesn’t look bulky at all, and feels like it’s scaled about as well as it can be. Thankfully, it doesn’t hinder any of the poseability.
In the end, I really enjoyed posing and snapping photos of the figure. I do wish it were just a bit taller for the 6″ scale, but it looks fantastic in person. There’s a lot of display options and great attention to detail throughout. The figure will be hard to track down, as most online retailers will be sold out by now, so jeep your eyes on the secondary market and look for a price you’re comfortable with. Check out some select photos below and the full gallery after that.
Some of the backgrounds featured in pics below are from Extreme-Sets.com.
SOURCE: Toyark
What The Fanboy Factor Website says about the ONE:12 Collective Michael Myers
Hauntober begins with Michael Myers One:12 Scale
1978 introduced the world to Halloweens Michael Myers a serial killer who escaped a sanitarium after being committed when he was 6 for killing his sister Judith Myers. Halloween has been terrorizing the big screen for 40 years with multiple movies as well as comics, video games and collectibles.
Today Mezco delivers Michael Myers in 6-inch scale. The figure features light up pumpkin which includes two small batteries and a switch to turn this feature on and off the top of the pumpkin can be removed and the spot for the batteries requires a small screwdriver. Also included is Judith Myers tombstone, multiple hands, 2 knives one of which is blood covered, stand with the Halloween logo on it and the ghost sheet head yes its cloth and includes authentic movie like glasses. The Jumpsuit is made of cloth and movie accurate as well. For those fans of articulation, there are no double jointed elbows.
Wow, what a great collectible for Horror, Halloween, and collectors. The attention to detail can be seen all over this figure. Even the eyes through the mask look creepy giving it the Michael Myers feel. The Ghost outfit is spot on and gives you another movie pose option minus the teenage girl. If you look into the costume you can see his eyes behind the glasses as well. The light up pumpkin is my favorite accessory when lit it also flickers. My only complaint it was a bit difficult to place the batteries in the pumpkin but with a little patience and a tiny screwdriver, I succeeded. Also, there is a warning on how to place the ghost sheet head on the figure as you do not want to break or have glasses come off.
This is one of my favorite figures to date and he has found a place among my Halloween decorations and will continue to show up every Halloween. I think we might even watch his first movie together LOL. If you are on the fence about this one grab it. Price point is 80 dollars and considering the list of accessories I gave you worth every cent. Bravo Mezco you delivered again.
SOURCE: Fanboy Factor
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Primary Sources in Science Classrooms: Coal River and Human Impacts on Earth’s Systems This post was written by Trey Smith, the Library of Congress 2015-16 Science Teacher in Residence. Pollution haze hanging over the valley. Mary Hufford, 1995 Individually and collectively humans exert both positive and negative influences on Earth’s systems. Teachers and students studying the interactions among Earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere and related human activity can explore images, manuscripts, and recorded oral history interviews from the Coal River community in West Virginia.
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Band: Ashley Hutchings
Label: Talking Elephant
Title: A Midwinter Miscellany
Band:Ashley Hutchings
Title:A Midwinter Miscellany
Label:Talking Elephant
Ashley Hutchings, the English bassist, vocalist and songwriter, founding member of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and the Albion Band, has released ‘A Midwinter Miscellany’.
This is a seasonal album of mainly new songs written by Hutchings and his special guests, the singer-guitarists/songwriters Becky Mills and Hutchings' son Blair Dunlop. The record also includes some spoken word, poems and stories. Recorded by Dunlop at Hutchings’ Derbyshire home over a couple of days in early autumn, the album explores topics from hibernation and snow to ancient Midwinter customs.
Following up on the collaboration of Hutchings and Mills several years ago, when they toured ‘The Beginnings of Fairport,’ a spoken word and song presentation telling the story of Fairport Convention, this latest collection continues the theme of combining words and songs, creating a kaleidoscope of sights, sounds and flavours of short winter days, long dark evenings and the celebration of Christmas. It takes excerpts from a wide range of literary sources including George Eliot and Kenneth Grahame, and gives a fresh complexion to other writing by Smart and Chesterton through new music composed by Dunlop and Mills.
Highlights of the album include the atmospheric opener, an excerpt from a poem by Christopher Smart blending with Mills’ song ‘Crocuses’ about loss and new life; an evocative reading from George Eliot’s ‘The Mill on the Floss’ by Hutchings in his sonorous baritone; the musical interpretation by Judy Dunlop of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 'Mahogany Tree', her singing accompanied by son Blair on acoustic guitar; and the traditional-sounding but new ‘Christmas Wreath’, words by Hutchings to music by Blair Dunlop, closing the album.
Renowned for his work, including in schools, to keep English folk music, dance and traditions alive and vibrant, Hutchings has since the early 80s been organizing a small group of acclaimed folk musicians to tour each December as the Albion Christmas Band.
This album, which has the feel of a live performance, presents an entertaining festive celebration of this musical event in this socially distanced time.
01) Crocus Poem, Crocuses
02) Raggle-Taggle Lad
03) Her Name Was Mary
04) The Mill on the Floss
05) Animals Carol
06) Hibernation
07) Three Angels
08) Sweet November
09) Mahogany Tree
10) Silence of Snow
11) Ancient Midwinter Customs
12) The Christ Child Lay on Mary's Lap
13) Christmas Wreath
Commenting On: A Midwinter Miscellany by Ashley Hutchings
Talking Elephant
Atmospheric and wintry collection of spoken word and song from Fairport Convention founder member Ashley Hutchings, which he has recorded with the singer-guitarists/songwriters Becky Mills and his son Blair Dunlop
A Midwinter Miscellany - CD
Street Cries - CD
Fine reworking with an array of heavyweight guest appearances of his late 1990's album from legendary English folk rock singer-songwriter Ashley Hutchings
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Transcripts & Show Notes
Poly-ish Movies
Movies To Review
Episode 0.5 - Criteria
Episode 01 - Carrington
Episode 02 - Her
Episode 03 - Belle Epoque
Episode 04 - Two Girls And A Guy
Episode 05 - Head In The Clouds
Episode 06 - My 5 Wives
Episode 07 - Cafe au Lait
Episode 08 - Hyde Park on Hudson
Episode 09 - Sex & Breakfast
Episode 10 - The Ethical Slut
Episode 11 - Design For Living
Episode 12 - Micki & Maude
Episode 13 - You Me Her
Episode 14 - Compersion
Episode 15 - Paint Your Wagon
Episode 16 - Futurama
Episode 17 - Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Episode 18 - My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Episode 19 - Y Tu Mamá También
Episode 20 - Summer Lovers
Episode 21 - Portrait Of A Marriage
Episode 22 - Whatever Works
Episode 23 - Same Time, Next Year
Episode 24 - Trois
Episode 25 - A Woman Is A Woman
Episode 26 - The Wedding Banquet
Episode 27 - Amelia
Episode 28 - The Story of O
Episode 29 - Professor Marston & The Wonder Women
Episode 30 - Kiss Me Again
Episode 31 - Shortbus
Episode 32 - Lutine
Episode 33 - Sex Monster
Episode 34 - Blow Dry
Episode 35 - Rita, Sue, & Bob Too
Episode 36 - Sleep With Me
Episode 37 - Esmeralda Comes By Night
Episode 38 - Fling
Episode 39 - A Strange Affair
Episode 40 - Keeping The Faith
Episode 41 - Le Bonheur
Episode 42 - Family
Episode 43 - The Mentalist
Episode 44 - She's Gotta Have It (movie)
Episode 45 - The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Episode 46 - The Blood Oranges
Episode 47 - Bandits
Episode 48 - Three
Episode 49 - Something About Sex
Episode 50 - 3 (Drei)
Show Notes >
posted Nov 15, 2016, 5:10 PM by Joreth InnKeeper [ updated Sep 6, 2018, 6:28 PM ]
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010)
www.imdb.com/title/tt1447793/ - Internet Movie Data Base
https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/My-Girlfriend-s-Boyfriend/70125551 - Netflix
http://amzn.to/2vTn897 - Amazon
The description from Netflix reads:
"Jesse Young is a girl who has everything and maybe too much of it when she finds herself falling for two seemingly perfect guys: sexy but struggling writer Ethan and button-down advertising exec Troy. Can she find true love with two men at the same time, or is somebody going to get a broken heart?"
The tagline reads:
"What would you do if you found your one true love... twice?"
This had more potential than almost any other possibly-poly movie I'd seen in a long time, especially for a movie that wasn't on any poly lists but that Netflix recommended to me based on adding other poly movies to my queue. The title and the line "Can she find true love with two men at the same time" made the cynical part of my brain pause in condemning it for yet another Hollywood choose-between-them romantic comedy plot. "This one," I thought "might actually be poly." I went into watching this movie with high hopes, but wary that those high hopes would lead me to a big fall.
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend stars Alyssa Milano, whom I've had a straight-girl-crush on for pretty much my entire life, so even with my usual misgivings about modern romantic comedies, I had to give it a try. Alyssa, as Jesse, is entirely convincing in her character and she put me back into my own history with similar situations. Jesse is a waitress who meets Ethan, a sexy-in-that-geeky-way writer who has been trying, unsuccessfully, to get published for years and whose latest meeting with a publisher has convinced him that he will never make it as a writer.
Jesse, we learn right away, is getting over some kind of relationship ending and is not yet ready to try again. But then she meets Ethan, and seems to decide that her uncle was right - it's time to take that leap and go for love. She gives Ethan her phone number. But as Ethan leaves Jesse's cafe, a tall, handsome, charismatic man walks in through the front door. It seems that, when Jesse decides to leap, she goes for a swan dive off Mt. Everest. Troy, our handsome advertising executive, gets Jesse's phone number too.
The two men couldn't be more different from each other, and yet, they're really not all that different. Ethan takes Jesse on those cheesy sorts of dates that end up being the most romantic dates ever because of how personal and intimate they are. Troy takes Jesse on those perfect sorts of dates that end up being the most romantic dates ever because of how flawless they are. Jesse is smart and funny and sarcastic (and beautiful) and it's easy for me to see why both men like her (as opposed to the romantic lead in Cafe au Lait). As time progresses, we see her struggling with her growing feelings and her secret.
When monogamous people date, there is this unspoken, implicit rule that when you're "just dating", it's OK to go on dates with more than one person. It's even acceptable not to tell the people you're on dates with that you are going on dates with other people. The point is to maximize your time to more efficiently select The One, and since he is The One, he doesn't need to know about all the applicants who didn't make the cut. So the fact that Jesse has a secret isn't surprising, and I can completely understand how she could get herself into this predicament. In the beginning, many people don't need, or want, to reveal everything - this relationship may not go anywhere, or it may go somewhere bad. Better to wait and see if this relationship is worth keeping before revealing something that makes you vulnerable.
The problem is that, oftentimes, we don't know that this relationship is worth revealing that secret until we've kept that secret past the point where we should have revealed it. By then, the longer the secret is kept, the harder it is to reveal it because you not only have to reveal something that might destroy your relationship, but you have to reveal that you've been keeping that secret this whole time, adding broken trust and a false foundation onto whatever horror your secret is. It's a terrible predicament to be in. At first, the relationship isn't worth revealing your secret over. Then, when the relationship is worth it, it becomes too important to risk losing by revealing the secret. Rock, meet Hard Place.
This is going to be really difficult because I don't know how to end this review without giving away spoilers. So I'm going to say something here that needs to be said and is going to sound like a spoiler ... but it really won't be.
This is not a poly movie.
But this movie sucked me in, made me cry, made me root for the characters, put me back inside the headspace of a person I no longer am and could no longer remember, and I was completely surprised.
This is not a poly movie, but it's also not your typical romantic comedy. There is no "girl meets wrong guy that we know is the wrong guy because she sleeps with him too soon while Mr. Right pines away for her and eventually wins her away from the obvious bastard that she has chosen instead" plot. This movie doesn't make the same tired old plot turns, it takes totally different plot turns. As cynical as I can be, I feel as though I should have seen some of these things coming, because, now that I know the ending, I can see how it was set up. But either the writing or the acting (or both) was so touching and so real to me, that I didn't see it coming until the reveal.
One of the criticisms I read about this movie was that the two concurrent plots of Jesse and her two men were boring by themselves, without the tension of the Big Secret. Personally, I thought that was the movie's strength. Too often, especially in romantic comedies, we have to introduce some wild conflict - usually a conflict that would solve the whole problem if the characters just talked to each other. And every time I yell at the screen "this whole thing could be solved if you just do X and all this pain and suffering you're feeling would be over!", someone else reminds me that we wouldn't have the movie if they did the reasonable, rational thing, so shut up, Joreth, and watch the movie.
And I HATE that! Reporters and TV producers regularly approach me for their shows only to reject me when they find out that I don't usually feel jealous in my relationships, we don't argue all that much, and when we do, it's usually solved with a long discussion or two and not so much with the fighting in public or screaming and name-calling, and that I don't hate my metamours. For some reason, people feel the need to include massive amounts of drama* in their entertainment (and their lives). Now, there are certainly stories that I enjoy that include huge conflicts - like lovers being separated by war, or epic battles of good vs. evil, or, even better, epic battles of fundamentally flawed people vs. other fundamentally flawed people.
But a relationship that doesn't have lying, lack of communication, fights, breakups and reconciliations, and all the rest of the contrived bullshit that writers put into them can still be an interesting story. Yes, it's true, without the tension of the "secret", if we watched each of Jesse's relationships individually as its own movie instead of together, there isn't a whole lot of conflict. Jesse seems pretty happy with each of her men, and each man seems pretty happy with her. And I LIKED that.
I absolutely loved the fact that there wasn't a clear loser. I loved that she didn't choose "the wrong one". I loved that one guy wasn't an asshole and the other was perfect. I loved that we didn't have to make one guy a villain or to kill one of them off in order to justify her choosing the other one. I loved that because it felt more real to me. It made much more sense to me why she was with each man. I am too often disgusted with romantic comedies because I can't understand why the characters are together, since they don't seem to really like each other. In this movie, although I actually liked Ethan better as a match for *me*, I could totally see why Jesse would have been in each relationship. It felt REAL.
Had I written this movie, it would not have gone in the direction it did go. But, given the direction it went in, I have to say that it ended exactly as it should have. How she ended up with who she ended up with has been written before, although rarely, so it was a bit of a twist in that regard. I usually feel, in stories that take this path, that the writer wrote himself into a corner and had to use a cheesy plot device to write himself out. I didn't feel that way this time. It is a difficult path that the writer chose for his story, and one, as I said, I would not have taken if I were writing it. But, for once, I didn't hate that the writer took this direction.
In addition, the movie threw a bit of a curveball at the end that I've seen happen in a couple of other stories, and it happens to be a curveball that I have a particularly strong feeling about - it being a personal issue of mine. But this curveball is so rarely well-handled, and in real life it's handled even less well, that to see the character give exactly the response I so hoped for made the movie for me.
The other criticism I read was that the surprise plot twist was too easy to figure out. As I said above, after having watched the movie, I can now see all the places where it was set up, and I feel as though I should have seen it coming. I won't say what those clues are because I don't want to give it away if you haven't seen it (and even if you can guess the ending before it ends, the movie is still better not knowing it ahead of time), but I did notice at the time when a couple of clues presented themselves that something funny was going on and, in hindsight, it's completely obvious.
But, the point is that, sure, the plot twist and the Big Secret could have been figured out. There is a very fine line between too easy to figure out and completely unable to figure out because the setup went so out of its way to trick us that it ended up being implausible, and where that line is for any individual may vary, so I don't think any movie could possibly get it perfectly right. What I think a movie has to do is make it *possible* to figure out so that it's plausible and realistic, but so engaging that the audience is too busy feeling the story to sit back and analyze it to find the clues. And I think that's exactly what this movie did.
So, it's not a poly movie. It was a romantic comedy. And I recommend it anyway.
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The word "drama" gets a bad rap in poly circles because of its misuse. I write about this problem often, so if you're interested in more discussion about it, visit my blog or Facebook page. But the short footnote is that when *I* use the word "drama", I do not mean any old conflict. All relationships have conflict. When I use that term, I mean that when conflict arises (or, more likely, is manufactured), the response to the conflict is so extreme as to be performative in nature. Meaning that sometimes shit happens like a death in the family or personality clashes and that's to be expected, but when a person goes out of their way to arrange their life in such a manner as to invite conflict, and then to deal with the conflict in unproductive ways that almost seem deliberate, that invite attention or an audience or participation from those outside the conflict, and do so repeatedly without any attempt made to learn more productive behaviour for dealing with conflict in the future, that's "drama".
These are the people who follow their partners to public venues and then have shouting matches in the parking lot, perhaps with the throwing of chairs or beer bottles, that result in venue security intervening, instead of attempting productive conflict resolution techniques or simply leaving someone, mostly because the only examples they've seen of dealing with conflict is from people who have an audience like reality TV or movies.
As some article once said, we often learn how to fight by watching things like Friends, where people who are supposed to be buddies throw out some zinger to hurt each other. This doesn't make any sense for friends to fight this way, but it makes perfect sense if those friends have writers who have to entertain an audience with the fight. So we then grow up thinking that flinging insults at the people we care about that other people will laugh or "oooh" at is the way that people fight. This is what I mean by "drama". It's performative. That's why I use that term specifically, because drama invokes "the theatre" and is "dramatic", or perhaps even melodramatic. It most definitely does not include all forms of conflict, or even strong emotional feelings during conflict.
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author AP date 29/09/17 venue Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, DEN
Despite being frequent guests to Denmark and in fact performing at this very venue more times than vocalist Nick Holmes cares to remember, Paradise Lost has no trouble attracting big audiences here time after time. Tonight is no exception, and one can assume that even without the strong supporting caste, featuring two of the most promising doom metal bands around right now, the British legends’ latest concert at Pumpehuset would still have been adorned with the coveted ‘sold out’ ribbon. And with rumours circulating that, after returning to heavier style and reintroducing the growls on their latest album, “Medusa”, Paradise Lost has embarked on this tour with a particularly appetising setlist, it is no surprise to find the venue buzzing with anticipation as our party arrives.
All photos courtesy of Michael Hyldgaard Løgtholt
Sinistro may be without a bassist (for reasons left unexplained), but even so the Portuguese outfit has seldom sounded heavier than they do on the opening track, “Partida”, tonight. The track serves as the sort of beginning that immediately turns heads and stops conversations, inviting every gaze upon vocalist Patrícia Andrade, who continues to assert herself as one of the most intriguing front-figures in metal right now. As ever, she tries to embody the grotesque, twitching movements of a marionette doll, affording Sinistro a touch of theatrics that goes hand-in-hand with the band’s music — a portentous mix of doom, stoner and post-metal, laced with Andrade’s dramatic, almost operatic singing. Once the first impression has been made, we are then treated to two brand new songs, “Pétalas” and “Abismo”, both of which herald the coming of a more esoteric style and less threatening tone than before, on the upcoming “Sangue Cássia” LP. The focus seems to be shifting toward post-metal, yet as the crashing chords and frantic drum fills that erupt toward the end of “Abismo” prove, there is no reason to fear a reduction in sonic weight. Neither should one fear that the tableaus that Andrade sometimes freezes into during instrumental passages might take over; if anything, her jolting movements are even more violent during these two songs. Still, it will be difficult to surpass the monumental, maddening “Cidade (Parte II)” and the crazed monologue that Andrade lapses into halfway through it — tonight, at least, the piece sends the audience into pure rapture, and without a doubt earns Sinistro enough new disciples to soon be able to return to us in a headlining capacity.
Citing the likes of Camel, Pink Floyd and Pulsar as important influences, Pallbearer openly admits to being an ‘expressive’ progressive rock band first and a doom metal band second. As also evidenced by the concert here, the Little Rock, AR-born quartet continues to divide the waters especially in the live setting, proving a insurmountable challenge for those not in favour of songs that go on for what seems like an eternity, growing and evolving through endless instrumental passages, and nothing short of magical for those in favour of the style. But even though I count myself among the latter populace, the band’s show tonight is neither nor, from an objective standpoint. Both “The Ghost I Used to Be” and “Dancing in Madness” are delivered in astounding renditions, underlining once again the depth of songwriting and skill of musicianship possessed by this band, and how tightly wound a unit they make on stage. But one persistent annoyance is that while the sound technician has found a nigh perfect balance between volume and clarity for the instruments, the singing of both frontman Joseph D. Rowland and guitarist/backing vocalist Devin Holt is all too often drowned out to render Pallbearer very much an instrumental experience tonight. As a fan, one still gets carried away by the band’s impassioned delivery of its grand odes to melancholy and wishes for these to go on for as long as possible. But looking at the bulk of the audience, it becomes obvious most people are not so easily wooed and as a result, that sweeping yet intimate atmosphere that is a staple of Pallbearer’s concerts never manages to cross the boundary between stage and crowd.
Although they are widely considered to be a pioneering force of the doom/death metal hybrid genre, Paradise Lost is arguably the least doomy artist to feature on the bill of this tour. The band’s music is comparatively faster, their songs are shorter, and there is an element of immediacy about them that neither Sinistro nor Pallbearer is able to match. New song “Blood and Chaos” kicks the show off in the Gothic rocking style that defined the Halifax, United Kingdom-born group’s mid-‘90s era, and even though the quality of sound is marred by excessive treble, that immediacy reflects in the thunderous response of the audience. Effective though the track is as the starting berth though, it also makes for a surprising choice, with Paradise Lost being so intent on revisiting their roots, ergo the heaviest and most mournful parts of their repertoire on their latest record, “Medusa”. It feels too uplifting in the context of the overall setlist, and if the idea was the deploy one of the catchier cuts as means to seize our attention from the get-go, then perhaps a song like “One Second” or “Tragic Idol” — both aired later on — might have served better.
The questionable beginning aside, however, Paradise Lost makes life difficult for us critics with an intense and elegant performance during which they flaunt everything that is so beloved about them and very few weaknesses. As ever, the bright and grandiose melodies that guitarist Greg Mackintosh seeds unto Aaron Aedy’s bleak doom riffs are at the forefront of the band’s expression, even if the man himself prefers to perform largely in the shadows — in stark contrast with the humour and punk attitude he showcased here as the frontman of Vallenfyre in the previous week. But his withdrawn acting as the primus motor allows the rest of the musicians to draw attention to themselves and the nerve with which they are performing. Vocalist Nick Holmes may be lacking some of that venom and snarl of his younger years to really do the likes of “Dead Emotion” justice, but he is both exceptionally present and in high spirits, even cracking open a can of dry British humour at times to lighten up what is, I am told, the dreariest and most doom ridden setlist that Paradise Lost has brought to Denmark in 20 years.
Still, the fact that the band has such a firm handle on what makes a song compelling means that one needs not be a hardened connoisseur of the genre to find enjoyment in the concert. Songs such as the proggy “Forever Failure”, the grief-stricken “An Eternity of Lies”, and ultimately the crushing “Until the Grave” all soar into unprecedented heights of grandeur tonight — not least by virtue of Holmes’ impassioned portrayal of them, but also due to the energy and professionalism that his experienced compatriots bring to the table. The only criticism I am willing to leverage is that in periods, the show feels almost too perfectionistic, with the musicians often reluctant to truly lose themselves in the moment for fear of compromising on precision. When that is the only reasonable complaint that one can envision though, it becomes impossible to argue against the fact that what Paradise Lost muster here is one of the most airtight metal concerts that Denmark has witnessed in 2017.
01. Blood and Chaos
02. Remembrance
03. From the Gallows
04. One Second
05. Tragic Idol
06. Medusa
07. Shadowkings
08. The Longest Winter
09. Dead Emotion
10. Forever Failure
11. An Eternity of Lies
12. Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
13. Beneath Broken Earth
— Encore —
14. No Hope in Sight
15. True Belief
16. Until the Grave
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath held off a surging state Rep. Charles Booker Tuesday to win the Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky a week after ballots were cast, setting up a big-money showdown with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.
Booker won Kentucky’s three largest cities — Louisville, Lexington and Bowling Green — but the more liberal voters in those cities weren’t enough. McGrath surrounded Booker, winning victories throughout rural parts of the state.
It was an unusual primary. Delayed by a month over concerns about the spread of COVID-19, then conducted largely via absentee ballot, Kentuckians were left waiting a full week after Election Day for results.
“Extreme Amy McGrath is lucky to have gotten out of the primary with a victory, but her reputation sustained significant damage all across Kentucky,” said Kate Cooksey, McConnell’s spokeswoman. “McGrath is just another tool of the Washington Democratic establishment who has no idea what matters most to Kentuckians.”
The extra month proved pivotal in making the race competitive. Booker’s call for change was embraced by a sweeping political moment after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor sparked protests of racial injustice and police violence throughout the country.
Booker was among the protesters in Louisville, allowing a candidate who had struggled to gain traction through much of the campaign to catch the imagination of progressives and peel away people who felt ambivalent about McGrath. She spent more than $21 million in the primary positioning herself as a moderate in preparation for the general election.
With the attention came money for Booker’s campaign and with that money came a final push to whip up support and momentum heading into Election Day. His campaign rented a bus and toured the state, wearing shirts that said “From the Hood to the Holler” as Booker tried to build a statewide coalition.
That coalition never completely formed, crashing into the behemoth of the McGrath campaign and falling short.
McGrath, who officially got into the race in July but spent nearly two years readying for her Senate run, had already raised millions by the time Booker announced in January. She used that money to run ads that implied the race was already between her and McConnell.
Voting by absentee ballot had already started by the time Booker began picking up traction. He had a strong showing among those who voted in-person on Election Day, but those margins quickly shrunk as absentee ballots were counted.
For her part, McGrath played the role of the incumbent — an unusual position for someone who has never won an election. Her massive fundraising machine allowed her to build a professional operation, one that was able to absorb her early mistakes, like saying she would have voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before changing her position hours later.
Her attempts to thread a needle between McConnell and President Donald Trump made her vulnerable in the primary, turning off some of the more progressive supporters who championed McGrath during her 2018 congressional bid. That allowed Booker and Lincoln County farmer Mike Broihier to run ads attacking her as not being a “real Democrat.”
“Don’t tell me all we deserve in this primary is a pro-Trump Democrat,” Booker told a crowd in Pikeville the day before the election. “I don’t even know what that is.”
But McGrath won Pike County. She won nearly every county in the state, while somehow escaping a competitive primary without being pulled to the left. When asked if she was merely clinging to her primary lead on the Monday before Election Day, McGrath was firm.
“No,” She said. “I think we have built a very strong network all around Kentucky of 120 counties that are excited to get rid of Mitch McConnell.”
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The View from Israel.
Facts from Israel. News, strategic reports, assessments, opinion, facts, information. All you need to understand and report on Israel in a wider world.
Israel caught in a trap of its own making.
