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Oregon outlaws use of so-called ‘cyanide bombs’ as advocates move to take ban nationwide
An M-44, like the one seen here, injured an Idaho boy and killed his dog after the device was accidentally tripped in 2017. Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons
By Kale Williams | The Oregonian/OregonLive
The M-44, a spring-loaded device filled with cyanide used to kill predators, is no longer welcome in Oregon.
On Monday, Gov. Kate Brown signed a law banning the devices, called “cyanide bombs” by some of their detractors, chief among them Brooks Fahy of Eugene, executive director of Predator Defense.
"This is a vital public safety issue that has been addressed," Fahy said in a statement. "M-44s are planted like land mines around Oregon and other states.”
Advocates call on Oregon wildlife officials to ban use of controversial cyanide device
The devices have killed or injured thousands of pets, advocates say.
M-44s are small traps consisting of a stake, which is driven into the ground, a spring and a canister loaded with the powdered poison. Once they're set, the traps resemble sprinkler heads. When triggered, the M-44 ejects a cloud of cyanide meant to kill coyotes, wild dogs or foxes.
The problem, Fahy says, is the indiscriminate nature of the devices.
That fact was laid bare in March 2017 when an Idaho boy, Canyon Mansfield, and his dog Kasey went on their daily walk up the hill behind their Pocatello home. The pair happened upon an M-44 and in a flash of yellow powder, Kasey was killed and Mansfield was injured.
Around the same time Mansfield was injured, a protected wolf in northeast Oregon was killed by an M-44. Fahy said that thousands of other animals, both wild and domestic, have been killed by the devices.
Feds kill wolf in Wallowa County on private land with cyanide trap
A gray wolf was killed on private land in Wallowa County by a controversial cyanide device used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
The ban, Senate Bill 580, bans all sodium cyanide-dispersing devices used for predator control in Oregon. It passed both the House and Senate by wide margins and was signed into law on Monday.
Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency took comments on a proposal to renew registration for sodium cyanide use in M-44s. Of the more than 22,000 comments submitted, only 10 supported continued use of the chemical in the devices, according to an analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity.
For Fahy, though, the new law is not an ending point of his 35-year effort to outlaw the M-44, but the beginning of a push to get the devices banned nationwide.
Last week, Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio, a Democrat, joined with Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz in introducing “Canyon’s Law,” so named for the Idaho boy who fell victim to an M-44. The law would prohibit use of the devices across the country. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced a companion bill in the Senate.
"Cyanide bombs have no place on public land,” Gaetz said in a statement. “These dangerous devices threaten animals and humans alike. Better — and more humane — predator-control tools and techniques already exist.”
-- Kale Williams
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130,000-plus SeaWorld customers could get refunds in $11.5 million settlement of lawsuit
By Gabrielle Russon
SeaWorld's interim CEO John T. Reilly’s challenge is rebuilding the company that has struggled for years with declining attendance and financial struggle after a public backlash from the anti-whale captivity document depicting a trainer’s death in 2010.
Up to 131,650 people who purchased annual passes at SeaWorld’s theme parks in Florida, Texas, Virginia and California could be eligible for a proposed $11.5 million settlement from a class-action lawsuit, according to recently filed court documents.
An Orange County man and three others sued, accusing SeaWorld Entertainment of automatically renewing their annual passes without their permission and then not refunding them for the extra months they paid, according to an amended federal lawsuit filed in Tampa in 2015.
SeaWorld pass holders overpaid $17.3 million beyond their 12 payments as of February 2018, court filings said.
SeaWorld did not admit wrongdoing but agreed to the settlement to avoid a costly trial, court documents said.
The court still must approve the final settlement agreement. Both sides agreed not to discuss the case until then.
The court ruled earlier that SeaWorld violated a law designed to protect consumers who spent money electronically. The customers paid the installments for their passes in less than a year using the “EZpay” system.
SeaWorld, which is based in Orlando, unsuccessfully appealed.
For Floridians, those who purchased their annual passes from Dec. 3, 2008, to Dec. 3, 2014, could be eligible for the settlement. People would receive checks by mail within 40 days of the final settlement date.
Some people not entitled to the pending settlement include those who already received refunds from SeaWorld or used their pass after their first year expired, court documents said.
Court documents outlined how the proposed settlement fund would be distributed. Attorneys could receive up to 25 percent of the settlement — or about $2.9 million — as well as up to about $36,000 in litigation costs. The plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit could each receive $10,000.
Jason Herman, a Pinellas County resident who was one of the four plaintiffs, bought annual passes for SeaWorld Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa, according to the lawsuit.
Herman paid $35.40 for an initial payment in March 2013 and then was charged 11 monthly payments of $35.40.
The pass was paid off in February 2014, but SeaWorld kept charging Herman’s credit card until September 2014.
The theme park company wouldn’t reimburse him for the additional payments when he asked in October 2014, the lawsuit said.
Joey Kratt, of Orange County, alleged a similar experience in court documents.
He bought a pass for Busch Gardens Tampa in January 2013 for a down payment of $13.28 plus 11 reoccurring payments of $13.28.
It was paid off in December 2013, although SeaWorld charged him every month until August 2014, the lawsuit said.
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When he complained, SeaWorld refunded him three of the eight additional months.
The other plaintiffs were from Hernando County in Florida and Chesterfield, Va.
SeaWorld didn’t have the authority to renew their annual passes and charge them, the lawsuit said.
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Florida starts issuing $300 unemployment checks, but thousands are still locked out
GOP Sen. Hyde-Smith wins divisive runoff, keeps her Mississippi seat
By Emily Wagster Pettus
Appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., with President Donald Trump, speaks during a rally Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, in Biloxi, Miss. Trump encouraged voters to support Hyde-Smith's runoff race against Democrat Mike Espy. (Rogelio V. Solis / AP)
Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive Mississippi runoff Tuesday, surviving a video-recorded remark decried as racist and defeating a former federal official who hoped to become the state's first African-American senator since Reconstruction.
The runoff was rocked by the video, in which Hyde-Smith said of a supporter, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." A separate video showed her talking about "liberal folks" and making it "just a little more difficult" for them to vote.
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President Donald Trump on Monday inserted himself into a searing racial debate here in the cradle of the Confederacy, barnstorming Mississippi on the eve of a
By Philip Rucker
The comments by Hyde-Smith, who is white, made Mississippi's history of racist lynchings a theme of the runoff and spurred many black voters to return to the polls Tuesday.
In the aftermath of the video, Republicans worried they could face a repeat of last year's special election in Alabama, in which a flawed Republican candidate handed Democrats a reliable GOP Senate seat in the Deep South. The GOP pumped resources into Mississippi, and President Donald Trump made a strong effort on behalf of Hyde-Smith, holding last-minute rallies in Mississippi on Monday.
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Mississippi is preparing for a runoff Tuesday between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy in a contest that has taken on racial overtones.
Her supporters portrayed the furor over her comments as overblown.
"So many things are taken out of context," said Elizabeth Gallinghouse, 84, from Diamondhead, Mississippi. "The fact that she toured Jefferson Davis's house. You or I could have done the same thing. They said, 'Put this cap on. Hold this gun.' It was a fun time. She wasn't trying to send any messages."
The contest caps a campaign season that exposed persistent racial divisions in America — and the willingness of some political candidates to exploit them to win elections. With Hyde-Smith's victory, Republicans control 53 of the Senate's 100 seats. The GOP lost control of the House, where Democrats will assume the majority in January.
In the final weeks of the runoff, Hyde-Smith's campaign said the remark about making voting difficult was a joke. She said the "public hanging" comment was "an exaggerated expression of regard" for a fellow cattle rancher. During a televised debate nine days after the video was publicized, she apologized to "anyone that was offended by my comments," but also said the remark was used as a "weapon" against her.
Mississippi senator criticized for 'public hanging' remark
Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, said Sunday that her Nov. 2 remark was "an exaggerated expression of regard."
Democratic opponent Mike Espy, 64, a former U.S. agriculture secretary, replied: "I don't know what's in your heart, but I know what came out of your mouth."
The "public hanging" comment also resonated with his supporters.
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Some corporate donors, including Walmart, requested refunds on their campaign contributions to Hyde-Smith after the videos surfaced.
Hyde-Smith was in her second term as Mississippi agriculture commissioner when Republican Gov. Phil Bryant appointed her to temporarily succeed GOP Sen. Thad Cochran. The longtime lawmaker retired in April amid health concerns.
The win makes Hyde-Smith, 59, the first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith and Espy emerged from a field of four candidates Nov. 6 to advance to Tuesday's runoff. Her win allows her to complete the final two years of Cochran's six-year term.
Shortly after the win Tuesday, Trump tweeted: "Congratulations to Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith on your big WIN in the Great State of Mississippi. We are all very proud of you!"
Associated Press writers Jeff Amy and Janet McConnaughey contributed to this report.
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Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing. Here’s what it will take to gain control
No single measure is perfect, but combining them all is like stacking Swiss cheese
By Jonathan Lambert and Tina Hesman Saey, Science News
November is beginning to feel a lot like last March.
In Europe, where the coronavirus was largely under control for much of the summer and fall, cases are skyrocketing nearly everywhere. Twenty countries, including the United Kingdom and France, have shuttered restaurants, introduced curfews or generally urged people to stay at home, though most schools and universities are staying open for now.
Cases are surging across the United States, too, where more than 100,000 new infections are being reported each day. Already in November, more than half of states have set records for the most cases in a week, and in places such as Minnesota, Utah and Wisconsin, some hospitals are nearing capacity. In North Dakota, nearly 1 in every 14 people has already contracted the coronavirus, with 2,254 cases reported Nov. 8 alone in a state of 762,000 people.
To make matters worse, “the virus is going into its sweet spot at a time that we’re exhausted by it,” says Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious diseases epidemiologist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. That sweet spot is indoors, where people are spending more time as the weather in the Northern Hemisphere turns colder — and where the virus can spread more easily.
Despite such a grave outlook, experts say it’s still not too late to turn the tide.
Shutting down borders, businesses and schools are among the most drastic measures to do that. Worries over economic consequences may hold governments back from issuing widespread stay-at-home orders this time around, though.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who unveiled a COVID-19 advisory board Nov. 9, has proposed a multipronged plan for controlling the pandemic, including nationwide mask mandates and expanded testing. But Biden won’t take office until January 20, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly downplayed the surge in cases.
While getting a COVID-19 vaccine — or vaccines — is closer than ever (SN: 11/9/20), most experts agree that vaccines probably won’t be available to everybody until late spring or early summer.
That means getting through the winter will require falling back on the familiar public health tools of physical distancing, mask wearing, and testing and isolating infected people, Shaman says. But all of those measures fall short unless everyone is willing to follow the rules.
Living in this reality can be draining, acknowledges Aleksandra Zając, a doctor specializing in nuclear medicine in Warsaw. Doctors and patients alike are tired of not being able to leave their homes and having to wear a mask when they do, she says, but “as a doctor, I really see the need for all those restrictions.” People aren’t helpless against the virus, she says. “We still have some impact on what’s going on.”
Zając devised a calculator to help people learn how much wearing masks and goggles, regularly washing their hands and keeping distance from others might help protect them. Alone, none of those measures is perfect, but doing them all together can boost protection, like layering slices of Swiss cheese so that holes in one slice are covered by another slice. The Swiss cheese idea is not new, but it’s still relevant for stacking public health measures, Zając says. It goes for individual actions, too.
“One individual cannot do much” beyond protecting themselves, Zając says, “but if we sum up all the individuals together and they all follow the rules, I truly believe we can control this pandemic.”
Scientists know much more about the virus than they did in March, and that knowledge can help make the most of all the public health tools at our disposal.
Dozens of studies have made it abundantly clear that wearing a mask is one of the most effective steps an individual can take to help curb the pandemic. Masks are especially crucial in lessening the risk of someone who doesn’t know they’re infected passing the virus to someone else (SN: 6/26/20).
Additionally, there’s a growing understanding among scientists that masks are good for the wearer too. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their scientific guidance on Nov. 10 to acknowledge that cloth masks can reduce the number of infectious droplets inhaled by the wearer, which offers a degree of protection, especially when masks are multi-layered.
In a study published Oct. 23 in Nature Medicine, scientists estimate that if 95 percent of people wore masks when outside their homes, nearly 130,000 deaths from COVID-19 might be averted in the United States between the end of September and the end of February 2021. If 85 percent of people wear masks, about 96,000 lives might be saved, the researchers calculate.
The debate over which kind of mask is best, however, has been spirited (SN: 8/12/20).
When it comes to ubiquitous cloth masks, only one randomized clinical trial in the world is testing their effectiveness in preventing COVID-19. That trial in Guinea-Bissau is giving all 66,000 expected participants advice about how to avoid respiratory illnesses. Half of those people will each also get two locally sewn cloth masks. The trial is expected to wrap up in November.
Some research on the prevention of other respiratory illnesses suggests that a cloth mask’s effectiveness depends on many factors, including wearing the mask properly over both the nose and mouth. Regular washing in hot water is also necessary, says Raina MacIntyre, a mask researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
In 2015, she and colleagues published in BMJ Open results of a trial conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam. Roughly 1,600 health care workers at 15 hospitals were assigned to either wear a medical mask at all times during their shift, to wear a two-layer cloth mask or to follow the hospital’s standard practice, which may or may not involve wearing a mask. The results weren’t encouraging. At the end of the five-week study, people in the cloth mask group had the highest rate of respiratory infections, such as colds — even higher than the group that wasn’t regularly wearing masks. The researchers concluded that health care workers shouldn’t wear cloth masks and opt instead for medical masks.
The trial was very controversial, MacIntyre says, “because the message was that cloth masks could be dangerous. That caused a lot of angst during the pandemic. In March and April, I had a lot of health workers in the U.S. and Europe contacting me and saying, ‘The hospital has run out of respirators. Is it better I wear no mask than wear a cloth mask?’”
That prompted MacIntyre and colleagues to examine unpublished data from the trial. Both surgical and cloth masks get contaminated with respiratory viruses, the researchers found. But surgical masks are disposable. If people didn’t wash their reusable cloth masks every day, the masks became more and more contaminated.
“If you washed your cloth mask in a washing machine with hot water, you were just as protected as wearing a surgical mask,” MacIntyre says. But workers who hand-washed their masks had double the risk of infection of those wearing a medical mask, the researchers reported September 28 in BMJ Open.
“The bottom line is, the washing is part of the protective effect of a cloth mask,” MacIntyre says. She recommends a daily wash in water at 60° to 90° Celsius, far hotter than anyone could stand to hand-wash. Shrinkage from hot water also tightens up pores in the mask, keeping the virus from slipping through easily.
Health care workers should also wear protective goggles to prevent rare cases of infection through the eye, MacIntyre says. But determining whether people going about their daily lives need goggles, face shields or other eye protection in addition to masks is a tricky bit of calculus, she says. “You have to look at community transmission rates. You have to look at where you’re actually going. Are you just going for a walk outside or are you going to a doctor’s surgery and are going to be sitting in an unventilated waiting room for two hours?”
The best most people can do is to take all the precautions they can, including avoiding large gatherings — especially indoors — wearing masks and keeping distance from people they don’t live with.
Fine-tuning lockdowns
Early in the pandemic, lockdowns and social distancing measures (of varying severity) enacted in many countries largely worked. Staying at home starved the virus of transmission opportunities, preventing over 500 million infections in six hard-hit countries, according to some experts (SN: 6/9/20).
Circumstances are different now. “I don’t think we’ll lock down at that scale again,” says Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a member of Biden’s task force. Now that scientists have a better understanding of transmission, blanket lockdowns may not be needed. Instead, restrictions could focus on crowded, poorly ventilated spaces like restaurants and bars.
If cases continue to grow exponentially, however, stricter lockdowns may be the only tool left to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. But such measures are increasingly less palatable to many Americans, Osterholm says. “What the public will accept is key. If they won’t comply, it doesn’t really matter what you recommend or how you recommend it.”
Limits of lockdowns
Stay-at-home orders also don’t stop transmission within a household, where experts are learning that the virus can rapidly spread. In a sample of 101 homes with a positive coronavirus test, 53 percent of other people living in those homes became quickly infected, researchers reported in the Nov. 6 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
“We know that it’s really gatherings in close contact indoors that are riskiest,” says Alison Hill, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University. “There’s no reason why if you’re in your own house or among family or friends to think that the disease can’t spread.” Isolating infected members of a household, wearing masks and improving ventilation can limit household transmission, she says.
And not everyone can stay home, which has contributed to inequities in who is getting sick in this pandemic.
In the United States, residents of poorer neighborhoods, often home to racial and ethnic minorities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 (SN:4/10/20), were less likely to stay at home during the early months of the pandemic than residents of richer neighborhoods. Cell phone mobility data suggest that this difference stems from work-related demands, according to a study published Nov. 3 in Nature Human Behavior. Residents of the highest-income neighborhoods reduced days at work outside the home by 13.7 percent, compared with 6.6 percent for residents of lower-income neighborhoods, Jonathan Jay, a public health researcher at Boston University, and colleagues found.
Many residents of lower-income neighborhoods work jobs that can’t be done from home. But when there was a choice, people in these neighborhoods did limit their activities, Jay says. The data showed that people of all income groups reduced outings unrelated to work at roughly similar levels.
Policies like restricting evictions so people don’t fear losing their home if they miss work, expanding unemployment insurance and mandating paid sick leave could help these residents physically distance, Jay says.
Lockdowns by themselves will not end the pandemic. They are only supposed to be temporary measures that buy time for local and state health departments to beef up other infection-control strategies. Crucial among these are testing and contact tracing, a tried-and-true public health intervention whereby contacts of positive cases are quickly identified and instructed to quarantine (SN: 4/29/20).
“Contact tracing is really key when you have a disease that’s as fast-spreading as COVID-19,” because it breaks crucial chains of transmission, says Martial Ndeffo, an infectious diseases researcher at Texas A&M University in College Station.
Contact tracing and isolation is most powerful when cases are identified early in the course of infection, their contacts are traced and informed of their exposure quickly, and those contacts comply with requests to quarantine. Such a system requires broadly available testing and lots of contact tracers to do the detective work.
Otherwise, even with relatively small caseloads, contact tracing systems can’t keep up with a growing epidemic. At this point, most of the United States can’t keep up. In October, only three states and the District of Columbia had enough full-time contact tracers to deal with current caseloads, according to a survey conducted by NPR and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. And as cases climb, even well-staffed systems could be overwhelmed.
“Given the number of cases in the U.S., it is unrealistic to think that most states have the resources and available staff to raise the army of contact tracers needed,” Ndeffo says. Biden’s COVID-19 response plan includes efforts to “mobilize at least 100,000 Americans across the country” to boost the contact tracing effort. Currently, there are just over 50,000 contact tracers nationwide.
Robust contact tracing systems work only if people comply with public health officials and share their contact history or quarantine if necessary. Yet only 58 percent of Americans would be likely to speak with a public health official who contacted them by phone or text message about the coronavirus outbreak, according to a Pew Research survey released Oct. 30. “A substantial number of people do not comply with or provide adequate information needed for contact tracing to be effective,” Ndeffo says. Clearer and more consistent public health messaging could improve these numbers.
Time is of the essence
It’s important to act quickly to introduce social distancing measures when case counts begin to surge, as they are now in the United States and Europe, Shaman says, because outbreaks grow at exponential rates. “Exponential growth leads to a tsunami-like effect; it gets worse the longer you wait on it.”
He and colleagues simulated what would have happened had states done exactly what they did at the beginning of the U.S. epidemic in March, only earlier. Enacting social distancing and stay-at-home orders on March 1 instead of March 8 would have headed off about 600,000 confirmed cases and 32,000 deaths. Acting two weeks earlier would have avoided more than 1 million cases and about 60,000 deaths nationwide, Shaman and colleagues reported Nov. 6 in Science Advances.
No one can turn back the clock. But countries including Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia have shown that acting aggressively can curb the spread of the virus. “Going forward, the longer you delay in acting on this virus the more damage it does,” both to people who are infected and to the economy, Shaman says.
For instance, at the end of September, 89 counties in Tennessee eased or removed social distancing restrictions. But as COVID-19 cases rose, traffic to bars and restaurants decreased, researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville report. Cell phone mobility data as of Oct. 21 suggest that business dropped once restrictions were lifted and was 24 percent below where it was during the same time in 2019. Those findings suggest that infection rates, not restrictions, have a bigger effect on people’s choices, the researchers conclude.
“If you don’t control the virus,” Shaman says, “you’re not going to have an economy.”
This story was originally published by Science News, a nonprofit independent news organization.
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BOSTON CITY FC 1, BROOKLYN ITALIANS 0
Midfielder Michael Bustamante’s fourth goal of the season earned Boston City a hard-fought 1-0 win over the Brooklyn Italians to open a four-match National Premier Soccer League home stand with a victory on Sunday night.
The Lions finally broke a stalemate after 56 minutes when full back Guilherme Desousa won a tussle on the right wing and put in a curling cross and Bustamante controlled and turned his marker before finding the net. The Colombian now leads the team in scoring.
“We knew that the goal was going to come,” said Bustamante. “We had plenty of chances and the keeper was fortunate that a lot of balls were going towards him. We knew we were going to get a goal, it was just a matter of time.”
Jhonata Batista, whose tricky footwork had delighted the crowd in the first half, was presented with an almost identical chance to double the advantage a minute later but his shot flashed agonizingly wide of the far post.
Teenage keeper Victor Scariot kept Boston in the match and ultimately preserved three points late in the contest with a superb stop as he pushed away a close range shot on the turn by Rasmus Hansen, who had scored a hat trick when the Italians won 5-2 on home soil last month.
Boston’s first chance of the match came after seven minutes when Ronaldo Vieira and Samuel Batista broke through the middle from a cleared Brooklyn free kick. The combination fed Yaw Addow on left and his curling cross with the outside of his right boot was met in air by a flying Homero Morais, but keeper Joseph Blasetti made a reflex save.
Skipper Vieira directed a header straight at the keeper from a Morais cross then at the other end just before the quarter of an hour mark, a curling Salvatore Barone free kick troubled home keeper Scariot. The Italians had another chance after 35 minutes when Harry Odell raced onto a through ball, won the race between defenders and poked a shot past Scariot, but Marcelo Cunha recovered to clear for a corner.
The Lions were forced to make a change after 32 minutes when striker Yaw Addow (pictured below), starting his first match in four having become a weapon when coming off the bench, suffered a knee injury and was replaced by Daniel Silva.
“It changed the whole game plan that we talked about throughout the week,” added Bustamante. “He makes things happen and it’s no secret that he’s a big target up front. We have good and technical players who can adapt and change games and that’s what we did today.”
Blasetti produced the save of the half in injury time when Vieira flicked on a fierce Bustamante corner that was destined for the top corner until the keeper’s hand instinctively swatted the ball away.
Boston City might have gone ahead after 52 minutes when a Bustamante raid down the right wing resulted in a cross beyond the last defender to Samuel Batista, whose first time finish flew high over the cross bar.
The Lions return to Brother Gilbert Field at Malden Catholic High School at 8pmWednesday night for the visit of Kingston Stockade.
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Kiwis v Cook Islands Test called off
New Zealand Rugby League chief executive Jim Doyle today announced the national body had reluctantly decided to call off next week’s Test against the Cooks Islands in Rarotonga.
The Kiwis were due to fly to the Cook Islands next Tuesday to play their first-ever Test there on October 6. But Doyle said the unavailability of 29 frontline contenders had left the NZRL with no option but to cancel the Test.
“We are committed to rescheduling the Test in the Cook Islands in the future but we aren’t in the position to be able to do the event justice on this occasion,” he said.
“There are so many players out of contention that we simply wouldn’t be able to select a side which would be of the standard we require to represent New Zealand in a Test match.
“We’re bitterly disappointed it has come to this because this match was critical for us in terms of preparation for the Test against Australia on October 16 and the Four Nations to follow. It was also vital to help foster the game in the islands.”
Players unavailable through injury or finals commitments were Gerard Beale, Kevin Locke, Josh Hoffman, Lance Hohaia, Manu Vatuvei, Matt Duffie, Sam Perrett, Jason Nightingale, Krisnan Inu, Bill Tupou, Simon Mannering, Steve Matai, Lewis Brown, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Benji Marshall, Kieran Foran, Shaun Johnson, Nathan Fien, Ben Matulino, Russell Packer, Adam Blair, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Greg Eastwood, Sam Rapira, Alex Glenn, Frank Pritchard, Aaron Heremaia, Thomas Leuluai and Bronson Harrison.
While the match had been called off, Doyle said a group of key players would travel to Rarotonga next week to make community appearances there. Doyle said the Kiwis’ squad for the one-off Test against Australia and the Four Nations to follow was due to be named on October 6.
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Inglis on track for Charity Shield return
Martin Gabor
Tue 10 Oct 2017, 10:00 AM
Rabbitohs coach Anthony Seibold has revealed star fullback Greg Inglis is on track to return from a serious knee injury in time for South Sydney's annual pre-season Charity Shield hit-out against the Dragons.
Inglis ruptured his ACL in the Round 1 loss to the Wests Tigers, and despite bravely playing on to score a try he was eventually taken from the field with scans revealing he would miss the rest of the 2017 campaign.
It was a cruel blow for the destructive custodian but after an extensive rehabilitation program, Inglis is aiming to make his return against the Red V in what would be a huge boost for Souths' momentum leading into the new season.
"When we come back in early November, Greg is going to be continuing his rehab running. In December he'll go into doing some light skills in full team conditioning with the view of being ready for full skills in January," recently-appointed Rabbitohs coach Anthony Seibold told NRL360.
"Greg's aim is to play the Charity Shield against the Dragons and all our performance staff, their indication is that he'll be right for that game."
Regardless of whether Inglis plays at fullback or makes the move to centre, he will need his forwards to lay a platform to give him enough space to work his magic.
Central to that will be the Burgess twins, Tom and George, and Souths fans will be hopeful they can return to the 2014 form that helped the Bunnies to a drought-breaking premiership.
Once regarded as the most damaging big men in the game, George has struggled for form in the wake of a serious hip injury while Tom was heavily criticised for his ball-handling last season which saw him come up with 18 errors.
Seibold concedes that the brothers have a few areas they need to work on.
"I think at times Tom played consistently well at times during the year, but there were other times where he was criticised publicly for making errors, and I think sometimes both Tom and George are unfairly criticised because people, when they watch at home, see one person when they're two different people," he said.
"George has got a really big season coming up, and George would understand that. He wasn't at his best this year and we certainly have given him some areas that we want him to improve in – both physical areas and also from a footy point of view – and George has taken that on board so let's see what he can produce over the pre-season."
The English duo were publicly criticised by former Rabbitoh Mark Carroll for their playing weight, and Seibold agrees it's something they can work on if they want to keep up with the ever-increasing pace of the game.
"I think what we're looking at is to help them increase their mobility. The game is continuing to evolve from a speed point of view; all the GPS data suggests that," the rookie coach said.
"When they were at their best a few years ago there were more interchanges than there are now, and I think if you look at our defensive cycle Souths are a big team that have three in the tackle.
"I think we finished second for numbers in the tackle in 2017 so the challenge for big bodies like Tom and George is if they're the third man to get back onside and reload and get back and engage and head off for that line going forward.
"They're both hard workers and they've got great attitudes and I'm really confident that we'll see George and Tom play great football in 2018."
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bp acquires majority stake in largest US forest carbon offset developer Finite Carbon
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By NS Energy Staff Writer 17 Dec 2020
Finite Carbon will be able to leverage bp’s global footprint to support expanding its operations internationally
bp acquires majority stake in largest US forest carbon offset developer Finite Carbon(Credit: Finite Carbon Corporation)
bp has acquired a majority stake in carbon offset developer Finite Carbon, building on its existing interest in the company. Finite Carbon is the largest developer of forest carbon offsets in the US.
bp will bring the firm into its in-house business accelerator, bp Launchpad. Together with bp’s additional investment, this is expected to bolster Finite Carbon’s expansion, including into new geographical markets.
Finite Carbon identifies and develops projects that enable landowners to generate revenue from the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of forests. These actions increase carbon stored in forests and generate carbon offsets that are verified against industry-recognized standards and can be traded on markets.
Sean Carney, founder of Finite Carbon added: “Putting a price on carbon can make it possible for anyone with the ability to protect, plant, or improve forests to generate revenue from their efforts. However, there is currently limited infrastructure to quantify, monitor, and verify these actions at scale. Thanks to this unique partnership with bp, Finite Carbon now has the resources of a global energy company behind it to help address this enormous environmental challenge and help small landowners access this market.”
David Eyton, executive vice president of innovation and engineering said: “Finite Carbon has the potential to build a global platform for managing and financing natural climate solutions (NCS). Deepening our partnership will allow them to accelerate their development and expansion. Finite Carbon’s progression through bp – from venturing investment to majority ownership and introduction to Launchpad – is a great example of how we are applying our unique innovation ecosystem to foster innovation and build material energy businesses in support of our net zero ambition.”
Finite Carbon now has 50 carbon projects on three million acres in the US which have registered more than 70 million independently-verified offsets and generated more than $500 million in revenue for landowners. The increased investment will aid the delivery of a further $1 billion to landowners by 2030 from its existing business lines and its new CORE Carbon platform.
David Eyton, bp’s executive vice president of innovation and engineering, added: “Finite Carbon has the potential to build a global platform for managing and financing natural climate solutions (NCS). Deepening our partnership will allow them to accelerate their development and expansion. Finite Carbon’s progression through bp – from venturing investment to majority ownership and introduction to Launchpad – is a great example of how we are applying our unique innovation ecosystem to foster innovation and build material energy businesses in support of our net zero ambition.”
bp Launchpad focuses on providing multi-year funding and support for rapid start-up development with bp as a majority shareholder. It offers founders and teams business building capabilities and expertise in operations, finance, tech, growth marketing, talent, and corporate development, alongside long-term growth with an incentivized exit path.
Finite Carbon will be able to leverage bp’s global footprint to support expanding its operations internationally and to access bp’s technological infrastructure to scale up the voluntary carbon market, while also supporting efforts to restore, maintain, and enhance biodiversity.
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– 1884 NSW Football Tour of Queensland
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Just four years after the game was introduced into Sydney, the NSW Football Association took the bold step of an 18 day tour of Queensland. Was it a success?
Sydney officials pondered over their decision but because their northern neighbours offered to pay all expenses, which was normal for the time, and rugby had already had a foot in the door, they agreed.
The offer was an attractive one and the contingent was made up of twenty five players and “one visitor.”
Australian football in Sydney commenced in 1880 with the formation of the Association, not that much later Sydney and East Sydney clubs were founded. By 1884 four clubs were competing but this was in the face of rugby which by this stage had fifty odd clubs spread across NSW.
Of the four clubs, three were senior clubs and it was from these that the representative team was mostly chosen. George Crisp, recognized as the founder of the game in Sydney, was appointed captain.
Queenlanders’ attitude towards football was a generic one. It appeared most clubs played football under both Australian and Rugby rules, although the early preference seemed to be towards the Australian.
The NSW contingent was comprised of: Edward Weller (Manager – pictured), R B Sibley, William Butler, J Fitzpatrick, George O’Neill, William Goer, Charles Dew, Robert Grainger, Arthur McHarg, Samuel W Kirke, James B Tooher, Harry T Williams, Walter C Marshall, George A Crisp, James M Conroy, Robert Buchan, Henry Wren, Charles Hardie, Claude Fletcher, Hugh A Munro, W H Parkinson, J McGuigan, George Jones, Michael Sullivan, George Bailey and William Battye.
Wren and Hardie were selected from Wagga. It must have been a fair effort for all of these men to make the trip which covered a period of 18 days. This was when a six day working week was the norm. No question. As to how they managed to be away for this period of time is baffling, given there was no annual leave. Several players chosen did not make the trip and were replaced.
Because the northern rail line had not been connected, travel to Brisbane was by way of steamer in which the contingent travelled ‘saloon’ class.
They were met upon their arrival by a considerable number of the local football fraternity and quickly whisked away to their place of residence where a marvellous period of hospitality began.
Their first game was against Queensland. Like Sydney, the number of players Queensland could select from was limited and several who claimed a rugby background were included. NSW won the encounter.
In all they played seven matches:
Note: Behinds were recorded in scores but not counted in the total. Goals had the value of 1 point.
To play the Combined Darling Downs game, the team left Brisbane on the 6:00am Monday train for the 132km trip to Toowoomba. The government set aside a special carriage for the team in their six hour journey. A very large crowd met them at the station when the train arrived a little late.
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Again, the level of hospitality shown the visiting group was astounding. That given in Brisbane was extra ordinary, but in Toowoomba, and later Ipswich, a half holiday was declared in honour of the visit. They stayed at another Phillips Hotel, in fact, one of the largest in the district, where a special luncheon was provided and presided over by the Mayor and speaker in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Hon. William H Groom. And all this was just prior to a match against the combined Darling Downs side which was played on the Aubigny Cricket Club Ground.
The NSW team had their photo taken by local photographer, Mr Roggenkamp at the residence of the Hon. Mr James Taylor, located almost opposite the ground. Heaven knows where a copy of the photo might be.
The team was defeated in their final game against Queensland, 3.7 to 2.9 but they were not without their chances. The crowd estimated at 2000 burst into thunderous applause at the conclusion of the game and the Queensland captain Kelly was chaired from the ground.
Then on Monday 1 September, a ball was given in the team’s honour. It was held at the Albert Hall with merriment continuing until 4:00am.
The following day they played a game of social cricket against the Trimble Bros. Reading Club in Brisbane. In the evening, the team was afforded a dinner hosted by Mr H W Sizer of the Globe Hotel. The team left by steamer the next day.
Then upon their return to Sydney an official reception was extended to them at the Cambridge Club Hotel in Oxford Street. There, George Crisp spoke in glowing terms of the hospitality the team received in Queensland.
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1973 NSWAFL Teale Cup (U17) State Team
The N.S.W. 1973 Teal Cup Representative Team:
Graham Smith, Robert Darling, Brian Fitzgerald, Ray Boland, Des Fuerhardt, Greg Brentnall, David Slip, Bruce Harrison, Mal Robson, Grant McCallum, Greg Perry, Robert Hall, Peter Anderson, Stephen Hunt Kim McAuliffe, Gary Buchanan, Alan Dunlop, Greg Bee, Lee Rand, Alan Taylor, Peter Longmire, Laurie Ashford, Paul Sheppard, Robert Maiden.
As indicated by our President's Report, we were unable to have the team come together for training purposes, and under the circumstances the performances of the team clearly shows our prospects are bright as far as the future of the Teal Cup is concerned.
We are grateful to the Country areas for their splendid co-operation, particularly Messrs. W. Driver, D. Ferguson, and Bro. Peter (Riverina Schoolboys' League), and Messrs. Col Donnelly and John Warren of Albury, In addition to C. Blackshaw, who did much to bring about co-ordinabon.
The compilation of the final team shows Newcastle (1), Illawarra (1), Riverina (4), Albury-Lavington (5), Sydney-Metropolitan (11) furnished players for the State Team.
State Teale Cup Coach Mr. W. (Bill) Free and Team Manager Mr. E. (Ted) Ray are to be commended for the manner in which they carried out their duties, ably assisted by State C. H. S. Coach, Mr. Bruce Lucas.
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This website was redeveloped with the support of Arts NSW's Cultural Grant Program, a devolved funding administered by the Royal Australian Historical Society on behalf of the NSW Government.
Copyright © 2020 New South Wales Australian Football History Society Inc.
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Deb Gibbons
WELLES - "ARE YOU FEELING LIKE ME"
The minute I heard this song begin to play, I fell in love. The slow acoustic introduction, paired with Jehsea Wells’ droning Kurt Cobain styled voice make a gorgeous melody for this track. This is the type of song you would tune into with a cup of joe, sitting on your front porch on a Sunday afternoon.
Then the pick-me-up kicks in with an awesomely suitable drum introduction, giving the song a “Strawberry Fields” vibe; very mellow, but also something you could tap your toes to. Lyrically, the song circulates around the topic of depression and how it has made him into someone he is not, and does not want to be. Reaching out to connect with listeners, the setting is displayed through the chorus;
“Are you feeling like me / Are you blue as can be…”
The song continues as the artist examines himself in this state; “Sometimes I get so heavy and I drag you along/ And that’s not me…/ I like the times of healing but it’s taking too long/ And that’s not me…/ That’s all I can be/ It’s all I’m wanting to be/ Are you feeling like me/ Are you blue as can be…”
Welles describes the reality, but also lightness of his music best by saying; “I write from honest places…I’m so captured in the moment of watching yourself aging. That horrifies me and that compels me to write some scary s**t… Reality, at times is pretty sour. There’s no sense in making something just for darkness’ sake. I like everything to have a curve on it.” Jehsea also describe his music as “burnt toast”, which I interpret as him saying; it isn’t for everyone, but some people will really enjoy the ‘different taste’ of his music.
Jehsea wraps up the track with his feelings of wrapping up life; “I get hung up in my head y’ know its leading me on/ And that’s not me/ If it comes too much to bear then I’ll be give and go/ And that’s not me/ I’m just lost as can be/ Are you feeling like me/ Are you blue as can be…”. The repetitive chorus “Are you feeling like me/ Are you blue as can be” closes the song and reinforces the feeling of hopelessness and loss, while the rhythm still keeps the tone upbeat, reminding listeners that they are not alone.
Although only 22 years old, this Arkansas native has already started making a name for himself at multiple music festivals, including this year’s Bonnaroo, Governor’s Ball, and SXSW. After a recent move to Nashville to further his music career, Jehsea announced the upcoming release of his debut album, scheduled to come out this June.
So, go grab your cup of java and give Welles’ “Are You Feeling Like Me” a listen.
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The Pound Era
by Hugh Kenner
University of California Press, 606 pp., $14.95
A ZBC of Ezra Pound
by Christine Brooke-Rose
University of California Press, 297 pp., $7.95
Ezra Pound; drawing by David Levine
Shall two know the same in their knowing? You who dare Persephone’s threshold, Beloved, do not fall apart in my hands.
(Canto 93)
Down, Derry-down/ Oh let an old man rest.
Ezra Pound, aged eighty-seven, died in the night of November 1, 1972, released at last from a long, agitated silence (“but the mind as Ixion, unstill, ever turning”). For ten years, haunted by despair, contrition, or some other, nameless, more complicated sentiment, he had spoken very little. “I ruin everything I touch,” he told an Italian journalist in 1963. “I have been mistaken, always…I have arrived at doubt too late….” He thought The Cantos were “botched,” and confessed to Allen Ginsberg (in a conversation reported by Michael Reck in Evergreen Review) that his worst mistake had been “that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”
The drafts and fragments of the late Cantos, published in 1969—Pound himself appearing at Hamilton College, his old school, to autograph copies, to sign his good-by to his great, ruined poem—are full of cries of helplessness and repentance:
But the beauty is not the madness
Tho’ my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.
If love be not in the house there is nothing.
(Canto 116)
M’amour, m’amour
what do I love and
That I lost my center
fighting the world.
The dreams clash
and are shattered—
and that I tried to make a paradiso
terrestre.
(Notes for Canto 117 et seq.)
But while, such feelings deserve all our respect, and while the writing deserves our admiration, it is a mistake, I think, to let Pound go out on this elegiac, remorseful note, with a whimper not a bang, in just the way that an earlier, fiercer Pound had insisted was not for him:
yet say this to the Possum: a bang, not a whimper, with a bang not with whimper….
Pound’s errors and wrecks, in other words, need to be answered by his achievements, not by his apologies, however heartfelt, and I, for one, am not convinced that The Cantos are botched. They are flawed, certainly, and on occasion simply impenetrable. They contain appalling lapses of tone and they are full of strange, often disagreeable obsessions. Yet in their final effect they seem to me to belong unmistakably with Ulysses and The Waste Land, and to be all the more impressive for being so uncomposed, so angry and tender and dishevelled—for daring to appear in public in such disarray.
Certainly they won’t hold the world together, as Pound hoped they would. But then neither will any other poem, and The Cantos, flaws, disarray, impenetrability and all, do hold themselves together well enough for us to respond to them as a single, continuing enterprise, the project of an erratic, divided, buffeted but finally coherent lifetime, the fruit of Pound’s intense and persistent attention to the world around him. Attention: no word recurs more frequently in Hugh Kenner’s admirable new book: “God is concentrated attention; a work of art is someone’s act of attention, evoking ours; there have been great feats of attention.”
The difficulties of reading The Cantos are not, in my recent experience, so extreme as they are often said to be. It would be absurd to pretend that the poem is self-contained, self-sufficient, or that its proliferating allusions are self-explanatory. But it is more self-contained than it looks when you look only at fragments of it, and its allusions are often explained by their contexts, or by their repeated appearances in changing contexts. “It is Pound’s peculiarity,” Noel Stock writes in Reading the Cantos (an insidious title, since the book is really an invitation to stay away), “to think that because he knows something therefore we know it too.” Pound does write at times as if he thought this, and when he does his poem is not working. But for most of the time, it seems to me, it is Pound’s peculiarity to be able to make us know what he knows, to let us into his world of allusions and to make us feel, once we are there, that we have been there a long time.
He gives us, that is, the culture he wants us to have. To a great degree one learns the language of The Cantos by reading The Cantos. I should say, before I go any further, that I am far from being a Pound scholar, that I can read neither Greek nor Chinese, and that I miss as many classical allusions as the next man. But with The Cantos as with Finnegans Wake, for most of us it is not a question of understanding everything (although that would be nice) but of understanding enough—enough for the work to exist for us, to be something more than inert marks on a page.
Our readings of The Cantos are likely to remain incomplete, then, and the poem itself is also incomplete because Pound abandoned it. But there is more. The poem is not only unfinished, it is in one sense unfinishable. Pound, like Proust, like Musil, was a man who discovered at the mid-point of his life a work that would occupy him until he died. Which is a way of saying he had started a work he would never finish, had invented a form which his whole life would feed but which only his death could close. Yeats wrote of Pound that he gave the impression of not having got all the wine into the bowl, and Donald Davie (in Ezra Pound: The Poet as Sculptor, 1964) comments that this may have been the effect Pound wanted. Davie goes on:
If he is sure that there is more to his subject (more perhaps to any subject) than he got out of it, or ever could get out of it, if he believes that all the wine never can be got into the bowl or into any bowl, then, like Michelangelo leaving some portion of stone unworked worked in his sculptures, the poet will deliberately seek an effect of improvisation, of haste and rough edges. For only in this way can he be true to his sense of the inexhaustibility of the human and non-human nature he is working with….
Thomas Mann’s Adrian Leverkühn thought a modern work impossible, because its closure would be an infidelity not so much to the world’s inexhaustibility as to its inherent, encroaching chaos, and Pound himself wrote, as if in anticipation of Dr. Faustus,
Art very possibly ought to be the supreme achievement, the “accomplished”; but there is the other satisfactory effect, that of a man hurling himself at an indomitable chaos and yanking and hauling as much of it as possible into some sort of order (or beauty), aware of it both as chaos and as potential.
Some sort of order. Leverkühn’s creator made works so finely, so perfectly closed that their closure is a mockery, an acknowledgment of the chaos only seemingly held at bay. Joyce ended Ulysses on a monologue that clearly could have gone on forever, and ended Finnegans Wake on an unfinished sentence that continues on the first page of the book: a circle, closed but infinite. And Proust, Pound, and Musil, as I have suggested, embarked on works that would last out their lives, that would embody the chaotic and the inexhaustible by miming the world’s prolixity. I am not suggesting, of course, that this is what Pound, Proust, or Musil themselves thought they were doing, but I am suggesting that this is the direction in which their puzzling, half-understood intuitions were pointing them.
the wind mad as Cassandra who was as sane as the lot of ’em
It is important that we should not deceive ourselves about Pound’s political career, that we should make of him neither an innocent nor a monster nor a madman. The texts of his broadcasts from Italy during World War II (two full transcripts are to be found in Julien Cornell’s The Trial of Ezra Pound, 1966; a number of excerpts are given in William Van O’Connor and Edward Stone’s A Casebook on Ezra Pound, 1959) make very unpleasant reading, and will come as a shock if you have been expecting to hear a harmless crank preaching strange doctrines.
Every hour that you go on with this war is an hour lost to you and your children. And every sane act you commit is committed in homage to Mussolini and Hitler…. They are your leaders however much you think you are conducted by Roosevelt or told by Churchill. You follow Mussolini and Hitler in every constructive act of your government….
You are not going to win this war. None of our best minds ever thought you could win it. You have never had a chance in this war….
Roosevelt is described as mentally unstable and frothing at the mouth, Stalin as “not wholly trusted by the kikery which is his master.” We hear of Mr. Squirmy and Mr. Slime feeding it to us “right over the BBC radio, and every one of the Jew radios of Schenectady, New York and Boston.” “And Boston was once an American city,” Pound adds.
Pound had an Italian announcer preface his twice-weekly talks with a statement to the effect that he had not been asked to say anything that went against his conscience or that was “incompatible with his duties as a citizen of the USA.” He was silent for a month after Pearl Harbor, then took up his talks again. He was plainly sincere in his belief that the war was unnecessary—that all wars are unnecessary—and he was speaking very self-consciously as a native American, even to the point of adopting a rustic accent. Hugh Kenner, I think, does the best that can be done for Pound in this respect, describing what must have been Pound’s intentions in those days, and also what became of them. They were “almost routinely betrayed at the microphone as the persona of a folk Isaiah slipped into place, denouncing.”
The mention of Isaiah is disingenuous, though, a tacit disclaimer of Pound’s anti-Semitism, and Pound’s talks seem to me several degrees nastier than anyone sympathetic to Pound has allowed himself to suggest. Kenner remarks that Wyndham Lewis always brought out the worst in Pound, and Mussolini and his men obviously did the same. Kenner goes on to speculate about the “long-term psychic damage” inflicted on Pound by G. W. Prothero, who closed the columns of The Quarterly Review to him, thereby cutting off his income. Here I can’t quite follow: many people go short of money without taking their revenge on the world in quite the way Pound did.
But then this softheartedness about starving artists and writers marks Kenner’s book throughout, is the one small flaw in a brilliant, fascinating, and otherwise altogether satisfactory book. The Vortex died, the men of the Vortex separated, worked alone, and Kenner keeps asking us to shed tears over this. I can’t see what Pound, Joyce, and Eliot might have done together that they didn’t in the end do alone. Lewis, perhaps, was a real casualty of the breakup, but Kenner’s perspective on the whole subject is very strange. Gaudier-Brzeska, aged twenty-three, goes off to World War I to die. “This was the sort of thing,” Kenner concludes, “that made Pound feel that something was wrong with the system.”
The Pound Era is partly cultural history, partly what it says it is, the portrait of an age. But mainly it is a special kind of biography of Pound: Pound’s times seen from the point of view of Pound’s preoccupations. This is a fine place of vantage, and I merely want to quibble about the occasional slippage of focus it causes, as when Kenner tells us, taking Pound’s cue, that World War I was fought in defense of Culture, fought
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books,
as Pound put it in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The lines are funny and bitter, since Pound knew what philistines the English were (and are), but they hardly constitute a considered historical judgment. Taken as if they did, they become the literary man’s view of history, which was all too often Pound’s own, and in which books and statues, broken, battered, or whole, loom abnormally large, in which politics becomes a bad novel and the social world not worth taking seriously unless you can take it over.
But wasn’t Pound crazy, after all? He suffered terribly in his cage in the detention camp near Pisa, when the American army picked him up at the end of the war. Four psychiatrists found him unfit to stand trial for treason shortly after. There is evidence that throughout the Thirties Pound had been losing touch with the world increasingly, in more senses than one. But was he really insane?
The issue is nicely expressed in a letter from Julien Cornell, Pound’s lawyer, to Mrs. Pound, written in January, 1946, and in which Cornell tried to explain to Mrs. Pound that although the doctors who had seen her husband had found him paranoid, she would, when she saw him, find him very much his “usual self.” She didn’t, quite, find him his usual self; he was far more distraught and incoherent than he had been before that summer in Pisa. But the point remains. He was insane by some definitions and not by others, and had foreseen the case himself long before in a poem called “Sub Mare”: “It is, and is not, I am sane enough.”
His diagnosed insanity may have saved his life, since it saved him from being tried for treason, but once there is no life left to save it should concern us less. It is irrelevant to any consideration of Pound’s poetry, and it is nearly irrelevant to any consideration of his political misdemeanors, since all kinds of sane people shared not only Pound’s political sympathies but his chosen targets and forms of rhetoric (“dirty gang of kikes and hyper-kikes on the London gold exchange firms”).
The Bollingen Prize committee, in 1949, solved the Pound puzzle by separating the man from his work and giving the work the prize: a victory for the New Criticism. The Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, deciding last summer not to give the Academy’s Emerson-Thoreau medal to Pound, did just the opposite: amid all kinds of protestations of piety about the quality of Pound’s poetry, they refused to consider the poetry at all and concluded that a man who had done what Pound had done in his civil life could not be honored. It would have seemed, a letter to the New York Times suggested, as if the Academy had been proposing Pound as a model, as a man to be emulated.
This seems to me arrant nonsense, as well as being chicken-hearted, and a phrase in a letter the Academy sent out to its members, which was subsequently quoted extensively in the press, brings us nearer home. Memories of the holocaust, we learn, are so “prominent” that it would have been tactless to give the medal to Pound. Lest we forget…. But if we are that worried about forgetting, we have forgotten. Or to put that another way, if a committee of the Academy could recommend Pound for the award, and if it could seem, on a preliminary canvass, that the Council of the Academy would accept this recommendation, then the second thoughts which finally won the day are by definition fake thoughts, scruples cooked up out of an abstract sense of duty, not there until reminders were furnished that they ought to be there.
Irving Howe, in an impressively honest piece in World in October, inadvertently gave this game away. It is not a question of forgiving Pound, he wrote—and indeed it is not, and not just because we have no right to speak on behalf of the silenced six million, as Howe says. We have no right to speak on the subject at all. Who are we to forgive or not to forgive Pound? Not a question of forgiving, then: “It is a matter of remembering.” Memories of the holocaust, it seems, are not prominent enough, and if we had honored Pound we should have been admitting this. That was why he couldn’t have the medal.
I confess, though, that the question still bothers me. I think Pound should have had the medal, and I think pretending to remember the horrors of thirty years ago is worse than forgetting. I think there is something gruesome even in remembering so hard. But I feel very uncomfortable with what seems to be the only alternative, represented with gay insouciance by Christine Brooke-Rose in her book on Pound: it’s all water under the bridge, and who cares about those old battles and atrocities. “I feel certain that to the best and most serious part of the younger generation…these issues are as dead as the religious wars….” Whether remembering seems gruesome or not, and however hypocritical the Council of the Academy may have been in its tortured timidity, the dead surely ask us to be more faithful than that. We owe much more than that to the past.
But then Miss Brooke-Rose, who lives in France, shares the French passion for living only in the fashionable present, and her book is full of this year’s (well, last year’s) top intellectual designers. She assures us that no one speaks about genres and subgenres in literature any more: “modern criticism speaks simply of ‘a text.’ ” She also writes on occasion as if Pound’s chief merit were to have anticipated the activities of Tel Quel. But such complaints are unfair. Her book is irritating in many minor ways, but so helpful, alert, and intelligent that the irritations don’t really matter much.
