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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, and European Council President Charles Michel show signed EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement at the European Council he...
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The Strength of the Idea
2011 has been a remarkable year, even if were to close our records now, mid-year. The map above attempts to capture the viral spread of an Idea. Intangible, until it manifests, laughable even while it silently compounds amongst the masses, and seldom, if ever, taken seriously until the moment of its titanic assault… this has apparently been the history of the Idea.
This is not, however, about past revolutions & uprisings, but rather – a look forward.
A look at India, in particular. Over the course of the last year, our government has sown a myriad seeds of discontent, and provoked a churning that shows no signs of stopping. The recent unabashed use of State-Force against civilians reeks of the methods that dictators have employed since time immemorial. Separately, we are invited to see again and again, how inaction could be so much more conspicuous than action, and that there is perhaps some boiling point that we appear to be heading toward. It is in this context that I am sharing this splendid, inspiring and powerful essay with you. It appeared over a century ago in a fiery journal ‘Bande Mataram’, June 8th 1907. The context at the time was very different, but these words below are timeless.
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The mistake which despots, benevolent or malevolent, have been making ever since organised states came into existence and which, it seems, they will go on making to the end of the chapter, is that they overestimate their coercive power, which is physical and material and therefore palpable, and underestimate the power and vitality of ideas and sentiments. A feeling or a thought, Nationalism, Democracy, the aspiration towards liberty, cannot be estimated in the terms of concrete power, in so many fighting men, so many armed police, so many guns, so many prisons, such and such laws, ukases, and executive powers. But such feelings and thoughts are more powerful than fighting men and guns and prisons and laws and ukases. Their beginnings are feeble, their end is mighty. But of despotic repression the beginnings are mighty, the end is feeble.
“Thought is always greater than armies, more lasting than the most powerful and best-organised despotisms”
It was a thought that overthrew the despotism of centuries in France and revolutionised Europe. It was a mere sentiment against which the irresistible might of the Spanish armies and the organised cruelty of Spanish repression were shattered in the Netherlands, which brought to nought the administrative genius, the military power, the stubborn will of Aurangzeb, which loosened the iron grip of Austria on Italy. In all such instances the physical power and organisation behind the insurgent idea are ridiculously small, the repressive force so
overwhelmingly, impossibly strong that all reasonable, prudent, moderate minds see the utter folly of resistance and stigmatise the attempt of the idea to rise as an act of almost criminal insanity.
“But the man with the idea is not reasonable, not prudent, not moderate..”
He is an extremist, a fanatic. He knows that his idea is bound to conquer, he knows that the man possessed with it is more formidable, even with his naked hands, than the prison and the gibbet, the armed men and the murderous
cannon. He knows that in the fight with brute force the spirit, the idea is bound to conquer. The Roman Empire is no more, but the Christianity which it thought to crush, possesses half the globe, covering “regions Caesar never knew”. The Jew, whom the whole world persecuted, survived by the strength of an idea
and now sits in the high places of the world, playing with nations as a chessplayer with his pieces. He knows too that his own life and the lives of others are of no value, that they are mere dust in the balance compared with the life of his idea.
“The idea or sentiment is at first confined to a few men whom their neighbours and countrymen ridicule as lunatics or hare-brained enthusiasts”
But it spreads and gathers adherents who catch the fire of the first missionaries and creates its own preachers and then its workers who try to carry out its teachings in circumstances of almost paralysing difficulty. The attempt to work brings them into conflict with the established power which the idea threatens and there is persecution. The idea creates its martyrs. And in martyrdom there is an incalculable spiritual magnetism which works miracles.
“A whole nation, a whole world catches the fire which burned in a few hearts;”
the soil which has drunk the blood of the martyr imbibes with it a sort of divine madness which it breathes into the heart of all its children, until there is but one overmastering idea, one imperishable resolution in the minds of all beside which all other hopes and interests fade into insignificance and until it is fulfilled, there can be no peace or rest for the land or its rulers. It is at this moment that the idea begins to create its heroes and fighters, whose numbers and courage defeat only multiplies and confirms until the idea militant has become the idea triumphant. Such is the history of the idea, so invariable in its broad lines that it is evidently the working of a natural law.
But the despot will not recognise this superiority, the teachings of history have no meaning for him. He is dazzled by the pomp and splendour of his own power, infatuated with the sense of his own irresistible strength. Naturally, for the signs and proofs of his own power are visible, palpable, in his camps and armaments,
“..in the crores and millions which his tax-gatherers wring out of the helpless masses,”
in the tremendous array of cannon and implements of war which fill his numerous arsenals, in the compact and swiftly-working organisation of his administration, in the prisons into which he hurls his opponents, in the fortresses and places of exile to which he can hurry the men of the idea. He is deceived also by the temporary triumph of his repressive measures. He strikes out with his mailed hand and surging multitudes are scattered like chaff with a single blow; he hurls his thunderbolts from the citadels of his strength and ease and the clamour of a continent sinks into a deathlike hush; or he swings the rebels by rows from his gibbets or mows them down by the hundred with his mitrailleuse and then stands alone erect amidst the ruin he has made and thinks, “The trouble is
over, there is nothing more to fear. My rule will endure for ever; God will not remember what I have done or take account of the blood that I have spilled.” And he does not know that the fiat has gone out against him, “Thou fool! this night shall thy soul be required of thee.” For to the Power that rules the world one day is the same as fifty years. The time lies in His choice, but now or afterwards the triumph of the idea is assured, for it is He who has sent it into men’s minds that His purposes may be fulfilled.
The story is so old, so often repeated that it is a wonder the delusion should still persist and repeat itself. Each despotic rule after the other thinks, “Oh, the circumstances in my case are quite different, I am a different thing from any yet recorded in history, stronger, more virtuous and moral, better organised. I am God’s favourite and can never come to harm.” And so the old drama is staged again and acted till it reaches the old catastrophe.
Sri Aurobindo | Bande Mataram | CALCUTTA | June 8, 1907
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Helping African researchers gain new knowledge on weed science
The Cassava Weed Management Project which is managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is assisting African researchers to gain new knowledge on advances in weed science by drawing the expertise of United States researchers and their Nigerian counterparts thereby putting alive the legacies of Charles Darwin and making him proud.
Launched in 2014, the IITA-Cassava Weed Management Project, as part of its sustainability program, is building bridges across researchers from developed and developing countries with a view to narrowing the knowledge gap, by raising the capacity of weed scientists through training and knowledge sharing.
The aim is to help Africa maximize the benefit of genetic gain which has been hitherto stymied over the years because of poor crop management among which poor weed control is a major factor.
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Prof Stephen Weller, from the Purdue University, United States of America (USA) while facilitating the session on “Herbicide Site of Action”, stressed the effect of the environment on the use of herbicides while adding that it was good to thoroughly read labels and understand the content of herbicides before use.
On “Herbicide Absorption,” Prof Michael Owen, from the Iowa State University, took time to analyse the area of herbicides’ absorption from the soil and the factors affecting soil uptake such as relative humidity, temperature, and light. He spoke on, “Adjuvants/Safeners and Herbicide Metabolism in Plants”, and explained how safeners work. He also listed the various classification and categories of adjuvants. Other areas he proffered insights included herbicides resistance in weed management and best possible options African researchers could take to avoid the occurrence of weed resistance.
Prof Segun Lagoke, of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria, emphasized the need for weed identification as an important step to any weed management control.
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Horror Channel has festive fright aplenty this December
Serving up Zombies elves, Xmas demons, a deranged babysitter & William Shatner.
A Christmas Horror Story
Be prepared for an X-rated Xmas this December as Horror Channel serves up an horrific host of premieres, leading with the UK premiere of Xmas anthology A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY. Tales From The Crypt meets Silent Night Deadly Night as zombies elves, Xmas demons and William Shatner invade UK homes on Saturday 22nd of December.
There are also channel premieres for Michael Thelin’s unnerving and superbly performed chiller EMELIE, and the star-studied jungle nightmare ANACONDA, with Jon Voight, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Eric Stoltz. From giant snakes we move to killer sharks and vampiric post-apocalyptic creatures – as the channel is giving seasonal first-showings to fearsome fantasy adventure SHARKNADO and blood-sucking survival thriller DAYLIGHT’S END, starring Lance Henriksen.
Plus, on Sunday 23rd December, Horror Channel is broadcasting the channel premiere of the blockbuster miniseries ARABIAN NIGHTS (Parts 1 & 2), starring Dougray Scott, Alan Bates, Rufus Sewell, Andy Serkis, James Frain, Jason Scott Lee, John Leguizamo, Vanessa-Mae and Alexei Sayle.
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Sat 8 Dec @ 21:00 – EMELIE (2015) *Channel Premiere
When their regular babysitter calls to say she’s unavailable, the Thompsons find a last minute replacement to look after their three kids while they celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. But no sooner have the parents pulled out of the driveway than it becomes clear that Anna is no ordinary babysitter. As the evening creeps along the children begin to realise they might be in serious danger from the psychologically disturbed woman who has invaded their home.
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A documentary film crew led by anthropologist Steven Cale (Eric Stoltz) and director Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) enters the mysterious world of the Amazon in search of the legendary Shirishama Indians. But when they meet Paul Sarone (Jon Voight), who is on his own dark quest to track a lethal 40-foot Anaconda, the expedition becomes a jungle nightmare and they must use every primal resource just to stay alive.
Sat 22 Dec @ 21:00 – A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY (2015) *UK TV Premiere
Four Yule-tide stories to freeze the festive soul…In the small town of Bailey Downs, High school students investigate a mysterious homicide that occurred the prior holiday season, a couple notices their young son is acting strangely after a snowy forest trip to cut down a traditional tree and one family is stalked through a Winter wonderland by Krampus, the Xmas demon. Meanwhile at the North Pole, Santa is fending off zombie elves…
Fri 28 Dec @ 21:00 – SHARKNADO (2013) * Channel Premiere
When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorise the waterlogged populace. And with the high-speed winds forming tornadoes in the desert, nature’s deadliest killer rules water, land, and air. This is the first instalment in the cult Sharknada film series and stars Tara Reid, Ian Ziering and John Heard.
Sat 29 Dec @ 21:00 – DAYLIGHT’S END (2016) *Channel Premiere
An unprecedented viral plague has nearly eradicated humanity, and In this desolate and abandoned world, Rourke, (Johnny Strong) hunts for whatever was responsible for slaughtering his family two years earlier. Teaming up with a band of survivors, led by Frank Hill (Lance Henriksen), they soon discover that they are not the only creatures that withstood the apocalypse.
Sun 23 Dec @ 15:00 – ARABIAN NIGHTS, Parts 1 & 2 (2000) *Channel Premiere
Told as five stories adapted from the medieval epic, One Thousand and One Nights, we follow the dramatic fortunes of two brothers, Schahzenan (James Frain) and Shahryar (Dougray Scott) as they fight for the right to rule the kingdom. Schahriar, the elder by a mere four minutes, must find a wife before the next full moon if he is to succeed…
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Kimi 's Kool as Ever
by AC
How many other F1 drivers would happily go to a Jr. team ? And the pairing of Red Bull and Raikkonen seems perfect. I hope he wins in the WRC and maybe he'll do the 24hr du Mans next (...ok that may requirre an extra dose of ice cream or two!)
Great news about Sauber too!...
(still on the road)
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Labels: Citroën, Formula 1, Kimi Raikkonen, Sauber, WRC at 7:01 AM
Anonymous Friday, December 04, 2009 8:43:00 AM
AC, I think it's only a junior team, but still the main WRC.
John Friday, December 04, 2009 2:23:00 PM
Get off his nuts just because he drove for your beloved Ferrari. Kimi is a doucher and is rightfully out of F1 for good now.
Being a good driver hasn't been enough in the top flight for a long time, you have to be an engineering assistant in the development- a willing participant in the evolution of the cars performance which Kimi feels is beneath him.
Krys Friday, December 04, 2009 2:56:00 PM
Nice to see he got the drive. I am very excited now for the WRC next season. It seems like the whole sport is getting shaken up.
I think many people forget that Kimi was a world champion. He may have become disillusioned with the sport recently, but honestly who could blame him? A quick check on autosport or planet-f1 reveals something like one out of five headlines to be some political swill caused by the FIA and their various cronies littered throughout their organization.