Ever seen how a jackal kills its prey? Usually, it doesn’t kill it with one blow or bite? It surrounds it, it challenges it, it probes for points of weakness. It then gets its claws around the neck of its prey and won’t let go. Whenever the animal struggles it makes itself weaker.
This is what we have been seeing from Israel. We are caught, like an animal, unable to shake off the obsessive hunger of those who have their claws into us and want to kill us.
Like the wounded animal, we didn’t assess the threat, nor appreciate the real danger. In nature, the targeted animal often appears to be so powerful that it could easily resist the deadly jackals. They thought their strong and non-offensive posture would appease the hungry killers into not attacking.
Like the wounded beast, Israel finds itself caught in a trap of its own making. Like that animal, Israel is caught in the jaws of those that want to destroy us.
How did we get to the point that a strong Jewish State is strategically so meek that we have too readily surrendered Judaism’s most holy site to a comparatively weak adversary? It’s down to a failed policy of playing nice.
The thrilling historic announcement, exactly fifty years ago, that “The Temple Mount is in our hands” was true – for a few days. Playing nice began half a century ago when General Moshe Dayan countermanded Motta Gur by saying about the Temple Mount “What is this? The Vatican?” and handed the administration to the Muslim Council. The battle then was not against Palestinians. Israel was fighting a defensive war against invading Arab armies bent on our destruction.
The baying Palestinian protesters recently shouted that the Temple Mount is for “Muslims and Palestinians only.” Jews and Christians. Throw away your bibles. The Israeli Government has failed you. Through a fear of being disliked, we have adopted an assimilated Jew psychosis, of trying to appear nice or appeasing the goyim and the Muslims, yet we still fail to win friends or influence people. It is we that are being influenced to surrender all too often and too easily.
After the wimpish Israeli government capitulated to threats and removed the security cameras and metal detectors, the Palestinian flag has been affixed to the dome of the Dome of the Rock mosque and holy Muslim worshipers are raining rocks down onto to the head of Jews (known in Islamic circles as “apes and pigs”) praying at the Kotel below.
If the Israeli government think that this will bring more than a temporary calm, they are right. The tailwind is with the Jew haters and they will ride that deadly wind throughout Israel until the leaders of the Jewish State demonstrate firmness and determination to resist further erosion of our heritage and purpose for being here.
We can feel the claws of our enemy embedded in our flesh. Like wounded animals we are either frozen into inaction or, worse still, make decisions that tighten their deadly lock on our carcass.
We may pretend that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the Jewish State but there are parts of Jerusalem where the municipality fear to tread, places where obsessive Jew hatred and a desire to see the end of Israel is growing. People are not aware that in this part of our “undivided capital” football cubs play under the auspices of the Palestinian Football Association and their champion team supervises soccer tournaments honoring killers of Israelis without any response from our government against this incitement to terrorism being practiced in Jerusalem. The government has behaved in the most supine manner against this close and immediate threat. They won’t stamp this out because they don’t want to upset anyone.
We have lost not only our courage but our moral compass.
We are in a battle for survival that can only be won by victory over those trying to destroy us bite by bite.
Recently, NGOs came together to form the Israel Victory Caucus. It brings the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus into the Knesset. We hope this will instill backbone into the spine of our government.
The Israeli Government must open up to a serious dose of strategic reality therapy. We are on the path to our own destruction. It is time to go on the offensive with courage and commitment. No other remedy can result in permanent peace.
Germany and Japan surrendered only after being brought to their knees. They have since become leading advocates for peace and mutual recognition. Using this analogy, only when the Palestinians have been brought to the point that they admit defeat, give up on their obsessive Jewish hatred, their feverish martyrdom complex, and an overarching ambition to destroy us, can any form of peace take hold.
They are the ones, not us, who need to make painful concessions.
As Daniel Pipes of Middle East Forum wrote in January, “True peacemaking means finding ways to coerce Palestinian to undergo a change of heart, give up rejectionism, accept Jews, Zionism, and Israel. Defeat compels them to come to terms with their irredentist fantasies and empty the rhetoric of revolution.”
To achieve that, Israel has to extract itself from the psychological and strategic trap it has set for itself – before it is too late.
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the author of “Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism,” and the 2917 best-seller “1917. From Palestine to the Land of Israel.”
Posted by theviewfromisrael.com at 11:36
lilyanne 26 July 2017 at 15:46
This is a powerful piece. And of course a lot of the incitement of Palestinians is led and fed from outside in worldwide media and institutions. I wonder if anyone thinks Israel should take a leaf out of the book of the Irish. Ireland (i.e. the Republic) is offering passports to anyone who can show they had an Irish grandparent - (even from Northern Ireland, which is one of the most patriotic parts of the UK!) Would it make a difference if Jews had Israeli citizenship without actually residing there, which for some people isn't possible or desirable?At the moment there is a lot of coercion to perceive ISRAEL as the country that has to be brought to its knees - like Germany and Japan - and unfortunately a lot of Jews don't know enough about zionist history, or only know it through enemy eyes or generations of Western journalists long ago nobbled by petropower.
BARRY I agree wit you 1000%. I have been in Israel now for 40 years and this is the first time I am scared ..... for the future of my family and for all future generations.
I hope Israel doesn't follow the dangerous path that leads to self destruction like Germany, France and most of Europe did.
SABEH 31 July 2017 at 14:19
And in the horizon there's no other political leadership who we could trust!!! NONE!!!
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Keith Fournier of Chesapeake, VA is a deacon of the Catholic Church who is also a lawyer and occasionally special counsel to the hate group, Liberty Counsel. Additionally, Fournier has co-authored anti-LGBT articles with the hate group's leader, Mat Staver. Fournier controls two small nonprofit organizations: Common Good Foundation and Common Good Alliance.
Thursday, Fournier is bent out of shape over, as he puts it: “Canada’s Gender X Passports and the Denial of Sexual Difference.” As you can tell, Fournier is terribly confused. Please bear with me for it is worth remembering that exactly one year ago today Fournier was still ranting about Obergefell v. Hodges. According to him, the decision in Obergefell was a travesty that would lead to the legalization of polygamy. 26 months have elapsed since the Obergefell decision and there is no case making its way through the federal courts that could legalize polygamy.
Staver and Fournier
These two dishonest cranks
deserve each other
Another recurring theme of Fournier's is that natural law “must inform the civil and criminal law, or a nation soon devolves into tyranny and anarchy.” Depending upon your view of the Trump administration Fournier might have been prescient.
Fournier and Mat Staver co-authored a batty bit of sophistry claiming that “Faithful Christians Cannot Be Judges in Ohio.” That is untrue. In Ohio, if a judge chooses to perform opposite-sex marriages, he or she is compelled to perform same-sex marriages. Simple and nondiscriminatory policy. These folks love nothing more than victimhood.
Fournier's fans will be delighted with today's high dive into the shallow end of the intellectual pool.
Compelling Society to Deny the Truth
Supporters of the Gender Identity Movement claim we have the ability to choose our own gender. They have set in motion a huge cultural revolution. Using the courts and legislatures, as well as major media and Facebook, they seek to compel those who disagree to deny the truth. People who believe in the difference between the sexes face abuse and discrimination. Even prosecution.
Ah, that word “truth.” Did truth apply to his and Staver's depiction of the qualifications to be a judge in Ohio? The fact that there is no “Gender Identity Movement” and the absence of some sinister conspiracy, would take a terrible toll on Fournier but that is the simple truth. Are there more trans youth than ten years ago? Yes. However, that is only because medical clinicians devoted to research and science have modified the treatment protocol, allowing younger sufferers of gender dysphoria to socially transition.
Some people are only happy if they can blame the Human Rights Campaign or George Soros or the ACLU for things that they don't approve of. In this case the “blame” falls on institutions like Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health, to name just a few.
Now that we have done away with conspirators (whose only goal, we all know, is to marginalize Christians) we must deal with the second part of that same sentence. My fantasy is to tie this guy to a chair and subject him to the receiving end of a megaphone three inches from his face with which I can repeatedly shout: No one chooses their gender — dummy! If people could choose their gender there would likely be no transgender people. People who have gender dysphoria are suffering with severe anxiety and depression precisely because they cannot choose their gender. Ball peen hammers to hard heads would not cause that logical concept to sink in because it contradicts those ancient chronicles which have enslaved so many people.
Ridicule, I concede, accrues to people are are too dense or too willfully ignorant to even attempt to understand medical science. That is just too damned bad. They can all hold a pity party. Why should a minority group have to suffer at the hands of ignoramuses and morons?
Let me be perfectly clear. That minority group is not persecuting or discriminating against Mr. Fournier. Mr. Fournier and his ilk are persecuting and seek to discriminate against that minority group. Fournier's attempts to reverse the direction of that vector are depraved efforts to foster a political outcome to a religious belief. It is an outright lie. That kind of persecution and discrimination is particularly reprehensible since so many of its victims are children and the malcontents are authority figures.
Fournier goes on to write about that California kindergarten class. The teacher did precisely the right thing. It has nothing to do with Fournier's claims and I cannot write about it again. The fuss from those poor persecuted Christians over something so perfectly logical absolutely sickens me.
Misusing the Body
What’s called “sex change” or “gender reassignment” surgeries is another example. Removing a person’s genitals and giving them artificially constructed ones does not change the reality of who they are.
Men and women are designed to conceive children together. Women are designed to bear them. People with artificial genitals can’t do that. For example, a transexual woman may look like a male, but she can’t generate sperm as a real male does. The appearance must be sustained by massive doses of synthetic hormones.
Fournier is correct in his first paragraph. Sex-affirming procedures provide relief by conforming someone's physical appearance to who they really are. Fournier didn't mean it that way of course. The ability to make babies has no bearing on who we are as people. Any idiot can crank out a kid. It is an absurd notion that is used to underscore nonsensical religious beliefs. Procreative marriage was employed as a prime reason to deny legal marriage equality to gay couples. No one bought it in any of the myriad courts that heard cases prior to, and including, Obergefell.
Every human cell shows us whether we are male or female. That is a given. It is a gift. Removing the real genitals isn’t helping someone become who they truly are. It’s mutilating them.
While I have this schmuck tied to my chair I would use that bullhorn again to shout Sex and gender are two different things — dummy!
And finally, at least for me:
The American College of Pediatricians sees this. They strongly condemned such surgeries for children. They called on “healthcare professionals, educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts — not ideology — determine reality.”
Infuriating. Fournier knows that ACPeds is a minuscule splinter group (and a designated hate group). It does not speak for the real peer organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics. He also knows — or should know — that children are not candidates for gender-affirming surgery. ACPeds' president, Michelle Cretella is a conservative Catholic crackpot who has no answers and no alternatives other than pseudo-scientific so-called reparative therapy which doesn't work and is often harmful. Cretella would prefer that children suffer in order for her world to conform to those ancient chronicles.
For his part, Fournier is content to repeat anything that deludes him into thinking that scripture has all of the answers. He convinces himself and then tries to convince others. Others will subscribe to theories that they like with relative ease.
Scripture does not have, and has not had, real answers for thousands of years. Scripture is no more helpful in the treatment of gender dysphoria than L. Ron Hubbard's e-meter or a Hasidic rebbe twirling a freshly decapitated chicken. The Moonies have no answers. Neither do Muslims or Hindus. At least Hindus have venerated transgender people for over a thousand years.
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Doncaster preview
Sydney's big day of racing is no longer Golden Slipper day, it's the opening day of The Championships, featuring the Derby, the Sires Produce, the TJ Smith and the Doncaster for a combined $8.5 million, which was supposed to draw quality thoroughbreds from across the globe. But how many have they managed to bring to Sydney this year I hear you say? Sweet FA. Actually, one came from Japan and will go home without having a run. So basically they're spending $4m more than required to get exactly the same horses. Still, it all looks great on your ego-trip press releases doesn't it Mr V'Landys?
The Doncaster Handicap is one of those great races which traditionally pits the WFA stars against the rising handicappers who might just get their chance with a decent spread of the weights. But will any of them get a chance today against the freak that is Winx? A rare return to previewing from me, a great race in store so I had to give it a crack...
Star Doncaster Mile
AUD3,000,000
Group 1, 1600m
Kermadec - star of last autumn who perhaps didn't live up to the hype in the spring. Two runs back this time in have been strong, being beaten only a length and a half by Winx in the George Ryder suggests he is near his top, although he did have the softer run. Meets the star mare 1.5kg better for that run, and won this race last year, carrying 51kg and drawn 16. Right in this and Waller has been making a habit of sweeping the placings in Sydney features of late.
Turn Me Loose - largely written off on the basis of his George Ryder failure. It didn't look great but his Victorian wins in the Seymour Cup, Crystal Mile, Emirates Stakes and Futurity weren't flukes - he is right up to this class. One theory for the Ryder flop was the pace he set. Normally he likes to bowl along in front, but in the small, elite field, Opie Bosson elected to take hold and 'save' energy for a sprint at the top of the straight which he didn't have. If you've ever listened to Vince Accardi or Ralph Horowitz discussing race shape, the 'sit-sprint' tactic is mostly a myth for leaders, most of them like to bowl along and keep on going. Holding them back just sets it up for the opposition. Bigger field, better tempo, a better chance to get all the horses in behind off the bit and struggling on the turn. Chance at big odds.
Winx - superstar mare with eight pickets in the fence, and beating the boys in most of them. She just wins so effortlessly it reminds me of Treve at her peak. Such a high cruising speed. Incredible that she touched even money last start at set weights. Can you find any negative for her? She will be the shortest-priced Doncaster favourite in a long, long time and this is a race which doesn't mind the odd bolter. Waller has set her to back up next week in the Queen Elizabeth, something she hasn't done before. I'd rather have taken even money last week than here, but she looks incredibly hard to beat.
Stratum Star - decent handicap/G2 horse from Melbourne, ideally suited at 1400-1600m. Drawn for the perfect run (providing the rail isn't off) but needs more than 1.5kg from Winx to get close here.
Bow Creek - money muncher. Will buy more BMWs for bookmakers than for punters. Always slowly away, then tries to weave through traffic and always looks unlucky. Can't have him.
First Seal - right up there with the next best of the mares. Did a bit of work last time in the Ryder but was entitled to finish closer. Had beaten Winx four times in a row before that. Meets her 3.5kg better for that and should get a cosy run from the inside gate. Blinkers first time and won't be disappointed if the track stays soft.
Volkstok'n'barrell - star Kiwi 4yo who has apparently put on plenty of muscle since the spring. Victorious in his last two starts at WFA and now drops 6.5kg at a distance at which he has a 75% win rate. Corey Brown has flown in from Singapore for the ride, don't rule him out.
Good Project - won the weakest G1 mile race in Australia in the spring (the Railway Stakes) off the minimum weight with a ridiculously easy run in the front. Is 2kg above the limit here, and while that's a drop of 5.5kg from last run when stumbled at the start and pulled up lame, it's still a huge ask to be competitive here. Minor placings at best.
Ecuador - ran second to Winx in the Epsom, but hasn't run a place in four runs since. Drawn wide but likes to go forward. Big chance of being stuck wide without cover. No hope.
Happy Clapper - won the Villiers here in December in a field of 20. Two runs since have been in G1s preparing for this. Meets Winx 8kg better for being beaten five lengths, about as far behind as he was at the 600. But Winx had plenty up her sleeve and this gelded son of Teofilo was flat out. Brendan Avdulla obviously rates him highly, shedding 5kg to ride this light. Weight relief from last run obviously helps but class is the concern.
Azkadellia - star Victorian mare who just doesn't know how to run a bad race. Just beaten by Peeping in the Coolmore Classic, will be better suited to the wide open spaces of Randwick. Gets the services of 'Group 1' Glen Boss down on the limit. Right in this.
He Or She - won the Blamey at Flemington with a perfectly set-up race (suicidal pace). Query as to whether he's up to G1, but has a 50% strike rate, is weighted on the limit and did get within 2.5l of Turn Me Loose in the Emirates Stakes (meets him 3kg better here). Not for me but will have supporters.
Rudy - fourth in last year's Doncaster, winner of the Villiers Handicap here in 2014 and has the gun Queensland jockey Tegan Harrison aboard for her first ride at Randwick. Needs it very wet to be any chance.
Aomen - typical Anthony Cummings horse placed miles out of his depth.
Vergara - slightly better chance than her stablemate listed just above, as recognised by the market - 150/1 rather than 250/1!
The mighty mare just wins doesn't she? I've heard some say this is the best Doncaster they've seen - I don't see how it can earn that mantle. You've got one superstar and a bare handful of others who should genuinely run at WFA. The mare is bulletproof, I struggle to see a scenario where she doesn't win, although that doesn't equate to the price being something to unload on, particularly on a drying track. I'd need to see it playing fair before I'd be taking evens, if it was on offer.
Expect a big improvement from Turn Me Loose when he's allowed to roll along in front.
Azkadellia
Volkstok'n'Barrell
Turn Me Loose 1x5 (five times more on the place)
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Teacher of the month: Katelyn Blanken
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Blanken poses for a picture with her award. Blanken, an AP Psychology teacher, has been at WCHS for 13 years.
By Emily Zhang, News Editor
Empathetic, passionate and energetic- these words perfectly describe WCHS AP Psychology and Physical Education teacher Katelyn Blanken. This year Blanken is teaching three classes of AP Psychology and two classes of Physical Education.
Blanken was first inspired to become a teacher when she was a high schooler in the IB program at Richard Montgomery High School.
“I became a teacher because two teachers at RM, both totally different subjects, my world history teacher and my health teacher, were role models that impacted what I really wanted to do in my life,” Blanken said. “What I saw from each of these people, although they couldn’t be more different, is that they had a passion for life and a passion for their career.”
Blanken continued on to double major in psychology and sociology with focuses in education, Spanish and social work at Ursinus College in Philadelphia. After she graduated, she started teaching in MCPS and has now taught at WCHS for 13 years.
“I had a lot of different areas that I studied; however, they all have a common thread of mental and physical health, and I always knew that I wanted to teach and coach,” Blanken said.
Her background from what she studied in college influences her teaching now. Teaching psychology and PE together makes a lot of sense because physical health is directly related to mental health.
“Psychology is something that I have always really enjoyed studying,” Blanken said. “I took AP Psychology way back when I was in high school myself, and I think it is a great class for high schoolers. There is always something new to learn in psychology. I enjoy teaching PE because I really like teaching freshmen since they have a lot of energy as high school is still so new to them.”
In her free time Blanken is often hiking, playing basketball or just being outside in nature. Her love for her PE classes, as well as her passion towards coaching the WCHS girls basketball team, all stem from this love of being active.
“I sponsored a bunch of different clubs in the past, and I coached five different things in the building last year,” Blanken said. “But after the birth of my son I am only coaching one thing this year, which is girls basketball.”
Her students like her high energy and teaching style. Blanken always makes sure to help students who are struggling to have a breakthrough moment.
“Her teaching style is engaging because she seems like she is genuinely passionate about the subject,” junior Emily Tong, a student in AP Psychology, said. “Even though I have her first period and everyone is tired, she does a good job of getting the attention of most students. She speaks in a clear voice at a good pace and always leaves room for questions.”
An immediate sense of community is felt as soon as any student steps into the classroom. Her class is a happy environment where students are engaged and actively learning.
“She makes the class a super warm place and makes you excited to learn even though it is first period and you are exhausted,” junior Olivia Quinn, an AP Psychology student, said. “I like how she takes the time to explain everything and how she gives fun analogies to remember everything. She does the hardest thing a teacher can do with ease– getting the students excited to learn.”
Blanken is very responsive to how students handle the course content. She keeps in mind how stressful being a teen can be and that every kid could be going through something different everyday, so she tries to be as understanding as she can be while still maintaining the rigor of the course. The primary motivation for her to come to work everyday is helping her students.
“She is a good teacher because she is responsive to how students handle the content and because of her energy early in the morning she gets through what you need to learn,” Tong said. “It is a pretty productive class period but it is not overwhelming because the lessons are well-paced and spaced out.”
Blanken mentioned that one of her favorite projects is the AP Psychology project where students are encouraged to get out of their comfort zone by breaking the social norms.
“I think it’s a very cool experience and even though it takes a lot of guts to do it, the reward is that if you set your mind to something and you can do it,” Blanken said.
She enjoys teaching at WCHS because of the diverse background of both the staff and the students, and she feels like she is able to learn something herself everyday. She also mentioned that the wide variety of courses available to students like AP Psychology gives WCHS students many opportunities to take new classes.
“Honestly to me it is not about the AP score or your grade in the class, it is that you learn a bit about yourself and others. I think the more that we learn about ourselves and others the more peaceful the world can be,” Blanken said.
Emily Zhang, Features Editor
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Audio Push’s The 7th Letter Mixtape
By Andrew Noz
Apart from that very underrated Tyler kid that nobody on the internet is talking about, it's been a shockingly slow week for new rap music. But you'll hit any fountain in a drought, and that necessitated innovation is a blessing in disguise for those of us who seek out new rap music. We've been forced to explore previously untapped corners of the hip hop world. For instance, that one Inland Empire strip mall where all of last season's Jerkin survivors have been hanging out and Cat Daddying. Because those kids keep putting songs out, no matter what. Even if the entire music industry crumbled or every copy of FL Studio self destructed or the earth stopped rotating on its axis, some random LA kids would still figure out a way to tweet Limelinx to poorly mixed, post-Hyphy skinny jeans raps.
But this is a good thing. As it turns out, people who make music constantly tend to improve. Case in point—The 7th Letter, the latest offering from "Teach Me How To Jerk" architects Audio Push. There's some corny stuff on here, to be certain, and far too many half baked, Auto Tuned hooks and ill-advised ballads. But these guys have improved dramatically as ambitious and technical rappers, going from ah ah ahm hi I'm him / hair hang long right up under my brim to uniquely syllable stuffed and flows that sometimes resemble those of fellow LA spitter Kendrick Lamar (though, yes, he sits at an entirely different table in the proverbial lunchroom of Southern California rap).
Maybe it's the lingering influence of Lil Wayne (the fact that AP is throwing around the decidedly not Los Angeleno slang of "whoadie" all over this tape would support that theory), the present-day reign of oft underrated pop rap breath control masters Roscoe Dash and Travis Porter or a mixture of both, but it seems like the bar for technical rapping in this sort of lowest common denominator pop rap has been raised considerably over the past year or so. Simplicity isn't always the highest virtue for these guys anymore. In many ways, they are rapping circles around more critically and intellectually revered populist counterparts like Wiz Khalifa or Drake. Soulja Boy, who has an ear for what young people are going to like, has a guest shot on here. But fear not, he is still completely unconcerned with rapping well.
Download: Audio Push's The Seventh Letter Mixtape (via Datpiff)
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OJCS is located on the Jewish Community Campus, which serves the Jewish community of Ottawa. Our students are able to form close relationships with neighbouring organizations as they meet for community events and religious celebrations. This cooperative community environment also provides OJCS families with a variety of enrichment programs and after-school activities. Some of these partner organizations include the Soloway Jewish Community Centre, the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, Hillel Lodge, PJ Library and our feeder preschools Ganon and Early Beginnings. Also located nearby is Jewish Family Services and the Kosher Food Bank.
Collaboration with Congregations
Our families are members of many different synagogues located across the city with whom we work to organize joint social and religious celebrations. In October 2015, our school and a local synagogue co-organized our first-ever Kids Mega Challah Bake. Another ongoing program is the OJCS Special Shabbaton Services held at different synagogues throughout the year. Our students take part in all facets of the service and have the opportunity to showcase what they have learned in school.
A core value of Jewish Community is Tikkun Olam – repairing the world. One Friday a month we have a dress down day and all money raised is donated to a different charity organization, such as CHEO, Make A Wish Foundation and the Kosher Food Bank.
In our middle school program, students have a variety of school leadership opportunities. By taking part in community activities and leading programs and events for the younger grades, such as Reading Buddies, activity days, school assemblies and extracurricular clubs, our students become role models for their peers. Leadership lessons are reinforced in the classroom and in our many extra-curricular activities. Our Grade 6 leadership team organizes and participates in multiple local and global social action initiatives each year. They participated in the We Act Challenge with Free the Children and hold in-school fundraising events that raise money to support developing countries.
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Lyme Regis Regent Cinema to be 'rebuilt to former glory'
Black smoke from the blaze could be seen for miles
Art Deco cinema wrecked by fire
The owners of a 1930s Art Deco cinema wrecked by fire have vowed to rebuild it to its former glory.
The roof of the Grade II listed Regent Cinema in Lyme Regis, Dorset, collapsed when the building was engulfed by the blaze on Monday afternoon.
Early indications suggested the fire began in a faulty light fitting, Dorset Fire and Rescue said
Emergency crews remained at the site overnight and left at 05:30 GMT on Wednesday.
Owner Scott Cinemas said: "We are fully confident that this loss of the cinema facility will be temporary, and that the Regent will be rebuilt to its former glory.
"As a listed building, it was insured with this requirement in mind."
Rob Swain captured the moment a wall collapsed on the roof of the building
A statement from the company said it was saddened by the loss of the building, which had recently been refurbished.
It added: "We also apologise for the disruption to the town that this event caused, but thank the townsfolk for the overwhelming and touching messages of support we have received."
Eight crews from three counties worked to prevent the flames spreading to adjoining buildings.
A cordon was put in place and neighbouring businesses were closed for the afternoon.
People with breathing problems were warned to close their windows
Shops and business in the area had to close
History of the Regent
The Regent was opened in 1937 by a local cinema operator Donald Hardy, who ran it until the early 1970s
The Art Deco building was designed by Bristol-based architect William Henry Watkins who designed several other cinemas in the South West of England, including the Forum in Bath
It is a Grade II listed building
Originally it had a "Hollophane" lighting system whereby motorised dimmers slowly changed and mixed red, blue and green lights, concealed in troughs
The cinema's original 35mm Phillips DP75 projector has been retained for special performances
Source: Scott Cinemas
Crews were forced to fight the fire from the outside because the roof collapsed
A cordon remains in place around the building
22 MARCH 2016, DORSET
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By Charlies Blackburn February 28, 2019 Category: Weather Wire
NOTE: This is not to be used for life critical applications . Please refer to official National Weather Service/NOAA websites and publications
----------116 AM ChST Fri Mar 1 2019
...WUTIP DOWNGRADED TO TROPICAL DEPRESSION...
CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY -------------------------- Wutip has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression.
WATCHES AND WARNINGS -------------------- None.