She takes a long, close look at Pound’s work, and makes a better case for Pound as a poet than anyone except Kenner has ever done. It is true, as Kenner himself says, that Pound has been late in getting the kind of critical attention that Eliot and Joyce got more or less from the start for The Waste Land and Ulysses, and that this lack of a continuing critical tradition affects The Cantos, makes them a different poem, makes them stranger than they ought to be: “an intensely topical poem has become archaic without ever having been contemporary.” But Pound’s critics are catching up, and it is hard to think of a twentieth-century writer who has been better served. Certainly the two books under review do him proud, and along with Davie’s book, with George Dekker’s Sailing After Knowledge (1963), and with Kenner’s own earlier Poetry of Ezra Pound (1951), make up an exceptionally useful body of interpretative work.
that his feelings have the colour of nature
Both the Bollingen committee and the Council of the Academy insisted, in their different ways, on separating Pound’s life from his work. If we put them together it is not hard to conclude that Pound’s virtues, both as a man and as a poet, outweigh his vices. But only prize committees need to make such calculations anyway, and a more important question remains. Do Pound’s political opinions mark his poetry, and if not, how does his poetry manage such a miraculous immunity? In 1949, voting for Pound for the Bollingen Prize, Allen Tate wrote that he had
…little sympathy with the view that holds that Pound’s irresponsible opinions merely lie alongside the poetry, which thus remains uncontaminated by them. The disagreeable opinions are right in the middle of the poetry….
“Right in the middle” seems to me an exaggeration. But the “disagreeable opinions” are there, and we can’t wash our hands of them as blithely as Miss Brooke-Rose does. For her, form and content are indistinguishable, and when Pound’s ideas are shaky his poetic language is shaky too:
For that is my point: when Pound’s views are vulgar, so is his language, when they are not, it is not. Everything collapses together.
Now it certainly is true that Pound’s tone slips whenever his angrier, shallower emotions take over, but the principle obviously won’t work in any general way. Think of Rilke, who manages to express some very disagreeable sentiments in moving and eloquent terms. Or think of Milton, of whom Miss Brooke-Rose says that “insofar as his notions were petty or banal or anthropomorphic his language suffered and insofar as they were humane or generous or perceptive it did not.” This is patently untrue, and as a matter of fact the principle won’t work even for Pound all the time. Suppose we stop scanning The Cantos for open Poundian dogma and look at a passage which is not, apparently, anti-Semitic or treasonable, but which carries, nevertheless, a very unpleasant message—and is beautifully, firmly written, with the full authority of Pound’s mature talent. Canto 30 begins:
Compleynt, compleynt I hearde upon a day,
Artemis singing, Artemis, Artemis
Agaynst Pity lifted her wail:
Pity causeth the forests to fail,
Pity slayeth my nymphs,
Pity spareth so many an evil thing.
Pity befouleth April,
Pity is the root and the spring.
Now if no fayre creature followeth me
It is on account of Pity,
It is on account that Pity for- bideth them slaye.
All things are made foul in this season,
This is the reason, none may seek purity
Having for foulnesse pity
And things growne awry;
No more do my shaftes fly
To slay. Nothing is now clean slayne
But rotteth away.
Obviously one can exaggerate the political implications of these lines, published in 1930. One can take the medievalizing tone as setting the whole thing at a distance, one can see that Pound is wittily reversing Chaucer’s “Complaint unto Pity,” and one may take him to mean false pity, sentimentality. But Artemis really is singing about hunting and getting rid of foulnesse and things growne awry, and she makes no distinction between pity and false pity. The tone of pastiche seems to me to lend authority to the song, rather than to undermine it. Within a few years Pound was to write that “Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out,” which corresponds closely enough to what Artemis is saying. In other words the frame of mind represented so eloquently here fits well enough with fascism, whether it happens to be linked historically with fascism or not, and I think the frame of mind could be recognized for what it is in any historical context. It follows perfectly from Pound’s notions of the need for order in the world too, even from his theory of the hard, clear, poetic image, “free from emotional slither,” as he put it.
I don’t mean to say that Imagism or Confucius leads straight to fascism, or that anyone who admires Pound’s poems or critical writings is a secret Nazi. I admire them a great deal myself; and dislike emotional slither; and enjoy hard, clear images when they can be had. But I do mean to say that a fierce enough dislike for emotional slither, if not balanced by other, sufficiently weighty considerations, can lead you into the company of people who may not be too scrupulous about how alleged slitherers are to be dealt with; and a great deal of slaying of things described as evil may ensue by people who are wicked indeed.
These beautiful lines, then, render an ugly sentiment, and Pound himself clearly came to see this. The lines are not included in the selection Pound made from The Cantos in 1965, and the later Cantos are full of references to pity which seem to evoke, in order to take back, just this passage and all it stood for in Pound’s life. He has been a “hard man in some ways,” he tells us, “hard as youth sixty years.” He has held that “energy is near to benevolence,” he says, explaining his mistake. And then referring directly back to Canto 30 and the surgeon’s knife, trying to rescue something from that moral wreck: “pity, yes, for the infected, / but maintain antisepsis.” He quotes Yeats as saying that the truth is in kindness, and his old mentor Orage as insisting that “the basic was pity.” He writes French which seems sheepish, self-conscious, as if his repentance just wouldn’t come out in English:
J’ai eu pitié des autres
probablement pas assez, and at mo- ments that suited my own con-
venience
And again, later, and less casually:
J’ai eu pitié des autres. Pas assez! Pas assez!
The last line on the last page of the most recent printing of The Cantos digs up the dream that Pound knew he had betrayed at a major moment in his life: “To be men not destroyers.”
But again, it is Pound’s achievements, not his remorse, that should concern us now. His ugly ethic of purity, repented of or not, is really there in The Cantos—not right in the middle, perhaps, but not off in some margin either. Fortunately, there is a lot more in Pound, in The Cantos; more than enough to balance the ugliness, and in particular there is what Kenner means by attention. Pound has the most extraordinary respect for things as they are, out there in the natural world, before they are arranged or interpreted by the human mind. Indeed the mind, for Pound, is merely the place where the world takes refuge, is stored, “in the mind indestructible.” “How is it far if you think of it?” he asks repeatedly, meaning not that distance is all in the mind but that the mind can defeat distance by remembering things, by respecting them enough to revive them whole in memory.
He is, in an odd sense, a nature poet, and Donald Davie has a fine chapter on this subject. If we compare him with Wordsworth or Yeats, we can see that he cares for the physical universe, for the exact configuration of a cloud or a wave, in a way that is quite alien to them. He is looking at things in their quiddity (“Quiditas, remarked D Alighieri”), while they are looking for emblems, symbols, correspondences.
“O World!” said Mr Beddoes.
“Something there.”
sd / Santayana.
Davie speaks of a “quality of tenderness,” “an attitude of reverent vigilance before the natural world.” Pound himself writes, “it is not man / Made courage, or made order, or made grace,” and we can find his tenderness, the signs of his patient attention to the universe, on almost any page in The Cantos. In Canto 2, for example:
Glass-glint of wave in the tide-rips against sunlight, pallor of Hesperus,
Grey peak of the wave, wave, colour of grape’s pulp….
In Canto 47:
And the small stars now fall from the olive branch,
Forked shadow falls dark on the terrace
More black than the floating martin that has no care for your presence….
The shadow of the tent’s peak treads on its corner peg
marking the hour. The moon split, no cloud nearer than Lucca.
In Canto 110:
bare trees walk on the sky-line….
a partridge-shaped cloud over dust storm….
Even Artemis’s complaint can be heard as the voice of nature berating us for our sentimentality, regretting the human contamination we have introduced into her animal and vegetable world. This doesn’t make her song any more likable, but it does connect it to the rest of Pound’s preoccupations. His inhumanity was the inhumanity of nature herself, the inflamed, cruel face of a goddess with many other faces. His mind, like all our minds, was a varied and intricate region, and we should see it, as Pound keeps reminding us, as a mind “entire.”
It is significant that when Pound was encaged in Pisa, a man of sixty learning humility the hardest possible way (“not arrogant from habit / but furious from perception”), he reached his simplest, most human conclusion by means of an identification with a panther. A panther in a cage, Pound says, knows there is nothing we can do for him:
green pool, under green of the jungle,
caged: “Nothing, nothing that you can do.”
And Pound continues, almost formally, almost biblically:
Nor can who has passed a month in the death cells believe in capital punishment
No man who has passed a month in the death cells believes in cages for beasts
There is even a vision of a social order in The Cantos, a glimpse of a state ruled with tolerance and wisdom, and while I wouldn’t want to exaggerate the importance of this vision in the poem, I think it does provide an answer to Artemis, whereas Pound’s constant and affectionate attention to nature tends simply to drown her and her song.
And Kung said “Wan ruled with moderation, In his day the State was well kept….
George Dekker takes ruling with moderation to mean not ruling too much, and Pound, like many other people, thought he saw a quick route to such a society: a short spell with the dictator until the new freedom was born. “If a man have not order within him,” we read in the same Canto, “He can not spread order about him.” Pound did not have order within him, and saw no order about him; thought such orders could be created by fiat, by a heroic act of the will. They can’t, as Pound found out to his cost. Perhaps they can’t be created at all. But then they still stand as dreams, and Pound’s Confucian kingdom, a glimpse of a complex, humane, precisely balanced world, will remain long after Pound’s irate activities on behalf of Mussolini are forgotten.
And he said “Anyone can run to excesses,
It is easy to shoot past the mark,
It is hard to stand firm in the middle.”
And they said: If a man commit murder Should his father protect him, and hide him?
And Kung said: He should hide him.
And Kung gave his daughter to Kong-Tch’ang Although Kong-Tch’ang was in prison.
More by Michael Wood
Counting the Butterflies
‘Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time’ by Vladimir Nabokov
Wonderful Chances
Finding Hardy at Last
Max Geltman
Pound Notes
Michael Wood is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is On Empson.
At Lady Ottoline’s
Janet Malcolm
Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned Autobiography
Alfred Kazin
Russian Sketches
Effie Traylor-Parkes
W.H. Auden
Portrait with a Wart or Two
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Posted on July 12, 2020 by Scott Johnson in Media, Minnesota
Suicide’s not painless
Former Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges took to the pages of the New York Times to explain the city’s current state of civic dissolution in the column “As Mayor of Minneapolis, I Saw How White Liberals Block Change.” Subhead: “But this revolutionary moment is inviting us to be a part of the solution.” The Star Tribune republished the Hodges column yesterday under the same headline. I would have preferred Suicide’s not painless. Hodges writes:
As the mayor of Minneapolis from 2014 to 2018, as a Minneapolis City Council member from 2006 until 2014 and as a white Democrat, I can say this: White liberals, despite believing we are saying and doing the right things, have resisted the systemic changes our cities have needed for decades. We have mostly settled for illusions of change, like testing pilot programs and funding volunteer opportunities.
These efforts make us feel better about racism, but fundamentally change little for the communities of color whose disadvantages often come from the hoarding of advantage by mostly white neighborhoods.
In Minneapolis, the white liberals I represented as a Council member and mayor were very supportive of summer jobs programs that benefited young people of color. I also saw them fight every proposal to fundamentally change how we provide education to those same young people. They applauded restoring funding for the rental assistance hotline. They also signed petitions and brought lawsuits against sweeping reform to zoning laws that would promote housing affordability and integration.
Nowhere is this dynamic of preserving white comfort at the expense of others more visible than in policing. Whether we know it or not, white liberal people in blue cities implicitly ask police officers to politely stand guard in predominantly white parts of town (where the downside of bad policing is usually inconvenience) and to aggressively patrol the parts of town where people of color live — where the consequences of bad policing are fear, violent abuse, mass incarceration and, far too often, death.
Underlying these requests are the flawed beliefs that aggressive patrolling of Black communities provides a wall of protection around white people and our property.
Whatever the result, a sustainable transformation of policing will require that white people of means disinvest in the comfort of our status quo.
We are in a left-wing asylum where the inmates require straitjackets to prevent harm both to themselves and to others. Hodges is a clinical example of the phenomenon.
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Representative Cases & Transactions
Represented residential landowners facing a Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act civil enforcement action in which the City of Richmond demanded they pay a civil penalty of $32,500 and demanded that they install new plantings at their property with a cost in excess of $150,000. The case was resolved in early 2017 to our clients' benefit as the City withdrew the Notice of Violation, dropped the demand for monetary civil penalty, and accepted the clients' landscaping plan instead of requiring the more costly landscaping plan designed by the City. (2017)
Drafted an amendment to the Virginia Coastal Primary Dunes and Beaches Act that was enacted into law by the Virginia General Assembly. (2017)
Represented a family owned business that owns a 7 acre parcel (value $6M) in Norfolk, on the Elizabeth River, where a neighbor clogged the waterway with a Floating Junkyard consisting of 26 ships. Prosecuted a citizen’s environmental lawsuit in federal court that forced the neighbor to remove the Floating Junkyard from the river which removed all interference with client’s riparian property rights. 307 Campostella, LLC v. Timothy S. Mullane, civil action no. 2:15-cv-224 (E.D. Va. 2016).
Designed and then persuaded Virginia Beach City Council to adopt a plan that enabled oceanfront property owners in Sandbridge, Virginia to remove beach sand that inundated their homes, free of prosecution by the Wetlands Board, and consistent with requirements of the Virginia Coastal Primary Dunes and Beaches Act. (2016)
Represented a medium size HVAC contractor in managing risk to the company after an employee intentionally released 30-40 pounds of R22 refrigerant into the atmosphere, conduct that is prohibited by the Stratospheric Ozone Protection regime at subchapter VI of the Clean Air Act, and the implementing regulations promulgated by EPA. (2016)
Represented a family owned business that owns a 3 acre parcel in Chesapeake which had been heavily polluted by its Fortune 500 corporate tenant who disposed of metals and hydrocarbons in the soil and in the groundwater over the course of its 30 year occupancy. Forced the tenant to clean up the environmental contamination and to compensate landlord for reduced property value due to stigma. (2015)
Persuaded the US Army Corps of Engineers to rescind the permit it had granted (under the Rivers and Harbors Act) that improvidently authorized a 600' long mooring system in the middle of an active waterbody fronting our client's commerical industrial property. The proposed mooring system, if installed, would have driven the client's waterfront enterprises out of business. After persuading the USACE to rescind the permit, we persuaded the staff at the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to oppose the project, causing the applicant to withdraw the application and abandon the project. (2015)
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A Venetian Affair
A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
By Andrea Di Robilant
Category: Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs | European World History
Apr 12, 2005 | ISBN 9780375726170
Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307424556
About A Venetian Affair
In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions in society, they could not marry. And Giustiniana’s mother, afraid that an affair would ruin her daughter’s chances to form a more suitable union, forbade them to see each other. Her prohibition only fueled their desire and so began their torrid, secret seven-year-affair, enlisting the aid of a few intimates and servants (willing to risk their own positions) to shuttle love letters back and forth and to help facilitate their clandestine meetings. Eventually, Giustiniana found herself pregnant and she turned for help to the infamous Casanova–himself infatuated with her.
Two and half centuries later, the unbelievable story of this star-crossed couple is told in a breathtaking narrative, re-created in part from the passionate, clandestine letters Andrea and Giustiniana wrote to each other.
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Apr 12, 2005 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375726170
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"Splendidly engrossing. . . . An extraordinary story." —The New York Times Book Review
“Jane Austen herself could not have conjured a romance with more passion, deception and intrigue.”–People
“Thoroughly fascinating. . . . Has all the hallmarks of a Henry James novel. . . . Interweaving dramatic scenes and keenly observed expository passages [di Robilant] creates a narrative of novelistic resonance.” —The Washington Post Book World
“A story of Venice at at time when people lived for romantic intrigue and where social and political restrictions led men and women into liaisons that made for delicious, tormented melodrama.” –-Salon
“Filled with quiet intensity and elegant, thought-provoking prose…An elegiac and powerful novel with a fresh presentation of evil and the healing potential of forgiveness.” —People
A Conversation with Andrea di Robilant
Q: When you and your father discovered the letters of Giustiniana and Andrea, you could not read them immediately. Some of the letters were written in cipher. How did you crack the code?
A: Trial and error and a lot of patient guess work. We concentrated our effort on figuring out one or two key letters. It was fairly easy after that. My father did most of the work. He was very good at that sort of thing—the cloak and dagger stuff.
Q: Since their romance was forbidden, how and where did the lovers manage to meet? Do you think they found extra pleasure in the furtiveness of their affair?
A: They met in borrowed rooms at the house of conniving friends, in private theater boxes, at the gambling house (Ridotto). As far as I know they never met at each other’s houses. Giustiniana’s family was very protective.
The lovers did seem to enjoy overcoming the obstacles posed by their relatives. "How could they be so stupid,”Giustiniana wrote to Andrea, “not to realize what refinement they bring to our pleasure by imposing all these prohibitions? . . . I was always very happy to see you, of course, but the emotions I feel now, the sheer agitation, the overwhelming feeling of sweetness, were certainly not as intense.” Of course in the long run the pleasure wore off, overshadowed by the frustration of not being able to live their passion openly.
Q: Who knew about the affair? Did anyone try to blackmail the lovers?
A: Only a handful of very close friends (those who supplied logistical help) knew for sure. But of course the affair was the object of constant rumors in Venice. Though secret, it was nevertheless in the public domain. I am not aware that the lovers were blackmailed in Venice, though Giustiniana’s relationship with Andrea was the object of blackmail when she was in Paris, scheming to marry the rich fermier général La Pouplinière.
Q: Andrea had more freedom than Giustiniana to live and move independently. How did this affect the dynamic of their relationship?
A: Andrea was free to run around town and she was not. This imbalance was often the cause of deep jealousy and real rages on her part. Andrea was a notorious womanizer and Giustiniana feared he was spending his time with other women despite the fact that he gave her detailed accounts of his daily activities.
Q: Giustiniana and Andrea began their love affair in Venice, but Giustiniana eventually departed and the lovers’ correspondence became even more vital to their relationship. Why did Giustiniana leave Venice?
A: During marriage negotiations between the Memmo and Wynne families, officials uncovered documents showing Giustiniana’s mother had been "deflowered by a Greek" in her youth and had given birth to an illegitimate child. The revelation was an embarrassment to the Wynnes and scuttled the talks. Thereafter, the Wynne daughters’ marriage prospects in Venice were so dim that Giustiniana’s mother thought it more prudent to take the family to London and seek refuge with the children’s guardian, Lord Holderness.
Q: During the course of her affair with Andrea, Giustiniana spent a good deal of time trying to seduce a rich old man. Why?
A: In Venice she tried to seduce the British Consul, Joseph Smith. In Paris she made a valiant effort to marry the enormously rich tax collector La Pouplinière. The reasoning behind her (and Andrea’s) scheming was that since the two of them could not marry, the shortest path to happiness was for her to marry a rich old man in order to ensure for herself a comfortable station for the future, and then carry on her romance with Andrea. She eventually failed in her endeavors, and noted wistfully: "I haven’t any luck with these old men".
Q: Giustiniana became pregnant and went to great lengths to conceal the fact. What options did an unmarried, pregnant woman face in 18th-century Europe?
A: Options were fairly grim. Abortions were dangerous and illegal (in some countries they carried the death penalty). Therefore it was quite common for young women to "disappear" for several months in order to have the baby in secret. Convents were by far the preferred refuge for upper class young ladies. The children were handed over to lower class families or sent to orphan homes. In Venice they were usually sent to orphan homes and trained as choir singers.
Q: How does Casanova figure into all this? Wasn’t Andrea’s mother responsible for putting him in jail? Why did he pursue a friendship with Giustiniana?
A: Casanova had been a close friend of Andrea’s since the carousing days of their youth. Indeed, Andrea’s mother had Casanova thrown into jail for being a bad influence on her children. Casanova was also quite smitten by Giustiniana. When the two of them met in Paris, his love was rekindled and, as he recounts in his memoirs, he made a rather bumbling pass at her after drinking several glasses of champagne. Giustiniana was, in fact, pregnant at the time and pleaded with him to help her get rid of the baby. He arranged for her to steal away to a convent to give birth.
Q: Giustiniana and Andrea ultimately decided to marry other people. How did their respective marriages affect their relationship? Were they able to continue their affair?
A: Giustiniana and Andrea both married after their relationship had ended. But they remained devoted to each other and when Giustiniana’s husband and Andrea’s wife died, they were free to see each other again. It’s remarkable that even in their old age their friendship retained the tenderness of the first great love they shared.
Q: After living in France, England and Austria for several years, Giustiniana returned to Italy. How had it changed?
A: Venice had fallen into decline. Prospects were poor and the mood was gloomy. The cultural and artistic vivacity of the first half of the 18th century was gone. Giustiniana found Venetian society to be conservative and restricting. She had also grown weary of all the intrigue and the decadent life style. "Venice is not for me", she wrote to Andrea, who, unlike her, was stuck in the lagoon, fulfilling his obligations as a statesman.
Q: In these high-tech modern times, as we are barraged with phone calls and e-mail messages, do you think that writing love letters is a lost art? Did this book change anything about your own habits of correspondence?
A: The art of love letter writing has never been more alive thanks to electronic mail. (People write love letters to each other before they have even met!) It’s the secret messenger we have lost.
Has this book changed my own habits? Yes, I’ve been writing more love letters (on paper and on line). Giustiniana and Andrea have been an inspiration.
Author Essay
When di Robilant and his father cracked the lovers’ secret code, they learned about an illicit passion played out against the twilight of the golden era of Venice, a world vividly evoked in A Venetian Affair. Now, the author challenges you. Take his five-question quiz to find out how much you know about Venetian affairs:
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Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - A brief bout of the big chill is impacting Western New York through tonight but will be quickly replaced by more moderate and seasonable conditions into the weekend.
The coldest air of the season so far is hitting the region with temperatures in the single digits Friday morning and expected to only rise slightly to the low teens throughout the day before recovering to the 30's on Saturday.
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Moonpig was founded 20 years ago by Nick Jenkins, who sold out for £100m in 2011.
Two years ago it opened a tech hub in Spinningfields in Manchester, creating 50 tech jobs, in a project led by chief technology officer Peter Donlon. Mark Evans leads the team in Manchester as engineering director.
Moonpig, which has 12 million customers and sends 45 million cards a year, made a pre-tax profit of £18.4m on revenues of just under £100m for the year to the end of April 2019.
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Getting rid of old paint to be easier in Maine
Gov. LePage lets the industry-backed recycling bill become law despite his opposition to a new fee.
By Colin WoodardStaff Writer
Gov. Paul LePage has allowed a new paint recycling law to be enacted without his signature, making Maine the seventh state to approve an industry-sponsored collection and recycling program for household paint.
The law was written and backed by the paint industry, sponsored by the ranking Republican on the Environment and Natural Resources Committee – Sen. Thomas Saviello of Wilton – and supported by environmental organizations, municipal governments and many small hardware and paint stores. Even so, the LePage administration opposed it, citing the cost to consumers.
Supporters say the law will encourage proper disposal of paint and reduce costs to taxpayers and society, as manufacturers will be able to reuse much of the material, which now is disposed of as hazardous waste.
“When I sit at our transfer station on hazardous-waste pickup day, 90 percent of what is there is household paint,” said Saviello, adding that it costs about $5 a gallon to dispose of that way. “The paint industry will come and create a nonprofit to oversee this and, in a roundabout way, we will be saving towns money.”
The program, modeled on programs in Oregon and California, is the result of a decade-long national effort involving manufacturers, environmentalists, retailers, recyclers, and state and federal regulators. It effectively shifts the cost of disposal from municipal taxpayers to people who actually buy the paint.
Manufacturers pay a fee to PaintCare — the industry’s nonprofit recycling entity — for each gallon of paint they sell in a given state. The fee is ultimately passed on to the consumer.
The fees for Maine have yet to be determined, but the head of PaintCare, Marjaneh Zarrehparvar, told legislators in early May that they would likely be similar to those in Oregon: 75 cents per gallon or $1.60 per five-gallon container.
Saviello said the fees will likely be reduced over time as the program becomes more established.
PaintCare has agreed to accept all latex and oil paints that are now in Mainers’ basements, garages and sheds, even though no deposit was ever paid on them. The program is expected to be implemented in 2015, with dozens of retailers expected to volunteer to serve as collection points because it will encourage customers to visit their stores.
“You can bring all that unused paint in your house to the retail store or a participating transfer station and it will get turned into recycled paint and resold, and the paint cans will be recycled,” said Pete Didisheim of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, which supported the bill. “This is going to get unwanted waste out of our waste stream and into the system for recycling.”
The bill was opposed by the Retail Association of Maine, which said “the largest retail sellers of paint” were “concerned about a tax being assessed on this popular, affordable product.”
It was also opposed by the LePage administration, which originally sought to eliminate all so-called product stewardship programs, in which manufacturers are responsible for collecting and recycling their products.
A Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram investigation found that Environmental Protection Commissioner Patricia Aho fought against many of Maine’s product stewardship laws in her previous job as a corporate lobbyist.
An official from the Department of Environmental Protection, Melanie Loyzim, testified to legislators that the paint recycling bill would “create an entirely new regulatory program” that would increase consumers’ costs without “guaranteeing” that all paint collected would be recycled.
Loyzim said the new per-gallon fee would undermine public support for an existing lead paint abatement program, which is funded by a separate 25-cent-per-gallon fee.
On Friday, Loyzim said the DEP still has concerns about the program but hopes it will prove successful.
“We certainly hope that all those benefits of the program come to fruition,” she said. “It will remain to be seen, with Maine’s population being spread out over so many rural areas, how effectively some of those areas will be served.”
She said the DEP will be engaged in ensuring that collection sites are set up correctly and that oil-based paints and other hazardous substances are handled and transported safely. She said it remains to be seen how much staff time and department resources the program will require.
The law received strong bipartisan support from the Legislature, passing 97-45 in the House and 28-7 in the Senate. LePage could have vetoed the bill, but instead allowed it to become law without his signature Saturday evening.
His spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
“We look forward to building on our experiences in Oregon and California to launch a program in Maine that not only works for the paint industry, but also meets the public’s need for convenience, efficiency, and cost effectiveness,” said Alison Keane, vice president of the paint industry’s American Coatings Association, in a prepared statement.
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Polls close after steady stream of activity in Portland
Voters were drawn by a mayoral race and two contentious city referendum questions.
Oscar Hicklin, 17 months old, yawns while waiting for his mother, Ginger, to fill out her ballot at Reiche School in Portland on Tuesday. Jill Brady/Staff Photographer
A steady stream of voters cast ballots in Portland on Tuesday, drawn to the polls by a high-profile mayoral race and two contentious referendum questions.
Election results: State and local ballot questions, mayoral races and complete local results
Polls closed at 8 p.m. and city election officials are now tabulating the results.
Elections workers at East End Community School reported a strong, steady turnout throughout the day. At 6 p.m., there was a 20-minute wait for a ballot, with a line snaking around the gymnasium.
“That’s pretty dang good for an off-year election,” said Denise Shames, the election official at the East End precinct. Shames said 1,291 people had voted by 6 p.m., but she didn’t know what percentage had voted.
Turnout was lower at City Hall, election officials reported, with a slow but steady stream of voters. There was no one in line at about 6:15 p.m.
Mayor Michael Brennan, seeking a second term, is trying to fend off challenges from former state Sen. Ethan Strimling, who has garnered many political endorsements, and Portland Green Party leader Tom MacMillan.
Also a big draw for voters were two referendum questions that featured active “Yes” and “no” campaigns.
One referendum proposal seeks to make Portland one of a small number of U.S. to adopt a $15 per hour minimum wage. The other would create a new zoning protection for scenic views, starting with limiting development on the eastern waterfront.
Portlanders also chose three city councilors and three school board members.
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News / Politics
Trump says Google manipulated 2016 vote; Clinton hits back
Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:16 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:16 PM ]
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, on August 18, 2019. (Photo by AFP)
Former US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has rejected a claim by President Donald Trump that Google changed the outcome of their 2016 White House battle by manipulating millions of votes in her favor.
"Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election!" Trump said in a tweet on Monday.
Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought! @JudicialWatch
The remarks prompted Clinton to point out that the report Trump was referencing used discredited methodology and had been "debunked" long before.
"The debunked study you’re referring to was based on 21 undecided voters," Clinton tweeted. "For context that’s about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted."
The former First Lady referred Trump to Special counsel Robert Mueller investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, which ended up indicting 34 people, including six Trump associates.
Trump's tweet was based on a study by Robert Epstein, a psychologist with the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, a group based in Vista, California.
In a recent testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Epstein said that based on his research, “biased search results generated by Google’s search algorithm likely impacted undecided voters in a way that gave at least 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton.”
The study he was citing collected thousands of search engine results collected in the run-up to the 2016 election and concluded that a phenomenon called the “Search Engine Manipulation Effect” did affect the votes.
PressTV-Trump dissolves voter fraud commission
US President Trump has dissolved a special commission which was established to investigate widespread voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election.
The problem with the study, according to its critics, is that it analyzed a relatively small sample size 95 different voters only 21 of whom he said were undecided.
In a statement on Monday, a Google spokesperson dismissed Epstein's claim.
"This researcher's inaccurate claim has been debunked since it was made in 2016," the spokesperson said. "As we stated then, we have never re-ranked or altered search results to manipulate political sentiment."
"Our goal is to always provide people with access to high quality, relevant information for their queries, without regard to political viewpoint."
Trump has accused largest American tech companies of routinely censoring conservative voices.
The claim come as several high-profile conservative media figures have been deplatformed by Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and other social media websites on the grounds of violating their rules.
The companies vehemently deny allegations that that politics plays any role in their content moderation.
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Biden plans to reverse Trump policies during first days in office
US inauguration week begins amid wartime conditions
Pentagon deploys active-duty US troops for Biden’s inauguration
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[Under the darknight]~at Athens~
Hai.
I look back to the Athens show which was the tour last day this time↓.
It was about 8:00 morning that We have arrived at the Viennese airport while holding fatigue and sleepiness on 4/26 Sunday.
After having breakfast, We went through the procedure for check-in, it took a short while to keep a suitcase. Still We finished procedure and boarded it somehow.
We arrive in Athens via a little less than 2 hour flight. We was looking at a belt conveyer to receive the baggage, but my suitcase flows completely, and I have not come.
It was the perplexed state the baggage flowed, and whether other customers didn't come.
A belt conveyer had stopped finally, so the information man to contact checked it. Then "Your baggage reaches every tomorrow's simultaneousness." a reply returns and has come.
I have uttered a cry with "Tomorrow!?" unconsciously. But as expected, it's heard, by mistake.
I think that the suitcase you kept at the end when I had a hard time didn't make for boarding.
Need contained many indispensable items in CDs for machinery and materials and merchandise and show of a costume and an effector in the suitcase of course.
This tour and the protuberance which is Athens show in particular were being confirmed through FaceBook, so that this was a serious thing, I was at a loss.
Fortunately, I had a source for guitar and show and an empty condition, so when they seemed able to give a show somehow, it could be positively.
Marie was to be able to lend a costume of Marie, and moreover had only 16 CDs of [MisanthroPia] miraculously, so when they seemed also able to deal with merchandise somehow, a request was being seen.
Even if it can be a little positively, it joins Spyros of an agent.
When We went out of the airport, the fan was waiting for about 3 people with an illustration of a bouquet and a caricature.
We move to Spyros's home by car. We arrive at [SKULL BAR] in venue at around 19 o'clock after I take a break a little.
It was venue with a very good atmosphere.
The looks which borrowed a make-up tool from Marie, finished make-up, did hair setting by the hair spray borrowed from Spyros and kept the quality which is in a hurry could be completed.
After putting on the make-up, We was given an interview. This interview is also that you can write a net article.
By a sound check, as expected, a guitar, without effects, so, a guitar sound of usual REMNANT couldn't be made.
But Vincent of INsCissorS who costarred had an effector of a delay. It was possible to borrow that and make reverberant sound somehow. You lent me, and it was saved really.
In 21:00, event start. Spyros of an agent was serving as DJ personally and was wrapping a meeting place in the dark world.
Next a performance of INsCissorS has started.
Dark Ambient, I thought it was near a worldview of REMNANT by a worldview.
We was standing by at a greenroom until my turn, so it was regrettable that their show couldn't be seen.
We didn't know the state of the venue for us. But it's also transmitted from a greenroom to have, and a audience has come.
Spyros's MC is received at around 23 o'clock, and show of REMNANT has started.
We couldn't go up to a stage by a relation of DJ's arrangement, and it was a performance at the same leaving location as an audience. But this tension also rose by presence of venue, didn't it?
Immediately, a lady was dancing all the while according to the song next to me！
Show also ends safely somehow. And We signed my name to a photography meeting and the way where you bought a CD with audience.
I was really sorry for the person who couldn't buy stock little.
Show event ends safely around AM2:00. We could have a good sleep after a long time after that.
We had time to spare until returning home on 4/27 Monday, so We take a walk through acropolis by Spyros and Jenny's guide.
A fan meeting was performed from the evening.
We had a lot of people come in spite of a weekday Monday.
Thank you very much in the truth We received much with a caricature, a gift and a letter!
We finish a fan meeting and around 19:30, arrive at the airport in Athens.
To go to the check-in, Spyros and Jenny were separated here.
It was under care really, thank you very much!
When there was no enthusiasm of Spyros and him in particular, this tour wasn't concluded.
Domestic and abroad, when there was a person who points enthusiasm unrelatedly, I thought I'd like to respond to the feeling as much as possible once more.
It even took about 20 hours for Narita airport arrival on the way back, but almost all fatigue and sleepiness were lying idle in a peak, so it wasn't felt lengthily.
We could return home safely around PM18:30 on 4/28 Tuesday of Japan time and finish this tour safely.
Contact with overseas fans was limited to SNS in Facebook up to now. But you'll have them see live broadcasting actually, and would like also to make the chance when I can get a communication through merchandise from now on.
Because We went once, an effort is made for the state which can respond to the voice you support including the country where you couldn't go this time, not whether We have to go next.
Thank you very much for your everybody of the person concerned who was under care by this tour, everybody who has come to the meeting place to play and all everybody who supported really☆
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Massachusetts can sue federal student loan servicer, judge rules
By Nate Raymond
BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts’ attorney general can move forward with a lawsuit alleging that one of the largest student loan servicers in the United States has engaged in practices that have undermined a federal debt forgiveness program, a state court judge has ruled.
FILE PHOTO: Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey answers a question during an interview with Reuters at her office in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Salinger in a decision released on Thursday denied Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistant Agency’s motion to dismiss Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit.
Healey, a Democrat, called the ruling “a victory for thousands of students and families in Massachusetts who have been victimized for too long by student loan servicers.”
PHEAA declined to comment on the judge’s ruling.
It had argued that as a quasi-governmental agency originally established by the state of Pennsylvania to provide student loans to its residents, it enjoyed sovereign immunity that protects it from being sued.
But Salinger noted that a federal appeals court in Virginia concluded in 2015 in a different case that PHEAA did not enjoy the same immunity as Pennsylvania from being sued.
Salinger also rejected Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based PHEAA’s contention that the lawsuit could not proceed because Healey had not sued the U.S. Department of Education, which retained it to service federal student loans.
PHEAA noted that the U.S. Justice Department, arguing for the Education Department, filed papers in January arguing that Healey could not pursue claims under state law to the extent they conflicted with federal law.
Salinger said, however, that the Justice Department’s position “is much narrower than it may appear at first blush,” as it did not contend Healey’s claims were indeed pre-empted or that federal law allowed any of PHEAA’s alleged misconduct.
In August, Healey sued PHEAA, which does business as FedLoan Servicing and manages over a fourth of the nation’s $1.4 trillion student loan debt on behalf of various lenders.
The lawsuit accused PHEAA of deceptive practices that caused public servants to lose benefits and financial assistance under two federal programs, including one that forgives student loans after about 10 years of public-service work.
That program is the Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The other is the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grant program, which provides grants to borrowers pursuing teaching careers in low-income schools for at least four years.
Healey alleged that PHEAA prevented borrowers from making qualifying monthly payments that count toward loan forgiveness and also overcharged students.
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Susan Thomas and Peter Cooney
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COVID-19 Related Reimbursement Developments
Recommended Alerts
Rutledge vs. PCMA: SCOTUS Greenlights State Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Manager Drug Reimbursement
On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, held that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) does not preempt an Arkansas law regulating pharmacy benefit manager (“PBM”) reimbursement to pharmacies. The Court’s decision provides a potential avenue for states to increase regulation of PBMs and other service providers that help administer ERISA-regulated group health plans, and therefore holds potential significance for, among others, PBMs, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and employers that sponsor ERISA-regulated group health plans.
Time to Read: 4 minutes Practices: Health Care
We are deeply grateful for all that you and your colleagues are doing on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. In an effort to help you synthesize the large volume of information during these hectic and frightening times, we have prepared the following summary of the recent federal funding and reimbursement developments associated with the COVID-19 outbreak. We have included information about action taken by HHS and CMS, as well as Congress. As appropriate, we have furnished hyperlinks to source documents describing the developments. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us if you need anything during these trying times.
CMS has waived many payment and coverage requirements for hospitals to facilitate flexibility in patient care. The more notable requirements waived by CMS include:
Requirement that acute care inpatients cannot receive care in distinct part units. Hospital should still bill IPPS and note in the records that the patient is being treated in a distinct part unit due to the disaster.
Requirement that patients admitted to psychiatric and rehab prospective payment systems need to be located in beds in the distinct parts of the hospital. These patients can be treated in the IPPS areas of the hospital but the hospital should continue to bill the appropriate payment system (IPF or IRF) with a note in the record.
LTCHs are not required to count stays of less than 25 days in their average length of stay when the patient is admitted/discharged due to an emergency.
3-day hospitalization requirement before transfer to a SNF has been waived.
25 bed limit and 96 hour stay limit for inpatients have both been waived for CAHs.
The OIG has released a policy statement that it will not enforce sanctions against providers reducing or waiving cost sharing for COVID-19 treatment.
Section 1135 waivers of certain conditions of participation.
As a result of a national emergency declaration, the agency has exercised its authority to waive various requirements on hospitals providing Medicare, Medicaid or CHIP funded services, including certain conditions of participation, licensure, EMTALA and HIPAA requirements under particular circumstances.
Section 1135 also allows for State Medicaid agencies to petition for more specific waivers. For example, Florida has received a Section 1135 waiver that among other things, waives the requirement for prior authorization and also allows for hospitals to provide services in alternative, unlicensed locations when the main location is unavailable.
Certain HIPAA privacy requirements have also been waived, including the requirements to obtain a patient’s agreement to speak with family members or friends involved in the patient’s care, the requirement to honor a request to opt out of the facility directory, the requirement to distribute a notice of privacy practices, the patient’s right to request privacy restrictions and the patient’s right to request confidential communications.
New nationwide HCPCS codes for COVID-19 testing
U0001 can be used to bill for tests and track new cases of the virus. This code is used specifically for CDC testing laboratories
U0002 allows laboratories to bill for non-CDC laboratory tests (including those developed in-house) for when submitting claims to Medicare or health insurers.
The Medicare claims-processing systems will be able to accept these codes starting on April 1 for dates of service on or after February 4.
Expansion of Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services
CMS has temporarily waived the geographic requirements. Normally, Medicare telehealth is only available in rural areas, and the patient must travel to a facility (e.g., a hospital or physician office). Under the waiver, these requirements (known as “originating site” requirements) are waived, permitting patients to receive telehealth in their homes. Though the law requires providers to have a prior relationship with a patient to take advantage of the waiver, CMS has announced that it will not audit this requirement for purposes of coverage.
These services are paid at the same rate as in-person visits.
The agency is also providing flexibility to providers to reduce or waiver the deductibles and coinsurance amounts for Medicare patients receiving telehealth services (normally, reducing or waiving cost-sharing would implicate federal fraud and abuse laws).
Congressional activity on federal funding and payment for COVID-19 care
On March 6, an emergency funding bill was enacted to combat COVID-19. This law added nearly $500 million to support the expansion of telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries.
A second funding bill was passed by the House last Friday, by the Senate just today, and is expected to be signed into law by the President shortly. When enacted, this bill will require private health plans, Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plans to cover the costs associated with COVID-19 testing at no cost to the patient. This bill will also increase the state Medicaid allotments.
There is discussion in Senate of a third funding bill that would provide additional funding for hospitals, but this bill has not yet been released.
In a joint letter sent this week, AHA, AMA and ANA urged that Congress provide hospitals $1 billion in funding to fight COVID-19.
Hospital groups have also urged Congress to suspend the 2% Medicare sequestration reductions during this period.
Relatedly, the National Association of ACO’s has asked CMS to not include spending related to COVID-19 treatment in the calculation of their Medicare expenditures, in addition to requesting an extension of the deadlines for submitting quality reporting data.
Some hospital clients have contacted us regarding concerns about working capital and access to lines of credit in the current economy, and this may play into the requests for Congressional assistance.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Stephanie Webster or Alex Talley, whose contact information is listed below.
T +1 202 508 4859 | M +1 443 254 7592
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Dragon, Silver Dragon
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Original COMPLETED Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Magic Male Lead Non-Human lead Reincarnation Strategy Strong Lead Supernatural
Michael has a few problems... besides being dead... ish...
He finds himself in a new world. In a new body.
But with a few more appendages than he is used to and the concept of near immortality facing him, he is having a rather hard time coping. Luckily, the body's ex-tenant is there to help.
(Should have started here first. The story is being updated and revised. There will be several chapters added and Revelations will be incorperated into it as well. Revelations will then be removed.)
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Prologue 21 months ago
Definitions 3 years ago
Awakening 3 years ago
Revelations 3 years ago
Education 3 years ago
A Hunting We Will Go 21 months ago
Meeting the Neighbors 3 years ago
Of Elves and Dragons 21 months ago
Greeting the Neighbors 3 years ago
The Dragon 21 months ago
Housecleaning 3 years ago
Housewarming 3 years ago
New Direction 20 months ago
New Beginning 3 years ago
Crossroads 20 months ago
Relatives Visit 3 years ago
Falling 20 months ago
Song of the Empire 3 years ago
The Revelation 20 months ago
The Dragon Emperor 3 years ago
Dorvus 20 months ago
Meet the Emperor 3 years ago
No Problem 20 months ago
The Emperor's Work 3 years ago
Cornal 20 months ago
Black Sails 3 years ago
Preflight 20 months ago
Just Visiting 3 years ago
Alistor and the Dragon 20 months ago
Plans 3 years ago
More Relatives? 3 years ago
Imar 20 months ago
Opening Moves 3 years ago
They All Fall Down 3 years ago
Ravina 20 months ago
Affairs of the Heart 20 months ago
Unexpected Turn 3 years ago
Right Direction? 3 years ago
Misunderstanding? 3 years ago
All in the Family 3 years ago
Lord Alistor Comes Calling 3 years ago
The Winds of Change 3 years ago
Precursor to War 3 years ago
The Winds of War 3 years ago
Epilogue 3 years ago
Afterword 3 years ago
Teaser 3 years ago
Sequel in the Making 3 years ago
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Dragon, James Dragon
by Psiioniic Wednesday, December 20, 2017 1:20:53 AM
Review as of chapter 16:
A great story with lots of potential. The story seems vague and rather clichéd through the first few chapters, which could be attributed to the author developing the direction of the arc and writing style dynamically. That said, the author does a wonderful job of telling his story without becoming too detail oriented. He really captures the combination of a modern human viewpoint on cultural issues with a dragon's aloof nature and disregard of time.
The characters are well thought out, left be developed as the story progresses. No character exposition overload, as befits the point of view of a being who cares little for small details. Instead of focusing on everything, focus is limited to the wider scope, giving a dragon's eye view of events.
I look forward to seeing where the author takes this. Grammar is great for someone without an editor, although small mistakes exist. Usage of complex literary devices and high level writing is minimal, made up for by the exceptional grasp on viewpoint, scale, and scales.
Update as of finish:
A fundamentally different story to many on royalroadl.com. Most focus on the minute, the details, the soul razing journey from point to point. Instead, a a wide angle approach is taken leaving a finished story halfway between a skimmed epic and a fable-esque amalgam of morals and ideas.
While a great read, the story feels slightly rushed. It feels like we never leave the "civilization manager" view except for a couple pithy tidbits. Expansions with minor adventures and mishaps beyond simple engineering and ruling would not havehgone amiss. That said, it is a complete story. Few authors have a clear ending in mind when they write, and despite the accelerated pacing it shows for the better. Well done.
Short naive story
by Fillear Friday, January 19, 2018 4:45:08 PM
Nice story but... I dislike how dragon followers readily accepted his ideas and world view without any misunderstanding and disagreement.
unresolved thoughts - Reviewed as of Chapter Housewarming
Reviewed at: New Direction
by gogorer Friday, February 7, 2020 10:30:09 AM
I'm finally deciding to review this after going through some of my old comments and realizing I had some powerful points that I still have a recollection of the feelings for.
the potential of the story is wasted once one realizes that given the form of a super-powerful Dragon the Protag is content to do nothing interesting.
I remember it even being thrown in my face while reading with lines like; "I'm so bored..." and other comments made by the MC like; "I can do anything, go anywhere..." which only opened the door to me thinking; so why not do some of those cool and exciting things, instead of, you know sitting on the same Mountain Chain you started on...
in my opinion, the story suffers, horribly and irreparably from the thought-terminating idea that; there is much cooler stuff to be doing as such a powerful entity. cooler stuff that the MC never even has an inkling to try out, while favoring a bunch of people he has absolutely zero relation to, and besides that is all so very mundane and boring in the face of the vistas of the imagination a planes-walking Dragon might explore and interact with.
it gets a low score, but even in that low score, the idea couldve been sound if it had started with more passion, with more interest in exploring new concepts along with the strong perspective.
I guess, ultimately, I came back to review this because I had unresolved feelings about the wasted potential of the story. it's just an overly simple story with a phantom at its back of the greater story it couldve been.
I enjoyed this one.
by Jynxlynn Friday, March 16, 2018 4:18:13 AM
The characters are interesting, if a little one dimensional, and the story flows very well.
While I would have liked to have gotten to know the side characters a little bit more, I would recommend this to anyone looking for a good fun easy read.
Nice and interesting story
by Boubouh Wednesday, December 27, 2017 3:02:30 PM
The story is really good. It has an interesting theme about what to do when nothing can stand in your way and I found that it was well told.
It just needs proofreading and layout editing. And maybe more fleshing for the side characters.
PS : Some people might find that the sexual relationship(s) came about a little abruptly. And it is just mentioned as "entertainment" for those who are spooked by the sexual content warning.
A Quick Fun Story
by iLikeToast Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:24:33 AM
If you are looking for a quick, highly enjoyable read then this is for you. seriously it had me captivated the whole time.
The story is centered arround a human becomming an OP dragon and basically trying to make life interesting. The story hooked me as soon as i heard he was the strongest dragon in existence, what can i say? im a simple man. It continued to amuse me throughout the story ranging from the humorous moments or just the over all fuzzy felling it gives off. As mentioned the story is more of a happy, light-harted story that leaves you craving for the next chapter.
Overall grammar is good enough that i can read sentences and understand them without having to look back at them. Few and far-between spelling mistakes. The only thing that i didnt like was that the paragraphs where just one big clump of writing that made it a daunting and confusing task to read and had me sometimes looking at it agian because i lose my place.
The Main Character is a simple one really; a happy person (Dragon) that only wishes to unite all the races and do something different from the whole 'fear the dragons' kinda thing.
The main character has a goal, Motivation and personality wich is enough for me.
Side Characters:
This is one of the weakpoints of the story. The side characters dont feel real and are just agreeing to everything the MC does and says, And they dont really have any progression throughout the story. Overall MOST characters feel a bit bland but with that said some are unique and i can understand the task of creating personalities for the charcaters especially if you are only writng as a hobby.
Overall I enjoyed this series enough for me to make my first reveiw on so yea...
if you've read up to here Thanks :) and what are you doing? go and read the damn story already!
by Theophora Sunday, June 23, 2019 8:10:31 PM
I would love to say that this is a good story but it is not. Don't get me wrong, I still read the story and even enjoyed it, but objectively speaking the story as a whole is bad.
The way it is written is not easy to follow. It is too fast paced and repetitive and the expressions that are used often don't fit the context. You can see there was an effort, which is greatly appreciated, but all in all it often leads to confusion and doesn't help the development. Even if it were written in a more simple style, that wouldn't be a problem in my opinion as it would help avoiding those mistakes.
The story on the other hand is good. Interesting aspects are integrated and sometimes details make a more fluent transition. It would even be really enjoyable if not for the fast pace and weird story telling.
The grammar is okay. Not good, not bad. As I already mentioned there are expressions that don't fit the context but they are still decently integrated. There are few unintentional grammar/spelling mistakes and there is equally not much to say about the sentence structure.
The characters can't be rated with a high score though. They are childishly written and remind me of my writing capacity in 5th grade. There is absolutely space for improvement though, so I think if the story gets rewritten, there might be a chance for betterment. The introductions to the characters don't vary at all, which is additionally boring. The main character is not well established and confusingly conceptualized. I have yet to find an accurate way to describe him besides empty and dull. There is nothing to him at all. The only way you get to know his character is by listening to other characters describing him, while never ever experiencing it yourself. Its a shame.
My favourite chapter is the first and the second where the world and rules get established. Not very thoroughly but okay. I still enjoyed reading a little of it and hope everyone has a good experience with the story. This is not meant to attack the author as I think they really did what they could at that point and I don't want to dishearten them. I hope they will find their writing style in the future and write stories they like.
Apart from that I've got nothing else to add.
It's based on RP apparentely
by Moreta Tuesday, February 5, 2019 10:42:22 AM
Its rather hard to tell who were other people roleplaying along, as they were completly erased, elaving just powerfool dragon. I mean, he's OP, his actions seem toughtless, and no one else in whole world matters. They just exist to be one-dimensional prompts. At least they don't pretend to be anything more like MC does.
A Dryad's review
by Raile21 Monday, December 25, 2017 3:51:10 AM
I am a writer in RRL that write a Dryad in a scifi setting and I found this story to have a charm of its own.
The story have a lord of the ring feel to it combined with the dragons from the book Eragon so it does have more of a fantasy charm with a dash of modern day sensibilities and ideas common to the typical self-insert or transported to another world type of stories which can be often found in RRL.
The most challenging part in writing an OP character is that often the story would have no meaning as everything the MC do would be guaranteed to succeed. However this story achieved it by setting up an empire from scratch not through strength but mainly from working together with the weaker races even if doing it through power would be simpler and easier. The story teaches that power without guidance or purpose are wasted in the world.
As the author have announced his intention to make a sequel of this story, I wish him luck. As I know that it is very difficult for a story to progress if the MC already has everything and is at the peak of his power. At that point there is only stagnation as the MC have now reached the ceiling. Even if the MC travel to another world, and have to make another empire from scratch, there is no point making the same story twice by repeating what he have already did.
If I have to give recommendation for the sequel of this story I would recommend for the MC to be transported some time to the future where his empire is in ruins in order to rebuild after a civil war. Or have an extra terrestrial threat to the empire in the form of monstrous swarm like the Zerg or Tyrannids or a hyper advanced machine like the Reapers from Mass effect or Necrons.
Also, it would be nice to have a space in between sentences as it made reading easier when there is a clear separation between each point the author is trying to make.
Interesting and good food for thought.
by callmesteve Thursday, December 21, 2017 11:49:11 PM
What do you do when you have become the most powerful being known? Not that much. What can even cause you problems, after all?
A fascinating, somber reminder of the need for challenge, and a dragon's path toward the more subtle joys of life, such as massive terraforming.
I find the idea of easily mastering (well, already knowing) all the OP stuff and needing to learn the simpler spells an interesting take.
I remove a star because of the sad ending and the bonk-fests that happen in later chapters. (Edit)
It really isn't a surprise, but I still feel bad. Still, aren't Elves immortal or next-best thing? How large WAS that time-skip?
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Designing better healthcare using human psychology: Judgement and decision science in clinical settings
Date and time Mon 1 Jul 2019 from 1:00pm to 7:30pm
Location Chandos House
Organised by Public Engagement Programme
In this session, we will introduce the fundamentals of decision making and examine the risks and opportunities that a better understanding of human behaviour exposes in clinical settings.