As for helping out with the development of the car - I'm not all that sure its vital. I seem to recall the speed announcers when Rosberg first signed. The announcers mentioned that Rosberg was the only driver on the grid with a mechanical engineering degree (or in the process of obtaining one) and how he scored one of the highest scores on an engineering proficiency exam williams gives to every one of its drivers. It would seem logical to assume he would be one of the best drivers for development of the car, yet judging from the results of williams this past season, it is obvious that even an engineer behind the wheel (and a highly underrated driver at that) couldn't improve the car. I guess what I'm saying is maybe the driver doesn't perform as critical a role in the development of a car.
Stephen R. Saturday, December 05, 2009 2:01:00 AM
Good for Kimi. He was hands down the fastest driver F1 has seen for a long time. I would bet on him in equal cars vs. Hamilton, Alonso, and maybe Schumi (pity we never got to see it). Sure his car development may lack, but he is no "doucher". The only results I hope come from Ferrari picking up Alonso are the same kind of fireworks we saw in 2007 at McLaren.
AC Saturday, December 05, 2009 4:04:00 AM
I'm guessing many in on the F1 grid wish they were in a position to just say "F-it, I'm going to do what I want"
Jim Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:46:00 PM
I haven't followed F1 for 30 years to watch a driver tell an engineer which direction to turn a wrench . . . I am addicted to F1 because I'm captivated by the driving.
Raikkonen's fearless confidence in the car has made him one of the most sensational drivers since Ronnie Peterson.
AC Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:48:00 PM
@Jim I totally agree. Drivers used to do this all the time. Vic Elford comes to mind right off the bat, he did Rally, Endurance and F1.
Nick Sunday, December 13, 2009 6:35:00 PM
Raikkonen was the only interesting & cool driver on the grid, everyone else is pretty much a poser.
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2 Preparing for War Selective Service Act All men between the ages of 18 and 38 had to register for military services. 300,000 Mexican Americans fought 1 million African Americans fought 300,000 women fought Worked for the Women s Army Corps (WAC) Drivers Clerks Mechanics Army and Navy Nurse Corps
3 Turning the Tide Bad Days for the Allies Most of EUROPE was in German hands Germany controlled much of the Soviet Union (Russia) & was closing in on Moscow Japan had achieved military success in the Pacific War December 7, Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.
4 -Operation Barbarossa was the name given to Nazi Germany s invasion of the USSR on June 22nd Barbarossa was the largest military attack of World war II and was to have appalling consequences for the Russian people.
5 Success in North Africa (Opoeration Torch) Allied victories against Germany at El Alamein & Tunisia provided bases for an advance on Italy
6 Invasion of Italy-1943 From bases in N. Africa, the Allies invaded the Island of Sicily & than the Italian mainland. The Italians had already overthrown Mussolini In a series of bloody battles, the Allies liberated Italy from the Nazis
7 German Surrenders in the USSR-1943 The German Army was slowly pushed back to Eastern Europe by Soviet Forces at Stalingrad & Leningrad
8 Hitler's declared: "Surrender is out of the question. The troops will defend themselves to the last! Diminishing resources, partisan guerilla attacks, and the cruelty of the Russian winter began to take their toll on the Germans. On November 19, the Soviets made their move, launching a counter offensive that began with a massive artillery bombardment of the German position. The Soviets then encircled the enemy, launching pincer movements from north and south simultaneously, even as the Germans encircled Stalingrad. The German position soon became untenable. Surrender was their only hope for survival. But Hitler wouldn't hear of it: "The 6th Army will hold its positions to the last man and the last round. Von Paulus held out until January 31, 1943, when he finally surrendered. Of more than 280,000 men under Paulus' command, half were already dead or dying, about 35,000 had been evacuated from the front, and the remaining 91,000 were hauled off to Soviet POW camps.
9 D-Day Invasion of Normandy General Eisenhower (Allied Supreme Commander) Launched operation Overlord to begin the liberation of France. The Allies stormed the cliffs of Normandy, France in a bloody assault on German forces
10 D-Day June 6 th ,000 ships 130,000 soldiers Americans Canadians British Landed on the beaches of Normandy, France Largest seaborne invasion in history
11 Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory! I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. -- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
13 German Pillboxes Dug-in guard posts (with loopholes through which to fire weapons) made from concrete
14 D-Day More than 10,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded Allies secured the beaches Allied forces liberated (freed) the French capital Allied forced Germans out of France.
15 Battle of the Bulge On December 16, 1944, German forces began a fierce counterattack Slowed the Allies advance but did not stop it At night, British airmen dropped tons of bombs on German cities By day, Americans bombed factories and oil refineries Caused severe fuel shortages Reduced Germany s ability to produce war goods
16 A New President FDR died early in his fourth term due to a stroke Vice President Harry S. Truman became President Truman would later have to make decisions that would end the war
17 Victory in Europe By April 1945, Germany was collapsing American troops were closing in from the west Soviet troops were closing in from the east HST announces German surrender
18 Hitler Commits Suicide Unwilling to accept defeat, Hitler committed suicide on April 30 th On May 8, the Allies celebrated V-E Day (Victory in Europe) On May 7, Germany surrendered to the allies
19 Audie Murphy Most decorated soldier of WWII. Murphy received the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor, along with 32 additional medals awarded for bravery and service. Murphy s unit was attacked and 20 year old Murphy got on a burning tank and killed 50 enemy troops. Movie To Hell and Back
20 Conclusion How did the Allies turn the tide in WWII? (War in Europe) After a slow start, the Allies forced Germany to fight on three fronts Germany s ability to manufacture war supplies was destroyed by Allied bombing American manufacturing was able to produce materials for war Germany s invasion of the Soviet Union proved to be a great mistake Germany was unable to fight a multi-front war
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MSC Grandiosa, The First MSC Meraviglia Plus Cruise Ship
A grandiose name for a truly grandiose cruise ship. MSC Cruises first vessel of the Meraviglia Plus Class will be named MSC Grandiosa. The name was announced during the steel-cutting and coin ceremony for the Meraviglia-class ship MSC Bellissima in the STX shipyard in St. Nazaire, France.
“Today we celebrate a truly unique moment, it is the first time that two milestones of the construction of two different ships are celebrated on the same day. This is to be a testament to the strength and ambition of our investment plan, "said Pierfrancesco Vago, executive chair of MSC Cruises.
Meraviglia Plus class is an evolution of the Meraviglia class with the first cruise ship, the MSC Meraviglia, which entered service in June 2017. The MSC Bellissima will follow in March 2019.
With a gross tonnage of 181.000, a maximum capacity of 6,334 passengers and a length of 331 meters, the cruise ships of the Meraviglia Plus class vessel will be significantly larger than the MSC Meraviglia and MSC Bellissima, which have 167,600 gross tons.
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Valore:This unusual West Country name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and a locational surname deriving from either Galsworthy, in Devonshire, or from the places in the parishes of Crowan and Gwennop, Cornwall, called Goldsworthy. The place in Devonshire is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Galeshore'; the name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century 'gagol', sweet gale, bog myrtle, with 'ora', bank, slope. At a later date, the second element was assimilated to the typical West Country placename ending '-worthy', from the Olde English 'worth', enclosure, settlement. The Cornish placenames are so called from the Cornish elements 'gol', field, with 'erewy', fair, thus 'an open space where fairs were held'. Some of the modern forms of the surname from these sources are Galsworthy, Golsworthy, Goldsworthy, and Galsery. Examples from Devonshire Church Registers include: William Galsworthy (1540, Parkham); Thomas Galsworthie (1558, Hartland); and the marriage of Grace Goldsworthy and Robert Pomerie on November 4th 1611, at Honiton on Otter. A Coat of Arms granted to a family of the name Goldsworthy depicts, on a silver shield, three gold martlets on a black bend cotised. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas Gallysworthy, which was dated 1524, recorded in Hoskins and Finberg, 'Devonshire Studies', during the reign of King Henry V111, known as 'Bluff King Hal', 1509 - 1547. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to 'develop' often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Published January 22, 2019 by Andrew Emerson
91st Academy Awards: Predictions, Round I
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Nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced this morning. Here’s a look at who currently appears favored to win:
Film TFW Rating
Black Panther ***
BlacKkKlansman ****
Bohemian Rhapsody * ½
The Favourite **
Green Book *
Roma ** ½
A Star Is Born **
Vice * ½
WILL: As of now, no film has a lock on this category. Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody won big at the Golden Globes, but neither of them received a nomination for Best Director. Meanwhile, Roma won at the Critics’ Choice Awards, but the Golden Globes and Producers Guild both passed it over. Bradley Cooper’s failure to get a nod for Best Director has probably killed A Star Is Born’s chances. And while both The Favourite and BlacKkKlansman have received a slew of nominations during this awards season, neither of them has actually won anything.
As of now, Roma probably has a slight edge. But that could easily change.
SHOULD: None of them. Roma isn’t bad, but it also has significant flaws, and I wouldn’t be comfortable giving it the top prize. (Ditto for Black Panther.) I gave BlacKkKlansman an enthusiastic four-star review back in August, but I’m not so sure I’d give it the same rating today. And the rest of the lineup is frankly disappointing.
SNUBBED: Zama; Leave No Trace; Burning; Monrovia, Indiana; If Beale Street Could Talk.
Director Film
Alfonso Cuarón Roma
Yorgos Lanthimos The Favourite
Spike Lee BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay Vice
Paweł Pawlikowski Cold War
WILL: The Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards both gave this award to Alfonso Cuarón, so he’s the clear favorite.
SHOULD: It’s not as resonant as Ida, but Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War is still a very powerful movie, a historical portrait that doubles as a searing love story. It’s unfortunate that Pawlikowski has no actual chance of winning.
SNUBBED: Lucrecia Martel (Zama); Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here); Debra Granik (Leave No Trace); Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk); Frederick Wiseman (Monrovia, Indiana); Lee Chang-dong (Burning).
Actor Film
Christian Bale Vice
Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen Green Book
WILL: Having won at both the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards, Christian Bale looks set to win his second Oscar. It helps, too, that he had to undergo a major physical transformation for his role – something that Oscar voters have frequently appreciated in the past.
SHOULD: Willem Dafoe’s portrayal of Vincent van Gogh was gripping, heartfelt, and anything but caricatural. (The same can’t be said for the other nominated performances.)
SNUBBED: Daniel Giménez Cacho (Zama); Yoo Ah-in (Burning); Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here).
Yalitza Aparicio Roma
Glenn Close The Wife
Olivia Colman The Favourite
Lady Gaga A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy Can You Ever Forgive Me?
WILL: This race looks to be a contest between Glenn Close and Lady Gaga. Close probably has an edge, given that she beat Lady Gaga at the Golden Globes.
SHOULD: All the nominees in this category have merit. But I’d be inclined to vote for Yalitza Aparicio, whose performance was easily the best thing about Roma.
SNUBBED: Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace); Helena Howard (Madeline’s Madeline); KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk).
Mahershala Ali Green Book
Adam Driver BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell Vice
WILL: Two years after collecting one Oscar for Moonlight, Mahershala Ali is once again the frontrunner in this category – if the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards are any guide.
SHOULD: Grant. But let it be noted that the best supporting performance of the year – Steven Yeun in Burning – was not nominated.
SNUBBED: Steven Yeun (Burning).
Amy Adams Vice
Marina de Tavira Roma
Regina King If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone The Favourite
Rachel Weisz The Favourite
WILL: Regina King has been winning plaudits from critics and awards organizations (Golden Globes, Satellite) alike. At this point, it’s hard to see how anyone else could win.
SHOULD: King was excellent, but hers was hardly the best performance in If Beale Street Could Talk. My vote goes to Emma Stone for her vicious – yet always entertaining – turn in The Favourite.
SNUBBED: Miyu Sasaki (Shoplifters); Molly Parker (Madeline’s Madeline).
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EINKLANG is our first synthesizer following a new paradigm of sound generation. Instead of synthesizing sounds like traditional synthesizers according to a set of technical parameters (i.e. amplitudes, frequencies, spectra…), EINKLANG re-synthesizes sounds using instrument models. These instrument models can not only be tweaked directly in their musical parameters (i.e. loudness, pitch, timbre…) but also be morphed from one tone color to another. These key features allow the user to think in plain sounds rather than mathematical equations and to control EINKLANG with only few musical parameters. The musician can concentrate on musical aspects, while the synthesizer does all of the underlying technical processing.