SUMMARY OF 100 AM CHST...1500 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- Location...18.3N 134.6E
About 755 miles west-northwest of Guam About 765 miles west-northwest of Saipan About 620 miles southwest of Iwo To Island
Maximum sustained winds...30 mph Present movement...Northwest...310 degrees at 10 mph
DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK ---------------------- At 100 AM CHST...1500 UTC...the center of Tropical Depression 02W (Wutip) was located near Latitude 18.3 degrees North and Longitude 134.6 degrees East. 02W is moving northwest at 10 mph. It is expected to make a turn toward the west with a decrease in forward speed over the next 24 hours.
Maximum sustained winds have decreased to 30 mph. 02W is forecast to weaken through Saturday.
NEXT ADVISORY ------------- The next scheduled advisory will be issued by the National Weather Service at 800 AM Friday morning.
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Manel Ayol commits to join Warriors
Posted on March 24, 2020 • Filed under Insider News, Recruiting • 2 Comments
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Instead of hunkering down, Manel Ayol opted to expand his horizons this week.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has put much of the nation in lockdown situations, Ayol decided that he wants to bring his lockdown defense to the University of Hawai’i basketball team. The 6-foot-7 forward at Western Wyoming Community College made a commitment this week to play for the Rainbow Warriors.
Ayol was born in South Sudan, raised in Australia, attended a year of high school in Colorado, a year of prep school in Canada, then two years of junior college in Wyoming. If all goes well, two years in Hawai’i are next.
Although there are numerous uncertainties due to the pandemic, Ayol plans to join the Warriors as a junior for the 2020-21 season. He made his commitment to Hawai’i despite not taking any official visits.
“I was going to do all of my visits after the season,” he explained. “But once this virus started going around, all the trips were called off and nobody knew when it would be back. After that, I decided to narrow it down myself to the places that I had the best relationships with, and the schools that had what I was looking for. Once I looked at everything, Hawai’i was the perfect fit. I was 100 percent confident in that, and so I decided to commit.”
By all accounts, the Warriors are getting a good one. Ayol averaged 16.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game as a sophomore this past season at Western Wyoming. He shot 51.6 percent from the field, including 39.3 percent (46 for 117) from 3-point range, and 80.3 percent on free throws. He was named the National Junior College Athletic Association Region IX Player of the Year after leading Western Wyoming to the regional championship and a 30-4 record.
His team already earned a spot in the JUCO National Championship Tournament before it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We were clicking throughout the year,” Ayol said. “The way were playing, I felt like we had a chance to win the whole national tournament.”
Ayol said he can play multiple positions, but prefers to play the role of small forward/big guard.
“My style of play is to attack the basket and use my body to get to the rim,” he said. “I like to take guys off the dribble, but I really worked on getting my shot better this year and I think that makes it harder for people to guard me.”
Western Wyoming head coach Steven Soza said: “He is an athletic wing who can score in a variety of ways. During his freshmen year, we asked him to play underneath the basket to force mismatches, which he did and had considerable amount of success. During the spring of his freshmen year we sought out post players, thus allowing us to move him out the perimeter, his natural position.”
Photo courtesy Manel Ayol
Ayol added that he watched several Hawai’i games on television, and understands that defensive presence might be his path to immediate playing time.
“I feel like I can come in and be aggressive on both ends,” he said. “But it starts on defense. I try to always stay active on defense. That’s what gets me going.”
Ayol said Hawai’i assistant coach Chris Gerlufsen started recruiting him earlier this season. It helped that Junior Madut was already on the Hawai’i roster. Ayol and Madut played basketball with and against each other in Australia. Like Ayol, Madut was born in Sudan and raised in Australia.
“I built a really good relationship with Coach G and Coach Ganot, and they were the ones who gave me a good feel for Hawai’i,” Ayol said. “And then having a friend like Junior there to explain everything even more gave me a good understanding of what it’s like.”
Ayol said the other programs recruiting him included Albany, Eastern Michigan, Lamar and UNC Wilmington.
The remaining issue for Ayol – and the rest of the nation – is the unforeseeable future due to the global pandemic. He is not even sure if or when he will be allowed to sign a National Letter of Intent with Hawai’i due to the fallout from NCAA schedule cancellations.
In the more immediate future, Western Wyoming Community College is expected to clear its campus at the end of this month. Ayol said he will likely have to return to his parents’ home in Australia.
“I can’t really work out here right now, but if I go home I have trainers to help me with places I can go to train,” he said.
When he is allowed to travel to Hawai’i, he would like to begin the process of majoring in political science at UH-Manoa.
“Manel exemplifies the term student-athlete,” Soza said. “He has been instrumental in bringing national attention back to Western Wyoming Community College both academically and athletically. Watching his drive, commitment and growth the past two years has been phenomenal. We are excited to see him take his game to the next level at the University of Hawai’i, especially when he will be able to work with a weight coach on the daily basis. His best basketball is ahead of him.”
Ayol said he speaks three languages – English, Dinka and Arabic – and took several courses in Italian. He said his first name can mean “large snake” in his tribal language, and his last name is a traditional family name in Sudan.
“I just hope everything works out,” he said. “I can’t wait to get to Hawai’i.”
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Welcome Manel !
#1 Get HAWAI’I / USA Past COVID-19…
NOT Likely by August if it’s bouncing / cycling between Northern / Southern Hemispheres;
AUSSIE, US, Sudan… Hope, Social Distance, Pray, MED Breakthrough…?
UH Back in Session by August OR Delayed Season?…
Trusting that Gerlufsen and Ganot See Athleticism, Ability to Learn, Assimilate & Apply…Great Work Ethic because only got two or three years… to Maximize Manuel’s Growth & Payoff…(think Eddie) because (yellow flag) the other schools / coaches recruiting are NOT at Any Level We Aspire to be headed…
I hope Madut works out as well…
Best of the Best … Wishes that this all works out…
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy… Help Out…
Big Drink
Way to go coach Gerlufsen! Hawaii needs players to take it strong to the hole and finish. This will
help break down defenses. Solid shooter and likes playing D? We’ll take him! Welcome to Hawaii!
Hope the virus is contained by next season and they find a cure!
Go Bows!
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BODY TRUTH, MIND LIE: HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION by Martha Beck
Five minutes into our session, Claire dissolved in tears. “I’m so exhausted from making decisions!” she said. Claire did have a lot on her plate. Her boyfriend, Mike, had proposed to her (she loved him but said he was often impatient, so she wasn’t sure he was The One). She was looking for a new home (an apartment, actually, in case things with Mike went south) but hadn’t found the perfect place. And she was desperate to quit her boring job, but was still in the process of zeroing in on a better one. It all sounded normal until we started discussing time frames. “Impatient” Mike had been waiting almost four years for Claire’s answer to his proposal. Claire had been house hunting for three of those years. And her career indecision? Almost a decade old. Claire’s exhaustion didn’t spring from making decisions; it came from not deciding—from vacillating, fretting, seeking endless advice. In a word, dithering.
Now, most of us dither now and again, but there comes a time, as an old translation of Goethe’s Faust has it, when “indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting over lost days.” If you ever find yourself singing this particular sad song, it’s time to change course—before you hem and haw your life away.
Opportunity MisersClaire thought her problem was excessive optimism: “I intend to have the perfect man, home, and career,” she explained, “so I can’t commit to the wrong thing!” But optimists are relaxed, and Claire was anything but. Her whole life was devoted to obsessively avoiding something economists call opportunity cost. Whenever we choose one course of action, we rule out others. Giving up those other options is the opportunity cost of any decision. Claire couldn’t bear the thought of losing any opportunity by making a clear choice. She was an opportunity miser.
Just as money misers hoard their wealth, living as if they were poor even when they’re rich, opportunity misers hoard their freedom to choose—and end up becoming prisoners of indecision. Because she was unwilling to limit her future opportunities even slightly, Claire was never able to enjoy the opportunities she had. Yet she felt huge pressure to do so, as she admitted during a couples-coaching session with Mike. “I know I need to step up and make the rational choices,” she said.
Ironically, that was exactly what she didn’t need to do.
Breaking Through Decision DeadlockFrom Plato to Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, countless wise men have advised us to make rational decisions. Put aside emotion! Compare the costs and benefits of your options! Pick whatever option yields the highest value for the least cost! This seems like pretty logical advice—so how come other cultural icons, such as Captain Kirk, are always boldly going where passion takes them, making decisions based not on reason but on courage, love, loyalty? As it turns out, there are good reasons logical Mr. Spock ranked second in command, while emotional Kirk was captain.
We now know that decision making is an emotional process, not merely a calculation. Brain-damaged patients who can still think rationally but have lost the ability to process emotions can become pathologically indecisive. They may spend hours simply deciding what to wear. (I’m not sure I have this kind of brain damage, but it would explain a lot.) And it’s impossible to rationally calculate opportunity costs, because life is unpredictable. So decision making is always a gamble, and gamblers need confidence in both their calculations and their hunches.
People who trust their gut over their brain often take flying leaps with little information—risky, but at least they get somewhere. Folks with no faith in either their intellect or their instincts generally follow the path of least resistance; again, not an optimal strategy, but not paralyzing, either. Great strategists trust both intellect and instinct; they gather information until they feel they can make a good decision. But people who try to decide with the mind alone, who place no faith in their heart’s desires, are doomed to stall and fuss, compare and contrast, forever insisting that just a little more knowledge will make the choice clear. It won’t. Luckily, the two steps below just might.
Getting Unstuck: Step OneA yogi friend of mine once told me, “The body truth goes ahead of the mind lie.” When we dither over a decision, our intellect tries to gain the upper hand, shouting, You’d better be sure! Keep your options open! Have you considered the legal implications? and so on. Fortunately, our bodies patiently persist in telling the truth. All we have to do is listen.
Think of a time you said yes to something you later regretted. Vividly remember the moment you made the decision. What were you feeling, physically? Did your gut churn? Did your hands feel cold? Did your feet get hot? Even small sensations are significant. Describe them.
Next, think of a time you said no to something and later wished you’d said yes. What physical feelings did you have while you were making that choice?
Now recall a time you said no and were later relieved that you’d passed on what would have been a bad experience. What were you feeling physically when you made that choice?
Finally, remember a time you said yes to something that turned out to be a great choice. How did you feel, physically, when you were making that choice?
Generally, the sensations of an unwise decision will be consistent, whether your choice was yes or no. A wise yes or no will also have a consistent “body truth.” Focus on these sensations until you can tell them apart.
Now think of a decision you’re making today—where to buy yogurt, whether to change religions, and so forth. Feel which choice your body wants to make. Thinking about that option will ease your shoulders, open your lungs. The opposite choice will close you up like a clam. Once you’re able to sense these feelings, go on to step two.
Getting Unstuck: Step TwoClaire found that her body always felt queasy when she was making an unwise decision, solid and centered when she was choosing well. But when she tried to sense what to do with her many big decisions, everything became a nauseated blur. Nothing felt right.
This wasn’t because all of Claire’s future options were bad. Her body was reacting, as bodies always do, to the way she was spending her energy in the present moment. Our minds may tell us that deferring a decision can ensure our best possible future—even when doing so is making us crazy right now.
Check in with yourself: Does your life feel meaningful and on-purpose at this moment? If the answer is yes, your energy is invested in living your best life. But to the extent that you feel misery, your energy is asking to be reinvested. Misery literally means “the feeling of being a miser.” If you’re miserable, stop hoarding your life energy. Spend it now! Make a choice, any choice. If you’re still miserable, you can choose again. Eventually, you’ll see that all misery is simply life asking you to trade your current course of action—or inaction—for something purposeful and true.
…And Repeat“Are you in earnest?” says my dog-eared copy of Faust. “Seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” This doesn’t mean you’ll never misstep. It means that when you trade indecision for choice, you’ll be rewarded with either success or education. Guaranteed.
Claire finally said yes to Mike and no to her own apartment. Though her mind yapped like a mad poodle about lost opportunities, her body relaxed. She became less frantic. She hasn’t switched jobs, but right now, she says, that feels okay.
Claire discovered the genius, power, and magic that comes with finally, actively choosing. You have the opportunity to discover that for yourself. Feed your mind, but feel your heart. Trust in your truth. It will be the best investment you’ll ever make.
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Acts of Altruism have far-reaching effects
I have a friend who used to live in Pakistan, where he was an animal rights activist. One day, he was walking through his home city when he saw a crowd gathered around the stall of a bird seller. A man had bought some myna birds – a popular caged bird in Pakistan, because of their ability to mimic sounds – and was releasing them. One by one, he took them out of the cage, and let them fly free. In all, he bought 32 of the birds, just to set them free.
My friend was amazed by this act of altruism, partly because – as he put it:
Such acts of charity were not so common in my part of the world where people are not so kind to animals in general.
But he was also amazed at his own reaction to the act. He was filled with a deep sense of peace. A strange quietness filled his surroundings, and he felt completely free of worry or anxiety. The sense of peace and joy remained with him for a few days, and, in his words, ‘I believe it is still there to some degree.’
This is a powerful example of an experience which most of us are familiar with, even though psychologists haven’t paid much attention to it so far. It’s the fantastic warm, elevated feeling we get when we witness acts of kindness. Even the most simple altruistic acts might give you a touch of this: a passer-by giving his packed lunch to a homeless man, a stranger offering to help a blind person cross the road, or a subway passenger giving up his seat for a old lady. Or when we see seeming acts of kindness amongst animals.
In this way, witnessing altruistic acts can be a source of what Abraham Maslow called ‘peak experiences’ – those moments of awe, wonder and a sense of ‘rightness’ which make us feel immensely grateful to be alive.
Jonathan Haidt is one of the few psychologists to discuss this type of peak experience. He calls it ‘elation’ and describes it as a
…warm feeling in the chest, a sensation of expansion in [the] heart, an increased desire to help, and increased sense of connection with others.” It is, in his words, “a manifestation of humanity’s ‘higher’ or ‘better’ nature.
In fact, this may be one reason why the experience occurs – because it brings a renewed faith in human nature, a sense of the sheer goodness which human beings are often capable of, which sometimes might seem difficult to see amidst the chaos and conflict of everyday life. But the sense of connection mentioned by Haidt is undoubtedly important too. Altruism transcends the separateness we often experience as human beings. It connects us to one another – and in fact, pure altruism is only possible because, at the deepest level, all human beings are part of the same network of consciousness. The person who performs the altruistic act experiences this, and perhaps the recipient of the act of kindness too. And when we witness the act, we become part of the network too.
So when you consider performing an act of kindness, think about its potential three-way positive effect. There’s the positive effect on the recipient, and the positive effect on you – you might find yourself experiencing the positive emotion of the ‘helper’s high.’ But perhaps the biggest effect of all will be on a passer-by who just happens to witness the act.
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The onscreen Bat-universe continues to expand. Last week, Pennyworth, that show about Batman‘s young hot butler, cast its very own young Thomas Wayne. We’ll get to see Batman’s dad in Todd Phillips‘ Joker movie as well, and thanks to some leaked set photos, we have our first look.
The Joker movie has been filming all across New York City for weeks now, and we’ve gotten loads of leaked set photos and videos of Joaquin Phoenix doing weird things – the weirdest of which is starring in this movie. He’s escaped subway riots, slipped past police while smoking a cigarette, and hung out with a clown. The latest round of set photos reveal Phoenix filming alongside Brett Cullen, who plays Thomas Wayne. Here’s the first look at the latest onscreen version of Bruce Wayne’s pops:
And here’s a video of Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck chasing after Cullen’s Wayne and taking a fall:
Cullen isn’t totally new to the Bat-verse. He had a small role in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (this guy). In Phillips’ film Thomas Wayne was originally supposed to be played by Alec Baldwin, doing another version of his Donald Trump, but he soon dropped out. The film, set in the 80s, follows Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a failed comedian before he turns into the Batman villain. Joker opens in theaters on October 4, 2019.
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) is possibly the most topical Charlie Chan film, as it features actual footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics. There is also a scene where Charlie crosses the Atlantic in the Hindenburg. This is the 14th film starring Warner Oland as Chan and produced by Fox.
When Chan's oldest son, Lee (Keye Luke), is chosen to compete in the Olympics, Chan is proud as can be. Meanwhile, over the skies of Chan's Honolulu, the "Hopkins plane" is demonstrating an improvement of remote radio control to the US military. However, the aircraft is hijacked by a concealed stowaway, the device stolen, and the test pilot murdered. When Chan, followed by his astute second son, Charlie Jr. (Layne Tom Jr.), tracks down the stowaway, he finds only the man's body.
On the passenger list of the only aircraft to leave Honolulu for the mainland after the incident are Richard Masters (Allan Lane) and Yvonne Roland (Katherine DeMille). Masters was the intended test pilot, only he injured his shoulder and had to be replaced. It turns out, however, he left on the Pan Am Clipper to travel to the Olympics himself as a competitor. Perusing the list, Hopkins (Jonathan Hale) recognizes the name of arms dealer Arthur Hughes (C. Henry Gordon). Several of the suspects head for Germany by steamship. Chan, Hughes and the inventor Cartwright manage to arrive ahead of them by taking the Zeppelin Hindenburg.
Aboard the ship Manhattan, Lee Chan suspects Roland of being an "adventuress". He spots her putting a piece of paper in her book, and Hughes taking it. He confides in fellow Olympian Betty Adams (Pauline Moore), Masters' girlfriend.
When the ship docks, German Inspector Strasser, Chan and Hopkins go to question Roland, only to find her gone and her cabin rifled. Chan is reunited with his son Lee when the latter sneaks into the cabin through a porthole to play detective.
On the train trip to Berlin, Chan learns that Lee saw Roland borrow a camera from Adams. Hughes overhears the pair speculate that the invention was smuggled off the ship in it. Hughes advises Chan to stop investigating, then spots a gun barrel in a passing car and pushes the pair to safety. A shot strikes their compartment window. Later, Hughes arranges for Adams' camera to be stolen, but finds nothing inside.
A hotel maid tries to steal the invention, hidden in Adams' candy box, but is foiled by Chan and Strasser. When she runs to the window to warn her accomplices, Charlie substitutes a book for the device without being noticed. Hopkins insists on keeping the candy box in his hotel suite, where he is visited by Hughes. Chan and a policeman break in when they hear gunfire. They find Cartwright on the floor. He claims Hughes accused Hopkins of taking the device to double-cross the stockholders of his company, then after Hughes left, Hopkins took the invention at gunpoint and slugged him.
Roland takes the candy box to her employer, diplomat the Honorable Charles Zaraka (Morgan Wallace). When they discover the substitution, Roland surmises that Chan has the device. Zaraka sends Chan a ticket to the opening ceremony. While Chan verbally spars with him and Roland, Lee is kidnapped.
Chan allows himself to be taken to Zaraka to exchange the device for his son. Hopkins is brought in to verify it is the invention; he does (even though it is an imitation with a radio beacon inside). Satisfied, Zaraka orders his men to dispose of the Chans when Hughes and his men burst in. Hughes threatens to kill Lee if Chan does not produce the real equipment, but the police arrive just in time to rescue the detective. Hopkins is found unconscious from a gunshot in another room. Cartwright accuses Hughes of the shooting, but Chan proves that Cartwright was responsible for that and also the murder of his accomplice back in Honolulu. Afterward, Lee wins the 100 meter swim.
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Frederik Vogeding as Inspector Strasser
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Among her priorities as mayor, Carolyn has championed improvement in inner-city schools pushing for early learning preschool programs, tutorials for ESL students and their parents, bringing together a coalition of public, private and nonprofits partners to participate in the achievement based and measurable educational initiatives.
In a county in which all public education is controlled by an independently elected Board of Trustees and implemented by a superintendent, her role continues to be through the bully pulpit.
The mayor helped accomplish the passage of a long-awaited Nevada Film Tax Credit in , which is expected to bring significant new film investment and jobs to Nevada.
She has spearheaded efforts to formalize policies for the new food truck industry, curb underage drinking downtown and update related Las Vegas Municipal Code provisions.
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She currently serves on the board of this nonprofit. At one point, Anderson Cooper took off his glasses and rubbed his face as Goodman spoke on his show, in a video that has gone viral.
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At his trial, Goodman read a postcard her son wrote on June 21, , the last day of his life. This is a wonderful town, and the weather is fine.
I wish you were here. The people in this city are wonderful, and our reception was very good. That evening, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak said, "I will not allow the citizens of Nevada, our Nevadans, to be used as a control group, as a placebo, whatever she wants to call it", and that he would not "allow our workers to be put in position that they have to decide between their job and their paycheck and their life.
That's not a fair position to put them in. Goodman's husband is Oscar Goodman. They have four children and six grandchildren.
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Bachelor baby! Jenna Cooper gave birth on Saturday, May 30, welcoming her and her boyfriend Karl Hudson IV’s first child, Us Weekly exclusively confirms.
Daughter Presley Belle Hudson weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and is 20.75 inches long. “We can’t even describe the overwhelming love and happiness we feel meeting our little sunshine!” the couple told Us in a statement. “We are so thankful for everyone’s support, and can’t wait to share more fun updates.”
The Bachelor in Paradise alum, 30, announced in January 2020 that she had a little one on the way. “I hope you know that I already love you more than I could have imagined possible,” the former reality star captioned her Instagram pregnancy announcement. “I hope you chase all of your dreams, and I’ll be there supporting you the whole way. I hope you get my spirit and sense of humor, and never stop laughing. I hope you get your daddy’s thoughtfulness and work ethic, and never stop being curious. I hope you can ignore the negativity of the world, and always stand up for yourself. I hope you love Jesus with all your heart, and never forget how special you are.”
The Indiana native went on to write, “See you in a few months.”
Cooper’s baby news came one week after she went Instagram official with Hudson, writing, “I met him a year ago, and now I can’t imagine life without him. He has shown me what it’s like to be with a real man. With real morals. And with an unselfish and loving heart, and I’m never going back.”
The former ABC personality chose to keep her relationship under wraps because “it’s hard when there are people out there who have made it their goal to make sure [she] can’t be happy.”
The following month, the Bachelor alum announced the sex of her baby-to-be, writing, “It’s a Girl” in the sand during her and Hudson’s Turks & Caicos babymoon.
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The social media manager was previously engaged to Jordan Kimball until their September 2018 split. The Bachelorette alum, 28, has since moved on with his girlfriend, Christina.
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Deseret Book November 2011 - April 2013
CM Signing Service May 2010 - January 2011
PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Facebook, Social Media, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Blogging
Jake Kronberg
Anchorage, Alaska Area
Civil Engineering Technician at Kinney Engineering, LLC
B.S., Civil Engineering
Kinney Engineering, LLC September 2013 - Present
Pima County March 2011 - January 2012
Hilton El Conquistador June 2010 - March 2011
Civil Engineering, Transportation..., Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Hydrology, Engineering, Highways, Land Development, Construction, Water, Grading, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Environmental..., Structural Analysis, Microstation, Transportation Planning, Drainage, Traffic Engineering, ArcGIS, MS Project, Microsoft Excel, CAD
Jake Levinson
Intern at Starboard TCN Worldwide
Bachelor's Degree, Retail Management and Consumer Sciences
Minor, Entrepreneurship
Marin Catholic High School 2008 — 2012
Starboard TCN Worldwide July 2015 - Present
Bay Apartment Advisors June 2015 - July 2015
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity 2013 - 2015
Goodies Clothing November 2012 - May 2013
Tommy Bahama 2013 - 2013
Men's Wearhouse 2010 - 2011
Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi 2008 - 2010
Strategic Leadership, Highly Ambitious, Creative Problem Solving, Leadership, Team Leadership, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Retail Marketing, Film Production, Film Editing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Public Speaking, Sales, Event Planning, Teamwork, Management, Facebook, Social Networking, Time Management
Jake Lieberman
Development Executive at Hachacha
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 2010 — 2011
Improv, Sketch
Brooks Institute of Photography 2007 — 2009
B.A., Film/Television Production
Hachacha January 2013 - Present
Comedy Central January 2012 - April 2012
Showtime Networks Inc. August 2011 - November 2011
Lock and Key Productions July 2011 - August 2011
Ryan Seacrest Productions October 2010 - February 2011
Discovery Communications May 2010 - August 2010
Video Army April 2010 - July 2010
Sony Pictures Entertainment September 2009 - February 2010
Jake Locker
Student at The University of Arizona
Home-Grown Industries of Ga, Inc. dba Mellow Mushroom May 2014 - Present
Shea Properties May 2014 - Present
Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Teamwork, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Social Media, Time Management, Research, Event Planning, Outlook, Sales
Jake Madfis
Editor at RADLEY
Los Angeles Film School 2006 — 2007
Completion, Editing, Directing
Bachelor of Arts, Media Arts
RADLEY September 2011 - Present
ilostallthemoney April 2011 - 2013
Lopez Tonight October 2009 - August 2011
My Network TV January 2008 - September 2009
Aerodrome Pictures June 2003 - October 2007
National Lampoon January 2007 - September 2007
Twinart 2005 - 2007
Sound Design, Post Production, Pro Tools, Film Production, Sound, Television, Video Production, Entertainment, Editing
Jake McFadden
JR Executive Recruiter at Consulting For Architects, Inc.
Bachelor’s Degree, Economy and Industry, 3.619 Cum Laude
Pepperdine University 2010 — 2012
Consulting For Architects, Inc. 2014 - Present
BB&T Capital Markets June 2012 - July 2012
Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Communications, Financial Analysis, Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Temporary Staffing, Permanent Placement, Architecture, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Advertising, Human Resources
Jake McHerron
Teacher, Sports Administrator, Lacrosse Coach
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Kinesiology and Exercise Science
Master's Degree, Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
Jake McLaughlin
Lyme, New Hampshire
Jake McManus
Owner at Valley Produce, LLC.