We'll be joined by members of The Behavioural Insights Team, a social purpose organisation which applies behavioural insights to help improve policy. Some of BIT's recent work in healthcare has included:
Reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions by 73,000 by informing GP practices when they were prescribing many more antibiotics than their peers
Improving hospital appointment attendance by 25% by designing text message reminders which emphasise the cost of the appointment to the NHS
In recent decades, developments in the behavioural sciences have rapidly advanced our knowledge of how people make decisions and judge information. Humans have developed sophisticated ways of processing complex information quickly, which sometimes force us to trade-off speed for accuracy.
Doctors are no exception to this rule, with recent research highlighting that contextual cues can influence prescribing behaviours, specialist referrals, medical error incidence, and much more.
Join us to:
Take part in interactive exercises to show how the human brain works, where judgement and decision making predictably go wrong, and what this can mean in practice
Build familiarity with examples of how behavioural science has been applied to improve clinical environments and processes
Reflect on the opportunities to use this approach in your own workplace, and provide a framework to do so.
You can view the full programme below.
Elspeth Kirkman
Director of Health, Education, and Local Government at the Behavioural Insights Team
Elspeth Kirkman is the Director of Health, Education, and Local Government at the Behavioural Insights Team. She has worked all over the world applying behavioural science to improve the outcomes of public services, including hospitals and health policy.
She has taught behavioural science at Harvard, acts as an expert advisor to a number of global institutions, and serves as a Senior Fellow for Casey Family Programs, advising on the applications of behavioural and decision science to child welfare systems.
Prior to joining BIT in 2013, Elspeth was a management consultant working with government clients around the world.
Dr Mark Egan
Advisor, the Behavioural Insights Team
Mark is an Advisor working across the Health and Research teams in the London office. His projects include examining the effect of cognitive biases on government decision-making and the behavioural factors which affect non-urgent attendances at hospital emergency departments. Mark holds a PhD in Behavioural Science from the University of Stirling.
View the programme
Registration, tea and coffee
Elspeth Kirkman, Director of Health and Social Care, Childhood and Schools, Skills, and Local Delivery, The Behavioural Insights Team
Workshop (Part 1)
Elspeth Kirkman and Dr Mark Egan, the Behavioural Insights Team
Tea and coffee break
Close of meeting / Drinks reception
End of drinks reception
Chandos House, 2 Queen Anne Street, London, W1G 9LQ, United Kingdom
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Merkel walks out of parliament after AfD leader lambasts her support for migrant quota system
Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the German parliament on February 22, 2018. © Axel Schmidt / Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel walked out of a parliamentary session after a leader from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party criticized her support of a proposed EU refugee distribution system.
While Merkel and AfD have never been friends, one particular comment by the party’s co-founder, Alexander Gauland, prompted her to leave the Bundestag on Thursday. That remark slammed the chancellor's support for an EU quota system for accepting refugees.
"Countries want to decide for themselves who they take in. There is no national duty with regard to multiculturalism," Gauland said.
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AfD co-founder Alice Weidel also had a lot to say during the session, including her view that Merkel is trying to punish the UK for voting to leave the European Union.
"The EU wants to make an example of Great Britain, a punishment beyond any economic or political reason. This is not how one treats a European partner," Weidel said. "Now Brussels, Paris, and Berlin are afraid that others could follow, that other states in Europe could take back their sovereignty."
She went on to accuse the European Commission of "planning to restrict Britain's access to the single market even during the transition period." Such a plan against Germany's biggest trading partner in the EU amounts to "taking free trade and competition as a hostage and making a failed EU ideology," Weidel said.
"The good trading relationship with Great Britain and the rest of the continent have to be maintained – otherwise Europe will be at a disadvantage in global trade." Merkel appeared to be less offended by Weidel's comments, as she at least remained inside parliament while the AfD leader was speaking.
While some of the AfD leaders' remarks were booed in the Bundestag on Thursday, the fact remains that it has seen a sharp growth in popularity. Recent polling found that it has garnered record-high support, becoming more popular than the Social Democrats (SPD) for the very first time.
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NRF Launches “New Holiday Traditions” Campaign
Amid an unprecedented situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Retail Federation launces a nationwide consumer education campaign called “New Holiday Traditions” to encourage consumers to shop safe and shop early.
The COVID crisis has spurred new ways to shop, and the NRF launches campaign to educate consumers about safe shopping during the holiday season.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – By any measure, this holiday season will be unlike any other, and the National Retail Federation is launching a nationwide consumer education campaign called “New Holiday Traditions” to encourage consumers to shop safe and shop early amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is going to be a historic holiday season and while some memorable traditions may change, the tradition of retailers supporting their customers and their communities is stronger than ever. That is why we encourage consumers to adopt two new traditions this year – shop safe and shop early – so we can all celebrate a happy and healthy holiday,” NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said. “Retailers are prepared for an early start to the shopping season, offering discounts earlier to ensure consumers can find the gifts they want, in stock at the price they want to pay, delivered at the time they want to receive them.”
November is historically the most popular month to start holiday shopping. Despite concerns related to the coronavirus, 43 percent of holiday shoppers surveyed this year say they are waiting until November to start buying for the season, and a majority (59 percent) plan to shift more of their shopping online compared with last year, according to NRF’s annual consumer holiday survey.
“In a year that has been full of uncertainty, we encourage consumers to avoid the last-minute stresses of the holiday season like long lines and shipping delays. Retailers are ready with inventory and sales, and there’s no reason to wait until Thanksgiving weekend to kick off your gift shopping,” Shay said.
NRF’s “New Holiday Traditions” campaign will include advertising across digital and social media, radio and Connected TV that will air from October through mid-November in target markets across the country. Learn more about the campaign here.
The National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association, passionately advocates for the people, brands, policies and ideas that help retail thrive. From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., NRF empowers the industry that powers the economy. Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $3.9 trillion to annual GDP and supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 52 million working Americans. For over a century, NRF has been a voice for every retailer and every retail job, educating, inspiring and communicating the powerful impact retail has on local communities and global economies.
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Reasonable Access
Asserting and enforcing disability rights
Disability Access Bingo
Regulations and Guidance
Asserting yourself during discrimination
Complaining about disability discrimination
Ombudsman and Regulator services
British and NI law explained
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C4 – Bingo: Aggression or violence
Aggressive or violence response
Swap access complaints with a friend
Courts and aggression/violence
Sadly, challenging disability discrimination at-the-time or in complaints correspondence can get an aggressive or violent reaction from some Respondents. While the risk seems to be higher with small businesses where the staff may be less ‘professional’, staff of larger organisations can also behave aggressively to and about us as disabled complainants.
We have pages for dealing with incidents, gathering evidence and making complaints which may be helpful.
Whatever you do, we recommend prioritising your safety and planning ahead to deal with incidents of discrimination.
We hope that by more people standing up for our rights, organisations will realise it isn’t just one unreasonable person, but that there are obligations they have and need to meet.
We know several people who have complained about a simple access failing to small businesses in the hope that access will be provided. Sometimes the respondent can react so negatively that even if access is provided, the complainant then feels unwelcome because of the bad feeling. The threshold for harassment and victimisation is high, and it is hard to prove bad attitudes are unwelcoming and problematic.
One idea we have is to get a disabled friend with similar access needs who lives somewhere else, to make the complaint. If the friend’s complaint achieves improved access, then the local disabled person can use it with a reduced chance of being made to feel unwelcome. It isn’t a zero chance as some people will assume any two disabled people know one another or are plotting against them, and still be unwelcoming.
In theory, judges can take aggression and bad behaviour from Respondents into account when deciding damages for “aggravating factors”, or allow a claim for harassment or victimisation (which can be added if incidents occur during the legal process).
In practice, however, judges are rarely disabled or marginalised people with lived experience of being discriminated against on a daily basis. As privileged people, they’re less likely to experience backlash when they assert themselves, because that’s how privileges work.
Some of us have experience of judges making strange assumptions, like “repeated discrimination has less impact on disabled people because it happens so often,” or assumptions that we’re not as distressed as we are, because we don’t behave in the ways they associate with distress.
We don’t really have any answers for this, except to document impacts of discrimination as soon after incidents as possible, and during the aftermath. If things go legal, then consider getting people who see the impact on you to produce a witness statement (which must be 100% truthful). If you have had to seek support from any kind of professional (counsellor, GP etc), ask them to document this for you and submit this as evidence to the court.
Reading the judgment in Leighton v Kahraman shows some of the judge’s legal and other thinking around which incidents of aggressive behaviour from Mr Kahraman counted as harassment, which may give you some idea of the challenges here.
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Milton making progress
Chad Dotson
This could be good news:
While a group of his teammates played an exhibition game in Knology Park against the green-clad Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Eric Milton spent his St. Patrick’s Day morning on a mound in Sarasota’s Ed Smith Stadium.
Milton was so happy with the results of his simulated game that he considered changing his name to Eric O’Milton.
In a supreme test of his once-sore right calf, Milton pitched six innings, threw 76 pitches, gave up one run and five hits, while striking out two and walking one.
If Milton can just pitch to his career averages, the Reds automatically improve. I’m rooting for him.
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Blame Chad for creating this mess. Chad launched Redleg Nation in February 2005, and has been writing about the Reds ever since. His first book, "The Big 50: The Men and Moments That Made the Cincinnati Reds" is now available in bookstores and online, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever fine books are sold. You can also find Chad's musings about the Cincinnati Reds in the pages of Cincinnati Magazine. You can email Chad at [email protected]
Baseball Is Life: Developed Over Lifetimes
Mary Beth Ellis
Reds Fall in Walk-Off Fashion 6 to 5 to Pirates
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Conservative donors hustle to save Scott Walker's reelection
The NRA, the Koch brothers and Wall Street hedge fund billionaires are all swooping in to rescue the embattled guv
By Elias Isquith
(AP/Jeffrey Phelps)
With his third campaign in the past four years turning out to be his toughest yet, Wisconsin GOP governor and potential future presidential candidate Scott Walker's wealthiest conservative friends are battening down the hatches and readying to spend big to ensure his reelection, the Associated Press reports.
Coming on the heels of multiple polls showing the race between Walker and his Democratic rival, businesswoman Mary Burke, all but tied, the National Rifle Association and an arm of the Republican Governors Association will run in Wisconsin this week no less than $525,000 worth of pro-Walker television ads. The former group reportedly also has a $1 million ad buy booked until midway through October, which they plan to re-up if the race stays competitive.
Overall, the AP reports that GOP-leaning spending on the race has already reached $7 million, and Dem-leaning spending is already more than $5 million.
The RGA, meanwhile, has already spent $3 million this year alone on Walker's reelection, a development that's notable not only for how it showcases the GOP's institutional loyalty to Walker, but also because the current chair of the group is New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie — a Walker ally who may soon become a 2016 competitor. But because Walker is popular among the RGA's biggest donors, like the Koch brothers and hedge fund titan Paul Singer, the Christie-Walker relationship is currently working to both men's benefit.
More from the Associated Press:
...Walker's nervousness about the election is showing.
"I think it's a matter of fatigue," Walker said during a recent visit to his Madison campaign offices. "People forget but this is, at best, a purple state, probably leans historically blue."
Momentum appears to be turning to Walker's side, according to a Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday.
In August, 59 percent of registered voters who said they are Republicans and 60 percent of Democrats said they were very enthusiastic about voting, according to the poll. But this month, the share of Republicans who said they were very enthusiastic rose to 67 percent while the Democratic number was unchanged.
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Rachell Abalos
11 Types of Tita You Meet at Every Party
A tita, by definition, is an aunt. But that title isn’t exclusive to relatives. They come in all shapes and sizes — sometimes sporting the latest Coach bag (looking at you Number 3), and sometimes they’re the messiest kind that you want to avoid (ahem, Number 1). But at the end of the day, we love our titas. And we don’t stamp that title to anyone, even when she sashays into a party an hour late. We see you, Tita. We see you.
Now that the party has officially started, it’s time to meet each one.
(Image courtesy of Canva)
Let’s get this over with quickly and meet the tita who will make you feel like crap before the end of the night. And even if you make it your duty to avoid her, you can’t. She will simply appear and immediately tear you down with a smile on her face.
Did you gain or lose weight? You don’t need a scale. Body-Shaming Tita is good at math and she knows the exact amount of pounds you gained or lost, sometimes down to the decimal.
“Taba” (fat) and “payat” (skinny) are her favorite words, and they’re never used as a compliment.
Body-Shaming Tita doesn’t stop at physical attributes. She’ll shame you if you’re single with questions like “Why don’t you have a boyfriend yet?” She’ll shame you if you’re a newlywed and pry into your sex life if you’re not already pregnant.
Be prepared to hear some unsolicited advice like “stop eating junk food” or “don’t stress” even though you’re happy with your healthy self. Expect her to try to hook you up with someone’s cousin on her other side of the family. Just smile back and thank her because you’ve already tried snitching on her to your mom and Lola (grandmother) and their reply is always “Ah, she’s always like that. Just ignore her.”
It’s 2020, fam. We should address her toxic behavior or seriously stop inviting her.
(Image courtesy of JillWellington of Pixabay)
What’s the latest tsismis (gossip), you wonder? Look for this tita at a crowded table, where everyone is gathered to sip some tea. And if you see this tita, across the room, looking at you with her pursed lips… she was just talking about you.
Be careful what you say around this tita unless you’re willing to fill her teapot. She knows everyone’s business. And her reach is international. Tea-Spilling Tita is Facebook friends with you, your mama, and your tito’s (uncle) ex-baby mama. This tita is also tech-savvy and knows how to text, chat, and scroll through every social media. Again, do not underestimate her.
Gossip is not just her favorite past time, she is an Olympic gold medalist. If you don’t have time to chitchat with the tsismosas, it’s cool. Watch some passive-aggressive posting on Facebook unfold in the next few days from all the damage she has caused.
(Image courtesy of StockSnap of Pixabay)
This tita is dripping with head-to-toe designer clothes. At first glance she is stylish, but as soon as you get a closer look… ehhhhhhh…
Tita, thy name is cringe.
That Michael Kors hat is fly. Love those Kate Spade sandals. Your expensive Louis Vuitton duffel bag that you wear like a purse is making everyone jelly.
We get it. You can afford all of these brand names. By all means, treat yourself, you worked three overtimes to save up for it.
But did you really need to wear your Gucci sunglasses at an indoor party?
I know I sound salty towards this tita, but it’s because she once tried to call out my Coach bag as fake. It was not. I got it 60 percent off at the outlet mall, thank you very much.
(Image courtesy of AMassessoriaPublicitaria of Pixabay)
“Baon” is the act of taking food to-go and bringing it home once the party is done. There is no shame in packing up some baon. Heck, the host will probably insist that you baon some of the lumpia (if there's any left!) or the homemade dinuguan.
But Baon Tita plays a different game. As soon as she walks in, she’s already asking for the Styrofoam to get her baon started and sets it aside inside the oven or microwave. Points to her for bringing back the Tupperware she borrowed from the last party.
Can you at least save us latecomers some pancit palabok, Baon Tita? Please?
(Image courtesy of HugoAtaide of Pixabay) She can sing. I mean really, really sing like she could have been on American Idol if she wanted to but her parents shot down her dreams and made her get a degree in nursing.
The most common tita in the party. We don't have just one or two who are super talented... we have several all lined up and passing a big black binder list of English and Tagalog songs.
No Filipino party exists without them.
(Image courtesy of 27707 of Pixabay)
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Look, we can’t stop time. We all have to grow up and titles change from ading (younger sibling) to ate (older female sibling) to tita.
This tita, sadly, refuses to accept her age. She’ll find the young crowd, usually the cousins, and request some selfies with them. Be careful, though, this tita will post all the shots — good and unflattering ones — onto her Facebook page and tag everyone in the picture. She’s similar to Fashionista Tita with all the trendy clothes she wears, but it’s mostly a front to convince herself that she’s still cool. (Or is it “lit”?)
Dare to call her auntie and watch her crow’s feet eyes flare with flames. She’s not your auntie, okay? Call her ate. HOW DARE YOU?
As soon as you see this tita, grab her hand immediately and mano po before she prays for your disrespectful butt.
She’s the self-proclaimed saint of the family. This tita wears her religion on her sleeve.
Literally. She carries her rosary beads with her. She also has langis (coconut oil) in her purse in case anyone at the party needs some hilot (massage).
We can't start eating the food until this tita has blessed it. She constantly asks when was the last time you've been to church and hassles all the moms to get their kids confirmed already.
If you're ever invited to one of her parties, expect to be included in the rosary prayer even if you're not an active Catholic.
(Image courtesy of Joshua Golde of Unsplash)
Prepare to have your kalabaw measured today, because this tita will bust out her measuring tape to prove hers is bigger. And more expensive. And cuter. Whatever it is, hers will always be better.
She’s not really a mayabang (show-off) person, but she certainly loves to flex.
Are we celebrating a cousin’s graduation today? Well, One-Upper Tita will tell you her son is about to graduate from an Ivy League. Magna cum laude. Did you just buy a new car? This tita has a Mercedes that she bought five years ago. Paid in full, of course.
Seriously, don’t bother basking in the glow of your accomplishments and special moments because this tita will always beat you.
(Image courtesy of Samueles of Pixabay)
It’s no secret that gambling is a common vice for many of our kababayan (countrymen). We don’t know just one or two people who have an addiction. Shoot… they carpooled together when they arrived at the party. Bingo Tita arrived on time because she has to leave early since Bingo at the nearest casino starts at 6:00 and FOMO is a real thing to her. Despite her need to gamble, she won’t dare miss a family party. No way.
Bingo Tita also carries a deck of cards in her purse. After she’s done eating, she’ll ask the host for an empty table and set up a game of Pares-Pares. Try to schmooze this tita, especially when she’s on a hot streak of winning quarters, you might get some balato (small portion of their win).
(Image courtesy of Miguel Bruna of Unsplash)
The unicorn of the party. Or as Body-Shaming Tita will call her: the black sheep.
She is our favorite tita. Everyone loves her because she taught us all the curse words and genitalia in Tagalog. She has a tattoo of the Filipino stars and proudly displays it. She's not young, but she certainly exudes a youthful image.
She hardly attends a family party, but when she does show up, it’s lit.
Why? Because she breaks all the stereotypes and rules embedded by the old (and outdated) standards of judgmental Filipinos.
The tita we love to hate.
No one in the family likes her, especially during a sporting event.
She cheers against Manny Pacquiao and laughs whenever he stumbles. Many of us may not like him personally, but in the boxing ring, we do not wish for his defeat. But the Kontrabida does. And her negative energy can kill the atmosphere quickly.
She actively roots for an opposing team not because she's a fan, but because the family prefers the other team.
She's loud about her opinions and doesn't hesitate to get in an argument over the most trivial things. And her hot takes are wild. Was the dress blue or gold? The Kontrabida will say it was pink.
I don't even want to bring up politics, but you can guess who she voted for and she's proud of it regardless if she agrees with their policies.
She's a contrarian. A true villain at every party.
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The Yangon Circle Train
Boris le Montagner
Looping around Yangon is the Yangon Circular Train. Used commonly as a foot thoroughfare this railway line, like most in Myanmar, is less frequently used by locals and tourists in comparison to busses or taxis. However, for those who are basking in the luxury of time and are drawn to authentic travel, the circular train in Yangon holds many attractions.
The route reaches right up to the northernmost environs of the city above the international airport and swings down to the upper lip of downtown Yangon. This local Yangon train runs the circle route every day from early morning until just after sunset in intervals of 45 minutes. A round journey of the full 32 miles will take approximately 3 hours.
The train can be boarded at Yangon Central Railway Station. Like much of downtown Yangon, the railway station was built during the colonial era and though poorly maintained still exudes a shabby grandeur. Passing by uniformed, but seemingly idle personnel, make your way to platforms 7 and 8 where you will see a small and dark office at the centre where for 200 Kyat – roughly 15 American cents – you can purchase your ticket.
Yangon Day Tour
Joining you in your carriage will be a wide if not exhaustive cross-section of the Yangon populous: teenage boys wearing skinny jeans and Nike hi-tops; toothless and wizened fogies clutching baskets of fruit and spices; and elegant thamain-clad women, plastered thick like the bairn on their laps with thanaka bark paste.
The wide open windows, the liberty of sitting in the doorway with your legs dangling over the rails, and the eclectic passengers of the local train more than make up for any slight discomfort caused by the bouncing carriages and the exhausted, wheezing fans attached to the ceiling.
(Note the liberty of sitting in the doorway with legs dangling over the rails is gradually being phased out due to the increased use of newer trains with automatic doors. Yet another reason to board the Yangon Circle Train as soon as possible!)
With a shuddering jolt the train will be off, reaching a top speed of just over 10 miles and hour. The first 45 minutes or so takes one through the underbelly of Yangon. There is much of interest to be seen between these early stations: old men playing chess with the board drawn in chalk onto the pavement; younger men cracking open the first bottles of Myanmar Beer of the day; and men and boys of all ages monkeying up and down scaffolding with an exhilarating lack of caution.
On travelling by rail north out of Yangon in the 1970s the travel writer Paul Theroux wrote:
‘It is pleasant to leave Rangoon by rail: the train goes around the city and five minutes from the station you are in the country, a low swampy rice-growing area beside the Pazandaung Creek, where in the courtyards of the monasteries the monks are at prayer, and crossing the fields are processions of people – schoolchildren with satchels, office workers setting out in white shirts, farmers with mattocks – the early morning march in the tropics to the tune of temple bells.’
Whether travelling clockwise or anticlockwise, bear in mind that Yangon is much changed since the 1970s and it will take at least 40 minutes in either direction until one catches sight of field-crossing satchel-clad children. However they will appear to patient travellers in time.
Wide swathes of the city are inhabited by those who rarely venture outside their little township, only making it down as far as Shwedagon Pagoda for festivals, full moon days and other special occasions. Therefore jumping off at stops like Insein, about 17 kilometres northwest of Yangon Central Railway Station, is like disembarking at a small town where the rush of Yangon is muted and the presence of a foreign face still causes a stir.
Insein is infamous for its mammoth circular jail – built by the British and today notorious for holding dissidents during the 8888 student revolution in 1988 and the Saffron Revolution in 2007. Here in Insein one can visit the grand Kyauk Daw Kyi Pagoda and walk to the ‘village’ of Porkan, taking a breather in a tea-house for a reviving plate of tea leaf salad and peanuts.
Naked urchins race alongside the track, plunging into pools and puddles during the wet season, shouting, squealing and roaring in delight at the sight of camera lenses peering out of the carriage windows.
After Insein the country quickly becomes rural, with flat stretches of paddy fields where farmers wade waist deep in the water wearing conical bamboo hats. Past the little hamlets here one will see either muddy chilone pitches, where men and boys play with fervent dexterity, their longyis hoisted up around their groins. Naked urchins race alongside the track, plunging into pools and puddles during the wet season, shouting, squealing and roaring in delight at the sight of camera lenses peering out of the carriage windows.
A pleasant place to disembark is the small settlement of Kyaikkale, where there is a quirky pagoda complex with an assortment of bright shrines centred around a pool with soft-shelled turtles.
On the other side of Kyaikkale station from the shrines, one can pass through a grand set of iron gates which one would expect to lead to some forgotten colonial country house. There is, alas, no crumbling estate, but around a corner of foliage there is a wooden outbuilding in which has been placed, almost wall-to-wall, a full-sized billiards table. Here the men in their free hours play a version of the game whereby one picks a handful of playing cards from a deck and then attempts to pot the balls corresponding to the number on the cards. If not in the midst of a game, when passing by this shack travellers may well be invited inside to try their luck.
The station next to Kyaikkale is Mingaladon Bazaar, just over an hour and half into an uninterrupted trip. Mingaladon Bazaar is a comparatively large Yangon train station and on many days of the week is the bustling hub of the route due to a wholesale vegetable market that takes place on the platform. A great commotion ensues at this market as mammoth sacks are flung onto the train in a hail of squarks and barked commands.
Lythe young men and nimble women nip on and off the train with great mounds on their back, dumping piles of tightly packed fruit and veg onto the floor until the carriage holds more produce than people. Sometimes the sacks are accompanied, sometimes not, left to fend for themselves as the train rolls out until further down the line someone jumps on board to chaperone them off the train in central Yangon.
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The village of Weibargi is just beyond Mingalardon. It looks little more than a sparse hamlet from the platform but venturing down the track the trees part and smaller paths begin to branch off, each lined by little bamboo houses, many with their own gates and garden fences. At the centre of the village space has been cleared for a patchwork of football pitches.
Breathless boys with a grasp of English, sweating and wearing English Premier League football shirts, will likely rush up to any unexpected visitors to Weibargi. After engaging in a smattering of small talk, if you are male you will likely be invited to join the game, while the younger children gingerly take hold of the fingers of all those remaining on the sidelines.
One can spend hours in such places, drinking ‘British Tea’ in the tea houses – extra milky, extra sweet, extra strong! – chatting amicably with the locals despite mutual incomprehension, sampling the local delicacies and perhaps puffing on a green Burmese cheroot. As the sun begins to set, the scenery takes on a richer glow, free from the wash of bright sunlight or the haze of rain. And as the shadows elongate and the football games push on through the waning light, and the first bottle of Grand Royal Whisky is cracked open, it is tempting to remain and be party to the intimate sanctities of a Burmese village past sundown.
Alas, transport from such places as Weibargi is hard to come by. And so as the sun does begin to set, the sound of a train rattling along the Yangon Circular Railway should be your clarion call to pay your bill and nip along the path back to the platform.
As the shadows elongate and the football games push on through the waning light, and the first bottle of Grand Royal Whisky is cracked open, it is tempting to remain and be party to the intimate sanctities of a Burmese village past sundown.
Quieter folk you will find in your carriage now. Keeping an eye out for stray branches, stick your head out the window, enjoy the cooler breeze and watch as the flickering camp fires of the Yangon environs are replaced by the neon and illuminated tubing of the fast-urbanising suburbs.
The occasional power cuts on the train will render these city lights yet more resplendent. Savour the peace of the rocking train while you can, for soon – though perhaps not as soon as you would expect – you will be back in the rollocking centre of Yangon and the rurality of Kyaikkale and Weibargi will feel more than a city rail-line away.
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The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers, business owners, and creators discover what works with social media marketing.
In this episode, I interview Brian Solis, a digital analyst and futurist at the Altimeter Group. He’s considered one of the founding fathers of social media marketing. He authored The Social Media Manifesto and the book Engage. His most recent book is X: The Experience When Business Meets Design.
Brian explores the insights revealed in his most recent update to The Conversation Prism.
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How Social Media Has Evolved and Where It Is Headed
Social Media in 2007
The early days of social media were a really exciting time, Brian explains. After Web 2.0 in Silicon Valley in the mid-2000s, Facebook opened to the public in 2006, Twitter appeared in 2007, and early social networks like Friend Feed and Friendster were still around. Some people saw the promise of social media but most of the world had no idea. There was zero direction. Social media was, and still is in some ways, the Wild West.
When Brian wrote The Social Media Manifesto, he was thinking about the idea of a revolution. Social media had the potential to be a great democratizer of information. Social media was a platform where everyone could share their voice.
As someone who struggled to get through to traditional media or buy media to reach people, Brian believed that the ability to reach people directly and people-to-people engagement were going to be the future of all media. Brian wrote the manifesto so individuals, marketers, brands, and traditional media would think about the potential and how to be part of the movement, rather than try to control it and broadcast through it.
At the time, Brian ran a couple of companies, including an early digital agency/lab dedicated to helping startups reach their markets.
Brian wrote The Social Media Manifesto to help marketers, brands, and traditional media think about the potential of social media.
Using techniques that might be considered “growth hacking,” the agency found clever, nontraditional ways of helping companies with few resources get as big as they could so they could get acquired, make an IPO (initial public offering), or simply reach profitability. Brian was in and around the development of not only social media but also many other social technologies.
Brian says after the rise and fall of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 showed promise but was then hit with the economic challenge of the 2008 recession. However, Brian was interested in the way social media seemed almost recession-proof. It took everything by storm. For instance, South by Southwest Interactive enjoyed a surge in popularity around 2005 through 2007 with the rise of Web 2.0 and social media.
Plus, it was the beginning of entrepreneurship, at least in this era. Everybody in every industry was suddenly a social media pro. You had marketers, advertisers, coaches, you name it. Everybody latched onto social media because it seemed like it was the next gold rush.
Social media showed the promise of fantastic opportunities, not just from a market or a profit standpoint, but for changing the world. Brian wanted to do his part to steer social media in a positive and productive direction.
Listen to the show to hear more about the evolution of the Internet and social media.
The Conversation Prism
Brian started working on The Conversation Prism in 2007, and it officially launched in 2008 at South by Southwest with posters all around Austin.
The Conversation Prism officially launched in 2008.
Brian created The Conversation Prism as a response to the hundreds of social networks popping up everywhere: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and all of these “niche works,” as they were called. Ted Rheingold started Dogster and Catster, which were social networks for dog and cat owners. Plus, people became “social media experts” overnight.
The Conversation Prism (along with The Social Media Manifesto) was Brian’s attempt to explore and make sense of this seemingly chaotic landscape. Brian says the work was like digital anthropology. He wanted to organize all of the networks according to what they offered, their promise, and how people were using them.
At the center of The Conversation Prism was the idea that all of these things came together in some way, shape, or form. The map was also created so marketers, media outlets, and brands could see all of the social networks, think about how they were being used, and figure out how to listen to conversations and where to engage.
The early drafts of the Prism showed how one conversation could bend light and go everywhere. However, as the Prism added hundreds of networks, stacking them vertically became impossible. Instead, Brian tried to create a visual that was still true to the sense of a prism with spectra of conversations across the web, so he ended up organizing The Conversation Prism in a circular form.
The Conversation Prism is in a circular form with the spirit of a prism.
When The Conversation Prism hit the market in 2008, it took off like crazy. Initially, The Conversation Prism was just a free infographic, but due to high demand, was later sold as a 22 x 28-inch poster. Marketers, brands, and entrepreneurs hung it up on their walls for inspiration.
The Conversation Prism also inspired a lot of platforms like Radian6 to create technologies that would allow people essentially to bring The Conversation Prism to life. They started a massive movement.
Listen to the show to hear Brian discuss the impact of apps and mobile on The Conversation Prism.
The Latest Conversation Prism Update
The Conversation Prism was recently updated for the first time in four years. During that time, Brian has been busy covering everything from digital transformation, corporate innovation, and customer and employee experience to corporate culture and disruptive technologies.
Since the last update, social media has found its stride. Instead of big disruption, many social networks came and went. Because many platforms were turning over quickly, he let the changes play out. Over the last year or so, Brian got really serious about the update. His friend Jaimy Szymanski helped with this version, in which they removed 84 companies and added 141.
The Conversation Prism was recently updated for the first time in four years.
They also added new categories without taking any away. This change shows that social media is getting more sophisticated and expansive. For instance, they added messaging, as well as crowdfunding, and travel and hospitality, because social media is becoming more vertical. They also started to track connecting IRL, which are social networks (like Tinder), which bring people together in real life.
Listen to the show to hear Brian and I discuss one of the platforms that disappeared quickly.
The Rise of Live Video, Messaging, and More
I ask Brian for his thoughts on a variety of things related to social media in the next part of our conversation.
Live video has turned people into real-time broadcasters.
Live Video. Live video is the next iteration of how people share themselves, as well as how they watch or follow others. In the beginning, social media was largely text and then evolved into imagery, and later, more sophisticated imagery. Video started with YouTube, Vimeo, and other early networks. Now, live video has turned people into real-time broadcasters.
Many of these people simply share who they are and what they’re doing right now. Or they use live video to share serendipitous moments. However, others use live video as full-on broadcast mechanisms to engage new audiences in ways that weren’t possible before. These users are almost becoming like their own TV networks.
In some ways, people haven’t been very creative in the way they use live video. But Facebook, for example, has started to show what’s possible beyond Twitter, Periscope, and Meerkat. People can engage small or large groups around moments that matter.
Algorithms. There are algorithms, artificial intelligence, and what Brian calls “the human algorithm.” Algorithms are designed by different companies for different purposes. Companies need to consider the human algorithm (human aspiration and intent) in terms of purpose, outcomes, and possibilities.
Without a positive, optimistic approach, you can quickly steer people into a lot of trouble. Brian believes that by aligning artificial intelligence with the human algorithm, algorithms can be much more human, relevant, and promising.
I mention, as an example, how five years ago, National Geographic on a single post would get like 50,000 shares, millions of engagements, and tens of thousands of comments. Now their audience is substantially larger and they get maybe 1% of the engagement. I think algorithms are there to create a good user experience but have also dramatically hurt engagement and conversations.
When I ask Brian if algorithms have forced live video to be more necessary, he says yes and no. You need to consider the human algorithm element. Just because you have the platform doesn’t mean that you’re going to be engaging or sharable.
“With social media comes great responsibility and great opportunity,” Brian says. Broadcasting means you have to challenge yourself to think about whom you are trying to reach, why you want to be followed or watched, and what kind of content and engagement strategy you will build around it to be relevant. Then, to make sure you’re plugging into the algorithms so you reach your desired audience, you need to assess how the algorithms work and how they’re always changing.
Looking at The Conversation Prism 5.0 from the center outward, a content creator, consumer, brand, or marketer can see a framework for designing strategies for reaching the right people. Those algorithms should be considered as part of that strategy.
Live video goes back several years. The success of live video has depended not only on a platform but also on interesting, engaging content. Justin Kan’s startup, Justin.tv, allowed people to live-stream their lives. Justin.tv has since become Twitch, which is live gaming. Justin.tv had to pivot because some people were broadcasting their lives because they could, and it wasn’t really interesting. Another platform, Ustream, appeared after Justin.tv.
Justin.tv grew into Twitch, a live-stream platform for gamers.
Facebook has really demonstrated what’s possible because it’s such a huge platform where people have a built-in audience. The algorithm will definitely affect who you do and don’t reach. At the moment, Facebook is putting substance behind live, so now is probably the best time ever to get into live video.
Messaging. Messaging is the result of people’s increasingly mobile lifestyle. Messaging and notifications have become massive and led to different types of messaging, such as Snapchat, not just texting. Similarly, Dave Morin, who was an early driver of Facebook, founded a great network called Path, which was about intimate, immediate social networking with the people who mattered in your world.
Although Path came and went, you can still find messaging that harnesses the private, public, and other types of moments. There’s this famous saying, “You live a private life, you live a public life, you live a secret life, and there are networks for all of them.”
Augmented Reality. Augmented reality goes back to the early days of mobile. It allows you to add a layer that really brings the real world to life. People are doing this to some extent, just not in real time. For instance, in the early days of the iPhone, Brian and a friend developed technology for seeing enhanced information about products in-store. You could hold the phone over UPC codes in supermarkets, and product information appeared. QR codes also came out around that time, and others were experimenting with consumer applications, too.
Brian calls these types of programs “experience architecture.” That is, just because you can do it, doesn’t mean it’s necessary. However, you can find great augmented reality applications, one of which is the vertical windshield.
Social Television. Facebook Watch was just announced, while major companies including Snapchat, Twitter, and Apple are making huge bets bringing television to mobile and some of the social platforms.
Facebook recently launched Watch.
Social TV is the next big thing, Brian says. It was born out of what people did anyway: watching television and going on social media to participate in the conversation. Content playing directly on the network will further integrate the experience.
In early attempts, dedicated social networks had content as the mainstay, and people engaged around the content. However, better opportunities come when you engage with your social or interest graph and introduce content into that mix. Everybody’s starting to bid on and create content. It’s a matter of time until we start to see what Netflix, Amazon, and Apple create.
Determining Influence. Brian has been studying digital influence since 1997. Brian observed random people becoming incredibly influential, meaning they could have an effect or change behavior. Lots of tools can help you find great people. But like any data point, you get out of it what you put into it. You have to really be mindful of what you’re thinking about so you can find the right people to be involved.
Artificial Intelligence. Anytime there’s a new technology, marketing tends to put that technology in the portfolio of classical marketing. Brian has seen this with social media, the Internet of things, everything. He believes artificial intelligence isn’t something that should simply be added to the mix.
Marketing is ripe for innovation and disruption. So much is possible when you start thinking differently about data, platforms, and opportunities. Artificial intelligence will make certain things better and traditional marketing even worse. To illustrate, an artificial intelligence platform called Kahuna plugs into marketing and can help you better understand how people consume content.
As long as people’s minds are open to doing things in new ways, artificial intelligence will make this generation of marketers the most valuable breed. When individuals think differently about their approaches and build on that, that’s when they win.
Be open to the opportunities artificial intelligence presents.
I read that IBM is partnering with MIT. IBM is investing heavily to build the next generation of artificial intelligence engineers. The ability to make sense out of data rapidly will be a huge competitive advantage.
It comes down to experience architecture, Brian says. People need to design new ways of doing or seeing things so the outcomes become wonderful experiences that people didn’t know were possible. This field is for anybody who wants to re-create themselves as a relevant strategist or expert in the future.
Listen to the show to learn about the great unbundling.
Discovery of the Week
AFS, which stands for Advanced Facebook Search, is a cool Chrome plugin that suggests search options you can’t even imagine are available, such as a page where someone is tagged or videos a person likes.
A while ago, Facebook beefed up its onsite search so now you can search for people, posts, photos, pages, groups, and so on. With the AFS plugin, you can dive even deeper into Facebook. It’s like uncovering hidden advanced search features with an easy-to-use tool.
After you install the plugin, go to Facebook and start searching as you normally do. For instance, type the name of a person or a page. Then click the AFS plugin’s browser icon to see extra-granular searches based on the search you just did.
AFS supercharges your Facebook search.
Social media marketers can use AFS as a research tool. You might see what’s searchable on Facebook and maybe create content in that vein.
Find AFS in the Chrome Web Store.
Listen to the show to learn more and let us know how AFS works for you.
Key takeaways mentioned in this episode:
Learn more about Brian on his website.
Download The Conversation Prism and get a poster.
Check out The Social Media Manifesto.
Take a look at the Altimeter Group.
Read Engage and X: The Experience When Business Meets Design.
Learn more about Web 2.0, South by Southwest Interactive, and Ted Rheingold who started Dogster and Catster.
Explore Radian6.
Check out Jaimy Szymanski.
Learn more about Justin.tv, Twitch, and Ustream.
Read about Path and the vertical windshield.
Explore Kahuna.
Read about IBM’s partnership with MIT.
Check out AFS, also known as Advanced Facebook Search.
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Finance minister orders external audit of Quebec casinos after investigation into Mafia perks
Quebec’s finance minister has ordered an external and independent audit of the province’s casinos.
The move comes after Quebec French-language news channel TVA’s investigative unit found Mafia leaders had received access to luxury perks through the Montreal Casino, including tickets to shows, meals and free hotel rooms.
Finance Minister Eric Girard said he wants a deeper look into how the casinos operate, especially when it comes to loyalty programs. Casinos in the province are run by Loto-Quebec, a provincial Crown corporation.
The independent audit will investigate potential money laundering and criminal activity and will look into the loyalty program to ensure it’s not rewarding those who get receive cash from illegal activity.
The investigation by TVA made a number of claims that Mafia members were receiving luxury perks. It found one alleged Mafioso was listed among the top 10 players at the Montreal Casino in 2019. Stefano Sollecito was at the centre of a police investigation in 2014 and 2015 and during that time, he is said to have gambled away $2.5 million.
Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade told The Canadian Press she wants to see an independent public inquiry, and said it would not have to stretch over a few years, like that of the Charbonneau Commission. Instead, she said, several commissions with a well-targeted mandate and on “very specific subjects” would take six months, she said.
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Event: 73rd Varsity Match • Venue: St Bride's Institute, near Fleet Street, London • Date: 26 March 1955
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The 73rd Varsity Chess Match between Oxford University and Cambridge University was held at St Bride's Institute, near Fleet Street, London, on 26 March 1955. One game score and one part-game score from this match are available - can anyone supply other game scores?
Bd Oxford University 1955 Cambridge University Opening, No. of Moves
1w Raaphi Persitz (Balliol) 0-1 Peter Darrell Sanderson (Sidney Sussex) Irregular (1.Nh3)
2b Kenneth Leslie Gardner (St John's) 1-0 David Edward Lloyd (Caius)
3w Thomas Anselm Landry (Pembroke) 1-0 Leon Rosselson (Fitzwilliam) Queen's Indian Def
4b Henry Gerald Mutkin (Wadham) 0-1 Malcolm Frank Collins (Selwyn)
5w Peter David Robinson (Queen's) 0-1 Denis John Pereira Gray (St John's)
6b Michael Philip Furmston (Exeter) ½-½ Peter Walker (Pembroke)
7w Anthony Beckett Bamford (Corpus Christi) ½-½ Peter Maximilian Kraushar (Christ's)
Sources: Oxford-Cambridge Chess Matches (1873-1987), compiled by Jeremy Gaige, Philadelphia 1987; The Times, 28 March 1955; The Guardian, 28 March 1955; BCM, May 1955, p156; CHESS, 2 April 1955, p256.
Games on boards 1, 2, 4 and 5 were adjudicated (The Times)
[BCM, May 1955, p156-157 - Golombek] "The seventy-first* [* 73rd by the modern counting] annual match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities was played at St. Bride's Institute on Saturday, March 26th. An even struggle was expected since though Oxford with Persitz, now one of the best players in the country, on top board and two very promising players on the next two boards was reckoned to be more formidable on top, Cambridge had the more solid team and had had good results earlier in the season.
It did, indeed, turn out to be touch and go and every game was sternly contested, no less than four being unfinished at close of play. Adjudication of these gave Cambridge a narrow but well-justified victory by 4-3, so that they take the lead in the whole series which, up to the present match, had stood at 35-35.
Oxford had White on the odd-numbered boards. On the first board Persitz thought for some twenty minutes before making his first move and then played 1 Kt-KR3 [Nh3], which, if not the worst move on the board, is certainly not one of the best. Sanderson answered sensibly enough and had soon established complete equality, even getting the better of it as the middle-game proceeded and when the game was due for adjudication it was clearly won for the Cambridge player.
Both the Oxford second and third boards always looked like winning. Gardner won a pawn and never relaxed his grip, whilst Landry showed what a promising player he is by winning the best game of the match against determined opposition. [Score - Landry v Rosselson
The Cambridge fourth board won a pawn out of some middle-game complications, and held on grimly to his extra material to secure a win on adjudication, the story on the fifth board being very similar.
A blunder by the Cambridge sixth board allowed his opponent to win a pawn and Oxford looked certain to win here until somewhat careless play resulted in the Cambridge player just managing to achieve a drawn position.
If the sixth board had its full complement of errors it was outshone in this respect by the game on the bottom board. Here the Oxford player soon had a won game but frittered away his advantage and even came to a lost ending. Fortunately for Oxford the Cambridge player failed to recognize the state of affairs and offered a draw, which his opponent gratefully accepted. The final position was as in the diagram. Black can simply capture the Bishop's pawn and after 1 K-Q3, P-Kt4 the win is not difficult.
[The Times, 28 March 1955] "UNIVERSITY CHESS MATCH - CAMBRIDGE WIN - FROM OUR CHESS CORRESPONDENT - The Seventy-first annual chess match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities was played in London on Saturday. After a hard fight in which the advantage at first appeared to be with Oxford, Cambridge emerged the winner by 4—3. As the total number of match points stood at 35—35 before this match, Cambridge now lead by one. On the top board Persitz thought for some 20 minutes before making his first move and then played Kt-K R 3 [Nh3], perhaps the most irregular of all irregular openings. His opponent, Sanderson, refused to be shaken, by this excessive originality and, playing steadily and well, attained a won ending. The best game of the match was played on the third board, where Landry soon had a grip on the position which he exploited in admirable fashion. The winner of this game is dearly a most promising player. There was quite a comedy of errors on the bottom board, which ended in a draw. This may perhaps be regarded as a just result, since first the Oxford player established a winning game, then let it slip, and finally his opponent offered a draw in a position that was won for the Cambridge player. The draw was gratefully accepted."
[Manchester Guardian, 28 March 1955 - Barden] "CAMBRIDGE WIN AT CHESS, TOO. Now Leading in Series. From our Chess Correspondent. Cambridge defeated Oxford 4-3 in the University Chess Match in London on Saturday, thus gaining a lead of one in the series of matches. There was little to choose between two evenly balanced teams, and indeed it was five hours before the first game ended. Even this decision was premature, as the Cambridge bottom board, Kraushar, had a forced win when he agreed to a draw. The other completed game, on board three, was the best of the match: Landry gained the advantage in the opening against Rosselson, increased it, and neatly transposed into a won ending. Five of the seven games were unfinished when play stopped after six hours: one was agreed a draw and the other four were adjudicated by H. Golombek, a former British champion. The surprise of the match was the defeat of the Oxford captain, Persitz. who has a fine international record. Last year he won his game while taking only 35 minutes on his clock. This time he considered his first move for twenty minutes and then played 1. Kt-KR3. a move only once previously ventured in an important game. In the blocked position which resulted, his opponent Sanderson gained control of an open file bv excellent positional play and forced a decisive gain of material. The full score of the match was (Oxford first)..."
[CHESS, 2 April 1955, p276] "Cambridge Univ. beat Oxford U. by 4-3 in the famous annual match: [results] Persitz thought for twenty minutes then opened 1.Nh3 - and was in a normal King's Indian within six moves! Kraushar agreed a draw in aneasily won position."
Gaige gives 'David John Pereira Gray' but it is definitely 'Denis John Pereira Gray' (English & Wales BMD, Wikipedia, etc).
Raaphi Persitz (born 26 July 1934, Tel Aviv, died 4 February 2009). Chess master, writer, financial analyst. Full name was Raphael Joseph Arie Persitz - Wikipedia
Thomas Anselm Landry (born 19 August 1935, Camden, London, died 11 January 1996, London NW6) - Tom Landry was a noted draughts/checkers player, and had authored books on the subject. He was a stockbroker.
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4 reasons housing providers must revise their telecare needs post COVID-19
This guide highlights the changing landscape for the delivery of technology enabled care services (TECS). It draws on findings from interviews and independent research undertaken with the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN) of 120 senior executives from providers of supported, sheltered and retirement housing. The analysis indicates that 85% housing providers report their perceptions on the use of technology have changed as a result of COVID-19 while 74% feel that their requirements for telecare and wellbeing technologies have changed as a result of the pandemic. The document sets out four key reasons that support the strengthening and consolidation of the telecare offer within housing settings and makes recommendations on how to achieve this. The four reasons are: vulnerable communities need support to maintain their social connections – there is huge potential for housing providers to harness communication technologies to help connect older people and promote digital inclusion; remote working will be here to stay – 80% of housing providers believe video communication between residents and staff is becoming more important to their organisation because of COVID-19; how we access healthcare services will change – for instance, it is likely that the pandemic will be the catalyst for greater use of video appointments within the health sector; more services are being accessed online – in an uncertain world, with shielding and social distancing it is becoming even more vital to help older and vulnerable people to access support, and services from paying bills online to accessing pensions and shopping from home while keeping safe.
Last updated on hub: 04 August 2020
590 people’s stories of leaving hospital during COVID-19
Healthwatch England
This report shines a light on people’s experiences of getting home from hospital during the pandemic. In March 2020, the Government introduced a new hospital discharge policy to help the NHS free up beds by getting people out of hospital quickly. This meant anyone who may need out-of-hospital support to help them recover would now have their needs assessed after being discharged (discharge to assess), rather than in hospital. The report drawn on a survey over 500 patients and carers and 47 in-depth interviews with health and care professionals involved in the hospital discharge process. Key findings include: 82% of respondents did not receive a follow-up visit and assessment at home and almost one in five of these reported an unmet care needs; some people felt their discharge was rushed, with around one in five feeling unprepared to leave hospital; over a third of people were not given a contact who they could get in touch with for further advice after discharge; overall patients and families were very positive about healthcare staff, praising their efforts during such a difficult time; around a third of people faced an issue with delayed COVID-19 test results. The research indicates the discharge to assess model could be beneficial for patients and staff if properly resourced and implemented. However, the high proportion of people who did not receive information about the changed process or an assessment from a health professional reveals that the approach set out in the policy remains in many places an ambition, rather than a reality. In the medium term this model also needs embedding within broader health and social care reforms.
Last updated on hub: 29 October 2020
A balanced approach to decision-making in supporting people with IDD in extraordinarily challenging times
Research in Developmental Disabilities
A balanced approach to decision-making during challenging times is necessary in order to avoid risks that jeopardize the lives and wellbeing of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The COVID-19 pandemic is the recent example of a crisis that places people with IDD at risk for lopsided societal reactions and threats to them or their wellbeing. Attention to decision-making is required to safeguard hard-earned achievements, including public policies and organization practices that emphasize human and legal rights, self-advocacy, individualized supports, inclusive environments, choices, and community inclusion. This paper suggests maintaining a holistic approach to understanding the lives and human functioning of people with IDD, a balanced approach to accountability and performance management, an understanding of the multidimensional properties of context, and a heightened vigilance in professional responsibility. A balanced approach will strengthen the likelihood of a return to high quality services and supports to people after the crisis, reduce loss of critical progress, and enhance stability across future social, political, and financial changes and challenges.
Last updated on hub: 13 November 2020
A care-led recovery from Coronavirus: the case for investment in care as a better post-pandemic economic stimulus than investment in construction
Women’s Budget Group
This briefing sets out why much-needed investment in care would promote employment, reduce the gender employment gap and would be a first step in building a resilient, sustainable and more equal economy. It argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has catalysed a revaluation of care, health and employment structures, exposing pre-existing problems, creating an opportunity for transformative change and an economic stimulus that focuses on care. The report finds that investment in care has the potential to mitigate the worst employment effects of the Coronavirus recession. Specifically, investing in care would creates 2.7 times as many jobs as the same investment in construction – 6.3 as many for women and 10% more for men; increasing the numbers working in care to 10% of the employed population, as in Sweden and Denmark, and giving all care workers a pay rise to the real living wage would create 2 million jobs, increasing overall employment rates by 5% points and decreasing the gender employment gap by 4% points; 50% more can be recouped by the Treasury in direct and indirect tax revenue from investment in care than in construction; and investment in care is greener than in construction, producing 30% less greenhouse gas emissions – a care-led recovery is a green led recovery.
Last updated on hub: 30 September 2020
A catalyst for change: what COVID-19 has taught us about the future of local government
This paper draws together insights from the experiences of local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland during the first six months of the COVID-19 crisis, providing an overview of their response, and of the changes needed to meet the demands of the pandemic. It discusses the upcoming challenges that could hamper the efforts of councils to embed and build upon these positive changes and set a positive vision for the future of local government in the aftermath of this crisis. This vision illustrates what local government could look like in ten years if it is able to preserve and build upon the progress made during the pandemic. The paper identifies several trends that are of particular significance to local government over the coming years: remote working will be retained by a large proportion of staff, including frontline staff; digital tools will enable a large proportion of council-run services to be delivered remotely; increased and enhanced public participation and engagement will lead to improved decision-making and better outcomes for communities; sharing power with local communities across design, delivery and ownership of services and assets will enhance their quality and produce wider benefits to communities in the form of empowerment, resilience and cohesion; greater and new types of collaboration between councils, statutory partners, the third and private sectors and communities will achieve better outcomes for their people and places; and greater devolution from central government will provide local areas with longer-term funding commitments and greater flexibility to design policy for their local context. This guide is part of the New Operating Models Handbook, a set of learning products which explore the new operating models emerging in local government, supporting innovation and asset-based practice.