Think Sound - Think Music
Morph a choir to a flute, or a guitar to a French horn, or anything you can imagine. For example, if you have a specific organ sound in mind, just take the three closest ones and morph around until you find your perfect personal setting.
In order to do so, EINKLANG’s graphical user interface (GUI) has been designed sleekly and intuitive. Located in the center, you find the triangle morphing field which allows you to morph between three different tone colors, with ease. On the left side you find musical parameters for controlling the instrument models and the synthesized sounds. The parameters are arranged in three groups: loudness, timbre and modulation. Every parameter can be controlled by MIDI and recorded in a DAW (e.g. Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo, Apple Logic, and many others). On the right side, you can see the Prest Browser allowing you to step through presets easily.
Morph Triangle
The morph triangle has three slots for tone colors, one in each corner. The colored gem inside the morph triangle can be moved around and determines the morph ratio for the three tone colors to form a new one. When placed in one of the corners the corresponding tone color is heard solo. When slid along the sides of the triangle only two tone colors are morphed excluding the third one. Morph around, let EINKLANG’s engine take care of the specific synthesizer’s theoretical background. Find your very own sound and change it in real time while you play.
Musical Parameters
The Artificial Intelligence Studio Technology used in EINKLANG models the structures of sounds and specific nuances of different instruments. This enables you to change them more directly. Lowering the pitch of a cello, for example, affects its timbre completely differently than lowering the pitch of a French horn. EINKLANG’s instrument models are not static but very lively and responsive to pitch and velocity changes on your keyboard.
Generally speaking, what sometimes takes dozens of technical knobs in traditional synthesizers can be done with one in EINKLANG.
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October 19 2020 - 01:54AM
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Koninklijke Philips NV said Monday that third-quarter net profit rose and exceeded expectations, and that the company is targeting accelerated sales growth and higher profitability in the 2021-2025 period.
The Dutch medical-technology group made a net profit from continuing operations of 340 million euros ($398.4 million) for the quarter, compared with EUR208 million for the same period a year before. Analysts expected a net profit of EUR274 million, according to a consensus estimate provided by the company.
Quarterly sales increased to EUR4.98 billion from EUR4.70 billion a year before, Philips said. Comparable sales grew 10%, it said. Analysts expected third-quarter sales to come in at EUR4.82 billion with comparable sales growth of 5.4%, according to a company-provided consensus.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortization margin for the third quarter was 15.4%, the company said
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For the 2021-2025 period, the company said it is targeting an acceleration in the average annual comparable sales growth to 5%-6%, an adjusted Ebita margin improvement of 60-80 basis points on average annually from 2021 and a free cash flow above EUR2 billion by 2025.
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May 4, 2015 By Biraj Bora in Editorial
Hi Everyone. Good games yesterday. We did have a serious knee injury in the first game at Kits, where an ambulance was required. The player was taken to VGH emerg, and she is now following up with her docs – I am in touch with her. Thanks to the players that helped, and thanks to Jeremy from Benchwarmers for contacting me. To ensure players can reach me in such situations, I’ve sent my cell contact info to all the captains. As a result of the injury, the games at Kits were delayed and had to be slightly shortened. All in all, the players at Kits handled their games really well, and we ended up getting reasonable length games the rest of the evening.
Regarding playoffs, I just sent the following email to the Captains. Assuming all the scores and standings are correct, I will wait till this evening to post the Div. 2 games along with the monitoring. Once this is done, we’re in the home stretch towards the finals on 07th June in all Divisions. Email to captains as follows:
Hello Captains.
Div. 2: I have now posted all the regular season scores and standings for Div. 2. I have also setup the playoff round robin for Div. 2 as shown on the Playoffs page of the website. With Div. 2, the top 8 teams made the playoffs, and this group was split into two based on 1,4,6,8 in one group and 2,3,5,7 in the second group. We’ll do a round robin in each group to get a finalist from each group who would then play for the Div. 2 championships. The finalists in Div. 2 would move up to Div. 1. The bottom four in Div. 2 will play a round robin, and the bottom two teams in this round robin will move down to Div. 3. Please check all scores and standings before I set the playoff schedule for Div. 2, which I plan to do this evening.
Div. 1 and 3: I have also posted the playoff scores and standings for Div. 1 and 3 as we continue with the playoff round robins. Please review, and please note your monitoring assignments.
The playoffs were a bit more complicated this year than usual because of the 12 teams in Div. 2 instead of 10. However, I think I’ve sorted it out. Hope it’s all correct. Biraj
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The Xander Years 2 by Jeff Mariotte: B
May 19, 2006 by Michelle Smith
Most teens have trouble finding themselves now and then, but when you’re living on a hellmouth, “trouble” is an understatement—especially if you’re Xander Harris. He has never been very popular, and has never had much luck with women, but he is uniquely Xander.
After a Sunnydale High field trip to the zoo, Xander becomes obnoxious and aggressive. Giles thinks it’s typical adolescent male behavior, but Buffy knows better. And when he finally scores “cool” points by making the Sunnydale High swim team, he’s thrown into the middle of something, well… fishy.
Still, once Xander is excluded from the Slayer’s most recent anti-apocalyptic campaign, he finds himself battling his own private evil—and saving Sunnydale High from a fate it never imagined.
Continuing the alliterative trend from volume one, the three episodes picked for novelization in this book (“The Pack,” “Go Fish,” and “The Zeppo”) are billed as three tales of transition, transformation, and transcendence. Um, okay. I didn’t really think Xander was that affected by donning skimpy swimwear. It’s interesting to note that in all three of these episodes, the villainous baddie ends up getting devoured.
I am happy to say that Jeff Mariotte does a better job conveying the thought processes of the characters than his predecessor from volume one, though frankly, that wouldn’t be difficult. Sometimes they’re covered in a simple paragraph, and I didn’t have any specific problems with those, and sometimes, when it’s something the character would’ve said in their mental voice, they are italicized. It’s the italicized thoughts that are more prone to being irritating, and occasionally, downright jarring. A little setup for this snerk-inducing example from “The Pack:” Xander is prowling around with the other hyena-possessed kids, feeling all wild and hungry. They’ve just sampled the hot dogs of some students, spurned them, and have now caught a whiff of something more appetizing.
The scent grew stronger as they stalked the halls, headed directly toward their prey. Something weak, something that could be brought down by the pack.
Or rather, the Pack, Xander thought, suddenly realizing that it should be capitalized.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have an episode title!
Seriously, this is so stupid! There was just a scene where Xander was too affected to be able to comprehend geometry properly, but here he is contemplating the abstract significance of his little group and how it should thusly be conveyed in writing? How very primal a sentiment! *eyeroll*
Other than that, and noting that once, in “Go Fish,” the names of two swim team members were confused, I have nothing to complain about. Again, the major reason this is entertaining is because the original episodes were. Mariotte neither added much of value nor fouled them up.
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The Xander Years 1 by Keith R. A. DeCandido: B-
Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you… dead.
Having a Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy. But Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s friend Xander Harris seems to find more than his share of trouble with the opposite sex.
At first Xander is happy being the teacher’s pet—until his schoolboy crush brings out her true animal instincts. Then his whirlwind romance with the exotic foreign exchange student falters when she demands the ultimate sacrifice.
Some members of the Slaying squad might say that dating Cordelia Chase could kill a guy. But Xander’s relationship with the high-maintenance Cordy actually seems to be working out—until she decides he’s seriously harming her social standing. His crafty plan to win her back may earn him more love than one guy can handle.
Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the hit TV series chronicling Xander’s search for love on the Hellmouth.
This book includes novelizations of the teleplays for “Teacher’s Pet,” “Inca Mummy Girl,” and “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered,” hailed on the front cover as three tales of danger, duplicity, and desire. Alliterative! Framing these is a little piece where Xander has been to The Bronze, had his clothes criticized by Cordelia, made out with her, and now has returned home to compare all his various romantic experiences. It doesn’t strike me as particularly Xander-like, but at least it’s brief.
I think it’s cute that the font for chapter headings and page numbers has little blood dribblies. I guess it’s cheesy, but for some reason it amuses me. Also amusing, but in a sad way, are the typos that made it through an evidently lackadaisical editing process. Examples: in “Teacher’s Pet,” the real Mrs. French wears a “cardigan sweather.” In “Inca Mummy Girl,” when Willow goes to dissuade the delinquent kid from mucking about the museum exhibit, she heads off to “soothe the savage breast.”
Some of the invented thoughts for the characters are entertaining, like Xander’s revelation that, when five, he once retaliated against Cordelia by dumping a bowl of ice cream on her head. Spike’s are pretty decent, but I think that’s because Spike doesn’t do a lot of self-filtering before he speaks, so his thoughts are most like something he’d actually say. Most of the rest are either:
1. Lame – Like the very generic desire to see the world ascribed to the real Ampata (foreign exchange student in “Inca Mummy Girl”) before he gets mummified. His supposed last thought? “Now I’ll never see Paris.” Groan.
2. Unnecessary – Xander, after loudly declaring Angel to be an attractive man in front of some jock types, thinks:
Bad enough Blayne’s dissing my studliness, the last thing I need is everyone hearing me talking about attractive men.
Way to overexplain the joke, dude.
3. Just plain wrong – (Dingoes Ate My Baby is unloading their equipment for a performance. Devon is slacking and talking to Cordelia.)
Of course, had Oz actually been upset, it probably would’ve been more due to the fact that Oz didn’t have a girlfriend of his own to be distracted by. It’s not like Devon ever carried the heavy stuff anyhow.
Does that sound even a little like Oz thoughts? Not to me.
Of slight canonical interest is that the photo of Xander, Willow, and Buffy in 10th grade that’s seen several times in the series is declared twice to have been taken by Willow’s mom. Except Willow’s mom canonically shows zero interest in her life until the episode “Gingerbread,” which aired January 1999. This book was published in February 1999, so probably couldn’t have been changed once Sheila’s general disinterest in her daughter had been established. It was also published before the whole “who exactly sired Spike” thing was cleared up, since Spike specifically mentions Angel siring both he and Drusilla.
By far, the best reason for reading these novelizations is the dialogue from the real episode that couldn’t be fudged with. Even though “Inca Mummy Girl” isn’t one of my favorite episodes, I’d forgotten that it has several great quotes in it. The best one (in my opinion) looks rather flat on the page, but when I hear Xander actually saying it, it still evokes a giggle: “What he lacks in smarts, he makes up in lack of smarts.”
Overall, it’s an okay book, but that’s entirely due to the original writers of these episodes. Without their actions and dialogue, I don’t know whether this author could portray these characters at all convincingly.
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner: B+
From the inside flap:
The king’s scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king’s prison. The magus is interested only in the thief’s abilities. What Gen is interested in is anyone’s guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses.
That description makes this tale sound dull and full of theological tales, but really, there are only 3 or 4 of those. The real story involves Gen being recruited by the magus to help steal a stone that supposedly imbues the owner with immortality and proclaims him or her the rightful ruler of a country called Eddis, a neighbor to the country Gen and his companions are from, Sounis.
Gen’s traveling companions are interesting, though not quite as fully fleshed out as they could be. The evolution of the relationships throughout the course of the book is subtle and well done, as Gen is simply viewed as a tool to start with. Gen himself is a very entertaining narrator, clever and trying to be as annoying as possible at first, which is amusing.
The author is good at evocative descriptions that aren’t too wordy, but I would have liked to have had a map so as to better visualize their travels, particularly in the last couple of chapters. Although this was shelved in the Juvenile section of the library, she doesn’t noticably oversimplify things for the benefit of a younger crowd. Overall, the traveling portions are less boring than I usually find and were enlivened by the interactions of the companions, but towards the end, do get a little repetitive. Thankfully, the end itself is not dull.
Filed Under: Books, Fantasy, YA Tagged With: The Queen's Thief
The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Ann Pierce: A
All the world’s wisdom and magic reside within the iridescent depths of a small white pearl. “All my sorcery,” the Ancient Ravenna had said to Aeriel. “It is left to you to save the world.” But is the pearl powerful enough to enable Aeriel to defeat the White Witch? Aeriel’s people have assembled an army and are soon to attack the Witch and her darkangel sons. But their cause is hopeless unless Aeriel can unravel the riddle of Ravenna and unlock the mysteries of the pearl—and of her own destiny.