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Agriculture, General
Valley Produce, LLC. October 2008 - Present
Pacific International Marketing May 1991 - October 2008
J. A. Wood Company May 1981 - May 1991
Agriculture, Food, Vegetables, Strategic Planning, Agribusiness, Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, Marketing, New Business Development, Negotiation, Customer Service, Fruit, Management, Business Strategy, Business Planning, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Sales
Jake McVey
Greater Nashville Area
CEO at Purple Cow Records
Luthier, School for Instrament builders
MCV Entertainment INC. February 2005 - Present
MCV Entertainment INC. June 2002 - Present
Purple Cow Records February 2002 - Present
Jake's Guitar's LLC. January 2001 - Present
A&R, Audio Engineering, Band, Bass, Composition, Concerts, Drums, Entertainment, Event Management, Film, Guitar, Guitarist, Live Events, Live Sound, Mastering, Music, Music Education, Music Industry, Music Licensing, Music Production, Music Publishing, Musical Theatre, Musicians, Pro Tools, Publicity, Radio, Record Labels, Recording, Rock, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Songs, Songwriting, Sound, Sound Design, Stage, Studio Recording, Talent Booking, Television, Tour Management, Event Planning, Festivals, Film Scoring, Music Management, Singing, Social Networking, Video, Voice Over, Bands, Guitar Playing
Jake Meredith
Senior Security Engineer at NCC Group
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math
NCC Group June 2015 - Present
iSEC Partners June 2014 - May 2015
iSEC Partners August 2012 - May 2014
Booz Allen Hamilton May 2012 - July 2012
STG October 2011 - May 2012
Ridgetop Group October 2010 - October 2011
Universal Avionics September 2005 - February 2010
C, C++, Linux, Windows, Scripting, Software Development, System Architecture, Programming, Windows Server, Vulnerability Assessment, Security, Penetration Testing, Active Top Secret, VPN, Network Security, Computer Security, Application Security
Jake Merriman
Williston, North Dakota
Bachelor of Science (BS), Systems Engineering
Halliburton Energy Services March 2014 - March 2015
DoD, Security Clearance, Air Force, Systems Engineering, Military, Military Operations, Earned Value Management, Electronic Warfare, Information Assurance, Defense, Program Management, Military Experience, C4ISR, Aerospace, Command, Top Secret
Jake Minner
Project Coordinator at RealAmerica Development, Management & Design
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Senior
RealAmerica Development, Management & Design July 2015 - August 2015
Sun King Brewing Company June 2015 - August 2015
Godby Hearth & Home June 2012 - August 2014
Good Neighbor Ventures, Inc. January 2013 - May 2013
Washington Township Tennis Program June 2010 - August 2011
PowerPoint, Social Media, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Social Networking, Facebook, Microsoft Office, Teamwork, Customer Service, Event Management, Social Media Marketing, Marketing, Leadership, Time Management, Research
Jake Nathanson
Physical Education Teacher at New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science II
Scarsdale High School 2005 — 2009
New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science II August 2015 - Present
Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation May 2015 - July 2015
Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation November 2014 - May 2015
New York Yankees April 2014 - August 2014
Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation June 2013 - August 2014
Campus Acquisitions, LLC August 2013 - October 2013
Fox 5 (WNYW-TV New York) May 2012 - August 2012
Athletic Department at Westchester Community College May 2011 - August 2011
The Madison Square Garden Company May 2010 - August 2010
LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts April 2009 - June 2009
Sports Management, Sports Marketing, Social Media, Baseball Coaching, Athletic Administration, Sales, Baseball, Event Management, Microsoft Office, Special Education, Marketing, Physical Education
Jake Nicholas
Financial Representative at Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual February 2015 - Present
Finance, Investments, Customer Service, Insurance, Financial Analysis, Financial Planning, Microsoft Excel, Retirement Planning, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Sales, Risk Management
Jake Nicholson
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Business Management
Coronado High School 2007 — 2011
General Dynamics Mission Systems June 2015 - Present
City of Coronado May 2012 - August 2014
Coronado School District August 2009 - June 2010
Management, Customer Service, Project Management, Leadership, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Strategic Planning
Jakenna Lebsock
Quality Improvement Manager at Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Master, Public Administration
Johnson & Wales University 2001 — 2004
Bachelor, Management
Bachelor, Marketing
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) January 2012 - Present
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) October 2011 - January 2012
Pinal/Gila Long Term Care October 2006 - September 2011
Pinal County February 2009 - March 2011
Pima County Community Development and Neighborhood Conservation Department May 2005 - October 2006
Family Career and Community Leaders of America 2001 - 2005
City of Denver - Office of Workforce Development 2004 - 2004
Organizational..., Communication, Multitasker, Healthcare, Strategic Planning, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Information..., Community Development, EHR, Medicaid, Management, Organizational..., Project Planning, Managed Care, Medicare, Program Development, HIPAA, Program Evaluation, Healthcare Management, Quality Management, Public Speaking, Software Documentation, Program Management, Leadership, Government, Hospitals, Policy, Team Leadership, Data Analysis, Leadership Development, EMR
Jakeob Bame
Nutrition Specialist at King Soopers
Bachelor of Science (BS), Nutrition Sciences
Arapahoe High School 2006 — 2010
King Soopers May 2014 - Present
The University of Arizona April 2013 - November 2013
Life Time Fitness May 2011 - December 2012
Erickson Living December 2007 - August 2010
Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, Molecular Biology, English, HTML, Photoshop, Facebook
Jake Polikoff
Guest Services Coordinator at Ralph Lauren
Quinnipiac University 2012 — 2015
Ralph Lauren May 2014 - Present
Mount Carmel Fitness Center September 2012 - May 2015
Ralph Lauren June 2013 - August 2013
Buchbinder & Warren, LLC May 2013 - August 2013
Current TV May 2012 - August 2012
City Ice Pavilion June 2011 - July 2011
Jessamin Swearingen / Birch Wathen Lenox School March 2011 - June 2011
Camp Greylock For Boys June 2009 - August 2010
Video, Editing, Facebook, Event Planning, Research, Microsoft Excel, Marketing, Social Media, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint
Jake Poxon
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Dual Major: Finance & Entrepreneurship
High School Degree
Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services July 2014 - Present
Medovate Solutions, LLC September 2012 - May 2014
Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services May 2013 - August 2013
General Bottles May 2012 - August 2012
Gorton, Janosik, & Poxon LLP May 2010 - August 2010
Phillips & Company, CPA June 2009 - August 2009
Sales, Communication, Leadership, Team Leadership, Commercial Real Estate, Customer Service, Marketing, Time Management, Research, Real Estate
Jake Ryder
Business Development Intern at ITU AbsorbTech
Prebusiness, Business/Managerial Economics
William Horlick High School 2010 — 2014
Product Development, Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Leadership, Root Cause Problem..., Social Media, Team Building, Budgets, Time Management, Social Networking, Teamwork
Jake Saady
Partner at Xperiment USA
BS, International Business
Bachelor's degree, International Business, A
Chaparral High School 1994 — 1998
Xperiment USA April 2013 - Present
Self October 2012 - Present
Morgans Hotel Group and The Light Group January 2012 - October 2012
The Light Group January 2002 - December 2011
Event Planning, Public Relations, Casino, Social Media, Marketing, Hotels, Advertising, Entertainment, Restaurants, Marketing Strategy, Online Advertising, Food & Beverage, Sales, Promotions, Creative Direction, Brand Development, Entrepreneurship, Management, Digital Media, New Business Development, Leadership, New Media, Sales Management, Social Media Marketing, Event Management, Social Networking, Online Marketing, Marketing Communications, Email Marketing, Brand Management, Digital Marketing, Direct Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Market Planning, Marketing Management, Sponsorship, Trade Shows
Jake Schwartzberg
CSU Fullerton 2004 — 2006
M.S., Educational Leadership
B.S., Mathematics
DHHS August 2002 - Present
Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District August 2000 - June 2002
Mira Costa High School August 1998 - June 2000
Tutoring, Curriculum Design, Algebra, Curriculum Development, Classroom, Teaching, Educational Technology, Lesson Planning, Classroom Management, K-12, Differentiated..., Higher Education, Elementary Education, Special Education, Staff Development, Literacy, Public Speaking, Research, Editing, Geometry, Secondary Education
Jake Schwarz, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Yuma Regional Medical Center
Yuma Regional Medical Center March 2013 - Present
Phoenix Children's Hospital August 2011 - March 2013
Lakeland Regional Medical Center July 2010 - July 2011
Sheba - Tel Ha SHomer Hospital 2008 - 2008
Clinical Research, Hospitals, Critical Care, Medicine, ICU, Emergency Room, NICU, Pharmacists, Pharmacy, Pharmacy Automation, Patient Safety, Patient Education, Medication Therapy..., Clinical Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacology, Inpatient
Jake Shephard
Director of Operations at Gabriele DevelopmentsArtemino Construction
Masters of Construction Management
Gabriele Developments-Artemino Construction 2007 - 2009
Evergreen Communities 2005 - 2007
Empire Communities 2004 - 2005
Trend Homes-Classic Communities 2001 - 2004
Jake Simon-Gersuk
Set Production Assistant at Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
BFA Theatre Production, Technology & Design with an emphasis in Stage Management
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. July 2014 - April 2015
Perception Season 3 February 2014 - June 2014
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 14 July 2013 - March 2014
Revenge Season 3 November 2013 - December 2013
Bosch: Pilot October 2013 - November 2013
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 13 December 2012 - March 2013
2012 The Trevor Project Live December 2012 - December 2012
The 66th Annual Tony Awards 2012 June 2012 - June 2012
2012 CFDA Fashion Awards May 2012 - May 2012
New York City June 2011 - May 2012
Stage Management, Film, Event Management, Television, Entertainment, Theatre, Production Managment, Stage, Musical Theatre, Directing, Performing Arts
Jake Slavish
Staff Scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Ph.D., chemistry
Millikin University 1995 — 1999
B.S., Chemistry
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital September 2012 - Present
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital September 2007 - September 2012
Drug Discovery, Chemical Biology, NMR spectroscopy, Chemistry, NMR, HPLC-MS, Research, Organic Synthesis, Chromatography, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Jake Sodikoff
Charlottesville, Virginia Area
General Manager at Steven Kia
National Automotive Dealer Association 2012 — 2013
General Dealer Management, Dealership Profitability
DCT University Switzerland 2010 — 2011
Advanced Certificate, European Gourmet Cuisine
Bachelor of Science, Business Management
Steven Kia May 2013 - Present
Steven Toyota January 2013 - May 2013
Steven Kia June 2011 - January 2013
Steven Toyota March 2000 - June 2011
Cold Stone Creamery March 2005 - October 2005
Steven Toyota March 1998 - March 2000
Communication, Marketing Strategy, Customer Service, Value Based Selling, Negotiation, Public Speaking, Selling, Finance, Cooking, Helping Clients Succeed, Computing, Time Management, Sales, Team Leadership, Teamwork, Sales Operations, Customer Satisfaction, Profit, Sales Process, Training, Analysis, Automotive
Jake Stapleton
Geospatial Scientist Major at University of Arizona
Currently attending University of Arizona 2015 — 2019
Seeking a BA, Geography and Cartography
Bachelor’s Degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography
Quaver Music July 2015 - August 2015
Glory Days Grill January 2015 - April 2015
Customer Service, Geospatial Data, Geospatial Intelligence, Human Geography, Versatile Writer, Sales
Jake Vincent
Clear Value Statement
Square1Bank June 2014 - August 2014
Strictly Screens LLC January 2013 - January 2014
Nordstrom 2011 - 2012
Leadership, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, Business Strategy, PowerPoint, Research, Microsoft Office, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, Account Management, Public Speaking, Life Science Industry, Integrated...
Jake Vitullo
Jake Volpe
Sales Associate, Part time athlete at Nike
Bachelor's degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General
Bachelor’s Degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General
cal high
Nike November 2014 - Present
Zipcar 2015 - May 2015
Handybook May 2014 - July 2014
thecollegefacts.com March 2012 - April 2013
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Customer Service, Research, Teamwork, Photoshop, Social Media, Public Speaking, English, Java, HTML, Windows, AutoCAD, Time Management, Social Networking, Event Planning, Leadership, Management, Social Media Marketing, Marketing
Jake Walton
Recruiting Intern at University of Arizona Football
Marketing, Spanish
Pre-Business
University of Arizona Football June 2014 - Present
TEKsystems June 2015 - August 2015
Homestead America/Homestead U July 2013 - June 2015
Interpretation Assistant Lab (InterLAB) January 2014 - April 2014
Quiznos January 2013 - June 2013
Quiznos June 2008 - May 2011
Self-Employed Business January 2007 - May 2011
Marketing, Dependable Team Player, Strongly self-motivated, Public Speaking, Reliable, Bilingual-English/Spanis..., Property, Sales, Marketing Strategy, Management, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, Recruiting, Marketing Research, Leadership, Communication, Spanish, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint
Jake Webb
"Jake of All Trades" Writer Producer Entertainment Marketer
Bachelor of the Arts, Film with an emphasis in Producing and MIS
Associates, Business Administration and Management, General
United Entertainment Group, a DJE Company April 2013 - Present
Dont' Tell My Mother June 2012 - Present
Entertainment Tonight August 2012 - April 2013
Rant L.A. May 2012 - August 2012
Bang Comedy Conservatory 2012 - August 2012
Skin Cancer Institute of Tucson August 2011 - November 2011
Red Crown Productions January 2011 - March 2011
Berlin International Filmfestival February 2009 - February 2010
The Nature Conservancy August 2006 - June 2008
Public Relations, Social Media Marketing, Entertainment, Google Analytics, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Google Adwords, Graphic Design, Website Development, Film, German, New Media, Publicity, Talent Management, Project Management, Talent Booking, Social Network Analysis, Customer Service, Pre-production Planning, Organization, Communication, Film and Television..., Negotiation, celebrity wrangling, Event Management, Event Producing, Strategic Partnerships, Entertainment Marketing, Product Launch Events, Copywriting, Marketing, Celebrity
Jake Weinberg, CPA
Financial Statement Auditor @ PwC
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business 2011 — 2012
Masters of Science in Accountancy, Accountancy
MBA, Finance and Accounting
Deerfield High School 1996 — 2000
PwC August 2014 - Present
Arizona Army National Guard August 2014 - Present
Crowe Horwath LLP September 2012 - August 2014
Illinois Army National Guard December 2011 - August 2014
Illinois Army National Guard May 2009 - August 2012
Knohl Law Group Limited August 2009 - October 2010
US Army May 2008 - May 2009
US Army November 2007 - May 2008
US Army March 2006 - November 2007
US Army May 2005 - March 2006
Accounting, Bookkeeping, Coordination, Fitness, Leadership, Microsoft Office, New Business Development, Nutrition, Operational Planning, Organizational..., Personnel Management, Personnel Supervision, Problem Solving, QuickBooks, Quicken, Strategic Planning, PowerPoint, Training, Analysis, Budgets, Management, Auditing, Time Management, Project Planning, Microsoft Excel, Financial Analysis
Jake Wexler
Team Member/Buyer at Whole Foods Market
Retailing and Consumer Sciences
Suffolk University 2010 — 2011
Whole Foods Market January 2013 - Present
Nordstrom June 2015 - August 2015
Whole Foods Market December 2011 - June 2012
Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Retail, Social Media, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Leadership, Sales, PowerPoint, Merchandising
Jakeya French
Personal Training, Sports, Management, Coaching
Santa Monica College 2011 — 2012
Business Management Certificate, Business Administration and Management, General
University of Maryland Europe 2009 — 2010
Kinesiology and Exercise Science
Converse January 2012 - October 2013
Army National Guard October 2006 - October 2012
Buckingham High School September 2004 - March 2007
Nike September 1999 - July 2006
Teamwork, Customer Service, Customer Oriented, Result Oriented, Fitness, Fitness Training, Resourceful..., Communication Skills, Highly personable, Networking, Success Driven, Enjoy Challenges, Highly Reliable, Highly Ambitious, Highly responsible, Highly Dedicated, Highly self-motivated, Work in A Fast Paced..., Knowledge-hungry Learner, Quick Thinker, Loyal, Focused Execution, Cash Handling Experience, Military Logistics, Management, Team Leadership, Cross-functional Team..., Sports Coaching, Wellness, Health, Employee Training, Strength Training, Strength & Conditioning, Personal Development, Executive..., Microsoft Office, Internet, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Entrepreneurship, Army, Veterans, Military Experience, Military Training, Sports, Sports Marketing
Jake Yang
Principal Software System Engineer at Broadcom
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jak Fessenden
East West College of the Healing Arts 2011 — 2012
Walla Walla College 2004 — 2006
BSN, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
US Army 396th CSH 1995 — 1997
91C-Medic/LPN, Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Psychology
Sacred Ground Massage LLC May 2012 - Present
Sacred Ground Massage 2012 - Present
Legacy Health 2007 - 2010
Legacy Health June 2004 - December 2007
Cpr Certified, Therapeutic Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Swedish, Reiki, Trigger Point Therapy, ABLS, Chair Massage, Medical Massage, Pregnancy Massage, Holistic Massage, Scar Remediation, Nursing Process, Holistic Health, Bodywork, Healing, Relaxation
JAK Kazmarek
Manager, Retail Store Facilities
Starbucks March 2008 - August 2013
Starbucks February 2007 - March 2008
Starbucks January 2005 - January 2007
Retail, Management, Customer Service, Budgets, Cross-functional Team..., Training, Software Documentation, Facilities Management, Inventory Management, Process Scheduler, Team Building, Employee Training, Income Statement, Call Center, Coaching, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Store Management, Troubleshooting, Team Leadership, Recruiting, Loss Prevention, Vendor Management, Outlook, Hiring, Operations Management, Time Management
Jalal Adada
RF design Engineer @ Qualcomm
B.S., Electrical Engineering
Qualcomm July 2008 - Present
Helfer's Electric August 2007 - July 2008
Electronics, Embedded Systems, Electricians, Hardware, Wireless, RF, Debugging
Jalen Campbell
Director of Marketing and Technology at Professional Education Institute
Bachelor's Degree, Retailing and Consumer Sciences
Professional Education Institute May 2015 - Present
Campbell Realty and Investments LLC. February 2015 - Present
Major Clothing Co. LLC. October 2014 - Present
The University of Arizona May 2013 - Present
The University of Arizona October 2012 - May 2013
McDonald's Corporation June 2012 - September 2012
Athletic Training, Food Service, Volunteering, Sports Medicine, AED, Cpr Certified, independent merchant, Apparel design, Music Production, Designs, Business Owner, Retail, Real Estate
Jalen Redhair
Kayenta, Arizona
Health Educator at Navajo Division of Health Navajo Epidemiology Center
Bachelor of Science, Health Sciences: Public Health
Mesa Community College 2007 — 2010
Associate in Science, Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General, 3.2
Dine College 2007 — 2007
Summer Program, Public Health, 4.0
Transfer, Public Health Education and Promotion, 3.0
Navajo Division of Health - Navajo Epidemiology Center June 2012 - Present
Northern Arizona University March 2012 - May 2012
Mayo Clinic June 2009 - August 2009
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community June 2008 - August 2008
Indian Health Service June 2007 - August 2007
Tucson Indian Center December 2004 - May 2007
Research, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, Public Health, Teaching, Microsoft Excel, Nutrition, PowerPoint, Data Analysis, SPSS, Healthcare, Microsoft Word, Clinical Research, Social Media, Qualitative Research, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Psychology, Customer Service, Event Planning
Jalen White
Injury Claims Specialist at State Farm
BS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.6 GPA
State Farm June 2015 - Present
Aerotek January 2015 - April 2015
TheBestIRS, Insurance Recruiting Specialists July 2014 - December 2014
Alliance United Insurance Company 2013 - 2014
Chubb Insurance 2005 - 2012
Sentry Insurance October 1999 - February 2002
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Technical Writing, Casualty Claims, Property Claims, Inland Marine, Property Damage, Claims Handling, Claim, Claims Management
Jale Tweedy
Owner, Petite Pea Catering & Fine Foods
Jalil Shojaie
Research Chemist at University of Rochester
Chemistry, MS
Chemistry, BS
University of Rochester, Department of Anesthesiology. 2007 - 2009
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of OBGYN. 1996 - 2007
New York University Medical Center, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine. 1990 - 1995
R&D, Organic Synthesis, Analytical Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Medicinal Chemistry, NMR, UV/Vis, Chromatography, LC-MS, HPLC, Drug Discovery, DSC, FTIR, Materials Science, GC/MS (TOF), MALDI-TOF, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry
Jaling Ulrey
Financial & Regulatory Analysis Intern at Arizona Corporation Commission
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, General
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General, Junior
Arizona Corporation Commission May 2015 - August 2015
Arizona Corporation Commission June 2014 - August 2014
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) June 2013 - August 2013
Financial Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Financial Modeling, Corporate Finance, Project Finance, PowerPoint, Business Analysis, Microsoft Word, Finance, Nonprofits, Business Communications, Regulatory Compliance, Utility Regulation
Jamae Martinez, M.Ed.
Sales Executive at Voyager Sopris Learning
Master of Arts (MA), Teaching, Teacher Education
Austin Peay State University 1990 — 1995
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Elementary Education and Teaching
Sopris Learning February 2005 - Present
Cambium Learning 2005 - Present
SRA McGraw Hill March 2001 - February 2005
Cater Elementary, The Learning Zone, Huachuca City MS August 1995 - March 2001
Everday Mathematics/SRA McGraw-Hill 1996 - 2000
Academic Publishing, Publishing, Sales Presentations, Account Management, K-12, Marketing Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, New Business Development, Online Publishing, Marketing, Sales Management, E-Learning, Lead Generation, Educational Technology, Product Management, Social Media Marketing, Team Building, Teaching, Teacher Training, Educational Leadership, Curriculum Design, Instructional Design, Public Speaking, Training, Classroom, Sales, Strategic Planning, Leadership, Sales Operations, Coaching, Content Development, Cold Calling, Textbooks, Books, Educational Consulting, Management, Editing, Data Analysis
Jamal Alafifi
Syracuse, New York Area
Masters student at SUNY Upstate Medical University
Bachelor of Science, Microbiology
SUNY Upstate Medical University August 2010 - Present
The University of Arizona September 2008 - May 2009
Cell Culture, Tissue Culture, qPCR, Gel Electrophoresis
Jamal Hawash
Bachelors, Regional Development
BTS October 2008 - Present
BTS USA, Inc. 2008 - Present
Management Consulting, Change Management, Business Transformation, Performance Improvement, Project Portfolio..., Business Strategy, Business Process..., Strategy, Organizational Design, Process Improvement, Cross-functional Team..., Program Management, Consulting, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Organizational..., Leadership, Performance Management, Executive Management
Contact Center Sales & Operations Leader
Western International University 1999 — 2000
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business
Master of Science (MS), Nutrition Sciences
CVS Caremark Corporation October 2012 - Present
Apollo Group January 2000 - Present
American Express 1996 - 2012
TCI of Tucson May 1990 - August 1996
Contact Center Expert, Sales Management, Inside Sales, Direct Sales, Vendor Relationship..., Project Management and..., Organizational..., Quality Assurance and..., Six Sigma, Client Management..., Continuous Process and..., Articulate Oral and..., Time Management and..., Outstanding Business..., Superior Interpersonal..., Marketing, Cross-functional Team..., Vendor Management, Vendor Relationships, Team Leadership, Strategy, Employee Training, Leadership Development, Adult Education, Insurance, Leadership, Project Management, Communication, Research, Management Consulting, Employee Engagement, Microsoft Office, Curriculum Design, Strategic Planning, Sales, Succession Planning, Public Speaking, Microsoft Excel, E-Learning, Analysis, Project Planning, Budgets, Training, Customer Service, Business Analysis, Customer Experience, Time Management, Outstanding, Staff Development, Change Management
Jama Meyer
General Manager at Flowserve
Jameela Norton
MPH, Health Policy and Management
BS, Family Studies and Human Development
The University of Arizona March 2015 - Present
Sahuaro Girl Scout Council June 2013 - March 2015
Tucson Indian Center July 2012 - June 2013
First Things First January 2012 - May 2012
The University of Arizona June 2011 - March 2012
Red Cross of Southern Arizona August 2009 - December 2009
Community Outreach, Program Evaluation, Grant Writing, Public Speaking, Program Development, Non-profits, Fundraising, Volunteer Management, Event Planning, Policy Analysis, Teaching, Editing, Research, Higher Education, Social Media, Microsoft Office, Coaching, Community Development, Data Analysis, Program Management, Public Policy, Grants, Leadership Development, Public Relations, Nonprofits, Youth Development, Health Communication, Community Engagement, Social Services, Health Education, Leadership, Curriculum Design, Qualitative Research, Public Health, SPSS, Social Networking, Spanish, Student Affairs, Student Development, Research Design, Community Health
Jameel Jones
Mechanical Egineer at HewlettPackard
Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9
Hewlett-Packard July 2014 - Present
Jameel Rahman
Owner/Operator at JR Technical Consulting
Capella University 2010 — 2013
Masters, Information Technology
BA, Political Science
International School Manila 1984 — 1989
Froebels (Islamabad) 1981 — 1983
JR Technical Consulting October 2014 - Present
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections December 2013 - October 2014
Glatfelter July 2013 - October 2013
Wellspan Health March 2010 - July 2013
Capital Blue Cross October 2009 - February 2010
Department of Public Welfare October 2008 - October 2009
Manheim Auto Auction November 2006 - August 2008
Blazenet / Suscom Business Solutions March 2004 - May 2006
Circuit City 2003 - 2004
Newgen Results Corporation 2000 - 2003
Active Directory, Troubleshooting, HTML, SQL Server, Visio, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Software Documentation, Windows 7, Windows Server, Access, XP, Technical Support, System Administration, Quality Assurance, SharePoint, Help Desk Support, Networking, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft Exchange, Computer Hardware, Network Security, Windows XP, Software Installation, Network Administration, Security, Integration, IIS, Servers, Information Technology, Virtualization, Software Design, Software Development
James Jim Hepworth
Spokane, Washington Area
Publisher at Confluence Press
Ph.D. in English, 20th Century American Literature
MFA, Creative Writing
Luther College 1969 — 1972
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Double Major: English and Philsopy
Confluence Press August 1984 - Present
Lewis-Clark State College August 1984 - 2013
Inchelium School District August 1975 - May 1976
Creative Writing, Grant Writing, Speech Writing, Editing, Research, Book Writing, Book Reviews, Book Packaging, Book Proposals, Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Guided Tours, Lecturing, Public Speaking, Ghostwriting, Social Media
James A.