A child-centred recovery
This document outlines ambitions for a child-centred post-Covid recovery, drawing together every aspect of policy and service delivery to create the places people want to live in and plan for the future. It outlines the immediate challenges as a result of the pandemic and what we need to do to tackle them; consider how councils and the Government can implement more child-centred approaches to policy and decision-making, to make sure that children are at the heart; and looks at the challenges we face in the longer-term to deliver the great places to grow up that children need and deserve. The report identifies three immediate priorities: a cross-Whitehall strategy that puts children and young people at the heart of recovery; investment in local safety nets and the universal and early help services, including mental health and wellbeing services, that children, young people and their families will need to support them through the short and long-term impacts of the pandemic; dedicated action to prevent the attainment gap from widening, including immediate work to stabilise the early years sector and support children and young people to attend school or to continue learning from home where required. The report argues that a child-centred recovery is about far more than services directly responsible for children and young people. Children deserve to grow up in good quality, stable homes, in safe areas offering positive long-term opportunities, with good access to the services they need.
A country report: impact of COVID-19 and inequity of health on South Korea’s disabled community during a pandemic
Disability and Society
The South Korean media boasts of its leading success–during the escalation of the coronavirus outbreak–in flattening of the curve thereby mitigating the grave outcomes of the public health crisis. Much of the success is reportedly attributed to the rapid and advanced development of test kits, essential equipment and implementation of protocols in precautionary measures. However, it has been an arduous task to stay afloat for one particular vulnerable community. The disabled citizens of Korea were confronted by the realities of health inequity during this disastrous period. Pre-existing the pandemic onset, the disabled community have faced stigmatization and under many circumstances de-prioritization by their own society. Through the lens of a visiting physician, my hope is to poignantly and respectfully share personal experiences and thoughts on these realties impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.
A COVID-19 guide for care staff supporting an adult with learning disabilities/autism
Social Care Institute for Excellence
A guide to help care staff and personal assistants supporting adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults through the COVID-19 crisis.
Last updated on hub: 17 April 2020
A COVID-19 guide for carers and family supporting an adult with learning disabilities/autism
A guide to help family members and carers supporting adults and children with learning disabilities and autistic adults through the COVID-19 crisis.
A COVID-19 guide for social workers supporting an adult with learning disabilities/autism
A guide to help social workers and occupational therapists supporting autistic adults and adults with learning disabilities through the COVID-19 crisis.
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King County sees rise in COVID-19 cases after weeks of decline
All regions to remain in Phase 1 of WA phased reopening
Report: 10 species of Wash. salmon not meeting recovery goals
15 items every Seattleite should carry in their car
SPS superintendent asks WA to prioritize vaccine for educators
42 dead amid two-week spike in King Co. overdose deaths
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Tech giants banished Trump. Now things get complicated
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Major tech platforms, long accused of giving President Donald Trump special treatment denied regular users, have finally shown him the door. Now things get complicated. Trump is gone from Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and even Shopify, but In many ways, booting the president was the easy part. While these companies have taken a big step, it’s unlikely to end criticism of their moderation policies and the way they handle hate speech, misinformation and inciting violence. The next big questions may be whether they’ll apply the same standard to other world leaders, continue to expand their definitions of unacceptable behavior, and perhaps splinter their userbase in the process.
Sheldon Adelson, casino mogul and GOP donor, dies at 87
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Billionaire casino mogul and Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson has died. Las Vegas Sands says Adelson died Monday night from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 87. Adelson was the son of Jewish immigrants and was raised with two siblings in a Boston tenement. Over the second half of his life he became one of the world’s richest men, with a casino empire that stretched from Las Vegas to China. He also became a singular force in domestic and international politics. He was considered the nation’s most influential GOP donor over the final years of his life, setting records for individual contributions.
US Chamber says some legislators will lose campaign funding
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is threatening to withhold campaign funds from politicians who fought approval of Joe Biden’s election victory, but it wouldn’t identify which ones. During a session Tuesday on the state of American business, the chamber also did not call for Trump’s ouster after last week’s insurrection at the Capitol. But the group called the president’s conduct unacceptable and said it undermined institutions and ideals.
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is forming a new business unit to tap the market for delivery vehicles and equipment powered by electricity. The new venture is called BrightDrop, and its first product will be a battery-powered wheeled pallet that will take goods from the warehouse to trucks and from trucks to destinations. Then GM will roll out a delivery van. The company wasn’t clear on how the products would be sold, giving no specifics on whether they would be distributed through dealerships or if GM would sell directly to customers.
CHICAGO (AP) — Boeing is reporting final 2020 numbers for airplane orders and deliveries, and they are down from 2019 even though the 737 Max is flying again. Boeing said Tuesday that it booked 90 orders for new airliners in December, most of them for Ireland’s Ryanair. Boeing also says it delivered 39 commercial planes in December, including 27 Max jets. American Airlines took 10 Maxes and United Airlines got eight. Those deliveries came after the Federal Aviation Administration approved changes in a flight-control system on the plane. Maxes were grounded worldwide for 21 months after crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people. The market for new planes remains depressed by the COVID-19 pandemic, however.
Eight names to watch for the Seattle Seahawks' OC opening
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Job openings down in most industries, while layoffs spike
WASHINGTON (AP) — Layoffs spiked in November compared with the previous month and the number of job openings slipped, a sign the job market has stalled as the resurgent coronavirus has forced new shutdowns of restaurants and bars and discouraged consumer spending. While the layoffs were concentrated among restaurants, bars and hotels, the slowdown in job postings was widespread across most industries, a sign that businesses in general are reluctant to hire new workers amid the pandemic recession.
Visa, Plaid call off merger following antitrust pressure
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Visa Inc. has called off its planned $5.3 billion purchase of payment processing technology company Plaid, citing the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit filed last year to block the deal. Politicians and antitrust experts had argued that the deal would give Visa — which is already the largest payment-processing company in the world — even more power over how customers and businesses pay for goods and services. In a statement, Visa said it still believes that deal would have benefited consumers but decided to scrap it to avoid further litigation
Yellen’s Senate confirmation hearing expected Jan. 19
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Finance Committee is expected to hold a confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary-nominee Janet Yellen on Jan. 19. That’s according two sources familiar with the planning. The timing for the hearing would mean that Yellen would appear before a panel still controlled by Republicans. Democrats will not take over control of the Senate until Jan. 20 after Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are sworn into office. With the election to the Senate of two Democrats from Georgia last week, the Senate will be split 50-50. Harris will give Democrats a majority once she is sworn is. As vice president, Harris will be able to break 50-50 ties.
The S&P 500 rose 1.58 points, or less than 0.1%, to 3,801.19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 60 points, or 0.2%, to 31,068.69. The Nasdaq composite added 36 points, or 0.3%, to 13,072.43. The Russell 2000 index of small-caps gained 36.95 points, or 1.8%, to 2,127.96.
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Man dies after being shot by deputy in Florida
Originally published December 22, 2015 at 2:36 am
DELTONA, Fla. (AP) — A man shot by a deputy in Florida following a dispute over a cab fare has died.
Local news outlets report 39-year-old Robert Teter died Monday night after being taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds.
Volusia County sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant says the incident started after the taxi driver and Teter had a dispute over the cab fare. He says the driver eventually called law enforcement for help.
Sheriff Ben Johnson says when deputies arrived, Teter pulled a gun on the deputies. According to Johnson, Teter was told to put the gun down but he refused. He was then shot three times.
He was airlifted to a hospital where he died.
Johnson says the deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard practice in a deputy-involved shooting.
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C. Will
R. Lührmann
H. Urlaub
M. Wahl
The Spliceosome: Design Principles of a Dynamic RNP Machine
M. Wahl, C. Will, R. Lührmann
Ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) mediate key cellular functions such as gene expression and its regulation. Whereas most RNP enzymes are stable in composition and harbor preformed active sites, the… Expand
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Spliceosome structure and function.
C. Will, R. Lührmann
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology
Pre-mRNA splicing is catalyzed by the spliceosome, a multimegadalton ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex comprised of five snRNPs and numerous proteins. Intricate RNA-RNA and RNP networks, which serve to… Expand
Spliceosomal UsnRNP biogenesis, structure and function.
Significant advances have been made in elucidating the biogenesis pathway and three-dimensional structure of the UsnRNPs, the building blocks of the spliceosome. U2 and U4/U6*U5 tri-snRNPs… Expand
Protein–protein interactions and 5'-splice-site recognition in mammalian mRNA precursors
J. Kohtz, S. Jamison, +4 authors J. Manley
Exactly how specific splice sites are recognized during the processing of complex precursor messenger RNAs is not clear. Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) are involved, but are not… Expand
Small Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Remodeling During Catalytic Activation of the Spliceosome
E. Makarov, O. Makarova, +4 authors R. Lührmann
Major structural changes occur in the spliceosome during its activation just before catalyzing the splicing of pre–messenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs). Whereas changes in small nuclear RNA (snRNA)… Expand
Characterization of novel SF3b and 17S U2 snRNP proteins, including a human Prp5p homologue and an SF3b DEAD‐box protein
C. Will, H. Urlaub, T. Achsel, M. Gentzel, M. Wilm, R. Lührmann
Mass spectrometry was used to identify novel proteins associated with the human 17S U2 snRNP and one of its stable subunits, SF3b. Several additional proteins were identified, demonstrating that 17S… Expand
Unique Sm core structure of U7 snRNPs: assembly by a specialized SMN complex and the role of a new component, Lsm11, in histone RNA processing.
R. Pillai, M. Grimmler, +4 authors D. Schümperli
A set of seven Sm proteins assemble on the Sm-binding site of spliceosomal U snRNAs to form the ring-shaped Sm core. The U7 snRNP involved in histone RNA 3' processing contains a structurally similar… Expand
Dynamic protein-protein interaction wiring of the human spliceosome.
Anna Hegele, A. Kamburov, +7 authors U. Stelzl
Molecular cell
More than 200 proteins copurify with spliceosomes, the compositionally dynamic RNPs catalyzing pre-mRNA splicing. To better understand protein - protein interactions governing splicing, we… Expand
Isolation of an active step I spliceosome and composition of its RNP core
Sergey Bessonov, Maria Anokhina, C. Will, H. Urlaub, R. Lührmann
Materials Science, Medicine
Formation of catalytically active RNA structures within the spliceosome requires the assistance of proteins. However, little is known about the number and nature of proteins needed to establish and… Expand
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Protein composition of human mRNPs spliced in vitro and differential requirements for mRNP protein recruitment.
C. Merz, H. Urlaub, C. Will, R. Lührmann
The deposition of proteins onto newly spliced mRNAs has far reaching consequences for their subsequent metabolism. We affinity-purified spliced human mRNPs under physiological conditions from HeLa… Expand
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Sustainability and Renovation New Business in Maximizing the Property Value of Aging Buildings
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New Business in Maximizing the Property Value of Aging Buildings March 26, 2018
Sustainability and RenovationNew Business in Maximizing
the Property Value of Aging Buildings
Shimizu renovated the DSB Group Shiomi Building and made improvements for sustainability. The exterior appearance has not changed since it was completed in 1995.
We acquired an existing building that had reached the point of needing renovation and maximized the property value by renovating it to equip it with the latest environmental performance, BCP performance, a healthy and comfortable environment, and other improvements. This type of business scheme is becoming popular in the investment and real estate industries.
Shimizu launched a full-fledged Sustainability and Renovation Business in September 2017 to capitalize on this trend.
One-stop Shopping in the Build-to-Order Business
Shimizu’s Sustainability and Renovation Business is a new business that combines the sustainability business, which focuses on environmental and energy management, and the building stock management business of operating, maintaining, and managing buildings throughout their life cycles.
We completed a large-scale renovation of the DSB Group Shiomi Building in Koto City, Tokyo in January 2018 as the first project. Shimizu built this office building more than 20 years ago, and it was used as the Tokyo Wangan Police Station in the “Odoru Daisousasen (Bayside Shakedown)” television crime drama.
Yasuo Kageyama, the deputy general manager of the LCV (Life Cycle Valuation)(only in Japanese)Headquarters, which oversees the Sustainability and Renovation Business, had this to say about the new business:
Yasuo Kageyama, Deputy GM, LCV Headquarters
“The construction business mainly involved contracting of work by the client who orders it up to this point. The Sustainability and Renovation Business could be termed an order creation model in which Shimizu generates its own work. The main business scheme for the DSB Group Shiomi Building was for Shimizu to first acquire trust beneficiary rights to the building from the owner (the right to receive the economic interest generated by rental income, etc. from the asset entrusted). Shimizu then undertook a major renovation of the building to improve the building’s performance in terms of the environment, health, and BCP. New long-term lease agreements were concluded with the existing tenants based on the improvement in building value and customer satisfaction. The trust beneficiary rights have already been sold to Hulic Co., Ltd., a real estate development company and Shimizu has earned a profit. We are also providing post-renovation PM (property management) and BM (building management) services. This is a one-stop shopping business in which Shimizu provides everything, from planning to the proposal and implementation. This is a business that is perfectly suited to Shimizu, owing to its ability to marshal the forces of numerous divisions, including investment and development, the Institute of Technology, design, construction, engineering, finance and accounting, and affiliated companies.”
Risk and Wellness + Adding Value from an Ecological Perspective
Shimizu focused on “risk” and “wellness + ecology” to maximize the value of the DSB Group Shiomi Building in this project.
Renovation to add value performed in the DSB Group Shiomi Building
We reinforced the ceiling to make it earthquake resistant on the first floor, which will serve as the evacuation route in the event of a disaster, to address the risk. The installation of Shimizu’s innovative earthquake safety monitoring (only in Japanese) systemenables a rapid initial response to evaluate damage and assess safety when an earthquake occurs. We also equipped the building with an emergency power source, air condition and water supply and drainage system that could last for 72 hours during an emergency. Securing satellite hookups for BCP phones and Internet lines will enable building occupants to communicate with the outside world during a disaster. The building is near the ocean so we took steps to prevent water damage by building a higher flood barrier to prevent water from entering the vehicle entrance and installing water-tight barriers at the entrances and exits of the main equipment rooms, among other steps.
Ceiling of the first floor entranceway, which was renovated to conform with the latest seismic retrofitting standards.
The height of the flood barrier installed at the vehicle entrance was raised to prepare for flooding
We installed a new shower room in the basement in addition to performing a full renovation of the restrooms and kitchens to improve habitability and make the building healthy and ecologically friendly. We upgraded all light fixtures throughout the building to LED and installed an adjustable lighting system that enables occupants to change the color temperature and intensity of lights on floors with lounges.
We also created new spaces for refreshment surrounded by greenery outside on the grounds facing the canal.
Updated restroom (for women)
Newly installed shower room
The entire building was upgraded to LED lighting. Both blinds and rolling screens were installed on the windows to block strong sunlight.
Space for refreshment created outside.
The equipment on the left is the air conditioning equipment and the cooling tower for the emergency power generation equipment.
Our plan to proceed with renovations while tenants remained in the building and continued their business operations was also appreciated by the tenants.
Responding with Made-to-Order Ideas
“The managers who use the building are always thinking about the safety and security of employees and ensuring their comfort. We are therefore called upon to propose made-to-order ideas when considering how much we can increase the value of existing buildings,” commented Mr. Kageyama.
Based on the strength of its success in renovating and improving the sustainability of the DSB Group Shiomi Building, Shimizu plans to target three to five properties a year as projects for this business in the future, and will focus mainly on existing buildings that were built by Shimizu.
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Atlas Shrugged Volume 2, Chapter 10
By Ayn Rand
Volume 2, Chapter 10
The Sign of the Dollar
In a recall of Dagny's introductory scene, she is riding alone in a train car, listening to the wheels and thinking about Big Issues.
The journey is very slow and depressing, since Dagny is seeing what a sorry state the country is in.
She hears a ruckus in the hall – a tramp has hopped on and a railroad employee is trying to throw him off. Dagny says to leave him alone and asks the tramp if he'd like to be her guest for dinner.
Dagny starts talking with the tramp, who is very polite.
He lets her know how bad things are in the country – he can't find work and he has to watch out for the government, since they've started arrested unemployed people.
He tells her he used to work in factories and had been in Colorado. But then everyone disappeared and the factories closed.
He says before all this he worked at the same factory for twenty years and was a foreman. Then he asks who John Galt is.
But this guy says he knows who he is, or at least is afraid that he does. OK, but this had better not be a myth.
He settles in to tell her a long story.
Turns out the tramp worked at the Twentieth Century Motor Factory.
He worked there for twenty years while Jed Starnes ran the place. Then Jed died and his awful kids took over.
We learn that the kids were communists.
They said they were going to run things differently and turned the factory into a "family." Their motto was "need not greed."
They planned to do away with salaries and said they would start paying everyone according to their "need," which was determined by a vote at a mass meeting that happened a few times a year.
This turned into a huge disaster. People of ability were forced to work more hours to help pay for those who were more "needy." Honorable people didn't speak up about their "need" and weren't paid much; dishonest people used the need system to get tons of money by lying about their "needs."
All the people in the factory and the factory town gradually grew to hate each other. They started drinking, gambling, fighting, etc.
People were turning into monsters, and the Starnes children were horrible: Eric was slimy and hung around wanting to be everyone's "pal"; Gerald was greedy and flaunted all the money he was paying himself; and Ivy was vindictive and loved humiliating people by making them come to her with their "needs" and ask for money.
Twelve years ago, at the initial meeting where this plan was proposed, everyone voted yes for it and thought they were doing a moral thing. But one guy stood up and said that this was horrible and that he was going to "stop the motor of the world."
The guy's name: John Galt. Holy cow!
Scene cut. Dagny is sleeping, or trying to. She can't stop thinking about the tramp's story and she realizes that John Galt is the destroyer she's been looking for.
The train stops moving. It's a frozen train and the entire crew has gone.
A guy walks up to her: it's Owen Kellogg!
Dagny and Owen are glad to see each other and team up to take care of business.
Dagny makes a speech to the passengers, who all act like whiny brats. Dagny basically tells them to shut up.
Owen says he'll walk with Dagny to find a telephone, since it's nighttime and going alone would be dangerous.
Dagny tells everyone that she's leaving her tramp friend in charge while she's gone. She asks his name: it's Jeff Allen.
Owen and Dagny set off into the night, and it's very creepy.
They talk and Dagny tries to figure out Owen's motive for working menial jobs.
He tells her his mind is no longer on the labor market since it exploits people.
He then says he is about to head off for a one-month vacation. A clue!
He gives her a cigarette, and Dagny flips when she sees it has a dollar sign on it.
Owen gives a mini speech about how the dollar sign represents all the best of America.
He gives her the pack to remind her that she has a true homeland.
They finally reach a phone and Dagny has a hilarious conversation with a total imbecile. Getting the person to do anything to help her is like pulling teeth, and Owen can't believe she's actually working with people like that.
In the distance is an airfield. Owen tells Dagny to go get a plane if she can and get where she needs to. He'll wait for the men to show up to run the train.
Dagny says thanks and gives him a few messages in case something happens. She says to tell Eddie to hire Jeff Allen and to let Hank know what's happened. She'll call as soon as she can.
Dagny then runs off and buys a plane on the spot.
She takes off for Utah.
But when she arrives she learns that Quentin just left and she sees him flying off in another plane.
Dagny chases after the plane. It's an airplane chase sequence!
Dagny is upset and at the end of her rope. She feels she has to find this destroyer or die trying.
Looks like the last bit is likely. Dagny follows the plane into Colorado and then the plane disappears in a mountain range. Dagny tries to follow and can't figure out where the plane could have landed.
She does some daredevil stunts in her search and ends up losing control of her plane.
She crashes, and as she's going down her last words are: "Oh hell! Who is John Galt?"
Volume 1, Chapter 1
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Time’s ticking to repair Don’s clock in time for birthday
Published: 4:00 PM September 23, 2018 Updated: 7:03 PM November 7, 2020
Don Ryan with his clock. Ref sho 38 18TI 1511. Picture: Terry Ife - Credit: Archant
It would be a birthday present like no other for one former Ottery shop owner as he races against time to restore his 91-year-old pendulum clock before his birthday.
Don Ryan says the clock is ‘one of the family’ after his dad purchased it on the day he was born nearly 91 years ago.
The clock recently stopped working so Don has begun a search to repair it in time for his birthday on October 7.
Don said: “My dad was waiting for me to be born and he had a flash of inspiration as he went past a shop he saw this clock in the window and it took his fancy and he bought it.
“It was £26 which was a lot of money in those days, as the average wage in those days was £3 a week. It’s been part of the family ever since.”
As a youngster, Don worked for Langdon and Sons in Liverpool making duffle coats for the navy and dinghy sails.
With the help of the clock, it helped him to get to work on time and on a cheaper train fare.
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The 90-year-old said: “I remember I used to watch the clock when I was working at Langdon and Sons as I used to need to get the train for two minutes to eight to get a workman’s fare, if I caught the train after eight the fare was almost double.”
He then went on to serve in the Royal Navy and was stationed at Lympstone as a sick berth attendant.
The clock remained with his parents until their death before passing on to Don and Margaret, his wife of 64 years.
The grandfather-of-five, who is also a keen photographer, said: “It [the clock] has stopped and it would be nice to get it as good as new again.”
His son Jon added: “Dad is hoping to find someone who may be able to get it going again in time for his 91st birthday next month.”
Don and Margaret moved to Ottery in the 1960s and ran three businesses across the town including the former Godfrey’s shoe shop.
He recalled that he bought the business while walking around town asking owners to put up Christmas trees and lights before walking back to tell his wife he’d bought it.
Don is also known for running a men’s outfitters and agricultural clothing store. He also helped to set up the Twinning Association.
If you can help Don fix his clock contact the Herald on 01392 888511.
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Detainer requests: Controversial and unconstitutional, according to some courts
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Situated east of Manhattan, Brooklyn touches the Atlantic Ocean, the East River, Long Island City (LIC), and the Upper New York Bay. Brooklyn is one of the nation’s most culturally diverse counties, which makes it both interesting and economically successful. In 2016 alone, Brooklyn had more than 1 million immigrants. Until 1975, Brooklyn’s economy was mostly focused on industrial business and manufacturing, but after 1975 it began changing to a service-based economy.
With a steadily growing population and features the highest density of young adults in the city, it makes the borough especially appealing to firms looking to hire young, talented employees. Brooklyn also offers plenty of work-life balance amenities, including a more bike-friendly and car-friendly landscape, and lower housing costs compared to Manhattan.
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While also seeing an increase in innovation jobs on an industrial scale, it’s becoming “the innovation capital of New York,” according to Crain’s NY Business. Lower Manhattan’s Silicon Alley has stretched to Brooklyn, which now houses a large number of startups such as Kickstarter, Etsy, Vice Media, and mindbodygreen. From 2009 to 2018, data shows the number of businesses with office space increased by 32 percent, which is nearly double the rate of business growth across the city.
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Many different kinds of flexible office rentals are also available in the form of coworking spaces. The increase in demand for flexible leases has led to coworking property cropping up in neighborhoods such as Flatbush, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bushwick and more.
Coworking spaces typically offer an array of arrangements to fit your business’s particular needs, whether that’s hourly rental options, full-time access to shared office space, or even suites for larger companies that might also include private space.
Commercial Brooklyn Office Space & Lease Trends
Brooklyn NY rents are still significantly cheaper than lease averages in Manhattan. In addition to the attractive price tag on commercial space for rent, a fast-growing inventory of repurposed buildings and new constructions can accommodate businesses of all industries and sizes that are looking to rent space for their business.
This borough is now seen as “the roomier, cheaper, less chaotic alternative [to Manhattan], with a more stable population, and a reputation for creativity that draws artists developers, and investors from across the world,” Tim Donnelly writes for Inc. Increasingly, many companies consider opening a Brooklyn office not to be a compromise to make, but a goal to pursue.
Neighborhoods with Brooklyn Office Space for Lease
For the uninitiated, Brooklyn is not a neighborhood in New York, it’s a borough—and a very large one at that. It has numerous individual neighborhoods, each with its unique flair. Some neighborhoods—because of their transit options, their attraction for particular industries, their amenities, or various other factors—are especially intriguing to office space seekers. If you’re on a search for an space for rent, be sure to consider these areas:
DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city for both businesses in search of commercial real estate and residents looking for property. Local warehouses and factories have been converted into luxury condos, art galleries, restaurants, and spacious, well-lit offices.
DUMBO is home to numerous technology startups, ad agencies, financial services firms, and creative agencies, putting Brooklyn on the map for notable tenants including Big Spaceship, Amplify, and Red Antler.
Downtown Brooklyn is the city’s third-largest business district and is part of the Tech Triangle there. Its office landscape is driven by three main factors: proximity to DUMBO, plentiful public transit options, and the Borough Hall. Between Borough Hall Station, Jay Street Metrotech, and Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, commuters have more than a dozen MTA subway trains to choose from, as well as transit options on the LIRR. This area houses more than 14.1 million square feet of commercial real estate, most of which are Class B properties. Expect to find flexible office spaces, open areas, and private options available here.
Williamsburg, located in the North of BK, is one of the most in-demand, luxury-driven markets in the borough. Williamsburg is home to startups and creative agencies that prefer the loft-style brick and beam structures. Attracting creative minds and recent college graduates, Williamsburg is also a local hub for agriculture technology and biofabrication startups. The neighborhood contains at least a million square feet of space, with hundreds of thousands of square feet more of property under construction.
The neighborhood is easily accessible from Manhattan, LIC, Greenpoint, and many more. The residential attraction of the area means that retail property is big. Many buildings lend themselves to popular retail stores for clothing, music, design, and more.
Sunset Park / Industry City
Despite its distance from Manhattan and any major transit hub, Sunset Park’s waterfront views and classic industrial architecture make it one of the fastest growing submarkets in Brooklyn. Its popularity is in part due to Industry City, a 35-acre space along the waterfront. Industry City used to be mostly vacant factories but now includes mixed-use work, innovation, and retail space ranging from 5,000 to 500,000 square feet with more than a dozen ISP options for high-speed internet. The average SP rent is among the lowest of New York City’s top submarkets, making the search here well worth it.
Bordering Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and Park Slope, three of the most popular residential neighborhoods, Gowanus is no longer just an industrial corridor. Many warehouses in Brooklyn and former factories under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and along the Gowanus Canal are being transformed into mixed-use retail and office spaces.
Gowanus has numerous private and coworking options, and many notable technology firms, high-end retailers, and creative agencies are set up in properties here.
Red Hook comprises the area formerly called South Brooklyn. Primarily a shipping hub, the Red Hook corporate real estate market is only beginning to match the upward trend of properties in the neighborhood’s residential market. Red Hook is an ideal location for businesses that require lots of space for machinery—or simply those that want to find a place to stretch out and take advantage of cheaper than average rents.
The Navy Yard and Flushing Avenue corridor borders DUMBO and Williamsburg and offers office space at lower prices. The neighborhood has a tremendous number of new office construction and redevelopment projects underway. Shipbuilding and repairs stopped decades ago, but the Navy Yard has since become a private area for manufacturing and retail, with more than 200 businesses calling the area their office home.
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Philip Harris May 5, 2015 Apocalypse Weird, MetricsLeave a Comment
Every Apocalypse Weird novel is set in a different part of the world. Nick Cole’s The Red King takes place in Southern California, Hoodoopocalypse is set in New Orleans while Immunity throws New Mexico into the mix. When it came to picking a place to destroy with my particular apocalypse, London was the obvious choice, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I know London pretty well, at least the central touristy bits. My wife and I used to spend weekends there regularly, watching plays and the odd movie. We even spent our honeymoon there (and ended up at a horror film festival on our first night but that’s a story for a different day). That knowledge of the layout of London made it easy to envisage a demonic creature wreaking havoc there. Especially when you add in the second reason – London is old. Really old. And it’s built on top of things. Not just the London Underground (where some of the story takes place), but other, darker, more sinister things. Everything from underground rivers to cemeteries to errm… restaurants. I’ll be posting more about the hidden depths beneath London and how they influenced the story but suffice to say, there’s plenty of inspiration in London’s history. And when I started … Read More
Joining the Apocalypse
Philip Harris March 23, 2015 Books, Chatter, WritingLeave a Comment
Last Monday was a day of highs and lows. It started off with one of the quickest rejections I’ve ever received – just under twelve hours. But it ended with news from Nick Cole that the Apocalypse Weird team had accepted my pitch for a novel set in London. Or to put it another way, I have a novel coming out! To say I was pleased is an understatement. Apocalypse Weird is an ambitious, exciting concept and the team at Wonderment Media are some of the nicest, smartest people you could hope to work with. But more than that, this is a huge milestone in my writing journey. This summer will mark the 20th anniversary of my first publication – Only Friends, a piece of what we would now call flash fiction that appeared in the award winning magazine, Peeping Tom. I’ve been writing, on and off, for even longer than that – probably 25 years. But over the last four years I’ve really been focusing on my craft and putting in the hours to be the best writer I can. I like to think I’m doing pretty well, I’ve had over 20 short stories published and the reaction to my self-published work, especially The Girl in the City, has been outstanding. Now I get … Read More
Six Things I Learned About the Apocalypse
Philip Harris March 9, 2015 Authors, Books, Five ThingsLeave a Comment
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a series of interviews with the authors of the first five Apocalypse Weird books. As part of those interviews, I asked each author to tell me something about the Apocalypse Weird project that people might not know. Here’s what I learned. Texocalypse Now (originally Digger) was the original book project that developed into the whole Apocalypse Weird world, and it was originally conceived as a video game. [Courtesy of Michael Bunker] Amazon through their 47North imprint originally passed on what became the Apocalypse Weird project because it was too big of a concept. [Courtesy of Michael Bunker] Tim Grahl came up with name of the parent company, Wonderment, after reading a history of Marvel Comics. We wanted Wonderment to become the Marvel Comics digital publishing. [Courtesy of Nick Cole] The stable of Apocalypse Weird writers is not an exclusive club. We want anyone and everyone to come in and write in this world. Hence, the formation of the Apocalypse Weird: Survivors Facebook group. You can invent your own Apocalypse and Boss, or you can write in someone else’s (there’s a Rules document posted for the group). All fanfic will be published on a site … Read More
Apocalypse Weird Q&A: Jennifer Ellis
Philip Harris February 27, 2015 Authors, Books, InterviewsLeave a Comment
This week, I’ve been posting Q&As with the authors of the first five Apocalypse Weird books. So far, I’ve spoken to Michael Bunker, Nick Cole, Chris Pourteau and E. E. Giorgi. Today, we have Jennifer Ellis, author of Reversal. Hi Jennifer, welcome to the site. Tell us a little bit about your Apocalypse Weird book, Reversal. Reversal is set in an isolated research station on Ellesmere Island where Sasha Wood and Soren Anderson wake up one morning to find that not only are they blind, and several of their colleagues are missing, but the poles appear to have reversed and giant methane-venting craters have opened up all over the tundra. They are cut off from the outside world, and the other researchers keep turning up dead, or on snowmobiles with guns. What follows is an action-packed thriller filled with feral polar bears, trips to the Antarctic, the four horsemen of the environmental apocalypse, and many questions regarding Soren’s past and his research on volcanoes. The Arctic is an unusual setting for an Apocalyptic novel. What made you decide to set the book there? Well, I’m from Canada, and I live in a ski town, so I love snow and generally prefer to spend six … Read More
Apocalypse Weird Q&A: Nick Cole
I remember very clearly when and where I first discovered Nick Cole’s writing. It was a Summer’s day a couple of years ago, and I was sitting in a park in Vancouver, looking for a book to read on my Kindle. I spotted Nick Cole’s The Old Man and the Wasteland and it sounded like a good way spend the afternoon. I was hooked right from the start, read it in one sitting and loved it. More recently, I read Soda Pop Soldier and just couldn’t put it down. Now, I’m reading his second Apocalypse Weird title – The Dark Knight, the sequel to The Red King, and it’s another great book. So, I was very pleased when Nick graciously agreed to answer a few questions about The Dark Knight and the Apocalypse Weird project Hi Nick, welcome to the site. Tell us a little bit about your latest Apocalypse Weird book, The Dark Knight. Basically it picks up where the Apocalypse Weird: The Red King left off. We find the survivors building a castle, and by that we mean fortifying their townhome condominium complex into a modern medieval structure! Holiday and Frank are struggling for control of the group and Ash rescues a special needs adults whose … Read More
Apocalypse Weird Q&A: Michael Bunker
Today is the big day for Apocalypse Weird with five new books hitting the shelves: Texocalypse Now by Michael Bunker and Nick Cole The Dark Knight by Nick Cole (the sequel to The Red King) Reversal by Jennifer Ellis The Serenity Strain by Chris Pourteau Immunity by E.E. Giorgi I posted my thoughts on the project on Saturday, but I thought I’d also try something new to commemorate the event. So, I’ve lined up a series of Q&As with the authors of the five launch titles, and I’ll be posting one each day this week. First up is Michael Bunker, co-author of Texocalypse Now. Hi Michael, welcome to the blog. What can you tell us about the premise of Texocalypse Now and the Digger series? The overall premise is that in a Central and West Texas gone Mad Max, the apocalypse has left a vast, mostly deserted swath of Texas a dangerous place to be. Some small towns survive… for awhile… boarded up and on the defense. Precious Metal Pirates, biker gangs, and hordes of feral humans made crazy for protein by a diet pill they relied on prior to the collapse, criss-cross the basin looking to murder, salvage, or just consume anything that is left. In … Read More
Apocalypse Weird Trailer
Philip Harris February 23, 2015 Books, VideosLeave a Comment
Today marks the big launch of Apocalypse Weird – the shared world project from Michael Bunker, Nick Cole, Rob McClellan, Tim Grahl and a whole host of great authors. To celebrate, they’ve launched a new trailer for the series. There’s also a Facebook launch event this afternoon (times are in PST) 2:00-3:00 PM: Chris Pourteau & Lesley Smith3:00-4:00 PM: Nick Cole & Forbes West4:00-5:00 PM: Hank Garner & Eric Tozzi5:00-6:00 PM: Kim Wells 6:00-7:00 PM: E. E. Giorgi & Kevin G. Summers7:00-8:00 PM: Michael Bunker & Stefan Bolz8:00-9:00 PM: Jennifer Ellis & Chris Pourteau You can read my thoughts on Apocalypse Weird and why I think it’s a game changer right here. And I’m doing something that I’ve never tried on this blog before – author Q&As. I’ve lined up a mini-interview with each of the Apocalypse Weird authors, starting with mighty Michael Bunker. Michael’s Q&A will go up later today, with the rest following over the course of this week. I hope you’ll drop by and take a look. Get a FREE copy of my short story, Only Friends by subscribing to my newsletter. [Apocalypse Weird Trailer by Philip Harris first appeared on Solitary Mindset on 23rd February 2015]
The Apocalypse is Coming and it’s Weird
Philip Harris February 21, 2015 Books, Indie PublishingLeave a Comment
Something interesting is happening next week. Or to be more precise, five interesting things are happening and they combine, like some literary Transformer, to create something very interesting – Apocalypse Weird is coming. Apocalypse Weird is a shared world project featuring a series of novels, each with their own post-apocalyptic scenarios – everything from diet pill zombies to giant squid to gojira. But there’s an underlying mythos that ties all of the books together. Over time, more and more will be revealed about the various players in the world of Apocalypse Weird until, eventually, the whole thing comes together in what will presumably be a cataclysmic finale of epic proportions. The first Apocalypse Weird book, The Red King by Nick Cole, was released in November of last year as a taster but the big launch is on Monday, 23rd February, when five more books hit the streets: Texocalypse Now by Michael Bunker and Nick Cole The Dark Knight by Nick Cole (the sequel to The Red King) Reversal by Jennifer Ellis The Serenity Strain by Chris Pourteau Immunity by E.E. Giorgi Each book is part of an ongoing series, and there are more titles coming beyond these initial five including books by some of the best indie and traditional writers out there … Read More
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Cold Crush Brothers
from New York, NY [The Bronx]
formed January 1, 1978 - January 1, 1986 (age 8)
The Cold Crush Brothers were one of the first rap crews to emerge from the Bronx soon after hip-hop's birth in the mid-'70s. Along with Grandmaster Flash the Furious Five, Grand Wizard Theodore the Fantastic 5 MCs, and the Funky Four Plus One, these four NYC natives were already well-established long before the Sugarhill Gang made rap a household word with their multi-platinum-selling 12" Rapper's Delight. In fact, as legend has it, it was a Cold Crush Brothers tape that a pizza-shop worker (and soon-to-be Sugarhill Gang member Big Bank Hank) was rapping to when Sugarhill Records owner Sylvia Robinson heard him in 1979. Instead of telling Robinson who the real artists on the tape were, he gathered some friends who soon became part of the much more successful and well-known Sugarhill Gang.
Founding members Grandmaster Caz, the Almighty KG, Tony Tone, JDL, Easy AD, and DJ Charlie Chase were showmen as well as a skilled tag team of rappers. They practiced and perfected their routines for over a year beginning in 1978 and began performing live, especially at numerous "MC battles" that took place at that time. One of these battles was caught on tape in 1981 and released in 1991 on a CD titled Afrika Bambaataa Presents Hip-Hop Funk Dance Classics, Vol. 1. It, along with the Cold Crush Brothers' Live in 82 album, epitomizes hip-hop before it became the commercial monster it was in the 1990s. The simple party-flavored rhymes hark back to a more innocent time when MC stood for Master of Ceremonies, DJs actually did something other than scratch over a DAT tape, and the only references to killing were metaphors. In 1982 they appeared in the legendary hip-hop film #Wild Style as well as put out the excellent 12" The Weekend. The Cold Crush Brothers never released a proper full-length album but did release a number of influential singles on the Tuff City label, including Fresh, Wild, Fly and Bold. Most of these singles are collected on 1995's Fresh, Wild, Fly Bold. They broke up in 1986, but reappeared on Terminator X's second solo album, Super Bad. ~ Kembrew McLeod, Rovi
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Seoul Searching
© Japan Daily Press
A simple sculpture of a small, Asian woman is causing a big uproar.
I’m not a believer that blame and shame should be a life sentence, nor that the sins of the fathers must be visited upon anyone else. On a global level, I commend governments that have apologized for war crimes or, in the case of our own country, wrongful imprisonment of our own citizens because of ethnicity.
While humans are capable of horrid barbarity, they’re also capable of great forgiveness. Even so, atrocity denial is making a resurgence.
Asia had its own version of the holocaust. Leading up to and throughout the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, the Japanese Army institutionalized slavery of men and women. The scale was so huge, it’s easy to be blinded by the sheer volume of statistics. But the sexual enslavement of perhaps 200 000 young women from Korea, Philippines, and China bring matters into a more personal focus. The term ‘comfort women’ became a euphemism for what Japan considered captives turned into state-owned prostitutes.
Japanese are good at many things, but national responsibility is a tough hurdle for them. Deniers argue
it never happened… but if it did,
‘only 10 000’ women took part,
they willingly ‘volunteered’,
they must have been, uh, ‘prostitutes’,
they queued up to offer themselves,
they could freely choose which soldiers,
it was ‘necessary to maintain discipline,’
it's racist and divisive to discuss it,
they're all ‘lying’,
and really, it didn’t happen at all.
The few comfort women still living are affectionately called ‘grandmothers’ in both Korea and the Philippines, and are highly regarded. In the 1990s, South Korean and Japanese governments agreed to let bygones be bygones. A former prime minister apologized and Japan even paid compensation, but the attitude of Japan’s mass denial offends Koreans, Filipinos, and the Chinese as well.
Ordinary citizens groups did something about it. Activists placed a statue memorializing the comfort women in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan, mirroring similar sculptures in forty other South Korean cities including Seoul. Japan withdrew its ambassador in protest.
The sculptures have appeared in other parts of the world including the US. The first here was erected in Palisades Park, New Jersey, and the second in San Francisco, Osaka’s sister city. Japanese denial organizations unsuccessfully sued to prevent one going up in Glendale, California and at present, a Change.org petition is circulating to remove the one in San Francisco. It insists there’s no documentation or evidence of forced sexual slavery.
Deniers had more success in Australia. A Sydney suburb banned a park statue, but a Uniting Church of Australia volunteered to host the comfort woman memorial.
Apparently Japan has never heard of the Streisand Effect, the phenomenon where attempts to hide or censor information result in further widening distribution of that information. And now you know.
Nobody hates the Japanese– I’m pretty sure South Korea doesn’t– but glossing over a wartime atrocity rankles the public. If I might be so bold as to advise Japan, even if you can’t admit it, stop denying it. Then some day the misdeeds might become a sad footnote in history.
What is your take?
Labels: comfort women, Japan, Korea, Leigh Lundin
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
A clear case of the power of art. Not only the pen but the sculpture is mighty.
O'Neil De Noux 15 January, 2017 09:01
Thanks for bringing this to our attention and rattling my memory about this. Art is a good response because politicians are basically cowards. Statues and stories, books, movies. I'll share this on my social networks. We must persist in reminding everone about the atrocities of war. Again and again.
Janice, I like that the sculpture is so understated, its very innocence lending the power and drama to the message.
Thanks, O’Neil. That was my hope, too. We have our share of deaf-and-blind citizens and politicians, but such reminders may help people remember the horrors that must not be forgotten.
Elizabeth 15 January, 2017 13:11
It's possible nobody hates the Japanese now, but some ppl sure used to. My cousin, who is now deceased, married a Japanese woman in the early 1940s & they had three children. A side note about the cousin ... his first name was Ralph, but for some reason everyone called him Google. He was such a bigot that he later became membership secretary of the local KKK in rural Maryland.
Anyway! Back to the 1940s, the Japanese wife went into a clothing store owned by some other relatives, wanting to buy a gift for Google. They wouldn't take her money & said they wouldn't allow Japanese people in their store.
Thanks for this post, Leigh. I'd known about the "comfort women" but not about the statues. I think they're a quiet but eloquent way of reminding us about a sad truth that's been denied too often.
Elizabeth, you cousin sounds like a character. How unusual he'd be a principal in the KKK and yet marry a foreigner. My little Indiana hometown welcomed home a GI who announced he was engaged to a young woman back in Japan. His socialite mother had a fit, but was pleased when he announced he'd broken off the engagement. She lost some of her enthusiasm when he instead became engaged to the Japanese woman who'd been translating their love letters.
Bonnie, isn't that the truth. Thank you.
Google was a person who could build, or fix, anything at all. No joke, he built a car for my sister from the front end of one Peugeot 403 & the back of another! He married the Japanese woman & after they were divorced he married a Peruvian woman. His mother despised both of the foreign women he married, kind of like the socialite woman in your home town.
A Broad Abroad 15 January, 2017 15:24
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Sobering column. Clever title. Powerful monument.
I love the sculptures. Japan has been in denial about almost everything it did in Asia since the get go. Check out "Who Was Responsible?" from the Yomiuri Shimbun Japan (a major Japanese newspaper) on Japan in WW2. Apparently, Japan "went into" Korea and China to stop Western aggression and preserve Buddhist purity... Purest of motives; the war was inevitable, and none of the atrocities (from comfort women to the rape of Nanking to Manchukuo's Unit 731) ever happened. It's a large steaming pile of bull and it was published in 2006.
Robert Lopresti 16 January, 2017 00:17
Leigh, your list of Japan's explanations/excuses reminds me of the old joke about the woman who was accused of borrowing her neighbors pot and bringing it back damaged: "First, I brought it back in perfect condition, second, it was dented when I got it, and third, I never borrowed it in the first place!"
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Comedy Is Hard
by Steve Liskow
I've often been accused of being funny, except by my former students. I've directed comedy in theater, too, both contemporary (Christopher Durang) and classical (Several Shakespeare including The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night), and my stories and novels always include some humor.
A few years ago, someone suggested I add another workshop to my repertoire: writing humor. I hedged. Then I visited libraries, bookstores and the Internet to find books on writing comedy. I found only a few, and none of them helped me.
Drama is easy. Melodrama is easy. Comedy is eff-ing hard.
Comedy comes from two sources. One is the situation, the basis of slapstick humor. Shakespeare's drunks and fools usually followed this tradition, which goes back to the Greek and Roman playwrights (Remember, Will lifted The Comedy of Errors wholesale from Plautus). This often becomes farce, where the characters become puppets in service to the plot.
The other source is more intellectual or verbal. Puns, wordplay and irony replace the pratfalls, and some people appreciate this more than others. If you tell the same joke to ten people, a few will roar, some will chuck, a couple will smile, and at least one will say, "Oh, that's it?"
Like American English, comedy relies on rhythm. Years ago, I attended a one-day workshop on directing comedy, and the instructor stressed "The Machine," the progression and rhythm that make a scene or play "funny." He said if you change the order or any component, you'll kill the joke. I agree. Years ago, my wife played the fussy roommate in the female version of The Odd Couple, and the other actress insisted on adding "uh-huh, oh really" and other ad libs to the famous exchange about "It's not spaghetti, it's linguini." She never got a laugh. Ever. Not one single night.
The only other specific hint I remember about directing comedy came from my directing mentor in grad school: Gorgeous is not funny...unless she slips on a banana peel.
My first drafts aren't funny. Humor grows out of revision, usually from a character's reaction to the situation, more ironic than slapstick. If it doesn't feel like part of the character and the whole milieu, it doesn't work for me. I try not to reach for it because if it emerges, it's a pleasant surprise for me, too, and that's how punchlines work. They deliver what the audience expects, but not the way they expect it.
My favorite authors write humor better than I do. Maybe that's one reason I like them. Louise Penny uses twisted literary allusions and puns, usually as responses from the residents of Three Pines, whom we've grown to know and love over the course of her Armand Gamache series.
Dennis Lehane's irony--karma comes to town--often involves character, too. Don Winslow can use irony, but he can also go slapstick. His recent novella "The San Diego Zoo" builds on an outrageous situation seen through the eyes of a cop who becomes a laughingstock on social media. The opening line is "Nobody knows how the chimp got the revolver," and the story races to the logically absurd conclusion from that premise. Elvis Cole, the PI of many Robert Crais novels, loves self-deprecating throw-aways.
Several romance authors write great comedy, too. Look at Jennifer Crusie's dialogue, especially late in a book where her characters paraphrase earlier speeches and turn them on their heads.
None of these writers could steal another's joke and make it work in their own stories. Comedy is personal, and that's what makes it so hard.
You really do reveal yourself on the page.
Posted by Steve Liskow at 00:01 8 comments
Labels: characters, comedy, Dennis Lehane, humor, humour, Louise Penny, Shakespeare, Steve Liskow
Location: Newington, CT, USA
Santa Noir
Everybody has too many Christmas parties and get-togethers in December, so the Connecticut MWA members threw a procrastinator's bash on January 11 in Middletown. Middletown is, of course, in the middle of the State, home of Wesleyan University and several fine restaurants, so we gathered at Esca, three blocks from the college and on a main intersection.
Chris Knopf addresses the motley crew. He mostly obscures Mark Dressler.
Bill Curatolo and Mike Beil are at the upper right.
Chris Knopf and Jill Fletcher, who organized the event, suggested that in addition to the usual gift grab bag, drinks and meals and catching up on everyone's accomplishments for the year, people write a 200-word story on the theme of Santa Noir to share with their accomplices. Alas, loud hungry patrons mobbed the eatery on a Saturday evening, so we abandoned the readings. Some of our recent predictions on this blog have made the upcoming year look a little bleak, and I agree, so the stories seemed like a definite counterbalance.
Here are four of them.
Santa Claus and Me by Mark L. Dressler
Jill posted this graphic, which inspired Mark's tale
I stared at that red Santa Claus outfit for several minutes. The lifeless man inside sent an eerie feeling through me matching the bitter night chill. I knew I'd never see that costume again.
Year after year, it was a never-ending journey, make-believe to many, but I knew differently. This was the night it would finally end. No more toys, no more nagging kids, no more workshops with elves, no more agonizing trips to the ends of each continent...and no more reindeer slaves.
I took another glance at that red uniform before walking away. I had no idea who that homeless man inside it was, but his clothes fit me perfectly. It was time for me to find a new home because I couldn't go back to the North Pole. I'd cleanse myself of this long white beard in the morning and become a free man. My name would no longer be Kris Kringle.
(Mark Dressler has published two novels featuring Hartford cop Dan Shields.)
At Burke's Tavern in Woodside, Queens, December 24, 1969 by William O'Neill Curatolo
Recently discharged marine Luis Martinez, high bar champion of the 43rd Street playground, sits alone on the broad windowsill across from the end of the bar nursing his fourth beer. He looks in need of cheering up. It's possible, no, it's certain, that the only advantage of having left his right leg back in Vietnam is that he now never has to pay for a drink, ever, in any of the watering holes up and down the length of Greenpoint Avenue.
Burly cop Georgie Corrigan bursts through the barroom door, dressed as Santa Claus. "Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas!" Santa Georgie moves along the bar clapping people hard on the back, and turns over to a couple of friends the bags of pot he took from a kid on his beat in Brooklyn a few hours ago. As he makes his way along the bar, he notices his old friend Luis, glassy eyed, staring off into space. Georgie sits down next to him and uses a burly arm to clamp him in a headlock. "Semper Fi, Jarhead!" and then, "Get up off your ass and onto those crutches. We're going outside to smoke a joint. Santa wants to see you smile."
(Bill Curatolo has published two novels.)
Santa By a Nose by Michael D. Beil
Christmas Eve at the Subway Inn, a dive bar that's a dead possum's throw from Bloomingdale's. Beside me is a bag with Isotoner gloves and a faux-cashmere scarf for the old lady. Three stools down is a schmoe in a Santa suit. The line of dead soldiers on the bar tells me the poor bastard is trying to forget how many brats had pissed their pants on his lap. For about a second, I consider sending a drink his way. But when he lifts his head, I realize he's the SOB I've been chasing for a week about a B&E in a bike shop on Second Avenue. No doubt about it. Eight million people in New York, but there's only one nose like that one. Fill it full of nickels and he could buy everybody in the place a drink.
I'm reaching into my coat pocket for my shield when a blast of frigid air blows in a tired dame in a coat that probably looked good during the Clinton administration, with three kiddies in tow.
"Daddy!"
I throw a twenty on the bar and nod to the bartender on the way out.
(Michael Beil was an Edgar finalist for Best Children's Novel for the first of five books in the Red Blazer Girls series.)
I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus by Steve Liskow
Detective Angel Noelle looked at the body, a fat man with a white beard and a red suit, underneath the mistletoe. Wrapped presents, grungy with fingerprint powder, lay under the tree.
"Your first, Noelle?" That was Detective Shepherd.
"Violent night," Angel said. "Got an ID yet?"
"We're waiting on fingerprints, but we've got a suspect and a witness."
Noelle turned to the woman in the green robe, the slit revealing black fishnets--previously hung by the chimney with care--and four-inch stilettos.
"I'm a dancer," she said. "All my son wanted for Christmas was his two front teeth..."
The small boy peeking from the stairs nodded.
"But instead, he brought..." The prancing vixen buried her face in her hands. "He deserved it..."
Noelle turned to the tech filling out the evidence label. "What was the weapon?"
"Well, right now it looks like a fruitcake."
"Fruitcake?"
"Yeah, been re-gifted so many times it's hard as a Jersey barrier. The label on the can says, 'Do not sell after 2004.'"
Noelle looked at the body, deep in dreamless sleep.
"The contusions fit?" The open fire crackled in the fireplace.
"Yeah. Really roasted his chestnuts."
Outside, the black and whites rolled by.
(Steve Liskow practices piano about fifteen minutes a week.)
Labels: Christmas, Connecticut, flash fiction, humor, humour, MWA, noir, Steve Liskow
Dr. Frank Warsh: Coroner to Crime Writer
by Mary Fernando
Dr. Frank Warsh is a coroner and the author of The Flame Broiled Doctor from Boyhood to Burnout in Medicine and Hippocrates:The Art and The Oath
Death is his job - literally - so how does his job inform his new foray into crime fiction? Many doctors will grumble at the unrealistic depictions of doctors in film and books. Doctors will grumble even more loudly at the depictions of patients and families - because that is the important part of medicine. So, does a coroner write crime fiction differently than a lay person?