Rather than starting precisely where the second book left off, this concluding volume of the trilogy picks up some time after, where some mysterious circumstances have befallen Aeriel. She’s quickly discovered by some duarough, a race that lives underground, and so there aren’t long, dull passages where she’s traveling around by herself, which were the bane of book two. Eventually, around page 60 or so, some of the blanks as to what have happened in the meantime start to get filled in, and we find that there was a bit of wandering, but it was summed up in a single sentence. That makes me wonder whether there was some criticism similar to mine after the second book was released, and the author took steps to avert a similar slow start. Whatever the case, I found it immediately easy to get into this volume and the momentum carries through to the end without lulls.
I like the depiction and development of Aeriel’s romantic situation very much. Her feelings seem to make more IC sense now than previously, and I like how there aren’t easy fixes to things.
There’s a little more annoying inconsistency in this one, like some lines of the prophetic rhyme in book two being changed when sung by a couple of different characters with no IC reaction from Aeriel as to this not being correct. And the witch was stealing water? I remember that a river wasn’t at its full glory back in book one, but not much was made about the witch’s big evilness being that she was stealing the water until this last book. Before it was just that she was responsible for creating the darkangels. Oh yeah, and there was hardly any Roshka! These things almost earned the book an A- instead.
The ending, however, is great. That’s all I’m going to say, there, but it’s what brought the score up to a full-fledged A. There’s really some scope there about seeing how far these characters have come since the beginning, although I do wish some of the secondary characters could’ve been fleshed out a lot more.
Ultimately, this trilogy is recommended, though I’m not sure whether I will be buying my own set (I’ve had them out from the library) as I don’t know whether there’s quite enough here to merit a reread. This author has another YA series about unicorns, but I am not really feeling the urge to go investigate it at this point.
Filed Under: Books Tagged With: The Darkangel Trilogy
A Gathering of Gargoyles by Meredith Ann Pierce: B+
May 7, 2006 by Michelle Smith
From the back of the book, with edits for spoilers:
Aeriel may’ve done something interesting in book one, but the Witch is far from defeated! Her evil vampyre sons continue to blight the lands, defeating even the warders created by the Old Ones to protect them. There is but a single hope for the Witch’s defeat—solving an ancient, mysterious riddle.
So, Aeriel sets off to solve the riddle, sailing across a sea of dust and straight into the worst of the Witch’s terrors. But if Aeriel is to save the world, she will have to overcome the Witch’s darkangel sons and ultimately confront their terrifying mother face-to-face.
My enjoyment of this book was stymied by a few annoying things right off the bat. First, in the first book in this series, there wasn’t any mention of people with weird-colored skin. I’d swear, although I don’t have the first book to consult, that Aeriel was described as having a tan/rose complexion before the sun bleached her more fair. Now, they say she’s white, but it’s clear she was once mauve. And there’s all these blue and green skinned people and stuff.
Secondly, there’s the revisiting of scenes from book one and suddenly including some conversation that we never saw before, or a tidbit like, “Oh yeah, she gave those things names.” It makes it seem like the author wasn’t planning ahead. I would’ve preferred to have seen those conversations within the context of the scenes as they were taking place, then one could reflect back later and go ‘Ahh, I see’. I know this is YA, but c’mon. J. K. Rowling does it just fine!
Thirdly, after a bit of an angsty beginning, Aeriel goes off alone. This part is so dull, just a description of the landscape she’s passing through. At least the concept of time was more clearly portrayed this time.
It took me ages just to get to page 100. After this point, however, she gets some companions and the story picks up and its enjoyment value greatly improves. The annoying elements were primarily confined to the beginning of the book, and I eventually managed to stop being irked about the skin color thing. I read from page 100 to the end (333) in a day.
The overall plot is pretty predictable. I mean, obviously, she’s gathering gargoyles from the title, but their significance is incredibly obvious. It’s a little much to believe that while Aeriel acquires them she is ignorant of this. Still, I look forward to seeing more of certain characters in book three, and now that I’m two-thirds through the series it’d just be dumb to drop it now.
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce: B+
April 29, 2006 by Michelle Smith
Aeriel is kidnapped by the Darkangel, swept up into his dozen black wings and carried to his distant keep. There she is to serve his brides—thirteen pitiful creatures who were once beautiful, before the Darkangel drained away their souls. Aeriel would free them, but now that she, too, is one of the Darkangel’s captives, she can do no other than obey—even while she knows she must destroy him.
For when he has found his final bride, he will come fully into his sinister powers. Aeriel must kill him first, even though deep within him is a spark of goodness that makes her love him—a spark that could redeem even his evil.
I realize now that I never actually read the back of the book before starting this. It sure makes Aeriel seem kind of… flighty. Oopsie, got kidnapped, now I take orders and swoon over Mr. Tall, Winged, and Evil. This really does her a disservice.
The beginning of the book was good and moved quickly, though in the middle section things dragged a little bit for me. Thankfully, the action picked up again at the end and events moved swiftly on to their conclusion. There were a few plot elements that were sort of obvious to me, but which might not have been so for a YA reader. They were resolved satisfactorily for the most part, though perhaps with a little too much convenient magic at hand. One further quibble is that I never really got a handle on the terms used for the passage of time, so I could never be quite sure how long things were taking, which was pretty annoying.
I’ve got the other two in the trilogy courtesy of my local library, so will be launching into them forthwith. I’ll have to think of my own description for the next one, because the back of it is super spoilery for The Darkangel.
The Morning Star by Nick Bantock: D
Plunged into an otherworldly maze, Matthew Sedon and Isabella de Reims are stretched to the limits of love, of certainty, and of their belief in the powerful guidance of Griffin and Sabine. Isabella is drawn into her predestined journey to Egypt, a journey that forces her to explore a world beyond her imagination. In Alexandria, challenging his deepest fears, Matthew makes his own compelling discoveries in the fertile fields of both archaeology and the human heart.
In The Morning Star, the mystery that began with an enigmatic postcard from Sabine Strohem to Griffin Moss reaches its dramatic conclusion.
Lie! It does not reach a dramatic conclusion! It reaches an enigmatic one, with nothing more clarified than before, though I still believe I’m right about the MPD theory.
Anyway, I sum up the book thusly (warning, spoilery):
Griffin-personality: Isabella, go see Matthew. But be sure to mosey.
Isabella-personality: Matthew, I’m gonna mosey your way.
Matthew-personality: (to Isabella) Rock on! Btw, I totally love you. (to Sabine) Hey, I snuck in and felt up the funky statue. It had an orb on its head.
Sabine-personality: That’s the Morning Star. It somehow represents the different planes we all exist on. Or something. Watch out for sneaky personality.
Matthew-personality: (to Isabella) I can now draw like Sabine. Wanna draw you nekkid!
Isabella-personality: (to Griffin) Hey dude, check out my completely wacked out vision where I munch on some flowers.
Matthew-personality: (to Sabine) I’m bored. No chicks to bang and sneaky personality dude got my dig shut down.
Griffin-personality: (to Isabella) Good job moving slow. Follow the cat.
Isabella-personality: (to Matthew) Hey, sneaky personality sent some thugs after me but samurai protector dude vanquished them. I love U 2 OMG! I’m totally gonna put out next time I see you.
Matthew-personality: (to Isabella) OMG, I get to sexx0r a badass. I’m not worthy.
Sabine-personality: (to Matthew) One time I went into a waterfall nekkid. And you totally need to chill about this “not worthy” thing.
Matthew-personality: (to Sabine) I went out and dug a hole to make sneaky personality think I’m up to something.
Isabella-personality: (to Griffin) This time I had a vision where I’m riding on a cat amidst a war of birds. OK, bye~!
Griffin-personality: (to Isabella) I think everyone shares the same dream. Keep following the cat. Btw, hope you like this postcard with the chicken watching some chick get groped by a disembodied blue hand alongside a snippet of a chinese checkers board.
Matthew-personality: (to Isabella) Sneaky personality accosted me about the statue or something. I totally still love you and all these body parts (see attached list).
Isabella-personality: (to Matthew) I feel sorry for the Minotaur. The wind smells like you.
Griffin-personality: (to Isabella) OK, cease moseying! Get thee hence to Egypt!
Matthew-personality: (to Isabella) Hey, I think we might not be real, but we’re all in that one dude’s head like swanjun totally thinks is the case. Oh, p.s., I love you and your hot bod!
Sabine-personality: (to Matthew) She’s coming, dude! I’ll shut up so you can get busy without distractions.
Isabella-personality: (to Matthew) Some shadow of a fig tree just tried to ravish me, I think.
Matthew-personality: (to Griffin) We totally did IT! Y’know, IT. Sneaky personality tried to get in, but the cat and samurai were all, “No way, man.”
Sabine and Griffin personalities: (to Matthew and Isabella) Good job, you little horndogs. Now sneaky personality’s plans have been foiled and the membrane between our planes is dissolving. Or something.
Filed Under: Books Tagged With: The Morning Star Trilogy
Alexandria by Nick Bantock: C-
Intrigue turns to danger and romance turns to passion as Matthew Sedon and Isabella de Reims, lovers separated by continents, struggle to make sense of a world beyond experience. Only the guidance of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem—experienced navigators of myth and reality—can keep them safe. In Egypt, mysterious forces vie to keep Matthew away from his archaeological dig just as he is about to make a vital discovery, one that may explain his increasingly strange and strong connection with Sabine. In the boulevards of Paris, under Griffin’s tutelage, Isabella learns to trust her own powerful instincts.
The book starts with a page that reads, “… some revelation is at hand.”
“Yeah, right,” I think. “I’d like to see it.”
Are revelations at hand? Not in the kind of revelation-that-makes-stuff-make-sense sort of way. I now think everything’s transpiring in the head of one loony with MPD.
I suppose there’s a bit more action in this one. The sneaky personality menaces some of the other ones or something, and there’s a funky statue at an archaeological site, and some chick sees visions with baboons coming out of hills that are really lion’s bellies, and… Um.
At least there’s only one more.
The Gryphon by Nick Bantock: C
With over three million copies sold, the Griffin & Sabine novels are beloved around the world for their artful fusion of captivating storytelling, lush illustration, and fascinating correspondence. At last, best-selling author Nick Bantock brings us a new volume in the Griffin & Sabine story—a tale rich in the artistry, mystery, and surprise that makes the original saga so beloved. As the remarkable fates of Griffin and Sabine are gradually revealed, we are introduced to Matthew and Isabella, long-distance lovers who find themselves entwined not only in each other’s lives, but also in a perilous and alluring intrigue.
First off, I don’t recommend buying these books simply because they’re very costly. They’re about $20 each because of all those aforementioned lush illustrations, but can be read in about the same amount of time as a graphic novel but with less overall content. If you’re lucky like me, your library will have them and the patrons will have been conscientious and not messed any of the letters up. (You can actually slip these out of envelopes and unfold them and stuff.)
This is the first book of the second trilogy regarding the correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. The line up there about their fates being revealed is not true at all. They’re still as murky as ever. And now more murk has been introduced with Matthew and Isabella, who I think are both actually real, but I’m not sure. There are lots of debates regarding these novels as to whether Sabine’s real or if Griffin’s just insane. I definitely tend toward the latter camp, but would like some confirmation. Alas, I don’t think I’m going to get any.
These books are like poetry. Lots of postcards with weird art and letters with cryptic hints that’re probably symbolic but which I often don’t fathom and can’t really be bothered to try too hard to interpret. Still, they’re pretty interesting and not any serious investment of time. Just don’t fork out $120 for the whole set because you’ll regret it.
The Prince of Tennis 13 by Takeshi Konomi: B
Seishun Academy is in the finals of the District Preliminaries and the only player standing in their way is mean, violent, and ill-tempered Jin Akutsu of Yamabuki Junior High! Ryoma desperately needs to toughen up mentally, as Jin has figured out a way to punish him with his powerful shots. Meanwhile, Seishun holds more intra-squad games, and this time someone loses his spot on the starting team…!
Looking at individual elements in this volume, it makes me wonder why I like this series so much and can’t wait to have thirty-plus volumes to reread and wallow in. Ryoma is quite snotty, and in his match with Jin, I was rooting for him to lose (as I have trouble remembering outcomes of matches from the anime). Then there was a rather pointless chapter where Ryoma beat a basketball player in a free-throw contest by whacking a tennis ball with a broom…
I enjoyed the intra-squad chapters a lot, though, particularly Inui and Tezuka’s match. Inui is alright, though I think his tennis style is a little cheesy, but Tezuka’s my favorite character, and I’m always glad when he gets to be all badass.