General Counsel at Apogee Physicians
Stanford University Graduate School of Business 1981 — 1983
Doctor of Law (J.D.), High Distinction
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics, Highest Distinction
Apogee Physicians July 2013 - Present
Gammage & Burnham PLC August 1989 - June 2013
Gammage & Burnham PLC 1989 - June 2013
Evans Kitchel & Jencks 1983 - 1989
U.S. Department of Justice 1977 - 1981
Antitrust and trade..., Commercial litigation..., Health care..., Jury Trials, Mergers & Acquisitions, Hospital Reimbursement, Litigation Support, Antitrust Law, Trial Practice, Claim
James A. Grant
James A. Grant, AIA November 2010 - Present
USF St. Petersburg September 1991 - October 2010
Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Research, Higher Education, Microsoft Excel, Budgets, Strategic Planning, Inventory Management, Customer Service, Outlook, Leadership, Event Management, Team Building, System Administration, Community Outreach, Process Scheduler, Contract Management, Project Planning, Nonprofits, Event Planning, Photoshop, Social Networking, Project Management
James Ahn
Intern Pharmacist at Walgreens
Midwestern University (AZ) 2014 — 2017
Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physiology, General
Walgreens April 2013 - Present
Medical Scribe Systems March 2013 - April 2014
English, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, PowerPoint, Windows, Teaching, Public Speaking, Teamwork, Healthcare, Pharmacy, Medical Terminology, Medical Records, Community Pharmacy, Patient Education, Prescription Drugs, Critical Thinking, Public Health
James Alicata
Professor at Fitchburg State College
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1995 — 2001
Ed.D., Secondary Teacher Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Agricultural Teacher Education
Fitchburg State College Adjunct Faculty MemberUniversity of Massachusetts2013 - Present
Fitchburg State University, Graduate and Continuing Education 2000 - Present
Student Development, Higher Education, University Teaching, Lesson Planning, Curriculum Development, Academic Advising, Teaching, Student Affairs, Educational Technology, Curriculum Design, Microsoft Office, Grant Writing, Adult Education, Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, Teacher Training, Program Development
James Alton Farmer II
Arivaca, Arizona
CSO, CPRO, HR, PR Director at GOOD EARTH FARMERS
Bachelor's degree, International Business/Trade/Commerce
Lincoln Graduate Institute 1982 — 1992
Master's degree, Real Estate Development
GOOD EARTH FARMERS September 1995 - Present
MidNightMayHem [NPO]; AudioAnomaly [Promotions]; BlueLaBeL [Clothing] September 1995 - Present
James Alton Farmer Investments; Estate Planning; Financial Planning March 1983 - Present
MidNightMayhem; AudioAnomaly; BlueLaBeL 1995 - 2013
Dixon & Company March 1980 - September 1992
New Business Development, Social Media, Strategic Planning, Event Management, Public Relations, Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Marketing Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Event Planning, Budgets, Negotiation, Microsoft Excel, Online Marketing, Sales, Project Planning, Marketing, Social Networking, Entrepreneurship, Advertising, Online Advertising, Team Building
James Amoroso
Territory Sales Manager at AT&T Emerging Enterprises and Partnerships
Bachelor of Science, Retailing and Consumer Sciences
AT&T November 2014 - Present
AT&T Mobility June 2011 - November 2014
AT&T Retail Leadership Development Program June 2011 - November 2011
Starbucks January 2007 - June 2011
Retail, Inventory Management, Customer Satisfaction, Scheduling, Coaching, Retail Management, Merchandising, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Customer Relations, Microsoft Office, P&L, P&L Management, Sales Management, Outlook, Visual Merchandising, Promotions, Forecasting, Team Leadership, Hiring, Process Scheduler, Store Management, Strategic Planning, Training
James Angelopulos
Channel Manager at ScaleLab
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Marketing, 3.3
Santa Rosa Junior College 2006 — 2008
Associates Degree, University Transfer
ScaleLab Network November 2014 - April 2015
Chef Melba's Bistro November 2014 - March 2015
Pacific Ridge High School July 2012 - October 2013
Notehall.com August 2010 - May 2011
Aging Parents January 2010 - August 2010
Marketing, Social Media, Teamwork, Market Research, Time Management, Leadership, Customer Service, Marketing Research, •Able to work under..., •Excellent ability to..., •Strong leadership..., •Proficient with..., •Well versed in..., •Microsoft Word,..., Excellent ability to..., Social Media Marketing, Coaching, Facebook, Social Networking, Blogging, PowerPoint, Start-ups, Digital Marketing, YouTube
James Armbrust
Safford, Arizona
Hunting and Fishing Guide at Access To Antlers
Mohawk Valley Community College 1968 — 1970
Civil Engineering Technology/Technician
Access To Antlers September 2006 - Present
Phelps Dodge April 1994 - September 2005
Sundt Construction January 1974 - April 1974
Event Planning, Customer Service, Fishing, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Blogging, Tourism, Photography, Microsoft Office, Outdoor Recreation
James Austin Olive, Jr.
Adjunct Instructor at Brookline College
Reformed Theological Seminary 1997 — 2001
Master of Divinity, Divinity
B.A., History, Political Science (Double Major)
Brookline College 2013 - Present
Rainbird 2013 - 2014
Arizona Department of Corrections 2010 - 2011
Stonebridge Presbyterian Church May 2008 - May 2010
Faith Presbyterian Church June 2003 - November 2007
Wellington Community Church May 2001 - October 2002
Mt. Salus Presbyterian Church November 1997 - May 2001
New Covenant Presbyterian Church June 2000 - August 2000
Hughes Missile Systems July 1996 - June 1997
Public Speaking, Life Coaching, Higher Education, Mental Health Counseling, Pastoral Care, Pastoral Counseling, Team Motivation, Vision Casting, Volunteer Management
James Banas
Maui Medical Supplies, LLC January 2002 - Present
James Barrons
Senior Legal Counsel at Balbec Capital, LP an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group
University of Washington School of Law 1994 — 1997
Balbec Capital LP, an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group March 2013 - Present
2XL Games March 2012 - May 2013
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney May 2011 - February 2012
First Financial Investment Group February 2008 - January 2011
Mariscal Weeks McIntyre & Friedlander January 2003 - January 2008
Due Diligence, Intellectual Property, Contract Negotiation, Strategic Partnerships
James Barsz
Consultant Physician at River Source Chemical Dependency Treatment Center
University of Arizona, College of Medicine 1970 — 1974
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine
Bachelor of Science (BS), Zoology/Animal Biology
Wabash College 1965 — 1968
Biology, Chemistry
River Source Chemical Dependency Treatment Center September 2012 - Present
Scottsdale Treatment Institute 2007 - Present
James C. Barsz, MD LLC. October 1980 - Present
Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine, Treatment, Self-esteem, Psychotherapy, Personal Development, Interventions, Mental Health, CBT, Mental Health Counseling, Dual Diagnosis, Addiction Recovery, Prevention, Wellness, Board Certified, Managed Care, Family Therapy, Healthcare Management, Motivational..., Medicine, Chronic Illness, Behavioral Health, Clinical Research, Clinical Supervision, Therapists, Medical Education, Mindfulness, Pain Management, Stress Management, Stress, Life Transitions, Anger Management, Chemical Dependency, Physicians, Counseling Psychology, Hypnotherapy, Psychiatry, Google Groups
James Bashkin
Oxford University 1977 — 1982
D. Phil., Chemistry
University of California, Irvine 1975 — 1977
B.A., Chemistry
none, Biology
University of Missouri-St. Louis January 2010 - Present
NanoVir, LLC October 2003 - Present
Self-employed January 1986 - Present
University of Missouri- St. Louis August 1999 - December 2009
Pfizer July 2002 - August 2003
Pharmacia June 1999 - August 2003
Washington University in St. Louis June 1991 - May 1999
Monsanto August 1985 - May 1991
Chemistry, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Biotechnology, Protein Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Biology, HPLC, R&D, NMR, Laboratory, Analytical Chemistry, Drug Design, Science, Organic Synthesis, Polymers, Bioorganic Chemistry, Cell Biology, Lifesciences, Materials Science, Patents, Pharmaceutical Industry, Research, LC-MS, Mass Spectrometry, UV/Vis, Inorganic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Chromatography, Life Sciences, Technology Transfer, Clinical Development, Protein Purification, IR, Gas Chromatography, Commercialization, Oncology, Green Chemistry, Characterization, Antiviral Drug Design, Purification, Leadership, Cross-functional Team..., Organizational..., Technical Leadership
James Battiato
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
PhD, Optical Sciences
BS, Electrical Engineering
3M January 2014 - Present
3M August 2010 - December 2013
3M September 2006 - August 2010
3M May 1998 - September 2006
US Air Force Research Laboratory 1988 - 1998
James Bell-Smith
Procurement Financial Analyst at The Boeing Company
James Bienen
President at Madison 88 LTD
Madison 88 LTD presidentMadison882003 - Present
James Birkett
GIS Analyst, Anderson, SC
Bachelor of Science, Geography; Geographic Information Systems
TJ Maxx February 2008 - October 2011
Tony Roma’s Restaurant March 1999 - May 2006
Analysis, Sales, Investigation, Retail, Loss Prevention
James Bisordi
Professional Recruiter at Insight Global
BA, Major in Regional Development, Minor in Business
Cañada College 2005 — 2007
Insight Global September 2010 - Present
University of Arizona Swimming/Diving August 2007 - May 2009
Technical Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Hiring, Sourcing, Interviewing, Recruiting, Interviews, Internet Recruiting, Screening, Staffing Services, College Recruiting, Applicant Tracking..., Staff Augmentation, Networking, Screening Resumes, Management, Benefits Negotiation, Contract Recruitment, Temporary Staffing, Temporary Placement
James Blakeley
Asst. Professor of History at St. Joseph's College
Ph.D., History
James Blankenship
Brownwood, Texas
Lab Manager at Ingram Concrete
B.Sc., Geochemistry
B.Sc., Geosciences
Ingram Concrete February 2013 - Present
Soil Retention October 2007 - November 2012
Sika 2006 - 2007
Varra Companies 2004 - 2004
Rocky Mountain Chapter ACI October 2003 - 2004
Boral MTI 2000 - 2004
PSI (Formerly GTG Geotechnical) 1991 - 2000
GTG Geotechnical/Environmental Services, Ltd. 1991 - 1999
Cement, Materials, Concrete, Aggregates, Quality Assurance, Budgets, Asphalt, Operations Management, Building Materials, Process Improvement, Negotiation, Inventory Management, Construction Management, Manufacturing, Sales Management, Supervisory Skills, Quality Management, Contract Management, Concrete Materials, Construction, Ready Mix Concrete, Geotechnical Engineering, Process Scheduler
James Boddy
Senior Account Consultant at WAXIE Sanitary Supply
B.A. in Political Science and Economics
WAXIE Sanitary Supply September 2010 - Present
James Bohlman
Senior Engineer and Project Manager at Intex World
ME, Systems Engineering
MBA, General
BS, Metallurgy
Intex, Inc. January 2010 - Present
Texas Instruments August 1997 - March 2005
Analog Devices August 1992 - August 1997
Texas Instruments 1984 - 1992
Semiconductors, R&D, Product Development, Manufacturing, MEMS, Engineering, Six Sigma, Problem Solving, Process Development, AutoCAD, Testing, Microsoft Office, Lean Manufacturing, Product Management, Process Engineering, Excel, Materials, Process Improvement, Operations Management, CAD, Electronics
James Bonanno
Video Producer at Verizon Digital Media Services
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Cinematography and Film/Video Production
Verizon Digital Media Services July 2015 - Present
Participant Media February 2014 - July 2015
Jukin Media December 2013 - February 2014
Dr. Marion August 2013 - December 2013
4th Row Films May 2012 - August 2012
Insignia Films May 2012 - August 2012
Stories That Soar September 2011 - January 2012
The University of Arizona September 2011 - December 2011
Todd Alsup September 2008 - January 2009
Film, Final Cut Pro, HD Video, Television, Video Production, Social Media, Photoshop, Camera Assistant, After Effects, Film Production, Video Editing, Pro Tools, Camera, Digital Photography, Social Media Marketing, Producing, Gaffer, Boom Operator, LiveType, Screenwriting, Avid, Adobe Creative Suite, Canon DSLR, Film Processing, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Project Management, Digital Video, Independent Film, Black & White, 16mm, Grip, Story Pitches, Coordinators, Advertising Sales
James Bonk, PhD, RN, CS
VP Operations at Value Options CO
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Rehab Psychology - Nursing
MS, Nursing
Creighton University 1971 — 1975
BSN, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Cum Laude
Value Options - CO January 2015 - Present
Veterans Health Administration January 2009 - January 2015
Centene Corporation 2004 - 2008
Magellan Behavioral Health 2000 - 2004
United Behavioral Health 1994 - 1999
Medicaid, Managed Care, Informatics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Information..., Healthcare, Medicare, HIPAA, Hospitals, Disease Management, Medical/Surgical, Quality Improvement, Utilization Management, Healthcare Consulting, Process Improvement, Provider Relations, Behavioral Health, Case Managment, Physicians, Clinical Research, Healthcare Industry, Health Policy, Health Insurance, EHR, EMR, Nursing, Public Health, Treatment, Psychiatry, Patient Advocacy, Acute Care, Clinical Supervision, Program Development, Inpatient, Case Management
James Bourland
Laboratory Director at Alere
Ph.D., Pharmacology, Toxicology
Cameron University 1984 — 1986
University of Oklahoma 1978 — 1981
B.S., Microbiology
Alere, Inc. November 2011 - Present
Ameritox August 2007 - October 2011
Quest Diagnostics 1997 - 2007
Laboratory Medicine, Chemistry, Toxicology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Mass Spectrometry, ELISA, Medical Devices, Laboratory, Science, LC-MS, Lifesciences, Validation, HPLC, Hardware Diagnostics, Healthcare Information..., Gas Chromatography, Analytical Chemistry, Data Analysis, Healthcare, GC-MS, Chromatography, LIMS, FDA, Sop, Assay Development
Publications Adviser, Tucson High Magnet School
Tucson High Magnet School, Tucson Unified School District January 2012 - Present
Cord Blood Registry June 2011 - January 2012
UA BookStores September 2004 - June 2011
Teaching, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, Research, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Curriculum Design, PowerPoint, Curriculum Development, Microsoft Word, Coaching, Strategic Planning
James Braidic
Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
MS, Industrial Engineering
Penn State University 1993 — 1997
BS, Materials Science
Intel Corporation 2014 - Present
Intel Corporation February 2006 - 2013
Intel 2005 - 2006
Semiconductors, Cross-functional Team..., Design of Experiments, Automation
James Brimhall
Oregon Health and Science University 2001 — 2005
Bachelor's degree, Microbiology, General
Process Improvement, Teaching, Microsoft Excel, Research, Strategic Planning, Leadership, Sales, Public Speaking, Team Building, Management, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Healthcare, Customer Service, Training
James Brislawn
General Manager Delgado's Catering
Delgado's Catering August 2013 - June 2014
Redington Catering March 2010 - June 2012
Town of Buckeye - Parks and Recreation April 2007 - August 2009
Active Movers April 2004 - April 2007
Conversational French, Team Leadership, Customer Relations, Computer Literate, Coaching, Team Coordination, Driving, Leadership, Customer Service
James Brost
Managing DirectorSales/Delivery at Consulting
Consulting October 2014 - Present
CSI Professional February 2014 - October 2014
Talent Source International August 2013 - February 2014
Mindseeker, Inc. September 2008 - July 2013
Mindseeker, Inc. December 2009 - June 2010
Mindseeker, Inc. September 2008 - December 2009
Signature Consultants January 2008 - August 2008
Sterling HR Consulting December 2006 - December 2007
Intel/IMFT January 2005 - December 2006
Sharp Decisions 2006 - 2006
Technical Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Sourcing, Executive Search, Contract Recruitment, Staff Augmentation, Internet Recruiting, Benefits Negotiation, Applicant Tracking..., Recruiting, Screening, College Recruiting, Vendor Management, Staffing Services, Program Management, Talent Management, Information Technology, Business Development, Human Resources, Screening Resumes, Account Management, Candidate Generation, Cold Calling, Customer Satisfaction, Corporate Recruiting, Entrepreneurship, Full-life Cycle...
James Brouse II
Software Engineer at Raytheon
Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4.0
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Raytheon Missile Systems September 2009 - Present
Network Security, Active Directory, Computer Security, Information Assurance, Security, VMware, DIACAP, Network Administration, Disaster Recovery, Information Security, Windows Server, DNS, Security+, Linux, HBSS, Servers, Solaris, ITIL, Vulnerability Assessment, CISSP, Linux System..., Software Configuration..., Systems Engineering, DoD, Integration, Security Clearance, Program Management, Networking, Unix, Configuration Management, Testing
James Bruns
Layton, Utah
Customer Support Director at United Technologies Aerospace Systems
Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management 1992 — 1993
Master of Science (MS), Logistics Management
Bachelor of Science (BS), Animal Health Sciences
United Technologies Aerospace Systems May 2010 - Present
United States Air Force February 1987 - July 2010
Aircraft, Aviation, Avionics, Aircraft Maintenance, Aerospace, Aeronautics, Overhaul, Aircraft Systems, Flight Safety, Military, Flights, Helicopters, Airlines, Commercial Aviation, Airworthiness
james buggs
Retirement Plan Specialist at Vanguard
Vanguard February 2014 - Present
Investments, Mutual Funds, Finance, Portfolio Management, Retirement Planning, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
James Buglewicz
Adjunct Faculty, Producing Director ELAC Storytheatre East Los Angeles College
Bachelor of Fine Arts,, Experimental Theatre Wing, Tisch School of the Arts
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Theatre Direction and Production
East Los Angeles College January 2002 - Present
Dharma Road Productions September 2002 - Present
New York Film Academy April 2012 - December 2014
Theatre, Stage, Television, Lighting Design, Film, Acting, Teaching, Film Production, Community Outreach, Public Speaking, Producing, Performing Arts, Multimedia, Video Production, Drama, Creative Writing, Editing, Musical Theatre, Entertainment, Event Planning, Video, Social Media
James Burrell
Director, Package Engineering at Qualcomm
Georgia Institute of Technology 1993 — 1998
MSCE, Structural Engineering
University of California, Davis 1989 — 1991
BSME, Mechanical Engineering
University of Idaho 1980 — 1983
Qualcomm August 1998 - Present
aerojet 1988 - 1993
Thermal, DOE, Electronics Packaging, Finite Element Analysis, CFD, Abaqus, Minitab, Heat Transfer, JMP
James Cain
Manager at Protein Technologies Inc.
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry
Protein Technologies Inc. March 2011 - Present
Polymer Chemistry Innovations Inc. 2010 - 2011
University of Arizona 2003 - 2010
Carnegie Mellon University 2000 - 2001
UPMC 1999 - 2000
University of Pittsburgh 1999 - 2000
Valspar 1999 - 1999
Aluminum Coil Anodizing Inc. 1998 - 1998
Peptides, Peptide Synthesis, NMR, Organic Synthesis, Mass Spectrometry, Organic Chemistry, UV/Vis, HPLC, LC-MS, Purification, Catalysis, Polymer Chemistry, Automation, Parallel Synthesis, IR, Spectroscopy, Chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, Chromatography, Fluorescence..., GC-MS, FTIR, Analytical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Peptidomimetics, Heterocycles, Multi-step Synthesis, Asymmetric Synthesis, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Asymmetric Catalysis, Gas Chromatography, Protein Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Fluorescence, Small Molecules, Synthetic Organic..., Polymers, Laboratory, Column Chromatography, Drug Design, GPC, Characterization, TLC, Molecular Modeling, IR spectroscopy, Circular Dichroism, ChemDraw, Protein Purification, NMR Spectroscopy
James Camamo
Pharmacy Program Coordinator
Doctor of Pharmacy, Pharmacy
Banner - University Medical Center June 2015 - Present
University Of Arizona College of Pharmacy 1993 - Present
University of Arizona 1992 - Present
UMC 1992 - June 2015
Hospitals, Pharmacists, Patient Safety, Medicine, Pharmacy, Pharmacology
James Canales
Sr.Project Manager / Sr. Project Architect at Global Buildings
Bach of Arch, Architecture
Jacobs Engineering December 2006 - Present
PinnacleOne August 2006 - December 2006
Stantec 2005 - 2006
Dieterich Architectural Group 2003 - 2005
Jacobs Engineering December 1996 - June 2002
Acorn Engineering Group 1994 - 1997
JC Consulting - Private Practice 1993 - 1994
JM Von Graven 1988 - 1993
Acorn Architectural Group 1981 - 1988
CNWC Architects 1975 - 1981
Construction Management, Construction, Architecture, Programming, Program Management, Engineering Management, Architectural Management, Architectural Design, Contract Management, Project Management, Business Development, Government Contract..., Industrial Design, Semi-Conductor /..., Hospital + Medical..., Government - Flight..., Data Centers, Historic Preservation, Oil / Petrocheminal, Laboratories, Operations + Business..., Judicial + Court Rooms, Office Building /..., Space Planning /..., Hospitality, Sports + Golf Facilities, Educational - K12 +..., Performing Arts Center, Submittals, Project Planning, Project Control, Design Research, LEED, Space planning, Comprehensive Planning, Construction Drawings, Sustainability, Data Center, Project Estimation, Architectures, Laboratory, Mixed-use, Value Engineering, Sustainable Design, CAD, Cost Engineering, MS Project, Revit, Change Orders, Feasibility Studies
James Cannon (health coaching)
Consultant at Millennium Wellness
Doctorate, Health Management
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London 1997 — 2000
Doctorate, Public Health
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences 1995 — 1997
Masters of Science, Medicine
National University 1987 — 1989
Masters of Business Administartion, IT & Finance
Bachelors, General
James Cannon, MBA, MS, DHA, PA-C, DFAAPA
Norfolk, Virginia Area
Hospitalist/Psychiatric PAC, CAQ Psychiatry
Bachelor of Arts (BA), General Studies/Communications
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences
Masters of Arts (MS), Medicine/PA Studies
Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, IT, Management
School of Advanced Studies/UOP
Research (Dissertation) Doctorate (DHA), Health care
EmCare/CHS 2014 - Present
U.S. Coast Guard June 2013 - Present
A.T. Still University October 2011 - Present
Assure Wellness Group 2010 - Present
NCCPA January 2008 - Present
U.S. Coast Guard January 2012 - June 2013
U.S. Coast Guard June 2010 - January 2012
U.S. Coast Guard June 2006 - June 2010
Emergency Medicine Associates, P.A., P.C. 2006 - 2010
U.S. Coast Guard May 2002 - June 2006
Psychiatry, Anti-aging, Aviation medicine, Commercial Pilot, Finance, Military Operations, Healthcare Management, Healthcare, Military, National Security, Security Clearance, Navy, DoD, Emergency Management, Operational Planning, Homeland Security, Medicine, Public Health, Medical Education, Military Experience, Organizational..., Treatment, Army, Defense, Command, Emergency Medicine, Intelligence Analysis, Government, Counterterrorism, Intelligence, Policy, Government Contracting, Crisis Management, Leadership Development, Wellness, Disaster Response, Commercial Aviation, Exercises, Hospitals, Program Management, Information Assurance, Leadership, Enforcement, Training, Security, EMR, Aerospace Medicine, Contingency Planning, Clinical Research, Human Resources
James Carmody
Inside Sales at UPS
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication, Spanish
Salpointe Catholic High School
UPS November 2014 - Present
Spinato's Pizzeria November 2013 - Present
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation May 2012 - November 2014
Aunt Chilada's August 2006 - November 2013
Guardian Protection Services 2005 - 2012
University of Phoenix July 2009 - March 2010
Gauselmann AG / Atronic Americas LLC June 2001 - November 2002
Barona Band of Mission Indians/ Barona Gaming Commission April 1999 - June 2001
Bilingual Spanish, Sales, Account Management, Business to Business..., Department Head, Executive Director, Customer Service, Team Leader, Team Building, Salesforce.com, Sales Management, Cold Calling, B2B, Multilingual, Direct Sales, Sales Process, Contract Negotiation, Selling, Sales Operations, Customer Retention, New Business Development, Security, Marketing, Key Account Management, Management, Training, SAP, Customer Satisfaction, Team Leadership
James Caron
Senior Meteorologist at Macquarie
Macquarie February 2008 - Present
Citigroup November 2006 - February 2008
United States Air Force June 2003 - November 2006
Climatology, Weather Forecasting, Energy, Commodity Markets, Meteorology, Weather, Forecasting, Trading, Energy Markets, Wind, Climate, Agriculture, Natural Gas, GIS, Climate Change, Satellite
James Carreno
Accomplished & Experienced Director/Videographer/Producer/Photographer Multimedia Specialist
Bachelor of Arts, Radio & Television
Washington high school 1979 — 1982
High School Diploma, General Education
thinkSHARPERmedia November 2010 - Present
City of Chandler, Arizona May 2007 - Present
AZ Republic Videographer, KPNX 2000 - 2005
ASU 1998 - 2001
WBZ-TV January 1996 - January 1998
KSAZ-TV 1989 - 1996
Editing, Video Production, Social Media, Public Relations, Video Editing, Video, Public Speaking, Final Cut Pro, Broadcast, Television, Media Relations, Journalism, Photography, Photoshop, Radio, Graphic Design, Magazines, Advertising, Email Marketing, Videography, Press Releases, Multimedia, New Media, Web Design, Social Networking, Blogging, Facebook, Broadcast Journalism
James Carriere
Director of Business Development at Ondax Inc.
Ph.D., Optical Sciences
MS, Optical Sciences
McGill University 1992 — 1996
B.Sc., Physics
Ondax Inc. January 2011 - Present
Tessera North America (Formerly Digital Optics Corporation) January 2005 - January 2011
The University of Arizona July 2004 - December 2004
The University of Arizona May 1999 - May 2004
Optics, Optical Engineering, Start-ups, Photonics, Customer Interaction, Zemax, Interferometry, Metrology, Sensors, Semiconductors, Laser, Physics, Fiber Optics, Thin Films, R&D, Spectroscopy, Product Development, IR, Experimentation, Electro-optics, Optical Fiber, Lithography, Simulations, Nanofabrication, Microfabrication, Optoelectronics, Matlab, Design of Experiments, Opto-mechanical Design, Code V, Laser Physics, Nanotechnology, Image Processing, Photolithography, Semiconductor Industry
James Cascio
Chaplain at Arizona State Hospital
Loyola University New Orleans 2005 — 2007
Master of Pastoral Care, Christian Studies
Bachelor of Instrumental Music Ed., Music
Arizona State Hospital December 2006 - Present
James Cason
Rio Rico, Arizona
Bachelor of Science, Business, Major in Finance
Nogales High School 1989 — 1992
James Castoro
Sales Engineer at SVL
Schwab Vollhaber Lubratt May 2013 - Present
Climatec January 2011 - May 2013
Russell sigler April 2005 - September 2010
LEED AP, HVAC, Project Estimation, Air Conditioning, Project Bidding, Submittals, Engineering, Energy Efficiency, Heating, Building Automation, Building Management..., CAD, Construction, Contract Management, Energy Conservation, Electricians, LEED, HVAC Controls, Energy Management
James Castro
Retail Professional
Luxottica Group September 2014 - Present
Aeropostale 2011 - 2014
Abercrombie & Fitch October 2008 - May 2011
Hollister Co. January 2006 - January 2008
Sales generation., Management Development, Store Operations, Visual Merchandising, KPI implementation, Loss Prevention, Management recruiting, Stockroom system..., Multi unit management., New store openings., Management, New Store Openings, Recruiting, Inventory Management, Sales, Retail Sales
James Caviola
President at CA Group
UNLV 1992 — 1995
Master's degree, Civil Engineering
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Civil Engineering
CA Group April 2008 - Present
James Charnesky
Partner, Charnesky & Dieglio, L.L.C.