• What is the actual job of a coroner?
“The core of the job is determination of cause and certifying the death.
“The cause of death is what killed you. The manner is part of the set of conventions we use to describe a death. The manner is what’s being referred to when a character on a cop show says, “the death was ruled a homicide”. That statement is screenplay silliness for two reasons. First, rulings come from judges, not Coroners or Forensic Pathologists. Second, the manner of death follows from the cause, rather than being determined independently.
“Unlike the myriad causes, there are only four manners by which a person can die: natural, accident, suicide, or homicide.
“Again, the manner follows from the cause. If somebody dies from a heart attack, that’s a natural death. If it’s a hanging, barring some very, very compelling evidence of foul play it’s a death by suicide. The old Coroner’s joke is calling a gunshot wound to the chest a natural death, because if you’re shot through the heart and lungs, naturally it will kill you.”
• Why would people want to read Coroners’ stories?
“Clearly there’s overlap between Coroner work and crime investigation. My job is quite literally the intersection between police procedural and medical procedural work.
“It’s hard to overstate how important the job of Coroner is and can be, speaking for the dead as the motto goes. Most untimely deaths are not the result of a crime, but rather workplace accidents, substance abuse, an individual’s traumatic upbringing, systemic problems in institutions, or failures by society as a whole. Obviously these stories matter to people in positions of authority and policymakers. But fictionalized, they can teach us a lot of truths about human nature and how far we still have to go. It’s a job that allows for genuine sober reflection, rather than just reacting to the daily noise of the news cycle.
“A former patient, who’s become a cherished friend since I left practice, had a daughter that died from an overdose after a long struggle with drug use. Happens every day, no question. But the young woman had been a repeat victim of sexual violence from a very early age. Worse still, she suffered years of trauma at the hands of a broken mental health care system the family desperately needed to work. We take it for granted that our institutions are the “good guys”, working only in the best interests of the sick and the vulnerable. That’s far from a guarantee, no matter what we’d like to think. Fiction is a perhaps a safer way to face these truths, because there are no real-life stakes to the story being told.
“Now that covers the interesting and important reasons to read Coroner stories, but I’d be remiss if I left out how entertaining, even funny, Coroner work can be.
“Setting aside gratuitous cartoon deaths you might find in a Quentin Tarantino film, death in and of itself isn’t entertaining. It’s death *investigation* I find entertaining. Some of the fun comes from the characters you meet – police, undertakers – that have personality quirks or morbid senses of humor you don’t find in health care settings. Sometimes it’s the loved ones of the dead who can throw you for a loop.
“And sometimes the investigation itself is full of absurdities, completely at odds with what we expect from all the highbrow detective stories we might read or see on TV. Closets full of Costco-size jars of weed. Bongs on display like sports trophies. Porn playing on a loop while you scour an apartment for medical records. You can’t make this stuff up.
“Earlier this year, I happened to attend six deaths in a row where the person had died on the toilet. To the individual families, those are tragedies. To the poor schlub Coroner – me – it’s a Saturday Night Live sketch, the absolute antithesis of the glamorous, high-tech investigations portrayed on CSI.
“Real life – or real death, I suppose – is stranger than fiction, and quite often funny as hell. These are the kinds of stories I’m now looking to tell, in short story form for the time being.”
• Thoughts on commercial success?
“You need your finger on the pulse of the audience to find fortune as a writer, and the only pulses I feel these days have stopped.”
Posted by Mary Fernando at 00:00 6 comments
Labels: coroners, crime writing, forensic examiners, humour, pathologists
Location: Ottawa, ON K1J 7E7, Canada
Being a Goddess Sucks When your Characters Won’t Behave… (warning: more silly stuff from Bad Girl)
(Dave, are you smiling down on me? My comedy is back)
Recently, my characters have become more mouthy.
I like to think of myself as their creator. Goddess material. Without me, they wouldn’t have a life on the page, or anywhere, for that matter. This should buy me a certain amount of respect, I figure. Sort of like you might give a minor deity. After all, I have created five series for them to live in.
Unfortunately, my characters haven’t bought into that. Worse, they seem to have cast me into the role of mother. That’s me: a necessary embarrassment for the perpetuation of their lives. And like all kids, they squabble. They fight with each other for attention. I liken it to sibling jealousy.
To wit: “You haven’t written about me lately,” says Rowena, star of Rowena Through the Wall.
I try to ignore the petulance in her voice.
“Been busy,” I mumble. “Gina (The Goddaughter) had to get married in Vegas. And Del, a relative of hers, started a vigilante group.”
“I don’t care if she started a rock group. You’re supposed to be writing MY story.”
I turn away from the keyboard and frown at her. “Listen, toots. You wouldn’t have any stories at ALL if it weren’t for me. You’ve had three books of adventures with men. A normal gal would be exhausted. So please be patient and wait your turn. Jennie had to suck it up for Worst Date Ever. Del and The B-Team were next in line. You can be after that, maybe.”
Maybe. I wasn’t going to tell her about the 6th Goddaughter book currently in the works.
“It’s not fair. I came first! Before all those silly mob comedies,” Row whines. “Don’t forget! I was the one who got you bestseller status.” She points at her ample chest.
“Hey!” says Gina, fresh from cannoli central. “And which book won the Derringer and the Arthur Ellis? Not some trashy old fantasy novel.”
“Who are YOU calling trashy?” says Rowena, balling her hands into fists. “Just because my bodice rips in every scene…”
“Like THAT isn’t a plot device,” chides Gina.
“Oh, PLEASE don’t fight,” says Jennie, the plucky romance heroine of Worst Date Ever. “I just want everyone to have a Happy Ever After. Can’t you do that for us all, Mom? Er…Melodie?”
I look at Del, from The B-Team. “What do you think?”
Del shrugs. “Sounds sucky. What kind of crap story would that be? Bugger, is that the time? I got a second story job that needs doing. Cover for me, will you? And this time, let me know if the cops start sniffing around.”
“Cops?” says Gina. “Crap! I’m outta here.”
“Cops?” says Rowena. “There’s that little matter of a dead body in book 2…” She vanishes.
“Cops?” says Jennie, hopefully. “OH! Is one of them single?”
Book 15 is now out! THE GODDAUGHTER DOES VEGAS
(Don't tell Rowena…)
Posted by Melodie Campbell at 00:30 13 comments
Labels: characters, comedy, crime, fantasy, fiction, humor, humour, Melodie Campbell, romance
Balancing Comedy and Tragedy
by Barb Goffman
A few years ago I was editing a manuscript in which an amateur sleuth found a dead body. A couple of paragraphs down, she made a joke. It raised my eyebrows. "Too soon," I said in a note to the author.
Don't get me wrong. I love humor, especially black humor. Ranging from wry observations to slapstick situations, humor is important because it can lighten a book's mood. But you have to know when to be funny--and when not to. In the case I mentioned above, I suggested having the sleuth wait a couple of pages before she makes light of the situation. The author did so, and it made all the difference.
Today I'm pleased to welcome as a guest author my friend Sherry Harris, who knows all about writing humor, including the importance of timing. Sherry writes great books and takes edits like the pro she is. Sherry writes the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mysteries about a woman in Massachusetts who runs garage sales for other people. Sherry's here today to expound on balancing comedy and tragedy in mysteries. Take it away, Sherry!
--Barb Goffman
I was sitting at the bar at Writers' Police Academy (this sounds like the start of a bad joke) when I started talking to a woman near me. I asked her what she wrote and she told me. She then asked what I wrote, so I told her I wrote a cozy series--the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mysteries. She said, "Oh, well I write serious books." I replied that I wrote serious books too. That I don't think murder is funny, but that I did use humor in other parts of my books.
I'm caught somewhere in between comedy and tragedy. In my most recent book, Let's Fake a Deal, (published July 30th), there are two parallel story lines. As the book opens Sarah is arrested for selling stolen goods at a garage sale and a few chapters later a friend of hers is arrested for murder. I was shocked when someone who interviewed me said they thought the first chapter (where Sarah is arrested) was one of the funniest scenes they've ever read. When I wrote the scene my vision of Sarah was that she was really scared. I guess that just proves humor is in the eye of the beholder. After the interview was over, I reread the scene with a different mind-set and saw how it could be interpreted that way.
Where do I add the humor? I'd like to tell you I carefully plot it all out in advance but I don't. I'll make a decision early in my writing process on how to add some humor. For Let's Fake a Deal, I tossed around ideas with my independent editor, Barb Goffman. (Hi, Barb, thanks for having me here today.) We came up with the idea that Sarah could do a garage sale for a woman who was obsessed with cats. Not a crazy cat woman who has twenty cats living with her, but a woman who wants to make the front of her house look like the face of a cat. To afford that she has to sell off her massive collection of cat-morabilia. So the cat-tastic garage sale was born.
Kishi Station in Japan was redesigned to resemble a cat in honor of a beloved local stray cat. (Can you see it?) This station isn't in the Sarah Winston books, but it's a great example of what a dedicated cat lover could do with enough funds.
But the Sarah Winston books have more than funny situations. Each of my books is set partially on an Air Force base, and I weave in difficulties military families face. In Let's Fake a Deal, one of Sarah's friends, who has been selected for promotion to colonel, has an IG (inspector general) complaint filed against her, which holds up her promotion. I did a lengthy interview with a friend who served as a Navy JAG for 23 years. We talked about the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated world. Then I interviewed other women I knew who had served. The interviews fascinated and horrified me. Their stories are woven into the book.
I hope the titles add some humor and Sarah is funny. She's not funny in a slapstick, "slip on a banana peel" kind of way, but she has an optimistic outlook on life. Her observations about life add humor to the books. But I also want her to be multilayered so when she stumbles over a dead body Sarah hurts, and when she sees someone die she reacts like a real person would.
Sherry Harris is the Agatha Award-nominated author of the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mystery series. She is the President of Sisters in Crime, a member of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime, the New England Chapter of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.
In her spare time Sherry loves reading and is a patent-holding inventor. Sherry, her husband, and her guard dog, Lily, are living in northern Virginia until they figure out where they want to move to next. (Barb here: That's what she thinks. I'm not letting her move away ever. No how. No way.)
Website: Sherryharrisauthor.com
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Labels: Barb Goffman, humor, humour, Sherry Harris, writing
Themes in Novels (in which Bad Girl discovers she’s not so flaky after all…)
One of the great discussions in the author world is whether your book should have a theme or not. Of course it’s going to have a plot. (Protagonist with a problem or goal and obstacles to that goal – real obstacles that matter - which are resolved by the end.) But does a book always have a theme?
Usually when we’re talking ‘theme’, we’re putting the story into a more serious category. Margaret Atwood (another Canadian – smile) tells a ripping good story in The Handmaid’s Tale. But readers would agree there is a serious theme underlying it, a warning, in effect.
Now, I write comedies. Crime heists and romantic comedies, most recently. They are meant to be fun and entertaining. So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered recently that all of my books have rather serious themes behind them.
Last Friday, I was interviewed for a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) mini-documentary featuring female Canadian crime writers. During this, the producer got me talking about the background to my most awarded series, The Goddaughter. This crime caper series is about a mob goddaughter who doesn’t want to be one, but keeps getting dragged back to bail out her inept mob family.
I know what it’s like to be a part of an Italian family that may have had ties to the mob. (In the past. My generation is squeaky clean.) The producer asked me If that informed my writing. Of course it did. But in our discussion, she stopped me when I said: “You are supposed to love and support your family. But what if your family is *this* one?”
Voila. There it was: a theme. All throughout the Goddaughter series, Gina Gallo grapples with this internal struggle.
So then I decided to look at my other books. The B-team is a spin-off from The Goddaughter series. It’s a funny take on The A-team television series. A group of well-meaning vigilantes set out to do good, but as this is comedy, things go awry. In fact, the tag-line is: “They do wrong for all the right reasons…and sometimes it even works.”
Was there a theme behind this premise? Was there a *question asked*? And yes, to me, it was clear.
In The B-Team, I play with the concept: Is it ever all right to do illegal things to right a wrong?
Back up to the beginning. My first series was fantasy. Humorous fantasy, of course. Rowena Through the Wall basically is a spoof of Outlander type books. Rowena falls through a portal into a dark ages world, and has wild and funny adventures. I wrote it strictly to entertain…didn’t I? And yet, the plot revolves around the fact that women are scarce in this time. They’ve been killed off by war. I got the idea from countries where women were scarce due to one-child policies. So what would happen…I mused…if women were scarce? Would they have more power in their communities? Or would the opposite happen. Would they have even less control of their destinies, as I posited?
A very strong, serious theme underlying a noted “hilarious” book. Most readers would never notice it. But some do, and have commented. That gets this old gal very excited.
I’ve come to the conclusion that writers – even comedy writers – strive to say something about our world. Yes, I write to entertain. But the life questions I grapple with find their way into my novels, by way of underlying themes. I’m not into preaching. That’s for non-fiction. But If I work them in well, a reader may not notice there is an author viewpoint behind the work.
Yes, I write to entertain. But I’ve come to the conclusion that behind every novel is an author with something to say. Apparently, I’m not as flaky as I thought.
What about you? Do you look for a theme in novels? Or if a writer, do you find your work conforms to specific themes?
Got teen readers in your family? Here's the latest crime comedy, out this month:
Labels: B-team, books, CBC, comedy, goddaughter, humor, humour, literary, mafia, Margaret Atwood, Melodie Campbell, mysteries, theme, themes, writers
Ten Minutes of Comedy at the Arthur Ellis Awards Gala (and they even let me stay on stage...)
The Crime Writers of Canada went loco, and asked me to emcee the Arthur Ellis Awards this year. Somehow they learned I might have done standup in the past. Or maybe not, because they even paid me. It may be more than my royalties this quarter.
I dug back into my Sleuthsayer files to decide what might appeal to a hardened (read soused) group of crime writers en mass, with an open bar. This is what resulted, and I’m happy to say the applause was generous. You may remember some of this.
Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, May 23, 2019, 9PM
Hello! Mike said I could do a few minutes of comedy this evening as long as I apologized in advance.
My name is Melodie Campbell, and it’s my pleasure to welcome here tonight crime writers, friends and family of crime writers, sponsors, agents, and any publishers still left out there.
Tonight is that special night when the crime writing community in Canada meets to do that one thing we look forward to all year: which is get together and bitch about the industry.
Many of you knew my late husband Dave. He was a great supporter of my writing, and of our crime community in general. But many times, he could be seen wandering through the house, shaking his head and muttering “Never Marry a crime writer.”
I’ve decided, here tonight, to list the reasons why.
Everybody knows they shouldn’t marry a crime writer. Mothers the world over have made that obvious: “For Gawd Sake, never marry a marauding barbarian, a sex pervert, or a crime writer.” (Or a politician, but that is my own personal bias. Ignore me.)
But for some reason, lots of innocent, unsuspecting people marry authors every year. Obviously, they don’t know about the “Zone.” (More obviously, they didn’t have the right mothers.)
Never mind: I’m here to help.
I think it pays to understand that crime writers aren’t normal humans: they write about people who don’t exist and things that never happened. Their brains work differently. They have different needs. And in some cases, they live on different planets (at least, my characters do, which is kind of the same thing.)
Thing is, authors are sensitive creatures. This can be attractive to some humans who think that they can ‘help’ poor writer-beings (in the way that one might rescue a stray dog.) True, we are easy to feed and grateful for attention. We respond well to praise. And we can be adorable. So there are many reasons you might wish to marry a crime writer, but here are 10 reasons why you shouldn’t:
1 Crime Writers are hoarders. Your house will be filled with books. And more books. It will be a shrine to books. The lost library of Alexandria will pale in comparison.
2 Crime Writers are addicts. We mainline coffee. We’ve also been known to drink other beverages in copious quantities, especially when together with other writers in places called ‘bars.’
3 Authors are weird. Crime Writers are particularly weird (as weird as horror writers.) You will hear all sorts of gruesome research details at the dinner table. When your parents are there. Maybe even with your parents in mind.
4 Crime Writers are deaf. We can’t hear you when we are in our offices, pounding away at keyboards. Even if you come in the room. Even if you yell in our ears.
5 Crime Writers are single-minded. We think that spending perfectly good vacation money to go to conferences like Bouchercon is a really good idea. Especially if there are other writers there with whom to drink beverages.
And here are some worse reasons why you shouldn’t marry a crime writer:
6 It may occasionally seem that we’d rather spend time with our characters than our family or friends.
7 We rarely sleep through the night. (It’s hard to sleep when you’re typing. Also, all that coffee...)
8 Our Google Search history is a thing of nightmares. (Don’t look. No really – don’t. And I’m not just talking about ways to avoid taxes… although if anyone knows a really fool-proof scheme, please email me.)
And the really bad reasons:
9 If we could have affairs with our beloved protagonists, we probably would. (No! Did I say that out loud?)
10 And lastly, We know at least twenty ways to kill you and not get caught.
RE that last one: If you are married to a crime writer, don’t worry over-much. Usually crime writers do not kill the hand that feeds them. Most likely, we are way too focused on figuring out ways to kill our agents, editors, and particularly, reviewers.
Finally, it seems appropriate to finish with the first joke I ever sold, way back in the 1990s:
Recent studies show that approximately 40% of writers are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.
Melodie Campbell can be found with a bottle of Southern Comfort in the True North. You can follow her inane humour at www.melodiecampbell.com
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Labels: Arthur Ellis, awards, Canada, comedy, crime, crime writers, humor, humour, publishers, writers, writing
You'll get yourself killed!
About a hundred dog-years ago I visited Sint Maarten, the Dutch half of Saint Martin of the now-dissolved Nederland Antilles. Another couple had attached themselves to me. Unfortunately they were condescending, complaining, and often rude. Fed up, I ventured off on my own. Deeply provoked I dared leave their august company, they shouted after me, “You’ll get yourself killed!”
St. Martin hadn’t yet experienced the gargantuan resorts, the huge hotels, the star-rated restaurants. Its infrastructure consisted of single lane dirt roads meandering among pastures and groves. I loved it.
I came upon a goatling caught in a fence. As I knelt to untangle it, a young girl on a bicycle and then a man and woman stopped to watch. I lifted the goat free and set it over the fence.
“Come,” they said. “Come to our house. Would you like juice, tea?”
Their walls were constructed of foot-thick adobe. They explained its hard-packed ‘mud’, so to speak, kept the interior cool. The front door was a curtain. Except for tourists, the island experienced virtually no crime, so no need for locks. Their kindness dissuaded me from murdering that horribly unlikable couple.
After reading David’s and Eve’s recent articles about traveling, I told my friend Darlene I always knew I wanted to travel although I didn’t know how I’d pull it off. Fortunately consulting provided the ways and means.
David’s love song to Paris reminded me of my much later visit to the city, one that RT Lawton also knows well. It’s a city of light and delight, but some people…
In Paris you can send out for cous-cous just like you order pizza. Cous-cous, made from bulgar wheat– the same ingredient in pasta– has a vaguely rice-like texture. Like rice, you top it by selecting a variety of vegetables, meats, and sauces.
“Don’t order in,” I said. “Let’s go out. Let’s visit the restaurant.”
My French friend Micheline agreed, but my colleague James reacted in horror. “You can’t!” he said. "Not at night! Algerians roam the streets and, and Moroccans, and, and Iranians! I read about these foreign hooligans in a magazine.” (The tabloid News of the World, published by Rupert Murdoch.) He finished with, “You’ll get yourself killed!”
He didn’t like cous-cous either, so Micheline and I left him to his own devices as we enjoyed dinner.
Darlene laughed. “I get the feeling those aren’t isolated incidents.”
So in Barbados– I love Barbados– my shoe ruptured like a flattened tire. Barbados is 2800 kilometers from Orlando, 1500 nautical miles, maybe 1750 land miles. I needed options. Bridgetown houses a basket market and gimmicks and gadgets for tourists, but not a repair shop, not for tourists. A few questionings later, I learned of a local cobbler.
“I’ll send a bellboy,” said the hotel concierge. “Don’t try it yourself,”
“Well, it’s off the beaten path.”
A hanger-on, Miss Transparent Swimsuit, interrupted. Days earlier, Miss TS discovered her white swimsuit turned invisible when wet. The beach bars and about half the island became aware of this fact when she waded from the water like Venus on her seashell. No one looked until she shrieked, flapped her hands, jumped voluptuously up and down, a fascinating study in the physics of motion dynamics. Subsequently, she decided none of the hotel shop’s bathing costumes quite fit. She continued to bathe in the bay. As other women rolled their eyes, she’d emerge and suddenly rediscover the optics of her wet swimsuit hadn’t changed, thus the name, Miss Transparent Swimsuit. Anyway, she interrupted the concierge.
“Is it dangerous? Finding the shoe guy?”
“Don’t go,” she said firmly, leaning very close. “You’ll get yourself killed.”
If my girlfriend caught another woman’s hand resting on my upper thigh, I could certainly get myself killed. There’s danger and then there’s DANGER.
From the basket market, I left the pavement and strolled up a shady street. Women in their tiny gardens gave me a curious glance. A dog on a doorstep kept an eye on me.
I found the repairman without difficulty. The front of his house extended to shelter his workspace. No need for a signboard when your activity advertised your business.
He looked over my ripped shoe. “Did you bring the other?” he asked.
I had. He studied it.
“Come back in two hours,” he said.
I cut over to another street to see more of the village. After lunch, to the clucks and head-shaking of Miss Transparent Swimsuit and the hotel staff, I revisited the shoe man with my girlfriend.
Not only had the repairman resoled my broken shoe, he’d resoled the other as well.
“Only a matter of time,” he said, “no extra charge. Is two dollars too much?”
I squatted down eye level where he sat.
I said, “I’m not rich, but at home, I would pay much more. I don’t want to offend you, but would you allow me to pay at least a portion I would pay at home?”
He nodded and we shook hands. My girlfriend, a teacher, asked about schools and he directed us to one where we visited a classroom. We felt welcomed.
Miss Transparent Swimsuit represented the only peril. I knew how not to get myself killed.
We North Americans fear the unfamiliar. That’s the main reason I despise the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island.
Darlene said, “Why is that? Don’t they provide hundreds of jobs?”
“Thousands, they claim.”
In the days before the Atlantis, tourists walked the streets of Bridgetown, dining on vegetables or meats wrapped in banana leaves. From little shops you could buy seafood, seashells, deep sea gear, and sea inspired art. Now, instead of the Welcome to Nassau signage, they might as well erect “Dare to visit” signs.
Now, the moment a plane lands or a cruise ship anchors off Nassau, water taxis rush in. Before precious DKNYs touch native soil, the shuttles snatch up travelers with money falling from their pockets and rush them to Paradise Island for surgical removal.
Money and investment have made it possible to visit the Bahamas without actually visiting the Bahamas. Head into town on your own, and cruise directors shout, “You’ll get yourself killed.”
Once upon a time in the Caribbean, locals rode colorful jitneys. I learned about them from my grandmother, these decorated minibus coaches done up with rhinestones and mirrors, carvings and colors, perhaps a boombox and more tassels than a Baha Mar topless floor show.
On a trip, one of my traveling companions demanded steak for dinner. Imagine, we’re surrounded by the ocean’s bountiful, beautiful seafood, and one landlubber insists on dead cow flown in from far-away freakin’ Florida.
“Fine,” I said. “We’re taking the jitney.”
Jaws dropped. “You… You can’t do that. Only the dark…” (our black waitress rolled her eyes) “er, locals after dark, I mean, by natives, see. Tourists can’t ride them.”
“Go ahead, say it,” I said. “You’ll get yourself killed.”
Our waitress, with more aplomb than a table full of half inebriated tourists, explained anyone can pay 50¢ and can go anywhere without getting killed.
The steak turned out… not so good.
Speaking of steak… (I’ll get there eventually), I found myself in La Guaira, Venezuela, the seaport serving Caracas. Tourists boarded buses into the city, but I heard about the teleférico, a cable car that soared over the mountain into the capital. Tourists frowned at me.
“How do I find it?” I asked.
“Motor coach or taxi,” said the man hawking a tour bus.
A Hispanic woman quietly said, “Take the autobus. It better.”
The gringos rolled their eyes, fully expecting to see my body in the news.
On board, bus passengers smiled. I took an empty seat near the woman who first advised me. After a few minutes driving, someone double-clapped their hands. The bus stopped and let the passenger off.
We drove again. Another passenger double-clapped and more people disembarked.
The woman who suggested the bus pointed to the pull cable, normally used to signal the driver.
“Vandals thought it clever to cut the cables. Now we clap. It works.”
At the teleférico station, we climbed aboard.
The car lifted off. We rose into the sky.
The jungle below unfolded in beauty. We sailed over tropical forest and waterfalls.
Eventually the car pulled to a platform and stopped. Confused, I looked around, seeing only mists and jungle. The woman nudged me.
“Only first third of trip,” she said. “Here comes another car to take you to the peak. At the summit, take another car down into the city.”
Part two of the aerial adventure proved more beautiful than the first. The jungle below has since been designated El Ávila National Park.
From a natural beauty standpoint, the descent into Caracas proved anticlimactic. I ambled through the city. At a lunch counter, I ate damn good beefsteak that would make a gaucho proud.
A woman in a post card stall complained. “Stupid city. Yesterday I rode that tram car all the way to the top. Such a waste, all fog and stupid clouds. Why can’t they do something about that?”
“You’re lucky,” I said knowingly. “You could have got yourself killed.”
“Really?” Her face lit up. “I didn’t know that, and here I am, all safe and sound. Wait until I tell Myra.”
I live to please.
When I announced plans to visit Iceland, friends advised the usual. “It’s frickin’ Iceland. What part of ‘ice’ don’t you understand? You’ll get yourself killed. Hey, it could happen.”
Joined by a French journalist, we landed in Keflavik (now Reykjanesbær) hours ahead of the worst blizzard in recorded history. Far-away friends surely believed I’d done it this time.
If Icelanders know anything, it’s ice, cold, and snow. Coming from Minnesota, I’d worn my insulated boots and goose-down parka, so the century’s worst blizzard wasn’t particularly distressing for me. The worst deprivation was having to live on German wines and caviar, considerably cheaper than hamburger. Seafood… Did I mention I love fish? Worst hazard: I risked overeating.
Folks, we’re not talking about wandering through Iraq, Sudan, or Yemen in search of ISIS Daesh. As far as I can tell, Americans believe the rest of the world lurks in dark alleys, waiting for tourists where tourists never go… or something like that.
In the interest of full disclosure, I was once held at knifepoint and another time at gunpoint. That threat happened in… the United States of America. The latter incident occurred here in Orlando. That's a story already told.
Perhaps the saddest incident began after delivering my car to a dealership for servicing. The shop provided a minibus to pick up customers and deliver them to and from. I received the call to pick up my car right at 5pm. Orlando’s Lee Road is no joy during rush hour, but that day an accident on Interstate-4 choked the six-lane thoroughfare.
As the expected ten-minute drive stretched toward infinity, the shuttle driver announced he’d have to pull over and park for the next two hours. He might not be able to deliver us before the shop closed.
“Nonsense,” I said. “Take Kennedy Boulevard.”
A man on the bus said, “Doesn’t that run through Eatonville?”
The sole woman on the bus blanched.
The town of Eatonville, home of famed author Zora Neale Hurston, bills itself as America’s oldest black community. It’s a pretty little town if you’re not fearful of getting yourself killed.
The driver said, “You know the way?”
The woman started to say, “You’ll get us all k-k-k-…”
“If you know the roads,” said the driver. “Let’s do it.”
The lady flew into action, mobilizing other passengers. “The windows, raise all the windows. Driver, lock the door. And you, don’t you dare roll your eyes.”
With the help of the other three guys, the lady battened down the hatches. They seemed as much excited as fearful, daring to adventure into deepest African-America.
The driver followed Edgewater Drive to Kennedy and swung right. We passed barbecue and crab restaurants, a clinic, stores, and a repair shop. Above us at the I-4 overpass, sirens whooped as ambulances, police, tow-trucks, and fire engines struggled through traffic.
As we entered Eatonville’s town center, our passengers stared in awe, apparently surprised we weren’t assailed by by crack-pushin’ gang-bangers waving Glock 9 knockoffs. Traffic came to a standstill from commuters who’d thought of the same escape route.
“Turn right,” I said.
“No!” said the woman. “Where are you taking us?”
“This side street and a left will bring us out right at the dealership.”
After double-checking the windows, the lady– I swear this is true– pressed her face against the glass to see what might be seen. Possibly she expected rap artists gunning down one another on the back alleys. To the surprise of many, we made it without a single Mad Max style takedown.
That evening at the dinner table, I’m convinced fellow travellers told trembling tales of the idiot risk-taker who directed them through darkest Eatonville.
“That fool! That crazy fool. He almost got ourselves killed!”
Eatonville, Florida © VisitFlorida.com
Posted by Leigh Lundin at 00:00 11 comments
Labels: danger, humor, humour, Leigh Lundin, travel, Zora Neale Hurston
Location: Caribbean
Murder at the Crime Writing Awards (With the usual 'pee first' warning - see bottom)
Someone slipped up and made me a finalist in two categories for the Arthur Ellis Awards for Crime Writing this year (The B-Team, Novella, and A Ship Called Pandora, short story.) Naturally, I’m up against some of the best (here’s looking at you, yet again, Twist Phalen.)
By strange coincidence, I’m also emceeing the awards on May 23. Which goes to show how truly confusing we can be in Canada. Because you see, in days of yore (ten to three years ago) I was the one organizing the gala, along with a team of truly wonderful but sweetly innocent individuals who had no idea what they were signing up for.
The short list announcement yesterday got me thinking about my first time organizing the event. I believe this may have also been my first post on Sleuthsayers. Yes, that many years ago. Time for a revisit. Warning: This is nonfiction. I swear.
MURDER AT THE CRIME WRITING AWARDS
Okay, I haven’t done it yet. But I may soon.
I’m the Executive Director of a well-known crime writing association. This means I am also responsible for the Arthur Ellis Awards, Canada’s annual crime writing awards night, and the resulting banquet.
I’ve planned hundreds of special events in my career as a marketing professional. I’ve managed conferences with 1000 people attending, scarfing down three meals a day. Usually, we offer a few choices, and people choose what they want. They’re pretty good about that. People sit where they want. Simple.
Granted, most of my events have been with lab techs, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals.
It is not the same with authors. Nothing is simple with authors.
THE SEATING ARRANGEMENT
A can’t sit with B, because A is in competition with B for Best Novel. C can’t sit with D because C is currently outselling D. E can’t sit with F because they had an affair (which nobody knows about. Except they do. At least, the seven people who contacted me to warn me about this knew.) G can’t sit with H because G’s former agent is at that table and they might kill each other. And everyone wants to sit with J.
The damned meal is chicken. This is because we are allowed two choices and we have to provide for the vegetarians. We can’t have the specialty of the house, lamb, because not everyone eats lamb. We can’t have salmon as the vegetarian choice, because some vegetarians won’t eat fish.
So we’re stuck with chicken again.
P writes that her daughter is lactose intolerant. Can she have a different dessert?
K writes that she is vegetarian, but can’t eat peppers. Every damned vegetarian choice has green or red pepper in it.
L writes that she wants the chicken, but is allergic to onion and garlic. Can we make hers without?
M writes that her daughter is a vegan, so no egg or cheese, thanks. Not a single vegetarian choice comes that way.
I am quickly moving to the “you’re getting chicken if I have to shove it down your freaking throat” phase.
Chef is currently threatening the catering manager with a butcher’s knife. I am already slugging back the cooking wine. And by the time people get here, this may be a Murder Mystery dinner.
Postscript:
Nobody got murdered, but a few got hammered.
Melodie Campbell’s caper novella The B-Team has been shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award. You can pick it up for a steal (sic) at Amazon, B&N, Chapters, and all the usual suspects. Even Walmart, because we’re a class act. Sometimes even Zehrs. I’ll stop now.
The 'pee first' warning is given when humorous material follows. 'Nuf said.
Labels: Arthur Ellis, award ceremonies, awards, comedy, Crime Writers of Canada, crime writing, galas, humour, Melodie Campbell
Putting the Happy in Happy Thanksgiving
It's two days until Thanksgiving, and I bet some of you are stressed. Maybe it's because you're cooking and ... it's the first time you're hosting, and you want it to be perfect. Or your mother-in-law is coming, and your turkey never lives up to hers. Or the weatherman is predicting snow on Thanksgiving and you're afraid that your relatives won't show up ... or maybe that they will.
Or maybe your stress stems from being a guest. Are you an introvert, dreading a day of small talk with the extended family? A picky eater, going to the home of a gourmet who makes food way to fancy for your tastes? Or are you a dieter, going to the home of someone who likes to push food and you're likely to spend the day going, "no thanks, no rolls for me," "no thanks, no candied yams for me," "no thanks, no cookies for me," ... "dear lord, lady, what part of no thanks don't you get?"
No matter who you are, or what your situation, Thanksgiving can cause stress. The best way to deal with stress is laughter. And that's where I come in. So set down that baster and get ready to smile, because I've got some fictional characters who've had a worse Thanksgiving than you.
Paul and Jamie Buchman from Mad About You
They tried so hard to make the perfect dinner ... only to have their dog, Murray, eat the turkey.
Rachel Green from Friends
All she wanted was to cook a nice dessert for her friends ... only to learn too late that she wasn't supposed to put beef in the trifle. It did not taste good.
The Gang from Cheers
Those poor Thanksgiving orphans. They waited hours for a turkey that just wouldn't cook ... only to then suffer the indignity of being involved in a food fight. (For anyone who's ever read my story "Biscuits, Carats, and Gravy," this Cheers episode was the inspiration.)
Debra Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond
She was determined to have a happy Thanksgiving despite her overly critical mother-in-law ... only to drop her uncooked turkey on the floor three times before flinging it into the oven. Yum.
Arthur Carlson from WKRP in Cincinnati
He wanted to create the greatest promotion ever, inviting the public to a shopping mall and providing free turkeys ... live ones ... only to learn too late that turkeys don't fly so when you toss them out of a helicopter from 2,000 feet in the air they hit the ground like sacks of wet cement.
Garner Duffy from "Bug Appétit"
All this con man wanted for Thanksgiving was to eat some good food at his mark's home before stealing her jewelry ... only to learn too late that her mother is an ... inventive cook. ("Bug Appétit" is my story in the current (November/December) issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. I'm so pleased to have heard from several readers who enjoyed it, including one who called it "hilarious.")
So, dear readers, I hope you're smiling and feeling less stressed. If you'd like to read my story, you could pick up a copy of the current EQMM, available in some Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores, as well as in an electronic version. You can find more information about getting the magazine here. The issue also has a story from SleuthSayer alum David Dean that I'm sure you'll enjoy.) As to the TV episodes mentioned above, I bet you can find them all online.
Until next time, please share your favorite funny turkey day story (fictional or real) in the comments. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Labels: Barb Goffman, David Dean, Ellery Queen, humor, humour, mysteries, mystery magazine, Thanksgiving
The Power of Prepositions
Far away and four times a thousand and one nights ago, this tale appeared in Criminal Brief. Dial in a little Rimsky-Korsakov and read on.
Aladdin was getting along in years and found that he was unable to pitch a tent as he had done in his youth. Smart as well as lucky, Aladdin still had his magic lamp and, frugal with his wishes, he had one wish left.
He rubbed his lamp and the génie appeared. Aladdin begged him, “My camel can no longer thread the needle. Can you cure my erectile impotence?”
Genie said, “I can whisk away your problem.” With that, he rubbed his hands, evoking a puff of billowing blue smoke. Genie said, “I’ve dealt you a powerful spell, but at your age, you’ll be able to invoke it only once a year.”
“How do I use it?” asked Aladdin.
“All you have to do is say ‘one, two, three,’ and it shall rise for as long as you wish, but only once a year.”
Aladdin asked, “What happens when I’m exhausted and I no longer want to continue?”
Genie replied, “All you or your lady has to say is ‘one, two, three, four,’ and it will fade like a Sahara sunset. But be warned: the spell will not work again for another year.”
Aladdin galloped home, eager to try out his new powers of the flesh. That evening, Aladdin bathed away the dust of the desert and scented himself with oil of exotic myrrh. He climbed into bed where his resigned wife lay turned away, about to slip into Scheherazadic dreams.
Aladdin took a deep breath and said, “One, two, three.” Instantly, he became more aroused than he ever had in youth, a magnificent happenstance of tree-trunk proportions.
His wife, hearing Aladdin’s words, rolled back toward him and said, “What did you say ‘one, two, three,’ for?”
And that, dear readers, is why you should not end a sentence with a preposition.
Posted by Leigh Lundin at 00:00 5 comments
Labels: flash fiction, free story, humor, humour, Leigh Lundin, prepositions, tips, writing
Location: Cave of Aladdin, Arabia
Just in Time for Hallowe'en! Books I will Never Write Part 1: Dino Porn
Apparently, I have been sounding too normal these days. There have been complaints. The following is an attempt to rectify that.
People pay money for the weirdest reads. Don't believe me?
DINOSAUR PORN
Yes, you heard that right. This is a 'thing.' No, I don't mean porn that randy male dinosaurs might read, involving somewhat sassy females of the same species who like a good time. Last I checked, dinosaurs couldn't read. Not even the urban ones.
But I'm not here to talk about that. I'm not even going to talk about the weirdness of someone wanting to *write* about sexual relations between a human of today and a creature that might possibly have become extinct during an ice storm back in the good old days. All writers are weird. Some are more weird than others (thank you, George Orwell.)
Nope. I'm here to talk about the blatant inequality in the dinosaur porn field. Not only that, in ALL areas of human/not-even-remotely-human erotica.
Don't believe me? Have you noticed that all these erotic books that star humans and some other race like Vampires or Werewolves or Aliens or Ducks (hey - has it been done?) always feature a girl with the Vampire or Werewolf? Or in our case, a girl with the T-Rex?
Why is it always that way around? Never do you see a young man being pursued by, say, a randy female dino. I have to assume female dinos are more discriminating.
So in the interests of fair play, just in time for Hallowe'en, I offer my version of Dino porn.
It might go like this:
"La, la, lalalala, la, lala, la la..." <innocent young female stegosaurus frolics among the Precambrian (whatever) wild-flowers, unaware that she is about to be approached from behind>
"Hey hey," says health male homo sapien, who obviously time-traveled here from another era. "You on Tinder, babe?"
"Tinder?" says Steggy-gal, unfamiliar with the vernacular. "Isn't this a grassland?"
"How about I just show you my equipment?" says creepy guy, who might possibly be blind. "I'll just take it out here...oops, no. That's my phone."
"Oh! There's a butterfly!" says Steggy-gal, easily distracted.
"HA," says creep, lining up to do the dirty. "Bet ya never had it like THIS before!"
"Gee, these flies are a nuisance," says Steggy, batting the annoyance away with her spiked tale. "Why do they always hang around THAT end..."
"YEOOOOOOOW"
Okay, enough pastiche-ing around. It's discimination, pure and simple. Okay, maybe not pure. And possibly more complicated than simple. All those extra bits. Which reminds me. Girl with a Squid comes out in 2019.
Melodie Campbell writes some pretty wild comedy. She even gets paid to do it, by poor unsuspecting publishers. Check out her many series at www.melodiecampbell.com
Labels: comedy, fiction, humor, humour, Melodie Campbell, parodies, porn
Talking Turkey
Tomorrow Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving and, in case you wondered, Liberia celebrates Thanksgiving the first Thursday in November. The time or place matters little to bachelors who celebrate the holiday much the same no matter when or where.
A Bachelor Thanksgiving
in honour of the Canadian holiday
arrangement in ironic pentameter
by deservedly anonymous†
I think I shall never sniff
A poem as lovely as a whiff
Of turkey and mashed po—
tatoes and frozen snow–
Peas in vast disproportion
As I gulp another portion.
Cranberry sauce, count me a fan,
Maintains the shape of the can.
Cheap beer and cheaper whiskey
Makes the shallow heart grow frisky.
Three litre jugs of screw-capped wine
First tastes horrible, then tastes fine.
Deli turkey, cellophane wrapped.
Processed ham and all that crap.
Sherbet, ice cream, anything frozen,
Packaged cupcakes by the dozen,
Ruffled chips and onion dip,
Reddi-Wip and Miracle Whip,
Maple frosting found in tins
Hide the worst culinary sins.
Seven-fifty millilitres of
Grain vodka labeled Scruitov,
Cheap brandy and cheaper beer
First smells awful, then tastes queer.
Pumpkin pie and store-bought cake,
Anything I need not bake.
If it’s boxed, if it’s canned,
I’m no gourmet, only gourmand.
Baseball, football on the TV.
One spilt bowl of poutine gravy.
This little poem with each verse,
I give thanks if it grows no worse.
† We admit nothing except Happy Thanksgiving. Graphics courtesy of Antique Images, The Holiday Spot, and Spruce Crafts.
Posted by Velma at 00:00 13 comments
Labels: Canada, humor, humour, Leigh Lundin, mary fernando, Melodie Campbell, poetry, Thanksgiving
Location: Baker Lake, NU, Canada
The Return of the Prodigal Writer
A Very Good Year
The Bank Job
What a Character . . .
Crime Scene Comix Case 2021-01-012, Shock Therapy
The Real Key to Blackmail and Scams
Rolling With It: 2020 in Review
When An Explorer Is Not Equipped With A Vocabulary
B2020 and A2020: How 2020 has influenced what we w...
Nashville Strong
Sherlock Holmes: Brilliant on Paper
A Day We'll Not Soon Forget (Plus New Year's Resol...
When History Went Up In Smoke
Birthplace of a Story
Blurbs Too
The Skating Mistress Affair, Part IIII
A Blurb in the Hand
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Directions to Loevestein Castle
Beware: Route planners and GPS systems often fail to locate Loevestein properly. We recommend that you follow the directions given below.
By Car from Breda/Gorinchem
A27 motorway
Exit 22 Nieuwendijk/Woudrichem
N322 trunk road towards Zaltbommel
Loevestein exit – immediately after lock over dammed Maas river
By Car from Utrecht/'s-Hertogenbosch
A2 motorway
Exit 17 Zaltbommel
N322 trunk road towards Brakel
Loevestein exit – immediately after Brakel & Poederoijen
Loevestein Castle has its own parking facilities. Parking is free of charge and is about a ten-minute walk from the castle.
Disabled visitors are permitted to drive all the way into the fort.
The Riveer ferry service ferries passengers between the fortress towns of Gorinchem and Woudrichem, Loevestein Castle and Fort Vuren (ferry timetable).
You can order a water taxi just like a regular taxi by calling +31 (0)6 22 558233 (more information)
From September to June, the passenger ferry between Woudrichem and Loevestein operates from Tuesday to Friday from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. and at the weekend from 12.30 and 5.30 p.m.
In July and August, the passenger ferry operates every day from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
For more information, visit the www.voetveerwoudrichem.nl website*.
*Site only available in Dutch
Loevestein Castle is difficult to reach by bus or train. Regiotaxi can transport you from Zaltbommel station to Loevestein. Please book taxis at least an hour in advance by calling 0900-0276.
Alternatively, take the train to Gorinchem. From the station, it’s a twenty-minute walk to the harbour where you can take the ferry or a water taxi (see above).
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Social Distancing Tech: 3D Printed Status Flags for the Office
After three months of working from home in the UK, people are now slowly starting to return to their offices. Ensuring people’s safety in the workplace is a top priority for property managers and companies. It’s also vital to effectively communicate with employees to make them aware of the practical measures implemented to manage social distancing, to reassure them and make the re-entry work smoothly.
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We know we won’t be going back to how we were before lockdown, but people miss the office and, most of all, the camaraderie, buzz and energy created by being in the same space with colleagues. This result is apparent in recent research by Gensler, in which 88% of US respondents declared wanting to go back to the office full-time. In the UK, a survey of 16,000 workers by WK Space had some interesting results, too (see here).
Now more than ever, technology is here to provide an answer to a real need
In light of Covid-19 and the safety measures required to return to work, at Smart Spaces® we have been looking at what practical solutions would make people in the office feel in control of their environment again. In addition to the touch-free access control that lets occupiers and visitors navigate the building without the need to touch any surface – from doors and turnstiles to lifts – the past months have, therefore, seen us research supportive ways to provide an easy-to-implement, visually friendly solution for people to re-experience their workspaces.
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Additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, has become an important element in our research and development. As the go-to technology for prototype development, it’s an incredibly effective vehicle to print conceptual and functional models in different materials and dimensions. The need for proof of concept (i.e. to ensure the model works in real life) makes 3D printing practical both in terms of production costs and time to manufacture, as well as enhancing efficiency when testing multiple iterations is required. Additive manufacturing is, therefore, not just a cost-effective solution to test new design ideas but it also reduces the time needed to manufacture an invention considerably.
Furthermore, we investigated other sectors use of colour coding and brought it a step further by applying it to IoT technology. Colour coding is a widely recognised system for which specific colours have distinct meanings. The standard traffic light system of red, yellow and green are commonly accepted visual cues that quickly provide the information needed, in a particular setting, for us to decide what we need to do next.
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Bringing these two concepts together, we have developed a solution that answers the changing needs of people’s daily use of meeting rooms, washrooms and any other enclosed common area. The result is a simple yet powerful way to show occupiers when a space is safe to enter through the implementation of 3D printed, IoT powered and colour coded, status flags.
The 3D printed room status flags digitally change their colour to show the room status – occupied, free, ready to be cleaned, cleaning in progress, and more – offering an easy-to-implement, universally understood, tool to keep people informed at any time. Integration with our meeting room booking system, as well as washrooms use notifications and cleaning routine management means occupiers won’t risk entering an occupied room accidentally. The space management sensors connected to our smart app will send a signal to the flags when the room density is already over capacity, in respect to social distancing rules, or differently occupied, providing a safer use of the work environment for everyone.
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As the day unfolded: Global COVID-19 cases surpass 2.3 million, US death toll approaching 40,000, Australia's death toll stands at 71
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By Sarah Keoghan, Michaela Whitbourn and Latika Bourke
Updated April 20, 2020 — 10.06pm first published at 12.29am
The global death toll from coronavirus has passed 165,000. There are more than 2.4 million known cases of infection but more than 611,000 people have recovered, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally
In Australia, the death toll stands at 71. About 50 people are in intensive care
The UK's daily death toll dropped significantly for the first time in days
US President Donald Trump says America is making "steady progress", claiming "swabs are easy [and] we have so many ventilators"
Spain, New York and France post lowest daily death tolls in weeks
10.06pm on Apr 20, 2020
We're wrapping up the blog for the night
By Sarah Keoghan
Thanks for joining us. Here is what you may have missed from today:
Virgin Australia is preparing to go into voluntary administration, sources say, unable to survive under the weight of enormous debts and starved of cash by the coronavirus travel shutdown
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the country will move out of its level 4 lockdown on Monday, April 27 - one week from today
NSW Health has shifted attention to reduce the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Western Sydney, opening new drive-thru clinics in Riverstone, Summer Hill and Liverpool
NSW Police are "keen" to see the Ruby Princess leave Australian shores on Thursday, with all passengers to receive full refunds
Just 26 coronavirus cases were confirmed across Australia in the past 24 hours today
The federal government has confirmed that a coronavirus contact tracing app, expected to be rolled out within weeks, will not be compulsory
Victoria has supported calls by Foreign Minister Marise Payne for a global inquiry into the origins and handling of the coronavirus pandemic
NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg has also stood down, leaving the sport without a CEO amid the pandemic
Our coronavirus coverage will continue overnight and into Tuesday in a new blog, which you can read here.
Sarah Keoghan, signing off.
9.57pm on Apr 20, 2020
Prince Philip thanks medical workers in rare statement
Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, has made a rare statement on Monday to thank those involved in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
"As we approach World Immunisation Week, I wanted to recognise the vital and urgent work being done by so many to tackle the pandemic; by those in the medical and scientific professions, at universities and research institutions, all united in working to protect us from Covid-19," he said.
"On behalf of those of us who remain safe and at home, I also wanted to thank all key workers who ensure the infrastructure of our life continues; the staff and volunteers working in food production and distribution, those keeping postal and delivery services going, and those ensuring the rubbish continues to be collected."
Philip, who is staying with the queen at her Windsor Castle home during the outbreak, retired from public life in May 2017 and has been rarely seen in public since then.
Millions have working hours cut as long term job threats grow
By Shane Wright
The economic lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus has cost almost 400,000 Australians their jobs while 3 million more have lost working hours with warnings it could take years for the nation to fully recover the financial losses.
A special survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that between the first week of March and the first week of April, 24 per cent of people had their working hours reduced in response to the virus outbreak and measures aimed to curb it.
Three per cent of people, or 390,000, who had a job in early March had lost that by the start of this month.
More than 60 per cent with a job who suffered a drop in hours said it was due to a reduction the amount of work available because of the coronavirus, while more than one in six said they had been stood down by their employer.
'Point of saturation': distancing messages need update to stifle virus
By Rachel Clun
A month into strict social distancing rules, experts say the government needs to change its messaging so the country can remain on the downward slope of the coronavirus epidemic.
Australia's confirmed cases grew by 26 on Sunday, which Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth said showed the social distancing measures were "still keeping our numbers of COVID-19 very low indeed".
Crowds at the beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs on the weekend. Credit:Dean Sewell
Queensland Premier Annastasia Palaszczuk said it was “absolutely tremendous” the state had recorded zero new cases of COVID-19 on the weekend. Western Australia reported no new cases on Sunday and Victoria recorded just one. NSW, which has had the largest number of COVID-19 infections, had six new confirmed cases.
But photographs taken on the weekend, including of crowds on beaches in Sydney's eastern suburbs and at St Kilda in Victoria, show people may be paying less attention to social distancing restrictions.
Australia's luckiest golf players? Ban comes down to the border
By Michael Fowler
Adam Fitzgerald hosts what must be the 90 luckiest golf players in Australia.
As the battle rages over Victoria's continued golf ban, the southern members of New South Wales' Thurgoona Golf Club don't care. For them, a round of golf is only a short drive over the border.
Golf teacher Peter Knight, who has been recording instruction videos from his garden, says it's a 'weird feeling' seeing golf as a political issue. Credit:Joe Armao
“I think they're relieved they can still play,” Mr Fitzgerald said from the course he manages, which neighbours Albury-Wodonga on the Victoria-NSW border.
"I guess if the government took the steps of policing the border it’d be different, but at the moment obviously they’re allowed to.”
NSW building boom plan slammed as 'quick fix' that will cost future generations
By Tom Rabe
A post-pandemic plan to supercharge big infrastructure builds and stimulate the struggling NSW economy has been labelled irresponsible by critics who argue the state is in no position to sell more of its assets to pay for the scheme.
Transport Minister Andrew Constance told the Herald a second wave of public transport projects would form part of a “silver bullet” aimed at reviving the NSW economy, financed in part through asset recycling and debt management.
Transport Minister Andrew Constance believes NSW should speed up its infrastructure builds post-pandemic to stimulate the economy. Credit:Wolter Peeters
But the opposition and unions seized on the government’s indication of potential further privatisation on Monday, describing it as a “quick fix” that would be paid for by future generations.
Opposition transport spokesman Chris Minns said he understood asset recycling was tempting for state governments, but only kicked immediate cash problems facing NSW down the road.
Zero new infections in Hong Kong today
Hong Kong reported no new cases on Monday for the first time in nearly seven weeks.
Prior to Monday, the city had seen eight consecutive days of single-digit infections, dwindling from a surge in cases in March as residents overseas flocked to return amid the U.S. and Europe outbreaks.
Commuters wear face masks as a precaution against the COVID-19 illness inside a subway station during rush hour in Hong Kong. Credit:AP
Hong Kong's current tally stands at 1,026 cases, but only four deaths.