So, kind of cheesy, yes, but oh so totally addictive.
Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Shonen Jump, VIZ
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding: C
Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, Bridget Jones searches for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice. She experiences a zeitgeist-esque Spiritual Epiphany somewhere between the pages of How to Find the Love You Want Without Seeking It, protective custody, and a lightly chilled Chardonnay.
Several things annoyed me about this book. I don’t like plots that hinge on misunderstandings that nobody really tries to explain. And Bridget somehow seems even more incompetent than the last book, letting a situation with a builder just linger on unresolved, and just not earning my sympathy very much. It was still cute, and funny at times. It’s probably worth a read, but I found it quite frustrating.
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Our Everlasting 2 by Toko Kawai: B+
Surfer dude Horyu and shy intellectual Shouin are very much in love. Their days together are filled with happiness, but when Shouin’s French tutor, a handsome and openly gay man named Nanami, makes his affection for Shouin known, doubts begin to surface between the couple.
Horyu begins to suspect the relationship between Shouin and Nanami, while Shouin begins to believe Nanami’s theory that Horyu is at heart a straight man and will turn to a woman when his experimentation period with Shouin is over.
The description above concerns only one or two of the stories collected in this volume. Left out is a chapter where Horyu has the opportunity to become a pro surfer, but it would mean sacrificing his relationship with Shouin and a chapter where Shouin’s cousin has dumped off her baby while going off on a trip.
The story with Nanami is okay, but nothing terribly exciting. Standard jealousy and insecurity angst.
I most liked the story about Horyu’s opportunity to turn pro, as it caused Shouin to consider whether he could continue to follow along contentedly at Horyu’s side, or if he needed to branch out and do something for himself. He realizes that being a couple does not necessarily mean that you share the same dreams, as convenient as that would be.
At the end, there’s a short little story where the boys take care of Shouin’s cousin’s baby. This chapter could’ve been totally stupid, but it ended up being cute. I guess this is a good thing, because it’s the last chapter we get of the boys before going to a couple of side-story chapters that are somewhat steamier than the main story.
Even though the volume occasionally employs tried and true angst tactics, and even though Shouin’s a bit weepy and frequently has to call Horyu for help (Horyu calls him The Princess in these situations), there’s enough originality in some of the stories and characters to make this a distinctive title amongst all the Boys’ Love that DMP is producing these days.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: digital manga publishing, Toko Kawai
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding: A-
Bridget Jones’s Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget’s permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement—a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult—and learn to program the VCR.
I’d seen the film but never read the book, so recently listened to the unabridged audio read by Barbara Rosenblatt. She was particularly adept at making Bridget’s mom even more crazily annoying, and did lots of amusing things with all of Bridget’s aha!s and la la las.
This is a quick, funny, and enjoyable book, with a few flaws that are forgivable. I’m still not convinced how Mark Darcy fell in love with Bridget to start with, and seriously, 131 lbs. is so totally not fat whatsoever. I can’t believe Hollywood made a big deal of Renee Zellweger plumping up for this role when the character only weighs 131 lbs. at the most! It’d be one thing if Bridget were the only one to believe this, but various people she meets seem to reinforce the notion.
The parallels with Pride and Prejudice are cleverly done. I particularly like how Bridget’s mom is sort of Mrs. Bennet and Lydia simultaneously. It’s also v. addictive in terms of language. Go read it!
Hana-Kimi 11 by Hisaya Nakajo: C
Mizuki and her friends go to the country, where they meet and try to help a ghost pining for his lost love. Then, for the big Christmas dance party, Mizuki and Nakao are recruited to help make up for a shortage of females—by dressing up as girls! This turnabout for Mizuki, however, proves to be the least of the complications that flare up when the whole ploy proves too successful!
With this volume, I’ve begun to lose my patience with Hana-Kimi. The ghost story is pretty lame, and is only an excuse for Nakatsu to glomp on Mizuki some more. It’s just a little two-chapter deal that really doesn’t serve any narrative purpose. It does introduce Umeda’s parents, however. His dad’s pretty foxy.
And then, yet again, Mizuki is forced to pretend to pretend to be a girl. This bunch of boys is pretty obsessed with making some of their classmates get into drag! Buuuuut, Sano does look awfully cute dancing and there are a couple of sweet moments between them.
So, even though there’s a dash of lame in these stories, there’s still enough here to keep me interested.
Filed Under: Books Tagged With: VIZ
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: A
Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Calliope into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
I don’t normally go in for multi-generational family epics, and I still think the basic concept is a boring one, but in Middlesex it’s handled in such a way that it’s all leading up to some revelations made in the first paragraph and explains how they came about. About halfway in or so when I discovered I was enjoying the sprawling epic, I looked it up and found that it had won the Pulitzer Prize for literature. I think it’s well-deserved in this case.
Although I do own a paperback copy of Middlesex, I actually listened to an unabridged audio recording read by Kristoffer Tabori, who was excellent. The language is not exactly florid, but it is pretty detail-rich. It might’ve been annoying to me if I were looking at it on a page, but Tabori adopts a storyteller mien that makes all the description seem necessary to convey the proper atmosphere.
There are a few things that keep this from getting an A+, however. There are two characters who receive quirky nicknames, which can come off as just a little pretentious. When Calliope’s brother is called Chapter Eleven in the first chapter, it totally elicited a groan from me, because I generally hate books that do stuff like that. It is eventually explained, but it just seems a little look-at-me clever. Also, there’s a bit of a plot hole at the end.
So, a plain ol’ A it is. Get the unabridged audio if you can.
Filed Under: Books, General Fiction, LGBTI
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Saintseneca (new record produced by Mike Mogis) tonight at Reverb…
Category: Blog — Tags: Mike Mogis, Saintseneca — @ 12:55 pm October 21, 2015
Saintseneca plays tonight at Reverb Lounge.
by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com
Been listening to the new Saintseneca album, Such Things, for the last day or so. The album came out a couple weeks ago on Anti- and combines a lot of modern folk-rock styles that you’ll be familiar with, from Decemberists to Okkerville River. AllMusic even compared one track, “Bad Ideas,” to The Cure and Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). That’s a stretch.
If the band emulates anyone it’s probably Neutral Milk Hotel, whose comparison is hard to ignore on the opening track and other moments like the jumping “Rare Form.” Front-dude Zac Little has that Jeff Mangum whine going on, and the arrangements at times have a similar acoustic jangle crunch.
The record has lush, multi-layered production brought to you by our own Mike Mogis, who worked on the band’s last album as well. The band plays tonight at Reverb Lounge with The Sidekicks and Yowler. $10, 9 p.m.
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New Lungs, Little Gold, Saintseneca, Beach Fossils (in Lincoln) tonight…
Category: Blog — Tags: Beach Fossils, New Lungs, Saintseneca — @ 12:48 pm October 1, 2014
New Lungs play at O’Leaver’s tonight…
Trying to think of some news to pass along… The new Prince records? Not feeling it. The new Thom Yorke? Nope. If you’re looking for something noisy and weird, you could do worse than checking out Useless Eaters LP Bleeding Moon (Castle Face). Modern, spiked garage rock. Or maybe not.
Busy Wednesday show-wise…
It’s a night of fine, fine rock at fabulous O’Leaver’s this evening. Been awhile since I’ve seen the crew from New Lungs. I believe D-Max and Co. have been working on some new stuff. Opener Athens band Little Gold plays gritty, harmonica-infused indie rock. They kind of remind me of Centro-matic crossed with D. Jr., but only because of lead guy Christian DeRoeck’s gravel voice. Check out the tracks below. Swamp Walk kicks it off at 9:30. $5.
Spectral Sight by Little Gold
Tonight at Slowdown Jr. Columbus Ohio band Saintseneca headlines. The band recorded their latest album, Dark Arc (ANTI-) with Mike Mogis at ARC Studios, just up the street from the new Panda Express. It’s straight-up acoustic indie rock. Pretty. Bloomington’s Busman’s Holiday and our very own McCarthy Trenching open. $10, 9 p.m.
Happy Alone by Saintseneca
I typically don’t write about Lincoln shows because, well, they’re in Lincoln. And I’m in Omaha. And the chances of me driving to Lincoln during the week (or even on the weekend) are pretty slim. If I had chutzpah, I would make the drive tonight for Beach Fossils at Vega. This show is really a Captured Tracks showcase featuring label mates Heavenly Beat and Axxa/Abraxas. Captured Tracks has it going on. You should check it out. $17, 9 p.m.
Saintseneca, Gordon, Red City Radio tonight; the future of American football (in the column)…
Category: Blog,Column — Tags: Red City Radio, Saintseneca — @ 1:56 pm November 14, 2013
Your weekend starts off tonight with three awesome shows.
Columbus Ohio’s Saintseneca headlines tonight at Slowdown Jr. The band has a classic indie rock sound that’s been compared to Neutral Milk Hotel. They recorded their latest record, Dark Arc (ANTI-) with Mike Mogis at ARC. Openers are Pennsylvania’s Vikesh Kapoor (Mama Bird Recordings) and our very own Dim Light. $8, 9 p.m.
Check out some Saintseneca below:
Meanwhile, at fabulous O’Leaver’s, it’s the return of Gordon. Opening is The New Trust (members of the Velvet Teen) and Those Far out Arrows. $5, 9:30pm.
Finally, over at the legendary Brothers Lounge, Hear Nebraska is hosting a show with one of Andy Norman’s favorite bands, Red City Radio. The Oklahoma City band is on the road supporting their brand-new full length, Titles (Paper + Plastick Records). The Ridgeways open. $5, 9 p.m.
Also tonight, All Young Girls Are Machine Guns plays at The Waiting Room with Field Club and the Benson Soul Society. $7, 9 p.m.
In this week’s column, I ask why any sane parent would let their kids play football considering its crippling effects. You can read it in this week’s issue of The Reader or online right here.
Hi-Fi House closes, will leave Blackstone; new Hand Habits (Saddle Creek)…
McCarthy Trenching gets A- from the dean of music critics; new Sunks track…
New Hartford/Focht, Whipkey, Lightning Junkyard, Shaun the Loud; #BSSF?…
Music Visions for 2021: A look forward (and backward) at the Omaha and national indie music scenes…
2020 Music Year in Review: A look back at the year that wasn’t (trends,favorite albums, live shows)…
Lazy-i Best of 2020 compilation CD track list; So-So Sailors return from sea (with a new song)…
Congress passes #SaveOurStages Act; new Bryce Hotz (Lodgings)…
Contemplating other 2020 year-end lists (while listening to Gordon)…
Mousetrap ‘Attica’ EP gets pre-release; new Lodgings video; David Nance nabs 7.7 Pitchfork…
Soundtrack to a Pandemic (the top 40 Nebraska recordings 2020); Flight School, Lightning Stills, Simon Joyner new music…
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This Column Will Probably Change Your Mind
May 12, 2018 in Economics
By Alexander Coppock, Emily Ekins, David Kirby
Alexander Coppock, Emily Ekins, and David Kirby
Will this essay — or the op-eds nearby — change your
mind?
The traditional op-ed may seem quaint compared with tweetstorms,
tell-all interviews and cable news shouting sessions. Skeptics may
be forgiven for dismissing this medium as old-fashioned and
ineffective. We have new evidence, however, that should persuade
even a determined skeptic.
Even in today’s allegedly
post-fact world, people are capable of considering new evidence and
reaching new conclusions.
In a peer-reviewed study we published this month, we find op-eds do
change minds. After reading opinion pieces, we found people were
far more likely to agree with the author’s point of view.
Even in today’s allegedly post-fact world, people are capable
of considering new evidence and reaching new conclusions.
The op-ed is an experiment only 50 years
In 1970, when the New York Times debuted the modern
“opposite the Editorial Page,” or op-ed,
then-editor John B. Oakes announced grand ambitions. This opinion page
was to be designed to an intellectual arena, designed to provoke
new ideas and discussion on public policies among regular readers
and political insiders alike.
Was Oakes’s optimism misplaced? Op-eds might fail to persuade
for a number of reasons. People might be unwilling to consider
alternative points of view. Even if they are, the arguments might
be too complex for people not versed in intricate policy details.
Those familiar with the topics — journalists, political
pundits, policy wonks and Capitol Hill staff — may already
have strongly held opinions. Or op-eds might simply preach to the
choir or flatter authors’ egos, putting their names in print.