JD, Law
Charnesky & Dieglio, L.L.C. January 2002 - Present
Litigation, Criminal Law, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Government, Legal Research, Juvenile Law, Appeals, Courts, Trial Practice, Hearings, Family Law, Wrongful Death, Private Investigations, Real Estate, Defense, Legal Assistance, Legal Writing, Trials, Negotiation, Commercial Litigation
James Chee
Google Express Dispatcher at Google
Bachelor of General Studies, Economy & Industry
St. Francis High School 2005 — 2009
Adecco Staffing, USA August 2015 - Present
Progistics Distribution January 2015 - April 2015
Propark America November 2013 - January 2015
Propark America July 2013 - November 2013
Propark America June 2013 - June 2013
Pinkberry Ventures, Inc February 2012 - December 2012
The Party Staff, Inc. November 2011 - May 2012
Stanford Hospital & Clinics June 2007 - July 2008
Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Time Management, PowerPoint, Leadership, Microsoft Excel, Marketing Strategy, Access, Management, Social Networking, Information Technology, Google Drive, Google Docs, Technology, Account Management, Logistics, Employee Training, Data Entry, Research, Interdisciplinary..., Online Advertising, Marketing, Advertising, Business Ethics, Computer Proficiency, Digital Media, Aesthetics, Trends, Electronics, Economics, Visual Arts, Apple OS, Social Media, Teamwork, Data Analysis, Instagram, Photoshop, Social Media Marketing, Photography, Community Service
James Cheng, MBA
Folsom, California
State University of New York at Binghamton
Bachelors, Mathematics
California Department of Justice March 2015 - Present
State of California Department of Public Health April 2009 - March 2015
State of California Department of Social Services August 2007 - October 2009
INTEL - Server Platforms Technical Marketing October 2005 - January 2007
Intel Corporation 1996 - 2007
INTEL Business Client Group July 2004 - October 2005
INTEL Cellular and Handheld Division July 2000 - June 2004
INTEL Graphics Components Division Marketing 1998 - 1999
INTEL Mask Operations 1996 - 1998
James Cherwa Jr., Ph.D.
Biology Instructor at Central Alabama Community College
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology, General
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Microbiology, General
Central Alabama Community College August 2013 - Present
University of Alabama at Birmingham 2011 - 2013
The University of Arizona January 2010 - January 2011
Virology, Protein Purification, Molecular Biology, Protein-protein..., Microbial Genetics, Protein Expression, Protein Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Cloning, Structural Biology, Microbiology, College Teaching
James Cheyne
CW4, U.S. Army, Retired
Military Operations, Military Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Investigation, Human Intelligence, Intelligence Analysis, Counterinsurgency, Terrorism, Special Operations, International Relations, Intelligence, Military Experience, HUMINT, Command, Afghanistan, National Security, Operational Planning, Army, Counterterrorism, Reconnaissance, Combat, Interagency Coordination, Force Protection, Top Secret, Military Liaison, Military Training, Tactics, SIGINT, Military Affairs, SCI Clearance, Readiness, Infantry Tactics, Joint Military..., Marksmanship
James Chol
James Chuliyev
Accounts Payable clerk at Trican Well Service Ltd.
Gardner-Webb University 2007 — 2009
Master of Accountancy, Accounting
Trican Well Service Ltd. November 2011 - Present
Trican Well Service Ltd. January 2011 - November 2011
Accounting, Excel, Budgeting, Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Forecasting
James Clinch
Principle Software Architect at Landis + Gyr (Contract)
Landis+Gyr Energy Management Solutions February 2004 - Present
Schlumberger August 1984 - February 2004
Modular Mining Systems 1979 - 1982
Software Engineering, Smart Metering, Software Development, Integration, Embedded Systems, Wireless, Embedded Software, C#, Scrum, Unix, Automation, Software Project..., Agile Methodologies, Testing, C
James Codella, Esq.
Chesterfield, New Jersey
Editorial Director, Tax, Accounting, Estate, Elder Law, Criminal, Family Law & Admiralty at LexisNexis
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting
Whittier Law School 1989 — 1991
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business
LexisNexis August 2011 - Present
LexisNexis January 2005 - July 2011
LexisNexis September 2001 - December 2004
Siegel & Siegel, P.C. June 1997 - September 2000
Publishing, Online Publishing, Management, Content Management, Web Content Management, Content Strategy, Books, Ebooks, Web Content, Editing, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Tax Law, Tax Analysis, Tax Accounting, Estate Tax Planning, Elder Law
James Colville
Consultant at Turner & Townsend
James Comstock
Cofounder at Clockwork Plan LLC
Clockwork Plan LLC November 2011 - Present
CaptiveMotion LLC June 2009 - June 2012
Rainbow Studios August 2001 - June 2009
Intel Corporation May 1999 - July 2001
Game Development, Xbox 360, Architecture, PS3, Game Design, Video Games, Gameplay, Wii, Unity3D, Game Programming, Texturing, Animation, Perforce, Gameplay Programming, Development Tools, User Interface, Maya, JIRA, Unreal Engine 3, 3D Studio Max, Game Mechanics, Social Games, 3D, ActionScript, Console, Casual Games, Mobile Games
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Day 46: Hillary’s Views, In a Nutshell?
Sep. 23, 2016 By Susan Barsy in Candidates and Campaigns Tags: 2016 election, Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton, ideology, Politics, presidential candidates 4 Comments
It’s an asymmetry that may determine the election: in contradistinction to the Democratic nominee, Donald Trump has hammered away at the electorate with a few controversial ideas. These ideas have been castigated, ridiculed, and discussed so much that the main 3 or 4 of them are easy to reel off. Trump has a gimme cap that says ‘Make America Great Again.’ He ‘wants to build a wall.’ He favors: 1) establishing inviolable national borders and radically altering US immigration policies; 2) ending ‘unfair’ trade deals; and 3) radically reducing US commitments overseas.
Trump has been careful never to disavow these ‘unpopular’ ideas. He has articulated them with intense discipline for more than a year, through countless interviews, debates, speeches, and rallies. No matter how odious, these are the main ideas he stands for. To the mainstream of both parties, any one of these goals is anathema. So, American politics has been furiously warring over Donald Trump’s ideas for almost two years.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has run a far more sophisticated and decorous campaign. Suddenly, though, commentators and allies are noting that her campaign is singularly empty of goals and ideas. The bland sameness she offers is meant to be reassuring, premised on the assumption that most of the country ‘feels okay.’ But what does Clinton stand for? Where would she lead? What, in a nutshell, is her vision of our future?
Public intellectuals friendly to Clinton are prodding her to zero in on something. But the asymmetry already established may continue to weigh heavily on her campaign.
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Sep. 23, 2016 at 10:47 am
Very thoughtful post, as always. Part of what has been lacking is a clear theme or set of clear themes, something the Sanders campaign had and what made it so attractive and generated such enthusiasm. It is difficult to inspire people with what amounts to a “platform,” which is always a good and responsible thing to have, but not for generated excitement. Trump by contrast has no platform. We know more or less what HRC would try to do if she wins; Trump is a wild-card and could do almost anything.
Susan Barsy says:
Yes, interesting the distinction between a ‘platform’ and ‘themes.’ Trump is an ideological ‘standard-bearer’ of sorts but he isn’t actually bearing the GOP’s standard. And I agree with you about Sanders: his ability to stay on message was remarkable, too. His supporters didn’t care what his proposals would cost: they valued him for his brave authenticity. I believe something similar is at work in some of the support for Trump, too.
If you could formulate a set of themes for Clinton, what would they be? Has she avoided pointed commitments because whatever she might declare for would limit her just-barely-large-enough coalition of support? This short post by Tyler Cowan is thought-provoking:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/09/trump-wins-best-theory.html
The media has avidly covered the disarray in the Republican party but given less attention to the ways that the Democratic party is riven.
Lawrence Lessig has argued that Clinton should promise to reform the establishment, but it’s too late for that, and I doubt many people would deem her suited to that role.
Sep. 24, 2016 at 3:40 pm
Yep, you hit the nail on the head exactly as to why Trump is doing so well. His ideas and themes are odious and dangerous and wrought with hate. Yet they are easy to recall and can be rattled off by anyone over the age of seven. Plus, he says them with SUCH fervor, strength, and “fire in the belly.” Much of the voting public likes it. . . . Hillary is–well–the “stable and straight” candidate, but boring! I tune into the nightly news and see clips of her giving stump speeches here and there, but she lacks Trump’s dynamism. I think that the very best speech she gave was at the Democratic convention. It was strong and powerful, plus well delivered. . . . Excellent post.
I wonder what you think of the two candidates’ performance in the debate? I’m interested in hearing the impressions of my readers.
Thanks for writing in!
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by Ali StegertPosted on April 6, 2014 June 3, 2014
In March I indulged my love of Books-About-Books and Gothic stories.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
What sucked me in wasn’t the fact that this book won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction in 2012, nor was it the intriguing philosophy or even the author’s theory that the modern world finds its roots in a two thousand year old poem called De Rerum Natura –On The Nature of Things, by Lucretius. What gripped me was the book’s description of early Renaissance book-hunters. These guys set out on epic journeys to track down the last remaining copies of ancient texts, often squirreled away in remote, monastic cloisters. Greenblatt’s book overflowed with cool insights into the history of books. We’re talking papyri and codices–two words that give me heart palpitations. Pompeii, another heart-racer for me, plays a part in the hunt and discovery of manuscripts. Imagine finding charred remains of books (scrolls) in an archeological dig! And get this: Atoms, it turns out, are not a product of modern scientific theory. Lucretius and his fellow Epicurean philosophers thought them up two thousand years ago! * 3 Stars **
(I was interested to find that the title of the American book was The Swerve: How the World Became Modern while in Australia it was The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began. I would LOVE to know why…Please comment if you know–or have a compelling guess!)
Mr Owita’s Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall has a full review here. ** 4 Stars **
Gothic Stories
The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen
Another from my book-about-books shelf, this one had some intriguing elements. The mystery was promising, the premise interesting, and the settings great (New Orleans, after all, is pretty hard to beat). The gothic elements, however, were a little forced. “I see dead women writers” is a bit of a stretch for me, no matter how traumatised an English Lit major might be. My GoodReads review says, “I always wondered what one might do with a degree in women’s studies and gender issues. Now I know.”
How’s that for a gorgeous cover design?
* 3 Stars + and extra half star for the cover **
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (and The Lottery) by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is downright gush-worthy. And that cover seriously rocks! Shirley Jackson creates a compelling cast of characters, and the stand-out is Merricat. She is unreliable narrator par excellence. Jackson has a way of taking average, everyday people and drawing out their inner weird. What makes this a Gothic story in my estimation is the combination of ingenue + rampant madness + sprawling house of narrative significance + fire. For me, the house is the major facet of a Gothic book, and this one was superbly creepy. ** 5 Stars ***
In The Lottery, Jackson again turns everyday people into seriously suss characters. This one leaves the reader with an unsettled feeling about the people round about. Apparently, this title is frequently prescribed for high school students in the US. Somehow I missed it when growing up. *3.5 Stars **
Skellig by David Almond
This imaginative marvel won the Whitbread Award and the Carnegie Medal–not a bad result for a first novel. The pathos that drives the story–the protagonist’s baby sister who’s failing to thrive–is real and heart-rending. The boy’s discovery of a vagrant in the family’s ramshackle garage is simultaneously creepy and touching. I truly loved this book. It’s one I wish I’d read years ago. ** 5 Stars ***
The Word Hunters by Nick Earl
Twins find a “Curious Dictionary” that propels them back through time on a quest to understand the roots of common words. Full of word-nerdery, this book is a historical, etymological, time-bending romp. On their time travelling adventure, the twins find some clues about their family too. Who would have guessed? * 3.5 Stars **`
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Menace of school girls pregnancies, one school records seven pregnancies this term
April 5, 2019 Defilement No Comments
Cases of teenage pregnancies show little signs of abating, with two schools confirming that 13 of their students have been impregnated.
Seven cases were reported in Kiptororo Secondary School in Kuresoi North, while the principal of Kamolo Secondary in Teso North said six of his students were pregnant.
Kuresoi Deputy County Commissioner Felix Wafula yesterday met with the school’s administration over the matter. “I learnt that seven girls had been found to be pregnant in the past three months. The principal also said they had nearly 30 similar cases that were never brought to my attention,” said Mr Wafula.
The numbers confirmed the results of a report released in September last year by Afya Uzazi, a programme that aims to improve women’s access to healthcare.
“Kiptororo and Kamara wards have the highest (teen) pregnancy rates in Kuresoi at 23 per cent and 14 per cent respectively. This should be looked into urgently,” the report read. Some of the interviewed girls said the pregnancies were results of rape or consensual sex, which is still illegal because they are minors.
One Form Four student said she had been raped on two occasions by boda boda riders as they took her to school early in the morning. In Teso North, Kamolo Principal Benson Musasia said investigations showed the girls were impregnated by fellow students or villagers “who were well known”.
Mr Musasia, who denied earlier claims that 15 of his students were pregnant, said the matter had been raised with the chief and some of the suspects arrested. The principal said the pregnant girls were still attending classes, adding that they would only be allowed to stay home when they were about to deliver.
“As soon as they deliver and regain some strength, they will come back to continue with their studies.”County Director of Education Thaddeus Awuor said he had received complaints on the matter and launched investigations.
Recently, Teachers Service Commission Director Ibrahim Rugut confirmed that four teachers from various schools in Busia had been sacked for defiling students.
Mr Rugut said the teachers would be struck from the TSC register and their names published in the Kenya Gazette to ensure they do not get jobs in private schools.He warned tutors to refrain from engaging in sexual affairs with students. “Parents have entrusted them with their children but they end up defiling the learners,” said Rugut.
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Apple moving forward with plan to limit “creepy” user tracking
Apple says Facebook is bad for privacy. Facebook says Apple is bad for competition.
J.King
Don't worry, boys, you're both amoral pits of greed and I hate you both. No need to fight!
fuzzworks
Facebook complaining about unfair use of a market advantage after they’ve eviscerated journalism in the US with fake video numbers, sending countless publications into “pivot to video” death spirals based on false data they were fed by Facebook.
For Apple to be using monopolistic business practices, wouldn't Facebook have to show that Apple is monetizing the information that they're preventing Facebook from collecting? If they're not, this complaint seems like the ultimate advertising bonanza for Apple. They're already pushing privacy as a marketing differentiator. The uproar over this feature just adds to that.
Scathian
Registered: Aug 6, 2013
Facebook is probably not wrong that apple gathers a whole lot of data on their users...but I still don't feel bad that Facebook and other companies would have a harder time tracking everything I do.
I sort of wish android would do something like that...but Google says lol to that
AxMi-24
J.King wrote:
While I am no fan of apple, putting the two in the same sentence discussing privacy is going way too far. You can accuse Apple of a lot but they are not really on the same level as FB when it comes to spying on their users (they do have the capability but as far as we know they are not using it).
However, if we look at the behaviour of corporations as a whole (instead of just privacy aspect) I couldn't agree more with you.
anon_lawyer
"Apple says Facebook is bad for privacy. Facebook says Apple is bad for competition."
Sounds like they're both right.
dwrd
Registered: Sep 9, 2017
I propose we implement the Solomon Solution to this problem.
Penguin Warlord
I mean Facebook has a point if Apple is using user data to advertise them. If they're not though, I don't see how it can be antitrust to simply give your users an easy way to opt out of being spied on.
It's not Apple that's rejecting their business model, it's the users.
Last edited by Penguin Warlord on Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:02 pm
jhodge
Apple vs Facebook in an argument about privacy and an opt-in requirement for tracking. Who should I believe?
Q: Apple, why should I trust you?
A: We have a long history of promoting privacy and providing a lot of information on how we do so and where we are unable to do so. Take a look here: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency
Q: OK Facebook, why should I trust you?
A: Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
(https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/ ... ata-dumb-f)
Right; I guess that clears that up. Moving along...
EDIT: yeah, I know it's a cheap shot. Just couldn't resist on a Friday afternoon.
Last edited by jhodge on Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:04 pm
o1knives
anon_lawyer wrote:
That was my initial response too. Facebook is horrible for privacy and Apple (or any closed ecosystem) is bad for competition by definition! Of the two Facebook is probably the bigger evil, but I'm not going to be crying for either of them!
AxMi-24 wrote:
I should clarify I hate Facebook several orders of magnitude more, and were I to pick a side it would be Apple's. I can't but roll my eyes at these squabbles, though.
rmtravis
EDIT - As pointed out by Aurich Lawson, my original information was pretty biased. They linked to an informative article on Ars which provides a more well rounded perspective.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11 ... p-you-run/
I'm still not completely comfortable with Apple apps bypassing all firewalls and VPNs with no notice to the user but I understand the trade-off better now.
[Original Post]
Apple’s claims of wanting to preserve user privacy are belied by their most recent MacOS essentially performing a digital colonoscopy without consent and sending the results unencrypted around the internet.
https://youtu.be/aS2lJNQn3NA
Last edited by rmtravis on Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:26 pm
I think it's pretty clear that this move would be strongly beneficial to Apple users; having an explicit opt-in to being tracked is just simple sense.
It's only anti-competitive if your whole business model depends on tracking people to a degree they would be wildly uncomfortable with, were it revealed to them.
If you actually care enough to look, you'll see from my post history that I really, really dislike Apple's walled garden, the simple assertion that you aren't allowed to leave, that they own your device, not you.
But, in this case, the outcome is strongly positive for end-users. Clarity in labeling is almost always a benefit.
Last edited by malor on Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:07 pm
nixass
Why not all tracking? One day they will simply launch ad service and their data hoarding will pay off..
Scathian wrote:
The difference is the business model.
- One company uses Individual personal user data from apps to target ads to that person, which is the company’s main source of income. It is in that company’s interest to keep a complete profile of the private life of that user long term.
- Another company makes most of its money from hardware sales and subscriptions. User data is almost always used to improve services and can be discarded after a short period of time.
Last edited by bb-15 on Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:07 pm
Tribus: Orbiting HQ Design Lab
rmtravis wrote:
You should read this website called Ars Technica more often.
Might help you understand things better than YouTube videos.
BullBearMS
Android phones and iPhones used to allow apps to access the unchangable hardware address of the device, which is required to access the cellular networks.
Apple replaced that with a random ID number they called the Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers that the user could change to a different random number at any time or completely disallow apps from accessing altogether in the privacy settings of the device.
Google followed suit later.
The change Facebook is complaining about is that in the future when the app tries to access that random identifier, the device will prompt you to see if you will allow it to, instead of turning it on or off in the privacy settings of the control panel.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsi ... -upheaval/
solomonrex
Tribus: Alexandria, VA
Gee, which of these two is more trustworthy? How will I ever decide? It's almost like there's no way to differentiate here. It's not like one of these companies has been caught spreading misleading data multiple times, influencing elections, spreading disinformation and is answerable to a single shifty leader that owns all voting stock. Oh wait, nvm. I hope Facebook howls about this for years.
sprockkets
Tribus: Orlando FL
IIRC the controls to do it are already on both platforms. Apple is now making it opt in instead of opt out. And doing it on a per app basis instead of no to all of them.
solomonrex wrote:
The Register brought all the snark to the yard:
>Facebook has apologized to its users and advertisers for being forced to respect people’s privacy in an upcoming update to Apple’s mobile operating system – and promised it will do its best to invade their privacy on other platforms.
The antisocial network that makes almost all of its revenue from building a vast, constantly updated database of netizens that it then sells access to, is upset that iOS 14, due out next month, will require apps to ask users for permission before Facebook grabs data from their phones.
“This is not a change we want to make, but unfortunately Apple’s updates to iOS14 have forced this decision,” the behemoth bemoans before thinking the unthinkable: that it may have to end its most intrusive analytics engine for iPhone and iPad users.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/27/ ... k_ios_ads/
gmerrick
Good. This should be something that the end user has a say in, as opposed to being globally tracked every where you not only go in the world but on the internet as well. Fuck them.
Tim Hortons recently had a similar blow back from their app, which asked for GPS location, nominally to check to see what timmies are near by to place orders from digitally. However it seems that even when the app wasn't open it was still collecting gps data. Same thing... Fuck them. They don't need that info.
brcoItRWBHy3rIe7OZAL80cHZ5wFbZ
"Apple's plan to add a new privacy feature to iOS to limit "invasive, even creepy" tracking by third-party firms is nothing but an abuse of market power to stifle competition, Facebook—a third-party tracking firm extraordinaire—claims."
I claim that Facebook's real goal is to denei the individual the right to say, "No," to Facebook.
j17robotdancer
If your really interested in privacy Apple actually gives you on an iOS device. All you gotta do is open settings and go to the privacy tab and you can change all the options. I'm not going to spell them out here since I'm not getting paid to act as a Help Desk.
Tribus: On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Someone sticking it to Facebook?
Anyway.....
Apple pretty famously goes out of their way to never collect user data in the first place.
For instance, like Waze, they use GPS data on where cars are and how fast they are moving to power map data, like traffic conditions.
>Neither the beginning or the end of any trip is ever transmitted to Apple. Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the “ground truth” data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this “probe data” sent back from iPhones.
Because only random segments of any person’s drive is ever sent and that data is completely anonymized, there is never a way to tell if any trip was ever a single individual.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple ... ground-up/
HugsNotDrugs
I don't credit Apple for much but user tracking has gotten way out of control.
Kudos to them.
random_username2020
I think it is worthwhile distilling this down to: what is Facebook actually objecting to?
Recall that Apple is not killing tracking via IDFA, they are just making it an explicit opt-in.
What Facebook is objecting to, allegations of anti-competition notwithstanding, is giving users a choice -- because they know that given that choice, most users will not opt-in to being tracked.
aliksy
Targeted advertising should be illegal. Full stop. Cut these privacy problems off at the knees.
.劉煒
Tribus: Here, Now
I'd say both are true - fb is creepy, apple likes taking away choice.
Apple and Facebook are both terrible companies for different reasons.
Fabermetrics
flunk wrote:
Why is apple a terrible company? Their pricing?
Jedakiah
.劉煒 wrote:
That's what I love about this. They're both making accurate claims, and neither conflicts. The main difference I see is that Facebook is standing in a glass house, they have a history of anti-competitive behavior. I'm sure many reasons are behind Apple's decision here, but you can bet that it's impact on their competition crossed the minds of more than a few decision makers.
Aurich wrote:
Snarkiness aside, I appreciate the critique and updated my post to reflect the information that you provided.
Editor Moonshark says:
We've tried putting him on a snark-free diet, but it didn't seem to help any.
roo82
From the bottom of my heart, fuck facebook and fuck Mark Zuckerberg in particular.
AveSatanus
Tribus: Hell
This kind of behavior from Apple is... a big part of why I left Google/Android behind and switched ecosystems entirely this year (as I write from my shiny new iPhone 12). Not the only reason but a big one. I wanted to be the customer instead of the product, for a change.
In this situation, Apple is giving the users choice. They're looking to make tracking op-in.
KapaaIan
So is the argument now really "Apple has a monopoly of people who actually have disposable income needed for our advertising to matter?"
This goes way beyond "they have the monopoly on the Apple Ecosystem". For Apple to have a monopoly for "Facebook Users" it really can only mean either Android users ignore the advertising at a higher rate, or that they don't buy stuff.
foofoo22
Access to the device tracking identifier is now limited. I know that Facebook et al. will figure out a new technology for tracking (they always do). For example, browser fingerprinting was extremely clever and still works somewhat I believe.
Snarkiness aside??? We don't put snarkiness aside. We love snarkiness. That's like complaining about sarcasm. If it weren't for sarcasm there would be no conversation in my house. Kudos to you for accepting the input, snarkiness and all.
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Baby Name of the Day: Azalea
July 26, 2011 By appellationmountain 23 Comments
It’s another botanical option from the ever-expanding list of Nature Names parents are considering for their children.
Thanks to Elizabeth for suggesting one she’s considering for her baby on the way. Our Baby Name of the Day is Azalea.
Virtually every bloom offers some possibility for a child’s name, but it helps that Azalea sounds an awful lot like Top 100 picks Amelia or Natalia – three syllables, elaborate, but not overly frilly. Depending on where you live, you might opt for the four-syllable pronunciation ah ZAY lee ah, which puts her in equally good company – think of the oh-so popular Olivia.
She’s a relatively modern option, chosen by Carl Linnaeus in the mid-eighteenth century to describe the plant. He took the name from the Greek azaleos – dry, because the lovely azalea does well in sandy soil. The Azalea Society of America describes them as “forgiving as easy to grow.” The plants can be found in Asia, Europe, and North America – so can festivals and local celebrations held in the spring when azaleas bloom.
My favorite is Mobile, Alabama’s Azalea Trail. Fifty local high school seniors don antebellum dress to welcome visitors to the section of the city known for its blooms. Never mind that the custom of planting azaleas dates only to 1929. Their dresses – hoops, pantaloons, and parasols required – are fascinating. You can also sight-see the azaleas in other US states, or head to Asia. I’m fascinated by Tatebayashi, a small town an hour from Tokyo by train, famous for its Azalea Hill Park. The US National Arboretum boasts a particularly impressive collection of hybrids, known for their vivid colors.
As a given name, Azalea has never charted in the US Top 1000. But she’s out there. I stumbled across an Azalia, the daughter of a railroad president in the nineteenth century. Dad named a tiny station stop in Michigan in her honor.
Azélie is a French variant, and takes the name in a whole other direction. Marie-Azélie Guérin was the mother of nine daughters in nineteenth century France. Five survived to adulthood; all five became nuns. The youngest, Marie-Françoise-Thérèse, is better known as Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, “The Little Flower.” Her memoir, The Story of a Soul, was published posthumously, and remains influential today.
The French version also gives us a possible short form for Azalea: Zelie. In the eighteenth century, a German immigrant to the US named a tiny Pennsylvania town after his daughter, Zelie. Around the same time that the future Saint Therese was exploring spiritual unknowns, Brooklyn-born French-American singer Zelie de Lussan was touring Europe as an opera singer of some renown.
It may be that Zelie is a short form for other names, too. She seems to gaining just a shimmer of attention. I found this birth announcement for a little girl named Zélie Queen, a little sister for Lucy, Otto, and Clementine.
But back to Azalea – she strikes me as unusual and a little bit showy, but still completely wearable. Louis Armstrong recorded a piece called “Azalea,” a lovely little piece about the flowers. There’s a vague spiritual tie available if you need one, but mostly this is an attractive nature name that will make your daughter stand out in a garden of girls called Lily and Violet.