Western Sydney ramps up testing with new drive-thru clinics
NSW Health has shifted attention to reduce the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Western Sydney, opening new drive-thru clinics in Riverstone, Summer Hill and Liverpool.
Similar to Bondi's drive-thru facility, anyone can be tested for the virus at the Summer Hill clinic on Prospect Rd, Nine News reports.
Drive-thru clinics at Liverpool on Elizabeth Drive and Macquarie Park require a referral, while a test at the new facility at Riverstone, stationed at the local swimming centre car park, needs to be booked via appointment.
Sydney's eastern suburbs continue to be city's hot spot. Credit:James Brickwood
While the Easterns Suburbs and the Northern Beaches continue to be Sydney's hotspots, the Western Suburbs is seeing a rapid rise in community transmission. There are now five drive-thru clinics across Sydney.
Bondi's council in 'discussions' with Health Minister over surfers, swimmers
By Angus Thompson
The eastern suburbs council responsible for Bondi, Tamarama and Bronte beaches is holding "constructive discussions" with NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard's office about allowing surfers and ocean swimmers in the water as a neighbouring council opened its beaches for exercise.
Cooler weather and grey skies prevented droves of Sydneysiders from returning to Coogee, Clovelly and Maroubra beaches on Monday after Randwick City Council announced on Sunday it was allowing people access under strict conditions.
Bondi mother Jodie Madsen, who took her daughter Olivia, 8, to Coogee to splash about in the shallows, said the few others along the beach were keeping their distance and respecting the rules.
"Feeling the sand between our toes makes us appreciate what we've been missing out on," she said.
Singapore confirms record jump of 1426 COVID-19 cases
Singapore's health ministry confirmed on Monday an additional 1426 cases of the COVID-19 infection, a record daily jump, mainly among foreign workers living in dormitories.
The city state now has the highest number of cases of the disease in Southeast Asia, based on official data.
Migrant workers in Singapore line up on April 17 to receive SIM card top ups from volunteers. Credit:Getty Images
Authorities have managed to mitigate the spread of the virus and the COVID-19 respiratory disease it causes among Singapore's citizens by rigorous contact tracing and surveillance, earning praise from the World Health Organisation.
But the disease is spreading rapidly within the large migrant worker community, highlighting what rights groups say is a weak link in containment efforts.
Authorities have ramped up testing for the disease in the dormitories.
Among the new cases, 16 cases are of Singaporeans or permanent residents.
The total number of cases stands at 8014, with 11 fatalities.
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New video appears to show moments before ex-NFL player Smith’s death
Paramedics with New Orleans EMS transported Racquel Smith, wife of former New Orleans Saints’ Will Smith, following a shooting in New Orleans late Saturday. The former New Orleans Saints player was fatally shot after a traffic accident. (Michael DeMocker/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith stretched during practice in Sept. 2011 in Metairie, La. Smith was shot in the back and side, according to a warrant read in court Sunday night in New Orleans before a magistrate set a $1 million bond for the man accused of killing him. Police said Smith, 34, was killed in a case of road rage by a man who had rear-ended his car.
NEW ORLEANS » Newly released surveillance video shows what may have precipitated the shooting death of Saints defensive end Will Smith: Moments earlier, what appears to be his Mercedes SUV can be seen bumping the rear of a Hummer that stopped on a busy street.
The Hummer then pulls over, but rather than stop to inspect for any damage, the Mercedes pulls around it and drives away.
The lawyer for the Hummer-driving Cardell Hayes has said his client was the victim of a hit-and-run just before the shooting. The videotaped encounter happened several blocks from the spot where police say Hayes, now following Smith, hit his Mercedes from behind hard enough to push it into another car carrying Smith’s acquaintances.
Smith and Hayes — who himself played defense in a semi-pro football league — then confronted each other. Witnesses heard a few angry words, quickly followed by gunfire. Smith died with his door open, slumped over the driver’s seat. His wife, Racquel, was wounded in the leg.
The surveillance video from Magazine Street, where the Smiths had eaten dinner at a Japanese restaurant earlier Saturday night — throws another twist into the beloved athlete’s shocking death.
Defense attorney John Fuller has said Hayes called 911 while following the vehicle that hit him, and was trying to read the license plate number moments before their confrontation.
Hayes, 28, is being held on $1 million bond after police arrested him on a charge of second-degree murder. Police plan to add a charge accusing Hayes of shooting Smith’s wife, spokesman Tyler Gamble said Monday.
Gamble would not comment on the new video today, saying: “We continue to canvass the area to obtain and review video surveillance.”
Gamble has said the investigation prevents him from saying whether Hayes called 911 to report a hit-and-run accident.
Fuller insisted outside court Monday that Hayes will be vindicated once the full story emerges. Someone “besides my client” was behaving in a threatening manner, he said, though he wouldn’t say who. “My client has been pilloried, convicted and tried” in the news and on social media, he added.
Questions remain about what exactly happened that night. Police haven’t released the accounts of Racquel Smith, the passengers in the other cars, nor any other witnesses.
The news was hard on Smith’s many fans. The native of Queens, New York, came to New Orleans from Ohio State where he was on the 2002 national championship team, and quickly became a team leader. After retirement, he chose to stay in his adopted community, showing his commitment to the city as it recovered from Hurricane Katrina and supporting a foundation that helped women and children.(backslash)
Smith created his share of football highlights, particularly in the 2009 run to the Super Bowl, when he had 13 regular-season sacks — fifth best in the NFL that year. His postseason play included an interception of a Kurt Warner pass in a Saints playoff victory over the Arizona Cardinals.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been made public.
Associated Press writer Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans contributed to this report.
st1d says:
two guns. one dead. one wounded in the leg.
ballistics report will be interesting.
DeltaDag says:
This follow-up story teaches us to never, never take the first report of anything without a heavy grain of salt. Never believe the first thing you hear, read or see.
You must agree though, that it was a good thing Hayes had his firearm to protect himself.
advertiser1, you, personally might be satisfied thinking that. I’ll wait for all the evidence to be gathered, thank you. Now what about all the proof I asked you to produce to support your allegation that I’ve always supported overly aggressive officers and the NRA? That request was posted yesterday at 5:33 pm. You’ve shown your facility in cutting and pasting so where is it?
Sorry, I didn’t get to that. But, you were in favor of the officer during the South Carolina incident? I think you said something similar there too about the officer fearing for his life…And are you not a card carrying member of the NRA?
This is from a few days ago…you said in response to the officer throwing down a 12 year old girl and being fired. And for the record, really, “please lord, let me go home unhurt today” :
I doubt very much that many of high-handed posters here have any experience dealing one-on-one with someone who is actively resisting and simply will not obey a lawful command. Talk all you want about applying this or that marshal arts move or that the officer should have, because he was male and bigger, performed with more finesse. In the end, he probably just thought to himself, “Please Lord, let me go home unhurt today.” You can be all the expert you could be in applying wrist or arm locks, but all it takes is a lucky blow to take your eye out. I too wish the officer could have calmly walked the girl out – but it was her choice not to realize that outcome.
advertiser1, you were given an extremely low bar to cross. All you needed to do was prove that I always support the use of excessive force by police officers and that I always support the NRA. Let’s go over why you failed.
First, the comment you lifted was from a discussion that took place before any determination was made, either administratively or legally, that the officer had applied excessive force. As such, the comment is simply an opinion that excessive force may not have been used. Had I written, “The officer had every right to apply any amount of force he liked.” or “Even if the officer is judged to have used excessive force he had every right to do so.” then you would have supported your allegation, but nothing of the sort was written.
Second, you were asked to prove that I always support the NRA. How does asking whether I’m a “card carrying member” prove that? Does membership in any organization necessarily mean members agree with everything the organization promulgates? National Rifle Association members don’t take oaths of blind obedience. Maybe the organizations you subscribe to do, but not the NRA.
I’ll grant you another chance to show you’re neither a liar nor a buffoon. The bar will be set as low as possible this time. Find ANY single instance where I’ve supported the application of excessive force or brutality by police officers and ANY single instance where I’ve said I support the NRA in all things.
Or, you can just come right out and declare yourself to be a liar or a buffoon right here and now.
HanabataDays says:
OK, so let’s presume this started as a hit-and-run. Doesn’t give Driver 2 a right to retaliate by rear-ending Driver 1 and precipitating a confrontation. Sans confrontation, no gunplay would’ve occurred. This won’t change the charges on Driver 2 one bit.
Waokanaka says:
Well, well, well, as anti gun control fans will say: At least it was a fair fight since they BOTH had guns !! Problem is one man is dead & his wife is wounded. I DON”T suppose any of this would have been avoided if NEITHER had a gun, huh ???
Less sugar means less diabetes, less cars means less traffic, less fat means less heart attacks, less lawyers mean less lawsuits, but less guns means MORE shootings ???? WTF ?????
We’ll all have to calmly wait to find out if there was any justification. No one commenting here so far really knows anything substantive.
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2 HOSPITALS FIGHT OVER POSITION OF PINES EMS CHIEF
JOE KOLLIN, Staff WriterSUN-SENTINEL
PEMBROKE PINES -- A move to change the city's emergency medical services director erupted into a battle between two hospitals on Wednesday night.
"I hope this thing won't become a battle between Pembroke Pines General Hospital and Memorial Hospital because it has nothing to do with that," Mayor Charles Flanagan told the crowded City Commission meeting.
But that is exactly what it became.
Supporters of Pines General, a privately owned hospital, urged the commission to keep Dr. Phil Weimer, the hospital's Emergency Department chief, as the physician who trains and monitors the Fire Department's emergency rescue services.
Supporters of Memorial Hospital, a tax-assisted hospital, supported City Manager Woody Hampton's proposal to break the contract with the Pines General physician and switch to Memorial's Dr. Richard Dellerson.
Dellerson is chief of emergency services for the South Broward Hospital District, which operates Memorial.
Commissioners, in a unanimous vote, postponed a decision for two weeks to give Hampton time to provide them with the credentials, education, training and background of each doctor.
Since Feb. 21, 1983, the city has chosen Pines General physicians to oversee emergency medical services. The job carries no city salary.
Hampton said changing the director will have nothing to do with which hospital a patient is taken to by city rescue crews. Patients would be asked which hospital they prefer. If unconscious, they would be taken to the closest, unless the patient is suffering from a head injury. Head injury patients most likely would go to Memorial, which deals with more trauma cases.
But Ed Maas, executive director of Pines General, said if Dellerson replaces Weimer "we would find it impossible" to take emergency patients brought by paramedics because "it would interrupt the continuity and cause citizens of the community to suffer."
The problem would be that one doctor would be providing instruction to paramedics and another would be providing the treatment when patients arrive in the emergency room, he said.
Maas denied any profit motive for wanting to keep Pines General's doctor as the city's non-paid medical director.
"If anything there is more financial exposure because we have no idea if they have any ability to pay," he said of emergency patients.
"There has to be a profit motive or Pines General wouldn't be putting up this kind of fight," said Alex Fekete, a commissioner of the South Broward Hospital District. "They're making it a hospital versus hospital issue when it's not."
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-- Urged Gov. Bob Martinez to ask the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York not to allow the breakup of Eastern Airlines. Commissioners said a breakup could result in lost jobs and depress the city's economy, where an estimated 4,000 Eastern employees, spouses and children live.
-- Tentatively approved 25 percent pay increases for the mayor and four commissioners, effective after the March 1990 municipal election.
-- Asked the U.S. Postal Service to let residents of Holly Lakes Mobile Home Park use their individual street addresses on mail rather than the park's official address, 21500 Johnson St., a vacant lot.
-- Agreed to advertise for a director to administer the day- care program at the Walter C. Young Resource Center. Commissioners will decide later whether they want to fill the position.
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BEHIND TRIBUTE TO EXILE LEADER LURKS TWO-WAY POWER STRUGGLE
WILLIAM E. GIBSON Washington Bureau ChiefStaff Writer Deborah Ramirez contributed to this reportSUN-SENTINEL
The scene looked so much like the old days, back when Jorge Mas Canosa prowled the capital, gathering support for a tougher and tougher embargo against the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro.
All the familiar faces were there. Friends and family came from Florida. Conservative luminaries came to speak. Anti-Castro hard-liners from around Capitol Hill gathered to show solidarity at a special memorial service on Wednesday in honor of Mas, the late Cuban exile leader.
Yet behind that scene, cracks are showing in the once-monolithic Cuban-American lobby that Mas once dominated. His death late last year already has set off power struggles and a rift over tactics within the hard-line camp.
All factions have been frustrated by the fact that Mas' main goal, the toppling of Castro, remains elusive.
"You know, it wasn't supposed to be this way," said Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., his voice trembling. "There was supposed to be a day when we would walk down the streets of Havana together."
Mourners were especially defensive after Pope John Paul II delivered a tongue-lashing last month against the U.S. embargo and against the kind of confrontational tactics that Mas once employed. The pope's position, broadcast worldwide, left embargo backers in this country squabbling over how to respond.
"Some of the rifts in the hard-line conservative camp came about because of the death of the towering figure in that camp, Jorge Mas Canosa, and the lack of a clear successor," said Max Castro, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami's North-South Center.
The memorial service brought the various factions and potential successors all together in one room, an ornate chamber of the Senate Russell Office Building. Speakers, including several senators and most of the Florida congressional delegation, recounted Mas' fierce lobbying for the embargo policy that was tightened two years ago by the Helms-Burton Act.
Virtually all of the mourners oppose legislation now in Congress that would remove the ban on U.S. sales of food to Cuba and sweep away most restrictions on sales of medicine and medical supplies.
That legislation faces serious obstacles in the Senate, where it awaits a hearing in the Banking Committee, and an even a higher hurdle in the House, where it is bottled up in the International Relations Committee. The legislation nevertheless got a boost from the pope's visit as well as from ongoing support from business lobbyists _ enough to cause concern among embargo backers.
At one end of the hard-line camp are traditional conservatives, many of them Cuban exiles, who favor a rigid embargo. Some still talk about armed invasion of Cuba.
That faction is leaning toward the leadership of Cuban-American House members Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Miami; Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami; and Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
Another faction is headed by the Cuban American National Foundation _ the group that Mas had whipped into a modern, well-financed and powerful lobbying tool.
The foundation's new leaders startled Cuba-watchers late last month by suggesting legislation that would expand U.S. humanitarian aid to the Cuban people, though under strict conditions. Coming in the aftermath of the pope's visit, the proposal was designed to show a generous spirit while pre-empting broader legislation that would weaken the embargo.
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., initially agreed to sponsor such a bill.
"The foundation and Helms' position is intelligent. It shuts up the liberals and leftists who want to eliminate the embargo. And it guarantees that help goes to the people, not the Cuban government," said Agustin Acosta, an exile and general manager of La Cubanisima, WQBA-1140 a.m., one of Miami's most popular Spanish-language radio stations.
But the three Cuban-American members of Congress emphatically oppose such a strategy, and their position also draws public support.
The maneuvering reflects uncertainty and a leadership scramble in the absence of Mas, who never seemed to doubt his position.
"Today he walks with God," Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez said at the memorial service. "And I'm sure he's talking right now about Helms-Burton and freedom for Cuba."
Staff Writer Deborah Ramirez contributed to this report.
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Council Declares Emergency, Shuts Down Non-Essential Services
David Alexander Posted on POSTED 10:35 AM, March 18, 2020 | UPDATED AT 09:16 AM, March 19, 2020
Voices echoed throughout the Santa Clara Council Chambers. City employees removed nearly all the chairs, and the Council Members were seated at an increased distance on the dais because of concerns over coronavirus.
The measures were in response to a shelter in place order handed down in six counties, including Santa Clara County, Tuesday. The shelter in place order closes non-essential services in the county.
At the Council’s meeting Tuesday night, it ratified a local emergency ordinance.
City Manager Deanna Santana said the emergency status is to “help ensure continuation of essential services.”
With the exception of the Council and Stadium Authority, the City has cancelled government meetings through the end of April. It has also cancelled city events, closed libraries and community centers. Starting Tuesday, the City will only provide essential services, such as police, fire and utilities.
Public schools have already been closed to students and will remain closed until at least April 3.
Keeping the City running smoothly in the wake of the pandemic has been a challenge, Santana said, but the City is taking an “informed and aggressive approach.”
“We are working. We are rowing in the right direction,” she said.
Seventeen new cases identified Tuesday brings the number of people infected with COVID-19 in Santa Clara County to 155. The latest reports claim 273 — more than half the state’s total — are in the Bay Area.
In Santa Clara, one City employee, a police officer, tested positive for the virus.
The emergency requires City employees to assist with disaster services, even if it is outside their job description. Many called the situation “unprecedented.”
Several members of the Council said their main concern was people having enough to eat.
Council Member Kathy Watanabe told the Council she visited a school food distribution center that had 50 meals for families. Within 30 minutes, those meals were gone, she said.
Santana said the City is already working with the school district to get food out to the community.
“Some of the most vulnerable families in our community may have a parent or grandparent, that is taking care of the children, that may have lost their job,” said Mayor Lisa Gillmor. “They could be on minimum wage jobs or low-paying jobs that are forced to stay home now with the children, and there is just not enough food in the house.”
Council Member Raj Chahal asked the Council to consider a moratorium on evictions in the City, similar to San Jose.
However, City Attorney Brian Doyle said there is “not much local jurisdictions can do” about that, but that “as a practical matter” landlords would likely have trouble evicting tenants because the courts are not likely to give such cases high priority. He asked landlords to work with tenants to solve issues of delinquent rent, saying it is the “last thing” renters need.
Both Gillmor and Santana brought up using the Convention Center, and Council Member Teresa O’Neill suggested people donate food to Second Harvest Food Bank, saying it is hard to “marshal resources without structure.”
“It is our responsibility to take care of our community, and the most basic thing our community needs right now is food,” Gillmor said.
The Council postponed the other items on agenda slated for discussion, including discussion of the Related Santa Clara development and a quarterly report from Silicon Valley Power, until its next meeting. The Council meets again March 24 in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1500 Warburton Ave. in Santa Clara. The shelter in place order is in effect until April 7.
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Karen Gillan Talks with James Roday for the Talkhouse Podcast
The two multihyphenate actors sit down to discuss Roday's new horror movie, Treehouse, Highland cows, The Rock, crying on screen and more.
By Karen Gillan | March 7, 2019
Karen Gillan is a Scottish actor, writer and director best known for her roles as Amy Pond in Doctor Who and Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War and the forthcoming Avengers: Endgame. She also plays Martha in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and its as-yet-untitled sequel. She has written and directed a number of shorts, and made her feature debut with the 2018 film The Party’s Just Beginning, in which she also played the lead role.
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On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Podcast, friends and fellow actor-writer-directors James Roday and Karen Gillan sit down for a chat at The Grant, James’ bar-to-be in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood. Roday and Gillan, best known as Shawn from Psych and Nebula from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, respectively, got together to discuss Roday’s second feature as writer-director, the slowburning horror, Treehouse, which debuted March 1 on Hulu as part of Blumhouse’s yearlong Into the Dark series. To the faint sounds of construction workers finishing The Grant, the two pals chat about Treehouse, Gillan’s directorial debut The Party’s Just Beginning, their mutual love of horror movies and Lynne Ramsay, Roday’s obsession with Highland cows, that time Gillan wrote a letter to Michael Haneke, and much, much more. For more filmmakers musicians in conversation, visit Talkhouse at talkhouse.com and subscribe now to stay in the loop on future episodes of the Talkhouse Podcast.
Episode recorded by Ali Nikou in Los Angeles, and recorded and co-produced by Mark Yoshizumi in Brooklyn. The Talkhouse podcast producer is Elia Einhorn.
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Some of Norway’s key knowledge institutions join forces to contribute to the country’s digital success: NHH, NTNU and Telenor are establishing an open collaboration arena for digital transformation and innovation.
Transformation, digital innovation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are at the top of decision makers’ minds and agendas. But too often, such transformation efforts fall flat. The new arena, located at NHH in Bergen, seeks to increase the success rate of Norway’s digitalisation efforts.
”For a small country like Norway to assert ourselves internationally, top players need to share and collaborate. By connecting NHH and NTNU, and by establishing an open arena based on the knowledge and expertise of large companies within commercialisation of technology, we will build a national powerhouse for digital transformation. Our ambition is to help facilitate accelerated and sustainable digitalisation of Norwegian business and industries,” said Sigve Brekke, President & CEO, Telenor Group.
The new arena, called the Digital Transformation Hub , will be located at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen (NHH). In addition to providing a physical space where companies, public institutions, entrepreneurs, students and academia can come together to share knowledge and exchange experiences, the agreement between Telenor and NHH will specialise on research related to technology-driven innovation, digital transformation and behavioral economics.
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The Digital Transformation Hub will involve existing two research centers at NHH and engage a large number of researchers and PhD candidates.
Research at the recently established Digital Innovation for Growth center will emphasize technology-driven and digital business models and how the adjustments this requires will affect strategy, organization and management. Sustainable inclusive growth and the use of, for instance, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be important topics for the research.
In addition, NHH’s Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR) will collaborate with the new Digital Transformation Hub to conduct research on customers’ experiences of justice and privacy, when using digitally customised and personalized solutions.
Close cooperation is being established with business partners and other research institutions, especially the AI lab at NTNU, which Telenor co-founded in 2016.
“To succeed with good applications of Artificial Intelligence, competence gaps needs to be filled both ways: business people need to understand more of technology, while technologists need to understand more about the commercial and societal implications of AI. We hope that the Digital Transformation Hub will encourage Norwegian companies to engage and learn with us, laying the foundation for improved digital competition power and further industrial development,” says Professor Kenneth Fjell, Vice Rector for Research at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
“Telenor applies Artificial Intelligence (AI), we at NTNU develop AI and NHH puts AI into a business context. Interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation within a broad range of subjects matter areas have been a key priority for NTNU since inception. We also want to collaborate with the best academic communities in Norway and internationally. We believe the AI Lab at NTNU and the transformation hub at NHH will contribute to mutually strengthen and improve each other, and we are looking forward to collaborating even closer,” says Torbjørn K. Svendsen, Professor and Director at NTNU Digital at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
Continuing investments in digital transformation of Norway
“Norway needs more companies, both established enterprises and startups, that are able to succeed based on their digital competitiveness. We are facing the ‘perfect storm’ of technologies: the Internet of Things (IoT), new network technologies like 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) coming together and accelerating digitalisation. We need cutting-edge expertise that will enable us to seize the opportunities created by this movement. It is about Norway’s role as a digital leader,’’ said Telenor CEO Brekke.
The establishment of the Digital Transformation Hub at NHH is another step of Telenor’s strategic efforts to stimulate Norway’s digital transformation journey:
In 2016, Telenor initiated a national artificial intelligence initiative by establishing an open AI lab together with SINTEF at NTNU in Trondheim. Several partners have joined since and the AI lab is now known as the Norwegian Open AI Lab, where companies such as Equinor, DNB, DNV-GL and Kongsberg Group also contribute with research questions, knowledge and resources.
Telenor is also a partner of the IoT ProtoLab in Trondheim, and last year launched nationwide IoT-coverage on its 4G network. In addition, Telenor operates a free test network for IoT in several of Norway’s largest cities.
Telenor Norway has announced 5G pilots and test projects in several locations in Norway, including Kongsberg, Trondheim, Elverum, Askvoll in Sogn and Fjordane and at Fornebu.
View an illustration of how the Digital Transformation Hub will work.
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Music of the Harp in Scotland and Ireland (5 Album Boxed Set)
Select from currently available formats: 5 CD Set - £30 - £30.00 Digital Download with Sleevenotes - £20 - £20.00
In 1978, Temple Records released 'The Harp Key' by Alison Kinnaird; the first recording of Scottish harp tunes and indeed the first album issued under the Temple logo. This was a seminal and classic album that introduced great Scottish and Irish harp music to a wider audience, and in time led to much more harp music being recorded.
This five CD boxed set gathers together recordings of outstanding harp players, who demonstrate the wide spectrum of harp music from Scotland and Ireland. Here are two closely related traditions, with their roots stretching back for a thousand years.
The price includes all shipping and taxes, and the albums included are:
Alison Kinnaird - The Scottish Harp
A compilation album, featuring tracks from Alison's first three records.
Ann Heymann and Alison Kinnaird - The Harpers Land
An album which blends and contrasts the sounds of the the gut and wire-strung harps and the music of Scotland and Ireland
Ann Heymann - The Queen of Harps
A superb album by, without doubt, the foremost exponent of the wire-strung harp.
The Rowallan Consort - Notes of Noy, Notes of Joy
Featuring Bill Taylor, this album highlights early music from the Royal Courts of Scotland.
Máire Ní Chathasaigh - The New Strung Harp
The first harp album ever to concentrate on traditional Irish dance music, Máire sings in both Irish Gaelic and English.
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Pirate Poachers of the Chesapeake: Southern Pride, Linda Captains & Crew Face $3,000 Fines for Stealing from Sanctuary
March 9, 2016 - Breaking News, Court News, Crime Time Warp, Drugs and trafficking, Outdoor Life, poaching, Police Beat, This Just In!, Top Cops - Tagged: Barlett Wade Murphy Jr, Bryan Joseph Mister, Catherine Marie Gowe, Choptank River, commercial work boat, Cook Point sanctuary, Dorchester District Court, Easton attorney Stephanie Shipley, four Maryland watermen were nabbed for poaching oysters, John Pershing Price III, Maryland Natural Resources Police., NRP Officer Cheezum, Patterson allowed a DUI charge, power dredging for oysters., prosecutor of Talbot County, Stet Docket, Talbot County Sheriff’s Deputy Leeson, Talbot County States Attorney Scott Patterson, “Linda, ” in the sanctuary - no comments
CHOPTANK RIVER, MD. --- Using the excuses of not knowing where the oyster sanctuary was located, four Maryland watermen were nabbed for poaching oysters by the boatload, reports the Maryland Natural Resources Police.
CHOPTANK RIVER, MD. — Using the excuses of not knowing where the oyster sanctuary was located, four Maryland watermen were nabbed for poaching oysters by the boatload, reports the Maryland Natural Resources Police.
Four watermen were charged with poaching oysters from protected state waters in Dorchester County by the Maryland Natural Resources Police in separate incidents last Wednesday.
Barlett Wade Murphy Jr., 41 and Catherine Marie Gowe, 26, both of McDaniel, were charged with harvesting oysters from a sanctuary and power dredging in a non-designated area. Also, Murphy was charged with failing to carry Coast Guard-required equipment aboard his commercial boat and failing to obtain an annual certificate of number.
Gowe was charged with violations including poaching oysters from a sanctuary by NRP Officer Cheezum on Dec. 11, 2013, and in Talbot County District Court on April 15, 2014, she was found not guilty.
Murphy was found guilty of dredging for oysters in an area reserved for hand tongers on Feb. 26, 2007 in Anne Arundel County District Court and was fined $297.50.
Officers monitoring oyster harvesting activity on Feb. 15 with the radar units of the Maritime Law Enforcement Information Network noticed a vessel working inside the Cook Point Oyster Sanctuary in the Choptank River.
The officers approached the vessel, “Southern Pride” as it was power dredging for oysters. Upon boarding the boat, officers noticed five bushels in the process of being culled.
Murphy acknowledged he knew he was in the sanctuary, “but only for about 10 minutes.”
He was ordered to dump the five bushels overboard and proceed to shore.
After questioning, the officers returned to the sanctuary to get the Global Positioning System coordinates of the boundaries. As they worked, they noticed another commercial work boat, “Linda,” in the sanctuary and boarded it.
Bryan Joseph Mister, 22, of Tilghman, and John Pershing Price III, 25, of Easton, were charged with harvesting oysters from a sanctuary and patent tonging in a non-designated area.
Mister said he didn’t know he was in the Cook Point sanctuary. He was ordered to dump 30 bushels of oysters back in the water.
Mister was charged with poaching oysters from a sanctuary on March 10, 2015, and in Talbot County District Court, Talbot County States Attorney Scott Patterson failed to exact any penalty. In spite of a possible $3,000 fine, the plea deal for Mister on May 28, 2015, provided that there was ZERO fine, no time and no restitution for the citizens of Maryland who has funded millions of dollars for replenishment programs for the Chesapeake Bay. Working the deal with Patterson was attorney Richard S. Phillips for Mister.
Extra NRP Officers needed to catalog evidence of 152 bushels of oysters stolen from sanctuary in 2016 raid by oyster pirates.
Patterson is the elected prosecutor of Talbot County and answers to no one except the voters of Talbot County. Mister’s charges were put on the Stet Docket, which means that another violation within one year, which took place this month, could cause Patterson to bring back the charge from the Stet Docket.
In a curious legal move, Patterson allowed a DUI charge against Mister to be merged with four other traffic violations of the same date issued by Talbot County Sheriff’s Deputy Leeson on March 8, 2013. With Easton attorney Stephanie Shipley as his lawyer, Mister entered a guilty plea to the lesser charge of speeding and was fined $17.00, with the case disposed of as Guilty Before Judgment.
All four watermen were issued citations after an analysis of the data confirmed both vessels were in the sanctuary. They are scheduled to appear in Dorchester District Court on April 20. Both parties were charged with harvesting more than 200 feet inside a sanctuary, which carries a maximum fine of $3,000.
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ABOUT PIRATE POACHERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE
The following is contact information for email addresses for States Attorneys of the counties that surround the Chesapeake Bay and are often presented with citations and violations to prosecute for Maryland’s Outlaw watermen. They are all elected officials and have complete and total control as to whether or not to prosecute Pirate Poachers of the Chesapeake or to dump the charges. Be sure to contact any of these officials with your views on the matter.
SCOTT D. SHELLENBERGER, Baltimore County State’s Attorney (Democrat)
Email: statesattorney@baltimorecountymd.gov
State’s Attorney, Baltimore County, since January 2, 2007.
Prosecutor, Office of State’s Attorney, Baltimore County, 1982-93 (former chief, child abuse/sexual assault division).
EDWARD DORSEY ELLIS ROLLINS III, Cecil State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: cflaugher@ccgov.org
State’s Attorney, Cecil County, since January 3, 2011.
MATTHEW A. MACIARELLO, Wicomico County State’s Attorney (Republican),
e-mail: mmaciarello@wicomicocounty.org
State’s Attorney, Wicomico County, since January 3, 2011. Deputy State’s Attorney, Wicomico County, November 8, 2010, to January 3, 2011.
Scott Patterson, Talbot County States Attorney (Democrat): State’s Attorney, Talbot County, 1983-86, and since 1989. Assistant State’s Attorney, Montgomery County, 1972-75. Special Assistant to Attorney General, 1975. Assistant State’s Attorney, Anne Arundel County.
LANCE G. RICHARDSON, Queen Anne’s County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: lrichardson@qac.org
State’s Attorney, Queen Anne’s County, since January 5, 2009. Assistant Public Defender, Queen Anne’s County, 1996-2003. Deputy State’s Attorney, Queen Anne’s County
HARRIS P. MURPHY, Kent County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: hmurphy@kentgov.org, State’s Attorney, Kent County, since January 5, 2015.
Daniel Powell, Somerset County States Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: dpowell@co.somerset.md.us
State’s Attorney, Somerset County, since January 3, 2011. Former Assistant State’s Attorney, Baltimore County. Former Assistant State’s Attorney, Dorchester County. Former Assistant State’s Attorney, Somerset County. County Administrator, Somerset County, 2007-09.
JONATHAN G. NEWELL, Caroline County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: jnewell@carolinesao.org
State’s Attorney, Caroline County, since 2003.
Assistant Public Defender, Caroline County, 1999-2001. Deputy State’s Attorney, Kent County
BEAU H. OGLESBY, Worcester County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: boglesby@co.worcester.md.us
State’s Attorney, Worcester County, since January 3, 2011.
Assistant State’s Attorney, Wicomico County, 1997-2007. Deputy State’s Attorney, Caroline County, 2009-10.
WILLIAM H. JONES Dorchester County States Attorney, (Democrat)
e-mail: wjones@docogonet.com
State’s Attorney, Dorchester County, since June 19, 2009. Assistant State’s Attorney, 2002-04. Senior Assistant State’s Attorney, 2004-07. Interim State’s Attorney, April 11, 2007, to June 19, 2009.
WES ADAMS, Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: aacsao@aacounty.org
State’s Attorney, Anne Arundel County, since January 5, 2015. Assistant State’s Attorney, Prince George’s County, 1998-2000. Assistant State’s Attorney, Baltimore City, 2000-08. Chief, Homicide Division, State’s Attorney’s Office, Prince George’s County, 2008-15 (assistant chief, 2008). Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, 2006-07.
ANTHONY B. (TONY) COVINGTON, State’s Attorney (Democrat)
e-mail: covingtt@charlescounty.org
State’s Attorney, Charles County, since January 3, 2011. Deputy State’s Attorney, Charles County, 2008-. Assistant State’s Attorney, Prince George’s County, 1991-93. Assistant State’s Attorney, Charles County, 1993-97.
LAURA L. MARTIN, Calvert County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: martinll@co.cal.md.us
State’s Attorney, Calvert County, since January 2007. Assistant State’s Attorney, Prince George’s County, 1989-98 (assistant chief, homicide division, 1994-98). Deputy State’s Attorney, Calvert County, September 1998 to December 2005.
RICHARD D. FRITZ, St. Mary’s County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: richard.fritz@co.saint-marys.md.us
State’s Attorney, St. Mary’s County, since December 1998. Former Assistant State’s Attorney and Deputy State’s Attorney, St. Mary’s County.
JOSEPH I. CASSILLY, Harford County State’s Attorney (Republican)
e-mail: statty@harfordcountymd.gov
State’s Attorney, Harford County, since January 1983. Assistant State’s Attorney, Harford County, 1977-82
PIRATE POACHERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE: Judge issues lifetime ban against Hans Kuntze for poaching oysters in sanctuary
Pirate Poachers of the Bay: Kevin Tarleton’s Pirate Crew Busted Again for Poaching
Pirate Poachers of the Bay: NRP cops snare two with undersized oysters – a buyer and a seller face thousands in fines
PIRATE POACHERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE Cops nab outlaw watermen Wheatley father and son duo poachers raiding oyster sanctuary – not the first rodeo for Pop
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Unearthed: World’s Oldest Animal Sperm—And It’s Giant
The sperm, belonging to a tiny marine crustacean, dates back nearly 100 million years, making it the most ancient animal sperm found to date.
DNA Evidence Shows Ancient Humans and Dogs Migrated Together
Lisa Winter | Oct 31, 2020
The study is the first to show a genomic relationship between dogs and humans on the move.
Climate Change Helped Drive Homo sapiens’ Cousins Extinct: Study
Katarina Zimmer | Oct 15, 2020
Sharp drops in global temperatures helped seal the fate of three extinct hominin species, including our close relatives, the Neanderthals, according to thousands of archaeological specimens and a model of past climate conditions.
Y Chromosome from Early Modern Humans Replaced Neanderthal Y
Jef Akst | Sep 24, 2020
A selective advantage may have led the modern human Y chromosome to sweep through the Neanderthal population after it was introduced via interbreeding more than 100,000 years ago.
Initiative Seeks to CT Scan Kenya’s Unexplored Fossil Trove
Stephenie Livingston | Jul 30, 2020
A paleontologist at the National Museums of Kenya is spearheading an effort to make 3-D reconstructions of the institution’s fossils available internationally.
Artifacts Point to Humans Living in Mexico 33,000 Years Ago
Abby Olena | Jul 22, 2020
If confirmed, the result means people migrated to North America much earlier than thought, but some experts remain unconvinced.
Yet Another Brazilian Museum Suffers Fire, Loss Of Specimens
Lisa Winter | Jul 3, 2020
The Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden is still assessing the damage from a June 15 fire.
Paleobotanist Brian Axsmith Dies
Claire Jarvis | Jun 3, 2020
The University of South Alabama professor, who died of complications related to COVID-19, reconstructed the historic range of plants that once grew in the southeastern US.
The Scientist Staff | Jun 1, 2020
Meet some of the people featured in the June 2020 issue of The Scientist.
45,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Bulgarian Cave
Jef Akst | May 12, 2020
A tooth and six bone fragments are the oldest confirmed Homo sapiens fossils in Europe.
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The 2020 housing market surprised everyone by quickly bouncing back after slumping during the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic. What might the coming year hold as the country continues to fight its way through this crisis? The experts at the National Association of Real Estate Editors conference last week made these four predictions for the mortgage world in 2021.
Mortgage Rates Will Rise from Record Lows
As the COVID crisis eases and the economy improves, long-term mortgage interest rates (which hit multiple historic lows this year) will begin to rise. Averaging 3.0% in 2020, the National Association of Realtors forecasts an increase to 3.1% in 2021, while the Mortgage Bankers Association expects to see a jump to an average of 3.3% for next year. That rise could slow the refinance boom a bit, although there are still 20 million U.S. homeowners with rates over 4% who could benefit from the lower rates.
Home Price Growth Will Slow
If rates start to rise, home price growth might begin to taper off. Skyrocketing prices have been fueled by rock-bottom rates as well as lack of inventory and strong homebuyer demand. Much of the anemic inventory was due to coronavirus complications. “Older homeowners at greater risk of complications from COVID-19, and who have flexibility in the time of their listing, chose to postpone listing their home until we were post-pandemic,” said Frank Nothaft, chief economist with the MBA. said. If the COVID situation improves in 2021, more potential sellers will feel comfortable listing, providing additional buyer choices. That coupled with higher rates might mean buyers won’t allow prices to get bid up so quickly. CoreLogic predicts a 4.1% increase in 2021 prices compared to the 7.3% increase in 2020. Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the NAR says prices will climb by just 3%, but Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com believes they will jump 5.7%.
More Homebuyers Will Flee to the Suburbs
As millions of Americans have made home their office this year, many are choosing to leave the big-crowded cities in favor of suburbs with more house and yard space. “Even people who were very content with their home before the pandemic, now some of them are saying, ‘My home is too small,’” Yun says.
Because of this flight, Robert Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, says the Midwest could start to see higher demand in 2021. Specifically, he says Kansas City, Columbus, and Indianapolis will be hot spots in the coming year.
VA Loans Will Have Another Red-Letter Year
The volume of mortgages backed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs almost doubled from 2019 to 2020. This was the first year the VA issued more than 1 million loans. Younger veterans have been taking advantage of these mortgages that require no down payment and have loose credit requirements. Where VA loans used to make up just 2% of the total mortgage market, they jumped to about 10% in 2020. That percentage is likely to increase in 2021 as more veterans age into homeowner ages.
While it is impossible to know for sure what 2021 will hold, based on these expert predictions, we can hope for an even more successful and balanced housing market in the coming months.
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Blood Bikes need help to bring Christmas magic to children in hospital
By Gill Sutherland
gsutherland@stratford-herald.com
Warwickshire and Solihull Blood Bikes are appealing to the public to help raise money to buy presents for children hospitalised over the Christmas period.
Blood Bikes is a registered charity that transports urgent samples of blood, Covid-19, human tissue and urgent medical supplies through their volunteers across Warwickshire’s network of hospitals. Around 80 volunteers including riders and drivers offer this service free of charge to the NHS providing a weekday out of hours service and 24/7 weekend and bank holiday cover.
Warwickshire and Solihull Blook Bikes (43521545)
Traditionally the team of volunteers have raised funds to buy toys and presents for children aged up to 18. This year due to the pandemic they have been restricted with fund-raising and only this week been given permission to allow them to drop the presents at University Hospitals Coventry Warwickshire Walsgrave on Saturday, 19th December at 12:30pm.
The 50 volunteers on their bikes are not permitted to enter the hospital, however with the efforts of Warwickshire Police, the hospital and committee members, they are able to drop the presents at the main entrance of the hospital.
Blood Bikes is therefore asking for help in raising money to purchase the toys or for the public to donate toys which need to be brand new and unused due to Covid-19 restrictions. The Toy Run, which has been running for the last eight years, has seen the group raise thousands of pounds for children over the years.
Phil Evans, a Trustee and one of the volunteers said: “Christmas is such a special time especially for children, but for some their Christmases are spent on a hospital ward. By donating toys or money and enabling our volunteers to deliver presents we hope to give these children a brighter Christmas and put a smile on their faces.”
Anyone wishing to donate toys can email Phil Evans at events@wsbb.org who will arrange collection. Alternatively, those that wish to donate money to be spent on presents can visit https://www.wsbb.org/ and click on donate.
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Community groups across Wolverhampton South West encouraged to apply for share of £10m Government pot for tree planting project
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
Community groups across Wolverhampton South West are being encouraged to apply for a share of a £10 million pot to increase tree numbers in urban areas through small scale planting projects.
The Forestry Commission has today opened the second round of the Urban Tree Challenge Fund for community and volunteer groups, town councils and individuals to apply for a share of funding to increase tree numbers in urban areas through small scale planting projects.
Launched last May the project aims to support the planting of more than 130,000 trees across England’s towns and cities.
This second round follows the success of round one, which saw thirteen large scale projects from local authorities and large organisations awarded grants to plant more than 50,000 trees in urban areas.
Commenting, Stuart Anderson MP said: “This is a really worthwhile scheme and I would encourage local groups and individuals here in Wolverhampton South West to get involved.
“It’s been proven that planting more trees improves health and wellbeing, connects people with the outdoors, absorbs noise, reduces flood risk, cools temperatures through shading, and creates green spaces to help communities come together.”
Successful applicants of round two will not start planting trees until the next planting season (winter 2020/21).
Forestry Minister Lord Goldsmith said: “Our immediate priority is rightly our response to the challenges posed by the coronavirus. But, although these are unprecedented times, we want to continue to uphold the nation’s commitment to the environment.
“We have made sure that the applications for round two of the Urban Challenge Tree Fund can be completed online so individuals are not putting themselves at risk, and I encourage anyone thinking of applying to do so in a safe way, using digital platforms to plan their application with colleagues if necessary.
“Our manifesto sets our ambition to have every new street lined with trees – and I am dedicated to working closely with the Forestry Commission to help make this vision a reality.”
The scheme is being administered by the Forestry Commission, with applications for single planting projects of between 150 and 5,000 small trees invited. Applications that contain 500 or more trees are especially encouraged. Grants will fund the planting of trees and the first three years of their care to ensure they can flourish into the future.
The grant will be delivered as a challenge fund, and therefore requires 50% match funding from those who apply, through either money or labour.
Forestry Commission Chair Sir William Worsley said: “The value of trees in urban areas cannot be underestimated. They provide homes for birds and other wildlife, offer shade and natural cooling effects, help to reduce flood risk, and provide huge benefits for our health and wellbeing.
“I’ve already visited several successful projects from round one, from the Mersey Forest to Manchester City of Trees, and have seen first-hand the great work that has been achieved so far through the Urban Tree Challenge Fund. The reopening of the fund will build on the success of round one and will add to the 50,000 urban trees already awarded.
“Community tree planting is a great passion of mine, and I greatly encourage local volunteer groups and individuals to apply.”
The scheme will support projects which can provide the greatest environmental and social benefits, and applications will be processed by the Forestry Commission. A map will be available to check eligibility before applying.
Earlier this month, Defra and the Forestry Commission welcomed the new £640million Nature for Climate announcement from HM Treasury which will help to deliver against the manifesto commitments to increase tree planting across the UK to 30,000 hectares per year by 2025, alongside peatland restoration and nature recovery.
The government is committed to growing woodland cover, and this spring will consult on a new English Tree Strategy looking at policies to expand, support and increase engagement with our woodlands.
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The manifesto upon which I was elected outlined a bold aspiration - to be the first generation which leaves the environment in a better state than we inherited it. I am in conversation with ministers and constituents about how we can achieve this goal.
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Wisconsin Town Sends In The BearCat Tank To Collect Civil Fine From Seventy-Year-Old
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the tanks-for-nothing dept
Fri, Oct 31st 2014 4:17am — Timothy Geigner
So, hey, let's say you're an old guy in a tiny town in central Wisconsin. Old, like, seventy-five, let's say, and the tiny town is farm country where you have a twenty-acre plot of good old American heartland. Now, let's say that the municipality hasn't appreciated the fact that you've kept your tractors out on the land you own and even went so far as to get a judge to level thousands of dollars of fines on you for not putting your toys away, because that's apparently a thing that can happen. Now let's say you've been ignoring these civil fines for some time. Under those conditions, would you expect this to show up on your lawn?
Could you repeat that? I couldn't hear your answer over the sound of you crapping your pants...
Yes, along with a couple dozen SWAT officers, 75-year-old Roger Hoeppner had his property assaulted by a BearCat armored vehicle for the crime of not keeping things as tidy as the local government would like and refusing to pay the fines they levied.
Marathon County sheriff’s captain Greg Bean declined to answer multiple requests for comment, but told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the large police presence was called in because law enforcement officials expected they would have to seize large equipment.
See, this is our fault. I don't think any of us realized that SWAT teams moonlight as large-format moving companies. I always thought they were for things involving tactics more complicated than the tactics of getting a tractor onto the hitch of a Mack truck. But, hey, what do I know? I'm sure Mr. Bean isn't prone to saying super ridiculous stuff or anything. So how about that BearCat?
“I’ve been involved in about five standoff situations where, as soon as the MARV showed up, the person gives up,” Bean told the Journal Sentinel.
I don't think the fact that the BearCat makes your job super easy to do is the proper justification for its deployment. If it was, why bother with the BearCat? Why not just bring the perp's mother to the scene and threaten to put a bullet through her head if perp doesn't give up immediately. Sure, it would be wholly unethical and inappropriate, but I bet Bean could still use the quote above, so all's good, yes?
This is yet another obvious and gross misuse of tactical and/or military-grade equipment in a haphazard way. Hoeppner owes Stettin, his city of 2500 residents, $80,000 in fines for not keeping his property as clean as the city would like. In other words, he left his tractors out. As a result, he faced down a BearCat and a SWAT team, which then escorted him to the bank where he paid his fines and was escorted back out by SWAT. All of this because the authorities couldn't be bothered to come up with a creative way to get Hoeppner out of his house.
“I just don’t understand why a dollar and a half of postage on an envelope that I would have had to pick up at the Wausau post office wouldn’t have done the same thing as 24 officers and an armored vehicle,” Hoeppner told the Guardian. “The United States is not supposed to terrorize its hardworking people."
Good one, sir.
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Arsenal outcast Sead Kolasinac wanted in West Ham transfer with David Moyes keen to land new left-back
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ARSENAL outcast Sead Kolasinac has become a transfer target for West Ham as David Moyes attempts to land a new left-back.
The Bosnian has fallen out of favour at the Emirates and could be moving across London if the Hammers boss gets his way, according to the Athletic.
Sead Kolasinac is being linked away from North London after three years at Arsenal
Kolasinac has fallen down the pecking order after the signing of Kieran Tierney and chances of first team football appear limited with the Gunners out of Europe.
The left-back signed for Arsenal on a free in 2017 but has failed to stake a regular claim in the first XI.
David Moyes is believed to be keen on new signings after a quiet transfer window for the club.
They have so far only signed Tomas Soucek on a permanent deal after his loan move last season impressed club bosses enough to commit £19.1million to retain his signature.
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David Moyes is also believed to have been monitoring Chelsea's out of favour left-back Emerson Palmieri.
The Italian international's hopes of first-team football are slim after the Blues swooped for Ben Chilwell.
He is also believed to be behind Marcos Alonso so a move away from Stamford Bridge may be considered.
The move may also benefit Chelsea, who are reportedly still keen on midfielder Declan Rice and could use Palmieri as a bargaining chip.
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A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
[Daumal] I had written in substance that in the mythic tradition the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine reveals itself to man. The patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament beheld the Lord face to face in high places. For Moses it was Mount Sinai and Mount Nebo; in the New Testament it is the Mount of Olives and Golgotha. I went so far as to discover this ancient symbol of the mountain in the pyramidal constructions of Egypt and Chaldea. Turning to the Aryans, I recalled those obscure legends of the Vedas in which the Soma— the ‘nectar’ which is the ‘seed of immortality’ —is said to reside in its luminous and subtle form ‘within the mountain’. In India, the Himalayas are the dwelling place of Siva, of his spouse ‘the Daughter of the Mountain’ and of the ‘Mothers’ of all worlds, just as in Greece the king of the gods held court on Mount Olympus …
And what defines the scale of the ultimate symbolic mountain—the one I propose to call Mount Analogue—is its inaccessibility to ordinary human approaches. For a mountain to play the role … its summit must be inaccessible but its base accessible to human beings as nature has made them. It must be unique and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible.
—René Daumal, Mount Analogue
I RECENTLY STUMBLED upon a book that completely took my breath away. Despite being fairly obscure, it has garnered a cult following since its publication in 1952, inspiring most notably The Holy Mountain (La Montaña Sagrada), a Mexican surrealistic fantasy film by Chilean-French auteur, Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Composed by the French writer, René Daumal (16th March 1908–21st May 1944), Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (Le Mont Analogue: Roman d’aventures alpines, non euclidiennes et symboliquement authentiques) is an allegorical novel about life itself, presented as a tale in which the narrator/author, together with a band of fellow travellers, sets sail to discover the elusive Mount Analogue, where an inner circle of humanity exists, as well as precious crystals called “peradams”, symbolizing rare and profound truths that can only be discovered when one embarks upon the spiritual path.
‘While still quite young,’ [Sogol] said, ‘I had already experienced almost every pleasure and disappointment, every happiness and every suffering which can befall a man as a social animal. It would be useless to give you the details: the repertory of possible happenings in a human life is fairly limited and it always comes down to about the same story. It’s enough to say that one day I found myself alone and fully convinced that I had finished one cycle of existence. I had travelled a great deal, studied a variety of improbable sciences, learned ten odd trades. Life dealt with me a little the way an organism treats a foreign body: it was obviously trying either to encyst me or to expell me and for my own part I yearned for “something else”. After a time I believed I had found that “something else” in religion. I entered a monastery, a very strange one. Its name and location make little difference; but, to say the least, it belonged to a distinctly heretical order.’
Pierre Sogol (taken from the Greek word, “Logos”, written backwards and meaning “word” or “premise”), Professor of Mountaineering, is the expedition leader, who lives in a garret in the backstreets of Paris. Surrounded by the memorabilia and artefacts of his global travels, he has reached an existential crisis and longs to discover the meaning of life. After searching far and wide, he discovers that even ecclesiastical orders, the great bastion of religious faith itself, cannot alleviate his inner torment.
Following in the footsteps of the seventeenth-century French intellectual, Voltaire, who effected great change in European thinking by rejecting the superstitious dogma of the Catholic Church, Sogol elucidates how mankind now finds itself in an inevitable quandary. Banished into a nihilistic culture, where God is essentially dead and buried, we have become burdened by the unbearableness of our very own being. And yet, as C. G. Jung pointed out, our psyches are preprogrammed to give meaning to our existence and thus, as a consequence, the incessant ache in our hearts forever compels us to search for something or someone to unlock the mystery of life.
[Daumal] I rummaged among my memories in silence, among the deepest memories which had not yet been put into words. And I said, with some difficulty: ‘When I was around six I heard something about flies which sting you when you’re asleep. And naturally someone dragged in the old joke: “When you wake up you’re dead.” The words haunted me. That evening in bed with the light out, I tried to picture death, the “no more of anything”. In my imagination I did away with all the outward circumstances of my life and felt myself confined in ever tightening circles of anguish: there was no longer any “I” … What does it mean, “I”? I couldn’t succeed in grasping it. “I” slipped out of my thoughts like a fish out of the hands of a blind man and I couldn’t sleep. For three years these nights of questioning in the dark recurred fairly frequently. Then, one particular night, a marvellous idea came to me: instead of just enduring this agony, try to observe it, to see where it comes from and what it is. I perceived that it all seemed to come from a tightening of something in my stomach, as well as under my ribs and in my throat. I remembered that I was subject to angina and forced myself to relax, especially my abdomen. The anguish disappeared. When I tried again in this new condition to think about death, instead of being clawed by anxiety, I was filled with an entirely new feeling. I knew no name for it—a feeling between mystery and hope.’