Our evidence suggests not. We find not only can op-eds change
the minds among general readers, but also among Washington policy
professionals as well.
Here is how we did our research:
In our study, we assessed how about 3,500 Americans reacted to
reading op-eds. We obtained our sample on Mechanical Turk, a
service for obtaining online convenience samples that are not
representative of the public at large (though see recent evidence that Mechanical Turk produces
generalizable inferences in studies like ours). We randomly
assigned participants to read one of five op-eds, or no op-ed at
all. Afterward, they took a survey on the topics discussed in the
op-eds, to measure how much readers agreed with the authors. We
then compared the survey answers among those who had read the
op-eds with answers from those who had not.
Strikingly, respondents became substantially more likely to
agree with the author whose op-ed they read.
For example, some subjects were assigned to read “The Other Veterans Scandal” by Michael F.
Cannon and Christopher …read more
Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think
May 12, 2018 in Blogs
By The Conversation
The idea that the most successful new business ventures come from the young, even the very young, is widespread.
The romanticized image of entrepreneurs is a picture of youth: a 20-something individual with disruptive ideas, boundless energy and a still-sharp mind. Silicon Valley has bet on this image for years.
But is this right?
Far from it, according to our recent research with Javier Miranda of the U.S. Census Bureau and Pierre Azoulay of MIT.
Our team analyzed the age of all business founders in the U.S. in recent years. We found that the average age of the most successful entrepreneurs is 45 – and that founders in their 20s are the least likely to build a top firm.
The myth of the young entrepreneur
Younger people are often thought to be less beholden to current thinking and thus more naturally innovative and disruptive. Many observers (perhaps enviously) believe the young have more time and energy, with fewer family responsibilities like nightly dinner with the kids or financial demands like mortgages. Besides, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said, “Young people are just smarter.”
Young founders also make for a dramatic story. The college dropout or young corporate drone shakes off conventional expectations to launch a new business with a ragtag team of fellow 20-somethings. After countless late nights, they emerge with the new killer app or consumer product that takes the market by storm, landing them on the cover of Inc., creating enormous personal wealth, and reminding stuffy executive types that hungry young upstarts can and will eat their lunch.
This stereotype has meaningful consequences. In Silicon Valley, for example, venture capitalists show a clear bias toward investing in younger founders, often leaving older founders out in the cold. The perceived link between youth and success is so prevalent that some tech workers reportedly seek plastic surgery to appear younger.
Prime time for entrepreneurship is middle age
But the image of the young entrepreneur didn’t hold when we looked at the data.
Past studies of …read more
A Psychologist Explains the Thinking Error at the Root of Science Denial
This widespread rejection of scientific findings presents a perplexing puzzle to those of us who value an evidence-based approach to knowledge and policy.
Currently, there are three important issues on which there is scientific consensus but controversy among laypeople: climate change, biological evolution and childhood vaccination. On all three issues, prominent members of the Trump administration, including the president, have lined up against the conclusions of research.
Yet many science deniers do cite empirical evidence. The problem is that they do so in invalid, misleading ways. Psychological research illuminates these ways.
No shades of gray
As a psychotherapist, I see a striking parallel between a type of thinking involved in many mental health disturbances and the reasoning behind science denial. As I explain in my book “Psychotherapeutic Diagrams,” dichotomous thinking, also called black-and-white and all-or-none thinking, is a factor in depression, anxiety, aggression and, especially, borderline personality disorder.
In this type of cognition, a spectrum of possibilities is divided into two parts, with a blurring of distinctions within those categories. Shades of gray are missed; everything is considered either black or white. Dichotomous thinking is not always or inevitably wrong, but it is a poor tool for understanding complicated realities because these usually involve spectrums of possibilities, not binaries.
Spectrums are sometimes split in very asymmetric ways, with one-half of the binary much larger than the other. For example, perfectionists categorize their work as either perfect or unsatisfactory; good and very good outcomes are lumped together with poor ones in the unsatisfactory category. In borderline personality disorder, relationship partners are perceived as either all good or all bad, so one hurtful behavior catapults the partner from the good to the bad category. It’s like a pass/fail grading system in which 100 percent correct earns a P and everything else gets an F.
In my observations, I see science deniers engage in dichotomous thinking about truth claims. In evaluating the evidence for a hypothesis or theory, they divide the spectrum …read more
Watch: HBO's Bill Maher Confronts Rep. Duncan Hunter About McCain Insults
By Nicole Karlis, Salon
Hunter is a military veteran and Maher was curious what he thought about a former Trump aide who said that John McCain was 'dying anyway.'
Duncan Hunter, a California Republican House representative, braved a Bill Maher interrogation on Friday night. Indeed, on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher surprisingly decided not to interrogate him about the federal probe for alleged campaign-finance violations he's facing. Instead, he wanted to talk about President Donald Trump—and the insults that have been reportedly surfaced from the White House about Republican Arizona Senator, John McCain.
“I’m very impressed that you showed up,” Maher said to Hunter. “You’re a Republican, you’re one of Trump’s first supporters.”
Maher continued by taking Hunter's temperature about the insults that have been made about McCain who is currently battling brain cancer. Kelly Sadler, a White House aide, reportedly distastefully joked about Sen. McCain's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel, and said that “he's dying anyway”—suggesting that his vote does not matter.
Hunter is a military veteran, and Maher was curious what he thought about a comment like this.
“It’s pretty rotten,” Hunter said. “The torture thing is different. You shouldn’t make fun of people when they’re dying but when you and I pass away, I’m sure some people are going to tweet bad things about it. I think with the oversensationalism and everything being on the 24-hour news cycle and the tweets, you’re gonna have people say bad things about everybody that dies.”
“You’re a veteran,” Maher said. “Come on. This doesn’t bother you and other veterans?”
“No. So, to be honest, we make fun because we’re in the military, it’s hard to ask someone who’s been in the military and has made every crass joke known to man—worse than you’ve made, I mean really bad jokes,” Hunter said. “I’ve made the same John McCain joke with my friends, who are other Marines.”
Maher brought up Haspel's nomination, and asked if whether or not she should be the CIA director. Haspel was under fire this weekfor dodging questions on if she thought torture was immoral or not.
“I differ with McCain on torture,” Hunter said. “[Haspel oversaw torture] …read more
Noam Chomsky Explains Exactly What Went Wrong in the 2016 Presidential Election in Brand New Interview
By Dan Brook, Truthout
“The Sanders campaign, the most remarkable feature of the '16 election by far, broke with the long-standing pattern of reliance on wealth and corporate power.”
Noam Chomsky is an exceptionally influential figure. Author of well over 100 books (as well as many articles, letters, speeches and interviews) published over the past 60 years, Chomsky is integral to cognitive science, modern linguistics, philosophy, mass media criticism and political analysis — especially of US foreign policy, the military-industrial complex, capitalism and imperialism. Chomsky is a defender of free speech and is one of the most cited authors.
This interview first appeared at Truthout.com.
Chomsky was kind enough to take some time out of his extraordinarily busy schedule to give what he described as “much too brief” responses to Truthout's questions.
Dan Brook: Worker-owned cooperatives (co-ops) seem to be a hybrid between capitalism and socialism. Other such hybrids could include consumer-owned co-ops, nonprofit organizations/non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and even state-owned institutions.
Noam Chomsky: Not just co-ops, but also worker-owned, and sometimes, worker-managed enterprises. These I think are very important developments, which could be the germs of a very different society. Sometimes they reach considerable scale, like the Mondragon conglomerate in the Basque country. There's important literature on all of this, particularly Gar Alperovitz's recent work.
NGOs and state-owned institutions are a different matter.
Classification of enterprises as “capitalist” or “socialist” (or hybrids) has no clear meaning because the terms are so imprecise and often used so loosely. So, take the world's largest corporation, Apple. It began producing marketable computers in the late '70s, adapting the results of creative work mostly in the dynamic state sector of the economy for decades — and that continues — say, the technology in the iPhone. So, is it “capitalist”?
Trump is both cause and consequence of so many horrible things going on in the US. People create conditions, while conditions create people. What's your view on human agency and leadership?
I don't think much can be said at a very general level. There's all sorts of variation and complexity.
Despite all the fraud, voter suppression, corporate mass media biases, political party duopoly, plutocracy, etc., votes are still mostly counted in this very imperfect, top-down democracy. …read more
Racial Justice Groups Are Freeing Black Women From Jail for Mother's Day
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
“Black Mama's Bail Out Day” is raising money to bail out as many black women from jail as possible.
It's Mother's Day this weekend, and racial justice groups around the country are bailing black women out of jail so they can spend the holiday with their families. For the second year in a row, “Black Mama's Bail Out Day” is raising money to bail out as many black women from jail as possible. The effort is taking place in dozens of cities to call attention to the injustice of cash bail. We speak to Mary Hooks, co-director of Southerners on New Ground and an organizer of National Black Mama's Bail Out Day.
AMY GOODMAN: Sunday is Mother's Day. Racial justice groups around the country are bailing black women out of jail so they can spend the holiday with their families. For the second year in a row, Black Mama's Bail Out Day is raising money to bail out as many black women from jail as possible. The effort is taking place in dozens of cities to call attention to the injustice of cash bail.
This is Serena Sebring, an organizer with Southerners on New Ground, or SONG, which spearheaded the effort. This is video from SONG's celebration last year in Durham, North Carolina.
SERENA SEBRING: SONG has been spearheading this effort, because Mary Hooks had a dream. She thought, “What if we came together with our local and national partners and collected our resources to bail as many black mamas out of jail the week before Mother's Day?” It's part of a larger critique of money bail as a system, which we know leaves people in cages, when we believe that nobody should live in cages.
AMY GOODMAN: Since the effort launched last year, there's been a growing national movement to eliminate cash bail from the criminal justice system. Just this week, Google and Facebook announced they'll no longer take money from America's for-profit bail bond agencies. Still, the cash bail system keeps millions of people who have not been convicted of any crime imprisoned in jails every day nationwide while they await trial.
For more, we go to Mary Hooks, …read more
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A STREET ORDERLY SPEAKS OUT
‘I’m 42 now and when I was a boy and a young man I was employed in The Times machine office, but I got into a bit of a row, a bit of a street quarrel and frolic, and was called on to pay £3, something about a street lamp; that was out of the question; and as I was taking a walk in the park, not just knowing what I’d best do, I met a recruiting sergeant and enlisted on a sudden . . .’ Thus the street-orderly, interviewed by Mayhew for his ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ published in 1851. This interview is not one of these used by poet John Seed in his ‘Pictures from Mayhew’ and ‘That Barrikins’, published by Shearsman - but it does have a certain contemporary relevance.
‘I served under General Nott all through the Afghan war’ the man tells him. ‘Why yes sir, I saw a little of what you may call ‘service’ . . . I was at the fighting at Kandahar, Bowlingglen, Bowling Pass, Clatigillsy, Ghazni and Kabul. The first real warm work I was in was at Kandahar. I’ve heard young soldiers say that they’ve gone into action the first time as merry as they would go to a play. Don’t believe them sir . . . You must feel queer and serious the first time you’re in action: it’s not fear, its nervousness. The crack of the muskets at the first fire you hear in real hard earnest is uncommon startling . . . And then you get excited, just as if you were at a hunt, but after a little service – I can speak for myself at any rate – you go into action as you go to your dinner.
I served thirteen years and four months and was then discharged on account of ill health. If I’d served eight months longer . . . I’d have been entitled to a pension. I believe my illness was caused by the hardships I went through in the campaigns, fighting and killing men that I never saw before, and until I was in India had never heard of, and that I had no ill-will to; certainly not, why should I? They never did me any wrong. But when it comes to war, if you can’t kill them they’ll kill you.’
When he came back, he tells Mayhew, he got a job at The Times again ‘but ‘I wasn’t master of the work, for there was new machinery, wonderful machinery . . . So I couldn’t be kept on.’
So now he’s in London sweeping the streets and, like sleep-walkers caught up in some dreadful cycle, a century and a half later we’re back there once again.