Baby Name of the Day: Sequoia
Baby Name of the Day: Zinnia
Name of the Day: Bryony
Name of the Day: Fuchsia
I keep coming back to this name. I’m between avianna elise or azalea celeste
They’re both pretty, but Azalea Celeste seems the stronger name – I absolutely love it!
my 12 yr old’s name is Azalea Rain
I love this name. I find out the sex of my baby in about a week, and if its a girl I’m naming her Azalea Eve, Azalea Skye or Azalea Rain. I wanted to use my grandmothers middle name which is Fern but i think the names clash, anyone know a variant of fern that would sound nice?
vb says
i am naming my daughter Azalea but the “e” is silent so its pronounced A-zay-lah 🙂 love it!!
Too botanical for me, if there is such a thing. We met a Magnolia with a brother named Orion.
Sounds quite lovely-I have a soft spot for floral names, and Azalea isn’t one that immediately jumps to mind, but I like it. I also like Zelie and Zelia as nicknames-Love the zippy Z’s!
I was a Mobile Azalea Trail Maid! The dress still lives in a dress bag under my bed as it is against Trail Maid Rules to pass it on. So fun to see the organization get a shout out here! 🙂 Though azaleas have a sweet place in my heart, I’m not sure I’m bold enough to use this names.
*name. Oops!
I love Azalea and now that you’ve mentioned Zelie – I love it even more! I’m a big fan of botanical and bloom names and Azalea is near the top… too bad I haven’t any intention of naming any more bitty babies!
Down here in azalea country (North Carolina, home of the Wilmington azalea festival) it’s said ah-ZAYL-yah. Could be pretty to some ears, but it’s clunky and awkward to this Southern gal.
Reminds me of my maternal grandmother’s name, Ozella. That said, Azalea would not make my list. Even if I would be likely to use a nature name, several other choices would be listed ahead of Azalea…Zinnia, Winter, Lake…
It’s a bit showy for my tastes, but on the right little girl Azalea could be very pretty. Zelia could also be sweet nickname for Cecilia.
I adore Z
Azalea doesn’t capture my attention, but I love Zelie or Zelia (rhymes with Delia).
Sarah A says
Azalea is really pretty. I like how you put it Abby: Azalea will stand out in a garden of Lilys and Violets. She also has that really “on-trend” long Ay sound, which I think would help her from sounding too obscure.
Congrats Elizabeth on your impending arrival, and good luck choosing a name 🙂
B. says
I love, love, love this name. The only thing that would keep me from using it is that an Azalea would possibly have to spell her name for people who aren’t botanically inclined.
I recently read of a baby being born named “[email protected]” I’m not impressed. I highly doubt it’s a form of Azalea, but probably more of the Haley rhyming trend (Bailey, Kaylee, Jaylie, Brayley,Mayleigh…I could go on and on).
British American says
I know a 6 year old Azalea here in the midwest. She has a younger sister called Acacia. Except they respelled Azalea as something like Azaylia. Which led to the nickname Zay. I used the 4 syllable pronunciation with her name, which was hopefully the same as they were using – haven’t seen them in several years.
I do like the name. 🙂
Lola says
Azalea’s got a pretty sound but she’s too showy a flower for my liking. plus, I really don’t like the letter A. I like Zelie and Zella, but am more likely to use Zelda to get to those nicknames. I would like to see more of Azalea as a whole but it’s not the flower for me.
Elisabeth, You Can't Call It "It"! says
I seriously considered Zelie as both a first and middle name for Eulalie, but it lost out as a middle for this first name. It is still near and dear to my heart. The St. Therese connection was addressed, but I didn’t know about the Brooklyn born opera singer! That *could* have tipped the scales. Would like to see more people choose this!
Love Azalea too.
Nook of Names says
A very pretty name — and unlike some pretty names, it offers plenty of scope to be tailored by the bearer to something that suits them. Personally, I adore azaleas — their vibrant displays in the spring are always such a welcome sight after the long drab winter months (certainly, in my neck of the woods!).
waltzingmorethanmatilda says
I read that in China, the azalea symbolises womanhood, which is nice. People who love “To Kill a Mockingbird” will remember Miss Maudie’s beloved azaleas which got frozen in a rare Maycomb cold snap.
I think this name has a lot of potential. Flower names are “in”, and so are names with an AY sound in them. Zelie and Lea make cute nicknames, and there’s always Zay.
According to the Victorian “language of flowers” Azalea symbolises temperance.
Fetching Names: Elaborate As with Tomboy Nicknames | Appellation Mountain says:
[…] Azalea – A bold botanical is always a feminine choice, even the bloom is as unexpected as Tulip or Zinnia.
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Aug 25, 2015 | Aurrum Erina News
In July, Aurrum Erina in New South Wales passed its accreditation site audit with flying colours, meeting all 44 outcomes.
Accreditation is about ensuring residential aged care residences meet a set of quality standards set by the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency, relating to the care provided to residents.
Not only were staff and daily operations under review, auditors also spoke in-depth to residents and their families.
“The accreditation process doesn’t have to be intimidating,” says Aurrum’s National Quality and Education Manager Caroline Mwania. “I see it as the ideal opportunity to showcase what we do so well at the residence and at Aurrum.”
Caroline said assessors were very impressed with the residence and the care and attention provided to our residents.
“Aurrum prides itself on its Quality Management framework in order to achieve its gold standard of care, and this was validated by the assessors during the accreditation process.
“The Assessment report acknowledged the improvements to the residence since Aurrum took over and noted that residents and their families welcomed the recent changes to the home, including the upgrade to reception areas and resident rooms.
“The assessors were extremely positive in relation to the care and services provided to residents. They were also impressed at how warmly residents and their family members talked about the care and services they received,” Caroline added.
“On one occasion, a resident who had transferred from another residence, mentioned that moving to Aurrum Erina was the best decision he ever made. He said that his quality of life had improved and that he felt the will to live again, which is credit to our team of staff and management,” she said.
Aurrum Chairman David Di PIlla said he is very proud that Erina is operating at such high standards.
“I’d like to congratulate the team on this outstanding result. We are always striving to provide the highest possible standard for our residents and this wonderful result is further evidence that we deliver on all fronts.
“However, we cannot rest on our laurels,” he said.
Facility Manager Michelle Bottle said that continuous improvement is an integral part of meeting the accreditation standards and is a constant management focus at Erina.
“Aurrum Erina will continue to proactively monitor how things are done at the residence and identify areas for improvement.”
As well as the site audit every three years, aged care residences are subject to unannounced “spot checks” by the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency at any time.
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California: Suite of bills would check off a bunch of my wish-list items and more
Over the past few weeks, in the midst of the failed Republican-sponsored "ACA stabilization bill" known as Alexander-Collins (which laughably included "Bipartisan" in the title evne though it had changed dramatically from the actual bipartisan bills which Senators Patty Murray and Bill Nelson had worked with Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins on last fall), Democrats in both the House and Senate introduced real ACA stabilization/improvement bills of their own.
The official names of these bills are the "Undo Sabotage and Expand Affordability of Health Insurance Act of 2018" (USEAHIA) and the "Consumer Health Insurance Protection Act" (CHIPA) respectively, but for pretty obvious reasons I'm shortening each of them to simply "ACA 2.0".
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FLASHBACK: Here's how "simple" it was to expand Medicare in 1988
Whenever the discussion of what the next Big Move for healthcare policy should be comes up in Democratic/progressive circles, the incredibly difficult path which had to be paved to get the Affordable Care Act passed in 2009-2010 is often brought up as an example of how difficult it is to make even minor changes, much less major ones.
That gets a bit repetitive after awhile, however, so here's another excellent case study from 20 years earlier: The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988.
Thanks to Amy Lotven for this trip down memory lane via the New York Times:
Retreat in Congress; The Catastrophic-Care Debacle - A special report.; How the New Medicare Law Fell on Hard Times in a Hurry
With the benefit of hindsight, legislators and policy makers in both parties now agree that the seeds of disaster for the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act were sown well before it became law barely a year ago.
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I'm finally serious about livestreaming via Periscope!
OK, it's taken me way too long to get around to doing this, but I'm finally going to do livestreaming via Periscope.
You can follow public streams via Twitter, of course (which I may do from time to time), but in order to receive notices of scheduled livestreams, you have to follow me on Periscope itself:
1. Download the Periscope App to your iOS/Android device, of course.
2. Launch Periscope and tap the "People" tab.
3. Run a search for my username: @charles_gaba
4. Tap the + icon to follow me.
Then shoot me a message to let me know you're following me. There's supposed to be a notification tool for announcing when you're going live.
It's my intent to have two types of livestreams: Some will be open to anyone and may be done randomly; others will be scheduled and restricted to certain Patreon supporters.
I'm still working out the details on the distinction between the two, but one way or the other will be having the first one next week.
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Louisiana: Up to 60K may be kicked off of Medicaid in July
Well this could suck. The Times-Picayune reports that up to 60,000 Louisiana residents enrolled in traditional (ie, non-expansion) Medicaid might end up being kicked off the program starting in July:
Louisiana officials will have to notify around 60,000 people who are elderly or disabled in early May that they are slated to lose their Medicaid benefits in July as a result of the Legislature's stalemate over the state budget and taxes.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has proposed eliminating some Medicaid programs that provide long-term care in order to cope with a $994 million budget deficit. The governor said he doesn't want to put forward such cuts, but he doesn't have much of a choice given the state's financial restrictions starting July 1, when the new budget year begins.
The Louisiana Department of Health is legally obligated to warn people about what might cuts be coming in July two months ahead of time, even if the programs are ultimately spared.
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22% of full-time employees turn down ESI coverage & more eyebrow-raising insights
Over at LinkedIn, George Kalogeropoulos has and Shandon Fowler have a fascinating piece about employer-based coverage and the relationship it has to public healthcare coverage:
Here is our call to action for employers: Guide employees of any eligibility status to health coverage, whether employer-sponsored or government-supported, because it will benefit both employees and your company.
The main thrust of the article is that while most employers offer some sort of healthcare coverage option to their employees (in fact, most did so before the ACA mandated it), most of them don't appear to make a whole lot of effort to actually get the employees to enroll in that coverage...and even fewer make any sort of effort to encourage their staff to enroll in other types of healthcare coverage outside of the employer plan.
They include several charts and graphs, but this is the key one to me:
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Utah: Hooray! Medicaid expansion for 70,000 signed into law!..um...sort of.
via the Salt Lake Tribune:
Gov. Gary Herbert signed a measure Tuesday to give more than 70,000 needy Utahns access to government health coverage, ending years of failed attempts on Capitol Hill to expand Medicaid in the state.
But whether House Bill 472 ever takes effect still remains uncertain. Under President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Utah law needs approval by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which has sent mixed signals on whether it will fully sign off.
Even if CMS does approve HB472, it will likely be about a year — even on an aggressive schedule — before the state can begin enrolling people for coverage. Meanwhile, a competing Utah citizens initiative that would expand Medicaid coverage more widely than HB472 also continues to gather signatures for a spot on November’s ballot.
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MEDICAL GERRYMANDERING: Iowa figures out how to get rid of their middle-class undesirables!
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that Iowa had come up with an ingenious plan to resolve their troubled individual health insurance market: Start offering junk plans for everyone and damn the consequences:
Well, sure enough, just yesterday the Iowa state Senate voted to allow unregulated junk plans to be sold to...pretty much anyone in the state:
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NAIC Report: With certain exceptions, non-ACA-compliant plans pretty much suck.
Christina Lechner Goe has written up a detailed explainer going over the various types of NON-ACA-Compliant healthcare policies available and how each of them impacts the individual and small group markets. The report was commissionerd by consumer representatives of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC):
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WHOA. Kaiser: Fully 75% of the country supports a Medicare Extra-like plan (59% for M4A)
Wowsers! The Kaiser Family Foundation released their latest monthly tracking poll a few days ago, and while there's tons of interesting/important findings, it's the last question which leaps out at me the most:
MEDICARE-FOR-ALL PROPOSALS
While many want Democrats in Congress to focus on improving the way the ACA is working rather than trying to pass a national health care plan, there is support for such a proposal. This month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds six in ten (59 percent) favor a national health plan, or Medicare-for-all, in which all Americans would get their insurance from a single government plan.
OK, that's great news: 59% of the country now supports a mandatory Bernie Sanders/John Conyers-style Medicare for All/Single Payer program. I'm sure they'll be touting this all over, and that's perfectly fine.
HOWEVER, keep reading:
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JIBBERS CRABST ON A STICK. Trump's HHS won't even have #ShortAssPlan *rules* ready until SEPTEMBER.
Via Inside Health Policy; the rest of the article is locked behind a paywall, but you can guess the gist of it:
MILWAUKEE -- State insurance commissioners and officials coming out of a closed-door meeting with CMS said the administration announced it will not finalize the rule on longer duration short-term plans until the fall and will delay implementation of that rule until January 2019 -- though CMS disputed this characterization of the meeting when asked by Inside Health Policy . Several sources stressed that the delay of the rule means that issuers will be unable to factor in the potential impact...
Sam Baker of Axios has a little more detail:
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Avalere Health: "Association Plans" earn their "ass" moniker
This morning I took a look at the "Short Term, Limited Duration" policies (aka "Short-Term Plans"). Now comes the other half of Donald Trump's #ShortAssPlans executive order: "Association Plans".
I've obviously already written a bunch of stuff about this, including links to a few impact projection analyses, but this one was put together by Avalere Health on behalf of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), which is one of the two major insurance carrier lobbying groups (the other one is BCBSA). On the surface you may expect a whitewash: "Oh, look at that, a report commissioned by Big Insurance is releasing a report claiming that these policies would be awesomesauce, big surprise!"
However, the actual analysis is quite different than what you might expect:
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UPDATE: Short-Term Plans: A Closer Look
For some time now, I've been railing against Donald Trump's executive order pushing for the expansion of both "Short Term, Limited Duration" plans as well as "Association Plans". I've scornfully referred to his EO with the hashtag #ShortAssPlans.
Something which has gotten lost in the shuffle, however, is that I don't think short-term plans should necessarily be scrapped altogether, at least until we're able to achieve a comprehensive, universal coverage system in the future. Under our current patchwork heatlhcare system, I do think they serve a purpose for certain people in certain circumstances. I just think they need to be strongly regulated and limited in scope, partly to prevent siphoning off healthy people from the individual market risk pool...but partly to prevent people from being hit with financial catastrophe in the event of unexpected high medical expenses.
The problem is that Trump's executive order--which would effectively open the floodgates for them to be mutated into year-round plans, completely destroying one of the major points of the ACA in the first place.
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A Tale of Two Pie Charts.
Yesterday morning, Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation posted this tweet:
Our polling suggests the public is most likely to blame President Trump and Republicans in Congress for any problems in the insurance market going forward.
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) March 26, 2018
Something about this pie chart seemed awfully familiar to me...
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Just a reminder: Here's who's still uninsured.
With all the discussion about subsidized enrollees, unsubsidized enrollees, short-term plans, association plans, health sharing ministries and so forth swirling around the ACA stabilization/CSR reimbursement payment/Silver Loading debate, I just wanted to take a quick moment to remind everyone that "The Uninsured" isn't a single amorphous blob; it consists of several fairly specific subsets.
The good news is that the Kaiser Family Foundation is among the most reliable sources for this sort of data in the business. The bad news is that their estimates are out of date--this analysis/breakout was last updated in October 2017, but the actual survey data is from 2016. Needless to say, a lot has changed in the intervening year and a half...namely, the Trump Administration and two full ACA Open Enrollment Periods.
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How would middle-class families fare under ACA 2.0 vs. today's ACA/Trumpcare hybrid?
A note about the headline: I originally referred to "ACA 2.0 vs. Trumpcare", but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that as of this moment, Donald Trump and the GOP have only partially mutated the Affordable Care Act into their own warped vision. They've managed to scare off carriers, confuse enrollees, cause unsubsidized premiums to shoot up an extra 18%, and with the repeal of the individual mandate (and potentially the massive expansion of #ShortAssPlans via #RegulatorySabotage) starting next year are about to cause those same premiums to jump another 16% or so on average.
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Cook Report: Healthcare will take Center Stage in November. I plan to be here through it all...but I'll need your help.
TODAY IS THE 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act.
Since then, despite a number of real problems with the law and an endless series of ferocious attacks by the GOP, the ACA is still standing. It’s beaten and bloodied, but it’s still the law of the land, and it’s resulted in the uninsured rate being slashed from 48 million Americans in 2013 to 29 million today. 16 million people have been added to Medicaid coverage via ACA expansion, and 9 million are receiving subsidized healthcare coverage via the ACA exchanges.
Thanks to the ACA, no one can be denied coverage based on their medical condition. Women can’t be charged more for their gender. Maternity and mental health services now have to be covered. People undergoing chemotherapy and premature infants requiring neonatal care no longer eat up their lifetime coverage maximum cap within a few months.
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Add Washington to the list of states which would end up suing HHS if Alexander-Collins passed.
OK, this is kind of beating a dead horse since the Alexander-Collins bill is dead anyway, but just for completeness sake:
Last week I pointed out that aside from everything else that's problematic about the abortion restriction language included in the A-C bill, it would also have run into a big legal problem because three states (California, New York and Oregon) legally mandate that major medical healthcare policys cover abortion, in direct opposition to the A-C provision which would deny federal subsidies, CSR assistance or reinsurance funds to...any healthcare policy which covers abortion.
Well, today I can add a fourth state to this list:
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a measure that requires Washington insurers offering maternity care to also cover elective abortions and contraception.
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DATAPALOOZA! Washington State releases OFFICIAL 2018 Open Enrollment Report
Over a month ago I posted what I assumed was the final 2018 Open Enrollment Report from the Washington HealthPlan Finder. However, it appears that was just a partial report. Today they announced the official version:
The Washington Health Benefit Exchange today announced that 209,802 customers used Washington Healthplanfinder to purchase a Qualified Health Plan (QHP) for 2018 coverage during the most recent open enrollment period. This total is a nearly three percent increase over last year and is 50 percent higher than the number of enrollees recorded following the first open enrollment period in 2014.
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If I Ran the Zoo: How do the House and Senate ACA 2.0 bills stack up?
A year ago I wrote up my own "wish list" of 22 recommendations for fixing, improving, strengthening and expanding the Affordable Care Act (it's officially 20 items but two of them really should have been split into two entries apiece). I called it "If I Ran the Zoo", and it received quite a bit of praise, even though I didn't come up with most of them myself; it was mostly a compilation of ideas which had been floating around progressive healthcare wonk circles for awhile.
In any event, now that the Republican "ACA stabilization bill" (Alexander-Collins) appears to be dead and buried, I figured it might be helpful to line up both the House and Senate versions of the ACA 2.0 bills to see how they compare to each other as well as to my own list of recommendations.
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CSR Reimbursements are no more. They've ceased to be. They've expired and gone to meet their maker.
NOTE: I've modified the headline to clarify that it's CSR reimbursements which are dead, not the actual CSR subsidies. Those eligible for CSR assistance will still receive it from the insurance carriers..it's just that the carriers aren't/won't be reimbursed for doing so. In response, they've jacked up the premium rates on others to cover their losses.
And in the end...neither Alexander-Collins, Alexander-Murray, Collins-Nelson or any other "ACA stabilization bill" was included in the final version of the "must-pass" omnibus bill last night.
As I understand it, this means that unless a standalone bill of some sort passes, there will be no significant legislative changes to the ACA exchange/individual market status for the 2019 Open Enrollment Period at the federal level...and that's extremely unlikely to happen this year.
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MAJOR UPDATES: Senate Democrats introduce their own ACA 2.0 bill...and look who's on board with it!
A couple of weeks ago, several Democratic members of the House of Representatives introduced a new bill designed to significantly improve, strengthen and expand the Affordable Care Act. It's officially titled "H.R. 5155: Undo Sabotage and Expand Affordability of Health Insurance Act of 2018", but I shortened this to simply "ACA 2.0", because that's pretty much what it is.
The House ACA 2.0 bill would check off a half-dozen or so of the 20 items on my (now outdated) wish list of ACA fixes/improvements...but also includes another half-dozen provisions on top of that (many of the additional items would cancel out Trump/GOP sabotage efforts which hadn't even happened when I wrote my "If I Ran the Zoo" wish list a year ago).
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Will Trump's HHS Dept. do the stupidest thing possible? Reply Hazy; Try Again Later.
A few days ago I warned Congressional Democrats that while I agree that appropriating CSR reimbursement payments at this point would be a net negative move thanks to the clever Silver Load/Silver Switcharoo workaround developed last year, there's one possible cloud surrounding that silver lining, so to speak: What if the Trump Administration were to attempt to put the kibosh on Silver Loading altogether?
I don't know the legality of such a move, mind you, but It has been thrown around the rumor mill of late, so I figured I should remind them to keep that possibility in mind.
Well, today I received some reassurance...
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Vermont officially jumping on the Silver Switcharoo Train (& restoring the Mandate as well)
Two pieces of welcome news out of the Green Mountain state via Louise Norris at healthinsurance.org:
New legislation will allow Vermont insurers to load cost of CSR only onto on-exchange silver plans for 2019
For 2018 coverage, Vermont, North Dakota and the District of Columbia were the only states that didn’t allow insurers to add the cost of cost-sharing reductions (CSR) to premiums after the Trump Administration cut off federal funding for CSR. In most states, insurers were allowed to either add the cost of CSR to all silver plan premiums, to all on-exchange silver plan premiums, or, in a few cases, to all metal-level plan premiums. But in Vermont, North Dakota and DC, insurers simply had to absorb the cost of CSR, estimated at $12 million a year in Vermont.
As a reminder, for 2018:
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The real reason why the Koch Brothers hate the ACA in a single graph.
It's not about healthcare. It's not about "freedom". It's not about "tyrrany". It's not about "choice". It's about a tiny cadre of absurdly wealthy plutocrats being upset about a tiny fraction of their hoard being used to help out the least-fortunate among us. Via the Congressional Budget Office (graph via Axios):
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DATAPALOOZA! Minnesota releases monthly exchange data breakout!
Huh. This is kind of odd.
Minnesota's 2018 Open Enrollment Period was a month longer than the official half-length period pushed by HealthCare.Gov, but was still over 2 weeks shorter than it had been in prior years, ending on January 14th, 2018. Even so, they reported a slight increase in year-over-year policy enrollees, ending OE5 with 116,358 QHP selections.
Typically, you'd see the official QHP selection number drop off noticeably by the end of the first quarter...usually by around 13% or so. Roughly 10% of those who select policies don't ever actually pay for their first monthly premium, and another 2-3% generally drop off after only paying for the first couple of months.
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DATAPALOOZA! Colorado releases detailed OE5 demographic data
I'm not sure how I of all people managed to miss this, but Connect for Health Colorado released their official 2018 Open Enrollment Period report over a week ago:
We released our End of Open Enrollment report this week, our most detailed look at the impact we are having across Colorado. This year, you will see that more of our customers are receiving help through the Advance Premium Tax Credit – 69 percent, compared to 61 percent last year – and the average level of monthly tax credit help climbed to $505 from $369 last year.
Not surprising...the 34% average rate increases (about 6 points of which is due specifically to CSR reimbursement payments being cut off...much lower than most states) meant that a lot more people qualified for tax credits in the first place, and of course the amount of credits went up accordingly...a bit more, actually (37% on average).
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New York: NYSoH releases market share breakout by carrier
Press Release: NY State of Health Releases 2018 Enrollment by Insurer
Consumer Choice Continues to be a Hallmark of the Marketplace
ALBANY, N.Y. (March 14, 2018) -- NY State of Health, the state’s official health plan Marketplace, today released data showing 2018 health plan enrollment by insurer. Statewide, 12 health insurers offer Qualified Health Plans (QHP) to individuals and 15 health insurers offer coverage to Essential Plan (EP) enrollees through the Marketplace. Ten health insurers participate in all individual market programs offered through NY State of Health allowing consumers a smooth transition if their program eligibility changes. Throughout the 2018 Open Enrollment Period, most consumers had a choice of at least four health insurer options in every county of the State.
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(UPDATE: DEAD BILL WALKING) CBO releases projections for Alexander-Collins ACA stabilization bill
Feast your eyes on the fallout...
The Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act of 2018 (BHCSA) would make several changes to health care laws. It would:
Change the state innovation waiver process established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA),
Appropriate a total of $30.5 billion for reinsurance programs or invisible high-risk pools in the nongroup insurance market,
Appropriate funds for the direct payment for cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) through 2021,
Allow any enrollee in the nongroup market to purchase a catastrophic plan, and
Require some existing funding for operations in the health insurance marketplaces to be used specifically for outreach and enrollment activities in 2019 and 2020.
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California: OE6 to run 3 months & kick off on...October 15th??
OK, this is just kind of...odd.
As regular readers will recall, after three years of full 3 month Open Enrollment Periods across every state, last year the Trump Administration slashed the official Open Enrollment Period in half, down to just 6 weeks, from November 1 - January 31 down to November 1 - December 15th.
In response, most of the state-based exchanges announced that they were sticking with a longer period anyway, ranging anywhere from a 7th week all the way out to the full 3 month period, in the case of California, New York and the District of Columbia...each of which kept things going all the way through January 31st as had become the norm.
California even went one step further, passing a state law specifically mandating a 3-month Open Enrollment Period for 2018 and beyond.
Until today, I've been operating on the assumption that they'd be sticking with the November/December/January schedule which had become the default.
Apparently not, however. According to Louise Norris:
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UPDATE: Here's the final version of the Alexander-Collins ACA stabilization bill
via Sam Baker at Axios:
Sens. Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins have now formally introduced their proposal to stabilize the Affordable Care Act’s insurance markets. The details are about what we anticipated: three years of funding for the law’s cost-sharing payments; three years of funding for a new reinsurance program; and a smattering of new regulatory flexibilities.
What’s next: Alexander and Collins are hoping to get this proposal included in the omnibus spending bill Congress needs to pass this week. We should find out soon whether it's in or out.
I have a lot on my plate today; thankfully, David Anderson is doing a "live-tweet" of the highlights/lowlights. Instead of posting his tweets verbatim, I'm converting them into standard language:
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Maryland: Xpostfactoid confirms: Funding CSRs *now* would hurt more than it helps
I just did a light analysis of how many people would be helped or hurt by CSR funding in 2019 in Rhode Island, and concluded that at least 28% of exchange enrollees would see their premiums increase if CSR funding was restored, while only perhaps 2-3% would see their premiums drop.
It turns out that over the weekend, my colleague Xpostfactoid did a much deeper analysis of the same situation in Maryland:
So there you have the enrollment results of full-bore on-exchange silver-loading of CSR costs in one state. In all, 49,993 on-exchange enrollees with incomes up to 400% FPL chose plans other than silver. About 48,000 of them were subsidized. That's 31.2% of all enrollees, within striking distance of Aron-Dine's upper bound of 36% for all marketplace enrollees.
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Datapalooza! Rhode Island releases final OE5 data w/CSR Silver Load/Switch breakout!