[Sogol] ‘And then you grew up, went to school, and began to “philosophize”, didn’t you? We all go through the same thing. It seems that during adolescence a person’s inner life is suddenly weakened, stripped of its natural courage. In his thinking he no longer dares stand face to face with reality or mystery; he begins to see them through the opinions of “grown-ups”, through books and courses and professors. Still, a voice remains which is not completely muffled and which cries out every so often—every time its gag is loosened by an unexpected jolt in the routine. The voice cries out its great questioning of everything but we stifle it again right away. Well, we already understand each other a little. I can admit to you that I fear death. Not what we imagine about death, for such fear is itself imaginary. And not my death as it will be set down with a date in the public records. But that death I suffer every moment, the death of that voice which, out of the depths of my childhood, keeps questioning me as it does you: “Who am I?” Everything in and around us seems to conspire to strangle it once and for all. Whenever that voice is silent—and it doesn’t speak often—I’m an empty body, a perambulating carcass. I’m afraid that one day it will fall silent forever, or that it will speak too late—as in your story about the flies: when you wake up, you’re dead.’
At the age of 16, René Daumal had a mystical experience. Inhaling the powerful anaesthetic, carbon tetrachloride, which he used for his beetle collection, he became immersed in another world, full of psychedelic forms and occult phenomena. He subsequently became obsessed with death and the nature of existence that lies beyond the conscious mind, repeating the experiment many times, to the extent that it would inevitably contribute to the weakening of his lungs and early demise from tuberculosis—as well as a chaining smoking habit of Gauloise cigarettes—at the age of 36.
Nevertheless, what he achieved in his short lifespan is almost unparalleled. Surrealist poet, writer and publisher of the short-lived literary magazine, Le Grand Jeu, Daumal dedicated his existence to the search for absolute truth and the transcendence of the egoic self, becoming a student of the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff expounded through Alexandre and Jeanne de Salzmann. He also studied Sanskrit and the works of Traditionalist philosopher, René Guénon, who was an advocate of Hinduism and an admirer of the Indian sage, Sri Ramana Maharshi. Indeed, one cannot but remark how similar Daumal’s metaphysical meditation on the essence of “I” is to Bhagavan’s own death experience, outlined in the New Hall at the Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, India.
‘My only good moments,’ [Sogol] continued, after having shifted position, ‘used to come in the summer, when I got out my hob-nailed boots, knapsack and ice axe to have a go at the mountains. I never had long vacations but I made the most of them. After ten or eleven months spent perfecting vacuum cleaners or synthetic perfumes, after a night in the train and a day in the bus, then arriving with my muscles still all foul with the poisons of the city—well, the first snowfields were often enough to make me cry like a fool, feeling my head empty, my limbs groggy and my heart wide open to everything. A few days later, wedged into a crevice or astride a ridge, I would come to myself again, I would recognize in myself the persons I had not seen since the previous summer. But in the end, it was always the same people … Now, like you, in my reading and in my travels, I had heard about a superior type of man, possessing the keys to everything which is a mystery to us. This idea of a higher and unknown strain within the human race was not something I could take simply as an allegory. Experience has proved, I told myself, that a man cannot reach truth directly, nor all by himself. An intermediary has to be present, a force still human in certain respects, yet transcending humanity in others. Somewhere on our Earth this superior form of humanity must exist and not utterly out of our reach. In that case shouldn’t all my efforts be directed toward discovering it? Even if, in spite of my certainty, I were the victim of a monstrous illusion, I should lose nothing in the attempt. For, apart from this hope, all life lacked meaning for me. But where was I to look? Where could I begin? I had already covered the world, poked my nose into everything, into all kinds of religious sects and mystic cults. But with all of them it came down to the same dilemma: maybe yes, maybe no. Why should I stake my life on this one rather than on that one? You see, I had no touchstone. But the very fact that there are now two of us changes everything. The task doesn’t become twice as easy: after having been impossible, it has become possible. It’s as if you first gave me, in order to measure the distance from a star to our planet, one known point on the surface of the globe: you can’t make the calculation. Give me a second point and it becomes possible, for then I can construct the triangle.’
Harbinger to G. I. Gurdjieff’s pupil, P. D. Ouspensky’s seminal text, In Search of the Miraculous, Daumal’s own masterpiece, inspired by his personal love of mountain climbing, is a mystical travelogue par excellence. In the manner of a modern-day The Pilgrim’s Progress, Pierre Sogol spends all his waking hours preparing for the journey, using complicated mathematics, maps and almanacks to chart the course of their yacht, Impossible; for Mount Analogue’s geographical location is undetermined except that, in all probability, it is located somewhere in the South Pacific. Now that he has met fellow philosopher Daumal, however, he is determined to find the enigmatic pinnacle at whatever cost.
Indeed, writing in the wake of his eschatological forefathers, René Daumal’s spiritual odyssey is a treatise that belongs to the “hard graft” school of thinking, whereby effort and self-mortification— “The Work” —are the keys to success. No doubt the element of endurance adds to the literary framework and challenge of the narrative; after all, one of the peculiarities (some would say perversities) of the human condition is the way in which we only attribute commitment, respect and devotion to that which is seemingly hard won.
[Sogol] ‘This, then, is what I have established simply by eliminating the untenable hypotheses. Somewhere on the Earth, there exists an area with a circumference of at least several thousand kilometres and out of which Mount Analogue rises. The substrata of this territory are composed of materials which have the property of inducing curvature in such a way that the region is encased in a “shell” of curved space. Where do these materials come from? Are they of extra-terrestrial origin? Do they come from the interior of the Earth, a region of whose physical nature we know so little that geologists are reduced to admitting that no substance can exist there either in the solid or in the liquid or in the gaseous state? I don’t know but we shall find out sooner or later when we are actually on the spot. I can further deduce that this shell cannot be completely closed; it must be open above in order to receive radiations of all kinds from the stars, rays essential to the life of ordinary men; it must also encompass a considerable portion of the Earth’s mass and doubtless opens towards its centre for similar reasons … A few theoretical points still remain obscure to me,’ Sogol went on. ‘I cannot claim to understand perfectly the relation between the sun and Mount Analogue. But in practical application, there can be no doubt. We have only to take up our position in line with the sunrise or sunset (exactly to the east or to the west if it is at the solstice) and to await the proper moment. Then, for just a few minutes—as long as the solar disc remains on the horizon—the door will open and I repeat, we shall enter.
What makes Mount Analogue so compelling is the way in which Daumal’s prose is so well grounded in scientific data and the facts of our physical existence, to the point where a part of us wants to believe that the elusive mountain actually exists. Moreover, as any spiritual seeker will testify, travelling and the thrill of adventure brings us right into the present moment, whereby our daily trials and tribulations may be left far behind.
Furthermore, what can be more enthralling than a journey to discover the ultimate truth of the universe, one which will transmute our hearts and actualize our souls? Given Daumal’s own voyage of self-discovery throughout the course of his own short life on this planet, Mount Analogue is the very embodiment of a seeker’s initiation into the dharma or path of self-knowledge. Indeed, the synchronicity with which the kindred souls, Daumal and Sogol, are brought together in the manner of Surrealist, André Breton’s “objective chance” —a response to an article in a magazine—reminds us of the hidden order and providence that permeates our lives.
[Sogol] ‘I calculated as follows. First I draw this parallel between 50 and 52 of north latitude; it is the one which traverses the longest stretch of dry land. It runs across the southern part of Canada and then across the entire Eurasian continent from southern England to the island of Sakhalin. Now I draw in the meridian which crosses the longest stretch of dry land. It is located between 20 and 28 of east longitude and runs through the Old World approximately from Spitzbergen to South Africa. I leave this margin of 8 degrees because one can count the Mediterranean either as a true ocean or as a simple maritime pocket within the continent. According to certain traditions, this meridian should pass exactly through the Great Pyramids of Cheops. The junction of the two lines, as you can see, takes place somewhere in eastern Poland or in the Ukraine or in White Russia, within the quadrilateral formed by Warsaw, Krakow, Minsk and Kiev.’ ‘Marvellous!’ cried Cicoria, the Hegelian tailor [one of the travellers]. ‘I follow you now. Since the island we’re looking for surely has an area greater than that of the quadrilateral, the approximation does well enough. Mount Analogue is located at the antipodes of this region, which puts it … wait a minute while I work it out … here, south-east of Tasmania and south-west of New Zealand, west of the island of Auckland.’
In Buddhist literature, the material world is often referred to as the “10,000 beings”. Daumal loves to evoke this image by making inventories, long lists and itineraries throughout his novel, reminding us of the plurality of the visible world and the way in which physical matter can obscure metaphysical truth, echoing Gurdjieff’s belief that esoteric knowledge is not truly hidden but simply imperceptible to those who are not on a spiritual path.
Indeed, of the twelve travellers who embark upon the seafaring voyage to the southern hemisphere (reminiscent perhaps to Gurdjieff’s twelve archetypes of human beings), only eight remain, owing to various weaknesses of character. And yet, it is by a predestined force, some may even call it grace, that the sailors are finally pulled into “the shell” and find themselves at the foot of the illustrious Mount Analogue.
[Daumal] Three days ago, then, just as the sun was going to disappear again over the horizon, while we waited tensely in the bows with the sun behind us, a wind arose without any warning or rather a powerful suction suddenly pulled us forward, space opened ahead of us, a bottomless emptiness, a horizontal abyss of air and water impossibly entwined. The boat creaked in all its timbers and was hurled forward along a rising slope as far as the centre of the abyss and was suddenly set adrift in a wide calm bay, in sight of land! The shore was near enough for us to make out trees and houses, and, higher up, cultivated fields, forests, rocks, and higher still, row after row of tall peaks and glaciers flaming scarlet in the setting sun. A flotilla of boats each manned by ten oarsmen—clearly Europeans, with naked and browned torsos—came out to tow us into an anchorage. It certainly seemed as though we were expected. The place looked very much like a Mediterranean fishing village. We did not feel lost or out of place. The leader of the flotilla led us in silence to a white house, into a bare room with a red tile floor, where a man in mountain dress received us on a carpet. He spoke perfect French but with the inward smile of someone who feels the strangeness of the expressions he must use to make himself understood. He was translating, without hesitation or incorrectness, but obviously translating. He questioned us one after the other. Each one of his questions—all of them very simple: who were we? why had we come?—caught us completely off our guard and seemed to probe our very insides. Who are you? Who am I? We could not answer him as we would a police official or a customs inspector. Give one’s name and profession? What does that mean? But who are you? And what are you? The words we uttered—we had none better—were worthless, repugnant and grotesque as dead things. We realized that with the guides of Mount Analogue, we could no longer get away with just words. Sogol courageously took it upon himself to give a brief account of our voyage. The man receiving us was indeed a guide. All authority in this country is exercised by the mountain guides, who form a distinct class and, outside their work as guides, assume in rotation the essential administrative functions in the villages of the coast and the lower slopes. This man gave us pertinent information on the country and on what we were expected to do. We had come ashore in a little coastal town peopled by Europeans, for the most part, French. There are no natives here. All inhabitants have come from elsewhere, from the four corners of the world like ourselves and each nation has its little colony along the shore. How did it happen that we had fallen precisely on this town, Port o’ Monkeys [Port-des-Singes], peopled by Western Europeans? We were to learn later that it was not by chance and that the wind which had carried us there was no natural and fortuitous wind but had blown in accordance with a will. And why this name, Port o’ Monkeys, when there was not a single quadrumanous species in the region? I find it hard to describe my reaction but that name summoned up in my mind, rather disagreeably, all my heritage as a twentieth-century Occidental—something curious, imitative, shameless, agitated. Our port of arrival could not have been any other than Port o’ Monkeys.
In a brilliant passage, which is simultaneously pervaded with disillusionment and wisdom, Daumal wittily recounts the paradoxical nature of the inhabitants of their antipodean utopia. Having lamented in Paris “this monkey-cage frenzy which people call so dramatically life”, to his utter horror, Daumal discovers his Garden of Eden to be merely an outpost of the French Republic. And yet, parlour conversations and pleasantries are not the order of the day here. Harking back to his death-bed experience as a young child, the only question worth asking, as Sri Ramana Maharshi always maintained, is: “Who am I?” Beyond that, all else is redundant.
As the travellers prepare to ascend the holy mountain, once again they are carried away with their analyses and research of the island’s topography. And yet, as they acclimatize themselves to the atmosphere, a profound calmness envelopes them like a swathe of morning mist; the omnipresent power of the mountain is finally taking effect.
[Daumal] It was during these rainy days that we began to call one another by our first names … but the change was not the effect of mere intimacy … For we were beginning to shed our old personalities. At the same time as we decided to leave our heavy equipment on the coast, we were also preparing to leave behind the artist, the inventor, the doctor, the scholar, the writer. Beneath the old disguises new men and new women began to show the tips of their ears. Men and women, and all kinds of other creatures as well. Once again Pierre Sogol set an example—without knowing it and without suspecting that the poet in him was coming out. One evening when we had just finished a consultation on the beach with the head porter and the donkey driver, Sogol began to speak. “I have brought you this far and I have been your leader. Right here, I’ll take off the cap of authority, which was a crown of thorns for the person I remember myself to be. Far within me, where the memory of what I am is still unclouded, a little child is waking up and making an old man’s mask weep. A little child looking for mother and father, looking with you for protection and help protection from his pleasures and his dreams, and help in order to become what he is without imitating anyone.” As he spoke, Pierre had been delving in the sand with the point of his stick. Suddenly his eyes froze, he bent down and picked something up—something which shone like a tiny dewdrop. It was a peradam, a small one, but the first for any of us.
As the troupe of travellers slough away the scree of their personalities, it is Pierre Sogol (literally “Stone Word”), who in an act of supreme humility, renounces his leadership of the group. Such a humble gesture immediately enables him to see the peradam, the highest material reward of a seeker’s sincerity and the quintessential philosopher’s stone, its manifestation representing the activation of inner wisdom and confirming his status, to coin Gurdjieff’s term, as a spiritual “superman”.
Indeed, the entire novel can be seen as a contemporary reenactment of the quest for the holy grail. First appearing in Perceval, le Conte du Graal, an unfinished romance written by Chrétien de Troyes, the motif of a treasure imbued with holy significance located in a faraway land has enthralled readers to this very day, for it taps into our unconscious need to seek, understand and then ultimately to die unto the “I” within.
If you slip or have a minor fall, don’t allow yourself an instant’s pause. Find your pace again as soon as you get up. In your mind take careful note of the circumstances of your fall but don’t let your body linger over what happened. The body constantly tries to draw attention to itself by its shiverings, its breathlessness, its palpitations, its shudders and sweats and cramps; but it reacts quickly to any scorn and indifference in its master. Once it senses that he is not taken in by its jeremiads, once it understands that it will inspire no pity that way, then it comes into line and obediently accomplishes its task.
—René Daumal, “A treatise of analogical alpinism” [Endnote]
In a truly surrealistic twist of fate, Mount Analogue remains unfinished: René Daumal stopped mid-sentence in the fifth chapter, too ill from tuberculosis to complete his manuscript, but ironically at the very place in which the travellers embark on their ascent to the mountain summit. Not knowing our protagonists’ destiny is frustrating beyond belief but thankfully, in an afterword to the text along with various appendices and endnotes, there is a short essay by Véra Daumal, wife of the French novelist, who picked up the task of at least bringing the text to some kind of resolution.
She recounts his plans for the fifth and sixth chapters, including the fate of the four quitters at the beginning of the story. More importantly, however, she recalls what René Daumal had in store for the final chapter of his book. Alluding to the teacher-disciple relationship of the esoteric tradition and of the Gurdjieff Work in particular, he said: “In the end, I want to focus at length on one of the laws of Mount Analogue: to reach the summit, one must go from camp to camp but before leaving a camp, one must prepare those who are coming to occupy the places one leaves behind. Only after preparing them can one climb higher. That is why, before dashing off to a new camp, we had to go back down to teach our new knowledge to other seekers …”
Definitions—Alpinism is the art of climbing mountains in such a way as to face the greatest risks with the greatest prudence.
Art is here taken to mean knowledge realized in action. You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again …
So why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, always take note of difficulties along the way for as you go up, you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them but you will know they are there if you have observed them well. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer but one has seen.
There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
The final chapter of Mount Analogue was to be entitled, “And you, what are you looking for?” Indeed, this is the holy grail of all questions and one which we must inevitably face at some point. For its answer, if indeed there really can ever be one formed in sentences, is the bark upon which we must set sail and steer our lives accordingly to a faraway shore where we hope to find inner surrender and release from all our misery and woe.
Moreover, in the same literary tradition as Spanish mystic, Saint John of the Cross and his seminal Ascent of Mount Carmel (Subida del Monte Carmelo), in which he describes the dark night of the soul in its quest to find a mystical union with the Creator, so too René Daumal through his writings, short life and untimely death do we witness a spiritual being become nothing through physical and psychological suffering, both figuratively and literally, and yet in the very act of so doing, he is able to find eternal and everlasting life.
« Je suis mort parce que je n’ai pas le désir,
Je n’ai pas le désir parce que je crois posséder,
Je crois posséder parce que je n’essaye pas de donner,
Essayant de donner, on voit qu’on n’a rien,
Voyant qu’on n’a rien, on essaye de se donner,
Essayant de se donner, on voit qu’on n’est rien,
Voyant qu’on est rien, on désire devenir,
Désirant devenir, on vit. »
“I am dead because I lack desire,
I lack desire because I think I possess,
I think I possess because I do not try to give,
In trying to give, you see that you have nothing,
Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself,
Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing,
Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become,
In desiring to become, you begin to live.”
—Letter from René Daumal to his wife, Véra Daumal [Afterword]
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NHL Rumors ranking Tier 2 NHL Free Agents and their likely destinations
Robin Lehner (Getty Images)
Today I continue my series on ranking NHL Free Agents. This time we focus on those that are in tier 2 and their potential destination.
Before we dive in, you can review tier 1 here.
NHL Free Agents Tier 2
Robin Lehner, G, 29 years-old, last contract: $5M AAV
Has Robin Lehner wrestled away the #1 job from Marc-Andre Fleury in Vegas? Some believe he has, but regardless he will be one of the top UFA goalies behind Braden Holtby if he hits the marker.
Potential Destinations: Vegas, Oilers, Hurricanes, Avalanche
2. Tyler Toffoli, RW, 28 years-old, last contract: $4.6M AAV
Tyler Toffoli (Mandatory Credit: Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports)
Tyler Toffoli was a hot commodity last season and it was the Vancouver Canucks who eventually landed him. In the 10 regular season games he played with the Canucks he scored 10 points. Unfortunately he has been out since the St. Blues series and it is hurting Vancouver against Vegas. Teams looking for a power forward will be after Toffoli.
Potential Destinations: Islanders, Panthers, Coyotes, Devils, Wild
3. Tyson Barrie, D, 29 years-old, last contract: $5.5M AAV
While the Leafs are looking for more rugged defensive minded blue-liners, other teams will be shopping for guys like Barrie to help their power play. Sadly for Barrie, if he wants to get paid, he may have to go to a non-contender.
Potential Destinations: Red Wings, Ducks, Senators, Kings, Devils
4. Evgeni Dadonov, RW, 31 years-old, last contract: $4M AAV
Dadonov in Florida (Getty Images)
Evgeni Dadonov is an interesting UFA, mostly due to his age and what kind of term he will get. I don’t see anyone going over 5 years for a 20 goal scorer.
Potential Destinations: Blue Jackets, Sabres, Canadiens, Predators
5. Sami Vatanen, D, 29 years-old, last contract: $4.8M AAV
Vatanen isn’t flashy, he’s just solid. There will be a lot of teams looking his way but no one is going to give him a 7 year deal. Still, he could find himself on any team that misses out on Alex Pietrangelo (a fellow right-handed d-man).
Potential Destinations: Maple Leafs, Oilers, Blackhawks, Jets, Penguins
NHL Free Agents Tier 2B
6. TJ Brodie, D, 30 years-old, last contract: $4.6M AAV
Brodie is a solid blue-liner who can join the a club and play in their top four. He is a left-handed shot and will be the next man up after Torey Krug comes off the board. At 30 years old, he will get a pay increase, but if he wants term, it won’t be with a contender.
Potential Destinations: Rangers, Maple Leafs, Oilers, Red Wings, Sabres
7. Mikael Granlund, LW, 28 years-old, last contract: $5.75M AAV
I struggled if he should be here or in tier 3 for tomorrow. Granlund is borderline because he has the ability to score but has struggled. This is one where teams will be taking a chance on him, but I can see some teams ready to do so.
Potential Destinations: Sabres, Red Wings, Senators, Devils, Blue Jackets
Come back tomorrow for Tier 3!
See which free agents will make the cut and where they may land.
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A Brief History Of ChuChu Rocket! In Your Pocket
By Lewis Cox
ChuChu Rocket! is a puzzle game that is undoubtedly a product of a struggling Sega. Imaginative, innovative, insane - one of the many one-of-a-kind experiments that was thrown at a wall in the Sega headquarters in the hopes that something would eventually stick and save the Dreamcast once and for all. Maybe this attempt to stand out was what led Sonic Team to create not just one of the most memorable puzzle games on the Sega Dreamcast, but one of the best and most memorable puzzle games ever made.
For the uninitiated, the premise of ChuChu Rocket! is simple. You place directional arrows on a checker board to guide mice (the titular ChuChus) to rocket ships, all whilst making sure they don't get eaten by giant orange cats that look like they are perpetually tripping on acid.
The guiding brainless animals to safety thing had been done eight years prior by DMA Design's Lemmings, but Sonic Team managed to take the concept and push it to the brink of madness whilst also throwing in a bonkers multiplayer mode and online play (that's still available today thanks to DreamPi). It serves as a high quality break for any Dreamcast fan who has sunk hours into deeper experiences like Shenmue or Phantasy Star Online who just wants to play something simple whilst also having an absolutely cracking time.
These days, with smart phones being in everyone's pockets, puzzle games that are easy to pick up and play function as perfect time wasters on a morning commute or even when we just can't be bothered to do anything else. Sadly, as I'm sure many of us can all agree, the vast majority of smartphone puzzlers are trite, micro-transaction ridden nonsense. But what if we could take a stellar puzzler like ChuChu Rocket! and play that in the palm of our hand instead? That would make perfect sense, right? Well it turns out that Sega did see ChuChu's portable potential...
If you're ever at a pub quiz and the question you need to take your team to first place is "what was the first game published by Sega on a Nintendo console?", be sure to buy me a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga as a means of thanks because now you know that the answer is ChuChu Rocket!.
ChuChu found itself a comfortable second home on the GBA. Its simple, short bursts of gameplay were perfect for a portable console, and it was the right amount of silly, colourful and addictive to stand proudly alongside other classic GBA puzzlers like Kuru Kuru Kururin and Mario vs. Donkey Kong. The graphics were significantly downgraded from those of the Dreamcast (the 3D polygons were traded for animated sprites), but it was a small price to pay for a portable ChuChu experience, and one that, with the exception of online multiplayer, was completely intact.
All 100 original puzzle levels are here, as well as 2,500 levels chosen from the endless amounts of custom puzzles that users had submitted to the Dreamcast's online servers. This wasn't some lazy port - Sonic Team made sure that ChuChu Rocket! was jam packed with fun regardless of what console it appeared on. Players could edit their own player sprites, and share their own custom levels via link cable. A link cable was also what allowed up to four players to have a blast in the multiplayer modes, and the best part is, only a single game cartridge is needed to link up for multiplayer. Good job, Sonic Team.
A random factoid but still cool and Sega-related nonetheless (maybe it'll come up in that pub quiz): if you have ChuChu Rocket! inserted into the Game Boy Advance slot of a Nintendo DS while playing Sega's smutty silhouette mini game fest Project Rub (known as Feel the Magic: XY/XX in the USA), you will receive a NiGHTS hat that can be worn by the game's heroine. See it modelled below in this crap grainy screenshot I managed to procure from the depths of the internet.
Other clothing items - including a Sonic hat and a Ulala (Space Channel 5) wig - can be unlocked in Project Rub by combining it with other Sega GBA titles. ChuChu can also be used with Project Rub's sequel to similar effects.
ChuChu on mobile was inevitable right? If it works on GBA, then it's bound to work on mobile, if not even better. Well Sega thought this too, and ports came to iOS and Android in 2010 and 2011, respectively. These were exciting ports, because for the first time ever, ChuChu Rocket! was now playable using touch controls. Whilst many quiver in fear at the idea of controlling their favourite games with a touch screen, ChuChu Rocket! fits this method of control perfectly.
Instead of navigating through the checker board with an analog stick/D-Pad to get to the square where a direction needs to be placed, the user instead just needs to click on the square in question and move their finger up, down, left or right and release to put down a direction for the ChuChus to follow. Simple and intuitive, to the point where it's like the game was almost meant for touch screen controls. Look, I adore the Dreamcast, and I would be the first to tell you that porting any of the system's flagship titles onto any device with a touchscreen would be nothing short of sacrilege, but ChuChu Rocket! is one of, if not the only exception to this rule in my eye. When I first played this port I was absolutely blown away by how natural it felt to play with the touchscreen. If it wasn't for the lack of multiplayer on the Android version I played (it was available on iOS with a local wi-fi connection), I would honestly go as far as to say this is the definitive way to play this game, at least as far as the controls go.
If you aren't already outside my house brandishing a pitchfork, you might now have your interest piqued and want to grab ChuChu Rocket! for your iPhone or Android phone. There's one problem - Sega removed it from sale back in 2015. In a tirade of take downs of games across multiple platforms that "no longer [met its] standards", Sega took down ChuChu. Many were completely taken aback by this sudden action from Sega, confused as to why Sega would take down many perfectly decent games.
The worst part was, some of these games - including ChuChu Rocket! mobile - never returned to these platforms, not even through the later Sega Forever collection (which, ironically, was a series of mobile ports of very dubious standards). This means anyone who wants to play it on their phone who didn't download the game previously will have to download the APK illegitimately for Android (not so complicated), or jailbreak their iPhone (more complicated).
So what does the future hold for portable ChuChu Rocket! ports? Well, hopefully in the future Sega might bring it back under the Sega Forever range. They've mentioned that they want to add more Dreamcast and Saturn games, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the mobile port in the first place, so in theory it should be a simple one to resurrect.
A Nintendo Switch port would be incredible - especially if they added options for controller and touchscreen play. In the meantime I've heard about a spiritual successor to ChuChu called BlobCat, so go check that out for now if you need a ChuChu-like fix on the Switch. You can find our review on it here.
Thanks for reading my pointless ramblings. My name is Lewis. I run the website Alt:Mag where I talk about gaming, anime and other geek culture-related gubbins. You can see me ramble more on Twitter, @LewisJFC. Let us know what you think about portable ChuChu Rocket! in the comments, on Twitter or in our Facebook group. Adiós!
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Jj said...
An interesting factoid: ChuChu was the first online game developed by Sonic Team for the Dreamcast, from there they got the experience for the big PSO project.
ChuChu was the first online game released in USA too.
tmjsuperspy3000 said...
I completely agree with you Lewis. I pretty much had the same conversation with my brother about how the game feels like it was made for touch screens, it really does fit like a glove! I finished all the puzzles and unlocked the Nightopians, something I've never managed before. Nothing like ChuChu Rocket in your pocket!
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Hydroponic farm in Lakewood, Colo., takes next step
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The room Infinite Harvest grows food in look pink because only red and blue lights are used during photosynthesis.
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Before 2002, Tommy Romano’s life plans were not necessarily Earthly.
He was at the University of Colorado studing for his master’s in aerospace engineering. His thesis was on ways to grow food in space.
But man still has yet to land on Mars, so Romano thought, why not tru this technology on Earth, first?
It took a lot of trial and error and growing food in his basement, including ears of corn. And in January 2015, Infinite Harvest began.
“The traditional ways aren’t fulfilling (the holes left by problems). If we held to the same traditions of farming … we’d still be riding horses right now. We’re helping it take the next step.”
Infinite Harvest is an indoor hydroponic vertical farm. Currently the farm in Lakewood, Colo., grows 13 microgreens and lettuce. A week ago, when the Denver-metro area was hit with rain, hail and snow, the crops at Infinite Harvest weren’t even touched by the elements.
That’s the beauty of growing vegetables in an indoor hydroponic vertical farm — the weather is controlled by technology.
“We don’t actively manage a lot,” said Nathan Lorne, operations manager. “We really rely on her.”
The “her” in this scenario isn’t a human, but the greenhouse control system. A box containing machines and wires takes notes on everything that happens in the greenhouse.
The system controls how much water and nutrients the plants get, the temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide levels — anything that can and will affect the plants.
And, if something goes wrong, the control system will send a message to someone so they can come in to fix it.
The room doesn’t have any natural lighting, only blue and red spectrum lights are used because that’s all the plants need for photosynthesis. They go through day and night cycles.
One you leave the room, everything has a green hue to it because your eyes overcompensate after only seeing two hues of light.
The other lights just waste energy, which is against the goals of Infinite Harvest.
A tech-based farm might sound like it’s just wasting energy, but the way the control system is set up, the farm actually pays about six times less than marijuana greenhouses pay in electricity costs each month. When it comes to energy comparisons, marijuana is the best comparison because both grow crops are grown indoors.
Another concern that Lorne said hydroponic farms raise is the amount of CO2 released.
But the system controls the amount of CO2 that is released at all times.
‘BEYOND ORGANIC’
Lorne said one of the benefits of having an indoor farm is having complete control over what the plants are exposed to. Even more important for them, though, is what the plants aren’t exposed to.
Before going into the farm, a person enters an air cleanser room. Air is circulating and that is where hair nets, hats, shoe covers or specific farm shoes are put on. This helps prevent some unwanted outside elements from getting in. There are traps that attract bugs to keep them from going in, too.
Because there aren’t bugs or anything else in the farm, aside from what is planned, Infinite Harvest doesn’t have to use genetically modified plants and there is no need to use pesticides.
Even organic farms use natural products to get rid of weeds or pests. Infinite Harvest doesn’t have to.
Even with the organic trend, Romano said there aren’t plans to apply to be organically certified because he thinks the “Colorado Proud” label means more.
And, “We’re beyond organic,” Romano said.
There are a number of worries and problems farmers face, and Infinite Harvest looks to find solutions for them, Lorne said.
“Everyone here loves the romance of traditional farming,” he said.
Romano said the purpose of this farm is not to compete with traditional farming. In some ways, it is an ongoing science experiment. Because indoor hydroponic vertical farms are a fairly new, some of the technologies are on the expensive side.
But the energy saving measures the company is able to do even that out.
Romano said they’re looking to expand, but they don’t want it to be a big leap from what they’re doing now. They want to take lessons learned and improve upon them a little at a time.
“There is no textbook,” Lorne said.
That’s something any farmer can relate to. As technology changes on farms, there’s always an experimental phase before the technology becomes widely used.
That’s why Romano doesn’t see Infinite Harvest as a competing entity, but as the next forward step in the industry.
“The traditional ways aren’t fulfilling (the holes left by problems),” Romano said. “If we held to the same traditions of farming … we’d still be riding horses right now. We’re helping it take the next step.”❖
— Fox is a reporter for The Fence Post. She can be reached at (970) 392-4410, sfox@thefencepost.com or on Twitter @FoxonaFarm.
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Kings XI Punjab appeal against 1-run short error
Hans News Service | 21 Sep 2020 9:43 PM GMT
Kings XI Punjab have appealed to match referee JavagalSrinath against the erroneous one-run short signal by umpire NitinMenon in the IPL 2020 clash against Delhi Capitals in Dubai on Sunday
Dubai: Kings XI Punjab have appealed to match referee JavagalSrinath against the erroneous one-run short signal by umpire NitinMenon in the IPL 2020 clash against Delhi Capitals in Dubai on Sunday. The incident occurred in the third ball of the 19th over of the match when Chris Jordan turned for a second run to get MayankAgarwal back on strike. However, umpire Menon ruled it one-run short and it proved to be costly, with Delhi Capitals managing to tie the match and winning it in the Super Over.
Kings XI Punjab CEO SatishMenon has said the decision to appeal was taken as there was no 'place for such errors' in IPL and that this kind of decision could cost them a potential spot in the playoffs in the near future. "We have appealed to the match referee," he told PTI. "While a human error can happen and we understand that, there is no room for human errors like these in a world-class tournament like the IPL. This one could cost us a playoff berth. A loss of a game is a loss of a game. It is unfair. I hope the rules are reviewed so that there is no margin for human error," SatishMenon said.
The appeal has been registered and it is highly unlikely that the result might be reversed. According to the IPL playing conditions, the onfield umpire can use the third umpire only in the case of a dismissal, boundary or the no-ball. The one-run short incident resulted in plenty of anger on social media, with VirenderSehwag calling for the Man of the Match to be given to the umpire.
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Shotgun Cartridges Explained
Shotgun cartridges are a relatively simple thing. The construction of a cartridge is completed with just 5 components and when most people are out shooting, they don’t give their cartridges a second thought.
Having a basic understanding of how cartridges are made, how different cartridges can impact your performance in the field and how to select the correct cartridge for the correct scenario you are one step closer to being the best shot you can be.
If bore, chamber length, shot size, wads and load weight has your head spinning, read on to make sense of it all.
Shotgun Bore or Gauge
When buying a shotgun, one of the first things you’ll want think about is what bore or gauge of shotgun you need for the intended purpose of the gun.
A typical bore will range from .410 at the smallest end of the scale to a 10 bore at the largest (although 8 bore and 4 bore guns also exist – they’re just not very common at all). 12 bore is the most widely used gauge for clay and game shooting but 20 bore guns are also popular.
28 bore and .410 shotguns are generally used by younger people as they’re lighter and easier to handle but some adults do enjoy the challenge of hitting the clay ground with their 28 bore too!
16 bore and 10 bore are less common than they once were. In the mid-20th century, a 16 bore was a popular choice for game shooters and was considered to be the ‘gentleman’s gun’ but the popularity of it dwindled and it’s much less common than it once was. 10 bore shotguns were a popular choice in the wildfowling community.
so, what does bore actually mean? If you didn’t know, you’d probably guess that it was some sort of unit to measure length (ie barrel diamater or similar) but it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Like with a lot of things in shooting, bore is a historical term and it’s actually a division of weight. Using 20 bore as an example – the 20 is derived from taking 1lb of lead and breaking it down into 20 equal sized balls. The diameter of one of these balls determines the diameter of the barrel in a 20 bore shotgun.
This explains why the barrels of a 20 bore shotgun are smaller in diameter than a 12 bore – in a 12 bore, you would only need 12 x equal sized balls to make up 1lb of weight as opposed to the 20 needed in a 20 bore so one of the 12 balls would be physically bigger than one of the 20 balls.
The diagram above shows the relative size (note: not actual size) of the corresponding lead ball diameter which determines the bore size of the gun.
An exception to this rule is the .410 – this is the true ‘bore’ or diameter of the barrel in a .410 gun – 0.41″. If the .410 was calculated in the same was as above, it would be the equivalent of a 67 gauge.
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Needless to say, when buying cartridges you need to make sure that you buy the right cartridges for the bore size of your gun! The bore size is normally printed on the box and expressed as ‘bore’, ‘gauge’ or ”calibre’.
Cartridge Length & Shotgun Chamber
The chamber of the shotgun is the part of the gun that the cartridge sits in.
Knowing the chamber size of your gun is important as you can use cartridges that are shorter than the length of the chamber but you can’t use ones that are longer.
Using a longer cartridge than the chamber can accommodate is very dangerous. The cartridge length that is stated on the box and/or the cartridge is the length of the cartridge when fired – even if a cartridge seems to fit in the chamber, it does not mean that it’s fine for the gun and is safe. When the gun is fired the cartridge will open and reach it’s true length and if the chamber isn’t big enough, the pressure will be too great and the gun could explode in your face.
How do you find out the chamber size of your gun? Get in touch with the manufacturer, ask a competent gunsmith or have a look at the gun its self – on some guns it’s stated on the barrels.
The most common cartridge lengths are 65mm, 67mm and 70mm. Most modern shotguns have a chamber size of 3″ (or 76.2mm) so can accommodate any of these cartridge lengths. Older guns however were commonly made with 2.5″ chambers meaning that only a 65mm cartridge would be safe to use. An example of a modern cartridge made for an older gun with this sized chamber is the Regal Game from Gamebore (the link is to the 12 bore version but cartridges for other bores are also made). If you have a gun with a 2.5″ chamber, please be careful when purchasing cartridges and always check suitability with a professional gunsmith.
The length of the cartridge stated on the box – in this case 70mm meaning these cartridges would only be suitable for a gun with a 3″ chamber or bigger.
What are Shotgun Shells Made of and How do they Work?
As mentioned in the introduction, the construction of a cartridge is completed with just 5 components. These are as follows:
When the trigger of a shotgun is pulled, the firing pin hits the primer (located in the centre of the brass head of the cartridge) which causes a chemical reaction with heat being the outcome. This heat then ignites the powder.
When the powder ignites, it creates gases which in turn creates the required pressure in order to propel the wad forwards.
The wad (usually made of fibre or plastic) creates a seal in the cartridge so that gases don’t dissipate and the the full pressure that has built up by the powder igniting can be used to push the shot out of the end of the cartridge. The wad also creates a wall between the shot and the powder so that they don’t mix.
The shot is the part of the cartridge that ends up (hopefully) hitting the target. The shot is usually made of lead (more about lead alternatives later) and is a number of small round pellets. It’s important that all the shot is perfectly round. Pellets that are not perfectly round will travel at different speeds and the resulting shot pattern can be negatively impacted by this. Cartridges come in different shot sizes and volume – more on this in the next section.
A cartridge with a plastic case crimped at the end.
The case is what houses all of the above. Modern day cases are usually made of plastic and are crimped at the end. Cartridge cases used to be made with paper but plastic cases are now the norm.
The crimping actually plays an important part of helping to manage the pressure within the cartridge and is key to the end pattern of the shot.
The image to the right shows a typical six star crimp but you will sometimes see eight star crimps, normally on higher end cartridges.
Shot Size & Payload
Your shot size requirement will change depending on what you’re shooting. For clays you might want number 7.5 shot whereas for pheasants you may want number 5 or 6 shot. The lower the number, the bigger the pellet size.
The payload or volume is shown is grams. In the image below, this particular cartridge contains 28 grams of number 7.5 shot. If it said 24 grams on the box, the cartridges would still contain number 7.5 shot but in less volume – 24 grams vs 28 grams. For end of season pheasants you might end up using 32 grams of number 5 shot which is quite a lot of larger sized pellets to ensure a clean kill.
As mentioned above, number 7.5 shot is fairly typical for clays. For shot size recommendations for different live quarry species, see this list by BASC.
Plastic Wad or Felt/Fibre Wad?
The wad of a cartridge usually comes in the form of plastic or fibre.
Some people argue that plastic wads give a more consistent pattern but fibre wads are much more friendly to the environment. Modern fibre wads can still throw great patterns and being more environmentally friendly, for us it’s a no brainer. You may experience a little more recoil with a fibre wad as they’re loaded at a higher pressure but again we feel that the benefits far outweigh the downsides.
A lot of shoots now insist on the user of fibre wad cartridges and they’re widely available for both clay and game cartridges.
Cartridge Speed
The speed or velocity of a shotgun cartridge is measured in ‘fps’ or feet per second – quite literally the number of feet that the shot will travel in a second towards the target.
If you were at the clay ground shooting with a 12g cartridge containing 28 grams of number 7.5 shot and the velocity of the cartridge was 1,350 fps, the required lead would be different to the same cartridge with a velocity of 1,550 fps. Why? Because the shot is travelling towards the target at 200 feet per second faster compared with the first cartridge!
The speed of the cartridges you’re using needs to be considered and if possible, choose a cartridge that works for you and stick with it for more consistent shooting.
The cartridge velocity isn’t always printed on the box, sometimes it is but it’s common to see it excluded. If you’re buying cartridges of one of the well known brands, you may well find the information you need on their website.
Lead Alternative Cartridges
There are laws around the use of lead shot which should be researched and obeyed. Different countries have different rules but in England, the lead shot regulations ban the use of lead shot over all foreshore, certain SSSIs and for the shooting of all ducks, geese, coot and moorhen (wherever they occur).
Cartridges containing an alternative to lead shot are available in various forms, mainly steel and bismuth but there are some considerations around them.
For steel, this resource by BASC explains things really well (clicking the link will automatically download the PDF). Always consult your gunsmith before using steel shot cartridges with your gun to make sure it’s safe to do so.
Bismuth shot is more forgiving to older guns being as soft as lead but is much more expensive than steel shot but again, consult with your gunsmith to find the right cartridge for your gun if you do have a need to use a lead alternative cartridge.
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Milwaukee vs DeWalt – Which is the Better Power Tool Brand?
Nathan James November 26, 2020
Milwaukee and DeWalt are some of the leading brands within the tool production sector. Both have tools worth trying, but they focus on different things. Milwaukee is more about power and getting the job done, whereas DeWalt emphasizes comfort and convenience.
There are two heavyweights within the power tool market that everyone tends to compare: DeWalt or Milwaukee? Both have been around since the early 1900s, and their tools are among the most popular options out there.
However, which should you choose?
This is what I’ll help you with today in my Milwaukee vs DeWalt comparison. You’ll learn all about their history, products, and which is the better power tool brand.
Contents (Jump to Topic)
1 About Milwaukee and DeWalt
1.1 A Brief History of Milwaukee and DeWalt
1.2 Milwaukee and DeWalt HQ
1.3 Who Owns Milwaukee and DeWalt?
1.4 Dewalt vs Milwaukee – Which Company Is Bigger
1.5 Is Milwaukee and Dewalt the Same Company?
2 Milwaukee vs DeWalt Products
2.1 Milwaukee vs DeWalt – Tool Reputation
2.2 Milwaukee vs. DeWalt – General Price Point
2.3 DeWalt vs Milwaukee – Warranty & Service
2.4 Milwaukee vs DeWalt – Innovation and Proprietary Technology
2.5 Milwaukee vs DeWalt – Extent of Product Range
3 DeWalt vs Milwaukee – Power Tool Comparison
3.1 Milwaukee vs DeWalt Impact Drivers
3.2 Milwaukee vs DeWalt Nail Guns
3.3 DeWalt vs Milwaukee Circular Saws
3.4 Milwaukee vs DeWalt Miter Saws
3.5 Milwaukee vs DeWalt Routers
3.6 DeWalt vs Milwaukee Power Drills
3.7 Milwaukee vs DeWalt Hammer Drills
3.8 Which Is Better Milwaukee or Dewalt?
About Milwaukee and DeWalt
Before deciding which brand to go for, it’s always a good idea to learn a bit about their histories. Since both brands have been around since the 1900s, they have quite an interesting past: let’s take a look.
A Brief History of Milwaukee and DeWalt
About Milwaukee
Milwaukee had a rough beginning, starting back in 1918 as the First World War came to an end. A man named Henry Ford sought help from a fellow called A.H Peterson, to manufacture a newer, compact, and lightweight version of the 1/4-inch power drill.
The two developed the Hole-Shooter, an ergonomic 5-pound industrial drill, which could easily be operated by one hand. Ford and Peterson were soon joined by A.F Siebert, but unfortunately, their factory caught fire and burnt to the ground. This caused a major financial setback, prompting the company to shut down indefinitely.
Fortunately, the company got another chance in 1924 when Siebert acquired it from Peterson at an auction. He renamed it Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation and had a primary goal of reaching the sales potential of the Hole-Shooter.
Throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Milwaukee experienced rapid growth. Launching several new tools while opening new manufacturing plants.
About DeWalt
DeWalt’s story begins back in 1922 when a man named Raymond DeWalt developed one of the first woodworking machines. He constructed it to improve productivity at Seabrook Farms, where he was a superintendent at the time.
Fast forward two years in 1924 Raymond managed to establish DeWalt Products Company together with a manufacturing plant in Leola, Pennsylvania. One of the first products they produced was the Wonder Worker, a general woodworking machine.
Around the 1940s, they had become a well-established company. However, it wasn’t until the Second World War where it saw significant growth, thanks to its work on government contracts.
Milwaukee and DeWalt HQ
Milwaukee HQ
Milwaukee has always been a “made in the US” style company. Even after being bought by a Hong Kong-based enterprise, its headquarters are still based in the US.
The company, however, has a few different locations. For instance, in its Brookfield, Wisconsin offices, it does most of its research and development.
With that said, Milwaukee manufacturers its tools and accessories globally. It has factories in Europe, the US, Mexico, and Asia. Most of its more popular tools are manufactured overseas, with the majority of its cordless power drills and circular saws coming from China.
Other tools and accessories, like its saw blades and hole saws, are produced in its Mississippi facilities, located in Jackson, Olive Branch, and Greenwood. It has three additional manufacturing plants throughout Wisconsin. Including Sun Prairie, West Bend, and Mukwonago.
So although not all its tools come from the US, its locations in the States hold significant importance to its overall global manufacturing footprint.
As of January 2020, the company announced a new plan to build a mega facility in West Bend, Wisconsin, to produce hand tools. Additionally, it wants to expand to other states. Including Cookeville, Tennessee, investing more than $100 million, creating 350 new jobs in the US.
DeWalt HQ
DeWalt has its headquarters in Towson, Maryland. However, similarly to Milwaukee, they produce most of their products overseas, or it used to.
Since 2013, the company has made strides to manufacture most of its tools and accessories in the US, but with parts and materials sourced abroad. It would acquire parts from China, Brazil, the UK, Italy, Czech Republic, Mexico, as well as the US.
Products produced with overseas parts bear a label saying, “built in the USA with global materials.” Later in 2015, they operated seven manufacturing facilities to make its tools and accessories. Located in Kentucky, Indiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, among other states.
What’s interesting is that DeWalt’s parent company, Stanley Black & Decker, actually manufactures more of its products within the US and has about 48 facilities.
Who Owns Milwaukee and DeWalt?
In 2005, Milwaukee was acquired by a Hong Kong-based company, Techtronic Industries Co, founded in 1985. Techtronic Industries is the parent company to several other brands, including:
Ridgid.
AEG.
Ryobi.
Hart Tools.
Stiletto.
Homelite.
Hoover US.
Vax.
Oreck.
Imperial Blades.
Dirt Devil.
As we can tell by its list of acquisitions, Techtronic Industries has a hand in almost any market. This includes power tools, measurement and layout tools, appliances, floor care, outdoor power equipment, among many others.
Still, most of the brands under this mega enterprise, cater to tradesmen and industrial users. Spanning several areas, such as construction, maintenance, and home.
Once Milwaukee became a subsidiary, executives decided to go back to the roots and focus on solving problems for the electrical, mechanical, and plumbing trades.
Milwaukee has always been more focused on professional trades rather than the home DIYer. While renewing its company goals, Milwaukee set out to provide “disruptive innovation,” where it sent representatives out on the job site to understand the challenges professional traders encounter.
The corporation states that this focus triggered a revolution, a time where it could break away from what was expected and instead become a progressive problem solver. This revolutionary wave continues to this day, spanning across several tool and accessory categories.
Following World War II, DeWalt underwent a few changes in terms of ownership. Its expansion began in 1947, where it re-incorporated itself under DeWalt Inc.
Later in 1949, American Machine Foundry acquired the company and began expanding its operations to Canada. Although, it wasn’t long until they were sold to Black & Decker in 1960.
Once a name under Black & Decker, they entered a period of growth and stability as it expanded into newer markets across North America.
As of March 2010, Black & Decker merged with Stanley Works, a Fortune 500 tool manufacturer based in the US. Stanley Works produced anything from outdoor power equipment, security products, among many other tools and accessories.
Once it got together with Black & Decker, it changed its name to Stanley Black & Decker and currently has over 61,000 employees across 60 countries. The parent company has several well-known names under its wings, including:
Porter-Cable.
Irwin Tools.
Mac Tools.
Bostitch.
Lista.
Pengo.
Paladin.
Sonitrol.
Proto.
Although its a brand under Stanley Black & Decker, DeWalt continues to be at the forefront of innovation.
Dewalt vs Milwaukee – Which Company Is Bigger
It isn’t always easy giving a precise estimation of which brand is bigger when they’re under a parent company.
Still, Milwaukee currently has between 1300 and 1400 employees in the US. However, due to its expansion plans, we can expect this number to rise significantly within the next year. Milwaukee’s parent company, on the other hand, employs more than 22,000 people.
As for DeWalt, it’s significantly larger than Milwaukee, having about 13,000 employees. And yet again, Stanley Black & Decker, has approximately six times that, as we saw above.
Is Milwaukee and Dewalt the Same Company?
As we can see above, Milwaukee and DeWalt are two unique, separate entities. They have different founders and are now operating under two parent companies.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt Products
Now that we’ve had a look at the companies themselves, it’s time to compare their products to see which is better or if they’re even comparable.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt – Tool Reputation
Milwaukee and DeWalt have outstanding reputations in the construction sector; they’re some of the most famous names, known for producing fantastic, innovative tools.
Saying who has a better reputation isn’t easy as it went a bit back and forth between the two over the years. For instance, roughly 10 years ago, all we saw was the infamous black and yellow color combo. DeWalt did an amazing job at brand awareness, so great that almost any home DIYer owns at least one of its tools.
Its popularity blossomed when it launched the Pro-Level tool line, advertised for general construction. We couldn’t get enough of DeWalt.
Roughly around the same time, Milwaukee was heading down the path of lithium-ion battery power tools. In 2008, it became heavily invested when its Big Red power tool featuring the M18 lithium-ion battery took over the market. Milwaukee soon followed it up with its M12 line, further increasing its popularity.
As Milwaukee was powering forth in what seemed like an unstoppable force, DeWalt was falling behind, as it was yet to release a power tool with a lithium-ion battery. Its 18V XRP stem-packs batteries were famous for draining fast and requiring meticulous care not to ruin them completely.
Fortunately, DeWalt soon hit back with its slide-packs, which received better feedback. However, it still lacked behind as Milwaukee had become the leading force in the industry.
As DeWalt licked its wounds and watched as Milwaukee rode the wave of popularity, it planned a comeback. And soon enough, the company caught up thanks to its FlexVolt line with its 60V tools—DeWalt began making impressive strides to regain its top spot.
So without a doubt, both DeWalt and Milwaukee represent some of the best innovations within the tool industry. Despite their setbacks and countless misses, they’re still the top choice for many tradesmen, be it electricians, constructions, and even home DIYers.
However, before we jump to any conclusions and leave it as a draw, let’s look at some more specific comparisons.
Milwaukee vs. DeWalt – General Price Point
Milwaukee and DeWalt’s general price points differ a bit but are often quite similar. Milwaukee has a higher price on average than DeWalt, which is mostly due to it being more focused on specialty tools designed for professionals.
Another possible reason for its slightly higher price point comes down to its inclusion of higher-capacity, in all, better quality batteries than DeWalt. Where DeWalt’s batteries often wear out rather quickly, especially if you don’t care for them right, Milwaukee’s batteries have more life in them.
DeWalt also provides more options at lower price points, which is why it’s popular with home DIYers. However, it certainly manufacturers a few high-end tools, as well, but despite this, Milwaukee is a bit pricier.
However this isn’t always the case. An example where DeWalt is slightly pricier than Milwaukee is when looking at their brushless cordless drills. At time of writing the M18 Compact Brushless 1/2-inch Drill CP Kit from Milwaukee comes in slightly more expensive than the 20V Max XR Compact Brushless Drill/Driver Kit from DeWalt. Still, the difference isn’t significant and this could easily flip the other way around if prices change.