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‘Visiting Exile’, my new Shearsman collection, is now out. On 6th November I read from the book at Souheil Sleiman’s studio here in Hackney. I’ve already described (see five or so posts back) Souheil’s sculpture ‘All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go’ and its role as a powerful presence in the book. Also on the programme were two short films. Ruth Dupre showed her film ‘Les’, a portrait of a committed smoker. She is an artist specialising in glass who has recently been making films and this is one of a number of film portraits she has done which manage to be very intimate, but non-intrusive. Her ‘Childsong’, a poignant account of an early 19th century educational experiment where a group of children were brought from Sierra Leone to Dulwich where a school was established for them can be seen on the net. Her website is http://www.ruthdupre.co.uk/. Secondly there was ‘Exit’ by Palestinian film-maker Mohanad Yaqubi, a film reminiscent of a performance art piece, set in a totally deserted London Underground, where a dancer enacts a sense of entrapment. And then to finish music from Hyberbolic, a group one of whose members is Souheil’s son.
Then on 15th November Tom Lowenstein and I joined forces to launch our respective collections at Tom’s house in Stoke Newington. Tom’s new book is ‘Conversations with Murasaki', also available from Shearsman.
BOW-WOW AT THE ARTS CLUB
The Bow-Wow Shop, edited by Michael Glover, must be the only web magazine to manifest itself in flesh and blood form with a launch. Issue 3 was launched with readings a few days ago at the Arts Club. A short Ashbery poem read simultaneously in Polish and Russian translation created a pleasing and oddly soothing effect. Among the other readers was Japan-based Paul Rossiter who read an electrifying poem. ‘Komachi’, from the current issue. As well as a group of his poems there’s a substantial afterword by him, ‘Thatched Huts and Instant Noodles’, where he describes in some detail the history of his encounters with Japanese poetry, starting, long before he had visited the country, with his reading of Bunting’s ‘Chomei at Toyama’ . ‘Komachi’ takes off from a contemporary No play he happened on two weeks after arriving in Tokyo in 1981. ‘Traditional No’, he writes, is performed extremely slowly, but that is as nothing compared to the pace at which this Komachi moved. In the second line of the poem I talk about her moving 'centimetre by centimetre' across the bridge, and this is perhaps an understatement; her pace was almost impossibly slow, and it took her nearly ten minutes to cover the few metres to the centre of the stage. Moreover, the production was also almost completely silent; although there was occasionally some music (Vivaldi, 'La Vie en Rose'), and the figures in the sub-plot (squabbling 1980s' neighbours who live in the apartment next door to Komachi's ancientness) had lines to speak, Komachi herself stayed silent throughout the performance. The speechlessness, the extreme slowness of the movement, and the use of No performance practices, together created an extraordinary intensity. The performance was both phantasmagoric and perfectly controlled, and it made even someone like Peter Brook look a bit sloppy. I'd never seen anything like it.’ It sounds like a piece of performance art, and suggests a resemblance that seems to exist between such traditional forms, and Zen, with western modernism. Rossiter’s piece concludes with a hilarious account of cross-cultural endeavour and confusion, again in Tokyo, involving Kenneth Koch and the shade of Amy Lowell.
RIMBAUD IN ADEN
Lunch yesterday at Iraqi poet Abdulkarim Kasid’s flat near Chancery Lane, to continue working on the English versions of his poems, versions he first made himself working with his daughter Sara. This method of translation has become increasingly common of course, and I’ve previously worked on the British-based Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan’s poems in a similar way. Some of those versions are among those included in a collection of his poems, ‘Sonata For Four Hands’, due out very soon from Arc Press. It’s a way of working of course that shows up a fundamental asymmetry – they know English, we don’t know Arabic, Punjabi . . .
Kasid’s first home after he got out of Iraq nearly thirty years ago was in Aden. He lived near to what was Rimbaud’s house, and one of the poems we’re working on, ‘A Volcano’, is dedicated to the poet’s memory. He has translated Rimbaud from French into Arabic and yesterday he told me he identifies with Rimbaud’s wandering lifestyle, having himself like so many others been constantly on the move through force of circumstance, something alluded to in this poem (which was in Shadowtrain a while back):
TERMINAL WISDOM
How could I know
My outbound journey
Could be the way back,
That my dreams were behind me
And I wasn’t only the walking shadow
Of a standing-still man?
STUDIES AT DELHI 1876
Sir Alfred Lyall was nothing if not an imperialist, with long service in the most senior ranks of the Indian Civil Service. The sack of Delhi in the aftermath of the ‘Mutiny’or ‘Great Revolt’, depending on your point of view, when Delhi was retaken, sacked and many of its inhabitants killed, was a particularly dreadful episode. Writing some twenty years later Lyall, in his ‘Studies at Delhi 1876’, evokes a game of badminton being played on the spot where the battle to retake the city had been fought:
Hardly a shot from the gate we stormed,
Under the Moree battlement’s shade;
Close to the glacis our game was formed,
There had the fight been, and there we played.
Lightly the demoiselles tittered and leapt,
Merrily capered the players all;
North, was the garden where Nicolson slept,
South was the sweep of a battered wall.
Near me a Musalman, civil and mild,
Watched as the shuttlecocks rose and fell;
And he said, as he counted his beads and smiled,
‘God smite their souls to the depths of hell.’
Well at least Lyall could see it . . .
AL CELESTINE
A message from Chris Gutkind to say that the London-based American poet Al Celestine has died. Chris wrote ‘Al has died, it's sad. He had a heart attack a few weeks back, I just found out from his very distressed boyfriend of 21 years, poor Al, such a warm man, and a wonderful mad man, and such an interesting poet, never seen anything quite like his work. He died July 28 . . .’
I published Al’s pamphlet 'Confessions of Nat Turner' in 1978 just three years after I’d started The Many Press. At that time I was printing things myself at the Poetry Society print shop in Earls Court. Production-wise this one could be criticised. The cover card (I had the covers printed elsewhere and bound the pamphlets myself) was a rather alarming dark pink. I had a Dover Book of Aztec motifs – all too easy to chop up and paste down and I went a bit wild with those.
Al was very straightforward to deal with, but quite elusive, I found, on a personal level. I have a file for each Many Press publication, where I keep letters and suchlike as well as the actual ms. But in his file all there is is the original typescript and the brief covering letter. I remember he was anxious not to be labelled a ‘Black poet’ and got quite agitated when he saw a brief review in Time Out drawing attention to that. ‘Who told them I was Black?’ he asked (I think it may have been me). At the time he was working at Joe Allen’s, a smart upmarket burger place while taking some part in the London poetry scene – I recall him standing beside me in the Poetry Society print shop and saying, in a rather resigned way, that he had to head off to Poetry Round.
There were a few other fleeting contacts. There was a group vegetarian dinner he was involved in organising – fund-raising? Amanda and I went along to that. And there were one or two brief telephone and later email exchanges and very occasionally hearing word of him which suggested he was still around now and then on the poetry scene.
What else did he publish? Something that strikes me now, re-reading the 'Confessions', is the combination of powerful rhetoric and a kind of steadiness of control. Here are a couple of passages:
Jacob strums
It's doing what must be done
And keeping up appearances
To become a part of what is.
The stars are hysterical with green omens.
The wide water parts, and he slips
Further and further down into perfection
Because song is naked, and terror
Because it's orgasmic, because it's rooted
Spreads deep into our bowels and cannot be sung.
It does not have a name, this tune.
We have nothing to cleanse our wound
When a string breaks with its own song.
He sees pilgrims, horrific puritans,
Lost, like a crow flying beyond its own field.
Doubt ripens.
Doubt sleeps in the mouth of rivers.
It has the colour of mustard greens.
It has, of course, two sides;
They sway within us like complaint.
Who wants to translate suffering, and who
Weeps for your old juju man now?
Here among hot ash each generation
Like smoke searching for its gone fire
Rises to tell us what we want.
The narrow gate closed.
The yard filled with enraged masters.
Dead Eye harbored horizons.
His face loomed in the half-moon.
There wer rumors of owls.
There were pockets of blood.
Red cauldron of ignorance boils
Over with screams.
The crows was like small white teeth. Standing there
Digesting their own sins
They spoke of refusals,
The necessity of remaining pure.
The flame grew hungry; the rope bit
Savagely into Dead Eye's wrists.
Hundreds of thngs connected them.
Fear divided.
The past was a bull's eye:
The beginning, the end.
They heard something approach and stop.
The tar smiled, the feathers snickered.
Dead Eye stood still.
He cut from each defeat a thread.
He emerged
A black phoenix
Intoxicated, sinister.
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VISITING EXILE
It was Souheil Sleiman, a friend and near neighbour, who made his studio available for Amanda's Hackney Downs event. I’m currently correcting the proofs of my Shearsman book 'Visiting Exile', due out in October. Souheil’s sculpture ‘All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go’, seen here on the right, will be on the cover and references to it recur throughout the book. ('All Dressed Up...' was the subject of my first post on this blog.) The work featured as Lebanon’s entry for the Alexandria Biennale last year, so the whole thing had to be dismantled and reassembled, which is referred to in the following section:
Alexandria: is it
Towards a city
But defunct – that can
Swim or sprout eyes
Library lighthouse drowned statues
On the balcony, stands there, a stranger
The name is lips kissing themselves
Where the sculpture arrives
In its packing case
Flatpack assembly:
Dismembered to two dimensions
And under the sea someone’s here
Making a shape out of something lonely
It has eyes instead of a name
In the harbour of drowning
Inimical still to the texture of flesh
It’s a carapace sloughed off
A thing of endless corners
Look backward the usual stranger
So perched it in my mind
Where everything leaves its faint print
But somewhere’s the shape of a human
‘Come over here and be loved’
And a voice, that might last in the calling
From ‘somewhere out of Africa’
Smashed to a dazzle – my animal mouth
Being walked here into a mirror’s silence
AMANDA WELCH WEBSITE
Amanda Welch’s website is now up and running, at http://www.amandajanewelch.com/. My last post had Laurie Duggan’s photos of Amanda’s recent ‘Hackney Downs’ show. On her new website you can read more about it, and her statement on the project. And there's a piece by poet and critic Martha Kapos on her last series, the Devon Paintings as well as lots of images of previous work.
HACKNEY DOWNS
Amanda Welch is showing her ‘Hackney Downs’ project in a studio generously lent to her by fellow-artist Souheil Sleiman for the week. It’s on for the rest of this week and here you can see some of the work being transported across the Downs - it will close with an event taking place on Saturday 11th July at 2pm to round it off, when some of the work will be transported by a band of willing helpers across the Downs and back to our house at 15 Norcott Road. Meanwhile she’ll be at the studio from 4-6 each day till then, or at other times by appointment. Call 020 8806 5723 for further details.
‘My current work’, she writes, ‘comes out of an activity, begun “on the side” in 2005, of making memory drawings.’ These are memories of cycling across Hackney Downs ‘on my way to somewhere else. It had occurred to me that these repeated incidental crossings were important’ and later in the same piece she says: ‘Paradoxically, to have no purpose became a purpose. There were conditions attached. From the start it felt important to stick to the moment of noticing – no stopping my bike to check, no going back, no filling in the missing bits, no analysis, no system; no looking for, only finding.’
Hackney Downs: the space is an ambiguous one, not quite the traditional idea of a park. It doesn’t have the curves and irregular planting of trees one associates with parkland as a manicured version of a traditional rural landscape. It’s something squarer and more abrupt, though not completely flat but rising in the centre in a irregular shallow dome and tucked in alongside the railway, formerly the line of the Hackney Brook. There are straight lines of trees on two sides, and an open space you venture into from the safety of the edge – though it has recently been somewhat softened with the planting of a ‘community orchard’ and a ‘wildlife area’.
Martha Kapos wrote of Amanda Welch’s previous cycle of work, the ‘Devon Paintings’: ‘What if you wanted a kind of painting truer to the painter’s walking eye, a painting closer to the experience of landscape as we actually enter it and circulate within it? What if you wanted all of these images and shapes together within the same surface, within the same pictorial whole?’ But moving through a city is all glimpses; a city is a solid thing, an image of permanence, but is composed for much of the time of these glimpses. Here they relate to a single, albeit various, space, and a crossing and recrossing rather than a passing through. Somewhere behind it there’s the plein air tradition of landscape painting in watercolour. Amanda Welch did a lot of paintings in this vein around twenty years ago. An aspect of this kind of work has always been a topographical recording. As in, for instance, the four volumes of Recording Britain published immediately after the Second World War, and the last major undertaking of its kind? The project was launched in 1939 in these words: ‘Artists should be invited to make a number of topographical water-colour drawings of places and buildings of characteristic national interest, particularly those exposed to the dangers of destruction by the operations of war.’ But where each plate in Recording Britain aims to represent a gathering together, a distillation of the essence of a building or landscape, in this work it is all fragments. It has been disassembled, flying apart in pieces. (There have been literal explosions. There is only one remaining towerblock, recorded in three of the ‘sculptures’, the other blocks having been blown up by the Council in front of a large audience of spectators.)