HealthSource RI, Rhode Island's ACA exchange, released preliminary 2018 Open Enrollment data awhile ago, but this morning they released their final, official demographic data breakout, and there's a lot going on here:
HealthSource RI sees 5% enrollment increase and nation leading lowest benchmark plan cost
State-based marketplace sees rise in enrollment of “young invincibles”
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Families USA agrees: Restoring CSRs *NOW* would hurt millions of low-income people
This is exactly what Dave Anderson, Colin Ballio and I have been talking about for awhile now:
Under the Guise of “Health Insurance Stabilization,” Congress Should Not Axe Financial Help for Low-Wage Families
In negotiations over stabilizing the individual health insurance market, lawmakers are considering slashing federal health care assistance for low- and moderate-income consumers by more than $27 billion a year. In dollars terms, this would be a greater blow than completely eliminating, in one stroke, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the Community Development Block Grant, and federal grant programs for community-based mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment.
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Revenge of the Rubio-Con: Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Massacre could cost taxpayers up to $12.3 billion
OK, first take a few minutes to read all of this.
OK, done? Good. Now read this (via Stephanie Armour of the Wall St. Journal):
Health insurers and the Trump administration face a court decision shortly that will determine whether the government must pay insurers billions of dollars despite Republican efforts to block payments they view as an industry bailout.
Insurers have filed roughly two-dozen lawsuits claiming the federal government reneged on promises it made to pay them under the Affordable Care Act.
...It could also shape the outcome of other insurer lawsuits that would leave the government potentially owing as much as roughly $20 billion in past and future payments. Those cases, legal experts say, amount to the largest civil lawsuits ever.
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Thought the politics of the Hyde Amendment couldn't get dumber? Guess again.
Yesterday I noted that the GOP is attempting to tack on additional "abortion restriction" language into the proposed ACA stabilization portion of the "must-pass" Omnibus Spending Bill set to be voted on next week. However, the actual wording of the "abortion language" was left a bit vague:
Between the lines: This doesn't solve the partisan dispute over abortion language, as it'd bar plans that offer abortion coverage from receiving federal subsidies. But it hints that there's Republican support behind a set of policy changes that could substantially lower premiums ahead of the 2018 elections.
I wrote an extensive piece about the way abortion coverage is currently handled for ACA exchange policies back in October 2017:
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BALL OF CONFUSION: Dems may have two more factors to consider re. the Omnibus Bill
Yesterday I came out against the pending ACA stability package because one of the 5 proposed provisions should be a flat-out dealbreaker for Democrats (the abortion ban), while another one is would hurt more people than it helps (CSR funding).
Today, I need to explain the problem with CSR funding in a bit more detail but to also note a new twist which makes it even more complicated...as well as taking note of a sixth provision being thrown into the mix by the GOP which, again, should be a dealbreaker for Democrats.
First up: CSR funding.
I'm on the record as being strongly in favor of a bill recently proposed by House Democrats Frank Pallone, Jr., Richard Neal and Bobby Scott which would repair, strengthen and expand the ACA in a half-dozen ways while also preventing or reversing another half-dozen types of sabotage of the ACA by the Trump Administration. Here's the full list of what would be included in what I've shorthanded "ACA 2.0":
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Colorado: EXCITING NEWS! C4HCO overhauls...um...eligibility system
As long as I'm snarking on Washington's exchange for getting so excited over what appear to be pretty minor tweaks (to the average Joe, anyway), I might as well also give a shout-out to Connect for Health Colorado as well, which just posted this tidbit:
To Our Valued Stakeholders,
We took an important step forward this week with our board’s decision to move ahead on building a new eligibility system. With our own system, we will be able to provide customers a better application and enrollment experience and at the same gain more control and predictability for IT expenses.
A simplified path for enrolling with financial help can be expected to help us grow enrollment while getting more Coloradans the Advance Premium Tax Credit and Cost Share Reduction benefits that they are eligible to receive. We will continue to support Health First Colorado (Medicaid) enrollments and ensure that customers are routed to the right program, whether they begin at our site or with the PEAK application.
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GOP fretting over whether they hate abortion more than they love saving their own skins.
via Caitlin Owens of Axios...
Sens. Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins have proposed a market stabilization package that would include funding for the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing reduction subsidies for three years, three years of federal reinsurance at $10 billion a year, additional ACA waiver flexibility for states, and expanded eligibility for "copper" plans.
Alexander presented the plan yesterday to America's Health Insurance Plan's board of directors, adding that if Democratic leadership supports the bill, “it’ll be law by the end of next week." Alexander has long said the package should be included on the omnibus spending bill.
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DEAR DEMOCRATS: PA18 makes it clear: Whether ACA2, MEFA or M4A, it's time to go on offense on healthcare.
From Public Policy Polling this morning:
Exit Poll of PA-18 Shows Lamb Won Big On Health Care
Public Policy Polling conducted a telephone exit poll election survey of voters who cast ballots in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District special election yesterday. Voters who voted in the contest were asked about the role of health care in their decision.
The exit poll shows that health care was a top priority issue to voters in this district and that voters believed Democrat Conor Lamb’s views were more in step with theirs.
In 2016, voters in this district backed Donald Trump by 20 points, but last night they backed a Democrat for Congress in a referendum on the health care plans of the Republican Congress:
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Sen. Baldwin introduces bill to beef up ACA subsidies for Young Invincibles
Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin has been on a bit of an "Improve the ACA" tear lately. A couple of weeks ago she introduced the "Fair Care Act" to try and nip Donald Trump's #ShortAssPlans proposal in the bud. Now she's introduced another bill which would help shore up the ACA exchanges themselves: The "Advancing Youth Enrollment Act" via Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner):
The Advancing Youth Enrollment Act would give higher federal subsidies to people between the ages of 18-34 so that the cost of private Obamacare plans for them would be lower.
...Under the proposal, young adults would see the maximum percentage of income they must pay toward health insurance under Obamacare decrease by 2.5 percentage points for people between the ages of 18 to 30. Each year after, until the age of 34, they would see a gradual phaseout of 0.5 percentage points a year.
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Washington State: House Bill 2516 passes, helping the WA exchange...um...do stuff?
I honestly can't make heads or tails out of what, exactly, the just-passed HB2516 from the Washington State legislature actually does, but the WA Health Benefit Exchange seems to be pretty happy about whatever it is:
Today, Pam MacEwan, CEO of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, issued the following statement on the signing of House Bill 2516:
“The Washington Health Benefit Exchange applauds today’s signing of House Bill 2516 by Gov. Jay Inslee.
“This state-level legislation protects important progress made in Washington state under the Affordable Care Act. Our position as the state’s health insurance gateway is now stronger than ever, and despite continued uncertainty we may see at the federal level, this bill enables us to continue improving the customer experience for the people in our state.
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District of Columbia: DC exchange trashes the ass part of Trump's #ShortAssPlans EO
Not particularly surprising but worth noting for the record:
DCHBX urges U.S. Labor Department to withdraw its proposal on association health plans
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BREAKING NEWS: Adding more funding to ACA policies will lower premiums a bunch, cover millions more!
Last fall, Dem Senator Patty Murray and GOP Senator Lamar Alexander (among the few Republican Senators actually interested in improving the ACA) got together and hammered out a deal called Alexander-Murray. At the time, the bill would have done the following:
Two years of subsidy funding, along with funding for the rest of 2017. There will also likely be additional steps to help enrollees with their premiums in 2018.
A "copper plan" for people older than 30, which would be less comprehensive than other ACA plans but would have a lower premium.
$106 million in enrollment outreach funding in 2018 and 2019.
Shorter review time for states seeking waivers from some of the ACA's coverage requirements. It's unclear what other waiver changes have been agreed to at this time.
Authorization for funding to help states launch reinsurance programs, which would defray the costs of covering the sickest consumers.
Of these five items, it's really the first two which would have the biggest impact: CSR reimbursement payments and a low-end "Copper Plan".
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Premera to return 64% of their $390 million windfall to their enrollees
I should note up front that despite the snarky headline, this is actually good news on the whole, and Premera does deserve some credit for it since part of the $250 million they refer to below is voluntary on their part.
Premera Blue Cross, the sole carrier offering ACA exchange individual market policies throughout the entire state of Alaska, and one of the major carriers on the indy market in Washington State, posted this press release today:
Premera Announces $250 Million Investment In Customers and Community
Mountlake Terrace, Wash. — (March 12, 2018) — Premera Blue Cross, a leading health plan in the Pacific Northwest, today announced $250 million in investments over five years across Washington and Alaska to help stabilize the individual market, improve access to care in rural areas and support local communities in their efforts to address the behavioral health issues impacting their residents.
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Brace Yourselves: "Regulatory Siege" is Coming*
*(OK, much of it is already here, actually)
Former CMS representative and current healthcare policy advisor for Sen. Brian Schatz, Aisling McDonough, made an important point last night:
If you have a pre-existing condition and live in a rural area, especially in VA, TN, OH, IN, MO, IA, or NV, then I'm worried there might not be a plan available for you next year.
(I pulled those states from this KFF brief: https://t.co/WgCWO16wOa)
— Aisling McDonough (@AislingMcDL) March 12, 2018
People should be worried about bare ACA counties in 2019 b/c of GOP sabotage.
Between mandate repeal, short-term plans, health ministries, farm bureaus, etc, the guaranteed $ for the lone ACA insurer is getting smaller. It's not the same calculus as it was in 2017 & 2018.
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RED ALERT: Medicaid Work Requirement seen prowling around MI state legislature
UPDATE 4/11/18: I posted this piece about a month ago; I don't have any specifics, but I have reason to believe that the Michigan state legislature could be moving on this any day now. If you live in Michigan, CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR OR REPRESNTATIVE AND TELL THEM *NOT* TO IMPOSE WORK REQUIREMENTS ON "HEALTHY MICHIGAN" ENROLLEES!
h/t to Annette Prentice for the heads up on this. Via Michigan Public Radio:
State Senate introduces bill to add work requirements to Medicaid
The bill would require able-bodied adults to work or be in school for 30 hours a week in order to receive Medicaid.
Some lawmakers in Lansing want people to work to get Medicaid. The Senate introduced a bill Thursday. It would add work requirements to the Medical Assistance Program, or Medicaid.
...If passed, able-bodied adults would be required to work or continue school for 30 hours per week as a condition of receiving medical assistance.
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Other GOP States: "We're adding Medicaid work requirements!" Alabama: "Hold my beer."
In a way I guess this was the next "logical" step (via Jesse Cross-Call of CBPP):
Alabama, which has refused to expand Medicaid for low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is now proposing to make work a condition of Medicaid eligibility for very low-income parents, stating that it wants to encourage work. Its proposal, however, actually would penalize work: because Alabama hasn’t expanded its program, those who comply with the new requirements by working more hours or finding a job will raise their income above the state’s stringent Medicaid income limits, thereby losing their Medicaid coverage and likely becoming uninsured.
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Verma to idaho: We're already handling ACA sabotage, so you don't need to bother
Five weeks ago, when Idaho Governor "Butch" Otter announced that Idaho had decided to basically just blow off federal law altogether and start offering non-ACA compliant health insurance policies on the individual market alongside the compliant versions, I wrote:
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I understand why Idaho would do this. Yes, of course the deep red state government opposes the ACA in general and sure, they want to "lower premiums" on the individual market, but Trump's recent "ShortAss Plan" executive order would do pretty much the same thing (allowing non-ACA compliant off-exchange "Short Term/Association Plans" which amount to the same thing...without putting GOP Gov. Butch Otter's fingerprints all over the ugly stories which would soon follow if/when people started actually enrolling in these types of policies. Besides, as much as Idaho claims to hate the ACA, they seem to be quite proud (and rightly so) of their own state-based ACA exchange, Your Health Idaho.
Well, it sounds like CMS Administrator Seema Verma was thinking along the same lines, because this unexpected story broke a few hours ago: Verma sent a letter to Otter and his state Insurance Commissioner shooting down their "state-based plans" idea as being flat-out illegal.
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(sigh) Here we go again: Sen. Barrasso introduces the #IckyJunkPlan
(sigh) They. Will. Never. Let. It. Go. Via Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner:
Top Republican looks to codify move to short-term healthcare plans
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., introduced legislation Wednesday that would let more people enroll in short-term health insurance plans, an idea that builds off a Trump administration proposal issued last month.
The Improving Choices in Health Care Coverage Act would allow people to stay on less expensive, short-term medical plans for as long as 364 days and allow them to renew for subsequent years.
Yes, that's right: "Improving Choices in Health Care Coverage Act", or ICHCCA. I'm going with #IckyJunkPlan instead, it rolls off the tongue better.
In other words, this would codify Donald Trump's executive order into federal law. It might even trump (no pun intended) state laws against #ShortAssPlans, although perhaps not.
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New study projects ACA sabotage will cause up to ~25% rate hikes next year alone, up to 62% over next 3 years depending on the state
Today, Covered California issued a new study about the projected impact of Donald Trump and Congressional Republican efforts to undermine and sabotage the Affordable Care Act not just in 2019, but over the next 3 years. They main focus is on two sabotage moves which have already happened (repeal of the individual mandate and the shortened/underfunded marketing of the open enrollment period on the federal exchange) and one which is on the verge of happening (Trump's "Short Term and Association Plan" executive order, aka #ShortAssPlans).
Here's what they concluded:
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NAILED IT: Iowa decides the solution to their individual market woes is to offer #JunkPlansForAll!*
*(except people who are actually sick, that is) --h/t Anne Paulson
I've written a lot about Idaho's decision to simply ignore ACA regulations by allowing non-ACA compliant healthcare policies which would destabilize the individual healthcare market even worse than it already is today.
A couple of weeks ago, University of Michigan law professor and ACA expert Nicholas Bagley explained how the bigger danger here is that if this move is allowed to stand, it won't be limited to just Idaho:
But it would be a mistake to ignore what Idaho is up to. If the Trump administration doesn’t intervene, other red states will surely follow in its footsteps. The result will be widespread disregard of the law and the rise of state-to-state inequalities in the private market similar to those that already exist in Medicaid.
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Lightning Round: Cleaning out my in box
Every day I'm overwhelmed with so many important healthcare policy stories that I don't have time to do a full write-up on them all. Usually I just skip past most, but once in awhile I like to do quick posts on a bunch at a time.
STAT News: One of many problems with short-term insurance plans: Consumers can’t understand them
Most people try to avoid reading their health insurance policies — that’s what employers and insurance agents are for. Anyone who plans to buy short-term health insurance, though, will need to read the policy carefully.
The Trump administration recently announced plans to allow consumers to buy short-term health insurance plans that last for up to a year. They are currently capped at 90 days.
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"Freedom Caucus" chair Mark Meadows returns to scene of his crime to spit on his victim
Thanks to Twitter follower "@tweetmix" for bringing this to my attention.
Back in late January, I noted that while the ACA's Shared Responsibility Penalty (aka the Individual Mandate) was repealed by Congressional Republicans back in December, ithe repeal doesn't actually go into effect until spring 2020 (for lacking coverage in 2019). For 2017 and 2018, it's still on the books...and the IRS has stated point-blank that they will be rejecting tax returns that don't include a statement of ACA-compliant coverage. This, I noted, is going to piss off a whole bunch of confused people who are under the assumption tthat the mandate penalty has already been repealed. My suspicions were confirmed by last week's Kaiser Family Foundation survey, which found that sure enough, at least 21% of the country incorrectly thinks that they don't have to pay a fine for not having compliant coverage this year.
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RED ALERT: GOP failed to kill the ACA itself, so they're trying to starve it out instead
In a move which should surprise exactly no one, Congressional Republicans are attempting to defund Planned Parenthood AGAIN:
House Republicans are demanding a series of controversial abortion and health care policies in the annual health spending bill, setting up a showdown with Democrats and threatening passage of an omnibus spending package to keep the government open.
Democrats are vowing to block the slew of long-sought conservative priorities. The riders would cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood, eliminate a federal family planning program and ax the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, according to sources on Capitol Hill. Republicans also want to insert a new prohibition on funding research that uses human fetal tissue obtained after an abortion.
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UPDATE: Arkansas: Medicaid work requirement approved in 3rd state...and WHICH states are being approved is just as disturbing.
Nearly three years ago, there was a big report about a bunch of Republican Governors of states which hadn't expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act who claimed that they were willing to do so, but only if a work requirement was part of the deal:
In nearly a dozen Republican-dominated states, either the governor or conservative legislators are seeking to add work requirements to Obamacare Medicaid expansion, much like an earlier generation pushed for welfare to work.
The move presents a politically acceptable way for conservative states to accept the billions of federal dollars available under Obamacare, bringing health care coverage to millions of low-income people. But to the Obama administration, a work requirement is a non-starter, an unacceptable ideological shift in the 50-year-old Medicaid program and a break with the Affordable Care Act’s mission of expanding health care coverage to all Americans. The Health and Human Services Department has rejected all requests by states to tie Medicaid to work.
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"Forget it. Frame it. It's worthless."
Yesterday the House Democrats laid out a completely rational, reasonable, responsible list of serious improvements to the Affordable Care Act.
Today, the Trump White House responded with...this hot mess of pig vomit:
The White House is seeking a package of conservative policy concessions — some of which are certain to antagonize Democrats — in return for backing a legislative package bolstering Obamacare markets, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.
The document indicates the administration will support congressional efforts to prop up the wobbly marketplaces, in exchange for significantly expanding short-term health plans and loosening other insurance regulations.
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Washington State: Insurance Commissioner starts cracking down on #ShortAssPlans
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has decided to shut down Donald Trump's #ShortAssPlans executive order before it starts infecting the Evergreen State (yes, that's their official nickname...I looked it up):
Kreidler announces intention to being rulemaking on short-term medical plans
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced his intention today to begin rule-making to create protections for Washington consumers who buy short-term medical plans. He is taking this action in response to the recent rules the Trump administration proposed to increase the duration of short-term medical plans from 90 days to up to 364 days.
In a statement last week, Kreidler shared his concerns about short-term medical plans:
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Rhode Island: 700 small businesses & 5,200 people now enrolled in SHOP plans
I don't write much about Rhode Island outside of the actual Open Enrollment Period each year, and I almost never write about the ACA's "SHOP" (Small Business Health Options Program...which should really be labelled SB-HOP) these days (the program has never enrolled more than perhaps 200,000 people nationally at most)...but both the state and the program could use a little love, so what the heck:
HealthSource RI for Employers enrolls its 700th small business
RUMFORD, RI (March 6, 2018) – HealthSource RI for Employers today announced it has hit a major milestone. The health insurance marketplace for small employers has now enrolled its 700th small business. These 700 local businesses reflect over 5,200 Rhode Islanders.
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FILED UNDER NO SH*T, SHERLOCK: OMB admits Trump's CSR sabotage raised unsubsidized premiums 15-20% this year.
SOME GUY, OCTOBER 2017:
With the 2018 Open Enrollment Period coming up just 5 days from now, it's time to put this to bed: After 6 months of painstaking research and analysis, I've compiled a comprehensive analysis of the weighted average rate changes for unsubsidized ACA-compliant individual market policies in 2018, including both the on- and off-exchange markets. It's already been confirmed by a different analysis by healthcare consulting firm Avalere Health, which used a completely different methodology to arrive at the exact same conclusion: The national average increase is between 29-30%, ranging from as low as a 22% average premium drop in Alaska (thanks to their successful reinsurance program) to as high as a painful 58% increase in Virginia.
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin introduces bill to head Trump's #ShortAssPlans off at the pass
Interesting timing of this, coming right on top of the other ACA stabilization/improvement bill introduced by the House Democrats today:
From Sen. Baldwin's official Senate website:
U.S. SENATOR TAMMY BALDWIN AIMS TO BLOCK PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO ALLOW INSURERS TO SELL JUNK PLANS WITH LEGISLATION TO GUARANTEE PROTECTIONS FOR PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
“The Fair Care Act is an opportunity for lawmakers to keep their word on guaranteed protections for pre-existing conditions.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the Trump Administration’s recent proposed rule allowing insurance companies to once again sell ‘junk’ health care plans, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin today announced new legislation to block the rule and guarantee protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
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UPDATE: House Democrats formally introduce ACA 2.0!
UPDATE: Late last night I was able to dig up the actual legislative text of the bill introduced by the House Democrats yesterday; after reading over the details, I've decided that it's a strong enough package overall that, in software terms, it would be considered a full version upgrade (2.0) as opposed to "only" a service pack/point upgrade (1.5). I've therefore changed the headline to reflect this.
I've also updated some sections fo the analysis below to include the details from the text itself.
A little under a year ago, I posted a lengthy list of 20 recommendations for repairing, improving and strengthening the Affordable Care Act, entitled "If I Ran the Zoo". Here's a summary list of all 20:
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Idaho: Gov. Otter attempting the "BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD!" gambit
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Over a year and a half ago, I noticed that aside from the usual names being listed as insurance carriers offering individual market policies in various states (Humana, Molina, Blue Cross Blue Shield, etc), there was one other name which kept popping up over and over again: "Freedom Life":
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No, the official OE5 CMS data hasn't been released yet. Yes, the clock is ticking.
Over the past few weeks,I've posted partial 2018 Open Enrollment Period demographic data from Connecticut, Idaho, Maryland, New York and Washington State. Still missing are final wrap-up reports from the other 7 state-based exchanges...as well as The Big One: The official report from the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE).
The 2014 ASPE report was released on May 1st, 2014...just 17 days after the first, tumultuous 2014 Open Enrollment Period ended (only 12 days, really, since the report actually ran through April 19th, 2014 even though the "overtime" period technically ended on April 15th).
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Switching hats from ACA to the ADA for a moment: Call your Senator NOW!
Two weeks ago the United States House of Representatives voted to pass HR 620, officially titled the "ADA Education and Reform Act", with 225 members of Congress voting Yea and 192 voting Nay.
While the vote was mostly along party lines, I was saddened to see that a dozen Democrats joined 213 Republicans to vote for it...putting it over the top.
What would H.R. 620 actually do? I don't know a whole lot about disability advocacy, I admit, but according to the American Civil Liberties Union:
The so-called “ADA Education and Reform Act”weakens the Americans with Disabilities Act and undermines one of the key goals of the law.
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UPDATE: Dear Orrin Hatch: How about a nice cup of STFU?
via Raw Story:
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Thursday called supporters of the Affordable Care Actsome “of the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met” during a speech before the American Enterprise Institute.
“We […] finally did away with the individual mandate tax that was established under that wonderful bill called ‘Obamacare,’” Hatch said, according to Fox News 13. “Now, if you didn’t catch on, I was being very sarcastic.”
“[The Affordable Care Act] was the stupidest, dumbass bill that I’ve ever seen. Now, some of you may have loved it. If you do, you are one of the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met. This was one—and there are a lot of ’em up on Capitol Hill from [that] time,” Hatch added.
Matt Whitlock, a spokesman for Hatch, defended the senators comments, telling Fox News 13, “The comments were obviously made in jest, but what’s not a joke is the harm Obamacare has caused for countless Utahns.”
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Commonwealth: 1/3 of uninsured STILL don't know about ACA exchanges & more
Today must be Healthcare Survey day. First it was the Kaiser Family Foundation's monthly tracking poll; now comes the Commonwealth Fund, which has released their own survey results regarding the Affordable Care Act and healthcare coverage in general:
To gauge the perspectives of Americans on the marketplaces, Medicaid, and other health insurance issues, the Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey interviewed a random, nationally representative sample of 2,410 adults ages 19 to 64 between November 2 and December 27, 2017, including 541 people who have marketplace or Medicaid coverage. The findings are compared to prior ACA tracking surveys, the most recent of which was fielded between March and June 2017. The survey research firm SSRS conducted the survey, which has an overall margin of error is +/– 2.7 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.
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California: Harvard Study concludes mandate repeal = 378K losing coverage in CA alone
Covered California’s Executive Director Addresses Harvard Study on Impact of Eliminating Individual Mandate on Enrollment and Premium
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Covered California Executive Director Peter V. Lee issued the following statement in connection with the Harvard Medical School Study, “Eliminating the Individual Mandate Penalty in California: Harmful but Non-Fatal Changes in Enrollment and Premiums,”published in Health Affairs. The Harvard study, conducted by a team lead by Dr. John Hsu, is the first national effort to measure the potential impacts of removing the individual mandate penalty based on surveying actual California consumers about their likely actions in the face of there being no penalty.
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Kaiser confirms: Millions of people in for a rude awakening next month (& next year)
Back in January, I wrote:
Millions of people who failed to make sure they were enrolled in ACA-compliant healthcare coverage are going to file their tax returns this spring thinking that they don't have to pay a penalty for not doing so only to discover that the penalty is still in effect.
Then, next spring (assuming the IRS sticks to its guns on the issue and there's no further legislative changes made), anyone who didn't #GetCovered for 2018 are also going to have to pay the penalty (which, again, is either $695 per adult/$348 per child or 2.5% of their household Modified Adjusted Gross Income).
The damage caused by the mandate being repealed to the individual market risk pool (and rate premiums) will be felt this November, when people start shopping around for 2019 coverage...but the actual "benefit" (i.e., those who don't get covered not having to pay the mandate penalty) won't show up until spring 2020.
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Kaiser: ~"You don't know what you've got 'til it's (not) gone..."~
The Kaiser Family Foundation runs a highly respected monthly national tracking poll on healthcare issues. Their latest was just released, and while there's a bunch of interesting stuff included, there are two main takeaways. Here's the first:
The February Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds a slight increase in the share of the public who say they have a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), from 50 percent in January 2018 to 54 percent this month. This is the highest level of favorability of the ACA measured in more than 80 Kaiser Health Tracking Polls since 2010. This change is largely driven by independents, with more than half (55 percent) now saying they have a favorable opinion of the law compared to 48 percent last month. Large majorities (83 percent) of Democrats continue to view the law favorably (including six in ten who now say they hold a “very favorable” view, up from 48 percent last month) while nearly eight in ten Republicans (78 percent) view the law unfavorably (unchanged from last month).
Read more about Kaiser: ~"You don't know what you've got 'til it's (not) gone..."~
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Are Red Hat Ceph Storage Clusters affected by the upcoming leap second inclusion on December 31 2016?
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Due to the differences in the earth's rotation speeds due to various geographical factors, Earth's time, also called Solar time, tend to change.
Atomic clocks maintain the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) standard which is used across the globe as a basis for civil time.
Since the Atomic clocks progress at a steady state which does not change, it goes out of sync with the Solar time.
To bring the Atomic clocks in sync with the Solar time, changes are introduced in UTC time in the form of leap seconds.
A leap second essentially pulls back the Atomic clocks and hence UTC by that much, which puts it in sync with the Solar time.
A leap second insertion is coming up on December 31st, 2016.
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