DeWalt vs Milwaukee – Warranty & Service
DeWalt offers a range of warranties and guarantees on its different tools and accessories. These include:
No break guarantee: This guarantee covers the brand’s SDS MAX High Impact Carbide and the SDS Plus 2 Cutter Masonry Drill bits. DeWalt stresses that should the drill bits fail for any reason while the anchor wear mark is still visible, it will replace it for free.
Three-year limited warranty: On most tools purchased after January 1st, 2004, DeWalt includes its warranty package. This consists of three years of free repairs, a one-year free service contract—DeWalt maintains and replaces worn-out parts—and 90-day money-back guarantee.
Seven-year limited liability warranty: This package provides you with free repairs on any defects or faulty materials and workmanship. Additionally, you get one year of free service where, as above, DeWalt replaces any worn out parts as long as it’s caused by normal wear. Lastly, it includes a 90-day money-back guarantee if you aren’t satisfied and a free warning label replacement.
30-day money-back guarantee: Footwear with this label are eligible for returns within 30 days. DeWalt claims it has a no-question policy as long as you bring your receipt.
Full lifetime warranty: On DeWalt’s mechanics tools, you’ll get a full lifetime warranty, meaning that it will replace any instrument should it fail. Surprisingly, DeWalt claims you don’t need proof of purchase to claim the warranty. It includes all wrenches, ratchets, sockets, and drive accessories.
Limited lifetime warranty: DeWalt’s hand tools come with a limited lifetime warranty, which includes repairments or replacements of faulty equipment. The warranty covers accessories such as protective eyewear and earmuffs, but it doesn’t protect against abuse or misuse.
Limited warranty: Compressors, heated gear, and pressure washers come with DeWalt’s one-year limited warranty. It will replace and repair any damages as long as it wasn’t subjected to abuse or improper usage. While their power tools can come with either a 3 year limited warranty or a 5 year limited warranty.
DeWalt offers a comprehensive warranty and service guarantee on almost all its tools and accessories. However, its power tools aren’t covered for long—a mere three years. Still, it’s open about its terms and conditions and provides plenty of help when needed.
When purchasing a Milwaukee tool, it automatically includes a warranty, meaning there’s no need to register it. However, you should keep your receipt so that the service can determine the product’s age and which warranty it includes.
Milwaukee includes a five-year limited warranty with the majority of its cordless power tools; when purchasing specialty tools, you’ll receive a different guarantee, which is usually around one to three years, depending on the specific tool.
Similar to DeWalt, one of Milwaukee’s better warranties is the one included with its hand tools. Here you’ll receive a limited lifetime warranty, meaning you can get repairs and replacements as long as you are the owner from purchase.
On the other hand, most of its cordless outdoor power equipment only includes a three-year warranty. Some of its portable power tools carry a five-year limited warranty covering any malfunctions or defective material and workmanship.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt – Innovation and Proprietary Technology
Both Milwaukee and DeWalt have outperformed many brands in terms of innovation and technology. However, is one outdoing the other?
At the forefront of Milwaukee’s innovation and technology, we have its disruptive innovation initiative. This company philosophy has motivated it to develop new products that perform and deliver new technology. Although, in true Milwaukee fashion, it’s mostly advertised toward the professional tradesmen.
Here are a few of Milwaukee’s innovative technologies:
RedLithium batteries: These are lithium-ion batteries designed to last longer, work harder, and react faster than general professional lithium-ion batteries. According to Milwaukee, they include an exclusive integration of pack design, chemistry, and circuitry, for outstanding output in any environment. They fit all M18 tools, ranging from the small to the large. You can also use Milwaukee batteries in DeWalt, but you need an adapter.
Force Logic: Milwaukee engineered its Force Logic technology to change the way we use high-force tools. It designed a new tool that simplified the otherwise complicated process of creating holes in rigid materials to ensure the best user experience. You can find Force Logic with all Milwaukee Knockout systems.
Shockwave: Back in 2009, Milwaukee launched its Shockwave line, consisting of power tool accessories. This included driver bits, nut drivers, bit holders, and adapters designed for impact drivers. Over the years, the line grew, and it now has everything from sockets, holes saws, step drill bits, and drill bits. The accessories provide durability and superior performance.
One-Key: This is one of the newer additions to Milwaukee’s portfolio of innovations. It’s a digital platform, which provides you with a free-to-use inventory program to keep track of your tools and other equipment.
As we can see, Milwaukee has some strong, innovative technologies under its belt, and I’m confident that we’ll see more in the coming years.
Where Milwaukee focuses on improving their tools, DeWalt is starting to expand into new territories to make life on the job site more comfortable. Here are a few of its most notable innovations:
FlexVolt: DeWalt’s FlexVolt batteries took the construction world by storm. The batteries include an automatic voltage-switching technology, making it possible to use in three different tools; the 20V Max, 60V Max, and 120V Max. They provide outstanding runtime and cordless power.
Jobsite WiFi Access Point: Not necessarily an innovation to better its tools, the DeWalt WiFi point is a superb invention to improve the conditions on a job site. It consists of a small receiver box that you can hang from the ceiling or place where it’s most convenient. From there, it will provide WiFi access from the trailer to the rest of the site.
Breakaway Reciprocating Saw Blades: Anyone who’s worked with saw blades knows how frustrating it is to throw away half-used blades. To avoid this, they came up with its Breakaway blades that allow you to remove the worn-out section, reinsert, and use the unused part—you basically get two in one.
Tool Connect: This resembles Milwaukee’s OneKey service. It allows you to track, manage, and customize your tools and battery inventory. You set it up on your smartphone, and from there, you can control everything through the Inventory Manager software account. It helps you eliminate the loss of accessories and detect theft.
Airlock: To eliminate dangerous dust on the job site, they came up with its Airlock technology, a universal system that connects to your tools and extracts dust to minimize cleanup.
These are just some of the futuristic technologies we’ve seen from DeWalt. The company is ever-evolving, so like Milwaukee, I’m sure we’ll see plenty more in the future.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt – Extent of Product Range
Between Milwaukee and DeWalt, there are close to 1,000 tools combined.
Milwaukee alone has over 200 in its M18 lines, with an additional 100 in the M12 line. Furthermore, we have its newest MX Fuel line, which features cordless power tools and other corded power tools.
By 1935, the company had improved even further, developing a much lighter 3/4-inch electric hammer-drill. And later, in the 1930s, Milwaukee launched a single horsepower grinder and sander that was capable of withstanding everyday abuse while only weighing 15 pounds.
Another noteworthy invention came about in 1949, where Milwaukee introduced a clutch system, which provided a smoother operation. Then in 1951, the company launched its Sawzall reciprocating saw that still dominates its tools to date.
Still, the two brands have been around since the early 1900s, so both have a rich history of manufacturing power tools. DeWalt has a more extensive product range only because because Milwaukee spent a few years improving already-manufactured tools.
Around 1992, DeWalt launched its first collection of portable electric power tools and accessories, designed for the professional woodworker market and residential contractors. Another significant milestone occurred in 1994 as it introduced 30 new cordless tools and accessories, including the infamous 14.4V cordless driver.
In 2011, they expanded its production to include hand tools, and already in 2013, it introduced mechanics’ tools. Later in 2016, the company launched the FlexVolt, one of the first hybrid voltage battery packs within the construction sector.
The FlexVolt can run at either 60V Max or 20V Max mode, depending on which FlexVolt tool you use it in. This offers a new level of convenience on the worksite.
Today, their 20V Max line has well over 200 products, and it’s now expanding thanks to the addition of the new FlexVolt line of power tools. Besides this, it boasts a long list of corded products, although I couldn’t find the exact number.
Power tools aside, Milwaukee and DeWalt also provide a long list of accessories, which includes everything from drill bits to tape measures and safety gear. DeWalt, particularly, has a clear edge when it comes to fasteners since its parent company owns both Powers Fasteners and Infratech.
DeWalt vs Milwaukee – Power Tool Comparison
Now we’ve reached the best part of the comparison: the tools. Below I’m giving you a quick run-through of their different products and how they compare:
Milwaukee vs DeWalt Impact Drivers
When it comes to Milwaukee vs DeWalt impact drivers, we see a few distinct differences in extra features and overall performance.
For starters, the Milwaukee impact driver has its brushless powers-state motor, which is highly efficient and delivers up to 1800 inches per pound of torque. This makes the job a breeze to get through, no matter the size.
However, with the DeWalt impact driver, you get the sleekness of the quick-change chuck, saving you time while changing bits. Surrounding the chuck, there are LED lights that illuminate the work area. Another thing that makes the operation more smooth with the DeWalt is the bit ejection feature.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt Nail Guns
When it comes to nail guns, both Milwaukee and DeWalt have a few great options.
DeWalt currently has two models, the DCN690 20V Max Framing Nailer and the DCN692 20V Max Framing Nailer. The DCN690 is a single-speed nail gun, while the DCN692 is dual speed. Both feature brushless motors and carry lithium-ion batteries.
Although the Framing Nailers from DeWalt are great, they lack a bit behind Milwaukee’s. In comparison, their power is adequate, and shooting nails into hard materials can be time-consuming and tiring.
Not only is Milwaukee’s Framing Nailers more powerful, but they also offer several other conveniences that DeWalt didn’t. For instance, Milwaukee provides a larger capacity for nails, helping you get the job done quicker with fewer stops.
The Milwaukee Framing Nailer can also shoot in 500 to 700 nails on one battery before needing a recharge, whereas the DeWalt could only do 500.
However, the downfall of the Milwaukee is its weight. It’s a hefty tool, which can leave your arm and body tired after a long day on the job.
DeWalt vs Milwaukee Circular Saws
With circular saws, we have the DeWalt FlexVolt and the Milwaukee 2830-20, and both are quite similar again.
Both saws perform well at removing dust without needing a vacuum, and they have superb power.
Thanks to its smooth operation, Milwaukee takes an advantage; it glides effortlessly across the wood during rip and crosscuts. On the other hand, the DeWalt has a large, comfortable handle, providing you with a solid grip for better control.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt Miter Saws
When it comes to the miter saws, we again see a better performance from Milwaukee but more convenience features from DeWalt.
The Milwaukee corded miter saw is one that can go for hours, taking on hard and soft materials. Although it’s corded, it has a long reach, and it’s often the first choice for those looking for power and portability.
DeWalt, however, features an excellent fence clearance with an above-average capacity. Additionally, it includes LED lights, allowing you to see where you’re cutting.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt Routers
The Milwaukee M18 Fuel Compact Router has a lot to offer. It features a brushless motor and a long-lasting, high-capacity battery, enabling you to get more done on one charge.
What’s a little different about this one is that it includes LED lights so that you can see your work area. The DeWalt cordless router isn’t far behind in this category. It also features LED lights to illuminate your work area.
The DeWalt stands out thanks to its quick-release clamp, which allows coarse depth adjustments and to remove the fixed base when changing the bit. Another pro is the soft-start motor and variable speed control.
However, the Milwaukee is more powerful, capable of running between 10,000 RPM to 31,000 RPM. DeWalt only reaches up to 25,500 RPM. It’s not easy saying which one is better, but it again comes down to whether you prefer power over convenience features.
DeWalt vs Milwaukee Power Drills
Both the DeWalt and Milwaukee pack a punch in terms of power, and they sit high on the list of the best power drills. The Milwaukee drills exceptionally fast, but the DeWalt is more compact, and with its brushless motor, it’s also lighter.
Milwaukee vs DeWalt Hammer Drills
With the hammer drills, we see a few differences. For instance, the Milwaukee M18 Fuel hammer drill displays a harder torque than the DeWalt DCD997. However, DeWalt held up better under pressure, meaning it didn’t slow down as much and thus got the job done faster.
The Milwaukee is built for high-speed drilling; it can power through tough materials at high speed, whereas other hammer drills need to slow down. That makes it an excellent option for electricians and plumbers.
Which Is Better Milwaukee or Dewalt?
It’s tough to say which brand is the best. Both have great features and technologies that, no matter what, will help you complete your work or project.
DeWalt vs Milwaukee; a comparison of two heavyweights within the tool production sector. Both have long histories dating back to the early 1900s, and they’ve had their ups and downs. Being part of two larger parent companies, they’re thriving, leading the industry with their innovative technologies.
Which brand do you prefer? Please leave your answer in the comments below.
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The Actors Guild of Nigeria AGN, have replied actress Kemi Akindoju, who earlier today blasted the leadership of the association after they paid a visit to actress, Regina Daniels, and her billionaire husband, Ned Nwoko to congratulate them on their new born. In a statement released this night, Monalisa Chinda Coker, the Director of Communications of the AGN, said ordinarily the organization would not dignify Lala's ''repugnant and uninformed comment'' but it is compelled to explain the reason the some members visited Regina and her husband. Read the statement below ''Our attention has been drawn to an unsavoury statement by An Actress though not an AGN Member. Kemi Lala Akindoju on social media about the visit of the President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria to Mrs Regina Daniel Nwoko, one of our members who recently gave birth to a baby. Ordinarily, the AGN would not dignify such repugnant, uninformed comment with any response. In this case howev
Hushpuppi: Protesters storm US Embassy, demand arrest of Atiku and Dino Melaye (photos)
Some protesters on Monday July 6 stormed the US embassy in Abuja, demanding the arrest of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Timi Frank, Dino Melaye and other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains, and an investigation of their link to arrested suspected Nigerian fraudster, Raymond Abbas Igbalode a.k.a Hushpuppi. The protesters said to be members of Concerned Citizens Forum (CCF) held up placards which read “Say No to fraud, Interpol act now”, Interpol act and arrest Dino Melaye”, “Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are”, “FBI should investigate Atiku Abubakar." They also submitted a letter to the US Ambassador and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, demanding for a probe of Hushpuppi’s political allies in the PDP. They insisted that Atiku Abubakar’s frequent trips to Dubai prior to 2019 presidential elections may not be unconnected to Hushpuppi. According to them, some PDP memebers might have helped Hushpuppi launder proceeds of crime.
Mother, 33, arrested after she was caught burying her foetus in Kaduna
A 33-year-old woman and her elder sister have been arrested after they connived to bury her baby alive in Kaduna. The woman, simply identified as Hauwa, reportedly had her fetus removed and buried it in a shallow grave with the help of her 35-year-old elder sister Zainab. According to reports, the two sisters checked in to People’s Club Hotel in Tundun Wada, Kaduna State, and paid accommodation fee of N2,000 just to execute their plan. As they were digging a spot to bury the baby, someone sighted them. When they were done, they covered it with a stone. The eye witness who saw them alerted the hotel management and they went to check what they buried there. While digging, they saw blood and decided to invite the police who came and arrested the two sisters. Details of how the foetus was removed by the two sisters is still sketchy.
Hushpuppi's prison details revealed in the Bureau of Prisons website
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) website allows the public to check prisoner's details and Nigerians have gone on the site to search out Hushpuppi's details. Recall that Hushpuppi, whose birth name is Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, was extradited to the US after he was arrested in Dubai for fraud. His registration number in the US prison system was made public, allowing people search for him in the BOP's website. His details on the website shows his name, age, race and the location where he's being held. As for his release, date, it states "Unknown". The US Department of Justice said in a statement that Hushpuppi could get a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison if convicted.
Policewoman shoots her husband for not picking her calls and giving their house help money without consulting her
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Family dispel rumor that makeup artist Deborah Tushima was poisoned at her birthday party over an iPhone 11 as they explain what led to her death
Deborah Tushima, the makeup artist who allegedly slumped and died on Saturday, July 4, during her birthday celebration, did not die of poisoning, her family member has said. Deborah is currently the number one trending topic on Twitter as people express shock over her sudden death on her birthday. According to screenshots of a chat shared by a family friend, a family member said the young makeup artist simply slumped. They added that she started "fainting" recently and the one that happened at her birthday party and ultimately led to her death was the fourth time she fainted. The family member said: "Later on we discovered that she has a heart problem that makes her faint, and she has been fainting for some time but neither mum nor dad knew about that." The family member added that she died in Makurdi, where she was doing her IT, not in Jos as claimed. Chats:
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August 11th, 2020 - 12:05pm
Ohio’s four casinos set a record for revenue in July, raking in more than $86 million as they rebounded in a big way from coronavirus-related closures.
The seven racinos in the Buckeye state also had a great rebound in July, pulling in more than $95 million in revenue and nearly $1 billion in handle.
Together, the 11 facilities combined for more than $181 million in revenue, one of the best months in the state’s eight-year history of legal on-site gaming.
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The Ohio Casino Control Commission reported its numbers for July, the first full month back since the coronavirus pandemic forced the state’s four casinos to close in mid March. The casinos — Hollywood Toledo, Jack Cleveland, Hollywood Columbus and Hard Rock Cincinnati (in the midst of a rebrand from Jack Cincinnati) — reopened June 18.
In July, those four combined for $86,047,151 in total revenue (table games and slots), beating a record that had stood for more than seven years. In March 2013, the month Cincinnati’s casino opened, the state pulled in $84,287,426 in revenue.
The $33.3 million in revenue at Hollywood Toledo in July is the biggest monthly total ever for an Ohio casino, the Dayton Daily News reported. According to that report, Ohio Casino Control Commission spokeswoman Jessica Franks said that Detroit’s casino closures likely contributed to Toledo’s record numbers. Detroit’s three commercial casinos just reopened last week; the city is about a 90-minute drive from Toledo but Toledo is very close to the Michigan border so people in southern Michigan might well have decided to gamble in Toledo if they couldn’t do so in Detroit.
There were hints that Ohio casinos could have a stellar July even when their June numbers came in. They only had a partial month to work with but, even at reduced capacity thanks to new social distancing norms, the per-day average handle was on par with the full months before COVID-19 struck.
Racinos Near Record Revenue, Handle
Ohio’s seven racinos did not quite reach record levels in handle or revenue, but they were not far off either, according to the monthly report from the Ohio Lottery. Belterra Park (Cincinnati), Eldorado Gaming Scioto Downs (Columbus), MGM Northfield, Hollywood Dayton, Hollywood Mahoning Valley (Youngstown), Jack Thistledown (Cleveland) and Miami Valley Gaming (Lebanon) combined for $984,703,467 in Video Lottery Terminal handle and $95,020,535 in VLT net win.
Since beginning operations in June 2012, the state’s racinos have combined to surpass $1 billion in handle 10 times, with six of those months coming in the just-concluded 2019-20 fiscal year. The record for net win is $103.1 million in March 2019; the July 2020 net win was fifth-best all time.
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Justin Freeman| 06/10/2020| Art
Savage Beauty: Frida Kahlo
A new biographical account takes the artist out of the gift shop and re-establishes her in the gallery, reminding the reader that Kahlo was a force of nature.
It was Madonna, the iconic goddess of pop, who in a 1990 interview with Vanity Fair stated, “If somebody doesn’t like this painting, then I know they can’t be my friend.” The painting in question was My Birth (1932), a brutal depiction of Frida Kahlo being born or reborn from a body, maybe her mother’s, maybe her own, lying dead on a bed, whilst an adult Kahlo tears into the present moment with a ferocity that permeates her subsequent work. It is this savage beauty that Hettie Judah doesn’t flinch from portraying in her biographical account of the artist.
Kahlo’s practice was surreal before she knew what surrealism was, she was pop before cultivating a public persona was a thing, and created ‘happenings’ way before the 60s, but most of all she was uncompromising in her craft as a female artist. She was also a political tour de force and an avid champion of the new wave of communism that swept Mexico in the early 20th century. Her works were revolutionary, shocking the bourgeois-established artistic milieu not just in content but also in style. She exemplified the primitive, folk art and native surrealism of a pre-Spanish/Catholic world, and echoed the hostility and anger people felt towards the unfolding present.
She is an artist who has become sanitised, commodified and merchandised by an art world eager to diversify income generation. Judah’s book redresses this imbalance with a return to the raw, monstrous energy of Kahlo’s art, taking the artist out of the gift shop and re-establishing her in the gallery. Presenting her practice and the multilayered suffering that informed it in naked realness, she contextualises Kahlo’s life from childhood and family dramas, through her teen years and gender fluidity to the atrocious moment a collision of tram and bus cleaved her body from innocence to womanhood. The result gives a sense of the brutalised rage of a woman torn in two and put back together, of a body capable of providing life and tragically taking it, too.
This wonderful little book reminds the reader that Kahlo is more than a symbol, a trinket in a souvenir shop; Kahlo was the struggle, she was a force of nature. By courageously revealing that which others refuse to show or acknowledge, her work transcends categorisation, challenging through extremes. Judah’s Kahlo reflects Coatlicue, the Aztec goddess of beginnings and endings of life and death, the omnipresent shadow in all her work.
Frida Kahlo: Lives of the Artists is available via Laurence King now.
Image: Frida holding court at the Casa Azul © Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Archives. Bank of México, fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust
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Naila Scargill| 21/03/2018| Society
Justice Is A Fallacy: The Third Murder
As an exercise in philosophical musings on the nature of true justice, The Third Murder challenges the viewer with a compelling ambiguity.
Eschewing the snappy edit typical of the thriller genre in favour of a dialogue-driven narrative, The Third Murder is a legal procedural with a difference; deliberate pacing requires full attention, creating an engrossing experience. Certainly the film’s ambiguity—ultimately there are no answers—won’t be for everyone, but as an exercise in philosophical musings on the nature of true justice, it’s thought-provoking. Does anyone ever deserve to be killed, and are there some people who never should have been born?
Director-writer Hirokazu Kore-eda found himself inspired by the idea of what would happen if a lawyer wanted to know the truth, as opposed to being concerned with winning in court. On this journey is the cold and clinical Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama) defending a seemingly cut-and-dried case; Misumi (Kôji Yakusho) has confessed to the murder that opens the film (its only instance of violence) and has killed two men in the past. The task at hand is to avoid the death penalty and Shigemori, solely concerned with the letter of the law, intends to manipulate it to his client’s advantage. Misumi is perplexing, continually changing his story, and Shigemori gradually comes to feel a personal connection; with it comes a desire to know his real motives.
“You really shouldn’t expect so much from a murderer like me.”
Exposition is the order of the day here as the characters deliberate fascinating intricacies of the law, while Shigemori and Misumi’s conversations grow metaphysical in nature, the killer more interested in the lawyer’s thought processes than the pending death sentence, about which he is ambivalent. In fact the character as a whole is a juxtaposition: he’s capable of murder yet presents as benign, is frightened, then a gleeful game-player. A complex psychology indeed, entirely reliant on dialogue in a restrictive frame, and Yakusho is superb. The actor shares a convincing rapport with Fukuyama, who is also very good, Shigemori’s facade falling away as he is drawn in by Misumi. Kore-eda utilises the reflection of the separating glass of the jail visitor room, slowly merging the pair’s faces as time goes on. Shigemori will be haunted by this case long after Misumi has faced the end.
No, The Third Murder will not provide answers, and it is all the better a film for it; the ambiguity makes for an effective tension that is compelling, challenging the viewer in much the same way Misumi does Shigemori. A beautiful score by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi complements this, while a cold blue palette represents the hard-line presence of the law and capital punishment.
The Third Murder opens on 23 March
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Naila Scargill is the publisher and editor of horror journal Exquisite Terror. Holding a broad editorial background, she has worked with an eclectic variety of content, ranging from film and the counterculture, to political news and finance.
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Some Alternatives to the KonMari Decluttering Method
Marie Kondo's approach might be the most famous, but it's not the only one.
Published August 13, 2020 03:10PM EDT
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Not everyone is a fan of Marie Kondo's somewhat radical approach to decluttering. Even I, who think her popularization of decluttering is a good thing for North America's consumerist society, feel some regret at having gotten rid of certain items. I miss specific shirts, skirts, and shoes that, in the moment, did not spark joy, but now would come in very handy.
The good news is, KonMari isn't the only way to declutter your home. There are other methods that can help you wade through the stuff and figure out what's worth saving and what's not. These approaches aren't as extreme; they allow for uncertainty and a gradual transition, which may be better for some people.
1. Four Box Method
Set up four boxes and label them Put Away, Give Away, Throw Away, and Undecided. Go through your items and sort them accordingly. The Undecided box allows for doubt and time to reflect. Just be careful not to put too many things in there.
2. "Only Handle It Once"
This is a smart strategy for whenever you bring stuff into your house: deal with it immediately. Emails, junk mail, trinkets, as well as items that you're decluttering – make a decision right away so that you don't have to waste time and energy coming back to it later.
3. One Thing
Instead of tackling everything you own, choose one category of items, i.e. shoes, books, clothes, toys, and commit to decluttering this over the course of a year. (You can go with a shorter time frame if you wish.) This is less daunting than doing everything at once.
4. "Would I buy it Again?"
A smart question to ask yourself that may be more practical than Marie Kondo's infamous "Does it spark joy?." Asking "Would I buy it again?" is an excellent chance to reflect on the usefulness and value of specific belongings and to guide future purchasing decisions. After all, hindsight is 20/20, as they say. (Read "8 Rules for Smart, Ethical Clothes Shopping" for more advice on this topic.)
5. The One-Year Question
If you haven't used something in a year, you might want to get rid of it. You've gone through all the seasons and possible scenarios when you might need it, but if it hasn't come out of the closet or the drawer, you can likely pitch it and not notice its absence.
6. The Hanger Rule
Turn all of your clothes hangers backward and, as you use an item, turn it back the right way. After a few months, you'll have a good visual of what gets used and what doesn't. This works if most of your clothes are hanging in a closet, unless you can devise another way of tracking items. If so, apply it to other parts of your house, such as toy boxes.
7. Five a Day
You find five things to discard or donate every day. Do it for a month and you'll have 150 fewer items in your home. Three months later, you'll be 450 items lighter. (It's a less extreme version of the Minimalism Game.)
8. Use the Clutterfree App
Devised by Joshua Becker of Becoming Minimalist, this is a new app that allows users to upload a personalized description of their home for a more detailed decluttering plan. It allows people to prioritize what they want and use a checklist to accomplish it.
9. The Five-Point Scale
Professional organizer Dorothy Breininger uses a five-point scale to categorize clutter, in order to help people understand what they should keep or toss. The categories include important items, items that are difficult to replace, occasionally-used items, rarely-used items that you're hesitant to discard, and specialized items that you never use. Read more about it here.
There's a system for everyone, and you don't have to conform to Marie Kondo's idea of decluttering if it doesn't feel right to you. The goal is to create a space that not only feels and looks good, but also has what you need, when you need it.
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Survival of the fittest at Super Sprint Race Weekend
Australia’s finest young triathletes battled the humid Gold Coast conditions to survive the Super Sprint weekend, the opening round of the 2018-2019 Australia Junior and Youth Triathlon Series at Runaway Bay, in what Junior Female winner Emily Jamgotchian described as “survival of the fittest”.
The four-day race schedule tested the 260 youngsters in the Youth and Junior categories who battled through five and six rounds of hybrid triathlons in swim, bike and run formats as well as the Mixed Team Relays, which for the first time also provided points for the overall individual podium places.
The Junior Male category was hotly contested over the six events, with the final triathlon event determining the final podium positions, where the finish line order reciprocated the overall placings. Keeping close together on the swim and bike legs, Lachlan Jones (QLD), Oscar Dart (VIC) and Luke Harvey (QLD) were able to establish a break on their competition out of T2 and stayed in touch until the final lap of the run where Jones took the lead and was able to hold of the Victorian and fellow Queenslander to take the line honours, securing the win of the event and first series round.
Dart finished the six rounds on the same points as Jones (232.50); however, was awarded second place due to a lower overall time by 6 seconds. Dual 16-19-year-old Sprint World Champion, Harvey claimed third on 190.50 points.
“This year is a lot different to how I have gone into races in the past, especially here, this time I really tried to pace myself and sort of held back about 10% each race and save it for the final. I tried to stay up there as much I could as I didn’t want to fall too far behind but I knew that in this final there was a 15 point difference between 1st and 2nd so I tried to save it to give it everything for the final,” said Jones.
James Olson-Keating was also in contention for the podium but missed the final days event due to his family flying to Canada for Christmas but was still able to take fourth place overall.
Breaking Queensland’s winning streak was New South Wales’ Emily Jamgotchian who came into the Super Sprint Race Weekend not really knowing what to expect from her performances, and although she finished 10th and 11th in two of the six events, by taking first place in the final two triathlon events, took out the overall Junior category title for the weekend. 16-19 Sprint Female World Champion, Chloe McLennan (QLD) had a reasonably consistent event to take second place from New Zealand’s Brea Roderick in third. Jazi Coventry (QLD) displayed her excellent swim and running skills over the four day event to take fourth place.
“I think it really goes to show how important recovery is; after every race cooling down, nutrition at the end of the day it is sort of like survival of the fittest so you really have to take that into consideration,” said Jamgotchian when asked about the biggest lessons learnt whilst racing Australia’s best junior talent.
As to what is next on the to-do list for Jamgotchian after Christmas, it’s back to race mode with the remaining two Australian Junior series events.
“I’ve got the rest of series next year with Canberra and Devonport which I will be looking to go really well there as well.”
Jack Crome and Tara Sosinski continued Queensland’s dominance in the Youth A categories, with Jackson Medway (QLD) and Chloe Bateup (ACT) in second place. Darcy Williams (VIC) and Charlotte Thompson (WA) claimed third to round out the podium.
Host state Queensland took a clean sweep of the podium in the Youth B events, with Payton Craig and Tamsyn Hill taking the top spots. In second was Ethan Close and Leah Dargan joining Douglas Chapman and Kate Collins who earned bronze medals.
The next round of the Australian Junior and Youth Series will be held in the New Year at the Capital Trilogy Triathlon in Canberra on January 19-20.
Full results will be provided here.
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> Home Page > About > Latest News > Trans Tasman rivalry set to light up Devonport
Trans Tasman rivalry set to light up Devonport
Ahead of the World Paratriathlon Series on Saturday afternoon, some of the top Elite and U23 athletes in the Oceania region will converge in Devonport for the 2020 Devonport OTU Sprint Oceania Cup and Oceania Championships.
With Trans-Tasman rivalry on full show, the Oceania Cup and Championships will see a full field of Australian, New Zealand and international athletes open their 2020 racing seasons on a fast and challenging course through the streets of Devonport.
Melbourne’s Tamsyn Moana-Veale will take to the starting line wearing the number one after a year of building and growth on the World Cup and World Triathlon Series circuit that saw the New Zealand-born athlete take 4th at the 2019 Chengdu ITU Triathlon World Cup and 9th at the 2019 Nur-Sultan ITU Triathlon World Cup.
Speaking to Triathlon Australia, Moana-Veale said that she’s hoping she can capitalise on the lessons learnt and momemtum gained in her 2019 season ahead of a packed year for the 27-year-old.
“It’s always hard to know what to expect for the first race of the season,” Moana-Veale said.
“It’ll be a great opportunity to go out and see where I’m at early season on a tough course with a strong field.”
“We have prepared similar to previous years as it’s worked well in the past and things seems to be tracking along well so hoping for a good result this weekend.”
Moana-Veale will have her work cut out for her, with a quality Elite and U23 field joining her in this weekend’s event.
After a strong domestic season and an impressive 11th place finish at the 2019 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final U23 race in Lausanne, 2019 Elite and U23 Oceania Sprint Champion Joanne Miller returns to Devonport with hopes of defending her title and opening her 2020 racing account with a bang.
Joining Miller and Moana-Veale on the starting line will be Armidale’s Gillian Backhouse and West Australia’s Kira Hedgeland, with both athletes arriving in Devonport off the back of a solid training camp in Lennox Head. While 2018 Commonwealth Games representative Charlotte McShane will look to get her season underway in Devonport following a challenging 2019 season.
They’ll be joined by a slew of Australian U23 young guns including Milan Agnew, Matilda Offord, Victoria Gillies, Emma Hogan, Cassia Boglio and Jessica Ashworth.
Three-time Olympian Andrea Hewitt (NZL) will cross the Trans-Tasman to contest the Oceania title, fresh off the back of her recent return to world-class form at the 2019 Santo Domingo ITU Triathlon World Cup last November. She’ll be joined by fellow countrywoman Hannah Knighton in her first ITU U23 race after she claimed fourth as a Junior at the 2019 World Triathlon Grand Final.
Headlined by 2018 Commonwealth Games team member Luke Willian, 2019 Oceania Sprint silver medallist Matt Roberts and 2019 Moreton Bay Standard Champion Brandon Copeland, a strong contingent of Australian Elite and U23 male athletes will also make their way to Devonport to contest the Oceania Sprint titles.
Lorcan Redmond will step up to his first U23 race in Devonport after securing a silver medal as a Junior at the 2019 World Triathlon Grand Final, with 2018 U23 Oceania Standard Champion Callum McClusky also bolstering the experience of the group headed to Devonport, alongside Adam Rudgley, Marcel Walkington, Caleb Noble and Travis Coleman.
Defending Elite and U23 Oceania Sprint Champion Tayler Reid (NZL) will bring a shade of Trans-Tasman rivalry to the affair, as the New Zealander heads into the Elite Men’s race as the number one seed. Following his breakout 2019 season that saw him claim his maiden World Cup win at the 2019 Antwerp World Cup, Reid will no doubt be looking to get his season off to a flying start in Devonport.
In amongst a jam-packed weekend of racing, the Devonport Triathlon will also play host to the second round of the Australian Youth & Junior Triathlon Series.
Featuring both the Youth and Junior National Championship races, as well as the Junior Mixed Relay National Championship, the pressure will be on for some of Australia’s best young triathlon talent to step up to the plate and put their skills on show.
The 2020 OTU Sprint Triathlon Oceania Cup and Oceania Championships and round two of the Australian Youth & Junior Triathlon Series will take place on Saturday February 27 in Devonport.
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Review of Porosity Formation and Avoidance in MIG Welding
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The effect of porosity on mechanical properties is outlined, and comparisons are drawn with the effects of other types of defects.
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.Конспект урока английского языка в 9 классе по теме: William Shakespeare - famous English writer.
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Конспект урока английского языка в 9 классе по теме:
William Shakespeare - famous English writer.
Учитель ГОУ СОШ №301 г.Санкт-Петербурга - Куденцова Ирина Владимировна
Цели урока: Активизировать познавательную деятельность учащихся.
Развитие интереса учащихся к культурному наследию Великобритании.
Изучение творчества У. Шекспира.
Повышение интереса учащихся к изучению английского языка.
Развитие навыков и умений говорения.
Развитие способности и готовности общения на английском языке.
Закрепить лексический материал по теме “Вильям Шекспир”.
Создание благоприятного эмоционально-психологического климата
на уроке.
Учебные - обобщение и систематизация изученного лексического и грамматического материала; учить учащихся правильному употреблению речевых образцов в речи и самостоятельной работе с фонетическим материалом; изучение пословиц, ‘крылатых фраз’ и идиоматических выражений; продолжить работу над словообразованием однокоренных слов.
Развивающие - интеллектуальное развитие учащихся; развитие языковых, интеллектуальных и познавательных способностей; знакомство с культурным наследием и традициями Англии; готовность к коммуникации.
Воспитательные - формирование у учащихся уважения и интереса к культуре и народу страны изучаемого языка; воспитание культуры общения; воспитание и формирование потребности в познавательной активности.
ХОД УРОКА:
Good morning. I am glad to see you. How are you today?
(Good morning. Fine, thank you.)
Today we’ll speak about a famous English writer – William Shakespeare. Certainly, all of you know this name and some of his books, but I think that you don’t know much about his life and his theatre. So we’ll see a presentation which was made by one of the pupils of our school last year. And it will help us to know more about the greatest English playwright. After the seeing you will be asked to do some exercises. Be attentive, you may write down some information in your exercise-books.
( слайд 1 – 8) (Pupils read the presentation and learn some facts from W.Shakespeare’s life.)
(1564-1616),
Shakespeare is the greatest of all playwrights and poets of all times. The last half of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries are known as the golden age of English literature. Sometimes it is called “the age of Shakespeare”.
William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. At the age of 6 he was sent to school, but had to leave it at the age of 13 and never went to school again. His father who couldn’t even write was a glove-maker. William helped him in his trade.
At the age of 18, he married Anne Hatheway. Ann was 8 years older than her husband and their marriage wasn’t happy. They had 3 children.
At that time actors and actresses visited Stratford-on-Avon. William liked to watch them. He was fond of their profession and he decided to become an actor. When he was 21 he went to London. There he became an actor. He began to write plays too. He worked in the modern theatre “Globe”. 14 years later he became a part owner of the Globe theatre in London.
Globe_theatre_in London
The original Globe was opened in 1599, burned down in 1613 and immediately rebuilt. It was a round building with the stage in the centre, open to the sky. If it was raining, the actors got wet; if the weather was too bad, there was no performance at all. It was closed in 1642.
In 1997 after almost 400years Shakespeare’s Globe was opened again for public. Every summer it offers now performance of plays by Shakespeare.
The first task is very interesting. Guess whether it is true or false. (Teacher reads sentences. Pupils who give right answers get scores / pluses. )
W.Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and he died also this date, April23, 1616.(+)
His father, John Shakespeare, couldn’t write. (+)
His mother was a daughter of the farmer. (+)
W.Shakespeare married when he was 18 years old. (+)
W.Shakespeare had 3 children: a daughter and twin sons. (+)
In the 16th century there were many theatres in Britain. (-)
Globe Theatre was situated on the bank of the River Thames. (+)
Nowadays Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is opened all year round. (-)
When W.Shakespeare came to London his first job was holding rich man’s horses at the theatre door. (+)
He wrote 37 plays but only 18 were published in his lifetime. (+)
He made up the stories himself. (-)
The next exercise is about the famous Globe Theatre. Take cards#1 on your desks. Read the short text and fill in the words in the correct form: (3-5 min., teacher checks the works and pupils who give right answers get scores / pluses. )
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company, and was -------------------- by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.
In 1949 an American actor and film director Sam Wanamaker came to London looking for the site of the Globe Theatre. He didn’t find any so in 1970 he established Globe Playhouse Trust with the aim of rising funds to -------------- the Globe. And in 1997 Her Majesty the Queen opened the International Shakespeare Globe Centre.
The Globe’s actual dimensions are -----------------, but it was a three-storey, open-air amphitheatre approximately 30 m in diameter that could house up to 3,000 spectators
At the base of the stage, there was an area called the pit, where, for a penny, people would stand on the earthen floor to watch the ------------------ . Around the yard were three levels of stadium-style seats, which were more expensive than standing room.
A rectangle stage platform, also known as an ‘apron stage’ thrust out into the middle of the open-air yard. On this stage, there was a trap door for use by ------------------ .
Large columns on either site of the stage supported a roof over the stage. The ceiling under this roof was called the ‘heavens’, and was painted with clouds and the sky. The balcony housed the ------------------ and could also be used for scenes, such as the balcony scene in “Romeo and Juliet”.
Who read W.Shakespeare’s plays? What plays do you know? (Pupils answer the questions. )
Let’s return to our presentation and read some information about W.Shakespeare’s books.
( слайд 9 -10) –reading.
Shakespeare’s experience as an actor helped him greatly in the writing of his plays. His knowledge of stage and his poetical genius made his plays the most wonderful ones ever written.
Shakespeare wrote:
37 plays;
17 comedies,
10 historical plays
7 books of poems.
2 long poems and 154 sonnets.
Most of Shakespeare’s plays were not published in his lifetime. So some of them may have been lost in the fire when the “Globe” burned down in 1613.
It is interesting to note that almost all plots of Shakespeare’s plays were not original.
He took them from the works of other authors. At that time the audience was rather ignorant
and the playwrights tried to attract it to the world literature through their plays. Shakespeare took his plots from history, old legends, novels and poems; he also used Plutarch’s “Historical Portraits”. The plot of “Othello” and “Twelfth Night” was taken from Italian novels and those of “Hamlet” and “King Lear” - from early English authors. But every borrowed plot began to live a new life in his plays.
Shakespeare also wrote 2 long poems and 154 sonnets. They show his extraordinary powers of expression and his depth of emotional understanding.
( слайд 11 ) –read and translate.
Comedies:
The Taming of the Strew
Tragedies:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Julies Caesar
(If you have time you can read slides 12 and 13 )
I am fond of… - я очень люблю…
As to me… - что касается меня…
I couldn’t help smiling/laughing… - я не мог не улыбаться/ смеяться…
I couldn’t help crying… - я не мог не плакать…
The book is written by well-known English writer of the …….. century …….. –книга написана известным английским писателем …….века……….
The title of the book is ……. – название книги………..
It’s a love story /tragedy/comedy – это любовный роман/ трагедия/ комедия
The plot of the (book) is interesting – содержание книги очень интересное.
The (book) tells about a ……… who …….. ( the contents of the book must be given very briefly) - книга рассказывает о ………., который(ая) ………….
There are some humorous/ funny/ sad/ tragic episodes - есть юмористические/ смешные/ печальные/трагические эпизоды.
To cut a long story short, …….. - короче говоря, …….. (the end of the book must be given).
I can’t but mention such characters as …… - не могу не упомянуть таких персонажей как …..
If you like historical novels/ love stories/ comedies/ tragedies I advise you to read this (book).
Now I want you to talk about the great plays written by W. Shakespeare. You can work in groups. Choose one of W. Shakespeare’s plays. Say that you have read it and recommend us to read this play. You’ve got cards with some phrases on your desks. Look at them; they can help you, use as many phrases as you can. You have 4-5 min.
Shakespeare’s works have great influence on English. Many sayings and quotations came from his work. Many of his expressions have become part of the language. These sayings are known to everybody and they are widely used. Translate some of them. (слайд 14 )
1“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
2“To be or not to be”.
3“Sweets to the sweet”
4“Life is not all cakes and ale”
5“Love is blind”
6“The beginning of the end.”
7“All is well that ends well.
8“Brevity is the soul of wit”
9“Much ado about nothing.”
10“The whirling of time”
11“Cowards die many times before
their death”
1“Не все в порядке в Датском королевстве”
2“Быть или не быть”
3 “Прекрасное – прекрасной”
4 “ Жизнь прожить - не поле перейти”
5 “Любовь слепа”
6 “Начало конца”
7 “Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается”
8 “Краткость - сестра таланта”
9 “Много шума из ничего”
10 “Превратности судьбы”
11 Трус умирает много раз до
смерти”
Many lines of his works became famous sayings and are known all over the world.
Complete the Shakespeare’s quotes. Can you match the two halves to make the quote?
( слайд 15 ).
1 . All the world's a stage
2 . To be, or not to be:
3 . Love is blind
4 . Neither a borrower
5 . I must be cruel
6 . Men of few word
7. What's done
is done.
and all the men and women are merely players.
and lovers cannot see.
that is the question.
nor a lender be.
only to be kind.
are the best men.
Now I am going to speak about idioms. Do you remember what idioms are? Do you know the examples? (Pupils try to answer.)
An idiom is a set expression which has a meaning different from the literal meanings of its components. Idioms can be quite clear or pretty unclear. It is useless to ask why idioms have such unusual structure or choice of words, or why they don't follow basic grammar rules. Let's just accept as fact that idioms are a difficult peculiarity of English. Many idioms appeared as quotations from well-known writers such as Shakespeare. For example, "at / in one fell swoop" comes from Macbeth and "cold comfort" from King Lear. (слайд 16 ) - read, write down idioms and do the exercise. These idioms were invented by William Shakespeare and used in his famous plays. They are all used in everyday English and very well known. Can you match each idiom to the correct sentence? Check answers with the help of the presentation.
You were good at doing exercise and now let’s read some facts about the last years of Shakespeare’s life. (слайд 17 - 19) – reading.
Shakespeare spent most of his career in London as an actor, playwright and manager of the Globe Theatre. In 1611 he came back to Stratford and spent there the last years of his life, there he died, on the same date as his birthday, the 23rd of April 1616. He was buried in Holy Trinity Church of Stratford. His tomb has four lines that are said to have been written by him:
“Good friend, for Jesus’ sake, forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here;
Blessed be he that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones”.
A monument was opened to the memory of the great playwright in the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.
After reading the presentation you know a lot of information. What do you know about William Shakespeare? Try this quiz to find out. On your desks there are sheets of papers with a short test. You may work in groups again.
1) When was William Shakespeare born?
2) Where was Shakespeare born?
3) Which type of plays did Shakespeare not write?
4) What's the name of the ‘Shakespeare theatre' in London?
The World Theatre
The Globe Theatre
The Shakespeare’s Theatre
5) Which of these plays was not written by Shakespeare?
6) He wrote …
tragedies, novels, historical plays, poems and sonnets
tragedies and comedies
tragedies, comedies, historical plays, poems and sonnets
7) He studied at …
a university
a grammar school
an artist’s school
8) His father was a …
shoe-maker
glove-maker
house-maker
9) Shakespeare went to … at the age of 21.
10) Who played Romeo in the most recent film version of ‘Romeo and Juliet'?
I’d like to finish our lesson with the words of an English poet, polemicist and politician John Milton. (слайд 20) His words were translated by famous Russian poet and translator S.Marshak.
And there are very wise words written by W Shakespeare in Sonnet 18. Read them. (слайд 21).
Your home task for the next lesson is: to prepare a short story about your favorite play by W.Shakespeare. You have worked well today. Your marks at the lesson are...
The lesson is over, good bye.
Список использованных ресурсов:
1.“Spoken English”, пособие по разговорной речи. Ю.Галицынский, С-пб, «Каро»2000.
2. Разговорные темы к экзаменам по английскому языку, С-Пб «Корона-Век» 2010,
С.Катенин и др.
3. Английский язык, тематический сборник для подготовки к устному экзамену по английскому языку за курс основной школы, Т.Ю.Журна, «Дрофа»,М-ва, 2004.
4. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
5. http://images.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=william%20shakespeare&stype=image
6. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/shakespe.htm
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml
8. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/William_Shakespeare
9. http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/shakespeare-biography
10. «Шекспир» С.Шенбаум, краткая документальная бография, «Прогресс»,М-ва,1985.
11. http://festival.1september.ru/articles/subjects/10
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13-year-old White Rock girl charged with dangerous drug possession and assault
A 13-year-old White Rock girl was allegedly caught with a small quantity of methylamphetamine yesterday afternoon.
The girl, who is a person of interest in an assault and stealing matter at Mooroobool last month, was arrested and charged by Cairns Police.
Cairns Child Protection Investigation Unit officers were conducting inquiries in the Manoora area yesterday afternoon when they sighted the girl.
She was taken into custody and allegedly struggled with officers before damaging a police vehicle.
The girl was charged with one count each of common assault, stealing, wilful damage, obstructing police, and possession of a dangerous drug.
It will also be alleged she was one of four girls who assaulted a 16-year-old girl in a park near Shang Street at Mooroobool on the afternoon of August 25.
It's further alleged the victim had money stolen from her purse following the assault. The victim was not physically injured as a result of the incident.
The 13-year-old girl is scheduled to appear in the Cairns Childrens Court.
Investigations into the assault and stealing incidents are continuing.
If you have information for police, contact Policelink on 131 444 or provide information using the online form 24hrs per day.
You can report information about crime anonymously to Crime Stoppers, a registered charity and community volunteer organisation, by calling 1800 333 000 or via crimestoppersqld.com.au 24hrs per day.
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Recap Of Middleburg Spring Races’ 100th Running
The following articles appeared at nationalsteeplechase.com and were written by Don Clippinger. The Middleburg Spring Races were held at Glenwood Park on June 13. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they were held without spectators. Video replays of all 11 races can be viewed at nationalsteeplechase.com.
Racing Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard and jockey Gerard Galligan climbed to the top of the National Steeplechase Association standings with three victories apiece at the season-opening Middleburg Spring Races on June 13.
Sheppard, the all-time leading steeplechase trainer by both wins and earnings, and Galligan combined forces for two of those victories on the 11-race Middleburg program, which featured a record 115 starters.
Supervised by assistant Keri Brion, the Sheppard team struck early in the Glenwood Hurdle, an allowance race for horses who had not won twice over fences. Darren Nagle rode Hudson River Farms’ Galway Kid to a come-from-behind neck victory over Brianbakescookies in the year’s first race over fences after the long new-coronavirus lockdown.
Galway Kid made his U.S. debut at Far Hills last October with a fifth-place finish in the Harry Harris Stakes after a point-to-point victory in Ireland. The Irish-bred notched his first sanctioned victory at the Steeplechase at Callaway in November.
Andi’Amu prevailed in the Middleburg Hunt Cup.
Galligan, who finished seventh in last year’s jockey standings with six victories, strung together three straight wins in maiden hurdles. He struck first with Carrington Holdings’ Hot Springs, who scored a length victory over Lonely Weekend in the second division of the Virginia Equine Alliance maiden hurdle. Arch Kingsley Jr. trained Hot Springs, a Grade 3 flat winner who was making his first sanctioned start over fences.
Aboard Buttonwood Farms’ Zoom Zoom Zoe for Sheppard, Galligan made a winning late move to defeat free-running Lear Avia in the maiden hurdle for fillies and mares. He came back in the first division of the waiver maiden claiming hurdle with West Grove Venture’s Hyperlapse, who drew away late to a 15-length victory for Sheppard.
Jack Fisher, the perennial leading trainer who set a purse earnings record of almost $1.6-million last year, scored two victories. His first was a repeat win by Bruton Street-US’s Moscato in the Temple Gwathmey Handicap (Gr. 3).
Ridden by Michael Mitchell, Moscato always was in a striking position, moved late on the front-runners, and won by 11½ lengths over late-running Belisarius.
Sean McDermott was in the saddle for Fisher’s second win of the season, aboard Sheila J. Williams’ Storm Team in the maiden timber race. McDermott closed out the card with a double when he rode Straylight Racing’s Invocation to a 1½-length victory over Dapper Dan in the Alfred M. Hunt steeplethon over mixed obstacles for trainer Mark Beecher.
Leslie Young trained 2019 timber champion Andi’amu to a dominant repeat victory in the Middleburg Hunt Cup. Although Ballybristol Farm’s French-bred won officially by 3 ¾ lengths, jockey Thomas Garner geared him down in the last sixteenth mile after setting all the pace. Young also trained Bruton Street-US’s Rashaan to a third-place finish in the Temple Gwathmey.
Moscato Repeats In Temple Gwathmey
Bruton Street-US’s Moscato, always well placed under Michael Mitchell, struck to the front before the final fence of the $50,000 Temple Gwathmey Handicap (Gr. 3) on Saturday and pulled away to a resounding repeat victory in the featured hurdle race of the 100th Middleburg Spring Races.
Moscato returns to the barn area after his winners circle appearance in the featured Temple Gwathmey Stakes.
The historic Virginia race meet, conducted without spectators but with live-streaming video coverage of its 11 races, marked the emergence of National Steeplechase Association racing from the coast-to-coast new coronavirus lockdown.
Trained by Jack Fisher, Moscato ruled as the 2017 novice champion, missed the 2018 season, and returned last year with a debut victory by 3½ lengths over Belisarius in the Temple Gwathmey. He banked more than $100,000 for the year with third-place finishes in the American sport’s richest hurdle races, the Grand National (Gr. 1) at Far Hills, N.J., and Nashville’s Calvin Houghland Iroquois (Gr. 1).
Belisarius, owned by Gary Barber, Brous Stable, and Wachtel Stable, finished second for the second consecutive year for trainer Kate Dalton. Jockey Bernie Dalton, sensing a quick pace on the front end, parked Belisarius at the back of the field in the early going and came on to grab the second spot, 11½ lengths behind Moscato.
Bruton Street’s Rashaan, trained by Leslie Young, finished third, two lengths farther back. Hudson River Farms’ Iranistan, the 2018 novice champion, finished fourth, and Wendy Hendriks’ Surprising Soul was fifth. Zanjabeel, the 2018 Eclipse Award champion, was pulled up, and 2017 Eclipse winner Scorpiancer was scratched.
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