But these works have been made emphatically not by sitting in front of the landscape, but always done from memory. There is a preoccupation with time passing, recording all kinds of often very small changes and, from time to time, recording the site’s earlier history.
There are elements of the cartoon which recall Amanda’s earlier career as an illustrator, and emerge especially in the protagonist who moves through the work, a puzzled and not infrequently indignant person on a bicycle in a hurry to get somewhere else. ‘I really hate these new seats’ she declares. It’s the opposite of the painter who has set up an easel in front of a landscape and works meditatively for a prolonged period.
These fragments have to be somehow organised. Archiving is a contemporary preoccupation – but here, whether or not consciously, there are elements of parody. The process of making these objects is itself directed by impulse, using whatever materials happen to turn up. Many of the drawings as well are on scrap paper; she refers to them as ‘residues of my bicycle trips’. It’s the opposite of the reverential white-gloved approach. There is also a steadfast avoidance of the kind of neatness often associated with this kind of thing – which tends to involve work all executed on paper of exactly the same size, providing the pleasure of making a ‘set’ – like collecting stamps and sticking them in one’s album. The works was conceived in part as a way of moving on from the previous series of paintings. Looking at these drawings in bulk what is so striking is the is enlivening variousness of the result.
OPEN SEASON?
It’s the Poetry Season on TV and last night’s offering was Owen Sheers on Lynette Roberts. An interesting choice, this late-modernist recently re-issued as a Collected Poems. But the programme formula is poet-and-place, which all too easily becomes a sort of poetry travelogue. The Bronte Country, The Hardy Country, that sort of thing. Sheers focusses in particular on one work, ‘Poem from Llanbyri’, which opens her first book, ‘Poems’, published by Faber in 1944. Sheers tackles his task with a sort of pious agreeableness, but I was suddenly taken aback to hear him describe this as ‘her only collection’. What about that other book of hers, ‘Gods with Stainless Ears’, which came out in 1951, also from Faber? Later in the programme he does refer very much in passing to publication of a ‘fiercely modernist poem’, but chooses not to give us the title. Looking again at my copy of ‘Poems’ I’m struck by how much of the work in there prefigures the radical experimentation of the second collection. There are only a handful of poems that are in the localist, pastoral mode implied by the programme as typical of her, but which conveniently do serve as a pretext for a great many striking shots of the surrounding land and sea-scape. O and why this inevitable, intrusive music? In particular why music all the way through the reading the Llanbyri poem rendering the words only semi-audible? I’m not sure how successful her later work always is, but one thing is certain. It is a serious and determined move into territory occupied by certain other poets at that time as well, and it deserves a lot better than to be ‘edited out’ like this.
My daughter and her boyfriend have been travelling around the USA for 3 months. See photography from their trip (and more) at their Flickr site: www.flickr.com/bearandtoadphotography
ULTIMATE AMERICANS
'Ultimate Americans', just published by the University of Alaska Press, is the third of Tom Lowenstein’s trilogy of books on the Inuit of Alaska. What is so special about his work as an anthropologist and historian of contact is the way that, alongside this scholarship, he has sought to reconstitute, in a series of powerful (and sometimes very funny) poems, the hunter-gatherer way of life, the palaeolithic if you like, from some of its last surviving remnants. Thus in 'Ancient Land: Sacred Whale' (Bloomsbury 1993) the prose narrative is interspersed with long stretches of poetry evoking the traditional whale hunt and its rituals. It's a remarkable enterprise and his book got some excellent reviews when it came out - but it seems a pity that few in the poetry world appear to have acknowledged it. In 2007 Shearsman published 'Ancestors and Species' with more longish narratives on the same themes.
'Primitive' peoples - and the rituals of shamanism in particular - can all too easily be subjected to a sentimental poeticising, a shortcut to exalted or visionary experience. Lowenstein's work is informed with humanity and firsthand knowledge, and avoids idealising his subject. 'Ultimate Americans' is a work of historical scholarship focussing on one community at Point Hope in Alaska and the effects of contact with commercial whale hunters, traders and missionaries, one missionary in particular, a man called Driggs. Here's a short extract from the opening chapter:
Surrounding the camp lay a mass of equipment: skin boats, kayaks, harpoons, fish nets, coils of sturdy seal skin rope, and a clutter of little tools for the making and mending of yet more equipment. Awaiting transformation into boots and parkas, bedding and boat skins, lay seal, caribou and walrus skins. Sea mammal carcases – fresh, half-butchered, some half putrid – lay among skeletal remains from past seasons’ hunts. Higher on the bluff rose driftwood racks where the women had draped meat they had sliced thinly to dry in the wind that had scarcely stopped blowing since the last Ice Age. Hunting, cutting, drying and preserving were a daily labour. Bags made from hollowed-out seal stood by the tents filled with dried meat, eggs, birds steeped in seal oil, or blueberries and meat chips packed in caribou back-fat. Tethered securely away from this larder, were the dogs that had dragged the skin boats along the inshore water from the village. And all this work and clutter was framed by heaps of grey, weathered tree trunks: spruce, birch and cottonwood from the southern rivers which had drifted up coast and which the sea had been disgorging here for innumerable centuries.
On an August day like this the work of hunting and accumulation was mixed with hours of lazy enjoyment. The temperature hovered between forty and fifty degrees Fahrenheit. For Tikigaq people, who experienced winter temperatures of minus thirty (and far lower given wind-chill), this was warm. The children ran bare-foot, the little ones naked. Adults shed one layer of their double caribou skin parkas and trousers. ‘Silagiiksuq’ (beautiful weather!)’, people would murmur. Such days sunshine and a light south wind would soon be replaced by violent equinoctial storms and then freeze-up in November.
When activity came it was often sudden. The nets stretching from the beach would stand empty for days. When belugas arrived, the thick skin mesh would thrash violently with struggling white dolphin-like whales. When the wind changed direction, the men might take off inland to hunt caribou, returning with back packs of meat and skins, repeating their journey to fetch what they had left and to visit the traps they had left for foxes and marmots.
Things also happened for people simply to observe. Grizzlies ambled from the ridges where they’d been browsing for berries and excavating squirrel burrows to scavenge for dead seals or walrus. A grey whale, not worth chasing for its meagre coat of blubber, would swim into view in the middle distance. Or an orca would cruise inshore to attack a seal. The women would laugh, throw stones and shout, ‘When you have eaten, bring us a share!’ What came round the cliffs habitually belonged to a world that was known and which could be interpreted. The animals were always welcome. But people from beyond were often dangerous . . .
SOME INDIAN POETS
The current issue of Poetry London carries my review of ‘The Bloodaxe Book Of Contemporary Indian Poets’ edited by Jeet Thayil. Here are more than seventy poets who write in English and all likely to be unread by most poetry readers in this country. As well as from India there are poets here from Britain, Fiji, Guyana, America, poets of mixed heritage born in India, in the UK or USA, members of minority groups in India such as Jews and Parsis, while the editor was born into India’s Syrian Christian community. There is a large representation of women writers. A question begged by this anthology of course is what is ‘Indian’? Arundhathi Subramaniam has a poem titled ‘To the Welsh Critic Who Doesn’t Find Me Identifiably Indian’ – a pre-emptive riposte perhaps to William Radice’s review of the book in the Guardian where he criticised the work as 'not sounding Indian enough' - this at least was how Jeet Thayil summarised Radice's review when hitting back in the paper’s Response column. Thayil accused Radice of an ‘orientalising’ tendency. In her poem ‘Home’ Arundhathi Subramaniam writes:
Give me a home
that isn’t mine,
where I can slip in and out of rooms
without a trace . . .
A home that I can wear lightly.
Arun Kolatkar is a poet who writes in both Marathi and English. His best-known work, the sequence ‘Jejuri’ is an exemplary text in the way it pays a kind of wary, disenchanted respect to a depleted tradition of pilgrimage. In the review I quote from his ‘Pi-dog’, whose canine protagonist, in a sideways acknowledgement of the British legacy, claims descent ‘matrilineally’ from ‘one of thirty foxhounds’ imported from England
by Sir Bartle Frere’
in eighteen hundred and sixty-four
with the crazy idea
of introducing fox-hunting to Bombay.
Just the sort of thing
he felt the city badly needed.
I got involved in this area way back in the early 1980s as part of the whole multicultural project. I helped run The South Asian Literature Society, founded by teacher and critic Ranjana Ash. The idea was to spread knowledge of South Asian writing to a wider audience. In the event SALS events only really attracted an Asian audience. But I certainly became aware of just how much stuff there is, available in English, that never finds its way over here (a lot of writing in different South Asian languages gets translated into English for the benefit of Indian readers). There’s a tendency to pride ourselves on our receptivity in this area. In fact it’s an uneasy relationship characterised by multiple silences and omissions.
Just back from breezy Hunstanton in North Norfolk where I was staying with Peter Hughes, and took the opportunity to record an interview. I’m currently doing a series of these with people I used to publish with The Many Press and who have not, as far as I’m aware, been interviewed before. The un- or at least the under-interviewed. . . I’ve already more or less completed one with Bill (publishes as W.G.) Shepherd, whose point of departure is his father setting off for the First World War aged sixteen (he’d lied, as so many did, about his age) on a horse and armed with a sword. . . The repercussions of this are a significant theme in our ensuing conversation.
Peter gave me the latest in his Oystercatcher series, The Deer Path to my Door by Gerry Loose. This is a series or sequence of two line poems, work that, to quote from the Oystercatcher site, 'leads language through its own moving landscapes, as well as others trodden, tended and observed by the author. Wry, lyrical, daft, philosophical – these lines are alert to miniscule shifts in natural phenomena and thought, the tracks of language glistening under starlight, sun and ample Scottish rain . . .' It’s a tricky thing, the very short poem. It can all too easily acquire a tendentious significance precisely because of its shortness – those shards of agonised experience written by Ian Hamilton, and by others published by him in The Review some years ago, fall into this category for me; something enormous is left hanging in the air, but after a while you can’t help thinking, well so what. Gerry Loose does work for me, less portentous, and offering moments of real illumination.
THE BOWWOW SHOP
is a new internet magazine, the first issue out now at http://www.bowwowshop.org.uk/. Put together by poet and art critic Michael Glover the first issue features poems and commentary from an eclectic mix of contributors. Among the poets is the London-based Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim whose work will be appearing from Carcanet in due course, in versions made in collaboration with poet Antony Howell. He is one of a number of very fine Iraqi poets living in London and these versions are well worth checking out. And there are collages by John Ashbery, who discusses these with Michael Glover . . .
There’s a gathering to inaugurate the site, with readings from some contributors, on Tuesday March 3rd, at 7.30pm at The Foundry in Shoreditch, 84-86 Great Eastern Street, London EC2.
London, Hackney
Born in London in 1942, I have published four full-length collections of poetry. My latest collection, 'Its Halting Measure', appeared from Shearsman in June 2012. Shearsman brought out my 'Collected Poems' in 2008, along with a prose memoir, 'Dreaming Arrival'. As for this blog, well it's poetry, the visual arts, and various odds and ends . . .
Amanda Welch
Beverley Rowe
Blackbox Manifold
Intercapillary Space
Laurie Duggan
Oystercatcher Press
Peter Riley
Robert Sheppard
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All gaming operations inside Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs has been temporarily suspended by casino management from March 16 through March 31 amid concerns over the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, while the thoroughbred meet will continue with restrictions.
The grandstand area will be limited to OHRC-licensed trainers, jockeys, owners, grooms and outriders until further notice. The full racing calendar and stakes races will run as scheduled, with no spectators. Racing will be broadcast on TVG through a continued partnership with the horse racing network for fans at home and across the country.
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., alongside Cherokee Nation Businesses, the business arm of the Cherokee Nation, temporarily suspended all operations at Cherokee Nation Entertainment casinos and hotels, including Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs. During the suspended operations, no employee will go without a paycheck.
The suspension of operations is effective from 11:59 p.m., March 16, through March 31, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, there are no reports of positive COVID-19 cases on any CNB or Cherokee Nation property. These measures have been deemed in the best interest of the public’s health and ongoing efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. We will reevaluate the safety and feasibility of reopening during this public health crisis at the end of the month.
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